Chapter 41: The Looting of Cultural Relics (I)
"I heard you giggled at home yesterday, why are you so happy? Found money? Li Ji asked Bai Jia.
"No, I'm not bad at money and I'm going to bend down and pick up money? Earn more money than money when you pick it up! Who did you hear about it? Bai Jia asked rhetorically.
"Your housekeeper's sister-in-law thought you had hysteria, and when she returned to the community after work, it spread! I listened to my coachman in the morning in the carriage to the office. Li Ji said with a sincere face.
"So soon, the rumors stop at the wise, and I believe that my own people won't think I'm crazy, right?" Bai Jia hurriedly denied that there was no such thing.
"Tell me honestly if you got something good, what you don't want us to know must be the good thing you want to hide. Come on, don't force me to use tricks! Wang Xinyu said with a smile.
"Alright! I recruited. I just went to buy a few white drawings of Li Gonglin. Bai Jia told the truth with a nonchalant face.
"That's right, this little gain can make you happy like this." Li Ji couldn't help but feel funny. "The meeting will be in three hours, I'm going to have an emergency meeting, you can inform the others."
"Today I am announcing a new discipline. As a traverser, you must have the taste and style of traversing. I know that you are collecting artifacts and antiques in private, especially Zhao Shouzhong, a new generation of benchmark figures who are often sent in Bianjing's cultural circles. But this kind of action is not only inefficient and a waste of our precious time and energy, but also too low-profile. Only a very small number of people know. After the founding of the People's Republic of China, the greatest return on investment was not to buy original shares and subscription warrants, nor to buy real estate and courtyard houses, but to buy calligraphy, paintings, cultural relics and works of art. In addition to investing in connections such as monarchs like Lü Buwei, the most profitable investment that normal people can do is this kind of investment.
If you think about it, if I were born in 1940, I would definitely not miss every opportunity to make a fortune, especially in those years, I would definitely try my best to collect and hide cultural relics. If in difficult times, if you use a few hundred catties of rice, noodles, meat and eggs, and go to the homes of Qi Baishi and other masters to exchange hundreds of calligraphy and paintings, you can multiply them tens of thousands of times and hundreds of thousands of times after 50 years, and the fine products can even reach more than 10 million times.
Investment masters such as Suo and Ba are simply kindergarten-level war scum. Any investment in cultural relics is a floating cloud in front of it. No matter how much money those nouveau riche, mine owners, and rich generations can make money, they can't compare to the cultural relics dealers. Investing in industry or stocks also has to bear market risks and spend time and energy to manage and operate, buy and sell, where is it easier to sit at home and wait for the appreciation of cultural relics collection?
From today onwards, we have to do our best. It's not interesting to make a small fuss, and if you want to do it, you have to do a large-scale big deal. Although I like tomb robbery notes, I don't want to rob tombs before the cultural relics protection technology has reached a certain level, oh not to rescue those cultural relics, this is a fool's doing, it is simply a waste of resources to destroy cultural relics.
Or take the road of integration of production, education and research, we must set up an independent cultural relics company to acquire, restore, research, protect, research, imitate, and exhibit. Subordinate research institutes, warehouses, museums, auctions, controlled black markets, and the production and sale of high-quality imitations must be established. Today's meeting is a rule.
As for our respective private collections, we have to increase them with our own real skills. The cultural relics acquired by the company will be digested internally, and all will be collected under the name of the company's subordinate museums, and cannot be privatized. Private collections will not interfere with each other, but will be loaned to the museum on a voluntary basis. We can borrow expert resources to authenticate our private collections for a fee. ……
Lee Ki said a lot about the agreement to collect artifacts and national treasures through the Crossing Crowd, which was revised and unanimously agreed upon after discussion. Since then, a group of professional traders who secretly collect cultural relics at high prices have appeared in various places, going deep into various regions to pick up leaks. The cultural relics of the previous dynasties before Song Zhenzong, as long as they are high-quality, no matter how much the owner asks, as long as they are willing to sell the starting price of these people, even if the owner does not sell the national treasure-level cultural relics, they will get their hands on them. Some of the cultural relics of high value are exchanged for shares in subordinate industries. You must know that these shares are all hens that lay golden eggs, and not many people can resist the temptation, even if they don't sell them, they can't stand the pillow wind and the fatigue bombardment of relatives and friends.
The threshold of Su Huang, Mi Cai and others was stepped on by all kinds of people who asked for calligraphy and painting almost overnight. The waste paper and old poems, manuscripts, calligraphy and paintings accumulated by each family were all exchanged by people from all walks of life at various costs.
In order to obtain a pair of calligraphy and paintings, he traveled through the crowd to come up with strange tricks, such as giving his own poems to various masters for tasting, in order to reply to letters and authentic writings; For example, when the masters were buying, they put on five or six layers of extremely thin high-grade rice paper that were easy to penetrate ink, and after painting, they were secretly peeled off and brought out to the next family who passed through the joints; Another example is to exchange their works for food, wine, high-end stationery, and other less important inferior cultural relics. As for smashing it with money, it was the last resort, and the targets were mainly their relatives and friends.