Live treasure appraisal, congratulations to the big brother on his release from prison

Chapter 113 This is the Counterfeit Area
The leaders of the two teams responsible for the interrogation of Cheng's father and son met in the lounge.

A: "I've put everything down here."

B: "I'm sick here."

The two briefly compared the situation, and immediately reacted:

The Cheng family father and son planned a statement in advance!
They wanted to put all the matter on a 75-year-old man. At this age, even if he pleaded guilty, his sentence would be reduced.

"What should we do now?"

Policeman B, who was in charge of interrogating Mr. Cheng, touched his cheek, a little annoyed.

The old man in the room is just asking to see a doctor now, and he doesn't know what will happen later.

"It's okay, I will first notify the leaders of the city bureau about the results from my side."

Policeman A's mood is stable, and he did find out the dry goods.

"Anyway, the breakthrough is on the side of the Municipal Bureau."

Master Qiu, known as the "Breakthrough", was holding a small cup of green tea at this time, savoring it carefully one sip at a time.

To jail, but also with grace.

Since he promised to cooperate with the police, the treatment has been much better.

The only thing that made him unhappy was that from time to time someone would come and take the evidence that had just been searched and ask him if there was anything he hadn't explained.

Words like this always make his liver tremble.

"Qiu Junchun, listen, do you have any impression of this incident..." The police took the information they had just obtained and asked "Breakthrough" for verification.

"Yes, there are." After listening to Master Qiu, he nodded hurriedly: "These fakes were also sent by a guy named Li Laoqi as I said before. Haven't you caught him yet?"

"You don't have to worry about it, you just need to answer my question."

The policeman continued to ask questions with a serious tone.

When asked about the Cheng family's donation of cultural relics to the Hailin Museum, Qiu Junchun shook his head for the first time:
"I've never heard of this, but the Cheng family often donated things to museums before."

"I don't know if it's true or not. Boss Cheng told me that the things in the museum are true, so I'll take him as true."

"Asked me to sell it for him, of course I did it! So this matter is not my responsibility." Qiu Junchun did not forget to clean himself up.

"Then who are these things that are said to be from the museum sold to? Do you still have any memory?" the policeman asked.

"I really can't remember this. At that time we held a small exhibition, and the national treasures we sold were, no, fakes. The prices were not high, and the cheap ones were only tens of thousands of yuan."

"Those old men and old ladies rushed up to give money, and ran away after buying, for fear of being missed."

The policeman nodded, recorded these things in the notebook, and then closed the notebook with a "snap".

"Okay, get ready, I'll send you to the hospital for an examination later."

"Great, are you finally going to the detention center?"

Qiu Junchun drank all the tea in the cup in one go, smacked his lips, with a satisfied expression on his face.

"You seem to be looking forward to it?" the policeman asked in surprise.

"I can't talk about anticipation. I'll go early to get a better bed. Because I have a hunch that many people will come in to accompany me in a short time."

……

Two days later, the Hailin Museum welcomed several special guests.

A group of four people, all of whom are appraisal experts from the Provincial Museum, accepted the entrustment of the Jinmen City Public Security Bureau to appraise the cultural relics donated by the Cheng family to the Hailin Museum.

In Captain Liu's words, the things may be "stolen goods", which were purchased and donated by the Cheng family with the funds involved in the case.

If the value is too high, it needs to be withdrawn to compensate the victim.

"Then you just take all the things away!" Zhang Yang was very straightforward.

Although they are all fakes, if they are sold as high imitations, they can still be sold for thousands of yuan.

"How can it be so simple, you have to evaluate the price first, and then recover it when you are sure that the compensation funds are not enough."

"We have procedures for donating things like this."

The phrase "there are procedures" forced Zhang Yang to wake up early to meet the appraisers at the entrance of the museum.

"Welcome all experts to Hailin Museum."

The four members of the expert team are led by Du Shiming, who is the current member of the National Cultural Relics Appraisal Committee.

The remaining three are members of the Provincial Cultural Relics Appraisal Committee.

"Curator Zhang, it's a pleasure to meet you."

Du Shiming held Zhang Yang's hand affectionately, with a bright smile on his face.

"I've heard that the new deputy director of Hailin Museum is young and promising, but I didn't expect him to be younger than I thought!"

"Mr. Du, you're overwhelmed. I finally met a national treasure-level appraisal expert today, and I'll ask you for advice later."

Zhang Yang greeted the experts one by one politely.

These experts, because they are specialized in the identification of the cultural relics involved in the case, have a special status and can hardly take on private identification work. Zhang Yang does not know what level they are.

But before they came, Zhang Yang heard a story:
Two years ago, Linhai Customs discovered that a batch of suspected cultural relics wanted to leave the country, but the person who reported it wrote "high imitation crafts" on the application form.

