National Tide 1980.

Chapter 445 What to Buy

A smart person, when getting along with people he doesn't like, can always make concessions in small ways and gain benefits in big ways.

Ning Weimin did this, which is a kind of long-term wisdom.

The reason is very simple, just an old saying.

Many friends, many roads, many enemies, many walls.

The world is so big, but the connection is extremely close.

Who can guarantee that he will not beg anyone in the future, and there will be no possibility of cooperation with the other party?
So when people hang out in society, even if they can't be friends with people they don't like, it's better not to be enemies with them.

But this simple truth, many people can't do it.

Just because people are emotional animals, what they like most is to do whatever they want.

And a person's ignorance is often reflected in how arrogant he is.

Ning Weimin used to be like this too.

Once he has made a small achievement, he feels that he is so good that he can ignore others.

At that time, he was simply putting the cart before the horse.

He believes that strength determines everything, and he thinks that if he is of a higher level, he can take others seriously.

It never occurred to me that there will always be people in this world who take care of themselves and take care of their own land.

And even if one's own level is higher, the level of the people who need to deal with will be correspondingly higher.

Domineering and arrogant are more likely to be unlucky.

But fortunately, in this life, he finally understood.

He understands that the way to go up in the world is like being blocked by a ceiling full of steel needles.

People want to force their way in, but they can't get there.

He will only be stabbed and bruised all over his body, and his head will be bleeding.

On these ceilings, there are actually only a few irregular narrow gaps that are open to all living beings.

If people want to go up, they can only succeed by shrinking themselves into the size of a gap and working hard.

So how high a person can climb is not determined by the rigidity of the person, but by the toughness and flexibility of the person.

Toughness is skill, patience, and motivation.

Flexibility is wisdom, mind, and method.

That's right, the road to heaven has never been easy.

But the great advantage is that once a person has passed through a ceiling, he has risen to a higher level.

The convenience you enjoy will be quite different.

Therefore, there is a foothold under the feet, and there is no place for nothing.

The steel needle that blocked you in the past will in turn become a support that hangs in the air and supports you to continue upward.

Just like Ning Weimin's colleagues in the head office.

Their funds are not only useful to Ning Weimin, but their social network is also a rich treasure.

Just because the big guys are now forming a group to fry stamps together, they have become partners with a stake in each other.

The network resources of these colleagues were naturally opened to Ning Weimin and shared with them.

For example, Manager Sha has a classmate surnamed Niu, who is the director of the post office warehouse.

Everyone sat together and drank a meal, and the director Niu approved a note.

Directly let Ning Weimin and the others transfer [-] sets of "The Story of the West Chamber" miniature sheetlets and [-] sets of stamps for The Story of the West Chamber from the warehouse.

These are unplanned indicators, which are usually reserved for related households, and there is no need to buy them with philatelic certificates.

The bid prices are also cheap, two yuan for each souvenir sheet, and one yuan and six cents for each set of stamps.

But in the stamp market, the miniature sheet of The West Chamber that was released during the Spring Festival is now worth two yuan and five.

The stamps of The West Chamber are one piece two three.

It is equivalent to saying that once these stamps are taken out of the warehouse and placed on the market, there will be a floating profit of nearly [-]%.

Another good thing that surprised Ning Weimin was brought to him by the deputy manager of the planning department.

The father of the deputy manager was actually the person in charge of the domestic sales of cultural relics in a sales department of Liulichang.

While chatting at the wine table, the deputy manager learned that Ning Weimin was interested in antique porcelain, so he went back and asked his father specifically, and later sold Ning Weimin a favor.

It is said that according to the regulations, the domestic cultural relics of the "inner cabinet" are only sold to cadres above the bureau level, but according to special needs, they can also take care of related households.

As for Ning Weimin, as long as he can get a press card.

Then his father, under the banner of being good for publicity, can sell some of them to Ning Weimin.

As the person in charge of the Zhai Palace who has always dealt with the media, it would be too easy for Ning Weimin to find a few journalist friends to help.

