Becoming Rich with Daily Scavenging APP-Chapter 542: Antesong and the Unreturned Painted Pottery

Chapter 542: Chapter 542: Antesong and the Unreturned Painted Pottery

After Antesong unearthed many prehistoric artifacts in Huaxia, he immediately sought help from the Swedish government, and soon received a grant from them.

With the funds, Antesong started to purchase painted pottery on a large scale in the Northwest Region.

Due to the wartime chaos back then, many antique dealers opted to sell these previously neglected painted potteries at high prices to Antesong.

Originally, these painted potteries were stored in bulk in Huaxia, but Huaxia was unable to study them stably at the time.

Thus, Sweden proposed to divide the painted potteries equally, but all of them would first be transported to Sweden for documentation and preliminary study.

Once the research was completed, half of the pottery would be returned to Huaxia.

After the Nationalist Government agreed, in 1925, all these painted potteries were transported to Sweden and classified.

The Swedish government built a Far East Museum for these prehistoric civilization potteries.

Then, from 1927 to 1936, the Far East Museum claimed to have returned these painted potteries to Huaxia in seven batches.

But eventually, the whereabouts of these artifacts remained unknown.

It was certain, however, that some artifacts were indeed returned, as Antesong later confirmed that a batch of artifacts had arrived in Jinling.

But with the outbreak of the Anti-Japanese War, Antesong was forced to return home, ultimately leading to the disappearance of these seven batches of artifacts.

It wasn’t until 2005 that over twenty pieces of painted pottery were found in a warehouse in the Imperial Capital.

Based on the artifact numbers, this batch was certainly excavated by Antesong around 1920.

Yet among them, only one piece appeared on the return list from back then, while the rest likely never left Huaxia, continuing to be preserved there.

This is how they were able to be safely kept.

The origins have been clarified.

After hanging up with the Historian, Chen Yiyang hurried to the antique shop mentioned in the leak report and bought all the prehistoric painted pottery there, about sixteen pieces.

A map of the prehistoric painted pottery from Majiayao culture.

Having bought the pottery, Chen Yiyang took photos to show the Historian.

All the pottery labels had the letter ’P’ and were numbered.

The Historian indicated that, based on these tags and numbers, the pottery should have been part of the batch returned to Huaxia back then.

Possibly, after shipment from Sweden, due to some confusion, the pottery was not transported but remained in Sweden.

Later, the potteries were sold by the transport company as miscellaneous items to the antique shop.

Alternatively, after being shipped to Huaxia, due to war reasons, they couldn’t be received and were sent back to Sweden, ultimately ending up in the antique shop.

Such occurrences are quite normal.

Even nowadays, the chances of problems with international shipping are significant, let alone back then with purely manual records.

A minor mistake would cause the loss of some information, and they would end up as unclaimed items placed in warehouses waiting for handling.

The prehistoric pottery bought by Chen Yiyang was labeled as replicas by the Swedish antique shop, although the prices were still high.

However, due to these markings, Chen Yiyang wouldn’t need to worry about how to pass customs and transport them back to Huaxia.

But for safety, Chen Yiyang hired a specialized team to fly back to Huaxia with the prehistoric pottery.

Upon arriving in Huaxia, the Historian would be responsible for arranging these prehistoric pottery.

After finishing matters related to the pottery, Chen Yiyang finally managed to meet Ms. Li in a café.

"Can I trust you?" Ms. Li’s first words upon meeting were surprising to Chen Yiyang.

"Of course you can," Chen Yiyang replied, "The cooperation with Beifu is crucial to my company’s future layout in Europe.

If you lose your job at Beifu because of something you said, I’ll help you find a new one."

Chen Yiyang understood Ms. Li’s mindset very well and offered his terms to encourage her to speak more candidly.

"I have invested in an eco-friendly material domestically called mycelium packaging. I think this material has a market in eco-conscious Europe, planning to open a company in Sweden to promote this material. You can take a look."

Chen Yiyang showed Ms. Li the relevant information about the mycelium packaging material.

Ms. Li, being knowledgeable, immediately realized that this mycelium material indeed met current European demands.

If she were dismissed by Beifu, Chen Yiyang’s mycelium packaging material company here could provide her with a job.

Having found a fallback, Ms. Li immediately felt more at ease and began to tell Chen Yiyang about internal matters at Beifu.

Several top executives at Beifu were involved in the supply chain.

These individuals were adept at establishing a company and setting up production lines.

Beifu’s initial goal, as Chen Yiyang had guessed, was to create a brand to win over various organizations in Europe and monopolize the battery market.

Therefore, Beifu decisively introduced production lines from Huaxia from the start and hired hundreds of Huaxia employees to help with production, initially focusing on labeling.

However, unexpectedly, Beifu’s overly aggressive diversification led to the hiring of workers who seemed clueless, even unable to handle labeling.

"Morons" was the term used by Ms. Li, not Chen Yiyang.

"These people are even scarier than kindergarten children; at least kindergarten children listen to instructions."

Ms. Li began recounting two minor incidents that occurred within the company.

Beifu’s partners provided a batch of battery forming equipment.

These devices are small compartments where batteries transported via conveyor lines are placed for stabilization.

The compartments were integrated into the logistics line. After providing the equipment, the partners frequently received calls from Beifu reporting errors in the logistics line.

Upon arrival, the partners found Beifu workers using the small compartments as lockers, stuffing various items inside.

The maintenance workers from the partners were astonished and ordered Beifu workers to remove the items immediately.

The Beifu workers felt wronged, believing their items had nowhere else to be stored if not in the compartments.

Through this incident, Chen Yiyang finally understood why Beifu’s workers failed even at labeling.

With such poor quality of workers, production was impossible, even though items were brought along just to pass through the logistics line. Yet, even this couldn’t be done properly.