Chapter 1379 Having Money to Buy Paintings
Zhou Zhi used to suffer from "external floods and internal droughts", and the big profit he made by taking advantage of the European currency crisis was considered to be his first pot of gold from overseas funds.
However, because the national finance is not yet developed enough, it is quite difficult to get the money to be used domestically.
Compared with foreign funds, domestic funds are only small and small. They mainly come from the dividends from the residual shares and patent authorizations of Saturday Niang Food Company and Jinan Group, Red Star small supermarket stores, taxi tops Rent of clothing and clothing city facades.
However, these funds are almost exhausted for daily maintenance of various stores and continued real estate expansion. Previously, it had to be supplemented by part of the patent licensing fees generated by Hanwenku.
Up to now, as several golden hens of Clover Digital Technology Company have begun to lay eggs, professional management systems for supermarkets, industry and commerce, hospitals, corporate finance, cashiers, etc. have been developed, information building design and renovation, anti-virus software research and development, Hanwen large font authorization Revenue, the biggest revenue of course comes from audio decoding chips, and the development and sales of WinClover players. As an important licensee, partner, and investor of Hong'an Digital in chip production, Clover Company will take 40% of the revenue. income.
Then there are the VCD decoding chips and Wanyan VCD machines that have just become the new golden hens. The chips are priced at 120 yuan in China, and the VCD machines are priced at 800 yuan. Such high prices Demand still exceeds supply, so Huahong has added two production lines, hoping to seize as much of the market as possible before VCD machine manufacturers swarm around.
Matching this phenomenon, super large pirated VCD production factories have begun to appear in Hong Kong Island and Southeast Asia. They are sold domestically through various channels, with prices as low as five yuan per plate, killing the LD market. Rivers of blood flowed.
Nowadays, LD is almost confined to large karaoke halls and sophisticated Hongqi Film and Television Entertainment City. It is almost impossible to enter thousands of households as an ordinary household appliance.
Although the revenue belongs to the company, Clover Company treats its employees very well. Zhou Zhi has long formulated an equity incentive plan so that employees can enjoy monthly bonuses.
Among these dividends, he received the largest share, so he could use a few more months of his "salary" to spend "vigorously" at places like Rongbaozhai.
The painters named by Grandma Yuan, apart from Liu Jiyou who is very famous for his comic strips, even Zhang Shanzi, the second brother of Zhang Daqian, has average prices for his works. A painting now costs only five yuan. Six thousand yuan, which can be tens of thousands, is either a large-format masterpiece or a representative masterpiece.
The representative works of young and middle-aged painters like Feng Dazhong now cost only two to three thousand yuan, and this is based on Rongbaozhai making enough profits.
Fortunately, there are many works of these painters in Rongbaozhai, and they are not all apes.
Among the furry animals, they actually draw more tigers.
Zhou Zhi is also a tiger, so among the two million yuan, most of them are apes, tigers, leopards, cats, as well as lions, wolves, and even lynx, snow leopards, and pandas.
Many of them are in series. For example, Liu Jiyou's "Beast Series" is a set of four screens, including four Chinese beasts: tiger, clouded leopard, lynx, and golden leopard. It has unique themes and both physical and spiritual features. Let Zhou Zhi see it and say it is wonderful.
If you spend two million to buy all these paintings, you can buy nearly a thousand paintings, which is of course impossible.
The main reason is that there are several themes that combine characters and animals, and the prices are high. They are "Wu Song Fighting Tigers", "Su Wu Shepherding Sheep", "Golden Monkey", "Northeast Tiger" by Liu Jiyou, and one Zhang Shanzi's "Picture of Feng Qian and Fu Hu"!
Liu Jiyou is an all-rounder in the history of modern Chinese painting and the founder of Chinese comic strips. He is known as the "Rembrandt and Michelangelo of the East" and is also a master of modern Chinese painting of animal figures.
However, the master always claimed to be a "people's artist". The reason why the price of these four paintings is higher is because "Wu Song Fights the Tiger" and "Su Wu Shepherds the Sheep" are themselves the covers of two comic books. These two comic books can be found at any comic book stall when Zhou Zhi was a child. It can be said that Zhou Zhi No one in this generation knows it.
The "Golden Monkey" and "Siberian Tiger" were selected as stamps by the National Postal Service, and they are also household names.
Zhang Shanzi’s painting is preceded by a large piece of running script written by Zhang Daqian that is the same size as the painting. The content of the running script introduces the important position of the crouching tiger theme in Chinese painting, and mentions the Five Dynasties painter Shi Ke The painting "The Second Ancestor Adjusting the Heart" is the original work of the freehand Fu Hu Tu.
"The Picture of Adjusting the Heart of the Second Patriarch" depicts the paintings of two Zen masters Huike and Fengqian who adjusted the mind and meditated. Among them, Fengqian was leaning on a docile tiger, pressing his elbows on the tiger's back. The main purpose of adjusting the mind and taking a nap, with wild and concise strokes and exaggerated characters, is to express subjective emotions and interest. Zhang Daqian believes that this is the first of freehand brushwork.
Because of the bonus of this "painting theory", Zhang Shanzi's "Feng Qian Fu Hu Tu" is also very expensive.
However, even this would not cost two million. The most important thing was that Rong Baozhai found a painting of "Tall Trees Listening to the Stream" by Zhang Daqian.
There are only one horizontal pine and one oblique oak tree in the picture. A roe ape is lying on the horizontal pine, holding the branches of the oblique oak tree with one long arm, as if listening to the sound of water below.
The title says it is listening to a stream, but there is no stream in the painting. Only ink and ink are used to show the hazy atmosphere under the trees, including the purple-red oak leaves, which are also painted using the splash color method to make them appear vaporous. dripping.
In the whole painting, the deer is painted using the ancient method of Yi Yuanji, which can be said to be 99% of the essence, while the rest of the painting is completely Zhang Daqian’s own style, especially a few pieces with splashes. The oak leaves painted with the color method made Zhou Zhi inexplicably happy.
Zhou Zhi is now short of Zhang Daqian's splash-color paintings. Although the leaves in this painting are very small and can only be called "small splash-colors", they are incomparable to Zhang Daqian's "big splash-colors" that express the spiritual realm of mountains and rivers. But for Zhou Zhi To put it bluntly, this is called "no fish or shrimp".
There is actually an interesting legend about black apes. It is said that before Zhang Daqian was born, his mother dreamed of an old man holding a little black ape and giving it to her, asking her to raise it well. Zhang Daqian was born.
Therefore, Zhang Daqian has always regarded himself as a black ape to support him.
With this allusion, Zhou Zhi looked at the leisurely and contented white-cheeked black ape in this painting, and inexplicably felt that this was a "self-portrait" given to him by the artist, who wanted to express his feelings about a state of mind. yearn for.
The price given by Rong Baozhai for this painting is 800,000. Zhang Daqian's net worth is really changing every day.
Although Zhang Daqian's paintings and books alone accounted for half of the purchase price, Zhou Zhi still won it "with tears". After passing this village, he was afraid that this store would no longer exist.
With "Tall Trees Listening to the Stream", Zhou Zhi dared to round off the details, patting his chest and saying that he had collected all the categories of Zhang Daqian's paintings.
(End of this chapter)