Chapter Eighty-Five: Iron Fortune Comes to the Door
Since the first time he followed Old Man Xuan to the Tie family to collect things, Yang Dongxu has never been to the small courtyard of the Tie family, and Old Man Xuan has never been there. Tie Fugui, who obviously smelled something, hid the treasure and prepared to sell it at a price.
Even Yang Dongxu occasionally heard Old Man Xuan say that the old fox of the Tie family had made a move, and sometimes he took away some items before him, so he was quite surprised that Tie Aijun suddenly came to the door to find Old Man Xuan Yang Dongxu, but at that time, Old Man Xuan was no longer there, so the matter dragged on until the New Year.
"Did he say anything?" Old Man Xuan also had a surprised look on his face, obviously not expecting that the fox of the Tie family would look for him.
"I didn't say it, but it looked like I was in a hurry, and I said you didn't turn around and leave without him. Yang Dongxu shook his head.
"Forget it if you don't say it, if you're really in a hurry, he'll find it again. Old man Xuan said.
Yang Dongxu nodded, through Old Man Xuan's words, he already had a general impression of what kind of person Tie Fugui was. So a person like Tie Fugui who is unprofitable and can't afford to be early suddenly came to the door to find someone, obviously there is something in a hurry.
For such a person, even if you come to the door to deliver benefits, he may not know how to be grateful, and he should grab something or grab the east in the future, so since the other party asks for the door, then take it and see if you can knock something good. However, this matter is for Old Man Xuan to worry about, and he doesn't need to ask.
Sure enough, within a few days, Tie Fugui came to the door again, except for a few insiders such as Old Man Xuan, few people knew about the big quadrangle, and even the people from the hurricane construction company except for Wang Qiangguo, everyone else just thought that the big quadrangle was a big job that their boss had the ability to find, so Tie Fugui naturally came to Wangfujing.
Yang Dongxu didn't know what to talk about, because when Tie Fugui came to the door, Yang Dongxu was taking Wu Xue and Da Fat to visit Panjiayuan.
After last year's crackdown, coupled with the sound above seems to have gradually become clear, the Panjiayuan at the beginning of the year was very lively, although I don't know if it can have a little style in later generations, because Yang Dongxu did not come to Yanjing before his rebirth, but he had a lot of fun.
The sugar man is holding one in his hand, but Yang Dongxu's knowledge is not eating, compared to the sugar man who blows out with his mouth, he is more interested in rock sugar gourd, or stinky tofu or something.
After going crazy for a day, he spent a little money to buy a few Xibei goods, and when he came back, he was told by Old Man Xuan, and Yang Dongxu didn't care. He naturally knew that the jade antiques on the stall were basically fake, but if he had fun at the time, he always felt that there were shortcomings if he didn't buy a few things, right?
Of course, the fake at this time is different from those who fool people with glass and plastic in later generations, jade is still jade, but it is not in any condition, it is inferior jade.
"He wants to sell big yellow croaker and small yellow croaker?" was called into the room by Old Man Xuan, and when he heard his words, Yang Dongxu was stunned for a moment, and then reacted that the big yellow croaker and small yellow croaker that Old Man Xuan said were not fish sold in the vegetable market, but gold bars, "Why is he selling this?"
"I don't have any money. Old man Xuan sneered.
Although he knew a little bit about Tie Fugui, he really didn't think that this competitor would come to him to raise funds with a thick skin.
But if you think about it carefully, there is no other better choice for Tie Fugui, after all, although the society is gradually becoming clear, it is not completely clear, right?
He was so rich and wealthy that he was able to keep the small courtyard house, and he was able to keep him and his son from being arranged to go to the countryside, which was directly related to his initiative to hand over his property. Since the property was handed over, it was natural that he could no longer take the gold bars to the bank to exchange money, and Old Man Xuan's side became the last and best choice.
"How is he going to sell it?" Yang Dongxu understood when he heard that there was no money.
Now the old man Xuan is not the only one who collects old objects in Sijiu City, but they are all petty fights, not the people who collect old objects have any concerns in their hearts, if they are worried, they will not make a move, so they can only make small fights, naturally because they are short of money in their hands.
Even if someone who is not short of money hides his family property like Tie Fugui, these things are generally not visible, at least now they can't be taken out in a big way, so they can only take a couple of melons and dates to collect things.
"Two hundred large yellow croaker, 40 small yellow croaker. Old man Xuan said, but he was afraid that Yang Dongxu had no concept of big yellow croaker and small yellow croaker, so he explained: "A big yellow croaker is 5 city taels, and a small yellow croaker is 1 tael." ”
"City two?" Yang Dongxu frowned, he was still very familiar with this old-fashioned unit of measurement.
