Double-Cut During the War of Resistance: My Wife Came from 1937

Subsequently, Ma Hongwei took a picture of the short-bearded dragon coin and sent it to Yin Weimin, Tingquan, and Brother Fu from Beijing.

[Yin Weimin: "Short-bearded dragon??? Is this real?"]

[Yin Weimin: "Wait, bro, did you go dig up Empress Dowager Cixi's tomb? You even managed to get your hands on the Xuande Three Coins with the short-bearded dragon design!"]

Upon seeing the other party's reply, Ma Hongwei couldn't help but chuckle.

He recalled that the Xinhai Revolution broke out three years after Empress Dowager Cixi's death.

These Xuan San coins were minted in the year of the Xinhai Revolution.

[Ma Hongwei: "Brother, when Empress Dowager Cixi died, the Xuande coins hadn't even started being manufactured yet!"]

[Ma Hongwei: "Moreover, Empress Dowager Cixi's tomb was blown open by Sun Dianying, and all the gold and silver treasures inside were looted long ago."]

[Yin Weimin: "Yes, yes, I know all that. I was just using it as a metaphor."]

[Ma Hongwei: "What's your decision?"]

[Yin Weimin: "Brother, I'll do it with you!"]

Yin Weimin had only known Ma Hongwei for less than a month when he saw a bunch of valuable items.

This was more valuable than he had seen in the past year.

According to his grandfather, only people in the 1980s and 1990s would have had so many of these items.

He believed that since the other party could even produce a short-bearded dragon, there must be many more old objects there.

Ma Hongwei: "Welcome to join us! I guarantee you won't regret it!"

[Yin Weimin: "Brother Ma, how is the commission calculated?"]

【马红伟：「成交价在1-10万之间的，给你4%-8%的佣金；10-100万的，给你2%-4%的佣金；100-1000万的1%-2.5%的佣金；超过1000万的，给你0.5%-1%，怎幺样？」】

Yin Weimin: "Okay!"

Although Ma Hongwei's commission rate wasn't high, it still couldn't compare to that of large auction houses.

Even if that short-whiskered dragon only sells for 1000 million, and you only give a 0.5% commission, that's still 50 yuan!

[Ma Hongwei: "Then I'd like to trouble Boss Yin to help me contact a few high-net-worth clients!"]

[Yin Weimin: "Okay, I'll contact them right away!"]

After closing the chat window, Yin Weimin called his father directly and said, "Dad, that guy just sent me another short-bearded dragon. I've already agreed to work for him. You should contact those old clients as soon as possible, make sure they're the most capable ones."

"What did you say? He even has a short-bearded dragon?"

Old Yin was completely stunned when he heard this.

A short-bearded dragon is not something an ordinary person can possess.

"Okay, I'll contact those big bosses; they should be interested in this!"

……

the other side.

Ma Hongwei exited his WeChat chat with Yin Weimin and looked at Tingquan.

At this moment, the other party had already sent him a lot of messages.

[Listening to the Spring and Appreciating Treasures: "Hey, Long-Bearded Dragon, Boss Ma has some good stuff again this time!"]

[Listening to the Spring and Appreciating Treasures: "This long-bearded dragon looks to be in good condition; I'd give it 660 million!"]

[Listening to the Spring and Appreciating Treasures: "Brother, I guarantee my price is absolutely fair!"]

After Ma Hongwei sent the photo of the short-bearded dragon, a series of messages followed.

[Listening to the Spring and Appreciating Treasures: "Holy crap, the boss is awesome, he even has a short-bearded dragon!"]

[Listening to the Spring's Appreciation of Treasures: "After careful consideration, I've decided to raise the price of the long-bearded dragon to 700 million for the boss. As for this short-bearded dragon, I'll offer 2300 million, making it a total of 3000 million. What do you think?"]

Seeing that Ma Hongwei was ignoring him, the third wave of messages began to arrive.

[Listening to the Spring and Appreciating Treasures: "Brother Ma, how about this, we've already traded several times, I can give you another million, what do you think?"]

[Listening to the Spring and Appreciating Treasures: "Boss, this price is already quite high. If we raise it any higher, we won't have much profit margin left. At most, I'll just pay the taxes for you."]

[Listening to the Spring and Appreciating Treasures: "Boss Ma, how much are you willing to pay? We can discuss the price!"]

With taxes included, the price of these two coins is approaching 3200 million.

Ma Hongwei thought for a moment and replied:

[Ma Hongwei: "Brother Quan, there's a small auction tomorrow afternoon. Do you want to come to Ancheng?"]

[Listening to the Spring and Appreciating Treasures: "Tomorrow afternoon? I'll be there!"]

Tingquan frowned.

This is an item worth tens of millions, so naturally he had to make the trip himself.

However, Tingquan felt that there would be quite a few participants, and he might not be able to win them all.

So I made a few phone calls.

Rather than being unable to buy it later, it's better to sell some to the bosses and let them participate in the auction themselves.

"Hello, Mr. Niu? This is Xiaoquan. There's a private auction tomorrow, and I'll be offering a long-bearded dragon and a short-bearded dragon. Are you interested?"

"Mr. Liu, didn't you say before that you'd always wanted a short-whiskered dragon? Now I've found one for you... no, it's not in my possession right now. Do you have time to go to Ancheng tomorrow afternoon?"

"Brother Hou, would you like the Short-Bearded Dragon and the Long-Bearded Dragon? If so, see you in Ancheng tomorrow!"

"..."

After making several phone calls, Tingquan finally started booking the plane tickets.

……

After chatting with Tingquan, Ma Hongwei looked at the reply from the Beijing businessman.

The other party offered two currencies, 680 million and 2400 million respectively.

Ma Hongwei also sent a message to the other party.

[Ma Hongwei: "Boss, these two coins will be auctioned privately tomorrow afternoon. Do you want to participate?"]

[Chen Long-yi: "Where?"]

[Ma Hongwei: "Over here in Ancheng!"]

[Chen Long-yi: "I will come!"]

After talking with all three of them, Ma Hongwei said to Xia Weiwei, "These coins are currently priced at 3200 million, but we'll have to wait until tomorrow to find out the exact amount."

"This is a lot of money; it's enough to arm two divisions!"

Xia Weiwei smiled and said, "Of course, the more money the better. Only with enough money can we arm more Eighth Route Army soldiers."

"Since this is an auction, I think two coins are really too few!"

Ma Hongwei said, "How about... we find some other currencies? For example, Sun Yat-sen coins or silver dollars."

He had seen it before.

These boxes contained a considerable number of Yuan Shikai silver dollars, but also a large number of Sun Yat-sen silver dollars and treasury dollars.

Relatively speaking, the number of Qing Dynasty silver coins and Guangxu Yuanbao coins is not large.

"Can!"

Xia Weiwei also felt that an auction with only two coins was really not presentable.

So the two of them started picking out Sun Xiaotou and Chuanyang from the box.

The so-called "Sun Xiaotou" refers to the commemorative coins issued at the founding of the Republic of China, which are issued in 1912, 1927 and 1928.