How did the current Zheng family become such a good tree? To put it bluntly, the Zheng family relies on the restoration technology that no one else has and the secret medicine formula that has never been passed on. Although there are other people in the antique shop who know how to restore antiques, they are not as good as the Zheng family, so the Zheng family has created such a big situation today with such a craft.

So. What would happen if Zheng Zheng got a recipe that was even more clever than the Zheng family's recovery secret medicine?

With Zheng Zheng's current connections and financial resources, as long as he obtains such a technology that no one else has, he can completely abandon the Zheng family, set up his own business, and establish a force with this formula as the core. After operating like this for five years and ten years, Zheng Zheng will not be left behind in a head-on fight with the Zheng family.

Taking a step back, what would happen if Zheng Zheng didn't set up a single door, but brought this formula back to the Zheng family after finding it? Although Zheng Zheng didn't know much about this method, he believed that as long as he could find some useful clues, the people of the Zheng family would be very likely to reverse this method from the clues that had not yet been discovered.

And at that time, Zheng Zheng, who had strengthened the Zheng family by an unknown amount, still needed to worry about this assessment? No matter how good Zheng Bei could achieve in this assessment, it would look bleak in front of what Zheng Zheng had done.

However, there is a premise for this, that is, Zheng Zheng has indeed cracked the secret on this Guan Yu statue and knows how this Guan Yu statue has such characteristics. It's not enough to know this, Zheng Zheng has to find at least some evidence to prove that this can be replicated. Of course, if Zheng Zheng can figure everything out directly, it will naturally be a great thing.

But to do that, it's not ordinary. So even Zheng Zheng was able to think of the bright future in the future, but he was not carried away by these, knowing that this matter was not so easy to do.

But no matter whether this thing is easy to do or not, Zheng Zheng has to buy this Guan Yu statue first. After buying the statue of Guan Yu, Zheng Zheng was able to conduct further research, otherwise everything would be empty talk. Carter was now in a hurry to ask for money, and if she hadn't bought it, she would have gone out and found an auction house to sell it, and that would be the end of it.

So, Zheng Zheng is now going to talk to Carter about this business.

After making a suggestion to Carter to do this business, Zheng Zheng didn't say anything more, waiting for Carter's response. Zheng Zheng divides things very clearly, business is business, and helping is help. Now that we're starting to talk to Carter about business, we can't just do Carter a favor and say everything at once, so we have to be a little strategic.

Zheng Zheng finished smoking a cigarette and was wondering whether to light the second cigarette when Carter, who had been silent, finally spoke.

She looked at Zheng Zheng, licked her lips that were a little dry, and asked, "Talk about this business?" Mr. Zheng, you can tell me your offer. ”

Listening to what Carter said, Zheng Zheng nodded secretly in his heart. This girl is good, once she talks about business, she immediately knows what attitude to have, which can make things a little more clean.

Zheng Zheng said: "Now I am the buyer, you are the seller, this price is naturally more suitable for you." Miss Carter, please tell me a price that you think is appropriate, and I will hear if it is appropriate. ”

Carter looked at Zheng Zheng, shook his head slightly, and said, "Mr. Zheng, you know, I don't know much about antique trading, let alone this kind of thing...... You asked me to tell me a price, how can I say it?"

Zheng Zheng spread his hands and smiled: "But this price is not suitable for me, right? I know about antique trading, but you don't know much about me, you should have a hard time believing me in this kind of business." Forgive me for the words, but the truth is that no matter what price I quote, you will think that the price I am giving is probably lower than the market price. In that case, you might as well quote a price that you think is appropriate, so that it is more appropriate. ”

Zheng Zheng is an understanding person, and he also knows that Carter is an understanding person, so there is nothing to say between understanding people. What he said is also a common situation in business, when people who don't understand an industry do business in this industry, they always feel that other people's offers are cheating themselves. This situation is indeed common, and those half-bottled vinegar are pitted because they don't understand the situation in the industry. It's human nature for Carter to have this concern, and it's okay to say it.

Carter was told what he was thinking, but he didn't feel embarrassed or anything like that. She frowned and thought for a while, then said, "So...... A million euros. ”

After saying this amount, Carter seemed to be afraid that Zheng Zheng would feel that he was a lion, and explained: "Although I don't know about the art industry, I also know that no art can do what this statue does." In this sense, the statue is worth the price. ”

One million euros, converted into RMB, is almost more than 7 million or nearly 8 million yuan. This price Zheng Zheng is unacceptable, because the appraisal price given by the bronze balance is five million, and he has no reason to spend the two million yuan more. Although Zheng Zheng now has tens of millions in his hand, these two million are not a small amount, and if they can be saved, they will naturally have to be leftover.

