After leaving the mansion of Pan Daguan, Wu Haogu, who was confused, returned to the shop on Panlou Street. His bookkeeper, Jang Hee-jae, now lives on the second floor of the shop, while Wu Haogu himself has moved back to his residence in No. 1 Sweet Water Lane.

Of course, both are temporary.

Because he had a lot of cash on hand, Wu Haogu decided to buy a decent house in Kaifeng Mansion, and also planned to buy a big shop on Panlou Street as the headquarters of the future calligraphy and painting firm and the singing and selling house.

However, buying a house is not buying Chinese cabbage, there has to be a process. Therefore, Wu Haogu and Zhang Xizai can only live in the shop and the small house in Sweetwater Lane temporarily.

When Wu Haogu returned to the shop, it was the time of the day to be Shen, and the evening market on Panlou Street had not yet opened. However, there was a guest in the samurai painting room, who was laughing with Zhang Xizai. Wu Hao Guyuan heard that the visitor was Su Lida Su Dalang from the Su family's shop.

"Why is Da Lang so leisurely with me?"

Wu Haogu pushed the door in, sang a fat song to Su Dalang, pulled a rose chair by the way, and sat next to Su Dalang.

"I'm going to ask you," Su Dalang said with a smile, "You didn't come back to Kaifeng to look for my old friend, if it weren't for Second Brother Zhang coming to my teahouse with your post today, I wouldn't know that you had returned to Kaifeng." ”

"Then I really have to pay for it," Wu Haogu haha, "How about I punish myself with three glasses when I get to the banquet?" ”

Su Dalang said with a smile: "A word is a certainty, and you are not allowed to play tricks when the time comes." ”

"Definitely, definitely."

Wu Haogu agreed, and then looked at Su Dalang with a smile. He knew that this Su Dalang was also a busy man, and he wouldn't stay in his shop for so long for no reason, there must be something.

Sure enough, after Su Dalang exchanged a few words of greeting, he asked about the establishment of a joint stock firm.

However, Wu Haogu did not answer positively, but asked rhetorically: "Da Lang, is your tea shop still selling now?" ”

"Singing and selling?" Su Dalang was stunned for a moment, nodded and said, "Yes, yes, it's just very light, and I haven't seen a single singing or selling in a month." ”

Wu Haogu smiled: "Do you know why it's so light?" ”

"Hey, this is a weak deal." Su Dalang smiled, "There are not many good things in the ghost market, and there is no argument between truth and falsehood, and buyers and sellers are reluctant to show their heads." ”

In later generations, calligraphy and painting shops were actually divided into three categories: auction houses, cultural and entertainment houses, and galleries. Among the auction houses...... Regardless of the flood situation in China, the main thing is to make high-quality products, and there will generally be professional and reliable appraisal as a guarantee; There are more fakes in the antique industry, which is a place to test the collector's eyesight, and the leakage and the money are coexisting; Galleries are generally places that sell contemporary painters, that is, paintings and calligraphy of living people, and are usually purchased directly from painters, which is fidelity.

In the Song Dynasty, these three types of calligraphy and painting transactions were one, there were no professional auction houses, and there were no galleries, all of which were hodgepodge of calligraphy, painting, and literary play.

Wu Haogu is now ready to make the auction house and gallery two industries, and also to become the first brand in the industry.

"If there is a singing and selling shop that can not only distinguish the authenticity but also keep the confidentiality for customers, can it be done?"

"Can you tell the truth from the false, but also keep it secret?" Su Dalang smiled bitterly, "Of course this can be done...... Nowadays, how many people who play calligraphy and painting antiques really know how to do it? Aren't they all good things? If only there was a place for fidelity and secrecy, they would buy it for more money.

But I can't do this in my little shop, otherwise I have to let people burn it down.

Wait, Brother Wu, your firm won't do this, will it? It's not easy! ”

Wu Haogu nodded and said, "This is just one of the two main things, and the other is the fidelity calligraphy and painting workshop." ”

"Fidelity calligraphy and painting?" Su Dalang was stunned and stunned, "What's the difference between this and the singing and selling house?" ”

"The singing shops sell all the treasures, most of them are the stuff of the ancients. The works of the present are sold in the fidelity painting room, and the value is relatively low, so they are purchased directly from the painter and calligrapher. It can also hold regular exhibitions of calligraphy and paintings, so that the famous artists of Kaifeng Mansion can evaluate them. ”

Su Dalang took a breath, "Dalang, you want to swallow the calligraphy, painting and literature of Kaifeng Mansion in one gulp!" ”

Wu Haogu smiled, "Don't dare to swallow it in one bite, eat a third." ”

Kaifeng Mansion calligraphy, painting, literature and entertainment store has tens of millions of flowing water a year, and one-third has at least three million. And this is a high value-added industry, and the gross profit is not closed to two percent? Two million is six hundred thousand!

Even if the net profit is discounted in half, 300,000 yuan is an astronomical amount...... You must know that the annual coin given to Liao by the Great Song Dynasty in a year is also this number.

Of course, if 300,000 yuan is to buy a house in Kaifeng Mansion, it is just an ordinary thirty or forty sets!

"How?" Wu Haogu asked, "Can this deal be done?" ”

Su Dalang nodded and said, "You can do it, but ...... You've got a lot of people in the way of their money! On Panlou Street, I'm afraid everyone will regard you as a sworn enemy, right? ”

Of course!

