Chapter 410: A hundred years of cultural relics, returned to their original owners
The photos in the email are indeed the 8 cultural relics mentioned by foreigners just now! Although it is impossible to distinguish the authenticity from the photos, the background analysis of the photos is definitely not the kind of pictures found online, and they must have been taken in real objects.
This also shows that when I was on the phone just now, there is a high chance that a kind-hearted person would come to return the Chinese cultural relics that have been separated for many years!
"That gentleman! Please wait for me a little while! I'll call our director to listen to the phone now!" The museum staff immediately rushed out of the office with brisk steps. Fortunately, he didn't hang up the phone in a hurry or act recklessly just now. Otherwise, this once-in-a-lifetime major opportunity might have missed his mistakes...
"Director Jin! Something big happened, Director Jin! Something big happened!" The staff rushed to the director's office.
However, when he knocked on the door, he saw not only the director, but also the deputy director and the director, holding a magnifying glass in the office, looking at an object that had arrived in the museum.
At the abruptness of his subordinates, Director Jin, who was holding a magnifying glass in his hand, frowned and said unhappy, "Xiao Liu, what are you shouting, what are you shouting? You can hear your voice in the entire aisle. What big thing happened? Didn't you see us here, are you appreciating cultural relics? Is there anything wrong, I'll talk about it later!"
Director Jin said, and signaled the staff to close the door again so that they would not destroy their interest in appreciating cultural relics.
"It's such a curator! Some foreigners said they wanted to use the "Princess of the Female Historian" and the jade cong from the Liangzhu culture! The Kanghou Gui from the early Western Zhou Dynasty! Return it to us! Now they are waiting on the other end of the phone!" The museum staff quickly explained loudly and anxiously.
However, as soon as he finished speaking, Director Jin and others who were standing in front of him, who were originally going to continue playing with cultural relics, suddenly widened their eyes! They turned their heads one after another and asked in surprise, "What!? Is this true or false? "The Proverbs of the Female Historian"? The Kanghou Gui in the early Western Zhou Dynasty?"
"Of course it's true, Director Jin! I asked the foreigner to send the photos he took to our public email address! The background of the photos was not the kind that was uploaded online." The museum staff hurried to the computer and opened the email. Then asked the three leaders in the office to elaborate on the photos on the email.
"Hiss... This is really "The Proverbs of the Female Historian"! Compared to the copied work in our museum, the photos seem to be more superior." Director Jin held a magnifying glass and gestured at the photos on the computer screen.
The original work of "The Admonitions of the Female Historian" has been lost, and there are two sets of copies of the Tang Dynasty. One is collected in the British Museum and the other is collected in the National Museum of Country Z. However, since the British Museum has not been exhibited in the world, the experts and scholars in China have never known where the copies were finally plundered. They only know that they were lost in the Opium War and the Eight-Nation Alliance invasion...
"Hiss... This is the jade cong from the Liangzhu culture? There are also the Kanghou Gui in the early Western Zhou Dynasty? Even the sluts from the Shang and Zhou dynasties and the Six-Body figurines of the Eastern Han Dynasty? These are all the treasures of our country! They are very historically valuable!"
When Director Jin, holding a magnifying glass, looked at the second and third photos in the email one after another, he stood in front of the computer in surprise, and kept marveling in his mouth.
"Xiao Liu! Why didn't you say so many historical relics earlier? There are 8 pieces in these 1, 2, 3, and 4!" asked the deputy director, who pushed his glasses, and asked.
Since the museum staff, Xiao Liu, only reported the names of two cultural relics at the beginning. So, Director Jin and others always thought that the foreigners were going to return two cultural relics.
However, what they did not expect was that the email not only included "The Admonitions of the Female Historian" and the jade cong from Liangzhu culture, such a national treasure-level cultural relics. The other six types are also priceless historical relics! Any one of them can be used as a treasure in the museum!
"That, that director, foreigner is still waiting on the other end of the phone! He is calling internationally for a long distance, which is very expensive." The museum staff hurriedly reminded the leader. It took at least 5 minutes to say that it took him from the office to the present. With the 5 minutes of communication before, it would be more than 10 minutes.
I am really afraid that the foreigners on the other end of the phone will hang up the phone without patience. So in this way, their museums and even the entire archaeological and historical field will suffer huge losses!
"Yes, yes! Go and answer the phone quickly!" Director Jin immediately put down the magnifying glass in his hand, and then followed Xiao Liu and trotted to his office.
Fortunately, the Russian foreigner on the other end of the phone was ordered by his boss and was still waiting online obediently. Otherwise, everyone would have to worry about this once-in-a-lifetime opportunity...
"Hello...sir, hello! I am the director of the National Museum of China, my surname is Jin! Are the photos in your email going to be returned to us?" Director Jin asked carefully on the phone, for fear that the other party would suddenly repent, and that would be done.
"Yes, it was mainly our boss who convinced the British Museum to return these historical relics from your country. He said that these relics are very important to your country. To be on the safe side, I hope you can send the most authoritative cultural relics appraisal team to London, England on Saturday afternoon to do relevant handover work. The address, specific time, and contact number of the meeting are all in the email just now."
The male subordinate conveyed Mavi's meaning very well.
"Oh! OK, OK! We must, we must send the best appraisal expert to the UK!" Director Jin replied excitedly on the phone. Judging from his experience, the cultural relics on the mail photos should probably not be wrong.
After all, the Tang Dynasty copy of "The Admonitions of the Female Historian" in the email is more vivid and detailed than the ones in their museums. Experts who know how to distinguish the authenticity from paper and painting techniques can tell the authenticity at a glance. Moreover, no one at this level has the courage to cheat and create a fake.
Even if you have the courage and the ability to make a fake, to summarize it in a sentence from netizens, “Isn’t it better to live well?”
For fraudulent cultural relics, a sentence is required. Calculated in the amount of 1.5 million yuan and sentenced to 12 years in prison. Then these eight museum-level cultural relics are sentenced to eight lifetime life imprisonment, which is quite light... They will definitely not be able to take it away...
Chapter completed!