Chapter 1086: Secret Transportation
A large number of cultural relics, even including Leonardo da Vinci's paintings such heavyweight items, open to them to test, this kind of good thing, decades may not appear once, for cultural relics experts, this is a very attractive thing, cultural relics identification of this thing, vision is very critical, some things, seen is seen, understand is understand, do not understand is not understand, to be able to take apart the cultural relics of the whole Paris to see, this is a rare opportunity, even if it is the moment of the outbreak of war, At the risk of being drawn into the war at any time, these masters of cultural relics also came, including masters with great influence in Europe and the Americas.
A large number of professionals, the progress is much faster, identification, inventory, confirmation of the price, before the Northwest and Germany, an approximate price was agreed, now it is the most subtle thing, step by step to implement each part. The cultural relics seized in the whole of Paris are divided into five levels, one, two, three, four, five, the first level is about the million pound level, of course, the Germans could not give the Louvre Three Treasures such a level of treasure to the northwest, whether it is the statue of Venus, the statue of the goddess of war, or the smile of the Mona Lisa, even in Europe, it is considered precious, used to fill the Kaiser's collection, is a good choice.
But the fact that France looted is too big, on the one hand, it is a colony, on the other hand, France is mainly financed, since it is finance, financing and pawn this thing, almost all of them are inseparable, with the help of this and the means in secret, France has accumulated huge wealth, including a large number of antiques.
Among them, China occupies a huge part, although the number of fifth ranks is in the single digits, each of which is a famous and priceless national treasure, such as the emperors of the Tang Dynasty. The five-color parrot map of the Song Dynasty, the former is Yan Liben, the latter is written by Huizong of the Song Dynasty, and half of these precious cultural relics are collected by internal history, but they were lost abroad at the end of the Qing Dynasty.
These are things of great artistic value. It is undoubtedly rated as first-class, but there are many others with profound cultural heritage, including bronze heavy weapons, a large number of Buddhist sculptures, Mogao Grottoes collection, oracle bones and bones, etc., which have important cultural and historical significance, and can even help many of China's historical work.
The gap between Eastern and Western cultures. There is no doubt here, for example, the bronze swords unearthed in the Western Zhou Dynasty, the bronze tripod, especially the latter, which can be said to be very important in Chinese history, is called a sacrificial vessel. The exquisite patterns on it are not as good as the once Chinese Simu Wu Dafang Ding. But it is of great significance to cultural inheritance, for the current Europe, it is just a fine bronze, and the rating is set at the fourth level, but in fact, this thing. It won't be much lower than the emperor diagram of the previous dynasties.
There are underestimated, of course, there will be overestimated, and some of the Qing Dynasty gold castings are not very strong in terms of cultural value and artistic value. It is because of the value of the gold itself that his grade has been raised, even if it is the sale of gold, it is enough to reach the third grade, and the final rating is the second grade, this kind of thing, in addition to the value of a part of the gold itself, that is, the value of processing, no matter how young it is, the improvement will not be much.
The final 17 pieces of the first level, more than 37,000 pieces of the second level, more than 570,000 pieces of the third level, and countless of the remaining four and five levels, basically all of them are based on 10 grades, and the fifth level is almost equivalent to 500 to 2,000 US dollars, which is the standard of 3,000 northwest yuan.
The things that were cleaned up, with the help of the German side, were archived and preserved, and the precious cultural relics were installed separately, designed by special experts, and put into the warehouse, which was too ostentatious before, and after getting the mention of the northwest, they also knew that it was over, although they were not responsible for transportation, but if the transportation loss was too large, how could they continue to go further, the objects of the European war, whether it was France, Britain, or Russia, were all great powers with a long history, if they really occupied their territory, You'll get more artifacts.
Of course, put into the warehouse, is only a superficial phenomenon, in fact, part of these cultural relics, after bundling and installation, quietly entered the transport submarine, the maximum transport weight of the cow submarine can reach about 3,000 tons, of course, the precious cultural relics can not be all fully loaded, but each ship, almost can transport 12,000-30,000 pieces, between, at most a few batches, can be transported.
