When it comes to the twelve bronze statues stolen beast heads in the Old Summer Palace, Chen Rui heard about them when he was in high school.

Because at that time, one of the bronze statues of horse heads was sold at a sky-high price of 15 million US dollars.

The one who successfully purchased the gambling king family in Aogang, and later the gambling king family donated the bronze statue to the country.

In the antique circle, everyone knows that this thing is a scam caused by malicious hype by European and American auction companies.

Speaking of these bronze statues, they were stolen by the British and French coalition forces that year.

However, this thing was not very valuable at the beginning.

Because everyone knows that this thing is just an enlarged faucet after all.

If you really want to talk about any major historical value, you can’t talk about artistic value.

There are more precious cultural relics in our country than him.

But who let these European and American players have the right to speak?

According to records, these bronze statues were first discovered, but they were actually found in a private residence in California in 1985.

It was also a family auction held at that time. An antique dealer found three statues of horse head, cow head and tiger head in this residence.

Then the antique merchant bought the three beast heads for $1,500 each.

From 1987 to 1989, these three bronze beast heads and monkey heads in the Old Summer Palace.

It appeared in auctions in New York and London one after another. At that time, the highest transaction price was the head of horses, and the price was only $250,000.

The heads of these bronze statues appeared again, at two auctions in Xiangjiang at the end of April 2000.

At that time, the bronze statues of the cow head, the monkey head and the tiger head appeared, and the two auction companies auctioned the lost cultural relics.

And these two companies are Sotheby's and Christie's.

Before the auction, they hyped up the three beast heads.

First, we introduced the origins of these three beast heads in detail, and then played the tragic card to exaggerate the vicissitudes of these cultural relics overseas.

Finally, I will tie up a few cultural relics and patriotism to you.

At that time, it really aroused great indignation from the Chinese society, and it was also the first time that the bronze statue of the beast was brought into the Chinese people's vision.

Finally, a domestic company took the lead in anger to win the bull's head for HK$7.745 million, and won the monkey's head for HK$8.185 million, and won the tiger's head for HK$15.444475 million.

It can be said that it cost a huge price.

After this time, people from all walks of life have gradually tasted it.

When these bronze statues were first discovered, they were sold for only $1,500.

But if we sell it to us, it costs tens of millions, and the price has increased by thousands of times.

It turns out that these foreign companies are playing tricks like this when they are playing tricks, they just stolen cultural relics.

Treat it as the sickle to harvest us...

If we don’t take action, they will contact their mouthpieces in China and keep advocating.

Put huge pressure on our museum party.

And by 2007, Sotheby's again used another move.

They were going to hold an auction of the bronze statue of horse heads, but this time, they were collectively boycotted by domestic collectors who have come back to the scene.

However, in the end, the beast head was taken down by the gambling king family for US$15 million.

As for why, everyone resisted, he was willing to spend a high price.

This is a matter of opinion...

However, after several tosses, all the collectors of the Dragon Kingdom also understood the way these European and American auction companies play.

In the later 2009, European and American auction companies played the same trick again.

This time they sold rat heads and rabbit heads.

This time they still used the old routine, an auction to be held in February 2009.

But in September 2008, they started hype.

It was originally really abroad, and then spread to China.

This time we were in charge of a French auction company, which hired a large number of gunmen in the country.

On various platforms, the legendary experience of the twelve beasts in the Old Summer Palace was hyped up.

He even specially sponsored a domestic producer to shoot a special documentary about the Twelve Beasts.

Then he also sponsored the documentary and went to a certain station to play it.

It was building a series of momentum through various Internet major vs at that time.

It can be said that various news about these two beast heads caused a stir in China at that time.

Especially the public pressure on public opinion is very huge.

Countless people called on domestic rich people to buy back the two beast heads and donate them to the country.

Just like the gambling king back then...

Unfortunately, no matter how they hyped it up, we were not fooled this time.

By the auction in February 2009, a total of 1,200 buyers signed up for the audience.

We went there seven or eight hundred people, which made the Europeans very happy at that time.

The organizer behind him was even sharpening his sword and ready to kill him.

However, when the two beast heads appeared, the organizer was shocked.

The first rat head to take the film starts at 9 million euros, but none of the buyers in the Long Country held up their signs.

After several rounds of shouting, the mouse head could only be taken over by an unknown telephone buyer.

The price was raised to 14 million euros before the hammer was sold.

The same is true for the rabbit heads that were filmed later, starting from 10 million euros, but no one of the Long Country buyers held the signs on the spot.

In the end, it was the mysterious telephone buyer who took over the deal, and the transaction price was nailed to 14 million euros.

In fact, as long as you are aware of it, no one doesn't know.

The final takeover must be the entrustment arranged by the auction company.

The reason why they operated like this was a helpless move...

And this time, they were also slapped in the face by the buyer of our Long Country.

Let them know that our buyers in Long Country are not that easy to play.

Everyone will no longer be led by their noses like before.

All the preparatory investments made by these European and American auction companies in the early stage have been wasted.

This time, Europeans also learned to be good at being slapped in the face.

Especially the owner of rabbit head and rat head, a French company.

They found that by doing this, not only did they become famous in the Long Kingdom.

The most important thing is that in the future, they will not gain any benefit in the Dragon Kingdom at all.

Considering the various commercial activities they may be conducting in the Dragon Kingdom in the future.

This company was just a matter of giving us the rat head and rabbit head for free...

This is the most classic event that has been held in the international auction market in the past few years.

The confrontation between harvesting and counter-harvest!

And this time, when Teacher Bai Xin said this, Chen Rui immediately understood.

Indeed, if this stone pier falls into the hands of foreigners.

The value of the hype is definitely much higher than the head of the bronze statue of the twelve zodiac signs.

Because this thing is not like the bronze statues on the streets in the West.

This contains the earliest written history of our Long Kingdom.

If they really take it on the photo, there is no need to hype it up, which will attract countless people to grab it.
Chapter completed!