"When I first went to Yenching last year, I brought a Chinese-American named Pete Wu with me.
This Pete Wu is now Chinese New Year's Eve five years old, his home is in New York's Downtown Chinatown, and he used to work under an old friend of mine.
This Pete Wu is a second-generation immigrant, he speaks Chinese fluently, and he is also relatively proficient in antique art, so I found him through my friend.
Now Pete Wu lives in Yanjing, specially for you to buy some antique art, and over the past year, he has really collected a lot of good things, the last time I went to Yanjing, he bought those antique furniture, calligraphy, painting, porcelain and other things, has been piled up in five large rooms, and the purchase of these things, only spent less than five million dollars.
He's doing this over there, and he's doing a great job. ” Yang Jing asked, "How is this person's humanity?"
” "It's not a big problem, the most important thing is that every transaction of Pete Wu has relevant procedures, and I have also arranged for three people to accompany him over there, so you can rest assured about the financial matters."
I may not be proficient in other things, but I think I am quite proficient in the things of money monitoring. ” Hearing these words, Yang Jing was relieved.
Originally, Yang Jing also wanted to use the restricted-level time and space travel skills to go back to Yanjing in the eighties to buy those old objects, but then he thought about it and felt that it was a little unsafe, so he made such a plan.
If you go back to buy it yourself, although there is a reminder of the Holy Ring, you can try to avoid the occurrence of the paradox of time and space, but that is not as fast and safe as letting foreigners buy it.
The most important thing is to go back to the 80s to buy old objects, which is to exchange a large number of old national coins in the original time and space.
With the use of foreign acquisitions, these problems do not exist.
At that time, it was the time when China was short of foreign exchange, so let foreigners take US dollars to buy those old objects in Yanjing, not only without the restrictions of the old version of the national currency, but also increase some foreign exchange reserves for the motherland, why not?
When it reaches a certain point in time, you can send these foreigners back, and then you can quietly wait in the original time and space for a person in charge of the Evil Dragon Fund to give you the Evil Dragon Fund "Mike, in the past two years, you will continue to do what I have told you, you can buy as much as you can, money is not a problem, as long as you can buy as many fine works of art as possible."
"Hehe, boss, I like this job very much, so you don't have to worry about it.
After New Year's Day, I will quit my current job and return to my native state of Louisiana.
At that point, I will have more time and freedom to serve you. ” "Well, I'm going to have to trouble you a lot in the next few years.
By the way, one more thing you have to pay attention to, around '85, I need Cesar to do it for me again. ” "Another good investment project?"
Mike Ale asked in surprise.
Yang Jing nodded and said: "It's hard to say now, I just have such a judgment, and the specific situation will have to be observed for a few more years." ” "Alright then, if you need to, you can call my home phone directly."
As he spoke, Mike Ale took out one of his business cards, wrote a string of numbers on the back of the business card, and handed it to Yang Jing, "This is my home phone, if you need to find me, just call this number."
If I'm not at home, my family has a way to reach me. ” Yang Jing took the business card and carefully put it in his wallet.
"Mike, you contact that Pete Wu, and say that I might go to Yanjing to have a look in the near future, and tell him my name, well, it's that Michael Lynch's name, not my real name."
Mike Ale made a "don't worry" expression and said, "I know what to do, don't worry, boss, except for me and Cesar, no one else will know your real name." ” At noon, Yang Jing and Mike Ale had a meal, and after discussing for a long time after the meal, Yang Jing said goodbye and went out, walking down an alley into the distance.
Walking to a corner, after observing the surroundings to make sure that there was no one, Yang Jing decisively launched the restricted-level time and space travel skill, and the next moment, he returned to the room of the hotel in Jinling.
Because of the speed of time, Yang Jing went to the Cayman Islands this time and stayed there for about ten hours, but in the original time and space, less than two hours had passed, and it was still late at night.
Mike Ale did an excellent job, some of which was surprisingly good.
Originally, Yang Jing thought that during the time he left, Mike Ale would do some things wrong, but he didn't expect this calm old guy to do everything without leakage and take all the things that should be taken into account.
The most important thing is that the quantity and quality of the artworks he bought really made Yang Jing unexpected.
Originally, Yang Jing thought that it would be very good for Mike Ale to be able to buy about five famous oil paintings a year, but in less than two years, Mike Ale directly bought 16 oil paintings, including works by giants such as Picasso, Henri Matisse, and Simon Oue.
In particular, Picasso's "Les Demoiselles d'Avignon" is a surprise among surprises.
When the painting eventually became part of his own private museum, it was going to cause quite a stir.
For this painting, Yang Jing has to give Mike Ale a thumbs up.
