Chapter 299: The Museum of the Underworld
"Satisfied, quite satisfied. It's a pity that these three things are not worth a few dollars. Zhang Yang pretended to be sorry and said.
"Huh?" Kong Xing'an's pupils were shocked.
"Not worth a few bucks?" Boss Lan also said he didn't understand.
"Listening to your tone, does this mean that you want to sell me for a sky-high price?" Zhang Yang looked at the two of them left and right, thinking, it's so soon.
Kong Xing'an still understands some rules and gives data support: "Five years ago, Christie's auctioned a similar one in the UK, I don't know if it's true or not, and the transaction price at that time was 140,000 RMB. β
After listening to this, Zhang Yang calculated in his heart: "Then these three pieces add up to 300,000." β
"Huh? Brother Yang, I heard you right, right? These three are a set. Boss Lan pointed to the three pieces of jade in the brocade box and said, "Shouldn't the price of the complete set be higher?" β
"Brother, you're joking, this is a jade Yue, it's the same as an axe, if three axes are a set and put together, what kind of ultimate weapon is it?"
Zhang Yang shook his head with a smile, pointed to himself and the two opposite, and said, "We can't just say that we are triplets because the three of us are handsome guys, right?" β
"You say that...... There is also some truth. Boss Lan touched his chin and continued to ask: "Even if it is sold individually, it is three times 140,000, 420,000, how can it be added together, but it is worthless?" β
"It can't be counted like that." Zhang Yang shook his head again: "These three can't all be true, right?" This is a cultural relic of Liangzhu culture, and it is not a dog's tail grass on the side of the road, where can there be so many genuine products? β
"So out of these three things, I count it as a maximum of two genuine items, reasonable, right?"
"Quite reasonable." Kong Xing'an nodded.
"No, what's going on buddy?" Boss Lan stepped forward and patted Kong Xing'an on the shoulder: "Aren't I bargaining for you now?" β
"Then I thank you." Kong Xing'an glanced at the other party.
He walked straight up to Zhang Yang, lifted the lid of the box, and closed it.
"Let's skip this one first, I have a long memory, next time I will take it out one by one and sell it separately."
"What is Mr. Kong talking about......
Zhang Yang snorted, didn't get entangled, just silently wrote down this in his heart.
He could see that Kong Xing'an was very confident in these three pieces of jade, and he had a feeling that he would not worry about selling good things, and he didn't even bother to talk about the price.
So who gave him the confidence?
The treasure connoisseur anchor on the Internet, even if he publicizes himself, must be unqualified, most likely because the source of the goods is top.
I hope that there will not be any big cases involved, Zhang Yang thought secretly in his heart.
"Keep going, there's a lot of good stuff!" Boss Lan agitated in the narration.
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At the end of this batch of unearthed cultural relics, Zhang Yang booked a small 30 million goods.
Boss Kong gave face, and the deposit was still 600,000, and he made an appointment to send it to Linhai to pay the final payment.
When Zhang Yang went downstairs, Xu Jie and the others had already finished the live broadcast and were wandering around the door.
Unlike when they came, there was a middle-aged man beside them, and when this person saw Zhang Yang, he immediately nodded and greeted him:
"Master Zhang, I, Lin Yupan, do you remember me?"
"Oh ~ Lao Lin!"
Zhang Yang remembered that this was not a treasure friend who wanted to run a museum in the underworld.
It's a coincidence that this can all be met.
Lin Yupan explained that it was not a coincidence, but fate.
He heard that Lin'an was lively here, and made a special trip to find potential investors.
When I was browsing the gallery, I accidentally found that Zhang Yang was on the air, Lin Yupan took out his mobile phone and glanced at the live broadcast screen, and he was in the same place as him.
With the mentality of chasing stars, he secretly followed behind Sister Gao and the others until the end of the live broadcast to explain his intentions.
Sister Gao checked the code of Leek Ditch, confirmed that it was her own person, and asked him to wait with her, after all, she didn't know when Zhang Yang would get it.
It turned out to be a wait.
"So in the end, you still want to do it in one step and run the museum directly?"
Zhang Yang originally thought that after the last chat, this Lin Yupan had changed his mind. But his move of running to find investors obviously still can't let go of his original dream.
"That's exactly what I plan, but I'm not tough." Lin Yupan was afraid that Zhang Yang would misunderstand, so he hurriedly explained: "I listened to what you said last time, teacher, so this time I sold the house, and I will eat and live in the museum in the future, so I will fight this wave." β
House...... All sold?
Zhang Yang was a little surprised by this person's determination, although selling the house now is a high-point sale, but the matter of selling the house stud museum is still irrational everywhere.
This is his own choice, and it is difficult for outsiders to say anything, but the investment plan that Zhang Yang promised at that time seems to need to be reconsidered now.
