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"Forget it, forget it." Chen Yanguang shook his head.

He was originally very ambitious, but when he saw Zhang Yang's strange smile, he felt a chill running down his spine, feeling that something was up to him.

Anyway, for Chen Yanguang now, making money is the most important thing.

This is related to his good life after marriage, nothing else is urgent.

With this idea in mind, Chen Yanguang changed the subject without leaving any trace: "Brother Han, besides this sword unearthed in Germany, are there any other products that are famous abroad?"

"Yes, let's take a look at this."

Mr. Han led Chen Yanguang forward.

Zhang Yang was not idle either. He took high-definition photos of several bronze swords in the warehouse and sent them to the small group of the archaeological team.

It's a good habit to leave some evidence handy, this is what Lao Chu taught you.

Director Chu asked the members of the archaeological team to report to the group first when encountering strange antiques, regardless of whether they are useful or not.

Leave a file and brainstorm ideas together, maybe you'll find something new.

This time, as soon as Zhang Yang's picture was sent out, the Chu family's grandfather and grandson responded.

Chu Ziqiang: Brother Yang went to collect wind again?

Chu Zhenmin: Has anyone in China started to imitate European cultural relics now? Very thoughtful.

Zhang Yang did not explain the story behind this bronze sword, but gave the two men a "bared teeth" expression in return.

Complicated things cannot be explained clearly online. When we meet next time and talk in person, it will be easier to feel surprised.

His eyes returned to Boss Han's warehouse.

Chen Yanguang was staring at a bronze item in a wooden box and scratching his head.

"Is this thing an anchor?"

"What baby? Let me be healthy."

Zhang Yang took the initiative to come forward.

The shape of the bronze in the box does look a bit like an anchor, especially the spiral pattern on it, which is like the hooks on both sides of the anchor.

But as long as you see the hollow columnar structure in the upper part of the object, you should understand that this thing is equipped with a wooden handle.

It can only be said that Chen Yanguang has seen less antiques and his imagination is still a bit lacking.

It is common for bronze vessels to have wooden handles.

"This thing should be the Celtic ceremonial ax from Northern Europe." Zhang Yang analyzed.

"Axe? This one doesn't even have a blade?"

"Ceremonial axe, ritual weapon." Zhang Yang made a gesture of raising the axe, "He was standing as the emperor. No, there was no emperor at that time. He should be the lord."

"The lord's honor guard is standing on both sides holding this thing."

"Oh, it's just like in our country, the maid holding a fan behind the emperor's back in ancient times, right?" Lao Liu asked.

"Yes, there is a very ancient people in Northern Europe, the Celts. The current Irish, Scots, and Welsh are all branches of the Celts."

"During the Roman Empire, the three major barbarian tribes among the Roman population were the Celts, the Germans, and the Slavs."

Zhang Yang didn't know much about the history of Northern Europe.

He knew this because when he first entered college, his roommate Qin Kai took everyone to take an elective course on Western European history in order to pursue a girl who liked Western European mythology.

Zhang Yang’s feeling after finishing the class is:

The Romans really knew how to play. The openness of Europe was passed down from the older generation, which is completely different from China.

"Was this thing also discovered in Europe?" Chen Yanguang raised his eyebrows and asked Zhang Yang and also Mr. Han.

Of course Zhang Yang understood what he meant.

He wanted to ask if this was also a fake being regarded as a real cultural relic.

"You are overthinking it. This thing was indeed found in Denmark, but it is a serious Celtic artifact."

The prototype of this bronze ax is different from the German bronze sword.

Systematic Celtic artifacts have indeed been discovered in Western Europe.

The ancient books of the Romans also recorded the situation of barbarians in Western Europe.

The Bronze Age in Northern Europe first originated in 1600 BC (the earliest Chinese bronzes were in 3000 BC).

Unlike the slow development of bronze ware in China from scratch, many bronze ware suddenly appeared in Western Europe without any warning.

This is not because Europeans made it fake, but because there are no copper mines or tin mines in Western Europe. Bronze cannot be produced locally. Of course, there are no prototypes of early bronze ware.

They were able to enter the Bronze Age entirely because of the bronze smelting technology of West Asia, which entered ancient civilizations such as Italy, Greece, and Egypt along the Mediterranean Sea.

After the bronze raw materials were smelted locally, they entered Western Europe through trade.

In other words, all bronze in Western Europe was imported.

I bought copper raw materials that had been smelted by someone else, and then I just recast it myself.

