Chapter 0650 bottom line (II)

And in 2002, Hong Kong, China Sotheby’s auction, Zhang Yongzhen spent 41.5 million Hong Kong dollars bidding for the Qing Yongzheng famille-rose bat peach olive vase, and then generously donated to the Shanghai Museum, the auction, Zhang Yongzhen is quite a bit of serendipity.

At that time, Zhang Yongzhen is back to Hong Kong, China, on the plane, bored when I saw the news of the auction, a glance on the Qing Yongzheng famille rose bat peach olive vase, this beautiful famille rose vase olive bottle, modeling lines are very beautiful.

Bottle painted with famille rose eight peach two bats, peach symbolizes “longevity” “bat” for the “blessing” of the harmonies, this bat and peach as the subject of auspicious motifs commonly found in the Yongzheng and Qianlong dynasties of the official kiln Porcelain.

Heirloom Yongzheng official kiln pastel ware painted bat peach pattern on more than a large, small plate, seen in the olive bottle is extremely rare, and pastel bat peach pattern olive bottle is currently the only one in the world, so it can be called the world’s most precious bottle.

Zhang Yongzhen then secretly determined to shoot this fine. Sotheby’s auction in Hong Kong, she started from 18 million Hong Kong dollars to raise the bidding, straight to 37 million Hong Kong dollars, and then no one raised the price, and finally after adding the commission, to 41.5 million Hong Kong dollars to bid for the “vase”.

That piece of auction, also once created a moment in the international market of Chinese art in the highest price, so Zhang Yongzhen’s name, in the antique world on behalf of a large sum of money, so that many of the shy collectors envy.

For such a character, even the current Zhuang Rui is somewhat of a mountain to look up to, whether in terms of money or status, the gap between Zhuang Rui and his is still very large.

“Can we ask her to donate or take out some objects to put in their own museum?”

Zhuang Rui brain suddenly came up with such an idea to, although their hands are now a lot of good things, but and from the collection of family Zhang Yongzhen a sum, that can be far away, Zhuang Rui this can not help but hit the idea to the other side of the head.

Since to open a private museum, Zhuang Rui would like to do it into the most influential private museum, but only with their own objects, obviously impossible.

Zhuang Rui has long had the idea of integrating some private collectors collection, but the specific operation is more complex, Zhuang Rui is now just stay in the conception stage, but after seeing Zhang Yongzhen, the idea in his head is gradually taking shape.

Zhuang Rui is now thinking, as long as the other party is willing to take out their own collection of exhibits, the ownership of the object is still the other party, themselves and its signed a contract, the exhibition of a year or two years later, the items will be returned to the original owner, and pay some fees.

Of course, if the other side out of the collection is much larger than their own exhibition collection, Zhuang Rui also do not mind the museum’s collection into most of the other side, but the shares even if, involving the ownership of the collection, the shares are very difficult to allocate.

As for whether the museum can make money, Zhuang Rui now has no bottom in his heart, anyway, he is ready to lose money, as of now, it seems that in addition to Mr. Ma’s museum, can barely pay some of the museum’s daily expenses costs, have not heard of which private museums have a profit.

“Excuse me, sir ……”

While Zhuang Rui was there with his head bowed in contemplation, the auction had already continued, and a middle-aged man, who walked to Zhuang Rui’s side, interrupted his thoughts.

“And you are?”

Zhuang Rui slightly frowned, just thinking out a little bit about the future development of the museum, he was interrupted by someone, that was a difficult mood.

“My name is George, I am the lawyer of Paris XX Auction House, entrusted by the organizing party of this auction, I would like to warn you, Mr. Zhuang, please do not publish any comments about political tendency and untruthfulness in the auction place, if there is a next time, we will ask you to leave the venue. In addition about the truth of history, that have been buried in time, sir you have no evidence to say that these things, are looted from your country.”

With the sound of George’s words, Zhuang Rui’s face gradually became ugly, what he originally said when he auctioned this painting, to a large extent was that he did not want someone to bid with him, but now what George said completely angered Zhuang Rui.

Zhuang Rui asked himself is not a cynic, in the national interests and private interests need to make a choice between, Zhuang Rui can not say will choose private interests.

But this does not mean that he can tolerate being provoked, a person’s patience, there is also a bottom line, and George’s words have exceeded the bottom line that Zhuang Rui can tolerate.

