v2 Chapter 355： : The pit is getting bigger and bigger

Fangjiro Abe was originally a giant in the Japanese textile industry and loved Chinese cultural relics. Although Japan has never recognized them, in fact they are deeply influenced by Chinese culture. Many upper-class people cherish Chinese culture and cultural relics.

During the Second World War, Abe Fangjiro received a large number of orders from the military and made a large profit. During this period, through his relationship with the military, Abe Fangjiro purchased a large number of Chinese antique artworks robbed by the military.

Including the calligraphy and paintings of famous Chinese calligraphers and painters, dozens of golden Buddhas in Jingxinzhai Wanfo Building in Beihai, a large collection of Prince Gong's residence, porcelain, gold, ivory carvings, etc.

The value is high.

After the defeat of Japan, the situation at Abe Bojiro's factory took a turn for the worse. The textile factory was on the verge of bankruptcy and could not support workers without orders. The textile factory had originally more than 3,000 workers fired and the factory was in a state of suspension.

Later, Hardy came with seven consortiums, and Fangjiro Abe’s textile factory was reluctantly acquired. Although the Abe family retained 15% of the shares and the factory started again, the ownership was taken away by others, and the management rights were returned to the Americans.

Nowadays, Fangjiro Abe stays at home and has nothing to do. Although he is nearly 70 years old, he is still restless. He was moved when he saw the advertisement of the antique mortgage financial investment company in the newspaper.

He was not reconciled to the complete control of the Japanese economy by the Americans.

He has a large number of antiques in his hands. Perhaps he can make a profit in this way. When he makes money, he hopes to start a new business and grow the Abe family again.

Let his son Kojiro Abe find an antique mortgage financial investment company. The business manager heard that Abe’s family had a large number of antiques and immediately brought people over.

All the antiques collected by Fangjiro Abe are high-quality goods. There are special collection rooms and exhibition rooms. Fangjiro Abe’s legs are not good and his heart is not good, so he needs to walk with a cane. He brought a group of business managers to his house. Looking at the antique artworks displayed on the wall in the exhibition room, I feel a little melancholy.

He never thought that one day, the Abe family would depend on selling antiques.

Do not,

Just mortgage,

These antiques will be returned sooner or later!

Fangjiro Abe persuaded himself like this.

He pointed to a painting on the wall and introduced: “This is a painting by Su Shi Su Dongpo, the great writer of the Song Dynasty in China. I bought it for 40,000 yen."

If Bai Juyi ranks first, the Chinese writer whom the Japanese admire most, then Su Dongpo must be second.

The business manager asked the experts behind him to come and appraise it. After verifying that the painting was indeed authentic, the business manager finally said: "We can set a price for this painting at $2,500."

Fangjiro Abe was taken aback, and said with a little annoyance: "If you convert it at the exchange rate of the year, 2,500 US dollars is equivalent to 10,000 yen. I have to pay so much for the collection for so many years. No, the price you gave is too low. "

The business manager spread his hands,

"The value of antiques was the highest during a stable period. The price of antiques on the market has fallen sharply. This is normal. You must know that many people in Japan now sell antiques at home and want to exchange life supplies, and those who buy But very few."

The business manager is telling the truth.

Chinese cultural relics are not popular in Europe. Europeans like European artworks, especially oil paintings. As for Americans, they don’t care about Eastern artworks.

The market for Chinese cultural relics is mainly domestic, but who cares about antiques in the domestic situation nowadays, there are a large number of Chinese antiques in Japan, many of which are looted, and even some ordinary Japanese military officers have dozens of Chinese antiques in their homes.

In difficult times, many people used antiques to sell money to supplement their households, but the sales were not good. The main reason is that there are very few people who have money to buy them. Everyone has a hard time, so the prices are getting lower and lower.

There is no market for Chinese antiques at all, and the mortgage of antiques by financial companies can be said to be one of the few opportunities for Chinese antiques to be realized.

"All right."

Fangjiro Abe gritted his teeth and accepted. To be honest, he doesn't have the capital to argue with others.

Especially the other party is still American.

The Americans managed the Japanese for five years and implemented a high-pressure policy. Many Japanese have begun to fear the Americans from their hearts. In many places, even if it is an American tramp, the Japanese must be respectful.

Fangjiro Abe continued the introduction.

"This is Wang Wei's "Fu Sheng Jia Jing Tu". Wang Wei was a great poet and painter in the Tang Dynasty. This painting has a history of 1,400 years."

"This age is longer, then give $3,000." The business manager said.

Fangjiro Abe feels a pain in his heart. Does this kind of art only depend on the length of time? The Americans are really uneducated.

"This is Zhang Sengyou's "Five Stars and Twenty-Eight Places of Gods". Zhang Sengyou was a great painter in the Southern and Northern Dynasties. It is him who is the finishing touch in the Chinese allusion."

"The finishing touch, I haven't heard of it. How long is the Southern and Northern Dynasties?" the business manager asked the appraiser next to him.

The appraiser next to him hurriedly said: "Hundreds of years later than the Tang Dynasty."

"Then 2,000 dollars." The business manager said plainly.

Fang Jiro Abe felt that his heart could no longer stand, and said to his son beside him: "Kojiro, you can introduce the rest."

Kojiro took over and discussed pricing with the appraiser’s business manager. The Abe family’s stuff is indeed very good, such as "Send Son to Heaven" by Sage Wu Daozi, Gong Suran's "Ming Concubine Leaving the Frontier", Yan Wengui's "Jiangshan Tower" View the picture.

