Chapter 1603: Stealing the chicken but not catching it will eat away a handful of rice
The Island University of Hong Kong also spoke out at the right time. Indeed, this is the latest result of our joint research with the Porcelain Appraisal Laboratory of the National Museum of the Mainland, called spectral thermal imaging The main purpose of analytical dating technology is to determine the age of artifacts through spectral thermal imaging characteristics. It has a good effect on the identification of materials that have been heated to high temperatures, such as porcelain.
In ancient pigments, the component of cinnabar was mercury sulfide, but because it often contained impurities, it needed to be purified.
An important step in purification is to mix raw cinnabar ore powder with sulfur powder and roast it in a sealed environment. This method is called the "fire method".
Therefore, cinnabar can also be used as one of the important basis for determining the age of cultural relics through spectral thermal imaging characteristics. As for the analysis of the ratio of other components, it is a very conventional technical means, and ordinary chemical experiments in any city Basically, this can be done in any room.
Lu Li-wing filed a reputation lawsuit before, and indeed achieved some purposes of confusing the public. Gradually, the people of Hong Kong Island also have a group of people who support him, especially some "independent thinking" garbage, who are trying to turn this matter in the direction they want. The direction was directed upward, constantly building momentum for Lu Lirong.
After Liang Pingyi proposed to solve this problem through scientific identification, he immediately attracted everyone's support, and the pressure suddenly fell on Lu Lirong.
Faced with questions from the media, Lu Lirong has always been ambiguous and non-committal.
Such an attitude obviously does not satisfy the general public. Everyone can only become more and more skeptical about Lu Lirong's "ancestral inheritance" theory. Even those independent thinkers who "claimed justice" for Lu Lirong before They all began to be ridiculed by the citizens, and even their voices were drowned out for a while.
However, within a few days, Lu Lirong’s lawyer announced that although the relevant domestic departments had proposed some ways to resolve the dispute, Mr. Lu was already going through customs procedures to send the relief statue of the military commander to the United States. After participating in the auction, the relief has been sealed and stored in the customs warehouse, so it is a very troublesome matter to identify the ingredients. Mr. Lu himself has no such legal obligation.
Just today, the samurai relief statue has been sent to the United States. It is meaningless to dispute its ownership in Hong Kong Island. Therefore, Mr. Lu decided to terminate the matter, withdraw the lawsuit against Huaying Newspaper, and occupied too much time on this matter. We will use more public resources to apologize to the people of Hong Kong Island.
Liang Pingyi angrily held a media meeting on Hong Kong Island, stating that relevant state departments have notified the US Embassy regarding Christie's auction of stolen Chinese cultural relics in New York City, hoping that on a friendly basis, In accordance with international conventions, necessary measures should be taken to prevent Christie's auction house from auctioning the relief statue of a warrior from the Tomb of the Fifth Dynasty King Chu Nao listed as lot 209, and return the cultural relics to the country. At the same time, relevant departments also issued a notification to the Interpol U.S. Central Bureau, requesting cooperation.
In order to coordinate the work, the relevant ministries and bureaus also reported the situation to the Embassy in the United States and the Consulate General in New York City. Then, officials stationed in the United States made an emergency meeting with Ms. Goldblatt, a senior official of the New York City Bureau of U.S. Customs, and expressed the country's position to her.
Subsequently, the Customs Department of the U.S. Embassy and the New York City Bureau of U.S. Customs sent letters to relevant Chinese ministries and commissions and the Embassy in the United States, stating that in order to help prevent the auction of Chinese cultural relics, they will handle it in accordance with UNESCO regulations. We provide the necessary legal documents and evidence.
Prior to this, the relevant ministries and bureaus had urgently ordered the public security and cultural relics departments of Hebei Province to overcome all difficulties and prepare the required physical evidence and written materials in the shortest possible time and deliver them to the capital.
At 11 o'clock this morning, the Hebei Provincial Public Security Bureau has collected the video tapes of the stolen ancient tombs, on-site investigation records, photos, county bureau case filing reports and written materials about the tombs from the Hebei Provincial Cultural Relics Bureau, expert explanations, archaeological excavation reports, etc. The documents were delivered to the relevant ministries and commissions on time. At the same time, relevant national departments also promptly prepared many materials such as relevant national laws and the time when the Quyang County Government announced the tomb of Wang Chuzhi as a protected unit.
At five o'clock this afternoon, the Criminal Investigation Bureau of the Ministry of Justice issued an express telegram to the Chinese Embassy in the United States and the Consulate General in New York City in the form of an urgent matter. The physical evidence will be sent with the Chinese Embassy in the United States and the Consulate General in New York City. The staff carried it to the other side of the ocean together.
We declare once again that we will resolutely stop any reselling of national cultural relics. For cultural relics illegally lost overseas, we will pursue recourse within the legal framework stipulated by UNESCO and will never give up.
The two announcements were made almost simultaneously, and there was an uproar on the island.
What Lu Lirong did before was clearly deception, deceiving the law, deceiving public opinion, deceiving the people of Hong Kong Island, and treating everyone like monkeys!
Even if there were sympathizers for Lu Lirong before, there are no more now. Because of Lu Lirong's "success", the relevant national departments that intend to recover cultural relics have become the "losers", and the public's psychological Generally speaking, people generally sympathize with the moral side and the weak side, and now a one-sided public opinion has basically formed.
However, just grasping the public opinion is not enough. That night, Liang Pingyi, Tony Huang and Zhou Zhi got on the plane to New York City.
Liang Pingyi was the main official responsible for this matter, and Zhou Zhi was the professional translator. Many previous materials, in terms of archeology and professional terminology, provided a lot of help to Tony Huang in preparing legal documents, and Tang Ni Huang is naturally the attorney in this recourse case.
After the three landed, they were immediately taken to the Southern District Court by the New York City Consulate. Tony Huang had previously filed a lawsuit remotely on Hong Kong Island. The first step was to ask the Southern District Court to order No. 209 of Christie's Auction House. The auction will be subject to civil preservation. After all the evidence was submitted, the civil preservation was modified to terminate the auction and civil confiscation was implemented.
It should be said that Lin Wanqiu asked Tony Huang to join the recovery team in advance, which gave the Chinese side a great advantage in this case. Various materials were prepared very fully and comprehensively, and the communication with the US side in advance was also very smooth and timely, with almost no After much effort, the District Court for the Southern District of New York notified Christie's Auction House to stop the auction of lot 209, and at the same time issued a civil forfeiture order, authorizing the New York City Customs Bureau of the United States Customs to detain the warrior statue.
Early the next morning, Goldblatt took several customs officials to Christie's Auction House, showed the person in charge the relevant documents, and seized the warrior statue. The auction was successfully blocked with the joint efforts of relevant departments and people in China and the United States.
The pursuit operation was successful in the first battle!
Until this moment, Lu Lirong felt that something seemed wrong. The previous tricks on Hong Kong Island seemed to have been too smooth. He only defined it as the bureaucrats of the relevant departments in the mainland were too rigid and clumsy to adapt to Hong Kong Island. The legal system and public opinion have been messed up by my own game, and now I know that I may have been completely fooled.
The public opinion of Hong Kong Island is not within the scope of his consideration. He originally wanted to immigrate, so he dared to take advantage of Hong Kong and Hong Kong Island’s legal institutions unscrupulously, but now the statue of the military commander has just landed in New York City He was quickly detained. It was clear that his opponent had already planned his move and was fully prepared for it. He was waiting for him here!
Now that I am out of reach, I am losing a handful of rice!