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Chapter 280 Inner Cabinet

People in the capital have always used the phrase "the new painting of the tree house is not old, this person must be in the Ministry of Internal Affairs" to describe the nouveau riche who suddenly became rich.

But even if the real Ministry of Internal Affairs—Hong Yanwu’s grandfather and grandmother—were alive, they would probably be angered to death by this "third grandson".

If nothing else, it’s all because Hong Yanwu’s quality is too low.

I have been a human being for two lifetimes, and yet I am still so arrogant.

Don't do anything too smoothly, otherwise you will lose your composure.

He is also a little obsessed with money, and he is the kind of person who can't help but laugh when he hears the collision of coins.

Why doesn't he understand? Even if you have a huge fortune, it will only last forever.

Why can't he see through it? Everything is something that cannot be taken away by death.

Therefore, if the two old men knew something underground, they would definitely not see their descendants being so incompetent.

But it was a strange thing, as God deliberately wanted to get used to Hong Yanwu's bad habits.

As if he didn't think he had enough money, he insisted on giving it to him in large quantities.

What does it mean to earn millions?

The best thing is that it allows him to earn money and get new investment targets, so he doesn't have to worry about how to spend the money.

Just wait until he spends the money happily, and he can watch the value of the things he buys double while he's lying down.

Think about it, buying a private house today is a matter of luck and is a sporadic transaction.

Because Hong Yanwu bought too many stamps, calligraphy and paintings, seal stones, and jades, the prices had already skyrocketed.

Even when no one noticed that the treasures in the handicraft factory were almost bought up by Hong Yanwu.

How difficult it is to satisfy such a wish.

This is enough to prove that God really loves Hong Yanwu as his own son.

How about giving him another opportunity to spend a lot of money like a duck in water after he just completed two clothing sales?

What's going on?

Hey, my dear country has just opened its mouth on the antique trade.

It should be said that since the founding of the People's Republic of China, how to obtain foreign exchange has been a matter of vital importance to national construction.

The country has taken many measures to this end. In addition to vigorously developing export trade, encouraging overseas remittances, and using preferential policies to introduce foreign investment, it also develops the sale of tourism commodities and cultural relics.

However, in terms of tourism products, state-owned units have not been doing very well.

Because we don’t understand the needs of foreign guests, we are stuck in our ways.

The products designated by relevant departments are of a single variety and rigid form, and are not popular with foreign guests.

There have even been cases where foreign guests complained that they could not buy satisfactory souvenirs.

In sharp contrast, the cultural relics store is doing a booming business.

Because the prices are not expensive and the products are of high quality, the cultural relics trade in the capital has been booming from the beginning.

Especially since the Third Plenary Session of the 11th Central Committee of the Communist Party of China, the number of foreigners in the capital has increased.

Liulichang is a place where many well-known cultural relics shops are gathered. The transaction volume is rising day by day, and the task of earning foreign exchange is completed smoothly.

In view of this situation, around 1982, the government invested huge funds to carry out large-scale renovation and renovation of Liulichang Cultural Street.

They even went so far as to temporarily close most stores.

It was not until September 1984 that the renovation work was completed, and the original appearance of the ancient cultural street was finally restored.

The cultural relics store has just moved the three stores, Yunguzhai, Baoguzhai and Qingyuntang, which were temporarily moved to Tiantan Park, back to Liulichang.

Subsequently, six stores including Guanfuzhai, Moyuange, Yueyatang, Yunyuzhai, Cuizhenzhai and Zhenhuange, which had been closed due to renovation construction, were restored.

Two new sales stores, Dunhuage and Hongguangge, and a cultural relics acquisition sales department were also opened.

At that time, this incident caused great repercussions both at home and abroad.

It's a pity that things went counterproductive. Liulichang Cultural Street, which had been renovated at such a huge cost, resumed business.

Unfortunately, sales did not reach another peak as the government expected.

On the contrary, the scenic spots are no longer beautiful, and the business is getting lighter day by day.

It turns out that in just these two years, everything has changed.

Due to the extremely rapid development of the private economy.

Not only in the morning market, some antique stalls appeared in the farmers' market and night market, and the trade of folk cultural relics began to sprout.

Even the rapid development of tourism products by Hong Yanwu and Zhaoqing has taken away a lot of consumer demand that originally belonged to Liulichang.

And just because their products are so popular, some people are copying them.

This is naturally a big impact on cultural relics stores. It has diluted the business of cultural relics stores to a considerable extent.

After half a year, we saw that the business situation was getting worse and worse, and there was nothing we could do to save it.

After discussion, the competent department of the cultural relics store had no choice but to open an inner cabinet in Hongguang Pavilion for domestic collectors.

This means that Hong Yanwu actually helped himself by eliminating and attacking.

It is precisely because he has driven the rapid development of tourism products that while making money, he has also squeezed the country's business.

It actually forced the cultural relics store to open its doors to the public, and finally it was willing to sell those precious treasures to the Chinese people.

