The Pioneer of the Rebirth Era

Since the first time he followed old man Xuan to Tie's house to collect things, Yang Dongxu had never been to the small courtyard of Tie's house again, and neither had old man Xuan. Tie Fugui, who obviously smelled something, hid the treasure and prepared to sell it for a price.

Even Yang Dongxu occasionally heard old man Xuan say that the old fox of the Tie family had made a move, and sometimes took away some items before him, so he was surprised that Tie Aijun suddenly came to find old man Xuan, but at that time old man Xuan No longer, so things dragged on to years later.

"Did he say something?" The old man Xuan also showed a look of surprise on his face, obviously he didn't expect that fox from the Tie family to find him.

"I didn't say anything, but he seemed very anxious. When I told you that you weren't here, he turned around and left." Yang Dongxu shook his head.

"It's fine if you don't say anything. If you're really in a hurry, he'll look for it again." Old Man Xuan said.

Yang Dongxu nodded, and he already had a general impression of what kind of person Tie Fugui was from the old man Xuan's few words. Therefore, someone like Tie Fugui, who has no profit and can't afford it early, suddenly came to the door to find someone, obviously he was in a hurry.

For such a person, even if you come to your door to give you a favor, he may not necessarily know how to be grateful. In the future, you should grab something or grab something. But old man Xuan was worried about this matter, so he didn't have to ask.

Sure enough, Tie Fugui approached the door again a few days later. Except for the old man Xuan and a few insiders, few people knew about the big courtyard house. The courtyard house was a big job that my boss had the ability to find, so Tie Fugui's visit was naturally Wangfujing's side.

Yang Dongxu didn't know what to talk about specifically, because when Tie Fugui came to the door, Yang Dongxu was taking Wu Xue and Big Fatty to stroll around Panjiayuan.

After last year's crackdown, and the voice above seems to have gradually become clearer, the Panjiayuan at the beginning of the year was very lively, although I don't know how much style it will have in later generations, because Yang Dongxu had never been to Yanjing before his rebirth, but he played very well happy.

Each of the sugar figurines holds one in their hand, but according to Yang Dongxu's knowledge, it's not for eating. Compared with the sugar figurines blown out with his mouth, he is more interested in candied haws or stinky tofu.

After going crazy for a day, I spent a little money to buy a few Xibei products and was told by old man Xuan that Yang Dongxu didn't care. He naturally knew that the jade and antiques on the street stalls were basically fake, but he had a good time at that time, so if he bought a few things, he always felt that there was something wrong with it, didn't he?

Of course, the fake ones at this time are different from those in the later generations who fooled people with glass and plastic. Jade is still jade, but it’s just inferior jade without any appearance.

"He wants to sell big yellow croaker and small yellow croaker?" Yang Dongxu was stunned for a moment when he was called into the room by old man Xuan, and then realized that the big yellow croaker and small yellow croaker that old man Xuan said were not fish sold in the vegetable market, but gold bars. What is this for?"

"I don't have any money on hand." Old man Xuan sneered.

Although he knew a little about Tie Fugui, he really didn't think that this competitor would have the cheek to come to him to raise funds.

But if you think about it carefully, there is no other better choice for Tie Fugui. After all, although the society is gradually becoming clearer, it is not completely clear, is it?

The only reason why Tie Fugui was able to keep the small courtyard, so that he and his son were not sent to the countryside, was directly related to his voluntary surrender of property. Since the property was handed over, it was natural that they could no longer take gold bars to the bank to exchange for money, so old man Xuan's side became the last and best choice.

"How is he going to sell it?" Yang Dongxu understood when he heard that he had no money.

Now Old Man Xuan is not the only one who collects old things in Sijiu City, but they are all small troubles. It is not that the people who collect old things have any worries in their hearts. If they are worried, they will not make a move, so they can only make small troubles Naturally, there is a lack of money in hand.

Even if there is no shortage of money, like Tie Fugui, who hides family property, these things are generally not visible, at least they can't be shown in a big way now, so they can only pick up three melons and two dates to collect things.

"Two hundred large yellow croakers, 40 small yellow croakers." Old man Xuan said, but afraid that Yang Dongxu had no idea about big yellow croakers and small yellow croakers, he explained: "One large yellow croaker costs 5 taels, and one small yellow croaker costs 1 tael."

"City two?" Yang Dongxu frowned, he was still very familiar with this old-fashioned unit of measurement.

"It's all from the period of the Republic of China. According to the current calculation, the large yellow croaker is more than six taels, and the small yellow croaker is less than one tael, which is about 6 yuan more." Old man Xuan explained again.