Of course, this kind of imported bronze was very expensive, so the artifacts made at that time were mostly large-scale ritual vessels.

They are all used by nobles.

"That's right." Boss Han agreed with Zhang Yang's popular science knowledge, "We specialize in the business of British aristocrats with this kind of bronze ax."

"Their wealthy people, especially the rednecks who claim to be of pure European descent, are very willing to pay as long as they can't see the difference between the imitations and the real ones."

"In order to make the replica exactly the same, we went to the Danish Museum to buy materials. From a British perspective, we can't tell the difference at all."

"Is that so?" Chen Yanguang sounded a little envious. It sounded like the money was very easy to make.

"It's in line with my understanding of European collectors." Zhang Yang smiled and nodded, "They also have a lot of national treasure gangs there. I saw an old man in the news last time who collected a lot of imitation Yuan coins. Blue and white, keep them in the cellar for fear of others stealing them."

"Specially dreamy."

"Hahaha, that might be a customer of our group." Chen Yanguang said with a proud smile.

In addition to the bronze swords, Mr. Han’s other bronzes designed for the European market all have prototypes of cultural relics.

It just depends on whether it is in a big museum like the British Museum or in some unpopular small museums.

Among them, the collections of Danish museums are the hardest hit.

Because Mr. Han bought the data of all their metal cultural relics.

"How did you get this data? Can you teach me?"

Chen Yanguang became interested.

No matter how you look at it, this thing is more profitable than porcelain.

Because the goods have to be shipped overseas, the production and transportation costs of porcelain are much higher than those of bronze.

The only thing that can compete is that the porcelain collection market is relatively large.

But Mr. Han has obviously done market research here. There are no antiques such as tripods and chimes in the warehouse. They are all weird gadgets.

The weirder the thing, the less likely it is to worry about selling, otherwise these things will lose money if they are made.

"Hehe, actually, it doesn't matter if I tell Mr. Chen about the secrets here." Boss Han said with a slight smile, "My son is studying metal smelting in Germany."

"These are the resources he found from classmates and teachers to help me get them."

"In the name of studying metal smelting, imitate bronzes?" Chen Yanguang asked in surprise.

This suddenly raised the threshold for making handicrafts to a bachelor's degree or an industry-related major.

He can't learn it.

"Absolutely. I suspect that my son chose this major because I didn't let him enter the workshop when he was a child, which gave him a rebellious mentality."

"That's for sure." Chen Yanguang agreed.

Then he expressed his own thoughts.

"Brother Han, to be honest, our Hedong Group also has a bronze product line, but it has been discontinued since my fiancée's uncle came in."

"The machine is still parked in the factory, and it is maintained every month."

"With such a big business like yours, can you let some of it out from under your fingernails..."

"..."

Zhang Yang was not interested in the business discussion between Chen Yanguang and Mr. Han.

He was even more curious about the antiques in front of him.

How should I put it? Maybe the German bronze sword just now is the thing that can be best understood by Chinese literary and entertainment lovers.

For other things, the optical device type is very strange.

Some of them were so bizarre that Zhang Yang had to take pictures, go over the wall to check information, and chew the English "raw meat" bite by bite before he knew what it was.

For example, there is a pair of bronzes.

It is shaped like a shower nozzle, with a trumpet mouth connected underneath.

Zhang Yang suspected that the inspiration for this thing was that someone blew on the lotus stem and found a sound, so he made a similar instrument.

Information on the Internet shows that this musical instrument called "Lur" was discovered on Zealand Island in Denmark in 1797 (the second year of Jiaqing in the Qing Dynasty). It is a funerary object and usually appears in pairs.

Research has found that when this thing is played, it will make a miserable sound, which is equivalent to the current trombone.

That is to say, Zhang Yang doesn't understand music, otherwise he would definitely try the "Lure" created by Boss Han to see if it can really make the sound of a trombone.

There is a similar musical instrument in the museum in France, and Boss Han also copied it.

Also long, like a horn.

The difference is that the top of the French horn is a pig's head.

Zhang Yang only found out after reading the official website of the Louvre Museum that the most representative bronze shape of the Gauls in the Bronze Age was the pig.

This pig-head shaped horn is used as a charge horn when the army attacks.

After listening to Zhang Yang’s popular science, Lao Liu sighed with emotion: “The French are so outrageous.”

"If you attack when you hear a pig braying during a war, can you win?"

"Who said the French would win the war?" Chen Yanguang came over and said, "Their tradition is to raise the white flag."

"That's the truth, but in terms of relationship with pigs, he has to be the Prime Minister of England." Boss Han also came over to agree.

