Wen Yiming looked at the middle-aged man in front of him, very curious, the other party is the most well-known collector in the past ten years, making headlines all day long, even outsiders are well-known, more well-known than small stars.

On November 20, 2010, Liu Yiqian spent 308 million yuan to photograph Wang Xizhi's cursive "Peace Post".

In September 2013, he bid for Su Shi's "Gongfu Post" at Suffordby's auction house in New York for 8 million US dollars and 50.37 million yuan.

In December 2013, 169 million yuan was auctioned for the ancient painting "Eighteen True Picture Scrolls".

On April 8, 2014, Mei Yin Tang's Ming Chenghua Doucai Chicken Cup set a new porcelain auction record in Sufubu for HK$281.24 million, and only three surviving chicken cups are in private collections.

On November 27, 2014, Jiashide Auction House bid 348 million Hong Kong dollars in the Hong Kong auction for the 600-year-old Ming Yongle Imperial Red Yama Enemy Embroidered Thangka.

In March of the same year, he auctioned a Buddhist scripture of the Ming Dynasty with a history of more than 600 years for 86.9 million yuan, and the author was Zheng He, a famous navigator of the Ming Dynasty.

On April 7, 2015, a vase from an official kiln in the Southern Song Dynasty was auctioned for a whopping HK$113.9 million, which was one of the highest auction prices ever paid for ceramic ware from the Southern Song Dynasty.

Not to mention, on April 5 this year, he successfully bid for 240 million Hong Kong dollars, plus 270 million Hong Kong dollars, Zhang Daqian's masterpiece Taoyuan Picture in his later years, which is the second price work except for Love Trace Lake. ”

Someone has calculated that Liu Yiqian has invested more than 8 billion yuan in antiques in just 10 years! Everywhere he goes, he is the top VIP of the auction house and a hot super big buyer.

"Elder Ling, Elder Wu, long time no see!"

Liu Yiqian greeted the two old men first, then looked at Ling Tiancheng and said with a smile: "I heard that Brother Tiancheng is going to march into the capital?

Ling Tiancheng waved his hand and said politely: "Don't you want the support of a big tyrant like you?

"Let's take a look and talk about it, don't worry!" Liu Yiqian laughed and said: "If you want to say that classical porcelain is the hard currency of the international collection circle, as for classical calligraphy and painting, we only appreciate it ourselves. ”

"That's right, in fact, everyone who really plays calligraphy and painting generally has a point of view, that is, there is no collection value after the Qing Dynasty!"

Shopkeeper Wu sighed sincerely: "Only the works of the Qing Dynasty have collectible value, such as the calligraphy and paintings of the four kings of the Qing Dynasty, the four monks, Zheng Banqiao, Liu Yong and other celebrities can barely be regarded as entering the house. The so-called masters of modern times are basically not worth mentioning in the eyes of collectors in Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan, saying that the level is average, there is no innovation, the price is large, and there are many bubbles in the domestic market. ”

Ling Tiancheng shook his head and said helplessly: "This is also the main reason why most Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan collectors do not come to the mainland auction house to raise their cards, they would rather go to Jiashide and Sufuby, although we are also constantly working hard to build confidence for each other, hoping to come to the mainland to participate in the auction one day!"

Liu Yiqian smiled and said nothing, everyone exchanged a few words, turned to leave, Ling Tiancheng looked at the other party's back, and said in a low voice: "This guy was born in stocks, and a grassroots can work hard to become a billionaire, you can imagine his unique vision." ”

"Ten years ago, I withdrew from the stock market, turned into a super buyer of antique shops, invested more than one billion yuan every year, just established a private museum, has a good relationship with the Shanghai government, and has become a new landmark of Pudong culture!"

"In modern times, only Zhang Daqian and Qi Baishi can be auctioned, most of the domestic Zhang Daqian is in the hands of Wang Jiansen, the richest man in Wanda, at least two or three hundred, in recent years, the art has risen wildly so that he can earn several times the profit if he does nothing. Every year, there are auction records of more than 100 million, from the beginning of 100 million to the current 300 million Aijian Lake, Daqian has become the most profitable master of Chinese painting in China!"

"I doubt that there is a shadow of Wang Jiansen behind it? There are also Jiade and Baoli, the two leading companies are also the main promoters of the sky-high price record. Once an artist's works exceed 100 million, it will officially announce the start of a new round of surges, not only masterpieces, but also general works must at least double the income, this is the market rules of the game. ”

"Not to mention Liu Yiqian, I know that there are two art investment funds in operation, and his model is more complex and hidden, using the funds raised to auction sky-high artworks everywhere. Not only can it push up the price of the inventory that has been hoarded for a long time, but it can also build a personal reputation, killing two birds with one stone. ”

"Then use the art to go to the bank for a mortgage, or issue an art investment fund, and 500 million can raise more than a billion or even more funds as soon as it is operated. Over and over again, the snowball gets bigger and bigger, the more money you have in hand, and the bigger the projects you can operate. ”

Ling Tianchang sighed, this kind of thing is well known to his peers, but what can he say? Aren't he one of them? Of course, it is easy to say, but it is still necessary to have deep connections and ways to do it, this is not a game that ordinary local tyrants can play, and only giants of the level of Wang Jiansen and Liu Yiqian can participate in it. The chain of art hype is very long, I don't know how many people participated?