As for how the Yanjing operation is going, Yang Jing still needs to find a time to shuttle back to see.
And Mike Ale complained that the money couldn't be spent at all, and Yang Jing was of course happy to see it.
In fact, in the early 80's in Western European and American countries, tens of millions of dollars of art were very rare, except for those treasures that could not be shaken, other works of art that could be auctioned, most of them were in the hundreds of thousands or millions of dollars, and more than 10 million dollars of art were really rare in that era.
It was not until the 90s that the number of works of art in the tens of millions of dollars gradually increased, one was that the dollar was not as valuable as in the 80s, and the other was the increase in the global economy, which made the price of art rise a lot.
In other words, the price of works of art that would have cost tens of millions or even hundreds of millions of dollars in later generations was not that expensive at all in the early eighties.
Therefore, this period is also a good period for acquiring some fine European and American artworks. looked at his watch and found that it was not yet one o'clock in the morning, and Yang Jing was not sleepy at this time, so he pondered for a while, and simply launched the restricted-level time and space shuttle skill, and directly arrived at Yanjing on January 5, 1982.
Of course, Yang Jing put the place where he shuttled in Xiangshan Park, and at five o'clock in the morning in winter, there were still basically no people in Xiangshan Park.
After waiting for a long time from the park, Yang Jing took the first bus from Xiangshan to the city, and then arrived at Deshengmen.
Desheng Gate is not far from Houhai, and Yang Jing is too lazy to take a car anymore, so he walked along Gulou West Street and walked to the north edge of Houhai.
The courtyard house that Mike Ale bought is not called Hai Courtyard Courtyard now, but it has to wait until 2002 after the transformation of this area, this courtyard house is called "Hai Courtyard" because it is located in the "Hai" character area.
In February 2002, after years of deliberation, the Yanjing Municipal Government finally promulgated the "Protection Plan for 25 Historical and Cultural Reserves in the Old City of Yanjing", and 25 historical and cultural protection areas appeared for the first time in the Second Ring Road of Yangjing, but with the acceleration of urban modernization, more and more areas need to be protected.
By 2007, there were 40 historical and cultural reserves in Yanjing, mainly focusing on traditional courtyard buildings.
Outside of these 40 protected areas, the courtyard houses, which are traditional buildings in Yanjing, are rapidly disappearing, and the total number of courtyard houses in the reserves will hardly change due to regional restrictions.
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Especially as more and more people realize the preciousness of the courtyard house, the price of the courtyard in Yanjing City is getting more and more expensive.
The courtyard house along the north side of Houhai is the first batch of courtyard houses to be included in the historical and cultural protection area, and when it began to accept special protective transformation, this piece of courtyard house was codenamed according to the different locations.
In the previous life, this set of courtyard houses bought by Russian oil tycoons happened to be in the "Hai" area.
Of course, the courtyard was bought by the Russian tycoon in 2007, and after the purchase, the Russian tycoon began to rebuild the courtyard, and eventually, the entire courtyard house will be delivered to the owner at a cost of about 40 million US dollars, or nearly 300 million yuan at the 2007 exchange rate.
The reason why the final price of this courtyard is so expensive is that in addition to the unique geographical location, special architectural form and huge area of the courtyard itself, another important reason is the luxury of building materials.
At that time, when this courtyard was rebuilt, there were as many as 24 supporting wooden pillars for the main house in the courtyard, all of which were logs with a diameter of half a meter thick, and the wood used in the houses was native wood from the tropical rainforest of Thailand, plus the relevant taxes and transportation costs, the price was as high as 25,000 yuan cubic meters.
And this is only the wood used in construction, and most of the other related materials are almost all top-of-the-line equipment imported from abroad, plus the huge area of the basement, so it is not surprising that the overall cost has finally become so high.
However, the Russian tycoon bought the yard and rebuilt it in 2007, and Yang Jing commissioned Mike Ale to buy the yard in 1981, a full 26 years between the two.
Don't underestimate the past 26 years, it is the time difference in these 26 years that has changed the value of many things.
For example, in 1981, a small courtyard house with an area of about 140 square meters near Houhai could be bought for 2,000 yuan, but in 2007, 20 million yuan was the starting price of this courtyard!
And Mike Ale bought this set of courtyards, in 1981 only spent 500,000 US dollars, according to the official exchange rate of 1 US dollar to 17 national dollars at that time, this set of more than 3,000 square meters of the best courtyard is only 800,000 yuan, even according to the trade internal settlement exchange rate of 1 US dollar to 28 yuan of the exchange rate, this set of courtyard is only 1.4 million national dollars!