Riding the wind of rebirth

Chapter 1774: Problems that can be solved with money are not problems

One of them is the island country's top collector, and the other is the island country's top antique dealer. Their status in the island country's collection world is self-evident.

Although Eiichi Ataka was already seriously ill, he still called Nitta personally. This was in line with Lola and Fujita's intentions. First, it would be harmful to Nitta if he kept the body of the Dish-shaped Lei jar in his hands. Second, the Chinese buyer could give him a price that everyone thought was good, and he would not suffer any loss. Third, if Nitta made a move this time, there would be huge benefits, and even the collections of the entire island country might come to him for help in the future, which was equivalent to the collections of the entire island country owing him a favor.

The first two points were easy to explain, but the third point surprised Nitta and he couldn't figure it out no matter how hard he tried.

However, Ataka's energy was already very low, and he only told Nitta that Sakamoto Goro would come to his house to inform him of the details.

Goro Sakamoto came to the Nitta family in person to lobby, and by the way, he took the opportunity to take a look at this important bronze artifact that has recently caused a stir in the collecting world.

After meeting Goro Sakamoto, Nitta learned about the background of the potential Chinese buyer. This man is the chief appraisal consultant of China's largest auction house, Hanhai Art Auction Company, and a powerful collector with a deep background in the National Museum of China and the Forbidden City. He has helped China buy back several precious cultural relics, and has deep friendships with several major families and collectors in Hong Kong Island. He also facilitated the return of national treasures such as the Old Summer Palace animal heads, Chunhua Ge Tie, and the Dragon and Phoenix Heavenly Kings reliefs, and he has also donated several important collections to their country.

As for the financial strength, there is no need to worry. Where did the Fujita family get the funds to renovate the museum? Did they get the funds from selling the "Six Hand Scrolls of Prince Chun's Palace"? Now the six hand scrolls are in the hands of this Chinese collector.

  These six scrolls were exhibited in the Chinese capital before the Chinese New Year. Did you notice that they have been completely restored?

This is why I said that doing this favor will be of great benefit to you. This collector not only has strong financial strength, unique collecting vision and extensive network of contacts, but he is also a master who is proficient in the restoration of calligraphy, paintings and ancient books!

How many people in the island country dare to repair the "Six Hand Scrolls of Prince Chun's Palace"? How many calligraphy and painting collections are more valuable than the "Six Hand Scrolls of Prince Chun's Palace"? When these calligraphy and painting collections need to be repaired in the future, who should be found?

At this point, Nitta was really interested, and the two sides discussed the transfer price for the first time.

There are actually quite a few square jars from the Shang and Zhou dynasties, but there are fewer with complete lids and bodies. And there are even fewer with complete lids and bodies and inscriptions. As the "king of square jars", it is okay to treat the Dish-shaped jar as a unique piece.

For unique pieces, there is no issue of price. Ordinary buyers will leave them to the market, and the art auction market will not disappoint any seller in the next twenty years.

Even if the price of the Fang Lei was once high, when Bao Erlu got the body of the Lei, he offered 200,000 silver dollars to buy the lid of the Lei, and the warlord Zhou Pan at that time offered 500,000 US dollars.

Later, Nitta Toichi received the price of the jar body from Asano Umekichi, which also cost millions of dollars.

And this is considered a bargain.

Although the Chinese buyer did not have any price requirements, since Sakamoto was here and it was clear that everyone was in the industry, if they wanted to resell the work, they could only follow the industry rules and could not make high-sounding statements like they did at an auction.

After preliminary discussions, both parties took various factors into consideration and finally decided that $3 million was a reasonable amount.

Three million US dollars is more than 20 million RMB. No other museum in the country, except the National Museum of China and the Palace Museum, can afford that amount.

But for Zhou Zhi, a few million dollars is no longer a problem. The huge success of the two memory chips has brought Clover Corporation huge profits of over 10 billion dollars a year.

Even if this part of the profit cannot be directly converted into Zhouzhi's income, the technology stocks that Zhouzhi had previously ambushed through AXA Fund have now begun to rise significantly and entered the dividend period.

There is no need to use the shares. Just relying on the dividends alone, he has made a lot of money. When An Siyuan conveyed his concern for Nitta through Sakamoto Goro, Nitta knew that the Zanfang Lei might have to be sold.

In the end, the two parties agreed that Nitta would transfer the body of the Dish-shaped Lei to Zhou Zhi for US$3 million, but all other additional fees would be paid by Zhou Zhi, including various customs clearance fees, insurance fees, transportation fees, and agency fees to Sakamoto. Zhou Zhi had to pay a total of US$3.7 million.

But any problem that can be solved with money is not a problem. From beginning to end, Zhou Zhi did not show up. He just conveyed his promise through Goro Sakamoto that if Nitta asked him to restore calligraphy and paintings in the future, he would have no choice but to help Nitta.

At the end of the interview, Mr. Wang reminded the host that after the joint efforts of many parties, the things should be able to be returned to the country soon, and just need to pay attention to the news in the next two days.

Host Wang was also very satisfied. After chatting for a few more sentences, he found more program resources from Grandpa Wang. This story was enough to make two episodes of the show anyway.

After the show, the few of them declined the TV station director's request to have a meal and hurried towards Demian Hall.

Old Master Qi is already here and has set up the exhibition hall. There are also a few old men guarding here.

"Hurry, hurry, hurry." Seeing several people coming in, Mr. Qi stood up and rubbed his hands: "Where are the things?"

Zhou Zhi opened the reinforced aluminum alloy suitcase he was carrying: "Here, these people are..."

No one paid any attention to him. The old men each grabbed a painting tube, opened it, gently pulled out the restored painting from it, put it on the display whiteboard, and pressed it up with the magnetic button.

Zhou Zhi had no choice but to rush over to help and press the center of the painting onto the whiteboard.

It should be said that until now, scientific identification can only be regarded as a reference method for cultural relics identification. The truly main and decisive method still relies on human eyes and experience.

There are actually some differences between the four scrolls. Among them, Gu Kaizhi's "Biographies of Women, Benevolent and Wisdom, Volume 2" and Lu Tanwei's "The Seven Sages of the Bamboo Grove and Rong Qiqi" should be considered "hand scrolls". They are not wide, one is more than 40 centimeters and the other is just over 50 centimeters, but they are relatively long. Although "Biographies of Women, Benevolent and Wisdom, Volume 2" is a fragment, it is more than two meters long. And although "The Seven Sages of the Bamboo Grove and Rong Qiqi" has a total length of more than four meters, it has now been divided into eight small paintings and has not yet been formally put together again.

Cao Buxing's "Statue of Ruyilun Bodhisattva" and Zhang Sengyou's "Han Wu Shooting a Dragon" are considered large paintings. "Statue of Ruyilun Bodhisattva" is more than 80 centimeters wide and about 1.5 meters long. There is a rare official script inscription by Mi Fu on the right, "Ruyilun Bodhisattva of Cao Shi Fuxing in Jiangzuo", and on the right is his postscript.

Now the inscription and postscript have also been restored into a separate canvas. Like the "Scroll of the Seven Sages of the Bamboo Grove and Rong Qiqi", they can only be displayed according to their original position for everyone to see.

The "Han Wu Shooting a Dragon" is smaller, 60 centimeters wide and about 1.3 meters long. It seems to have been cropped when the Song people copied and mounted it, so the picture looks a little too full.

After a short while, several paintings and calligraphy inscriptions were arranged according to the positions of the original works, covering an entire wall.