So the things were handed over to several cultural relics appraisal experts involved in the case for appraisal.

Later, those things were identified as cultural relics by experts, and the person involved was sentenced to four years in prison.

It wasn't until the person who made the high imitation handicrafts was arrested for other things that it was confirmed that the batch of items at that time were indeed imitations, but at that time, the person concerned had already been in prison for half a year.

After Zhang Yang heard the story, he felt a little flustered.

Because the things donated by the Cheng family are all large artifacts, fake prototypes, and the value is running up to millions.

Don't let these few people come up and finish the Kaka appraisal, say that 32 items are genuine, pat their asses and leave.

When the police collected the things, people with discerning eyes found out that they were fake, and they came back to ask for the real thing.

The Hailin Museum can afford to pay even if it loses. After Wang Jianye was released from prison, he probably had to ask:
"Wait a minute, where's my museum?"

After a few people exchanged pleasantries, the expert team was very pragmatic, and they didn't even bother to drink tea. They took a few sips of mineral water from their bags and were about to go for an appraisal.

This is because they are afraid of having any interest relationship with the museum. What if someone brings out 20 catties of tea for entertainment?
Of course Zhang Yang had no objection, and led them to the warehouse.

"Curator Zhang, what is this?"

Du Shiming pointed to the banner with the words "Counterfeit Zone" written in three big characters, and asked suspiciously.

"This is an area we have specially designated." Zhang Yang explained with a smile.

"Because the things donated by collectors, or the things we bought ourselves, are not necessarily genuine. But Mr. Wang didn't want these fakes to flow into the market to harm people, so he specially set up some counters in the warehouse to store these fakes. .”

"The things donated by the Cheng family before are all in here. They are all fakes."

Du Shiming and his companions looked at each other, and commented: "Curator Zhang and Master Wang are interested."

He looked around and immediately figured out how to operate:

"It just so happens that there is a table here, and the overhead is facing the light, please ask Zhang Guan to send someone to help, and bring the things here for identification."

"Okay." Zhang Yang agreed, and immediately arranged for his librarians to move things.

……

"This is the troika bronze carriage?"

Du Shiming adjusted his glasses and looked at the bronze vessels on the table.

A female appraiser who came with him looked at the appraisal certificate issued by Che Lijun on the table, and was a little surprised:
"Mr. Du, this was appraised by Mr. Che."

"Oh?" Du Shiming hurried over.

Seeing this, Zhang Yang quickly said, "This certificate is forged."

"Impossible." The female appraiser said confidently: "I took Teacher Che's class during the training. This is his new signature in the past few years. I'm afraid that someone will fake his previous signature."

"It makes sense." Du Shiming nodded.

Zhang Yang glanced at the 40-year-old female appraiser and thought:

Teacher Che, your former students miss you to death!

Fortunately, he was ready.

"Everyone, Mr. Che Lijun has come to crack down on this certificate in person. Here is a video to prove it."

As Zhang Yang said, he released the video edited by Xiao Tang on the tablet and handed it to the four of them.

After the four had finished reading, the female appraiser asked Zhang Yang:

"Is Director Zhang familiar with Teacher Che? He seems to approve of your appraisal result."

"Under Master Wang's recommendation, I met Teacher Che a few times."

Zhang Yang explained a few sentences with a smile, and then put forward his own thoughts:
"Teachers, everything here has a certificate of appraisal."

"But they even dare to forge the certificates of seniors like Mr. Che. I really don't know what else they dare not."

"So don't look at these broken certificates later."

"That makes sense." Du Shiming nodded again.

In the next two hours, four experts conducted an all-round observation and identification of 32 cultural relics.

Finally, three genuine products were selected.

"Curator Zhang, in our opinion, these three things should be true."

When Zhang Yang heard this, his phone was almost knocked off.

He hastened to see what it was, and the four teachers were all blindsided.

The first one is Li Keran's landscape painting.

The black and white landscape painting, with mountains in the distance, and a shepherd boy holding a cow nearby, walking in the countryside, is very artistic.

The moment Zhang Yang saw the painting, he felt that these experts might have taken a fancy to this museum.

Because of Li Keran's painting, the price of the cow that is nearly half a square foot in the painting has exceeded million.

The thing is of course fake, and the production date is clearly in 2015.

But the problem before Zhang Yang is how to convince these four experts.

"Teacher Du, like Qi Baishi and Li Keran, aren't the paintings of these two gentlemen defaulting to be fake?"

Zhang Yang asked pretending to be tentative, he still did some preparatory work.

