space fisherman

Chapter 533 Twelve Beast Heads
Ye Yuan was very surprised, he didn't expect that the other party wanted to exchange two cultural relics from Huaguo in exchange for the three items in his hands.

"I don't know what kind of cultural relics His Highness Dilai wants to exchange for these?"

Ye Yuan was also very curious, the official cultural relics mentioned by Di Lai couldn't be ordinary high-end products.

Di Lai smiled slightly and said confidently:
"Snake head and dog head, do you know if Ye Zhi knows?"

"What did you say?"

Ye Yuan thought he heard it wrong, because he was excited, he didn't control the volume of his voice, so the dogs that were still crawling by the door all looked this way.

When he saw that the master was not in any danger, he turned around.

"You mean the twelve animal heads that were looted from the Old Summer Palace in my country?"

What Ye Yuanba understood and what De Lai expressed were not the same thing, so he spoke again to make sure.

"Yes"

Dillie nodded and gave an affirmative answer.

After hearing De Lai's answer, Ye Yuan became excited.

This is excitement for no reason, there is no way, as any Chinese, he is very familiar with the capital of the twelve beasts.

The Old Summer Palace itself is a huge royal courtyard, which was built in the Qing Dynasty.

It was originally given to Emperor Kangxi to his fourth son, later Emperor Yongzheng.

After Yongzheng ascended the throne, the park was expanded.

In the Old Summer Palace, the most well-known are the 12 bronze animal heads.

However, under the invasion of the Eight-Power Allied Forces in 1856, it was devastated, and all the precious treasures in the park were wiped out.

Take away what can be taken away, and destroy everything that cannot be taken away.

Among them, 12 bronze animal heads were also looted.

The 12 bronze animal heads represent different times of the day, and the corresponding animal heads will spew water from their mouths at each hour.

When one hour is over, water will be sprayed from another animal head.

This represents the end of an hour.

This is also the design that Emperor Qianlong was most satisfied with. His designer was the missionary Castiglione at that time, and he was also featured in many film and television works.

But a fire destroyed all these, and all the cultural relics in the garden were taken away, and the animal heads of the twelve zodiac signs naturally did not escape the fate of being taken away.

So far, both the government and the people of Huaguo have been working hard to welcome these 12 animal heads back to the country.

But things backfired, so far, the whereabouts of the four beast heads are still unknown.

But there is also good news, that is, through the continuous efforts of many patriotic businessmen over the years, the eight known beast heads have all returned to China.

Among them, the rat head and the rabbit head appeared in Christie's auction house in 2009, and were auctioned by the Cultural Heritage Fund for 1400 million euros.

But in the end, no payment was made, and the cultural relics were also unsold.

In the end, the two beast heads were bought by a family from the Eagle Kingdom.

And they were given to Huaguo free of charge, and they are now collected in the National Museum of Huaguo.

The cow heads once appeared in the houses of country M and were used as garden decorations. In the 20s, the people of Wanwan bought the cow heads at auctions.

On April 2000, 4, at the auction on Hong Kong Island, the head of the cow was bought by Huaguo Poly Group for 30 Hong Kong dollars
A few days after the bull's head was photographed, Poly Company photographed the tiger's head again and put it in the Poly Art Museum.

On March 2009, 3, according to a media report, Wang Du, a collector of Wanwan, said in an interview that the dragon head among the animal heads of the Yuanmingyuan, whose whereabouts are unknown, is currently in Wanwan.

In October 2007, the God of Gamblers in Macao bought back the horse head with 10 million Hong Kong dollars and donated it to the country

The monkey head was also bought by the Huaguo Poly Group at a price of 740 million and stored in the Poly Art Museum.

The last pig head was also photographed by the God of Gamblers in Macau, and finally donated to the country like the horse head.

Counting the dragon heads in Wanwan, Huaguo now has 8 animal heads, and the whereabouts of the remaining four are still unknown.

But Ye Yuan never expected that among the remaining four beast heads that disappeared, two of them were in Di Lai's hands.

This is what Ye Yuan feels, like a big pie hitting his head directly.

As a Chinese, there is no one who doesn't want to get all the heads of the twelve beasts. Today this opportunity is in front of Ye Yuan, not to mention exchanging three Byzantine items.

Even if it is twice as much, he is willing.

However, as a negotiation, it is necessary to maximize the benefits, so put away the excitement that was just because I couldn't control it.

"If it's an exchange, then I'm giving out three items, isn't it a bit of a loss?
As you said, these items from the Byzantine period will not have the same value between me and you.

It's also like the price of the twelve animal heads is different between yours and mine.

In this sense, we all want to get each other's items, so I think one-for-one is the fairest deal, what do you think, Your Highness? "

Ye Yuan had to admit that he really wanted to get the animal head from the other party, even if he denied it, it would be useless.

After all, my excited state was seen very clearly by the other party just now, so I can only talk about the status of the Byzantine items in the other party's heart.

Di Lai smiled, he could see that Ye Yuan had already agreed in his heart, but for reasons unknown to him, he raised the price with himself here.

Di Lai has never seen any kind of person before, so he is not angry at Ye Yuan's appearance, so he looks like a businessman.

So he also became a small bargaining expert in seconds, if he didn't know, he would think that the person sitting opposite Ye Yuan was not some Prince Tesha, but just a big brother who bargained on the roadside.

After the two people bargained back and forth, in the end, Di Lai paid Ye Yuan an additional 1000W rice gold as a make-up. In the end, both of them were very satisfied with this transaction.

Di Lai was happy, but he used two hot cultural relics plus a mere 1000W in exchange for the three items representing rights that he coveted.

There is a reason why those two cultural relics are said to be hot.

After all, Huaguo's status in the world is completely different from before.

Tesha also does not want to offend such a fast-growing big country.

In this way, it becomes a bit embarrassing to sell two cultural relics.

Not only will there be problems with the sale, but even the news of this item in Tesha is a big trouble.

At first, his father planned to use these cultural relics as a condition to get some benefits from Huaguo.

But now that I can exchange these two cultural relics for something more valuable to Tesha, I believe that as the king's father, he will be very satisfied after knowing this transaction.

And Ye Yuan felt that he had earned 1000W through bargaining, which was the most ruthless price he ever bargained in his life.

(End of this chapter)