Chapter 0800: Jianghu Maneuvers

After Xu Guoqing didn’t expect Zhuang Rui to say these words, he couldn’t help but froze for a moment, a difficult look appeared on his face and muttered, “Isn’t this …… a lie?”

For his own skills, Xu Guoqing is still very confident, the Tang Sancai he burned, absolutely can be fake.

And Xu Guoqing also know some ancient porcelain do old method, know their own those porcelain do old after, unless the use of instruments, otherwise it is very difficult to detect the authenticity.

But Xu Guoqing also has his own bottom line, that is, can not use their own craft to cheat others, this is also his more than a decade of firing out of the porcelain only to send not to sell the main reason, Zhuang Rui’s words, but let him some resistance.

“Yes, it’s cheating, but I cheat foreigners.”

Zhuang Rui’s expression is very frank, antiques line of things, Zhuang Rui has seen a lot of things, but as the saying goes, there is a way to steal, what Zhuang Rui can do, is to cheat those foreigners who deliberately inflate the price of Chinese antiques.

“Worker Xu, you don’t know much about the antique market, do you?”

Seeing that Xu Guoqing’s face still couldn’t be relieved, Zhuang Rui continued, “More than a hundred years ago, foreigners used guns to plunder Chinese artifacts. And now? These foreign devils, on the other hand, are using the technique of rolling pearls in a dish, through the patriotic heart of the countrymen, using the antiques plundered away in the past to cheat away the wealth belonging to the Chinese people in large quantities, and I’m doing this without any shame.”

Just last month at a London auction, a piece of blue and white porcelain that was originally supposed to be a ghost valley descending from the mountain, turned into another character Yuan blue and white large jar, by an anonymous buyer, with more than 10 million pounds, converted into yuan, up to more than 200 million.

This also set off the climax of the international auction of Chinese art auction, more than a month, the domestic tycoons repeatedly, although the auction of a lot of valuable Chinese cultural relics, but the price they paid, but also high beyond imagination.

Zhuang Rui once on the phone and Uncle Te talked about these things, since childhood, hanging out in the jianghu on the Uncle Te, a glance through the cats and dogs in this, bluntly said, this is the international auction house of the people to do the bureau, so just now Zhuang Rui just have a rolling ball in the plate of the saying.

“Rolling beads on a plate? What does it mean?”

Zhuang Rui is forgetting that the master Xu in front of himself, not to mention mixed rivers and lakes, not even people in the antiques line, naturally do not know the meaning of the rolling ball in the plate.

“Oh, this is the pre-liberation jianghu eight gates inside some of the jianghu means, I’ll tell you about it!”

Zhuang Rui is fortunate to worship Uncle Te so a master, for the Jianghu doorway is also slightly know, the so-called rolling pearls in the plate, from the literal meaning of the word, “pearl” for the pearl, for the meaning of valuable.

And the “roll” word is equivalent to the word “fried”, rolling beads refers to the meaning of this valuable beads, through some kind of packaging publicity hype up, so that its market value, much higher than the value of the artifacts themselves, a little bit like the showbiz industry to launch newcomers to the practice.

Of course, here the speculation of things, are with thousands of years of history of precious antiques.

And the word “in the plate” refers to these precious antiques, itself is in the hands of those who speculate.

Regardless of how these things fried, how high the price, what tricks can be fried, are in their control, like taking a handful of pearls, thrown to a high mouth inside the plate, how do you swing, the beads are rolling in the plate, which is called the plate in the rolling pearl.

And when some kind of speculative objects, has been out of the sky price, those who mastered the artifacts, began to release these things in the international market, to absorb the buyer’s money, this practice, although earlier popular in the jianghu doorway, but those foreign auction houses predators, is also playing the stove fire.

Like these two months in London, Japan, Tokyo, Germany, Berlin, including Zhuang Rui participated in the auction in Paris, France, behind the figure of international speculators.

Although the auction in Paris, France was Zhuang Rui to spoil, but several other international auction, but the Chinese ancient porcelain, really hot.

First of all is the yuan blue and white, in the speculation at the same time, many foreign so-called historical research experts, gave the world yuan blue and white no more than three hundred, and most of them are in foreign museums of the conclusion.

