Chapter 1874 The Road to Collection

The next day's TV showed scenes of businessmen buying the land.

Although it only passed by in a flash, Lizhi's family still saw Yin Jun standing next to Mr. Du, and a group of people were talking about something.

But they are no surprise.

The dignified richest man in the world, even Mr. Xiao and Mr. Yun can meet at any time. A cordial meeting with Mr. Du is not a big honor.

But when they heard that the Lujiazui land in Pudong, on the banks of the Huangpu River, had been sold for a sky-high price of US$1 billion, they were still amazed.

Everyone also noticed something.

The name of Kirin Group is ranked first in the introduction, which means that Kirin Group must have bought a lot.

Li Weidong quietly asked his sister who came back for dinner. He was stunned when he heard that Yin Jun had spent 160 million US dollars alone.

Let alone 160 million U.S. dollars, he had never seen even 1.6 U.S. dollars on weekdays.

To be precise, U.S. dollars will not appear in ordinary people's homes these days.

Usually when foreigners come to China, they have to exchange for foreign exchange coupons with a very uneconomical exchange rate.

Over time, they have learned to be smart, and will find scalpers to exchange for some RMB, which can directly double the exchange rate.

The U.S. dollars they exchanged were more than half of the U.S. dollars in private circulation in this era.

The remaining money was exchanged by overseas Chinese who returned home, or given to their relatives and friends.

If ordinary people want to use US dollars, the exchange rate is about 10%-20% higher than the international exchange rate - this is the profit of scalpers.

Most of these people use U.S. dollars to travel abroad.

People from the Li family don't go abroad, so why do they use their money to buy U.S. dollars at high prices?

"Sister, how about we go to the antique market with my brother-in-law in the afternoon?" Li Weidong suggested after the excitement.

"Why are you visiting the antique market?" Lizhi asked casually.

"There are good things in the antique market. If you can buy them, wouldn't you be able to make a lot of money?" Li Weidong said, "And my brother-in-law has a lot of U.S. dollars. U.S. dollars are very useful when buying things there. Many of them are not sold to ordinary people. , will all change their minds because of US dollars.”

"Isn't that a cultural relics store that favors U.S. dollars?" Lizhi said.

"Now private individuals also like it, and they are as hungry for it as the antique shops."

"Oh, that's it, I won't go!"

Seeing Li Zhi speak so crisply, Li Weidong was stunned, "Why?"

"Your brother-in-law is the most famous antique lover in Xiangjiang. He spends more than tens of millions of dollars every month on buying various antique calligraphy, painting and jade articles. He will definitely not be interested in a small market like yours." Lizhi said A fact that everyone in Hong Kong knows.

"Ah? Is he so generous?" Li Weidong said in disbelief.

"If you don't believe me, go to the cultural relics store here and ask if you have time to see if your brother-in-law buys a batch every month?" Lizhi said with a smile.

"But..." Li Weidong rolled his eyes, "Sister, actually, I just want to experience things. You see, you and your brother-in-law didn't go shopping when you returned to Shanghai. Doesn't this look like you are in love? …Isn’t it also a good opportunity to cultivate relationships by going to the cultural relics market together?”

Hearing her brother mention this reason, Lizhi was a little moved.

She and Yin Jun hadn't been together for long, and they rarely went shopping together like this.

There are even fewer opportunities in Xiangjiang, because Yin Jun and she are both public figures, and they will definitely attract a lot of reporters to take photos and watch, which feels bad.

Nowadays in Shanghai, no one knows them, so it’s good to go out and hang out like this.

After thinking about it, Lizhi immediately called Yin Jun.

Yin Jun, who was handling matters in the hotel room, thought about it and agreed.

Doing things and fulfilling your wishes is important, but your own rest is also very important. If you work all for the sake of work and lose the joy of life, it will be very boring.

Young people like the beauties of this era, as well as the customs and customs of this era.

Take Shanghai for example. 40 years later, Shanghai will be very prosperous, but people are indifferent and busy, and it lacks the simple atmosphere now.

Although people today have no money, as their lives continue to improve, they will have more smiles on their faces.

Yin Jun had been to places like antique markets, but at that time he didn't dare to buy anything.

First of all, I don’t have much money. Those antiques can easily cost tens or hundreds of thousands. How can I afford them?

Secondly, it is also because there are fakes flying everywhere, nine out of ten items are fake, and it is very annoying. Naturally, Yin Jun does not want to suffer this disadvantage.

Yin Jun has had enough of this life.

In July 1980, Yin Jun discussed raising funds to build a house with Shangmei Factory in Shanghai, and then went to the Shanghai Cultural Relics Store to scan goods. He bought 12.5 million US dollars in antique calligraphy and painting, etc. in one go, setting a record An unprecedented and unprecedented record.

After that, Yin Jun asked Wei Xiaofan to find Niu Saner, Zhao Sheng and others to buy various antiques and cultural relics in cultural relics stores in Huajing and Shanghai every month. At that time, the monthly expenditure in the first year was More than 3 million US dollars.

