A smart person, when getting along with people he doesn't like, can always make concessions in small ways and gain benefits in big ways.
Ning Weimin did this. This is a kind of wisdom with a long-term perspective.
The reason is very simple, it’s just an old saying.
Many friends mean many roads, many enemies mean many walls.
This world is so big, but the connections are extremely close.
Who can guarantee that he will not seek help from someone in the future, and there will be no possibility of cooperation with the other party?
So when people mix in society, even if they cannot be friends with people they don’t like, it is better not to become enemies with them.
But unfortunately, many people cannot do this simple truth.
Because people are emotional animals, and what they like most is to do whatever they want.
And a person's ignorance is often reflected in how arrogant he is.
The people of Ningwei were like this in the past.
Once he achieves a small success, he feels that he is so good that he can ignore others.
At that time, he simply looked at the problem and put the cart before the horse.
He believes that strength determines everything, and that if he is at a higher level, he can ignore others.
I never thought that there would always be people in this world who were looking after themselves and their own land.
Even if your own level is high, the level of the people you need to deal with will also be raised accordingly.
It is still bad luck to offend others.
But fortunately, he finally understood it in this life.
He understood that the way up in the world was like being blocked by layers of ceilings filled with steel needles.
People who want to break through forcefully will not be able to break through.
It will only be bruised all over the body and bloody.
On these ceilings, there are actually only a few irregular and narrow gaps open to all living beings.
If people want to go up, they can only shrink themselves into the size of a gap and work hard to succeed.
So how high a person can climb is not determined by the person's rigidity, but actually by the person's toughness and flexibility.
Resilience is skill, patience, and motivation.
Flexibility is wisdom, mind, and method.
That’s right, the road to heaven is never easy.
But the great advantage is that once a person has climbed through a ceiling, he has risen to a higher level.
The conveniences you enjoy will be very different.
Because of this, I have a foothold under my feet, and I am no longer without a foothold.
The steel needle that stopped you in the past will in turn become the support hanging in the air, supporting you to continue upward.
Just like Ning Weimin’s colleagues from the head office.
Their funds are not only useful to Ningwei people, but their social network is also a rich treasure.
Just because everyone has now formed a group to speculate on stamps, they have become partners with a stake in each other's interests.
The network resources of these colleagues were naturally opened to Ning Weimin and shared with them.
For example, Manager Sha has a classmate named Niu, who is a director of the Post Office in charge of the stamp warehouse.
Everyone sat together and after a drink, Director Niu approved a note.
Just ask Ning Weimin to bring out 500 sets of "The Romance of the West Chamber" souvenir sheets and 1,500 sets of "The Romance of the West Chamber" stamps from the warehouse.
These are unplanned indicators that are usually reserved for related households. There is no need to buy stamp cards.
The transfer prices are also flat, with each souvenir sheet priced at two yuan and each set of stamps priced at one dollar and six cents.
But in the postal market, the small sheet of The Romance of the West Chamber that went on sale during the Spring Festival is now worth two and a half yuan.
The stamps for The Romance of the West Chamber are priced at 1.23.
It means that as soon as these stamps are taken out of the treasury and put on the market, there will be a profit of nearly 20%.
Another good thing that surprised Ning Weimin was brought to him by the deputy manager of the planning department.
This deputy manager’s biological father is actually the person in charge of a sales department in Liulichang that specializes in domestic sales of cultural relics.
While chatting at the wine table, the deputy manager learned that Ning Weimin was interested in antique porcelain, so he went back to ask his father specifically, and later sold Ning Weimin a favor.
According to regulations, cultural relics for domestic sale in the "inner cabinet" are only sold to cadres at the department or bureau level, but according to special needs, related households can also be taken care of.
As for Ning Weimin, as long as he can get a press card.
Then his father could sell a few pieces to Ning Weimin under the guise of promoting publicity.
As the person in charge of Zhai Palace who has always dealt with the media, it would be too easy for Ning Weimin to find a few journalist friends to help.
