Xia Yu laughed loudly and said: "Okay, Director Yan, I have to trouble you. No matter how many calligraphy and paintings you can get, I will ask for it. You can just calculate the specific price. I believe you. I will arrange for someone to follow you later."

Please contact us."

Yan Sihai nodded happily: "Mr. Xia, it's no trouble. Please rest assured, I will definitely handle this matter."

Liu Zhihe also said at this time: "Mr. Xia, we will also check for you here."

Xia Yu waved his hand and said nonchalantly: "Director Liu, there is no need to go to such trouble. You know I am not short of this little money. As long as the museum and the masters do not suffer, it will be fine. Otherwise, my conscience will not be able to bear it."

Director Liu responded repeatedly and said nothing more, but he still gave Yan Sihai a look when Xia Yu turned around.

Yan Sihai nodded understandingly.

Being able to have Liu Zhihe accompany him throughout the whole process, Xia Yu must be a distinguished guest from the mainland. He didn't need Liu Zhihe's advice. Yan Sihai also knew what to do. No matter what time, political tasks were above all else, this concept had penetrated into his bones.

And now it is really difficult for him to deal with these calligraphy and paintings. Xia Yu is willing to buy them all, which has given the museum a huge help, and he is already satisfied.

Amid Yan Sihai's thanks, Xia Yu and Liu Zhihe walked out of the gate, and the red flag car drove away from the National Museum of Revolutionary History.

After getting on the bus, Xia Yu, who had picked up at least "tens of billions", was in a very happy mood, and a smile appeared on his face unconsciously.

Seeing that Xia Yu was in a good mood and thinking of what Xia Yu had just said in the museum, Liu Zhihe's heart moved and he pretended to be interested and asked: "Mr. Xia, I have also heard about the Kowloon Cultural Museum you built in Xiangjiang.

, I heard that it contains the national treasure "Yongle Dadian", which is more in number than the Forbidden City?"

Xia Yu laughed and said modestly: "That is to say, there are more "Yongle Dadian" than the Forbidden City. In other aspects, they are not worthy of carrying shoes for the Forbidden City Museum."

"Although my Kowloon Heritage Museum is famous in Hong Kong and Southeast Asia, it still has a long way to go. It has only collected more than 10,000 cultural relics so far. Even if tens of thousands of calligraphy and paintings are added now, it will only be in the tens of thousands.

It’s not like the National Palace Museum, which has a collection of millions of pieces, and each piece is the best among the best. I can’t compare!”

Liu Zhihe smiled and flattered: "Mr.

Xia Yu shook his head with a wry smile and sighed: "Director Liu, it's not that easy. I want to buy back as many Chinese cultural relics as possible and turn the Kowloon Cultural Museum into a stage to showcase Chinese culture, but I can't.

It’s very difficult to acquire overseas cultural relics.”

Liu Zhihe immediately said: “Mr.

"Antiquities store?"

Xia Yu became interested, and after Liu Zhihe's reminder, he also realized this good opportunity that he had ignored.

It seems that in the 1970s and 1980s, there were cultural relic shops in mainland China that specialized in selling cultural relics, and the purpose seemed to be to earn foreign exchange.

Liu Zhihe nodded and said: "Yes, the cultural relics store is the only store in the country designated to sell cultural relics."

Xia Yu asked with interest: "Director Liu, can you tell me more about it?"

Seeing Xia Yulai's interest, Liu Zhihe perked up and described the situation of the cultural relics store in detail: "Mr. Xia, the cultural relics store is..."

As Liu Zhihe continued to tell, Xia Yu also learned about the situation of the cultural relics store. Although Liu Zhihe, as an official, his attitude was biased toward the official when he spoke, but based on some understanding of later generations, Xia Yu was able to make his own judgment.

Generally speaking, the cultural relics store is now the only cultural relic acquisition and trading platform established by the country. This is the only channel. Selling it to other places is considered speculation and violates national laws. In addition, no other units or people dare to ask for it.

.

The law only stipulates that what is buried underground belongs to the state, but there are not many cultural relics circulated among the people. They are private property and can be sold by the people.

In order to regulate the cultural relics market and protect precious cultural relics as much as possible, the state has established cultural relics stores specifically to purchase cultural relics.

After the acquisition, the precious cultural relics will be handed over to museums from cultural relics stores in various places, while the inferior ones will be sold as commodities to foreign guests in exchange for precious foreign exchange needed for national construction.

And it is worth noting that people in mainland China can sell cultural relics to cultural relics stores, but they cannot buy them in cultural relics stores. Cultural relics stores only sell cultural relics to foreign guests, because only foreign guests have foreign exchange.

It is worth mentioning that considering the difficulty of selling cultural relics, cultural relics stores do not refuse all comers. The Foreign Trade Acquisition Department issues numbers within a limited time, and a certain number of numbers are issued every day. If there is no number, the cultural relics store will not

Received.

