Jesse's words really asked about Chris's weakness, and the origin of this painting is really not so correct. Pen, fun, and www.biquge.info

It is well known that this Chris was back then. Forrell's grandfather was one of the first people in the United States to start collecting ancient Chinese paintings, and this old guy had a great advantage because he started early.

At that time, China's pattern was relatively chaotic, just in the case of warlord melee, and the domestic people did not have a strong sense of cultural relics protection, plus the great powers of the country invaded China for many years, and they all knew what good things China had, so a large number of Chinese national treasures were lost overseas.

And this Forrell has also scavenged a lot of good things from China, and in this way, this guy's appetite has also been raised, so that he is even more arrogant to those brokers who specialize in giving him mobile phones and antiques: "Don't give me Chinese calligraphy and paintings after the Yuan Dynasty, I only accept calligraphy and ......paintings from the Tang and Song dynasties."

It is precisely because of such harsh conditions set by him that a large number of fakes have also flowed into his hands.

So much so that when he donated to establish the Forrell Museum, he claimed that there were a total of 30,000 pieces of ancient Chinese art, but there were a large number of fakes, counterfeit calligraphy and paintings.

And these calligraphy and paintings, not only are imitations and paintings in the modern and modern periods, there are many of them, they are the Ming and Qing dynasties, the imitation of the Tang and Song dynasties of calligraphy and painting, but in the modern period, these counterfeit fakes also have a history of hundreds of years, and because the level of counterfeit painting is relatively high, so these calligraphy and paintings have become antiques.

And this Zhao Danian's painting is obviously considered to be an imitation of the Ming Dynasty by the original appraisers, the reason is very simple, that is, although this Zhao Danian is relatively famous, but there are not many handed down works, so many of those appraisers have never seen his paintings, so they can't make comparisons.

In addition, because the painting is so well preserved, no matter how you look at it, this painting is more like a new painting, not like an old painting with a history of nearly 1,000 years at all.

Therefore, when the Forrell Art Museum was established, those appraisers, when they appraised this painting, classified this painting as an imitation painting of the Ming and Qing dynasties, which was a work of the 17th century.

Later, because Dr. Sackler also donated all his life's collections, and the collections in the Sackler Art Museum together formed the Asian part of the modern American National Museum, and the collection of works increased significantly, plus in recent years, the integrated art museum has maintained the habit of only entering and not leaving, resulting in more and more collections, and the appraisal experts in the museum have no mind to take out all the original collections and re-identify and classify them again, which gives Chris an opportunity to take advantage of.

A few years ago, the Forrell and Sackler Art Gallery underwent a major retreat because the collection was growing and the original storage and display space was no longer enough.

Most of the calligraphy and paintings in this art museum are ancient Chinese calligraphy and paintings, which have very strict requirements for preservation conditions, not only requiring preservation at constant temperature and humidity, but also special requirements for the brightness of the lights.

So Chris and several other directors of the museum organized a screening, and the purpose of this screening is, of course, to screen out and dispose of the fakes hidden in these genuine works.

In fact, everyone knows what is going on, this art museum now has a collection of 100,000 pieces, among which there are many famous good things, but some things that do not attract attention, because of the problem of popularity, are actually also good things.

Those directors or something, aren't they coveting such good things for a long time? It's just that no one dares to blatantly take away these good things, but this screening provides them with a great opportunity.

As long as they do a little bit of tricks and tricks during this appraisal, let these things be classified as fakes, and then take them out of the warehouse, it is not up to them to decide what to do with them when the time comes.

So at that meeting, Chris got his hands on a number of famous 'fake' paintings, including Zhao Danian's "Autumn Pond Picture", and these paintings that were identified as 'fakes' were of course removed from the exhibition roster of the Frell and Sackler Art Museums, and people who did not pay attention to this museum did not know where these paintings went.

Even those who pay attention to these paintings can't do much, because the museum has so many collections, the exhibition hall is so large, only a few thousand works can be exhibited at a time, and as for the other works, they can only lie in the warehouse, waiting for the schedule, and take turns to take them to the exhibition hall to be exhibited.

