The British Embassy of Japan living in Japan is located in Chiyoda District, Tokyo, and is adjacent to the Japanese Imperial Palace. At this time, two or three hundred Japanese people marching and demonstrating were gathered by the road in front of the embassy gate. They held banners and small flags and shouted slogans:

"Give me back the remains of my gods and return my treasures."

"Plundering our cultural relics is a robbery, and Japan will never tolerate it."

"Queen Himek is from Japan, and those national treasures are from Japan. He asked the British auction house to stop the auction and return the cultural relics of our country."

The marching people stood by the roadside, holding flags and shouting slogans. There were two rows of Japanese policemen at the door, and they were on guard. There were also several interview cars from TV stations parked next to them. The reporters held cameras and kept shooting.

In the British Embassy, ​​Ambassador William looked outside and frowned. At this moment, the phone rang on his desk and he picked it up and answered.

The secretary's voice came from the phone, "Mr. Ambassador, the Japanese Ministry of Foreign Affairs urgently summoned him, and the Japanese Foreign Minister Tanaka will meet you in person."

"I see."

Half an hour later, Ambassador William came to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Japan and met the Japanese Foreign Minister Tanaka. Foreign Minister Tanaka sternly said: "Amistantor William, I brought the words of the Prime Minister. The batch of cultural relics to be auctioned by Charlotte Auction in the UK will never be allowed to be auctioned publicly, because it is a blasphemy to Japan. In addition, we require that the batch of treasures be returned to Japan."

Ambassador William frowned, "Mr. Tanaka, I will convey your opinions to us Prime Minister and yours."

Foreign Minister Tanaka continued: "There is another thing to inform you here. When we discovered the island of Zematai, we found some other situations on the island. Someone first explored the palace of Queen Himekhu. We found a large number of foreign mercenaries in the palace, carrying guns, explosives, and professional adventure tools, so we have reason to believe that this batch of auctioned antiques are probably cultural relics that were robbed by those people."

"Mercenary? Treasure exploration team?" William asked in surprise.

"Maybe yes."

After the communication with the Japanese foreign minister was over, William returned to the embassy and immediately informed the country of formal protests and demands from Japan. After all, it was related to the relationship between the two countries. The British Foreign Ministry stated that it would hand the matter over to the Prime Minister for handling.

London, England.

Hundreds of Japanese overseas Chinese and Japanese students gathered outside the Charlotte Auction House. They held small homemade signs with protest signs written on them, stood by the street, protesting against Charlotte Auction House for auctioning Japanese national treasures, demanding that they immediately stop the auction and handed over the batch of treasures to Japan for processing.

London police stood around to guard against other incidents.

Garrison stood at the ninth floor president's window and looked down, without a look of nervousness on his face, "Make a fuss, the bigger the more he makes the matter, so that the whole world will know that there are these treasures."

George, the deputy general manager in charge of security next to him, asked: "President, if the trouble is too big and the country comes forward to stop it, it may be difficult for the auction to continue."

Garrison chuckled and said, "What is the purpose of our auction? It is to increase the value of the lot to sell at a higher price through publicity and bidding. Now the Japanese government is helping us with publicity. There is no larger publicity than this scale, what do you think."

"As for bidding, haha, many private collectors have called me. This batch of treasures is definitely not worried about selling them now. Even if there is no formal auction, what if it is not held? With such publicity, I believe that it will be sold at a higher price than the previous pre-value, which is enough for us."

There are many real antique transactions completed in private transactions, which is also a way to evade taxes. After some good things are delivered to the auction house, many will notify some familiar collectors in advance to see if they are interested in this thing. If they are interested, the auction house will help contact the client to communicate, and finally they can still charge a part of the handling fee.

"Dangdangdang",

The door was knocked and Garrison's secretary walked in.

"President, the BBC's interview team is here." said the secretary.

"OK, George, go and have a look with me," Garrison said.

The two met the BBC Radio and Television interview team in the conference room. When they shook hands and greeted each other, Garrison said with a smile: "Welcome to the interview. Your president Aston and I are good friends."

The male reporter smiled and said, "President Garrison, we will only ask questions in the interview."

"Then let's start." President Garrison sorted out his clothes and showed a gentlemanly smile at the camera.

......

night,

BBC Radio broadcasts an exclusive interview with Charlotte Auction President Garrison. In front of the camera, Garrison talks with a smile.

"Our Charlotte Auction House has been established in 1881 and has gone through more than 120 years. It has branches in 11 countries around the world. The auction business involves jewelry, porcelain, furniture, warrior armor and weapons, and excellent wines. It also carries out art storage, preservation, art database and other businesses, and has extensive contacts with many museums, collectors and art dealers around the world."

