Chapter 538: The so-called yang conspiracy
In the antique collecting industry, it has never been said that there is such a stable business. Even if he has an old owner who doesn't know how many antiques he has in his hands, as long as he continues to do this business, then he doesn't dare to say that his judgment will never be wrong. Only those who have never made a mistake and then washed their hands are qualified to say that they have never made a mistake in this line of work. If he goes back to do this business, then how he says this sentence, he has to take it back.
Why? It's because the antiques collecting industry is all about eyesight. And as long as it is a person, it is not like a machine that has always been so accurate, and there is always a time when the vision is high and low, and no one dares to say that he will never smash the plate and peck his eyes when he does this business. Even those veterans who have been in this industry for decades, although their experience can make up for a lot of things, there are times when they are smashed and fakes are collected.
When collectors enter the antique shop, the things they buy at the beginning are basically paying tuition, and they pay a lot of money when they pay the tuition, so they can sum up a set of experience of not paying tuition. If you want to do this, you don't just have to pay tuition, you have to have such an insider teaching him on the side, and he himself has to study hard and sum up experience, so as to pay as little tuition as possible.
It's like the kind of guy who doesn't know much about antiques, and he doesn't put a lot of effort into it, and no one gives him any guidance, then he will pay more tuition. An amateur collector who has a roomful of antiquities, but when they are identified, is basically fake, it is not a joke, but a very easy situation.
In Zheng Zheng's eyes, these royals are just some amateur antique collectors, because they don't have enough time and patience to spend on this seemingly interesting, but actually quite boring industry. They buy antiques just as a means to flaunt their identity, to show their taste, and to have a conversation when chatting with people on the same level.
Therefore, their own level of identification will not be high.
And as members of the royal family - even if their status is not high, but they are real royals - they have a certain reputation, and at the same time, they are not short of money, and they can invest their money in antique collections. Because of this, they don't have to worry about finding someone to sell them antiques.
Most of the people who sell antiques to them want to do good business with them, but there are also those who are looking for opportunities to make money from them. If they were doing business in the right way, they could have recruited an appraiser to accompany them and appraise antiques for them. But if the business doesn't seem very legitimate, and the way is not very formal, can these people take the risk of recruiting an unfamiliar appraiser?
Not to mention how these people were cheated, it is certain that they are more likely to buy fakes than the average person. And when they buy a fake, they have to find someone to do the appraisal of the antiques they bought, and do those appraisers tell them the truth, or do they not tell them the truth?
These people are royalty, they have money, fame, and status. Whether it's the collecting world or other industries, after these people who are royals enter the industry, everyone else wants to give them face as royals. At the same time, in order to fight for their network resources, there will be many people who are willing to do something for them and brush up on their favorability.
In this case, when a member of the royal family is temporarily recruited to appraise an antique for him, what kind of measures should the appraiser take? A more upright appraiser will directly say whether the thing is true or false, and everyone will be happy if it is true, and if the thing is fake, the royal family member who recruited him will naturally be unhappy. They may even protect their reputation as "antique collectors" by slandering and pointing out his antiques as authenticators. Connections are related to people of their level, and if there is any scandal, it will immediately spread throughout the circle. In order to maintain their image, they naturally will not let this kind of news spread widely.
In the face of this kind of customer who only wants a good result, the straight path is not easy to follow. But if the fake is told to be true, and the royal family finds out that the thing is fake from other people in the future, then the appraiser will not be able to please him.
The safest way is to say that when you see a fake, you say that you are inexperienced and don't know much, and you can't identify whether the thing is real or fake. Although this is belittling themselves, the situation is stronger than people, and if you want to continue to mix in this circle, many appraisers can only do this when facing difficult customers.
This situation exists both at home and abroad, and there is no way, although people have different languages and nationalities, they are essentially the same. Since they are all human beings, there will be nothing that exists at home and abroad. Although Zheng Zheng does not know much about the foreign collecting world, it can be deduced from the closed nature of foreign antique shops that the situation in foreign countries should be more serious than in China. Because compared with China, the foreign collecting world is more closed and more small, if you offend someone in the circle who is quite energetic, it is easy to get along in this circle.
