Fight to the third generation

Linda Yun also went out with the mentality of traveling. Compared with other secretaries, her daily life was like a fairy day. While running around the world, she also followed Su Yehao to eat and drink, and earned money.

This caused Linda Yun to occasionally feel that having a student like Su Yehao was a blessing in her previous life.

It coincides with the heat of March, and it is almost thirty degrees Celsius today.

There was a drizzle in the morning, coupled with the high temperature and asphalt road, the heat was steaming, and it was hard to breathe.

Seeing all kinds of modern handicrafts with clearly marked prices on the roadside stalls, Su Yehao walked around and picked out a folding fan with the words "Suave and Suave" written on it.

Walking through the city with bodyguards, it is easy to be taken as a winner, so let them follow far away on the way here, and at this moment only take Linda Yun for a walk.

Linda Yun picked out a bunch of agates, put them down after looking at them, and asked distressedly: "Ahao, what do you think I should give my mother, is it better to buy a watch or a gold bracelet?"

Without hesitation, Su Yehao shook his head and said:

"If you want me to say, just buy a piece of jade that is more expensive. If it is not a master carving, just look at the material, it will not be too expensive now. Look at the concubines of the old gambling king's family. They also like to collect jadeite. You can often see it from photos See, there is quite a lot of room for appreciation in the future.”

"You should be right, let's take a look."

First, when he walked into a jade shop, Su Yehao was surprised to find that the price of jadeite with good water head was cheaper than that of dry green jadeite without water.

After asking the proprietress, I realized that here we only look at the color, the greener the better.

It took more than ten minutes for Linda Yun to buy a Maitreya pendant, a sky-blue jadeite, which only cost more than 3 Taiwan dollars, equivalent to more than 7000 Hong Kong dollars, plus a sky-blue jadeite bracelet. 1 Hong Kong dollars.

The mainland's economy has just started to boom, and there are not many people investing in this stuff, and the price has never been able to rise.

After 20 years, even if the price is increased by fifty times, you may not be able to buy a bracelet of this quality. Su Yehao suggested that she buy jadeite as a gift to her elders, precisely because it can appreciate in value.

If you are unfamiliar with this place, if you want to find something good, you can go to the largest store, and you can't go wrong.

After helping Linda Yun with the shopping, Su Yehao came to the high-end store area and walked around through the glass first, wanting to evaluate which store is more powerful through the interior decoration and furnishings.

Never thought.

When I saw this, I was suddenly attracted to something.

Even though Su Yehao was well-informed, his eyes almost went straight at this moment.

Following his line of sight, he saw a dragon-shaped sculpture with only a dragon head in a separate glass showcase in a shop.

Looking at the color and shape, Su Yehao immediately thought of the famous animal heads of the twelve zodiac animals in Yuanmingyuan...

Chapter 514 Because it is a dragon, it will be a little more expensive...

The Jianguo Holiday Jade Market is already very large, and the probability of encountering good things is not low.

Every year at the Asian Special Auction in Hong Kong City, many treasures flow from this side, especially as the other side becomes richer and richer, the price of antiques soars all the way. I really found a lot of rare things.

A small bronze tripod from the Western Zhou Dynasty in the hands of Mr. Tang has a series of inscriptions engraved on it, and the seller is from this side.

On this side of the island, the overall maturity of the artistic and cultural environment is relatively high, and the Hong Kong City side is similar.

If you look at the various showcases, you will know that most of the items are clearly marked with a price, and you can come back to investigate the responsibility if you buy fake products.

After all, it seems that slaughtering customers can make money, but in fact, there is a lack of an environment for fair transactions between buyers and sellers, so that the exchange of antiques is only concentrated in a small circle.

Laymen are worried about being deceived due to lack of vision, so they will never get involved easily, which will cause the market to fail to grow, and the losses outweigh the gains for antique dealers.

Su Yehao stood at the door of the shop, staring at the dragon head sculpture in the showcase for a while.

He is not aimless.

Suddenly I remembered that there was a great man in the previous life who paid a high price to buy the heads of rabbits and rats in the Old Summer Palace, but finally refused to pay.

