Duan Zhonglin's move was quite vicious. He knew very well Liu Song's vision. Although his reputation was not as good as Dong Zhen and Old Man Wu, the fact that he could become the director of the Beijing Museum was enough to prove that he was capable.
Therefore, at least 90% of the cultural relics that can enter the museum are authentic, but he still said this because he values Mr. Wu's reputation and influence.
Even if Dong Zhen and Liu Song both determined that a cultural relic was authentic, as long as Mr. Wu insisted that it was a fake and asked another authoritative person or an authoritative organization to identify it, that would be enough.
Because this identification requires a process, and in this process, Duan Zhonglin has used Yu Shen's reputation to gain a lot of benefits, so naturally he no longer cares about the identification results of these cultural relics in the Beijing Museum.
To put it bluntly, he wants to use Mr. Wu's reputation to suppress the Beijing Museum for a period of time and use Yu Shen as a typical propaganda. After this period of time, when Yu Shen's popularity has subsided, will he still care about Yu Shen's reputation?
The money is already in hand, why think so much?
Liu Song and Dong Zhen did not understand the twists and turns here and wanted to agree immediately. What they wanted to do now was to clear Shen Qi's name and absolutely not let Shen Qi suffer any grievances, especially since Shen Qi was right there.
But before Liu Song could speak, Shen Qi came over with Wang Huiwen.
"Master Duan, there's no need to guess. All 171 cultural relics in the Beijing Museum were donated by me."
As Shen Qi spoke, people's attention immediately focused on Shen Qi. Many of them recognized Shen Qi's identity and made surprised sounds.
Just now, Shen Qi and Wang Huiwen had been hiding in the corner, and their attention was on Shen, so they didn't notice Shen Qi's existence.
More importantly, they didn't know much about Shen Qi. At most, they had seen Shen Qi on the Internet, and they didn't expect Shen Qi to appear here, so this effect occurred.
Dong Zhen had seen the collection that Shen Qi took out before, so she came with questions and a purpose, and naturally she was able to find Shen Qi.
Dong Zhen hurried over to Shen Qi and shouted, "I can testify! Mr. Shen Qi held an auction in Jincheng some time ago. There are over 60 precious cultural relics in the Beijing Museum. They were all taken out by Mr. Shen Qi at that time. Each one is worth a fortune!"
Liu Song also quickly stepped forward to testify for Shen Qi.
"When Mr. Shen Qi donated these cultural relics, I was also shocked because they are so valuable. I wanted to hold a ceremony for Mr. Shen Qi to let people know about his contribution to the Beijing Museum. However, Mr. Shen Qi didn't care about fame at all and insisted on donating anonymously, which is why we are in this situation today!"
"Since Mr. Shen Qi has come forward, there's no need for me to hide it anymore! Mr. Shen Qi donated 171 cultural relics in three installments, with a total value of over 16 billion. Each of these cultural relics represents the cultural heritage of our Xia Nation, so he is the greatest contributor to our Beijing Museum!"
At this point, Liu Song no longer cared about Yu Shen's feelings.
In comparison, he admires people like Shen Qi more.
Duan Zhonglin certainly knew Shen Qi, and he also knew that Shen Qi had a close relationship with the Wang family in Beijing, but he never imagined that it was Shen Qi who donated so many precious cultural relics, and he never thought that Shen Qi was actually at the scene!
His expression changed noticeably, and he didn't know how to deal with the current situation.
He could doubt other people's abilities, but he could never doubt Shen Qi.
Considering Shen Qi's popularity on the Internet and the Shen family's development momentum, he really didn't dare to use the Duan family's future to fight Shen Qi to the death.
Old Master Wu's expression was equally grim. It was already difficult for him to deal with Dong Zhen alone, and now there was the even more famous Shen Qi. What else could he do?
It’s good to just admit defeat.
Shen Qi came to Duan Zhonglin and said, "Master Duan, I have a question that I still can't figure out. You have no grudge against the Wang family, and neither do you have against me. Besides, before this, you didn't even know that I donated so many cultural relics, so I'm very curious, why did you do this?"
Duan Zhonglin remained silent. He didn't dare confront Shen Qigang, but he also couldn't bring himself to admit that he was the one who was in charge of what happened today. He could only remain silent.
Shen Qi smiled and turned to look at Yu Shen, "Mr. Yu, can you answer this question for me?"
Yu Shen had just returned to Xia State and didn't know Shen Qi's reputation and prestige, so when everyone quieted down after seeing Shen Qi appear, he suddenly had an idea and thought this was an opportunity to show goodwill to Duan Zhonglin.
Duan Zhonglin values his short-term reputation, but isn't he also optimistic about the power of the Duan family?
They are just using each other. Now no one dares to stand up for Duan Zhonglin except him. Isn't this doing Duan Zhonglin a favor?
"Mr. Shen Qi, I don't understand what you mean by that. Patriarch Duan's words just now were very clear. He did this to be responsible for the Beijing Museum. Do you intend to watch a fake appear in the Beijing Museum?"
"I don't deny that you donated a large number of cultural relics to the Beijing Museum, but for Director Liu, the most important thing about these cultural relics is not their value, but their cultural heritage. If you use value to measure Xia culture, don't you think it's too abrupt?"
"In order to make our representation of Xia culture more pure and convincing, we must ensure that the cultural relics in the Beijing Museum are authentic. For example, the ten cultural relics I brought back this time have all been authenticated by experts and are absolutely flawless. So, Mr. Shen Qi, do you dare to authenticate the cultural relics you donated in front of everyone?"
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