Chapter 211 Yang Ming wants them all! 8,000 calligraphy and paintings bought for 40,000 yuan!!

Yang Ming was pleasantly surprised, but he didn't show it.

In Director Chen's view, Yang Ming's status is unusual, so what if he gives Yang Ming some paintings?

Yang Ming said: "Director Chen, I want them all."

Want them all?

Not only Director Chen, but also the staff of the foreign guest service department, and even Lin Xiuzhi, A Zhu, Zhong Chuhong and others thought they had heard wrongly.

Yang Ming wants them all?

"Mr. Yang, you said you want them all?"

Director Chen and others knew that Yang Ming was a wealthy man from Xiangjiang and had a lot of money.

There are so many paintings and calligraphy here, even if they only cost a few yuan per square foot, it still costs a lot of money.

"Yes, I want them all."

This time.

Director Chen was pleasantly surprised, and the staff were even more pleasantly surprised.

However, he felt that Mr. Yang should not feel that he was deceived by the Foreign Guest Service Department when he arrived, as it would create a bad impression on the country.

This time, Yang Ming guessed that Hu Yingxiang and Huo Yingdong went south to Yangcheng to inspect the situation in Yangcheng and start investing.

Nowadays, the monthly salary of most people in China, such as those employees of state-owned enterprises with iron rice bowls, is fixed according to their grades. Most of the wages are tens of yuan a month.

Most of them are sent by painters or their families to foreign guests for sale, and they still have to do the math.

Humen Bridge, Yangcheng China Hotel, the highway from Yangcheng to Pengcheng, Pengcheng Shatoujiao Power Station, etc. were all invested by Hu Yingxiang first.

Director Chen and others were pleasantly surprised.

The painters themselves or their families took these paintings there and asked the National History Museum to sell them to visiting foreign guests to subsidize their families and improve their living conditions.

In the end, it was determined that there were nearly 8,000 calligraphy and paintings, which worked out to about 40,000 RMB, or 5 yuan a piece.

At the Yanjing Hotel, Mr. Shen accompanied Yang Ming, A-Zhu and others to have lunch.

Now we actually have a big business.

In the afternoon.

However, every time he goes home, he often hears his family complaining that their income is not enough to meet the family's expenses.

In addition to these, you need meat stamps to buy meat, food stamps to buy rice and flour, cloth stamps to buy cloth, and so on.

Director Chen was so excited to see Mr. Yang and others getting into the Hongqi limousine.

Yang Ming and Huo Yingdong finished talking.

Mr. Shen knew that Mr. Yang of Imperial Group could spend billions to acquire Wharf, Hutchison Whampoa, and even spend more than 10 billion Hong Kong dollars to swallow up Jardine Matheson Land.

Hu Yingxiang?

Yesterday, Yang Ming met Hu Yingxiang, and Hu Yingxiang and his wife also came to visit him in person.

Take the bus back to Yanjing Hotel.

"Mr. Huo, I thought you had returned to Xiangjiang?"

While in the car, Mr. Shen looked at Yang Ming and asked, "Mr. Yang, do you know the current domestic prices?"

As a result, Hu Ying invested earlier in history than Hong Kong tycoons like Li Jiacheng.

In the opinion of Director Chen and others, the price of this calligraphy and painting is really not cheap.

This was a once-in-a-hundred-year-old, extremely wealthy person. Now he spends that money to buy those calligraphy and paintings, even if they are for fun, it is nothing.

In addition to being very patriotic about the country, Hu Yingxiang has always wanted to improve the domestic situation.

Historically, Hu Yingxiang was the first to invest heavily in Guangdong Province.

There was a sudden knock on the door.

Exactly how many such paintings there are here, the Foreign Guest Service Department needs to make a clear count.

In the context of this planned economy era, the current domestic income and prices are like this.

Mr. Shen was worried that Yang Ming spent so much money to buy those paintings.

Yang Ming finished lunch.

Prices are too high. How can ordinary people afford to support themselves and their families?

Mr. Shen's status is not low, and his income is pretty good.

Now the domestic RMB exchange rate is not fixed compared to that abroad.