And now that the painting has been taken to the warehouse for rest, there is nothing they can do, as for when it can be taken out and exhibited, it is up to the people in the museum to have the final say, and they have no way to supervise it.

In this way, those paintings were privately swallowed by Chris and some other art museum managers, anyway, these managers are either the children of some high-ranking officials in the current US government, or the Frill family like him, or the children of the Sackler family, even if people know that they have a bad plan, no one dares to say it.

Even if they said it, no one wanted to believe it, so they each won a lot of loot, and today's "Autumn Pond" is one of Chris's proudest collections.

The previous painting came out because this painting was not very famous, but its value was very high, and it was very low-key, so it might not be recognized, but he didn't expect that this painting would be recognized by Jin Muchen.

And I told Jesse, and now when Jesse asks him like this, he seems very passive, this painting is genuine, but he can't tell Jesse that this painting is from the Frill and Sackler Art Museum, right?

Isn't that the same as automatically giving the handle to others?

So at this time, Chris was stumbling, and he really didn't know how to answer, and at this time, Jesse was smiling.

"Okay, Chris, I'm not going to make it difficult for you, I know it's actually quite easy to get a painting like this in your position. It has nothing to do with us, and we don't care, but one thing I must say is that because of the origin and origin of this painting, we can't easily realize this painting, so we have to discount the price. Although he is a famous painting, he also has to abide by the laws of the market, right? ”

Hearing Jesse say this, Chris breathed a sigh of relief, indeed, this painting must not be easy to realize because of its special background.

Fortunately, Jesse is not brainless, and promised that he could use this painting as a mortgage, so it will be easy to do, but he has to borrow less money for himself, which is acceptable, a little less loan, and a little less interest, which is also a good thing, anyway, he is just a little short of money during this time, and after another month, he will be able to turn around, and who will need to use their money then?

Thinking of this, Chris hurriedly nodded and agreed to Jesse's conditions: "Then how much financing you can give me?" ”

"Well, I don't doubt that you say the painting is worth $30 million, but it seems to me that it should be the price that will be sold after it goes to auction. And if according to the current situation of this painting, it is only suitable for taking the black road, and if it is to take the route of selling stolen goods in the black road, then this painting will be greatly discounted, so let's do it, I am not a black shop, I will give you 10 million US dollars, one-third of the original price, this is already very fair, what do you think? ”

Listening to this offer, if Chris didn't see that Jesse was a woman, he really wanted to pour the wine in his hand on her face, Nima's, you bitch, you play with me, right?

Even if you want to discount, you don't have to fight so hard, right? A painting with a market value of 30 million, you actually gave me 10 million US dollars as soon as you opened your mouth, and directly gave me a one-third discount, don't you take you so excessively?

Besides, even if you mentioned the channel for selling stolen goods in the underworld, even if it is any channel, the price is not so low?

The discounts given by other people's black clubs are much higher than those of yours? You're too ruthless!

Chris was about to explode at this time, but he still had to maintain his demeanor in front of Jesse, he was silent for a while, and then raised his head, looked at Jesse with a smile and said, "Jessica, is your discount a little too ruthless?" ”

"No, not at all, Chris, I'm actually doing this for your good."

Chris laughed angrily: "Oh? Good for me? I do not quite understand! ”

"Haha, then I'll tell you, in fact, people like you, do you think you are short of money?"

Jesse asked, Chris was stunned for a moment, and then shook his head, it is true that he is not short of money, but most of his cash has been invested, and it is just that he can't turn around for a while.

Jesse snapped his fingers, "Isn't that right?" If you are very short of money, then of course you hope to lend as much money as possible, but you are not short of money, why do you borrow so much? With 30 million dollars, do you know how much you have to repay for a month's interest? According to the current market, one month's interest is enough for you to pay back a sports car? What about two months? And if it's 10 million, don't you pay a lot less interest? ”

As soon as Jesse said this, Chris really couldn't find any reason to refute her for a while. (To be continued.) )