The local tycoon made a fake "golden jade coat", bought off experts, estimated 2.4 billion yuan, and defrauded 1 billion loans
As a cultural power with a historical heritage that has never been broken, China has countless cultural relics of various types throughout the ages. Among them, in terms of clothing, the feast of recognized aesthetics and craftsmanship is naturally not "golden jade clothes". It flourished in the Han Dynasty, made of small pieces of jade and fine gold wire, and looked a bit like armor, and was also named "Jade Box".
In ancient times, the concept of hierarchy was very heavy, unlike now, when there is money that can be used at will, people of any level can only use etiquette that conforms to the system. Only emperors and noblest princes could wear it for burial, while ordinary ministers could only weave silk threads of silver or copper. In the eyes of the Han Dynasty, jade can make the corpse immortal and is the most respected ceremonial instrument.
The Han Dynasty also set up a special department for making jade clothes, making a medium-sized jade coat, which cost enough money to be equivalent to the wealth of 100 middle-class families in society at that time. Of course, this will be coveted by tomb robbers, especially in the chaos of war, the tombs of those once noble emperors and princes are extremely badly damaged. When Cao Cao raised an army, in order to collect funds, he had "sent the wealth of the dead", and his son was worried that his tomb would not be secured, so he ordered the cancellation of the jade clothes, and the craft was lost.
At first, people could only see its records in ancient books, and even many "skeptical" scholars did not believe in its existence. However, in 1968, the tomb of a famous prince in history, King Jing of Zhongshan, was found in Hebei. This son of Emperor Jing was known for his excessive wine color, and he was also the ancestor of Shu Han. He had a very good life of abundance, and the experts found 2 sets of golden jade robes for the first time in his coffin.
Experts marveled at its ingenuity, and the long-debated debate over whether the golden robe existed or not came to an end. Since then, experts have successively excavated and restored 5 complete sets of jade clothes in various places, as well as some rare and other forms of broken jade clothes. In any case, although these cultural relics cannot be sold, they are undoubtedly top-notch works. When ordinary people see them, they are nothing more than lamenting the superb craftsmanship of the ancients, but the outlaws have started its idea.
Xie Genrong's education is only at the junior high school level, and he first took advantage of the special period to sell clothes between China and Russia, earning tens of millions of dollars. He has a very unique vision, realizing that this kind of small trader cannot last, so he decided to use this family wealth to enter the real estate industry, with a small and broad, in the 03-05 years, successively on China's rich list. However, although the real estate industry makes a lot of money, but the funds must always flow, a slight break, the assets of hundreds of millions of large companies will inevitably collapse.
After Xie Genrong saw the golden jade clothes, unlike ordinary people, he began to think about creating a set of fakes. He spent 20,000 yuan to buy fake jade and gold threads, found craftsmen, and asked to imitate the appearance broadcast on TV, and made 2 sets of fake goods. This thing does not cost much money, nor is it called "high imitation", and I am afraid that I can't deceive a few people. At that time, treasure hunting activities were very popular, and people also trusted cultural relics experts. Therefore, he found 5 top scholars in the field of cultural relics.
These 5 people are not fake experts, some of them have served as vice presidents of the Forbidden City, and some of them have served in the National Collection Association, and they are all well-known big people in the industry. Logically, this "low imitation" should not be able to escape their poisonous eyes, who knows that these experts just walked around the "jade clothes" a few times, even the glass cover was not opened to observe carefully, they happily issued an appraisal, signed their respective names, recognized them as genuine, estimated as high as 2.4 billion. Then, the guests and hosts had their best, and they left with a generous appraisal fee.
Xie Genrong's real estate company took over a piece of land from someone else, but it cost 440 million yuan. Although he has money, he will not be able to come up with so much cash for a while and a half. So, he took out these 2 sets of "treasures", and after getting to know the officials of two local banks, he used them as collateral to defraud 1 billion loans. Since there is the approval of experts, the account made by the other party does not seem to be wrong, and he has also received benefits, and the bank's loan soon hit Xie Genrong's account.
The real estate that Xie Genrong promised to develop eventually became a rotten building due to the rupture of funds, and the bank's money of course also suffered heavy losses, but he himself had a net worth of up to 700 million. In 2008, Xie Genrong and two bank officials were arrested, and the truth of the "golden jade clothes" was also revealed.
Xie Genrong himself was sentenced to life imprisonment for fraud, and both officials were also sentenced to 20 years in prison. According to his account, he has bought antiques in the name of the company many times, most of which are fakes and roughly made. After the incident, these 5 experts who issued appraisal certificates and signed daimyo were not punished. They all insist that they have lost sight of themselves, that they are not skilled in learning, not deliberately forged. They were not involved in the fraudulent loans, and naturally they will not be punished. But we should also say that their job is to identify cultural relics, but their "sincerity" should also be identified.