2689 Relic Thief 2
Xiao Letian still understands the principles of cultural relics in prosperous times and gold in troubled times. Taking advantage of the opportunity of war to earn at a low price or even steal directly. This is the only way to get a large number of cultural relics. I completely expect to buy them in the market? The efficiency is really too low!
It is basically a delusion to build a world-class cultural relics collection center that exceeds the British Museum by relying on market transactions!
Only by relying on bad hands can you achieve this goal as quickly as possible, and Xiao Letian's hands have always been very dark!
The cultural relics in Rosenburg are indeed not very high. Sculptures and oil paintings are both works by third-tier artists of the Renaissance period. In this era, this kind of thing is actually the same as Qianlong pastel plates.
Everyone knows it is a real thing, but it is absolutely impossible to sell for the price, because there are too many market holdings.
When will it be valuable? Then Europe has to wait until the baptism of two world wars before these third and fourth-tier cultural relics become precious.
Only by the destruction of war can the main goods become high-quality products!
Europe has never been scarce for war, and its scale will only increase the more it will fight. Now we will stock up on more third- and fourth-tier cultural relics, and the future returns will definitely be sky-high!
Xiao Letian knew very well that humans had lived in the continuous nightmare of war until World War II. It can be said that any country lacked a sense of security, and local wars and all-out wars were about to break out.
Under this general background, it is difficult for the cultural relics market to flourish, so before World War II, it was a good stage for Xiao Letian to gain a lot of money into cultural relics.
Only after the end of World War II, when humans have nuclear weapons to completely destroy themselves, will those war madmen be restrained and their expansion ambitions will be greatly restricted.
When the war is suppressed, the earth will enter a relatively long period of peace. It will be an era when the global collectibles market is booming!
Without the threat of war, human beings will enter a peaceful prosperous era. Only then will idle people and free money be interested in hyping up antiques and cultural relics. At that time, the collections that Xiao Letian casually plundered in Rosenburg were definitely popular in auction houses.
"People have to make a plan forever! Now grab more, and this will be the welfare of the generation of grandson and great-grandson!"
Men must have a big picture. Men cannot always lower their heads to pull the cart, and they often have to look up at the road!
The deeper your vision is, the bigger the pattern in your heart. Most of these men will be successful!
Not to mention anything else, the three French-Prussian War masters who drank and had a meal in Rosenburg had absolutely different visions and judgments in their treatment of cultural relics.
Lao Maoqi was a pure soldier. He was not very interested in such sculptures, paintings, collections, etc. The villas and manors at home were indeed some collections used as decorations, but most of them were left by his parents and given by his friends and colleagues.
He himself is not interested in this thing, and he prefers to study military affairs when he has time!
Besme sees it more deeply. He is still very interested in culture and has also collected a lot of fine antiques!
But his mind is not as fascinated as Xiao Letian. He just thinks this thing is a bit valuable, but its value is definitely not as important as the railway network, steel plants, chemicals, military industry, and new technology.
Today, Xiao Letian clearly wants to steal the Frenchman, a silly big player. As an ally, he will cooperate later, and there is no one behind the scenes!
Besides, isn’t this a great deal to see the French lose their lives? Taking French cultural relics to make favors is absolutely cost-effective!
Bisme and Mafia turned a blind eye to Xiao Letian's greed and did not stop him. As a result, within the following days, a very bizarre news came from the Prussian army.
Many soldiers have been circulating privately that the heads of the East are buying spoils at high prices, and that all French antiques, such as sculptures, oil paintings, artworks, etc., are purchased at high prices by the Chinese.
"Have you heard that? Fat Jerry from the kitchen class tinkered with some Italian oil painting from the village... Only two paintings as big as the Bible, she exchanged two pounds in the Chinese camp!"
"I know, I heard it was painted by a man named Titian... What a weird and shattered name!"
"What are you talking about? I just got a news that the Crown Cavalry Battalion of the Fourth Division raided Beach. It is said that some Chinese cultural relics were accidentally searched. I heard that the French snatched them from the Summer Palace of the Qing Empire!"
"As a result, the company commander sent those bronze ware to the head of state's camp. How much bounty did you give? It was a full hundred and fifty pounds!"
"Really? They are all settled in pounds?"
"Yes, it's all hard currency pound settlement!"
The messages spread more and more widely, and the Prussian officers pretended to be deaf and dumb, pretending not to hear them. As a result, under the condolence of these officers, the Prussian army began a crazy loot of cultural relics against France.
Many small troops rushed to various villages and towns, neither robbing food nor chickens and ducks, nor teasing the beautiful girls. The group of people smashed all the rich families and confiscated the old things with a little history that could be seen.
Even the candlesticks from the 14th century were not spared! The entire Northeast French border made these Pu army messy.
In recent days, Xiao Letian and Bei Smai have been directing the battle in Rosenburg, so these cultural relics have begun to flow and gather towards Xiao Letian.
This is simply a robbery! Titian's famous painting was collected by five or six pounds. The golden cross of the twelfth century, Xiao Lotte, was weighed on a scale, and settled the amount of gold to the soldiers according to the equal amount of gold!
The ancient sculptures produced in the Aegean Sea were obviously in ancient Roman style. As a result, Xiao Lotte gave ten pounds on the grounds that the marble was damaged!
The shameless profiteer's face made even Bismeer unable to see it, but he couldn't say anything, because these things were the property of the French after all, and they were also seized by the soldiers themselves. No one could say anything about fair transactions.
Xiao Letian is very terrible. He has been ready for a long time. In Berlin, he has printed a large number of contracts of uniform specifications. This kind of procurement contract is specially made to acquire cultural relics.
Whenever a cultural relic is purchased, soldiers are required to sign. A civil servant in the Chinese clan wrote down the details of the cultural relic, as well as the transaction price and detailed time and place, and finally asked the seller to sign.
This is a formal document with legal effect!
Xiao Letian is guarding against the French in the future. As long as they can provide a legal transaction contract for each cultural relic, even if the Europeans blew their beards and stared at them, they would have no choice.
"Report to the Head of State! The first batch of 300 cultural relics have been packed, and the contract and cultural relics have been sent to the carriage to be transported to the hamburger!"
"Well! Don't be so anxious. After arriving in Hamburg, please ask the Prussian law firm to notarize it. Then, contact the legal institutions of the Netherlands, Belgium, Switzerland, etc., and let us spend more money and let them sign and notarize it!"
"Damn, we have to complete the procedures! After saving hundreds of years, the shameless French giant nostalgia will sue us again!"
"I understand! Don't worry, the head of state, this matter is guaranteed to be done!"
Chapter completed!