Chapter 882: Xuande Furnace
"Brother Qi, get down to business, don't make fun of me."
Qi Shaowen smiled and said, "It's true." Last year, a friend of Brother Zhang, Tong GuΓ² Zhu Qibin's wife found a relationship, and listed the company on the NASDAQ in the United States, making a lot of money, and now a few people are looking for Brother Zhang for help, Brother Zhang is looking for Zhou Qian, Zhou Qian told sΓΉ that your wife's best friend Qin Xiaoying is the major shareholder of the investment bank, let him go directly to Qin Xiaoying. Brother Zhang's friend found Qin Xiaoying, but she opened her mouth and asked for an underwriting fee of 5.5% according to the market value of the listing. They found Qin Xiaoying's information, a Chinese-American, born in the capital, the family opened several jewelry stores, extremely wealthy, two children, and unknown marital status. If you can get close to her through your wife's connections and get her to lower the underwriting fee, you're done. β
Wuyang smiled: "Isn't it just looking for someone, and it's a beautiful man, why are you so vulgar?" β
Qi Shaowen said: "It's not okay to joke? Besides, although Qin Xiaoying is a, according to people who have been in contact, her appearance, figure, demeanor, and temperament are fairy-like deposits, and if something can happen, it will not be a loss. β
"Brother Qi really has a romantic heart, otherwise we will go together this time?"
Qi Shaowen said: "You think I don't want to? But this is going to work, and the affair can only be incidental, besides, the conditions of people are so good, I am a turtle, can I be favored by others? You're different. β
Wuyang smiled: "Brother Qi is asking me to sacrifice the interests of Brother Zhang's friends to please others?" β
"That's not good, Brother Zhang's friend's business. We have to do it as our own. Work is work. An affair is an affair. If it is at the expense of their interests, the price is also too high. No matter how beautiful she is, after all, she is a woman in her 30s, and it is not worth spending such a big price. By the way, brother, it's done, and several bosses are going to pay you. β
"How are they going to give, and how much?"
Qi Shaowen said: "Brother. How could I know these things to an outsider? I don't think Brother Zhang will know, I guess he usually has to follow the rules. β
Wuyang said: "Brother Qi, to be honest, I don't care about this. If they give money or stocks, it will be better for Brother Zhang, you and me. Let's not talk about that, do you know what the general underwriting fee ratio is? What is the bottom line of Brother Zhang's friend? β
Qi Shaowen said: "The normal underwriting fee ratio is 3% to 5.5%, the larger the listed company, the lower the proportion of the underwriting fee, and the smaller the company, the higher." Brother Zhang's friends, of course, hope that the lower the better. β
Wuyang asked: "So Brother Zhang's friend's company is very small?" β
"These friends have listed companies in China. There are also companies in Hong Kong, the United Kingdom, and other places that are ready to be packaged for listing in the United States. At first, I didn't know the situation there, but if it was small, I could have enlarged the package a lot. If they can raise $5 billion, Qin Xiaoying's underwriting fees will also be hundreds of millions of dollars, and if these three companies are successfully packaged and listed this year, investment banks will be able to earn $3 or 400 million. β
Wuyang said with a smile: "This is a very promising thing, as long as you handle the business of listing a few companies in the United States every year, you can earn so much." If I am an investment banker, I can also find a company that is listed and buy shares of some companies to show that I am responsible. If the publicity is good, the company's stock price soars, and the investment bank can sell the stock and cash out, making much more money than the underwriting fee. β
Qi Shaowen said: "Brother, have you been in contact with this matter before?" β
"No, I only know that there are such people in China, who specialize in promoting the company to the market, how to operate and how to make money, I really don't know. That's all I imagined, right? β
Qi Shaowen said with a smile: "Brother, no wonder Brother Zhang said that you are a wizard in the economy, and we don't deserve to lift your shoes, it turns out to be true." Okay, this matter will be implemented on your head, you will go to apply for a passport tomorrow, and go to the United States on the 30th, you must persuade Qin Xiaoying to help Brother Zhang's friend with this. β
"Brother Qi, it's okay to help, but it's not necessarily possible, and there is a mess of work in our city, so it's not good to ask for leave."
