"Forget it." Chen Yanguang shook his head.

He was originally ambitious, but when he saw Zhang Yang's strange smile, he had a chill down his spine, and he always felt that nothing was good.

Anyway, for Chen Yanguang now, making money is the most important thing.

This is related to his good life after marriage, and the others are not in a hurry.

With such thoughts, Chen Yanguang changed the topic without a trace: "Brother Han, in addition to this sword unearthed in Germany, are there any other goods, which are very famous abroad?" ”

"Yes, let's take a look at this."

Mr. Han led Chen Yanguang forward.

Zhang Yang was not idle, he took high-definition photos of several bronze swords in the warehouse and posted them in the small group of the archaeological team.

It's a good habit to keep some evidence at hand, this is what Lao Chu taught.

Director Chu asked the members of the archaeological team to post in the group first, whether they were useful or not, when they encountered strange antiques.

Keep a file and brainstorm at the same time, maybe there will be new discoveries.

This time, as soon as Zhang Yang's picture was sent, the grandfather and grandson of the Chu family replied.

Chu Ziqiang: Brother Yang went to collect wind again?

Chu Zhenmin: Has anyone in China begun to copy European cultural relics? That's a lot of ideas.

Zhang Yang didn't explain the story behind this bronze sword, but replied to the two of them with "baring teeth" expressions.

Complicated things can't be said clearly on the Internet, and it is easier to have a sense of surprise when you meet next time and talk in person.

The gaze returned to Boss Han's warehouse.

Chen Yanguang was staring at a bronze object in a wooden box and scratching his head.

"Is this an anchor?"

"What a baby, let me be well."

Zhang Yang took the initiative to come up.

The bronze in the chest is indeed shaped a bit like a ship's anchor, especially the spiral ornamentation on it, like the hooks on both sides of the anchor.

But as long as you see the hollow columnar structure in the upper part of the object, you should understand that this thing is going to be equipped with a wooden handle.

It can only be said that Chen Yanguang has seen fewer antiques, and his imagination is still a little worse.

Bronzes with wooden handles are common.

"This thing should be the Norse side, the Celtic ritual axe." Zhang Yang analyzed.

"Axes? There's not even a blade, huh? ”

"Ceremonial axes, ritual vessels." Zhang Yang made an axe movement, "Just stand on the emperor, no, there was no emperor at that time, it should be the lord." ”

"The lord's guard of honor is standing on both sides with this thing."

"Oh, it's like our country, the palace maid with a fan behind the back of the ancient emperor, right?" Lao Liu asked.

"That's right, there is a very old people in Northern Europe, the Celts, the Irish, the Scots, the Welsh, are all branches under the Celts."

"During the Roman Empire, the three major barbarian tribes in the Roman population were the Celts, the Germans, and the Slavs."

Zhang Yang doesn't know much about the history of Northern Europe.

He knows this, or because when he was just in college, his roommate Qin Kai took everyone to take an elective course on Western European history in order to chase a girl who likes Western European mythology.

Zhang Yang's feeling after the class is:

The Romans really knew how to play, and the opening up of Europe was handed down from the older generation, which was completely different from that of China.

"Did you find this thing in Europe?" Chen Yanguang raised his eyebrows, and asked Zhang Yang at the same time as he asked Mr. Han.

Zhang Yang certainly understood what he meant.

He wanted to ask if this was a fake, and it was also a fake that was treated as a real cultural relic.

"You're thinking a little too much, this thing was indeed found in Denmark, but it's a serious Celtic artifact."

The prototype of this bronze axe is different from the German bronze sword.

Systematic Celtic artifacts have indeed been found in Western Europe.

The ancient books of the Romans also recorded the situation of the barbarians in Western Europe.

The Bronze Age in Northern Europe first originated in 1600 BC (the earliest bronze in China was in 3000 BC).

Unlike the bronzes in China, which slowly developed from scratch, there were many bronzes in Western Europe without warning.

This is not because the Europeans are fake, but because there are no copper mines or tin mines in Western Europe, and bronze cannot be produced locally, and of course there is no prototype of early bronzes.

They were able to enter the Bronze Age entirely because of the bronze smelting technology of West Asia, which entered the ancient civilizations of Italy, Greece, and Egypt along the Mediterranean.

After the bronze raw materials were refined locally, they were then imported into Western Europe through trade.

In other words, the bronze of Western Europe was all imported.

The copper raw materials that the people who bought them smelted were just recast by themselves when they came back.

Of course, this kind of imported bronze is very expensive, so there are many large ritual utensils made at that time.

