National Tide 1980.

Chapter 742 Comprehensive upgrade
On January 1985, 1, the second day when the zodiac tickets for the Year of the Ox went on sale.

Because it was Sunday, more people gathered in Gongti from all directions in the capital, at least 10 people.

It stands to reason that the sales situation at the Gongti site should have been much more lively than yesterday.

What's more, "Black Crown" came to the scene from ten o'clock in the morning. Luo Guangliang and Xiao Tao continued to invest money in front of the car, buying bull tickets at high prices without blinking an eye.

This makes people who buy stamps with philatelic certificates even more excited, as if rushing to buy them crazily.

Yes, no one is stupid.

Due to the two magical prices inside and outside the door, the price difference is huge.

Doesn't buying it mean earning it?

As long as you take out the stamps you bought in it, you can easily make one and a half times the profit if you just find a stamp dealer, then who wouldn't buy it?
So when it was their turn, the people in the queue would spend all they had on stamps.

At the same time, everyone regretted that they brought less money.

This naturally greatly increased the difficulty of maintaining order at the scene, and both the police and the security personnel of the philatelic company felt unprecedented pressure.

At the same time, the philatelic company saw that people who bought stamps had gone to the wholesale market, and began to worry that many people in the back line would not be able to buy them, for fear that it would cause greater dissatisfaction among the masses.

As a result, temporary purchase restrictions had to be introduced.

In addition to requiring sales staff to carefully check each philatelic certificate, there is also a rigid regulation that only two full-page tickets can be purchased for a philatelic certificate.

This naturally makes those who are behind in the queue and have not yet bought stamps, shouting bad luck.

And in this way, even the philatelic certificate has commercial value.

For philatelic certificates that have not been purchased before, stamp dealers offer a rent of ten yuan.

Stamp dealers are willing to rent one for three yuan or four yuan for the philatelic certificate that has already bought stamps.

You should know that although the people of the philatelic company, in order to distinguish the eligibility of customers to buy tickets, they will stamp a red stamp on the philatelic certificate that has already bought stamps, so as to identify them.

But don't forget the saying that masters are among the people.

In the group of stamp dealers, there are actually many high-level people, who are technical talents who specialize in crafts.

Because stamps are the same as other collections, there will be many problems such as fading, damage and so on.

Some people are specifically thinking about how to repair stamps, so that they can be faked.

Of course, these technologies and crafts are also gradually developed with the increasing market of stamps.

At this stage, the types and levels of technology are still relatively shallow, mainly in the following categories.

Reapply the glue - the back glue of some stamps is yellow and moldy, clean the back glue with clean water and reapply the glue.

Repair thinning - After the stamp is thinned, the thinned place is filled with paper pulp, and then glued again.

Stamp Replacement - A stamp with a badly damaged back is removed from the center and replaced with another base of the same size and perforations.

Stitching stamps - use two identical letter-sale or cancellation stamps to remove the parts without postmarks and splicing them into a new stamp.

Recolor.

Improper storage of stamps will degrade the color, and recoloring the stamps can make the stamps look brighter.

There are even people who can use chemical agents or strong light to change the color of stamps and pretend to be wrong or variant stamps.

Finally, there is another important technique that is widely used, that is-scratch!
In this way, the postmark and commemorative stamp on the letter ticket or canceled ticket can be removed to pretend to be a new ticket.

Speaking of which, at the door of the philatelic company, the skinny "editor" who "processed" the miniature sheet of "The Great Wall" and then sold it.

He is typical of such characters.

Like the first day cover issued by the philatelic head office in the early 80s with a red commemorative stamp.

For example, the First Day Cover of Geng Shennian Stamps and the First Day Cover of A Dream of Red Mansions miniature sheet, etc., are also his preferred varieties, which are easy to counterfeit.

Think about it, even the postmark can be scratched off, and the red stamp that erases the ink on the postal certificate is even more no problem.

So for a person like him, this day has also become a good day to make a fortune.

If others don't talk about it, let's just call this skinny "editor".

For a certificate, he needs five yuan for processing, but there is so much work that he can't handle it.

Even with a conservative calculation, he can do at least a hundred jobs in a day, and the net income is almost 500 yuan.

It's equivalent to half a year's salary for ordinary people.

Finally, there is one of the strangest phenomena in the market.

That is, the stricter the restrictions on the purchase of stamps, the more frenzied the people in Gongti will be.

And the greater the price gap between the stamps inside and outside the gate, the easier it is to cash in for money after leaving the gate of Gongti, and the less people want to sell the stamps they just bought.

