Search for Treasure Worldwide Chapter 559: Mr. Duke (please give me monthly tickets and recommendations)
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At nine o'clock in the morning, at the east end of 78th Street in midtown Manhattan, the Brave and Intrepid Exploration Company's logistics base.
The elevator door opened, and Ye Tian and David came out, laughing and walking into the conference room on the fifth floor. Matisse followed closely behind.
This is already the third day after returning to New York. Everyone has withdrawn. Only Walker and Raymond are still in Boston, continuing to follow and monitor Thompson's gang.
And here in New York, surveillance has not relaxed at all.
Kenny and Byrne have been conducting remote monitoring, watching his every move through mobile phone location information and the many pinhole cameras set up by Thompson!
At the same time, they are also keeping a close eye on the situation in the underground palace of the Old North Church and are ready to respond at any time.
Fortunately, everything went as usual, no accidents occurred, and no rumors came out, which showed that Joey and Brandon did a good job of keeping secrets, and no secrets were leaked for the time being.
After returning to New York, Ye Tian immediately gave everyone two days off so that everyone could go back to have a rest and reunite with their families.
A breakup is better than a wedding! He also had a very sweet couple of days!
Now that the holiday is over, it’s time to start the next step.
This conference room in the logistics base is not big, only thirty to forty square meters. It has a long solid wood conference table, a dozen chairs, and nothing else. It is quite simple!
Kenny and Byrne are currently busy in the conference room, debugging the network and the laptop on the table.
Seeing this situation, Ye Tian did not disturb these two guys. Instead, he sat down at the other end of the conference table and started chatting with David and the others.
The reason why he came here was to have face-to-face communication with the curators of the museums and famous collectors of the stolen antique artworks through online videos.
Originally, he planned to send company employees and lawyers to meet with these museum directors and famous collectors, and invite them to come to New York to negotiate with him.
But this will inevitably increase the number of insiders, including people within the company, law firms, and other links. The possibility of leaking secrets will undoubtedly increase a lot.
It was with this in mind that he changed to a video call. In addition to better confidentiality, this could also save a lot of costs. Why not?
A few minutes passed quickly. Kenny and the others finished the work at hand, stood up from their seats and said:
"Steven, the network and computer have been debugged, and you can make video calls"
"How is the security? Is there any risk of leaks?"
Ye Tian asked with concern, stood up and walked over.
"Don't worry, Steven, we have checked repeatedly. The computer and network are very safe. There are no loopholes. No one can break into it. There is no possibility of leaking secrets in this conference room.
We have also done technical processing for the video materials you provided. In addition to being burned after reading, we have also carried out multiple encryptions. They are absolutely impossible to copy and are highly secure! "
Kenny said confidently, almost beating his chest to assure himself.
“That’s great, let’s get started, it’s afternoon in Europe now, the time is just right!”
Ye Tian nodded in appreciation, and then sat on the chair in front of the laptop.
Immediately afterwards, David came over and sat next to him. He was a lawyer and had to be present.
After finishing their work, Kenny, Byrne, and Mattis walked out of the conference room together and closed the door
After tidying up his clothes and adjusting his mood, Ye Tian moved the mouse to open the chat software.
Then, he clicked on a document on the computer desktop.
The document records a list of people to be contacted later, as well as the mobile phone numbers or office phone numbers of those contacts.
Kenny and the others found this information on the Internet, and it was not difficult at all.
Soon, everything is ready to begin!
"Steven, are you going to contact that museum first?"
David asked curiously, looking quite excited.
“Poland’s Czartoryski Museum, in the warehouse where antique art is stored, the first top-notch piece of art I saw was Raphael’s “Portrait of a Young Man.”
This famous painting by a Renaissance master is a well-deserved Polish national treasure. It disappeared in 1945 at the end of World War II. The Polish government has been looking for it for decades!
Let’s take the lead with this top-notch painting, believing it will bring us good luck. If the Poles want to take back this national treasure-level painting, they will have to pay a large sum of dollars! "
Ye Tian chuckled and gave the answer, his eyes full of confidence.
This is a famous painting that can make a lot of money. He is very sure about this!
Due to World War II, the current ownership of this top-notch painting is unclear.
Even the Czartoryski Museum can only say that it was once the owner of this famous painting, but it may not be able to produce solid evidence to prove that this famous painting indeed belongs to it.
During the war, Poland was almost turned into a pile of ruins, and many materials were completely destroyed, including the ownership information of many antique artworks.
The loss of relevant information forced the Polish government to sometimes pay large sums of money to repurchase its own works of art from Nazi descendants, and they were looted for the second time!
This is the case with this top-notch painting by Raphael.
If the Czartoryski Museum cannot provide tangible evidence, it will have no other choice but to spend a large sum of money to buy it back.
Of course, if the owner is willing to donate free of charge, that is also a way.
But the free donor cannot be Ye Tian. He has nothing to do with Poland, so naturally he will not let go of such an opportunity to make a fortune!
"I know this "Portrait of a Young Man". This painting is so famous. It was once Hitler's favorite! I didn't expect that it was hidden in Boston and was discovered by you. You are so lucky! "
David exclaimed, almost jumping out of his chair with excitement.
"You're right, I'm very lucky, and I firmly believe that this famous painting will definitely bring me a lot of wealth!"
Ye Tian said proudly, then took out his mobile phone and started making calls.
The ringing sounded for about seven or eight seconds, and then the other party picked up the phone. A deep male voice came immediately, speaking Polish, which I couldn't understand at all.
Although there is a language barrier, everyone understands the meaning of the other party's words.
It’s nothing more than the first few sentences of a phone call, like hello, name, what’s up, etc.!
When the other party finished speaking, Ye Tian immediately said in English:
"Good afternoon, Duke Toreski, I'm sorry to bother you. This is a call from New York, USA. My name is Steven. I have news about Raphael's famous painting "Portrait of a Young Man"!"
After a simple greeting and self-introduction, he immediately dropped a bombshell to bomb the other person's ears.
If it is too late, the other party may think it is a harassing call and hang up directly.
The other end of the phone went quiet. Obviously, the old man on the other side was stunned!
After a moment of pause, an almost crazy exclamation came from the other end of the phone, followed by a series of Polish English with a weird accent.
"Oh my God! Do you have information about "Portrait of a Young Man", is it true or false? Where is that oil painting now? Who are you? How do you know my phone number?..."
A lot of questions were bombarded directly, which sounded a bit incoherent.
Duke Toresky was so excited that he almost lost control!