Chapter 560 - The stakes are high
As expected, Guo Shiguan will never admit that he is a fake.
Gao Gang insisted that Guo Shiguan would replace the auction items during the auction. He had a good reason, he had a crush on a plate from the Ming Dynasty at that time. Before the auction began, he personally appraised it. But after the auction, I got it back after completing the formalities, but I found that the plate was fake.
Gao Gang is a representative figure in the identification of porcelain, and if he says it is fake, most people will not doubt his words. Moreover, Gao Gang also pointed out that the Ming Dynasty plate he had seen before the auction had an extremely small crack at the top, which would be difficult to find if it were not for a magnifying glass.
When he took it back, he observed it many times, but there was no small crack. The other aspects were then identified and concluded to be fake.
Guo Shitou refused to admit it, thinking that everything had been filmed back for so long, why didn't he say it at the time, it would take so long. With Gao Gang's ability to identify porcelain, even if he didn't have the tools to identify the authenticity at that time, if it was fake when he went back, he would definitely find it.
After waiting so long to say that it was fake, who knows if someone will make a fake one in the process, and then say that he replaced it.
The two of them have their own opinions, and both of them have a point. However, on the faΓ§ade, it is obvious that Gao Gang has an advantage.
As the owner of Mozizhai, a nationally famous antique shop brand, he doesn't know how many valuable antiques he has in his hands, so he doesn't need to sue Guo Shiguan for a fake plate from the Ming Dynasty.
So there are still a lot of people who prefer Gao Gang.
However, Guo Shitong, as the president of Sofubi Auction House, has never had an accident, and he and Gao Gang are old acquaintances. Over the years, Gao Gang has bought a lot of auction items from the auctions supported by Guo Shitong. It hasn't happened for a few years, but this will happen, which is very puzzling.
So there are remarks that Gao Gang didn't tell a lie, and Guo Shiguan didn't cheat, could it be that some employees inside the auction house did tricks.
Compared with Guo Shitong's personal crime, the direction of his speech still believes that there is a problem with internal employees.
Guo Shiguan wanted to clear his suspicion, and he promised to give everyone an explanation in three days.
There was such a big event a year ago, which made people can't stop.
"Director Su, do you think it could really be President Guo who asked the staff to replace that Ming Dynasty plate?" asked Zhuge Lanteng.
In the past two days, because of this incident, the whole person has been haggard. If he can't explain this matter to the outside world before the New Year, he will have a lot of pressure after the New Year.
An antique counterfeit will not force people to be like this, only public opinion can drive me crazy. You must know how many people can't bear it psychologically because of the pressure of public opinion, and finally choose to end their lives in an extreme way.
"It's hard to say about this matter for the time being, there is evidence for Store Manager Gao to accuse President Guo, as for whether it was done by an employee of the auction house, this is just speculation from the outside world. β
Su Zhe pondered for a while and asked, "President Zhuge , in fact, I want to ask, if it was really Guo Shitong's doing, how would you deal with this matter?"
This extremely simple question stopped Zhuge Lanteng at once. In fact, he personally thinks that if the staff of the auction house does the most ideal result, if it is Guo Shiguan, the problem will not be so easy to settle.
Guo Shitong is a little famous, and if he has an accident, it is equivalent to letting everyone know the little bit of trickiness between antiques and auction houses. Zhuge Lanten is not unaware of the tacit rules in some circles of antique connoisseurs and auction houses.
Generally speaking, the value of an item is only 100,000 yuan, but after being appraised by antique players, if there is a transaction in the middle, the price will be raised a little.
This phenomenon is very common and is not pointed out because it is within the permissible range. It's just that this time Guo Shiguan's situation is more serious, not that the price has been raised, but that the entire auction has become fake.
"If something really happens to Governor Guo, this really needs to be considered in the long run, after all, the stakes are high, and we can't give an answer. β
Su Zhe understands this truth, but he still hopes that Guo Shitou really has on his body, so that he can find out the other people. Peng Tianming, a person who has the title of Taishan Beidou in the antique world, wants to catch him, not just say it. Now that Peng Tianming is old, I am afraid that he rarely shows his face in big and small things, and most of the time it is his son Peng Zeshan who comes forward.
Peng Tianming is not the target that Su Zhe wants to deal with, in this world, get rid of one Peng Tianming, and thousands of people like him will come out. What he has to deal with is Tan Ziwen, and in a situation where his life is threatened, it is completely impossible not to rule it out.
