1934.
The National Government announced the formal establishment of the London Chinese Art International Exhibition Preparatory Committee.
This is something extremely incomprehensible now.
They even sent domestic cultural relics to foreign countries for exhibition.
Given the weakness of the country and nation at that time, whether it could be returned was still a big problem.
In July 1935, the English warship 'Sappho', loaded with bronzes, paintings, ceramics and many other precious antiques from China, slowly sailed into Portsmouth Harbor.
After about four weeks of exhibition, the exhibition attracted a total of 420,000 visitors.
After the exhibition,
Cultural relics from China began to be transported back to China.
but,
"Mr. Lu, thank you very much for your help!"
"Mr. Smith, what do you think about the Buddha statue I want to donate to your country?"
"Oh? Donate?"
Lu Qinzhai and Smith looked at each other, and suddenly they both laughed at the same time.
They are all thousand-year-old foxes, what kind of chat are you doing?
Everyone understands.
"Mr. Smith, you will share 20% of all profits!"
It turned out that Lu Qinzhai wanted to sell a Buddha statue to the British Museum, but he didn't want to be too obvious, so he wanted to donate it to England in the name of this London exhibition.
This can actually promote Lu Qinzhai's cultural relics company to a greater extent.
For the British Museum, it is also donated by Chinese people. They will be greatly satisfied in terms of face. Especially for the domestic people, if they can receive donations of cultural relics from other countries, they will definitely win the favor of the people. .
"I would like to indicate in the introduction that the provider is Lu Qinzhai Company!"
"I'm afraid this won't work..."
Smith hesitated.
It would be unseemly if an antique dealer was listed on this antique introduction.
"How about this? This Buddha statue was presented to the Huaxia Museum by Mr. Lu Qinzhai and then donated to the British Museum by the Huaxia Museum!"
"feasible!"
Lu Qinzhai accepted this plan after seeing that it was hopeless to directly provide it himself.
This is also the best solution currently.
"Then I will transport the Buddha statue to the British Museum tomorrow!"
The Buddha statue mentioned by Lu Qinzhai was sculpted in the fifth year of Emperor Kaihuang's reign in the Sui Dynasty (AD 585).
The entire Buddha statue is carved from marble, is 5.8 meters high and weighs about 2 tons.
It was shipped from China. Because it was too big, it could only be cut into 3 sections.
It's simply insane.
The next day.
Lu Qinzhai arranged for the Buddha statue to be transported to the British Museum.
Many managers of the British Museum and British government officials were waiting at the entrance of the museum early.
The two parties have negotiated a deal, but no one will tell the public.
Lu Qinzhai's asking price was not high. He reasoned that the Buddha statue was too huge. It was on the National Government cultural relics cruise ship when he came here. Naturally, it was impossible to go back with it when he returned.
It would have been too expensive to ship it back individually, so it was sold to the British Museum at a low price.
When the car transporting these three Buddha statues arrived at the entrance of the British Museum.
Inside the car, in addition to the Buddha statue, there are a few more things inexplicably.
"Come on, come on, slow down!"
After the vehicle stopped, Lu Qinzhai called on the following crane to start working to unload the Buddha statue from the vehicle.
"Ugh~"
"啕~"
The moment the car door was opened, a strange smell suddenly came from the car.
"FUCK, what is it?"
"Lou, what did you bring here?"
"FUCK, close the door quickly. Did you bring a load of shit here?"
The faces of everyone present changed greatly. Europeans basically did not eat durian. Durian only began to be exported from Southeast Asian countries around 1930. Basically no one knew this fruit.
So does the microwave.
The first commercial microwave oven was put into use in 1954. At that time, it was as big as a current refrigerator.
"Lu, did you transport any biological weapons?"
"What do you mean? Do you still want to do business in England?"
At this time, Lu Qinzhai was also sweating profusely.
He also smelled a strange smell in the carriage just now, but he checked before he came and found that there was nothing else in the carriage except the Buddha statue.
Where does this peculiar smell come from?
"Did you pull anything else along the way?"
Lu Qinzhai questioned the driver of the escort car.
"Mr. Lu, absolutely not. We followed you all the way here, how could we add something halfway!"
Seeing that the driver didn't look like he was lying, Lu Qinzhai felt helpless.
What on earth is this?
"Open a small gap, let me go in and take a look!"
He didn't know what was going on, so he had to go in and check it out himself.
As soon as the carriage opened a gap, Lu Qinzhai felt like he was going to vomit.
This stinks too! !
It's like heating up the cake.
But for today's transaction, he could only suppress his nausea and continue to check.
Finally, in the corner of the carriage, he found the culprit.
"beautiful?"
Pinching her nose, Lu Qinzhai saw two words on the square box.
This thing looks like a trademark, but I don’t know what it means.
beautiful?
He had never heard of this brand.
There is also this square box that is making noise, and the smell is coming from there.
Through the transparent glass, you can see a lump of yellow stuff inside, which is slowly melting.
See the unseen.
Lu Qinzhai confirmed that the peculiar smell came from here. It seemed that he did not know who put the object in the car in which he was transporting the Buddha statue.
"Mr. Smith, I already know what caused it. It will be fine after I throw that thing away!"
Europeans, who were holding their noses because of the smell of durian, missed an opportunity to study microwave ovens and generators from 2023.
Lu Qinzhai asked the driver to drive the car far away, and then threw away the microwave generator together. The smell dissipated for a long time before delivering the Buddha statue again.
Because of its high height and huge size, this Buddha statue of Amitabha was placed at the entrance of the British Museum and was not placed in the exhibition area inside.
Lu Qinzhai is happy to see the success. He can see such a Buddha statue as soon as he enters the door, which is more conducive to the promotion of his company.
He has been engaged in the antique reselling business for more than 20 years. Today, Lu Qinzhai is no longer the poor man who cannot afford to support a mother and daughter. His properties are spread across Europe, America and other places. Wherever the economy is prosperous, he comes from China. Where are the antiques sold?
Anyway, the current domestic situation is in chaos, and no one cares about his search for cultural relics from the people.
As long as everyone makes money, then you are good and I am good and everyone is good.
Antiques in prosperous times, gold in troubled times.
In troubled times, everyone wants to have enough gold and silver in their hands instead of collecting an antique that may lose value at any time.
