Riding the wind of rebirth

Chapter 797 The teacher who never forgets the past
"Come with me, Elbow." Lin Wanqiu was very busy and didn't have time for any politeness: "Let's go and see that Xuande blue and white piece."

"A few more experts from Hong Kong Island are here." Li Lehai said, "There are also Mr. An Zhai, Goro Sakamoto, and Mr. Zhong Jin, Mr. An Siyuan's chief Asian affairs representative."

Several people walked into a side room, which was a small exhibition hall. There were several cultural relics in the exhibition hall, one of which was the "Big Nikkei" that Zhou Zhi had already mastered.

But now everyone in the room is bending over a large blue and white jar to study, and when they saw Lin Wanqiu bringing someone in, they straightened up.

Lin Wanqiu introduced to everyone, mainly to Zhou Zhi: "This is Mr. Yang Yongde, a famous collector in Hong Kong Island. This is Mr. Xu Zhantang and Mr. Zhang Zongxian."

"This is a famous antique dealer in Niijima, Mr. Li Jianchen."

"This is Mr. Eiichi Anzhai, a famous collector from the island country, and Mr. Goro Sakamoto, and this is Mr. Zhongjin Hou, the Asian general representative of Mr. An Siyuan, a famous collector from the United States."

A group of people looked at Zhou Zhi, their expressions were even more surprised than when Zhou Zhi saw them.

With these people's status and status, in their eyes, to describe a young man like Zhou Zhi as "unknown" is probably flattering.

Looking around in surprise, Lin Wanqiu introduced Zhou Zhi with a smile again: "This is the appraisal consultant of Haitong Auction Company in Mainland China, Mr. Zhou Zhi, despite his young age, he already has a lot of achievements."

Zhou Zhi hurriedly nodded and shook hands with everyone. Among these people, Hou Zhongjin surprised him the most. At first he thought he was Chinese when he heard his name, but he turned out to be a blond and blue-eyed foreigner just like An Siyuan.

"Oh? What achievements does the kid have?"

Except for Hou Zhongjin, the agent here, all the others are first-class big collectors in the Chinese cultural relics circle, especially the few from Hong Kong Island and Xindao, who themselves are wealthy businessmen with successful careers and knowledgeable appraisers. Even a character like Li Qiyan has to be in awe.

The one who spoke was Li Jianchen. He was a bit different from the others. Although he owned more than a dozen companies under his name, he still opened an antique shop and was engaged in antique trading. He could be regarded as a close colleague with Lin Wanqiu.

Lin Wanqiu said with a smile: "He has made a big deal recently..."

"I remembered." Zhang Zongxian is a big collector of porcelain, and he is more concerned about the circulation of important porcelain on Hong Kong Island: "The two revolving vases in the hands of my niece were bought by an inland collector some time ago. I remember that the name seems to be Zhou Zhi, right?"

After receiving Lin Wanqiu's nod of confirmation, Zhang Zongxian said with emotion: "But I never thought that I would be so young!"

"The kid is less than twenty?" Xu Zhantang on the side laughed, and said to everyone with a smile: "This business needs new blood. We have niece Wanqiu and nephew Le Hai on Hong Kong Island, and now there is a younger one." !"

"Not bad, but at our age, we still don't have such strength."

"At that time, we were all picking up leaks." Yang Yongde glanced at Eiichi Anzhai and Goro Sakamoto, and said with a smile: "It's not like now, if you don't strive for strength, you can't do it."

Both Eiichi Ataka and Goro Sakamoto are collectors of Chinese cultural relics, and there is no problem with Chinese. Goro Sakamoto can even understand Cantonese. It is indeed very fast. I have read the news about the two pieces of the revolving vase, Qianlong's aesthetics... well, but it is indeed delicate and complicated, and it can be regarded as a masterpiece."

Although the words are said like this, the implication is a bit disdainful.

Indeed, although the two revolving vases represent the ultimate porcelain-making craftsmanship of the Qianlong Dynasty, the islanders inherited the elegant and quiet porcelain aesthetic concept of the Song Dynasty, so the tastes of the islanders and Qianlong's aesthetics really can't be pissed in the same pot. go.

Moreover, Zhou Zhi collected these two Qianlong artifacts. Judging from the current value, Eiichi Anzhai could crush any of his collections at random.

Unexpectedly, Lin Wanqiu smiled slightly: "Mr. Sakamoto is laughing, I don't dare to boast that the two pieces of porcelain that Elbow bought from us are a big deal."

"The big deal I'm talking about is that he just spent 100 million US dollars to buy all the Ming and Qing furniture in his collection from Mr. Wang Shixiang."

"What?!" Everyone was shocked, and the most exaggerated one was Hou Zhongjin, a foreigner: "100 million US dollars, how is that possible?! That rosewood chair was sold at a London auction last year, and the price was more than 100. Ten thousand dollars!"

"This is the favor of Mr. Meng Wang. I am indeed worthy of being appointed as the heir of this batch of Ming and Qing furniture." Zhou Zhi quickly waved his hand: "However, we can't use the London auction as Mr. Hou said. We can measure the price of Mr. Wang's rosewood chair. After all, our country is still a developing country and we need loans everywhere. It is impossible for this batch of cultural relics to flow out of the country. Up to now, the prices of similar domestic collections and international prices have always been different. Not at the same level."

"If, I mean, if the top spot in Wang Lao's collection can appear in the London auction, then the starting price should be one million dollars."

"After all, it was published in the old man's "Ming and Qing Furniture Appreciation", which was used as a key article to introduce the style of Ming and Qing furniture to the world. In this sense, it is called the beginning of the collection boom of Ming and Qing furniture all over the world. Not too much."

"However, this assumption is meaningless, because it will never appear in an international auction."

"It seems that Mr. Zhou is very concerned about cultural relics going abroad." Sakamoto Goro said: "In fact, compared with China, foreign countries are far better than mainland China in terms of investment in scientific research, advanced equipment and venues, and talent training? As a symbol of human civilization, these things should belong to all human beings, so that they can be properly protected to meet the purpose of protecting the heritage of human civilization, right?"

"Just to give you a simple example, the best-preserved sui and tang swords and pipas in the world are not in China, but in Zhengcangyuan, an island country. Similarly, there are Yaobian Tianmu bowls in porcelain and celadon bowls in Longquan. .right?"

"First of all, I would like to thank my colleagues from the island countries for their love for Chinese civilization and the importance they attach to Chinese cultural relics." Zhou Zhi said with a smile: "We must also admit that this land is full of disasters. one."

"But it is precisely because of this that we need to catch up and catch up with the international level in the aspects you mentioned." Zhou Zhi seemed not to have heard the irony in Sakamoto Goro's words: "We must also cherish more after the catastrophe. These treasures that have survived, let alone let the national treasures go out of the country in our hands in today's era. This can be regarded as a teacher who learns from the past and learns from the future, and remembers the past without forgetting the future."

(End of this chapter)