Chapter 54O A New Plan
What Anna said has its own sense, but this truth does not seem to be so effective in Zheng Zheng. Half a month has passed since the incident, and it is said that this matter should have spread throughout the collecting world, right? But Zheng Zheng's antique shop is still cold. Occasionally, a few customers come to them, and they are all customers who want to buy a little bit of small things and small ornaments, not big customers.
And what makes people feel quite miserable is that because Zheng Zheng didn't prepare those small ornaments and small artworks, he didn't even complete this business......
In the past half a month, there is a girl who often comes to Zheng Zheng's shop. The business she did with Zheng Zheng was in line with what Zheng Zheng had learned, but this girl's luck was obviously not very good, and the things she used for Zheng Zheng to identify were basically fakes. At first, Zheng Zheng also charged an appraisal fee, but later it was seen that the things that the girl used for appraisal were not genuine, and when Zheng Zheng collected the appraisal fee again, he only charged a little money symbolically. People got a bunch of fakes, which in itself is enough to hold back the fire, and the situation is estimated to be not very good, Zheng Zheng can't bear to round the machete and slash it vigorously......
In addition, Zheng Zheng's antique shop has nothing to cheer people up.
Zheng Zheng is not impatient, he has been wandering around the city of Rome for half a month, watching those flea markets, as well as those who buy art and some antiques that can't be put on the big table. When he was tired of shopping, Zheng Zheng returned to the store, basking in the sun and drinking a love cocktail made by Bai Xiaoxue. If Zheng Zheng is lucky, he can go out for a walk again, and if he is unlucky to drink the strong cocktail made by Bai Xiaoxue, then Zheng Zheng can only sleep until dark.
Losing to Zheng Yongming did not make Zheng Zheng anything, and he did not suffer any blows because of this, how to live every day. It's not that Zheng Zheng pretends to be calm, but Zheng Zheng is so calm in his heart, he doesn't regard losing to Zheng Yongming as a very important thing.
Since there is a fight, there must be a win or a loss. And no matter who it is, they dare not say that they can always win in the battle with others, and never lose any battle. If you lose this time, you lose, it's inevitable. For these, Zheng Zheng is very clear in his heart.
In Zheng Zheng's opinion, when fighting with Zheng Yongming, you should tighten the strings in your head and always pay attention to this matter, because this matter is ongoing. And now that the matter is over, no matter what the outcome is, it is already a thing of the past, and it is enough to gain experience and lessons from it, and it is very unwise to waste effort on this past thing and delay the current thing.
Since there is no business to find Zheng Zheng, then Zheng Zheng will go to find business opportunities by himself, and he has been wandering around the city of Rome for the past few days, also for this. How did Zheng Zheng's discussion of Gu Xuan take root before? That was also done little by little from the small business in front of him. Although Zheng Zheng's later achievements are not directly related to Gu Xuan, in Zheng Zheng's view, it is just that he seized an opportunity, and it does not prove that opening a store in a down-to-earth manner is a wrong choice.
Moreover, Zheng Zheng's experiences in China are irreproducible, and Zheng Zheng can't do nothing, just waiting for an opportunity to fall in front of him, right? Although Zheng Zheng is ambitious, he is not impetuous. Before he had a chance, he would do what he could do right now, and if the opportunity really came one day, Zheng Zheng would not hesitate to reach out and seize that opportunity.
In the past half a month, Anna has often contacted Zheng Zheng, either to find Zheng Zheng for a drink, or to find Zheng Zheng to participate in an auction or something, and I don't know where he has so much free time. Zheng Zheng, who was drinking or something, could push it as much as he could, he had to stay awake every day, so that when he was about to sleep, he was drunk by the cocktail recipe that Bai Xiaoxue had figured out by himself.
Bai Xiaoxue's distance learning course has been completed, and now it is no longer a problem to do some daily conversations with an English speaker. After she was bored, she thought that making Western food and pondering cocktails were her hobbies. Zheng Zheng is quite willing to cooperate with Bai Xiaoxue, but compared to the dark cuisine with the grandmaster-level level, Zheng Zheng feels that it is easier to accept the matter of drinking.
As for things like auctions, Zheng Zheng is also happy to go with Anna, and it is also a good thing to see more European antiques. Zheng Zheng's appraisal level of European antiques can basically be supported by bronze balances. Although he made up a lot of knowledge about European antiques, knowledge is always knowledge, and without experience in cooperating with it, it will always be just on paper.
