The years when I was reborn as a giant in the antique world

In late April, the two restored first-class cultural relics were sent back to the National Museum under strict escort.

People from the collection management department and the cultural relic restoration department all gathered in one place to test and record the restored porcelain and store it in the archives.

"Report, after testing, there is no flaw under the ultraviolet light."

"There are no signs of damage on the surface, and no signs of repair."

"The color refractive index deviation is within a reasonable range, and there is no significant difference."

"The sound of porcelain is crisp and clear, without blocking phenomenon."

……

Hearing the analysis of the test results item by item, everyone was shocked.

Even though I have learned about the youth's restoration skills in the video before, I was still shocked when I actually saw it.

"I'm sure, this must be a traceless restoration that has long been lost!"

"I also agree that this is only possible with the technique of 'stainless restoration'."

"It's really gratifying, the inheritance has not been cut off—"

There was an exclamation in the testing room, and everyone was celebrating the rebirth of this skill.

As workers who have been immersed in the restoration of cultural relics for decades, many people were so excited that they burst into tears.

That's great, Huaguo's lost cultural heritage is finally preserved!

It is not surprising that this long-lost skill has been restored in a young man who is only 23 years old.

This young man is a genius, an indispensable national treasure restorer!

After the report went up, several leaders attached great importance to it: "Declare the intangible cultural heritage as soon as possible, such skills are enough to be included in the national intangible cultural heritage list."

At this time, Yunzhou is stepping up the production of cards, because the newly released cultural and creative accessories are selling too fast.

Through Internet dissemination, there are still many people who ask people to "purchase on behalf of them".

Other jewelry stores also imitate it, but unfortunately the cost of high-end jewelry is there, and after buying it, it needs to be cleaned, polished, and processed, and the labor cost is also not low.

The most important thing is that you can't make those exquisite cards. This is the core of the product value and the most difficult to imitate. Many high-end customers go for this.

And where can they find well-known appraisal experts?

Counterfeit products are not accepted by the public, have no brand value, and cannot achieve the same status as genuine products.

These stores experimented with a batch of high-end series of accessories, and they stopped thinking when they found that the desired effect could not be achieved.Imitating this is not as quick as those accessories produced on the assembly line.

Of course, this kind of imitation cannot be eliminated.

High-end series are difficult to imitate, and many stores copy ordinary series to make profits.

In the first month of the launch of cultural and creative products of the Museum of Ancient and Modern Art, all 64 pendants and 400 ornaments were sold out.

In the second month, 800 pieces were launched, which were also sold out, and the high-end series sold faster.

Yun Zhou and several people from the planning department analyzed the reason.

One is that the porcelain tiles of folk kilns are not as exquisite as official kilns, and the workmanship is also the same; the second is that there is no separate card for the ordinary series, only the name of the jewelry is noted; the third is that there are imitations of ordinary jewelry, and the price is lower.

Seeing the result of this analysis, Yunzhou did not intend to change.

It is this distinction that can highlight the difference in grades.

Moreover, his energy was limited, so he really didn't have the time to deal with so many folk kiln tiles.

It is normal to have imitations, but he believes that imitations can never replace genuine products.

Just as he was thinking, Jin Qiang sent him a message: "Boss, the price of broken porcelain tiles has been increasing during this period, and the price has more than doubled."

Jin Qiang was really puzzled, he sent a batch of broken porcelain every 3-4 months, and has been sending them for almost four years.

Since the price increase two years ago, the price has stabilized and has hardly fluctuated.

This time, for some unknown reason, the price started to increase again, and it was even higher than before.

He asked around and heard from a few well-informed friends that it was because of a museum.

ha?

Can a museum still affect the price of broken porcelain pieces in Porcelain City?

This is also outrageous.

A friend told him: "Believe it or not, just go to the Internet and you will know that the current broken porcelain ornaments are very popular, which is brought about by the cultural and creative products of this museum.

Oh, by the way, there is also a restoration hall in the museum. There are many broken pieces of porcelain in it, and one piece costs millions, and there are tens of millions more. "

1000 million is simply an unattainable number for Jin Qiang, who is an ordinary person.

He hurriedly picked up his mobile phone and searched the pictures on the Internet, completely stunned.

These pieces of exquisite porcelain and such beautiful ornaments are all made of broken porcelain pieces!