Yi Yuanji's "Gathering Apes", Zheng Sixiao's "Orchid Picture Roll", Wang Yuan's "Bamboo Birds", Tang Yin's "One Branch of Spring", Jiang Tingxi's "Vine and Flowers and Tits", Jin Tingbiao's "Chunyuan Ruizhao" 》......

There are more than 180 paintings and calligraphy alone.

In addition, the porcelains in the collection of Fongjiro Abe are also very precious. They are all available in Jun kiln, Ru kiln and Ding kiln of the Song Dynasty, as well as fine royal porcelains of the Ming and Qing dynasties.

There are more than 3,000 collections of tooth carvings, wood carvings, Buddha statues, bronzes, and rare ancient books. The most expensive ones are those calligraphy and paintings. Porcelain and tooth carvings are about a few hundred dollars each. Rare ancient books are cheaper.

Due to the large number of boutiques, the final calculated amount is also very large, reaching a total of 2.3 million US dollars.

The business manager was not surprised, as if he was used to seeing millions of dollars, and said to Abe Fangjiro: "Mr. Abe, your collection is valued at 2.3 million U.S. dollars. According to bank mortgage rules, 70% of the funds can be mortgaged. Just get 1.61 million U.S. dollars in funding."

Fangjiro Abe looked at the business manager and asked, "Can I get the money directly? I plan to use it for other purposes?"

The business manager shook his head vigorously, his face turned a little ugly, "This is no good, I can tell you, this business is mainly for our company to negotiate with the bank to deposit cash in the bank. We are an investment company, not for you to apply for a mortgage. The loan company."

"I can tell you that apart from our company's business, no bank will use these cultural relics as mortgages, even your local banks in Japan."

"In fact, these antiques have no value in our hands. We just found such a collateral in order to invigorate the investment market."

"If you want to get cash, hehe, then you can ask the bank yourself. I believe no bank will take this business."

The business manager was right. Abe actually asked his son to ask the bank about using antiques as a mortgage. It used to be possible, but now there is no bank to do this business, because the bank has limited funds, and most of them Investing in the real business is much higher than investing in antiques and earning pitiful loan interest.

And now the banks are all under the control of the seven major consortia, Hardy would not let them do it, and none of them dared to do it.

So now in Japan, only Wells Fargo Bank is doing this business.

"Well, mortgage it to your company." Fangjiro Abe nodded.

The business manager handed over the contract, and Fangjiro Abe took it. It seemed that he found that the contract stipulated that it was necessary to invest in this financial company for more than two years to withdraw cash. After that, there would be no restrictions.

"Is this clause too overbearing?" Fangjiro Abe pointed to the clause and said.

"No way, we need to prevent someone from taking the money away with the help of the loan platform. In case someone is going to give up the antique and take the money directly, we will lose a lot." The business manager said.

"Isn't it a secured antique?"

"For our financial company, cash is higher than everything. These antiques are extremely difficult to sell. If the cash is gone, we will get a bunch of useless antiques and we can't continue our financial business. This is not in line with our original intention." road.

Fangjiro Abe also agreed with the other party that the most important thing to do in a business is cash. Isn't he the same now?

If he didn't want cash, why would he mortgage antiques?

Lifting the pen, Foujiro Abe signed the contract, and the Antique Mortgage Finance Company quickly sent people over to carefully store Abe’s artworks and put them in the safe for transportation.

Then Fangjiro Abe followed to Wells Fargo Bank, signed the mortgage procedures, and everything is now complete.

Go home.

Looking at the empty exhibition room and collection room, Abe Fangjiro felt uncomfortable, "I hope everything goes well. If this investment succeeds, it can accumulate capital for the Abe family to re-emerge."

"Don't worry, father, I've asked someone to find out before. The company's strength is very strong, and the antiques are mortgaged to the bank. Wells Fargo is the bank of Hadi's special envoy. They must not have any problems." Abe Fangjiro's son Said with a smile.

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Big businessman,

collector,

Even the professor,

Many people have a large number of Chinese antiques in their hands.

Some choose to hand over antiques to investment companies for life reasons, and some simply want to make money.

The days are not easy these days, even said to be very sad. With such an opportunity to make money, many people feel that they will lose if they don't seize it.

Anyway, Antique couldn't run away.

Newspapers reported that the U.S. stock market has been a big bull market in recent years, and experts have analyzed that the U.S. economy broke out after the war, and this bull market will last for a long time.

Now Japan can't invest, and they don't have any funds in their hands. Now there is such an excellent opportunity to use antiques as collateral, and then invest in the US stock market to make money. Why not do it.

So many people have found mortgage companies to mortgage the antiques in their hands to the bank so that they can invest for themselves.

Not only these businessmen, some members of the Japanese royal family, and the guys who escaped after participating in the war of aggression against China, also felt it was an opportunity. If they didn’t show up, they asked their housekeepers or clansmen to pretend to find a mortgage company for mortgage investment. .

In fact, these people have a lot of antiques hidden in their homes. In China, they searched everywhere like beasts, and after they brought them back to Japan, they became their property. The number of antiques in their hands was much larger than those of the merchants.

In doing so, they actually have another consideration. On the one hand, they can make money, and the other is that they have been uneasy in their hearts, for fear that the Americans will have another liquidation against them that day.

If they are liquidated, these antiques will not be kept. Now they are mortgaged to the bank and invested in the US stock market. Now they can make money. After two years later they can withdraw funds freely, they plan to transfer some of the funds to other places.

Staying in the U.S., or in the U.K. or Switzerland, can also leave a certain amount of money for the family for the children and grandchildren.

Hardy thought they were right.

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