Chapter 388 Stove Legend

"Mr. Chen, why are you... suddenly giving such a big gift?"

Suddenly someone bowed to him and said he wanted to kowtow. Boss Li was so frightened that he backed away.

But Chen Yanguang still made a solid ninety-degree bow.

All it takes is "Private Marseille" to express the spirit of craftsmanship.

"Boss Li, you can afford this gift." Zhang Yang explained with a smile beside him, "This white marble bowl is a handicraft produced by Mr. Chen's wife's family."

"Crafts? Impossible."

Although Boss Li still sounded suspicious, his tone was much weaker than before.

After all, Chen Yanguang would not come here for no reason.

He opened the window directly, picked up the jade bowl from the Han Dynasty and handed it to Chen Yanguang.

"Mr. Chen, would you like to take a closer look?"

"I bought this from an old man at the construction site next to the hotel. The man seemed quite honest. There was still mud on the bowl and he said he had just dug it out."

"That old man should be the salesman of our group." Chen Yanguang took the jade bowl and said, "Boss Li, to be honest, the domestic antique imitation industry has been in decline in the past few years, and my father-in-law's family has also been forced to do nothing. I hired some salespeople to tell stories to everyone.”

"But don't worry, my wife's uncle and her grandfather, who are the masterminds behind this fraud, have been sent to jail."

Boss Li: "..."

The confusion on his face was visible to the naked eye.

who I am? Where am I? Mr. Chen, what are you talking about?

Also, did I really buy this room full of collections?

Seeing him like this, Chen Yanguang said very ashamedly: "Boss Li, how much did it cost to buy this? I will refund the money to you."

Puff, there was a sound like a knife piercing the flesh, but unfortunately no blood spattered out.

"No, no, no." Boss Li covered his heart with his left hand and hurriedly moved his right hand back and forth in front of him.

He couldn't hold it any longer.

Zhang Yang felt that Boss Li's health would be worrying if they continued to chat, so he quickly pulled Chen Yanguang to his side.

He took the jade bowl from his hand and put it back in the cupboard.

Zhang Yang changed the subject and said, "Hey, Boss Li, didn't you say you also collected a lot of incense burners? Let's go take a look now?"

"Censer...Okay." Boss Li said in a weak tone, "I will lead you."

…

Zhang Yang and Chen Yanguang followed Boss Li and slowly walked to the next room.

The two of them walked behind, fearing that the old man in front of them would accidentally fall down.

Fortunately, he is recovering well.

It was probably the real Buddha statues in the living room that gave Boss Li confidence. By the time he started looking at the incense burner, his volume had basically returned to normal.

"In this room are my collection of incense burners from all dynasties."

Boss Li didn't show off this time. He walked around the room, turned on all the lights, and then made a gesture of invitation.

"Mr. Chen, Director Zhang, please excuse me."

"I'm going to sit here and take it easy."

"Okay, then you can take a rest." Zhang Yang nodded, his eyes already shifting to the window next to him.

The situation in the incense burner room is completely different from that in the jade room. At least in terms of authenticity, it is already at the level of a professional collector.

The only problem is that the things are arranged in an unorganized manner. Incense burners from different eras, real and fake, are placed together.

Zhang Yang had to identify them one by one.

Because Boss Li was recharging his energy, Zhang Yang cooperated and did not make a sound, silently admiring the exquisite antiques.

Zhang Yang didn't speak, he could understand it himself.

But Chen Yanguang was embarrassed.

In terms of porcelain, Chen Yanguang can still give advice, but I really can't figure out the reason for the incense burner.

After hesitating for a while, Chen Yanguang walked restlessly behind Zhang Yang and whispered: "Brother Yang, how are you doing?"

"Yes, there are quite a few fine products." Zhang Yang nodded and continued to walk forward silently.

"Oh, then... tell me, did I make Boss Li angry just now?" Chen Yanguang found a topic.

"Absolutely." Zhang Yang stopped and nodded, "You clearly said you would kowtow, but you ended up bowing there."

"It's like sending him to his death. Who can bear it?"

"I said you really have to knock, don't." Chen Yanguang lowered his voice and said, "I think he has recovered now. So, are these copper furnaces real or fake? Do you want to tell him later?"

"It depends on whether he asks, I will definitely not take the initiative to tell him."

As soon as Zhang Yang finished speaking, Boss Li's voice sounded behind the two of them.

"Director Zhang, Mr. Chen, if there is something wrong with something, you don't have to hide it from me."

"Let's be honest, no matter how bad it is, it can't be worse than my jade carriages."

