Listening to Dong Minquan's tone, the Lan family has a very good background in Hong Kong and Taiwan, and the Lan family can also know the things that Dong Minquan can know, and Lan Qi once bluntly said that this blue and white celestial ball dragon bottle is fake, but now they are bidding for it at a high price. What's even more strange is that Toshiki Aoyama's purpose doesn't seem to be so simple as raising the transaction price, the Lan family knows that this is a fake blue and white flower, and the Aoyama family, as the initiator, of course will not know that the price of a fake blue and white can reach a high level of 66oooo, and their coaxing has been a huge success, but they are still continuing to increase the price, and the new price is 7ooo million.

Tang Feng thought about it for a long time but didn't come up with an answer, he was sure now that the competition between the Lan family and the Qingshan family was definitely not for this blue and white celestial ball dragon bottle. After Toshiki Aoyama quoted 7ooo yuan, Lan Qi did not follow up, and in the end, the transaction price of this blue and white celestial ball dragon bottle was fixed at 7ooo yuan.

After this bidding for Gao Yuchao, the subsequent bidding was much more flat. Liu Yue asked Tang Fengdao: "When you arrive in Hong Kong, don't you want to visit the antique market here?"

"How can you miss this?" Tang Feng said, "Hong Kong is a good place to dig up antiques. ”

For a long time in the 20th century, Hong Kong has always been the only channel between Chinese mainland and the world, and in the early and middle of the last century, a large number of domestic cultural relics and antiques and works of art flowed from the mainland to Hong Kong and from Hong Kong to the rest of the world through legal or illegal means. Among them, many fine products have been deposited in the hands of Hong Kong's antique market or collectors, which is one of the reasons why Hong Kong Duo Dong Minquan is a collector.

From the end of the last century to the beginning of this century, with the rapid development of the mainland economy and the continuous improvement of people's living standards, people's demand for antiques and artworks showed unprecedented enthusiasm. Antiques and artworks from all over the world from Chinese dynasties continue to flow to Chinese mainland through Hong Kong. However, compared with the antiques that flowed out of the year, the antiques that flowed in were much inferior. It is difficult to recover from the water, and even if it is recovered, it is impossible to return to Zhao completely, and the real solution is to leave it intact. In the absence of experience to follow, our country has gone through a lot of wrong roads and detours in the past, and fortunately, she has been showing in a good direction now, but this kind of loss is inevitably too heavy.

Hong Kong is prosperous and stable, and occupies a very high position in the world's financial and world economy and trade; under the influence of this, Hong Kong's antique market is not only large in number, but also widely distributed; there are many kinds of antique art here, and there are relatively few fakes, which is incomparable with the antique market in any city in China, and of course, this has a lot to do with the unhealthy exhibition of the domestic antique market itself. For Tang Feng, who is interested in making a difference in collecting, he will not miss the antique market here when he arrives in Hong Kong.

"That's good. Liu Yue smiled slightly and said, "In the first two days of coming, my mother needs to walk around, and I still have time to accompany you, but I'm afraid that I won't have time in the future." ”

Tang Feng sometimes feels that his relationship with Liu Yue is more based on a common language for antiques, and in this sense, their relationship is gender-bound, but it is inevitable that men and women will fall in love with each other for a long time, which is the uncertainty between them and the reason why they are facing difficulties.

Soon, the evening auction ended, and Tang Feng and Liu Yue sat on Dong Minquan's Rolls-Royce. When it comes to Hong Kong's rich, you can't fail to mention the luxury houses in Mid-Levels. Mid-levels is an upscale residential area in Hong Kong, located between the Victoria Peak and Central, where home is a status symbol, and many of the Hong Kong celebrities we know live here, as well as many wealthy businessmen in China.

Dong Minquan's Rolls-Royce sat in the front passenger seat, and his bodyguard leader, Li Zhan, opened the road with a BMW in front and a BMW in the back, and on both cars sat the bodyguards he was happy to hire.

"Brother Zhan, there is a black Mercedes-Benz that has been following us, the number is very unfamiliar, and I am behind it now. Hearing the sound from the walkie-talkie, Tang Feng secretly smacked his tongue, it turned out that Dong Minquan's convoy still had his car in the back, it was really troublesome to be rich, and it was so complicated to go out once.

Dong Minquan himself often stays in the mainland, and the lifestyles on both sides are not the same, he smiled a little embarrassedly, and said: "It's not because this mountain is peaceful, I just hope it's peaceful, no way, Hong Kong is different from the mainland, and you have to be careful when entering and exiting." ”

Having a car following does not mean that someone is following, it may also be a coincidence, it is impossible for the bodyguard to check the vehicle suspected of following him, Li Zhan said to the driver: "Slow down the car, let the car behind pass first." ”

The car slowed down, but the Mercedes trailing behind did not pass the convoy for a long time, and after a while, the radio sounded, and the Mercedes began to decrease.

This thing is a little strange, Li Zhan asked the driver to speed up the car, but the Mercedes-Benz also began to add, the tracking is certain, but Li Zhan is not nervous, he said: "It's a new hand." "A real criminal gang wouldn't be so stupid to track their targets, Li Zhan was very relieved.