And to be honest, because of the butterfly effect he created.

The move to install cabinets in "Hongguang Pavilion" was half a year ahead of schedule, which directly reduced the loss of cultural relics to the outside world.

It cannot but be said that this boy has made great contributions to the nation and the country, and he has done a great deed unintentionally.

At that time, the business methods and contents of this kind of inner cabinet were mainly based on two regulations.

First, when purchasing cultural relics for domestic sale, the buyer must hold a household register, work permit, or other documents that can prove his or her identity.

The second is if you buy cultural relics from 1795 or above, which is more than the 60th year of Qianlong's reign.

You have to fill out a form and write a guarantee not to give it away or resell it to foreigners.

As for the price of the cultural relics mentioned, it is a great deal.

You know, the cultural relics trade in the past was not open to the outside world, and the prices were not driven up by Hong Yanwu at all.

Moreover, since no one wants them, the initial price cannot be set too high. It is even 10% lower than the price in 1978.

For example, a Yongzheng official kiln pastel bowl can be purchased for only 350 yuan, and it must be of relatively good quality.

If there are "collapses", "charges", or problems, you may even be able to buy them for a hundred or ten dollars.

Something like this would cost tens of millions in the future.

You may not necessarily buy something in very good condition, but that is really different.

What about the "Jia Dao" ones? Of course it's a bit worse, basically dozens of dollars lower than the "Yongqian" ones.

The official kilns of "Tongguang" are even cheaper.

The 23cmx7cm plate and bowl is only 300, the 16cmx7cm is 120, the 10cmx5cm is 50, and the 8cmx3cm is 20.

As for "Guangmin", even big items only cost upwards of fifty.

There is no doubt that for anyone who is lucky enough to have access to a collection of cultural relics, the newly opened inner cabinet of the cultural relics store is like a huge treasure house placed in front of them.

Moreover, this was one of the few legal channels to purchase cultural relics at that time.

But it has to be said that at that time, although this change in "Hongguang Pavilion" was specially reported once by "Xinwen Lianbo" and even appeared on the front page of "Beijing Evening News", it did not attract widespread attention.

Because even for those who love collecting.

It is not easy to decide to spend hundreds of dollars to buy a cultural relic.

Don’t forget that at this time our ordinary people are still working hard to improve their material living standards.

And these things are, after all, things beyond the necessities of life.

Even Teacher Ma, who often visits the cabinets of "Hongguang Pavilion", is the same.

Because according to his recollection in the program, although he often went there back then, he just went to look and bought very little.

I might go there eight out of ten times, and only one of them would be for shopping.

In this way, the only exception is Hong Yanwu, who really thinks it's cheap.

I really wish I could move everything home.

So he worked hard and started taking good care of the buyers of "Hongguang Pavilion" just like the first day he went there.

I bought more than 10,000 things in the morning, and in the afternoon I asked Chen Liquan and Shui Qing to do some cleaning.

Since then, he has given full play to the advantages of his wide network of people.

Every day, several different people have to be arranged to help him scan the goods.

It's actually quite simple to say, it's just based on the price, you don't even have to choose.

You can only buy at a good value, and you can never buy at a loss.

And "Hongguang Pavilion" has truly seen the purchasing power of mainland guests.

They discovered that several rich owners would come to the store every day, often buying thousands or even thousands of dollars.

And there are old people, women, young people, intellectuals, workers, policemen, self-employed people, all kinds of people.

They also couldn't figure it out. Could it be that porcelain antiques have become such a widespread hobby?

But before they could figure it out, they had to worry about other things first.

Because unknowingly, within a month, 30% of the tens of thousands of items in the inventory were gone.

If this continues, there may be nothing left to sell in two months.

Then the price must be adjusted. If we don't adjust the price, we will lose a lot of money.

It's even worse if it's adjustable.

Because I don’t know why, this increase has attracted more people to buy it.

Shipping speed has doubled.

What happened? It’s not May Day yet, so there’s nothing for sale in the store.

On April 29th, there were actually more than a dozen groups of particularly wealthy customers arriving in one day, each of them buying at least tens of thousands of dollars.

As a result, it was not time to get off work in the afternoon, and except for a few signature items on display, everything that could be sold in the store had been sold out.

The turnover on that day also hit the highest level since the store opened, with a total of 378,000.

Later, "Hongguang Pavilion" was raided and sold out, so it had to temporarily close down.

After that, it was not until September that they re-allocated a batch of goods and opened.

But the quality of things is not as good as before, and the price is four times higher than before.

Fortunately, the transaction finally found a balance, and the shipping speed finally began to normalize.

It's a pity that such normality is also an illusion.

Because of the accounting at the end of the month, "Hongguang Pavilion" discovered that all the goods sold were top-notch goods.

They are of similar age and no one cares about them if they are of different quality.

So now they are in trouble again.

The good stuff is gone, and the bad stuff is in your hands again.

So will the price be reduced or not?

Alas, it’s really hard to decide...


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