The next day, Li Zekai and Superman Li returned to Hong Kong. Fu Guangwei was busy with Tai Hua Supermarket. Many of his work methods need to be adjusted, and his workload is quite heavy.
Fu Guangzheng had some free time and decided to visit a few big collectors to see if there are any antiques that he likes.
For the sake of his career, Fu Guangzheng had given up his hobby of collecting antiques. Now, many of his investments could bring very stable and high returns, and he didn't need to worry about them, so he picked up his interest in antiques again.
Feng Yu happened to be free and was dragged along by Fu Guangzheng to take a look.
Feng Yu asked curiously, "Guangzheng, what kind of mentality do you have when you collect antiques?"
Fu Guangzheng laughed: "In the beginning, I am not an antique collector. In your words, I am just a dealer. Buy it from China and sell it in Hong Kong. At that time, Hong Kong had such experts. Things bought in China for 100 RMB could be sold for hundreds of thousands of HKD in Hong Kong! "
"There are also some that were bought for a few thousand, and auctioned for millions. I don't want to buy it for a few hundred dollars, but I want to sell it for millions. I just want to buy it for a few hundred thousand and sell it for a few hundred thousand to earn the price difference. "
Actually, Fu Guangzheng had the mentality of picking up scraps. At that time, he was not valued at home and did not get much pocket money every month. He was also spending a lot of money to pick up girls. As the son of an aristocratic family, how could he be stingy?
But he didn't know anything about antiques. He was the kind of person who felt good about himself and thought he knew everything.
Every time he saw something, he would think that it was real. He would think that he had picked up a great treasure, and that he would be able to make a profit of tens of thousands of times.
But in the end, this so-called "big leak" was all an eyesore. He spent a lot of money, but all he bought were handicrafts.
Later, he learned his lesson and hired an experienced "expert". This time, he was not so blind. Occasionally, he could pick up some leftovers. After deducting his expenses for eating, drinking, and playing, he could barely make ends meet.
In the end, Fu Guangzheng was looking at others showing off to him how much they had spent and how much they had earned back. Fu Guangzheng was unhappy. Thus, he put in a lot of hard work, determined to pick up a big loophole.
Of course, at that time, he was full of ambition. Unfortunately, the result was a slap in his own face. He didn't succeed even once. In the end, he was the one who paid a high price to buy a genuine item from China. Then, he said that he bought it for a few thousand RMB to save his face.
At that time, Fu Guangzheng was not interested in antiques. He was just buying with his left hand and selling with his right hand. He wanted to make money from this.
After that, he cooperated with Feng Yu to sell second-hand luxury cars and invested in the Machinery Company. His profits were increasing every month, and he became the target of the Hong Kong tycoons. He no longer needs to rely on others to earn his reputation.
Picking up a big scoop once a year, that's pretty frequent, right? How much money could they make? One million, or three million? At that time, his investments in China could bring in tens of millions of RMB a year.
But now, it was more than a few hundred million a year!
His state of mind also went from feeling good, to being self-righteous, to being discouraged, and finally to being as calm as water. Now, his net worth had increased to more than 10 billion HKD. Other than Li Zeju, who else among the younger generation in Hong Kong can be compared to him?
Now, even if he had bought fake antiques, he was not as angry as before. Even if he was cheated, he was not discouraged. He still had some of the fake antiques he had bought in the past at home.
In his words, the antiques were beautiful. Although they were not from the previous dynasty, he liked them. Just treat them as an art piece and leave them there.
Others treat them as grass, but I treat them as treasures.
With this attitude, he did not get cheated again for the past two years.
This was because he was not trying to make money from other antiques. He only wanted to display them at home. He was not like some collectors who kept their antiques in a safe and did not want others to touch them.
The Qing Dynasty vases he had bought were placed at home along with the other art pieces as decorations.
In Hong Kong, many tycoons had antiques in their homes, but they were all real antiques. There was no one like Fu Guangzheng who mixed the real and fake antiques together.
A famous collector once asked Fu Guangzheng, "Don't you know there are fakes in your antiques? This way, people will know your antiques are fake. "
Fu Guangzheng asked him back. So what?
Anyway, he had no intention to sell the antiques. He was only keeping them for fun. Was real and fake more important than what he liked?
This time, Fu Guangzheng went to that collector in the outskirts of Beijing. He had known this collector for a long time. Of course, the antiques in this collector's antiques could be real and fake. It all depended on the buyer's judgment.
Feng Yu laughed and asked: "You don't have an appraiser with you now? Or are you going to ask for my opinion? If you want to ask me, then you better be prepared to buy a bunch of fake antiques. "
Feng Yu knew nothing about antiques. He was lucky to get a Xuande Burner because no one knew it was an antique.
Also, Feng Yu was not interested in antiques. He had never worn any ornaments. Many tycoons like to buy Buddhist beads or ancient jade to ward off evil spirits. But Feng Yu felt it was safer to have bodyguards.
He only used bodyguards to prevent accidents. He did not have any faith. He donated every year just to do something good. He did what he could, and he could also see those people looking at him with gratitude. He was in a good mood, so why not?
Fu Guangzheng glanced at Feng Yu: "I am asking for your opinion? I am only buying if I like it. If I don't like it, then no matter what the other party said and showed me, why should I buy it? Now, I am not investing. I am keeping it for my own fun. "
Feng Yu nodded. Seems like Fu Guangzheng had changed. He was much more rational now.
Feng Yu did not know what those institutions were thinking. They were trying to protect antiques and at the same time, inflate the prices of antiques.
There were also many so-called arts that Fu Guangzheng could not appreciate.
Especially many of the artworks. They had strong regional and cultural characteristics. For example, calligraphy. It was very popular in Hua Xia and Southeast Asia. But in the west, people could not understand it. What was there to appreciate?
Of course, Feng Yu also could not appreciate calligraphy. Most of the calligraphy was from thousands of years ago, and Feng Yu could not understand it. What was there to appreciate?
Feng Yu did not believe that he could tell what the person was thinking from the calligraphy. To Fu Guangzheng, this was like a language class in school. You could tell what the person was thinking from the words. Only God knows if the person had written the words casually.
"We are here. It's that house. The walls in your house are too empty. You should buy some landscape paintings. It will be more artistic."
Feng Yu rolled his eyes. Can't you just say that I am pretending to be cool?
I need to know how to appreciate landscape paintings. But since I am here, I might as well take a look. What if I like it?
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