"Xiao Su, what are you going to buy?"
Jing Shizhen said with a smile: "We have agreed that when you enter my warehouse, you must buy something, otherwise you will break my rules."
"Uncle Jing, don't worry, I will definitely buy one."
Su Xiaofan chuckled. If he couldn't afford the expensive ones, how could he afford the cheap ones? The price of antiques and miscellaneous items was never high. Just pick one and it would be done.
Before going to the miscellaneous room, Su Xiaofan still accompanied Zhao Zhengshan around the porcelain area for a while.
There is not much to see over the calligraphy and painting side, because all the calligraphy and painting are collected in scrolls and are not for external exhibition. They are placed here just for better preservation.
“Jingxin Hall is truly well-deserved!”
After looking at the porcelain area for a while, Su Xiaofan couldn't help but be impressed. He looked at more than 20 pieces of porcelain, all of which were genuine and not a single one was fake.
Moreover, the identification results given in Su Xiaofan's mind are almost exactly the same as the small labels affixed to the front of the porcelain. It can be seen that every piece of the collection here is selected from the best.
"Uncle Jing, you have a lot of porcelain from the top five kilns here. Why do you still accept my piece?"
Su Xiaofan used the repair system to look at it for a while. He saw seven or eight pieces of porcelain from Song Ding kiln alone, and they were all much more exquisite than the one he sold.
This made Su Xiaofan a little confused. As a businessman, Jing Shizhen had more porcelain than she could sell, so why did she spend so much money to buy her own.
"In order to cultivate the market, if you sell it for three to five million, wouldn't it mean that the price of my items will be reduced as well." Jing Shizhen explained to Su Xiaofan with a smile.
"It really is."
Su Xiaofan felt that he had learned a lot now. The little knowledge he had in the antique market was simply not enough here.
"Want to buy porcelain? Do you want me to introduce you to one?" Jing Shizhen said when he saw Su Xiaofan wandering around the porcelain area.
"Uncle Jing, I can't afford it, so I'd better go to the miscellaneous store and look at it."
Su Xiaofan shook his head repeatedly. Most of the porcelain stored here are official kiln porcelain from various dynasties. The minimum price for auction is a few million. The more than 10 million that Su Xiaofan has in his pocket is not enough to see. .
"Is your kid a Pixiu? He can only go in and out?"
Today, after selling the painting of Old Man Daqian, Jing Shizhen was obviously in a good mood and started joking with Su Xiaofan.
Pushing open the door of the room where antiques and miscellaneous items were stored, Su Xiaofan's eyes were immediately opened. There were far more items stored in this room than in the room for porcelain, calligraphy and paintings.
The antique and miscellaneous room was very large, covering an area of forty or fifty square meters. There were many wooden shelves in the room, and almost every wooden shelf was filled with things. Su Xiaofan roughly estimated that there were too many antiques stored in this room. It is no less than tens of thousands of pieces.
"Uncle Jing, did you bring all the good things in the market here?"
Even Zhao Zhengshan, who had seen the world, was surprised when he saw the scene in front of him.
“The cost of collecting these items in the early years was indeed not high.”
Jing Shizhen told the truth that he had a family background and came to China at a good time. At that time, there were no competitors at all. The antiques and cultural relics he could buy were probably more than those in some museums.
And this is just a relatively large warehouse in Jingxin Hall. Jing Shizhen still has places to store antiques in other places, including those in bank safes.
"There are Buddha statues here and some bronzes..."
Jing Shizhen introduced the two of them. As the most well-known antique dealer in the country, he must be in the bronze business, but only among acquaintances, and he would not sell bronzes abroad.
"Uncle Jing, if you sell all these things, I'm afraid the position of the richest man in the country will be replaced."
Looking at the gilded Buddha statues of different shapes in front of him, Su Xiaofan was speechless.
Su Xiaofan knew more about miscellaneous items, and knew that the Buddha statues placed in front of him were all exquisite, and if they were to be auctioned, they would cost at least several million or even tens of millions each.
There are millions of Buddha statues, and there are one or two hundred Buddha statues placed here. Su Xiaofan discovered that many of them are from the palace collections of Emperor Kangxi and Emperor Qianlong of the Qing Dynasty, and their value is immeasurable.
"If I sell everything here, the antique market will be close to collapse...
Xiao Su, although you are also doing business in the antique market, the antique business is different from the one you set up a stall. "
Jing Shizhen smiled and shook his head. The reason why antiques are precious is first of all because of their scarcity.
For example, if there were only two identical pieces of porcelain left in the world, each would be worth 10 million.
Then if one of them is smashed, the remaining one is no longer worth 20 million. As the only one left in the world, its value is probably worth 80 million or even hundreds of millions. This is The added value brought about by scarcity.