Zhang Yang just wanted to ask the other party how the exhibits were collected, but Boss Lan, who had been watching from the sidelines, suddenly interjected and asked:
"Are you going to build a folk museum?"
"No, it's the Museum of Hades, the post-nasal, Hades' Hades." Lin Yupan explained.
"This ...... Interesting! β
Boss Lan showed an interested look, and poked Kong Xing'an beside him with his elbow to ask for his opinion.
The latter shook his head expressionlessly: "I don't feel like there's any way to make money." β
"You only have money in your eyes, and you don't bother to talk to you." Boss Lan was bored with himself, and turned to Zhang Yang again: "Brother Yang, are you checking this museum?" β
"Reluctantly, what's wrong, you're interested?"
Zhang Yang felt that the gold owner Lin Yupan wanted to find had probably been sent to the door by himself.
"One thing, in fact, I don't care if I lose money or not, as long as I lose a little slower, don't exceed the speed at which the bank pays interest."
"Brother Lan, you have a very clear idea, you deserve to be blessed."
"Hahaha, let's talk somewhere else?"
Zhang Yang looked at Lin Yupan, who was a little nervous, and then at Boss Lan, who was very interested, and both of them seemed to have acquiesced that he was the middleman.
He thought about it carefully, if there were wealthy businessmen in Hong Kong who threw money to hear the sound, this museum could really directly make a name.
The Museum of the Underworld? This project ...... I flamboyantly voted!
"Let's go, let's go to the hotel, this door is indeed not a place to talk about business."
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A few days later, the city of Mikawa.
Zhang Yang and Boss Lan went to Lin Yupan's rented temporary residence together.
He himself said that this is a "warehouse + residence", and when he arrived, he found out that it was actually a small faΓ§ade of three industrial parks, which used to be a 4S store, which was put down by him at the bottom price and used to put the museum's future collections.
At this time, the benefits of the Museum of the Underworld are reflected: the collections involved, in addition to rare high-end funerary objects such as Tang Cai, the rest of the collections, whether they are metalware or pottery, are relatively rough.
The requirements for the preservation environment are not so high.
After entering the warehouse, Boss Lan's buttocks were not yet hot, so he was anxious to take a look at the collection first:
"What is the treasure of our museum? I think other museums have ten treasures, but although our newly opened museum is small, there must be at least three or five pieces, right? β
"Of course, I have a roster of collections."
Lin Yupan handed over a piece of A4 paper, on which was printed with brief collection information and market estimates.
The most expensive treasure of the town hall is, of course, the tomb beast of the Tang Dynasty, when Bao Youguang spent hundreds of thousands of yuan on the auction, not counting the shipping cost of bringing it back to China.
It's a pity that Baoyou's life has been generous for a period of time so far, and then it didn't look like it, and the value of the things he bought also fell off a cliff, from hundreds of thousands to tens of thousands.
In addition to the most expensive, there is also the largest treasure of the town hall - the stone statue of the Southern Song Dynasty.
It took Lin Yupan three days to bring the two stone statues alive and move them from Weijiagou Village.
"Do you want to put such a large stone sculpture on display in a museum?" Boss Lan was a little hesitant.
Zhang Yang was the one who proposed to move the stone statue here, so it was up to him to explain:
"You just say it's not a big deal, right?"
"It's really big...... It's only two, and it's still not good. β
Boss Lan reluctantly recognized these two collections, but this was far from enough for his investment of 60 million.
"The rest of the ......" Lin Yupan looked embarrassed, and looked at Zhang Yang for help.
"I'll do the rest." As the mastermind behind the scenes, Zhang Yang took the initiative to take over.
He knew the reason why Lin Yupan was embarrassed, probably because of the suggestion he made earlier:
Since the museum has already gone off the beaten track from the point of view, it is not necessary to think about using precious cultural relics to form a tilt against other museums, but to insist on its own characteristics unwaveringly.
To put it simply: don't buy expensive, just buy weird.
"Come on, let's take a look at this first, the double dragon figurine."
Zhang Yang, with years of experience in perverts, chose the strangest looking thing from the name.
Half a minute later, Lin Yupan presented the treasure.
It may be that the lights are too dim, or it may be that he is not mentally prepared, Zhang Yang shivered at the first glance of things.
If you look closely, the SAN value (spirit value) is even more frenzied.
Two busts in the shape of a child, with hands turned into fins lying on the ground; Below the waist is a snake-like cylinder. The key point is that the lower body of the two busts is connected.
Ancient Demon Clan?!