"Li Keran created more than 1000 works in his lifetime, and now there are 5 of his paintings in the auction market alone, and the authenticity rate is less than %."

"If this one is correct, the auction price will be million. Do you think the Cheng family will donate such an expensive thing?"

"You're talking about the auction price. There was a recent quarrel. The real price is around 2000 million."

Someone in the appraisal team seems to have a lot of research on painting auctions.

Du Shiming continued: "We have very reliable basis for judging the authenticity of this painting..."

According to what he said, Li Keran's relatives opened a gallery to identify his paintings, and if they were confirmed to be authentic, they would take photos with the paintings.

And just now, they found a photo of Li Keran's relatives with this painting on the Internet.

"Is there such a coincidence?"

According to the link given by Du Shiming, Zhang Yang searched the Internet and found this "Picture of a Shepherd Boy in the Far Mountain".

The time when the picture was uploaded was in 2016. After this painting was copied, it shows that it was really possible that the photo was taken with this fake painting at that time.

A high imitation that even the painter's relatives can't tell?

Zhang Yang thought about it, if it were him, if he didn't see the item information, he would believe it was real.

After all, a family member who said, "This is what I drew by the old man's side and watched him draw", can make any expert speechless.

Knowing it is false, how to prove it is false?

Zhang Yang felt that he needed a helper.

"Wait a minute, let me take a look at this painting, whose identification certificate the Cheng family forged."

"Didn't you say the certificate is useless?" The female appraiser was surprised by Zhang Yang's approach.

"The certificate is useless, but the person who issued the certificate is very useful." Zhang Yang replied with a smile.

This painting is a certificate issued by an expert named Lu Zhong last September.

I searched for this person's information on the Internet. Coincidentally, Lu Zhong turned out to be a senior researcher at the Yangcheng Museum.

Zhang Yang hurriedly asked Mr. Zhong for his contact information.

……

Du Shiming and his group saw that Zhang Yang made one call and then made a second call, thinking that he was busy with museum affairs, silently sorted out the appraisal opinions, and prepared to leave.

Just about to leave, Zhang Yang suddenly heard shouting: "Don't move!"

"Curator Zhang, we're done with our work, we're going to have lunch now."

"Are you kidding, our museum is missing your four pairs of chopsticks?"

Holding the tablet, Zhang Yang trotted all the way to the appraisal team.

"The painting just now, Lu Zhong, a senior researcher at the Yangcheng Museum, has personally seen it."

"Yes, he said it was true, isn't the appraisal certificate written?"

"That's not the case, that painting is fake!" Suddenly a man shouted urgently from the tablet.

Everyone looked at the tablet in Zhang Yang's hand, only to find that there was a bald man wearing black-rimmed glasses who was video-connecting with Zhang Yang.

Seeing the four members of the Jianbao team, the bald man greeted happily:
"Teacher Du Shiming, I'm Xiao Lu from the Yangcheng Museum. We met before at the calligraphy and painting exhibition of Mr. Qi Gong in Yanjing."

"I have no impression." Du Shiming shook his head.

"That Thai spa..."

"Cough! Cough!" Du Shiming quickly interrupted the other party: "It turned out to be Xiao Lu, I remembered."

Zhang Yang glanced at Teacher Du in surprise, he should be 60 years old, this...

At the other end of the video, Lu Zhong began to explain why he said "the painting is fake".

As soon as he opened his mouth, the four teachers were stunned:
"This painting was actually drawn by me."

"Li Keran's relatives, when authenticating his paintings, actually only look at a few points."

"The details of the mountain, the look of the cow, the color of the ink and the composition of the ink pad."

"If these points are imitated well, they won't be able to tell the real from the fake."

"Out of the desire to show off, I took it to the gallery for an appraisal, but I was not recognized."

"However, I sold this painting as a high imitation, and it sold for 3 yuan..."

Lu Zhong's words are still convincing. As a quasi-expert figure in the museum calligraphy and painting industry, it is not surprising that he has such abilities.

As for what he said, it was sold as a counterfeit, and only this one was sold. No one present was entangled in whether it was true or not.

Du Shiming was curious, and asked Zhang Yang how he persuaded Lu Zhong to admit that he was making fake paintings.

Zhang Yang smiled and shook his head: "I promised him to keep this matter secret."

Time went back to 4 minutes ago, when Zhang Yang called Lu Zhong.

After revealing his identity, he directly showed his cards:

"Mr. Lu, you don't want everyone to know that you worked as a babysitter for the National Treasure Gang and issued fake certificates, right?"

　Thanks to Changcang Still and Kaiser von Augustus Manden for their 100 coin reward!Thank you for your monthly pass!I went to see a doctor with my family today, and I will update Chapter 2 later.

　　
　
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