"Uncle De, you ...... What you're saying is true?"

Zhuang Rui looked at Uncle De with an incredulous expression, Uncle De's words just now shocked him too much.

Because he was really a little curious, Zhuang Rui asked Uncle De what dirty things could he do in the pawnshop, after all, he had also worked here for more than a year, although he didn't care much about the pawnshop's business, but he hadn't seen anything unacceptable happen, Uncle De's words just now aroused his curiosity.

After all, now the means of counterfeiting cultural relics are becoming more and more sophisticated, and many cultural relics are even more real than opening the door, making it difficult to distinguish between true and false, which really can't blame these appraisers for not being able to do it, if you don't use instruments to identify, I'm afraid that some master-level appraisal experts will be fooled.

It stands to reason that after the pawnshop receives these fake objects, they should be sealed or destroyed, but when they buy these objects, they often spend a lot of money, if they are disposed of according to the formal channels, the loss is not small, so some pawnshops together with the auction house, these fake antiques are auctioned, and the pawnshop is issued a dead pawn document, and the auction house carries out speculation, to fake the real, to deceive some antique lovers or ordinary collectors who are not very high.

Because most people have a kind of psychology of taking advantage, with the pawn shop issued by the dead pawn documents, and then there are auction house promotional posters on the color page of the vigorous boasting, coupled with the relatively low starting price, so that many people rush to it, often this kind of lot is the easiest to auction, but those buyers who think they are Tao's treasures, the objects they buy are actually fake.

In recent years, some wealthy private enterprise bosses have begun to invest in the new antique business, some spend a lot of money, specifically select the "top" national treasures, some lions open their mouths, and come up to "eat all", and some people are superstitious to "Taobao" from overseas, and this part of the rich people, that is, pawn shops and auction houses are the objects of knife slaughter.

"What did my old man lie to you about, but you just know about it, don't spread it out, it's easy to offend people, although it is said that there is a family law, and there are rules and regulations, but now in these years, not many people pay attention to this, if you say that you go out and smash other people's jobs, then someone will find you desperately. ”

Uncle De saw Zhuang Rui's unhappy look, and hurriedly solemnly admonished him, this kind of thing is widely implicated, and even some large multinational auction companies are involved, and the power is extremely great, but not one or two people can shake it, he is afraid that Zhuang Rui will be impulsive and poke this matter out, and then Zhuang Rui will not be able to gain a foothold in this industry.

Even Uncle De himself, sometimes under some pressure, will take out three or two eye-catching items and hand them over to the auction house for auction, but the pawn shop has been established for too short a time, and such things have only happened once or twice, but this is also one of the reasons why Uncle De decided to step down as manager.

"Uncle De, these rich people can be regarded as elites, they are not so easy to be fooled, right?

Zhuang Rui was a little puzzled, if he wanted to go to the shop stall to buy fake objects, it would be forgivable, but if he went tens of thousands or millions to buy antiques, the buyers would be very cautious, and it should not be easy for pawn shops and auction houses to fool these people.

Others don't say it, as far as Zhuang Rui knows that the Shanxi horse fat man, when he goes to participate in various auctions, he will bring a special appraiser to go, in the grassland auction in Tibet, because the horse fat man is during the tour, so there is no appraiser to follow.

Uncle De smiled bitterly when he heard this, and said: "Xiaozhuang, there are many things that are not as simple as you think, for example, even I can't distinguish between real and fake objects for a while, do you expect other appraisers to be able to identify them in a short auction process? There are many buyers who put the auctioned objects at home for several years, and they will not know that the thing is fake."

I'll give you another analogy, now there are about four or five thousand people in Zhejiang Province who "go in and out to play" in the jade antique shop, but there are only dozens of people who really know the goods, most of them are folk enthusiasts, and some are successful in other aspects of business, and they have switched to jade antiques to "play tickets".

