Chapter 41: A Chance Encounter in an Antique Shop
Lin Long shuttled through each store with great interest, but every time he only looked at it and didn't buy it. Shi Lei was a little confused, how many of them had ancient coins, why didn't he buy them?
"Mr. Lin, are you not satisfied with this?" Shi Lei asked tentatively.
"That's not it, but these targets are all market prices, and I have those that I sell, what's the point of me buying them back? Are you tired, if you are tired, you rest and rest, and I will go to those places again. ”
"I'm not tired, I also happen to follow Mr. Lin and increase my knowledge."
Lin Long turned around, and Shi Lei showed a helpless expression. It looks like the day is going to be in vain again, when will he be able to play enough and really sit down and negotiate a contract with me?
Walking into a shop called Jubao Zhai, the decoration inside is antique, pottery, porcelain, calligraphy, painting, copper, jade, wood, dazzling, almost all kinds of things that Shi Lei has heard of, there seems to be all here.
But Shi Lei didn't expect that he would see another person here, a person he didn't want to see.
"Mr. Lin, Xiao Shi, I didn't expect you to be together." A slightly dark, slightly chubby man walked over.
"Mr. Hu, I didn't expect you to like this antique too, why, you are also familiar with Xiaoshi?" Lin Long greeted the other party with a smile.
"Mr. Hu, what a coincidence. Mr. Lin, I am only familiar with Mr. Hu, and I am not familiar. ”
The person who came was Hu Changsheng of Changsheng Group, and the agency of Xisheng Electric Vehicle this time was that Wufang Longjiang was competing with Changsheng Commerce. Shi Lei didn't know if Hu Changsheng happened to appear here, or if he was waiting here on purpose. If it is the latter, it means that Shi Lei's every move is under the control of the other party, which is terrible.
It is rumored that Hu Changsheng was a farmer in his early years, and he was working before graduating from primary school. Later, I don't know why, I suddenly made a fortune, and then I covered a few barren mountains. He happened to find a coal mine in the barren mountains, and somehow, he got a mining license, and his assets snowballed by relying on the booming coal business.
At a time when the state was gradually banning private coal mines, he sold all the coal mines at almost the highest price, obtained a large amount of cash, and then entered real estate and health products.
A few years ago, these two industries were not very standardized, and his assets skyrocketed again. When the state wanted to control it, he sold the health care products business, made a prosperous business, entered the retail industry in shopping malls, and also made a lot of money. It is conservatively estimated that he has a net worth of two or three billion, and he has sufficient cash.
It is said that now he is optimistic about network and technology products, and is ready to enter the industry, and is looking for partners.
Some people also say that Hu Changsheng is very well-connected in Longjiang and even in Beijing, and he has many friends in politics and business. And the means don't seem to be very clean, and a few big businessmen who used to be able to wrestle with him in Longjiang either fell down or withdrew from the market in Longjiang.
Just when Shi Lei's mind crossed these messages, Hu Changsheng walked over and patted Shi Lei's shoulder very enthusiastically: "Xiao Shi, how did you think about what I told you last time, come and help me, I won't lose you." ”
Shi Lei scolded in his heart, Hu Changsheng, you are too yin, now Wufang Longjiang and Changsheng Commerce are in competition, you are so affectionate with me, so what does Lin Long think of me, will he think that I eat inside and out?
If this reaches Wu Fanguo, or even Wu Fanguo, it reaches Wang Faqi's ears, and they all have an excuse to fire me!
"Mr. Hu, thank you for your appreciation, but I am very happy to do it in Wufang Company, and I have no plans to change jobs." Shi Lei said neither humbly nor arrogantly.
"Well, let's not talk about that. Mr. Lin, what antique calligraphy and painting do you like, I know a big collector, let him give you a palm, and ensure that all you pick out are genuine, if there is a fake, I will pay you ten times the price. Hu Changsheng said domineeringly.
"That's not the case, looking for the real thing from the fakes is both an exercise for your eyes and a pleasure. If I want to buy a fidelity, just go straight to the auction house, why bother to come and pick up the leaks? ”
Shi Lei breathed a sigh of relief, he was afraid that Lin Long would really accept Hu Changsheng's favor, and then he would have delayed his work in vain in the past few days.
"What Mr. Lin said makes sense, since this is the case, then Mr. Lin, let's take a look at the collection of this house, if there is anything you can look at." Shi Lei hurriedly said, don't let Hu Changsheng abduct Lin Long.
Shi Lei didn't know it at first, and thought that these rich people bought these antiques for the sake of vassal elegance. Later, I heard from a friend that there was another situation.
When bidding or buying and selling antiques, enterprises issue service invoices. At the end of the company's accounting, these antique collections can be used as "operating facilities" to amortize the company's operating costs, and there is no need to pay taxes. And the "business facilities" are depreciated every year, and there is not much left of the final depreciation. And these antiques bought by them are on the market with them, and their prices have soared. In this way, it can not only increase the value of investment, but also reduce taxes, killing two birds with one stone.
These are later words, and I will not go into them for the time being.
Lin Long walked around the store, and occasionally asked the shopkeeper to take things down for him to see, but no matter what he saw, he didn't express any opinion, and when Hu Changsheng seemed to have a lot of opinions on porcelain calligraphy and painting, he often said some terms that Shi Lei didn't understand at all, and he seemed very knowledgeable.
"Mr. Lin, look at this, the true work of Bai Shi Weng. It's just an early work, and the skills are not as mature as later, but it's definitely a rare genuine piece. The shopkeeper in the store spread out an ink painting, Shi Lei looked good, but he didn't believe it when he said it was Qi Baishi's. Qi Baishi's works can be sold here, and the price is only 300,000?
Even a pure layman like Shi Lei can figure out that this is a fake, not to mention that Lin Long, who has been fooled many times, no longer has the psychology of taking advantage of it.
The shopkeeper saw that Lin Long didn't pay much attention, and he also knew that the other party saw through his tricks. His face was not red, and he continued to show Lin Long another calligraphy and painting, saying that it was the work of a famous painter in the Qing Dynasty, and he was also a classmate and friend of Ji Xiaolan.
Shi Lei, the name of this person, had never heard of it at all, his eyes looked around the counter, and finally let him see something that he was more interested in, or that Lin Long should be more interested in, copper coins.
"Mr. Lin, there are some copper coins here, I look pretty good, can you come and have a look?" Shi Lei said softly.
Lin Long turned his head and looked at the counter on Shi Lei's side, there were really some copper coins on it. Piled together, it seems that it has not been classified, it looks like an antique, and some of it has a patina that has not been cleaned up, and I don't know if it is real, or if it is considered old.
"Hey, shopkeeper, how do you pile up some ancient coins here, can you take them out and let me pick and choose?" Lin Long was interested.