Chapter Ninety-Three: The Future Scam
"Grandpa, can you tell me about Wanjia? I don't know anything about Wanjia, I have to know one or two before I can deal with it, do we have a big chance of winning this time?" Wang Sibo asked Old Man Wang.
Master Wang raised his hand and picked up a snuffbox and said: "The history of the Wan family is very long, some people say that they started in the Republic of China, that is all known to everyone, and it is also something that the Wan family shows people, what I heard is a little different from what everyone knows, because I actually saw this family in a book in the late Qing Dynasty, but the history of this family is really not on the table, I will tell you about it······
Mr. Wang talked about Wanjia, he also saw a book of late Qing miscellaneous talks that did not know the author's name at a friend's house, it was a lone book, Mr. Wang's friend only allowed others to read it in his own home, and he must read it in front of him, wear a mask when reading, and not have tea or the like around him, it is best to sit on the ground, there is no clutter around, nails must be trimmed, and before reading, you must wash your hands and wipe them clean and wear gloves to read the book.
It's not that this friend is weird, but he is a collector of ancient books, almost all the ancient books in the family are lonely, many books are not on the market, very precious, Mr. Wang went to the friend's house to see the late Qing Dynasty miscellaneous talk actually has hundreds of words recorded in the Wanjia, originally Mr. Wang didn't think there was anything, there are too many people with the same name and surname in this world, until finally wrote that Wanjia had a man named "Wan Qingshan" , this Wan Qingshan is the ancestor of Wanjia's external claim, which started by transportation during the Republic of China, which aroused the interest of Mr. Wang.
The above recorded Wanjia is unbelievable, Wanjia belonged to a rich and powerful family in the late Qing Dynasty, but it is not as powerful as it is now, at most it is a billionaire as people say now, with a family property of several hundred million, but this is not the point, the point is that Wanjia ate the food of the side door back then, which means that it specializes in hooking up with the left side of the door, most of which are unseemly, and it is also a well-known family in the green forest at that time.
It is said that Wanjia has many branches, and every year the branch has to hand over a certain amount of money to the head of the family, and the head of the family will use all the money to maintain the foundation of the family, that is, to rationalize the money for consumption, to deal with bureaucracy, and to invest in all kinds of businesses, because the money of the Wanjia is unknown, so it is necessary to launder money and diversify the investment.
It is said that the most powerful thing in Wanjia was to deceive, and it is also the ability to look after the family that has been handed down to this day, this deception is different from the ordinary deception we understand, Wanjia's deception can deceive hundreds of years and thousands of years, no one will find out that this is a deception, because what you know is no longer alive, don't think wrong, it's not killing people, but cross-century and cross-generation.
To put it simply, the contemporary owners of Wanjia will play a game, a very advanced game, this game needs to continue the hype, that is, to fry antique calligraphy and paintings, which can be sold at sky-high prices, but not to speculate on the present and the past, but to speculate on the future, this is the greatest wealth of Wanjia, and it is also the foundation for maintaining the long-term development of Wanjia.
Maybe you don't understand it at all now, then listen to it, this game of Wanjia is very simple and difficult, it is one of the highest deceptions, because in the peaceful era, Tun antiques are said to have been circulated for thousands of years, not that people love to collect antique calligraphy and paintings, which have long been popular, popular thousands of people, but Wanjia people are more powerful than many people are not to play the things of the present and the past, to play the future.
How to play? It's like if you go to a group of prestigious scholars or well-known celebrities now, give them a sum of money, let them help you write some customized things, to praise the goodness and preciousness of this thing, this thing is not difficult at all, just like advertising and writing custom copy, giving money to do things, when these prestige and well-known celebrities go west in a few decades, their things are likely to be valuable, and the things they praise are even more valuable, because that may be antiques, very precious antiques.
For decades and hundreds of years, the value of these things is likely to be sky-high, for example, if you ask someone to help you write an article about a folding fan, you should have a detailed introduction to this folding fan and how to distinguish the authenticity of this folding fan, it is best to draw a picture, how high the value of this folding fan, after all the writing is completed, and so on for a hundred and eighty years of people to see this thing, or after the death of the author, the value of this folding fan is likely to come out, everyone wants to see what this folding fan looks like, why it will make the great writers at that time so praised and wanted, at this time Wanjia will take out this folding fan for auction, this is the future of antiques made in the world。
Maybe Wanjia at that time out of the advertising fee is also 180,000, an ordinary fan to find some well-known people to write and praise, and so on dozens of hundreds of years later this ordinary folding fan is likely to be worth a fortune, hundreds of millions or even hundreds of millions of auctions, sold to those who want to collect the gold owner, you think about how many future antiques were hyped by Wanjia at that time, each is priceless, if the hype is hundreds? Is it almost nothing, as long as you stay up for time, future generations will definitely make a lot of money, and continue to operate with this money, some of the operation of this scam, there will be a steady stream of money in ten thousand families, not to mention that three generations of people eat and drink without worry, that is, thirty generations do not have to worry about eating and drinking.
Of course, the risk of this kind of scam is also very large, that is, war, otherwise Wanjia should be more terrible than now, after several wars, Wanjia is also greatly injured, but that is only a broken muscle, did not let Wanjia cease to exist, the Ross family may not have a long history of Wanjia, Wanjia's sin is smart that he has not dealt with the public, only dealing with the upper class of the world, which is a good way to hide himself, let's put it this way, now there is no 18 billion worth of people do not know the existence of Wanjia, only people of this value know Wanjia。
How many years has Wanjia existed, Mr. Wang doesn't know, but in the late Qing Dynasty, it should be the most recent era when Wanjia was recorded in writing, maybe Wanjia at that time was already the head of the family for more than ten generations, or it may be that it was just started, and it was the era when the foundation was laid。