C1275 Treasure Mirror of Hidden Origin (1/2)

Xiao Letian was a fan of cultural relics, and as his power grew, his personal treasure trove also started to become more and more abundant.

Through the Letian Bank's secret operation with the Letian Firm, as well as the coordination of an independent department of the CIA, Xiao Letian had accumulated a large amount of artifact level coins, antiques, paintings, treasures and jade artifacts … Not only that, Xiao Letian had also secretly compiled a copy of Treasure Mirror that recorded all the treasures he hoped to store.

For example, the statues and bronzes of the Ancient Rome before BC, the various coins, the ancient treasures of the Nile, and the religious treasures of Europe in the Middle Ages. Of course, there were also all sorts of Renaissance paintings. In the 19th world, the value of many Famous Painting s had yet to show itself. As long as you searched patiently, you would be able to find them and they were very cheap.

To give a simple example, no one in the world had known before 1820 that there was a statue of Venus with a broken arm, a statue that a farmer had unwittingly dug up from the island of Milo in the Aegean and then bought by the French.

Even more famous is the fact that Leonardo's Famous Painting, ”The Mona Lisa”, was written in Florence, Italy, and that Leonardo was also Italian, and that the painting was finally acquired by France. There must have been a very secretive story hidden in it, and even up to the 21st century, the Italians were still indignant about the ownership of the painting.

Xiao Letian was very clear that he was living in the era of the major change, and that in the future, there would only be more and more international disputes.

In times of war and turmoil, cultural relics were the most worthless and the easiest to lose. War was almost a reshuffle of ownership of art.

Xiao Letian did not want too many treasures to be destroyed by the fighting, and he even more so did not want the treasures that China had accumulated for thousands of years to be lost overseas.

His dream was to build one of the world's largest museums in his lifetime, larger than the three combined museums of the Louvre, the British Museum, and the American Metropolitan Museum.

With such a lofty ideal, of course he had to prepare ahead of time. If necessary, he could also use some dirty tricks.

Right now, Chun Sanshiniang had secretly set up several ancient shops in the Liu-Li Factory. As long as it was something that could be bought with money, Xiao Letian would not be stingy with his money.

Adding on the fact that Hairy # 2 had a lot of eyes and ears in the palace, there was a secret underground trading network within the Beijing that stole treasures from the palace.

The treasures that had been hidden in the Qing Dynasty for many years had already left the palace secretly and many of them were kept on the island in the Pacific Ocean.

On Xiao Letian's《 Treasure Mirror》, there were even ambitious words written on it, such as ”Qing Ming Shang River Diagram”, ”San Xi Te”, ”Fu Shan Chun Ji Tu”, ”Zhao Ling Six Jun”, and so on … Even Xiao Letian had written the Golden Woo Eternal Rest cup that the dryad Emperor loved the most on the list.

The 'Treasure Mirror' contained too many national treasures. Some were from abroad, some from the West, some from India, the Middle East, Egypt, and so on.