Chapter 440 Liar's Gate (Part I)
"Dad, what's going on? You have been working in this industry for a decade or two, why do you still look away?"
After hearing Ye Dongping's words, Ye Tian couldn't help but be stunned for a moment, it was common to do antique trading and pay tuition fees, but for a person of Ye Dongping's age and work experience, this probability was already very low.
You know, Ye Dongping has been in the antique business since the 80s, and he is one of the earliest people in China.
"I...... I was trapped by someone else!" Hearing his son's question, Ye Dongping's face suddenly turned red, and it took him a long time to hold back a word.
"Oh, let's make a set in the next game and make it to our house?"
Ye Tian was stunned when he heard this, and then sneered, as the saying goes, there were many people who were good at deception, and in the late Qing Dynasty, a group of people who were good at deception gathered together, which was called the deception gate in the rivers and lakes.
Unlike the Jiang Xiang faction, which uses fortune-telling as a guise and basically fights alone, the methods of deception are more sophisticated, often gangs commit crimes, from tables, chairs, benches, face plates, teapots, to gold and silver jewelry, which is a deception of everything.
Ye Tian once heard Lao Dao say that there was a famous businessman in the Shang/Beach Shili Ocean Market in the twenties, who was deceived by a group of scammers for three years, defrauded of all his net worth, and finally jumped into the Huangpu River for the rest of his life.
And in a sense, deception is much wider than the number of ways and doorways to get money from physiognomy, and the harm to the people is greater.
So there is one thing that is the same as the Jiangxiang faction, that is, after the founding of the People's Republic of China, they were severely cracked down by the state.
The older generation of deception masters are basically dead now, and some young people have poor skills, most of them can only deceive some old men and old ladies, and now they can actually deceive Ye Dongping, they are definitely the masters of the masters.
After thinking for a while, he looked at his father and said, "Dad, tell me what happened."
Ye Dongping sighed and said, "Hey, this ...... It's also my fault for being greedy, that's right, when I first came to BJ to open the store, I met a Xiang/Hong Kong customer, although this person didn't buy much, but he was extremely proficient in antiques......"
Ye Dongping's story was long, and after more than half an hour, Ye Tian heard some lines.
It turned out that after Ye Dongping reconciled with his family, he immediately opened an antique shop in Panjiayuan, and also asked his little brother-in-law to help in the store.
After the store opened, the business was not very good, and it was quite ostracized by some peers.
Just a month after the store opened, Ye Dongping welcomed a middle-aged man who spoke with a Cantonese accent, claiming to be a Xiang/Hong Kong person who opened a company in BJ, and usually likes to collect antiques.
This person is called Bao Fengling, although he is not tall and looks quite ugly, but his tone is elegant, and when he talks to Ye Dongping, it is like old friends at first sight, and he praises Ye Dongping's knowledge of antiques.
As the saying goes, "A good word is warm in three winters, and a bad word hurts people in June." Ye Dongping, who was a little distressed at the time, immediately told this person about some of the difficulties of opening a store because he was a confidant.
According to Ye Dongping, that Bao Fengling opened a foreign trade company, and he had gone to the other party's company to drink Guangdong/Dong kung fu tea and had a certain understanding of the scale of his company.
In the past few years, Bao Fengling has successively purchased about 100,000 antiques from Ye Dongping, this person has a very accurate vision, and none of the objects he buys are fakes, which makes Ye Dongping think highly of him.
Just last year, during a tea chat, Bao Fengling accidentally mentioned that when the Old Summer Palace was burned down, the invaders at that time had taken away twelve bronze heads.
Among them, there are seven pieces of rats, cows, tigers, rabbits, horses, monkeys, and pigs, all of which are abroad, but the five bronze heads of dogs, dragons, snakes, chickens, and sheep are unknown.
At that time, Bao Fengling praised the twelve bronze heads, saying that if he could collect one of them, he would have no regrets in this life, and entrusted Ye Dongping to help him pay attention, and if there was any news, he would definitely notify him.
Since the trade of ancient bronzes has always been restricted by the state, objects such as the twelve bronze heads are even more of a national treasure.
After all, it is illegal to trade this thing, and secondly, the object that has been living among the people has been missing for more than a hundred years.
