The annual meeting is over, and everyone disperses to start their own busy New Year.

The employees of Peach Blossom Fairy have all had a fat year. The unit not only issued generous benefits, but also received "three salaries" for the year-end bonus, and everyone received two more months' salary.

The bonuses of supervisors at all levels are higher, ranging from "four salaries" to "ten salaries", and a lot of personal income tax is paid. This year's individual income tax threshold is only yuan, and the top and bottom of the Peach Blossom Fairy Company are dissatisfied with this individual income tax threshold, but there is no gross use, and it should be paid.

This Spring Festival, Li Dongwen spent time at the Tianxian Hotel in Pengcheng. Pengcheng New Year has a benefit, that is, it is pure. Li Xianqiong only stayed on Hong Kong Island on Chinese New Year's Eve and the first day of the new year, and spent the rest of the time with Li Dongwen.

Li Dongwen received countless text messages and received a lot of New Year's greeting calls.

Xie Anping invited him to come to Yangcheng on the fifth day of the first lunar month, and the Guangdong Collectors Association and the Guangdong Mahogany Furniture Association jointly held a "New Year Mahogany Furniture Exhibition" at the Convention and Exhibition Center. Zhao Canguang and Ma Xiaolong also sent him an invitation, and Guancheng Furniture Factory also participated in the exhibition.

Guancheng Furniture Factory is the vice president unit of Guangdong Mahogany Furniture Association, and Ma Xiaolong serves as the vice president of the association and the top vice president.

The price of mahogany furniture has soared in recent years, from the price of raw materials to the rise in labor costs of handmade furniture, in a few years, it has risen more than ten times.

The raw materials of mahogany take decades, hundreds or even hundreds of years to become timber, and once the market demand is opened, the supply of raw materials will obviously not keep up. Coupled with the joint speculation of various manufacturers and timber dealers, hoarding and curiosity, artificially driving up prices. There is a woman surnamed Chen on Hong Kong Island who has been hoarding red sandalwood, and is even called the "king of red sandalwood" by the industry.

Li Dongwen and Li Xianqiong rushed to Yangcheng on the fourth day of the first lunar month. Xie Anping and Qiao Shan also arrived, and Qiao Shan also brought his newly married daughter-in-law Wang Shuang, Zhao Canguang and Ma Xiaolong who came earlier because they were going to participate in the exhibition.

Everyone met at the hotel near the exhibition hall and exchanged "Wishing you prosperity". Guangdong Province, the largest economic province in China, will say "Wishing you prosperity" when greeting the New Year.

For dinner, I opened a private room in the hotel where I stayed and tasted authentic Cantonese cuisine. Everyone was eating and drinking, and they were gossiping.

"In the last five or six years, I haven't felt how prices have risen, but why did this mahogany furniture suddenly become popular?" Xie Anping said.

From 1998 to 2003, in the past six years, the highest inflation rate was in 2003, and there were only 12, the lowest was in 1999, and the negative 14 were not rising.

In the past few years, the peasants have been the most persecuted, and the prices of grain, vegetables, poultry, meat, eggs, and other agricultural products have not risen much, which has played an important role in price stability, but the peasants' incomes have not increased much, and there is no good life for them. Of course, with the exception of Peach Blossom Fairy Company, employees' salaries have risen year after year, and their income has increased several times.

Ma Xiaolong said, "Mahogany furniture is not a mass commodity after all, it is a high-end niche product, the quantity is limited, and everyone in the industry is warm together, and it is easy to fry the price." The price has risen, which is good for everyone, consumers are chasing the rise and fall, the customers who bought in front of them, seeing the price increase, feel that they have earned, and even dealers at all levels have the enthusiasm to stock up, dare to buy and hoard goods, anyway, the price has been rising. Mahogany furniture, unlike food and beverages, can not be eaten when it expires, it basically has no expiration date, and it is no problem to store it for ten or eight years. ”

Xie Anping said, "It is worth money to save antiques, and the mahogany furniture of the Ming Dynasty has now been fried to the sky, and a pair of rosewood official hats and chairs are millions." ”

Hype, which has gradually emerged in recent years, is a group of guys staring at a thing or a category, racking their brains to tell a story, and then pulling up the price and jointly making a profit from it.

The hype wind of later generations is even more crazy, "garlic you ruthless", "ginger you army", "beans you play", it seems that nothing can not be fried, and it has lost its rationality.

Now the hype is quite reliable, basically aiming at scarce resources, telling some stories, and creating the appearance of scarcity becoming expensive. The most antique games are speculated, and they are basically one category after another to engage in relay races, such as fried snuff bottles this year, walnuts fried next year, and bloodstone seals fried the year after next...... The hype of later generations is even more and more detailed, and the hype calligraphy and painting can be according to the author, Dong Qichang will be fried this year, and Wen Zhengming will be fried next year......

Li Dongwen is not interested in hype, as long as the product can be sold, the employees have a job, and they can feed more people, he has no opinion. He asked Ma Xiaolong, "Are we also involved in the hype?"

Ma Xiaolong didn't understand what the boss meant, so he could only answer honestly, "Participated, we are big households." Now fried red sandalwood, sea yellow and red sour branches, concentrated in these three varieties. However, we don't have Haihuang in stock, what we have is Cochin yellow rosewood. ”

"Good. I'll see what it's like tomorrow. Li Dongwen said.

The next morning, Li Dongwen and his entourage came to the Convention and Exhibition Center.

On the fifth day of the first lunar month, or during the Spring Festival holiday, Yangcheng is still very popular, and many citizens have poured into the convention and exhibition center to see the mahogany furniture exhibition.

Li Dongwen and others first came to their booth and bumped into the crowd of onlookers.

This is a behemoth that is 6 meters long, 18 meters wide, and 18 centimeters thick, and a single wooden case of red sandalwood!

There are 4 square legs under the table, 20 cm square and 80 cm high, inlaid at the bottom of the table, and the wood is also rosewood.

"What kind of furniture is this? It's just a board with four legs. "It's hilarious for the layman.

"Rosewood! Such a big piece of rosewood can be called a national treasure!"

The price is 100,000 yuan!

"That's how much? 1.80 million!"

"Wow! Such a wooden board can be changed to another building!"

"There may be only one piece of wood in the world! Buildings are everywhere. ”

Li Dongwen also glanced at the price tag. Well, these guys are quite capable of playing, a wooden board can fool hundreds of millions.

He remembered that he seemed to have made a lot of this kind of big wood, and he couldn't remember exactly what material, anyway, it was all brought back from the inaccessible forest, and he couldn't remember the specific location.

This case, which was fooled by Ma Xiaolong, became the "treasure of the town store", and was placed in the most conspicuous position of the booth, serving as a façade.

In the booth of Peach Blossom Fairy Company, there are also a lot of other furniture, coffee tables, desks, screens, bookcases, eight immortal tables, dressers, Bogu shelves, various antique chairs and stools, and even beds......

There are also small items, such as pen holders, paperweights, pen holders, jewelry boxes, and especially mahogany ashtrays......

Large goods are not cheap, the price is often millions, and the small pieces are also tens of thousands, an ashtray of Huanghuali, a diameter of more than ten centimeters, three or four centimeters high, dare to mark the price of 9999 yuan.

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