Chapter Forty-Eight: Genuine and Fake Match
David is really eye-catching!
Lawrence's enthusiasm for Wei Haihong made David stunned for a while, and he didn't react for a long time.
Lawrence didn't pay attention to others at all, and pulled Wei Haihong to the villa, and on the other side, Wei Xiaoqing jumped and jumped, while removing the remaining plaster on his legs, and throwing away his crutches.
Because of her strange movements, the bodyguards watched her, and at this time did not let her in, Wei Haihong pointed at her and said to Lawrence, "My niece, that ......" and pointed to Zhou Xuan and said, "My brother." ”
Lawrence turned around and looked at Wei Xiaoqing and Zhou Xuan, but he didn't understand Wei Haihong's words, so Wei Xiaoqing hurriedly went up and translated it to him.
Lawrence immediately smiled and said, "Oh, it turned out to be Mr. Wei's niece and brother, please come in!" ”
Wei Xiaoqing said, "Thank you!" Then he said to Zhou Xuan: "Go in." ”
As soon as David saw that he had gone in, he missed a person, came to his senses, and hurriedly called out to Lawrence: "Mr. Lawrence, I am David, and your butler asked us to come and paint for you, my name is David!" ”
David was so anxious that he spoke a little incoherently.
Lawrence was stunned for a moment, and then remembered that there was such a thing, and was about to ask the bodyguards to let him in.
Wei Haihong said lightly: "Mr. Lawrence, I have a small request. ”
Wei Xiaoqing translated for him, and Lawrence said with a smile: "Of course there is no problem, Mr. Wei, please say, as long as I can do it, everything is OK." ”
"Hehe, it's a small thing." Wei Haihong smiled, then pointed at David and said, "I hate this person very much, let's chat, it's really unpleasant to look at such a nasty person." ”
Wei Xiaoqing was stunned, but she still translated it to Lawrence according to the original words, and the expression on Lawrence's face did not change a point, and he said with a smile: "What is this!" Then he instructed the bodyguards to drive David out of the villa directly.
David was really confused, he didn't expect this to be the result! From afar, he shouted, "Mr. Lawrence, are you mistaken?" I was invited by your housekeeper to repair the painting, you can ask your housekeeper to know! ”
Lawrence frowned, and said to one of the bodyguards beside him: "Go and command, never contact this person again in the future!" ”
Wei Haihong saw that Lawrence was such a friend, and immediately smiled and walked into the villa with him.
Of course, he also understands that Lawrence just wants to have a good relationship with him, in order to try to break his territory into the Chinese market, in the business field, there is nothing to say, even enemies have no permanent enemies, not to mention that they are not enemies at all.
In the hall, there were still two people sitting, one of them and Zhou Xuanyi, both of them were stunned!
This person turned out to be Konji Ito!
The moment Ito saw Zhou Xuan, his face changed a little, but he didn't make a sound, and Zhou Xuan's expression was not noticed by others.
Lawrence invited Wei Haihong and the others to sit down, and then introduced them to the man next to Ito.
"This is Mr. Tsuyoshi Fujimoto, Deputy General Manager of Sumitomo Bank New York Branch of Japan."
Fujimoto was about thirty to thirty-five years old, and he was quite handsome, but his eyes were deep and had an unfathomable taste.
After Wei Xiaoqing introduced Fujimoto to her uncle, Wei Haihong nodded slightly and did not say anything else.
And after Fujimoto just listened to Lawrence's introduction to Wei Haihong, although he didn't know Wei Haihong's exact identity, he was sure that Wei Haihong's identity was not simple.
Lawrence's identity Fujimoto Tsuyoshi is very clear, if it weren't for his association with some of his collecting hobbies, Lawrence might not necessarily look down on him, and a person's weight is based on his own ability and financial resources.
Sumitomo Bank, where Tsuyoshi Fujimoto works, is the core enterprise of Japan's Mitsui Foundation and Sumitomo Foundation, the second largest commercial bank in Japan and one of the top ten commercial banks in the world. Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corporation is the core banking subsidiary of Sumitomo Mitsui Financial Group, which was definitely the No. 1 commercial consortium behemoth in Japan ten years ago, but the group leader at that time, Yasuo Hamanaka, lost as much as $4 billion in copper futures, which pushed Sumitomo Group to the forefront!
At that time, some people may still remember the bombshell of the collapse of the Bank of Bahrain, and the Sumitomo Group's huge losses in copper futures were no less than the Bank of Bahrain incident, and then the Sumitomo Group lost its strength greatly, and then the domestic Bank of Tokyo Mitsubishi and the United Bank of Japan merged to form the new Tokyo Mitsubishi United Bank, which suddenly ended the Sumitomo Group's position as the largest consortium in Japan.
