Chapter 46: Getting Rich Overnight
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"What the hell is going on between the two of you?"
Seeing the conflict between Jin Muchen and Johnny Du, in the end, Jin Muchen drove Johnny Du, Rick was not born to dissuade him, anyway, Johnny Du's actions before made him feel very annoying, not to mention that although there had been many transactions between them before, he had never liked that guy's personality.
Jin Muchen probably told Rick about going to Bentley's garage to sell that day, so that Rick probably knew the reason for the enmity between them.
To be honest, he also hates a guy like Johnny Du who forgets his ancestors, a person can not even recognize his ancestors, so what integrity does he have?
"What about you? How did you meet? To be honest Rick, I really don't understand, how could you do business with someone with such a bad character? ”
Jin Muchen inadvertently asked casually, and Rick shrugged.
"This Johnny is really annoying, in fact, he hasn't been in this business for long. But the reputation in the circle is really not very good. ”
Rick didn't have anything to hide, so he roughly told Jin Muchen about the experience of his acquaintance with Johnny Du.
"This Du Johnny is a native of Xiangjiang, at the earliest, his parents were rich businessmen in Xiangjiang in the early years, and later when Xiangjiang returned, their whole family immigrated to the United States."
As soon as Rick said this, Jin Muchen knew that the family was all the kind of guy who was not very friendly to the mainland and even distrusted, so it was no wonder that this family could educate such children.
Thinking about the fact that after he came to the United States, he has been brainwashed and educated by the United States for so many years, and it is natural that he has an unfriendly attitude towards China and the mainland compatriots.
"After the family immigrated to the United States, they opened an Asian supermarket in Manhattan's Chinatown, and the business was not bad. He also married a good wife, but later, this guy didn't know which tendon was wrong, and he actually learned to speculate in stocks, futures, and finance. As a result, you know, it happened to run into the subprime mortgage crisis of '08, and it was a loss and a bankruptcy. Later, I heard that his wife also ran away with their white lawyer......"
Hearing Rick say this, Jin Muchen couldn't help but feel a chill, the so-called poor people must have something to hate.
This Du Johnny is a special brain-dead, the white godfather who is superstitious about him is so superstitious that everyone who was fooled by others has gone bankrupt, and even his wife has been fooled away by others, why are you still kneeling and licking those guys like this, it seems that you deserve your fate.
"Later, this guy couldn't help it, so he went to work as a chef in a Chinese restaurant in Chinatown......"
Hearing Rick say this, Jin Muchen couldn't help but want to laugh, what? I really called myself guessing correctly, feeling this grandson, I really did a big spoonful of fried pho in a Chinese restaurant in Chinatown!
Later, I heard that this guy used very disgraceful means to pit several antiques in the hands of a new immigrant from the mainland, and it was with those antiques that he turned over and became a rich man again. I have dealt with him, that is, a few years ago, after he entered this industry, I heard that this guy often cheated things from new immigrants, sometimes antiques, or precious jade or something. That is, from what time we are familiar with it. But don't think I'm doing too much, anyway, it's like this for those who do antique business, if he doesn't come to me, he will go to find someone else, this is the unspoken rule of our industry. ”
Such a disgraceful thing, Rick didn't hide it from Jin Muchen, obviously treating him as his own.
It turned out that this grandson had such a disgraceful past, and Jin Muchen, who originally thought that he might be a little excessive, immediately extinguished that thought at this time, not only was he not too much at all, but he was even a little too kind.
Such a grandson, who does not regard himself as a Chinese at all, but also harms his compatriots in his name, just slapped him in the face and let him go, which is really cheap for him.
"Rick, how do you know he's been so much?"
Jin Muchen really couldn't help but ask again, and Rick raised his head and glanced at him.
"Who doesn't know if you like to go to Manhattan's Chinatown? Besides, when I open my door to do business, I have to understand whether my business partner is not? After all, we have to be quite cautious in our business. ”
When Rick said this, Jin Muchen also nodded, it was indeed the case.
"Okay, that guy is out of here, let's not talk about him, let's take a look at these table lamps in front of us!"
Rick turned the topic back to the topic, and Jin Muchen certainly didn't want to waste time on that bastard.
Rick picked up the second lamp on the table, this lamp is the table lamp of the peony flower lampshade of the brass lampholder, to be honest, in Jin Muchen's aesthetic vision, this lamp should be the most beautiful of the three lamps, but who made the homecoming peacock lamp in front of the jade.
