Chapter 162

Li Jiandong has accepted so many disciples, but this is the first time he has seen one as honest as Han Chunming. His forehead turned red after he kowtowed three times.

"Okay, since you have accepted me as your master, you will be my apprentice from now on."

Li Jiandong said with a smile.

Han Chunming raised his head and asked Li Jiandong, "Master, I don't know your name yet."

"My name is Li Jiandong."

"Ah? You are Li Jiandong? The director of the steel mill?"

"you know me?"

"More than just knowing each other? We have heard of your name for a long time. You have invented so many amazing things. I also know that you have accepted several apprentices, and each of them is outstanding. To be honest, I am under a lot of pressure now. I am afraid that I will embarrass you in the future."

Han Chunming said excitedly.

He never imagined that the owner of this villa was Li Jiandong.

The famous director of the steel mill was promoted from a worker to the director of the steel mill. He also developed many things, including the steel mill's independent equipment, excavators, bulldozers, CNC machine tools, and the hydropower station in Nanluoguxiang.

Etc., etc……

Li Jiandong's achievements are simply too numerous to count.
I didn't expect that such a big shot would appear before me, and become my master without me knowing it.

Seeing his excitement, Li Jiandong couldn't help but laugh.
"You are such a sweet talker, boy. Well, it's already late today, so let's leave it at that for now. I will take you to meet your senior brothers and sisters some other day. Also, I have a task for you."

"Don't you like antiques? Starting tomorrow, you can go around collecting antiques. If you don't have money, tell me. Even if you miss out, they'll be mine."

"Also, you'd better find a few more brothers to do this with you. There are so many good things. We have to get them before others do. The more we can get, the better. Otherwise, it will be a pity if they are smashed and destroyed."

Han Chunming's face also became serious. He thought the same as Li Jiandong.

He had even thought about stealing all the antiques in Li Jiandong's house and hiding them in a safe place.

The reason why he didn't take action was because he couldn't find a safer place than here.

"But, Master, we have no problem collecting antiques, but where are we going to put them? We can't just keep them all in your house. What if they are exposed one day, wouldn't we all be wiped out?"

Han Chunming's idea is quite accurate.

Eggs should not be put in one basket. What he meant was that Li Jiandong should find a few more places to store them.

If it were in the past, Li Jiandong would definitely have a headache about this problem, but things are different now. With a portable farm, he can store as many things as he wants.

Not to mention some antiques, even if a small city were moved to the portable farm, it would be big enough to hold them all.

"Don't worry, I have a place to put it. Just collect it. The more the better. Money is not a problem."

Over the years, Li Jiandong has saved a lot of money through the apprentice system, and the prices of antiques are not that exaggerated nowadays. There are no antiques worth tens of millions or hundreds of millions.

A good item can be sold for a few hundred or a few thousand dollars.
That's still more valuable.

Antiques owned by ordinary people, such as porcelain and bronze, can be bought for just a few or a dozen dollars. Many people have no concept of antiques at all.

Of course, if it is an item from the palace or a painting or calligraphy by a celebrity, the price will be another price, but it should not exceed tens of thousands of yuan.

After all, antiques are valuable in prosperous times, and gold is valuable in troubled times. The Northern Aid War was just over not long ago, and no one knows when another war will break out. How many people would dare to collect antiques in large quantities?
"With your words, Master, I can do it with confidence."

Han Chunning was also very excited when he heard Li Jiandong's bold words.
Although he was collecting them for Li Jiandong, it was worth it for him as long as he could protect these cultural relics.

And the most important thing is that he can learn a lot in the process of collecting antiques, and this is his hobby.

After leaving the villa, Li Jiandong went straight home.

In the next few days, Han Chunming gathered a group of brothers and formed a rag gang. As the name suggests, this gang collects rags everywhere.

Of course, they were just collecting antiques under the guise of collecting junk.

Most of these brothers know nothing about antiques, but fortunately the market now is different from what it will be in the future. Ordinary families may also have antiques, and you can even find real good things in any antique stall on the street or in a small stall.

Anyway, as long as the price is low, you can always find some valuable goods by casting a wide net.

[Your apprentice Han Chunming spent 60 yuan to receive a Qing Dynasty court porcelain, and you received a hundred times cash back of 6000 yuan.]

[Your apprentice Han Chunming has discovered a piece of calligraphy and painting from the late Ming Dynasty. You gain 300 points of experience in cultural relic identification.]

[Bing your apprentice...]

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Li Jiandong discovered that every time Han Chunming received an old item, he would receive a hundred times the cash back.
And every time he made a mistake and bought something fake or worthless, he would gain a lot of experience in identifying cultural relics.

In just a few days, Li Jiandong gained tens of thousands of points of antique appraisal experience from Han Chunming, and was promoted from a level nine antique appraiser to a level three antique appraiser.