In fact, according to the calculation that one city tael is equal to 2 taels, 6 city taels should be 12 taels, which is more than a catty. However, there is a certain gap between the units of measurement during the Republic of China and the present.

According to the old system, 1 catty is equal to 16 taels, and the idiom half a catty is based on this unit of measurement. Therefore, 1 tael = 500/16 = 31.5 grams, so the weight of the large yellow croaker is 312.5 grams, and that of the small yellow croaker is 31.5 grams.

"What color is it?"

"991.0, it is very standard with Sun Yat-sen's head and the words made by the Central Mint printed on it." Old man Xuan replied.

Hearing old man Xuan's answer, Yang Dongxu knew he was asking this question for nothing, because he didn't understand gold at all, he only knew 24K gold, and he couldn't figure out why it was called 24K gold, so he couldn't help but wonder what 991.0 meant. clear.

Old man Xuan didn't know what 24K gold was, so he couldn't explain it to him. However, according to the smelting technology of the Republic of China period, it is definitely not as good as that of later generations. The fineness of 991.0 is obviously not as good as that of 24K gold.

However, this does not prevent Yang Dongxu from eating large yellow croakers or small yellow croakers, as long as he is sure it is gold and not lead. In his impression, the price of a gram of gold in later generations is more than 200 yuan.

Even if the weight of the large yellow croaker is 6 taels, it is still 300 grams. Even if the purity is not good, it can be cut in half at most, so there will be 150 grams left. After all, this is a gold brick from the mint. It is impossible to have more than half of the impurities.

So now I buy a large yellow croaker for 200 yuan, and when the price of gold reaches 200 yuan/gram for more than ten years, the price of a large yellow croaker is 30,000 yuan. After removing the cost, there is also a profit of 28,000. It's not impossible to make more than one hundred times the profit.

"I don't think it's useless to buy it. It's okay to buy this thing in times of war. It's not so easy to sell in peacetime. Even if the bank exchanges a lot of money, people will check it, right?" Although the profit is good, Yang Dongxu shook his head and didn't plan to buy it. down.

Tie Fugui came to find old man Xuan, he must have a lot of large yellow croakers and small yellow croakers, otherwise he would be embarrassed to come to the door. And if the amount is large, it will definitely be troublesome to deal with later.

More importantly, although the prices of old objects started to soar at this time, you can buy a good object for 200 yuan. How can such an object be sold for more than 100,000, or even hundreds of thousands in future generations? It is more profitable to sell large yellow croakers and small yellow croakers.

So from this point of view, Tie Fugui has the same vision as Yang Dongxu. He is more optimistic about the future market of antiques, and he is not very optimistic about gold.

But the old man Xuan wanted to accept the big yellow croaker and the little yellow croaker, so it's not wrong, it's just that the direction of thinking is different. If there is another confusion, you must be more at ease with two big yellow croakers in your arms than you are holding blue and white porcelain, right?

"Forget it then." Old man Xuan didn't have much thought about Yang Dongxu's refusal to take the money.

He wanted to save some gold because there were already a lot of antiques in the basement, and if he put some gold in there, it would be easier to deal with anything that happened in the future. But since Yang Dongxu didn't think so, he didn't have any objections.

"It's not very useful to ask for gold, but if he has some good old things in his hand, it doesn't matter if he buys them at a high price as long as the things are good." Yang Dongxu said something.

Although Tie Fugui took the money to compete with him for collecting old objects, but Yang Dongxu had sufficient funds, so he was not afraid of competition. Even if the price of antiques in the current market is increased by 100 times, as long as the item is good enough, he will still take it without hesitation.

If you were Tie Fugui, you wouldn't necessarily have such boldness, so although this kind of competition would cause a little trouble for Old Man Xuan's acquisition, it was just a small episode and harmless. So as long as Tie Fugui came to the door with a good antique, he dared to spend money to collect it. As long as the price was reasonable, everyone would pay, right?

But Yang Dongxu was smart in his calculations, and Tie Fugui was not stupid. So the next day Tie Fugui came and Yang Dongxu was there, and after hearing that old man Xuan refused to take gold, he took out a stone the size of an egg from his bosom.

The emerald emerald green of the stone is pleasing to the eye, but this is not a high-quality jade object, but a rough jadeite, or it is already made of jadeite, but it has not been carved into an object.

"This thing is good." The old man Xuan took the egg-sized jadeite from Tie Fugui and slipped it in his hand a few times as if playing with a walnut. "It's not that old and has edges and corners. It hasn't been long since you unwrapped it, right?"

"Master Xuan really has no eyesight?" Tie Fugui gave old man Xuan a thumbs up with admiration, and he didn't know whether he really admired him or was complimenting him.