So much so that after noon that day, the Black Crown was out of stock.

Whether it was Luo Guangliang and Xiao Tao who were in charge of making arrangements outside the car, or Manager Sha, Qi Yanjun, and Xiao Duaner who were staying in the car to manage accounts, they were all bored.

Because all the stamps that philatelists are willing to cede are intercepted by those who want money.

Some stamp dealers are so bold that they dare to go to the gate guarded by the police to solicit business.

This is equivalent to pulling your own head to make money, so who can compare!

And these stamp dealers chose to hoard the goods themselves after buying them because the goods they got were hard-won, and they refused to resell them.

So even if Manager Sha made the decision in the afternoon and asked Luo Guangliang and Xiao Tao to offer another 20 yuan to buy it, it didn't have any effect.

Later, Luo Guangliang and Xiaotao went to the two gates of Gongti to find out.

Dare to price war has already broken out among the stamp dealers at the gate.

In fact, the prices that these stamp dealers are competing with each other have exceeded 20 yuan since I do not know when.

The North Gate has already called 23, and the East Gate has also called 21.

In comparison, they are the ones who are stingy. Naturally, this price is unacceptable.

This has never happened before!It's incredible to say the least!

Of course, it is a great thing for both the investment group and Ning Weimin to sell the bull tickets.

Among other things, his "mouse warehouse" has increased by another [-] floating profit.

And the price of rat tickets on the postal market has also risen sharply, and it has jumped by another five yuan. The previous edition of the postal market has already reached 91.

Earning this money is really easier than robbing a bank.

In comparison, it is nothing if the funds that the investment group plans to buy bull tickets have not been spent.

Throw all the rat tickets on the next one and it's over, that's the right thing to do.

As for Ning Weimin himself, the reason why he was not able to come to Gongti to sit in person this day was not because of his entrustment, but because he lacked skills.

Because this day is also the day when the [-]th Sculpture Art Exhibition Selection and Awards Ceremony will be held.

Due to the great improvement in the relationship with the head office, Song Huagui took the initiative to show his favor, saying that he would attend that day to join in the show.

Ning Weimin, of course, had to take good care of the face given by this elder sister.

Not to mention that it is necessary to be accompanied in person, how to accompany him is even more due.

Besides, he is not such a philistine, he only cares about money.

After he came back to life in this life, his nature has changed a lot.

In addition to money, he also began to value traditional culture and the inheritance of national crafts.

As far as he can, he is still willing to engage in some spiritual civilization construction and make some contributions to the development of the art and crafts industry in Beijing.

Like this sculpture art exhibition, he tried his best to make some new attempts, and it is not an exaggeration to say that he lost money and made money.

You know, the process of awarding conferences for sculpture art exhibitions in the past was actually very simple.

Basically, it was carried out at the exhibition site of the sculptures in the Zhai Palace.

Usually, the stone platform in front of the Liangwu Temple is used as a stage, and a microphone is set up for the leader to speak, and then certificates and bonuses are issued on the spot, and then a group photo is taken.

In addition to the generous bonuses and the satisfaction of the winners, the scene is actually very simple and not pleasing.

Only the coffee shop in the Zhai Palace can entertain guests, let everyone have a rest, drink a few cups of coffee, tea, and eat some Chinese and Western pastries.

But this time, it was extravagant and formal like never before.

Ning Weimin actually arranged the award presentation venue at Beishen Kitchen, which not only increased the link of banquet and hospitality, but also invited guests and media reporters, and gave them gifts.

The guests he invited this time, in addition to the leaders of the Temple of Heaven and the Service Bureau, the person in charge of the Artists Association, teachers and students of the Sculpture Department of the participating Academy of Fine Arts, leaders of the Municipal Communication Office, the Tourism Bureau, and representatives of major foreign-related hotels , as well as the deans, deputy deans, and well-known professors of all departments in the two art academies in Beijing.

In addition, he also invited many well-known calligraphers, painters and seal carvers in the capital, as well as young painters who had won awards in the National Art Exhibition.

And this is not over yet, at the end there are the factory directors, deputy factory directors, section chiefs and technical backbones of the major handicraft manufacturers.

And the long-term cooperation with Ning Weimin, those well-known craftsmen that he has always relied on.

After returning to Baoduier, he probably had to provide food and drink for three to four hundred people for free, almost reaching the scale of the first-level labor model conference in the city.

And the standard can't be low, at least one person has to spend 50 yuan for raw materials.

If it is quoted to the outside world, it belongs to the reception standard of 200 yuan per person.

