Under the command of the French Deputy Minister of Culture and the Director of the Palace of Fontainebleau, many staff from the Palace of Fontainebleau and the French Ministry of Culture successively moved in nearly a hundred boxes, large and small.
After they moved these boxes into the front hall of the museum, they placed them in a designated open space, and in a blink of an eye, they were all over the place.
The antique works of art packed in these boxes are all kinds of rare treasures that the French invaders took away from the Old Summer Palace. The number is one to two thousand pieces.
Although this amount is quite astonishing, it is only a small part of the antique cultural relics of the Yuanmingyuan collected by the Palace of Fontainebleau, not even one-tenth.
In the Palace of Fontainebleau, it is said that there are more than 30,000 antique cultural relics from the Old Summer Palace. It is the museum with the largest collection of antique cultural relics from the Old Summer Palace in the world.
There is no doubt that these antiques and cultural relics from the Old Summer Palace were all stolen, stolen and came from shady ways.
For reasons of face, the French government has kept it secret.
The exact number of antique cultural relics from the Old Summer Palace in the Fontainebleau Palace is never disclosed, and they are rarely publicly exhibited. Few people know the true situation.
The number declared by the French government and the number of antique cultural relics from the Yuanmingyuan on public display is only about one or two thousand!
Xiao Ran could only start negotiations and transactions with the French government on this basis.
Although he claimed that he would exchange for all the antique relics of the Old Summer Palace in the Palace of Fontainebleau, in fact, this time he could only exchange for one or two thousand antique relics of the Old Summer Palace that had been made public.
Compared with the total number of antique cultural relics from the Old Summer Palace in the Palace of Fontainebleau, this number is undoubtedly very small.
But it doesn't matter, this is just one transaction, and there will be countless transactions in the future.
Xiao Ran was confident enough to use Western antique artworks and gold and silver treasures discovered in Europe and the United States to exchange all the antique cultural relics of the Old Summer Palace in Fontainebleau Palace through transactions one after another!
While many staff were busy, the Deputy Minister of Culture of France and the Director of the Palace of Fontainebleau came to Xiao Ran together.
Before he could stand still, the director of Fontainebleau Palace said angrily:
"Sean, why are you always looking at the Palace of Fontainebleau? Counting the transaction in Philadelphia last year and today's transaction, you exchanged more than two thousand Chinese antiques from us."
"Furthermore, these Chinese antiques and cultural relics are all high-quality products in our collection, but our museum has only a few pieces of antique art. This is unfair!"
Xiao Ran looked at the French guy and sneered disdainfully.
"Unfair? What a joke. If you want to say it's fair, then I should snatch these antique cultural relics from the Old Summer Palace from the Palace of Fontainebleau instead of trading with you!"
"Of the more than 30,000 antique cultural relics from the Old Summer Palace in the Palace of Fontainebleau, which one was not stolen or stolen?"
"If you really care about fairness and justice, you should return all the antique cultural relics from the Old Summer Palace to China instead of exchanging these treasures that originally belonged to China for other treasures from me..."
The faces of all the French people present instantly turned red, and their expressions were quite embarrassing.
Especially the director of the Palace of Fontainebleau, whose old face was even more swollen and turned red and green, not to mention how embarrassed he was!
But he couldn't even say a word of rebuttal, and he didn't have the confidence.
Everyone at the scene knew that the tens of thousands of antique cultural relics from the Old Summer Palace in the Palace of Fontainebleau were all stolen by the French army and were all stolen goods!
On this issue, no French person can talk about fairness and justice without any confidence when facing the Chinese.
Ambassador Lu, the Cultural Counselor and others who were also at the scene were happy and a little aggrieved when they heard that.
Invariably, they all gave Xiao Ran a thumbs up.
Looking at Xiao Ran again, he was still snarling.
"Francois, the reason why I chose to trade with you in exchange for the antique cultural relics of the Old Summer Palace in your collection is because I know that you will never take the initiative to return these things."
"I don't bother breaking into the Fontainebleau Palace to steal or rob, but I want to take back these antique cultural relics from the Old Summer Palace, so I can only trade with you and achieve my goal through exchange."
"The transactions that occurred in Philadelphia before and the transactions that will occur today are equivalent art transactions from the perspective of market value."
"As for why your Palace of Fontainebleau didn't get much benefit, this problem seems to be on your side, not on my side..."
François was so slapped in the face that his lungs almost exploded with anger, his face turned purple, and his teeth clenched loudly!
Seeing that he was about to explode, Joshua, who was standing aside to watch the excitement, immediately jumped out to smooth things over.
He doesn't want to see today's heavyweight deal fall through, that's not in his interest.
"Gentlemen, please relax and don't make the atmosphere so tense by rattling your swords!"
“We don’t need to dwell on historical issues, but should focus on current transactions.”
"The reason why everyone is here today is for the transaction. I believe that no one is willing to screw up the transaction."
Joshua said with a smile.
But when he looked at Francois, his eyes were full of warning.
Francois, who was seriously lacking in confidence and at a loss for words, could only nod his head in the face of this silent warning!
Xiao Ran didn't want to mess up this long-planned trade fair, so he nodded and said:
"That's right, gentlemen, we are here to trade today, there is no need to have any unnecessary arguments."
"Next, I am going to take out a large number of antique artworks stored in the vault, and then start a series of transactions with you."
"But before that, I need to establish video contact with the appraisal team in Beijing to introduce the situation here."
After saying that, he nodded to Fang Yufei and walked over there.
Fang Yufei and the others took action immediately, and in a blink of an eye they were connected to the video conference.
What immediately appeared on the high-definition projection screen was Sister-in-law and Shan Lao, and the location was a medium-sized conference room in the National Expo!
There are exactly twenty appraisal experts gathered in this conference room.
Some of them are from the Forbidden City, some from the National Museum of China and the National Museum of China, as well as top experts from the National Bureau of Atlas and Cultural Relics.
Without exception, each of them is well-known in the domestic antique industry, and they are all top appraisal experts, but they are specialized in different professions and fields.
Also in the conference room were several leaders from the Ministry of Culture and the Bureau of Cultural Relics.
At this time, everyone in this conference room thousands of miles away was excited and full of expectations.
The first time he saw everyone, Xiao Ran smiled and raised his hand to say hello.
"Good afternoon, gentlemen and leaders, I am now in the front hall of the Musée d'Orsay, and I am about to start a series of heavyweight transactions with France and the United States."
"Ambassador Lu and the Cultural Counselor of the Embassy in France are all on site, ready to witness the next series of transactions."
As he spoke, he introduced Ambassador Lu and others next to him.
Following his introduction, Ambassador Lu and others raised their hands to say hello to the appraisal team thousands of miles away.
As soon as he said hello, Mr. Shan couldn't wait to say:
"Xiao Ran, we have been waiting all morning, and finally the transaction is about to start."
"I see that there are many boxes placed on site. Let me introduce the situation to you. What treasures are in those boxes?"
"Okay, Mr. Shan"
Xiao Ran smiled and nodded, then began to introduce the situation.
"The boxes placed on the south side of the site, which are also the largest in number, have just been transported from the Palace of Fontainebleau."
"Those boxes contain antique cultural relics from the Old Summer Palace, and the number exceeds a thousand pieces,..."
Chinese Room of the Palace of Fontainebleau
