Chapter 1007 Beast Head
"No matter how busy you are, can you still be busy?" Tang Qi's voice was obviously full of resentment: "How long has it been since you came to Sichuan to see us? Your wings have become hard, huh?"
“Where, where…” Zhou Zhi quickly apologized: “Isn’t it better to rush to deliver a large font library to Microsoft? We are finishing it on D day, knowing D What does it mean? Dead, you can't change your life."
"Okay, okay, no need to explain." Tang Qi didn't buy it at all: "We are very busy, so there is no delay in writing songs for the little girl. ..."
"That really didn't waste any time. Didn't I have an idea while eating? Tingting should have told you about it..." Zhou Zhi smiled.
"I know, great talent, amazing!" Tang Qi teased from the other end.
Zhou Zhi Nan smiled and said: "Well, cousin An An and Jack Li will come to Sichuan soon to explain the importance of intellectual property rights to the government and the Industrial and Commercial Bureau. I will treat you to a party at that time, and we will all go to Rongyuan Garden to get together. .”
< br>"Oh, yes," Tang Qi said: "The third son of the Li family married a mainland lady, but it shocked Hong Kong Island, and the financial and entertainment pages were reporting on it!"
"Don't! My cousin and I There’s nothing to do with being a socialite!” Zhou Zhi shivered with fright. This misunderstanding was so big that it would be embarrassing to meet him: "She graduated from Jingyang Dongdian Technical School first, and she almost arranged for my uncle to join the lathe class. She can conquer Li Do you believe that the third person is not aggressive at all?”
"Hahahaha, be careful what you say!" Tang Qi was amused by the little gossip revealed to Zhou Zhi: "If that's what you said, I will sue you and see if your cousin can get around it. Spare you!”
"Her, she doesn't see me as a younger brother anymore, otherwise she wouldn't have done that..."
"What's the matter?"
"Forget it. , things about the cultural relics circle, even if I tell you, you are not interested..."
Time flies and it has been a month since school started, and it is now the National Day. Today, I arrived at the airport early this week, waiting here for the next day. Planes from the capital.
Theoretically, he was not even qualified to contact people, but it was the provincial government's repeated insistence on meeting his family first that stopped the provincial government's enthusiasm.
"Cousin An Xin! Jack! Here!"
VIPs have a special passage to reach the special parking lot. If it weren't for the guidance of the airport staff, Zhou Zhi wouldn't have known about it.
“Call me brother-in-law!” The woman carrying the expensive handbag glared at Zhou Zhi.
"What are you doing? We are close friends." Zhou Zhi smiled and said, "Everyone has his own discussion. When will Brother Lehai and Professor Leshan arrive?"
"Hello, George!" Li Leshan smiled and said: "The eldest brother has a lot of things to do this time. The second brother and sister-in-law are staying with him in the capital. It is estimated that he will not be able to come here until after the festival."
"Are you going a little too far? Donate the things you said you would donate. If you inform me in advance, I can come to the capital and touch them!"
"Thank you, elbow." Xu Anxin smiled and hugged him. Holding Zhou Zhi's arm, he asked his wealthy husband to put the luggage in the car: "My father-in-law is satisfied with your idea."
There are many national activities before the National Day. In order to consolidate the relationship with the mainland, Li Qiyan also collected I have been invited to participate in many activities.
It is not polite to come back but not reciprocate, so Li Qiyan wanted to make a "gift" to express his feelings.
But it’s quite difficult to come up with something that can not only build a reputation and be praised by the whole country, but also make the country not reject it.
When Zhou Zhi contacted Xu Anxin to discuss intellectual property rights with the Provincial Administration for Industry and Commerce, Xu Anxin mentioned this matter to Zhou Zhi. Zhou Zhi thought for a moment and came up with an idea.
Zhou Zhi looked at the big screen of the airport broadcast TV with a smile: "Here, it is broadcasting over there!"
On the TV, the pleasant voice of the news announcer was cooperating. Read aloud while looking at the picture.
“Our news is that the Yuanmingyuan animal head donation ceremony was held in the Yuanmingyuan Heritage Park a few days ago.”
"The animal heads donated this time include bronze statues of cow heads, monkey heads, tiger heads and horse heads. The donors are the Li Qiyan family of patriotic businessmen from Hong Kong Island."
"The bronze statues of animal heads in the Old Summer Palace, also known as the Twelve Old Summer Palace The bronze statue of the zodiac animal with human body and head was originally part of the fountain outside Haiyan Hall in Yuanmingyuan. During the Qianlong period of the Qing Dynasty, Lang Shining, a Jesuit priest stationed in China and the court painter of Emperor Qianlong, designed and built these bronze statues, which are also the full name of the "Big Water Method" in the original fountain of Yuanmingyuan. It is a bronze statue of the twelve zodiac animal heads. It is in the shape of an 'eight' and is arranged on the human stone platforms on both sides of the fountain. Each animal is a fountain mechanism. Every hour, the corresponding animal will spray water from its mouth for two hours."
" In 1860, the British and French forces invaded China and burned the Old Summer Palace. The bronze statues began to be lost overseas. "
"The four bronze statues donated this time were bought back by Li's children from various sources overseas, including the cow head, the monkey head, and the tiger head for US$250,000 each. Purchased for an initial price of US$400,000 and a total of US$1.15 million.”
"After the donation is completed, the cultural relics will be kept by the National Museum and will be displayed at the Haiyan Hall, the original site of the site, for tourists to enjoy during the National Day."
"Look, your contribution." Zhou Zhi looked at the screen and smiled.
"Unfortunately, based on your reminder, we searched all the auction records in London and New York and only found these four." Li Laosan smiled and said: "Sister-in-law Wanqiu's business ability is admirable. Compared with the auction price in 1989, I only paid two-thirds more to get it.”
“That is, generally, collectors will not pay for such things. It will only be hidden for three years." Zhou Zhi nodded: "Sister Wanqiu is really powerful in lobbying them to let it go."
Now there has been some movement internationally, and several major auction houses have begun to join forces to promote "Oriental cultural relics." "The era of collections has officially arrived." The large families and large art shops engaged in collecting began to move from Greece, Egypt, the Renaissance, island countries, to China.
Zhou Zhi is not in a hurry, he is still raising his money tree, the world economy is bustling, and it is not time to plunder it yet.
Some opportunities will inevitably be missed. For example, these bronze heads were accidentally discovered by an American antique dealer in a private residence in California in 1985. The final transaction price of each was only Fifteen hundred dollars.
From 1987 to 1989, these bronze animal heads and monkey head bronze statues successively appeared at auctions in New York and London, with almost no one paying attention. The highest price at that time was a horse head. Only $250,000.
Without careful intervention, these animal heads will reappear at Christie's and Sotheby's auctions in Hong Kong Island ten years later, and will eventually be won by the Poly Group, including 774 cattle heads. HKD 50,000, HKD 8,185,000 for the monkey head, HKD 1,544,475 for the tiger head.
According to the exchange rate at that time, it was four million US dollars.
The horse head is special. It was not purchased until 2007 for HK$69 million, equivalent to US$8.6 million.
It is equivalent to spending ten times more than the current price to get it. Therefore, whether it is economic or political calculations, this is undoubtedly a very cost-effective deal.
The Li family did not attach much importance to the economic accounts, but the return of the four Old Summer Palace animal heads to the motherland as a National Day gift had a wide-ranging and huge impact. Li Qiyan even called to express his gratitude. The kid with elbows has always been a fan of this. It's reliable and true, "it's really a good idea to start talking and wake up at the end"!
(End of this chapter)