But who knew that just a few days ago, an antique dealer who had had business dealings with Ye Dongping found him and said that he had a heavy weapon in his hand, but he couldn't find the right person to take action, and asked Ye Dongping if he could accept it?
To be honest, there are really few people in this business, especially those who buy and sell antiques, who are law-abiding, otherwise you just sit and wait to lose money.
The man agreed, took Ye Dongping to a place in the suburbs, and took out a copper faucet.
This faucet is exactly the same as the one lost in the Old Summer Palace in terms of shape and size, and the antique dealer also pointed out that this thing is the national treasure, and the price is 30 million!
Ye Dongping has been doing business for so many years, and his ears are calloused when he hears nonsense, so naturally he won't believe his words.
Since then, he has spent a lot of effort on bronze appreciation, and his understanding of bronze identification has been very clever.
After some appraisal, Ye Dongping felt that this object was eight-point sure that it was genuine, but he was not in a hurry to draw conclusions, but took a few high-definition photos and took them back.
When he asked about it, this buddy was in Hong Kong, and when he heard Ye Dongping say that he had found the dragon head and copper head, Bao Fengling immediately expressed ecstasy on the phone.
It's just that his business in Hong Kong is very important, and it will take three days to return to BJ at the earliest, so he asked Ye Dongping to hand over the photos he took to his horse to see if he could put this thing in first.
Ye Dongping didn't have a fax in the store, but he also kept an eye on it.
After the horse boy who was familiar with him at the time came, Ye Dongping sent a photo to a fax shop he went with him, and he also clearly saw that the horse had paid dozens of yuan, and it was indeed sent to Hong Kong.
Less than ten minutes after receiving the fax, Ye Dongping's mobile phone rang, and the caller's number was also a Hong Kong number.
Bao Fengling asked Ye Dong to settle the man, and when he returned to Beijing to talk about the business, he said that as long as the price of this object did not exceed 100 million, he would buy it, and he would also express his gratitude to Ye Dongping, the intermediary.
Since Ye Dongping didn't want to buy the thing, he wouldn't take any risks, and after thinking about it, he agreed to Bao Fengling's request and promised to help him delay it for three days.
But I didn't expect it, just the next day, the familiar antique dealer called and said that there was a boss who took a fancy to that thing, and if Ye Dongping didn't want it, he would give it to someone else, and the boss could pay to pick up the goods this afternoon.
As soon as Ye Dongping heard this, he immediately called Bao Fengling.
As soon as Ye Dongping told him about the matter, he suddenly became anxious, saying that he would book a plane ticket immediately and be able to rush to BJ at night, so that Ye Dongping would have to keep the dragon head no matter what.
And if it really doesn't work, let him pay first to buy it, no matter how much Ye Dongping bought it, he is willing to pay a price of 80 million RMB.
Hearing the other party's words, Ye Dongping was really a little tempted, out of professional habits, he did not tell Bao Fengling the price of the dragon head, because he knew in his heart that if he ate it first, he could make a net profit of 50 million as soon as he changed hands!
After thinking about it repeatedly, Ye Dongping contacted the antique dealer and said that it was okay to see the goods at night? was rejected by the antique dealer, and someone else would come to pay and pick up the goods in the afternoon, so he couldn't leave the business alone, right?
After some careful consideration, Ye Dongping still decided to take down the dragon head, after all, he had personally identified that thing, and he also had some confidence in his heart.
After doing business for so many years, especially in recent years, Ye Dongping's antique business has also begun to go uphill, he himself has more than 11 million in his hands, and he has mobilized all the funds of the antique shop, plus the money given by Ye Tian, which is enough to collect 30 million.
After depositing all the 30 million on a card, Ye Dongping took Zhou Xiaotian to find the antique dealer, and the transaction went very smoothly.
After receiving the dragon head, Ye Dongping immediately called Bao Fengling, and after the phone was connected, Bao Fengling said that he was about to get on the plane, and he would contact BJ before contacting him, so that Ye Dongping would definitely keep the dragon head.
It's just that until more than eleven o'clock in the evening, Bao Fengling's Hong Kong mobile phone number could no longer be called.
At that time, Ye Dongping felt that something was wrong in his heart, and rushed to Bao Fengling's trading company early the next morning.
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PS: The first shift, the last five hours, ask for a monthly pass! ~！！
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(End of this chapter)