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Jiang Wenxi will hold a grand "Overseas Cultural Relics Auction", and all the items in the auction are national treasures from multiple countries.

At the same time, relevant information about the auction was also made public: all auction items were acquired by Ms. Jiang Wenxi through legal channels one by one, and each transaction had complete records and notarization, fully complying with relevant international regulations, and were fair, just, and open.

The auction will be a complete replica of the Cohen auction house model, with identical bidding rules and procedures.

The only difference this time is that the items on the auction stage are national treasures from those countries that once wantonly plundered and sold off cultural relics from other countries.

This time, the initiative belongs to China and Jiang Wenxi.

The news of the auction instantly ignited a global frenzy, causing an uproar in international media. Countries that had previously participated in illegal cultural relic transactions, wantonly plundered Chinese artifacts, or mocked China for its "inability to recover its national treasures" were utterly shocked and panicked upon learning that their national treasures were being auctioned off in China. Disbelief swept through the top echelons of these countries.

They never expected that Jiang Wenxi could go to such lengths, daring to be so "disregardful" of international relations, daring to put their country's national treasures on the auction stage, treating them the way they treated China back then—giving them a taste of their own medicine.

This is not just an auction, but a silent counterattack, an indictment of what they did back then.

Within just two days, several countries urgently convened high-level meetings and held consultations overnight, creating an extremely tense atmosphere.

Countries around the world have dispatched diplomatic officials, top cultural relics experts, and top domestic collectors to form negotiation delegations. They travel thousands of miles from overseas to Shanghai, China, just to contact the Chinese Embassy for the Protection of Cultural Relics as soon as possible to negotiate the repatriation of cultural relics and attempt to bring their representative cultural relics back to their countries free of charge or at a low price in a reasonable manner.

Upon arriving in China, these negotiating delegations did not linger at all. They immediately went to the Chinese Embassy for the Protection of Cultural Relics, looking hurried and speaking urgently, eager to meet with the embassy officials and resolve the issue of the repatriation of the cultural relics.

Surprisingly, these usually arrogant and rude diplomatic officials, though anxious, still spoke in a very tough tone, even with a hint of accusation and dissatisfaction. They were all arrogant and did not realize how excessive their actions had been back then.

One of the diplomats, from a European country, slammed his fist on the table and angrily demanded, "What's going on with your China? Why do you suddenly have so many of our national treasures? And you dare to put our national treasures up for auction? Your China is utterly immoral! You're completely disregarding international relations! I demand that you immediately terminate the auction and return our national cultural relics without compensation!"

As soon as he finished speaking, diplomats from several other countries chimed in, their voices filled with accusation and dissatisfaction: "That's right! Your China is deliberately provoking us! You must return our cultural relics immediately!"

"Back then, we only obtained your Chinese cultural relics by chance, and you kept pressing us. Now you're deliberately buying up our national treasures and auctioning them off. This is so unfair!"

"End the auction immediately, or we will take diplomatic action to hold you accountable!"

As he listened to their righteous and stern accusations that distorted the truth, Ambassador Yuan, the head of the Chinese Embassy for the Protection of Cultural Relics, revealed a cold, mocking expression.

He slowly stood up, his gaze sweeping over everyone present. His tone was icy, his words sharp and forceful as he retorted without hesitation: "Obtained by chance? You have the nerve to say that? Back then, you brought guns and cannons, stormed into our China, burning, killing, looting, and wantonly plundering our cultural relics. You smuggled countless national treasures out of the country to sell for profit. At that time, why didn't you say it was immoral? Why didn't you say it was disregarding international relations?"

He paused, his gaze falling on the European diplomat who had been the first to reprimand him, his tone growing increasingly cold: "A few days ago, our Ambassador Jiang personally went to your country, willing to pay to redeem the cultural relics that belong to our China. But what did you do? You avoided us, made things difficult for us in every way, and even deliberately raised the price to mock our China for being unable to recover its national treasures."

"And this isn't the first time this has happened; do you all remember how many times it's occurred?"

"Now that your own national treasures are being put up for auction, you're getting anxious? You're starting to accuse us of being immoral? Your actions are utterly shameless!"

Ambassador Yuan's words struck the European diplomat like a thunderbolt.

His face flushed red instantly, and he opened his mouth, but couldn't utter a single word.

Of course he knew about Jiang Wenxi's trip to their country for negotiations back then, but at that time, he didn't take Jiang Wenxi or China seriously at all. He deliberately avoided meeting her and even secretly instructed others to deliberately make things difficult for Jiang Wenxi. Now that Ambassador Yuan has exposed him in public, he is left with only endless embarrassment and shame.

Even so, he stubbornly insisted, feigning composure, "That's different! What happened back then is in the past. Besides, didn't your Ambassador Jiang still take those national treasures away in the end? Now you're targeting us again. Is this how you treat your guests in China?"

"Take him away?" Ambassador Yuan sneered, his tone full of sarcasm.

"What our Ambassador Jiang took away are national treasures belonging to China! Those national treasures were bought back from auction with her own private funds, costing a huge sum of 38 billion yuan. They weren't returned by you for free! You wantonly looted our cultural relics back then, and we were willing to pay to redeem them, but you refused. Now, you still have the nerve to talk to us about hospitality? You don't even deserve it!"

Just then, the head of the Swiss delegation slowly stepped forward.

He was the same colleague of the gray-haired manager of Cohen Auction House. Now, his face no longer showed the arrogance and composure of the past. He gripped his briefcase tightly with both hands, his knuckles turning white from the force, and fine beads of sweat trickled down his cheeks from his forehead.

His voice trembled slightly as he spoke, his tone almost humble: "Ambassador Yuan, I implore you to make an exception! Those artifacts being auctioned are Switzerland's priceless treasures, historical imprints of our nation spanning millennia, carrying the emotions and memories of generations. They absolutely cannot be allowed to remain abroad!"