v3 Chapter 1065： The countrys largest acquisition of cultural relics (1/2)
Xia Yu laughed loudly and said: ”Okay, Director Yan, then I have to trouble you, no matter how many calligraphy and paintings you can bring, I will want it. You can choose the specific price. I believe you, I will arrange someone to follow You contact.”
Yan Sihai nodded happily, ”Mr. Xia, it's no trouble, please don't worry, I will do it well.”
Liu Zhihe also said at this time: ”Mr. Xia, we will also check you off.”
Xia Yu waved his hand and said nonchalantly: ”Director Liu, you don't need to be so troublesome. You know I don't need this little money. As long as I don't let the museum suffer, and the masters don't suffer, I won't make it through my conscience.
Director Liu replied again and again, no longer mentioning it, but he still gave Yan Sihai a look at the moment Xia Yu turned around.
Yan Sihai nodded knowingly.
To be able to accompany Liu Zhihe throughout the journey, Xia Yu must be a distinguished guest from the mainland, and he does not need to mention Liu Zhihe. Yan Sihai also knows what to do. No matter when, political tasks are above all else, this concept has penetrated his bones.
And now it is really difficult for him to deal with these calligraphy and paintings here. Xia Yu is willing to buy them all, which has given the museum a huge help, and he is already content.
Amid Yan Sihai’s thanks, Xia Yu and Liu Zhihe went out, and the red flag car drove away from the National Revolutionary History Museum.
After getting in the car, Xia Yu, who had picked up at least ”tens of billions”, was very happy, with a smile on his face unconsciously.
Seeing Xia Yu in a good mood, thinking of what Xia Yu said in the museum just now, Liu Zhihe's heart moved and pretended to ask with interest: ”Mr. Xia, you built the Kowloon Cultural Museum in Xiangjiang. I also heard about it in mainland China. , I heard that it contains a national treasure-level ”Yongle Dadian”, more than the Forbidden City?”
Xia Yu laughed and said modestly: ”That is to say, the number of ”Yongle Dadian” is more than that of the Forbidden City. In other respects, it is not worthy to carry shoes for the Forbidden City Museum.
”Although my Kowloon Cultural Museum is well-known in Hong Kong and Southeast Asia, it has a long way to grow. It has only collected more than 10,000 cultural relics. Even if I add tens of thousands of calligraphy and painting now, it will only be tens of thousands. Unlike the Forbidden City Museum, which has a huge collection of millions of pieces, and each one is a fine piece of the finest, I can’t compare it!”
Liu Zhihe smiled and flattered and said, ”Mr. Xia is humble. With your financial resources, it is not difficult to fill the collection of the Kowloon Cultural Museum to more than one million pieces.”
Xia Yu shook his head with a bitter smile, and sighed: ”Dr. Liu, it is not so easy. I want to buy back as much Chinese cultural relics as possible, and build the Kowloon Cultural Museum into a stage to showcase Chinese culture, but what about It is difficult to acquire overseas cultural relics.”
Liu Zhihe immediately said: ”Mr. Xia, it is very difficult to buy Chinese cultural relics overseas, but the difficulty is still very small in the mainland. If you need large quantities of cultural relics, you may wish to consider state-owned cultural relics stores.”
”Antiquities store?”
Xia Yu became interested, and under Liu Zhihe's reminder, he also realized this good opportunity that he had overlooked.
It seems that in the 1970s and 1980s, there were cultural relic shops on the mainland that sold cultural relics. The purpose seemed to be to earn foreign exchange.
Liu Zhihe nodded and said, ”Yes, the cultural relics store is the only store designated for cultural relics in the country.”
Xia Yu asked with interest: ”Director Liu, can you tell me more about it?”
Seeing Xia Yu's interest, Liu Zhihe lifted his spirits and carefully described the situation of the cultural relic store: ”Mr. Xia, the cultural relic store is...”
As Liu Zhihe continued to tell, Xia Yu also learned about the cultural relics store. Although Liu Zhihe was an official person, his attitude was biased towards the official when he said it, but combined with some understanding of later generations, Xia Yu can also have his own judgment.
In general, the cultural relics store is now the nation’s only cultural relics acquisition and transaction platform established by the state. This is the only channel. If it is sold to other places, it is speculative and violates national laws. In addition, no other units or people dare to ask for it. .
The law only stipulates that what is buried underground belongs to the state, but there should not be too many cultural relics circulated by the people. This is private property and the people can sell it.
In order to regulate the cultural relics market and to protect precious cultural relics as much as possible, the state has set up cultural relics stores to purchase cultural relics.
After the acquisition, the precious cultural relics will be handed over to the museum from the cultural relics stores in various places, and the inferior ones will be sold as commodities to foreign guests in exchange for the precious foreign exchange needed for national construction.
It is also worth noting that the people on the mainland can sell cultural relics in cultural relics stores, but they cannot buy them in cultural relics stores. Cultural relics stores only sell cultural relics to foreign guests, because only foreign guests have foreign exchange.
It is worth mentioning that, considering the difficulty in selling cultural relics, cultural relics stores are not always rejecting visitors. The Foreign Trade Acquisition Department issues numbers for a limited period of time. A certain number of numbers are issued every day. If no number is listed, cultural relics stores will not. collected.
Moreover, cultural relics stores are also very picky about buying cultural relics, regardless of whether they are old cultural relics, anyway, as long as they are damaged or flawed, they will not be accepted.