It is said that gentlemen love wealth and have a way, from ancient times to the present, there are not a few people who have made a fortune through normal channels, some people are farming, some people are in business, some people see business opportunities to get rich overnight, some people work hard and half a life to accumulate wealth, but there are always people who use their "active" thinking, want to opportunistically, and even earn ill-gotten gains.
Although such a way is not advisable, the leaders among these people are remarkable. For example, Lu Qinzhai, known as the "cultural relics thief", his life was criticized by people at the same time, but also praised, and his family and emotional life also became the talk of people at that time.
A bumpy young life
When he was young, Lu Qinzhai was born in a poor fishing village in Huzhou, and his father took drugs and gambled, which made the living environment of the little Lu Qinzhai even more difficult. When he was very young, his parents left him, and he had no ability to live, so he could only live in the homes of relatives.
But in that era, it was not easy for ordinary families to take care of their own children, let alone raise another child. Therefore, Since he was a child, Lu Qinzhai has never been cared for and loved by anyone under the fence, and his childhood is not happy.
It wasn't until he was a teenager that he left the family that adopted him. In order to survive, he went to work as a slave for the rich family. It was this experience of being a servant that affected his whole life.
The family he worked for later became most famous is Zhang Jingjiang, who is Zhang Jingjiang? He was one of the elders of the Kuomintang, and the zhang family had excellent conditions and atmosphere. When Lu Qinzhai arrived at the Zhang family, he was only a kitchen helper at the beginning, a low-level slave, but because of his hard work and diligence, he also knew how to observe the color, and the work was also neat, and soon he was seen by the steward, so he was promoted to the servant of the second young master of the Zhang family, and among the servants of the Zhang family, he also had his own position, and at the same time, the masters of the Zhang family knew the small retinue named Lu Qinzhai in the family.
A turning point in life
If Lu Qinzhai had been a servant of the Zhang family, perhaps he would have ended up being just a servant with status. However, due to the gradual popularity of Western culture at that time, the children of large families such as the Zhang family would go to foreign countries to study, learn Western culture, or go to business and expand the family business. And the children of your family cannot go alone, most of them will bring an entourage with them.
At this time, Zhang Jingjiang was going to France, and Lu Qinzhai, who had been with him, became the best person to accompany the young master of the Zhang family abroad.
After accompanying Zhang Jingjiang to France, Zhang Jingjiang did business in France, doing antique business, and Lu Qinzhai naturally saw many foreign customers, as a Chinese living at the bottom of society, naturally did not speak French, but in order to be able to participate in it, he practiced French and English, and also studied hard and antiques-related knowledge.
And since he was a child, Lu Lu Qinzhai, who will look at people's eyes, when communicating with customers, it is easy to become the trust of customers, and soon he has been reused by the boss, mastered the management of the store, and also owned his own customers, and later owned his own store.
During the period when Lu Qinzhai was trying to run himself, China's last dynasty, the Qing Dynasty, collapsed, and in the process of extinction, it was also invaded by Western powers, and a large number of rare antiques, calligraphy and paintings in the Forbidden City were exiled overseas. Lu Qinzhai seized this opportunity, with his ability to identify and appreciate antiques, buy antiques at low prices, sell them to European nobles, and earn the difference in the middle of the price can be ten times dozens of times or even hundreds of times. ，
It was this experience in France that transformed Lu Qinzhai's life from a servant to a famous antique dealer.
Antique dealers and antiquities thieves
Running only an antique shop could not satisfy Lu Qinzhai's ambitions, so he found Wu Qizhou, who was well-known among antique dealers at that time, and tried to cooperate with him to make the antique trade bigger, and after some negotiation, the two established Lu Wu Antique Company.
After the establishment of the company, the money was out again, and the identification was also good at it, and the two began a large-scale acquisition, including: the antique calligraphy and paintings handed down from the ancestors in the hands of the people, or the precious jewelry brought out by the palace people, and even purchased cultural relics from the hands of tomb robbers and warlords everywhere, and then sold them to Western countries such as Europe and the United States to earn huge profits.
