Chapter 1087: Leveling up the goods
Before coming to Beijing, Zhou Zhi took stock of his own situation and felt that he had more than one million pounds, more than three million U.S. dollars, and more than five million yuan, which converted to as much as four thousand Five million yuan, this time I can be arrogant no matter what, but as soon as I arrived, I gave the old man a heavy blow.
Mr. Wang and his wife have a large and valuable collection. The "Great Sage's Legacy" is a Tang Qin, which was most likely made by Lei Wei and is extremely precious.
In addition to this Fuxi-style Qin from the Tang Dynasty, the couple also has Zhongni Qin from the Song Dynasty with a roar of dragons and roars of tigers, a Zhongni Qin with a golden sound and a jade vibration from the Yuan Dynasty, a Phoenix-crop Qin from the Yuan and Ming Dynasties, and a golden banana-leaf Qin from the Ming Dynasty.
Any handful is extremely precious.
As for the old man's incense burner, in addition to the four top-quality ones just mentioned, there are thirty others left, all of which are extremely precious.
Among these four top-quality stoves, the Silong seawater casting process is the most complex and the oldest, and it is from the Yuan Dynasty; the centimeter ring-foot stove and the cupola three-legged stove are the treasures inside the incense burner. "Xuande Furnace"; although the remaining one is from Chongzhen, its black lacquer coating is covered with glittering gold flakes, making it the most beautiful of all the furnaces.
No matter which one the old man plans to keep for himself, the remaining three plus the rest of the inventory must be let Zhou Zhi weigh his financial strength.
This is just a piano and an incense burner. The old man’s collection also includes Buddhist statues, calligraphy and paintings, a collection of books, and all kinds of miscellaneous items.
It will take five special auctions in later generations to complete the sale, so you can imagine how rich the collection will be.
A family with a fortune of 45 million can only cry out as "poor money".
“Three million U.S. dollars.” The old man smiled and said, “Do you have it?”
“If you can come up with five million U.S. dollars, I can also make a will until I and I After my wife left, apart from the family calligraphy and paintings left to the children, the rest The Great Sage's musical instrument and Xuande's earrings and foot furnaces are also left to you."
Five million US dollars is almost the total of all the foreign currencies in my current spare money account. After paying this amount, I estimate. Only hundreds of thousands of dollars and RMB are left.
"Five million dollars is fine." Zhou Zhi did not mention anything about inspecting the goods, and directly took out his check book: "But the only one hundred dollars I can mobilize now is the "Sichuan Fun Talk" A royalties of more than 10,000 pounds, plus three million US dollars, do you think this is okay?”
"Okay." The old man smiled and said, "You write the check and I write the will."
"Everyone here, please sign and be witnesses!"
"Then Mr. Yuan... "Zhou Zhi is not worried about disputes in the future. He is mainly worried that Mr. Wang will not be able to explain things when he returns.
"This is the result of our discussion." Mr. Wang breathed a sigh of relief, as if Zhou Zhi had solved his big knot: "When she comes back from get off work, let her fill in the words."
Unlike auctions, this kind of "leveling up" behavior among big collectors often cannot be measured by market price.
Mr. Wang's collection was auctioned five times, with the total value each time ranging from 20 million to several million, but that was ten years later.
According to the market price of the Ming and Qing Furniture sold by the old man for one million US dollars the year before last, this transaction of five million US dollars is barely reasonable.
Of course, if these things are kept for twenty years, any one of them will cost tens of millions. For example, the Great Sage's musical instrument and the four top-quality incense burners may cost hundreds of millions.
If you take into account the scarcity of the collection, you can only use five words to describe such an opportunity - rare.
But I have to say it again, whoever has so much money these days can invest it in anything, even negotiate an interest rate agreement with the bank, or directly buy stocks without moving it, and the future income will be lost. No small matter.
To really be able to buy art and press it, you have to have "spare money".
Except for people like Zhou Zhi, not even Feng Cang and Pan Shiya can allocate more than 20 million in "idle funds" in this hot investment land. But Zhouzhi does not have this problem. Regardless of foreign assets, just talking about domestic assets, Zhouzhi's problem is too much "spare money".
