"Dad, what's going on? You've been in this business for ten or twenty years, how come you're still looking the other way?"
After hearing Ye Dongping's words, Ye Tian couldn't help but be stunned for a moment. It is common for people to pay tuition fees when doing antique trading, but for people of Ye Dongping's age and experience, this probability is already very low.
You know, Ye Dongping has been in the antique business since the 1980s, and he is considered one of the earliest people in the country. He has handled countless genuine antiques. Even some so-called experts may not be higher than Ye Dongping.
How many.
"I...I was tricked by someone else!" Upon hearing his son's question, Ye Dongping's face suddenly turned red, and it took him a long time to hold back a sentence.
"Oh, are you trying to trick us now?"
Ye Tian was stunned when he heard this, and then sneered. As the saying goes, deceit and deceit are common in rivers and lakes. In the late Qing Dynasty, a group of people who were good at deception gathered together and called it the sect of deception.
Unlike the Jiang Xiang Sect who basically fights alone under the guise of fortune telling, the deception sect is more sophisticated and often commits crimes in groups. They deceive everything from tables, chairs, benches, face plates, tea jars to gold and silver jewelry.
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Ye Tian once heard an old Taoist say that in the 1920s, there was a famous businessman in the Shili Foreign Market in Shanghai. He was defrauded of all his wealth by a group of swindlers who spent three years, and finally jumped into the Huangpu River and died.
lifetime.
And in a sense, the ways and methods of making money through deception are much broader than those through fortune telling, and the harm to the people is also greater.
So there is one thing that the deception sect has in common with Jiang Xiang's sect, that is, after the founding of the People's Republic of China, both were severely punished by the state. The older generation of deception masters are basically dead now, while some young ones are not good at it and most of them can only
He deceived old men and old ladies, and now he was able to deceive Ye Dongping. He was definitely a master among masters.
Ye Tian didn't know what happened. Although he was suspicious, he didn't dare to jump to conclusions. After thinking for a while, he looked at his father and said, "Dad, please tell me what happened."
Ye Dongping sighed and said: "Hey, this...it's also my fault for being greedy. It's like this. When I first came to Beijing to open a store, I met a Hong Kong customer. Although this person didn't buy much,
, but is extremely proficient in antiques..."
Ye Dongping's story is quite long. After telling it for more than half an hour, Ye Tiancai heard some lines.
It turned out that after Ye Dongping reconciled with his family, he immediately opened an antique shop in Panjiayuan and asked his younger brother-in-law to help in the shop. These are all introduced in the previous article.
Although Ye Dongping is from the capital, he is still an outsider when he opens a store in Panjiayuan. After the store opened, the business was not very good, and he was also quite marginalized by some peers. During that time, Ye Dongping's life was a bit difficult.
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Just one month after the store opened, Ye Dongping welcomed a middle-aged man who spoke with a Cantonese accent. He claimed that he was a Hong Konger who opened a company in Beijing and liked to collect antiques.
This man's name is Bao Fengling. Although he is not tall and looks rather ugly, he speaks elegantly. When he chats with Ye Dongping, he feels like old friends at first sight, and he greatly praises Ye Dongping's knowledge of antiques.
As the saying goes, "A kind word can warm a person in winter, but a bad word can hurt someone in June." Ye Dongping, who was a little troubled at the time, immediately considered this person a confidant and talked about some of the difficulties of opening a store. As their interactions increased, the two gradually began to understand each other.
Slowly we became familiar with each other.
According to Ye Dongping, Bao Fengling ran a foreign trade company. He had gone to his company to drink Kung Fu tea from Guangdong and had a certain understanding of the scale of his company.
In the past few years, Bao Fengling successively purchased more than 100,000 yuan worth of antiques from Ye Dongping. This man had a very accurate vision, and all the items he bought were fakes, which made Ye Dongping even more suspicious of him.
Three points higher.
Just last year, while drinking tea and chatting, Bao Fengling accidentally mentioned that when the Old Summer Palace was burned down, the invaders had robbed them of twelve bronze heads.
Among them, seven of them, rat, ox, tiger, rabbit, horse, monkey, and pig, are all abroad. However, the whereabouts of the five bronze heads of dog, dragon, snake, chicken, and sheep are unknown. After his research, they should be
It was collected by domestic folk people.
At that time, Bao Fengling praised the twelve bronze heads and said that if he could collect one of them, he would have no regrets in his life. He also entrusted Ye Dongping to keep an eye on it for him and inform him if there was any news.
Since the trade of ancient bronzes has always been restricted by the state, objects such as the Twelve Bronze Heads are even considered national treasures.
Although Ye Dongping agreed at the time, he didn't take it too seriously. After all, trading this thing was illegal, and secondly, the copper capital that was living among the people had been missing for more than a hundred years. How could he come across it by such a coincidence?