So soon, he happily went to "catch the pie falling from the sky".
Needless to say, for him, the "special" cabinets in the cultural relics store were like a huge treasure house placed in front of him.
He was pleasantly surprised to find that there were too many good things in the cabinet.
Like a Yongzheng official kiln pastel general jar, it only costs three hundred yuan.
Although the price is higher than the "ghost market", it is much cheaper than the Friendship Store.
The key is that the official kilns here can maintain their authenticity, and they are all of relatively good quality.
It is not certain that he would be able to buy something like this after two thousand years, even if he spent tens of millions of dollars.
As for the ones that are broken, irritated or faulty, they can be worth millions in the future and can be bought in stores for only a hundred dollars.
Look, isn’t this a mouse that fell into a rice vat and is unwilling to crawl out?
Ning Weimin really saw this and thought it was good.
When he looked at that one, he thought it was good and was not willing to let go of anything.
So, from then on, he invited journalists he knew to have dinner whenever he had time.
The picture shows that I want to borrow someone’s press card to register so that I can go to the “inner cabinet” of the cultural relics store to buy something.
Of course, this kind of registration is not the kind of document used to confirm ownership.
A letter of guarantee signed in order to prevent the leakage of cultural relics.
There are special regulations for domestic sales of cultural relics. It is necessary to ensure that items purchased from stores must not be given away or resold to foreigners.
But then again, this kind of cheapness is good, but it is very similar to Zhang Shihui's purchase of Maotai liquor from a Moscow restaurant and Marlboro from the "State Communications News Agency" compound.
To put it bluntly, it’s just a stir-fry of sesame seeds with a spoon and a small drumstick.
For Ning Weimin, it was really not enough to quench his thirst.
This is not because he is greedy. The key point is that Ning Weimin now controls the clothing and handicraft business at the same time, and the spare money in his hands is really "stuck".
Don’t forget, last year, he had time to earn but no time to spend.
From the handicraft business alone, a net profit of 20,000 yuan goes into his pocket every month.
Since May, the clothing tail goods business has been on track again. Adding the two items together, you can make a profit of 70,000 to 80,000 yuan a month just from extra money.
This is not counting the cigarette shop business he started in the second half of the year.
Taken together, he earns well over 100,000 yuan a month. He is definitely the richest man in Beijing these days.
But because he is too busy, he has been able to rely on his identity as a foreign company executive and be involved in street business to disguise the money as public funds and deposit it in the bank.
This is the only way to deal with it.
So even if we exclude the 25,000 yuan cost of opening a cigarette shop, we still have 100,000 yuan left to continue operating the sewing club.
Also, I spent 60,000 yuan to make up for 200,000 dog tickets last year, and bought 2,500 full-page pig tickets at the beginning of this year.
Now he has accumulated 478,000 yuan in his bank account.
Compared with financial resources, not to mention all the senior executives of Pilkington Company could not catch up with him.
Even he himself felt that these huge amounts of cash had become a huge burden, too much to scald his hands, and too much to bite his hands.
It must be spent as soon as possible, and it must never exceed the 500,000 mark.
In this way, he wants to quickly condense these huge amounts of funds into wealth that is easy to accumulate.
At the end of the day, you have to think of something that can be purchased in bulk without any restrictions.
But what exactly should I buy?
As the same saying goes, don’t buy things blindly.
On the one hand, we must consider the future appreciation potential, the current cost, and whether storage is convenient.
On the other hand, the time difference between species speculation must also be considered to facilitate the relay race in the speculative market.
Will you continue to collect calligraphy and paintings?
is no longer appropriate.
Because in May 1980, Beijing held its first export commodities exhibition in the port city.
Hong Kong people were surprised to find that the calligraphy, paintings, various cultural objects, and handicrafts sent from the capital were so cheap.
There is a huge price difference between the price and the local price.
As a result, not only were the items sent for exhibitions snapped up by Hong Kong people, but many Hong Kong collectors began to come to the capital to hunt for treasures.