Jin Qiang heard the astonishing price of porcelain from a friend, and when he looked at the price of jewelry, he couldn't help but gasped: a pair of small earrings cost more than 5000, which was more than his monthly salary.

No wonder the price goes up.

So he told the news to the boss Yun.

Yun Zhou was not surprised by the news: "Well, I see, it's okay. When you collect the broken porcelain pieces, you pick them carefully. The quantity can be less, but as long as the quality is good."

Jin Qiang: "Understood."

When he went to purchase this time, he also found that not only himself, but also many people were collecting broken porcelain pieces, and the market for broken porcelain pieces in the entire porcelain capital was booming.

Today, the price of better pieces of broken porcelain has reached more than 80 yuan, and the price of ancient official kiln porcelain with beautiful patterns even exceeds 200 yuan.

Jin Qiang cursed secretly in his heart, what a ghost, even a piece of broken porcelain can be fired so high.

From the wholesale price of 20 yuan four years ago, to 30-40 yuan two years ago, and now to 80 yuan, the house price has not risen so fast!

But he knew that the boss had money, so he only picked the good ones.

Purchasing personnel in other stores are different.

Broken porcelain pieces were purchased in batches of more than 60 pieces last month, and the cost after processing them into ornaments was around 198 yuan. The prices of the Ancient and Modern Museum were 268 and 128 yuan, and their store priced at [-] yuan, and sold thousands of pieces in a month.

But now, the price of ancient porcelain pieces has doubled at once. With a unit price of 80 yuan, the cost alone will cost upwards of 100 yuan, and the price of 128 yuan will not make any money at all.

But what to do, raise the price?

Once customers accept the price, the price increase will definitely cause dissatisfaction.

And once the price is raised, for example, the price is adjusted to 168 yuan, which is only 30 yuan away from the genuine version. It is estimated that many people will directly buy the genuine version.

When the procurement personnel contacted the company, the person in charge frowned, and after discussion, he made a decision to minimize the cost: "80 is too expensive, buy a cheaper one."

But even so, in the case of general price increases, cheap broken porcelain pieces cost forty or fifty, and the appearance is far from before.

As a result, people found that the ornaments in several ancient porcelain jewelry stores were not so good-looking.

The decoration is not clear, the glaze is deglazed, and some even have rust and stains that have not been cleaned, which makes people lose their appetite at first glance.

The quality of the products of the Ancient and Modern Museum is consistent, as always, clean and beautiful.

In contrast, they would rather spend dozens of dollars more to buy genuine copies.

The sales volume of the regular series of the Museum of Ancient and Modern Art was the best in the third month, with sales exceeding 1500 pieces in the month.

Ordinary series do not need to make cards, they can be processed directly.

In order to ensure sales, Yunzhou added an urgent order to the jewelry processing center and directly increased the processing fee by 50%, making the other party abandon other businesses and give priority to his order.

As for the high-end series, the supply is limited to 400 pieces per month, and the purchase limit is 5 pieces per person, so as to guarantee its rarity.

Unlike other shops, the Museum of Ancient and Modern Art does not need to rely on other means to reduce costs.

The cost of the more than 2 pieces of broken porcelain in Yunzhou's hands is very low, with an average of only about 25 yuan. Even if the price is calculated at 198 yuan, the profit is frighteningly high.

In the three months since the launch of cultural and creative products, 1064 high-end series and 2123 ordinary series have been sold, with a total revenue of more than 660 million, a cost of 140 million, and a net profit of more than 500 million!

This situation naturally aroused the jealousy of colleagues.

The price of ancient porcelain pieces is too high, and other jewelry stores have replaced genuine pieces with imitation broken pieces of porcelain, finally reducing the cost.

It's a pity that the color of the imitation and the real one are obviously different, and the imitation was exposed within a few days, and these shops can no longer sell at high prices.

People love ancient porcelain ornaments not only because of its simple and elegant style, but also because of the cultural significance and unique characteristics contained in it, and even have a certain collection value.

Now, however, that value has been completely stripped away.

The counterfeit broken porcelain pieces are mass-produced, and the patterns and colors of each batch are exactly the same, without any particularity.

Since then, these imitations have been clearly distinguished from the real ones in ancient and modern museums, and others can see the difference at a glance, and there is no possibility of counterfeiting.

After gaining fame, other handicraft brands have negotiated cooperation with the Museum of Ancient and Modern Art, such as paper-cutting, New Year pictures, hand embroidery, lacquerware bracelets, root carvings, silk nobiles, etc., too numerous to mention.

