Chapter 211 Yang Ming wants them all! 8000 calligraphy and paintings bought for 4 yuan

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

In Director Chen's view, Yang Ming's status was unusual, so what if he gave 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, Azhu, Zhong Chuhong and others thought they had heard wrongly.

Yang Ming wants them all?

"Mr. Yang, do 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.

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

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

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. Continuing to paint means that scarcity does not mean that things are more valuable.

In this case, what is the point of Mr. Yang buying so many of these paintings?

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

Director Chen and others were pleasantly surprised.

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.

Now he actually made a big deal.

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

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

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

Yang Ming did not stay any longer.

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.

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

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

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

Domestic prices?

Yang Ming is not sure.

However, he knew there should be a general range.

Nowadays, the monthly salary of most people in the country, such as those state-owned enterprise employees who have an iron rice bowl, is fixed according to their grade. Most people's salary is tens of yuan a month.

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

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.

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

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

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 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.

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

After all, in Mr. Shen's opinion, the prices of the calligraphy and paintings in the Foreign Guest Service Department are really not low.

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.

Mr. Shen knew that Mr. Yang of the 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.

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

However, he felt that Mr. Yang should not feel that he had been deceived by the Foreign Guest Service Department, which would create a bad impression on the country.

Yang Mingzheng was pleasantly surprised.

Mr. Shen was worried about Yang Ming spending so much money to buy those paintings.

Take the bus back to Yanjing Hotel.

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

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

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

In other words, Yang Ming is still here now.

Yang Ming finished his lunch.

Return to the luxurious suite and rest.

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

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

In the afternoon.

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

There was a sudden knock on the door.

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

Yang Ming thought that Huo Yingdong had left Yanjing.

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

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

Hu Yingxiang?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Yang Ming and Huo Yingdong finished talking.

After Huo Yingdong left.

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

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.

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

In the end, it was determined that there were nearly 8000 calligraphy and paintings, which worked out to about 4 RMB, or 5 yuan a piece.

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 1.67 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 50s was at a level of 42.7:100, which lasted for many years.

Later, the RMB gradually appreciated.

In the mid-to-late 70s, the RMB-Hong Kong dollar exchange rate once soared to 20:100.

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

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

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 8000 calligraphy and paintings, totaling 4 yuan."

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