Movie variety show soul travels between two worlds to become a rich man

Chapter 172: Show your taste and hide your wealth (Part )
"Boss, what do you think of her?"

After Su Yan finished the interview, stood up, bowed politely and left, Ma Lili looked at Gao Dongxu with a smile and asked.

"What do you two think?" Gao Dongxu asked the two women with a smile.

"I think she's good, no, very good. She can definitely do your secretary job." Ma Lili recognized Su Yan's abilities very much.

"What about you?" Gao Dongxu asked Mi Xue with a smile.

"My opinion is not important. It still depends on whether you like it or not. However, boss, you have to think clearly. This is a hot girl with low emotional intelligence. On weekdays, she may offend you with her words without paying attention." Michelle reminded with a sweet smile.

"Well, that's it. You guys continue with the interview. I'm going to go over to the antique shop and clean up and get ready to open." Gao Dongxu stood up with a smile, and after talking to the two women, he walked to the door, opened it and left.

Ma Lili stood up to see him off and looked at the boss leaving. She frowned slightly and looked at Mi Xue, who was smiling faintly, and asked, "Boss, what do you mean, is it okay or not?"

"Of course it's okay. Didn't you hear what he said? Then let's do it this way. I won't even look at the other candidates. It's Su Yan." Mi Xue raised an eyebrow and said.

"Could it be that they've attracted another strong opponent?" Ma Lili frowned, then looked at Mi Xue with envy and resentment, and said sarcastically, "Why haven't I seen you so actively going into the boss's office recently?"

Michelle curled her lips in disdain and sneered, "I was doing that for work, not as dirty as you think."

"Hmph, who knows? The whole company is watching you. You'd better tone it down and dress like a butterfly every day."

"Ha, what do you care? You're so angry. Do you have endocrine disorders or blockages? You'd better find a man to clear it for you!" Mi Xue sneered and said venomously without giving in.

"You--" Ma Lili was so angry that she was fuming, her face flushed, and she wanted to pounce on Mi Xuedi and grab her hair.

"咚咚-"

At this time, there was a knock on the door. The two men glared at each other, snorted coldly at the same time, and looked at the door expressionlessly.

"Enter--"

. . . . . .

Gao Dongxu, who had already gone downstairs and drove away, naturally didn't know that the two women were fighting after he left. However, even if he knew, he couldn't do anything because the style of the company was comedy.

Everyone in the company uses exaggerated language, eyes, expressions and actions.

On the way to Panjiayuan, Gao Dongxu called Lao Ying and asked him to rush to Zhenbao Pavilion.

When they arrived at Zhenbao Pavilion, Gao Dongxu closed the shop door, opened the explosion-proof glass doors of all the display cabinets in the store, and began to transfer the antiques from the space to the display cabinets according to the categories of antiques.

Jade, porcelain, tortoise shells, ivory, and other precious animal products, bronzes, stationery, gold and silver wares, calligraphy and paintings, and two special counters dedicated to Angong Niuhuang Wan and 62 Maotai liquor.

(Special note: In reality, the sale of ivory, rhino horn and other products has been completely banned since 2017. In the world of the film and variety show, it is set that they cannot be imported, and there is no ban on the sale of bronze ware.)
Gao Dongxu simply took the classified antiques out of the space and put them in the display cabinet, without rushing to arrange them.

Arranging and arranging things is a delicate job, and it would be faster if he called Wu Xiaowei and the other two girls to help him with it.

What surprised Gao Dongxu was that more than 400 antiques of various sizes could not fill the display cabinets in the store. Moreover, the background wall of the display cabinets was empty, making it look a bit bare.

If you hang calligraphy and paintings, it will undoubtedly be the most suitable.

However, Gao Dongxu doesn't have many calligraphy and paintings. It seems that before the Zhenbao Pavilion opens, he needs to go to the Siheyuan World to purchase some goods.

"咚咚-"

Standing in the middle of the store, looking around at everything inside and checking for omissions, there was a knock on the door. He turned and walked towards the door, opened it and saw the eagle.

After letting Lao Ying into the store, Gao Dongxu said to him, "Starting tonight, you need to move in. I'll go to the furniture store and buy two sofa beds. I'll put them between the two display cases. You can sit and rest during the day, and you can fold them up and use them as beds when you're on night shift."

"Yeah." After hearing Gao Dongxu's arrangement, Old Eagle nodded slightly, then looked at the dazzling array of antiques in the display case, and couldn't help but look shocked.

"Boss, if all these antiques were sold, how much would they fetch?"

"Haha, less than 13 billion." Gao Dongxu chuckled with a little pride.

"Hiss—" Old Eagle clicked his tongue. "My business is just a small one. The big collectors and antique dealers in China have collections and antiques worth two or three hundred million each."

Eagle smiled bitterly and shook his head. He really didn't understand these things, and he couldn't understand the value of spending an astronomical figure of two or three hundred million to buy an antique that could not be eaten, drunk, or used.

"Haha, do you think that antique artworks are just dead objects, without productivity, and cannot be eaten or drunk, so why are they so expensive?" Gao Dongxu seemed to know what Eagle was thinking. He smiled and asked as he closed and locked the glass doors of the display cabinets one by one.

"Well, I really can't figure it out." Eagle said frankly.