"Brass lampholder, and this lampholder is still in the shape of the Eiffel Tower......"
As soon as Rick said this, Jin Muchen noticed that this lampholder was really designed according to the shape of the Eiffel Tower, no wonder when he saw the lampholder of this lamp before, how could he feel so familiar?
"The glass of the lampshade, the lines are very smooth, it is a one-stop work, the color brightness of this stained glass is also quite high, and the design of the lamp holder hates to be neat. Looking at the painted pattern on the lampshade, the design is very exquisite, the color is gorgeous, and you look at the background is composed of purple, blue and yellow, with this red red flower, the style is gorgeous and fresh, such a table lamp is the favorite type of those collectors, and it is also a boutique that can be taken to auction, and it will definitely be sought after as soon as it is unveiled, considering that this is also a boutique designed by Louis for the 70th anniversary of Tiffany & Co., the price of this lamp will definitely not be less than 500,000! ”
Rick said his evaluation and inference, Jin Muchen felt his heart pounding and pounding, the previous lamp was more than one million, plus this lamp 500,000, wouldn't it be more than two million?
Even if I graduated from Columbia University with a major in pharmacology and found a high-paying job in Shun Lì, how many years would it take to earn two million dollars?
At this time, Rick had already picked up the third lamp, this lamp is honestly the most unspecial one of these lamps, the bronze lampholder, this time this lampholder is just an ordinary geometric design, and it does not imitate any well-known buildings, but at the bottom of the base, it is also a little ingenious, made into a pattern of water lotus leaves.
The lampshade is a light green shade made of dark green and light green, and underneath the lampshade is a large dragonfly with five wings connected together.
The color of the whole table lamp is not gorgeous, but it looks very simple and elegant, and the light transmittance of the lampshade should be the best one among several table lamps, it seems that this should be a more practical table lamp.
"Haha, what do I see? This should be the originator of the Tiffany dragonfly table lamp, right? ”
Rick said with a smile, hearing him say this, Jin Muchen was stunned again.
"How? Could it be that this dragonfly lamp also has a lot of sayings? ”
"Hehe, you kid, what a ......"
Hearing him ask, Rick looked at this kid with very strange eyes, is this guy really so lucky?
Could it be true that only a layman can really pick up a big leak?
"Louis Tiffany has produced thousands of pieces a year since he started the stained glass company, especially since he started making Zuò table lamps, and he is also a perfectionist, and if there are substandard products, he will personally break them up. But do you know which one of the table lamps produced in their factory is the most circulated in the market? ”
Jin Muchen shook his head, he really didn't know!
Rick shook his head as well, and then said, "It's such a dragonfly lamp!" ”
"Oh? Is it? Rick, I don't understand, tell me about it! ”
"You know, no matter Luis. Tiffany, how much he strives for perfection, but his studio, after all, is a commercial institution. So when a successful piece is popular, they quickly launch a series of reproductions, or derivatives. The most popular table lamp in Tiffany Studios is the Dragonfly Table Lamp. The dragonfly table lamp is arguably one of Tiffany's most iconic designs. It was so popular that the studio later made lampshades of all shapes and sizes, including chandeliers, table lamps and floor lamps. According to later statistics, Tiffany's atelier produced a total of about 100 dragonfly table lamps. So now the dragonfly lamp is the most circulated and most collected table lamp on the market. It is precisely because of the large number of surviving people and the wide audience that the price of this dragonfly table lamp has gone all the way up. And yours is the original of the Dragonfly Table Lamp, so the price of your lamp will only be higher. According to the current market situation, the price of this lamp will definitely not be less than 400,000 US dollars! ”
When Jin Muchen heard this, he felt that he was going to faint, and it was 400,000 again, this time Lao Tzu was really going to be developed!
O millionaire! Such a thing as getting rich overnight can really happen to you!
Nima, when Lao Tzu has money, how should he spend it? Eat all the luxury restaurants in New York? By the way, get yourself a green card?
Don't think about sneaky jobs like this now! Anyway, if you want to do an antique business in the United States in the future, you can still save a lot of trouble with a green card.
It's true that the green card in the United States is not easy to get, but it is definitely not difficult for ordinary people to be a millionaire, is it?