Qi Shaowen said: "If you go over on the 30th, you will be able to convince Qin Xiaoying in half a day, and you can play for a few days, and nothing will be delayed." All your expenses are borne by several companies, and you don't need to spend money. β
"That's not good, I'm most afraid of settling accounts after the autumn, except for the carriage and accommodation expenses, I am responsible for everything else."
"Brother, what else do you have to spend?"
Wuyang smiled: "Brother Qi, do you think I'm a machine guy?" It's impossible to fly back and forth for two days, and when I get to the United States, I'll come back after I'm done. Silicon Valley is always a must-see, Manhattan, Las Vegas, the Great Lakes, Niagara Falls, Yellowstone National Park, right? β
Qi Shaowen said with a smile: "You can go around the mainland of the United States, Yellowstone National Park is in Alaska, don't go this time." You've gone to Yellowstone National Park, and you want to go to Hawaii. β
"Brother Qi is very familiar with the United States?"
"I work in a state-owned enterprise, so I naturally have more opportunities to go out to study than you government officials. Dude, which countries have you been to? β
Wuyang smiled and said: "I have been to the Far East of Russia, to the other side of the Yalu River, and to Vietnam and Myanmar. β
Qi Shaowen said: "You are so young, you should do more work and think less about those things that are public money for tourism." Brother, why don't you let Brother Zhang come forward and report to the Central Committee to approve you to go abroad for business? β
"Of course, it's better to give me a month. However, Brother Qi, don't you have to be reimbursed for the cost of tolerance? β
"If you don't want to be reimbursed, just don't hand it in. Overreporting expenses is checked, and underreporting is not cared for. β
"Brother Qi, I have to take someone with me, a county magistrate in our city."
Qi Shaowen asked: "This county magistrate is so valued by you, male and female?" β
Wuyang smiled: "Of course it's a man, if you take a woman abroad." Then you can't wash it by jumping into the Yellow River. β
"What if it doesn't work?"
"It's not okay if you don't save zΓ i. He was the county magistrate. It's my right pipe. I'll just agree. It's not for anything else, he studied in the United States, stayed for many years, and I don't have to worry about anything when I go. β
Qi Shaowen said with a smile: "I remember, Brother Zhang once said that the son of your big boss works in your city, you must take him there, right?" That's right, the tolerance was arranged by Brother Zhang. Although you have a good personal relationship, but after all, it is not a system, you go out and arouse the suspicion of the big boss, we will hurt you, fortunately, you are thoughtful. Okay, let's go buy cultural relics. Tomorrow you go to apply for a passport, and I will call Brother Zhang and ask him to approve your leave. β
"Brother Qi. When did you go to Qingshan County and guide them to plant tobacco seedlings on the spot? β
"Good. Tomorrow, you arrange for the mayor or deputy mayor to lead the way, I will go to other counties and cities, you go to apply for passports, and the day after tomorrow we will go to Qingshan County together. β
When he arrived at the cultural relics street, Qi Shaowen was attracted by the rich cultural relics in the store, and with Professor Wang beside him, he was not afraid of buying fakes, so he was relieved to pick them up and ignore Wuyang.
Wuyang drank tea for a while, and when he was bored, he used his true qi to scan those porcelain. With this sweep, those high-quality imitations immediately disappeared. Although the shape, pattern, and old and new Cheng dΓΉ cannot be seen at all, there is a world of difference between the purple qi. The old objects are full of purple gas, and the high imitation is not purple at all. After reading the porcelain, and then looking at the jade, pottery, and ivory carvings, it is all like this.
When I saw the two Xuande furnaces, the problem came out. The two stoves are exactly the same, but one of them has purple gas on the body and purple gas on the other stove. I asked the salesman and replied, "This is an antiquities dealer who put it here for consignment." The price tag is 400,000 each, and if someone really buys it, 360,000 can also be sold, but it must be sold together. He gave us a 10% commission. Boss, do you say this is true? β
Wuyang said: "Half-truths, I bought 720,000 yuan." β
The salesman said, "Boss, if you buy it, we won't charge a sales commission." β
"Why?"
