pappabearbooks Chapter 2771: Shooting yourself in the foot
Chapter 2771: Shooting yourself in the foot
Riku Xiong excitedly introduced Tom's identity to everyone, and learned that he was actually the ambassador to Xia, which was an unusual status in this era!
But they were even more curious as to what this matter had to do with Lin Ran.
Tom was extremely angry and said, "Mr. Lin, do you still remember me?"
Lin Ran was noncommittal and still looked at Tom calmly.
"I was entrusted by the museum and wanted to buy two cultural relics, so I went to Lin Ran."
"This kid actually lied to me, saying that they were a group of thieves who stole cultural relics from the National Palace Museum and sold them to us!"
"After I brought it back, I couldn't find any flaws! It wasn't until I returned to China again that I found that the thing was still on display in the museum!"
"Mr. Lin, please explain to me what is going on!"
Paper wrapped fire.
Lin Ran had long thought that one day their fakes would be discovered. After learning about his plan, Tang Lanxuan cooperated very well and hid the cultural relics in the snow.
Tom went back with the cultural relics he bought from Lin Ran at a high price. If there was no problem with the appraisal, he placed them in the museum as genuine.
It was promoted with great fanfare, and Tom was awarded the Medal of Honor for it.
However, the good times did not last long. At the beginning of this year, Tom was suddenly called back by the curator of the museum to re-appraise the antiques.
This time they went straight to the carbon-12 detection device and found out that they had been deceived!
The reason they found out that they had fakes in their hands was not because they found any flaws, but because the museum was holding an exhibition of cultural relics from the Tang Dynasty, and someone saw the same cultural relics in the Palace Museum!
Facing Tom's accusation, Lin Ran just smiled.
No one present was willing to stand up and express their opinion.
Because both sides have problems!
On the one hand, there are foreign cultural relic robbers who actually spend money to hire people from their country to steal cultural relics from museums. This is much worse than tomb robbing, and they even shamelessly say it!
On the other side, there are cultural relic forgers who create things that even foreign museums cannot distinguish.
This is dog eat dog in the truest sense!
In contrast, no party is innocent.
"You liar! I have reason to suspect that all the cultural relics in your hands are fake!"
"Oh." Lin Ran smiled, "Mr. Tom, do you still have the contract we traded with you?"
"Of course!" Tom gritted his teeth. If it hadn't been in public, he would have really wanted to arrest Lin Ran and use his connections to teach him a lesson.
He took out the contract and showed it to everyone because he came here today to seek justice.
The people present rushed to circulate it, but after reading it, their expressions were completely different.
Finally, the contract appeared in the hands of Mr. Ke.
Ke Hui and Ke Yu hurriedly gathered around to take a look, their faces full of seriousness.
Mr. Ke looked very solemn at first, but after reading the contract, he laughed.
"Mr. Tom, this contract clearly says it is a counterfeit product," Mr. Ke said.
"What?" Tom grabbed the contract back.
"You have been in China for so long and you haven't even learned the Chinese language well?" Lin Ran said with a smile.
When the contract was drawn up, he expected that one day it would be liquidated.
If it had something to do with him at that time, the handicraft shop and even Wei Chengbin might be implicated.
Therefore, the contract was tampered with.
"The Tang Jinghua porcelain basin sold to Mr. Tom Jackson today is 100% authentic. If there is any problem with the imitation, we will compensate you a hundred times and transfer the power of life and death to Ambassador Tom."
"Don't talk nonsense! Isn't this a comma?!" Tom was shocked when Mr. Ke pointed it out.
Because this contract was not officially signed, if they used official seals to stamp the cooperation documents with the thieves, it would have a serious impact on the diplomacy of the two countries. Therefore, this contract has not been reviewed by a professional and team. , I just asked someone to take a rough look at it.
I never thought that it was because of this that I fell into trouble.
He even presented the evidence himself, which made Tom feel ashamed for a moment.
"Mr. Tom, Mr. Lu, I only pay attention to seeking truth from facts when doing business."
"Genuine products are genuine products, and imitation products are imitation products. They are all marked on the contract."
"Where is the National Palace Museum? If you want to steal cultural relics from it, I'm afraid you'll be impatient."
Lin Ran saw that Tom and Riku Xiong had ugly expressions and was speechless, and then said.
"You still owe China a large amount of cultural relics, and you even want to smuggle them out of China. You are really thick-skinned."
"Mr. Lu, I shouldn't have interfered with the Ke family's affairs."
"However, one thing I learned through my relationship with the Ministry of Culture and Culture is that Mr. Lu, you sent a total of 9 containers abroad between September and December last year."
"Then there are a lot of fakes in the Ke family's goods, and these fakes are extremely shoddy."
"I'm not saying that the owner of the antique shop who sold it could tell it was a fake at a glance, but the master of the Ke family didn't notice it. Do you think this is reasonable?"
Everyone was in an uproar, and the offensive was completely reversed.
If what Lin Ran said is true, then the money some of them lost was not because there was a problem with the Ke family's supply of goods or because there were insiders at work!
Ke Hui was stunned. He had suspected Lu Xiong and his son during this period, but because of his grandfather's relationship, he was not allowed to investigate, so he had to give up.
But I didn't expect that Lin Ran, an outsider, could find out clearly.
"Oh, it's just your random speculation." Riku Xiong said without changing his expression, "You are the leader of the counterfeiting team, so don't slander others and confuse the public with your lies."
"Really?" Lin Ran smiled and said, "Mr. Lu, do you know one thing? One of the 16 containers you sent out was returned."
"It's being inspected by customs now. As for what's inside, haha."
Rikuo's expression immediately changed.
Ocean shipping is a very long process, usually requiring more than a month of waiting time. It is only the beginning of March, so he doesn't think there is any problem that the goods sent at the end of December have not been received yet?
How did this kid know?
"You must be wondering why I know this, right?" Lin Ran smiled and said, "I'm sorry, our Shengshi Craftsmanship has a branch in Lanxi."
"Because the loss of cultural relics in China has been serious recently, people from the embassy strongly requested an investigation into the containers."
"This is not 20 years ago, when they could completely ignore the embassy's requirements."
"Your batch of goods was returned together with the goods I sent to Lanxi Country."
"The Ministry of Culture and Culture is currently investigating the goods. What I sell are handicrafts, and they are all clearly marked with prices, and it's yours."
Lin Ran didn't intend to give any face to people like Lu Xiong, and just acted in a weird way.
He and Tom were extremely shameless. They revealed in public that they had purchased cultural relics from the National Palace Museum at high prices, secretly transported the cultural relics at home to foreign countries, and even tried to take away the Ke family's company by making vicious remarks.