There is not much foreign exchange in the country (in 1978, domestic foreign exchange reserves were only 167 million US dollars). The exchange rate between domestic RMB and foreign exchange is mandatory and is not the real foreign exchange rate.

The RMB-Hong Kong dollar exchange rate established in the 1950s was at a level of 42.7:100, which lasted for many years.

However, he knew there should be a rough range.

These few tens of dollars are still needed to support the whole family.

Under such circumstances, what is the point of Mr. Yang buying so many of these paintings?

"Mr. Shen, I will take them all as a way of supporting these domestic painters."

Eggs are 0.48 yuan per catty, pork is 0.78 yuan, rice is 0.23 yuan per catty, white flour is 0.18 yuan per catty, whole grains are 0.1 yuan per catty, vegetables are between 0.05 and 0.2 yuan per catty, and various fruits will not exceed 1 yuan per catty. , 0.05 to 0.1 yuan for watching movies.

In the mid-to-late 1970s, the RMB-Hong Kong dollar exchange rate once soared to 20:100.

Today is the second day of National Day, and many of the guests invited back to attend the National Day ceremony have left Yanjing.

Return to the luxurious suite and rest.

When Yang Ming went to open the door, he found it was Mr. Huo Yingdong.

Yang Ming did not stay anymore.

In other words, Yang Ming is still here now.

"Mr. Yang, don't you think about it carefully?" Mr. Shen next to him reminded.

"Mr. Yang, we have a lot of calligraphy and painting here, so we need to spend time counting them."

The Hong Kong dollar became increasingly worthless, and at that time the overseas Chinese who relied on money sent back from Hong Kong were very worried about this.

Yang Mingzheng was pleasantly surprised.

Yang Ming thought that Huo Yingdong had left Yanjing.

Yang Ming is not sure.

It is usually difficult for them to sell one piece of work to foreign guests, but now Mr. Yang actually wants them all.

After Huo Yingdong left.

Basically, the more than 800 overseas representatives who were invited back this time left Yanjing by plane or train today.

The Foreign Affairs Department of the National Museum of History confirmed that Mr. Yang would buy all the calligraphy and paintings.

"No, I plan to take the train south to Guangdong Province. In addition, Hu Yingxiang will also take the train south with me."

Yang Ming did not expect that this visit to the National Museum of History and the purchase of so many famous paintings at once would be a windfall for him.

Later, the RMB gradually appreciated.

As far as these calligraphy and paintings are concerned, in thirty or forty years, one painting alone should be able to support a person.

They are also entrusted by those painters or their families to sell these calligraphy and paintings, and they get a certain share of the profits.

Over time, he would also ask his family about prices in the market outside.

The staff of the foreign guest department began to go out to make statistics, and many people took abacus and began to calculate the prices of the calligraphy and paintings.

"Okay, wait until you finish counting and give me a number then."

Hu Yingxiang's hometown was Huaxian, which was also Huacheng District under Yangcheng.

Domestic prices?

Many of the artists who created these calligraphy and paintings are still alive. As long as they are still alive, they can continue to paint continuously, and continue to paint, which means that scarcity does not mean that things are more valuable.

When Yang Ming, Mr. Shen, Lin Xiuzhi, Azhu, Zhong Chuhong and others went out, Director Chen and others personally escorted Yang Ming and others out.

According to the itinerary plan, Yang Ming did not go out for sightseeing anymore and stayed in the luxurious suite of Yanjing Hotel to rest.

"Mr. Huo, I haven't been to the Great Wall yet. It may take a few days before I return to Xiangjiang."

They originally thought that Mr. Yang was a rich man who had returned from Xiangjiang, and this time they were arranged to visit the National History Museum. They also made arrangements according to the above requirements.

After all the calculations, in Mr. Shen's opinion, the prices of the calligraphy and paintings from the Foreign Guest Service Department are really quite high.

Director Chen personally came to Yanjing Hotel to meet Yang Ming.

"Mr. Yang, after our staff made statistics all afternoon and most of the night, we have calculated clearly that there are nearly 8,000 paintings and calligraphy, totaling 40,000 yuan."

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