"Curator Tan called the manager just now and said, you are our boss. The boss wants to buy something, of course, he can't take it. β
Wuyang smiled and said: "You can get 20% of this commission, aren't you at a loss?" β
"It's okay, it's 10,000 dollars, the dealer only sent it for a few days, and I'm just there, no trouble. If the boss is upset about this and fires my squid, I will be miserable. β
Wuyang said: "Do you know that I am the boss, and the boss will be unhappy for tens of thousands of dollars?" You're so young and beautiful, even if you're fired, you can find a better job. β
"Boss, there's nothing wrong with being careful. You may not know it, we do things here, the work is very easy, every day is to do hygiene, guests come to make tea, take down cultural relics for guests, but the income is very high. If you sell your own cultural relics, you will receive a 1% commission, and if you help others sell your cultural relics, you will receive 20% of the sales commission to us. For example, if these two stoves sell for 720,000 yuan, the store can collect 72,000 yuan, and I can get 10,000 4. β
Wuyang said: "You are so beautiful, there must be a lot of people who come to you to consign and buy things, and your income must be relatively high." β
"It's beautiful, our salespeople are almost the same. The business is easy to do, mainly because our things are very good, and they are very famous in the cultural relics world, and many people come here to become repeat customers and bring new customers. β
"How much do you get on average in a month?"
The salesman smiled and said: "The boss just now bought some porcelain, vases, porcelain plates, bowls, bowls and so on, a total of 27 million, today is a lot, usually there are millions of sales revenue every day." β
"Well, yes, you can buy yourself a good dowry."
The girl said: "If you do this for a few more years, you won't have to worry about food and clothing for the rest of your life." Boss, so I care about this job. β
"Okay, do a good job, as long as you do a good job, the company may have to open stores in other places in the future, not afraid of many people." I want you to help me get the fire, it won't delay you, right? β
"No, it won't. We are two salesmen, I have already done the porcelain and Xuande furnace business, and the rest of the business will be done by the girl. If the income disparity is too great, there will be opinions, and there will be no good face, and it will not be able to do business well. Boss, what do you want the stove for? β
Wuyang smiled and said: "This stove is an old object, a new object, people will open the two objects and then connect them." I'm going to get it out of the way again. The new and the old ones were taken back separately. β
"This iron tool can do the same. There are too many fakes, I have only heard that porcelain can be connected in this way, but I didn't expect that iron can also be connected. Boss, if this old object is not opened, how much is it worth? β
"I don't know about this, just ask Professor Wang to come and take a look."
Wuyang beckoned Wang Tong to come over and let him see the Xuande furnace. Wang Tong picked up the one with a fake furnace body and looked at it, "This is fake." The casting time will not exceed 30 years, and it is buried in the soil to make it old. β
Wuyang smiled: "You look at this again." β
Wang Tong looked at the other one and immediately smiled, "It turned out to be sawn and spliced into two." It is no wonder that in that era, the Xuande furnace was 20,000 yuan a piece, spliced into two, and buried in the soil for decades, it became two, thinking it was more valuable. As everyone knows, this is self-defeating, and an authentic Xuande furnace has been wasted in vain. It's also a big loss. β
Wuyang asked, "Professor Wang, you said that this is an authentic Xuande furnace." Where can it be seen? β
Wang Tong said: "It can be seen from the appendages of the furnace body, the lifting ring of the furnace lid, and the grounding place of the furnace foot that this metal is not pure copper or iron, but should be mainly copper, with silver, iron, tin and other metal components added. There are only 3,000 real Xuande furnaces, and there are not many of them left in the world, and my teacher and I once saw it from a collector, and it was the same as this one. β
Wuyang said: "Aren't there a lot of Xuande furnaces in the cultural relics industry now? β
Wang Tong said: "It's all imitations. From the Ming Dynasty after the Xuande Dynasty, all the way to the Republic of China, there are imitations, of course, modern imitations may be more, people are not buried in the soil to make old, soaked with chemical raw materials, a few months will make it difficult to distinguish between the real and the fake. So now the price of Xuande furnace is not very high, just because there are too many fakes. β
At this time, the girl took a single small liquefied gas stove, which was used to burn hot pot, and Professor Wang knew what Wuyang wanted to do when he saw it, and said with a smile: "Secretary Li, you want to separate it, right?" Don't burn it with fire, leave it to me, and promise to give you a complete Xuande furnace. β
Wuyang asked, "Can you really do it?" β
Wang Tong said: "You don't look at what I do. It's too easy to repair a stove, it's just a pile of debris, and as long as it's not missing, I'll give you the whole perfect stove out as well. β
Wu Yang smiled: "As long as there is metal, you can also build one." β
"That's not good, you can only deceive the layman, the main thing is that you don't know the ratio of metal, if you know, you can really do it."