So Zhou Zhi generously took out the check book and filled in the numbers, leaving aside the rest. The Guangda Sheng Yiyinqin and the Xuande ear ring were both the same, and they were left for ten years. It's worth dozens of times what it is now.
No one knew what Zhou Zhi was thinking. Lin Wanqiu and Yu Bin were extremely impressed by Zhou Zhi's "celebrity style" of "dung money"; Liu Zhengyun, Mo Yan and Yu Hua didn't care much about money. He had never doubted his ability in the future. He only felt that this child and he were "kindred spirits"; the one who was least surprised was Mr. Ma. He had seen a lot of people like Zhou Zhi and Mr. Wang in the old days.
Only Wang Gang was the most surprised. He only knew that Zhou Zhi, like Lin Wanqiu, who had been quite popular in the capital recently, was a junior who was highly valued by Mr. Wang and Mr. Qi. However, he never expected that Zhou Zhi had such financial strength and such Attitude towards money.
After all, he is not as heroic now as he will be when he becomes famous and his income doubles in a few years.
But what he saw and heard today aroused his interest in entering this industry.
After Zhou Zhi signed the two checks, Mr. Ma handed over a book: "The items here, in addition to the Great Sage's musical instrument and the Xuande earrings and foot furnace, there are also the old man's artifacts. , eagle gear, cricket pot, dove whistle, and Mrs. Jin and Except for the calligraphy and paintings of a few old ladies, the rest is yours.”
Mr. Wang’s uncle Jin Beilou was a leader in the northern painting circle at the beginning of the century. The Hu Society he organized was It has a great influence on the art world;
His mother Jin Zhang is also a famous fish and algae painter;
His second uncle Jin Dongxi and fourth uncle Jin Xiya are also famous bamboo carvers.
The old man himself is a master of all things chess, calligraphy and painting. His master is Guan Pingchao, the best luthier in the world at the beginning of the century. Both calligraphy and painting are learned from his family. He also learned the skill of painting gourds with fire. I also learned bamboo carving from my two uncles.
Among the monographs he has published, there are four volumes of a monograph on fish and algae painting, "Haoliang Zhilue Collection", which he compiled for his mother, and "Carved Bamboo Xiaoyan", which he compiled for his uncle Jin Xiya. He also expanded it and wrote his own "Bamboo Carving Appreciation" is a collection of the essence of bamboo carving art since the Ming and Qing Dynasties.
The pigeon whistles he collected were two extremely exquisite boxes of pigeon whistles made of purple paint with the Chinese character "xiang" in the old capital.
The gourds in his collection, except those painted by himself, are from Wen Sanhuo and Liu Xianting of Sanhe County in the Qing Dynasty.
The old man likes to play with pigeons, pigeon whistles, and gourds. In fact, in the old man’s heart, many intangible cultural heritages are equivalent to his collection of "The Sounds of the Great Sage."
As for Mr. Yuan’s attitude towards the old man, there is only one word: doting.
There is a joke that can explain how much the old man loves him and how much Mr. Yuan dotes on him.
In difficult times, one day Mr. Yuan discovered that his family’s money had bought sorghum to feed pigeons, so he could no longer buy milk powder. After buying milk powder, he could no longer buy sorghum.
The two discussed it for a long time and decided that it was okay to borrow money for milk powder, but it was a bit outrageous to borrow money to feed pigeons.
So I decided to use the money in my hand to buy sorghum, and borrow the money for milk powder!
"This "Collection of Self-Preservation" was recovered by Tsuen You and I through various means after our redress." The old man was open-minded: "I got it, then lost it, and then I found it again. I left them again today. It can be said that all the twists and turns in my life were in it."
"But I left them last time. , but I was so worried that I couldn’t sleep at night. This time, my wife and I were able to sleep well!”
“De Mian Tang is always open to the old man and Mr. Yuan,” Zhou Zhi said sincerely. Said: "The two elders can come anytime they want; they can stay as long as they want."
The old man quickly made a will, explaining clearly the fate of his and his wife's two most cherished treasures, and asked all witnesses present to sign it.
There is no need for lawyers to be present. The people around us now, no matter who has lived ten or twenty years, are among the top leaders in the industry, and their power and influence are very huge. They can testify , works better than anything else.
(End of this chapter)