"I'm not hiding it from you." Zhang Yang turned around and said with a smile, "It's Mr. Chen who said that you have too many good things here. He asked me to recommend a few that are valuable and I'll ask you to part with them later."

"Really?" Boss Li asked suspiciously.

Just now he didn't believe that he had bought a fake;

Now he didn't believe there was anything genuine in this room.

"More real than real gold." Chen Yanguang agreed, lighting three incense burners from afar and saying, "I just plan to choose one at random from these three items."

"Have you made the final decision?" Boss Li asked with bright eyes.

"Um...Brother Yang, which one were you talking about just now?"

"I have a bad memory and forgot about it."

"This one." Zhang Yang turned around decisively, pointed at the Boshan stove in front of him just now, and said, "The three pieces you chose are almost boring. If we want to buy it, we will buy the best one."

It wasn't that Zhang Yang didn't want to follow Chen Yanguang's words, it was actually that the three items he ordered were all fakes.

Maybe this is the son-in-law of the Hedong Group, the chosen one. His luck has reached such a level that any one finger on him will turn out to be a fake.

"Is the Boshan furnace real?" Boss Li also became interested and came over with a smile.

"Director Zhang, this is the Boshan furnace from the Han Dynasty, right?"

"That's right." Zhang Yang nodded, "Did you see the little figure on it? It's a hunting picture, which was a very common pattern in the Han Dynasty."

"Imagine that after lighting incense in this stove, smoke comes out from these gaps, and the entire mountain-shaped pattern is bathed in smoke, just like a real fairy mountain. What's interesting is that there are hunters in the fairy mountain..."

"It's truly a wonderland." Boss Li imagined and praised with satisfaction.

"Awesome." Chen Yanguang broke the atmosphere with one sentence.

"Boss Li, do you want to sell this?"

"Hehe, thanks to Mr. Chen, I don't want to sell this thing." Boss Li smiled. This was the first time he laughed after coming out of the jade storage room.

After all, he was a good businessman, so he immediately changed his mind.

Instead of worrying about what is real and what is fake, it is better to pan for gold in the sand and only look for the real thing.

His eyes quickly returned to Zhang Yang's face:

"Director Zhang, help me see if I can find a representative authentic product from each of these furnaces in the order of the Tang, Song, Yuan, Ming and Qing dynasties?"

"I'll put together a whole set."

"Oh? This idea is okay." Zhang Yang himself had never thought of this kind of collection idea.

The incense burner is a kind of special-purpose metal device. It is really a little bit. It slowly changed in each dynasty, and finally gradually evolved into what everyone remembers.

It first gradually evolved from the bronze tripod in the Shang and Zhou Dynasties. It was not until the Boshan furnace in the Han Dynasty that it was officially independent and became a special-purpose vessel.

If you follow Boss Li's approach...

There is no doubt that it is from the Han Dynasty, and it is the Boshan furnace in front of me.

In the Tang Dynasty, the Tang Sancai incense burner is definitely the most representative.

But there were only metal objects in Boss Li's room. After searching for a long time, Zhang Yang finally found a good Tang Dynasty incense burner made of gilded silver.

Most of the incense burners in the Tang Dynasty were used to burn incense in Buddhist temples. And because Buddhist temples in the Tang Dynasty were generally richer, they used more precious metals, and gilded copper and gilded silver were more common.

This silver-gilt incense burner collected by Boss Li has engraving patterns on it. It looks very beautiful overall.

In China, if the source can be clarified, it is estimated that it will not be a problem to designate it as a third-level cultural relic.

If the incense burners of the Tang Dynasty may require some effort to select, then the incense burners of the Song Dynasty are completely free of charge.

Because from this time on, the incense burner gradually became one of the literary toys of scholars, placed on the desk and used for burning incense.

Kirin, duck, lion, and various animal-shaped incense burners appeared on the desks of scholars.

So if you look for the oldest animal-shaped incense burner, you can find it from the Song Dynasty.

It's a bit regretful that Zhang Yang only found a Southern Song Dynasty bronze duck at Boss Li's place, which was not satisfactory.

It is said that an expert once valued this duck-shaped incense burner at 1 million.

Although the market price may not be worth that much, but judging from the quantity in existence, this kind of duck is indeed a cultural relic worth millions, but a large part of the economic value is converted into cultural relic value.

"From the Yuan Dynasty...Boss Li, you don't have any here." Zhang Yang said after looking around.

"No? It's impossible."

"Really not. Most of the incense burners from the Yuan Dynasty that we see are Jun kiln, that is, porcelain incense burners. I remember that there are only a few metal incense burners from the Yuan Dynasty in museums, and there are very few in circulation on the market."

