Lao Wang looked at Chen Rui with a smile and said.

Chen Rui nodded: "Then please forgive me, Brother Wang!"

The activities Lao Wang mentioned were actually specially prepared for Chen Rui.

In fact, it’s just a private photo shoot that has passed the test...

This kind of private photography is mainly to facilitate the cleaning up of some antiques that were originally hidden from the light of day.

Just like the antiques that were secretly smuggled out of the Dragon Kingdom in the past.

For example, certain bronzes or porcelain from before the Ming Dynasty are not allowed to be auctioned in China.

But when you are young, as long as you wash it on a private photo shoot like this, it can become an upright antique with a heritage.

Then you only need to pay a tax and you can bring it back to the country.

Lao Wang has often helped domestic collectors to arrange such cross-border operations in the past.

This is just a way of crossing water.

There is another way to play, and that is to target lost antique cultural relics all over the world.

For example, European and American countries have different prosecution periods for lost cultural relics in their countries.

The prosecution period for lost cultural relics in our Dragon Kingdom is twenty years, and this is generally the case in the Yin Kingdom.

In Germany, it is relatively longer, thirty years.

The Netherlands has the longest prosecution period in Europe, and their prosecution period is 70 years.

In addition, in the United States, there is no clear prosecution period.

But what’s interesting about Xiaozhi is that their pursuit period for lost cultural relics is actually only two years.

Moreover, any cultural relics that are not lost in their country will be auctioned in their country.

That's not illegal...

This is also the main reason why their place has become a holy place for antique laundering.

If you have lost cultural relics in other places in the world, just bring them to them, have a private photo shoot, and go through the water twice.

Then it is directly legal...

What's even more bizarre is that all countries in the world also acquiesce to laws like theirs...

This is very confusing. Doesn't this encourage crime?

Of course, there is a reason why they set such laws.

This law was actually set decades ago.

At that time, such a law was actually set mainly for the Dragon Kingdom.

At that time, we had just reopened, and many people were fascinated by the colorful world outside.

They were all obsessed with making money, so during that time, theft and smuggling of cultural relics was very rampant over there.

So during that time, a large amount of our cultural relics flowed into Japan through illegal channels.

In my childhood, in order to legalize these stolen goods as soon as possible, such a law was established.

The reason why European and American countries at that time acquiesced in such weird laws was because they relied on the channel of small life.

Grab a lot of them, they are just our cultural relics.

So during that time, I spent a lot of time as a second-rate dealer...

According to data, in the first twenty years after the reform, we had four to five million cultural relics.

Through such channels, it flows into the small life...

Later, as our wealthy class increased, we ourselves also began to collect.

As a result, much less cultural relics were leaked out.

At this time, some cultural relic thieves in Europe and the United States discovered that they could use the channel of small life to launder their wealth.

As a result, cultural relics stolen from various museums in Europe and the United States were brought here to be laundered.

As long as it passes through the water a few times, it is a legal cultural relic.

Most European and American countries have chosen to turn a blind eye to this situation.

Because they also understand that if those people are not allowed to wash.

Then those paintings will most likely be thrown into a warehouse, and will not see the light of day again until decades later.

Or it may be sold by thieves at a low price, and during this process, it may be transported or stored improperly.

Then those fragile antiques will most likely be destroyed.

Rather than doing that, it would be better to clear it up than to block it. Just leave a channel for them.

Let them take their things to Little Day for washing...

After all, doing this can be regarded as contributing to the global circulation of commodities.

So in this way, Xiaoli became a strange place for antiques to be washed.

This time, what Chen Rui wanted to wash here were the paintings by Zhang Daqian that he got from the Asian Art Museum of San Francisco.

Since Daqian's paintings are so valuable now, let's get over the water as soon as possible and trade them out.

Anyway, Chen Rui didn't think highly of this painter. Chen Rui never thought of collecting his paintings for himself.

And Lao Wang is the person responsible for arranging the water crossing.

"Hey, look what you said, this matter will be taken care of by me."

Lao Wang patted his chest and said to Chen Rui.

After blowing water for a while, Lao Wang turned and left.

As soon as Lao Wang left, Chen Rui began to sort out his trophies.

This time he came to Xiaoli, and he really gained a lot.

First, I picked up a Song version of "The Yellow Emperor's Internal Classic" at a private auction.

Later, a Yongle emerald green glaze tea jar was collected at Panjiayuan and Oedo Market in Tokyo.

Later, at the family auction where the old man was being served by Yamashita Yuki, I almost picked up the epitaph of a small-time official for nothing!

Just these three items, Chen Rui estimated, are already worth several small goals.

Especially the epitaph of Inoue Zhen, he later checked some information.

This is by far the earliest stone tablet with the name of Japan appearing on it.

So if this monument were to be auctioned here in Xiaori, it would probably be worth at least ten small targets.

Of course, his most generous trophy was the one he got at Tsuto Shrine yesterday.

The first thing he took out was the stamp album.

"Hey! When did you start collecting stamps?"

Lao Yang watched him take out a stamp album and couldn't help but laugh.

Yesterday was the private auction session of Bentangzhai attended by Wang Jiupai and Chen Rui, plus a series of events that happened later.

Chen Rui didn't have time to tell Lao Yang what happened to him and Lao Wang at the private auction.

So of course Lao Yang didn't know that he had returned such a stamp album.

Chen Rui smiled slightly and didn't explain much.

Opening the stamp album, Chen Rui went straight to the page that he saw glowing green yesterday.

When he turned to that page, he directly pulled out the row of stamps in the middle.

The stamp albums from this early age are quite beautifully crafted.

Almost every stamp has been plastic-sealed to ensure that the stamp is intact and not damaged.

But this is also the main reason why others did not discover the mystery of this stamp.

Chen Rui took out the plastic-sealed stamps. From the outside, these stamps were normal Japanese stamps.

But when he tore open the plastic seal, took out the Japanese stamps, and rubbed them together.

A few stamps were rubbed off directly from the back...

"Hey, boy, your eyes are really poisonous!"
Chapter completed!