Manager Guan is still minding his own business and introducing:
"Dean Lin, look at this, a large chest with a huanghuali, phoenix and peony pattern. This is an imperial item of the Ming Dynasty. There are also these two chairs, called huanghuali top chairs. Although these chairs are simple in workmanship, they were used by the emperors of the Ming Dynasty to travel. Special chairs
In addition, the bookcases and wooden carving boxes in our store, including the row of plum blossom tables over there, are all classic furniture from the Ming and Qing Dynasties. They are all royal items. We pulled them piece by piece from the warehouse of the Forbidden City. came out. ”
Lin Sanqi almost spit out a mouthful of salt soda.
The things that come out of the Forbidden City are definitely real, but the garbage that the Forbidden City does not want is also a proper national treasure. If I go there in 2014, will I be dragged out and shot?
After all, there are some things that cannot be touched. Although Lin Sanqi has a G, he cannot drive into the Forbidden City because he does not have this background.
Manager Guan didn’t know what Lin Sanqi was worried about, and was still minding his own introduction:
"Dean Lin, when you come here, have you seen this domineering chair? This full name is the golden nanmu carved eight-treasure cloud bat pattern water wave cloud dragon throne. Our experts speculate that this throne may be the one lost in the Hall of Supreme Harmony. A real dragon chair
But this chair was found in the Deheyuan Theater in the Summer Palace. Many experts said it was not the dragon chair, but they did not look at the regulations of this chair.
Its chair back is "armchair style", with four columns supporting the armrests. It is engraved with exquisite five-clawed dragon patterns, and the whole body is painted in gold. The rough completion date of this dragon chair should be during the Jiajing period of the Ming Dynasty.
Those experts said that this was a chair from the Ming Dynasty. How could it be a dragon chair from the Qing Dynasty? Okay, the Forbidden City won’t accept this chair, so it’s coming to our cultural relics store to sell it for foreign exchange.
Comrade Lin will tell you to tell you the truth, what do those experts in the Forbidden City know? We are the craftsmen passed down from our ancestors, and we will definitely not be wrong after seeing them. It's a pity to sell it to foreigners like this. Dean Lin, you are Chinese, just buy it. ”
Lin Sanqi swallowed. Punishment, extraordinary punishment, even the dragon chair in the Hall of Supreme Harmony was made.
As for those so-called experts who are superior, Lin Sanqi also knows what their level is.
All fine silk fabrics are oxidized and not protected. Finally, there was some residue, and the front and back were both wrong, and it was stuck to the paper and couldn't be removed.
The coffins of the emperor and empress were all made of golden nanmu, but they were all thrown away as scraps. They were picked up by nearby villagers and burned as firewood. In the end, they could not be recovered even if they tried to recover them.
A total of more than 3,000 cultural relics were unearthed from Dingling, and nearly 2,000 were eventually destroyed, including the dragon robe of Emperor Wanli.
The excavation of Dingling was simply a disaster, and it also exposed the true level of the Forbidden City experts, who were just messing around.
Therefore, Lin Sanqi had reason to believe that the wardrobe of Emperor Kangxi, the table of Emperor Qianlong, and the chair of Emperor Jiajing were all real.
The problem lies here, it’s all true, what can we do?
Especially this authentic dragon chair from the Hall of Supreme Harmony. If you take it out, you will die. But if you don’t take it out and put it at home to sit on, who can hold it down so hard?
Thinking of this, Lin Sanqi asked weakly:
"Minister Tian, Manager Guan, these furniture are national treasures. Are you sure I can buy them? There won't be any accidents in the future? I won't be settled by the future?"
What Minister Tian is afraid of is that if Lin Sanqi doesn't buy it, he won't be able to get the foreign exchange. As for whether it's legal or not, he doesn't care. Besides, there is no cultural relics protection law.
"Dean Lin, don't worry, as long as the items are sold from the cultural relics store, we can issue invoices, collection certificates and exit certificates. With these certificates, you will legally own them now and in the future. ”
Yeah, can I issue an invoice?
Lin Sanqi remembered the hidden rules of an auction house that he had once inquired about.
As long as you don't have evidence of "orderly inheritance," regular auction companies will never accept private collections.
Jiade, Poly, Xiling Seal Society, Rongbaozhai, Hanhai, Christie's, Sotheby's, etc. have not opened the door to private collections.
Of course, if the auction house had such rules and abided by the law, it would not be a holy place for money making.
But if you cannot provide evidence of "orderly inheritance", the auction price will be very low, and it is not worth selling at all. In the end, you will have to go to an underground auction house.
Nowadays, these antique furniture have invoice certificates from cultural relic stores, which is actually a kind of evidence of "orderly inheritance".
So Lin Sanqi pointed at the suspected dragon chair and asked:
"Manager Guan, what's the price for this Eight Treasures or Cloud Dragon Throne?"
Manager Guan obviously kept the prices of all the goods in mind, so he said without hesitation:
"Dean Lin, it is a golden nan wood carved eight-treasure cloud, bat pattern, water wave, cloud and dragon throne. Our current price is US$2,000."
