Chapter 1189 The Secret in Oil Painting
With the ability of the Dragon War Intelligence Organization, Fang You knows all the big moves of Christie's auction house well.
Although he has not reached the level of knowing any intelligence, Fang You is already satisfied. After all, he set up an intelligence organization not to fight against a certain country, but to get the intelligence he wants at any time. As for the strict information of those government agencies, he does not need it at all.
Perhaps with the continuous development of the Dragon Zhan Intelligence Organization, these things will be done.
Now, except for the Longlin Foundation, which is a charitable nature and has no profit, all its companies are constantly making money.
Needless to say, diamond mines and jade mines are the most profitable things. Longyou Auction House, beautiful jewelry, small island country Dragon Walk Group, Longying Tomb Raiders Group, Longwen Museum, and Dragon War Organization are all making money in order to keep making money.
Dong Qilin is not stingy with some of its employees, which also makes the companies they control a company that most people want to join.
Fang You felt that after the French head's affairs were completed, it was time to integrate all these companies.
The Dragon Shadow Tomb Raiders and the Dragon War Organization are confidential and excluded, while other companies are combined to form a large multinational group, and they are also a multinational group that may never be listed.
Fang You also sighed at his achievements over the years. Before he knew it, his industries had become numerous, and each of them had profitability envied some people in the business world.
Perhaps everyone was a little surprised by each company, but if Fang You integrated all the companies, then the newly established group would shock the world.
While waiting for the Christie's auction, Fang You was not idle either. There were few French tombs, and he had no choice but to do so, but he would not let go of the French cultural relics that fell among the people.
However, the representative product of Western culture is not as brilliant as China. There are many types of Chinese cultural relics, and each one can represent a culture.
Porcelain, calligraphy, painting, and jade can represent the rich and splendid culture of China. This is also the reason why the number of Chinese cultural relics is extremely large. Even after the invasion of the Eight-Nation Alliance or the Three Lights Policy of the small island country, the number of antiques retained in China is still huge.
The reason why many foreign museums can become famous museums is that Chinese cultural relics are supporting the scene. If there is no Chinese culture, then those museums will never be able to produce any good things.
The types of Western cultural relics are far inferior to those of China. You can see the details in the Louvre Museum.
Some famous cultural relics are nothing more than oil paintings and statues, and there is nothing else, but the types of Chinese cultural relics are extremely rich.
There are only a few types of Western cultural relics, such as jewelry, sculptures, oil paintings, clocks, furniture, as well as armor and swords cast in the age of cold weapons in ancient times.
In addition to sculptures and oil paintings, there are very few other cultures that can be contained. Fang You continued to wander around Paris through escape techniques these days, but he only found some cultural relics of little value.
Apart from oil paintings, other cultural relics cannot be picked up on Taobao, or the value is not very high. Jewelry is naturally not as good as the Taobao pickup on Chinese jade. Chinese jade dynasties have developed and flourished, and the carving techniques of some jade ware are not recorded at all. Therefore, this has led to some jade ware being unable to determine the age of others, so that they can be Taobao.
The sculptures are even more unthinkable. They are very large and even if there are any leaks, they cannot be picked up.
Watches, furniture, etc. are no longer valuable, and are far less expensive than Chinese mahogany furniture.
However, Fang You did not give up and was still wandering around Paris every day, hoping to discover some precious Western cultural relics. At least it did not come to France in vain. It was just earning a little travel fee. This was not what Fang You wanted.
Although the things he discovered were not very valuable in his eyes, they also discovered them by chance, and often they were wandering around Paris with Mr. Wang and others.
These things that are of little value are considered valuable cultural relics in the eyes of these old men. Although some oil painting authors are not as famous as some famous painters, they have also left their names in history.
At the same time, they were also very impressed. As expected, they had rich knowledge and could pick up bargains on Taobao wherever they went. Gradually, they were used to Fang You picking bargains on Taobao in France, and they were always waiting for Fang You to discover what kind of cultural relics.
Fang You smiled. Although these things are not valuable, they can be taken away. After all, it is too difficult to get the works of famous oil painters. And doing so can also make Mr. Wang and others get used to picking up bargains on Taobao. In this way, even if he goes out to pick up bargains on Taobao alone, there is no need to explain too much.
One night, Fang You continued to wander around the unexplored Paris city, and suddenly found that the extremely rich orange-red aura came from above, which made him a little amazed. Looking at this area, it was not a museum or something, but why there were so many rich orange-red auras.
Orange already represents the Ming Dynasty in China. It can be said that it has been more than 500 years ago. Moreover, there are so many spiritual energy coming from it. It can be said that the cultural relics that have brought out spiritual energy are absolutely extraordinary.