This incident also caused an uproar, and even changed the attitude of Chinese people on the return of overseas cultural relics to a certain extent. Of course, Su Yehao was impressed.

Among them, what impressed him deeply was the news that the dragon head collectors on the island planned to release the dragon heads of the Yuanmingyuan for auction, but because they regretted the auction of the rabbit heads and rat heads, they interrupted the value-added space of the animal heads in one fell swoop. Let it go.

That's why when he saw the faucet in the showcase, Su Yehao would associate it with the beast head in Yuanmingyuan.

It was only March of 1999, and the fame of the Yuanmingyuan animal heads had not been hyped up. Few people knew about them. The price was not necessarily more expensive than Jeff Koons’ stainless steel balloon dogs. They were put on sale as ordinary objects, maybe Sex is not low.

Considering this, Su Yehao pretended nothing happened, and said to Linda Yun:

"This store has rented three shops, and there is a second floor. It is so big, it must have some strength. Let's go in and have a look, use the air conditioner to blow the cold air, it's best if no one recognizes me, you come to pretend to be my sister, Later, you will act according to the wink, and you will ask the price when you meet something you like."

In order to avoid being slaughtered, Su Yehao put on sunglasses while talking, and took off the Patek Philippe watch worth more than 200 million US dollars and put it in his trouser pocket.

You must be careful, the eyes of these antique shop owners are more vicious than the other, and they like to watch people order their dishes the most.

When he bought the landscape painting "Wan Shan Hong Bian" in Liulichang, Su Yehao suffered a loss from being too famous. Wait, it's just annoying.

After making an OK gesture, Linda Yun smiled and said, "Leave it on me, brother Ahao, let me show you a smile first?"

"...I asked you to pretend to be my sister, not a female hooligan. There are many old men on this street. You are still too eye-catching. Let's just say that you are buying gifts for the elders."

Su Yehao is fairly low-key on weekdays. If he doesn't often read newspapers, especially financial and gossip newspapers, he usually goes out alone without the halo of bodyguards, and is easy to be treated as an ordinary person.

Today he was wearing shorts and short sleeves, plus the sandals and slippers he wore from the hotel. His outfit was not eye-catching.

Linda Yun nodded, and was the first to open the door and enter the store.

Inside the glass of the cupboard against the wall, there are blue and white porcelain and enamel porcelain. On the table made of unknown wood, sandalwood is burning, and a little turtle is crawling around in the bathtub.

When Su Yehao went to participate in the auction, he could directly see the detailed introduction and the reserve price from the auction catalogue. He didn't need to think about whether it was true or not. If he bought a fake, it would mean a fortune, so he was more at ease.

At this moment, the eyes are smeared black, except for the more distinctive Tang Sancai and glaze red, it is basically impossible to distinguish the source, let alone the authenticity.

fortunately.

The real products in the store usually have a price tag and the name is written in traditional characters. As for the one without a tag, it is probably a modern handicraft, such as the Tang Sancai camel.

First look at the other items in the store. The prices range from tens of thousands to several million. Su Yehao thought there was something at first, but then he remembered that the currency here is Taiwan dollars, and it is Hong Kong dollars when divided by four points. It is worthless.

In this way, many things that were thought to be quite good at first became inconspicuous in an instant.

The ancestors have left countless objects over thousands of years, with a total number of tens of millions. Most of them are not of high collection value. At Su Yehao's level, of course they look down on them.

He just wanted to buy some high-quality goods to fill the small building in his yard, so as not to be empty inside. Even if there was a Van Gogh worth 4000 million US dollars hanging on the wall, it looked so dull.

This made Su Yehao focus on Mr. Tang's small treasure house for a while. Unfortunately, his grandfather regarded the collection as a treasure. He had said before that he would give those things to him when they were buried in the soil.

Looking at things with sunglasses on, he looked a little silly. In order to avoid being recognized, Su Yehao had to be a little more careful.

It is estimated that the two of them are too young, and no one has come to entertain them.

This is exactly what Su Yehao wanted, so he quietly came to the display cabinet with the dragon head sculpture, pressed down his sunglasses and stared at it carefully, the copper appearance has no rust, but there are many bumps and scars.

