The next day, Li Zekai returned to Xiangjiang with Li Chaoren. Fu Guangwei went to work on the Taihua Supermarket Group. Many of the previous working methods needed to be adjusted, and the workload was not small.
Fu Guang was free and planned to go to some big collectors to see if there were any antiques he liked.
For the sake of his career, Fu Guangzheng temporarily put aside his favorite business of antiques. Now many of his investments can bring very stable and high returns without him having to worry about it, so he has regained his interest in antiques.
Feng Yu happened to be fine, so he was pulled by Fu Guangzheng to take a look together.
Feng Yu asked curiously: "Guangzheng, what kind of mentality do you have when collecting antiques?"
Fu Guangzheng smiled: "In the beginning, I didn't collect antiques. In your words, I just bought them. I bought them from the mainland and then sold them in Xiangjiang. At that time, there were such masters in Xiangjiang. I bought things from the mainland for more than 100 yuan. I went back to Xiangjiang and sold it for hundreds of thousands of Hong Kong dollars!"
"There are others that can be bought for several thousand yuan and auctioned for millions. I don't want to buy it for a few hundred yuan and sell it for millions. I just want to buy it for hundreds of thousands and sell it for hundreds of thousands to make a profit."
In fact, Fu Guangzheng had a pick-up mentality at first. At that time, he was not taken seriously at home, and he didn't get much pocket money every month. It was expensive to pick up girls. He was from an aristocratic family, so he could be stingy with his actions.
But what does he know about antiques? He is the kind of person who feels good and self-righteous.
Every time I saw something, I thought it was real. I thought I had picked it up and made tens of thousands of times profit by reselling it.
But the result is that this so-called "big leak" is just a slap in the face. The money was spent a lot, but what I bought back were all handicrafts.
Later, he learned the lesson and hired an "expert" with some experience. This time, he was not so blind. He could occasionally make mistakes, and after excluding his expenses on food, drink and entertainment, he could barely make ends meet.
As a result, Fu Guangzheng was watching others show off to him, how much he paid for it, how many times he made it back, etc. He felt unbalanced. So I worked hard and determined to pick up a big leak.
Of course, he was full of ambition at that time, but unfortunately he was slapped in the face and never succeeded. In the end, he spent a high price to buy an authentic product from the Mainland, and then said that it was bought for several thousand yuan, thus saving his face.
To say how much Fu Guangzheng loved antiques at that time, he really didn't. He just bought with his left hand and sold with his right, hoping to make money from this.
Later, he collaborated with Feng Yu on second-hand luxury cars and invested in a machinery company. His profits kept rising every month, and he became the object of praise among the wealthy people in Hong Kong. He no longer had to rely on picking up the slack to gain face. .
Picking up a big leak once a year is frequent enough, right? How much money can you make? One million, or three million? At that time, his investment in the mainland could make tens of millions of profits a year.
But now, it’s more than a few hundred million a year!
His mentality also changed from feeling good, to self-righteous, to discouraged, to calm as water. But now, as his net worth has skyrocketed to tens of billions of Hong Kong dollars, among the younger generation in Hong Kong, except Li Zeju, who inherited the family business, who else can compare with him
Now even if he buys fake goods, he is not so angry, and he will not be discouraged if he is fooled. He still has some of the fake goods he bought at home.
In his words, it looks really beautiful. Although it is not from the previous dynasty, but from the year before last, I like it, so I just treat it as a handicraft and leave it alone.
What others regard as grass, I regard as treasure.
With this mentality, he has not been slapped again in the past two years.
Because he doesn't want to make money by picking up leaks, but just displays them at home to watch. It's not like some collectors who put their things in a safe and are reluctant to let others touch them.
The Qing Dynasty vase he bought back was placed at home as an ordinary decoration, along with the handicrafts.
Over in Xiangjiang, the homes of many rich people are decorated with antiques, but the antiques they put there are all real antiques, not all of them. The real antiques are mixed together.
A well-known collector once asked Fu Guangzheng, "Don't you know there are fakes in there that can be seen at a glance?" In this way, when others see the things in your home, they will all be fakes.
Fu Guangzheng asked rhetorically, so what
He didn't plan to sell it anyway, he just kept it for himself to play with. Is true or false more important than his liking
This time he went to the collector in the suburbs of Beijing, who was also a big collector he had known for a long time. Of course, the products in this store may be genuine or fake, it all depends on the buyer’s discernment.
Feng Yu asked with a smile: "You don't want to bring an appraiser now? Or do you plan to ask my opinion? If you want to ask me, then be prepared to buy a bunch of fakes and go back."
Feng Yu didn't know anything about antiques. It was sheer luck that I missed a Xuande furnace because no one knew it was an antique.
And Feng Yu didn't like this antique at all. He never wore any decorations on his body. Many rich people like to buy Buddhist beads, ancient jade and other things to ward off evil spirits, but Feng Yu thinks it is safer to have a bodyguard.
He only uses bodyguards to prevent accidents. As for faith, he actually has no faith at all. He donates money every year, just to do some good deeds. He can do what he can, and he can still see the grateful eyes of those people, which makes him feel happy. Why not do it
Fu Guangzheng glanced at Feng Yu: "Let me ask your opinion? I'll buy it if I like it. If I don't like it, it's just as the other party said, and I'll show you all kinds of proofs. Why should I buy it back? Now I'm not investing, I'm keeping it for myself. Play."
Feng Yu nodded. It seemed that Fu Guangzheng's mentality had indeed changed and he was now more rational.
Anyway, Feng Yu never knew what the inner thoughts of those institutions that clamored to protect cultural relics while constantly raising the prices of cultural relics to make profits.
There are also many so-called arts that he cannot truly appreciate.
In particular, many works of art have strong regional cultural characteristics. For example, calligraphy is very popular in China or Southeast Asia, but in the West, people can't understand it at all. What's the point of appreciating it
Of course, Feng Yu couldn't appreciate the calligraphy written in calligraphy. Many of them were written thousands of years ago, and now Feng Yu doesn't recognize them at all. Why should he appreciate them
Feng Yu doesn't believe that one can tell the mentality of people at that time from the writing style. In his opinion, this is like a Chinese class in school. You can tell what the other person is thinking from which words. God knows whether the other person wrote it casually.
"We're here, that's the house. I'd say the walls of your house are too empty. Buy some landscape paintings or something to go back to. They look very artistic, don't they?"
Feng Yu rolled his eyes at Fu Guangzheng, "Are you just pretending to be high-level?"
I also need to know how to appreciate landscape paintings. But since you're here, let's take a look, just in case you like it.
… (To be continued.)