The next day, Zhao Zhuo went to Huaihai City again, every day between the porcelain market and the ghost market, sometimes to the countryside to take a walk, a few days passed, the porcelain of the Six Dynasties, the original celadon and the porcelain of the late Qing Dynasty and the Republic of China have also been settled, although its price did not reach the price of each victory, but with the blue and white plate of Bolingdi, Zhao Zhuo has the confidence to win.

In the blink of an eye, the Dou Porcelain Festival has finally reached the opening day, and before that, Cui Shiyan also opened up the procedures for lending the blue and white plate, so that Zhao Zhuo can take this plate out of the competition without any worries, although it is borrowed from the museum, but because he has not passed away, it is also in line with the rules of the Dou Porcelain Festival.

As a triennial event in Baicheng, the Dou Porcelain Festival has been full of atmosphere before it opens, and the venue for it is the largest convention and exhibition center in Baicheng.

Baicheng Convention and Exhibition Center is located in the most prosperous area of the city center, covering a huge area, when it cost tens of millions of dollars to hire a well-known foreign designer to design and build, it can be said that it is the symbol of Baicheng surname building, and all of the events held here are international or domestic top events, and the Dou Porcelain Festival can be held here also shows its great influence.

Because the collections of the Dou Porcelain Festival are extremely valuable, and the guests participating are also heavyweights, the Convention and Exhibition Center not only improves the security level and increases the number of security personnel in the venue, but also has the police of the Municipal Public Security Bureau patrolling inside and outside the venue, and is also equipped with various detection equipment, explosive search dogs, etc., which can be described as very strict.

The scale of the porcelain festival is the grandest one in the past, the number of exhibitors in the six games has reached more than 1,000 people, on average, almost every game has more than 200 people to participate, in addition to the Ji family, the Tong family and the Fang family of the three families to participate, there are all kinds of characters in the antique world of Baicheng, whether it is antique dealers, appraisers or collectors, and even ordinary people, as long as there are precious ancient porcelain at home, they can be used to exhibit.

For the Dou Porcelain Festival, the biggest challenge is how to maintain a high proportion of mystery and authenticity.

The so-called mystery, is not able to let everyone know which collector's porcelain can win the championship at the porcelain festival, so that there can be suspense, can attract everyone's attention, if you know early on which collector has a certain priceless porcelain to appear, it will be a lot boring, which is why there are no ancient porcelain to participate in the competition.

However, if you want to ensure such suspense, it means that it is not possible to conduct large-scale identification of the porcelain of the contestants, but there is a problem in this way, that is, the high proportion of genuine products.

If the porcelain of the contestants is not identified, then it is very likely that a large number of fakes will appear, so that the Dou Porcelain Festival will become a fake festival, and it will not be a big joke to spread it.

Therefore, in order to solve such a problem, the Dou Porcelain Festival has classified the contestants when they sign up, including collectors, ordinary players, antique people, appraisers, contestants of a certain year, etc., and the admission cards of each kind of contestants are also different.

For collectors, having a good piece of porcelain in their hands is a symbol of vision and wealth, and no one will deliberately run to such a solemn occasion with a fake to make trouble.

If the contestants of a certain year who have participated in the Dou Porcelain Festival before, if the porcelain they have participated in before has reached more than one million, it means that they also have a good eyesight.

This is especially true for appraisers and antiques, who are exempted from the identification of their porcelain in order to maintain a sense of mystery, and neither the organizers nor the judges know what exactly the porcelain they bring to the competition is.

At the same time, for ordinary players who have not participated in the competition before, either they need to be given a preliminary appraisal by the appraiser of the appraiser association, or they must have an appraisal certificate given by a professional appraiser.

All these regulations make the annual porcelain festival a kind of mystery and suspense, so even though the ticket is as high as 100 yuan, there are still a large number of citizens who come to watch, in order to see the style of those sky-high porcelain.

The opening time of the festival is 10 o'clock in the morning, but the contestants must arrive at the venue around 8 o'clock, because when they come to the venue, they must take pictures of the porcelain and other procedures, so as to avoid someone with bad intentions pretending to be a contestant and using the porcelain damage and other things to claim compensation from the organizers.

Zhao Zhuo came with Ji Yuan and others, and the porcelain of the first late Qing Dynasty porcelain competition was brought in the car, and the organizer also provided a very convenient service, that is, each participant can pay a certain fee, and the organizer will send someone to escort him and the porcelain to the convention and exhibition center.

Participants will be admitted to the basement level of the Convention and Exhibition Center, and they will be able to enter the parking lot directly.