Cutting off people's financial means is like killing parents!

However, Wu Haogu has seen many business methods in later generations, and he knows how to deal with it.

"Don't be afraid," Wu Haogu smiled, "Su Dalang, I won't cut off other people's wealth with a single knife." This thing has to be done slowly, from easy to difficult, from shallow to deep, first do fidelity painting, then do authenticity identification, and then sing and sell ......"

This is boiled frog in warm water.

First of all, start with the contemporary calligraphy and painting works that are not paid much attention to in Panlou Market, and make a very tasteful and authentic calligraphy and painting studio that can attract famous artists and broads.

Or, it can be called a calligraphy and painting hall.

For this reason, Wu Haogu himself must win the title of the first person in the painting, and he must also open a painting school and recruit a group of teachers and students.

In this way, we can ensure sufficient supply of high-quality goods, and at the same time obtain a certain ability to hype up calligraphy and painting works.

After that, Wu Haogu will start to operate a calligraphy and painting singing and selling shop. Of course, the singing and selling shop also started with contemporary works, and gradually developed into ancient calligraphy, painting, cultural and entertainment treasures. After winning the calligraphy, painting, cultural and entertainment treasures market, the singing and selling houses can also directly enter the real estate and take a part of the real estate agency business.

In addition, the sale of calligraphy, painting and art is still a channel for money laundering and bribery, and if it can be "confidential", it will be too popular......

"And," then Wu Haogu smiled again, "How big the deal is, how big the backstage, Haogu still understands this truth." ”

Now all of Wu Haogu's calculations are based on being able to climb Duan Wang Jin's thighs. If this foundation is gone, then it will be left alone.

At most, it is to set up a Six Arts Academy in Yuntai Mountain, and teach dozens of hundreds of talents who are Yunwen and Yunwu, so that they can show their skills in the difficulty of Jingkang.

Su Dalang smiled slightly: "Dalang, have you heard of a scholar named Zhao Xiaoyi?" ”

"Zhao Xiaoyi?" Wu Haogu thought about it, and really didn't remember that there was such a number one person in history.

"Who is he?" Wu Haogu glanced at Su Dalang in some surprise, he didn't understand why Su Dalang suddenly mentioned such a number one person?

Su Dalang looked at Wu Haogu and said word by word: "At lunch today, I saw two "Bishamen Tiantu" in Fengle Building, and the inscription was Zhao Xiaoyi, a scholar in cloth clothes. ”

"Two "Bishamen Celestial Maps"?" Wu Haogu was stunned, "Who hung there?" ”

Su Dalang smiled and said, "Your old acquaintance, the deputy capital of Nei Province knows Liu Youfang!" ”

This old thing again!?

As soon as Wu Haogu heard this name, he didn't fight anywhere!

He is about to climb to the top of the Duanwang, why is he still endless?

No, what does it mean that he got two copies of "Bishamen Tiantu" to hang in Fengle Building? Are you looking for your own trouble, or are you doing propaganda for yourself?

No, we have to find out.

Wu Hao Guteng stood up and said to Zhang Xizai: "Tingyang, Su Dalang and I will go to Fengle Building. If I don't come back in the evening, the shop won't be open. ”

Zhang Xizai has no problem doing the bookkeeper, and it's okay to be a steward, but he doesn't understand calligraphy, painting and writing, so Wu Haogu is not there, and the shop can't be opened.

After the order was finished, Wu Haogu went out with Su Dalang and hurriedly went to Fengle Building.

Fengle Building is not far from Wu Haogu's painting house, and you can walk a stick of incense.

The area of Fengle Building is large, consisting of five huge three-storey buildings, each of which is directly connected to each other by a flybridge, and looks like a huge castle from afar. If you walk into the building complex of Fengle Building, you will find that this place was originally a super restaurant with a garden. Four of the five buildings are connected by a wall, which encloses the middle building, and within the wall, the corridors are shaded, the pavilions are arranged, the windows are hung with flowers and bamboos, and each hangs curtains, as if it is a garden-style multi-storey residential community......

Wu Haogu and Su Dalang entered directly from the west building of Fengle Building, and passed through the ground floor restaurant for the common people, known as the "Gate Bed Horse Road". Then through a straight corridor, directly into the ground floor hall of Fengle Middle Building.

This hall is a bit like a palace, the area is very large, and the momentum is not small, but it looks a little old, and the frescoes painted on the walls of the colonnades are all mottled in color, as if they have not been repaired for many years. The floor is also a bit potholed, but this is a sign that it has been bustling with people for decades.

Wu Haogu's mind appeared a memory of Fengle Building, it turned out that the ground floor hall of this middle building was not used for banquets, but for literati gatherings, or Oiran ladies for performances.

On the north wall of the hall, a row of hooks is nailed, which is a special place for literati and artists to exhibit their calligraphy, paintings, and poems.

When Wu Haogu and Su Dalang arrived, there were many spectators standing in front of this wall, most of them were scholars wearing Confucian clothes, and some were dressed as outsiders, all of whom were tilting their necks and watching two paintings hanging high and illuminated by a row of lanterns.

And those two paintings are "Bishamen Tiantu", but one of them seems to be different from the original painting.