Chapter 727 Return to the original owner
"These are from Athens."
Somewhere in Gaul, in an abandoned warehouse, Lu Zheng and Lin Wan were sorting out the cultural relics they had collected.
Lin Wan put a bunch of ancient-looking cultural relics in a pile.
"This belongs to the kingdom of Pharaoh."
Lin Wan said, "After all, these two countries have the largest collections."
Lu Zheng nodded, "I can't help it, after all, it's the closest to these two places."
Lin Wan said, "What a bad luck."
Lu Zheng shrugged, and then picked up some items from various countries in the Middle East, "Which country should these things be given to?"
Lin Wan blinked, "Husky?"
Lu Zheng narrowed his eyes, "I still remember the cause and effect of the Liaoning."
Lin Wan smiled and said, "Isn't this better?"
"Okay, then let's give these to Huskies and Persians." Lu Zheng said, "Forget about other countries. I'm afraid those people will sell them back to here."
"Actually, the emirate is not bad." Lin Wan mentioned.
"Then three families!" Lu Zheng divided these things into three parts.
"You can also return Third Brother's?" Lu Zheng rubbed his chin and stared at a pile of gold objects and gems.
"Return!" Lin Wan said in a deep voice, "Third brother's combat effectiveness is still very strong, stronger than those countries just now combined. You must return it, and at the same time help us share the firepower."
"Where's the Japanese one?"
Lu Zheng looked at the small pile on the left. Japan had reformed and revolutionized early, and not many things were lost outside. These were all smuggled, robbed, and stolen in the early days.
"Oh, let them forget it." Lin Wan said calmly, "There are not many anyway, and they are also a subordinate country of China, so it is not out of place to put them together."
Lu Zheng, "..."
"correct……"
Speaking of Japanese collections, Lu Zheng also reacted and said, "Japan should also have many of our cultural relics collections, right?"
Lin Wan nodded, frowning a little, "But they are basically in museums everywhere."
"There's nothing private?"
"There should be, but maybe not many. I'll check the information when I go back," Lin Wan said.
Lu Zheng said, "Don't worry about this. We'll talk about it later. We can't just catch a sheep."
Lin Wan nodded, and then the two of them turned their attention to the pile of collections in the middle.
The first two are clearly a chicken head and a dog head.
"It's so simple. Our original goal was just to find the remaining animal heads of the twelve zodiac animals, but in the end we ended up with a bunch of them."
Lu Zheng shook his head and sighed, "Actually, the twelve beast heads are just famous and have great symbolic meaning. You said that if they return these things to China, not only can they maintain good relations, but how many real good things can we ordinary people know?
"
Lin Wan sneered and said, "If they had this awareness, the world would have been peaceful long ago. It was like this hundreds of years ago, and it will still be like this hundreds of years later. Pirate nature."
"This is……"
"The bad nature of the nation..."
Lu Zheng chuckled, "Isn't this what you said about us back then?"
Lin Wan snorted coldly, "I'll give you my exact words!"
"Okay, okay, let's not talk about these unhappy topics. Let's talk about something happy." Lu Zheng comforted Lin Wan and said, "For example, let's talk about this harvest."
Lu Zheng picked up a scroll and carefully unfolded it slowly, "For example, this one, tsk tsk, Fan Kuan's painting, "Wandering the Temple in the Rain", this should be considered a national treasure, right?"
"Be careful." Lin Wan warned, approaching Lu Zheng, admiring the wooden scroll scroll, and the corners of her eyes felt moist.
Lu Zheng glanced sideways, "Are you crying?"
Lin Wan's eyes moved, and her eyebrows instantly rose, "No!"
Lu Zheng laughed loudly, and then carefully put the scroll away, "It's well preserved, and there's no obvious damage."
In addition to calligraphy and scrolls, there are also gold, silver, jade, stone carvings, porcelain, etc., all of which are very representative collections.
Lin Wan carefully placed a pair of Yan Liben's paintings and asked Lu Zheng with a smile, "Should we give them all to the Palace Museum? Why don't you send some back to your hometown?"
Lu Zheng shook his head, "It doesn't matter. Anyway, these things should be distributed uniformly by the state. Besides, they will be the same wherever they are placed."
"Okay, now that the things have been divided, let's start delivering them, right?" Lin Wan asked.
"Okay." Lu Zheng nodded and couldn't help but sigh, "Our Spring Festival is really meaningful."
During the Spring Festival, Lu Zheng and Lin Wan flew to their hometown on New Year's Eve and then to Lu Province to see Lin's mother. Then they used overtime as an excuse to fly back to Haicheng and continue their operations.
For more than half a month, the two of them traveled around Europe. Today is already the eighth day of the first lunar month. In a few days, Lin Wan will go to work again.
…
So, Lu Zheng and Lin Wan packed these things in boxes and anonymously sent them to the largest museums in various countries.
And when museums in various countries receive this batch of cultural relics, how can they hide it from the powerful news media?
Then, before the hot search for cultural relic thieves went away, the press in various countries exploded again.
[The National Museum of Athens received anonymous donations involving many ancient Greek cultural relics, which are precious collections that have been lost or stolen for many years]
[The Pyramid Museum of the Pharaohs received the largest donation in history, the oldest gold mask, which can be traced back to more than 4,000 BC]
[Huskies receive the Sultan’s scepter, which will be displayed at Hagia Sophia]
[Persian Museum receives anonymous donation of religious relics]
[The largest museum in Sange received a donation from the greatest collection thief in history, enriching the cultural heritage of the history of various ethnic groups in the country]
[It is reported that the National Palace Museum of China has received anonymous donations from caring people, which are basically stolen cultural relics many years ago. The specific number and content are being counted]
After the news came out, the Internet became a quarrel. In addition to netizens from the two host countries who fiercely criticized the incident, netizens from many other countries clapped their hands and celebrated.
"Thieves! Robbers! Shameless thieves! The country that received these collections should take the initiative to return these cultural relics!"
"Greece, the Pharaohs, the Huskies, especially Persia and the Emirates, as well as the Third Brother and China in the East, please abide by the international order, return those collections, and let them return to their original owners."
"Are you talking about yourselves? Don't you look at who the original owners of these things are? I also think they should be returned proactively, so when can we go to the British Museum and the Louvre to get our artworks and treasures?"
These collections had irregular origins and had not been packaged or laundered by auction houses. Therefore, after receiving them, museums in various countries put them on display without any psychological burden, and completely ignored the requests from the two countries for assistance in the investigation.
The two victims are also very angry. The theft of these collections is a private theft. If they are desperate, the police department can only apply for assistance, and it is impossible for the diplomatic department to make a statement.
After all...this kind of thing that carries a bit of historical sin is easy to talk about but not easy to hear...
Chapter completed!