Since the contestants are not limited to their identities, as long as there are expensive porcelain that has never existed in the world, they can participate in the competition, so there are six participants in a big family like the Ji family, including Ji Xiaofan, of course, these porcelains are also purchased by themselves.

In fact, for the family, the porcelain festival is not only an occasion to highlight the family's collections, but also a way to test whether the family is qualified to inherit the family business, at this point the three families almost all have the same idea, but even so, the three families are still fighting openly and secretly, who can win the victory of the porcelain festival competition, it is a major event of the glory of the ancestors.

At the entrance, the wooden boxes brought by the people are opened in turn, and the staff checks the porcelain for signs of damage, and then everyone fills out a form to prove that the porcelain is intact when entering, and the preservation after entering is the responsibility of the individual.

This is not that the organizers deliberately make it difficult, after all, porcelain is inherently fragile, and the price of a thing may be millions, if you don't fill in these regulations, if you find your head, the appraiser association is estimated to be bankrupt.

After the inspection, the organizer will provide a professional-grade wooden box, and after putting the porcelain in it, everyone will take the wooden box to the venue on the ground floor, the whole process is very convenient and fast, and of course, it is also careful.

When Zhao Zhuo and the others took the elevator to the first floor above ground, they arrived in the hall of the venue, and many contestants had already arrived in advance.

The whole venue is very large, can accommodate thousands of people, and the seats are terraced and increased one by one, so you can observe the situation on the competition platform very clearly no matter where you sit.

The platform is located in the northernmost part of the venue, the platform of dozens of square meters is a little higher than the ground, and there is a large area of Dou Porcelain Festival posters pasted behind it, and below the poster is the judges' seat, and the long table is covered with a white cloth, and there is no figure yet.

There is a large table one or two meters in front of the judges' seat, which is used to put porcelain, and around the platform, there are already staff who are placing large cameras, lights and other equipment, and at the same time, more than a dozen LCD screens are temporarily placed in the venue, so that you can see the images on the platform in real time.

The position where the contestants sit is the first row of seats, and there is a mark on the ground two or three meters in front of each person's seat, which is a special place for putting wooden boxes, because the aisle is located behind the first row, so once the wooden boxes are placed there, it is unlikely that anyone else will touch them except for the owner who takes them during the competition, so as to avoid the situation of breakage.

Although there are six people in the Ji family, Zhao Zhuo is not familiar with them, and he also knows from Ji Xiaofan's mouth that in order to compete for the industry, there is intrigue between these people, and this time they came to participate in the competition and they all worked hard to get porcelain.

Zhao Zhuo didn't want to participate in the battle between the Ji family, for him, the affairs of the Fang family and the Tong family were troublesome enough.

As the contestants entered the venue one by one, Tong Dongyang and Tong Feiyu also came, each holding a wooden box, and it seemed that they were going to compete.

When Tong Dongyang passed in front of Zhao Zhuo, he smiled slightly and said, "Brother Zhao, seeing that you look refreshed, it seems that you have received a lot of good goods?" ”

How could Zhao Zhuo not hear the sarcasm in his words, and said lightly: "In such a short period of time, how can I compare to the good goods that Brother Tong spent three years finding?" However, before the things are taken out, no one knows who will kill the deer. ”

Tong Feiyu couldn't help but sneer: "You really don't shed tears when you don't see the coffin, not to mention the second brother's collection, it's this one of mine, and it's also a heavy weapon found in the ghost market, it will definitely open your eyes!" ”

Zhao Zhuo smiled lightly: "Then I'll wait to open my eyes." ”

When the two walked over, Ji Xiaofan couldn't help but snort heavily: "These two people are also too deceitful!" Brother Zhao, otherwise, you will use this one of mine, right? ”

"No need, I'll just use this." Zhao Zhuo smiled slightly, the first competition porcelain in his hand was found in the ghost market with Ji Xiaofan, although the price is more than one million, but it is indeed not a lot of expensive things, but in the competition of the Porcelain Festival over the years, the highest price of porcelain in the late Qing Dynasty and the Republic of China is nearly 10 million.

However, Zhao Zhuo is not worried at all, with the killer feature of the blue and white plate, he is really not afraid that Tong Feiyu will be able to come up with something powerful.

Just as he was thinking about it, he saw Fang Lu and Fang Youming also walking in from the side, the wooden box Fang Youming was carrying in his hand was quite large, it could be seen that it should be a large heavy weapon inside, this person has a wide range of channels, so this entry must also be a valuable thing.

(To be continued)