An antique shop, if the purchase channel is cut off, is equivalent to water without a source and wood without roots, and it will be in a very embarrassing and difficult situation.

Tang Xin is currently facing this embarrassing and difficult situation.

Since there is no new source of goods, there are only some leftover small items on the container of "Tang Yunxuan". Some regular customers walk into the store to pick up goods, look at the contents of the container, shake their heads and turn away, and occasionally a passer-by or two comes in, picking and picking on the shelves for a while, and will leave disappointed if they can't find good things.

Tang Xin knows very well: if the store has not been stocked, the old customers will definitely not come back, and it will not be able to attract new buyers. In the long run, the reputation of "Tang Yunxuan" will be greatly damaged, all customers will be lost, and even if there are good goods in the future, they will not be able to find buyers.

So, in the next few days, he and the monkey went to the countryside separately and "shoveled the ground" everywhere, hoping to buy some good goods to fill the shelves. But after running for nearly a week, neither of them found any good goods.

When Huang Jianli learned of this situation, he pulled Tang Xin into five antique exchange groups.

These five groups were all established by the Hengjiang Antique Industry Association, each group has 500 people, and the group leader is Zhao Yougong, the president of the industry association.

Among the members of these five groups, there are not only antique shop owners, but also antique collectors, landlords, middlemen, and hawkers.

In fact, these five exchange groups are also the purchase and sales channels for antique shop owners: if anyone wants to sell antique calligraphy and paintings, they can send a message in the group, and if they are interested, they can contact the seller directly, and then negotiate the price privately.

According to Huang Jianjian, almost all collectors, antique dealers, land sellers, and middlemen in Hengjiang City are in these five WeChat groups. As long as you pay more attention to the news in the group, you won't have to worry about not being able to buy good goods or sell things.

Just when Tang Xin was overjoyed and thought that he could get rid of the embarrassing situation of not being able to buy goods, something unexpected and angry happened to him: less than an hour after joining the group, he was kicked out by Zhao Yougong, and was set by the latter to "no longer accept applications to join the group chat".

After he couldn't join the group anymore, he called Huang Jianli and asked him to contact Zhao Yougong and ask him why he had proposed himself to the group.

Half an hour later, Huang Jianli called back and angrily told him that Zhao Yougong not only ignored his questioning, but also kicked him out of the five groups. He is ready to go to Wenda Group to find Zhao Yougong, tear his face and quarrel with him, and is ready to mobilize other vice presidents and council members of the industry association to strive to remove Zhao Yougong from the position of president at the next council meeting!

After listening to him vent, Tang Xin said very calmly: "Mr. Huang, you don't have to quarrel with Zhao Yougong in person. That's a typical scoundrel, you don't necessarily have to fight with him to win, and if you don't get it right, you will be humiliated by him. Besides, quarrels won't solve the problem. He is now the president of the industry association, and is also known as the richest man in Hengjiang City, it is estimated that the other vice presidents and council members of the industry association have a good relationship with him, and it is unlikely that you want to remove him, so you can only think of another strategy!"

Huang Jianli said angrily: "Zhao Yougong, a nouveau riche and a native turtle, is simply too deceitful! I am also the vice president of the industry association and the administrator of the five antique exchange groups, and he actually kicked me out of the exchange group, is it unbearable? Brother, I don't want to quarrel with him, but I must find a way to rectify him, otherwise it will be difficult to dispel this evil breath in my heart!"

Tang Xin thought for a while and asked: "Mr. Huang, how did Jin Deman enter the Wenda Group? As far as I know, Zhao Yougong gave him an annual salary of 600,000 yuan, and he was allowed to join the Wenda Group. That's a very lucrative salary, you know the inside story?"

Huang Jianli snorted and said: "Zhao Yougong has been planning to list Wenda Group in the past few years, so he urgently needs performance. However, his main businesses such as real estate, catering and hotels, and cultural tourism have all encountered difficulties, not only not to see benefits in the short term, but also to carry a huge amount of debt, and the shortage of funds is very serious.

Faced with the predicament, Zhao Yougong had a crooked idea, wanting to make a lot of money in the area of antiques and cultural relics, on the one hand, so that the financial statements of the group company can be profitable, and on the other hand, it can also solve the problem of shortage of funds. He knows very well that if you buy and sell antiques and cultural relics through normal channels, you may not be able to make a lot of money, and if you get an eye, you may also cause huge losses.

So, he thought of a way to make a lot of money in the short term without risk, and that was to sell the stolen goods for the tomb robbers. He'd done this before, but it was a petty fight at the time. But now, he wants to make a big deal, and is ready to hook up with a few more tomb robber gangs and monopolize all the goods of those gangs. In this case, his antique business will bring huge profits to the Wenda Group—"

Tang Xin asked a little confused: "What does this have to do with recruiting Jin Deman? Could it be that Jin Deman has many friends who are tomb robbers?"

"Yes. Don't underestimate Jin Deman, as far as I know, before he came to Hengjiang City to open an antique shop, he had been active in Luohua City, a neighboring province, and had joined several tomb robber gangs. The original capital for opening his shop was the stolen money from tomb robbing. Therefore, he is familiar with the tomb robbery gang in Luohua City.

The reason why Zhao Yougong recruited him into Wenda Group with a high salary was that he valued his relationship with the tomb robbery gang in Luohua City, and wanted to use him to monopolize the underground source of cultural relics in Luohua City. In addition, I estimate that Zhao Yougong has another ulterior purpose: he wants to push Jin Deman to the front and prevent disasters for him. Once the incident of them selling stolen goods for the tomb robbery gang is discovered, they can put all the responsibility on Jin Deman and let Jin Deman bear legal responsibility. ”

Tang Xin let out an "oh" and said, "If that's the case, I have a way to punish Jin Deman and Zhao Yougong." By the way, are you reliable with all this information?"

Huang Jianli replied with confidence: "Of course it is reliable." One of the vice bosses of the Wenda Group was always my best friend, and he once revealed these things to me when he was drunk. ”

"Well, if this news is reliable, this old thing Jin Deman will not be far from the prison gate!"

After hanging up Huang's phone, Tang Xin immediately found the unearthed cultural relics reported by Jin Deman from the shelves, touched the cultural relics with his ring hand, and wrote down some information on them.

Then, he called the monkey over and whispered: "Monkey, I will give you a task: from tomorrow, you squat outside the gate of Wenda Group and pay attention to Jin Deman's every move." As soon as you find him leaving for Luohua City, you immediately follow him. When you arrive in Luohua City, you follow him at all times. As soon as he found out that he was in contact with a tall, burly middle-aged man with a big mole on his face, he immediately called me and let me know. ”