So soon, he happily went to "catch the pies that fell from the sky".

Needless to say, for him, the "special" inner cabinet of the cultural relics store is like a huge treasure house in front of him.

He was pleasantly surprised to find that there were too many good things in the inner cabinet.

Like a Yongzheng official kiln famille rose general jar, it costs only 300 yuan.

Although the price is higher than that of "Ghost Market", it is much cheaper than Friendship Store.

The key is that the official kilns here can keep the authenticity, and they are all of relatively good quality.

Such things, after 2000 years, he may not be able to buy them at a price of tens of millions.

As for the collapsed, rushed, and faulty ones, they can be worth several million in the future, and you can buy them for a hundred or ten yuan in the store.

Look, isn't this the mouse that fell into the rice jar and didn't want to get out?

Ning Weimin really looked at this and thought it was good.

After looking at that, he felt that it was good again, and he didn't want to let go of any of them.

Ever since, from then on, whenever he was free, he invited the reporters he knew to dinner.

The picture is that I want to borrow someone's press card to register, so that I can go to the "inner cabinet" of the cultural relics store to buy things.

Of course, this kind of registration is not the kind of certificate to determine ownership.

In order to prevent the outflow of cultural relics, a letter of guarantee was signed.

There are special regulations for domestic sales of cultural relics. It is necessary to ensure that the things bought from the store must never be given away or resold to foreigners.

But having said that, this kind of cheapness is good, but it is very similar to Zhang Shihui's Moutai from the Moscow restaurant and Marlboro from the "National News Agency" compound.

To put it bluntly, frying sesame seeds with ear digging spoons is just a little tinkering with oil.

For Ning Weimin, it was really not quenching his thirst.

It's not that he is greedy, the key is that the current Ning Weimin controls the clothing and handicraft business at the same time, and the spare money in his hand is really "silted up".

Don't forget, for the whole year of last year, he had time to earn but no time to spend.

For handicrafts alone, a net profit of [-] yuan is pouring into his pocket every month.

Since May, the clothing business has been on the right track again. Adding up the two items, the monthly profit is 5 to [-] yuan.

This is not counting the cigarette shop business he started in the second half of the year.

If everything is counted together, he earns 10 yuan a month, and he is definitely the number one rich man in Beijing this year.

But because he was too busy, he could only rely on his status as an executive of a foreign company to get involved with the business of the street, and disguise the money as public funds and deposit it in the bank.

This is the only way to handle it.

So even if the [-] yuan cost of Kaiyan Hotel is taken out, the [-] yuan left in the sewing shop will continue to operate.

Also last year, I made up 20 dog tickets, and bought another 6 full-page pig tickets at the beginning of this year, which cost [-] yuan.

Now he has accumulated 47 to [-] in his bank account.

Compared with financial resources, not to mention that all the top executives of Pierre Carton can't keep up with him.

Even he himself feels that these huge amounts of cash have become a huge burden, too much to burn and bite his hands.

It must be spent as soon as possible, and it is absolutely impossible to break through the 50 mark.

In this way, he wants to quickly condense these huge amounts of funds into wealth that is easy to accumulate.

In the end, you still have to figure out how to buy things in bulk without any restrictions.

But what to buy?

Still the same sentence, you can't buy things blindly.

On the one hand, the potential for future appreciation, the current cost, and the convenience of storage must be considered.

On the other hand, it is also necessary to consider the time difference of species speculation, so as to facilitate the relay race in the speculative market.

Continue to collect calligraphy and paintings?

It is no longer suitable.

Because in May 1980, after Beijing held its first export commodity exhibition in Hong Kong City.

Hong Kong people were pleasantly surprised to find that the calligraphy and paintings sent by the capital, as well as all kinds of cultural ornaments and handicrafts are so cheap.

There is a huge price difference with the local area.

As a result, not only those things sent to the exhibition were snapped up by Hong Kong people, but also many Hong Kong collectors began to come to the capital to search for treasures.

As a result, since then, there has been a wave of price increases for all kinds of literature, calligraphy and paintings in the capital.

