The key question is precisely, can a hundred-fold increase in stamps be the same as a hundred-fold increase in calligraphy and painting?
Anyone who does this arithmetic problem would be foolish and make the mistake of trying to find a sword.
Because I completely forgot about the time period.
Return on investment is of course inseparable from time.
Things like calligraphy, painting, antiques, furniture and jade have a continuous appreciation curve, climbing upward all year round.
Stamps are just the opposite. They are violent zigzag movements, which are the graphics closest to the stock market.
It is precisely because of its low capital requirements, low entry barriers, and convenient transactions that it is beneficial to the issuance of stamps.
The postal market will become the only crazy market that has hit the sky several times before the emergence of the stock market in our country.
Not to mention anything else, in 1985 and 1991, the postal market performed the "Phoenix Dance Nine Days" market twice.
Other collections can only lie on the ground and look up.
what does that mean?
This means that in the 1980s and 1990s, in the past 20 years, only stamps were able to ride a thousand-mile horse.
There is no other breed that can compare with it.
Most of the increases in stamp types were almost completed before 2000.
As for other investment types, they only began to rise in the mid-1990s.
First calligraphy and painting, then porcelain, then jade and seal stone, then mahogany furniture and jade, and even more miscellaneous items.
It is believed that it will be almost after 2000 that these varieties will catch up, surpass stamps, and replace them as mainstream investment varieties.
Then Ning Weimin can take advantage of this time difference to play a relay race in the speculative market.
To put it bluntly, he sold the stamps and then bought others without any delay. This was even a more cost-effective speculation step.
To give a specific example, in 1991, he sold a set of "Wen 1" tickets that cost five yuan today and earned 10,000 yuan.
If I go back and buy Huang Binhong's fine products that have increased a hundred times, one thousand and three pieces, I can still buy seven and a half pieces.
This is equivalent to five dollars turning into one billion!
Even if you no longer operate other varieties and just sit there waiting for appreciation, it will still be an increase of 200 million times.
Which investment guru can compare?
Of course, such suitability only exists purely theoretically.
Because Ning Weimin also understands very well, whether it is selling things or buying new investment targets.
With a large amount of capital, it cannot be completed in a short period of time.
Whether we can find so many Huang Binhong paintings by then, and whether they are authentic or not, are all new questions.
Otherwise, why would he insist on calligraphy, painting, and stamps with both hands?
Because in this way, he will be strong in both hands.
There are both long-term varieties and short-term chips. You can advance to attack and retreat to defend. This means you have both the present and the future.
That is the real absence of shortcomings, and that is true happiness.
But despite this, having said that, is this kind of happiness enough for Ning Weimin?
No, of course it's far from enough.
In fact, Ning Weimin was attracted by the current situation of the small market and started to grab goods, all on a temporary basis.
We cannot but mention the real purpose of Ning Weimin coming to the Stamp Corporation today.
Because at this moment, in the business hall of the Stamp Corporation, there is another huge fortune waiting for Ning Weimin to carry it home.
That is the Xinyou New Year chicken tickets that were issued and listed on January 5, 1981.
This stamp is the second in the zodiac stamp series, and its price is second only to the monkey stamp among the zodiac stamps.
In 2020, the price of a full-page chicken ticket exceeded 20,000 yuan, with a unit price of 180 yuan.
If you buy one now, the official price is eight cents on face value, so you can buy a full edition for six cents.
And the purpose of Ning Weimin coming here is to buy a full page of chicken tickets.
His initial plan was that in view of the Xinyou year chicken ticket circulation of 9 million.
This year, he will have to take in at least twice the number of monkey tickets as a reserve of chips.
Because he is no longer satisfied with just being a "professional monkey farmer".
He now feels that the name "Monkey King" is not so good, and what he wants to do is to be the "Zodiac King" in the postal market.
So because of this, when Ning Weimin flipped through the stamp album of the next stamp dealer, he unexpectedly found a four-sided monkey stamp.
After being stunned for a moment, he was filled with joy and asked the price enthusiastically.
"How much do you charge for these four-party monkey tickets?"
"You have?"
"I have!"
"Is it the Quartet Alliance?"
"There are tracts and four-party couplets."
"It's 15 cents for a single ticket, 80 cents for a four-way coupon. How about it? This is last year's new ticket, it has doubled, the price is high enough..."
"Then how about I buy yours? Just this Sifang Lian, what price do you want to sell it to me?"
Ning Weimin smiled. He remembered his bet with Kang Shude. Unexpectedly, he won before the New Year.
But the other party suddenly became mute, rolled his eyes, and felt a little unhappy.
"I said, do you want to buy or sell?"
"It depends on your price."
Ning Weimin's confidence has never been so strong.
However, the misunderstanding deepened, and he was obviously a little angry.
This guy really had a bad temper and made fist gestures.
"Hey, you are selling and buying now. You are vague and sincerely amusing me, right? Don't make yourself uncomfortable."
Ning Weimin continued to speak kindly.
"I don't mean that. I just want to ask you for a sincere price. I can buy or sell, as long as the price is right."
The ticket seller thought Ning Weimin was still teasing him with his cough, so he got excited.
"Hey, don't blame me for being rude. Let's put it this way, I charge you this price for the ticket, but I'll have to double it if I sell it to you."
"Is that what you said?"
"That's it, what? How about we find a place to practice?" The ticket seller was already glaring.
But no matter how he thought about it, Ning Weimin smiled even brighter.
He took out the money from his pocket, ordered one dollar and six and handed it over.
"That's not necessary. In view of your attitude, I decided to buy this Sifanglian couplet."
Hey, this is great. The ticket seller is completely confused and has no idea where Bei is.
He thought to himself, what does this kid mean?
You must be sick, you are deliberately throwing your money away.
However, Ning Weimin smiled and said nothing. He was like a devil that deceives people, and he just continued to collect money.
So in just three or four seconds, the tragedy and comedy of life came to an end.
Just for one dollar and six, just to buy two packs of good cigarettes, this ticket seller threw away fifty thousand dollars with his own hands.
Think about it carefully, how interesting this is.
People who suffer a loss actually think that they have taken advantage of it.
It is obvious that he has been cut into pieces by others, but he regards the person who successfully plotted against him as a fool.
And this is the postal market! This is the speculative market!
A place where a buyer and a seller pass by each other and say "silly boy" to each other.
Stories like this may continue to be played out here every day in the future.