Volume 1 Chapter 40 This is Genius

  Looking at this Han Dynasty jade pendant, Lin Liang nodded slightly. If he hadn't known everything about this jade before, even if it was his first glance, he would have been deceived by it. The biggest feature of this jade is those two places that resemble unsuccessful repairs.

  Things are precious because of their rarity. This jade pendant itself is not a high-quality material, but Han Dynasty jade is rare and this type of jade pendant is even rarer. Coupled with the craftsmanship being top-notch for that period, its value is naturally very high.

  The market price of 400,000 is very fair.

  However, that's just the market price. In their antique shop, the price would be slightly higher. Lin Liang thought for a moment and said softly: "Little Liu, we'll take this Eastern Han jade pendant from you for 400,000 yuan, but we won't give you any commission!"

  Lin Liang said that the commission is the two new rules announced by the boss, which was also triggered by Liu Yi Yang. Introducing business to the store has a commission.

  "Four hundred thousand?"

  Liu Yi Yang was slightly stunned, looking at Lin Liang in surprise. The market price of the jade pendant is 400,000 yuan, but that doesn't mean it will be sold to an antique shop for 400,000 yuan. If it's sold to a regular collector, 400,000 yuan is absolutely no problem, but antique shops are middlemen who want to make money, so they will definitely lower the purchase price.

  Can be acquired at a normal market price, Liu Yi Yang immediately understood that Lin Liang was taking care of himself.

  "No, don't look down on it!"

  Lin Liang smiled, 400,000 was indeed a price that took care of his own people. If it were someone else, he could only offer 350,000. The antique shop's funds were under great pressure, and this type of jade pendant was not in high demand. Just holding onto it would incur significant interest payments.

  Moreover, such a large antique shop has considerable expenses, and business is always about making money.

  "No, no, I don't think it's low!" Liu Yi Yang hastily shook his head, scratching his head with some embarrassment.

  "If there's no problem, I'll have someone transfer the money to you. You know the store doesn't keep large amounts of cash on hand, it's just our rule to only do transfers!"

  Lin Liang smiled slightly, and just then another person walked in from outside. It was Lin Feng, the one in charge of the warehouse.

  He came to put away the treasures he collected today, but didn't expect Liu Yi Yang was also here.

  Mr. Zhang told him what had just happened, and Lin Feng immediately looked at Liu Yi Yang with envy and jealousy. He had just received a prize of 50,000 yuan a few days ago, and today he sold a jade pendant worth 400,000 yuan. Such good luck would make anyone jealous.

  He still doesn't know about Huai Wang Long Pei's matter, if he knew, his eyes would probably be even wider, that's 60 million, not just a simple few million.

  Before long, the financial staff also arrived. Upon learning that Liu Yi Yang had sold a treasure worth 400,000 yuan to the store himself, several people's eyes were filled with surprise and envy.

  These people are all office workers who don't go out, and they hadn't heard about Liu Yi Yang's matter of picking up a bargain, only knowing about it afterwards.

  The financial went to transfer the money quickly, but Liu Yi Yang didn't follow. He hesitated for a moment and finally came to Lin Liang's side, saying in a low voice: "Uncle Lin, although I won't sell the Huai Wang Long Pei, it can be put in the store as an exhibit!"

  "Exhibition goods, you say it's true?" Lin Liang suddenly turned his head back.

  The exhibits are available in every antique shop, some of which are non-salable items, some are items that customers have paid for but not yet taken away, and some are purely placed here by customers for display purposes.

  The exhibits are also easy to understand, they can only be seen and cannot be bought.

  Ordinary exhibits are useless, but good exhibits can enhance the image of a store and increase its reputation. The largest antique shop in China, 'Rongbao Zhai', is itself a folk museum with many non-sale exhibits on display.

  The Hua Wang Yu Pei is a high-value treasure, and many people like this kind of treasure. Displaying it can attract many people to come, even if they can't sell it, they can still buy other things, increasing the store's turnover while also making them appreciate Xuan Ya Zhai more.

  Xuan Ya Zhai now has such a good treasure, and in the future, there will definitely be even better ones. This is the common psychology of many people.

  This psychological understanding is also very simple. For example, you go to a small restaurant and feel that their dishes are delicious, so next time you will definitely go again because your heart has already recognized it. Similarly, if the fruit you bought at a certain fruit stand is particularly good, then next time you will definitely go to that store again.

