Old Theo's statement is more euphemistic, to put it bluntly, that is, the owner of your collection of so many antiques from your motherland, but if you only collect and do not sell, the market can not be speculated, these antiques are also likely to depreciate, and it is better to selectively release some treasures, stimulate the collection market, and after the market is hot, the value of the things in your hands will be higher.

You must know that the current European collectibles market is not as good as three years ago, when Chinese antiques were rarely interested, and after Chen Dahe's crazy acquisition in recent years, Chinese antiques have also begun to become hot, although it can not be compared with the mainstream collections in Europe, but it already has the qualifications to collect and speculate, if you add a fire at this time, I am afraid that the price of this batch of things in his collection can rise a lot.

"In this way," Chen Dahe thought for a moment, and said with a light tap of his finger, "I can agree to this matter, but the specific things to sell will not be determined until the experts I find have completed the appraisal." ”

Old Theo nodded silently, and after a moment, he said softly, "Since you agree to do this, can the museum add a marketing department to be responsible for the external sales and operation of the collections?"

Chen Dahe patted the armrest of the chair and stood up, looked at him and said with a smile, "The museum is also under the family assets, and you are responsible for it, you can decide this little thing yourself, you don't need to ask me." ”

"Yes, sir," said old Theo, bowing slightly, the corners of his mouth turning up again, "I see, I'll pay attention to it later." ”

Chen Dahe nodded with satisfaction, who said that the housekeeper is the best in the UK, and this is not bad from France.

After a French dinner and a good night's rest, Chen Dahe, accompanied by old Theo, took him to the Magnolia Museum on the outskirts of Zurich early the next morning, both to visit and to prepare.

The museum is located far from the city of Zurich, but fortunately not too far from the Magnolia estate, sixteen kilometers away, which was originally a hilly wasteland of about 120 acres, which the elder Theo bought from the Zurich government for millions of Swiss francs and became the family property of the Magnolia estate.

The sedan winds its way along a narrow but smooth country road, and soon enters a wooded area.

At this time, the elder Theo, who was sitting in the front passenger seat, took the initiative to introduce, " This road is also a municipal road, there is a fork in the front, after turning left is your private road, this 124 acres of land is 61% covered by forest, the rest is mostly pasture, and there is a narrow lake about six acres in size, so it is very suitable for a private horse farm, if you want to build a golf course, we can also take down more than 500 acres of hilly land on the other side of the river, where the terrain is suitable for greens. ”

Chen Dahe was still pinching his fingers to convert acres into familiar city acres, and the old man Wang who was sitting next to him said, "Don't count, one acre is a little more than six acres, here is almost 750 acres of land, excluding forests and lakes, the grassland has the appearance of 260 acres, it is enough to get a horse farm, and it is still a little worse to play golf, and the length is not enough." ”

This old man seems to be familiar with the golf course, right? Chen Dahe looked at him in surprise, and then said to old Theo, "Buy!"

Old Theo shrugged, "Roger." ”

The car quickly turned left, entered a so-called private road, and was escorted by tall trees on both sides, and drove up a gentle slope until it stopped in front of a glass building at the top of the slope.

The three of them pushed the door and got out of the car together, and when they walked to the front gate, Old Man Wang bumped Chen Dahe's arm with his shoulder, "Boy, here, the museum?"

Chen Dahe scratched his head, turned his body three hundred and sixty degrees, and finally looked at the creative building in front of him, and it took a long time to connect with the renderings he had seen a few months ago, and finally nodded affirmatively, "Ah." ”

It is a sprawling, three-storey one-piece building made of stone and glass, and from the outside, it is difficult to associate with a museum, but rather a place that resembles a performance venue such as an opera house.

And the location of this building is the highest place in this area, and you can see the cascading forests, meadows and lakes in full view.

Old Theo crossed his hands in front of him, took two steps forward, turned to look at the two of them and smiled, "Gentlemen, you can go in and feel it up close." ”

Chen Dahe stretched out his right hand and smiled at the old man, "Please." ”

Wang Yun put his hand behind his back, lifted his foot and walked forward.

When the two of them took a step, old Theo quickened his pace and walked to the front right, and at the same time made an introduction,

To say that this Theo is indeed a talent, seeing that the master is Chinese, even without the master's request, he has been persistently learning Chinese for several years, and this time he finally used it," In this place, there was originally a large pit with a depth of more than 30 meters, and our designer Mr. Allen put forward a genius idea to continue digging along this big pit, and finally reached a depth of 70 meters, and the excavated soil was piled up around to form this artificial mountain with the highest terrain and a depth of 90 meters, and the museum was built from the ground, and the highest exhibition hall was exposed to the surface, which is what it is now. ”

Entering the hall, it is an area of five or six hundred square meters, more than ten meters high lobby, warm sunlight through the glass roof into the hall, the hanging glass reliefs with futuristic style illumination, and the stone wall embedded in the large baroque wall paintings contrast, at this moment, it seems that the past, the present, the future is intertwined, even Chen Dahe, the art blind, can also see a trace of charm.

Old Man Wang held the glasses on the bridge of his nose, turned his neck and rotated to look, and after a long time, he nodded with satisfaction, "Well, it's a bit of a museum." ”

Theo smiled, " Of course, this is a museum, but its more important function is storage, the storage of all collections, all in the underground warehouse, the depth of the warehouse reaches 90 meters, a total of nine floors, the surrounding walls and the junction of each floor are made of high-strength concrete with steel plates, except for a normally closed spiral staircase, mainly relying on a large cargo elevator up and down, about the storage capacity, each floor covers an area of 2,700 square meters, the usable height is 9.5 meters, after the shelves are placed, a total of more than one million pieces of collections can be stored,"

Chen Dahe already knew these when he saw the design drawings before, and Old Man Wang had heard him say that there was a deep pit of nearly 100 meters below, so he could naturally guess that it was used as a warehouse, and now he didn't feel surprised to hear him say so.

Seeing that the attention of the two was still in front of them, Theo continued, "When it was originally designed, considering that private museums in Europe often hold exchange meetings or cocktail parties, they also reserved a banquet hall, a multi-purpose room for auctions, conferences, exchanges, and video screenings, and twelve other rooms to deal with some emergencies, such as temporary rest after being tired of communication. ”

"Heh, the functions are quite complete," Old Man Wang looked back at Chen Dahe, "Are you a museum or a club?"

"Almost," Chen Dahe shrugged, "Do you want to be like your Shanghai Museum, with a serious and cautious slogan?"

Theo, who was on the side, smiled slightly, "After all, this is a museum, and there is still no meeting place like a club, but after buying the surrounding land and building a golf course and horse farm, a courtyard will be built at the same time, so that the facilities will be more complete." ”

For this kind of behavior of burning money in a panic, Old Man Wang could only shake his head helplessly, pointed at Chen Dahe and said, "When the house is built, leave me a set, just leave this old brother with me, and now you can get out." ”