pappabearbooks Chapter 2591: Poreton State
Chapter 2591: Poreton State
Eagle Country, Poreton State, State Museum.
Lin Ran and Fang Yuan were wearing casual clothes and visiting the museum as if they were ordinary tourists.
The exhibits in the museum are basically cultural relics plundered from China, Egypt and other countries. The earliest cultural relics can be traced back to the late Stone Age.
It seems a bit ironic that cultural relics from various ancient civilizations are placed in the Eagle Country Museum, a country of immigrants with a short history.
Among them are countless precious cultural relics, which were basically plundered through colonization and war, and some were smuggled to Eagle Country through auctions in other countries.
Lin Ran was standing in front of a three-color figurine of a lady from the Tang Dynasty, looking thoughtful through the glass window.
"Mr. Wang?" Fang Yuan saw Lin Ran looking a little dazed and interrupted his meditation.
"What?" Lin Ran hasn't told Fang Yuan his real name yet. Meng Xing and the others are covering up for him, so Fang Yuan still calls Lin Ran Mr. Wang.
"What do you think when you see these cultural relics?" Fang Yuan asked.
Lin Ran sighed.
Due to various reasons in the war, the cultural relics that were plundered and possessed for a long time have been regarded as their own property by the people of Eagle Country.
As a country of immigrants, it has almost killed all the native residents living on this land, and its historical heritage has been severely weakened. In order to enhance its international influence, Eagle Country will not only vigorously develop high technology, but also Other countries introduced talents and cultural relics to flaunt themselves.
Due to various historical reasons, these cultural relics have become their belongings.
China wants to recover it through official means, but every time it is rejected by the logic of banditry that does not belong to China, but to the previous dynasty.
"Isn't China the most powerful country in the world now?" Lin Ran did not answer Fang Yuan's question directly, but asked instead.
Fang Yuan scratched his head: "It can be understood that way, but it's not entirely true."
"How do you say this?" Lin Ran realized that he still knew too little about the world. According to the original historical trajectory, China should be keeping pace with the Eagle Kingdom in this era.
But we have heard about it in China before. The Lin family brought out many technologies from the legendary ancient tombs, including the used automatic lighting devices, which are much more convenient than flashlights.
As a direct contact with the Legendary Tombs, Lin Ran has a deep understanding of the technology in the Legendary Tombs.
Time, space, illusion, biotechnology...
A large number of technologies that have not been widely studied in the real world have begun to be recorded in the legendary tombs.
Maybe the people inside didn't particularly understand its principles, but they applied technology to the traps in the ancient tombs. Even an archaeologist like Lin Ran, who is particularly sensitive to danger, has been in danger many times in the ancient tombs.
Bringing out the technology inside is simply a dimensionality reduction blow for people in the real world.
What's more, it has been applied to the national level. These technologies are first-class super weapons. According to his understanding, China should be the world's superpower now.
As a superpower, how can it be looked down upon by a small Eagle Country?
Are you even going to take the cultural relics back?Lin Ran didn't understand.
Fang Yuan burst out laughing: "I didn't expect Mr. Wang to be so naive. China does have some weapons that are beyond the times, even more terrifying than nuclear weapons."
"But would you start a war over these ancient things?"
"It's still a peaceful time, and China is discussing with them about the gradual return of cultural relics."
"But these guys from the merchant nation are so good at negotiating that they haven't made any real progress in more than 200 years."
Fang Yuan's explanation made Lin Ran suddenly enlightened.
Weapons are only used when competing for important resources, such as strategic resources, food, land, etc.
In an era when technological development has stagnated and growth has slowed down, antiques are actually the least important resources. China now has mastered some of the most advanced technologies in the world and is mass-producing them domestically.
They need the Eagle Country's market, so even though the relationship between the two parties is a bit stiff, they still haven't broken things on the surface.
An actual conflict would do neither of them any good.
Therefore, although China has established a foreign lost cultural relics recovery department, it is responsible for searching for looted cultural relics around the world.
But the greatest authority they have is to apply for special funds to buy back as many cultural relics as possible. Apart from money, they cannot provide any substantial help, which has also resulted in slow progress.
Unexpectedly, so many years have passed. I thought that after living conditions improved, more attention would be paid to the return of cultural relics.
As a result, people's ambitions have no end. After their lives are better, they will continue to think about expanding the market, opening branches abroad, and obtaining more resources.
As for cultural relics, they can only give people a sense of belonging to a certain extent, and they are relatively low on the development path of China.
The situation is still the same as in the previous life.
"Actually, let me ask, are all these things the same?" Fang Yuan looked at the cultural relics in the window and said with a dull expression on his face.
Lin Ran said nothing, wanting to hear Fang Yuan's inner thoughts.
"Let's take Tang Sancai as an example." Fang Yuan laughed dryly, "Whether it is craftsmanship or appearance, it is completely inferior to the works of Shengshi Craftsmanship."
"I know you want to say that he has historical significance, but in this era of crumbling faith, who cares about this?"
Fang Yuan said this, but his eyes were full of loneliness.
Lin Ran was not angry because of his answer. He knew that many people had the same view.
After all, the Tang Dynasty has passed, and no one will deny that the culture of the Tang Dynasty is part of Chinese culture. At this time, many people will think that it is actually good for these cultural relics to be displayed around the world, which is equivalent to helping China for free. Promote it.
Speaking of ancient craftsmanship and fashion, there is no way to compare it with today's level. It is a matter of course that the production will be more sophisticated.
In the museum, there were some tourists from China chatting there.
They even wanted to take a group photo in front of Tang Sancai, but they were stopped by the staff. The staff had to persuade them to understand that the camera function of the mobile phone might damage the glaze on the surface.
As a result, these tourists cursed and thought they were too rigid in doing things.
Lin Ran witnessed all this and felt a little desolate in his heart.
"Brother Fang, when you brought me here, you didn't want me to see the exhibition, right?"