The Mercedes-Benz seemed to know that it had been revealed, and the owner sped up to drive past Dong Minquan's Rolls-Royce, and when the two cars met, Tang Feng saw the flashing lights on the Mercedes-Benz. Dong Minquan frowned and said: "What's wrong with these paparazzi today, so many celebrities don't shoot, they come to shoot me an old man." ”

Tang Feng and Liu Yue glanced at each other, the paparazzi are also one of Hong Kong's specialties, and they began to be blatant. It seems that there are also celebrities in the collection industry, Dong Minquan is one of them, he said to the head of the bodyguard: "Check which newspaper it is, say hello to their boss, and don't make such jokes in the future." ”

Li Zhan nodded and said, "Yes, Uncle Quan." "Hong Kong is just a small place, the triad and the white society are crowded here, and the relationship is easy to sort out.

Dong Minquan's motorcade drove into a mansion in the middle of the mountain, and the three people got out of the car, Dong Minquan pointed to the mansion and said: "Two children, this is my home, Xiaoyue, do you remember when you came last time?"

Liu Yue said: "Of course I remember, I was young at that time and was not interested in antiques. ”

Dong Minquan said: "The antique appraisal industry has long been a sign of failure, this experience is a long-term accumulation process, it is not easy to become a talent, young people are not very interested in this, my grandchildren are like this, so when I see you two young people so proficient in antiques, I am very happy, welcome, two please come in." ”

Dong Minquan's wife has passed away, and the sixty or seventy-year-old man has not remarried, and it is still early, and his children are not at home. Tang Feng and Liu Yue walked around in this mansion under the leadership of their master, and the luxury naturally did not need to be said, and after a while, the three of them came to the basement, which was a large wine cellar, which was full of oak barrels marked with the year, which was red wine from different countries, in addition, there were many bottles of foreign wine and red wine.

Antique collecting is only one aspect of collecting, Westerners are keen to collect wine, Dong Minquan said: "Children also like to collect, but only to collect alcohol, I prefer to collect antiques, right here." ”

Tang Feng and Liu Yue followed Dong Minquan to the end of the wine cellar, Dong Minquan pressed a button on the wall, and a wine cabinet was silently removed, revealing a metal door, Dong Minquan said in Cantonese to a flashing device next to the metal door: "Open the door." ”

The light flickered, and with a "tick", the metal door opened, and Tang Feng understood that this was a voice-activated door, and no one could open it without Dong Minquan. The brightly lit collection room behind the metal door has shelves in the shape of "Chuan", a glass case on the left wall hangs various paintings and calligraphy, and a glass case below contains jade. In the middle is a row of antique mahogany coffee tables, on which are placed bronze ware, strange stones and miscellaneous antiques. The glass case on the right is entirely made of ceramic. Dong Minquan has a large collection, about thousands of pieces, and covers a wide range of antiques. These cabinets are not locked, visitors can play with them at will, it is worth mentioning that there are words written on the ground of the collection room, which says the age, Tang Feng has just stepped on the People's Republic of China and walked to the ****, the area of the Republic of China is not long, soon, the three of them walked to the Qing Dynasty, when they walked to the Qianlong of the Qing Dynasty, Dong Minquan pointed to a few pieces of furniture in the middle and said: "These are Qing Dynasty furniture, and the porcelain on the right is from the Qing Dynasty." ”

Tang Feng thinks it's very funny, Dong Minquan then uses space to express time, he writes the history of China on the ground, and antiques are placed according to time, there is such a collection room, any antiques can be placed in different categories, which is like himself, those few valuable things are still lying in the safe. Tang Feng casually picked up a few pieces of porcelain from the Qing Dynasty and looked at it in his hand, although it did not meet the standard of the best, but all of them were true.

Dong Minquan said: "The reform and opening up of the mainland is a watershed in the collection, we have regrets for both generations, to tell you the truth, in my collection, the most expensive is not necessarily the best, the seventies and eighties acquired the best and cheapest, at that time there were many mainland antiques to Hong Kong, all of them are good things, unfortunately, a large part of them were taken overseas, never returned." ”

Tang Feng didn't think much about the loss of Chinese antiques, which was really heavy, the impact of the smashing and looting of antiques during the Cultural Revolution was immeasurable, but the impact of the Cultural Revolution on high-end antiques was actually not big, because collectors knew what was valuable and what was not, and they would try their best to hide it. The impact of the country's difficult times on antiques was also not great, because it was an era of great material scarcity, and antiques could not be bought for money. The era that really had an impact on the antiques collected by the people was the early days of reform and opening up, when the economic conditions improved, the material supply gradually became richer, and a large number of antiques flowed from the mainland to Hong Kong in exchange for money. The regret of the two generations mentioned by Dong Minquan is indeed a pity, Tang Feng and Liu Yue are proficient in antiques because of their special family background, but it is difficult to buy high-quality products. Dong Minquan was rich at the beginning, but people at that time didn't know much about antiques, and many good things slipped away from his eyes and hands.

Dong Minquan picked up a Kangxi blue flower and said to the two: "Alas, there is a difficult past hidden here." ”