Ling Tiancheng contacted Zhai Jianmin, and the other party promised to introduce senior collectors and meet on Hong Kong Island the day after tomorrow. Wen Yiming asked Geng Baochang to contact a few friends of Minqiu Jingshe, it is best to meet them at one time and cooperate for a long time in the future.

After all, Ming Yuanzhai has not been officially exhibited yet, and Wen Yiming's fame is still limited to China, and there are authoritative introductions that are heavier. Of course, after the opening of the museum, it will naturally become famous, and it will definitely be the hottest figure in the circle at that time.

The next day, everyone flew directly to Hong Kong Island, and saw Zhai Jianmin, the other party was very enthusiastic, as a senior broker, he was the most well-informed, and knew Wen Yiming's current identity and strength, and he would definitely be a big money owner in the future.

"Sir, don't worry, Mr. Ye Chengyao is just free tomorrow morning, so let's have morning tea together. ”

Zhai Jianmin filled Wen Yiming with tea and said enthusiastically: "Before the return of Hong Kong Island, people were excited, and there were not a few people who immigrated and planned to emigrate. At that time, some collectors had already packed their collections in boxes and were ready to ship them abroad. When the director of the State Administration of Cultural Heritage led a delegation to visit, Xu Zhantang invited the colleagues of the Minqiu Retreat to take the initiative to invite the director and his colleagues to visit the Minqiu Retreat. ”

Xu Zhantang directly asked Zhang Deqin whether the "Law on the Protection of Cultural Relics" implemented in the mainland after the return to China would be extended to this area, and whether cultural relics could be freely exported from the country? After receiving a clear answer from the leaders, the vast number of collectors could develop with peace of mind and stop the bad consequences of an outflow of cultural relics. ”

Zhai Jianmin said with a smile: "I also worked hard until last year to become an honorary member of Minqiu Jingshe, and it is not official! ”

"The older generation of collectors is getting older, and the descendants don't like to collect much, and the collection in their hands is facing an important moment. I really have to wait until that day to do my best to get all the important collections back and leave them in my homeland forever. ”

Wen Yiming nodded, this is also the main reason why he works hard to make money and improve his fame. After Qiu Yanzhi's death that year, the collection was auctioned by Sotheby's twice, triggering a climax of bidding. The special auction of Ming Xuande blue and white group phoenix pattern rib wash, Ming Xuande blue and white folded branch flower and fruit pattern bowl, Ming Chenghua blue and white Sanskrit wine glass, Ming Xuande white glaze bowl, etc., large and small Ming Dynasty boutique official kiln, large and small, were purchased by other senior members of Minqiu Jingshe.

Shortly after Dr. Ye Yi's death, Sotheby's also held a special auction of early Ming dynasty porcelain, bronzes, bamboo carvings, rhino horns, Song Dynasty picture albums, and more, such as a Ming Chenghua bowl with a twined branch lotus pattern that sold for HK$1.485 million. Many of the lots were purchased by Minqiu members, and Ge Shiqiao, the owner of Tianmin Building, bought a Ming Yongle blue and white flower and fruit pattern plate.

Many of the sky-high artworks sold in the art market here are low-key purchases by brokers entrusted by members of Minqiu Jingshe. In order to leave the national treasure in the homeland, the collection actually depends on fate, which Wen Yiming deeply understands.

It's yours, it's definitely yours. If you don't get lucky, you will miss it anyway, this is the charm of collecting.

Of course, everyone has their own fate, so the most effective way is to win the lifelong collection of senior collectors as a whole. In particular, collectors with a high aesthetic level have formed a system themselves, and after years of research, they have left behind the fake and the true, and the big waves and sand will inevitably leave behind representative masterpieces, and this kind of collection has the most inheritance value.

Of course, the most fundamental condition is to have money, lots and lots of money!

Wen Yiming is naturally most interested in the top collectors of furniture, Dr. Ye Chengyao, the owner of the Yushan House, and the two-term president of Minqiu Jingshe, who has enjoyed a prestigious reputation in the collecting world more than 30 years ago, and his top Ming-style furniture collection is internationally renowned.

His Huanghuali and Ming-style furniture were collected in the golden age of the 1980s and 1990s, with a high-quality and rare collection, and were even appraised and recognized by Mr. Wang Shixiang, the father of Ming-style furniture, and presented four quatrains in praise.