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But who knew that just a few days ago, an antique dealer who had done business with Ye Dongping came to him and said that he had an important national weapon in his hand, but he wanted to sell it but couldn't find the right person.
Will Ye Dongping accept this thing?
To be honest, there are really not many business people, especially those who deal in antiques, who abide by the rules and regulations. Otherwise, you will just sit back and wait to lose money. When Ye Dongping heard this, he said to take a look at the goods first.
The man agreed, took Ye Dongping to a place in the suburbs, and took out a copper faucet. Ye Dongping was shocked when he saw it.
This faucet was exactly the same in shape and size as the one that was lost in the Old Summer Palace. The antique dealer also identified this thing as that national treasure and offered a price of 30 million!
Ye Dongping has been in business for so many years, and his ears are calloused from hearing nonsense. Naturally, he will not believe everything he says. After using the tools he carried with him to evaluate it, he did not find any flaws.
You must know that Ye Dongping suffered a loss on a three-legged tripod back then. Since then, he has spent a lot of effort in appreciating bronze ware, and his knowledge of bronze ware identification has become very advanced.
This ordinary person always has some confidence. After some appraisal, Ye Dongping felt that this object was 80% authentic, but he did not rush to draw a conclusion, but took a few high-definition photos and took them back.
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When he returned to the shop, Ye Dongping called Bao Fengling. After asking, he found out that this friend was in Hong Kong. When Ye Dongping said that he had found a copper head on the faucet, Bao Fengling suddenly expressed joy on the phone.
Crazy.
However, his business in Hong Kong was very important, and it would take him three days at the earliest to return to Beijing, so he asked Ye Dongping to hand over the photos he took to his horseman and see if he could collect them first.
Come in.
Ye Dongping didn't have a fax in his store, but he kept it in mind.
After Ma Zai, whom he was acquainted with at the time, arrived, Ye Dongping went to a fax shop with him to send the photo. He also clearly saw that Ma Zai paid dozens of dollars and it was indeed sent to Hong Kong.
Not ten minutes after receiving the fax, Ye Dongping's cell phone rang. The caller's number was also a Hong Kong number. Bao Fengling concluded at once that the thing was the lost dragon head.
Bao Fengling asked Ye Dongping to stay with the man and wait until he returned to Beijing to discuss the business. He also said that as long as the price of the object did not exceed 100 million, he would buy it, and he also wanted to deal with the middleman Ye Dongping.
To express gratitude.
Since Ye Dongping didn't want to buy the thing, he wouldn't take any risks. After thinking about it for a while, he agreed to Bao Fengling's request and agreed to delay it for three days.
Unexpectedly, the next day, the familiar antique dealer called and said that a boss had taken a fancy to that thing. If Ye Dongping didn't want it, he would sell it to someone else, and that
The boss can pay and pick up the goods this afternoon.
As soon as Ye Dongping heard this, he immediately called Bao Fengling.
As soon as Ye Dongping told the matter, the people there suddenly became anxious, saying that he would book a flight immediately and arrive in Beijing in the evening, so that Ye Dongping must keep the dragon head no matter what.
And if it doesn't work, let him pay for it first. No matter how much Ye Dongping paid for it, he is willing to pay 80 million RMB.
Hearing what the other party said, Ye Dongping was really tempted. Out of professional habit, he did not tell Bao Fengling the price of the dragon head, so he knew in his heart that if he ate it first, he could change hands as soon as possible.
Net profit of 50 million!
After much consideration, Ye Dongping contacted the antique dealer and asked if it would be okay to inspect the goods at night. The antique dealer refused. Others would come to pay and pick up the goods in the afternoon. He couldn't leave the business alone, right?
After some careful consideration, Ye Dongping decided to take the dragon head. After all, he had personally appraised the thing and felt somewhat confident.
After doing business for so many years, especially in recent years, Ye Dongping's antique business has begun to go uphill. He has more than 11 million in hand, and he has mobilized all the funds from the antique shop, plus the money given by Ye Tian.
The money I collected was enough for 30 million.
After depositing all 30 million on a card, Ye Dongping took Zhou Xiaotian to find the antique dealer. The transaction went extremely smoothly. After transferring the money, the dragon head, which he had identified several times, officially belonged to him.
Ye Dongping has it all.
After receiving the dragon head, Ye Dongping immediately called Bao Fengling. After the call was connected, Bao Fengling said that he was about to get on the plane and would contact him again when he arrived in Beijing, asking Ye Dongping to keep the dragon head.
But until about 11 o'clock in the evening, Bao Fengling's Hong Kong mobile phone number could no longer be called. Ye Dongping changed Bao Fengling's domestic mobile phone number, but no one answered.
At that time, Ye Dongping felt that something was wrong, and rushed to Bao Fengling's trading company early the next morning. As soon as he arrived, he was dumbfounded.