"There were several palace collections that the Qing court recorded, and their prices were even more expensive."
"Such a large number of highly valuable cultural relics could easily reach 200 million dollars even in the lowest bid, and that was 20 years ago."
"Although my family business was on a relatively large scale at that time, the antique industry is capital-intensive. Our family's assets might be tens of billions or even hundreds of billions of dollars, but a large part of it was inventory all around the world. It was hard for us to come out with 200 million right away."
"Also, in the antique industry, you can't expect to liquidate inventory quickly. The more inventory you have, the more patient you have to be."
"Because the antique industry is similar to the stock market. The worst thing that can happen is a concentrated sell-off that crashes the market. I can buy ten pieces of 14th-century porcelain at once, but there is no way I can sell ten pieces at once. The more I buy, the higher the market price will be. If I sell them in bulk, other collectors might panic and follow suit, driving the price down."
"So, we couldn't sell our inventory to make money quickly. It wasn't practical. We might lose the profit of this deal by crashing the market, not to mention that the period of mortgage loans was relatively long. We almost couldn't make the deal at that moment."
"I knew that your father was interested in antiques, so I wanted to bring him into the partnership. It could not only solve the capital problem but also make a fortune together. I even did the calculation. If we brought the batch of antiques and auctioned them off to collectors in Oskia and the neighboring countries, we could easily make 350 million in two years."
"I suggested that your father and I each contributed half of the capital and then split the profits in half. Your father had a different idea. He said that he could contribute 100 million dollars, but he hoped that I could split the batch of antiques in two. I would handle my half by myself, and he would donate his half to Oskia through the Oskian Embassy in the United States."

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