All were used by the nobility.

"That's right." Boss Han agreed with Zhang Yang's knowledge of popular science, "This kind of bronze axe, we are specialized in the business of British nobles. ”

"Their wealthy people, especially the rednecks who advertise themselves as purebred European blood, are more than willing to pay as long as they can't find the difference between the imitation and the real thing."

"In order to be exactly the same, we specially asked the Danish museum to buy materials, and in the eyes of the British, we couldn't tell the difference."

"Is that so?" Chen Yanguang listened with a little envy, it sounded, this money is very profitable.

"In line with my understanding of European collectors." Zhang Yang smiled and nodded, "There are also a lot of national treasures over there, and I saw an old brother in the news last time who collected a lot of imitation Yuan Qinghua and put them in the cellar for fear that others would steal them." ”

"Special with dreams."

"Hahaha, that's probably our group's customer." Chen Yanguang smiled proudly.

In addition to the bronze sword, Mr. Han's other bronzes designed for the European market have cultural relics prototypes.

It's just a big museum like the British Museum, or a small museum that is not a good idea.

Among them, the collection of the Danish Museum is the hardest hit area.

Because Mr. Han bought the data of all the cultural relics in their metal collection.

"How did you get this data, teach me?"

Chen Yanguang is interested.

No matter how you look at it, this thing is more profitable than porcelain.

Because the goods are shipped overseas to sell, the production cost and transportation cost of porcelain are much higher than that of bronzes.

The only thing that can compete is that the porcelain collection market is relatively large.

But Mr. Han has obviously done market research, and there is not a single antique such as a tripod or a bell in the warehouse, they are all strange things.

The stranger the thing, the less likely it is to sell, otherwise these things will be a money-losing product.

"Hehe, in fact, it's okay for me to tell Mr. Chen." Boss Han smiled and said, "My son is studying metal smelting in Germany. ”

"These are the resources he found from his classmates and teachers, and they helped me get them."

"In the name of studying metal smelting, imitation of bronze?" Chen Yanguang asked in surprise.

This suddenly raised the threshold of making handicrafts to a university undergraduate, or an industry-related major.

He can't learn a little.

"Almost, I suspect that my son chose this major, but I didn't let him enter the workshop when he was a child, which made him rebellious."

"That's for sure." Chen Yanguang agreed.

Then he spoke his own thoughts.

"Brother Han, let's not hide it, in fact, our Hedong Group also has a bronze product line, but it has stopped since my fiancée's uncle went in."

"The machine is still parked in the factory, and it is maintained every month."

"With such a big business of yours, can you leak a little ...... out of your fingernails?"

“……”

Zhang Yang was not interested in the business talk between Chen Yanguang and Mr. Han.

He was more curious about the antiques in front of him.

How to say it, maybe the German bronze sword just now is the thing that can be best understood by Chinese cultural and entertainment lovers.

For other things, the light type is very strange.

Some are even so strange that Zhang Yang has to take pictures, go out over the wall to check the information, and gnaw on the English "raw meat" one bite at a time to know what it is.

For example, there is a pair of bronzes.

It is shaped like a shower head for bathing, and there is a horn mouth underneath.

Zhang Yang suspected that the inspiration for this thing was that someone blew the rod of the lotus canopy, and found that there was a sound, so he made a similar instrument.

According to information on the Internet, this musical instrument called "Luer" was discovered in 1797 (the second year of Jiaqing in the Qing Dynasty) on the island of Zealand, Denmark, and belonged to funerary goods, generally appearing in pairs.

Studies have found that this thing makes a desolate sound when played, equivalent to the trombone of today.

That is, Zhang Yang doesn't understand music, otherwise he would definitely have to try the "Luer" created by Boss Han, whether it can really make the sound of trombone.

There is also a similar musical instrument in a museum in France, and Boss Han also imitated it.

It's also long, like a trumpet.

The difference is that at the top of the horn of the French, there is a pig's head.

Zhang Yang looked at the official website of the Louvre Museum and learned that the most representative bronze shape of the Gauls in the Bronze Age was the pig.

This horn in the shape of a pig's head is used to play the role of a charge horn when the army attacks.

After listening to the flamboyant popular science, Lao Liu sighed with emotion: "The French are too rebellious." ”

"If you attack when you hear a pig crying during a war, can you win?"

"Who said the French were going to win the war?" Chen Yanguang leaned over and said, "Their tradition is to raise a white flag. ”

"That's the truth, but when it comes to the origin of pigs, it has to be the prime minister of England." Boss Han also came over and chimed in.

