Chapter 118: The Black Market's Reason for Existence
There are not many items in the organizer, and according to Shen Lao's introduction, there are only ten pieces at a time, but none of them are high-quality products.
Sure enough, when the auction officially began, ten treasures were put on display, including ancient calligraphy and paintings, bronzes, porcelain, and jade, and even a half-man-tall golden Buddha.
Someone gasped, isn't that the golden Buddha the one that was lost in a temple in Southeast Asia not long ago?
Hu Yang was slightly disappointed, because none of this seemed to be suitable for him, and there seemed to be no chance to start.
On the contrary, Shen Lao was interested in an ancient painting, and after a lot of comments, he kept silent considering the shyness in his pocket.
"Elder Shen, if you like it, I can lend you this cash temporarily, but I don't know if it's enough. "Populus euphratica is not sure.
It was a painting of the late Ming Dynasty, the Yanjiang is not his real name, Hu Yang knew that he was a monk, his legal name was Hongren, he was born in Anhui, and he was the founding master of the Xin'an School.
This person works part-time poetry and books, loves to write plum bamboo, but his life is mainly based on the name of landscape and water.
In ancient times, there were four famous monks in the calligraphy and painting world, and Yanjiang was one of them, and it was very famous. So, his work won't be cheap. The one in front of me is a landscape map, very macroscopic, and belongs to a masterpiece.
This kind of painting, if it is a normal auction, the minimum is five million.
Therefore, Populus euphratica really can't guarantee that about one million people can be won on the black market.
"Let's take a look! I hope there won't be a lot of competition. Boss Shen was overjoyed, and then comforted himself.
He still has some cash left, plus Populus euphratica's almost a million, there is still a chance to bid. As for whether it can succeed or not, it depends on the will of God.
What really attracts people's attention is another painting - "Crossing the Water in the Cave Mountain".
"What is the origin of that painting, it seems that many people are talking about it. Feige asked Brother Hu.
Hu Yang couldn't help but laugh and explained: "First of all, the famous work of the Song Dynasty painter Ma Yuan in "Crossing the Water in the Cave Mountain" is very precious, how precious is it!
Secondly, this picture, if I remember correctly, seems to have been taken by RB devils and treasured in the RB Tokyo National Museum. Today, they are all here, can they not attract attention?"
I have to sigh that the people behind the black market are powerful, the Buddha statues in the temple, and the treasures of the museum can be obtained.
Moreover, almost all of them are stolen cultural relics from abroad, so there are not so many concerns. Some collectors can do it themselves and then launder the artifacts. As long as you don't go abroad with your baby, other countries have nothing to do, and the domestic cultural relics department doesn't care about these bullshit, and the dark music is almost the same.
How many national treasures and cultural relics of their own country have been lost overseas, such as the museum of RB, Chinese cultural relics occupy a considerable part, and every year the country puts forward a proposal to welcome back, but has the Japanese side bothered it?
It's not good, this time the theft of treasures from the RB Museum has some big names in China.
When Andy and the others heard this, their scalps were numb, and when they heard that the Buddha statue was stolen from someone's temple, would the museum be immune to disasters this time?
Of course, people like Feige are happy: "Who stole it?
Shen Lao seemed to have seen too much, and said with a smile: "Don't be surprised, every time you go to the black market, you can see the stolen cultural relics from the museum." In particular, almost all of the organizers took out stolen from overseas museums. ”
There is a certain reason for the existence of the black market and the fact that it has not been exterminated, do you really think that the country does not know?
In our country, it is already reserved enough. At least it won't be put up for auction on the surface, like Sotheby's and Christie's, which are old foreign auction houses, no matter what museum you stole from the museum, or don't you put it up for auction directly?
Over the years, those overseas auction houses, taking advantage of the patriotism of the Chinese, can be described as making a lot of money.
"As for the Buddha statue, I have also heard some rumors that it was stolen by traitors from the temple. "Shen Lao knows a lot about the black market, after all, he is a regular visitor.
"Here we go. Andy reminded.
A person in charge of the organizer walked up, didn't talk nonsense, arched his hand to everyone, said hello, and then started the auction session.
The first thing to be auctioned is the porcelain, which was originally in the collection of a prince of the Qing Dynasty, but later fell into the hands of a collector, as for why it came here, everyone does not know.
Such a fine piece of porcelain, placed in a regular auction house, seven or eight million is normal. But here, it was taken down in the early two millions.
Sure enough, the black market is a good place to be, but a lot of things are a bit hot.
Subsequently, it was the golden Buddha, more than a million of whom were taken away by a Buddhist believer.
Panlong green jade carving, more than 800,000 transactions.
"It's time for the painting you like. Fei Qi said to Shen Lao.
"Am I blind? Shen Lao glared at him and became nervous.
With a reserve price of 500,000, it seems that there is still a chance to make a move.
He has seen a lot of this kind of auction, and Shen Lao immediately made a price and shouted out the maximum price he could afford: "One and two hundred thousand!"
Well?
The audience looked over, damn it, this old man, will it be auctioned? All of a sudden, how can others play with so many improvements?
Hu Yang held back his laughter, knowing that Shen Lao was a paper tiger, and he wanted to scare everyone as soon as he opened his mouth, making people feel rich and rich, and it was not good for others to bargain with him.
The organizers were also stunned for a moment, but there was no other move, in their evaluation, the final transaction price of this ancient calligraphy and painting was also more than one million, so they didn't bother to care how others bid.
really let Shen Lao bet right, bluffed everyone else, and didn't follow the price. In the end, the painting of Yanjiang was sold for 1.2 million yuan, allowing Shen Lao to get it.
Shen Lao was overjoyed, knowing that this painting was still a little troublesome, but it didn't matter, he would hide it for ten or eight years by himself first, and then take it out when the time came, and the value would immediately soar to several million.
Ma Yuan's "Crossing the Water in the Cave Mountain" was the finale, with a low price of 1.5 million, and after a fierce competition, it was sold for more than 7 million.
Hu Yang calculated, and the organizer's income from these ten pieces alone reached 20 million. This is still a small scale, even if it is only held once a month, there are hundreds of millions a year.
This trip to the black market of Populus euphratica did not yield much, a stove suspected to be a Xuande furnace, and a Tianryukyu ball that can be held in the palm of your hand. This time, I mainly had a long experience and familiarized myself with the environment of the black market.
Just as they were about to leave, someone stuffed poplar with a card.
Hu Yang thought it was a card from some clubhouse, and was about to throw it, when he found the picture on the card, and immediately put the card away.
"What came from?" Shen Lao was surprised, he had participated in the black market so many times, and he had never encountered such a thing.
"Let's talk about it when we get out. ”