Some people in the circle take a fancy to these bosses who are rich and wealthy, and love face, so they deliberately set up a set to let them drill in, which often says: gold is priceless and jade is priceless, many people think that jade is a priceless treasure, and the price can rise if they boast all over the sky, in fact, like gold and silver, jade is also valuable, and in the eyes of connoisseurs, the general valuation will not be too different. ”

Uncle De said, while untying a white jade Pixiu piece from his waist, handed it to Zhuang Rui, and then continued: "This thing is a piece of Hetian jade material that I went to collect myself, and I found someone to process it, according to my own estimate, it can be about 15,000 yuan, someone bid me 22,000 a few days ago, I didn't make a move, this thing is quite exquisite, and it is good to keep it for myself."

Xiaozhuang, I said 20,000 yuan, this is just the price in the circle, if it is taken to the market, sold in a large shopping mall or jewelry store, such a pendant is worth at least 100,000 yuan, this is the gap between the circle and the circle, some bosses like to bargain in the mall to buy jewelry and jade, thinking that they have picked a big bargain, but they don't know that they let the insiders see the joke.

I'll tell you a true thing, that is, around the Chinese New Year, there is a "strong" boss in Zhejiang, also fell in love with the antique collection industry, in the years ago, he spent 100,000 yuan to eat and live to invite a jade identification expert in Beijing, that person I also know, the boss let the expert to him spent a lot of effort, from the domestic and foreign collection of jade for identification, the expert looked at the push but said, the identification of ancient jade to at least half a year, all of a sudden is not good to draw conclusions, and hurriedly left away.

After the New Year, the boss found me and asked me to help take a look, do you know, the dozens of so-called most valuable ancient jade, none of them are before the Song Dynasty, a few are Ming and Qing jade, which is already very good, more is antique jade, of course, jade is real jade, but with antique technology to restore the old new jade, this value is very different. ”

Zhuang Rui was stunned by Uncle De's words, it turned out that there were still so many traps in this industry, but he was still a little puzzled, and asked: "Uncle De, these people who buy antiques or buy jade like you said, can they give up if they buy fake things in the auction house? These people are not ordinary people, and they are bullied by others, so they won't go to find the back account." ”

Uncle De smiled, he was a little thirsty, poured himself a cup of tea, and said after drinking: "Xiaozhuang, you are still too tender, what you can think of, can you not think of those who specialize in eating this line of food? The invoice of the auction house only writes 'handicrafts', and the publicity on the color page of the advertising poster is completely different things, and it is useless for you to suffer a loss and fight a lawsuit."

Those big bosses who collect antiques and jade may be business wizards, and they are the best in their industry, but they are like mountains across the line, and they can succeed in this industry is not necessarily the same success in other industries, and jade antique appreciation is "Tongzigong", "Taijiquan", without ten years and eight years of training, it is impossible to enter the door, the old man I have played all my life, and the number of eye-piercing is also a lot, not to mention those bosses who think they are experts after reading a few books.

Zhuang Rui blushed a little when Uncle De said this, he belongs to the kind of person who has read a few books and thinks that he has a good level, but Zhuang Rui is still different from those bosses, at least he wants him to pay the tuition, and those who are fakes are afraid that they will have to make aura in fake antiques.

Okay, let's go to the conference room, the time is almost up, and we have a meeting today to clarify your appointment. ”

After Uncle De finished speaking, he stood up, took the jade Pixiu handed by Zhuang Rui, and hung it on his waist.

Uncle De walked to the door, suddenly remembered something, turned around and said to Zhuang Rui: "Xu Ling's little girl is a little playful, now is the period of retention and review, if you think it is not good, you can fire her, but she has performed well during this time, so don't let her be general." ”

Zhuang Rui nodded, only then did he understand why Xu Ling's attitude towards herself was so respectful when she entered the pawn shop in the morning, and she dared to leave her all in her own words, but Zhuang Rui was too lazy to worry about her, it was a natural disaster when she encountered a robber**, then again, without this matter, I am afraid that my eyes will not be able to have special abilities.