So far, more than four years have passed since this purchasing spree.

As Yin Jun became richer and richer, his efforts to purchase antique calligraphy and paintings also increased. For example, last year, he spent US$200 million on them.

In more than four years, the total purchase of 700 million US dollars has indeed made a huge contribution to the antique sales in the two cities.

Among the two people in the cultural relics store, the one I like and appreciate the most is Yin Jun.

Because Yin Jun buys more, they get more bonuses and benefits, and their life is not to mention how nutritious it is.

This US$700 million does not include the Hotan jade rough stones purchased by Yin Jun in Hotan, the Tianhuang stones purchased around Shoushan, the Yuyan Mountain Chicken Blood Stone, or the jadeite rough purchased in Myanmar starting in 1982.

In total, over the past few years, Yin Jun has spent more than 1.2 billion US dollars on these antique jade calligraphy and paintings!

Because of this large-scale purchase, Yin Jun is known as "the rich man who likes antiques the most", and all of Xiangjiang knows his preference.

It's just that everyone doesn't know the specific purchase amount of Yin Jun, otherwise they would be even more surprised.

After all, if you put this money in Hong Kong today, you can already become one of the top ten super rich people in Hong Kong!

But they didn't know that a mere US$1.2 billion was not enough to measure the value of the cultural relics and antiques purchased by Yin Jun.

It’s very simple to talk about a few hidden treasures.

For example, Wei Xiaofan bought Master Li Keran's "Ten Thousand Mountains in Red" from Rongbaozhai for US$3,500. It is much larger than the one that was auctioned for 184 million yuan in 2015, and 250 million yuan is indispensable.

There is also Xu Beihong's "Nine Horses", which is also worth over 200 million.

Not to mention the paintings of Qi Baishi and Zhang Daqian. As far as Yin Jun knew, there were more than a dozen paintings worth more than 100 million, not to mention the total of more than 3,000 paintings by the two of them in Yin Jun's hands. Thirty years later, A mere $1.2 billion can’t buy these!

Yin Jun estimated by himself that he had more than 20,000 pieces of modern calligraphy and painting, not counting other things. Even paintings by some painters that are not so valuable now, Yin Jun has collected them.

Including Mr. Qi Gong, who has a high output, he will create one or two large-sized paintings and calligraphy works for Yin Jun every month, and Yin Jun will receive 10,000 pieces - and these large-sized works will be produced 30 years later. will exceed 1 million.

The increase is a little less, but Yin Jun is a collector who likes to buy everything he can.

Thirty years later, the paintings by modern painters in Yin Jun's hands are worth at least 100 billion US dollars!

Not to mention there are more than 2,000 masterpieces by ancient calligraphers and painters.

Each of the works by famous artists such as Yan Lide, Li Tang, Su Shi, Huang Tingjian, Wu Zan, Tang Yin, etc. cost Yin Jun at least 50,000 US dollars, and he was not allowed to go abroad, not even to Xiangjiang, so he could only Put it in the underground treasure house in Shichahai.

The value of these works can reach at least 50 billion US dollars!

All right.

There is no need to talk about porcelain, jade, miscellaneous items, etc. This business is a bit exaggerated in terms of a million profits, but the overall increase of 1,000 times is not an exaggeration.

Even now, the Huajing Branch of the Kirin Group has dedicated personnel to purchase various antiques, cultural relics and jade miscellaneous items for Yin Jun every month, and the monthly cost is no less than 30 million US dollars.

There is not much time left to buy.

In a few years, the days of selling cultural relics at low prices on a large scale in cultural relic shops will end and become places where things are sold at high prices.

Moreover, those good antiques and cultural relics will also enter various museums, and the things left in cultural relic stores are no longer top-quality goods.

So now that Yin Jun has money, he has increased his purchases.

The cultural relics store is also happy to have such a huge buyer to support their work. There are tens of millions of cultural relics and antiques in total, which is really enough for Yin Jun to buy for many years.

If these good things can be transported to Xiangjiang, they will be transported to Xiangjiang. If not, they will be transported to the underground treasure room in the courtyard of Huajing.

Fortunately, both treasure houses were built large enough, otherwise there would be no way to store them.

Of course, these storages also take a lot of effort. Yin Jun specially hired dozens of experts at the Forbidden City Cultural Relics Restoration Factory to clean, organize, store and display the two treasure houses regularly every month, so as not to worry about the storage costs. done improperly and their value compromised.

Don’t underestimate the technical work of these masters. Without the continuous restoration and maintenance of these masters throughout the dynasties, we would not be able to see many good cultural relics today.

All in all, for today's Yin Jun, it is no longer necessary to go to the antique and cultural relics market to buy cultural relics to preserve and increase their value.

But it is also a kind of relaxation to go shopping with a playful attitude.

Not to mention having a beautiful woman by your side, which is even more beautiful.