Sancai pottery has a deep influence on China's ceramic art, especially Tang Sancai, which is an epoch-making milestone in the history of ceramics, and Tang Sancai is more in line with the aesthetic concept of foreigners, therefore, many foreigners are very fond of Tang Sancai, and some are almost to the totem worship of Cheng dù.

However, domestic collectors prefer to collect porcelain such as blue and white, and it is based on this that Chu Chen had an idea and thought of this idea.

Chu Chen continued: "If someone really buys our things abroad, at least that money will be used by me to buy back the cultural relics that have been scattered abroad, which is better than being earned by foreigners." Besides, you think those foreigners are all good people! In foreign countries, even at some large-scale auctions, it is common for fakes to appear. ”

"It's unlikely, isn't it?" Gu Gongyi felt that Chu Chen's words were a little difficult to believe.

"This is because you don't know much about the antique industry, and some of the cats at the auction will probably scare you when you say it......"

Chu Chen smiled, considering that although Gu Gongyi was also half of the antique industry, he usually only cared about studying porcelain, and he didn't know much about many things in the antique industry, so he introduced some of the tricks in foreign auctions to Gu Gongyi.

Generally speaking, the main source of income of most auction houses comes from commission fees, which are generally 5-15% for domestic auction houses, and a little higher for large international auction companies. Therefore, for auction companies, raising the transaction price can not only increase the commission, but also gather famous buyers and sellers to improve their popularity, which is a good thing for fame and fortune.

There are many ways to inflate the transaction price. One. It is to set up a bureau on the spot to hang big fish and raise the transaction price. In general, there is a dedicated childcare set up on site. Create a tense atmosphere of multi-person bidding for lots, and bait rich people who don't know the auction or the inside story of the auction.

And when such a "big fish" enters the auction house. Because I don't know the quality of the lots, I pay more attention to the "cover" of the auction house's catalogue, which is usually filled with some exquisite and "extraordinary" lots, as well as calligraphy and painting works by first-line artists.

So there are many ways to distinguish customers in auction houses, and one of them is what they call "cover buyers". Naturally, such a buyer will definitely have to pay tuition fees to the auction house. But these buyers are not fools, and now as more and more information is learned about the inside of the auction, such big fish are gradually decreasing.

Second, the buyer and seller have reached an agreement in private. The scene was just a show, allowing the price to rise to 108,000 miles, and finally paying or even not paying according to the price set in advance. Among them, the interests of the auction company and the buyer and seller are the same, and everyone wants to be "famous", or more long-term interests.

In the news, it is often heard that where the auction house has released a shocking price, carefully check the background of the auctioned collector, the main business may be real estate and other industries, which hides a longer chain of interests. In a word, they are good at "white wolves with empty gloves". As for what, you are free to imagine.

The third is fake auctions, which earn commissions from the pockets of reputation-seekers and money launderers. This kind of business is generally seen in medium and large auction companies.

There are several types of purposes for fake auctions: first, some artists who want to become famous use auctions to set up their prices in the secondary market. In order to take a shortcut to fame, they put their works up for auction by auction companies. Negotiate the commission in advance, and then invite friends to do the game on the spot. Got an auction record and bought a ticket for the work to go to a high market.

That's why. It is also because many collectors nowadays are aiming for investment, and they prefer the money behind the art. Therefore, buying something is not to see the quality of the work with your eyes, but to listen to the price with your ears. This is prevalent, so some young artists invest their capital and energy in it, and they can indeed make a lot of platinum, but the value of art is ultimately spoken by the work.

The second is the use of auction money laundering, which is not difficult to guess as to the object of this method, and generally they find a random work and submit it to the auction house to create a transaction record that both parties expect. The auction company charges a certain amount of commission, so the huge sum of money is white.

Finally, there is another big item, which is what Chu Chen said earlier, the auction house deliberately buys fakes for sale in pursuit of maximum profits. There is also a saying in the industry, called "If you don't auction fakes, auction houses will basically go out of business". In fact, it makes sense to think about it, if there are no fakes, how can there be so many rare products that have been circulating in the market?

Usually, international auction houses compile "stories" that make these fake porcelains in the thousands, tens of thousands of yuan, soar to an unbelievable price of millions or tens of millions. They are scheming, which also makes Chu Chen feel a little angry, because they will use marketing rhetoric such as "burning the Old Summer Palace" and "Eight-Nation Alliance" to attract the attention of domestic political and business circles, and directly lure domestic buyers to the bait.

"As far as I know, well-known auction houses at home and abroad will send commissioners to the porcelain capital every year to negotiate with high-quality imitation artists here, and the imitations will be auctioned through various circulation means."

