After staying at home for two days, on the 18th day of the first lunar month, Yang Jing and Gege drove to Yanjing accompanied by two bodyguards.
Gege is going to school, and Yang Jing also needs to show up in class.
It is a shame to say that although he is a doctoral student at Peking University, he has never attended a class and doesn't even know which direction the classroom door should open.
However, when Yang Jing met his master, Master Liu, in Yanjing, his original wish to attend a few days of serious classes was dashed.
During the Chinese New Year, the four teachers only had a reunion dinner with their families at their homes in Yanjing on New Year’s Eve and New Year’s Day. On the second day of the New Year, the four of them returned to Tianqu with several other experts from the Palace Museum.
The number of treasures of the last Tsar that Yang Jing brought back from Siberia was too large. After half a year of cultural preservation work, there was still a lot to be done. In front of so many precious Western artworks, the New Year was nothing to these experts. In the past four or five months, almost all of these experts had grown up in Tianqu.
To this end, Yang Zhengyu even reserved more than ten suites in the best five-star hotel in Tianqu for these famous experts to stay in, and arranged special cars and special people to take care of their food, clothing, housing and transportation. All expenses were paid by the city. In order to protect the safety of the simple studio, Yang Zhengyu even specially mobilized a squadron of armed police soldiers from the Tianqu Armed Police Detachment to be responsible for guarding there.
These experts are the top ones in the industry. They gather in Tianqu, which has a huge invisible boost to Tianqu's reputation. It is not excessive to entertain these experts well.
Of course, the reason why Yang Zhengyu did this was because he was instructed by his grandfather, Mr. Yang.
Yang Jing originally wanted to keep these treasures obtained from Siberia secret, but that was obviously impossible. As long as cultural heritage protection work was done on these treasures, they would inevitably be exposed within a certain range.
So Yang Jing simply didn't care about it. Anyway, with the four masters and Old Man Yang around, they would definitely be able to control the scope of exposure - before these treasures were built in a private museum, it would be best not to show off too much. After all, these treasures were found from the Russians' territory.
The sudden appearance of so many precious Western artworks naturally could not be hidden from Mr. Yang who was in Tianqu. Mr. Yang would come to take a look when he had nothing to do. Later, after seeing that the conditions here were not very good, he reminded his youngest son to pay more attention to this place, and Yang Zhengyu took the measures mentioned above.
Now, after more than four months of intense work, although there are still many artworks that have not yet been preserved, most of the items that are most in need of preservation have already been protected. Yang Jing has stored these treasures in the underground safe of the Industrial and Commercial Bank of China in Tianqu City.
The other three masters, including Master Liu, returned to Tianqu on the morning of the second day of the Lunar New Year. However, Yang Jing was still in Zibo at that time. He had a meal with the four masters after returning on the third day. During the meal, Master Liu revealed some bad news, saying that the matter of the treasure seemed to have been leaked, because at the end of the year, Dean Shan had accompanied people from the Russian Embassy to inquire about the matter.
Mr. Liu said at the time that he didn't know who leaked this matter, but he estimated that the Russians didn't have any definite information.
Yang Jing didn't mind it at the time. Although China and the Russians have had a good relationship in recent years, some things cannot be taken back just because you want them. Otherwise, why haven't you returned the treasures that the Russians stole from China?
As for the treasure, Yang Jing could use the excuse that it was salvaged from the high seas, since no one could find out anyway. Chris and his twelve bodyguards were no problem, but as for the crew on the Blue Whale, they had no idea what the trip to the Arctic was about, and they just thought that a wealthy man had spent money to take his fiancée to the Arctic for fun.
Besides, no one knows how many treasures there are except Yang Jing himself. At worst, Yang Jing will insist that the treasures were salvaged from the high seas, because these treasures are all made of gold and are not afraid of being soaked in sea water. No one can say anything else.
As for those sculptures and oil paintings, if Yang Jing didn’t say it himself, who would know that those things came from Siberia?
That's right, these treasures were indeed obtained from illicit sources, but Yang Jing just didn't plan to return them. Who could say otherwise? The country would never return these treasures. If they wanted to return them, you old Russians could exchange them for the treasures you stole from China!
I guess the Russians wouldn't exchange the treasures they stole from China for these gold products.
So even after hearing the news from Old Liu on the third day of the Lunar New Year, Yang Jing didn't take it seriously. Since he had already decided to release these treasures, Yang Jing had already prepared various reasons.
But when he arrived at Old Liu's house today, the news that Old Liu told him made Yang Jing frown.
It turned out that the Russians somehow found out that the treasures in Yang Jing's hands included Fabergé eggs and the golden scepter used by Catherine the Great when she ascended the throne, so they wanted to ask where Yang Jing got these things.
But Yang Jing had been either in Papua New Guinea or the Mariana Islands for some time, and even when he returned to China, he did not stay at home for a few days, so the Russian diplomats could not find Yang Jing, so they came directly to Liu Lao. After the New Year, the Russian diplomats insisted on asking Liu Lao to introduce Yang Jing, and they needed to confront Yang Jing face to face.
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