"Since 10 years ago, the fifth collection craze began in China, and television and newspapers reported every day the story of getting rich overnight, making the people of the whole country feel as if they were about to pick up the leaks! As a result, a lot of tourist capital saw the opportunity and wantonly bought low and sold high in the market, speculating and hoarding, and in addition some small auction houses with no principled bottom line aided in the abuse, and the whole atmosphere was in a miasma!"

Speaking of this, Shopkeeper Wu snorted coldly and said bitterly: "Especially modern and modern artworks, which have a large number of surviving works in the world, and the author's name has a relatively mass base, it has instantly become a hard-hit area for capital speculation. Such as Qi Baishi, Zhang Daqian, Xu Beihong and other modern high-yield calligraphers and painters, the price has been fried from hundreds of thousands in 09 to tens of millions, comparable to Qingming fine calligraphy and painting, too abnormal!"

"The collection of antiques is to see the amount of the world, why is the Song and Yuan dynasties expensive? A porcelain, a calligraphy and painting, can be passed down to this day after thousands of years, itself is a miracle, naturally more expensive!"

"Especially the Song and Yuan Dynasty calligraphy and paintings, the number of rare surviving products, many of them are unique products, once the real work is a national treasure, so the treasure is naturally sought after, and everyone can understand the sky-high price. ”

"And all the people who really have the strength to collect Song and Yuan paintings and calligraphy are top collectors, only in and out, as a lifelong collection or heirloom, if you miss the opportunity, you may never see it again in this life, and it will inevitably be sought after, and the price competition is fierce. ”

"Although Rong Bao Zhai is in the modern painting and calligraphy business, Qi Baishi and Zhang Daqian are also frequent visitors to the 100 million yuan club, and every time there are works to set a new record, but in all fairness, I think their artistic attainments can not be compared with the ancient four kings and four monks, the Bada Shanren, etc., let alone the Song and Yuan Dynasty masters. ”

"They are truly boutique and can be recognized by the market, there are bubbles but not many. It is estimated that Qi Baishi has more than 30,000 works in the world, and Zhang Daqian is also a lot, after all, he is a professional painter, who makes a living by selling paintings, and there are few natural boutiques and many ordinary ones, which is also the reason why you take a fancy to them as the object of speculation. ”

Ling Tiancheng looked around and said in a low voice: "The huge amount of black money and the money laundering of black gold at home and abroad are the initiators of the sky-high price bubble of domestic art, and the actual transaction price of artworks is part of the money laundering fee, which is generally within 3%. In order to control the cost of money laundering fees, it is necessary to increase the price of art by 30~100 times to trade, and the higher the price increase, the lower the cost of money laundering fees. ”

"In recent years, the state has cracked down on money laundering, which has led to a large-scale contraction of the auction market, and many sky-high artworks that have been sold in auction houses do not dare to be finally delivered, such as the sensational 420 million Qi Baishi "Pine and Cypress Gaolitu", because of the unclean family background of its trading party. ”

"The pair of Huang Tingjian's "Pillar Inscription", which was considered by more than ninety percent of experts in the island country to be forged by a counterfeiting group, has been transferred to the hands of treasure island businessmen several times, and it is difficult to be auctioned at an international auction house, and the result was valued at 80 million by Jiade, and it was auctioned by Wang Yaohui at a sky-high price of 430 million after the auction. ”

Then, when the work has not yet been paid, he immediately mortgaged it to the trust company under his name, obtained 450 million trust fund financing from the cooperative bank and switched to real estate, and completed a beautiful financing plan in one day. ”

Another Qianlong porcelain vase was sold at an unknown small auction house in the London countryside for a sky-high price of 51.6 million pounds, or 550 million yuan! It set a record for the highest auction price of an Asian art and set a new record for the most expensive art in China. This legendary story was rendered by the BBC media as porcelain patriotism. ”

But later, the buyer did not deliver for more than two years, and it was also one of the sky-high scams directed and acted by Wang Yaohui, creating sky-high prices to defraud financing. Wang Yaohui used the art financing industry chain constructed by Yayingtang and the trust, and used the sky-high price of artworks that had no real transactions to issue art trust fund products, and successfully defrauded more than 2 billion yuan in financing at least. ”

When Ling Tiancheng said this, he looked at Liu Yiqian, who was chatting and laughing with people in the distance, and said disdainfully: "Hmph, Liu Yiqian is not a good person, he sold Qi Baishi's "Pine and Cypress Gaolitu" at a sky-high price of 400 million yuan, and the "Peace Post" auctioned for 308 million yuan have not been paid and delivered so far. ”

In fact, he has long invested in Longcheng Auction and Daoming Auction, built an art museum with his wife, and organized exhibitions as a whole, treating the museum as a business. There are also a lot of local tyrants behind him, all of whom are southern tourists, and their backgrounds are very complicated. ”