Ye Chen's words made Song Wanting's heart surging instantly.
She has always wanted to make the collection trading and auction business bigger and stronger, but she has never found a suitable breakthrough point.
It is precisely because she attaches great importance to this business that when she saw Ye Chen using lost cultural relics restoration technology to repair her antiques in Jiqingtang, she immediately became interested in making friends with Ye Chen.
She originally hoped that Ye Chen could be recruited to Jiqingtang to work for the Song family, but she could not have expected that Ye Chen, who was just a son-in-law at the time, had a true identity as the young master of the Ye family in Yanjing.
His own strength is extremely powerful.
Therefore, Song Wanting's wish to revitalize Jiqingtang through Ye Chen has long since disappeared.
Since then, Jiqingtang has not found a better development opportunity.
Although the collectibles industry seems to be too far away from ordinary people and rarely hear any big moves, this industry is an undefeated and profitable industry with a huge market size.
The transaction volume of a large auction house may be as many as tens of billions. If there are super hot products, the transaction volume will be even higher.
Sometimes, just auctioning a painting can bring hundreds of millions of dollars in transactions to the auction house.
The auction profit is also very generous. Its profitability is generally divided into self-operated or commission-drawing.
Self-operation is nothing more than buying low and selling high, mainly focusing on the traditional antique market’s bargaining model;
Commission drawing is the main revenue channel for auctions.
Generally speaking, auction companies will charge commissions ranging from 5% to 15% for the goods, and the more famous the auction companies are, the higher the commission rate will be.
Under normal circumstances, if a famous painting is sold for 100 million US dollars, the auction can get 15 million US dollars by just taking commissions.
It is equivalent to RMB 100 million.
Therefore, the bigger the auction house, the more money-making ability will be.
A auction costs tens of billions, and the intermediary commission alone can earn more than one billion in cash.
Such auctions will be held twice a year, and billions of net profits will be obtained.
Moreover, once the auction becomes bigger and stronger, the profit it can bring is much more than commissions, but the overall improvement of the entire industrial chain.
Generally speaking, there are multiple collection stores under a large auction house. Because the auction house is famous enough, the customer flow of their stores is also very large.
This kind of collectibles store not only operates and sells ordinary collectibles, but also provides paid appraisal services and paid in-store consignment to individual sellers and collectors.
Many collections that are not qualified to be auctioned but have a certain value are mostly sold privately in such stores.
Since the store has been around for many years, the transaction volume accumulated over a year is also huge, and the commission profit is no less than that of the auction.
However, this powerful money-making ability is limited to a few top companies in the industry. When it comes to Song Wanting’s Jiqingtang, the net profit over the year is not even 100 million or 200 million.
The reason why Jiqingtang cannot do it is not that she, Song Wanting, is that she, cannot get good things in the true sense.
Without enough good things, there is no capital to compare with those top auction houses.
When top auction houses auctioned Van Gogh, Picasso, Paul Gauguin, or Qi Baishi, Zhang Daqian and other famous paintings, Ji Qingtang couldn't even get a painting with a transaction price of over 10 million yuan.
The reason is that it is not well-known enough. It is impossible for those big collectors to take photos of things for Jiqingtang.
Song Wanting, who was struggling to find no good opportunity, was suddenly pulled by Ye Chen with the Rejuvenation Pill, which made her deeply grateful to Ye Chen, and she couldn't help but feel excited.
This is because she is very clear about the value of Rejuvenation Pill. Perhaps there are no collections in this world that can be compared with the top magical medicine such as Rejuvenation Pill.
So, she could almost foresee that the auction of Rejuvenation Pill will definitely set a historical record.
This is naturally a good opportunity for Jiqingtang to become famous.
It is equivalent to a third-tier star, and finally having the opportunity to perform on the same stage with the world's top stars, it is definitely a good opportunity for all the children to rise to heaven!
So, she said to Ye Chen excitedly: "Master Ye, don't worry, I will do my best to do this auction!"
Ye Chen nodded and said with a little emotion: "Although Jiqingtang is the property of your Song family, it has extraordinary significance to me... So Wanting, you must make Jiqingtang famous
It’s not in vain to become bigger and stronger.”
At the beginning, in Jiqingtang, if his father-in-law Xiao Changkun had not accidentally knocked over the antique vase, Ye Chen would never have had the chance to obtain the "Nine Profound Heavenly Classic".
If there were no "Nine Profound Heavenly Sutra", today's Jinling would only be Mr. Ye. There would not be Master Ye.
Therefore, Ye Chen felt that Jiqingtang was of great significance to him.
However, he didn't know that when Song Wanting beside him heard this, he felt a misunderstanding in his heart.
Hearing Ye Chen's sigh, ripples immediately appeared in Song Wanting's heart, and the look of looking at Ye Chen was like a pool of spring water, full of deep affection.
In fact, for Song Wanting, who has always loved Ye Chen deeply, she has long regarded Ji Qingtang as one of the most important places in her life.
However, she didn't expect that Ye Chen actually thought Jiqingtang was of great significance.
This made her mistakenly think that Ye Chen's feelings were all caused by her.
At the same time, it also made her feel that she loved Ye Chen so deeply for so long, but it seemed that she was not wishful thinking. At least Ye Chen had a place in her heart.
While moved, she couldn't help but sigh shyly: "Master Ye... Thank you for seeing Jiqingtang so importantly... In fact, Jiqingtang is equally meaningful to me..."
Speaking of this, she looked at Ye Chen with affectionate eyes and said softly: "Master Ye, when I first met you, although I looked like the eldest lady of the Song family, in fact, I was only responsible for Jiqingtang in the Song family.
Business, at that time, I never dreamed that I would become the head of the Song family one day..."
"Until... until that day... I met you in Jiqingtang..."
"It is precisely because of meeting you that Wanting can live to this day and have everything she has today..."
At this moment, tears were already rising in Song Wanting's eyes.
For the Song Group, which has a market value of 100 billion yuan, Jiqingtang is just a little inconspicuous scraps.
Song Wanting had long lost her parents, and she was alone in the Song family. What's more, under the secret suppression of Song Tianming and Song Rongyu, it was difficult for her to gain a foothold.
Therefore, when the Song family distributed Jiqingtang business to him, it was equivalent to using a little bit of profit to dismiss her.
Song Wanting didn't care about these things at the time, and she knew that she was just a woman and had no parents to rely on. She was already very content with the Song family being able to share Jiqingtang with her.
However, what she could not imagine was that her life actually ushered in the biggest turning point in Jiqingtang.
That turning point was Ye Chen.
Without Ye Chen, she might have died long ago in the Dragon Trap Formation. Or at the hands of her uncle and cousin, how could she survive all the disasters and become the head of the Song family today?