Cultural relics in prosperous times are gold in troubled times. Xiao Letian still understands this truth very well. Taking advantage of the war, he can buy them at low prices or even steal them directly. This is the only way to obtain large quantities of cultural relics. Do you fully expect to buy them in the market? That efficiency is really too low!
Wanting to rely on market transactions to build a world-class cultural relics collection center that surpasses the British Museum is basically wishful thinking!
Only by relying on dark hands can we achieve this goal as quickly as possible, and Xiao Letian's hands are always dark!
The level of cultural relics in Rosenberg is indeed not very high. The sculptures and oil paintings are all works of third-tier artists during the Renaissance. In this era, these things are actually the same as the Qianlong pastel plate.
We all know that it is the real thing, but we can never sell it for a high price because there are too many on the market.
When will it be valuable? It would have to wait until Europe was baptized by two world wars before these third- and fourth-tier cultural relics could become valuable.
Only through the destruction of war can high-end goods become high-quality goods!
War has never been a scarce thing in Europe, and the scale of war will only get bigger and bigger in the future. If we stock up on some third- and fourth-tier cultural relics now, the rewards in the future will definitely be sky-high!
Xiao Letian knew very well that until World War II, mankind had been living in a constant nightmare of war. It can be said that no country lacks a sense of security, and local wars and all-out wars are about to break out.
Under this background, it is difficult for the cultural relics market to prosper, so before World War II, it was a good period for Xiao Letian to buy cultural relics on a large scale.
Only after the end of World War II, when mankind has nuclear weapons that can completely destroy itself, will those war madmen restrain themselves, and the expansion ambitions of various ethnic groups will be greatly restrained.
When the war is suppressed, the earth will enter a relatively long period of peace. Only then will the global collectibles market explode!
Without the threat of war, mankind will enter a peaceful and prosperous age. Only then will people with spare money be interested in hyping up antiques and antiques. At that time, the few collections that Xiao Letian randomly picked up in Rosenberg will definitely be Hot items in the auction house.
"People have to plan for the future! Grab a little more now, and this will be the welfare of the grandson and great-grandson's generation in the future!"
A man must have a big picture. A man cannot always lower his head to pull the car, but more often he has to raise his head to look at the road!
The deeper the vision and the bigger the picture in mind, most of these men will be very successful!
Apart from anything else, the three Franco-Prussian War bosses who had a drink and dinner at Rosenberg definitely had different visions and judgments when it came to treating cultural relics.
Old Moltke was a pure soldier. He was not very interested in sculptures, paintings, collections, etc. His family's villa and manor did have some collections for decoration, but most of them were left behind by his father's generation. , as well as gifts from friends and colleagues.
He himself is not interested in this stuff, and he prefers to study military affairs in his spare time!
Bismarck takes a more profound view. He is still very interested in culture, and he also collects many fine antiques!
But he was not as obsessed as Xiao Letian. He just felt that this thing had some value, but the value was definitely not as important as the railway network, steel plants, chemical industry, military industry, and new technology.
Today, Xiao Letian made it clear that he wanted to rob the French, a big stupid company. As an ally, he cooperated and did not try to cause trouble behind his back!
Besides, isn't it also very satisfying to watch the French being defeated? Taking the French cultural relics as a favor is definitely a good deal!
Bismarck and Moltke turned a blind eye to Xiao Letian's greed and did not stop him at all. As a result, within the next few days, a very bizarre news spread within the Prussian army.
Many soldiers secretly circulated that the heads of state in the East were buying trophies at high prices. All French antiques, such as sculptures, paintings, artworks, etc., were purchased by the Chinese at high prices.
"Have you heard? Fat Jerry from the cooking class tinkered with an Italian oil painting from the village... The painting was only as big as two Bibles, and he exchanged it for two pounds in the Chinese camp!"
"I know, I know, I heard it was painted by someone named Titian...what a weird name!"
"What are you talking about? I just got news that the Crown Cavalry Battalion of the 4th Division raided Beach. It is said that they accidentally found some Chinese cultural relics. I heard that the French snatched them from the Qing Empire's Summer Palace!"
"As a result, the company commander sent those pieces of bronze to the Führer's camp. Guess how much reward he was given? A full one hundred and fifty pounds!"
"Really? All settlements are made in pounds sterling?"
"That's right, they are all settled in hard currency pounds!"
The message spread more and more widely, and the Prussian officers pretended not to hear. As a result, with the connivance of these officers, the Prussian army began a crazy looting of French cultural relics.
Many small troops rushed to various villages and towns, neither grabbing food nor grabbing chickens and ducks, nor molesting beautiful girls. This group of people broke into all the wealthy families and confiscated any old things that had a bit of history.
Even the fourteenth-century menorah! The entire northeastern French border was in a smoky mess controlled by these Prussian troops.
In recent days, Xiao Letian and Bismarck have been commanding battles in Rosenberg, so these cultural relics have begun to flow towards Xiao Letian.
This is simply a steal! Titian's famous painting was taken away after being paid five or six pounds. Xiao Letian's gold cross from the twelfth century was weighed with a scale, and the soldiers were settled according to the same amount of gold plus ten percent!
The ancient sculptures from the Aegean Sea looked like ancient Roman style at first glance, but Xiao Letian only gave ten pounds because the marble was damaged!
Bismarck could not stand the shameless profiteer's face, but he could not say anything because after all, these things were the property of the French and the soldiers' own seizures. No one could say anything about fair transactions.
Xiao Letian was very weird. He had already made preparations. In Berlin, he printed a large number of contracts with unified specifications. This kind of purchase contract was specially made for the acquisition of cultural relics.
Whenever a cultural relic is purchased, soldiers are required to sign. The Chinese have civilian officials write down the details of the cultural relic, as well as the transaction price and detailed time and place, and finally ask the seller to sign.
This is a formal document with legal effect!
What Xiao Let is guarding against is that the French will be blamed in the future. As long as they can provide a legal transaction contract for each cultural relic, then even if the Europeans are glaring, they will have nothing to do.
"Reporting to the head of state! The first batch of three hundred cultural relics has been packed, and the contracts and cultural relics have been sent to the carriage to be transported to Hamburg!"
"Well! Don't be so anxious. When you get to Hamburg, ask a Prussian law firm to notarize it. Later, contact the legal institutions in the Netherlands, Belgium, Switzerland... and other countries. Let's spend more money and let them sign and notarize it!"
"Damn it, we have to complete all the procedures anyway! This will save us hundreds of years from having the shameless French big noses sue us again!"
"Understood! Don't worry, head of state, this matter will be handled properly!"
Xiao Letian smiled and stroked the wooden boxes that exuded the scent of pine trees, as gently as facing his lover, "Little baby! Go home with your godfather, he loves you..."