Not only did the traces on it not disappoint Su Yehao, but it made him even more aware that it might really be the long-lost Yuanmingyuan dragon head.

Back then, a gang of robbers robbed property, how could they be expected to be careful, except for being more careful with porcelain calligraphy and paintings, it is said that many treasures were directly smashed and ruined, and all the rest were burned.

Staring at the mouth of the faucet, I saw a water outlet.

After looking around it, I found that the price tag says NT$680, which is about 400 million Hong Kong dollars, and the introduction card only says "Royal Sculpture of Castiglione of the Qing Dynasty".

Seeing this, Su Yehao had a little idea in his mind, for example, the shop owner probably knew its origin and its value.

I saw a few pieces of porcelain from the Ming and Qing Dynasties just now, and the price is not as expensive as it.

Winking at Linda Yun, she immediately beckoned, called a female shop assistant, and asked with a smile on her face: "I'm a student of sculpture, this work of art is so interesting, is it something from the Forbidden City? Why is it so expensive, can you introduce it to me."

"...not the Forbidden City, but the Old Summer Palace for the emperor's vacation. The famous Italian artist Castiglione Castiglione designed twelve zodiac fountains. It is one of them. It is said that he planned to design it as a statue of a goddess without clothes, but the plan was not approved. That’s why it’s made like this.”

The clerk continued to tell in a soft voice:

"The price is not high. The horse head of the same series was sold for 25 US dollars ten years ago. It was put here by our boss friend. Because it is a dragon, it will be a little more expensive. If you like sculpture, we also sell it here." There is a stone portrait of ancient Greece that only sold for more than 200 million..."

After hearing this, Su Yehao felt the hairs on his back stand on end.

Although Yin Liuli's voice was nice, it was definitely not so coquettish, it was a bit deliberate.

but.

Considering that most of the customers here are rich old men, it is estimated that they just like this type, which can be regarded as precision marketing...

Chapter 515

The pocket money of 400 million Hong Kong dollars was in Su Yehao's personal account.

Linda Yun was immune to the whining voice of the female shop assistant, and abruptly lowered the price of the dragon head to NT$500 million, which saved more than 30 Hong Kong dollars, and asked the shopkeeper to write " This product is one of the twelve zodiac sculptures (designed by Castiglione Castiglione) in the Yuanmingyuan of the Qing Dynasty.

After paying the money and clearing the goods, Su Yehao personally left with the carton containing the dragon's head.

Honestly.

Yuanmingyuan beast heads are not well-known yet. In his opinion, there is no artificial fake. This thing seems not difficult, but in fact the material is quite special, mainly copper, mixed with various metals, and it has not rusted after more than a hundred years.

If you want to know whether it is true or not, you can compare it with other animal heads that have already been found in this world after the test.

According to the manager of the antique shop, the seller bought it from a shop in the UK and spent more than [-] pounds a few years ago, so he didn't make much money.

This thing has not been linked to other foreign objects, it is only valuable because it is related to Castiglione and the Old Summer Palace.

Su Yehao just saw "Hundred Steeds" created by this Western court painter in the small Forbidden City yesterday, and said that he is the best artist in China, and there is nothing wrong with him.

It is easy for the work to sell tens of millions of Hong Kong dollars. If "Hundred Horses" is released, the auction price will easily exceed [-] million.

The sculptures designed by him are relatively small, and they bear the title of "royal family". The starting price of more than 300 million Hong Kong dollars is almost the same as the price of cabbage in Su Yehao's opinion.

He didn't think about reflux or anything like that, the reason for the shot was just because he liked it, and he also wanted to catch a leak by the way.

After putting the things in the car, Linda Yun wondered and asked, "Men are really different from us women. It's really fun to buy things. Don't you need to find some experts to help identify them?"

"Of course it needs to be appraised. You can go to Forty-Nine City to find some experts for me, and invite them to come to Hong Kong City to have a look for me. It's only over 300 million Hong Kong dollars. I'd rather take a gamble than let this thing slip out of my nose." Let's go, what is a big leak? It is a super big leak."

