In fact, the popularity of the antique collection market is not necessarily a good thing, and many people enter this circle, but they completely play the role of raising prices.

This is the same as the speculation group to invest in jade, the real estate boss to invest in the collection is actually a reason, the original flat price, because of these people's blind participation and disrupted the original order, these people do not know how to collect, so they buy things a lot of times that are extremely blind.

Zhang Tianyuan knew a person when he was doing the show, he was in the gold mining business in the early years, and he made some money, and later he was also very smooth, and he became a private entrepreneur again, and the money he earned couldn't be spent anyway, and he felt that he was idle.

Invest in stocks, I think that thing is unreliable, invest in real estate, recently real estate doesn't seem to be as easy to make as much money as before, but I heard a news that Zhang Tianyuan, the chairman of the HRE Group, started as a collector, so he gave birth to the idea of doing a collection.

This old man also has a private museum at home, which is very similar to the one in Zhang Tianyuan's house, of course, it is not so luxurious, but there are many more things in it than Zhang Tianyuan's, including ceramics of past dynasties, calligraphy and paintings of ancient celebrities, imperial seals of Qing Dynasty emperors, as well as court furnishings such as jade ruyi, clocks, golden pagodas, jade chimes, etc., as well as Qing Dynasty porcelain, lacquerware, jade, ivory carving enamel, cloisonné, coral, agate, amber, crystal, gemstones, pearls, wood carvings, etc., and even some bronzes from the Yin Shang period.

The total number of items is as high as two or three thousand, and it is said that it is a museum, which is definitely worthy of its name, and it is much stronger than Zhang Tianyuan's so-called museum, which only has about a dozen things.

And these things. Most of them were bought from smugglers and foreign auctions, and large sums of money flowed into the hands of foreign devils.

For such a person, he doesn't care if he can appreciate these antiques or not. What he wants is to invest to make money, as long as the things he buys have an appreciating value, you are like Wang Siyuan and his father, and it is not ambiguous to buy things, but he doesn't buy those things for collection, he doesn't understand Western paintings at all, especially Picasso's paintings.

In fact, let Zhang Tianyuan say something. Picasso paintings are truly a great piece of marketing, much more powerful than diamonds.

You ask those who are fans of Picasso's paintings what is so good about them. Most of the reasons they give are the same, because there are a lot of so-called reasons on the Internet.

Anyway, in Zhang Tianyuan's view, most of those who are willing to buy Picasso paintings at a high price cannot understand them. It's the people who understand it who won't buy it.

It's not that they feel bad. It's that there is no money!

Of course, Zhang Tianyuan never denies the value of Picasso's paintings, but the problem is that a painting like this, which only a very small number of people can admire, can be sold for such a high price, which is the huge energy of marketing at work.

Well, the topic is a bit far away, in fact, to put it bluntly, there is a truth, compared to the value of the painting itself, the value of the object itself. In fact, marketing is king.

Many people may know that no more than 300 pieces of Yuan Qinghua are believed to have survived. Tang Bohu's paintings were originally advertised as having less than 20 surviving.

But later, Tang Bohu's authentic works also flowed out in large quantities, which made the price of his paintings gradually drop.

In fact, this kind of propaganda is either a rumor deliberately flowed out by people with intentions to raise the price of what they have at hand, or it is a conclusion made by ignorant people based on their own intuition.

You know, how much of this thing has survived, and how to judge it? Who has visited the whole world to investigate? Not to mention the whole world, who can finish all the villages in China and then investigate how many of these things there are?

No!

The numbers obtained by most researchers are actually marketing strategies made by foreign devils in order to raise the price of Yuan Qinghua or other things, and when it comes to marketing, we Chinese are still much more tender than foreigners.

Several successful great marketing in modern history were made by foreign devils, and we can't help but admire it.

For example, diamonds, McDonald's, KFC, and Coca-Cola.

Foreign devils can promote this kind of fast food to the world, and make you feel very honored and fashionable to eat, and then Coca-Cola, to be honest, it tastes worse than the soda produced before, but why do so many people like to drink it?

Zhang Tianyuan has reason to believe that there will be a large number of antique items that are thought to be only one or two, or three or four pieces in the London auction this time. Anyway, Zhang Tianyuan has encountered it several times, some things that are considered to be only one in existence, but there are two, or even three, and then only one is regarded as genuine, and the rest are considered fakes, and the funny thing is that it is regarded as genuine, but it is a fake, just because it is special enough, and the real thing is different, so it has become the final winner, if it is not Zhang Tianyuan decisively questioned, and later raised the question of the fake, it is estimated that this matter will become a secret for a long time。

It is also thanks to Zhang Tianyuan's six-character true recipe that he knows that some of the so-called proverbs that have been circulating in the antique world for a long time are actually rumors at all.