Garrison shamelessly gave Charlotte Auction a wave of advertisements.

The reporter asked: "President Garrison, Charlotte Auction House is preparing to auction a batch of Japanese art antique jewelry in the near future. The Japanese government said that this batch of antiques was plundered by thieves and has officially negotiated with the UK. What do you say about this matter?"

Garrison smiled and showed a British gentlemanly style: "This batch of antique jewelry auctioned does come from Japan, or even Japanese national treasures. We have already explained the specific situation of the treasure clearly on the web page, but what I want to make clear is that this batch of antiques does not belong to Japan. The antique client told us that this batch of antiques was passed down by their family and has been treasured in their family's treasure house for hundreds of years and has been passed down for several generations. They have not been very clear about the value of this batch of antiques before. Recently, they saw the report of the excavation of the Xiematai site in Japan, and then they knew the value of this batch of antiques, so they took it out for auction."

The explanation is perfect and shameless.

Antiques are from Japan, but they have nothing to do with your Japanese government. We have been given a hundred years and are not what we robbed now.

What makes people even more angry is that it is because you discovered the value of these antiques in Japan's archaeological discoveries. The Japanese archaeological discoveries have inspired sellers, and they are here to take advantage of the popularity.

The reporter asked: "Mr. Garrison, the Japanese people have raised widespread protests against this auction and demanded the return of antique cultural relics belonging to Japan. What do you think of this?"

Garrison shrugged, "We are just an auction company. The ownership of this batch of treasures belongs to the client. The commissioned auction agreement we signed is a normal business behavior."

Speaking of this, Garrison asked sincerely in the face of the camera: "Japan requires the return of this batch of lots. I want to ask, are there a large number of cultural relics from other countries in Japan collected in the large museums of Japan? Japan auctioned hundreds or thousands of antique cultural relics from other countries every year. Have they considered returning the country where the original cultural relics belonged to?"

The reporter asked: "The last question is that the items auctioned this time involve the corpse of a Japanese god. Do you think this is appropriate?"

Garrison shook his hand vigorously and quickly said, "No, no, no, I think you misunderstood. The items auctioned do not include the corpse of Susanoo, who is respected as the god of Japanese killing. The items are just that golden armor. We just say that whoever took the armor would give it the remains, because they were originally the same set."

This explanation is reasonable.

If you want bones, buy armor with money.

In fact, Susanoo's remains have a greater attraction than armor in some ways, especially for the Japanese.

This video was posted on the Internet, which immediately caused a burst of curses among the Japanese people.

"Is it theirs to hide in the family for several generations? We do not accept this explanation."

"The shameless British auction house said that it would not auction the remains of Susanoo, but the added value was developed completely by them. It was so shameless."

"The national treasure must be returned."

"Selling the remains of our ancestors is an insult to the whole of Japan, and everyone united to boycott the British auction company."

Unlike the condemnation of Japanese netizens, netizens in other countries around the world are much more rational.

British netizens: "Maybe it was a treasure of the Age of Discovery. It has been hundreds of years since then. It seems that the Japanese government does not have the right to recover it, so be more rational."

American netizens: "Maybe that was the harvest of an explorer in the last century. Now that the Japanese government has requested a return, it is indeed a bit too much. You should know that any country has treasures from other countries."

Egyptian netizens: "Please return the cultural relics taken from the pyramids in the last century, which belong to Egypt."

Chinese netizens: "How come there is a feeling of feng shui rotation? Japan has today. In the past, China protested against them. Japan plundered many cultural relics and antiques from China, and calculated by millions of them. When did they see them return them? Do not do to others what they do not want others to do to them. Please return all Chinese cultural relics as soon as possible."

Korean netizens: "I think this batch of cultural relics may be from South Korea."

......

A fight of mouth.

The Japanese government has vigorously promoted the situation to increase the historical pride of the Japanese people. After the outbreak of this auction, it caused major conflicts and was extremely news-oriented, which attracted widespread attention from people all over the world.

Major media in the world have reported on this matter, and the Internet is even more quarrelsome. Patriot Japanese leave various messages on the Internet, first slandering the Charlotte Auction House, and finally starting to abuse the British government.

It is a blessing that the Charlotte auction house lost its reputation because of this incident, and countless people around the world knew that there was an auction house called Charlotte in the UK. The advertising effect may not be achieved even if it invests 100 million pounds of advertising fees.

Just as Ren Zhengfei said, it is because of the US ban and suppression that people all over the world know that there is a company like Huawei.
Chapter completed!