Su Yehao got into the car, sweating profusely, blowing on the air conditioner, and told: "Also call the art investigator Dick Whitt and tell him that he has a job to do next, find other animal heads for me , since it was auctioned before, it should not be difficult to find."

In order to understand the situation of Van Gogh's oil paintings before, she had worked with Dick Whitt in California, and Linda Yun still had an impression of this art investigator.

She only thought that Su Yehao was idle and bored, and started to "collect stamps" like others. Anyway, the price of things was not high, so there was nothing worth caring about.

Nodding casually, Linda Yun then asked, "Continue shopping later, or go back to the hotel first?"

"...Go to Jiang Yu and the others. After I find some experts to appraise this faucet for me, it is best to drag them here and find other good treasures for me. The small European-style castle in the yard is being remodeled for security Equipment, install more bulletproof showcases at that time."

……

Buying collectibles is just for fun, Su Yehao has not forgotten the real purpose of this trip.

After contacting the investigation team in the morning, I left Xiaonizi and Jiang Yu at noon and rushed to Taoyuan to have dinner with them.

After meeting.

It was discovered that Old Academician Ni, who had met once before the new year, seemed to be in a much happier mood. Wearing trousers and a white short-sleeved shirt, he smiled and shook hands with Su Yehao, the big benefactor.

Except for Academician Ni and his student Zeng Guangpei, the rest of the team did not know Su Yehao, and the place for dinner was set at a five-star hotel.

After taking their seats, Su Yehao asked, "Old Ni, come over and finish watching, how do you feel?"

"What else can I do? Anyway, we are ahead of us. I just went to visit the new factory of Hongji Computer in the morning. They are already researching LCD monitors in their laboratory. I bought some equipment from Japan, and the display effect is much better than I thought. A notch."

Old Mr. Ni sighed, and continued:

"I have been here a few times before. The semiconductor industry here is developing very fast. Every time I come here, there are new changes. In the semiconductor industrial park in Hsinchu, there are large and small semiconductor companies. It is absolutely necessary to produce computers. Most of the parts and components can be found here, and the cooperation model of self-production, self-sale and OEM is no longer popular, which is more beneficial to those companies in Europe and the United States, so don’t worry about it.”

Su Yehao poured a cup of tea to moisten his mouth, and said with a smile:

"It's not like the mainland. There are no barriers to invest in high-tech industries. You can get in touch with the most advanced technology at any time. It's a big deal to spend a little more money. The mainland is different. Even if you spend more money on some technologies, people directly prohibit them from selling them. Transfers are allowed, and of course it is very difficult to rely on independent research and development for everything, and you can only buy some backward technology."

"Yeah, so it's very troublesome. Just like industrial machine tools, engine technology, and material technology, they are blocked by the Iron Curtain and forced to be self-sufficient."

Mr. Ni sighed again, looked at Su Yehao and said:

"Actually, I think it's good to develop chips and semiconductors directly outside. Setting up R&D centers in Europe, the United States and other places, and putting the production plants back in the mainland, is a bit of a way of doing things, and giving them back."

Su Yehao smiled when he heard the words, and probably understood Mr. Ni's thoughts.

In terms of high-end semiconductors, the mainland is now almost blank. Even the home appliances produced are almost meaningless, and they are vying to cooperate with overseas companies, not to mention the semiconductor industry, which requires a high level of technology manufacturing, especially chips.

If the foundation is not enough, how can we build castles in the air.

Mr. Ni's proposal is to shorten the research and development cycle by using outside talents and technologies, and catch up with the international level as soon as possible.

Su Yehao stated:

"There must be overseas R&D institutions, and maybe some companies with ready-made talents and technologies will be acquired. As for the mainland, I plan to talk to Pengcheng about building a new type of semiconductor industrial park. It is best to introduce some Chip production technology, produce some chips needed for home appliances and mobile phones, etc., accumulate experience step by step, and develop.”

To get involved in the chip industry, there is only one idea for the time being.

Su Yehao is now more concerned about the project of assembling and producing personal computers. After he finished asking, he learned that the procurement task of parts is going smoothly.

As for the production line and technological process, Mr. Ni is cooperating with other teams, trying to solve it by himself, so as to avoid making Su Yehao waste money.