The more he knew this, the more he figured out some means to get foreign things back to China, so he thought about it and said to Snake Lin: "Snake team, please go and hand over the contents of this box to the auction organizer today, don't use my name, remember to register a shell company abroad, and then use the name of this company to auction, there are a total of thirteen paintings in it, remember to be careful, these things are worth more than a billion euros, don't break them." ”

"No, brother, where did you get these paintings, or are they foreign paintings?"

"Don't ask too much, I guess the idea of coming to London to grab things in my lifetime is impossible to realize, but I can still do it with another means to trap foreign devils. Just do what I say, or find a nobleman from a down-and-out family to help. This is more reasonable, can these things be done?" asked Zhang Tianyuan.

"Have you forgotten what I used to do? I've been on missions abroad a lot, and I've done a lot of things like that. I can find hundreds of such people in no time. Serpentine laughed.

"Really?"

"If you don't believe it, wait a minute, I'll call up the information for you to see now. As he spoke, he went over and took his laptop, then opened an encrypted folder and took out a copy of the information from it.

Zhang Tianyuan looked at it, good guy, there are many people's names densely recorded on it. There were Europeans, Americans, Japanese, and so on, and he looked at the list of British. I didn't expect to find a person's name from inside.

"Lancelot? hahaha, does this guy think he's a Knight of the Round Table? Zhang Tianyuan smiled: It's him, I think his family seems to be very powerful before, it seems that he is really a descendant of Lancelot and Gnavel. No matter. Whether it's true or not, I don't have the time to guess. Just this person, the experience should be quite short of money, give him some benefits, and make him a loyal lackey of ours!"

Back then, these foreign devils rode on the heads of the Chinese and enslaved the Chinese, and Zhang Tianyuan also wanted to try the feeling of enslaving the British, and he now has this condition.

"Okay, I'll go find this guy now. I guess I can get things done in one day today. Serpentine nodded.

"Don't worry, I'll talk about it after eating. ”

"No, no, no. I don't get things done, and I can't eat well, so let's do it, you eat first, and I'll go to work. After saying that, the snake lin left with the box, this guy is an impatient, and no one can stop him.

"Phoenix, you go and follow the snake team, he may need someone to help. Zhang Tianyuan thought about it and asked Lan Phoenix to follow, one more person, in case there was an emergency, it would be easy to deal with.

Thinking of these things, Zhang Tianyuan was bored in his heart, these foreign auction houses took advantage of the patriotic heart of the Chinese, and some so-called national treasures continued to appear, just to let the Chinese people spend a lot of money to buy them back, which is understandable from the perspective of commercial interests, but it greatly hurt the feelings of the Chinese people.

"Okay husband, don't be angry, there are some things that we can't change. Liu Meng saw that Zhang Tianyuan was still sitting there and refused to eat properly, so he couldn't help but persuade.

"I'm not angry, I just think it's a pity that so many good things were snatched away by these illiterate foreign devils. Probably the gold and silver products have been melted by these guys, and it is impossible to find them, alas, Cixi's old lady who is a loser! Forget it, eat and eat......"

"Brother, do you want to go out to play tomorrow?" Zhanfei saw Zhang Tianyuan's sullen appearance, and was afraid that Zhang Tianyuan would not be in a good mood and didn't plan to go out for a walk, so he asked.

"Why don't you go, if you're in a bad mood, you have to go shopping, so that you can feel better." Zhang Tianyuan smiled and said: "Mengmeng, you have been in the United States, but I'm afraid you are not very familiar with London, right?"

"I'm familiar with Paris and New York, but London is a bit unfamiliar, so why don't you find a guide tomorrow?"

"No, don't we have a Knight of the Round Table?"

"Knight of the Round Table?" Liu Mengxun was stunned for a moment.

"Lancelot!" Zhang Tianyuan said with a smile: "The descendants of the legendary First Knight and Queen Gnevelle, hahaha, this circle is really messy enough." ”

Liu Mengxun originally wanted to say a few words about Zhang Tianyuan, but after thinking about it, her husband was in a bad mood, and since he could be happy with this kind of meat joke, let him feel free, there would be nothing wrong with it anyway.

"Yes, since this Lancelot is a Londoner, he must be very familiar with the attractions of London, such as Buckingham Palace, the Houses of Parliament, Madame Tussauds, etc., you can go to have a good time. Zhan Fei said happily, although he came to be Zhang Tianyuan's bodyguard, but from his personal point of view, this time in London is also a good opportunity to play.

Zhang Tianyuan went to London before he brought a snake, and he felt a little disappointed, this London is much better than Naypyidaw, Myanmar, and now there is nothing to regret at all.

"Well, I've heard that there's an opera of King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table in London that goes on every day, and I've always wanted to see King Arthur and Master Merlin, but since I can't see it in reality, let's see it in the opera, hehe. Zhang Tianyuan had completely relaxed at this time, because he knew that no matter how excited he was, it was meaningless.

History can't be changed, unless he really has to travel to ancient times, and even if he really travels to the past, what can he do? Li Hongzhang can't go back to the sky, he is still far behind Li Hongzhang, the man who betrays the blame. (To be continued......)