"The two of you have finished exchanging business?"

"Of course." Chen Han and the two nodded in unison and responded to Zhang Yang.

"Master Zhang, we have reached a strategic cooperation agreement."

"Yes, Brother Yang, as the advisor of our group, do you want to sign this agreement with me?"

"When the ribbon is cut for our new product line, you have to attend."

"Of course you can, if you give a nickname to the next person, if you don't cut it, you must call me when you cut the ribbon." Zhang Yang nodded.

"What? You're not available, huh? Chen Yanguang pretended to listen to himself, "Then forget it, I don't force it." ”

Then skillfully changed the topic: "Come, Brother Han, take us to see other antiques." ”

"When the time comes, you can go to Riyadh and you can come with us."

"It's true that these things are of good quality, but the quantity is still a little less." Zhang Yang helped bring the conversation back to today's main task.

"I thought about it for a while, if you want to sell for a price, there are still too many obvious imitations, and locals can search for pictures with their mobile phones and find which one is imitation on the Internet."

"What then?" Mr. Han was also a little embarrassed, he explained, "Mr. Chen, Master Zhang, the bronzes I have here are all imitations." ”

"Prototypes can be found in museums."

"We also thought about inventing ourselves, but we didn't have the ability, and we didn't dare to guarantee that the things we made would be sold."

"Understood." Zhang Yang anticipated Mr. Han's thoughts, and it was the same choice to change to any other small workshop.

Not everyone who is engaged in the antique handicraft business can have the same capital as Hedong Group, and they have made antiques that do not exist at all, such as "three-piece set of old men on the construction site".

"But if we want to make a name for ourselves in the already unpopular Middle Eastern collector's market, we have to find a way to create a new version of the bronze three-piece set."

"Which three?" Chen Yanguang asked curiously.

"Actually, I don't know." Zhang Yang shrugged his shoulders and spread his hands and said, "Don't you have a Middle Eastern taboo document?" ”

"You follow the one above, and do the method of elimination."

"Remove all the things they taboo, make one of the rest of the things, and then take pictures for the father and daughter of the Saudi royal family to choose for themselves."

"Yes, I can ask the prince for his opinion."

Chen Yanguang suddenly realized that he was overjoyed, so he sent up to give Zhang Yang a hug.

The other two people in the room showed a secretive expression when they heard the key words such as prince and Saudi Arabia.

In their eyes, Zhang Yang and Chen Yanguang are gushing oil behind their backs.

"The wealth of the sky has been bumped into by the two of us!" Boss Han whispered to Lao Liu beside him.

"Do you have my share?" Lao Liu is not very sure, he is a soy sauce player.

"There must be, if not, you can kneel down and beg Master Zhang."

……

In the end, Lao Liu did not kneel down.

Because Chen Yanguang was already short of people, after restarting the bronze product line, an experienced employee like Lao Liu would certainly not let him out.

The only regret is that the old employees who were engaged in bronze before all went in, and Chen Yanguang only found Lao Liu.

"Brother Yang, I've worked hard for you today."

On the way back, Chen Yanguang was emotional, and he had to thank Zhang Yang.

He took out a card from his pocket and wanted to show it.

"How many steamed buns are in there?" Zhang Yang held the bank card and asked with a smile.

He didn't want the money, he wanted to find a reason to refuse.

"Two hundred Ws, what my wife means, is your dividend for last year plus the consultant fee."

"That's it? It's called Hanako, isn't it? ”

Zhang Yang directly handed the card back.

"Save it up with you first, and then give it to me when you have a small goal."

"Two million a year, it takes 50 years to have a small goal. Brother Young, will you be able to live to that time? Chen Yanguang said with a wicked smile.

"If you can't speak, don't speak."

"My mine, Brother Yang, you will definitely live to be a thousand years old."

"You're the king......

"Okay, I'm not going to talk to you so fast." Zhang Yang knew that once he and Chen Yanguang had such a start, the conversation would be endless.

The big brother on the list has been on the Internet for many years, and he is not vain at all in terms of lip service.

"There's something important to ask you."

"You say."

"When did you and Miss Cheng get married?" Zhang Yang asked.

"What's wrong? Are you in a hurry to grab a bouquet of flowers? ”

"No, it's your father-in-law, Second Master Cheng, he told me that the next time he returns to China, it will be when the two of you get married."

"It just so happens that I have something more important here, so I have to wait for Second Master Cheng to come back and do it together."

"You're not trying to send my father-in-law in, are you?" Chen Yanguang asked vigilantly.

(End of chapter)