Riding the wind of rebirth

Chapter 1377: Having money to buy paintings

In the past, Zhou Zhi was suffering from "external floods and internal droughts". The big profit he made by taking advantage of the European currency crisis was considered to be his first pot of gold from overseas funds.

However, because the country's finance is not yet developed enough, it is quite difficult to get that money to be used domestically.

Compared with foreign sources, domestic funds are small and small, mainly coming from dividends from the remaining shares and patent licenses of Saturday Niang Food Company and Jin'an Group, Red Star mini supermarket stores, taxi tops, and clothing city facades. rent.

However, these funds are almost exhausted for daily maintenance of various stores and continued real estate expansion. Previously, it had to be supplemented by part of the patent licensing fees generated by Hanwenku.

Up to now, as several golden hens of Clover Digital Technology Company have begun to lay eggs, professional management systems for supermarkets, industry and commerce, hospitals, corporate finance, cashiers, etc. have been developed, information building design and renovation, anti-virus software research and development, Hanwen large font authorization Revenue, the biggest revenue of course comes from audio decoding chips, and the development and sales of WinClover players. As an important licensee, partner, and investor of Hong'an Digital in chip production, Clover Company will take 40% of the revenue. income.

Then there are the VCD decoding chips and Wanyan VCD machines that have just become the new golden hens. The chips are priced at 120 yuan in China, and the VCD machines are priced at 800 yuan. Such high prices are still in short supply. Huahong is Two more production lines have been added, hoping to capture as much of the market as possible before VCD machine manufacturers swarm around.

Matching this phenomenon, super large pirated VCD production factories have begun to appear in Hong Kong Island and Southeast Asia. They are sold domestically through various channels at prices as low as five yuan per plate, killing the LD market.

Nowadays, LD is almost confined to large karaoke halls and sophisticated Hongqi Film and Television Entertainment City. It is almost impossible to enter thousands of households as an ordinary household appliance.

Although the revenue belongs to the company, Clover Company treats its employees very well. Zhou Zhi has long formulated an equity incentive plan so that employees can enjoy monthly bonuses.

Among these dividends, he received the largest share, so he could use a few more months of his "salary" to spend "vigorously" at places like Rongbaozhai.

Among the painters named by Grandma Yuan, except for Liu Jiyou who is very famous for his comic strips, even Zhang Shanzi, the second brother of Zhang Daqian, has average prices for his works. A painting now costs only five or six thousand yuan, which can be sold for more than 100 yuan. Thousands of them are either large-format masterpieces or representative masterpieces.

Zhou Zhi is also a tiger, so among the two million yuan, most of them are apes, tigers, leopards, cats, as well as lions, wolves, and even lynx, snow leopards, and pandas.

Many of them are in series. For example, Liu Jiyou's "Beast Series" is a set of four screens, including tiger, clouded leopard, lynx, and golden leopard. The four Chinese beasts have unique themes and both physical and spiritual features, which made Zhou Zhi gasp in admiration. Wonderful.

Among furry animals, they actually draw more tigers.

The representative works of young and middle-aged painters like Feng Dazhong now cost only two to three thousand yuan, and this is based on Rongbaozhai's sufficient profits.

Fortunately, there are many works by these painters in Rongbaozhai, and they are not all apes.

If two million were spent to buy all these paintings, one could buy nearly a thousand pieces, which is of course impossible.

The main reason is that there are several paintings that combine characters and animals, and the prices are high. They are "Wu Song Fighting Tigers" by Liu Jiyou, "Su Wu Shepherding Sheep", "Golden Monkey", "Northeastern Tiger", and one by Zhang Shanzi "Feng Qian". Picture of a Crouching Tiger!

Liu Jiyou is an all-rounder in the history of modern Chinese painting and the founder of Chinese comic strips. He is known as the "Rembrandt and Michelangelo of the East" and is also a master of modern Chinese painting of animal figures.

However, the master always claimed to be a "people's artist". The reason why the price of these four paintings is higher is because "Wu Song Fights the Tiger" and "Su Wu Shepherds the Sheep" are themselves the covers of two comic books. These two comic books can be found at any comic book stall when Zhou Zhi was a child. It can be said that Zhou Zhi No one in this generation knows it.

"Golden Monkey" and "Siberian Tiger" were selected as stamps by the National Postal Service and are also household names.

The bonus of Zhang Shanzi's painting is that there is a large piece of running script by Zhang Daqian that is the same size as the painting. The content of the running script is to introduce the important position of the Fuhu theme in Chinese painting, and to combine "The Second Ancestor" painted by the Five Dynasties painter Shi Ke. "The Picture of Adjusting the Heart" is the original work of the freehand painting of the Crouching Tiger.

"The Picture of Adjusting the Mind of the Second Patriarch" depicts two Zen masters Huike and Fengqian who adjusted the mind and meditated. Among them, Fengqian was leaning on a docile tiger, pressing his elbows on the tiger's back, adjusting the mind and taking a nap, with wild strokes. The characters are concise and exaggerated, and the main purpose is to express subjective emotions and interest. Zhang Daqian believes that this is the first of freehand brushwork.

Because of the bonus of this "painting theory", Zhang Shanzi's "Feng Qian Fu Hu Tu" is also very expensive.

However, even this would not cost two million. The most important thing was that Rong Baozhai found a piece of Zhang Daqian's "Tall Trees Listening to the Stream".

There is only one horizontal pine and one oblique oak tree. A roe ape is lying on the horizontal pine, holding the branches of the oblique oak tree with one long arm, as if listening to the sound of water below.

The title says it is about listening to a stream, but there is no stream in the painting. Only ink is used to show the hazy atmosphere under the trees, including the purple-red oak leaves, which are also painted with splashing colors to make them look dripping with moisture.

In the whole painting, the deer is painted using the ancient method of Yi Yuanji, which can be said to be 99% of the essence. The rest of the painting is completely Zhang Daqian's own style, especially a few pieces painted with the splashing color method. The oak leaves made Zhou Zhi inexplicably happy.

Zhou Zhi is now short of Zhang Daqian's splash-color paintings. Although the leaves in this painting are very small and can only be called "small splash-colors", they are incomparable to Zhang Daqian's "big splash-colors" that express the spiritual realm of mountains and rivers. But for Zhou Zhi To put it bluntly, this is called "no fish or shrimp".

There is actually an interesting legend about the black ape. It is said that before Zhang Daqian was born, his mother dreamed of an old man holding a little black ape and giving it to her, asking her to raise it well, and then gave birth to Zhang Daqian.

Therefore, Zhang Daqian has always regarded himself as a black ape to support him.

With this allusion, Zhou Zhi looked at the leisurely and contented white-cheeked black ape in this painting, and felt inexplicably that this was a "self-portrait" given to him by the artist, who wanted to express his yearning for a state of mind.

The price given by Rong Baozhai for this painting is 800,000 yuan. Zhang Daqian's net worth is really changing every day.

Although Zhang Daqian's paintings and books alone accounted for half of the purchase price, Zhou Zhi still won it "with tears". After passing this village, he was afraid that this store would no longer exist.

With "Tall Trees Listening to the Stream", Zhou Zhi dared to round off the list, patting his chest and saying that he had collected all the categories of Zhang Daqian's paintings.

(End of this chapter)