African Entrepreneurship Records

  Chapter 370 (No Subscription Chapter)

  In the Royal Shipyard of Trieste, 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 are antiques.

In Europe, Ernst missed a lot of good things, all of which were cultural relics bought from returning soldiers from Britain and France, especially calligraphy and painting, which are things that foreigners cannot appreciate, and the possibility of counterfeiting calligraphy and painting Small, the West currently lacks such technical personnel.

  In the collection of Ernst, the "Admonitions of the Female History" was bought for less than two shillings, and it can be regarded as a "high price" recycling.

  For the rich cultural relics, the British and French leaders don't know the value at all, and most of them are sold as trophies, while Ernst buys them wholesale. Currently, he has collected more than 400 paintings alone.

   There are even more books, the typical one of which is "Yongle Dadian". Ernst has about 500 volumes in his hand, all of which are bought by the catty.

   However, Ernst's cultural attainments are not very appreciated, but Ernst knows that what can flow from the Old Summer Palace and the Forbidden City is not bad.

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

  Compared with the British army who was accustomed to expeditions, aggression and plunder, the French army who also "triumphantly" returned to the country received quite different "treatment" at home.

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

  On the other hand, a considerable part of the French people felt ashamed and angry at the looting of the French army, and therefore 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 "spoils" from the looting of the Old Summer Palace, public opinion in France was divided and confronted, and the resulting social impact was also divided into two.

  On the one hand, the 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 returning to the country one after another put their "trophies" into auctions to cash in, and they were unwilling to keep these controversial "souvenirs", so there were a lot of 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 are actually not based on Ernst's aesthetics.

  Especially the enamel color, which is not only liked by the Qing court, but also foreigners, but Ernst feels that it is not as good as the Ru kiln in his hand.

   Moreover, the price of this thing is much higher than that of Ru Kiln. Ernst found that the more gaudy cultural relics in the auction, the higher the price.

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

  Because they really don't know the goods now, and they do know the goods, that is, the Japanese who took advantage of the fire to rob. However, the Japanese bought not many cultural relics from Britain and France in this time and space, and most of them were taken away by the Hexingen Bank.

   Historically, only from 1931 to 1945, Japan transported 1879 boxes of cultural heritage from the Far East. After the victory of the Anti-Japanese War, according to Japan's own statistics, it took away 3.6 million cultural relics from the Far East, which 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", and "Seventeen Posts" written by Wang Xizhi... even Japan has no taboo, will These national treasure-level cultural relics are listed in the commemorative exhibition of their 150th anniversary. Japan, a dog-like nation, has never been redeemed.

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   "You should handle these paintings and calligraphy with care. Also, you should send someone to inspect the ship regularly every day, so that mice don't eat these artworks."

  The subordinate said with shame: "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 things in it are going to be put in the museum, and even a little damage will detract from the view."

  In addition to antiques, Ernst brought the most books, a total of 30,000 sets, to fill the empty National Library. The National Library was not built in the first town, but in the newly built city "Sauga".

  In terms of culture, East Africa as a whole is relatively indifferent. It seems that because of inertial thinking, East Africans don’t like reading very 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 train qualified soldiers and citizens who are loyal to the emperor and patriotic.

  Ernst himself doesn’t care much about this matter. As an adult, thinking has become a stereotype, and Ernst is happy to keep these people’s thinking unchanged. Besides, the audience of the Suoga National Library is not ordinary people.

  (end of this chapter)