"Haha, lock the door, let's go upstairs and chat while drinking tea." Gao Dongxu smiled and locked the glass doors of all the display cabinets, then turned on the alarm security system.

Lao Ying walked to the door, locked it, and followed Gao Dongxu upstairs.

Gao Dongxu sat down at the tea table, boiled water, took out two exquisite red bamboo bowls, and put a few slices of Yuqian Longjing tea in the bowls.

He took out a Panda cigarette and passed one to Old Eagle. After lighting it up and taking a puff, he smiled and pointed at the pair of covered bowls on the table and said, "I bought this pair of red bamboo covered bowls a year ago for five thousand. They date back to the Guangxu period of the Qing Dynasty. If I were to sell them now, they'd be worth at least thirty thousand, and fifty or sixty thousand would be easy."

The fingers holding the cigarette paused for a moment, his eyes fixed on the bowl that the boss used to make tea. He smiled bitterly and said, "Boss, I'd rather use an ordinary cup."

"Haha, feel free to use them. I took them out to use without caring whether they would be reimbursed or not." Gao Dongxu chuckled, leaning back in his chair, and continued to laugh comfortably.

"From a price perspective alone, there's indeed a huge bubble in art collection. This is determined by the rules of the commercial market. When an antique is put on the table, it becomes a commodity. With merchants chasing profit, driving up prices naturally brings in huge profits.

A piece of calligraphy and painting can fetch hundreds of millions of yuan at auction, which is equivalent to exchanging a piece of paper for an airplane. It's not just you who doesn't understand; many people find it incredible. How can a dead object like yours fetch such a high price?

In fact, to put it bluntly, this kind of hype has little to do with ordinary people. It is a capital game played by collectors and wealthy circles.

This is also the main reason why successful people like to tinker with art collections.

Most wealthy people buy antiques and artworks for investment purposes, not for collection. Their original intention in investing in the antiques and artworks industry is to make money and increase their capital accumulation.

These wealthy individuals buy antiques and artworks just as they would buy stocks or real estate; their goal is to wait for the right opportunity. When the market price of the artworks goes up, causing their market value to rise, they will immediately sell them and cash in.

Eagle nodded, thinking of the news he had read about those wealthy tycoons spending huge sums of money to buy antiques and artworks. These wealthy people are not fools. If there is no profit, how can they spend so much money?

"Of course, this is just a game played by some people who engage in capital operations. There are also some people who pursue not only economic and material gains, but also spiritual and cultural enjoyment!"

Gao Dongxu smiled and picked up the boiling kettle, poured hot water into two covered bowls, and while continuing to talk, he put the kettle back in place to keep it warm, covered the covered bowls, and waited for the tea leaves to brew.

"Besides having enough food and clothing, people also have new pursuits in life. For example, some people like to watch TV and browse their phones, some like to exercise, and some like to tinker with things other than eating, drinking, and defecating...

This is the spiritual pursuit, which everyone has, but it is different. Our country's economic development has been very rapid in recent years, but in terms of cultural dissemination, it can be said that it still lags behind foreign countries.

When it comes to art collection, Europe and the United States were much more advanced than us. A Van Gogh painting from over a century ago fetches hundreds of millions of yuan at auction, and some people might laud it as evidence of foreign aristocrats' sophisticated tastes and appreciation for art.

An ancient painting from the Song Dynasty, which is over a thousand years old, was sold for hundreds of millions of yuan, but people said it was hype and a nouveau riche showing off their wealth!
Why the difference in treatment? To put it bluntly, it's a sign of cultural insecurity. Many people in our country tend to neglect their own cultural development, focusing only on the economic value of art collections and failing to see how many people are working hard to pass on their culture.

Every artifact, every collection, is more than just a dead object. The craftsmanship, historical traces, and unique culture behind them are all vividly displayed before the world. They need to be discovered, studied, and, most importantly, passed down…” Gao Dongxu said with emotion.

"Indeed, our country has been greatly influenced by Western culture, and many people are obsessed with Western culture..." Eagle said with emotion.

"There's nothing we can do. A century of humiliation has brought our cultural confidence to its lowest point. Nearly a century of strong Western cultural output has influenced the entire world, and it's normal that many people have been influenced and brainwashed.

However, as we revive, it won't be long before the new generation regains their cultural confidence and goes to the other extreme, completely disdainful of that crap Western culture." Gao Dongxu said sarcastically with a smile on his face.

Old Eagle smiled, and there was more recognition and approval in his eyes when he looked at Gao Dongxu.

"Actually, I didn't like traditional culture before. I looked down on my father who spent all day tinkering with antiques, listening to Peking opera, and singing a few songs when he was happy... hehe." Gao Dongxu said with a smile as if reminiscing.

"Boss, I'm sorry." Old Eagle, who knew that Gao Dongxu's parents had both passed away, comforted him.

"Haha, it's okay." Gao Dongxu smiled, took a puff of his cigarette, and continued, "Later, when I was sorting out my dad's antiques, I saw his appreciation notes. I began to understand his spiritual enjoyment and the joy of collecting. Then I started to learn and try to collect. Maybe I really have a talent for appraisal and collection. Just by feeling, I can roughly tell the real from the fake. Picking up bargains time and time again and making money made me completely fall in love with this business."

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