Kars also contacted Zheng Zheng several times, saying that he had a suitable opportunity to introduce Zheng Zheng to members of the Belgian royal family. But because the Belgian royal family member who met with Zheng Zheng before was a little dissatisfied with Zheng Zheng, this matter was met with considerable resistance. But Kars is still quite optimistic about this matter, and he is confident that he can settle this matter.
Zheng Zheng is not in a hurry about this, since he has now entered the sight of Kars and has a reputation in the collecting circles throughout Europe, it is only a matter of time before Kars introduces himself to the Belgian royal family. If someone in the Belgian royal family gets an antique that no one else can identify, then Zheng Zheng, an appraiser who has the rare quality of treating the truth as the supreme law, is naturally their best choice.
Although it is difficult to come across an antique that "no one else can identify", if necessary, Zheng Zheng does not mind exerting a little effort in this matter to promote the process of this matter. Although most of the antiques in Wang Siqi in China cannot see the light, this does not mean that Wang Siqi cannot find antiques that can see the light and cannot be identified by ordinary people.
However, if you do this, you will have to spend a little time on Zheng Zheng to set up a game, and you will have to try to do this layout without anyone else knowing what is going on. This is a very laborious matter, Zheng Zheng would rather wait first. He had his own considerations at the moment, but he didn't want to let this matter delay the progress of his plan.
These days, Zheng Zheng has spent a lot of effort in the flea market in the city of Rome, and has gained more knowledge and understanding of this relatively low-end market. In fact, Zheng Zheng now has such an idea, and after he pondered it repeatedly, he felt that the feasibility of this matter was still very high.
It is true that those shady antiques in the black market cannot pass the customs inspection. But for other things, this is not the case. For example, genuine copper coins, calligraphy and painting albums with a relatively large number of prints in the Ming and Qing dynasties, etc., if you want to ship them out of China, it is much easier.
The time Zheng spent in this flea market also allowed Zheng Zheng to summarize a set of rules about the European handicrafts and art market. Although the level of these flea markets is lower, the purchase rules and tendencies in them are not much different from the high-end market. What Zheng Zheng did was to figure out some of the tendencies of European buyers and sellers through the appearance of the flea market.
To put it simply, these people are very welcoming to things that are exotic and religious, such as statues and bracelets with Buddhist overtones, or thangkas, vajras, or even statues of Buddha Joy with Tibetan Buddhist overtones...... This category is extremely popular. Although most of the things Zheng saw at these flea markets were imitations and crafts, their business was still booming.
These people – whether they are buyers or sellers – are also very passionate about Oriental culture, or the market for Oriental culture. Not to mention anything else, even if Zheng Zheng walks in these flea markets without speaking, just with an oriental face, he can attract many sellers to come and talk, asking Zheng Zheng if he is from China, South Korea or even Japan, and whether he has any oriental antiques or handicrafts in his hands......
It is precisely because of this that Zheng Zheng wondered if he could start from these seemingly low-end, but actually quite large profit margins. For example, the copper coin, the illustrated "Golden Vase Plum" is ...... This business can be done. These can be said to be mass-produced things, which are not difficult to find in the domestic antique market, and the price is not high, but after they are transferred to Europe, it is several times or even dozens of times the profit.
Zheng Zheng can't find antiques such as jade pendants and porcelain from the Ming and Qing dynasties, but how to say it...... Zheng Zheng didn't really want to do this kind of business. Maybe this is related to the knowledge he learned about antiques since he was a child, and later learned from textbooks that the Eight-Nation Alliance plundered the Old Summer Palace.
Zheng Zheng always felt that even if the price of non-mass-produced antiques such as jade porcelain was not very high in China, it was better to stay in China or stay in China, and it was best not to sell these real things abroad if they sold one less piece. Maybe this idea will be said by many people to be pedantic or something, but Zheng Zheng pondered that it would be better to be pedantic on this kind of issue. Now there are not many real things and good things on the domestic market, so if you can keep a few more real things, you can keep a few more real things in China.
As for the mass-produced copper coins, calligraphy and paintings...... Zheng Zheng didn't mind at all, dumping the low-end antique market in Europe.
Zheng Zheng already has a general plan for this matter, and the details and long-term plans for the future still need to be carefully pondered. This can only be said to be a small business to start with, although the profit multiple is very large, but relying on this to earn enough 30 million, what years do you have to wait?
On this day, Zheng Zheng took another turn in the flea market. When he returned to the store, he saw that there was already a person waiting for him in the store.