"After all, it is a thousand-year-old city, but its heritage is different!"!
After eating early the next morning, Qin Feng followed Zhu Kai and his father to the antique city in the center of Weiluo City.
Although the Antique City is not as grand as Panjiayuan in the capital, the buildings imitating the Song Dynasty also reveal its long history.
"Qin Feng, come here, let me tell you something..." After arriving at the antique city, Zhu Zhengjun waved to Qin Feng.
"Uncle Zhu, what's the matter?" Qin Feng followed Zhu Zhengjun and stood in front of the door, while Zhu Kai took out several signs with the words "purchasing jade" from the van.
"Xiao Qin, you should also know that our Luo City, including Henan Province, is a place where tomb robbing is common. Among the items sent today, there may be ancient jades unearthed. Do you want to accept it or not?
How about collecting it?"
When doing antiques business in Henan Province, it is inevitable to deal with tomb robbers. Antique merchants of all sizes will have more or less connections with these people, and even the Zhu family is no exception.
Among the people Mr. Zhu called today, four or five have backgrounds in tomb robbing gangs. This is something that almost everyone in Henan Province knows.
"Accept it, why don't you accept it?" Qin Feng raised his eyebrows and said, "Since they dare to sell it openly, why don't I dare to accept it?"
In China, in addition to bronzes, which are strictly prohibited from being bought and sold by the state, trading of unearthed cultural relics is also not allowed, but this distinction is very difficult.
Especially jade, after a period of playing, it will lose its unearthed characteristics, making it even more difficult to judge whether it is unearthed or handed down from ancient times. And almost 90% of the ancient jades circulating on the market today are from tomb robbers.
provided by people.
"Qin Feng, you have to have a good eye. There are too many fake ancient jade products. How about you get some modern jade products today?"
Zhu Zhengjun reminded Qin Feng in a subtle way that counterfeiting of ancient jade was rampant in the industry, and Henan Province was the birthplace of all jade counterfeiting. Qin Feng came here to collect jade, which was like diving headlong into a counterfeiting den.
Although Mr. Zhu invited jade experts to help him, some of the fake jade articles were almost fake.
Even experts need to use specific instruments to detect it. The probability of making mistakes based on judgment alone is very high.
So according to Zhu Zhengjun, he actually wanted Qin Feng not to accept ancient jade, so as to eliminate the chance of buying fakes.
"Uncle Zhu, it's okay. I can't accept the things I'm not sure about. Why don't you?"
Qin Feng laughed when he heard this and said: "I don't have to accept the money in my hands. Don't worry, my money is not blown by the wind and I won't throw it out randomly..."
"As long as you understand."
Zhu Zhengjun nodded, hesitated, and said in a low voice: "If you don't accept it, just say that you are not sure. Don't say anything else, otherwise you will offend people without knowing..."
Henan Province is a battleground for military strategists. What the ancients called "Zhuluzhongyuan" refers to the Henan Province area, and there are dragons and tigers in Henan Province. For example, Mount E'an is an excellent Feng Shui treasure land for Yinzhai. Most of the ancient emperors and generals were
They all used this to build tombs.
Therefore, the number of ancient tombs in Yu Province can be said to be the highest in the country except for Shaanxi Province. In addition, it is located in the Central Plains area and has experienced many wars and the people's customs are strong. Even before liberation, tomb robbing has been banned many times.
After liberation, the trend of tomb robbing became more and more widespread, and some villages at the foot of Mang Mountain relied on the mountains to rob them, robbing every last ten ancient tombs in the mountains.
What's more, a group of tomb robbers has been formed. Even the official government does not dare to provoke some police officers from other provinces because when they come to Henan Province to handle related cases, they often encounter difficulties, which shows how powerful these people are.
"Uncle Zhu, I understand." Qin Feng agreed. Although those tomb robbers were also one of the eight outsiders, Qin Feng had no intention of dealing with them.
"Zhengjun, come here and help.
While Qin Feng and Zhu Zhengjun were talking, a deposit car quietly drove to the entrance of the antique city, and Zhu Zhengjun's brother Zhu Zhenghao pushed the door open from the passenger seat and walked out.
After Zhu Zhenghao got out of the car, the back door of the escort vehicle was opened, and four heavily armed escorts stood at the four corners of the vehicle, looking around with vigilant faces.
"Uncle Zhu, please excuse me." Qin Feng came up to him, and after Zhu Zhenghao explained a few words to the escort, he was able to stand next to the car.
"Hey, it's your money, come and help me." The two bank staff shouted to Qin Feng and others. The four sacks filled with RMB could not be moved by one person.
After hearing what the staff said, both Qin Feng and Zhu Kai, father and son, stepped forward to help. Zhu Zhenghao made a phone call, and three or four young men came out from the antique city and moved four sacks of money in. .
Fortunately, the Zhu family's calligraphy and painting shop is just over ten meters away from the entrance of the antique city. Several shops nearby were not open yet, so they moved smoothly to the compartment of the shop.