"Name: Double Dragon Figurine"
"Material: Gray Pottery"
"Production time: 553 (Northern and Southern Dynasties)"
"Details: The double-headed dragon figurine, also known as the tomb dragon, originated from the Northern Qi Dynasty and was a common tomb god figurine from the Northern and Southern Dynasties to the Tang Dynasty."
It turned out to be a god figurine, Zhang Yang knew it in his heart.
Often dealing with Lao Jiumen, he has studied this kind of tomb artifact.
As the most bizarre era of funeral culture, the Ming vessels unearthed in the tombs of the Sui and Tang dynasties are generally divided into two categories: gods and elephants.
Ladies and dancers, houses, and clay figurines in the shape of poultry and livestock are all counted as elephants, and the modern people burn paper money and paper figures when they are sacrificed, hoping that the deceased can enjoy happiness in another world, which is a tradition that has been handed down for thousands of years.
As for the gods, in the Sui and Tang dynasties, the direction of development was very strange, and it was completely straight to the [Town Tomb Disgusted Victory].
The craftsmen who make this kind of Ming ware generally have the idea that they must first let the living people look at it and bury it in the ground to suppress the ghosts and gods.
"Hiss~" Boss Lan scratched his head, he felt that he was going to grow his brain.
However, his action was a bit ambiguous, which made Lin Yupan mistakenly think that the investors were not satisfied with this thing.
He hurriedly continued to the warehouse and found another item of the same type.
"There is another one of these two-headed dragon figurines."
"I'll go!" This time, after Boss Lan saw something, he directly fought a cold war.
Zhang Yang is very calm, in his eyes, this tomb beast of the Tang Dynasty is much better.
Compared with the tomb dragon of the Northern and Southern Dynasties, although this terracotta figurine is also the shape of a double head + dragon body, it has an obvious base, and the dragon body part is not bowed.
But correspondingly, the properties of things have also changed.
"Lao Lin, you remember." Zhang Yang on-site teaching: "Like this one, the body part is arched, called the tomb dragon." β
"The one whose body lies on the ground is called the earth's axis."
"Although many museums can't tell the difference, we are a separate category of museums, and we must be professional."
"What do you mean by the Earth's Axis?" Boss Lan asked curiously.
"To put it simply, it is one of the six gods of the Tang Dynasty tomb, which evolved from the image of a turtle and a snake. As for how it evolved, we can only inquire about the mental state of the craftsmen at that time. β
"Now it's three treasures, right?" Zhang Yang asked.
"Sort of, is there anything more bizarre?"
"Do the 12 zodiac terracotta figurines count?" Lin Yupan thought for a while and replied.
"Isn't it just replacing the head of a humanoid terracotta figurine with an animal head...... What's the point, doesn't count. β
"Does the Nine Tricks count?"
"It's so common, and now there are jade cicadas everywhere for sale...... And the taste is too heavy to count. β
"Does the Soul Eater count?"
"No...... Wait, you're talking about, Eater, Soul, Beast? Boss Lan was shocked again.
"Devouring the Soul Eaters in the Starry Sky?" Zhang Yang vaguely had such an impression.
Now it was Lin Yupan's turn to be confused: What is Mr. Zhang talking about, am I lonely and unheard?
Until the surname Lan reminded him loudly:
"Lao Lin, what's wrong with you? We're all waiting for your next step. β
"Oh, wait a minute, I'll pick it up right away."
Three minutes later, Lin Yupan dragged a black-brown stone sculpture in a wooden cart to Zhang Yang and the others.
"This is the Soul Eater, it looks a bit like a lion."
"Take the image to the letter, this is a lion carved in limestone."
After Zhang Yang corrected Boss Lan's statement, his attention fell on the lion's mouth.
This male lion is biting some animal.
According to Lin Yupan, it bites the spirit that intrudes on the mausoleum.
"Is there any problem, is it really a soul eater?"
"Forget it." Zhang Yang nodded a little reluctantly.
To be precise, this Tang Dynasty statue is a derivative of the tomb beast, and the lion is the traditional image of the tomb beast, and its mouth is biting a lamb that is still struggling.
In ancient times, sheep were inextricably linked to the concept of the soul.
The ancients put such a sculpture in the tomb, which is a bit of an example of killing chickens and monkeys, and advised the wandering spirits not to disturb the deceased, otherwise they will be eaten in one bite.
"Let's call it the Soul Eater Beast, who made our treasure of the town hall a little less."
"Whew~" Lin Yupan breathed a long sigh of relief.
"Four, almost." Boss Lan smiled, suddenly leaned over to Zhang Yang's side, and hugged his shoulders like a good brother: "I gave out 60 million, this Mr. Zhang, is there also some antiques, what does it mean?" β
"Did the wool come to me? Not a big problem. But what I took out, I'm afraid you won't be able to catch the 60 million. β
(End of chapter)