These traditional craftsmen seem to see hope, the hope that the ancient culture will be passed on!

Because the Broken Porcelain Pavilion has limited space, Yunzhou added a counter to display different handicrafts every two months without charging any publicity fees.

Not only is it hoped that these crafts can be passed on, but it also enriches cultural and creative products to achieve a win-win situation.

**

In July, after discussion by the Ministry of Culture and Tourism of the People's Republic of China, the ancient ceramics' traceless repairing technique was included in the list of China's intangible cultural heritage.

Yunzhou is the sole inheritor of the national intangible cultural heritage of the project.

After the notice was issued, cultural relic restorers all over the country remembered the young man's name.

He is the smallest national intangible cultural heritage inheritor in Huaguo. At the age of 23, he has completely passed down the long-lost non-mark restoration skills, which is of great significance!

Master Feng was filled with emotions.

What he didn't do before his death, Yunzhou helped him do it, and the ghost has no regrets.

He patted his apprentice on the shoulder with his thin hands, "Pass down this skill for me."

Yun Zhou smiled and nodded.

In addition to restoring national first-class cultural relics, young people at this time are also sorting out notes on porcelain restoration.

There were five volumes last time, and now there are six volumes, which cover almost all the contents of "No Trace Restoration", including every decoration and every point of color matching, which is extremely detailed.

This version of the manuscript was recorded a bit sloppy. After scanning it into the computer, he sorted out the key points, divided it into two volumes, and converted it into a computer text version.

In this way, while recording and sorting out, it will be October.

At the beginning of November, the porcelain exhibited in the preview of J's Autumn Auctions received unanimous attention from the collectors.

Because the cover in the porcelain auction catalog is a national treasure of Huaguo—the Yuan blue-and-white 'Xiao Heyue chasing Han Xin' plum vase, a small part of the rim is damaged, and it is a broken vessel.

Even so, it cannot erase its value as a blue and white figure figure in Yuan Dynasty and its value as a national treasure.

The State Administration of Cultural Heritage quickly traced the source of the collection and confirmed that it was not illegally plundered, but purchased by foreign antique dealers from Chinese businessmen decades ago.

At that time, domestic tomb robbers were rampant, and a large number of cultural relics were lost overseas.

This porcelain is of great significance and must be won at auction.

Not only the State Administration of Cultural Heritage, but also domestic patriots and collectors took action one after another, and went to the auction house of J Shide headquarters in country Y in late November.

Yun Zhou and Mr. Du were also among them.

Mr. Du is old and it is inconvenient to go abroad. The two agreed to keep in touch with each other by phone at any time. If necessary, Mr. Du will entrust the auction by telephone.

As soon as he heard the news, Yun Zhou began to take stock of his assets.

The original assets were about 5000 million, and he made a net profit of more than [-] million from gambling stones in Myanmar, of which one third was invested in stocks, one third was invested in real estate, and the other part was used for financial management.

The 5000 million stocks have nearly quadrupled in more than three years, the financial management part has grown by 12%-15% every year, and the real estate is a fixed asset, with a total of 2.6 million available funds.

However, it is impossible to sell the stocks all at once, they can only be sold slowly, and it is estimated that about half of them can be recovered in two weeks, that is to say, the maximum available funds are 1.7 million.

In addition, the profit of the museum in the past year has exceeded 1.8 million. He and Mr. Du will share it 9000-[-], each with an income of [-] million.

2.6 million assets should be enough.

In this way, he doesn't have to use that dragon stone to plant green emeralds and the remaining wool. If it is really not enough, there is a 35-day payment cycle after the auction, and he can definitely pay it all.

Yun Zhou relaxed and prepared to go to Country Y.

J Shide's "Hua Guo Porcelain and Craftsmanship" was held on the second day of the autumn auction.

In the past two days, Yun Zhou saw many slightly familiar faces, all of whom were well-known domestic collectors and entrepreneurs, but most of them were just met once, with only a superficial impression.

Director Yao and Director Zhang of the State Administration of Cultural Heritage also came to the scene. They frowned and looked dignified. It seemed that the situation was not optimistic.

Yuan blue and white has always been a popular collection, and there are more than 300 pieces in total, especially the figure pictures, which are even more precious.

Presumably collectors from all over the world don't want to miss this opportunity, and the competition will be fierce.

Soon, it was the night show at 7 pm.

