The British Embassy in Japan is located in Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo, adjacent to the Imperial Palace of Japan, and at this time, on the side of the road in front of the embassy gate, two or three hundred Japanese people gathered to demonstrate, holding banners and small flags one by one, and shouting slogans in their mouths:

"Return the bones of my gods, and return my treasures."

"The plundering of 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 are also Japanese, and I ask the British auction house to stop the auction and return our cultural relics."

The marchers stood on the side of the road holding flags and chanting slogans, and there were two rows of Japanese policemen at the door, who were on guard, and several TV station reporters were parked next to them, and those reporters held cameras and kept filming.

Inside the British Embassy, Ambassador William looked outside, his brow furrowed, and at that moment, the phone on his desk rang, and he picked it up and answered it.

The voice of the secretary came from the phone, "Mr. Ambassador, the Japanese Ministry of Foreign Affairs has urgently summoned you, and the Japanese Prime Minister Tanaka will meet you personally." ”

"I see."

Half an hour later, Ambassador William came to the Japanese Ministry of Foreign Affairs and met with the Japanese Prime Minister Tanaka, who sternly said: "Ambassador William, I have brought your Excellency the Prime Minister's message that the British Charlotte auction house will auction the cultural relics that will not be allowed to be auctioned publicly, because it is a desecration against Japan, and we demand that the treasures be returned to Japan." ”

Ambassador William frowned, "Mr. Tanaka, I will convey the views of Your Excellency the Prime Minister and you to Your Excellency the Prime Minister. ”

Minister Tanakami continued: "There is one more thing to inform you, when we discovered Yamadai Island, we also found some other information on the island, someone first explored Queen Himiko's palace, and we found a large number of corpses of foreign mercenaries in the palace, they carried guns, explosives, and professional expedition tools, so we have reason to believe that this batch of antiques that were auctioned off is likely to be the cultural relics looted by those people. ”

"Mercenaries? Treasure Hunting Team? William asked in surprise.

"Maybe."

After the communication with the Japanese foreign minister, William returned to the embassy and immediately informed the country of the official protest and demands of the Japanese side, after all, it was related to the relations between the two countries, and the British Foreign Office said that it would hand the matter over to the prime minister for handling.

London, United Kingdom.

Hundreds of Japanese expatriates and Japanese students gathered outside the Charlotte Auction House, holding small self-made signs with protest slogans written on them, standing on the side of the street, protesting against the Charlotte Auction House's auction of Japanese national treasures, demanding that the auction be stopped immediately and that the treasures be handed over to Japan for disposal.

The London Police stood on guard to avoid any other incidents.

Garrison stood at the president's window on the ninth floor and looked down, without a nervous look on his face, "Let's make trouble, the more trouble we make, the bigger this matter will be, and let the world know that there are these treasures." ”

George, the vice president in charge of security next to him, asked: "President, if the trouble is too big and the state comes forward to stop it, I'm afraid it will be difficult for the auction to go ahead." ”

Garrison smiled lightly and said, "What is the purpose of our auction, which is to increase the value of the lot to sell for a higher price through publicity and bidding, and now the Japanese government is helping us to do the publicity, there is no bigger publicity than this, what do you think?" ”

"As for the bidding, hehe, many private collectors have already called me, and this batch of treasures is definitely not worried about selling now, even if there is no official auction, and now with this kind of publicity, I believe that it will be sold at a higher price than the previous estimate, which is enough for us."

After some good things are sent to the auction house, many will notify some familiar collectors in advance to see if they are interested in this thing, if they are interested, the auction house will help contact the consignor to communicate, and finally they can charge a part of the handling fee.

"Dangdangdang",

There is a knock on the door, and Garrison's secretary walks in.

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

"Okay, George, come with me and have a look." Garrison said.

The two met with the BBC team in the conference room, and as they shook hands, Garrison smiled and said, "Welcome to the interview, I'm very good friends with your president, Aston." ”

The male reporter smiled and said, "President Garrison, we're only going to ask questions from the transcript." ”

"Then let's get started." President Garrison straightens his clothes and smiles gentlemanly at the camera.

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At night

BBC Radio aired an exclusive interview with Garrison, president of Charlotte, in front of the camera with a smile on his face.

