Chapter 245 Wu Tianbao
"No, nothing, Brother Hua, I'm joking with Fatty..."
After contacting Hua Ziyi several times, Fang Yi knew that he was the kind of person with a cold face. Although he was a little arrogant in his bones, he had a good character, so he didn't care about anything. He smiled and said, "The fat man had some conflicts with someone last time. He just wanted to rush up and do something, but I grabbed him..."
"Fatty, don't be too reckless in the capital..." Hua Ziyi glanced at the fat man and said, "I am quite familiar with Panjiayuan. Who do you have any conflicts with? Tell me, I can see if I can help you resolve it. In short, it won't make you suffer..."
Although Hua Ziyi has the word Yi in his name, the word approachable has nothing to do with him. It is naturally for Fang Yi to say this because of Fang Yi's face. Otherwise, with his current identity, it would be impossible for him to have any contact with the fat man.
"Brother Hua, forget it, you may not know him..." The fat man hesitated for a moment and shook his head. Although he was a very skillful person, he had little contact with Hua Ziyi and was unwilling to tell him about taking medicine.
"What's wrong? Fatty, can't you trust your Brother Hua?" Hearing the fat man's words, Hua Ziyi raised his eyebrows and said, "I don't know many people in this Pan family, but if I don't know him, he may not know me!"
The Hua family has a similar status in the capital than the Bai family, and it is not the top wealthy family. However, in the antiques and cultural relics world, Hua Ziyi is really qualified to say the above words that make people sound a bit arrogant.
Hua Ziyi's grandfather, who studied under Liang Sicheng, was an expert official and was a figure in domestic ancient buildings. Although ancient buildings and antiques are two different fields, they also have similarities. Therefore, Hua Ziyi's grandfather has made great achievements in antique shops and is one of the members of the National Cultural Relics Appraisal Committee.
Hua Ziyi couldn't say the above words just because of his grandfather's name, but his teacher Qin Haichuan is a veritable leader in antiques and cultural relics. As long as he is engaged in antiques, few people have heard of Qin Haichuan's name.
As a disciple who kowtowed Qin Haichuan to become a disciple according to the old rules, Hua Ziyi's reputation in the national antique shop is not very famous, but Hua Ziyi is still very energetic on this acre of three-point land in the capital. Almost all the big collectors and antique merchants in the capital have some friendship.
"Brother Hua, are you so powerful?" Hearing Hua Ziyi's words, the fat man was stunned for a moment, with a half surprised and half disbelief on his face.
"Fatty, how do you say? Brother Hua, don't pay attention to him..." Fang Yi saw the fat man's face and knew what he was thinking. Don't look at the fat man's honest look, the expression he showed now was actually provoking Hua Ziyi.
"Fang Yi, it's okay, fat man, who do you have any conflicts with?"
Although Fang Yi made a statement to stop the fat man, Hua Ziyi still got into a trap. He was also a young man after all, and was questioned on his own acre of three-point land. Hua Ziyi's face was a little uneasy.
"The man's surname is Wu, and his name is Wu Tianbao. He has shops in Panjiayuan and Shilihe, but Panjiayuan sells antiques, and Shilihe has cultural relics..."
The fat man has been training in the Jinling Antique Market for several months and has always claimed to be smart. If Wu Tianbao hadn't taken the fat man to open several of his own stores from the beginning and showed his strength that he would not cheat tens of thousands of dollars, the fat man might not have been fooled.
"Wu Tianbao, I really know him..."
Hearing the name the fat man said, Hua Ziyi said, "Was Wu Tianbao you mentioned about 1.7 meters tall, has white skin, a little fat, and a mole on the corner of his mouth? Fat man, have you been fooled by him?"
"Ah? Brother Hua, how do you... know?"
When Hua Ziyi said the last sentence, not only the fat man was shocked, but Fang Yi was also stunned. The two brothers didn't know why Hua Ziyi guessed the whole story when he heard this name.
"Of course I know. I know much more about Wu Tianbao's character than you. This person is not simple..." Hua Ziyi smiled and said, "Do you know how Wu Tianbao's business is so big? And he has opened several stores?"
"Brother Hua, how could I know? If I knew, I wouldn't have been fooled..." The fat man smiled bitterly and said it all the time that he had been fooled by Wu Tianbao.
"You are right. If you know what Wu Tianbao is, you really won't be fooled by taking medicine..." Hua Ziyi laughed and told Fatty and Fang Yi about Wu Tianbao.
Wu Tianbao is in his forties this year. Wu Tianbao's ancestors belong to Han Banners. After those Eight Banners' children did not learn anything else, they learned a lot about fighting eagles.
When the Qing Dynasty was destroyed, Wu Tianbao's grandfather and some people flocked cultural relics from the palace. They lived without illness and disasters until the early 1980s when they were nearly 100 years old. The ability to fight eagles and watch antiques was also taught to his grandson Wu Tianbao.
In the 1980s, people had just solved the problem of food and clothing. Although Wu Tianbao's grandfather also left a few gold bars buried underground, it was not enough for Wu Tianbao to fight with eagles and dogs. The social environment at that time did not allow him to do so.
So Wu Tianbao, who was in his twenties working as an ordinary worker in the workshop, focused on antiques. He used a gold bar to exchange a total of ten sets of Huanghuali and mahogany furniture from the Ming and Qing Dynasties.
By the late 1980s, when the market economy gradually began to replace the planned economy, Wu Tianbao resigned from his unit and started an antique business with a pair of good eyesight. Not to mention, a few years later, Wu Tianbao had gone from a penniless poor boy to a famous antique businessman in the capital.
Wu Tianbao's reputation is in two aspects. The first is that Wu Tianbao has unique vision and can always find some antique treasures that others cannot see. When there were few fakes in the 1980s and 1990s, he quickly found his first pot of gold. The fact that he took advantage of several attempts to find bargains was also widely circulated.
The second reason why Wu Tianbao is famous is that he is not upright in his mind and does not follow the rules in his business. He has basically been fooled by the antique merchants who have dealt with him in the early years, and he is also a mute who has suffered from Coptis chinensis.
For those who do business like Wu Tianbao, the way should be narrower and narrower. However, after realizing this, Wu Tianbao changed his strategy. He began to stop eating grass by his nest, but turned his attention from the antique shop in the capital to antique merchants across the country, using inferior products as good products as fake products and real products. I don’t know how many antique merchants took medicine.
"Brother Hua, why hasn't Wu Tianbao been beaten to death yet in this business?"
When Hua Ziyi said this, the fat man was already full of incredible faces. Even if the people in the antique industry are educated and cultivated, and the gentleman does not speak, the antique industry also has a circle. Once things are spread in the circle, who will do business with him?
"Or why do you say that Wu Tianbao is not simple..."
Hua Ziyi shook his head and said, "He is very sensible in doing things. He doesn't cheat big money. He doesn't cheat people with a background. He specializes in cheating on some newcomers and will not catch people. Therefore, nothing has happened for so many years, and the business is getting bigger and bigger..."
The antique industry circle has to be in the industry for a while before entering. A newcomer like Fatty, who has just entered the industry can't get into this circle in less than two or three years. Naturally, he doesn't know that Wu Tianbao is specializing in a newcomer.
There are countless people like Fatty who have just entered the industry in the country. Even if only one out of a hundred people is deceived, Wu Tianbao can make a fortune and live freely.
As for those who were deceived, few people who tried their best to find Wu Tianbao for tens of thousands of yuan. Most of them believed that they had suffered losses in accordance with the rules of the antiques. In a certain aspect, it was these rules that encouraged Wu Tianbao's deceiving behavior.
Chapter completed!