"Store Manager Gao, you contacted him two days ago, did you ask anything?" asked Zhuge . "The Ming Dynasty plate he bought back, let's see if you can let him take it out for everyone to identify. Although he has a representative position in porcelain, the stakes are very high, and it is necessary to gather the heads of many families. β
"I'm afraid I can't do this, the last time I visited, Manager Gao had a lot of opinions about me. Su Zhe looked directly at Zhuge Lanteng, "You should also understand that the last time the Zhou family brothers were concerned, the relationship between him and the Zhou family, I'm afraid the two of us didn't want to see each other in the past." You are different, at least you can use the power of the president to exert pressure, I am a director, to put it bluntly, it is a name, and his porcelain representative in the antique world, this is completely different. β
Zhuge Lanteng also understands this, last time Su Zhe said that he went to Gao Gang and expected that it would be like this. However, Su Zhe is right, whether it is him or himself, Gao Gang will not have any face at this time.
One of the two nephews is squatting in prison, and the other is missing.
Zhuge Lanteng thought for a while and said, "In this case, I'll send another person to contact Manager Gao, do you want to meet President Guo." There should be a little friendship between you, and maybe you can get some clues out. β
The outside media said that the auction house and the employees were manipulating, but a company with rules and regulations, if it were not for the fact that the upper management turned a blind eye or authorized it, it is expected that the employees below would not be so bold.
Su Zhe didn't want to meet Guo Shitong, at this time, once they met, Guo Shiguan was not stupid, and he would soon guess it. If Guo Shiguan is a pawn under Peng Tianming's hands, maybe some of the next plans will be seen through.
At this time, Su Zhe still chose to leave the fake device, although this was just for thought, it was not realistic at all.
After talking about this matter, Su Zhe took out a jade pendant from his body and put it in front of Zhuge Lanteng and asked, "Do you still have an impression of this jade pendant?"
Zhuge Lanteng picked it up and looked at it, and through the gloss and lubrication of the jade, it could be seen that the quality of this piece of jade was not bad. There are some ornaments engraved on it, because the jade pendant is not very big, Zhuge Lanteng took a magnifying glass and looked at it, his face showed a slight surprise.
"This is from five dynasties and ten kingdoms?"
"Zhuge will have good eyesight. Su Zhe casually complimented. It's not a loss to be the president of the antique association, and to be able to climb to this position, there is a little ink in the stomach.
"I'll tell you the truth, besides the current one, I have another piece on hand that is almost exactly the same as this one. If you don't identify it carefully, when you put it together, you will think that it is the same piece. β
Zhuge Lanteng frowned: "This batch is the batch of cultural relics that made the antique trafficking case?"
Su Zhe nodded, "The antique shop under the Zhou family was sealed and a large part of the five dynasties and ten kingdoms were searched, and I guess these are all the same batch." However, the two pieces I had in hand were originally obtained by an antique agent to Tingyuzhai, and I didn't know about the sale at the time, so I received two pieces. Fortunately, I took it back at the beginning, otherwise the last time I heard that Yuzhai was suddenly blocked, the police would have invited me to tea. β
Zhuge Lanteng asked, "Then what are you now?"
"In fact, apart from this piece, a few months ago, the Kuncheng Museum exhibited a jade pendant, and I didn't go there at the time, but I only saw the photos. That jade pendant is similar to the current one. And in Nansu, when I asked someone to help me check the holder of the jade pendant on display in the Kuncheng Museum, I unexpectedly saw a photo that was similar to that one. β
"Four?"
Zhuge Lanteng felt that the situation was a bit strange, and it could not be such a coincidence. Five dynasties and ten kingdoms are not modern society, and a single machine can make thousands or even tens of thousands of identical jade pendants. At that time, technology was backward, and it was a period of war and chaos.
The life of the people of Li is turbulent, and in addition to migrating all day to save their lives, even if there are such craftsmen, it is impossible to make several identical jade pendants at the same time.
"Director Su, do you mean that two of these jade pendants are very likely to be fake?"
"There is such a possibility. I have identified the two pieces I have in hand, and they are indeed genuine products of the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms, as for the other two, because I only saw the photos, I dare not make a conclusion. However, I found out that the jade pendant displayed in the museum before was held by Zhu Ting. β
"Zhu Ting, which Zhu Ting?"
"Zhu Ting, who can say it and make people face the number at once, which one do you think there is?"
The expression on Zhuge 's face converged, and he looked serious.
After a while, Zhuge Lanteng asked, "Are you sure it's Zhu Ting?"
"It shouldn't be fake. This is the information given by Pang Tong, the director of the Kuncheng Museum, and I have mentioned this matter to him before, so I don't think it will be fake. Besides, if it's true or false, there's no need for Pang Tong to send this to mislead me. β
Zhu Ting is not a person in the antique circle, but his fame will not be lower than Peng Tianming in the entire antique circle. Zhu Ting is a businessman, and the industry he runs has nothing to do with antiques. But there is one thing that makes Zhu Ting so famous, and that is because he is a philanthropist.
Pure business will be said by others to be rich and unkind, but a businessman is also a recognized philanthropist, and it is difficult not to be recognized.