ebookland Chapter 122 Accounting
Chapter 122 Accounting
"Tang Dai's 'Overlapping Mountains and Verdant Mountains' and 'Curving Stream'! Masterpieces!"
Professor Qiao placed his magnifying glass on the signature and inscription, muttering to himself.
Ning Yuan didn't hear Professor Qiao's mumbling clearly.
He watched as Professor Qiao stared at the signatures and inscriptions on the two paintings, fearing that he only had a superficial understanding, knowing the results but not the reasons behind them.
So he introduced him: "Tang Dai, also known by his courtesy name Yudong and pseudonym Jingyan, was a member of the Manchu Zhenglan Banner. He specialized in landscape painting and was a court painter during the Qing Dynasty!"
"Not only that, this man was once awarded the title of top painter by Emperor Kangxi. As far as I know, in the entire feudal history, only he and Wu Wei of the Ming Dynasty have received such an honor! He became the head of the Imperial Household Department and his painting skills are comparable to those of the sages of previous dynasties. It's incredible!"
When Professor Qiao heard Ning Yuan actually introduce this painter from Tang Dai to him, he couldn't help but add an exclamation.
"Haha, it seems I was overthinking it. Professor Qiao has been collecting for decades. I'm just showing off my skills in front of an expert. Please show off your ugliness!"
When Ning Yuan saw that the other person knew more than he did, he immediately shut up and listened to the other person's introduction. Only after he finished the introduction did he express his sincere admiration.
(Let me state that although Tang Dai’s various titles are impressive, the most important reason why he was able to receive such high recognition from the Qing emperor was his identity as a bannerman.
The price of his works at auction houses in later generations can only be regarded as the lowest among the ten major imperial painters of the Qing Dynasty.
"Brother Ning, you know quite a bit. Tang Dai's works are indeed considered masterpieces of Ming and Qing dynasty paintings. I'll buy these two paintings for 1,200 yuan. What do you think, Brother Ning?"
Professor Qiao is indeed a great collector and he has his own judgment on the value of these things.
After hearing Professor Qiao's offer, Ning Yuan still felt that it was a bit low, so he continued.
"Professor Qiao, your offer is really hard on me. To be honest, I bought these two paintings from someone else for 1,500 yuan. Your price isn't even enough to cover my original cost!"
Professor Qiao couldn't help laughing when he saw Ning Yuan's embarrassed look on his face.
This guy is not well versed in the jargon of the antique business. How can he be so straightforward and say his cost price is the real cost price?
He still wants fifteen hundred yuan. He really treats Qiao as a newbie and an idiot!
But anyway, since Ning Yuan is also a connoisseur of value, he naturally wouldn't buy it as if he was finding a bargain.
To be honest, Qiao Vining had already made a lot of money from those jade pieces before. These two paintings were actually worth buying for two thousand yuan. However, his family had been in business for decades, and whether he really liked them or was trying to save money, he had to take a bite out of the bargain to feel comfortable.
"Brother Ning, since you said so, then fifteen hundred will be fine. I'll take both paintings. If you receive any good things in the future, just come find me here!"
After some thought, Qiao Vining decided to give Ning Yuan some face and just go with his offer.
After all, this group of young people are in power, and this guy has many ways to get good things, so it doesn't matter if he doesn't make any profit on one or two items.
Ning Yuan couldn't help feeling disappointed when he heard that Professor Qiao actually gave him fifteen hundred yuan.
He said he charged 1,500 yuan, so if I transfer it to you, I should make some money.
He was thinking that I had said I would charge 1,500 yuan, and Professor Qiao was more sensible and added another 300 yuan.
In this way, he earned back all the money he spent on the eighteen paintings with these two paintings.
But I didn't expect that Professor Qiao was so cunning and didn't leave any profit margin at all!
"Professor Qiao, could you at least add a few hundred more? If five hundred isn't enough, three hundred will do. Don't make us work in vain!"
Ning Yuan still didn't give up and continued to pester.
"Haha, Brother Ning, let's not beat around the bush. Did you really buy these two paintings for fifteen hundred? You, haha, okay, let's just go with the fifteen hundred. You definitely won't lose out!"
Qiao Weining smiled and took out 150 Great Unity banknotes from the house and stuffed them into Ning Yuan's hands.
Ning Yuan and Zhong Yuemin looked at each other.
After receiving the money, the two of them stayed until they left the gate of the Air Force compound. Ning Yuan was still wondering, is his acting so poor?
He also learned from later TV dramas how antique dealers talk to buyers, sell at high prices, and at the same time make buyers feel that the purchase is not expensive.
(Those who are interested can watch TV series such as "The Fragrance of Sophora japonica in May" and "Antique Bug" that talk about the ins and outs of antique collecting.)
But unfortunately, the other party didn't fall for his trick at all. Maybe it was really because Ning Yuan's words were too simple!
But Ning Yuan definitely made a profit. He still had more than a dozen paintings in his hands. Together with the ones Chen Liangzi gave him, there were more than twenty paintings in his space.
The value of each of the remaining paintings is no less than these two. Theoretically speaking, Ning Yuan has at least more than 10,000 yuan or nearly 20,000 yuan in his hands.
Ning Yuan was calculating here by himself and was shocked. You know, at that time, the average worker's monthly salary was only thirty or forty yuan.
A small courtyard house within the Second Ring Road can be bought for no more than 2,000 yuan at most.
The earliest recorded transaction of a small courtyard house was around 1977, which was almost the s.
At that time, people with an annual income of 10,000 yuan had just started to appear, and three to five families would live in a courtyard house at the same time. The property rights certificate at that time was not clear, and a certificate had to be issued by the street office or neighborhood committee.
To buy a whole courtyard house, you need to convince four or five families at the same time. In this case, it is generally more expensive, costing four to eight thousand yuan per set.
If it is a single-family house, of course this situation is rare, but it does happen, and it basically only costs three to five thousand yuan.
(The protagonists are now in 1967, a full ten years earlier, and it is also the time when daily necessities are the most scarce, so the prices are similar.)
So, after Ning Yuan calculated the value of the things in his hands, he began to make a trade-off.
These old items are good, but their future realization speed and appreciation speed will not be as fast as that of the courtyard house.
Especially now that the outer ring road has not been developed yet, almost all the courtyard houses are within the second ring road.
A few decades later, each building will be priced at more than 200 million yuan.
Now he looks for a suitable courtyard house to buy. He will save all his money to buy a house, and he will have no worries about food and clothing for the rest of his life.
From 2,000 yuan to 200 million yuan, the value has appreciated 100,000 times, and it is also easy to cash out.
(Don't argue, even after the city introduced the purchase restriction policy, there are still a large number of local tycoons who pay outright for houses and courtyard houses!)
Ning Yuan also noticed the current gold price in the department store. It was only two yuan per gram. Even if it rose to five hundred yuan per gram in the future, it would only have appreciated by more than two hundred times.
With the gold price for comparison, Ning Yuan can make a judgment more easily.
It’s the most cost-effective to stock up on Siheyuan!