"It's all things from the Republic of China, according to the current algorithm, the big yellow croaker is more than six taels, and the small yellow croaker is less than one tael, about 6 yuan more. Old man Xuan explained again.
In fact, according to one city two, equal to 2 taels, 6 city taels should be 12 taels, that is, more than one catty. However, there is a certain gap between the unit of measurement during the Republic of China and the present.
According to the old system, 1 catty is equal to 16 taels, and the idiom of half a catty and eight taels is based on this unit of measurement. Therefore, 1 tael = 500/16 = 31.5 grams, so the weight of the large yellow croaker is 312.5 grams, and the weight of the small yellow croaker is 31.5 grams.
"What's the color?"
"991.0, with the portrait of Sun Yat-sen and the words of the Central Mint, is very standard. Old man Xuan replied.
Hearing Old Man Xuan's answer, Yang Dongxu knew that he had asked this question in vain, because he didn't understand gold at all, he knew 24K gold, and he couldn't figure out why it was called 24K gold, so he naturally didn't know what 991.0 meant.
Old man Xuan didn't know what 24K gold was, so he couldn't explain it to him. However, according to the smelting technology of the Republic of China, it is certainly not as good as that of later generations, and the fineness of 991.0 is obviously inferior to that of 24K gold.
However, this does not prevent Yang Dongxu from eating big yellow croaker or small yellow croaker, as long as he is sure that it is gold and not lead. In his impression, the price of a gram of gold in later generations was more than 200 yuan.
Even if the weight of the big yellow croaker is 6 taels, it is 300 grams, even if the purity is not good, at most cut off half of how can you leave 150 grams, after all, this is a gold brick from the mint, and the calculation technology is not good, and it is impossible to have more than half of the impurities.
So now two hundred yuan to buy a large yellow croaker, put it for more than ten years and wait for the gold price to reach 200 yuan / gram, the price of a large yellow croaker is 30,000 yuan, and there is an income of 28,000 yuan after removing the capital, and it is not impossible to buy it with more than 100 times the profit.
"I feel that it's useless to buy it, it's okay to say when this thing is in turmoil, it's not very easy to sell in peacetime, even if the bank gives a large amount of exchange, people will check it, right?" Although the profit was good, Yang Dongxu shook his head and didn't plan to buy it.
Tie Fugui came to find Old Man Xuan, and the big yellow croaker and small yellow croaker in his hand must not be a few, otherwise he would be embarrassed to come to the door. And if the amount is large, it will definitely be troublesome to deal with in the future.
More importantly, at this time, although the price of old objects began to skyrocket, you can spend 200 yuan to get a good object, how can such an object be sold for more than 100,000 yuan in the future, or even hundreds of thousands, than selling big yellow croaker and small yellow croaker or something is more profitable.
So from this point of view, Tie Fugui and Yang Dongxu have the same vision, he is more optimistic about the future market of antiques, and he is not very optimistic about gold.
However, Old Man Xuan wants to collect the big yellow croaker and the small yellow croaker, and he can't say that it's wrong, but the direction of thinking is different. If there is chaos again, you have two big yellow croakers in your arms, it must be more down-to-earth than you are holding Yuan blue and white porcelain or something, right?
"Forget it. "Old man Xuan didn't have much thought about Yang Dongxu's refusal to eat this golden gold.
He wanted to save some gold because there were already a lot of antiques in the basement, and if he put some gold in it, he could better deal with it if something happened in the future. However, since Yang Dongxu doesn't think so, he doesn't have any opinion.
"It's of no use if he asks for gold, but if he has any good old objects in his hand, it doesn't matter if they are good and they are worth a high price. Yang Dongxu said.
Although Tie Fugui must have competed with himself to collect old objects when he took the money, Yang Dongxu had sufficient funds in his hands, so he was not afraid of competition. Even if the price of antiques on the market is 100 times higher, as long as the thing is good enough, he will still not hesitate to take it.
If you change to Tie Fugui, you don't necessarily have such a great courage, so although this kind of competition will create a little trouble for Old Man Xuan's acquisition, it is just a small episode and it is harmless. So as long as Tie Fugui comes to the door with good antiques, he dares to spend money to collect them, as long as the price is reasonable, whoever collects them has to give money, right?
However, Yang Dongxu's abacus is fine, and Tie Fugui is not stupid. So the next day, Tie Fugui came to the door and Yang Dongxu was also there, and after hearing that Old Man Xuan refused to ask for gold, he took out a stone the size of an egg from his arms.
The emerald green of the stone is pleasing to the eye, but this is not a high-quality jadeite object, but a piece of jadeite rough, or this is already jadeite material, but it has not yet been carved into an object.
"This stuff is good. The old man who took the egg-sized jade Xuan from Tie Fugui's hand slipped a few times in his hand as if playing with walnuts, "It's not that the old thing still has edges and corners, it didn't take long to solve it, right?"