Moreover, cultural relic stores are also very picky about their acquisitions. Regardless of whether they are ancient cultural relics, as long as they are damaged or defective, they will not accept them.

There is no way around it. There are so many cultural relics collected by the people in Mainland China. Even with such restrictions, there are queues waiting to sell cultural relics in front of cultural relic stores everywhere from night to morning.

Therefore, Liu Zhihe also assured Xia Yu that if he needed it, although the best cultural relics in the cultural relics store were already in the museum, the others would not be bad, and buying them to fill the museum would be a good choice.

After listening to what Liu Zhihe said, Xia Yu was naturally tempted.

He didn't mind that the cultural relics store was not the best among the best, because he thought of a very crucial issue.

There are many cultural relics stores across the country, and he does not believe that every cultural relics store is equipped with masters who are proficient in all types of palms and eyes. Even the masters sometimes make mistakes.

Therefore, in cultural relics stores across the country, there must be fakes produced during the Republic of China, as well as high-quality products that have been misunderstood.

Regardless of whether it is a fake or a treasure, at the current price, it is only a few yuan or dozens of yuan. At this price, the counterfeit products imitated by the Republic of China will be worth a lot of money in future generations. Anyway, you will make a profit when you buy them.

Thinking of this, Xia Yu did not hesitate and immediately said to Liu Zhihe: "Director Liu, I want to buy these cultural relics. One hundred thousand pieces is not too few, and one million pieces is not too many. Anyway, I want as many as I want. I am worried about my museum."

It’s still empty. I’ll use all the funds for the purchase in foreign exchange, and the type of foreign exchange can be whatever you specify.”

"And instead of these cultural relics being bought by foreigners who don't know how to appreciate them, it's better for me to buy them all and put them in museums to maximize the value of cultural dissemination. The people of Xiangjiang need these things to feel our splendid Chinese culture and receive spiritual baptism."

Liu Zhihe's eyes lit up when he said the latter words, and he realized the political value in it.

If Xia Yu's words were reported back to him exactly, he was sure that the superiors would definitely mobilize cultural relics and sell them to Xia Yu. Not only could they earn foreign exchange, but they could also exert greater political value. This was ten thousand times better than selling it to foreigners!

Therefore, he said without hesitation: "Mr. Xia, don't worry, I will report your thoughts to you, and I will let you know the results as soon as possible!"

Xia Yu smiled lightly and thanked, "I'll trouble you then."

Afterwards, seeing that it was still early, Xia Yu, who was very interested, went to Liulichang, accompanied by Liu Zhihe, and saw the cultural toys market that had begun to flourish. He also saw the state-owned enterprise with a history of more than three hundred years.

Rongbaozhai, according to Liu Zhihe, the three characters "Rongbaozhai" are still engraved using Guo Moruo's calligraphy and ink as the standard.

There, Xia Yu saw the team selling cultural relics to the cultural relics store, and also saw the existing value of the cultural relics. A "three hundred pieces" of porcelain - a large porcelain with double ears and sloping shoulders about 1.5 meters tall.

The purchase price of porcelain bottles ranges from a few yuan to more than ten yuan. The price is not too low!

After walking around for an afternoon, Xia Yu had a deep understanding of the current situation of cultural relics in the mainland, and he had already made up his mind to make two plans.

On the one hand, let the government come forward to collect cultural relics from cultural relic stores and sell them to him; on the other hand, let the mainland set up a special company to privately purchase cultural relics and store them, whether it is to put them in museums or as a foundation for Sotheby's auction house to enter the mainland in the future.

Excellent choice.

…

The next morning, Xia Yu met with Mainland China's top management. The whole process was in a very peaceful atmosphere. Xia Yu grasped the scale well, which not only satisfied Mainland China, but also gave him a lot of room for movement.

And as he expected, the mainland hopes that he can stabilize Xiangjiang as much as possible and play a certain positive role in Xiangjiang's future.

The former is what Xia Yu is doing in action and planning, and the latter is what he is about to do. There is also a deep connection between the two.

Therefore, Xia Yu promised that he would go all out to do it, and decided to leave for England immediately after returning to Xiangjiang, to go all out to do these things, and asked the mainland to wait for his results.

The mainland agreed and accepted Xia Yu's affection, allowing him to achieve his goal of going north.

After the meeting, Xia Yu received a grand reception again, and during the meal, he reached an agreement with the mainland on the acquisition of cultural relics. The mainland would do its best to mobilize cultural relics from cultural relic stores across the country and sell them to Xia Yu, and the prices would be higher than those sold to foreigners.

There are discounts.

Xia Yu didn't care about some discounts, but since the mainland's top officials would express their stance on this, it meant that his cultural relics trading with the mainland was not only a business, but also a political task.

As long as the mainland is serious, this matter will definitely have a good outcome.

Xia Yu had already made up his mind to go back and immediately tell Huashengshi to expand his team so that he could receive the extremely large number of cultural relics.

In the afternoon of the same day, Xia Yu boarded the return train amid a warm farewell from the mainland.
Chapter completed!