The antique market also has its own operating rules. Releasing a few treasures every year can not only stimulate consumer competition in the market, but also maintain the scarcity of treasures, allowing people who love antiques to compete to buy them.
If Jing Shizhen really sells all his collections in a short period of time, the impacted market will definitely cause the price of antiques to plummet.
Just imagine if an antique that you thought was an isolated piece or a rare one suddenly comes out with more than a dozen pieces, can it still maintain its original price? This is of no benefit to antique dealers, and long-term success is the way to go.
"Uncle Jing, you are building a pond to raise fish, and throw some bait every once in a while."
Su Xiaofan was very smart. As soon as Jing Shizhen said it, he understood that the current prosperity of the antique market was inseparable from the secret promotion of big antique dealers like Jing Shizhen.
"Actually, there are many more old objects left over from the past than you think."
Jing Shizhen continued to lead the two of them around the room, looking at the objects in front of them. It was easy for Su Xiaofan and Zhao Zhengshan to understand his words.
Just like the snuff bottles that appeared in the middle and late Qing Dynasty, Su Xiaofan saw five or six thousand of them, made of jade, agate, porcelain, glass, metal, ivory and other materials.
Su Xiaofan took a cursory look and found that these snuff bottles were basically fine products from the late Qing Dynasty. Su Xiaofan knew a little about snuff bottles. The year before last, a snuff bottle in Xiangjiang had been auctioned for more than 8 million.
"Uncle Jing, the snuff bottles sold over there in Xiangjiang were not sent by you, were they?" Su Xiaofan asked.
"Seventy percent of the items sold in the auction house over there were sent by me."
Jing Shizhen didn't hide it, and said with a smile: "I have preheated the market in Xiangjiang, so naturally more goods will be sold."
The two people in front of him were not Jing Shizhen's competitors, one was a buyer and the other was a junior, and he was not afraid to tell some inside stories about the antique business.
"You are almost monopolizing this antique business."
Su Xiaofan walked to another antique shelf. All the purple clay pots on it were estimated to be at least four to five hundred, and they were all made by famous artists.
In another area, there are two rows of long glass cabinets. The glass cabinets are lit with lights, and pieces of ancient jade are placed inside. There are also special humidifiers to ensure that the ancient jade is moist.
"Huh? Why don't you have any magic weapon?"
Su Xiaofan looked over one by one. To his disappointment, none of the objects he saw so far were magic weapons.
In fact, before entering the warehouse, Su Xiaofan had thought that instead of buying an antique that he had no use for, it would be better to buy a magic weapon. In the evaluation of his repair system, the value of the magic weapon was much higher than that of the antique.
"Uncle Jing, don't you have any magic weapons here?" Su Xiaofan asked simply. There are really too many things in here. If you look at them one by one, you might not be able to finish them all in a day or two.
"There was one, but it was borrowed." Jing Shizhen said, "There are still a few magical artifacts that are not here. This place is too busy and not suitable for placing magical artifacts."
"Borrow it? Can the magic weapon be borrowed?" Su Xiaofan was stunned when he heard this.
"Why can't you borrow it? The magic weapon is just a tool, of course you can borrow it." Jing Shizhen said disapprovingly.
"Okay, then I'll take a look."
Su Xiaofan smiled bitterly. He knew that his foundation was too shallow and he had no right to speak at all.
Whether it was antiques or magic weapons, Su Xiaofan knew too little about them, and only superficial things. Only after Uncle Jing said a few more words today did he vaguely know how deep the water in the antique business was.
"Uncle Jing, what is this? Gold ore?"
There are two glass cabinets placed in the room, both of which are lit with lights.
The glass cabinet Su Xiaofan was standing in before was filled with jade and jade. He originally thought that the other glass cabinets also contained jade, but when he came to the next glass cabinet, he was stunned for a moment.
The glass cabinet was covered with a suede-like mat. On top of the mat, there were pieces of metal blocks of different shapes and sizes, some with glassy reflections.
Different from the hundreds or even thousands of collections next to it, there are more than ten metal blocks placed in this glass cabinet about seven or eight meters long. It takes up a lot of space, but the number is not very large.
"These are meteorites. You are playing miscellaneous things. Don't you know about meteorites?"
Jing Shizhen looked at Su Xiaofan strangely, then suddenly patted his forehead and said, "The collection of meteorites has its own specific group of people. You really can't see it in the antique market."
"Uncle Jing, what you are doing is really miscellaneous. You even have meteorites."
Su Xiaofan knew about meteorite collecting, but as Jing Shizhen said, meteorite collecting didn't start long ago. It was a unique circle, and most of the transactions were done by people in the circle, which was different from antique collecting.
In China, many people classify meteorite collections into miscellaneous items.
Internationally, meteorite collection has become a major category, attracting many wealthy businessmen, and has become the top collection category.