Dr. Yip's Ming-style furniture is almost entirely purchased from Jiamutang, and Wu Jia'en is a world-renowned expert in Ming-style furniture, known as the Queen of Huanghuali, and has won unanimous praise from collectors, scholars and museum experts at home and abroad for her profound professional quality and aesthetics.

She has a deep relationship with Wang Lao, and has always regarded Wang Lao as an idol and master, and she can be regarded as inheriting the banner of Ming-style furniture, so that the charm of classical furniture spreads all over the world. ”

Wen Yiming has a lot of respect for Wu Jiaen, Wang Shixiang is the first to let the world understand the beauty of Ming-style furniture, and Wu Jiaen is the person who really pushes Ming-style furniture abroad. Every year, Sufubi has a special session of Jiamutang, and last year's high price of more than one billion yuan was sold, which shows the attractiveness of Ming-style furniture.

Early the next morning, Zhai Jianmin picked up Wen Yiming and Ling Tiancheng, went to Ye Chengyao for morning tea, came to a small teahouse, and saw Ye Lao, who was already in his eighties.

"Come, eat and talk!"

Ye Lao was very thin and in good spirits, and when he saw Wen Yiming, he directly asked him to sit down and chat while eating.

"Geng Lao specially called me, saying that he was the most powerful young man he had ever seen, and he was a hero since ancient times!"

Wen Yiming hurriedly was polite, he was very respectful and admired for the real collectors. Furniture is its own shortcoming, which needs to be supplemented by a lot from the outside world, and Ye Chengyao and Wu Jiaen are key partners.

"Next year will be my 50th year of medical practice, and as a dermatologist, many people ask me why I fell in love with collecting?"

Ye Chengyao ordered a special morning tea, let everyone chat while eating, and said with a smile: "My hobby of collecting is influenced by the family, my fifth uncle passed away, and I inherited the ancient jade collection and the name of attacking the jade mountain house from my uncle." With a batch of ancient jade left by my uncle, I was able to join the Minqiu Monastery, and later became the president of the group twice, and the collection was out of control. ”

Ye Lao's first impression of Wen Yiming was very good, and only through Geng Baochang did he know that there was such a powerful master in China, not only good at treasure hunting, but also a master of incense.

"I'm not a tyrant like Xu Zhantang, I'm just a doctor with limited funds in my hands. I can only choose the category I like, and as a result, a collection is decades, and now I have hundreds of pieces of Ming and Qing dynasty furniture in my hands, and I am not willing to use it. I can only rent a warehouse with constant temperature and humidity and put my baby well. ”

The three of them talked and laughed, Ye Lao was also good at talking, and he didn't have a fight, so he was very cultivated.

Whether it is Ma Dingxiang, Geng Baochang, or Wu Shopkeeper, Ye Chengyao, Wen Yiming found that everyone is really peaceful and low-key, and the literati style is very admirable, it is estimated that this is the biggest reason why people can get to where they are today.

"It's amazing!"

Wen Yiming just walked into the warehouse, a refreshing fragrance came to his face, the floral fragrance of Huanghuali, that feeling is so refreshing!

The huge warehouse has hundreds of pieces of Ming-style furniture, all of which are of various types, simple and generous, which shocks Wen Yiming.

"In 1985, Wang Shixiang's "Appreciation of Ming-style Furniture" was released in Joint Publishing Co., Ltd., and there was a small exhibition at that time, so I got to know Wang Shixiang. ”

"At that time, there were many furniture collections in Hong Kong, and the price was not high compared to porcelain, so this was my first collection, Huang Huali saved a backrest circle chair, which I bought from Ng Ka Yan in 1988, and the name of her furniture store Jia Mu Tang was also named by Wang Shixiang. ”

Ye Lao is very happy today, it is rare to see the younger generation of collectors, I heard that Wen Yiming is going to build a museum, and began to talk about his collection.

"Ninety-five percent of the furniture in my collection was purchased from Jiamutang in the eighties and nineties of the last century, when it was the golden age of Ming-style furniture, and the quality of the collection was rare, the collection was complete, and the price was not high. ”

"Ever since I stepped into this field, I have been out of control. In the three years from 1988 to 1991, he invested almost all his time and savings to collect 68 pieces of Ming-style furniture mainly from Huanghuali. ”

"In 1987, Wu Jiaen collected a huanghuali hanger and sold it to me three years later. In 2002, I sold this hanger through Jiashide, and it was won by Wu Jiaen, and after that, I was obsessed with it, so I bought it back from Wu Jiaen. ”

Ye Lao touched the hanger and sighed: "This is your fate with the collection, keep cutting!"