Under the premise that there are many things, it is not so precious, and now in order to transport these cultural relics, many things are not placed separately, and there is no shortage of cultural relics that have reached tens of thousands, or even hundreds of thousands, but they are also put up casually, after all, there are too many similar things.
The Germans ate a lot of money, and gained a lot from the cultural relics, all of a sudden, so that other countries are very jealous, the war is money, no money can fight anything, the northwest so fanfare acquisition of cultural relics, although the price, is unlikely to be too high, but finally turned the fixed things into money, won the war, there is no benefit.
Britain and France may still be hesitating, Austria-Hungary, Italy, these countries, there are not so many concerns, no matter how second-rate countries are, they are also the world's few famous powers, and those who invaded China and gained benefits in China also have their names.
Next, Italy and Austria-Hungary began to contact the northwest, and the names of some of the Chinese cultural relics in their country were passed on to the northwest, which was also to inquire about the price, these two countries, there are not many Chinese cultural relics, but after searching the people, there are hundreds of thousands of pieces, not many fine products, but according to the German rating standards, a little evaluation, it has reached tens of millions of dollars, including a few rare fine products.
Regardless of cultural differences, the value of art is almost universal, these things are either in the big family, or in the museum, but now, for the sake of arms, the two countries can't take care of it, and they can't shoot children and wolves, as far as the German experience is concerned, the reason why the Northwest agreed is because those precious boutiques, if they want to sell a larger number of rags at a price, they have to come up with real treasures.
The approach of Italy and Austria-Hungary can be regarded as a windfall, these two countries did not get back the money, and directly purchased arms in the northwest, the products in the northwest are of high quality and low price, and there is an unlimited supply of large quantities, as long as they take out cash, they can buy arms, tens of millions of dollars, which is enough for them to arm more than a dozen divisions.
If China is a big country with a long history and has countless cultural relics, then there are several countries in Europe that are of the same standard as China, Italy is one, the former Holy Roman Empire, including the current Papal States, but it belongs to Italy, and they are not willing to take it out, but the empire that is close at hand also has a long history and many cultural relics, that is, Greece.
Yang Yuanzhao didn't know that he suddenly wanted to use it to support Germany, and the practice of recovering a large number of Chinese cultural relics attracted two hungry wolves to peep at Greece, itself, in World War I, although Greece was full of disasters, but it was not the point, Bosnia and Herzegovina and Serbia These places are, and now, the two countries have joined forces and have a clear goal, for of course, cultural relics, which look inconspicuous, but some are more expensive than gold.
In fact, since Yang Yuanzhao made his fortune in the northwest, the history of the whole world has been changed beyond recognition, Paris was lucky to hold in World War I, in this era, was easily broken by Germany, the two groups of each other, became a monopoly of Germany, Germany overwhelmed Britain and France, occupied two-thirds of the territory of France, on the other hand, defeated Russia, occupied a huge territory.
For another time, such a large territory, such a long front, it will be very difficult for Germany not to hold on to death, but with the support of the northwest as a force with almost infinite capacity, all kinds of manpower, machines, materials, and even antiques can be turned into real arms, weapons, and basic materials, Germany is no longer isolated, and it is better than at any time in history.
Near Kiel, the submarine military port, a section of trains, heavily guarded from afar, inside are countless black alloy boxes, a total of 12 trains dedicated to transporting various cultural relics, starting from France, it was strictly protected by the German army, at least 1 million people, just along the railway line in France, although there is no such great effort in Germany, but also strict protection, and finally transported a large number of cultural relics to the Kiel military port, and then secretly loaded at the military submarine dock.
The Allies and the Entente are currently in a state of war, but neither Britain nor Germany can penetrate the tentacles of intelligence into the military field, which is related to national security and secrets.
Concerning the cultural relics worth 10,000 gold, how careful can not be overdone, the first batch of 30 submarines of the cargo handling completed, a total of 90,000 tons of loading, almost 570,000 pieces of various cultural relics, an average of about 20,000 pieces on each submarine, including Song Huizong's colorful parrot map.
There are a total of 5 first-class artifacts in this batch, which is also the most once, and in order to avoid irreparable danger, it must be dispersed.
It took more than ten days to complete the shipment, and one night, the submarine force left the military port and quietly entered the sea, aiming for China, which is thousands of miles away. (To be continued.) )