  This jade pendant can't be bought out, but this store has it, which is a living advertisement. No wonder Lin Liang was so excited when he heard Liu Yiyang's words.

  "Of course it's true, I can leave it here today!"

  Liu Yi Yang smiled and nodded, leaving it as a display item, which actually didn't have any drawbacks for him.

  Short-term exhibits are friendly, but if they are long-term, the antique shop also needs to pay him a certain fee, which is a kind of rental fee. Many antique shops have such things.

  It's actually easy to understand, in order to increase popularity, some antique shops intentionally rent some precious treasures and place them here, the rental fee is calculated based on the value of the treasure.

  Lin Liang helped himself, Liu Yi Yang didn't want these rental fees, but putting them here saved him a trouble.

  The trouble he saved was keeping it safe, he lived in a school dormitory, such valuable things could not be placed inside the dormitory, not that he didn't trust the people in the dormitory, but the dormitory itself was not safe, if he didn't ask an antique shop to help him keep it safe, he would have had to go to a bank to rent a safety deposit box.

  Renting a safe deposit box costs money, handing it over to the store for display helps Lin uncle with his business and also saves him the cost of renting a safe deposit box, killing two birds with one stone.

  "Alright, alright, Little Liu, this time I really have to thank you!"

  Liu Yi Yang agreed to put it in the store for at least three months, making Lin Liang so happy that he couldn't close his mouth. Three months might attract a lot of people.

  Ancient jade is different from ancient porcelain, not many ancient jades are worth over a million, and those worth several million are even fewer. As for ancient jades worth tens of millions, they are extremely rare. Unlike some imperial kiln porcelains that can be auctioned off at sky-high prices of tens or hundreds of millions. This sheep fat jade 'Huang Wang Long' pendant is absolutely the best piece in the antique city.

  Having obtained Liu Yi Yang's promise, Lin Liang excitedly pulled Liu Yi Yang to the front of the large table, letting him take a look at today's treasures.

  He did this, also with the intention of testing Liu Yi Yang. Zhang and Ye, both appraisers, didn't object, instead they smiled at Liu Yi Yang.

  The two also wanted to see if he had lucked out with the fake vase last time or if he really had genuine talent.

  "Little Liu, take a look at this Jiajing imperial kiln ware."

  Lin Liang first pointed to a blue and white porcelain vase inside, which was quite large, larger than ordinary vases. The vase had a pattern of figures painted on it, depicting children at play.

  Liu Yi Yang has come into contact with many antiques, and he is very clear about the weight of a Qinghua porcelain bowl with a baby play pattern from the Jiajing period. That's a high-value treasure, and a good piece is absolutely not inferior to that Huan Wang Long Pei.

  Carefully held in his hand, Liu Yi Yang carefully took a look.

  In a moment, a red aura burst out of the bowl and quickly drilled into Liu Yi Yang's forehead. These auras disappeared only after three minutes.

  After the spiritual energy disappeared, a transparent light ring appeared on the bowl. Looking at this transparent light ring, Liu Yi Yang's eyebrows unconsciously gathered together. The thickness of this light ring was only a few millimeters, even thinner than some of the Ming Chongzhen items that Liu Yi Yang had once maintained.

  Judging solely from the aperture, this is absolutely not a Ming dynasty piece.

  But this is not false either, a few millimeters of aperture, three minutes of spiritual energy absorption have proven all this, it should be a thing for later defense.

  After careful calculation, the thickness of the aperture is about three millimeters or more. This thickness is similar to some things from the Kangxi period. According to Liu Yiyang's own summary of experience, for every hundred years of history in antiques, the thickness of the aperture increases by one millimeter. Calculated according to this inference, this should be an item from the Kangxi period.

  To be precise, it is a Qinghua porcelain bowl with a baby play pattern imitating Jiajing's style from the early Kangxi period.

  Liu Yi Yang held the bowl and looked at it carefully again, after a while he slowly nodded his head, he had a true understanding of this porcelain.

  "Uncle Lin, this Jiajing mark and period baby play picture bowl is not from the Jiajing dynasty itself, but a later imitation from the Kangxi period. Although it's an imitation, it's also a masterpiece among folk kilns!"

