Treasure hunt begins in England

Chapter 348 Unexpected Existence

After more than two hours of flight, the plane landed at the Vaclav Havel International Airport in Prague, the capital of the Czech Republic.

Because they took a private plane, they quickly completed customs clearance and left the airport.When they got out of the airport, they quickly took the pre-arranged vehicle and drove all the way to the eastern urban area.

According to the plan, they will first go to the city to have lunch and put away their luggage, and then take a lunch break. The working time starts at 3:[-] pm.

Prague is the capital and largest city of the Czech Republic, located in the country's Central Bohemia region, on the Vltava River.The city is located in the center of the European continent and has always played an important role in transportation.

However, although Prague is an important transportation center and the capital of the Czech Republic, it has an important geographical and economic status, but the city's population is not large, and the latest statistics barely exceeded 100 million people.

From a historical point of view, this city deserves a long history even in the world, because this place has been inhabited since the Neolithic Age.

The official establishment of the city was in the ninth century. During the period of the Holy Roman Emperor Charles IV, the capital was established in Prague. The castles and palaces built by the kings of the past were connected together, called Prague Castle, and a new city was built in the south of the old city. .

Since then, the city has entered a period of rapid development, and even became one of the largest political, economic and cultural centers in Europe until it became part of Austria in the 17th century.

Because of this period of history, there are many historical sites in Prague, and there are more than 2000 historical relics under national key protection, and the cultural relics of the second level are countless.

It is no exaggeration to say that almost every street and alley in the old city can be found in various forms of buildings since the 13th century.

For example, the famous St. Vitus Church, which was built in 1344, the Charles Bridge, which was built in 1357 on the Vltava River, is full of icons and has great artistic value, and the Charles University, the oldest institution of higher learning in Central Europe, was built in 1348. .

From the perspective of the transportation convenience and historical accumulation of the whole city, it is a good thing to open a museum in this place, so after the lunch break in the afternoon, everyone went to the museum in the old city.

From a tourism point of view, the old town can be regarded as the essence of Prague. Although many streets are too narrow and only one-way traffic for cars and trams is allowed, the medieval-style streets are enough to make up for these inconveniences.

Liang En's destination was hidden in these streets and alleys. When their car drove to the door of a 500-story red brick building less than 1m away from the Old Town Square, the car stopped.

"Okay, here we are." The local taxi driver who was driving said in an accented English, "This is the folk museum you are looking for."

This folklore museum doesn't look like a very big building. If it weren't for the bilingual sign hanging at the door and the specially decorated gate, people would probably just regard this building as an old noble residence.

"Let's go in and have a look." Mr. Scudder, who was wearing a baseball cap, pressed the brim of his hat and said, and then several people walked towards the ticket office together.

The formal conversation will be held tomorrow, but today Liang En and the others decided to come over to see the overall situation without the other party knowing, so as to avoid any deception from the other party.

This is also a common practice in trading, especially when such a large sum of money is involved, no amount of caution can be overstated.

Also because of this reason, their negotiation with the other party this time is only to agree on the time and place of the negotiation, and the question about the itinerary is completely confidential, just to find an opportunity to check the target location in advance.

Because Liang En and his group consisted of old and young, male and female, and they wore uniform baseball caps, the other party directly regarded Liang En and his group as a tourist group visiting here.

So when buying tickets, the chubby conductor kept recommending the tour guide to them, and after the other party's attentive inquiries, everyone decided to hire a tour guide to explain the situation here for them.

After they entered the building and saw the exhibits, they realized that it was definitely the right choice to hire a tour guide to explain, because the exhibits in this museum are miscellaneous in the Chinese cultural relics circle, and few people would understand them all without explanations.

The entire museum is classified according to the content of the collection and is divided into multiple exhibition halls, which comprehensively display various items that people in this area encountered in their daily life from the Middle Ages to the 20s.

Most of the things collected inside are practical cultural collections from the Middle Ages to modern times.Such as furniture, household utensils, tools, textiles, glassware, ceramics, jewelry, religious items and folk art.

"Understanding-Change-Perseverance, the life of people in Bohemia for thousands of years." As soon as they entered the door, they saw the theme of the museum exhibitions written in golden Czech and English on the wall of the entrance.

The layout of the entire venue is also arranged according to this theme, and each area shows the development and changes in a certain aspect from the Middle Ages to modern times.

For example, in an exhibition hall, they saw a series of cultural relics ranging from the most primitive stone scythes of the Stone Age to the harvesting knives of harvesters in the 20s. See the context of local agricultural development.

In addition to these real objects, there are several large-scale sand table models in the center of the hall on the first floor, showing visitors what the city of Prague looked like at several key points in time.

From these models, you can see how the city has gradually developed from a riverside castle to a city that plays a pivotal role in the entire Central European region as it is today.

At the beginning, everyone felt that the overall condition of the museum was very good. Although some facilities seemed old, the overall maintenance was not bad. Considering the location and history of this museum, these minor problems are completely acceptable.

However, when they came to the second floor to visit the contents about treasures, Liang En found that the situation became not optimistic: some of the exhibits disappeared, and the note on it said that they were going to other museums to change exhibitions, while other exhibits looked wrong.

For example, there is a golden necklace on a booth.The sign on the side says it is a gold gemstone necklace used by a Countess of the Holy Roman Empire in the 17th century.

However, Liang En found many processing problems on this necklace through his observation ability strengthened by the card, and he was able to judge that this item was most likely made in modern times.

Under normal circumstances, it is not surprising that there are so few fakes in the museum. After all, there are thousands of cultural relics in a museum, and it is normal for someone to occasionally make a few mistakes.

But Liang En began to pay attention to the situation after discovering several fakes in a row, and unexpectedly discovered that at least 1/3 of the collection in this treasure house had turned into fakes.

After carefully writing down these things, Liang En found that these missing things had one thing in common, that is, whether they were gold and silver wares, gem jewelry or porcelain, they were all common varieties in the cultural relics market.

(End of this chapter)