Because of the scale of each of their categories, almost no one could match them at the time. At this time, Lu Qinzhai was also active in China and Europe, understanding the antique market in the two places, and then adjusting the strategy according to the city and Europe. And Lu Wu Company has strong financial resources, and the antiques and antiques it has acquired are also very rare, so the goods from his hands are extremely precious.
They not only sell antique cultural relics, but also study them, find professional people to identify them, let the various items sold from his hands, greatly increase their popularity, and also exhibit and sell the acquired cultural relics and works of art, so that the general public realizes these great works, is a good antiques merchant is not false.
Lu Qinzhai's business is so big that it is inevitable that it will touch the interests of others, and it will be dissatisfied by others, but why he can still act like this, it is inseparable from his smoothness, he sells cultural relics to get benefits at the same time, indispensable to the support and help of some of the key big figures, repay the peach, Lu Qinzhai Of course, this is not less than a return of interests. He also helped the Xinhai Revolution with money and sponsored Chinese students in the West.
But none of this can hide the works he sold, many of which are rare cultural relics of the mainland's national treasure level, including a large number of bronzes, porcelain, and even some of the funerary products stolen from ancient tombs, as well as some Buddhist artworks.
Lu Qinzhai, who is mixed in the antique industry, is not smooth in his emotional life, and even some are strange.
In view of his outstanding antique appreciation ability and the large number of rare antiques in his hands, he was also famous in France at that time, and he also built the famous Red House in France. A foreigner, and then built a building full of oriental colors in Akai, which was quite influential in people's psychology at that time. And this red chamber is not only Lu Qinzhai's shop, but also his residence in France.
It was also in this building that his family and children lived. But his family was different from the average family, because in addition to his conjugal relationship with his wife, he also had a delicate connection with his mother-in-law.
In fact, as early as when Lu Qinzhai was still an antique shop clerk, he met a French woman ---- Olga, and after the two gradually became acquainted, Lu Qinzhai felt empathy for Olga's bumpy life, and the two gradually became affectionate with each other, but this beautiful French woman was already a woman who was adopted and had a daughter.
Although this daughter was not born to him and his lover, but was also raised by her, and Lu Qinzhai was aware of these things, he still could not let go of this enthusiastic and unrestrained French woman, so the relationship between the two has been hidden underground.
But after a long time, Lu Qinzhai was no longer satisfied, just a lover who was invisible, so he and Olga discussed a brilliant plan to let his 15-year-old daughter Mary Rose marry Lu Qinzhai so that the two had a reasonable reason to see each other often.
At that time, the young Mary Rose was still very eager to get married, and her mother was very appreciative of her future husband, which made Mary Rose full of expectations for the future, what she did not know was that everything in front of her was just a scam that led her into the fire pit.
After marriage, no matter how much Mary Rose paid attention to this husband, there was no way to become the real Mrs. Lu, everything in the family was in the hands of the mother, and later, as the antique business became more and more successful, with enough money and strength to be able to support the family, Olga also abandoned the old lover and blatantly spent time with Lu Qinzhai.
And poor Mary Rose, who was already weak in character, was even more powerless to fight back in front of her strong mother, and she was still the same in this family, like a maid, even if he later gave birth to four children for Lu Qinzhai, he did not change his position in this family in the slightest. And Lu Qinzhai never admitted that he had children, and his own flesh and bones, after growing up, did not have any feelings for this father.
A life of contradictions
As an antiqueist, he is outstanding, he has treasured countless treasures in his life, has seen many cultural relics and antiques, and knows them quite thoroughly. As an antique dealer, he is even more excellent, able to expand his business overseas, able to seize the opportunity, and has a business acumen. Emotionally, he is single-minded and not afraid of worldly gossip.
But as a man, he was irresponsible for his marriage, hurt an innocent girl, and failed to fulfill his duty as a father.
But he was also patriotic, he provided help for the revolution, helped the wandering Chinese, but even so, Lu Qinzhai as a Chinese, he sold his own cultural relics, went to foreign countries only to earn huge profits, still despised.
epilogue
Lu Qinzhai's life is full of legends, even if there are many gray areas, the turns and turns in his life are ups and downs that many people have never experienced in their lives.
However, his values make many people unable to compliment, some people praise and some people demean, but his resale of cultural relics is still unforgettable.
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