Hardy Empire 1945

Fusajiro Abe was originally a giant in the Japanese textile industry and loved Chinese cultural relics. Although Japan has never recognized it, in fact they are deeply influenced by Chinese culture. Many upper-class people cherish Chinese culture and cultural relics.

During World War II, Abe Fujiro received a large number of orders from the military and made a lot of profits. During this period, through his relationship with the military, Abe Fujiro purchased a large number of Chinese antique artworks looted by the military.

Including calligraphy and paintings of famous ancient Chinese calligraphers and painters, dozens of golden Buddhas in Beihai Jingxinzhai Ten Thousand Buddha Building, a large collection of Prince Gong's Mansion, porcelain, gold, ivory carvings, etc.

Great value.

After Japan's defeat, the situation at Fujiro Abe's factory took a turn for the worse. The textile factory was on the verge of bankruptcy. There was no order to support the workers. The original 3,000 workers in the textile factory were dismissed, and the factory was in a state of shutdown.

Later, Hardy brought the seven major consortiums over, and Fusajiro Abe's textile factory was bought out. Although the Abe family retained 15% of the shares and the factory started working again, the ownership was taken away by others, and the management rights also belonged to the Americans.

Now Fujiro Abe stays at home every day with nothing to do. Although he is nearly seventy years old, he is still restless. Seeing the advertisement of an antique mortgage financial investment company in the newspaper, he was moved.

He was not reconciled to the fact that the Japanese economy was completely controlled by the Americans.

He has a large number of antiques in his hand, and he may be able to make a profit in this way. When he makes money, he hopes to start a new business and make the Abe family grow again.

Asked his son Abe Kojiro to find an antique mortgage financial investment company. The business manager heard that Abe's family had a large number of antiques, so he immediately brought people over.

The antiques collected by Abe Fujiro are all high-quality goods. There are special collection rooms and exhibition rooms. Abe Fujiro has a bad leg and a bad heart, so he needs to walk with a cane. He brought the business manager and his party to his home Looking at the antique artworks displayed on the wall, I felt a little melancholy.

He never thought that one day, the Abe family would rely on selling antiques to maintain their livelihood.

No,

just a mortgage,

These antiques will be brought back sooner or later!

Abe Fangjiro persuaded himself like this.

Pointing to a painting on the wall, he introduced: This is a painting by Su Dongpo, a great writer of the Song Dynasty in China. It is named Wood and Stone Picture. I bought it for 40,000 yen.

If it is said that the Chinese writers that the Japanese love and admire most, Bai Juyi ranks first,

So Su Dongpo must be ranked second.

The business manager asked the experts behind him to come and appraise it. After the appraisal, the painting was indeed authentic. Finally, the business manager said: We can price this painting at 2,500 US dollars.

Abe Fujiro was taken aback, and said slightly annoyed: If converted according to the exchange rate of the year, 2,500 US dollars is equivalent to 10,000 yen. I have collected it for so many years, but I have to pay so much money. No, the price you gave is too low.

business manager spreading hands,

The value of antiques is the highest in a stable period. Now the price of antiques on the market has dropped a lot. This is a normal situation. You must know that many people in Japan are selling antiques at home in exchange for daily necessities. People who buy But very few.

The business manager is telling the truth.

Chinese cultural relics are not popular in Europe. Europeans like European art, especially oil paintings. As for Americans, they are not interested in oriental art.

The market for Chinese cultural relics is mainly domestic, but in the current domestic situation, no one cares about antiques. There are a large number of Chinese antiques in Japan, many of which are looted, and even some ordinary Japanese military officers have dozens of Chinese antiques in their homes.

In difficult times, many people sell antiques to supplement their families, but the sales are not good. The main reason is that there are very few people who have the money to buy them, and everyone has a hard time, so the prices are getting lower and lower.

Now there is no market for Chinese antiques at all, and financial companies mortgage antiques, which can be said to be one of the few opportunities for Chinese antiques to be realized.

Ok.

Abe Fangjiro gritted his teeth and accepted. To be honest, he doesn't have the capital to argue with others now.

Especially when the other party is American.

The Americans have managed the Japanese for 5 years and implemented a high-pressure policy. Many Japanese have begun to fear the Americans from the bottom of their hearts. In many places, even if it is an American tramp, the Japanese have to be respectful.

Abe Fangjiro continued to introduce.

This is Wang Wei's Fu Sheng Teaching Sutras. Wang Wei was a great poet and painter in the Tang Dynasty. This painting has a history of 1,400 years.

This year is older, then give 3,000 US dollars. The business manager said.

Fujiro Abe felt a throbbing pain in his heart. Is this kind of artwork only judged by the length of time? Americans are really uneducated.

This is Zhang Sengyao's Five Stars and Twenty-Eight Constellations of Divine Shapes. Zhang Sengyao was a great painter during the Northern and Southern Dynasties. He is the finishing touch in the Chinese allusions.

The finishing touch, I've never heard of it, how old are the Southern and Northern Dynasties? the business manager asked the appraiser next to him.

The appraiser next to him hurriedly said: Hundreds of years later than the Tang Dynasty.

That's $2,000. The business manager said simply.

Abe Fujiro felt that his heart could not take it anymore, and said to his son beside him, Kojiro, you can introduce the rest.

Kojiro took over and discussed the pricing with the appraiser business manager. The Abe family’s products are indeed very good, such as The Picture of Sending the Son to the Heavenly King by the painter Wu Daozi, The Picture of the Concubine of the Ming Dynasty by Gong Suran, and Jiangshan Tower by Yan Wengui. View Map.