Moreover, Zheng Zheng is not concerned about this Guan Yu statue at all, but what is behind this Guan Yu statue. The five million Zheng Zheng is just used as a stepping stone to buy, can this door be knocked on or not, what is the matter with spending another two million?

"Miss Carter, you're right, you don't know anything about the trade in the world of antiques. ”

Carter is asking for a sky-high price, so Zheng Zheng has to start paying back the money on the spot: "Miss Carter, do you know how much an antique is worth and what it depends on? From a certain point of view, the value of an antique does not lie in the antique itself, but in whose work it is and who has used it. ”

Zheng Zheng is not fooling Carter, this is the truth. If you really talk about antiques, the older they are, the more valuable they are, but this "valuable" is not necessarily equal to "valuable", these are two concepts. Perhaps the value of such an antique lies in scientific research and historical research, and it is not a valuable antique in itself.

Let's take the more bluffing Warring States bronzes as an example. The bronzes of the Warring States period, which were forbidden to be traded by state order, belong to the taboo of the taboo. When Zheng Zheng was in charge of the black market before, there were no bronzes from the Warring States in the black market. It's not that there is no such channel, if the black market really wants to buy this kind of Warring States bronzes, there are many ways.

But why doesn't the black market do this business? Not only because it's taboo, but also because there is not much profit margin in bronzes.

Yes, there isn't much profit margin in bronzes.

For antiques, most people think that the value of antiques must be high if they are old, and the bronzes of the Warring States period will definitely be able to kill those antiques of the Yuan, Ming and Qing dynasties in terms of price. But in the antiques industry, this is not the case at all.

First of all, there is a problem, that is, there is a difference between bronze and bronze. Take the bronze sword as an example, if a bronze sword is well preserved, not broken, not too much patina, and has an inscription on it that can be traced back to a historical celebrity, then the bronze sword is certainly worth a sky-high price. But if a bronze sword is in an average state of preservation, and there is no inscription, and it is completely a daily necessities, then the price is much lower.

In terms of value, the value of this bronze sword used by non-celebrities is very high, because it can be traced back to the historical features of the Warring States period according to the excavation site of this bronze sword, which can provide great help for historical and academic research. But when it comes to whether it is worth anything or not, this bronze sword is worthless.

Bronze swords in an average state of preservation are not very valuable, so what kind of quality does a bronze sword that can flow into the black market be? This thing is basically impossible to be a family heirloom, ninety percent of it was dug out of a tomb by tomb robbers. If the situation of this tomb is better, then maybe this bronze sword can still see the appearance of a bronze sword, and don't ask for more. If the condition of this tomb is relatively bad, then this bronze sword has basically been corroded into a bronze piece, can you tell that this is a bronze sword.

This is true for bronze swords, and it is the same for other bronzes. If this thing is brought to the official face, it is naturally extremely valuable, but when you take it to business, this is really not a particularly valuable thing. Besides, this thing is taboo in the first place, and it is not a trivial matter to be caught, and the black market cannot take such a big risk to do something with such a small profit margin.

And this Guan Gong statue, this bronze ware has something in common. Bronze is a long time, so most people think that the price of bronze should be able to kill the antiques of the Yuan, Ming and Qing dynasties, but if you compare the Yuan blue and white flowers, there is no comparison at all; this Guan Gong statue is indeed unique, but this Guan Gong statue can not find who the author is, nor can I find who has this Guan Gong statue in history, and it is not clear why the Guan Gong statue can have this peculiarity, so although this Guan Gong statue is rare in the world, but it can not reach the price of seven million.

Zheng Zheng used the bronze balance to see the year of this Guan Gong statue, and the age given by the bronze balance is only more than 300 years, which is almost the early Qing Dynasty, and there is nothing to talk about in terms of years. And judging from the statue itself, this is not something to be enshrined in the palace, and the value is really not high. If it weren't for this characteristic that could change itself, it would not have been possible to have a price of five million.

Zheng Zheng really wanted to tell Carter what was going on, but he really couldn't say what was going on this year, so he could only know it in his own heart.