"Is there really no one with this eyesight?" Tie Fugui gave a thumbs up to Old Man Xuan with admiration, and he didn't know if he was really admiring or complimenting.
However, Yang Dongxu's eyes lit up when he heard that this egg-sized jade had just been unraveled from the rough stone. He doesn't know much about gold or something, only an approximate price.
He doesn't know much about the same jadeite, in addition to fantasizing about his own dream of buying a broken stone to solve the jadeite from it to get rich overnight, he has only heard of what imperial green, glass species, as for how the specific jadeite grade is divided, what A goods, B goods he really doesn't know.
However, he didn't know about these, but he understood that the jade that could be said to be good by Old Man Xuan, even if it was not the imperial green that was hyped into sky-high prices in later generations, it must be a good thing of great value.
"Are you going to sell this, or are you going to clean up the bottom stuff?" asked Old Man Xuan, tweaking the jade in his hand.
"Then it looks like Xuan Ye feels that it is more eye-catching, if you want to solve it, I will be busy, if I am interested in the original stone, where do I have some inventory. Tie Fugui smiled implicitly.
"What price?"
"This thing in your hand is a first-class product, at least ...... in the past"
"Now is now, not before. Old man Xuan interrupted without waiting for Tie Fugui to finish.
"500, if someone looks at this thing, a hundred taels of gold will definitely be fine. Tie Fugui gritted his teeth and said.
There was a painful look on his face, if he hadn't seen a good thing some time ago, but the other party didn't want a big yellow croaker, and he wouldn't have to ask for money for barter, he wouldn't have taken this thing out. Although this piece of jadeite is not big, the quality is really good, and it is not strange that he does not feel pain when it is placed in the past.
"What about those stones?" Old Man Xuan did not respond to Tie Fugui's offer, but asked about the price of the rough stones.
"If you don't open the window, it's 10 yuan a catty, and the price of the window is different according to the quality. "They are all connoisseurs, so iron wealth is not foolish.
Is 10 yuan a pound of rough stone high? It's not high at all, although this price seems to be about the same as the price of ordinary materials from some jade mines in later generations. But these rough stones are all selected by the ancestor of Tie Fugui, and naturally they are not comparable to ordinary rough stones.
"I don't have the energy to look at them one by one, it's too much trouble for you to solve them, open a window, you can understand what price people look at, but this little thing is 300, you can stay, you can't take it back." ”
"Since Xuan Ye has said so, then leave it for Xuan Ye to play with, but it will take some time for those things to open the window. Although it hurt to be bargained by Old Man Xuan, Tie Fugui still nodded and agreed.
Although he is more optimistic about antiques like Yang Dongxu, gold and antiques, he and Yang Dongxu are also different. Yang Dongxu is optimistic about jade and antiques at the same time, and Tie Fugui is still more optimistic about antiques between jade and antiques.
This can't say that he is wrong, it can only show that in his heart, antiques are more valuable than jadeite, after all, he is not Yang Dongxu, and he doesn't know that the price of the best jadeite in the future can also go to heaven.
"I haven't been going out for a while, so come to me when it's ready, or look for him. Old man Xuan raised his chin at Yang Dongxu.
Yang Dongxu nodded to Tie Fugui with a smile, then got up from the chair and ran to the back room, and when he came out, he held three stacks of banknotes in his hand, and a pile of ten bills was just 300 yuan.
"Then Master Xuan, you rest, wait for me to get ready to come to the door again. Tie Fugui glanced at Yang Dongxu, handed over the money, and stuffed it into his arms without counting it, hugged his fists at Old Man Xuan, and got up to leave.
"I knew I was pulling a few out of it. Looking at the back of Tie Fugui walking out of the door, Yang Dongxu muttered with some pity.
"That's all you need!" Old man Xuan glanced at Yang Dongxu, and then threw the jade in his hand: "You are optimistic about this thing." ”
Although Yang Dongxu had been sitting next to him just now and didn't speak, the old man Xuan only agreed to buy the jade in his hand and the rough stone in Tie Fugui's hand after refusing the gold, which was naturally related to Yang Dongxu's signal for him to eat it.
Of course, the old man is actually more optimistic about jadeite than Jinxuan, not to mention whether the price of this thing can be as high as the sky in the future, just to restore to the previous level, it is also very cost-effective to take it.
Yang Dongxu actually muttered, don't look at Tie Fugui didn't count the money just now, but his eyes are thieves, don't look at the thickness of one or two less, but he can definitely see it.
"Compared to gold, this thing will be more cost-effective in the future, he actually has a jade rough in his hand, is there a lot of Yanjing in this thing?" Yang Dongxu couldn't help asking.