This news, so that many domestic boast a strong sense of national pride, patriotism, and that unnecessary vanity collectors and businessmen competing for a time, foreign auction market is filled with Chinese art, a variety of special field endless.

Uncle Tak once rough statistics, just these two or three months of work, those who have a large number of Chinese antiques in the hands of international speculators, at least from the hands of the Chinese people rolled away no less than two billion dollars in wealth, and this is only the beginning.

Rich people play collection, mostly play a face, this trend up, I’m afraid there will be more people involved in, of course, there are some people, is really want to make a contribution to the return of national treasures, but their behavior, but to a certain extent, fueled those international speculators.

In accordance with Uncle Te’s estimate, this stock of hot wind, at least another two or three years of time, to subside, by then, the price of these antiques will have a substantial drop, those so-called “collectors”, in order to rationally look at the collection of antiques and investment.

“Xu Gong, now those foreigners, is to use this method, in the plunder belonging to the wealth of the Chinese people, but the Tang Sancai in the international market, has always been highly respected by foreign collectors, domestic collectors are not very concerned. That’s why I had the idea of taking your work to the international auction house, foreign speculators can take money out of our pockets, why can’t we do the same thing to them?”

After finishing those reasons mentioned above, Zhuang Rui looked at Xu Guoqing very sincerely, if he could not get Xu Guoqing’s consent, Zhuang Rui would not do this thing, after all, it is disrespectful to the owner of the work.

To be honest, Zhuang Rui doesn’t lack of money, and he didn’t create this idea for the sake of money, it’s really that those foreigners are too much.

To make an analogy, the behavior of foreigners, is equal to your home to snatch things, and then let you use than this thing several times higher or even a dozen times the price, and then buy back, this is simply in the robbery of money, is the pirates of the Caribbean Sea, but also motherfucker is not so ruthless ah!

Xu Guoqing heard Zhuang Rui’s words, fell silent, he did not think, in the antique and international auction houses, there are actually such bizarre things, Xu Guoqing is only a person who imitates ancient porcelain because of his personal hobby, these things, so that his brain for a moment some confusion.

“Then what if these things were bought by someone in China?” Xu Guoqing suddenly raised a question.

Zhuang Rui sniffed and said, “Brother Xu, it’s better to let us earn this money than letting foreigners earn it away! And with this money, I will invest a large portion of it, in your lab, if you can imitate all of the five official kilns of the Song Dynasty, then I will be able to break those speculators, so that they will no longer be able to speculate on Chinese porcelain.”

The reason why Zhuang Rui didn’t say that he would use all the money he got for Xu Guoqing’s lab, that’s because he also needs the cost, and all the risks are borne by Zhuang Rui, more or less he has to leave some money to subsidize the museum side, right?

“Okay! As long as I can victimize the foreign devils, I’ll do this, Brother Zhuang you only bought eight pieces of three-colored figurines, there are more than 20 left, I’ll let Old Yu give them all to you, so there’s no need to count the money.”

Xu Guoqing in his heart after thinking left and right for half a day, finally nodded his head heavily, agreed with Zhuang Rui’s approach, as long as it doesn’t victimize his own people, the death or life of the foreign devils, what does it matter to him?

“Good!”

Zhuang Rui smiled and rejoiced, “Brother Xu, that half a million you first keep for sister-in-law’s child, in addition I will invest another ten million yuan into your laboratory, you continue to study the porcelain of the Magnetic State, if it can be successful, at that time, then let the gang of small Japanese, taste the power of Chinese manufacturing.”

Japanese people for the porcelain of magnetic state kiln is the most respected, if really can burn successfully, Zhuang Rui has certainty in Japan swept a great wealth, cheat small Japan, he is a little psychological burden does not come with.

Zhuang Rui’s words let the mute Xu Guoqing, also laughed out loud, this day suffered from the brat’s anger, are in the laughter vented out.

“By the way, Brother Xu, the matter of the laboratory say that I invested in it, no one will pursue. But sell these porcelain to foreign countries this thing, only you know I know, absolutely can’t let a third person know, is sister-in-law child, also can’t let them know, because this involves ……”

Zhuang Rui spoke in a very serious manner, he took fake antiques to sell abroad, is bearing a great risk, the chance of being found is also very large.

Because if you are not careful to break the porcelain, from the fracture, it is possible to distinguish between the old porcelain and the new porcelain, this possibility is small, but it is not something that will never happen, in case it is detected, it must be pursued to the domestic.