Wuyang asked, "Professor Wang, how much is this stove worth after you restore it?" β
Wang Tong said: "Because there is no real product of Xuande furnace now, and it is rare and expensive, I will not be wrong to say that it is worth 10 million." However, you certainly won't sell it, and if you put it on display in a museum, its value cannot be measured in monetary terms. β
"Okay, I'll ask you to restore it and put it on display in the museum. The first time I bought cultural relics, I found them in my own store. If I have time to read more books on this subject in the future, I may have more opportunities. β
Wang Tong smiled and said: "Secretary Li, Professor Tan has sent you a monograph, and I have also published a booklet on Jinshi Research, which may be able to play a role in picking up and filling in the gaps in Professor Tan's works, and I will also send you a copy, please correct it." β
As he spoke, Wang Tong took out a book from his bag, a 16K color printed book, about 300 pages, and the cover was a photo of a tripod with an inscription. Wuyang opened the plastic paper package and saw that there were many photos inside, which should be full of pictures and texts, and he had a lot of experience in the study of gold and stone.
"Thank you. Professor Wang, you have to sign it for me, this book will be a cultural relic. β
Wang Tong smiled and said, "Thank you, Secretary Li, for your love." After I came to you, because of such a rich collection, I was like a fish in water, published some weighty papers, and was recognized by the masters, and only then did I have a place in the industry. What's more, in terms of economic income, it is not the same as in school. If you want to say thank you, I should be the one who wants to say thank you. β
Wuyang smiled and said, "Professor Wang, you are too modest, and the reward you give is simply insignificant compared to the hard work you have paid. I would also like to ask for your help, and I wish you to become the authority of the Taishan Beidou level. β
"Professor Wang, please come over for a moment." Qi Shaowen shouted over there, and Wang Tong left with the Xuande furnace.
Wuyang was fine, so he called Li Xize, "Xize, will you go to the United States with me at the end of the month?" β
Li Xize said: "Big brother, there are a lot of jobs in the county, and the coal mine has also begun to produce coal, so I may not be able to leave." β
Wuyang knew that he was looking for an excuse and would definitely ask his father, so he smiled and said, "No matter how many things there are, can you arrange for others to do it, is it difficult to nail it in the county?" β
"How long will it take? I'll see if I can arrange it. β
"Okay, you can arrange it. If you can go, you will go to apply for a passport tomorrow, and the day after tomorrow, Mr. Qi of the Tobacco Corporation will come to your county to inspect, and you will come forward to accompany you. β
Li Xize said: "Big brother, my hukou is in the capital, and I have to go back to apply for a passport." Otherwise, please come to our county tomorrow, and I will ask for leave to go back the day after tomorrow. β
"Okay, I'll discuss it with Mr. Qi."
I wanted to call Mengyu, but I remembered that it was late at night over there, so forget it. Thinking about whether to ask Secretary Hong for leave, I feel that I haven't been back for a month, and it's not good to ask for leave.
Look at the time, it's almost 12 o'clock, call Tan Changqiao and invite him to have dinner together. Tan Changqiao said with a smile: "I know you are polite, you have already summoned all the experts and professors in the museum, and you will go to the cultural relics street immediately." β
Wuyang smiled and said: "You are still thoughtful, the New Year has been a few months later, and this meal should have been invited a long time ago." How many people do you always have, and how many tables do you set? β
"I have more than 20 people here, you can arrange a big table. We still have things to discuss during dinner. (To be continued......)