In this way, the price of various kinds of cultural toys, calligraphy and paintings has been rising in Beijing.
The fastest growing categories are calligraphy and painting, and ancient books.
So far, in the past three years, the average price of paintings and calligraphy has increased four to five times.
Qi Baishi’s income is already 280 yuan per square foot, Xu Beihong and Zhang Daqian’s are 234 yuan, and Lu Yanshao and Huang Binhong have the least increase, reaching 351 square feet.
Although this price is considered to be good value for money, the future appreciation rate is still very attractive.
The problem is that Ning Weimin has eaten too many high-quality calligraphy and paintings, and has a huge sum of money in his hands. Not only has his vision broadened, but his appetite has also grown.
His intention is to buy large-scale fine products.
It just so happens that it’s so easy to see such masterpieces on the market. You have to rely on luck, and the subject matter may not be good.
For example, if you want him to spend 2,000 yuan, you can buy a 5-6-foot flower painting made of white stone, and you can buy a fan made of white stone for 500 yuan.
When he thought about the increase, he found that the price/performance ratio was a bit low and a bit laborious.
It is possible to buy it, but it is no longer very attractive.
And antiques such as porcelain, Buddhist statues, and bronzes are subject to strict policy supervision, making it impossible to have enough to eat.
The biggest problem with wooden furniture is storage. It won’t work if it’s damp, too dry, or even if it’s gnawed by mice. It also requires a lot of space.
The key is that it’s also expensive. You can buy a chair for dozens of dollars, but it’s just made of wenge wood, it’s loose and needs to be repaired, so why bother?
So in the end, we settled on the next best thing, and the only things left were seal stones, jadeite, and jade.
It goes without saying that these gadgets have shortcomings.
Since most foreigners cannot appreciate it, there is no unified standard for appreciation quality.
In terms of time, it is a speculative variety that will become popular relatively late. If you buy it, you may have to endure loneliness for a long time.
But the benefits are obvious. It doesn’t require much space, is easy to store, and can’t be destroyed even in fire.
The key is that excellent quality aniseed can be found everywhere these days.
In the "Cuiwen Pavilion" engraving sales department, whether it is Tianhuang, chicken blood, or hibiscus stone, these "three treasures of sealing stones" of more than 60 grams and six-sided flat seals can be seen everywhere.
You have to know how much the loss of flat seals is. Thirty years later, this is an unimaginable luxury.
Moreover, the prices of these seal stones are also at the bottom of the market.
The price of gold is already 30 per gram these days.
The price of Ketian Huangshi is only 15 yuan per gram, chicken blood stone is 12 yuan per gram, and hibiscus stone is 10 yuan per gram.
According to the old saying "one gram of stone is one gram of gold", this is discounted by 50%.
Think about it thirty years later, one gram of Tianhuang stone will be worth 200,000 yuan.
Comparing it with the so-called situation that "the best Tianhuang has become the quintessence of the country, Yijin is a hundred times as valuable as ancient and modern" and "high mountain stone is Tianhuang, which is more expensive than gold dozens of times", it is simply a big joke.
It is definitely an extremely low price, almost like giving it for free.
So, facing this sumptuous meal, Ning Weimin could greet it vigorously and throw out the money without hesitation.
This is very efficient. If you buy a large seal worth 10 yuan, you can spend more than 10,000 yuan.
If it is a huge ornament, the price will be higher.
Ning Weimin bought a 356-gram crow-skin field yellow stone ornament for a total of 32,000 yuan.
How happy this is.
In this way, within ten and a half days, Ning Weimin spent all the money in his account.
They were all turned into these stone objects and stored in three newly purchased large camphor wood boxes.
One box of ornaments and two boxes of seals.
After handling this matter, the boy not only felt at ease, but also felt that he no longer had to worry about where the cash would go in the future.
Even somewhat complacent, feeling that he has become a favorite among seal stone collectors.
You can't really blame him, because just three boxes will be worth at least ten buildings in the future!
Ten buildings!
He will never be poor even if he just wastes money in this life!