Lin Sanqi thought to herself, how could I fetch hundreds of millions of yuan for this dragon chair when I got it from the auction house in 2014? This is a bloody profit.
So he quietly asked: "Lao Tang, look at the cultural relics in this furniture section, are any of them fake?"
Old Man Tang also replied softly: "They are all genuine, and furniture counterfeiting is very rare, because it is worthless and difficult to transport. We didn't counterfeit furniture at that time."
Lin Sanqi understood, so she smiled and said: "Manager Guan, how much does all the Ming and Qing furniture in your store cost in total?"
Leader Jing knew Lin Sanqi's style, and he wanted to laugh when he heard this, thinking that this guy had started a big clearance deal again.
But Minister Tian and Manager Guan didn’t know, and they were shocked when they heard:
"Dean Lin, do you want to buy all the furniture?"
"Yes, pack them all and buy them all. No one is left. Please give me the total number."
Manager Guan smiled so hard that he couldn’t close his mouth:
"Dean Lin, this is an exhibition hall. In fact, we have more Ming and Qing furniture in the warehouse behind us, and you can rest assured that they are all high-quality products. If not, all the high-quality products go to trust stores or scrap collection stations."
Lin Sanqi waved his hand: "Then include those in the warehouse. How much does it cost? Ma Liu can give me a figure."
Manager Guan was overjoyed: "Xiao Wang, hurry up and get the roster, Xiao Zhang, and Master Li, please immediately calculate how much all the Ming and Qing furniture in our store costs?"
Several staff members ran over in an instant and started making abacus calculations in front of Lin Sanqi.
Lin Sanqi didn't understand, but Old Man Tang did, so he stood nearby and kept calculating the numbers in his head.
There is no mistake in every song, one post, one content, one 6 one, one book, one book, take a look!
Finally, the accountant looked up and gave the final figure: "The total is US$290,000."
Old Man Tang continued to nod slightly, indicating that the number was correct.
(The attitude of state-owned stores may not be very good, but their integrity is absolutely no problem, and there will be no phenomenon of fake goods trapping customers)
Lin Sanqi thought to herself, I bought so much furniture and spent less than 300,000 yuan. Antiques these days are really worthless. A dragon chair that has seated more than a dozen emperors only costs 2,000 US dollars.
Lin Sanqi stretched out her hand:
"Come here, give me the list, and you will pack all the furniture for me according to the list, then load it on the big truck at the door, and immediately transport it back and forth to my exclusive warehouse in Tianjin Port.
Minister Tian, Manager Guan, don’t worry. Leader Jing will be the witness. I have 10 million US dollars and I will not miss out on your foreign exchange. Let's write it down first, and then we'll summarize the accounts at the end, okay? ”
Minister Tian and Manager Guan were so excited that they wanted to clap their hands.
In the past, when I brought foreign guests to cultural relics stores, they would only pick out a few pieces to take away as handicrafts, and the price would only be a few hundred or thousands of dollars.
Because these oriental artworks do not conform to the aesthetics of developed countries in Europe and the United States, and even the poor brothers in Asia, Africa and Latin America do not know how to appreciate them.
People don't like it very much, so naturally they won't spend a lot of money to purchase goods boldly.
Foreigners may still prefer silk and other handicrafts.
In other words, the Japanese are more interested in our domestic cultural relics, but China and Japan have not established diplomatic relations these days, so it is impossible for ordinary Japanese tourists to come to China.
How many cultural relics can be sold with just a few Japanese members of the China-Japan Friendship Association?
Lin Sanqi's arrival was the first generous customer that the cultural relics store had encountered since its establishment. He came with a cash check, and Lin Sanqi instantly became a VIP customer.
Lin Sanqi also tried his hand at it, and cleared one floor for less than 300,000 U.S. dollars. So there was nothing more to say. Now that he was confident, he continued to clear goods.
Manager Guan led everyone to the second floor again.
"Dean Lin, the second floor is mainly porcelain. However, relevant state departments have regulations that porcelain is limited to the Yuan, Ming and Qing dynasties. Porcelain from the Tang and Song dynasties is not for sale."
Lin Sanqi was very sorry to hear this. After all, the pinnacle of porcelain in our country was in the Song Dynasty, and the five famous kilns were very expensive.
If you can only buy the three generations of Yuan, Ming and Qing dynasties, then of course Yuan Qinghua should be the first.
According to some estimates decades later, there are about 300 complete Yuan blue and white vessels in existence in the world, of which more than 200 are abroad and more than 100 are in domestic state-owned collection institutions.
These more than 200 Yuan blue and white pieces were exported abroad. They were related to the bandits of the Eight-Power Allied Forces in the late Qing Dynasty, but a lot of them should also have escaped from cultural relics stores.
Rare is the most expensive. The smaller the quantity, the more expensive the price.
"Manager Guan, do we have Yuan Qinghua in our store?"
"Yuan blue and white porcelain? Of course we have it. We currently have 28 pieces on display. Dean Lin invites them. They are in the display cabinet here. What do you think of this plum vase with dragon pattern?"
Lin Sanqi's eyes gleamed when he saw it, Yuan Qinghua, there are hundreds of millions of existences at every turn, and they are all covered with dragon patterns. (End of chapter)