Chapter 811 These Cultural Relics May Be Korean...

Chapter 811 This batch of cultural relics may be Korean.

The British Embassy in Japan is located in Chiyoda District, Tokyo, adjacent to the Japanese Imperial Palace. At this time, two to three hundred Japanese people gathered on the road in front of the embassy gate. They held banners and small flags and shouted With the slogan:

"Give back my god's remains, and my country's treasures."

"Plundering our country's cultural relics is an act of banditry, and Japan will never tolerate it."

"Queen Himiko belongs to Japan, and those national treasures also belong to Japan. I request the British auction house to stop the auction and return the cultural relics of our country."

The marchers stood on the side of the road holding flags and kept shouting slogans. There were two rows of Japanese police officers at the entrance, who were on alert. There were also a few TV interview vehicles parked beside them, and the reporters kept filming with their cameras.

Inside the British embassy, ​​Ambassador William looked outside and frowned. At this moment, the phone on the desk rang, and he picked it up to answer it.

The secretary's voice came over the phone, "Mr. Ambassador, the Japanese Ministry of Foreign Affairs has summoned you urgently, and Japanese Foreign Minister Tanaka will meet you in person."

"I see."

Half an hour later, Ambassador William came to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Japan and met with Foreign Minister Tanaka of Japan. Foreign Minister Tanaka said sternly: "Ambassador William, I have brought the words of your Excellency Prime Minister. The public auction is not allowed because it is a blasphemy against Japan, and we demand that the treasure be returned to Japan."

Ambassador William frowned, "Mr. Tanaka, I will pass on your opinion to our Prime Minister."

Foreign Minister Tanaka continued: "Here is one more thing to inform you. When we discovered Yamatai Island, we also found some other things on the island. Someone first explored Queen Himiko's palace. We found in the palace that There are a large number of corpses of foreign mercenaries carrying guns, explosives, and professional exploration tools, so we have reason to believe that this batch of antiques auctioned is likely to be cultural relics looted by those people."

"Mercenaries? Treasure hunting team?" William asked in surprise.

"Perhaps so."

After the communication with the Japanese foreign minister, William returned to the embassy and immediately notified the country of the formal protest and request from the Japanese side. After all, it was related to the relationship between the two countries. The British Foreign Office stated that it would hand over the matter to the prime minister for handling.

London, England.

Hundreds of Japanese overseas Chinese and Japanese students gathered outside the Charlotte Auction House. They held small self-made signs with protest slogans on them, and stood by the street to protest against the auction of the Japanese national treasure by the Charlotte Auction House. Immediately stop the auction and transfer this batch of treasures to Japan for processing.

The London police stood guard all around to avoid causing other incidents.

Garrison stood at the president's window on the ninth floor and looked down, without any nervous expression on his face, "Come on, the more you make trouble, the bigger this matter will be, let the whole world know that you have these few treasures."

George, the vice president in charge of security, asked, "President, if the disturbance is too big and the country steps in to stop it, I'm afraid the auction will be difficult to proceed."

Garrison smiled lightly, and said: "What is the purpose of our auction? It is to increase the value of the lot through publicity and bidding to sell for a higher price. Now the Japanese government is helping us with publicity. There is no bigger scale than this." publicity, what do you think?"

"As for the bidding, hehe, many private collectors have already called me. This batch of treasures will definitely not worry about selling now. Even if there is no official auction, so what. With the current publicity, I believe it will sell more than before. The higher price of the expected value, that is enough for us.”

There are many private transactions of real antiques. This is also a way of tax evasion. After some good things are sent to the auction house, many of them will notify some acquainted big collectors in advance to see if they are interested in this thing. If you are interested, the auction house will help to contact the consignor to communicate, and you can still charge a part of the handling fee in the end.

"Dangdangdang",

There was a knock on the door, and Garrison's secretary walked in.

"President, the BBC's interview team is here," the secretary said.

"OK, George, go and have a look with me." Garrison said.

The two met the interview team of the BBC Radio and Television Company in the conference room. When they shook hands and greeted each other, Garrison said with a smile: "You are welcome to come for the interview. Your president Aston and I are very good friends."

The male reporter smiled and said, "President Garrison, we will only ask questions from the interview script."

"Then let's get started." President Garrison tidied up his clothes and smiled gentlemanly at the camera.

night,

BBC Radio broadcast an exclusive interview with Garrison, president of Charlotte Auction House. In front of the camera, Garrison talked with a smile on his face.