"Since its establishment in 1881, our Charlotte Auction House has gone through more than 120 years of history, with branches in 11 countries around the world, and the auction business involves jewelry, porcelain, furniture, samurai armor and weapons, and fine wines, etc., as well as art storage, preservation, art databases, etc., and has extensive contacts with many museums, collectors and art dealers around the world."

Garrison shamelessly gave Charlotte a wave of advertisements first.

The reporter asked: "President Garrison, Charlotte Auction House is preparing to auction a batch of Japanese art antique jewelry in the near future, and the Japanese government said that this batch of antiques was looted by thieves, and has made formal representations to the United Kingdom, what do you say about this matter?" ”

Garrison smiled, showing a very British gentleman's demeanor: "This batch of antique jewelry auctioned is indeed from Japan, even Japanese national treasures, the specific situation of the treasures has been clearly stated on the website, but I want to explain that this batch of antiques does not belong to Japan, the antique consignor told us that this batch of antiques is handed down by their family, and has been treasured in their family's treasury for hundreds of years, passed down for several generations, and they have not been very clear about the value of these antiques before, Recently, I saw a report on the excavation of the Yamatai site in Japan, and I knew the value of this batch of antiques, so I took them out for auction. ”

The explanation was perfect and shameless.

It's true that antiques are Japanese, but it has nothing to do with your Japanese government, we have been getting them for a hundred years, and we are not robbing them now.

What's even more infuriating is that now it's put up for auction because you know the value of these antiques because of your archaeological discovery of the Yamatai site in Japan.

The reporter asked: "Mr. Garrison, what do you say about the widespread protest by the Japanese people against this auction and demanding the return of antiques belonging to Japan?" ”

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

Speaking of this, Garrison asked sincerely in front of the camera, "Japan is asking for the return of these lots, I would like to ask, those big museums in Japan, there are a large number of cultural relics from other countries, have they been returned?" Japan auctions hundreds or thousands of antiques from other countries every year, and have they ever considered returning the cultural relics to the country to which they belong? ”

The reporter asked: "Last question, do you think it is appropriate to do this because the items in this auction involve the bones of a god in Japan?" ”

Garrison shook his hand vigorously and quickly said, "No, no, no, I think you misunderstood, the auction items will never include the bones of Susanohu, who is revered as the god of Japanese killing, the lot is only the golden armor, we just said that whoever auctioned the armor will give the bones, because they are originally a set." ”

This explanation makes sense.

If you want bones, use the money to buy armor.

In fact, Susanoo's bones are in some ways more attractive than armor, especially to the Japanese.

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

"How many generations are hidden in the family is theirs, we don't accept this explanation."

"It's shameless that the shameless British auction house said that it would not auction Susanoo's bones, but the added value was completely exploited by them."

"The national treasure must be returned."

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

Unlike the condemnation of Japanese netizens, netizens in other countries around the world are much more sensible.

British netizen: "Maybe it's a treasure from the Age of Discovery, it's been hundreds of years ago, and the Japanese government doesn't seem to have the right to recover it, so be sensible." ”

American netizen: "Maybe that was the harvest of a certain explorer in the last century, and now the Japanese government is asking for its return, which is indeed a bit excessive, you know, every country has other countries' treasures." ”

Egyptian netizens: "Please ask Britain and the United States to return the cultural relics taken from the pyramids in the last century, those belong to Egypt." ”

Chinese netizens: "How can there be a feeling of feng shui taking turns, Japan also has today, in the past, China protested against them, how many cultural relics and antiques Japan plundered from China, in millions of pieces, when did they return it, do not do to others what you don't want, please return all Chinese cultural relics as soon as possible." ”

Korean netizen: "I think this batch of cultural relics may be Korean." ”

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In short, a war of words.

The Japanese government vigorously publicized the discovery of Yamadai in order to increase the historical pride of the Japanese people, but after the outbreak of this auction, it caused a major conflict, and the news was very strong, and it attracted widespread attention from people all over the world.

The world's major media reported on this incident, and the Internet was even more noisy, and 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 Charlotte's auction house has soared, and countless people around the world know that there is an auction house called Charlotte in the United Kingdom, and this advertising effect may not be achieved by investing 100 million pounds in advertising.

Just like Ren Zhengfei said, it is because of the ban and suppression of sales by the United States that everyone in the world knows that there is such a company as Huawei.