It's still the Jinsheng pawnshop, or the old master surnamed Zhao, but at this moment, the location of the transaction has changed, no longer the counter outside, but the most upscale and secret VIP room here.

"It's amazing." Putting down the gold bar in his hand, taking off the magnifying glass equipment on the bridge of his nose, and taking off his gloves, Zhao Mingquan rubbed his red eyes, and turned his head to Li Zhigao, who was drinking tea leisurely next to him, "Your ten taels of gold are in good condition, and the quality is also very good, it is a real late Qing Dynasty product. Therefore, this gold bar is at least 100 years old, and it is really difficult to estimate the price for a while. ”

"I believe in you." Li Zhigao smiled, "I heard that you are the most professional appraiser here, and your reputation has always been very good, so you can just say a price, anyway, I was going to exchange it for money." ”

"Well, okay then." Zhao Mingquan nodded, took out a pen again, and wrote and drew on the notebook on the table, then picked up a calculator, looked up and said to Li Zhigao, "The current market price of thousand-foot gold is 256 yuan per gram, so calculated, your gold bar has a total of 377 grams, and the price should be 96,512 yuan." ”

"Ninety-six?" Seeing such a long number, did he have been mentally prepared, Li Zhigao still took a deep breath and thought to himself, "One is 96,000?" Then I have fifty, isn't it more than four million eight thousand? ”

"Yes." Zhao Mingquan nodded with a smile, "Of course, that's according to the gold exchange price." In fact, your ten taels of gold red old gold bars, because it is a late Qing Dynasty technology, not a modern process, so the gold content is insufficient, although it is generally called a thousand pure gold, but it is not a real thousand pure gold. ”

"You're saying the price will be lowered?" Li Zhigao frowned.

"No, no, no." Zhao Mingquan hurriedly waved his hand, "On the contrary, although the gold content cannot be compared with the current thousand-foot gold, because this is a real gold antique, it cannot be calculated according to the price of gold, but according to the antique gold bar." ”

"How much, exactly?"

"Well, these gold bars are in full condition, and they look like they are newly made, but the craftsmanship, gold content, and other places are indeed at the end of the Qing Dynasty, and they must have been hidden just after they were made, and the preservation environment is also very good." Zhao Mingquan paused when he said this, and then pressed the calculator again, "If you want to make a move here, I am in charge, even if it is your price." ”

Li Zhigao took a look, and the number on the calculator was 158,000.

"One hundred and fifty-eight thousand?"

"That's right." Zhao Mingquan nodded with a smile, "If you sell it to me, it will be 158,000, even if you find the CEO of the company, it is estimated that it will be at this price." ”

"Oh......" Li Zhigao was in a daze, his mind kept calculating math problems, "158,000? Then I have fifty roots, isn't it, uh-huh, more than seven hundred, um, five, eighty, forty...... Damn, 7.9 million? ”

"You can go somewhere else, not compulsory, but I'm sure that at least in the city's jewelry shops or pawn shops and the like, there won't be any more than my price, even in the industry as a whole. Of course, if you take it to auction, then the price is hard for me to say, more than 200,000 is possible, the key depends on the buyer's meaning. Oh, by the way, we are also responsible for the consignment auction here, to ensure the whole process of professional service, do you want to consider it? ”

"Huh?" Li Zhigao, who woke up from his daze, thought for a while, and then said, "Let's talk about the auction or something, if I still have the goods, can you eat them all at the price of 158,000?" ”

"And?" Stunned, Zhao Mingquan nodded, "How many do you have?" ”

Li Zhigao stretched out five fingers.

"Five?"

"Fifty!"

"How much?"

"Fifty!" Li Zhigao continued, "I have fifty identical gold bars here, and in addition, I also have some jewelry from the late Qing Dynasty, and I also want you to see the price, but the premise is, can you guarantee the secret surname?" ”

"Secret surname?" Zhao Mingquan smiled, "In our business, the most important thing is to keep the customer confidential, otherwise, the signboard would have been smashed a long time ago." Of course, the premise of keeping a customer confidential is that you can't have something illegal, for example, it can't be stolen or stolen from a bank or jewelry store. ”

"In other words, as long as you don't steal or rob, and dig it out of the soil yourself, then it's no problem?"

"Of course." Zhao Mingquan smiled, "As long as you don't steal or rob, whether you dig it out of the soil, fish it out of the water, or buy it cheaply from the countryside, we will accept it, and promise to keep it secret for you." ”

"That's fine!" After speaking, Li Zhigao directly lifted his suitcase, put it on the table, opened the combination lock, and opened the box directly, revealing the forty-nine gold bars neatly arranged inside, tied with hemp rope, and a pile of jewelry and jade filled with rags and cotton.