Moreover, there was basically no business in the antique city in the morning, and there were not many people stranded at the door. After just a few minutes, the deposit vehicle drove away, but not many people noticed it!
"Uncle Zhu, your store is quite famous."
While carrying sacks containing money,
"Qin Feng, are you too brave? This is four million in cash!"
After moving the sacks into the store, Zhu Zhenghao couldn't help but wipe off the cold sweat. This short distance of more than ten meters frightened him.
You know, there was an armed robbery incident in the neighboring Zheng City some time ago. Just for 30,000 yuan, one person was killed and another injured. If it was known that they had moved 4 million yuan early in the morning, I am afraid that the whole country would be shocked. All the gangsters are gathering in Los Angeles.
"Uncle Zhu, it's okay..."
Seeing the nervous look on Zhu Zhenghao's face, Qin Feng shook his head and said with a smile: "Bank robbers usually stay there for a few days. This is a sudden act and we will not be targeted by them."
Those who dare to rob a bank's deposit car are all extremely vicious gangsters. These people often formulate detailed robbery plans. Such a high-profile action like Qin Feng's will catch those who are interested by surprise.
"Come on, anyway, next time something like this happens, don't look for me. I still want to live for a few more years."
Zhu Zhenghao waved his hands repeatedly. If the old man hadn't said something yesterday, he wouldn't have dared to take Qin Feng's move. For this reason, he found the president of the Los Angeles Bank overnight, so that he could be dispatched as soon as he got to work early in the morning. Millions of dollars.
Of course, the four million did not use Qin Feng's check, but was paid by the Zhu family. However, this also shows the influence of the Zhu family in the business community of Los Angeles City.
"Okay, Qin Feng, they will arrive at nine o'clock. You guys stay on guard while I calm down first."
It was also the first time for Zhu Zhenghao, who was in his early fifties, to be escorting millions of dollars in cash. He felt restless and sat on a chair, breathing heavily.
"Kaizi, just stay in the cubicle. I'll tell you how much you want to take. Just take it out."
With millions lying behind him, Qin Feng did not dare to be careless. At this moment, he had twenty or thirty steel nails as long as little fingers in his pocket, which were used to deal with emergencies.
"Old man, are you here?"
After about ten minutes, Mr. Zhu, Zhu Kai's cousin Zhu Chen, and an old man in his early sixties came outside the shop. However, the door of the calligraphy and painting shop was locked from the inside, but they could not enter.
Come.
Qin Feng quickly stepped forward and opened the door, looked at the old man next to Mr. Zhu, and asked: "Old man, who is this?"
Mr. Zhu waved his hand and said: "Xiao Qin, this is the president of our Luo Jade Association. You can just call him Uncle Wu."
"Mr. Zhu, I don't deserve this title.
The old man who was called Uncle Wu by Mr. Zhu said with a wry smile: "I learned my jade appraisal skills from Mr. Qi. Although I am not included in his sect, Xiao Qin still calls me Senior Brother Wu."
That’s enough.”
At the end of the 1970s, that decade of turmoil had just ended, and almost all social disciplines were in dire straits. In the early 1980s, the state organized a series of training lectures.
Qi Gong, as a well-known person in the cultural world and the Taishan Beidou in the antiques world, also gave many lectures on the appraisal of jade calligraphy and painting. Wu Qihua was one of the people who gave the lectures that year.
"Senior Brother Wu, I heard that Senior Brother Liu mentioned you, and I was thinking of visiting you when I have time."
Upon hearing Mr. Zhu's introduction, Qin Feng was moved. Liu Dajun had indeed told him about Wu Qihua. The two of them had participated in the same training session in the early 1980s.
However, Liu Dajun stayed in the capital and later came into contact with Qi Gongduo and became his disciple. Wu Qihua returned to the local area and only had a teacher-student relationship with Mr. Qi, so he did not dare to claim to be a master disciple.
Self-proclaimed.
"It's Lao Liu, we are all old now."
After hearing Qin Feng's words, Wu Qihua felt a little emotional. In the early 1980s, he was only in his thirties. In the blink of an eye, nearly twenty years have passed. The student back then is now an old man with white hair.
"Anyway, we are an antique dealer. The older you get, the more popular you become." Qin Feng laughed when he heard this and said, "Senior Brother Wu, I have to rely on you today."
"Xiao Qin, don't say that. I just talked with Mr. Zhu and it's better not to accept this ancient jade from you."
Wu Qihua shook his head and said: "Nowadays, there are too many ways to fake ancient jade. In our province of Henan, there is a street dedicated to making ancient jade. It is difficult to tell whether it is genuine or fake, and I have no idea.
You can see the certainty..."
Although he has been playing with jade for decades, Wu Qihua knows that even with the help of a machine, it may not be possible to identify some high-imitation fake jade, let alone just rely on a pair of eyes.
Wu Qihua was not afraid of making a wrong appraisal and ruining his reputation. The key was that if he punched the eye once, it would cause tens of thousands of losses to Qin Feng. The pressure was too heavy for him to bear.
