Chapter 782: Confusing Truth with Falsehood
Seeing the wonderful expressions on the faces of Earl Bob and Arnott, Li Yi was simply very proud, he had long known that He Shou Wu was powerful, but he didn't expect it to be so powerful!
You know, Arnault only evaluates the taste of the wine, if they know about the special functions that Lu Ningshuang's father has studied, they don't know how surprised they will be!
It's a pity that because of a very important research topic, Lu Ningshuang can't come back to attend this opening ceremony, otherwise, she should be very excited to know that her wine can get such a high evaluation, right?
He really wanted to call Lu Ningshuang now and tell her the news. Pen Fun Pavilion www.biquge.info then told her in passing that when pruning the branches and leaves of the vine in the future, those pruned should not be littered first, because it is likely that someone will buy them at a high price......
The meal ended in a little chaos, and in the end, Bob and others extorted a bottle of wine from Li Yi's hands, and Arnault even asked for Lu Ningshuang's call, and swore that he would visit him when he returned to Europe.
"However, it seems that we can give them a little ......" Li Yi remembered that Lu Ningshuang probably made a total of about 4,000 gallons of wine, and if it was divided into bottles, there should be more than 20,000 bottles.
More than 20,000 bottles, if you just drink it yourself or give it to friends, it's a bit too much, not to mention, this thing is still available every year. But if you sell it, this amount is a bit worthless, and they don't need anyone's help at all, they can sell it out casually.
However, on their own, they can sell Romani. What is the price of Kanti?
"Perhaps, it is possible to sell a bottle of Lafite for the price of a new wine?"
Since Arnault has such a big reaction to this wine, even if you look for other tasters, you should be able to get similar reviews.
However, it is one thing to evaluate and sell as a commodity.
The pricing of goods has never been an isolated factor, and many times, the impact of brand, history, culture, and other intangible things on the price is far greater than the quality of the product itself, the more luxurious it is, and the more expensive the more so.
Just like those cultural relics, if they are restored to the use function of the cultural relics themselves, how much money can they be worth?
Of course, Li Yi is not greedy for such a little profit, 20,000 bottles of wine, even if each bottle is sky-high, can the income still exceed his two mines?
However, the things behind this sky-high price of wine made him a little excited, a top-notch manor, a ticket to a wealthy family, and the huge reputation that came with it!
He needed these things, and while he wasn't sure what tangible benefits they would bring him, he was sure he needed them.
It's just that in order to obtain these benefits, it is obviously unrealistic to rely on his current strength. So, is there a better and more appropriate option than to go through the trouble of trying to figure it out on your own, or to go back and ask for help from someone else after hitting a wall?
Let's take a look at the identities of these two people, one is an old Italian aristocrat, and the most important thing is that he has several daughters who are about to reach the sky. The other is the son of the richest man in France, and under his family's banner, there are many luxury brands!
Look, noble, luxurious, noble, expensive, anyway, it's precious for me to die...... The pedigree of these two guys is a natural match for his wine!
If they can really help him operate, then the combination between them is simply comparable? The smell is like-minded, the embarrassment is a match made in heaven!
If we add to this the favor of the church that he is about to gain, then it is entirely possible that in the future his prestige in Europe will far exceed all that he can obtain in China!
At that point, what can't he play?
At that time, maybe just by saying that he is interested in Chinese cultural relics, there will be a lot of people lined up with countless cultural relics waiting for him to choose, or there will be some losers who are willing to exchange their treasured antiques for his red wine?
Oh, it's just wonderful, wonderful!
After two rounds of his eyes, Li Yi sneaked into Arnott's room. Half an hour later, the guy snuck into Earl Bob's room again. Another half an hour later, Arnault also sneaked in, and the three of them discussed secretly for almost an hour as if they were the joint of the underground party, and Li Yicai and Arnott returned to their respective rooms with satisfied smiles.
After a short rest, Li Yi rushed to the airport again, and Old Dean was about to arrive.
As the first to exchange with him, and very selflessly provided things such as the lightsaber, the queen's jewelry box, and even gave him a church holy plate at the price of cabbage, Li Yi sincerely expressed his gratitude from the bottom of his heart. Therefore, when he came to China, he was still invited to attend the opening ceremony of his museum, and he had to be there to greet him in person.
"Hi Dean, here!"
Compared with the two rich men who sat as experts before, the treatment of old Dean is much worse, he can only take the airline flight like Li Yi, and he may even be reluctant to spend money to buy a first-class ticket!
"Hi Lee, I'm so glad to see you!"
Li Yi should have guessed correctly, because old Dean's spirit was indeed a little sluggish, but when he saw clearly who the person behind Dean was, this guy's spirit was a little bit raised.
Berry, the charming but amazingly heavy little baby in old Dean's mouth actually came to China with him!
The three of them hugged warmly, and then returned to the hotel together, and after a warm reception to Dean, Li Yi ran to the master's house.
"It's all arranged?" Zhong Haoqing has a great support for Li Yi Museum, she not only helped him invite many old friends in the collection of collectors, but also generously donated a number of ancient paintings collected by the Zhong family. Although the value of these ancient paintings is very average, what Li Yi lacks is precisely this kind of relatively poor quality but can fill the quantity of the collection.
"It's almost over, Master, is there anything else you want me to run away from?"
"You don't have to worry about my side, everyone is here, you just have a chance to meet. By the way, this thing is for you. Zhong Haoqing looked at Li Yi with a smile, when she accepted this disciple, she didn't dare to think that his achievements would be so high, and he would build a top-notch museum in more than a year by himself!
