African Entrepreneurship Records 2

Chapter 370 (No Subscription Chapter)

At the Trieste Royal Shipyard, Ernst took a look at the "Arch Duke Ferdinand" in person. It is indeed a big guy in this era.

Ernst himself doesn't know much about ships, but don't worry about the Austrians fooling himself. At the same time, the technicians from the Trieste shipyard in Hechingen also participated in the supervision. This ship is the command ship of Ferdinand in the future. Most people dare not offend the emperor's younger brother.Seeing the rapidly formed Archduke Ferdinand, Ernst was very satisfied, "Let's go!"

This time Ernst went to East Africa and brought a lot of things, including many of his collections in Hohenzollernburg, most of which were antiques.

In Europe, Ernst missed a lot of good things, which were cultural relics purchased from returning soldiers from Britain and France, especially calligraphy and paintings, which foreigners could not appreciate, and there was a possibility of counterfeiting in calligraphy and painting. Small, the West currently lacks such technical talent.

In Ernst's collection, "Pictures of Proverbs of Women's History" was bought for less than two shillings, which can be considered a "high price" for recycling.

The British and French soldiers had no idea of ​​the value of the rich cultural relics, and most of them were sold as trophies. Ernst, on the other hand, bought them wholesale, and now has more than 400 paintings alone.

There were even more books, a typical one of which was "Yongle Dadian". Ernst had about 500 volumes in his hands, all bought by the pound.

However, Ernst's cultural attainments did not appreciate it very much, but Ernst knew that the things that could flow out of the Old Summer Palace and the Forbidden City were not bad.

Among them, most of the cultural relics in France flowed into the hands of Ernst. In this regard, we should thank the internationalism spirit of the people in the old areas.

Compared with the British army, which was accustomed to expeditions, invasions and plunder, the French army, which also returned home in "triumph", received quite different "treatment" at home.

On the one hand, most French domestic newspapers and periodicals are willing to publicly disclose these "trophies" obtained from the Old Summer Palace. Relevant information abounds.

On the other hand, a considerable part of the French people felt ashamed and angry at the looting by the French army, so they condemned it.Among them, the most famous criticism comes from Victor Hugo, a famous French writer and a generation of writers, who called the Old Summer Palace "China's Versailles + Louvre + French National Library", an incomparable precious wealth of human civilization, and The behavior of General Montauban, the commander of the looting French army, is an atrocity that destroys human civilization and a scandal that shames France.

Regarding the "trophies" from the looting of the Old Summer Palace, public opinion in France was divided and confrontational, and the resulting social impact was also divided into two.

On the one hand, newspapers and periodicals continue to report in-depth information from all parties, leaving behind a large number of historical documents with considerable research value.

On the other hand, the French officers and soldiers who returned home one after another put their "trophies" at auctions to cash in, and were unwilling to keep these controversial "souvenirs". Therefore, there were many auctions and auctions. Table of contents.

Ernst also took the opportunity to buy a batch, but most of them were Qing court utensils, but these bells and whistles actually did not grow in Ernst's aesthetics.

In particular, enamel was not only liked by the Qing court but also by foreigners, but Ernst felt it was not as good as the Ru kiln he had.

Moreover, the price of this thing is much higher than that of Ru kiln. Ernst found that the more flashy cultural relics at auction, the higher the price.

Those who are more elegant and simple objects made according to the aesthetics of the ancient Far East are less valued by British and French bandits.

Because now they really don't know the goods, and there are people who know the goods, that is, the Japanese who took advantage of the fire, but the Japanese bought not many cultural relics from the British and French in this time and space, and most of them were taken away by the Hexinggen Bank.

Historically, from 1931 to 1945 alone, Japan transported 1879 boxes of cultural heritage from the Far East.After the victory of the Anti-Japanese War, Japan's own statistics showed that it took away 360 million cultural relics from the Far East. This does not include the "trophies" inherited by the descendants of Japanese war criminals from their ancestors.

The Tokyo National Museum also houses a large number of Chinese calligraphy and painting works, such as "Li Baixing Chanting", "Snow Landscape Landscape", "Six Patriarchs Cutting Bamboo", "Seventeen Posts" written by Wang Xizhi... Even Japan does not shy away from it. Listing these national treasure-level cultural relics as their 150th anniversary commemorative exhibition, Japan, a dog-like nation, has never been redeemed.

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"You must handle these paintings and calligraphy with care. Also, you must send people to patrol the ship regularly every day to prevent rats from chewing these works of art."

The subordinate said in embarrassment: "Your Highness, don't worry, the mouse will not be idle and attack the iron box."

"That's what you said, but you still have to be careful. Many of the things inside are going to be put in museums. If they get damaged, it will detract from the view."

In addition to antiques, the most important thing Ernst brought with him were books, a total of [-] sets, to fill the empty National Library.The National Library was not built in the first town, but in the newly built city "Suojia".

In terms of culture, East Africa as a whole is relatively indifferent. It seems that due to inertial thinking, East Africans do not like to read much, even Germans who have received compulsory education.

After all, compulsory education is compulsory, not the right of Germans. The original purpose of popularizing compulsory education is to cultivate qualified soldiers and citizens who are loyal to the emperor and patriotic.

Ernst himself didn't care much about this matter. As an adult, thinking has become a stereotype, and Ernst is happy that the thinking of these people remains unchanged. Besides, the audience of the Suoga National Library is not ordinary people.

(End of this chapter)