Chapter 0851 – Press Conference (I)

“Good day, Mr. Zhuang.”

“Mr. Zhuang is here.”

It’s been more than two months since he came to his own museum, Zhuang Rui walked into the museum and found a lot more unfamiliar faces, but there were still some old employees who greeted him.

Today happens to be Friday, also the last day of the week for business, Zhuang Rui looked at the traffic flow, it seems to be a lot worse than at the beginning of the opening, while greeting the employees, Zhuang Rui walked into his curator’s office.

“Mr. Zhuang, you were caught digging coal by the boss of the black coal kiln? How did you become like this?”

Zhuang Rui had just sat down when Huangfu Yun, who had caught wind of the situation, pushed open the door to his office, and as soon as he saw Zhuang Rui’s appearance, he immediately shouted out in a fuss.

Zhuang Rui’s current skin color is called wheat color to put it nicely, but to put it badly, it is black, probably because he was sunburned and peeled off in the first few days on the island, and has not been able to recover from it until now.

“Okay, less poor mouth, a dozen phone calls a day urging me to come, in the end what is the matter ah?”

Zhuang Rui waved his hand, threw a cigarette over, this is yesterday’s brother-in-law to go to the courtyard to bring over the extended panda, just the filter is longer than the cigarette.

“Aigoo, good smoke ah!”

Huangfu Yun took out the lighter, after giving Zhuang Rui and himself a cigarette, his face became a bit serious and said, “Mr. Zhuang, these two students are on winter vacation, coupled with the New Year’s holiday, originally the museum’s business should be better, but now there is a downturn, a situation I want to report to you. In addition, you are not here, some money expenditure I can’t do the main, these two months the auction market appeared quite a lot of good things, all were snatched by others.”

When Zhuang Rui left Beijing, he had given Huangfu Yun twenty million dollars in cash, but this amount of money was nothing in the antique market, and there was very little left after an auction.

Although the museum every month there are still a few million in the accounts, but that money must be signed by Zhuang Rui, Huangfu cloud can be misappropriated, so these two months, Huangfu cloud this deputy director, the hands of not a penny can be disposable salary.

Fortunately, Zhuang Rui once stipulated that the museum’s staff wages, is signed by the two deputy director and financial director issued, if not, Zhuang Rui disappeared two months, I’m afraid that the museum will be out of food.

“The reason for the decline in customer traffic, have you found it?”

The reason why Zhuang Rui came to the museum right after he was busy with his family, he also had an idea in mind.

“The main thing is that the museum exhibits are relatively small, although the variety is very rich and there are attractive highlights, but compared to the state-owned museums, our heritage is too shallow, we still need to replenish the collection and develop distinctive points of interest before we can do so.”

Zhuang Rui nodded slightly, he knew that the collection of the Tingguang Museum is now less than 10,000 pieces, not to mention that compared to the state-owned museums that can easily be 100,000 million, is that some private museums have a collection of artifacts that are far more than their own, this is indeed the weak link of the museum.

“Brother Huangfu, take a look at this.”

Zhuang Rui took out the gold coin from his pocket and flicked it with his hand, the gold coin made a crunching sound and threw out a high arc, tumbling and flying towards Huangfu Yun.

Tumbling the gold coin over and over for a while, Huangfu Yun face showed a stunned look, hesitantly asked, “This …… is a gold coin? This should be a commemorative coin issued abroad, right?”

The front of this gold coin is a chrysanthemum, the back is a general on horseback, hoof raised, hand holding a sharp sword, the gold coin does not have the slightest breakage, shining with the unique luster of gold, and the characters and plants are all lifelike.

Huangfu Yun stayed abroad for quite a few years, and had seen many auctions of medieval foreign gold and silver coins, but this gold coin in his own hand, whether from the color or the quality, is far stronger than those gold coins he had seen.

You know, the color of gold is yellow, very bright, but in ancient times, whether it is China or foreign countries, gold money is always in accordance with the relative proportion, mixed with some copper in it, which is also known as K gold.

Such a gold coin placed for a long time, whether it is a gold coin or Yuan Bao, on its surface, can be seen very obvious light black, but Huangfu Yun held in the hand of this one, is not that color, is obviously pure gold beaten.

Therefore, Huangfu Yun was more inclined to the gold coin in his hand, being a commemorative coin issued in recent times, only this type of gold coin was struck with thousand foot gold for commemorative collection.

“Brother Huangfu, you look away, this is the gold coin of the Eastern Roman Empire in the fourteenth century, uh …… that is often said to be the gold coin issued by the Byzantine Empire, it is absolutely genuine and childlike.”

Zhuang Rui smiled triumphantly, he yesterday but spent a lot of work, specifically looking for degreasing cotton balls dipped in soapy water and anhydrous alcohol for scrubbing, which cleaned out a number of oxidation and discoloration is not very serious gold coins, and today took a look at it to Huangfu Yun, and indeed even he was blinded.

