And today is here to solve the problem. Everyone is in this posture. Zhou Zhi can only laugh and say: "Excuse me, Manager Zhang. Logically speaking, you should consider yourself unlucky when you have your eyes opened. However, my brother-in-law is a layman, and the cultural relics store is now a state-owned enterprise. Speaking of which,

We don’t care about those old principles anymore, so we have the nerve to come over and even out the price difference, and the matter will be over.”

Manager Zhang breathed a sigh of relief: "Our general manager said that Mr. Zhou is not old, but he is a good person and will not embarrass us too much. Thank you, thank you."

"You're welcome, let's see something."

Going up to the second floor, Manager Zhang led Zhou Zhi and Tao Ming to a side hall with the door closed: "Please sit down, I'll make tea."

Tao Ming looked at the room and furnishings as if he were entering the Grand View Garden with Grandma Liu, and said to Zhou Zhi in a low voice: "Elbow, hall?"

"Brother-in-law, you know the goods too." Zhou Zhi said with a smile.

"Hey, what kind of person do I know?" Tao Ming looked around: "The furnishings here are very elegant! They are completely different from the one that received me."

"Let's not mention that matter." Zhou Zhi warned in a low voice.

"Yes, yes..."

After a while, Manager Zhang made three cups and brought them over. Then he asked someone to bring three boxes. He took out the contents one by one and placed them on the table: "Mr. Zhou, these are our sincerity. Take a look.

Do you think it’s appropriate?”

Zhou Zhi picked up the tea cup and sipped the tea: "Manager Zhang, you are so polite. The Tongzhi plate my brother-in-law took cannot be less even if the internal price is five thousand, and the rest is only forty-five thousand. If the things on this table are

Isn’t it okay if the premium is too high?”

Manager Zhang smiled and said: "Manager Fei asked us to just show sincerity. He said that Mr. Zhou, you are an expert and you have plenty of leeway in doing things. I will leave everything to you."

"Then what if I pack up everything on this table and take it away without paying a penny?"

Manager Zhang's smile stiffened for a moment, then he smiled bitterly and said: "That's okay, at most my performance this year will be in vain."

Zhou Zhi also laughed: "I was just joking with Manager Zhang. You put three things on the table as soon as you came up. I thought you were going to test my eyesight."

Manager Zhang smiled awkwardly and said: "No, I don't dare to mean that..."

Only then did Zhou Zhi put down the tea bowl, and carefully looked at the three pieces of porcelain one by one, and then said with a smile: "What Manager Zhang means is that we can pick any of the things on the table and take them away. Am I understanding correctly?"

"

"Yes."

There are three large plates on the table. They are all large diameter plates decorated with lotus flowers. At first glance, they are almost identical. Only when you look closely will you find that there are many differences in details.

"Are you saying you're not testing me?" Zhou Zhi then reached out to pick up the first plate and fiddled with it for a while. When Manager Zhang's appetite was whetted, he smiled and said, "The materials for JDZ's foreign trade handicrafts in 1952 are too fine.

The glaze is too clear, the glass is too bright, and the blue is painted with cobalt. It's newer than the one my brother-in-law got a few days ago, so we don't need to look at it, right?"

"Yes, yes, you don't need to read this." Manager Zhang quickly removed the plate and said with a smile: "Mr. Zhou can identify Tongzhi's entrustment. This will definitely not be a problem for you. If you discard this, you will not lose.

Already."

Zhou Zhi smiled and said: "Thank you for your kindness and courtesy, then I will choose next?"

"Please."

Zhou Zhi turned over the remaining two plates: "It's easy to handle if they are all six-character seal scripts. Both seal scripts have delicate strokes, neat calligraphy, excellent glaze, and green hair color, but the calligraphy skills and brushwork proficiency are not.

same."

After finishing speaking, he pointed to a plate: "This is a veteran." Then he pointed to another plate: "This one has more blue color caused by accumulated glaze in the place where the pen is transferred. It is commonly known as 'match head' in the jargon. This

It's caused by the writer becoming cautious and slowing down when writing in these places."