“I’m sorry, I think that if I have violated the laws of your country, you can sue me, if not, I will consider your words, as a threat to me, I didn’t know that a well known multinational auction house, would do such a thing.”

Zhuang Rui stood up violently, his voice was so loud that it almost covered the sound of Jefferson’s words in the microphone in front of him, and it traveled clearly in this auction hall where more than two hundred people could be seated.

“Oh …… no, Mr. Zhuang, I don’t mean that.”

George found this Chinese man in front of him. It was a bit different from the Chinese in his own cognition, he originally thought that after he issued a warning, the other party would accept it humbly, but he didn’t expect that this young man’s character was so violent that he actually shouted on the spot, and this matter was a bit out of his control.

“Your meaning has been expressed very clearly.”

Zhuang Rui coldly threw down a sentence, then striding to the front desk, said, “Mr. Auctioneer, do you mind if I say a few words?”

Zhuang Rui didn’t care if Jefferson minded or not, he directly took the microphone on the auction table and said to the stage, “Gentlemen, ladies, friends from all over the world who love Chinese culture, I’m sorry for disturbing you all for a few minutes, but I’d like to talk about what just happened to me.”

“How does Shit George do his job?”

In a room on the second floor of the auction hall, a middle-aged man with white hair and aged around fifty years old smashed the ashtray in his hand fiercely on the ground.

“Go, have the security guards pull that Chinese man down.”

“Richard, no, that person’s information came back, he has a position in the Chinese officialdom, he is the director of the Chinese Jade Association, if we do this, it will cause an international dispute.”

Next to that middle-aged man, another person stopped his decision, looking at a fax in his hand, his brows tightly wrinkled.

This fax not only had information about the position Zhuang Rui held in the Jade Association, even Zhuang Rui’s family connections were actually listed, showing that the background of this auction house was very uncomplicated.

“Damn, Jefferson the idiot, why did he want to go and warn that young man, let him buy that painting wouldn’t that be the end of it?”

After seeing Zhuang Rui’s family relationship, Richard’s body sat heavily back on the sofa, their auction house also had branches in China, so they naturally knew what kind of background the family relationship on this fax paper represented.

Don’t look at their power all over the world in all developed countries, but then lend them a dare, also don’t dare to Zhuang Rui rough.

So Richard can only vent his anger on Jefferson’s head, after all, just now it was Jefferson who asked the lawyer to warn Zhuang Rui, and Richard felt that he should, after all, after all, Zhuang Rui’s behavior of interfering with the loss of their interests.

Of course, now Richard didn’t feel the same way.

Zhuang Rui’s sudden outburst not only left the auction at a loss for words, it was the many buyers who participated in the auction, who also didn’t know what was going on, and stared dumbfounded at Zhuang Rui who stood in front of them.

“Gentlemen, ladies, just a moment ago, a lawyer who claimed to be from this auction house issued a warning to me, saying that I had told untruths, by which he meant that the painting I just auctioned off was not, as I claimed, plundered out of China. Here, I can say very responsibly that that painting of Lang Shi Ning was 100% looted by Frey of the French invasion force of China back then. Do you dare to say that what I said is not true? Do you dare to call out the owner of the object to testify against me?”

Zhuang Rui took a long breath, calmed down his agitated emotion, then said, “I originally thought that France is a country of freedom of speech, I didn’t think that they dared not face their once past history, this makes me feel very disappointed, did you all forget about the German invasion of your country back then?”

“Speaking of Germany, I can’t help but say that post-war Germany is still very worthy of our respect, they dare to face up to their own faults, used to take responsibility, to compensate for the losses, I’m sure that you, France, have benefited a lot from this, haven’t you? But have you ever reflected on the catastrophe brought about by the Chinese people? Do not take the looted cultural relics from China auction, still do not allow me to explain? Of course, there are still many friendly people in France who can face up to history, I am now negotiating with a museum about the return of some Chinese artifacts, but I feel very angry about the behavior of your auction house. If that’s the case, I think, there’s no need for you to come and warn me, I can withdraw from this auction by myself, at the same time, I hope that all Chinese people with a conscience can also make such a choice, thank you all, I’ve delayed your time.”

After Zhuang Rui finished these words, he bowed deeply to the stage, then took a big step towards the door, Qin Xuanbing and Huangfu Yun also stood up and walked to Zhuang Rui’s side.

“Pa …… pa …… pa ……”

Starting from Ms. Zhang, the applause slowly rang out, and behind Zhuang Rui, people kept leaving their seats and joining in.