"Our Charlotte Auction House was established in 1881 and has gone through more than 120 years of history. We have branches in 11 countries around the world. The auction business involves jewelry, porcelain, furniture, samurai armor and weapons, and fine wines. At the same time It also carries out art storage, preservation, art database and other aspects of business, and has extensive contacts with many museums, collectors, and art dealers in the world."

Garrison was shameless and first sent a wave of advertisements to the Charlotte Auction House.

Question from the reporter: "President Garrison, Charlotte's Auction House is planning to auction a batch of Japanese art and antique jewelry in the near future, and the Japanese government said that these antiques were looted by thieves and has formally made representations to the UK. What do you think about this piece? How do things go?"

Garrison smiled, acting like a British gentleman: "The antique jewelry in this auction is indeed from Japan, even Japanese national treasures. We have clearly stated the details of the treasures on the website, but I It should be noted that this batch of antiques does not belong to Japan. The client of the antiques told us that these antiques were handed down from their family. I don’t know the value of this batch of antiques very well, but I only know the value of this batch of antiques after reading the report on the excavation of the Yamatai ruins in Japan recently, so I put them up for auction.”

Perfectly explained and shameless.

It is true that antiques belong to Japan, but it has nothing to do with your Japanese government. We have obtained them for a hundred years, and they are not robbed now.

What's even more irritating is that it's being put up for auction now because of your Japanese archaeological discovery of the Yamatai ruins, so you know the value of these antiques.

The reporter asked: "Mr. Garrison, the Japanese people have widely protested this auction and demanded the return of antiques belonging to Japan. What is your comment on this?"

Garrison shrugged, "We are just an auction company. The ownership of this batch of treasures belongs to the consignor. The entrusted auction agreement we signed is a normal business practice."

Speaking of which, Garrison asked sincerely in front of the camera: "Japan requires the return of these auctions. I would like to ask, have a large number of cultural relics from other countries in Japan's large museums been returned? Japan auctions hundreds of them every year. Thousands of antique cultural relics from other countries, have they considered returning to the country where the cultural relics belong to?"

The reporter asked: "The last question, the items in this auction involve the bones of a certain Japanese god. Do you think it is appropriate to do so?"

Garrison shook his hand vigorously, and hurriedly said: "No, no, I think you misunderstood, the auctioned item does not include the bones of Susano, who is enshrined as the Japanese god of death, the auction is only the gold Armor, we just said that whoever took the picture of that armor will give that bone as a gift, because they were originally a set."

This explanation makes sense.

If you want bones, use money to buy armor.

In fact, the appeal of Susano's remains is greater than that of armor in some respects, especially for the Japanese.

This video was put on the Internet, which immediately caused a wave of curses from the Japanese people.

"Has the family owned it for several generations? We don't accept this explanation."

"The shameless British auction house says they don't auction Susanoo's remains, but they have completely exploited the added value. It's really shameless."

"The national treasure must be returned."

"Selling the remains of our ancestors is an insult to the whole of Japan, and everyone is united to boycott this British auction company."

Unlike the condemnation of Japanese netizens, netizens from other countries in the world are much more rational.

British netizen: "Maybe it is a treasure from the age of great voyages. It has been hundreds of years ago. The Japanese government does not seem to have the right to recover it, so be rational."

American netizen: "Maybe it was harvested by an explorer in the last century. Now the Japanese government is asking for it to be returned, which is indeed a bit too much. You know, every country has treasures from other countries."

Egyptian netizen: "Please Britain and the United States return the cultural relics taken from the pyramids in the last century. Those belong to Egypt."

Chinese netizen: "How can there be a sense of feng shui turning around? Japan also has today. In the past, China protested against them. How many cultural relics and antiques Japan has plundered from China, counting millions of pieces. When did they return it? Do unto others as you would have them do unto others, please Japan return all Chinese cultural relics as soon as possible.”

Korean netizen: "I think these cultural relics may be Korean."

All in all, a spiel.

Before the discovery of Yamatai, the Japanese government vigorously publicized it to increase the historical pride of the Japanese people. After the outbreak of this auction, it triggered a major conflict. It was extremely newsy and attracted widespread attention from people all over the world.

All the major media in the world have reported on this matter, and the Internet is even more noisy. Patriotic Japanese left various messages on the Internet, first slandering the Charlotte Auction House, and finally began to abuse the British government.

Because of this incident, the reputation of the Charlotte Auction House has soared, and countless people all over the world know that there is an auction house called Charlotte in the UK. The effect of this advertisement is not necessarily even if you invest 100 million pounds in advertising. can achieve.