The fastest growing categories are precisely calligraphy and painting, and ancient books.

So far, in the past three years, the average price of calligraphy and painting has increased by four or five times.

Qi Baishi has already reached 280 yuan a square foot, Xu Beihong and Zhang Daqian two hundred and three four, Lu Yanshao and Huang Binhong have the least increase, also reaching 35 a square foot.

Although this price can be regarded as value for money, it is still very attractive compared to the appreciation rate in the future.

But the problem is that Ning Weimin has eaten too many high-quality calligraphy and paintings, and has a huge sum of money in his hands. Not only has his vision improved, but his appetite has also increased.

His mind is to buy large-scale boutiques.

However, it is not so easy to see such a masterpiece on the market, it depends on luck, and the subject matter may not be good.

For example, if you want him to spend 2000 yuan, he can buy a five or six-foot flower by Qi Baishi, and buy a fan of Qi Baishi for 500 yuan.

When he thought about the price increase, the price/performance ratio was a bit low, and it was a bit laborious.

It is possible to buy, but it is not very attractive anymore.

And antiques such as porcelain, Buddha statues, and bronzes are subject to strict policy supervision, and it is impossible to eat enough.

The biggest problem with wooden furniture is storage. It won’t work if it’s wet, it’s too dry, it’s even worse if it’s gnawed by mice, and it needs a lot of space.

The key is that the price is also expensive. You can buy a chair for tens of dollars, but it is only made of wenge wood, and it needs to be repaired if it is loose. Why bother?
So in the end, the next best thing is the only thing left, such as seal stone, jadeite, and jade.

Needless to say, the flaws of these things.

Since most foreigners cannot appreciate it, there is no uniform standard of appreciation quality.

In terms of time, it is a speculative variety that will become popular relatively late, and I am afraid that it will take a long time to endure loneliness after buying it.

But the benefits are also obvious, it doesn't need much space, it's easy to store, and it won't be destroyed even if it catches fire.

The key is that you can find high-quality aniseed everywhere these days.

In the "Cuiwenge" lettering sales office, whether it is Tianhuang, chicken blood, or hibiscus stone, the "Three Treasures of Sealing Stone" over [-] grams and six-sided flat seal aniseed can be seen everywhere.

You know, the loss of the Pingzhang is heavy. After 30 years, it is an unimaginable luxury.

Moreover, the prices of these seal stones are also at the bottom of the market.

The price of gold is thirty per gram this year.

The price of Ketian Huangshi is only 15 yuan per gram, chicken blood stone is 12 yuan per gram, and hibiscus stone is [-] yuan per gram.

According to the past saying "one gram of stone is one gram of gold", this is a [-]% discount.

Think about it 30 years later, one gram of Tianhuangshi is worth 20 yuan.

Comparing it with the so-called "exquisite Tian Huang Cheng national quintessence, easy to gold a hundred times ancient and modern", "alpine stones belong to Tian Huang expensive, tens of times more expensive than gold", it is simply a big joke.

It is definitely a cabbage price that cannot be lowered, it is almost free.

So, in the face of this sumptuous meal, Ning Weimin could greet him vigorously, and threw out the money without hesitation.

This is very efficient, and you can spend more than 1 yuan if you buy a large chapter of ten yuan.

If it is a huge ornament, the price is higher.

Ning Weimin bought a 356-gram Crow Pitian Huangshi landscape ornament, which cost [-] yuan in one go.

What a joy.

In this way, within ten and a half days, Ning Weimin spent all the money in the account.

They were all turned into these stone things and stored in three newly bought large camphor wood boxes.

One box of ornaments, two boxes of seals.

After dealing with this matter, not only did the boy feel at ease, he also felt that he no longer needed to worry about where the cash would go in the future.

He was even a little bit complacent, and felt that he had become the favorite of everyone who collected seal stones.

This really can't be blamed on him, because just three boxes will be worth at least ten buildings in the future!

Ten buildings!

He's been wasting money all his life, so he won't be poor!
(End of this chapter)