In addition, his assets were also growing rapidly at a rate of tens of thousands of yuan per day.
There are simply too many people in the Junk Gang, and they receive several antiques almost every day. North City is the place with the most old items, and no one dares to keep these things now, so everything that can be sold is sold directly.

Not to mention selling them as normal tools, they would be willing to sell them even as junk.
Every time Han Chunming received something, he would put it in Li Jiandong's villa after identification.

Li Jiandong would go there at night and collect all these things into his own portable farm.

Then, an additional 20% was added to Han Chunming's purchase price as a commission.

Even though 20% is not much, you have to know that even if it is an item that Han Chunming likes, Li Jiandong still has to pay the cost plus a 20% commission.
It means that he bears all the risks.

Soon, winter came.
Heavy snow was falling from the sky.

That day, Li Jiandong was about to go home after get off work when he saw Liu Haizhong riding a bicycle towards him. He shouted to him from a distance, "Director Li, Director Li, good news, wait for me."

Li Jiandong was about to start the car when he saw Liu Haizhong running over. He rolled down the window and asked him,

"Lao Liu, what's wrong? What do you want to talk to me about?"

Liu Haizhong rode all the way to the car, then jumped off and said to Li Jiandong,

"Director Li, I have completed the task you assigned to me."

Hearing Liu Haizhong say this, Li Jiandong asked with a confused look on his face.

"What did I tell you?"

It’s not Li Jiandong’s fault that he forgot. It was simply that too much time had passed since he last gave instructions to Liu Haizhong.

Liu Haizhong smiled and said, "Director Li, you are really a forgetful person. Have you forgotten that you asked me to get along with the Qianmen Street Management Committee and ask them to release Director Yang? That's it."

Li Jiandong's eyes lit up, and he remembered what he had told Liu Haizhong a few months ago.
There are a lot of things going on during this period.
Especially at Han Chunming's place, Li Jiandong would go there almost every night to collect antiques. Otherwise, there were too many things and Li Jiandong would be worried about leaving them in the villa.

He hadn't visited Director Yang for half a month, but he didn't expect Liu Haizhongzhong to actually get the job done.
Hearing this, he smiled and said,

"Old Liu, you did a good job. Where is Director Yang now? Has he returned to his original home?"

Liu Haizhong smiled and said, "Director Li, this is really difficult for me. After all, Yang Jianye has committed a crime. His house has been ransacked and someone else is living in it. How can he go back?"

"But don't worry, I know you have a good relationship with Director Yang, and I have already arranged for him to live in our courtyard, in the room that Yi Zhonghai used to live in."

Yi Zhonghai's room was originally rented to Ye Xiaoning. Later, Ye Xiaoning married Hu Haodang and moved in with him, so Yi Zhonghai's house became vacant.
Yi Zhonghai had disappeared without a trace since the last incident, so naturally no one cleaned up his house for him. No one would say anything if Liu Haizhong arranged Director Yang to live in his room.

Li Jiandong said excitedly:

"Okay, okay. Lao Liu, you did a good job on this matter. Let's go. I won't go home yet. Let's go to the courtyard and take a look together."

Liu Haizhong said,
"Okay, Director Li, please wait for me for a moment. I'll lock up the bicycle first."

Liu Haizhong pushed the bicycle under the carport and locked it. Then he ran back to Li Jiandong, opened the car door and got in.

The two came to the courtyard together.

When they returned to the yard, He Daqing, Xu Fugui, Hu Haodang and others were all gathered at the door of Director Yang's house.

After all, he was their old leader. Although he was in trouble now, these people were quite loyal and would not do anything to take advantage of others' misfortune. Seeing Liu Haizhong bringing Li Jiandong back, He Daqing and the others also made way for him.

Li Jiandong walked into the room and saw Director Yang and Mrs. Yang, who had washed and changed into new clothes. He stepped forward and held his hand tightly.
"Old leader, sister-in-law, welcome to our hospital."

Director Yang and Mrs. Yang were very grateful. Although it was Liu Haizhong who got them out, they knew that this must have been Li Jiandong's instruction.

"Jiandong, thank you."

Director Yang's voice was trembling, and he couldn't continue speaking.
It felt so good to have survived a disaster. Although he had lost his official position, at least he had regained his personal freedom.

During this period, I lived like a criminal, under surveillance every day, and sometimes I was beaten and scolded.
If Li Jiandong hadn't taken care of things for him, his life would have been extremely difficult.

In the same courtyard, someone was even beaten and disabled, but he was able to come back alive thanks to Li Jiandong's help.

Madam Yang also said gratefully, "Jiandong, thank you for your kindness. If you can use us in the future, just ask us, although we can't help you in any way."

Li Jiandong said with a smile,

"Sister-in-law, look at what you said. We are all family. Why are we so polite? When my old leader promoted me, I was not as polite as you are."

Li Jiandong's words sounded nice, and Director Yang also laughed.
He is now very glad that he promoted Li Jiandong, otherwise he would be in big trouble today.

