Abandoned the Immortal Cultivator, returned to his hometown to farm and sing

Chapter 977 970 Review of History

Chapter 977 970. Review of History

The treasure appraiser suddenly realized, "It turned out that they were bought at the Friendship Store during the early period of reform and opening up. No wonder there is no system, and most of them are from the Ming, Qing and Republic of China. These things were in large quantities at the time and were recently exported to earn foreign exchange."

Friendship Stores were opened for foreigners and overseas Chinese. Only foreign exchange coupons could be used, and the main purpose was to earn foreign exchange.

The treasure appraiser was talking, typing quietly: [I have read the introduction of that time. People who lived in poverty spent the most money at that time. They lived close to home, knew the goods, and were greedy for bargains. The second was the rich people in the Middle East. Although there were few people here, they were really rich. They were all taken advantage of.]

The audience in the live broadcast room particularly agreed, and bought 200 pieces of silk at a time, as well as a large number of antiques and handicrafts.

This is the shopping spree.

"These things must have cost a lot of money at the time," the treasure appraiser asked quickly, drawing attention to the person over there who could read Chinese characters.

Mansour flipped through the records and shook his head, "It's not a lot of money. It's very cheap. It's only $1.4 million in total."

One million four hundred thousand dollars in 1980.

Still “only”?
After the oil crisis in the 1970s, the wealthy people in the Middle East became really rich.

Moreover, Mansour is not being modest at all, he just doesn't have this concept.

Pointing at the antiques in front of him, he said, "At that time, all of these, including silk and tea, were worth 1.4 million US dollars. Now, if you take out any one of them, you can get 100,000 US dollars."

There are more than 200 pieces here, each worth 100,000, which makes more than 20 million.

Even taking inflation into account, profits of more than ten or twenty times are still high enough.

Besides, is it really only 100,000?

The treasure appraiser smiled bitterly and shook his head, "Not only that, just that piece from the Qianlong official kiln would be auctioned for at least 10 million, or 1.4 million US dollars."

Look, one piece pays for itself.

Mansoor was also shocked and said in surprise: "Wow, it's so expensive. My father makes a lot of money."

Then he placed his right hand on his chest and bowed slightly, "Thank you for allowing my family to enjoy the dividends of China's development."

Good at talking.

Many people in the live broadcast room who felt jealous that foreigners were making so much money from their products and were unhappy about it, also felt much more relaxed at this time.

Don't hit the smiling person with your hand.

The treasure appraiser immediately said politely, "No, no, that's because your father had a good eye. At that time, these were only worth that much money. Moreover, your family paid with precious foreign exchange. In 80, the foreign exchange reserves were less than million US dollars. million is a huge sum."

After all, that was the 1980s.

It is hard for people today to imagine how hard life was back then.

The term "foreign exchange reserves" has not been of concern for many years. Now, with reserves of more than 3 trillion, we worry every day about how to spend it.

But at that time, from the founding of the People's Republic of China to 10, it never exceeded US$11 billion, and there were even 1 years when it was less than US$ million.

It was not until 1988 that it exceeded 2 billion for the first time.

The prince is here to buy express delivery.

The most miserable year was 1980, with a negative 1.2 billion.

At that time, I sold silk and antiques that were neither edible nor usable, and made a profit of 1.4 million. I was so happy.

"I wonder how much I could have bought with 1.4 million at that time." The treasure appraiser couldn't help but imagine.

"It is said that a textile factory was built." Mansoor replied casually.

"Hey hey hey? You know what it is used for?" The appraiser was very surprised.

"Yes." Mansour was very sure. "My father mentioned that when Batumi was around, large sums of money had to be asked about their purpose. After all... at that time..."

There is no explicit statement later.

But the treasure appraiser took action. At that time, there was still a cold war and various blockades. It is human nature for people who have spent money to be afraid of taking responsibility.

"Then do you know which textile factory it is?" the appraiser asked again.

This time Mansoor shook his head. "I'm sorry, I don't know. We know it's not used in restricted industries, so we can't ask too much."

"I understand, I understand." One million and four hundred thousand dollars, a textile factory worth more than ten million dollars, it must be a large textile factory.

This batch of stuff is worth selling.

The prince's family in front of me are really friendly people with whom I have a deep connection.

Win-win, mutual benefit.

This treasure trove is revealed.

From the glory of the ancient Silk Road, to the shame of the late Qing Dynasty, and then to the arduous journey of the last century.

Finally, things have changed with each passing day. People made ten or a hundred times the profit from a purchase more than 40 years ago.

Why can we make money? Because the country has developed.

It's like revisiting history.

This is the meaning of antiques. Behind every item, there is a record of a fragment.

However, the fundamental purpose of today, the gift, has not yet been chosen.

We can't send back the batch we bought from the Friendship Store.

But later on, the Eastern ones disappeared.

There's just a bunch of unclassified ones left.

There were boxes and crates of all kinds, scattered in the corners of the treasury.

Mansoor pulled out a record book and opened it to look at it.

He said, "These are all things I have collected in recent years, and they have not been sorted out yet."

He flipped through the pages and read, "A tin kettle from the Roman era, a mask from an unknown era in Central Africa, a golden Buddha from the Mughal dynasty..."

He read one and Qin Shubao translated it.

But after translating two, Qin Shubao stopped translating.

He said to the live studio: "Let's take a look first, some of them are quite sensitive."

The treasure appraiser nodded quickly, "Understood, understood. You guys look first. I'll look at what I can look at later."

He understood, but the audience didn't, and they kept asking what happened.

The treasure appraiser typed a reply, [It’s not from a good source, I don’t know where it came from]

I understand this time.

[There are also local farmers in foreign countries]

[Of course there are. There are even more powerful ones, those with guns.]

[It's a mess outside, but the prince seems quite friendly. After all, he is a royal, so there must be some shameful things that he doesn't show us.]

[Nonsense, the live broadcast is public, how can sensitive things be shown to others?]

[Ah, this is not sensitive enough, this place is almost like a museum, they are not afraid of releasing it like this]

[What are you afraid of? Didn’t you see someone holding a gun at the door?]

There was a lively discussion in the live broadcast room.

Mansur and Qin Shubao gathered together to look through the records.

I flipped through the pages quickly and found that there was so much stuff.

As they were flipping through the pages, the two of them stopped at the same time and huddled together, talking incoherently.

After the discussion was over quickly, Qin Shubao turned around and informed the live studio, "We saw something that seems to be related to the East."

After saying that, he took out a jar from the boxes.

Cylinder? ?

It should be a jar, with a big belly and a small mouth, a bit like the jar used for pickling pickles in China, but it is definitely not from China.

The domestic vats are round, but this one has two ridges on the top and bottom, and the style is different.

The tank is quite heavy.

It took Mansur and Qin Shubao working together to move it out.

Then he opened the lid and reached in to rummage around for a long time.

As a result, he took out two wooden boxes, one square and one long.

The square one is no bigger than the palm, and the long one is no longer than the arm.

There are only these two little gadgets in there.

Then I opened the small square box and found that it was padded with velvet.

A ball...