“This …… is impossible, right?”

Hearing Zhuang Rui’s words, Huangfu Yun hurriedly put the gold coins on the coffee table, and took out a pair of white gloves from his pocket and put them on before carefully taking the gold coins back in his hands.

Antique this thing, not only is the calligraphy and painting more delicate, metal is also the same need to maintain, like human hands sweat oil stains will be on the metal and calligraphy and painting corrosion, for the harm of antiques, is quite big, Huangfu Yun as more than half a year as a deputy director, has long been used to put gloves in the pocket.

“If this is a gold coin from the Eastern Roman Empire, it’s worth a lot!”

Huangfu Yun weighed in his hand, the weight of this gold coin should be between three to five grams, if calculated according to the value of gold is not worth much money, but six or seven centuries ago, it can not be counted like this.

Now the international gold coin market, from the seventeenth century divided into a watershed, after the seventeenth century gold and silver coins, according to its color and quality, on the basis of the weight of the gold coin, plus one hundred percent to two hundred percent, but before the seventeenth century gold coins, the valuation will be more than ten times.

Just like Huangfu cloud now in the hands of this gold coin, long history, good condition, if you get the international auction market, the bottom auction price are to be in more than 10,000 dollars, is to sell a few hundred thousand U.S. dollars, is very normal, after all, the age of long, this kind of gold coins have been almost very difficult to see.

“Mr. Zhuang, where did you get this from? You wouldn’t have run over to Greece to explore in these two months, right?”

After Huangfu Yun took the gold coin in his hand and played with it, he looked at Zhuang Rui with a questioning face, he had asked Zhuang Rui about his whereabouts on the phone before, but Zhuang Rui was vague and never said anything.

Zhuang Rui smiled at his words and said, “Brother Huangfu, have someone prepare to open a Pirate Pavilion, when the Pirate Pavilion is established, I’m going to hold a press conference to announce a big event.”

“Holy shit, you’re not going to dig for pirate treasure, are you? Quickly tell me, which big pirate’s is it? Is it the Sea Demon King Francis Drake, or the Red Bearded Pirate Hilton Lace?”

Huangfu Yun excitedly called out, people who have lived abroad, for the history of pirates, have a kind of fanaticism. Because in foreign countries, in addition to ancient Greece and Rome and Egypt and other countries with a long history, the rest of the country, it can be said that the course of its history, is a history of piracy, no period of time will have a reputation no less than the king of the time of the big pirates.

Like that popular “Pirates of the Caribbean”, the reason why it can be such a big seller, is to evoke the foreigners for that period of mysterious and full of individual heroism era of yearning, and pirate treasure, in hundreds of years, has always been the thing that people are talking about.

Zhuang Rui smiled and shook his head, saying, “Oh, none of that, brother Huangfu, have you ever heard of the name Klaus Stoltebeckel?”

Huangfu Yun froze at his words, and after thinking for a while, he suddenly raised his head, an incredulous look on his face, and asked aloud, “You’re talking about the Golden Anchor?”

The most famous thing about Klaus’ treasure was the golden anchor, the anchor made of pure gold, which had been passed down in the world for hundreds of years, and almost anyone who knew a little bit about the history of pirates could accurately say it.

Countless treasure-seeking explorers have rushed to this, with some of the so-called treasure map, traveled all over the place where Klaus had crossed the ocean at that time, but for nearly seven centuries, Klaus’s treasure, is still just a mysterious legend.

“Yes, it’s the golden anchor, I found Klaus’s treasure, brother Huangfu, this as a new attraction for our museum, what do you think?”

Zhuang Rui smiled, although he had gone through a lot of trouble on this trip, and could almost be said to have died nine deaths, but the harvest was undoubtedly huge, and the release of Klaus’s treasure was enough to stir up the entire world.

“Shit, that’s more than just a sight to see, isn’t it? That’s simply an explosive news, Mr. Zhuang, if what you said is true, I can attract all the eyes of the world’s archeological exploration community to China and to our museum.”

Huangfu Yun heard Zhuang Rui’s words, immediately excited, with a businessman’s keen eye, he saw a huge business opportunity, even if these treasures are not for sale to the public, just based on this gimmick, a little bit of hype, will be able to make the museum of stereoscopic world famous.

Huangfu Yun stood up and walked back and forth in the office, only after a while did he calm down from the excitement, and looked at Zhuang Rui and said: “Mr. Zhuang, you have to come up with something! With just this one gold coin, it is not convincing, it has to be that gold anchor.”

“Hehe, as long as you get the Pirate Pavilion right, the stuff will be on the shelves right away, I’ll give you a rough idea first, a gold anchor, an Ancient Egyptian gold mask, and countless gold coins and jewelry.”

Zhuang Rui thought about it for a while, but he still hid the crystal skull, after all, he relied on this thing for his aura upgrade, so maybe there will be other utility.