Chapter 471 Difficult? Then Don’t Do It!

What is the British Museum?

Zhang Yang felt that the sudden words coming from the other side were just to disgust him.

Maybe it’s because the British Museum was frequently searched for some time ago?

There was another entry at that time:

[No Chinese can walk out of the British Museum with a smile]

So Mrs. Xu took it for granted that Zhang Yang would also be angry.

In fact, nothing happened to him.

Just some time ago, Chen Yanguang told Chu Ziqiang that the fake Chenghua Doucai chicken bowl cup in the British Museum has been copied.

The mole at the museum is currently being contacted.

Let’s see when the civet cat can be replaced by the prince, and the real thing in the museum can be replaced.

Zhang Yang was fine, but someone among the old experts next door must have been really angry.

Through a wall, Zhang Yang could hear the sound of banging on the table next door.

It's so loud.

Being so angry is probably because I was disgusted by the British Museum.

This is exactly what happened.

There were four experts from the Provincial Museum next door, and two of them were red-hot.

The person who banged the table just now was so excited that he accidentally knocked his coffee on the computer.

Now the keyboard is making a sizzling sound.

But he didn't care at all.

He was still staring at the big screen, as if he wanted to get into the screen and go to England to bring back all the antiques from Mrs. Xu’s house.

When Zhang Yang hung up the microphone, everyone relaxed a little.

The leader of the team was Deputy Director Ou of the Provincial Museum. He did not have a red temperature, so he very calmly asked the person in charge of the cultural relics recovery task force:

"Team Leader Chang, is there any way to do this?"

"I think the other party's behavior is already provocative. Although there are no national treasure-level cultural relics, the number is enough. It should be enough for you to establish an internal project, right?"

"Director Ou, please don't be impatient."

Team leader Chang calmly comforted everyone and said:

"The person who Director Zhang Lianmai is looking at probably doesn't know we are watching."

"So she is not actually provoking us, but simply wants to disgust Director Zhang."

"So?" Another expert who became red-hot immediately retorted, "Instead of ridiculing us, we can be like turtles and pretend that nothing happened?"

"You won't find reasons to ignore me again, will you?"

"You don't care about what happened last time. How many times has it happened?"

"I really doubt where you spent the annual cultural relics recovery funds. Isn't it all about eating and drinking?"

"Teacher Zeng, don't talk nonsense!"

Team leader Chang, who was labeled as such, also had a temper and said angrily:

"Do you think we don't want to pursue it?

But first of all, they are not citizens of our country;

Secondly, the items were exported from China a hundred years ago, and there is no substantial evidence to prove that they are items from the Forbidden City.

We just can't do anything about them! "

"So? Just pretend you can't hear? If you don't use your ears, you can donate them to people in need." Teacher Zeng mocked.

"Okay, okay, don't argue about these things."

Deputy Director Ou stood up to maintain discipline at the venue:

"Let's talk in detail when Zhang Yang comes over."

"I have no problem." Team Leader Chang immediately agreed.

In his opinion, the crux of the matter lies with Zhang Yang.

If Zhang Yang hadn't had connections with Yanjing, this matter wouldn't have reached the level it is now.

As long as Zhang Yang is persuaded to give up, the words of these old guys won't matter at all.

Anyway, it’s not just once or twice that he offended people in Shengbo.

…

Zhang Yang was actually outside the door a long time ago.

But he didn't knock on the door immediately. Instead, he listened to the noise in the corridor for a while.

He also wanted to know how these people planned to deal with this matter.

Sending official letters directly should be of no use at all.

When it came to negotiating with the collector, Zhang Yang thought about Mrs. Xu's attitude and felt that the possibility of communication was lower than the possibility of the British Museum taking the initiative to return the cultural relics.

If we force it, the other party will immediately use the banner of the British Museum and make a "paid donation" or something.

Soft or hard, they all seem to be difficult.

Are we going to take the path that Chu Zhenmin hates the most - spending money to buy back cultural relics?

That's not a small amount of money.

Don't look at the items passed down from Mrs. Xu's ancestors. They are worth tens of thousands or hundreds of thousands, but they can't stand up to the large quantity.

Altogether, it is estimated to be tens of millions.

This is still the market price.

If someone from the State Administration of Cultural Heritage goes to repurchase it, the other party will definitely increase the price, and the total quotation may be doubled by then.

Zhang Yang really couldn't think of any other solution.

So I waited outside the corridor for a while.

Unexpectedly, in the end, the four experts and people from the five special teams in the room came to the conclusion:

Wait until Zhang Yang comes.

