Every time Yang Cheng comes to Liverpool, he is intoxicated by the rich historical atmosphere here. To be honest, Liverpool itself is not a tourist city. There is no place to savor whether it is natural scenery or urban buildings. After all, Liverpool is an industrial city. Even though the overall industrial structure has been adjusted now, the air is still filled with a cold smell.

The car is driving on the streets of Liverpool, and old buildings can be seen everywhere, and the street scenes are even more untold. It may be because of the rain. In Liverpool, it is difficult for Yang Cheng to see the lively scenes like Anfield in Liverpool. It is empty and deserted, which is the current situation of Liverpool.

The mottled stone streets of history are wide and flat, with ancient buildings on both sides, plus a monument, outline a typical European city's city center square. It is rare to meet a modern girl in a windbreaker, strolling alone in the square with a black umbrella, and her back looks extremely bleak.

As planned, Ian Al would take Yang Cheng to Liverpool No. 1 to attend the groundbreaking ceremony of the football park, but suddenly the rains increased and they had to cancel the plan and wait until the rain stopped.

However, Yang Cheng would not stay in Liverpool for too long, and even refused Ian Al's request to stay and watch the game.

Ian Al was sent away and asked him to do it himself. Yang Cheng asked Andrew to drive around the project for a while, but he didn't see anything. The fence had blocked all the sight of the outside world. He only saw that the old buildings had been demolished. The entire project was divided into three phases and completed in a total of 26 months. There was no way that Liverpool could have too much rain, and at least half of the time could not be started, so the construction period would naturally be doubled.

OK, this is a project that will benefit a hundred years, and Yang Cheng has enough patience to wait for it to be completed.

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From Liverpool to Beihai Manor, Yang Cheng was waiting for the start of the private auction in the continuous rain.

William easily got him an invitation letter, one of which was delivered to Adam along with a luxury car, a famous watch and various materials, and the good show was about to be staged.

That night, Yang Cheng was quite excited before leaving. He felt like he was in an American drama. In the American drama, aren’t the thieves or fraudsters with unique skills attacking the target through various situations?

London has always been the oldest center for art trading, and it was once the largest center for art trading. It is also the birthplace of international auctions Sotheby's and Christie's. Therefore, auction culture is particularly popular in London. Every year, the "Art Week" where the spring auction is located, it attracts a large number of celebrities and wealthy people to flock.

Of course, it is not yet time for spring auctions, but auctions held by various private and small and medium-sized auction houses have sprung up like mushrooms after a rain, warming up in advance for the arrival of "Art Week".

The Victoria and Albert Museum, the Tate Modern Art Museum, and even the British Museum, these familiar museums are not only a check-in place that everyone usually goes to, but also are chosen by the auction house as the venue for the auction.

But few people know that near Manchester Square, there is a private museum that is so low-key that few people know about Wallace Collection!

A countess who has lived in London for a long time commented on Wallace Collection: It is a medicinal wine made by a girl and a noble lady. It makes people want to lie in a dreamy palace and fall into warm desire.

The Wallace Collection is a museum of fine arts, mainly collecting world-renowned art and decorative works from the 15th to 19th centuries, as well as French paintings, furniture, martial arts, armor, porcelain and European paintings before the 18th century. These include portraits created by Boucher for Louis XV's lover Madame Pompidou, and Fragonard's classic Rococo style work "Swing", in addition to works by Rubens and Titian.

When it comes to Rococo, it is necessary to say that the reason why the Wallace Collection is known as the most beautiful museum in London is because of its unique Rococo interior style.

Louis XV ascended the throne, which was the end of the rule of the old king and the stagnation of the Baroque style. Instead, it was replaced by the Rococo style with more complex curves but light and natural elements.

The Rococo style was derived from interior design and decorative art, which made it a brilliant era for European interior decoration aesthetics. However, Rococo rarely involved the exterior of the building because when the French nobles moved back to Paris from Versailles, Paris had developed into a city with stable building complexes and it was not appropriate to build new large-shaped buildings. Therefore, when talking about Rococo architecture, it generally refers to interior design and decoration.

The passionate collision of primary colors and dark tones is the peerlessness of Baroque; the soft light colors and golden embellishments complement each other are the beauty of Rococo.

The Wallace Museum seems to be no different from other London buildings on the outside, but when you enter it, you will find that there are other caves, ceilings, walls, furniture based on soft tones such as pink and sky blue, and are equipped with metal utensils. Through unified display, the gorgeousness of the noble and the agility of the girl becomes extremely harmonious.

