Chapter 33 Japan's Antique Business

There are always many opportunities in history that will pass in case of it. At present, Japan worships the ocean in an all-round way, and the highly respected Chinese culture has fallen to the bottom in an instant. On the other hand, the traditional warrior class and the Japanese aristocracy are also rapidly bankrupt, replaced by the scholar class and the chaebol class.

It is under this premise that a large number of Chinese cultural relics that used to exist in the rich family quickly flowed out. If it is not a rare boutique, most of them are accumulated in the grocery streets of Japan, and no one cares about it.

In Japan, they have become waste, but in the Qing Dynasty, these things are still treasures left by the ancestors and are very valuable.

This is a very short opportunity. After the First Sino-Japanese War, I regained the dignity of the strong, and the economy began to quickly become rich. A large number of rich and powerful people began to re-examine the value of traditional culture, and the antiques lost in the people were gradually collected.

Hu Chuyuan just seized this small opportunity to make a little contribution to the preservation of Chinese culture.

In Pan's house, Shen Furong has come back early and bought more than a dozen simple cyan porcelain, especially a porcelain bowl in the shape of eight-leaf lotus on the table to enjoy, and he is also having fun.

The porcelain bowl is half a foot square, quite large, the glaze color is smooth and round, gray and blue is dark, just like plums.

After a look at the big porcelain bowl, Wang Yirong arched his hand and smiled with Shen Furong, "Congratulations to Mr. Shen, Mr. Shen, you have bought another good thing!"

Shen Furong was not very sure. He said to Wang Yirong, "You also help me think about it!"

"Good!"

In fact, Wang Yirong is not very sure, but he thinks that it is impossible to buy a fake with Shen Furong's eyesight.

He raised the porcelain bowl and looked at it carefully, touching and pinching it. After a while, he said to Shen Furong, "Mr. Shen, how much did your baby cost?"

Shen Furong said, "Not much, two Yangyuan!"

Wang Yirong sighed and said, "Congratulations, you have made too much money. This is a boutique in the authentic Longquan official kiln of the Southern Song Dynasty. There are no flaws in the fetus and glaze. The most rare one is that in the capital, such a good porcelain is at least worth this number!"

With that, he raised a finger.

Shen Furong nodded slightly and said, "10,000 taels, it's good, and it's just a good thing that can't be sold!"

Listening to what they said, Hu Chuyuan sighed more and more. Although there were not many such good opportunities, it was also worth setting up a branch shop in Kyoto, which was responsible for purchasing cultural relics.

Shen Furong sip his lips and said to Hu Chuyuan, "If you want me to say, I don't need to go to that auction at all. Except for Mobao's calligraphy and paintings, it is not easy to find. There are opportunities everywhere in this Muromachi Street, which depends on your eyesight. It is said that I imitate our porcelain all year round. It is difficult to tell whether it is real or not. I can see more than a dozen porcelain bowls at a glance. Only this one is the best preserved, and it is authentic. The others are not imitations of folk kilns around Longquan, but my own ancient imitations.

He pointed to some similar porcelains beside him and said, "Although these are also genuine, they are a little incomplete. The main reason is that there are too many cracks and fine pieces. There is no way. They are not very carefully preserved. Maybe it's not easy to save it until today. In China, each piece can still be sold for seven or eight hundred taels of silver. Anyway, it's a profit.

Hu Chuyuan smiled and said, "Well, when the auction is over, you will stay here to be responsible for the repurchase. Let others take care of the pawnshop business. When we have enough goods, we will go back to the capital to open an antique house and exchange the things purchased here for those real boutique products.

Shen Furong smiled and said, "My employer, this is really a costless business. I have to attach a share!"

Hu Chuyuan smiled and said, "Don't attach it, it's weird. Since it's profitable, I'll give you 300,000 taels of silver at a time. You don't have to pay a cent, accounting for 30% of the shares. I just want you to run around and often go back to China to talk to me!"

Shen Furong smiled and said, "Money can't be earned. The owner is benevolent and righteous. It's enough for me to take 20% of the shares, and then give 10 percent of the shares to Boss Pan. It's just that the specific kind of thing must be left by the owner. You have to talk about it so that I won't change it in a matter of it.

Hu Chuyuan thought for a moment and said, "To be honest, I don't know much about porcelain antiques, but I want to keep it at home to make a stuff. To put it bluntly, I'm just playing a show and paying attention to it. Tell me, what kind of thing should I leave?

Shen Furong said, "It's worthless porcelain, but the most valuable porcelains are the porcelain of the Southern Song Dynasty, the palace painting porcelain in the late Ming Dynasty, and the high-quality tribute porcelain of the Kangqian period. Unfortunately, these things can't be seen in Muromachitong. Let's buy some living porcelain antiques here, slowly pound it, and change the tribute porcelain little by little."

There are many porcelains in China, but the number of porcelains that can really be called tribute porcelain and imperial porcelain is very rare. Even if it is produced by official kilns, it may not be a tribute to the royal family.

The key to the reason why Yuan Qinghua is valuable is that each piece is a tribute porcelain, which is not available among the people at all, and some of them are also circulated by chance.

The opportunity to make a fortune is everywhere, and it depends on whether everyone can seize it.

Shen Furong is a capable person. If he wants to make a fortune, it is very easy for him to buy a few gadgets and earn hundreds of taels on the left and hundreds of taels on the right.

He is willing to stay in the Hu family to work, and he pays attention to benevolence and righteousness.

Hu Chuyuan also knows that these two stocks may not be able to make a lot of money. When the business is revitalized, he will still give Shen Furong a rich reward.

Several people collected the porcelain ancient books. After dinner, Pan Rong came back and brought a local person to Hu Chuyuan.

The man is thin and not tall. He wears a traditional kimono and has a black and thick mustah beard. He is about the same age as Pan Rong. He is about thirty-five or thirty-six years old. He is in his prime, introverted and bright.

As soon as he entered the door, Pan Rong introduced to Hu Chuyuan: "Mr. Jin, this is Mr. Hiroshi Nakamura, the president of the Mumian Branch of the Kyoto West Front Company. He used to engage in the import and export business of raw silk with me. At that time, we still made some money!"

After saying that, he introduced Nakamura Hiroshi and Hu Chuyuan.

Hu Chuyuan has been with several people in recent days. He knows some of their characteristics and doesn't say much else. First, he invites them to sit down for tea.

Kyoto is the birthplace of the Japanese tea ceremony and flower ceremony, also known as the "real Japanese style" and "Japanese soul".

Here, as long as a little rich people are proficient in the tea ceremony, they have a strange longing for good tea.

Hu Chuyuan used a tea gift with a tea set in Kyoto, and the tea he used was still the lonely lion peak lotus heart he brought.

As expected, as before, Hiroshi Nakamura also praised this kind of tea and said, "Sure enough, your country is rich in products. Our country can never produce such a unique heavenly tea, which is enviable!"