Fang You fled to the ground and took a look. The place where the spiritual energy was pouring out was an oil painting museum, and many of the spiritual energy were freed from a framed oil painting. The orange-red spiritual energy was simply dazzling in the dark oil painting museum.
He looked at the orange-red spiritual energy and carefully looked at it. He found that the large area had more than ten orange-red spiritual energy, which was freed from the oil painting. The aura that appeared in the oil painting itself was just thin red, and it looked only more than a hundred years ago.
Is there something precious hidden in this oil painting? If it can be hidden, then the hidden things must be something like oil painting, and there are more than ten hidden pictures, which is simply unbelievable.
The oil paintings are built with wood. The surface of the oil paintings is made of paper materials, and paper is also made of wood pulp. With the escape technique Fang You now has, it is impossible to see through. He can only know that there are precious cultural relics hidden in the oil paintings, and he cannot know what the precious cultural relics are.
Fang You felt a little excited and visited Paris for more than ten days, including tomb exploration, but this was the first time he discovered such a rich spiritual energy that emerged. This was definitely a rare cultural relic.
This oil painting is also an extremely famous replica of oil paintings. It is Leonardo da Vinci's Mona Lisa. I don't know if the paintings inside have anything to do with Leonardo da Vinci. After all, the authentic Mona Lisa of Leonardo da Vinci is now stored in the Louvre. It is impossible for him to come here.
When watching in the Louvre, Fang You had already used escape techniques to explore that one was genuine, and perhaps it was not necessarily a painting by other painters. Perhaps it was not an oil painting, it would be something else. Only by opening the oil painting can you know what it was.
After thinking about it, Fang You entered a little gray airflow into this oil painting. Make sure you can know its location at any time. After that, he suppressed his excitement and fled to other places.
With his escape technique, he naturally could take the oil painting into the land without knowing it and then decompose it. However, it is fine for ordinary cultural relics. It is better for someone to witness this extremely precious cultural relics. Until tomorrow, he would come here with Mr. Wang and others to visit him and buy the oil painting back. After that, he could get the things inside naturally.
For a long time, Fang You didn’t have the fun of picking up bargains on Taobao. Most items, by using the escape technique, you can almost know which dynasty and when, and after the corresponding knowledge in his mind, you can quickly know.
Recently, only Raoliang Qin and Chengying Sword brought him great surprises. Before getting Chengying Sword, he only vaguely saw the spiritual model inside, and had no idea what kind of sword it was. Raoliang Qin, especially so. If he had not discovered that the inscription on the piano was only from the Ming and Qing dynasties, he would not have thought that something would be hidden inside.
Even afterwards, when I opened it, there was another piano inside, and it was also the Ruoliang, one of the four famous pianos in China. It can be said that it filled his heart with surprises.
Now, his escape technique cannot know what is hidden in the oil painting. His heart is suddenly filled with expectations and surprises, imagining what precious cultural relics will appear in the oil painting.
After walking around Paris, she found nothing valuable. Fang You directly escaped back to the hotel, then sat on the bed, circulated the gray airflow, lay on the bed, and fell asleep gently.
Perhaps a few years ago, when he encountered such a thing, he would be surprised to be unable to sleep all night, but now, Fang You's mood is no longer comparable to that of the past. Some things can no longer affect his peaceful mood, and some of them are just temporary emotional expressions.
The next day, Fang You and Mr. Wang and others were still communicating with the people in the Louvre. However, with Fang You's performance, Chinese culture set off a wave of heat in France, which made these Louvre experts no longer dare to despise Chinese culture during the exchange. What the Chinese side wants to communicate, the Louvre agreed unconditionally.
It’s just that they want to establish a good relationship now and borrow the Chengying Sword from Fang You in the future. Otherwise, they probably wouldn’t be able to study the Chengying Sword in their entire life, which would be a regret for their whole life.
There is still shock in their hearts about the mountains and flowing waters that Fang You played live before. Whenever they sounded the given CD, they still trembled. It is probably very difficult to listen to the live version again. When listening on the spot, they felt that their whole body seemed to be very relaxed, and they were very comfortable.
When listening to CD, they just felt their nerves relaxed, and there was no strange feeling as strange as the scene.
This also made them respect Fang You very much, even surpass other experts in China.
After the exchange, Fang You invited Mr. Wang and others to continue shopping in the Paris city. Mr. Wang and others naturally would not refuse. They finally came to France without reflecting how the local humanities could be done. Just exchanges could not fully understand the culture of a country, but just enter the city. Only by walking around and looking at it can you understand more comprehensively and carefully.
It is exactly the same as China. There are always some shops selling local arts and crafts on the streets of Paris. With Fang You's leadership, Wang Lao and others saw an oil painting shop and couldn't help but enter and watch it with some interest.
The ones sold here are replicas of various famous paintings. In addition to the age and the author, the others are very similar to the authentic ones.
