Chapter 948 A Museum with Assets of 800 Million

On March 3, just after Xia Yu finished eating at noon, he received a good news call from Huashengshi - the Hong Kong Kowloon Cultural Museum, which took more than two years to build, was finally fully completed!

Hearing the good news suddenly, Xia Yu's heart was strong, and he was still a little excited.

At this time, he didn't even bother to take a nap, he put on his coat and drove to the Huasheng family's house. After picking him up, he rushed to the vicinity of Kowloon Bay in Kwun Tong District, Kowloon.

The car has not yet arrived, and through the window glass, you can see a magnificent ancient palace from a distance, with great visual impact.

Xia Yu recalled in a trance, as if it had been a year ago since the last time he came, and the last time he saw the exposed reinforced concrete pillars, the changes were too great now.

After a while, the car stopped in the parking lot, Xia Yu and others came out and found IM Pei under the leadership of Hua Shengshi.

"Mr. Bei, long time no see, thank you for your hard work!"

Xia Yu walked over with a smile and shook hands with I.M. Pei to say hello, then looked at the majestic museum in front of him, and said with emotion: "The design of the museum is so good, standing here, you can feel the heavy and elegant feeling coming to your face, And it is very distinguishable, which embodies the essence of Chinese architectural culture.”

Xia Yu's high evaluation made Ieoh Ming Pei couldn't help smiling, and he quickly said modestly: "Mr. Xia, you deserve such a high evaluation."

"I'll take you on a tour."

"Okay, sorry to bother you!"

Before the visit, Ieoh Ming Pei also went to get a map of the museum's completion to Xia Yu, and then took him up the bluestone stairs.

The Kowloon Cultural Museum faces south from the north, backed by the green hills, and the front overlooks the sea of ​​Kowloon Bay. There are buildings on the northeast and west sides. The main pavilion on the front is like a huge city tower. People climbed the finely crafted bluestone stairs to the square on the same plane as the main hall, and then walked in directly through the cost.

The exterior of the museum is majestic and grand, while the interior focuses on the delicacy and graceful beauty of Chinese culture.

Although the main structure of the Kowloon Cultural Museum is made of reinforced concrete, it is mainly for load-bearing. In terms of appearance and internal surface details, antique decorations have been made, which can be said to be a combination of modern technology and ancient art.

While introducing Ieoh Ming Pei, Xia Yu admired it, stopped and walked for more than two hours, and then walked through the entire museum. He also had a specific understanding of the museum.

The entire museum covers an area of ​​about 60,000 square meters, equivalent to 6 square hectares, which is equivalent to 4.2% of the size of Jiuding University.

Although Xia Yu’s museum is far less than the Metropolitan Museum of Art in the United States, and even less than half of the National Palace Museum in Taiwan, it is already equivalent to the Forbidden City Museum in mainland China.

Although Kwun Tong District is a famous industrial area in Hong Kong, and the land price is far cheaper than urban areas such as Hong Kong Island, it still cost more than 50 million Hong Kong dollars to buy such a large piece of land.

However, in Xia Yu's opinion, it is quite cost-effective. In the future, the museum will no longer have to consider the issue of expansion. Such a large area is enough to collect one or two million pieces of collections. He can fill the museum with high incense in his lifetime.

It is estimated that only a small number of places can be enabled now!

After all, the number of cultural relics is not enough.

Thinking of the cultural relics, Xia Yu looked at Hua Shengshi next to him and asked, "Elder Hua, I want to ask, how many cultural relics have we collected now?"

Huashengshi had firmly remembered the data in his heart, and at this moment he blurted out: "There are now 11,914 antique cultural relics!"

Xia Yu smiled and said, "Now that the museum is built, we can consider setting up the museum."

Hua Shengshi said with a smile: "Mr. Xia, I have been doing this work. When Mr. Pei built the museum, I had already taken into account the subsequent display. All cultural relics have been compiled with cultural relic information, jade, calligraphy and painting, ceramics. , gold and silverware, bronzeware and other exhibition halls have also been arranged, as long as the safety is ensured, the cultural relics can be placed in different categories."

"Since the preparations are so complete, I will arrange for the elite security team of Aegis Security to enter. Do you have any considerations for the opening and operation of the museum?" Xia Yu asked.

Huashengshi explained his thoughts: "Mr. Xia, although the exhibition hall and showcase have been built, it will take at least 20 days to put more than 10,000 cultural relics in it. My suggestion is the next one. Choose a good day in the month to officially open."

"And I think the Kowloon Cultural Museum is your private museum. You have already taken a lot of risk in displaying cultural relics. For the safety of the cultural relics and the future of the museum, the museum should be opened for a fee."

Xia Yu thought for a while and said: "It should be open for a fee, no one will cherish free things, there is no threshold, and there will be a lot of pressure on the operation of the museum, but the tickets should not be too high, I don't rely on this to make money, it is enough to maintain the normality of the museum. Just operate and maintain.”

"As for the collection of cultural relics, I mainly rely on my personal acquisition. If the museum has a surplus, it can also be used to acquire cultural relics."

When the museum opens to the public, it will absolutely need a large number of security personnel to patrol and guard it, and there will also be a large number of staff, all of whom have to pay salaries.

In addition, the museum must be maintained and repaired every year, otherwise even the copper walls and iron walls will be corroded in the wind and rain, not to mention that there are many antique building structures outside the museum.