"Hiss~" Seeing this, Rao is Zhao Mingquan was already a little mentally prepared, but he was still a little unbearable, so he hurriedly took a heart-saving pill first, and then exhaled a long breath, "You're really generous, could it be that you robbed the tomb?" ”

"You don't care how it came about." Li Zhigao smiled, "Anyway, I don't steal or rob, and it's not a tomb robbery, well, in fact, I unintentionally dug up an ownerless thing." ”

"Oh." Glancing at Li Zhigao, Zhao Mingquan didn't speak, just nodded, obviously not really caring about the source.

"That's all for now." Li Zhigao said lightly, "You work hard, and then give an estimate." ”

Because Li Zhigao did not deliberately pursue the maximum profit, and this batch of goods did not look eye-catching, not like some kind of thief, so Zhao Mingquan found the appraisers of the whole bank to work together, and finally spent morning and afternoon to roughly estimate the value of this batch of "antiques".

Fifty gold bars are easy to calculate, but at a price of 158,000 each, the total is 7,900,000 yuan.

However, the value of that batch of jewelry and jade is not easy to calculate.

This batch of jewelry, in general, are mutton fat jade and jadeite products, the quality is excellent, most of the jadeite is rare old pit jadeite, and even ice species, glass species imperial green, these superb jadeite, there are also a lot, especially one of the jade wrenches, it is a pure best glass kind of imperial green products, just this jade wrench, their preliminary estimate is more than 1.5 million.

In the end, under the urging of Li Zhigao, Zhao Mingquan gave a rough estimate, and the total price of all jade products definitely exceeded 30 million.

Of course, this is their appraisal reserve price, and if it is auctioned, the price is really hard to say. After all, these jade jewelry are not only of high quality, but also real antiques, they are only good at jade, and they are not good at antiques.

In other words, the price they assessed was mainly calculated according to the quality of the jade itself, and if the value of antiques was added, then I really don't know what the price was, even if it was hundreds of millions, it was not impossible.

"Mr. Lee." Seeing such a valuable thing, Zhao Mingquan's tone also changed, and he was careful everywhere, "This batch of things is very valuable, if you really have no problem with the source of this batch of goods, and you are not in a hurry to make a move, why don't you put it here to help you sell it?" ”

"Consignment?"

"Yes." Zhao Mingquan nodded, "I have already talked to the head office on the phone just now, and they have agreed to immediately send a more professional team of experts over to re-evaluate this batch of things in detail." After that, we will classify and choose, among which the value is not so high, we will promote it a little and take it to the big city to help you sell it, or you can sell it directly to us; As for the more valuable items, we will help you take them to the auction house for auction, so that your interests will be maximized, and all you need is a little wait. ”

"That's right." Li Zhigao frowned, "Won't it be troublesome?" Like revealing my identity or something? Explain the origin of this shipment? ”

"Of course not." Zhao Mingquan said with a smile, "Our expert group, in addition to identifying the quality and evaluating the price, also has an important role to measure the hotness of this batch of goods to see if there is a problem." If there is a problem, another arrangement will be made, the price will naturally be lower, no problem, the price will be higher, but whether there is a problem or not, we will not reveal your identity, please rest assured, we will not mess around with our own signboard. ”

"Hmm." Li Zhigao frowned and thought for a while, "You mean, the price of this batch of jade products is very high?" ”

"Although I dare not say that it is priceless, it is definitely priceless!"

"Oh." Only then did Li Zhigao groan again.

Others don't know, but he understands too well that his batch of jade is something worth fifteen thousand oceans, and it is said that it should be about the same price as the five hundred taels of gold, and looking at the two bad middle-aged people snickering at that time, it seems that they are still very cheap and have cheated themselves.

But the reality was that the price of that batch of jade far exceeded the price of five hundred taels of gold, which made him think of a question.

What's the problem? Naturally, it is a question of the value of reselling items.

If you think about it carefully, there has always been a saying called gold in troubled times, which says that gold is the most valuable in troubled times, and jade is more expensive in prosperous times.

At the end of the Qing Dynasty and the beginning of the Republic of China, it was definitely a typical troubled era, I couldn't eat, I couldn't eat, and I was not stable, who still had time to play jade? In this way, it is not surprising that jade is not worth much, and it is still gold insurance, which is the real hard currency. But modern society is different, this era is the real era of peace, it is a prosperous age, because the world is popular with paper money, gold has basically lost the hard currency role of the general equivalent, and everyone has money and nowhere to spend, just look for jade antiques or something to invest, this jade antiques are more valuable than gold.

It seems that if you go to that era in the future, forget about antiques, be careful, don't make a crash, but it's serious that gems and jade still have to be more upside down.

By the way, if you take modern gold and go to that era to buy jade, will it be very profitable?

Phew, what kind of gold do you take, not to mention medicines, just make those cheap watches, you can not make too much, your own batch of things, didn't you rely on those cheap watches and pens in exchange?

Ay? If you think about it this way, isn't this profit too cruel? What else in the world can make more money than yourself? Ammunition? Smuggle? Drug trafficking? Phew, in front of our family, they are all scum!

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