However, Yang Dongxu's eyes lit up when he heard that the egg-sized jade had just been extracted from the rough stone. He doesn't know much about gold, he only knows a rough price.

Similarly, he didn’t know much about jadeite. Before rebirth, he only imagined that if he bought a broken stone and extracted jadeite from it to get rich overnight, he had only heard about imperial green and glass species. As for the specific grade of jadeite In terms of division, he really doesn't know what is A or B.

However, he was not clear about these things, but he knew that the emerald that old man Xuan said was good, even if it wasn't the imperial green that was hyped into a sky-high price in later generations, it must be a good thing of great value.

"Are you going to sell this, or are you going to clean up the bottom stuff?" Old Man Xuan asked, weighing the jade in his hand.

"Then Master Xuan thinks that one is more eye-catching. If you want to solve it, I will be busy. If you are interested in rough stones, I do have some stocks." Tie Fugui smiled subtly.

"what price?"

"The thing in your hand is top-notch, at least in the past."

"Now is the present, not the past." Old man Xuan interrupted before Tie Fugui could finish speaking.

"500, if someone takes a fancy to a hundred taels of gold, it's absolutely fine." Tie Fugui gritted his teeth.

There was a look of pain on his face, if he hadn't seen a good thing some time ago, but the other party was determined not to want the big yellow croaker, and he would not have given this thing out if he had to ask for money if he didn't barter it. Although this piece of jadeite is not big, its appearance is really good. In the past, a hundred taels of gold was too little, so it's no wonder he didn't feel bad about it.

"Where are those stones?" Old man Xuan didn't respond to Tie Fugui's asking price, but asked about the price of the rough stones.

"The ones without windows cost 10 yuan a catty, and the ones with windows have different prices according to the appearance." They are all experts, so Tie Fugui is not fooled.

Is a rough stone worth 10 yuan a catty high? It's not high at all, although the price seems to be similar to the price of ordinary materials from some jade mines in later generations. But these rough stones were selected by Tie Fugui's ancestors, so they are naturally not comparable to ordinary rough stones.

"It's all bet that I don't have the energy to look at them one by one. It would be too much trouble for you to solve them all. Let's open a window. It's all about people who understand the price to see the goods. But this little thing is 300. You can keep it. If you can't, you can take it with you." go back."

"Since Master Xuan has said so, let's leave it for Master Xuan to play with, but it will take some time to open the window for those things." Although it hurts to be seen by the old man bargaining, Tie Fugui still nodded and agreed.

Although he is the same as Yang Dongxu, he prefers antiques between gold and antiques, but he is different from Yang Dongxu. Yang Dongxu is optimistic about jadeite and antiques at the same time. Iron Fugui is between jade and antiques, and he is still more optimistic about antiques.

This doesn't mean that he was wrong, it just means that in his heart, antiques are more valuable than jadeites. After all, he is not Yang Dongxu, and he doesn't know that the price of top-quality jadeites can go up to heaven in later generations.

"I won't go out these days, so come and find me or him when you're ready." Old man Xuan raised his chin at Yang Dongxu.

Yang Dongxu smiled and nodded to Tie Fugui, then got up from the chair and ran to the back room. When he came out, he was holding three stacks of banknotes, one stack of ten bills was exactly 300 yuan.

"Then Xuan Ye, rest, wait until I'm ready before you come to bother me." Tie Fugui glanced at Yang Dongxu and handed over the money without counting it, stuffed it into his arms, hugged old man Xuan, got up and left.

"I should have known that I would have drawn a few cards out of it." Looking at Tie Fugui's back as he walked out of the gate, Yang Dongxu muttered regretfully.

"That's all you have to offer!" Old man Xuan gave Yang Dongxu a sideways glance, then tossed the jade in his hand: "You are optimistic about this thing."

Although Yang Dongxu had been sitting beside him and didn't speak just now, but after the old man refused the gold, he agreed to buy the jadeite in his hand and the rough stone in Tie Fugui's hand, which was naturally related to Yang Dongxu's hinting him to eat it.

Of course, the old man Xuan is actually more optimistic about jadeite than Huang Jinxuan. Not to mention whether the price of this item will be skyrocketing in the future, just to restore it to the previous level, it is very cost-effective to win it.

Yang Dongxu was actually just muttering, don't look at Tie Fugui didn't count the money just now, but his eyes were piercing, one or two sheets are missing, don't look at the thickness, but he can definitely tell.

"Compared with gold, this thing will be more cost-effective in the future. He actually has rough jade in his hand. Is there a lot of Yanjing for this thing?" Yang Dongxu couldn't help asking.