Chapter 908 - 0908: Visiting Relatives and Friends 6
Stepping into the grass-thatched warehouse of the scrap station, Feng Qingxue’s mouth hung open in amazement.
The amount of scrap now piled up was ten times more than what she had ever seen before! It was truly piled up like a mountain.
In the past, based on what the elders and Lu Jiang’s father had said, Feng Qingxue knew that many valuable items were pocketed by the officials charged with the confiscation during raids, but now she could turn that assertion on its head.
The reason was simple: more than a decade had passed since the founding of the nation, traditional culture hadn’t been promoted, and those students simply didn’t recognize the value of the items!
Not recognizing their value, they acted on impulse to beat, smash, burn, and tear things apart, piling them up in the courtyards and setting them ablaze without realizing the inestimable treasures they were destroying.
Items that hadn’t been destroyed in time were seized and flowed into various scrap stations to be used for national construction.
Furniture was made of wood, which could be used for papermaking, and the same went for books, paintings, and calligraphy that could be recycled to make paper. As for bronze and iron artifacts, needn’t mention them. The nation had a great demand for paper and needed metal resources like gold, silver, copper, and iron to support national construction.
Those who knew their worth were dealt with by the cultural relics department, which would export confiscated items like books, paintings, and porcelain in exchange for foreign currency.
Many collectors of Chinese descent in Hong Kong, Macao, Malaysia, and other places were happy to make purchases.