The pawn shop's conference room is actually an office remodeled, not big, a round table that can sit around seven or eight people, at this time next to the round table only sat Xu Ling and Lai Jindong, and the salesman in the Juedang District three people, as for Wang must have disappeared, Uncle De couldn't help but pull his face down, he personally called to inform him, and it was later than himself.

"Xiao Lai, what about the king?"

"Uncle De, there was a customer just now, there are a few pieces of jewelry that Wang must appraise, this will be in his office, maybe come a little later. Lai Jindong's attitude towards Uncle De was much better than before, but seeing Zhuang Rui, he just nodded slightly, looking like he was ignoring it.

Hearing that Wang must be receiving customers, Uncle De's face softened, and let Zhuang Rui sit at the top of the table, Uncle De looked around at a few people, and said: "Today I announce an appointment, after the leadership of the investment company has decided to appoint Comrade Zhuang Rui as the manager of the pawnshop, responsible for daily administrative affairs, if you have any problems in the future, just find Manager Zhuang, and I hope that you can support Manager Zhuang's work in the future." ”

After Uncle De said this, Lai Jindong's face, which was still smiling, slowly became stiff, Zhuang Rui took over as the manager of the pawnshop, in the pawnshop, in addition to Uncle De knowing, only Xu Ling knew a little through the relationship in the investment company, and Lai Jindong and Wang must have been completely unaware of the matter.

Zhuang Rui in Lai Jindong's eyes, he used to be just a little boy who had just graduated, he had no experience or no background, and he had never regarded him as a competitor, but the two of them knew that Uncle De would step down from his position as manager after a while, and they both respected Uncle De during this time, and hoped that Uncle De could help them say a few kind words and add points in front of the leaders of the investment company.

But I didn't expect that Zhuang Rui, who was injured in the robbery incident a few years ago, would become his own leader on the first day of work today, so Lai Jindong, who had been fighting with Wang for half a year, couldn't accept this fact for a while.

"Uncle De, for something like this, the investment company should have a document to issue it, right?"

Lai Jindong asked a little unwillingly, he knew that Uncle De and Zhuang Rui had a good relationship, and it was hard to guarantee that this matter was not decided by Uncle De himself.

"Of course there is, Manager Zhuang's appointment document has been down for more than a month, but he has been recovering from his injury, so I haven't announced it, everyone should take a look. ”

Uncle De took out a red-headed document from his bag, and it was clearly written on the top of the document row: Comrade Zhuang Rui was appointed as the manager of the pawnshop, and after Lai Jindong took it, his face became as ugly as ashes.

"Let me say a few words, everyone knows each other, and I don't need to introduce myself, I will now talk about the work arrangements of the pawnshop in the future, Xu Ling will continue to be responsible for the work of the cashier, and he must do a good job of handing over the money and goods to the bank every day, Xiao Xie is still in charge of the absolute area, as for the appraiser, ......"

Zhuang Rui said this, paused, and woke up Lai Jindong in a daze, Lai Jindong understood after seeing this document, unless he resigned, otherwise, he would have to be led by Zhuang Rui in the future, at this moment when he heard Zhuang Rui mention his name, his eyes couldn't help but look at Zhuang Rui, and at the same time secretly made up his mind in his heart, if Zhuang Rui touched his professional field, then he would submit his resignation immediately.

"As for the appraiser Lai, the professional knowledge is very well-known in the industry, so in the future, if there is an auction of exquisite items in terms of luxury goods and foreign artworks, you and Wang must go to the auction house to negotiate, I will not ask about the specific matters, and I will also suggest to the investment company and give you the power to be fully responsible." ”

Zhuang Rui's words, so that the original heart is like ashes Lai Jindong is completely stupid, he and Wang must have competed for the position of manager for more than half a year, one is for the investment funds, and the other is to be able to establish a cooperative relationship with the auction house.

According to Lai Jindong's thoughts, Zhuang Rui will definitely have a firm grasp of this right after becoming the manager, but he didn't expect that at the beginning of his tenure, he actually delegated the right to communicate with the auction house to the two of them, and officially reported to the investment company, which made Lai Jindong feel like a dream......