Chu Chen said with a smile: "Because according to the provisions of the "Auction Law", auction companies are not allowed to auction items belonging to auction companies, but there are still many auction companies that try their best to attribute the ownership of the collection to their own names before the auction, so that the auction company can earn the price difference and commission together. ”

Hearing this, Gu Gongyi said a little suddenly: "Boss, hearing you say this, I remembered one thing, last month, an acquaintance of mine took a boss to the side, saying that if I made high imitation Qing dynasty three generations of official kiln porcelain, the other party's tone was very big, saying that if it is done well, you can come to me every year to order, and the price is also quite good."

"I told the boss at the time that I wouldn't do anything I didn't know what I knew, and he persuaded me a few words, and when I didn't agree, he left angrily. Now that I think about it, judging from his dress, words and deeds, that person is likely to be an auction company. However, aren't these people afraid that buyers will settle accounts with them? ”

Chu Chen smiled and said: "The auction house has all kinds of evasion measures, and if you really find his head, you can still solve it, not to mention that it is more difficult than ascending to the sky, and it is not much different." When do I take the British correspondent Peter? Watson publishes the book "Auction Sotheby's" for you to see, and you will know what kind of virtue an international auction company is. ”

Hearing this, Gu Gongyi couldn't help but curse: "MD, these foreign devils who eat people and don't spit out bones!" Boss, I agreed to what you said! ”

Hearing Chu Chen talk about the shady scene of the auction house, the little hesitation in Gu Gongyi's heart suddenly dissipated without a trace, just like Chu Chen said, no matter what, this money can still contribute to the return of cultural relics, it is better than those buyers' money to earn foreigners.

"Good!" Chu Chen said with a smile: "However, this matter is not glorious after all, as for Tang Sancai's expenses, you don't have to leave from the funds in the real room, I will allocate it to you separately." Also, you have to keep this matter a secret, and it's best if your family doesn't tell you. ”

After all, it is to take things abroad to sell, although he will take things to Nan Nan when he arrives, the process will definitely be confidential, and at the same time there will be no clues about his involvement, but there is an old saying, if people don't know, unless they do nothing, if someone really wants to check, even if there is no evidence, they can be suspected on his head.

At that time, those people can't do anything about him, but Gu Gongyi will be unlucky, he can't let him protect Gu Gongyi all the time, right?

Now, among the few people in the car, Wu Ke and Hu Yong will definitely not talk nonsense, and the driver who drove the car is also the person sent by Chu Chen to prevent the leakage of the porcelain formula, and he will definitely not spread this matter today. Therefore, the only thing that made Chu Chen a little worried was Gu Gongyi's side.

Gu Gongyi also knew that this matter was related to his own safety, so he immediately nodded sternly and said, "Boss, don't worry, I will definitely not say a word in front of outsiders in this matter......

Next, Chu Chen and Gu Gongyi discussed some details of this matter, as well as the development direction of the ceramic room, and soon, the car drove to Gu Gongyi's kiln factory.

After Gu Gongyi got out of the car, the driver sent them to the porcelain airport.

Although Chu Chen returned to Beijing and took a plane from Shanghai to Beijing, the plane stopped at the Beijing airport before 5 p.m.

After getting off the plane, Chu Chen sent Wu Ke home directly, and then sent Hu Yong back as well, asking him to go back to his hometown as soon as possible to take care of Li Xiaoping. and told him that when he got married, he and Wu Ke would definitely be there. He then drove back to his home.

Because today is Saturday, my sister Chu Yulan is also at home, and when they saw Chu Chen coming back, the family was very happy, and asked him what he had gained from going out this time, and Chu Chen simply told his family about some of the things that happened.

Speaking of which, this trip to Star City and the Porcelain Capital, Chu Chen gained a lot, not to mention the precious antiques he got during the period, which brought him at least two benefits.

First, it basically established Chu Chen's status in the national antique collecting circle, and based on Chu Chen's performance at the exchange meeting, he believes that at least in the circle, ordinary people will no longer question his appraisal level. Moreover, because of the theft, he showed a strong background, even if Mu Xiu was in the forest, no wind dared to blow him.

The second benefit is that Chu Chen has established the development direction of opening ceramic specialty stores and promoting Chinese ceramic culture based on the ceramic real room (research institute).

With this goal in mind, Chu Chen decided to focus on museums, ceramics companies, and jadeite in the future. Among them, the museum is mainly used to promote Chinese culture, and the ceramic company is to promote Chinese ceramic culture and make money, while Chu Chen, the jade business, is only used to provide him with financial convenience. (To be continued......)