Zhang Yang smelled the familiar smell of black pot.

If it weren't for the good relationship with the experts from the Provincial Museum, Zhang Yang would have really wanted to open the door and say:

"Why don't you just disband?"

Now, you still have to knock politely first.

After the door opened, Zhang Yang waved and greeted everyone:

"Hello, everyone is here."

"There should be no problem with my identification just now, right?"

"No problem." Deputy Curator Ou said with approval.

"Come on, Zhang Yang, we are all one of our own, come and sit here." Teacher Zeng actively invited.

Of course Zhang Yang would not be polite.

These are all contacts accumulated in the past.

Although they are not close friends, these old experts are still willing to help me because I am a junior.

After Zhang Yang sat down, Deputy Director Ou cleared his throat and asked very gently:

"Director Zhang, do you have any ideas about the batch of cultural relics from the Forbidden City that the Xu family has?"

"My idea is that we must take them back; but we can't let the Xu family take any advantage."

"There have been many doubts about the British Museum before."

"If we let this group of people open a new museum in Australia, and it will be in the newspapers and hot searches, wouldn't it be a slap in our faces?"

As soon as Zhang Yang finished speaking, Teacher Zeng slammed the table and shouted:

"Okay!"

"Xiao Zhang is right, his ideas are my ideas, and we can't let them take the cultural relics away. Those who smuggled it out of the country took advantage of it. "

"Ahem!" Team Leader Chang pretended to cough twice, "In fact, Director Zhang is worried about public opinion. We can find a way to solve it."

"First of all, we can withdraw the hot search. If we can't suppress it, let the people in the brother department find trouble with the stars to divert attention."

"When the heat is over, no one will care about it."

"As for the Australian museum, to be honest, it is located in the remote place of Australia. If it is not interviewed by reporters, it will not have any heat at all."

"Isn't it still a turtle?"

"Team Leader Chang, are you a turtle? You feel uncomfortable if you don't shrink your shell?" Teacher Zeng asked back unhappily.

"What does this have to do with turtles?"

"Teacher Zeng, please don't find fault, okay? I am discussing the problem with Director Zhang seriously. I think his worries are reasonable, but they are not unsolvable."

"Do you understand?"

"I don't understand at all." Zhang Yang shook his head.

"Then I'll explain it again..."

"No, listen to my other idea first."

Zhang Yang interrupted the other party and told him something that suddenly occurred to him during the live broadcast.

There are actually many people like Mrs. Xu overseas.

Although they may not be the same as her, with the surname Aisin-Gioro and such a rich family background, their attitude towards China is the same.

They all hate it.

The British Museum is better because it has an official background and has been more restrained in recent years.

It is the kind that you won't be disgusted if you don't visit it.

But even so, there will still be a large number of pure and natural filial sons who stand up and say that they have preserved the antiques very well.

Some people even donate stolen cultural relics to them.

If the surname Xu raises the flag in the name of a private museum,

Not only will there be "tap water" in China to help promote it, but also deliberately use it to disgust people.

There will definitely be other cultural relics scattered overseas that will be sent to this museum for exhibition.

Maybe, a Qing Dynasty "palace" can be put together in Australia.

It will be a lively time.

It is estimated that these people will put on a bad face to domestic cultural and museum workers in international news every once in a while.

What, you have discovered new bronze artifacts?

Then do you think the bronze artifacts sold by Lu Qinzhai look familiar?

It is disgusting just to think about it.

"Team Leader Chang, how do you solve this problem?" Zhang Yang asked.

"It is not difficult, just ban it directly."

"Then you are invincible."

Zhang Yan shrugged and lay down on the chair.

What is the need to discuss this? To put it bluntly:

As long as you can't hear it, just treat the other party as if they didn't say anything and have no opinion.

As for covering the other party's mouth, stuffing stinky socks into the other party's mouth, or even poisoning the other party to mute it, it doesn't matter.

"Zhang Yang, don't be discouraged."

Deputy Director Ou came out to play the good guy:

"We can take a long-term view on this matter."

"It is normal for cultural relics to be returned to China for more than ten or twenty years. If you don't believe me, you can ask Team Leader Chang and others."

"Yes, that's true." Team Leader Chang chimed in, "The batch of cultural relics we received last year was auctioned in Seattle in 2004."

"It should be stolen and sold by domestic tomb robbers."

"Later, it went through many countries, and we have people following it. In June last year, it finally returned from Belgium."

"Really?" Zhang Yang smiled indifferently.

He took out his mobile phone from his pocket and checked what Team Leader Chang said.

It turned out that this matter really happened.

