Seeing Ye Chen’s firm attitude, Zhou Liangyun couldn’t help but tell him: “Master, you must not have any head-on conflict with the Rothschild family because of me. If you don’t tolerate it, you will mess up the big plan…”
Ye Chen nodded: “Uncle Zhou, don’t worry. Now the enemy is overt and we are covert. It can be said that it is easy to make the Rothschild family look bad and make them uncomfortable.”
With that said, Ye Chen looked at Zhou Liangyun and said, “Uncle Zhou, I still have some questions that I would like you to answer for me.”
Zhou Liangyun said hurriedly: “Master, just say it.”
Ye Chen quickly asked: “I also want to know how my father came into contact with the “Nine Mysterious Sutra Preface” and the “Nine Mysterious Heavenly Scripture”? In addition, how did my father get involved with the Po Qing Society?”
Zhou Liangyun sighed: “Your father has a similar experience to you. His process of obtaining the “Nine Mysterious Sutra Preface” is very similar to your process of obtaining the “Nine Mysterious Heavenly Sutra”.”
Ye Chen thought of some information that his uncle once said and asked in surprise: “Did my father also get the “Preface to the Nine Mysteries Sutra” from an antique?”
“Yes.” Zhou Liangyun nodded heavily.
Ye Chen quickly asked: “What exactly happened?”
Zhou Liangyun said: “You got the “Nine Mysterious Scriptures” because your father entrusted me to bring the “Nine Mysterious Scriptures” to you, but your father got the “Nine Mysterious Scriptures Preface” completely by accident.”
As he spoke, he explained in detail: “Back then, your father, like me, also liked to study the Book of Changes and all kinds of Chinese antiques, so he often came to the store in Queens to find me, and we often studied some antiques together; ”
“At that time, I hadn’t started to recover cultural relics lost overseas for China. I was just doing antique business. However, your father had been doing this, so I was influenced by him later and started working with him to help those precious cultural relics. Chinese cultural relics return to China;”
“Because we have the same hobbies and ambitions, your father and I became very good friends. During that time, our family’s antique shop encountered a lot of troubles one after another and was plotted by many people. It was all because of your father’s hard work. Only by helping each other can we overcome difficulties, and he is the benefactor of our whole family.”
Speaking of this, Zhou Liangyun sighed, recalled for a moment, and said: “One day more than 20 years ago, a down-and-out British aristocrat came to our store in London. Because he encountered a major change, his family had family members. Many antiques and cultural relics are in urgent need of cash, and a large part of them come from China. He knew that our family is relatively professional in Chinese antiques, so he approached us and hoped to pack up and sell all the Chinese cultural relics at home to us; ”
“At that time, I flew to London to participate in the assessment. The down-and-out nobleman’s home contained a total of 487 Chinese cultural relics, and there were indeed many good ones among them. There were more than a dozen pieces of blue and white porcelain from the Yuan and Ming dynasties alone. In addition, there are two very precious pastel pieces, and there are countless other official kiln porcelains of the Ming and Qing Dynasties;”
“In the antique market, blue and white porcelain and pastel porcelain are the ceiling of porcelain, and the price has always been very high. The official kiln is also synonymous with quality and high price, and the price is also very strong;”
“In addition, there are several palace collections that have been clearly recorded by the Qing court, and the prices are even higher;”
“For such a large number of ceiling-level cultural relics, even if it is packaged at a discounted price, the lowest price quoted by the other party more than 20 years ago reached 200 million US dollars;”
“Although our family’s business scale was relatively large back then, the antique industry was a very capital-intensive project after all. The family property may have been worth over a billion or even billions of dollars, but a large part of it was from around the world. It’s really hard to spend 200 million U.S. dollars on inventory in stores everywhere;”
“Furthermore, in the antique business, you can’t liquidate inventory too quickly. The more inventory you have, the more calm you have to be;”