Chapter 122 The Zodiac King
The key question is precisely, is the increase of stamps a hundred times the same as the increase of calligraphy and painting?
Whoever does this arithmetic problem would be foolish and make the mistake of trying to find a sword.
Because I completely forgot about the time period.
Return on investment is of course inseparable from time.
Things like calligraphy, painting, antiques, furniture and jade have a continuous appreciation curve.
It climbs up all year round, and there have been downward fluctuations, but they are very small.
Stamps are just the opposite. They are violent zigzag movements, with big ups and downs.
Therefore it is also the graph closest to the stock market.
In the final analysis, stamps have factors such as low capital requirements, low entry barriers, and convenient transactions, which are beneficial to the issuance of stamps.
The postal market will become the only crazy market that has hit the sky several times before my country's stock market came out.
Not to mention anything else, in 1985 and 1991, the postal market performed the Phoenix Dance Nine Days market twice.
Other collections can only lie on the ground and look up.
What does this mean?
It means that in the 1980s and 1990s, in the past 20 years, only stamps were able to ride a thousand-mile horse.
There is no other variety that can compete with it in terms of appreciation space.
Most of the increases in stamp types, especially those of old stamps, were actually completed before 2000.
As for other investment varieties, they only began to rise in the mid-1990s.
Calligraphy, painting, ancient books, and stone seals have always been sought after by Kochi and aristocratic families.
Then there are utensils such as porcelain, furniture, and Buddha statues that even foreigners can appreciate.
When Chinese people become rich, it is the turn of jewelry, jade, jade and other things that can condense wealth.
Then this wealth effect will be extended to more miscellaneous items, setting off a real national trend.
So from a time perspective, it was almost after 2000 that some varieties gradually surpassed stamps and became mainstream investment varieties instead.
Then Ning Weimin can take advantage of this time difference to play a relay race in the speculative market.
To put it bluntly, he sold the stamps and then bought others without any delay. This was even a more cost-effective speculation step.
To give a specific example, in 1991, he sold a set of "Wen 1" tickets that cost five yuan today and earned 10,000 yuan.
Go back and buy Huang Binhong's fine products which have increased a hundred times, one thousand and three pieces, so you can still buy seven and a half pieces.
This is equivalent to five dollars turning into one billion!
Even if you no longer operate other varieties and just sit back and wait for appreciation, that will still be a 200 million-fold increase.
Which investment guru can compare?
Of course, this is appropriate. It only exists purely theoretically.
Because Ning Weimin also understands very well, whether it is selling things or buying new investment targets.
With a large amount of capital, it cannot be completed in a short period of time.
Whether we can find so many Huang Binhong paintings again and whether they are authentic or not is a new question.
Why else would he have to hold calligraphy, painting, and stamps with both hands?
Because in this way, he would be strong in both hands.
Having both long-term varieties and short-term chips, you can advance to attack and retreat to defend, which means you have both the present and the future.
That is true happiness without any shortcomings.
But despite this, having said that, is this kind of happiness enough for Ning Weimin?
No, of course not enough.
In fact, Ning Weimin was attracted by the current situation of the small market and started to grab goods, all on a temporary basis.
We cannot but mention the real purpose of Ning Weimin coming to the Stamp Corporation today.
Because at this moment, in the business hall of the stamp company, there is another huge fortune waiting for Ning Weimin to carry it home.
That is the Xinyou New Year chicken tickets that were issued and listed on January 5, 1981.
This stamp is the second in the zodiac stamp series, and its price is second only to the monkey stamp among the zodiac stamps.
In 2020, the price of a full-page chicken ticket has exceeded 20,000 yuan, and the unit price is as high as 180 yuan.
If you buy it now, the official price is the same as the face value of eight cents, so you can buy a full edition for sixty-four cents. And the purpose of Ning Weimin coming here is to buy a full page of chicken tickets.
His initial plan is that in view of the Xinyou year chicken ticket circulation of nine million.
This year, he will have to eat at least twice the number of monkey tickets as a reserve of chips.
Because he is no longer satisfied with just being a "professional monkey farmer".
He now feels that the name "Monkey King" is not so good. What he wants to do is to be the "Zodiac King" in the postal market.
So because of this, when Ning Weimin flipped through the stamp album of the next stamp seller, he unexpectedly found a four-sided monkey stamp.
After being stunned for a moment, he was filled with joy and asked the price enthusiastically.
“How much do you charge for the four-party monkey ticket?”
"You have it?"
"I have it!"
"Is it a four-party couplet?"
"There are both leaflets and four-party couplets."
"A single ticket costs 15 cents, and a four-party package costs 80 cents. How about it? This is last year's new ticket, it has doubled, and the price is high enough..."
"Then let me buy yours, okay? Just this Sifang couplet, how much do you want to sell it to me?"
Ning Weimin smiled. He remembered the bet he made with Kang Shude, but he didn't expect that the New Year has not yet happened. Well, I won.
But the other party suddenly became mute and rolled his eyes, feeling a little unhappy.
"I said, do you want to buy or sell?"
"It depends on your price."
Ning Weimin's confidence has never been so strong.
But the misunderstanding deepened, and he was obviously a little angry.
This guy really had a bad temper and made fist gestures.
"Hey, you are selling and buying now. You are vague and sincerely amusing me, right? Don't make yourself uncomfortable."
Ning Weimin continued to speak kindly.
"I don't mean that. I'm just asking you for a sincere price. I can buy or sell, whichever is fine, as long as the price is right."
The ticket seller thought Ning Weimin was still deliberately making him cough, so he cheered. Son.
"Hey, don't blame me for being rude. Let's put it this way, the price I charged you for the ticket is this, and I have to double it when I sell it to you."
"Is that what you said? "
"That's it, what? If you don't want to accept it, let's find a place to practice?" The ticket dealer was already glaring.
But no matter what he thought, Ning Weimin smiled even brighter.
He took out the money from his pocket, ordered one dollar and six and handed it over.
"That's not necessary. In view of your attitude, I decided to buy this four-party couplet."
Hey, this is great, the ticket seller was completely confused and a little confused. Where is the north?
He said in his heart, what does this boy mean?
You're sick, you're just throwing your money away on purpose.
However, Ning Weimin smiled and said nothing. He was like a devil that deceived people, and he just continued to collect money.
In just three or four seconds, the tragedy and comedy of life came to an end.
Just for one dollar and six, just to buy two packs of good cigarettes, this ticket seller threw away 70,000 yuan with his own hands.
Think about it, how interesting this is.
People who suffer a loss actually think that they have taken advantage of it.
Obviously I have been cut into pieces by others, but I regard the person who successfully plotted against me as a fool.
And this is the postal market! This is the speculative market!
A place where a buyer and a seller pass by each other and say "silly boy" to each other.
Stories like this may happen here every day in the future.
(End of this chapter)