Chapter 77 [S$2 Million White Porcelain]
Chapter 77 [S$2 Million White Porcelain]
After the end, Fu Chen took a taxi and left the Garman Business Building.
In the taxi, he held his mobile phone and quickly contacted a car rental company. He instructed the taxi driver to drive to the address of the car rental company, and arrived at the location after more than ten minutes of travel, and he showed his ID to the staff of the car rental company, and after recording it, he drove the pickup truck directly.
The pickup truck turned around and drove down the road, and it was nearly half an hour before he drove back into the downtown area.
However, there is one difference, just now the pickup truck was empty, but now it is covered with a blue canvas to hide the contents of the cabin. It's bumpy, and no one knows what's inside.
Driving the car, he contacted the other party and drove straight to a high-end office building, parked in front of a high-rise building.
After getting out of the car, he walked out with a suitcase in his hand, and the parking boy immediately came over after seeing it, ready to drive away this rotten car that did not match the high-end office building.
Fu Chen got out of the car and immediately began to dial the mobile phone number he had just contacted.
In a few words, he explained clearly, and in less than a minute, he saw a person on the first floor of the building, and after seeing him, he walked over with a signature politeness and politeness on his face, and asked tentatively with a little enthusiasm: "You are Mr. Li, right?" He glanced at the canvas in the pickup compartment and said, "I'm Liao Zhuofan, account manager of Sands International, hello." ”
The two shook hands with each other, which was considered to be acquaintance, and as soon as it was over, Fu Chen walked to the side of the pickup truck and uncovered the canvas with a bang.
The canvas opened, revealing the contents of the ceramic, brightly colored malachite jade, yellowed calligraphy and paintings, and finally, a Western wall clock of a very different style. Although the conservation methods are a little crude, it does not change the essence of these antiques.
The little brother who parked the car was stunned, he was secretly glad that he didn't drive people away just now, otherwise he wouldn't be able to afford to pay for it, and Liao Zhuofan's eyes immediately straightened.
That's right, Fu Chen's trip is here to sell antiques.
There are only eight tons of gold, there are too many things, and it is not easy to launder money on a large scale, but today it is only 100kg washed off, which is only one-eighty, and I don't know what year and month I want to wash it, and I don't know how much fee it will be hacked by a vampire-like intermediary.
It was much easier to sell his antiques than gold. Antiques are not like gold, heavy quality but not weight, a small object, worth tens of millions of dollars is possible, but worth hundreds of millions of gold, it is difficult to auction at one time like an antique.
Gold in troubled times, antiques in prosperous times, it just so happens that this is a prosperous era, and antiques are more valuable.
This antique is not his original possession, nor is it his inheritance, but his seizure. Two days ago, he infiltrated the house of Gu Xianming, the president of Daiwa Bank, and after killing the old devil of Yamada Yokoji, he took the sheep with his hands, and only then did he get the antique.
Yes, the antiques belong to Gu Xianming's, which can be said to be the stolen goods of the traitors.
After selling the gold and selling the antiques, he is now selling a few antiques in his hand to this Sands International Auction Group. I just contacted, less than half an hour, this Mr. Liao Zhuofan is the manager of the auction group.
At this moment, seeing the four well-preserved antiques, Liao Zhuofan's face was overjoyed, and he immediately patted his chest and said, "Mr. Li, you can rest assured that we are absolutely professional." As he spoke, he saw Fu Chen nodding and took out his mobile phone to make a direct call. Say a few words to the other end of the phone before hanging up.
"Alright, let's go up together, and I'll leave it to the people below." After making the call, Liao Zhuofan said that there happened to be a well-dressed female staff member who came to help with things.
With so many things, Fu Chen naturally didn't bother to run forward and backward, and a few tired dogs moved in and handed them over to the other party to deal with. didn't say much, followed Liao Zhuofan, and in the welcoming eyes of the female waiters, he went all the way to the reception room.
The waitress brought a cup of tea and left immediately, leaving only Liao Zhuofan and the four antiques on the table.
"Mr. Li, are you going to hand it over to our company to be in charge of the consignment auction, or are you?" Liao Zhuofan waved his hand and asked the appraiser who came in to appraise him, and said tentatively to Fu Chen.
"What is the difference between a consignment auction and a direct sale?" Fu Chen asked.
Liao Zhuofan didn't care either, and directly introduced it, talked eloquently, and pointed out the specific situation. He said: "Consignment auctions, you may fetch a high price, if Mr. Li, you are confident in your things, you might as well give it a try." Of course, if you want to sell in the short term, you can consider selling outright. ”
Fu Chen doesn't play antiques, but it doesn't mean that he doesn't have any understanding of this thing, the rules of the industry are there, the intermediary fee and the handling fee are a lot of collectibles tax, layer by layer peeling skin and sucking blood, and the money in hand will be much less.
"Let's sell it directly." Fu Chen made a decision, although he was not short of money to spend now, he didn't have time to wait for the auction to finish in a month or two.
When Liao Zhuofan heard this, his eyes flashed, and he couldn't help but smile even more. With two options, selling directly, the benefits of Sands are of course greater. After the transaction is completed, Sands will take the antiques to the auction house, and there will be a premium more or less, which is where the profit lies.
While chatting, wait for the other party's appraiser. It took a long time for the tea to be over.
"What's the situation?" With a wink, Liao Zhuofan asked the appraiser.
Four appraisers, standing in front of four antiques, lined up in a line.
The appraiser at the head spoke first, and he was appraising the only porcelain, white porcelain with a very different style from blue and white porcelain, a porcelain vase with a slender waist and a round belly, which looked no different from a vase. The white porcelain vase is painted with a white crane pattern, and the background color is white, but a little blue and milky white are added, which is very different from the blue and white porcelain.
The appraiser pondered for a while, and then said in a non-standard Mandarin: "This white porcelain vase was not fired in the official kilns of the Ming and Qing dynasties in China, and the style is also very different from the characteristics of the two dynasties. ”
Fu Chen listened, without any superfluous movements, who knows where Gu Xianming got the antique.
Stared at by several people, the appraiser was not in a hurry, and talked eloquently, with a trace of abnormal flush on his face, and said a little excitedly: "Mr. Li's porcelain, although it was not fired in the Ming and Qing dynasties of China, was produced in the Duanzong era of the Li family's Joseon. ”
"Duanzong Li Hongwei succeeded to the throne at the age of twelve, seized power for his uncle Shouyang Maharaja Li Yao, and was forced to abdicate to Li Yao for five years after succeeding to the throne, Yao is the ancestor of Joseon, so it is not known."
"Don't say anything superfluous, let's valuation." Liao Zhuofan interrupted the appraiser and asked directly.
This is also what Fu Chen cares about.
"Because it is relatively rare, it is estimated that the price is at least two million or more, which is S$......" The appraiser said this, a little submissive, using several uncertain words, obviously he was a little difficult to grasp.
Hearing the news, Fu Chen was already a little happy, but he didn't expect that the thing Gu Xianming found turned out to be a North Korean thing, and it was really worth so much money. S$2 million, which is roughly more than 8 million RMB.
He is also more interested in history, and probably knows that the Li dynasty and Zhu Ming were in the same period, and Duanzong was not very famous, but the descendants of the king Shizu Li Yao and the former king of Sejong Li Yu were famously tight.
It also has a history of more than 500 years. And two million Singapore dollars, roughly more than eight million yuan.
"But it's ...... in South Korea," the appraiser added.
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