Moreover, the replica of this oil painting shop is not like other low-end stores, but is just printed with a printer. It seems that some painters use their own brushes to draw bit by bit, and it looks very vivid and vivid, not as rigid as printed.
Fang You smiled slightly and watched the oil paintings in the shop with interest. Even if his escape technique was upgraded, he saw it at night, after all, it was not as clear as daytime.
The entire decoration of this oil painting shop is very simple and full of a strong Western atmosphere. There are many famous painting reproductions in this oil painting shop, and not just one. Like the Mona Lisa he discovered yesterday, there are several hangings in this shop, and the mounting is very exquisitely.
It was just watched for so long, but no one came to greet them, which made Mr. Wang and others very surprised.
"Boss, are the paintings in your store drawn by hand?" Mr. Wang immediately asked the store curiously through the translation.
As soon as the translation was finished, a middle-aged man with long hair and unkempt hair stood up from behind the table on one side. When he saw Mr. Wang and others, he immediately smiled, "Yes, gentlemen, some of these oil paintings were painted by myself, and some were painted by other painters. It is guaranteed to be drawn by hand."
Fang You, Mr. Wang and others looked at the middle-aged uncle and smiled. This was a common appearance for Western artists, a decadent look, looking extremely literary and artistic.
"Old Wang, why not buy one for each of us as a souvenir? I'll treat you to you." Seeing Mr. Wang and others so interested, Fang You couldn't help but smile.
"Haha, Xiaoyou Fang is indeed a rich man. Since that's the case, we're not polite. Come on, pick one by one, which is considered a souvenir given to everyone by Xiaoyou Fang. By the way, boss, how much does this oil painting cost?" Old Wang said bluntly when he heard Fang You's words.
The middle-aged uncle slowly walked out, "Gentlemen, these paintings are different, some are expensive and some are cheap, but because you are Chinese, you will basically give you 10% off the price."
"Oh, boss, I don't know why I'm discounting Chinese people." Mr. Wang asked curiously. In some countries, they are very unfriendly to Chinese people. Although they cannot be considered unfriendly in France, they have not reached the point of discounting when they see Chinese people.
The middle-aged uncle smiled, then stopped talking, took out the portable audio player he brought with him, pressed the button, and the melody of the piano music belonging to Fang Youshan Mountains and Waters slowly rang out from it.
After playing for a while, the middle-aged man smiled and said, "It is because of the magical music of China that I can quickly get involved when painting, and it has inspired me a lot of inspiration to make my paintings more perfect. I am very grateful to the Chinese who played this song. It is precisely because of Chinese culture that my oil paintings are better. Therefore, Chinese people will always come to me for discounts when buying things, so as to thank the benefits brought to me by Chinese culture."
"Oh, then we have to thank this Chinese who played the song too." Mr. Wang and others smiled immediately, looked at Fang You, and blinked hard.
Fang You shook his head helplessly. It was just a piano piece, but he didn't expect that there were many magical effects, which was really surprising.
"Okay, friends from China, you can choose whatever you want. I will try to give you a very discounted price." The middle-aged uncle said with a very friendly smile.
"Okay, please choose whatever you want. Don't be polite to Xiaoyou Fang." Old Wang said with a laugh, and then headed towards a painting by Picasso.
Fang You shook his head and smiled, walked around roughly, and finally stopped in front of the oil painting that was free from the orange and red aura, then pointed to the painting and said to the middle-aged uncle: "Boss, please wrap this painting for me."
"Oh, sir, this painting is a bit old. It was painted by a French folk painter more than a hundred years ago. Moreover, the wooden frame used for mounting it is also something for a hundred years, so this painting is very expensive." The middle-aged uncle looked at the painting selected by Fang You and immediately said with a serious expression.
Fang You smiled. He could naturally judge that this was a painting from more than a hundred years ago through the aura of oil paintings. Perhaps more than a hundred years ago, the painter hid things in it, but he didn't expect that after more than a hundred years, the preservation was still so well-preserved. "Boss, I like this painting very much, how much does it cost."
"Sir, since that's the case, you can take 30,000 euros. This painting was consigned by my friend here. 30,000 euros is his lowest price, so I will not add it up any more." The middle-aged uncle thought for a while and then said.
Thirty thousand euros are equivalent to more than 200,000 yuan. If it were written by a famous painter a hundred years ago, the price would probably be dozens of times more expensive, but folk painters are almost the same.
"Well, it's only 30,000 euros. You should receive checks here." Fang You nodded and said with a smile. This middle-aged uncle is also a fan of him, not to mention that the price is already very fair, so it doesn't make any sense to continue.
"Sir, the check is OK, I'll wrap it for you now." The middle-aged uncle smiled, then picked up the wrapping paper, took off the painting for Fang You, and then packed the whole thing.
Chapter completed!