Not for anything else, just to display several special handicrafts produced by old craftsmen and teachers and students of the Academy of Fine Arts for appreciation by art colleagues, related units and guests.

Its purpose is necessary to explain clearly.

Because this is not something Ning Weimin wants to show off, but he thinks that the cooperation between professional craftsmen and professional art talents is a path worth exploring and trying by the entire art industry.

In fact, he discovered something through his own attempts in this area.

The special art products created by craftsmen and art professionals are simply a miracle of the perfect combination of art and craft technology.

Even in terms of artistry alone, compared with the past, production and art are separated, and everyone creates things independently, and the standard has improved a lot.

In particular, several large-scale works are placed in the banquet hall of Beishenchu, which is quite refreshing.

Such exquisite special art products are already called national treasures.

The more high-end and grand buildings, the more there is a need for this.

It should be favored by museums, exhibition halls or major foreign-related hotels. The commercial prospect is promising.

So this may be a good way to solve the low income of domestic artisans.

At the very least, the Altar Palace needs something like this.

Ning Weimin was willing to spend a lot of money to buy it from the Academy of Fine Arts and handicraft manufacturers in the capital.

For the same reason, Ning Weimin also planned to take the opportunity to announce another news about a cultural event.

Around the National Day and Mid-Autumn Festival in 1985, Tangong Restaurant will act as the sponsor and cooperate with the Artists Association to hold the first Tiantan Lantern Festival in Tiantan Park.

And decided to imitate the model of the sculpture art exhibition, solicit works of lanterns from all over the country, and set up bonuses.

Needless to say, this is very important for the traditional artists engaged in the lantern industry in major art colleges and folks across the country.

It's all good news that makes them have a place to use their skills again and can make a big splash.

Even for the Temple of Heaven Park and the Service Bureau, it is a good opportunity to increase income.

In short, the scale and content of the Sculpture Art Exhibition Award Ceremony curated by Ning Weimin have changed considerably.

It can be said to be of extraordinary significance and a comprehensive upgrade.

If it goes well, the response is good.

It is very likely that a certain pattern will be formed in the future, so that this awards conference, which was originally only in the sculpture industry, will jump out of its industry limitations.

It has become a real event where practitioners in the entire art and crafts industry can exchange creative experience and discuss technology and market prospects.

In that way, as the founder of this event, Ning Weimin is also worthy of the art and crafts industry in Beijing that helped him get started, and also worthy of those old craftsmen who helped him.

This is his inner desire, his real need.

So out of respect and gratitude, he hired a lot of cars from the rental company and sent people to pick up those old craftsmen who had made great contributions to the banquet.

For example, San Yuling, the descendant of "Gaochang", Jiang Sanchang and Zou Qingshan who made pots, Liu Yongqing who made antique porcelain, Ma Kaiyuan who made silk figurines, Zhang Chongming, the successor of "Filament King", Wu Yukuan who made palace lanterns, and Li Baoshan, a carpenter. .

Their works are what I want to show you today, so they are all on the list and able to enjoy this honor.

To put it bluntly, this kind of treatment shocked their neighbors, not to mention that they never dreamed of it.

The reason is very simple. Who among the neighbors these days has lived together for decades?
We all know each other well.

As the saying goes, fifty knows the destiny.

These old craftsmen have already lived to the age of this tool.

Originally, it was supposed to be a mediocre life, and carrots and cabbages were the rest of my life.

Even people are retired, so what kind of honor, wealth, it is impossible to have anything to do with them.

Who can imagine that there will be old trees and new branches, and there will be icing on the cake?

What's more, the old craftsmen live in poor places, and the neighbors have limited knowledge.

Early in the morning, I saw that there was a small car to pick up senior officials, parked in my own alley.

Getting out of the car, the man in a suit treated the person who was not taken seriously by everyone as an expert in some scientific field.

Respectfully, please get on the bus, and say "You are old", then you won't be so shocked from ear to ear.

This is called contrast.

No one can understand. In everyone's mind, they all think that craftsmen are nothing.

So many intellectuals are not treated this way?How can it be these ordinary old men and old ladies to get in the car?

So in fact, this is the most glorious time for these old craftsmen in front of their neighbors.

In front of the neighbors, they sat in the car gracefully.

At this time, apart from being extremely fulfilling and refreshing, I can't help but think in my heart.

Old age is the blessing of craftsmanship, which is really unexpected for decades.

Fortunately, I met this Manager Ning, who is really a good seller!

If I hadn't met this noble person, who else would I sell my skills to?
(End of this chapter)