Chapter 101 Buying a Siheyuan
Zhao Hong and the others browsed the area and covered about 30 acres, and the location was quite good. Zhao Hong was very satisfied. After returning, he handed over the matter directly to Wang Yu to discuss with the landlord. Since the owner was really in a hurry to go abroad, he got it with only 20,000 famous coins. He encountered some trouble when transferring the house. The main reason was that Zhao Hong was not from a mainlander. Fortunately, Cheng Weigao came forward to get the matter done.
As for the tenants, it was better to solve it. Wang Yu thought of a money attack. He first moved out of Siheyuan to give 10,000 famous coins, and then reduced it by 500 in turn. The people in Siheyuan immediately took action and moved all of them in less than two days. There were twelve families living in Siheyuan, and the family with the least relocation fee was 4,000 yuan, which was enough for them to buy a big house elsewhere to live.
What Wang Yu did made Zhao Hong look at him with admiration. Of course, while praising him, he was also indispensable. He did not know that the relationship between many old neighbors in the same yard had dropped to freezing point. This was too sad to have feelings.
But the flaws do not hide the merits, and Zhao Hong himself could not think of a solution that could have the best of both worlds. His approach was to do it quickly. These people bought their own houses after going out, which was actually good for them. The houses in the capital would only keep rising. If they stayed in the courtyard, they would only sigh in the future.
The house was bought, but redecoration was another big problem. This was obviously not a problem. Professor Zhao, who was active in this matter, directly took Zhao Hong to visit him. A big shot in Tsinghua ancient architecture was Wu Liangyong, the director of the Department of Architecture of Tsinghua University, and was also elected as a member of the Department of Technology and Science of the Chinese Academy of Sciences.
He presided over the design of the new library of Beijing Library, the expansion planning and design of Tiananmen Square, the planning and design of the central area of Guangxi Guilin, the campus planning and design of the Central Academy of Fine Arts, and the planning and design of Confucius Institute.
Zhao Hong dared not neglect such a great man, so he prepared a gift to visit him with Professor Zhao. Professor Zhao was a good friend and everyone had a great conversation. After communicating with each other, Director Wu said: "I had heard Mingchuan give him another knowledgeable and talented little brother. I was able to see him today. He really did not lose the wrong way. Xiao Zhao, you are really knowledgeable and talented. I heard that you compete with your classmates in our school to have a location in the library. So you are still half a student at Tsinghua University!" His last sentence was obviously teasing Zhao Hong, making him even red.
"It made Professor Wu laugh at you. Your library has too rich books and can't read much even if you forget to eat or sleep." Zhao Hong said awkwardly.
"Why do you want to laugh at you? This is a good story in the future! There is also a rare person who can study hard to achieve this level in order to learn." Professor Wu said seriously.
"That is, can scholars be called stealing?" Professor Zhao joked in the words of "Kong Yiji". After he said that, the three of them laughed. In fact, they also had similar experiences when they studied hard, and now they think about it.
Finally, when Zhao Hong told him about his own affairs, Professor Wu agreed. For a big guy like him, there was no problem. Zhao Hong wanted to pay him a reward, but he sternly refused.
Zhao Hong was rejected by him and had no choice but to think of an idea, "Why don't Professor Wu like this, I donate 10 million famous coins to study ancient buildings in Tsinghua University, and another 5 million to protect cultural relics for the Forbidden City!"
"This can be there!" Professor Wu said happily that their ancient architecture major is a clear water yamen, and the annual fund allocated is very limited, and there is also a lot of money to protect ancient cultural relics. It is so meaningful. Many projects in the Forbidden City can be launched now.
In the next period of time, Zhao Hong was busy. He met with the principal of Tsinghua University and the director of the Forbidden City also had friendly exchanges with him. The two donation projects were quickly implemented. They patted Zhao Hong's courtyard and agreed to help him decorate it beautifully, which was no different from its original appearance.
Zhao Hongna designed with Professor Wu, and Zhao Hong is not an ignorant little girl. He has also learned a lot of knowledge in this field in the system, but he is not as good as these great people. He mainly studies the overall architectural style while installing modern facilities. What Zhao Hong wants is both modern convenience and the flavor of ancient buildings.
It was another huge expense to use a lot of precious wood, but it was not a big deal for Zhao Hong. She spent nearly a month in the capital before she took everything over.
During this period, Zhao Hong met many seniors of antiques and jade, and learned about the market conditions of the antique market. He found that antiques are really cheap and scary. Many precious calligraphy and paintings and porcelain are placed directly in the Friendship Store for sale, which made Zhao Hong feel very distressed. These are all treasures left by his ancestors! For foreign exchange and for the development of the country, it was lost abroad. It is easy to flow out now, and it will be extremely difficult to buy them again in the future.
Zhao Hong was helpless in this situation. During this period, he and some of the masters from the Forbidden City went to major friendship stores and bought dozens of very precious calligraphy and paintings. In terms of calligraphy and painting, there were two calligraphy and paintings by old man Qi Baishi, works by Xu Beihong, and many famous artists would not give them one by one. As for porcelain, there are official kiln porcelains from various dynasties, Zhao Hong only chose the rarest things.
There was another good news that Zhao Hong was ecstatic. In the courtyard of Siheyuan, he found an underground warehouse below. He thought there was a treasure inside! But after opening it, it was empty inside and there were only neat shelves, which disappointed the Forbidden City master and Zhao Hong. But then he became happy again. This place happened to be able to store his collections. He saw that it was built with very thick bluestone. It was dry and not damp inside. It was a good place to store the collection. Moreover, the brackets inside were made of gloomy wood, which was perfect. Then Zhao Hong asked someone to create two doors, one wooden door inside and one steel door outside. After cleaning up, he placed all the antiques, calligraphy and paintings he bought during the past few days.
In terms of jade, Zhao Hong also bought some. He directly purchased large items in the jade factory. These were the efforts of the old artists. Zhao Hong only sold more than ten pieces. Zhao Hong remembered that because of its huge size and inconvenient size, foreign tourists could not carry them, they never sold them. When they were valuable, the country stopped buying them and directly built a museum for exhibition.
Chapter completed!