Zhang Yang explained in great detail, and he was afraid that Boss Li would not be able to think clearly.

"Does that mean if someone sells me a copper incense burner from the Yuan Dynasty in the future, I can assume that it is fake?"

"That's pretty much it."

"As for the ones from the Ming and Qing Dynasties, there's no need to look for them." Zhang Yang pointed casually, "This one, this one, and the first three in that row are all incense burners from the Ming and Qing Dynasties."

"There are a large number of incense burners from these two dynasties in existence, usually only tens of thousands of them."

"Then there's really no need to look for it." Boss Li nodded and said to himself, "I'll just go to Christie's to auction a few expensive ones next time and come back."

"That's the truth, but you can also come to the Hailin Light Auction."

"Oh, my God, I'm so confused." Boss Li slapped his forehead in a pretentious manner and said, "I almost forgot that Master Zhang also has an auction."

…

Two days later, Zhang Yang took several flights and flew to Linhai.

Originally, the Saudi father and daughter were also traveling with him, but they separated in Xiangjiang.

Zhang Yang was originally ready to go to their home in Indonesia, but that night the old prince suddenly called and said that he had to go to China in an emergency.

"Home visits" can only be canceled temporarily.

Although Boss Li was a little sorry, there was nothing he could do.

Unexpectedly, when Zhang Yang was about to board the plane, he met a father and his daughter who were also about to board the plane.

After the old prince forcibly upgraded Zhang Yang, he told Zhang Yang on the plane that they were going to China this time because something happened to the team they invested in.

Only then did Zhang Yang know that the old prince was still a shareholder of a certain team in Liad.

I heard that the team had a quarrel with the contractor of the game because the tickets for the team's friendly matches could not be sold.

Zhang Yang rarely watches football and has nothing in common with the old prince.

However, there are many common topics with Bashar.

This girl has a very strong interest in Chinese culture and kept asking questions along the way.

He even deliberately changed seats to sit next to Zhang Yang. His enthusiasm almost caused Zhang Yang to have one of the four major illusions in life.

When the two separated in Xiangjianglin, Bashay asked Zhang Yang: "Mr. Zhang, are you married?"

When she learned that Zhang Yang had a girlfriend, she did not show any disappointment. Instead, she advised Zhang Yang: "If you become a Saudi national, you can marry four wives."

"And wives are equal. You don't have to worry about conflicts between them at all, as long as you treat everyone well."

Is this hinting at something? Zhang Yang was a little at a loss.

However, Zhang Yang was still very determined. His heart belonged to Miss Shen, and he rejected Bashay's suggestion on the spot.

After returning to Linhai, the real busy life has just begun.

Zhang Yang's biggest gain from going to Indonesia this time was not that he saw the salvage method of porcelain from the sea, nor that he met two Saudi royals, but that he reached a preliminary cooperation intention with Boss Li.

He wants to sell the other party's collection.

Not only porcelain from the sea, but also various antiques collected by Boss Li in Southeast Asia, including incense burners, Buddhist statues, calligraphy and paintings, spices, etc.

And the way of selling it is also very interesting.

Boss Li’s original words are:

"I am a person who doesn't know how to collect. I don't want my collection to fall into the hands of people who don't know how to collect. So I need your help to confirm the buyer's collecting ability before I can sell my things to him."

After discussing with the person in charge of "Huayu Gate", for the first time in the history of the domestic antique circle, a seller made a request for a collector's existing collection.

In the past, the most they could do was to verify capital or test their eyesight, but now they have to show Zhang Yang the collection to determine the level of the collection.

There are four levels in total, the highest is S level and the lowest is C level.

Of course, behind such a troublesome operation is a substantial profit concession.

S-level collectors will receive an unconditional 30% discount on antiques purchased at the antique store of "Huayu Gate".

Class A is 50% off, Class B is 20% off, and Class C is no discount.

"Basically, the 20% discount guarantees that you won't lose money."

"50% off can make a little profit."

"As for the S-level, don't worry, I will definitely keep the number of people stuck, otherwise I will die." Zhang Yang patiently explained to the barrage in the live broadcast room.

With the support of Chao's ability, the number of viewers in the live broadcast room has reached more than 80,000, and there are more than 40,000 viewers in the live broadcast room of "Huayu Gate".

Although most people came to watch the fun, the combined number of people in the two live broadcast rooms ranked among the top ten in Douyin.

He is already a top-level anchor.

Zhang Yang calmed down a little while watching the live broadcast. Whether he can become popular and make a lot of money this time depends on this.

"Come and welcome the first graded treasure friend."