Chapter 579 Donation

"Hey, I said little fat man, can you stop being so vulgar..."

When Zhao Hongtao and his two teachers didn't look very good when they heard the fat man's question. In their eyes, this golden Buddha carries a heavy history and is the root of the war hundreds of years ago. It is a cultural relic worth studying for archaeologists and historians.

But when it comes to the fat man's mouth, this thing seems to be sold for money. Can the fat man see the important significance it can be derived? How can this meaning be measured by money?

"Brother Zhao, I...I am a vulgar person..."

Seeing the expressions on the faces of Zhao Hongtao and others, the fat man knew that he had said the wrong thing again, and laughed and said, "Brother Zhao, two teachers, don't bother me. By the way, food, clothing, housing, transportation, food, drink, defecation, how can you not be rich?"

"I...I have nothing to say to you..."

Zhao Hongtao glared at the fat man with annoyance. He had no choice but to face a real villain who never concealed his desire for money and was full of inflection. Scholars like Zhao Hongtao and others had no choice.

"Fang Yi, this golden Buddha still plays an important role in studying the history of China and neighboring countries in the Qing Dynasty..."

Zhao Hongtao simply ignored the fat man, but turned to look at Fang Yi and said, "I think his value as a cultural relic is more valuable than the value of antiques. What do you think Fang Yi?"

"Brother Zhao, I don't have a deep understanding of history..." Fang Yi heard something else from Zhao Hongtao's mouth, and immediately said, "Brother Zhao, if you have any ideas, just tell me, and I can also use it as a reference..."

"this……"

Hearing Fang Yi's words, Zhao Hongtao's fair face showed a hint of red. After hesitating for a while, he spoke: "I think it's better to put your thing in a museum, and it can also give scholars the opportunity to contact and study it..."

"If it could be placed in your museum, Brother Zhao, that would be even better, right?"

Fang Yi interrupted Zhao Hongtao with a smile, shook his head and said, "The things in the museum are only for people to visit at most. There are not many people who want to study them, right?"

Fang Yi had long seen what Zhao Hongtao meant. In fact, it was nothing to donate this thing to the museum. Fang Yi did not attach much importance to these external things, but others often did not pay attention to things that could be easily obtained, so Fang Yi would not let go so quickly.

"That's not true. Every year, the school tutors bring students to our museum to do research..."

After Fang Yi was told through his thoughts, Zhao Hongtao couldn't help but feel a little embarrassed. As a new leader who had just taken office in the museum, he naturally came up with some achievements. If this Golden Buddha with great research and market value could be included in the museum by him, it would be a very dazzling political achievement.

"Okay, Hong Tao, these things were bought by Fang Yi for more than 100 million yuan. You can't just talk nonsense and want to leave..."

Just when Fang Yi wanted to speak, Sun Lianda interrupted Zhao Hongtao. Although Sun Lianda was an old leader of the museum and Zhao Hongtao was his student, the two things combined were not as good as Fang Yi's weight in his heart.

Zhao Hongtao is a student taught by Sun Lianda in school, while Fang Yi is a disciple of Sun Lianda's inheritance. In the eyes of these older generations, they are almost the same as their son. No matter how open-minded Sun Lianda is, he would not look at his son throwing tens of millions out in vain, right?

Moreover, according to Sun Lianda's estimate, if this golden Buddha is on auction, the starting price will be more than 10 million yuan, and even if it is 30 to 40 million yuan in the end, it is not a rare thing. Therefore, in Sun Lianda's opinion, this golden Buddha must be the most precious piece of Fang Yi's antiques.

"Teacher, we... our museum also has certain rewards for those who donate cultural relics..."

Zhao Hongtao was still distinguishing at first, but his voice was getting smaller and smaller, because Zhao Hongtao knew very well that the so-called reward was a pitiful amount of material rewards, and the money that could be rewarded to Fang Yi was probably less than one-tenth of the gold value of this golden Buddha.

You should know that the museum's annual funding is only more than 10 million, and the staff's expenses and the museum's maintenance costs must be paid out from more than 10 million. The money spent on the last acquisition of Man Jun and Fang Yi's "Yongle Encyclopedia" was squeezed out by the museum's belt tightening.

Of course, Zhao Hongtao can also apply to the superior department to acquire this Golden Buddha, but the possibility of such an application being approved is very small, and in that case, Zhao Hongtao will not have any political achievements, and it will not be beneficial to him personally.

"Hong Tao, although donating cultural relics is a very meaningful thing, Fang Yi cannot suffer too much. Moreover, there are too many things in your museum industry in recent years..."

Yu Xuan also made a fuss next to him. Although Fang Yi’s money is easy, to be honest, many museums in China are now quite chaotic. Not long ago, such a thing happened.

