Becoming Rich with Daily Scavenging APP-Chapter 506: European Scholars’ Double Standards

Chapter 506: Chapter 506: European Scholars’ Double Standards

"These Ancient Roman ingots have inscriptions carved by the people of Ancient Rome at the time, and these inscriptions are crucial for studying the history of Ancient Rome."

A white woman was chattering non-stop to Chen Yiyang.

While listening helplessly to this woman who claimed to be a PhD in Natural and Cultural Heritage Management, Chen Yiyang glanced at Yang Chengru.

Yang Chengru was also in the office, hiding behind a table, giving Chen Yiyang an apologetic look.

After transporting all the ingots back to the country.

Seeing no other way to get the ingots, those people in Europe came directly to Lin’an through some trading companies.

These companies have trade dealings with many factories in Lin’an.

So after they requested a meeting with Chen Yiyang through the Lin’an Government, Yang Chengru had no choice but to ask Chen Yiyang to spare some time to deal with it.

Just consider it for the sake of local employment.

"I know, I know," Chen Yiyang interrupted the person and said,

"I’ll specifically remove the inscriptions from those ingots. I remember when Ancient Roman ingots were discovered before, they were all extracted this way."

"No, that’s not the same," the woman quickly said, "Besides the inscriptions, these ingots themselves are of great research value, and we shouldn’t destroy the past for future research, should we?"

"I remember that one batch of Roman ingots retrieved from the waters near Sardinia was copied for inscriptions and dissolved for physics research, right? Why could they do it and not us?" Chen Yiyang asked this scholar.

"There was a reason for that," said the European scholar, "The archaeological institution that was responsible for the salvage lacked enough funds to retrieve all the ingots and was forced to accept some donations from the related laboratory. But this time, it’s different, you have the funds to salvage all the ingots without needing to make the same compromise."

"I’m a businessman," Chen Yiyang spread his hands and said, "When archaeologists fund the salvaging of ingots, they are used for research. When physicists fund it, the ingots are used for experiments. 𝕗𝐫𝐞𝕖𝕨𝐞𝗯𝚗𝕠𝘃𝐞𝚕.𝐜𝗼𝚖

When I, as a businessman, fund the salvage, there’s no issue if I sell them."

"So, have you decided to confront the European archaeological community?" the European scholar asked, glaring at Chen Yiyang. "These are all treasures of European history."

"Then I suggest Europe return the treasures of Huaxia’s history that were plundered before we discuss this issue."

Feeling he had nothing more to say to the person before him, Chen Yiyang stood up and directly saw her out.

"These Europeans are like there’s something wrong with their brains. They can sell, but I can’t?"

After sending the guest away, Chen Yiyang complained to Yang Chengru.

"Europeans are like that, their long comfortable lives have given them a way of thinking that everything has to be done their way."

Yang Chengru patted Chen Yiyang’s shoulder and said, "But for the sake of our partners, we only agreed to arrange this meeting, and the outcome of the meeting is not our concern."

"Hmm." Chen Yiyang nodded.

He had already arranged for staff to strip all the Ancient Roman inscriptions off the ingots these past few days.

These inscriptions aren’t very valuable, but they do have some research value.

Chen Yiyang planned to send these inscriptions to his private museum for exhibition; if European scholars want to study them then, they are welcome, but they have to pay for their own food and lodging.

Among the batch of Ancient Roman ingots in Chen Yiyang’s possession, besides the batch promised to domestic research institutions, there are still twenty tons that can be auctioned.

The United States is much more pragmatic than Europeans; recently, many research institutions from there have already called to inquire about prices.

Of course, Chen Yiyang has to auction these ingots to maximize profits.

However, due to international treaties, Chen Yiyang won’t publicly auction these ingots, but he has already thought of a solution.

That is to auction the photos of the ingots.

Chen Yiyang called in the auction manager to make the arrangements.

"Currently, I’ve photographed every single ingot in my possession. Our auction won’t explicitly sell the ingots, but sell the photos of these ingots. Whichever institution buys the photos, we’ll donate the ingots shown in the photos to their research institution."

"Is that legally okay?" the manager asked somewhat hesitantly.

"There’s fundamentally no legal issue. When those countries violate those treaties themselves, no one says a thing, but at the slightest involvement, they jump out."

Chen Yiyang told the manager, "So we just need to handle the surface-level issues, indicating we did not actively violate those treaties."

"Understood." The auction house manager had no further questions.

After all, if they could pull off this auction, their commission would fatten them up, so a few minor troubles didn’t matter.

"Once all these ingots are auctioned, I estimate I’ll have over ten billion again."

Chen Yiyang calculated while chatting with his small accountant.

"Then in the upcoming months, we’ll have the funds to sustain our flash sale subsidy battle with Taobao’s Ugly Group and the ongoing investment in Yiyang Automobile, at least until the end of the year."

"What happens then at the end of the year?" the small accountant asked.

"Why are you so serious?" Chen Yiyang saw the small accountant’s worried face and reached out to rub her face.

"We’ve spread ourselves too thin." The small accountant was very sensitive to financials.

Originally, although Chen Yiyang spent lavishly, many of his investments were in quality projects. Plus, he made money proficiently, so she hadn’t had many opinions before.

But this time, the flash sale war and the automobile subsidy war have indeed severely dragged down Chen Yiyang’s financial situation.

Once spending starts in these two areas, tens of billions are burned every month.

Even a large corporation would only dare to invest heavily in one sector, but Chen Yiyang is doing it in two simultaneously.

Although Chen Yiyang still has money, the spending is severely unbalanced, and the finances are quite unhealthy.

"Looks like I need to find more profit-generating projects."

Chen Yiyang’s first thought was games.

The gaming industry truly makes money.

Yingkumi’s revenue has already reached nearly ten billion in two months, with profits exceeding four or five billion.

However, since Chen Yiyang only holds thirty percent of Yingkumi’s shares, the money isn’t entirely his.

Still, seeing how profitable Yingkumi is, Chen Yiyang wants to invest in a few more gaming companies, hoping to hit a jackpot.

There’s a gaming expo opening up in the country soon, which Chen Yiyang plans to attend with the small accountant.

Even if they don’t gain anything, it will at least be a chance to relax.