No one cared about the previous pieces of porcelain, and everyone was looking forward to the last Yuan blue and white plum vase.

Yun Zhou took a deep breath and became nervous.

"The last piece of this special sale is also the heavyweight lot of this auction. The number 1005 is the Yuan Qinghua Xiao Heyue Chasing Han Xin Plum Vase. The starting price is 200 million pounds."

"200 million, 300 million, 400 million, 500 million pounds... The customer's bid entrusted by the phone is-OK, 1000 million pounds!"

There was a burst of cheers in the arena.

Less than 2 minutes after the opening, the bid was close to 9000 million.

Many collectors stopped raising placards.

Director Yao and Director Zhang looked very bad, because they got inside information that the bidder was a man from country M.

Judging from the current situation, it is impossible to obtain this national treasure cultural relic at a low price.

The rhythm of the scene gradually slowed down, "1000 million pounds, the current bid for this world-famous Yuan blue and white piece is 1000 million pounds.

That's obviously not its true value... OK, 1100 million!The gentleman in the front row offered eleven million—”

Yun Zhou began to raise his sign.

"1200 million pounds!" The auctioneer stretched his arm towards the young man's position, and his tone became excited. Only with competition can a higher price be auctioned.

The Chinese people at the scene cast their eyes on Yunzhou, and they were full of shock and surprise when they saw his young face. 1200 million pounds, that's [-] million yuan!

Unexpectedly, this young man in his early twenties raised his sign so calmly.

"This is... Master Yunzhou!" Someone who knew him opened his eyes wide.

"Who?"

"Master of Porcelain Restoration, have you heard of the Ancient and Modern Museum in S City? He opened the one with special calligraphy experience projects."

"!!"

The way the collector next to him looked at Yun Zhou changed.

There are so many collections at a young age, and he heard from several friends that the private museum is very popular in the rich circle, no wonder it is worth [-] million when it is sold.

When the bid reached 1900 million pounds, the auctioneer on the stage began to stir up emotions, and asked the customer service staff entrusted by phone, "Where is your client, the current bid is 1900 million pounds, if you don't bid, I will drop the hammer.

1900 million once-do you want to bid, how much, OK, 1950 million pounds! "

"The gentleman in the front row has bid 1950 million pounds over the phone. What do you mean, do you want to add some more?"

Seeing that the other party started calling, he smiled considerately, "It's okay, I will continue after you finish communicating."

The scene fell into a long wait.

More and more people focused their attention on the young man with exquisite face, and some collectors who did not have the financial means to bid for the auction looked at Yun Zhou more eagerly.

This slightly thin young man carries all their hopes, but he must succeed.

Director Yao and Director Zhang stared closely at his fair side face, both hands clenched into fists.

Yun Zhou's mood was very relaxed at this time, he looked down at the number plate in his hand, knowing that it would soon be over.

He couldn't help but rejoice that this was a remnant weapon. The value of a remnant weapon was generally only one-tenth to one-fifth of that of a complete one. If it was a complete one, its value would be immeasurable, and he would definitely not be able to compete with it based on his assets.

He sent a text message to old man Du, telling him that everything is normal and there is no need to worry.

After 3 minutes, the person from country Y in the front row hung up the phone and waved his hand to signify that he would withdraw from the auction. Only the client on the phone and Yun Zhou were left to compete.

After the asking price reached 2000 million pounds, the atmosphere fell into infinite anxiety.

What did the telephone entrusted customer service staff say to the auctioneer, who nodded: "The customer entrusted by telephone bids 2010 million pounds. The current highest price is 2010 million pounds,"

He looked straight at Yun Zhou, "What's your bid?"

The young man didn't bid immediately, and it took 2 minutes before he confided in the tense mood of everyone, "2020 million pounds."

The Chinese people at the scene suddenly breathed a sigh of relief.

2020 million pounds, plus the commission is [-] million yuan, and I hope to win it as soon as possible.

The auctioneer waited for 5 minutes for the telephone entrustment and did not bid, apparently giving up.

So he raised the auction mallet high and smashed it down with a bang, "Congratulations to customer No. 3210 for successfully bidding this lot at a price of 2020 million pounds!"

At the same time as the hammer fell, thunderous applause broke out on the field, and all the Chinese people stood up and applauded, and the cheers almost lifted the roof.

Director Yao and Director Zhang burst into tears and choked up, their national treasure finally came back.