There was an old collector with a very famous reputation in China. Before he died in the mid-1990s, he donated all the tens of thousands of cultural relics and antiques he collected in his life to a national provincial museum. At that time, many domestic newspapers reported on this matter.

But what outsiders don't know is that just two years ago, the descendant of this old collector who settled abroad accidentally saw a precious collection of his father at an auction. He was surprised at the time and quickly identified the collection, but found that it was actually the authentic one.

This discovery shocked the descendants of the collector. He took a photo of the collection on the spot and found the domestic embassy abroad to inform the matter.

Since the old collector himself and his children are both well-known abroad, after receiving the notice, the country attached great importance to this matter and immediately sent an investigation team to the provincial museum to investigate.

This investigation doesn't matter, but a shocking case was found. It turned out that two warehouse managers of the museum colluded with foreign cultural relics smugglers to secretly take out some precious cultural relics in the warehouse and sell them. Before the incident, no less than fifty national treasure-level cultural relics had been leaked abroad.

As soon as this incident happened, it was like a bombshell dropped, shocking the entire industry. Although the two staff members were arrested, the lost cultural relics could no longer be recovered, causing significant losses to the country.

The consequences are only light for the losses. What’s more serious is that this incident greatly damaged the patriotism of some patriots. Since the outbreak of this case, the country has received very few donated cultural relics in recent years. Many people would rather keep the cultural relics at home than donate them again.

"Teacher Yu, the management of our museum is still very strict. If you want to open a warehouse, you need to sign the two executive deputy directors, and the keys are managed separately..."

As soon as he heard Yu Xuan's words, Zhao Hongtao knew what he was talking about and couldn't help but smile bitterly. This incident did indeed undermine museums across the country, but after this incident, museums in various provinces and cities strengthened their management, which basically prevented such a thing from happening.

"Brother Zhao, it's actually not impossible to donate this golden Buddha to you..."

Seeing Zhao Hongtao's anxious and white face, Fang Yi couldn't help laughing and said, "You don't have to pay for you in the museum, I don't want the cash reward, but I have a condition. As long as you agree, I will donate this thing..."

"What? You... are you willing to donate?"

When Zhao Hongtao heard Fang Yi's words, his eyes suddenly lit up. When he saw that the two teachers didn't agree with him, Zhao Hongtao thought there was no chance, but now it has become a turnaround. After all, this thing belongs to Fang Yi, so naturally he still has to focus on Fang Yi's wishes.

Fearing that Fang Yi would regret it, Zhao Hongtao hurriedly said, "Fang Yi, if you have any conditions, just say it. As long as it is within my ability, I will definitely agree..."

"The conditions are very simple..." Fang Yi laughed and said, "Brother Zhao, as long as you promised me to donate this golden Buddha and no longer have any other ideas about me, I will donate this golden Buddha..."

Fang Yi was an orphan since childhood and grew up with his master in the mountains. This country and society have never given Fang Yi anything. Fang Yi did not have much concept of family, country and world in his heart, so it would not work with Fang Yi to explain the great principles. What's wrong with Guan Qing?

However, people who have lacked family affection since childhood often have a strong sense of feelings. Since going down the mountain, Zhao Hongtao has helped Fang Yi a lot, including the house he is in and the shop he just bought a few months ago, which are all helped by Zhao Hongtao. In Fang Yi's opinion, this kind of affection is difficult to measure.

In the eyes of Zhao Hongtao, Sun Lianda and Yu Xuan, this golden Buddha is naturally extremely valuable, but they don’t know that this golden Buddha was just obtained by Peng Bin. It is not an item in the lost cultural relics at all. The truly valuable things are still in those wooden boxes.

Among the cultural relics Fang Yi bought this time, there were about 30 pieces of porcelain. Fang Yi did not look closely, but they were basically official kiln porcelains from the three dynasties of Kangxi, Yongzheng and Qianlong. The value of these porcelains alone was far more than the 160 million spent by Fang Yi.

In addition, there are more than ten ancient paintings in the box. Although Fang Yi did not see it on the spot, how could the paintings collected by the emperor be mediocre? The paintings of famous Chinese ancient masters are now very expensive. For these paintings alone, I am afraid that the value of each painting is not below this golden Buddha.

In addition to porcelain and paintings, there are three heavy objects in this batch of cultural relics, namely the three tripods. Although they are not the kind of large tripods used to sacrifice to heaven, they are also royal masterpieces, and even Fang Yi has estimated the value.

To be honest, with the utensils in the box, Fang Yi really doesn't care about this golden Buddha. Whether it is its cultural relics or market value, Fang Yi was not cared to heart.
Chapter completed!