After that, the Sumitomo Group was not as good as a year, and in 03 years, the Sumitomo Group obtained 700% of the shares of the Sumitomo Group by attracting the investment of Goldman Sachs of the United States of 12.5 billion US dollars, and the Sumitomo Group then relied on overseas investment to make up for domestic losses, and made many achievements abroad, but the domestic assets were due to a large share in the small business loan market, and the number of bankrupt enterprises in Japan increased, which in turn led to a sharp increase in bad debts and a decline in profits.
The company's international status has declined, and Tsuyoshi Fujimoto naturally has little standing in front of financial tycoons like Lawrence.
Wei Haihong knows a lot about large business consortia at home and abroad, and he naturally knows about Sumitomo Group, but he has always had very little contact with Japanese companies, so Fujimoto Tsuyoshi doesn't know about him.
However, after Lawrence's introduction, Fujimoto Gang still said hello to Wei Haihong slightly, and Wei Haihong only nodded.
Ito sat next to Tsuyoshi Fujimoto and stepped back slightly, and from this position, ordinary people can conclude that Ito is just a follower of Tsuyoshi Fujimoto, and he is not noticeable.
Only Zhou Xuan noticed him, and Ito had gauze wrapped around the front of both hands, so he put his hands under his legs as much as possible not to be seen.
Ito Jinji was a little afraid of Zhou Xuan, the reason was naturally that he was afraid to let the Fu family know that Fu Ying and her grandfather Fu Tianlai had spoken to him, and if he saw him again, he would not be able to eat and walk around, and when he saw Zhou Xuan at this moment, his heart trembled, for fear that he would see Fu Ying jump out!
Ito glanced secretly, Zhou Xuan There are three of them, but there is one girl, who is as beautiful as Fu Ying, but not Fu Ying, who is in her heart for a while, so she is not afraid.
Zhou Xuan closed his mouth tightly, and broke up with Fu Ying, because he didn't want to mention this sad matter again, as long as Ito didn't mention it, he naturally wouldn't mention it, and Ito wouldn't take the initiative to mention it, right? Besides, I really hate this devil.
Lawrence didn't notice them, and he wouldn't guess what everyone was thinking when there were too many people, and besides, they were still unknowns, small characters, and they weren't qualified enough for him to pay attention.
Laughing and spreading his hands, Lawrence said again: "Mr. Wei came just in time, Mr. Fujimoto has a few antiques that have been privately sold to me, and Mr. Wei also likes this business, by the way, take a look at my collection, hehe!" ”
Lawrence was a collector and always liked to let his good friends visit his collection, and sometimes take the opportunity to talk about business, just like some tea ceremony lovers, invite friends to tea or dinner, and talk about business, Lawrence talks about things by visiting his collection.
Of course, sometimes it's just a visit, after all, he is a collector.
And Wei Xiaoqing did a translation by the way, and the matter of repairing the painting naturally disappeared due to David's expulsion.
Lawrence's collection room has to go through three strict anti-theft measures, the first is fingerprint recognition, the second is video network recognition, the third is password, and there are seven or eight armed bodyguards outside the villa, and there is a small army-like security team in the rich area, in this case, to be honest, if anyone can steal property, it can only be the plot of the movie. In reality, it's still rare to see such a powerful character.
In Lawrence's collection room, Zhou Xuan was an eye-opener!
Of course, he and Wei Xiaoqing were able to come in together because of Wei Haihong's light, and Ito was naturally stained with Fujimoto's blessing.
In this room of about 100 square meters, there are no windows, a completely sealed room, surrounded by stainless steel shelves made of aluminum alloy along the walls, and there are three floors, each of which is filled with antique pieces.
Zhou Xuan couldn't help but let out the ice gas to measure, good guy, Lawrence's antiques are almost all over the world, and other countries don't talk about it, but China's antique devices are in two shelves, accounting for one-fifth of the entire collection room.
From the large Warring States period bronze tripod to the small finger-sized coins, and even the miniature carvings as large as rice grains, calligraphy and painting from the Tang and Song dynasties to the Qing Dynasty are readily available.
Zhou Xuan took a look, porcelain, copper and iron ancient ware, jade carving devices, all of them are complete, some of them are worth more than tens of millions according to his estimate, this is of course a conclusion reached after such a long time of knowledge and understanding, after all, he has ice qi ability, and he can measure the truth and falsehood, and combined with his knowledge a few days ago, the approximate estimated price.
If the value of China's cultural relics is alone, it will not be less than the value of one billion yuan, Zhou Xuan is secretly speechless!
