V1.Chapter 20

The short and fat man in his forties, named Chen slam, has a good meaning. Unfortunately, he has hit a low point now.

Chen manguan came from a rural family. In his early years, his family was poor. When he was a teenager, he went to work in the city. He was an apprentice in an antique shop. With his studious, diligent and willing to bear hardships, he was soon appreciated and promoted by his boss. Coupled with his loyalty and enthusiasm, he has built a good network over time.

In the early 1980s, the owner of this antique shop was taken by his children to settle in the United States, and the antique shop changed hands to others. Chen has long had the idea of going it alone, but he is very kind and loyal. He thinks the boss is kind to him, so he just stays in the store. Now the boss has settled abroad. For the new boss, Chen manguan naturally has no gratitude or resentment with him, so he quit his job in the antique shop and began to work alone.

But in the antique shop these years, even if he was taken care of by his boss, Chen slam didn't save much money and didn't have the funds to open an antique shop. In desperation, he had to be a runway in the antique market, that is, a middleman. Introduce running among antique buyers and sellers, and mention some benefits when it is said to be a transaction. With his accumulated contacts and accurate insight into antiques over the years, he did not expect to accumulate rich wealth in just three years. Since then, he has officially opened an antique shop in the city.

Business is booming. Chen manguan soon became the vice president of Dongshi antique chamber of Commerce and a famous antique dealer in Dongshi and even in China.

The bigger the business, the bigger the heart. In addition, Chen has been flattered and sought after in recent years, and his mentality has gradually become somewhat impetuous. After 1992, the national policy changed and began to vigorously develop the economy. Some foreign friends came to China to discuss investment. Some of them had a strong interest in domestic antiques. However, the state strictly controls the export of cultural relics, the declaration procedures are strict, and those with long-standing historical value are not allowed to export even if they are declared.

However, the price of cultural relics in the overseas market is much higher than that in China. This is a piece of fat meat. Chen manguan wanted to swallow it, so he moved his mind and started the business of cultural relics smuggling.

This illegal business is naturally cautious. After several times of doing it safely, Chen has tasted great sweetness, and his courage has been relaxed.

Three years ago, a batch of cultural relics worth more than 1 billion left the country for Vietnam. The route that had been safe for several times actually encountered an exchange of fire. Not only the delivery man died, but also the cultural relics were broken to pieces.

Chen manguan lost his fortune all at once. Fortunately, he has been cautious in smuggling over the years. Although he has been investigated, nothing has been missed, saving him a prison sentence. But faced with a large amount of compensation, he went to borrow money everywhere. But who else would lend him money at this time? From a well-known antique merchant in Dongshi to a poor man, business friends began to hide for various reasons, and the city officials put on a pair of official prestige and played an official voice. Even the relatives who have benefited a lot from him over the years have begun to speak without salt.

Sneer, white eyes, pointing, warm and cold human feelings, the world is hot and cold, which has made Chen Manchuan taste it all over the past three years.

When his career was at a low ebb, only the scum wife who had come with him from the difficult times kept comforting him, even endured the provocation and criticism of his mother's family, borrowed money for his comeback, and never said a word of complaint. Seeing his wife like this, Chen was ashamed to think that he had made a fortune over the years and was indifferent to his wife when he saw the world. He once disliked that his wife was not beautiful enough, his figure was not slim enough, his educational level was not high, he knew nothing about antiques and had no common language with himself. He has been socializing outside these years. In the face of the temptation of young and beautiful women, although he finally controlled it and didn't do anything sorry for his wife, it is also true that he can't see his wife more and more in his heart.

After great ups and downs and warm and cold human feelings, Chen slam saw a lot of things at once. He didn't say anything to his wife, but secretly made up his mind to make a comeback and make his wife happy for the rest of her life!

After that, Chen began to run the antique market again, but his business friends avoided him, his interpersonal relationship was useless, and he had no capital to be a middleman who wanted to go back to the track. So he had to focus on picking up the leak. After all, his eyesight and experience have been very rich over the years.

But it is not easy for him to pick up the leak. After all, he has known him in the antique industry of Dongshi in recent years. Although he was down, he had some eyesight. Therefore, as long as it was something he liked, the stall owner always had to look at it several times. Finally, he found a reason to refuse to sell it, for fear that it would be missed.

Later, in desperation, Chen had to go outside and buy some laymen. He was responsible for watching it, and then asked laymen to come in and buy it. After three years, I got some harvest. But it's not much. The money earned has lost the original funeral expenses. Now I still haven't saved any wealth.

On that day, he strolled in the market as usual. The blue and white market on Zhao Mingjun's stall attracted his attention.

There is no authoritative yuan blue and white expert in China. The main reason is that there are too few unearthed yuan blue and white flowers, and the research on them is insufficient. Even if the real yuan blue and white flowers are in front of us, I'm afraid experts have to go through fierce discussion before they can make a judgment. Therefore, Chen was not sure about his eyesight. He still didn't show it. He just glanced and left.

This time, Chen slam didn't let outsiders come in and buy it, but thought of a person.

This man is a leading collector in Hong Kong, Mr. Li Boyuan. On the occasion of the return of Hong Kong, Mr. Li was invited to Dongshi to repair an official kiln and several folk kilns left by Dongshi in ancient times, and invest in the ceramic industry. Li Boyuan loves collecting porcelain, especially blue and white porcelain. He even opened a private collection hall in Hong Kong to display the blue and white porcelain he bought from overseas and at home. Therefore, he is undoubtedly an authoritative expert in blue and white porcelain.

The blue and white market, Chen slam, can't guarantee that it is genuine. He doesn't believe in his luck, so he made up his mind.

He wants to invite Li Boyuan to give him a hand. Even if the market is fake, people in Dongshi should know that Chen Manchuan can still invite the leaders in Hong Kong's collection industry. Secondly, he is kind to invite Li Laolai himself. He will take him around the antique market and maybe open some contacts. If the market is true, although I will lose some money, I will be bought by Mr. Li. I will also be an intermediary. The intermediary fee will never be less, and this favor will be sold.

Chen Manchuan felt that this was a good decision for him, whether true or false, so he went to the hotel where Mr. Li stayed and said that there was a large market suspected of Yuan blue and white, and asked Mr. Li to help him. Sure enough, Li Boyuan agreed to go with him as soon as he heard this. They came to the antique market.

But who would have thought that when Chen slam respectfully took Li Boyuan to Zhao Mingjun's stall, the market was gone!

A digression

A chapter is used to introduce Uncle Chen's experience. Naturally, he is an important person ~ o (n_n) O ~ old Li is also an important person~