Chapter 370 (No need to subscribe)
At the Royal Shipyard of Trieste, Ernst personally took a look at the "Archduke Ferdinand". It was indeed a big thing in this era.
Ernst himself does not know much about the ship, but there is no need to worry about the Austrians deceiving him. At the same time, technical staff from the Trieste Shipyard in Hechingen also participated in the supervision. This ship is the future of Fiji. Dinant's command ship, the emperor's brother, most people would not dare to offend. Seeing the rapidly taking shape of Archduke Ferdinand, Ernst was very satisfied and said, "Let's go!"
This time Ernst went to East Africa and brought a lot of things with him, including his own belongings at Hohenzollern Castle Many collections, mostly antique artifacts.
In Europe, Ernst missed a lot of good things, which were cultural relics purchased from returning soldiers from Britain and France, especially calligraphy and paintings, which foreigners could not appreciate, and The possibility of counterfeiting calligraphy and painting is small, and the West currently lacks such technical talents.
In Ernst's collection, "Pictures of Proverbs of Women's History" was bought for less than two shillings, which can be considered a "high price" for recycling.
For the rich cultural relics, the British and French soldiers did not know the value at all, and most of them were sold as trophies. Ernst bought them in wholesale. At present, he has collected more than 400 paintings alone.
There were even more books, a typical one of which was "Yongle Dadian". Ernst had about five hundred copies in his hands, all bought by the pound.
However, Ernst's cultural attainments and his appreciation of it were not very high, but Ernst knew that the things that could flow out of the Old Summer Palace and the Forbidden City were good.
Most of the French cultural relics flowed into the hands of Ernst. In this regard, we must thank the internationalist spirit of the people in the old area.
Compared with the British army, which was accustomed to expeditions, invasions and plunder, the French army, which also returned home in "triumph", received quite different "treatment" at home.
On the one hand, most French domestic newspapers and media are willing to publicly disclose these "trophies" obtained from the Old Summer Palace. Relevant information is everywhere, and the "inside story" of these "trophies" and this aggressive war is even more frequent. emerge.
On the other hand, a considerable part of the French people felt ashamed and angry at the French army's plunder, and therefore criticized it. Among them, the most famous criticism came from the famous French writer and literary giant Victor Hugo, who called the Old Summer Palace "China's Palace of Versailles + the Louvre + the National Library of France" and an unparalleled precious treasure of human civilization. The behavior of General Montauban, the commander of the marauding French army, was an atrocity that destroyed human civilization and was a scandal that brought shame to France.
Regarding the "trophies" from the robbery of the Old Summer Palace, public opinion in France was divided and confrontational, and the resulting social impact was also divided into two.
On the one hand, newspapers and periodicals continue to report in-depth information from all parties, leaving behind a large number of historical documents with valuable research value.
On the other hand, the French officers and soldiers who returned home one after another put their "trophies" at auctions to cash in, and were unwilling to keep these controversial "souvenirs". Therefore, there were many auctions and auctions. Table of contents.
Ernst took the opportunity to buy a batch, but most of them were Qing court utensils, but these fancy things did not actually fit Ernst's aesthetic taste. In particular, enamel was not only liked by the Qing court but also by foreigners, but Ernst felt it was not as good as the Ru kiln he had.
And the price of this thing is much higher than that of Ru kiln. Ernst found that the more flashy cultural relics at auction, the higher the price.
Those objects that were relatively elegant and simple and were made according to the aesthetics of the ancient Far East were less valued by British and French bandits.
Because now they really don’t know the goods, and some do know the goods, and that is the Japanese who took advantage of the situation. However, the Japanese did not buy many cultural relics from the British and French hands in this time and space, and most of them were taken away by the Hechingen Bank.
In history, from 1931 to 1945 alone, Japan transported 1,879 boxes of cultural heritage from the Far East. After the victory of the Anti-Japanese War, Japan's own statistics showed that it took away 3.6 million cultural relics from the Far East. This 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 calligraphy and painting works from our country, such as "Li Bai's Chanting Pictures", "Snowy Landscape Pictures", "The Sixth Patriarch Cutting Bamboo Pictures", Wang Xizhi's original "Seventeen Posts"... and even Japan did not shy away from listing these national treasure-level cultural relics in their 150th anniversary commemorative exhibition. Japan, a dog-like nation, can never be redeemed.
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"You must handle these paintings and calligraphy with care. Also, you must send people to patrol the ship regularly every day to prevent rats from chewing these works of art."
The subordinate said with shame: "Your Highness, don't worry, the mice will not attack the iron box when they are idle." If you go to a museum, anything bad will detract from the view.”
In addition to antiques, the most important things Ernst brought were 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 "Suojia".
In terms of culture, East Africa as a whole is relatively indifferent. It seems that due to inertial thinking, East Africans don’t like reading very much, even Germans who have received compulsory education.
After all, compulsory education is a duty, not a right of the German people. The original purpose of universalizing compulsory education is to cultivate qualified soldiers and loyal and patriotic citizens.
Ernst himself didn't care much about this matter. As adults, thinking becomes a stereotype, and Ernst was happy for these people's thinking to remain unchanged. Besides, the audience of the Soga National Library is not ordinary people.
(End of this chapter)