"Have you two finished exchanging business information?"

"Of course." Chen and Han both nodded in response to Zhang Yang.

"Master Zhang, we have reached a strategic cooperation agreement."

"Yes, Brother Yang, as the consultant of our group, do you want to sign this agreement with me?"

"When the ribbon is cut for our new product line, you must be present."

"Of course you can. I'm going to give you a nickname. Once the ribbon is cut or not, you will definitely call me when you cut the ribbon." Zhang Yang nodded.

"What? You're not free?" Chen Yanguang pretended that he had misunderstood, "Then forget it, I won't force you."

Then he skillfully changed the subject: "Come on, Brother Han, show us other antiques."

"When the time comes to Riyadh, you can come with us."

"Indeed, the quality of these gadgets is good, but the quantity is still a bit small." Zhang Yang helped bring the topic back to today's main task.

"I thought about it, and if I want to sell it for a price, there are still too many obvious imitations. Locals can use their mobile phones to search for pictures and find out which imitation they are on the Internet."

"What should we do?" Mr. Han was also a little embarrassed. He explained, "Mr. Chen, Master Zhang, the bronzes I have here are all imitations."

“The prototype for each piece can be found in the museum.”

“We have also thought about inventing and creating things ourselves, but we don’t have the ability and we can’t guarantee that the things we create can be sold.”

"Understood." Zhang Yang anticipated Mr. Han's thoughts. It would be the same choice for any other small workshop.

Not everyone who engages in the antique handicraft business can have the capital of the Hedong Group to create non-existent antiques such as the "Three-piece Set for Old Man on Construction Site".

"But if we want to compete in the Middle Eastern collection market, which is not popular in the first place, we must find a way to create a new version of the three-piece bronze set."

"Which three?" Chen Yanguang asked curiously.

"Actually, I don't know either." Zhang Yang shrugged and spread his hands, "Don't you have a Middle East taboo document?"

"Just follow the above and do the elimination method."

"Get rid of all the things they are taboo about, make one of the remaining things, and then take pictures for the Saudi royal family and the father and daughter to choose."

"Yes, I can ask the prince for his opinion."

Chen Yanguang suddenly realized this and was so happy that he came up to give Zhang Yang a hug.

The other two people in the room showed cryptic expressions when they heard keywords such as prince and Saudi Arabia.

In their eyes, Zhang Yang and Chen Yanguang were seeing oil leaking out from behind.

"We both have been hit by the overwhelming wealth!" Boss Han whispered to Lao Liu beside him.

"Do I have a share?" Lao Liu was not sure, he was just a soy saucer.

"It must be possible. If it doesn't work, just kneel down and beg Master Zhang."

…

In the end, Lao Liu did not kneel down.

Because Chen Yanguang is already short of people, after restarting the bronze product line, experienced employees like Lao Liu will certainly not leave him alone.

The only regret was that all the old employees who worked on bronzes had gone in, and Chen Yanguang only found Lao Liu.

"Brother Yang, you have worked hard today."

On the way back, Chen Yanguang became emotional and insisted on thanking Zhang Yang.

He took out a card from his pocket and wanted to express his gratitude.

"How many steamed buns are there?" Zhang Yang asked with a smile, holding his bank card.

He didn't want the money and wanted to find a reason to refuse.

"Two hundred W, what my wife means, is your dividend last year plus consulting fees."

"That's it? Send the beggar away, right?"

Zhang Yang handed the card back directly.

"I'll save it with you first, and then give it to me when I have a small goal together."

"Two million a year, it takes fifty years to achieve a small goal. Brother Yang, can you live until then?" Chen Yanguang said with a smirk.

"If you can't speak, don't speak."

"My, my, brother Yang, you will definitely live to be a thousand years old."

"You are the bastard..."

"Okay, I won't talk too fast with you." Zhang Yang knew that once he and Chen Yanguang started talking like this, the conversation would be endless.

The eldest brother on the list has been on the Internet for many years, and when it comes to his words, he is not ostentatious at all.

"I have something important to ask you."

"you say."

"When will you and Miss Cheng get married?" Zhang Yang asked.

"What's wrong? Are you in a hurry to grab the bouquet?"

"No, it's your father-in-law, Mr. Cheng. He told me that the next time he returns to China, it will be when you two get married."

"It just so happens that I have something important here. I have to wait until Mr. Cheng comes back and we can do it together."

"You don't want to send my father-in-law in, do you?" Chen Yanguang asked warily.