Yes, although Li Yi's museum is far worse than those large museums in terms of the number of cultural relics, in terms of the quality of cultural relics, he is not inferior to any top museum!
Is this the horror of that magical intuition? She felt that except for the intuition that Li Yi had said before, it was impossible for anything else to explain all this now. However, how can she say that having such a disciple is a headache for her as a teacher!
"What is this?" Li Yi stretched out his hand to take the scroll handed over by Zhong Haoqing, and then glanced at Hu Jinquan, who had not said a word since he came in.
The old gentleman's expression was a little strange, and his eyes seemed to have a mixture of pride, reserve, nervousness, expectation, etc., which made Li Yi feel a little inexplicable. Could it be that this scroll is weird?
"Hehe, I'll see for myself, but I'm telling you, this is the first time I've helped me do this kind of thing, but it's also the last time I'll ......"
"Oh?" In Li Yi's mind, a large amount of information flashed, and then he guessed what Hu Jinquan was talking about.
He cautiously opened the scroll with anticipation, and immediately, an ink landscape with an ancient, vast feeling appeared in front of his eyes.
"Oh my God, this ...... It's so realistic, no, it's just the real thing! ”
This painting is the one he gave to Hu Jinquan before and asked him to help make the old works that resemble the Japanese painting Shengxuezhou and other Yang!
Although the style of the previous painting is similar, if you look closely, you can still see some differences. Moreover, because of the paper, it can be seen at a glance that it is just a modern imitation.
However, after Hu Jinquan's aging, there is no longer any problem with the paper of this painting. Moreover, the most amazing thing is that the flaws that Li Yi saw before that could be identified have also disappeared magically!
"How, exactly?" Li Yi couldn't find out what was going on on the paper, but something on the picture had been changed, and he felt that he should still be able to see some clues. After all, he had seen the work as it was, and he had moved his hands and feet, and it could never compare to its original natural state.
"It's amazing! Master, your old man is really amazing! ”
Soon, he found out how Hu Jinquan moved his hands and feet. It's just that even if he finds out, he can't say that these are flaws, on the contrary, the treatment of these places proves even more that this is an ancient masterpiece that has gone through vicissitudes and weathered the wind and rain!
It turned out that in those places where there were flaws in the brushwork, Hu Jinquan used creases, water marks, and even holes and cracks to cause irreparable damage to the picture, and camouflaged the picture to the greatest extent.
However, if you knew in advance that they were disguises, you could barely see them. But if you didn't know beforehand, if you hadn't seen what the painting looked like before it was disguised, you wouldn't be able to recognize it!
You will only think that this is the damage that the years have brought to this work, and this is the trace left by the years on this work!
However, this treatment will definitely have a certain impact on the value of the work. But what was it before it was processed? This is a modern imitation! Now, at the very least, it will be considered an old imitation, and there is a good chance that it will be directly recognized as an authentic painting!
"I think the only flaw in this painting right now is that it feels a little too immature. Although in the eyes of ordinary people, this painting is almost chaotic, but the author is still too immature compared with the old, spicy and mature brushwork of Xue Zhou and other Yangs, so this work lacks a taste, or a lack of soul, which is difficult to escape the eyes of those appraisers. ”
Hu Jinquan still has some regrets, even if his level is super high, even if he racks his brains, but it is originally a rotten wood, no matter how you carve it, it is impossible to become a sacred tree, this painting, in his opinion, can also be used to deceive those greedy businessmen.
"Hehe, that's not necessarily." Li Yi didn't have time to speak, but he didn't expect Zhong Haoqing to speak first.
"This means that you know the details of this painting in advance, and all this is what you tossed, so in your heart, no matter how it changes, it can only be a fake. But what if someone who doesn't know the truth sees it? ”
Zhong Haoqing paused for a moment, and then said: "Taste, artistic conception, and soul are of course the indispensable inner charm of a painting, but these things are also ethereal, it can not only be given by the original author, but also by other people or time, and these things can also be given to a work!" ”
Li Yi thought for a moment and nodded, "That's right, it's like the articles of Lu Xun and Lao She that we learned when we were children, if you want to say that the author has thought of all those things when he wrote them, it must be impossible, but we still analyzed those things." ”
"It's the same with paintings, which is a very important reason why many painters' works are worthless during their lifetime, but they will appreciate rapidly after their death. Because those who came after attached some powerful attributes or halos to these works......"
"That's right, Xiaoyi, if you can find a Japanese master appraiser to endorse this work, then it will be recognized as genuine even if it is fake. On the contrary, even if the painting is really an authentic work, it can only be a fake if it is not supported by someone with identity! ”
Zhong Haoqing glanced at Li Yi with a smile, "You cheated the Japanese for billions of dollars in the spring auction at Sotheby's, do you want to deal with this painting too?" ”
Li Yi smiled bitterly and shook his head, Sotheby's that time was so thrilling that he didn't even have the courage to do it again. Moreover, that one is the original one, so it can stand the test, but what about this one? It's congenitally defective, and if it causes too many waves, who knows what will happen?
"I'm not going to do that with this painting, I'm going to find someone to get in touch with the Japanese privately and see if I can get something good from them. As for how they will identify this painting, whatever, I think, there are so many of them, so there must be no shortage of people who are willing to gamble on their own things. (To be continued.) )