  Liu Yi Yang's words made Lin Shu's eyes suddenly shine brightly, and Zhang and Ye, the two teachers beside him, also turned their heads around, looking at Liu Yi Yang in great surprise.

  Mr. Lin pointed to the small bowl and asked in a low voice, "Why did you say this is not from the Jiajing period of the Ming dynasty? How can you be sure it's an imitation from the Kangxi period or a folk kiln?"

  "It's not difficult to judge that it's not a Jiajing imperial kiln, the later Ming dynasty official kilns used imported blue and white materials, the color of the blue flowers is naturally scattered, while the later generations' blue materials are mostly domestic, which can't achieve this effect. The scattered pattern on this piece is obvious, from this point, it can be judged that it's not a Jiajing imperial kiln!"

  Liu Yi Yang pointed at the pattern on the Qing Hua, speaking slowly, Lin Liang and the two appraisers all nodded silently.

  Judging the age of Qinghua porcelain from its pigments is an important method, which sounds simple but is not easy to do, requiring very high eyesight to really see.

  "There is still a fetus, the bottom of the fetus has some yellowing, and there are some messy things, but the fetal quality is very delicate, and the glaze color is also extremely good. This is a typical characteristic of civilian kilns during the Kangxi period. In addition, there are also decorations with blue and white human figures. Mr. Lin, look at these several baby-playing pictures, don't they look very rugged? They don't look like those lovely babies. This phenomenon would never have occurred in the Ming dynasty. The Ming dynasty emphasized elegance, and children were painted to be elegant, not rough. Only in the early Qing dynasty, when the world was first settled, did the Manchu people seize power, and the folk paintings of some figures were not so delicate, which led to this situation. Therefore, I judge that this is a civilian kiln imitation product from the early Kangxi period of the Qing dynasty. Although it is a civilian kiln, whether it is the fetal quality, glaze color, or blue and white painting craftsmanship, it is all top-notch, so I say that this is a masterpiece of civilian kilns!"

  Liu Yi Yang slowly finished explaining everything and stood there without speaking, looking at Lin Liang.

  "Good, Xiao Liu, how did you know this and how did you judge it?" Lin Liang shouted a "good", his face still with a hint of excitement, and asked Liu Yi Yang another question.

  "I learned it from books. Several books have similar introductions, and I figured it out after combining them!" Liu Yi Yang replied.

  "Just by looking at books, you can tell them apart and also distinguish that they are Qianlong imperial kiln masterpieces?"

  Ye Laoshi inserted a sentence, asking in a disbelieving tone, Liu Yiyang nodded slightly. He indeed recalled some characteristics from books, but he was actually able to distinguish that this was from the Kangxi period because of his spiritual energy.

  It's not that the aperture told him the years, and he may not be able to find so many problems. After knowing the result, it is easier to go back and look for the problem. It's like walking in a maze, it's hard to get in from the entrance, but if you enter from the exit, you can quickly return to the entrance.

  Knowing the answer beforehand makes it much easier to find the reason.

  "Little Liu, how long have you been in contact with these things? Did you ever come into contact with them at home before?"

  Mr. Zhang suddenly asked a question, Lin Liang, and Ye Laoshi also looked at Liu Yi Yang, they were not very clear about the situation in Liu Yi Yang's family.

  "I only started using it after I went to work, we didn't have one at home before!"

  Liu Yi Yang shook his head, his family was very poor, his parents were ill, and they didn't have the money to see a doctor, let alone indulge in these things. He actually came into contact with these collectibles after starting work, or rather, after learning about maintenance.

  Only after going to work?

  Lin Liang, Teacher Zhang, and Teacher Ye all looked at each other, their faces filled with shock. They were all very clear about when Liu Yi Yang started working.

  The last time it was a matter of luck, but this time with the Jiajing year mark and Kangxi Minyao Yu Xi Tu Wan, the explanation is truly a real ability, without careful study for six or seven years, and several years of practice, it's impossible to see so clearly.

  This is equivalent to saying that Liu Yi Yang only came into contact with it for half a year, just read some books, maintained some antiques, and had the ability that others had after ten years of work. These ten years must be spent learning with heart and having certain leadership skills.

  In half a year, he accomplished what would take others ten years to achieve; that's what you call a genius.