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Chapter 921 A Sudden Thought (Continued)
Sancai pottery has a profound influence on my country's ceramic art, especially Tang Sancai, which is an epoch-making milestone in the history of ceramics. In addition, Tang Sancai is more in line with foreigners' aesthetic concepts. Therefore, many foreigners like Tang Sancai very much. The degree of totem worship.

However, domestic collectors prefer to collect blue and white porcelain. It is based on this that Chu Chen came up with this idea.

Chu Chen went on to say: "If someone really bought our things abroad, at least I will use the money to buy back the cultural relics scattered abroad, which is better than being earned by foreigners. Besides, do you think those foreigners They are all good people! In foreign countries, even in some large auctions, it is common for fakes to appear."

"Is this unlikely?" Gu Gongyi found it hard to believe Chu Chen's words.

"It's because you don't know much about the antique business. Some of the tricks at the auction may scare you..."

Chu Chen chuckled, considering that although Gu Gongyi was half of the antique industry, he usually only cared about studying porcelain, and he didn't know much about many things in the antique industry, so he gave Gu Gongyi some tricks from foreign auctions. Introduced a bit.

Generally speaking, the main income of most auction houses comes from commission fees. The domestic auction house commissions are generally 5-15%, while the commissions of large international auction companies are even higher.Therefore, for auction companies, raising the transaction price can not only charge more commissions, but also gather famous buyers and sellers and increase their popularity, which is a good thing for both fame and fortune.

There are many ways to raise the transaction price.One is to set up a game on the spot to hang big fish and raise the transaction price.Usually, there will be an exclusive babysitter at the scene to create a tense atmosphere of multiple bids for the lot, and will get the bait from the rich who don't know the lot or the inside story of the auction.

And when such a "big fish" enters the auction house, because they don't know the quality of the lot, they will pay more attention to the "cover" of the auction house's catalog, which usually contains some exquisite and "extraordinary" lots. Calligraphy and painting works of famous artists.

So there are many ways of distinguishing customers in auction houses, one of which is what they call "cover buyers".Naturally, such a buyer must pay tuition fees to the auction house.But these buyers are not fools, and now as more and more inside information about the auction is known, such big fish are gradually decreasing.

Second, the buyer and the seller have already reached an agreement in private, and the scene is just a show, allowing the price to be raised to a thousand miles, and finally pay or even not pay according to the price determined in advance.Among them, the interests of the auction company and the buyers and sellers are consistent, and everyone is looking for "name", or longer-term interests.

It is often heard in the news that an auction house has released a shocking price again. Carefully check the background of the collectors who are auctioned. The main business may be real estate and other industries. Behind this lies a longer chain of interests.In a word, they are good at "empty glove white wolf", as for what, you can imagine freely.

The third is fake auctions, earning commissions from the pockets of name-seekers and money launderers. This kind of business is generally seen in medium and large auction companies.

There are several purposes of fake auctions: First, some artists who want to become famous use auctions to establish their own prices in the secondary market.In order to take a shortcut to become famous, they handed over their works to the auction company for auction, negotiated the commission in advance, and then invited friends to do the game on the spot, obtained the auction record, and bought a ticket for the work to enter the high-end market.

The reason for this is also because many collectors now aim at investment, and they prefer the banknotes behind the art.Therefore, buying things is not to see the quality of the work with your eyes, but to listen to the price with your ears.This way is popular, so some young artists invest their capital and energy in it, and they can indeed earn a lot of platinum, but the value of art is ultimately spoken by the works.

The second is to use auctions to launder money. It is not difficult for everyone to guess the object of this method. Generally, they randomly find a work and submit it to the auction house to create a transaction record that both parties expect.The auction company charged a certain amount of commission, so the huge amount of money was dyed white.

Finally, there is another big item, which is what Chu Chen said earlier, the auction house deliberately buys fakes and sells them in pursuit of maximum profit.There is also a saying in the industry, which is called "If you don't sell fakes, the auction house will basically go bankrupt."In fact, it makes sense to think about it. If there are no fakes, how can there be so many rare boutiques circulating in the market?

Usually, international auction houses make these thousands or tens of thousands of fake porcelain soar to unimaginable prices of tens of millions by compiling "stories".They were scheming, and what made Chu Chen feel a little angry was that they would use marketing rhetoric such as "burning the Old Summer Palace" and "Eight-Power Allied Forces" to attract the attention of the domestic political and business circles, and directly lured domestic buyers into the bait.

"As far as I know, well-known auction houses at home and abroad will send commissioners to Porcelain Capital every year to negotiate with the high imitation artists here, and the imitations will be auctioned through various circulation means."

