She has always wanted to make her collectibles 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 she immediately became friends with Ye Chen after she saw with her own eyes that Ye Chen could use the lost cultural relic restoration technology to restore his own antiques at Ji Qingtang.
She originally hoped to recruit Ye Chen to Ji Qingtang to work for the Song family, but she never expected that Ye Chen, who was just a divorced son-in-law at the time, turned out to be the young master of the Ye family in Yanjing, and
His own strength is even more powerful.
Therefore, Song Wanting's original wish to revitalize Ji Qingtang through Ye Chen has long since come to nothing.
Since then, Jiqingtang has not been able to find a better development opportunity.
Although the collectibles industry seems to be too far away from ordinary people, and there are few big moves, this industry is an out-and-out profiteering industry, and the market size is huge.
The turnover of an auction in a major auction house may be in the tens to tens of billions. If there is a super hit item, the turnover may be even higher.
Sometimes, just one painting can bring hundreds of millions of dollars in sales to the auction house.
The auction is also very profitable. Its profit methods are generally divided into self-operation or commission.
Self-employment is nothing more than buying low and selling high, mainly based on the traditional antique market pickup model;
Commission is the most important revenue channel for auctions.
Generally speaking, auction companies will charge commissions ranging from 5% to 15% for the auction items. The more famous the auction company is, the higher the commission rate will be.
Under normal circumstances, if a famous painting is sold for US$100 million, the auction will get US$15 million just from the commission.
Converted into RMB, it is almost 100 million yuan.
Therefore, the larger the auction house, the more its ability to make money increases exponentially.
An auction can sell for tens of billions, and the commission alone can generate more than a billion in cash income.
If such auctions are held twice a year, billions of net profits will be made.
Moreover, once the auction becomes bigger and stronger, the profits it can bring are far more than just commissions, but the overall improvement of the entire industry chain.
Generally speaking, a large auction house will have multiple collectibles stores. Because the auction house is famous enough, these stores have very large customer traffic.
This kind of collectibles shop not only sells ordinary collectibles, but also provides paid appraisal services and paid in-store consignment to individual sellers and collectors.
Many collectibles that are not qualified for auction but have a certain value are mostly sold privately in such shops.
Since the shop is open all year round, the turnover accumulated in a year is huge, and the commission profit is no less than that of the auction.
However, this kind of strong ability to attract money is limited to the top few large companies in the industry. As for Song Wanting's Ji Qingtang, the net profit throughout the year is not even one or two billion.
The reason why Ji Qingtang couldn't do it was not that Song Wanting didn't work hard enough, but that Ji Qingtang couldn't get anything truly good.
If there are not enough good things, there is absolutely no capital to compare with those top auction houses.
When the top auction houses are auctioning off famous paintings by the world's top masters such as Van Gogh, Picasso, Paul Gauguin, Qi Baishi, and Zhang Daqian, Ji Qingtang cannot even offer a single painting with a transaction price of over 10 million.
The reason is that it is not well-known enough. It is impossible for those big collectors to sell things to Ji Qingtang on their behalf.
Song Wanting, who was struggling to find a good opportunity, was suddenly given a hand by Ye Chen with a rejuvenation pill. This made her deeply grateful to Ye Chen, and at the same time, she couldn't help but feel excited.
This is because she is very aware of the value of the Rejuvenation Pill. Perhaps there is no other collectible in the world that can compare with a top-notch magical medicine like the Rejuvenation Pill.
Therefore, she can almost predict that the auction of the Rejuvenation Pill will definitely create a historical record.
This is naturally a good opportunity for Ji Qingtang to make a name for itself.
It's like a third-tier star finally has the opportunity to perform on the same stage as the top star in the world. It is definitely a good opportunity to rise to heaven!
Therefore, she excitedly said to Ye Chen: "Master Ye, don't worry, I will definitely do my best to make this auction the best it can be!"
Ye Chen nodded and said with some emotion: "Although Ji Qingtang is the property of your Song family, it has extraordinary significance to me... So Wanting, you must take advantage of Ji Qingtang's reputation."
Being bigger and stronger will not be in vain for my fate with it."
Back in Ji Qing Tang, if his father-in-law Xiao Changkun hadn't accidentally knocked over the antique vase, Ye Chen would never have had the chance to obtain the "Nine Mysterious Scriptures".
If there were no "Nine Mysterious Heavenly Scriptures", today's Jinling would only have Young Master Ye, but not Master Ye.
Therefore, Ye Chen felt that Ji Qingtang was of great significance to him.
However, little did he know that Song Wanting next to him would have a misunderstanding when he heard this.
Hearing Ye Chen's sigh, Song Wanting's heart immediately felt ripples, and the look in her eyes when she looked at Ye Chen was like a pool of spring water, full of 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 did not expect that Ye Chen also felt that Ji Qingtang was of great significance.
This made her mistakenly believe that Ye Chen's feelings were all caused by her.
At the same time, it also made her feel that her deep love for Ye Chen for so long was not wishful thinking. At least Ye Chen had a place for himself in his heart.
While being moved, she couldn't help but sigh softly and shyly: "Master Ye... thank you for treating Jiqing Hall as so important... In fact, Jiqing Hall is also of great significance to me..."
Speaking of this, she looked at Ye Chen affectionately with her eyes. She said softly: "Master Ye, when I first met you, although I seemed to be the eldest lady of the Song family, in fact, I was only responsible for the Ji Qing Hall in the Song family.
Business, at that time, I never dreamed that one day I would become the head of the Song family..."
"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, there were tears in Song Wanting's eyes.
Ji Qingtang is just an inconspicuous scrap for the Song Group, which has a market value of hundreds of billions.
Song Wanting had lost her parents a long time ago, and it was difficult for her to survive alone in the Song family. What's more, under the secret pressure of Song Tianming and Song Honor and his son, it was difficult for her to gain a foothold.
Therefore, when the Song family assigned Ji Qingtang's business to him, it was equivalent to using a small amount of money to get rid of her.
Song Wanting didn't care about this at the time. She also knew that she was just a member of the female class and had no parents to rely on. She was very satisfied that the Song family could allocate Ji Qing Hall to her.
However, what she could not have imagined was that her life would encounter the biggest turning point in Ji Qingtang.
That turning point was Ye Chen.
Without Ye Chen, she might have died in the dragon trap. Or she might have died at the hands of her uncle and cousin. How could she have survived all the disasters and become the head of the Song family today?