"So although the two models seem to be similar, one is written with natural and smooth writing, while the other is written with sluggishness and excessive caution in some areas that are easy to make mistakes. It is obvious that he is not skilled enough and is trying to imitate.

"

"For those who know calligraphy, this bottom line can be understood at a glance."

"I've learned a lesson." Manager Zhang said: "Then, Mr. Zhou, can you help us determine which period this loan belongs to?"

"In the middle and late Qianlong period, orange peel patterns began to appear on blue and white porcelain, which was a characteristic of the decline of Qing Dynasty porcelain." Zhou Zhi pressed the belly of his finger on the bottom circle of the imitation model and slid it: "But if it is not far from the Qianlong period,

, the painting level is still roughly the same, retaining the complex and delicate style, only slightly inferior to the basics."

"But in some places that are not easy to see, traces of cutting corners can still be seen: For example, the carcass has begun to become rough, the specific gravity of the fired porcelain has begun to decrease, the soles are no longer finely trimmed and smooth, and the ring feet are no longer smooth.

If the glaze is no longer fully applied, even the glaze becomes slippery and thin."

"This blue and white dish entrusted to the Qianlong period has all the above characteristics, but the overall painting quality and green color are not far from the Qianlong blue and white plate. Therefore, I personally think it should be the entrustment of the Jiaqing Dynasty."

Manager Zhang was greatly impressed, and said with cupped hands: "Mr. Zhou is really an expert, I admire him. After receiving Mr. Zhou's complaint, our cultural relics store has started rectification, found out the internal employees who colluded with outsiders to defraud Mr. Tao, and notified the public security

organ."

"These measures, coupled with this large dish of entangled passionflower patterns from the Qianlong dynasty, will it satisfy Mr. Zhou and Mr. Tao?"

"Satisfied, satisfied." Tao Ming reached out and touched the remaining Qianlong plate. It is equivalent to 45,000 yuan to get this plate, so it should not be a loss.

Zhou Zhi chuckled and put his hand on the plate first.

Based on the knowledge that was popularized in the past, Tao Ming now also knows that when someone takes action, others must not reach out anymore, so he had to stop, but he was a little confused: "Elbow?"

Zhou Zhi looked at Manager Zhang: "I remember Manager Zhang said just now that as long as it's on this table, we can just pick anything, right?"

"That's right." Tao Ming saw Manager Zhang nodding and said quickly, "So now this plate from this dynasty is ours."

"Brother-in-law, don't be anxious." Zhou Zhi smiled, shook his head, and said, "If you can choose anything on this table..."

Zhou Zhi pointed to the tureen tea set in front of Manager Zhang: "Then we want this."

"Ah?!" Manager Zhang was stunned for a moment, then shook his head with a wry smile: "This little trick has never been hidden from Mr. Zhou, a master, a real master!"

Zhou Zhi secretly laughed in his heart. No wonder something happened to the Yuzhou cultural relics store. But the root cause was found, and it still lies with the leader.

It was very simple to explain the matter. Manager Fei wanted Yuzhou to show its attitude, but Yuzhou was reluctant to bleed a lot, so he promised it in words, but still made small moves in private.

If Zhou Zhi had not ordered the tureen and only taken the Qianlong blue and white platter of this dynasty, it would not have been a loss.

But Fei Guan's intention was obviously to let Zhou Zhi pick up a small leak as an apology, but Manager Zhang was so kind and hard to part with. While saying all he could to say good things, he secretly served things of higher value to the table.

If Zhou Zhi didn't see it, then he would have kept the gaiwan and explained it to Fei Guan. The explanation then would be - I took out all the things, it was just Xiao Zhou who didn't notice it!

With this little thought, I really can't lift it up. The fun activity of guessing the authenticity of three plates before was actually just a cover for this tureen.
Chapter completed!