Chapter 213: Emperor Wanli's Big Belt

"Can this be pretended?" Zhang Yang was stunned by what Lao Gao said.

“Yes, and it’s very simple.”

Lao Gao told Zhang Yang his plan. He told him that although the kidnappers' demands were unreasonable, he had to temporarily agree to them for the sake of his son's safety.

The problem was that not only were the items in the museum, whether real or fake, registered, but it was also impossible for him to get them given his current situation.

Especially more than 20 years ago, after what happened to his wife, he basically had no chance of touching the museum's collections in his lifetime.

How can you satisfy the kidnappers’ needs if you can’t even touch their things?

The solution Lao Gao thought of was: to cheat.

He was going to Panjiayuan, find an old acquaintance he had known for many years, buy some half-real and half-fake items, and give them to the kidnappers.

But if he just handed it over like that, based on his understanding of the kidnappers, they would definitely become suspicious.

The husband of the cultural relic thief actually stole another batch of cultural relics 25 years later. Do the people who are in charge of cultural relics just do their job to eat?

So Lao Gao had to get the thing into his own hands and find a reasonable explanation.

It would be best if it was very complicated and brain-burning, so that the kidnappers would have to consider whether it was reasonable or not, and not focus all their attention on the authenticity of the cultural relics.

His explanation is:
He kidnapped the museum director's son!
So the curator was willing to exchange the museum's cultural relics for the life of his son, the character played by Zhang Yang.

"What a nesting doll!"

Zhang Yang agreed with Lao Gao's idea.

He can play the role of this son. Anyway, there is an insider, Master Zou Tianshi, on the kidnapper's side. Apart from being exposed, he doesn't have to worry about any other problems.

If all else fails, let the old Taoist priest turn against us and send the person to the police station.

As for who will play the director of the museum, Lao Gao plans to ask his good brother to make a cameo appearance.

The other person's name is Zhen Daren. He also used to work at the Ming Tombs Museum and now runs a "Daren Antique Shop."

I can also borrow some antiques from his shop and pass them off as museum collections.

……

Outside the conference room, Zou Tianshi saw the high-spirited Billie Liu, and his first reaction was:
This woman has mental problems.

I don't know what he's laughing at.

However, he brought the person here from Lin'an, so even if something really happened, he had to bring the person back, so Master Zou quickly pulled the other person out of the museum.

Billie Liu also understood well enough to know that outside was not the place to talk.

When she got in the private van, she told Zou Tianshi:

"It's done!"

"What's done?"

"About kidnapping his son in exchange for cultural relics. The other party agreed."

"Three days later, I'll deliver the goods to the corner of the street where he and I met on a blind date. The specific address is here..."

Billie Liu took out a map and pointed to the delivery location, but Master Zou didn't even bother to look closely.

His CPU was running at full speed with all eight cores, trying to analyze what was going on.

Why is the actual situation so different from the results of his discussion with Zhang Yang?

If it is explained that he is stupid and his analysis is wrong, then what does Zhang Yang say?
Soon, Master Zou figured it out.

He realized that Lao Gao was trying to deceive people with fake goods, but there was a risk of being exposed!
"Oh, I didn't expect it to be so smooth." Billie Liu sighed and said proudly.

The old Taoist priest also echoed: "Yes, it is indeed going smoothly. I didn't expect it."

"Actually, I should have thought of it earlier." Billie Liu suddenly changed her mind.

"My ex-husband has not been married for so many years. He is the only child of the Gao family. If he dies, won't the Gao family be extinct? So even if he has to go to jail in the end, as a father, I have to hand over the antique obediently."

This woman... is so perverted!

Master Zou Tianshi looked at Billie Liu's ugly face and felt inexplicably uncomfortable.

If he hadn't witnessed the diversity of species during his undercover life, he would have stood up and cursed at this moment.

"By the way, Mr. Zou, how is my son now?"

"He is being locked in a hotel room by my men." Master Zou Tianshi said nonsense.

"That's good. I wanted to take a look at him and play the emotional card, but now there's no need."

"Wait until we go abroad, then you can release him."

"No problem, but... three days, isn't it too long? Can they be ready?" Master Zou complained in his heart, why not give them a few more days, the time is too short.

There was no time for Zhang Yang to forge the information.

What if the customs fails to notice it and lets the tiger go back to the mountains?
……

Zou Tianshi’s worries are somewhat justified.

Even before Zhang Yang went to Pan Jiayuan, he held the same view.

Three days is too short a time.

Even if it takes three weeks? He could use Mr. Ma's connections to find a small workshop in Yanjing and make a few high-quality imitations.

There is no need to go to Pan Jiayuan to buy things like we do now.

Can there be high-quality imitations in that place?

But when Zhang Yang followed Lao Gao to the "Daren Antique Shop", he discovered:

There are not only high imitations, but also high-high imitations, and even bronze artifacts that can be traded.

“Is it really possible to trade?”

Zhang Yang looked at the bronze fragments that Boss Zhen took out and felt a little skeptical.

He recognized the contents of the box. It was clearly a fragment of a bronze bean from the late Shang Dynasty. It was only the size of a palm and was priced at 18,000 yuan.

"Of course, I'm running a shop and doing business. I'm not kidding you."

Boss Zhen was chatting with Lao Gao, and he still had time to reply to Zhang Yang:

"This is something that was passed down from our ancestors. We registered it in a cultural relic store decades ago."

"It is a collectible that has been passed down in an orderly manner and comes with a certificate."

"If you like it, Brother Zhang, I can give you a 20% discount."

"80% off... Do you have any complete artifacts?" Zhang Yang thought for a moment and asked.

If there really are bronze artifacts that can be traded, it would be nice to buy them and collect them.

In the future, the policies on cultural relics trading will only become stricter, there will be more and more cultural relics police, and the items that come out of the hands of tomb robbers will definitely become less and less.

Things like this with certificates have great potential for appreciation!

"Complete? Yes, but without the certificate, I can't issue an invoice."

"Do you want it?"

"Oh my god, who would dare to take it?" Zhang Yang knew what Boss Zhen was talking about.

The way he looks at the other person has changed a little. This guy is really strong.

He is worthy of being a person who opened a shop at the foot of the imperial city. Maybe his ancestor was a beile of the Bordered Yellow Banner. His background is not something that ordinary people can match.

This is good. Zhang Yang feels that the probability of success for Lao Gao's project has increased by ten percentage points.

The three of them stayed in the antique shop for about half an hour, and Boss Zhen finally transferred the goods over.

It was packed in four large wooden boxes and was very well packaged.

"Old Gao, here is what you want. Do you want to take a look at it or take it back to study it yourself?"

"Just watch it here."

After Lao Gao finished speaking, he pulled Zhang Yang's sleeve and whispered:

"You can also help me check it."

"What's wrong? Is there something wrong with the thing?"

"The stuff should be fine, but I have to be prepared. If it breaks, I'll have to pay for it!"

"Okay, let me take a look."

Zhang Yang helped Lao Gao open the lid of the first wooden box, and the things inside made him swallow his saliva.

It turned out to be a large belt inlaid with gold and jade.

Boss Zhen said: "When Emperor Wanli wore the dragon robe, he wore this thing around his waist."

"This is a replica. It will definitely be able to deceive that woman's eyes."

"Really?" Zhang Yang suddenly smiled, "But why are the jade and gemstones on your belt all made of plastic?"

"You noticed that too?" Boss Zhen asked in surprise, "You didn't even touch it."

(End of this chapter)