Zhuang Rui home guarded closely, is not afraid of those people’s retaliation, but Xu Guoqing can not, in case someone angry at him, that is to harm him.

The reason why Zhuang Rui did not give Li Dali and Yu Zhengjun talk about this, is because of this reason, these two people although the doorway more, but contact with a variety of people, that mouth is not necessarily confidential, Zhuang Rui do not want to be around to plant two time bombs.

As for these objects how to get to the foreign auction house, Zhuang Rui heart has long had an idea, he is ready to use his own private aircraft, will be ready to enter the foreign auction house things, after transporting to Myanmar, let Hu Rong to deal with.

As we all know, from the beginning of the Han and Tang dynasties, Myanmar is China’s vassal state, these objects have been handed down a lot, from the hands of the Burmese people to get the foreign auction objects, the credibility will also increase a lot, just like the early people think that foreign antiques must be true a reason.

To Hu Rong’s power and relationship in Burma, casually find some intermediaries, can take these things to Hong Kong or Britain and the United States of the big auction house, for commissioned auction business, Zhuang Rui himself in the process, is absolutely will not show up.

In this way, even if these things are identified as fake, that can not be traced to Zhuang Rui’s head, to Hu Rong’s means, absolutely can be wiped dry clean the head and tail.

However, Zhuang Rui still asked Xu Guoqing confidentiality, after all, the money of foreigners …… that is also money ah! Passed out, Zhuang Rui students in the face of the international art market, can be a little bit of nothing.

And those domestic collectors if buy Zhuang Rui sold fakes, I’m afraid it will not be good.

Zhuang Rui has an old man and a small child, do not want to provoke those troubles, simply start to make things clear, if Xu Guoqing mouth is not strict words, he would rather not do this hook.

“Okay, I know, I won’t say anything even if it kills me.”

After realizing the importance of secrecy, Xu Guoqing jokingly said the classic quotes of that fat guy from the movie A Party B Party.

Xu Guoqing, who was usually a stuffy person, had little communication with his son except for his wife, who still had something to say, then again, his wife wasn’t interested in these things at all, so it was a waste of time to say it.

“Well, Xu Gong, this laboratory, you use the land into the shares, occupying forty percent of the shares, I invested ten million dollars, accounting for sixty percent of the shares, in the future these artifacts of the output value, according to the proportion of the distribution. Well, in addition, you every month from this ten million inside the branch of one hundred thousand dollars, as a salary, Brother Xu, you see how?”

Brothers also want to clear accounts it, Zhuang Rui this is all the things are standardized first, save the time to stir unclear, involved in the issue of money, husband and wife turn against each other, brothers into hatred of many things.

Xu Guoqing that broken factory, in addition to the location of the money, the other can be taken to sell rags, Zhuang Rui out of 10 million real money, as long as sixty percent of the shares, has been considered very generous.

“Into, old brother, without you this money I’m about to rice to go, you say count.”

Xu Guoqing has always had little concept of money, otherwise it would not have been more than ten million dollars of the family’s wealth corrupted a little bit left, Zhuang Rui gave him 100,000 monthly living expenses, Xu Guoqing has been quite satisfied.

And Xu Guoqing has been talking about late at night more than three o’clock, Zhuang Rui and handwritten drafted an agreement before starting to sleep, this sleep is particularly sweet, to the morning more than 11 o’clock in the morning, only to be Peng Fei knocked on the door to wake up.

“Mayor Xue, why are you here, I was thinking of giving you a call to say goodbye, right, Peng Fei, where is Xu Gong?”

After Zhuang Rui went out, he found that the big mayor of Shi City was actually waiting outside the door as well, which made him a bit surprised, civil servants don’t even have to work ah?

Peng Fei replied, “Mr. Zhuang, Mr. Xu Gong said he was busy remodeling the lab, he went back first, and contacted you by phone.”

“Mr. Zhuang, I’m here to brief you on the outcome of yesterday’s incident regarding Xu Gong.”

Mayor Xue also knew a lot of people in the capital, after inquiring about Zhuang Rui’s coming yesterday, he held a mayor’s meeting early this morning, he was trying to rush to give Zhuang Rui a satisfactory answer before he left.