Chu Chen said with a smile: "Because according to the "Auction Law", auction companies are not allowed to auction items belonging to the auction company, but there are still many auction companies who try to put the ownership of the collection under their own names before the auction. In this way, Auction companies can earn both the price difference and commission.”

Hearing this, Gu Gongyi said in a daze: "Boss, after hearing what you said, I remembered one thing. Last month, an acquaintance of mine brought a boss over there and said that if I made a high-definition copy Three generations of official kiln porcelain, the other party said very loudly, saying that if it is done well, you can come to my place to order every year, and the price is quite good.

"I told the boss at the time that I wouldn't do anything without my signature. He persuaded me a few words, and when he saw that I didn't agree, he left very angry. Now that I think about it, from his dress, words and deeds Looking at it, that person is likely to belong to the auction company. However, if these people do this, aren't they afraid that the buyer will find them to settle accounts?"

Chu Chen chuckled and said, "The auction house has all kinds of circumvention measures. If you really find him, you can still solve it. Not to mention it is more difficult than reaching the sky, but it is not much different. One day I will take the British reporter Peter Watson Publish the book "Auctioning Sotheby's" for you to read, and you will know what kind of virtue an international auction company is."

Hearing this, Gu Gongyi couldn't help swearing: "MD, these foreign devils who cannibalize people! Boss, I agree to what you said!"

Hearing Chu Chen talk about the inside story of the auction house, the hesitation in Gu Gongyi's heart disappeared without a trace. Just like what Chu Chen said, no matter what, the money can still contribute to the return of cultural relics. The money from those buyers is good for foreigners.

"Okay!" Chu Chen said with a smile: "However, after all, this matter is not visible. Regarding the expenses of Tang Sancai, don't take away the funds from the laboratory. I will allocate it to you separately. Also, this aspect of the matter You have to keep it a secret, and it’s best not to tell your family.”

After all, he is taking things abroad to sell. Although he will take things to Nan Nancai, the process will definitely be kept secret, and at the same time, no clues of his participation will be left, but there is an old saying that if you want to People don't know, unless they do nothing, if someone really wants to investigate, even if there is no evidence, they can still suspect him.

At that time, those people will have nothing to do with him, but Gu Gongyi will be unlucky. He can't let him protect Gu Gongyi all the time, can he?

Now, among the few people in the car, Wu Ke and Hu Yong will definitely not talk nonsense. The driver who drove the car was also the person sent by Chu Chen to prevent the leakage of Maoci's formula. He will definitely not spread the word about today's matter. .Therefore, Gu Gongyi was the only one who worried Chu Chen.

Gu Gongyi also knew that this matter was related to his own safety, so he immediately nodded solemnly and said: "Boss, don't worry, I will definitely not say a word about this matter in front of outsiders..."

Next, Chu Chen discussed some details of the matter with Gu Gongyi and the development direction of the ceramic laboratory. Soon, the car drove to Gu Gongyi's kiln factory.

After getting Gu Gongyi out of the car, the driver sent them to Cidu Airport.

Although, when Chu Chen returned to Beijing, he took a plane that was transferred from Shanghai to Beijing, but the plane stopped at the Beijing airport before five o'clock in the afternoon.

After getting off the plane, Chu Chen sent Wu Ke home directly, and then sent Hu Yong back, asking him to go back to his hometown early to take care of Li Xiaoping.And told him that when he got married, he and Wu Ke would definitely be there.Then, he drove back to his home.

Because today is Saturday, and her younger sister Chu Yulan is also at home. Seeing Chu Chen come back, the whole family was very happy, and they asked him what he gained from going out this time. Chu Chen also simply shared some of the things that happened with The family recounted it.

Speaking of which, this trip to Star City and Porcelain Capital has yielded a lot for Chu Chen, not to mention the precious antiques he got during the trip, at least it brought him two benefits.

First, it basically established Chu Chen's status in the national antique collection industry. Based on Chu Chen's performance at the exchange meeting, he believed that, at least in the circle, ordinary people would no longer question his appraisal level.Moreover, because of the theft incident, he showed a strong background, even if Mu Xiuyu was in the woods, no wind would dare to blow him.

The second advantage is that Chu Chen has established a development direction based on ceramic laboratories (research institutes), opening ceramic specialty stores, and promoting Chinese ceramic culture.

Because of this goal, Chu Chen decided to focus on museums, ceramic companies, and jade in the future.Among them, the museum is mainly used to promote Chinese culture, the ceramics company is used to promote Chinese ceramic culture and make money, and the emerald business Chu Chen is only used to provide him with financial convenience.

(End of this chapter)