At that time, a Han Dynasty painted horse-riding pottery figurine, two Tang Dynasty white porcelain horse sculptures, a Ming Dynasty Cizhou kiln white ground black flower pot, and an ancient coin from the Yuan Dynasty were returned.

Zhang Yang roughly estimated that the total market price should not exceed 50,000 if they were all calculated as fine products.

After 19 years of investigation, the media resources used for the final report, the reporters interviewed, and the cost of holding the handover ceremony should have added up to more than 50,000, right?

Not to mention the manpower and material resources consumed in the process.

It turns out that Team Leader Chang and his team are so productive!

Zhang Yang already understood.

"I understand, Team Leader Chang, you are indeed very hard-working."

"In this case, I am just fulfilling my civic duty. It just so happens that Director Chu is very interested in this kind of thing, so I informed him."

"I have something else to do in Hong Kong, so I will go through it first while it is still early."

After Zhang Yang finished speaking, he stood up.

He didn't need to waste his words with these people.

"What a coincidence, me too, I have something to do at home."

Teacher Zeng also stood up with Zhang Yang.

He "reprimanded" Zhang Yang and said:

"Xiao Zhang, don't bother Director Ou and Team Leader Chang with such things in the future."

"You know, there are more than 10 million pieces of our country scattered abroad, how can we manage them all?"

"If you don't tell them, they don't know about it, and naturally they don't have to be responsible."

"I understand." Zhang Yang nodded, "I really didn't think it through this time, I won't do it again in the future."

After that, Zhang Yang stood up and prepared to leave.

At this time, Team Leader Chang, who was annoyed by the sarcasm, also stood up and pointed at Zhang Yang and Teacher Zeng and said:

"Zhang Yang! Zeng!"

"You two stop singing the same tune here, I'm telling you..."

"Hey, I'm talking! Why are you leaving?"

Zhang Yang didn't bother to pay attention to him and went out directly.

Dialed Chu Zhenmin's phone.

"What's wrong, Zhang Yang? Did you come to a conclusion?"

Old Chu thought Zhang Yang was here to announce the good news.

Little did he know that the talks had already broken down.

"The conclusion is reached, and this matter ends here."

"To sum up, it's because I'm too talkative." Zhang Yang laughed self-deprecatingly.

"What?"

Old Chu asked in disbelief.

"What's the matter? Were you ignored by those old guys?"

"That's not the case, but everyone thinks this job is impossible, so just don't do it."

Zhang Yang had no doubt that if this was just an ordinary tomb robber carrying cultural relics out of the country, Team Leader Chang and his men should have been on their way to the UK by now.

But it's hard to think about the loss of cultural relics from a hundred years ago.

It's normal that they don't want to do it.

It's just that the way they make up for it is a bit disgusting.

"Don't want to do it? If you don't want to do it, just retire and go home like me. What's the matter with occupying the toilet?"

"How difficult is it? Tell me briefly."

Old Chu also understands these people very well, and directly asks Zhang Yang the most core question.

Zhang Yang briefly talked about the current situation.

After listening, Old Chu was silent.

He couldn't think of a good solution for a while.

Finally, he gave an idea:

"Zhang Yang, I think you have to do this yourself."

"Didn't they ask you to be the curator? You agree first. After you go, try to record the information of each item into our cultural relics system."

"Then we will have evidence to pursue it."

"Oh, can it be like this?"

Zhang Yang admired Chu Zhenmin a little. This is the solidity of the older generation.

A little insidious, but it's just right for dealing with people like Mrs. Xu.

But Zhang Yang didn't want to take the position.

He had a simpler way.

"When I was video-chatting with them just now, the expert group had screen recordings and records. You can ask them directly."

"Oh? Really? That's easy." Chu Zhenmin replied happily.

"OK, let's leave it at that for now."

Zhang Yang was about to hang up the phone when Old Chu suddenly stopped him:

"Wait, let me ask you something, where is Chu Ziqiang? Why can't I contact him?"

"Hello? Are you hanging up now?"

"..."

Zhang Yang actually heard what Old Chu asked, but he still hung up the phone.

Chu Ziqiang was experiencing the most important moment in his life - learning how to chase girls.

At this moment, there must not be any external interference.

Otherwise, it might damage his Tao heart.

Even Zhang Yang himself did not bother him.

As soon as Zhang Yang returned to Hong Kong, he went straight to Christie's headquarters.

They were preparing for this year's summer auction at Shenghai, and they had not yet made up their minds about the selection of auction items, so they wanted to hear Zhang Yang's opinion. (End of this chapter)