Picture of Gathering Apes by Yi Yuanji, Picture of Orchid Picture by Zheng Sixiao, Picture of Bamboo Sparrow by Wang Yuan, Picture of One Branch of Spring by Tang Yin, Picture of Titmouse with Vine Flowers by Jiang Tingxi, Picture of Spring Yuan Ruizhao by Jin Tingbiao ...

There are more than 180 paintings and calligraphy alone.

In addition, the porcelains collected by Fusajiro Abe are also very precious. There are Junyao, Ruyao, and Dingyao in the Song Dynasty, as well as fine imperial porcelains from the Ming and Qing dynasties.

There are more than 3,000 collections of ivory carvings, wood carvings, Buddha statues, bronzes, and rare ancient books. The most expensive are those calligraphy and paintings. Porcelain and ivory carvings cost several hundred dollars each, and rare ancient books are even cheaper.

Due to the large number of boutiques, the final calculated amount is also very large, with a total of 2.3 million US dollars.

There was no surprise on the business manager’s face, as if he was used to seeing millions, he said to Fusajiro Abe: “Mr. That is to get $1.61 million in funding.”

Abe Fujiro looked at the business manager and asked, Can I get this money directly? I plan to use it for other purposes?

The business manager shook his head vigorously, his face became a little ugly, and said, This is not possible, I can tell you that this business is mainly for our company to negotiate with the bank, so that the cash can be mortgaged in the bank. We are an investment company, not for you to handle the mortgage loan company.

I can tell you that except for our company's business, no bank will use these cultural relics as collateral for loans, even your local banks in Japan.

In fact, these antiques have no value in our hands. We just found such a collateral in order to invigorate the investment market.

If you want to get cash, hehe, then you can ask the bank yourself. I believe no bank will accept this business.

The business manager was right. Abe did ask his son to ask the bank. It might be possible to use antiques as collateral in the past, but now there are no banks doing this business at all, because the funds in the hands of banks are limited. Investing in the real business is much higher than investing in antiques and earning poor loan interest.

And now the banks are all under the control of the seven major consortiums, and Hardy doesn't let them do it, and none of them dare to do it.

So now in Japan, only Wells Fargo is doing this business.

Okay, I will mortgage it to your company. Fujiro Abe nodded.

The business manager handed over the contract, and Fusajiro Abe took it. It seems that he found that the contract stipulated that it is necessary to invest in this financial company for more than two years before withdrawing cash, and there will be no restrictions after that.

Is this clause too overbearing? Abe Fujiro said, pointing to that clause.

No way, we need to prevent someone from using the loan platform to take the money away. If someone is going to give up the antiques and take the money directly, we will lose a lot. The business manager said.

Isn't it a mortgaged antique?

For our financial company, cash is above all else. These antiques are extremely difficult to sell. If the cash is gone, we will get a bunch of useless antiques and cannot continue to carry out financial business. This is not in line with our original intention. Business Manager road.

Abe Fujiro also agreed with the other party's statement that the most important thing in running a business is cash. Isn't he the same now?

If he didn't want cash, why would he mortgage antiques.

Picking up the pen, Fusajiro Abe signed the contract, and the Antique Mortgage Finance Company quickly sent someone over to carefully collect the works of art of the Abe family, put them in the safe, and transport them away.

Then Fujiro Abe came to Wells Fargo Bank, signed the mortgage procedures, and everything was completed.

go home.

Looking at the empty exhibition room and collection room, Fujiro Abe felt very sad, I hope everything goes well. If this investment is successful, it can accumulate capital for the Abe family to rise again.

Don't worry, father, I have asked someone before. This company is very strong, and those antiques are mortgaged to the bank. Wells Fargo is the bank of Hardy's special envoy. They will definitely not have any problems. Abe Fangjiro's son said with a smile.

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big businessman,

collector,

even the professor,

Many people have a large number of Chinese antiques in their hands.

Some choose to hand over antiques to investment companies due to life reasons, and some just want to make money.

These days are difficult, even very sad. With such an opportunity to make money, many people feel that they will lose money if they don’t seize it.

Anyway, antiques can't escape.

Newspapers reported that the U.S. stock market has been in a big bull market in recent years, and experts analyzed that the U.S. economy broke out after the war, and this bull market will last for a long time.

Now Japan has no way to invest, and they have no funds in their hands. Now there is such an excellent opportunity to use antiques as collateral, and then invest in the US stock market to make money. Why not do it.

So many people found mortgage companies one after another, mortgaged their antiques to banks, and asked them to help them invest.

Not only these businessmen, but some members of the Japanese royal family and those who escaped after participating in the war of aggression against China also felt that it was an opportunity. They could not come forward, so they asked their housekeepers or clan members to find a mortgage company in disguise for mortgage investment .

In fact, these people have a lot of antiques hidden in their homes. In China, they searched everywhere like wild beasts, and after bringing them back to Japan, they became their property. The number of antiques in their hands is much more than that of those businessmen.

In doing this, they actually have another consideration. On the one hand, they can make money, and on the other hand, they have always been uneasy, for fear that the Americans will liquidate them again that day.

If they are liquidated, these antiques will not be kept. Now they are mortgaged to the bank and then invested in the US stock market. They can make money now. After two years they can freely withdraw funds, they plan to transfer part of the funds to other places.

Staying in the United States, or in the United Kingdom, Switzerland, can also leave a sum of money for the family and children and grandchildren.

Hardy thought they were right.

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