Even if the ticket price for each person is 30 Hong Kong dollars and the traffic reaches 10,000 people a day, the ticket revenue in that year can only reach about 100 million Hong Kong dollars. This requires Hong Kong to visit once a year per capita, which is obviously impossible!

Perhaps after the people in the mainland become rich in the future, the tourism market of Xiangjiang can be stimulated and the revenue ceiling of the Kowloon Cultural Museum can be opened.

Judging from the current situation in Hong Kong, it is not bad to have tens of millions of Hong Kong dollars in reality.

If you think about the size of the museum again, you have to have 500 security and staff. Even if the average company is 4,000 Hong Kong dollars a month, the salary of 2 million Hong Kong dollars will be paid out in that month, and it will cost 2,400 Hong Kong dollars a year. million Hong Kong dollars.

Xia Yu knew that even the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, one of the four major museums in the world, had an annual income of 385 million US dollars, but the expenditure reached 400 million US dollars, and it still lost money.

And among the museums in the world, 99% of them are loss-making!

When he was alive, he still had the confidence to support the Kowloon Cultural Museum, but he planned to inherit this museum. If there are prodigal sons in the future, the family will fail and have no money to maintain operations. Instead, there will be big problems. It is better to establish a perfect one from the beginning. The system is free!

While Hua Shengshi was moved by Xia Yu's attitude, he also considered Xia Yu's pressure.

Now there are more than 10,000 cultural relics, of which more than 1,000 were donated by him, but the remaining nearly 10,000 cultural relics still cost more than 600 million Hong Kong dollars.

In addition to the money for the establishment of the Kowloon Cultural Museum, Xia Yu has invested more than 800 million Hong Kong dollars. If this money is given to a pig, it can make the pig enter the ranks of the top 50 richest people in Hong Kong!

If you want to build the Kowloon Heritage Museum into the world's top museum, you will need a lot of money.

Each of those world-type museums has more than one million cultural relics, and many even more than four million.

Although not all the cultural relics are fine and can have a high value, but the number is there, compared with the more than 10,000 cultural relics currently owned by Xia Yu, the gap can be imagined.

Xia Yu has to invest more than 100 billion Hong Kong dollars!

With so much money, what's wrong with putting it into the bottomless pit of a museum?

So Huashengshi said: "Mr. Xia, I don't think it's realistic for you to fund the acquisition. We have to add other channels, such as accepting free donations."

"I believe that there must be such people in this world."

Just like himself, he was able to donate more than 1,000 cultural relics to Xia Yu. Kind people look at the world with kindness, so Hua Shengshi believes that there will be people like him in this world.

Xia Yu thought about it carefully and said: "This is also a way, but Mr. Hua, in order to dispel the doubts of the donors, we have to add a clause to the terms of accepting donations, that is, the donated cultural relics will never be used again in our museum. To the market, it will only be used for exhibitions!"

Hua Shengshi smiled and nodded: "Okay, with this addition, the donors can rest assured."

"By the way, Mr. Xia, there is one more thing about the opening and operation of the museum."

"Our Kowloon Cultural Museum is not well-known. If there is no passenger flow, it will not be able to play the role of cultural dissemination. Do you want to hold a grand opening ceremony?"

Xia Yu frowned for a while and said, "The opening ceremony is definitely necessary, but this is not enough. It can't attract the attention of people from Quan Xiangjiang and Aomen."

"You have to think of a special way."

After Huashengshi heard it, he immediately thought hard.

At this moment, Ieoh Ming Pei, who had been listening with a smile, suddenly said a suggestion: "Mr. Xia, Mr. Hua, when I was in the United States, I heard a rumor about it. Although the method is a bit disgraceful, I heard that the effect is very good. ."

Xia Yu and Hua Shengshi immediately looked at Ieoh Ming Pei.

"Mr. Bei, I don't know what the rumor is."

Ieoh Ming Pei smiled and said: "I was in Florida at the time. There was a private museum in Florida that was not operating well. The owner of the museum bought the highest-priced item at an auction and brought it back to his own museum. , caused a huge sensation in the local area, and the number of tourists soared for a time.”

"But then there were gossips saying that the cultural relics bought by this boss were actually top-level collections from his private collection. Although the auction house took a commission from the auction, he quickly earned the money back with the help of tickets. The museum is also more famous.”

Xia Yu and Hua Shengshi looked at each other.

Looking at Hua Shengshi's inquiring eyes, Xia Yu said with a smile, "Although this method is a bit detrimental, it is indeed a good method."

"But the Sotheby's auction house is mine, so I just do it with my left hand and my right hand."

"Mr. Bei, you have solved another problem for us." Xia Yu thanked IM Pei.

Ieoh Ming Pei waved his hands again and again and said, "I'm just saying casually, that is, Mr. Xia, you have this strength, you don't need to be someone else."

"Thank you anyway!"

Xia Yu said with a smile, then looked at Huashengshi, and asked: "Hua Lao, I remember that Sotheby's auction house's spring auction is going to be held this month, the time is just right, we have more than ten thousand cultural relics yet. Which one has the highest value on display? The most sensational?"

PS: After the two shifts and 6,000 words are completed, I will collect some ideas. In terms of the loss of cultural relics overseas, which priceless treasures have brought great regret to the Chinese people, you can talk about them in the chapter description, maybe they will be used tomorrow!

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