Generally speaking, the shape seems to be subject to the practicality of life and should not be too presumptuous. People make bowls into circles to prevent the soup from overflowing when drinking soup; people make camera tripods into triangles to ensure the optimal and stable support.

But humans, especially artists with unrestrained personalities, use colors more unscrupulously. It can be said that they act wildly based on their mood. The people of the country like red because red represents blessings and excitement;

The nobles like gold, which symbolize their noble status and endless wealth;

The color matching style of Rococo is unique, just like the bold contrasting color of the museum interior. The ivory white is supplemented by light pink, honey gold and sapphire blue, like a graceful and luxurious exquisite lady, but naughtyly shows the girl's heart that should have been hidden in the boudoir without any fear that the secret in the boudoir will be known to outsiders.

In modern life, the exquisite and complexity of the Rococo style is different from the current popular industrial minimalist style. It looks a bit old-fashioned and easily causes visual fatigue. However, for people who like European palace decoration styles, the Rococo style is like a treasure.

Yang Cheng's Rolls-Royce parked on the street near Manchester Plaza. After a while, a black Bentley was parked in the parking space behind. The driver in a black uniform and white gloves quickly got out of the car and opened the rear door, and asked Adam, wearing an elegant gray plaid suit, to get off the car.

The driver was a bodyguard arranged by Hansen.

Adam got off the car and didn't dare to neglect it. He quickly came to Yang Cheng's car, and took the initiative to open the car door and sit in.

He greeted respectfully, "Good evening sir."

Yang Cheng asked directly without saying nonsense, "Good evening, are the information familiar? You have no chance to make mistakes. You must understand that the women you are going to face are not the empty middle-aged women who often appear in your club."

Adam clicked his head and smiled confidently, "Of course, all the information is imprinted in his mind word for word, and I will put out 120% of my energy to treat it.

Now, I am still named Adam. I am engaged in a small real estate company based on architectural development in London. The business targets are Chinese from the Far East and the United States. I have undertaken many cost-effective mid- and low-end real estate projects with stable profits. I have recently become interested in collecting and am preparing to build a private museum. This time I came to the auction to add several collections to the museum."

Yang Cheng was very satisfied. Adam did have the potential to be a fraudster, especially those fools who cheated on those slutty slutty girls. His face was even better than a beauty. Today, Adam carefully trained by the stylist and carefully tidied up his original 95-point face, and instantly showed a trend towards invincible beauty. His crystal-like pupils looked particularly clear and charming.

"Very good, remember, although you are now worth tens of millions of pounds, you are very frugal now because you have suffered since childhood. Your car is not the best, and your house is not the largest. You just show off your financial resources, but you won't deliberately show off your wealth. Low-key is your personality, otherwise you will not have a reputation in London."

Adam nodded, "I understand, sir, I will complete the tasks you assigned seriously."

Yang Cheng nodded, reminded and warned, "It is better to fail to contact than to make the other party suspicious, otherwise you will be abandoned immediately."

Seeing Adam heard it, he felt relieved. He looked at his watch. It was still some time before entering the venue. Yang Cheng simply changed the topic, "By the way, do you know the background of the Wallace Collection?"

This question is very important. Once you chat with Rothhanbury, you can talk about the history of the museum casually. Most people are likely to show their timidity. However, Adam is a wealthy man who is about to enter the collection industry. How could he not know about the Wallace Museum? This is illogical! At least it does not conform to the logic of the noble lady.

Not to mention, Yang Cheng really asked. Seeing Adam was confused, he couldn't help but sigh and patiently introduced, "The Wallace Museum has been accumulated through five generations of collections of Hertford family. Now it has about 5,500 collections. It is a typical closed collection museum. In other words, the number of collections will not increase. It is mostly based on the collection civilization of France in the 18th century, especially the Rococo style decoration and painting collection.

The decoration style of the museum is related to the aesthetic habits of the nobles at that time, and is also closely related to the royal tastes at that time. Louis XV's mistress Madame Pompidou was one of the pioneers of Rococo. Louis XVI's wife Mary Anton Vinette followed closely and continued to advocate the Rococo style. That era was also the best years of Rococo style. The aristocrats and people who were influenced by the aesthetic tastes of the royal family, and of course, the Hertford family, who were close to the royal family.
Chapter completed!