This old man doesn't know how much money he spent on this!
However, Zhou Xuan also knows that there are not many treasures flowing out of the country now, most of them are lost during the chaos of the people's ** lords, and the Eight-Nation Coalition Army does not know how much China's national treasure-level cultural relics have been looted!
Lawrence has always been by Wei Haihong's side, and said with a smile: "Mr. Wei, the hexagonal diamond you sold in Hong Kong last time, hehe, it's a pity that I couldn't bid for it, it's a pity!" ”
In Wei Xiaoqing's crisp and pleasant translation voice, Wei Haihong laughed and said, "Mr. Lawrence, that gem is not owned by me, but by this ......," he said, pointing to Zhou Xuan beside him, "but owned by my little brother." ”
"Oh......" Lawrence paid attention to Zhou Xuan at this time, but he didn't expect this inconspicuous young man to be the owner of the 30 million dollar gem!
Although 30 million is nothing to him, if an ordinary person has this money, there will still be an obvious expression, just like a poor person, an ordinary person, suddenly won a large amount of lottery prizes, the momentum of the nouveau riche cannot be hidden!
But he didn't see anything from Zhou Xuan, and he was just an ordinary young man who didn't show the slightest hint of his face!
From this point, Lawrence's understanding of Zhou Xuan has changed greatly, and it is actually a great move for a person to be able to do this.
Wei Haihong has been watching the antique devices in the room, and he is also a person who has spent a lot of thought and money to collect, but at this moment he has to admit that this foreign old man is more fanatical than him.
Zhou Xuan didn't have any other ideas, that is, to take this opportunity to test more antiques from these Chinese and foreign countries, understand the age and molecular structure of these things, and if he encountered them in the future, he would not be blind and cheat people.
After visiting for half an hour, Lawrence invited everyone back to the hall, and said as he walked: "Mr. Wei, Mr. Fujimoto has brought a few treasures here, let's take a look at them together." ”
After sitting down in the hall, Fujimoto just signaled, Ito brought over a leather case placed in the corner of the hall, although his hand was injured, but his wrist was still strong, and a box could not be difficult for him.
In the middle of the hall, he put the box on the side of the coffee table, and Fujimoto just opened the box by himself, and took out a sheath scimitar with a length of a foot.
The other is a carved Buddha statue of wood, the wood is crimson and the old color is very strong.
Zhou Xuan secretly measured it with ice qi, the short warrior scimitar was five hundred years old, and it was an antiquity, but the wood carving was a fake.
The wood carving is similar to the porcelain he has seen before, using high-tech means, with old tires and new fire, and old experienced masters will also fall into it.
The outer layer of his wood carving Buddha statue is to use a high-pressure machine to beat the extremely ancient wood into crushed mud, and then high-pressure plating onto the mold, and then make some old rust, which can indeed hide the eyes of veterans, even if it is tested with an instrument, the result is also an antiquity.
Zhou Xuan measured the age of the broken wood and mud to be 720 years old agarwood trees, which can be regarded as an antiquity with a year in the short history of Japan.
I don't know if Fujimoto knew about this fake or not? I don't know if he was deceived by someone else and came to sell it to another person?
Fujimoto just put these two items on the table, then picked up the knife and pulled it out, the cold light was dying, it was indeed a good knife.
"The name of this knife is 'Bloody Land', it was cast by the famous master Maruzo five hundred years ago, made of low-temperature jade steel, sharp and incomparable, blowing hair and breaking hair, and the general sword broke when it touched, it was once the saber of the famous Japanese samurai Ueda tree, and it was later lost, it was accidentally obtained by my friend in the folk of Nagasaki, it was a treasure knife."
Fujimoto just introduced it in English, but Zhou Xuan and Wei Haihong couldn't understand it, Wei Xiaoqing could understand it, but she didn't know anything about antiquities.
Of course, Lawrence himself is an expert, but although he is an expert, he does not have a deep knowledge and understanding of the history and customs of various countries and ancient celebrities.
In fact, Fujimoto has already lied about this.
This sword is indeed an antiquity, but it was not worn by Yuki Ueda himself, but by his concubine, a woman, in ancient Japan, the samurai were a privileged class, so only samurai could wear long knives, and ordinary civilians had no right to use them. Most of the non-samurai class, such as peasants, merchants, women, etc., usually carried short swords for self-defense. The usual image of a samurai is that of a man with two swords at his waist, and he walks with a high toe. Needless to say, the samurai who used the two-sword stream.
This knife, Ueda Yuki's concubine engraved her husband's name on the knife to show loyalty and love, but it does not mean that Ueda Yuki's personal wear and use.
(To be continued)