Zheng Zheng has never encountered this kind of situation where he has to bow his head, first, because the domestic collection industry is not so cold and does not have such a small circle, no matter who it is, as long as it is to identify something, Zheng Zheng has something to say, and he is not afraid of offending people. The second reason is that Zheng Zheng is not a person in a small circle, although he is an insider in a serious family heirloom antique shop, but he has not had much contact with the people in the so-called "circle" since he was the head of the market. And the domestic antique shop environment also allows Zheng Zheng to do a good job even if he doesn't mix with those small circles. For such a person who is not in the circle, even if he offends the so-called "in the circle", what can they do?
Zheng Zheng hasn't encountered it, but that doesn't mean he doesn't know the bad things here. So sometimes when I hear some news, for example, when an old boss goes to identify antiques, but he doesn't identify whether the antiques are true or false, Zheng Zheng laughs at it, and doesn't think like others that the old boss only has a false name and no ability.
The antiques that these royals brought over for Zheng Zheng to identify, needless to say, must be antiques that no one is willing to give a clear answer. And now that this matter is in front of Zheng Zheng, Zheng Zheng can't help but give a clear answer.
Otherwise, what should I do? Saying that I am not capable enough to identify these antiques? I have just made a name for myself now, and if I smash my signboard like this, Zheng Yongming and Zheng Bei will wake up laughing in their dreams. And even if Zheng Zheng confessed to this cowardice and lowered his head, he still wanted to offend these royal family members. What's the matter, I went to such great lengths to come here just to let you have an appraisal of the antiques, but you told me that you couldn't do it? Why did you make an appointment with me if you didn't have the ability?
In contrast, what Zheng Zheng can choose is to tell the results of the appraisal and offend these royal family members one by one. In this way, although his reputation has been preserved, even if he has formed a bond with these royals, if he wants to develop in the European collecting circle in the future, he should encounter great resistance. And if you want to open a store and make enough 30 million to do business, you don't know when it will be completed.
Even if he was cheated, Zheng Zheng had to praise Zheng Yongming, he played really beautifully. If you say that he is playing a conspiracy, then it is not, all he does is combine various factors and then push the tide. Objectively speaking, he didn't deliberately pit Zheng Zheng, but just dug a few pits on Zheng Zheng's road, and then gave a very intimate hint of "there are pits here", which can be said to be above board.
The so-called yang conspiracy is this kind of strategy that does everything above board and puts everything on the table. It is to make you understand all the things in this, and tell you that I am going to trap you, but you will have to willingly jump into the pit he dug in advance.
The old fox is an old fox after all, if you really calculate people, it is really unconvincing. Zheng Zheng can accept and be convinced of this failure, because he has fallen into Zheng Yongming's calculations from the beginning, and there is no way to be unconvinced. Now that I think about it, the unknown Benjamin should have been instructed by Zheng Yongming or Zheng Bei to come over and act in such a play full of flaws in front of his eyes.
From that time, Zheng Yongming had already made it clear to Zheng Zheng. It's just that Zheng Zheng didn't figure it out at the time, and it wasn't until those men in suits came to send these handwritten letters from the royal family that Zheng Zheng guessed the matter to Zheng Yongming.
Although Zheng Yongming did a lot of things behind Zheng Zheng's back, objectively speaking, Zheng Yongming did not yin Zheng Zheng, and revealed to Zheng Zheng from the beginning that someone was going to fight him. Later, he put everything on the table through other people's hands, and did not deliberately hide it from Zheng Zheng.
It can be said that he laid out a game, and then showed this game to Zheng Zheng, so that he clearly knew what would happen next. It was in this situation that Zheng Yongming could still let Zheng Zheng, who understood all the situations step by step, but was unable to break the situation, walk towards the pit he dug for Zheng Zheng little by little.
Zheng Yongming is unintentional and unintentional, and he also occupies the geographical advantage, so the fight between the two is not completely fair. But Zheng Zheng didn't use this as an excuse to comfort himself, because Zheng Yongming was not winning in connections, but in the ability to transform all conditions into layouts that were unfavorable to Zheng Zheng.