Hu Haodang said beside him,

"Director Li, our old leader is staying here today, shall we celebrate?"

He Daqing also said,
"How about I go buy some food and we can have a couple of drinks today?"

Xu Fugui also said,
"Of course, the old leader has worked hard during this period. Director Li, you and the old leader should sit down first. Daqing and I will go buy some groceries together."

Li Jiandong smiled and said, "I think it's okay. We must give the old leader a good welcome today."

Everyone immediately took action.
He Daqing and Xu Fugui went to buy vegetables.

Hu Haodang went home and prepared the table and chairs.
Li Jiandong and Liu Haizhong stayed with Director Yang and chatted with him about recent events.

Director Yang was locked up in that yard. The only time he could go out every day was to clean and go to the toilet. He was not allowed to go out at any other time.

So he doesn't know much about what's going on outside.

After listening to Li Jiandong's story, Director Yang was also very sad. Fortunately, he was relieved that although the senior leader was removed from his post, he was not persecuted any further.
The place where I live now has not changed, and the salary and benefits are the same as before. Although it is not as impressive as before, at least I don’t have to worry about food and clothing.
Director Yang asked Li Jiandong to take him to meet the senior leader, and Li Jiandong agreed immediately.
Dinner was ready soon.
Li Jiandong hosted a group of leaders from the steel mill to welcome Director Yang and his wife.

It had been a long time since I had such a sumptuous dinner. Director Yang's eyes turned red with grievance.
the next day,
Li Jiandong drove the car and took Director Yang to the home of the leader of Bida.
When the two leaders met, their eyes were moist. They were both brothers in distress and could understand each other's difficulties the best.

Time flies, and a year has passed in the blink of an eye.

Over the past year, the work at the steel rolling mill has remained the same as before; although stable, it has not been particularly outstanding.

It's mainly because of the general environment. If Li Jiandong wants to do something, there are too many constraints on him. Although he has the support of leader Ye, even leader Ye can't cover everything with one hand.

What's more, Mr. Ye's responsibility is not to be in charge of production.

Fortunately, Han Chunming's antique acquisitions are going very well.

During this year, nearly ten thousand antiques were added to the portable farm.

In addition, Li Jiandong had tens of millions of cash in his pocket.

Even if Li Jiandong had a system for recruiting disciples, he didn't expect that making money would be so easy.

You know, he didn't make so much money in the past ten years with the apprentice system.

With more than 10 million in cash, I'm afraid even Lou Bancheng may not be as rich as him.

However, this money cannot be spent in a short time. Li Jiandong does not need to spend this money, and of course he does not dare to show off his wealth.

During this year, Li Jiandong's antique appraisal skills finally reached the maximum level.

[Your apprentice Han Chunming drilled a Han Dynasty artifact, and you gained 500 points of artifact identification experience.]

[Your cultural relic identification skill has reached the maximum level, and you have obtained the unique skill: identification (master)/cultural relic identification (apprentice),]

……

Li Jiandong opened the apprentice recruitment system and immediately checked the unique skills.

【Identification】

When you look at an item, you can see notes associated with it, including but not limited to why the item was produced, when it was produced, and the history of the item, among other notes.

The identification success rate is 100%.

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【Cultural Relics Authentication】

When your apprentices are identifying cultural relics, an introduction to the properties of the cultural relics will come to their minds, and the success rate of cultural relic identification is 90%.

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This identification technique is quite interesting. Not only can it identify antiques, it can even identify anything else.

Li Jiandong turned off the system, took out his car keys, stared at them, and a brief introduction quickly appeared in front of him.

The introduction not only states the vehicle model that the key matches, but also clearly describes the production time of the vehicle and the fault.

Li Jiandong took out another pen. The introduction on it stated the pen's origin, batch number, production date, and degree of wear and tear. It even indicated that he was the user.

Li Jiandong was very interested in this new skill. He looked around, at the chairs, cabinets, books, pens and ink, etc.
Every time an object is seen, a corresponding explanation will be given.

When Li Jiandong looked at a cloud outside the window, the introduction that appeared again surprised him.
【Earthquake Cloud】

Clouds that form before an earthquake. Seeing them means an earthquake is about to happen...

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When Li Jiandong saw this introduction, his heartbeat accelerated.

In the drama, there was indeed an earthquake in the North City. The earthquake was so severe that even the courtyard houses were collapsed.

I just didn't expect that today,

"Secretary Cui!"

Li Jiandong walked outside while shouting to Secretary Cui.

Secretary Cui had already walked out when the door was opened. The two of them were facing each other. Li Jiandong ordered without waiting for the other party to ask,
"Go to the Propaganda Department right now and have them use the loudspeaker to notify all workers to stop work and production immediately and gather outside the workshop."

"Yes, Director Li."

Secretary Cui agreed and took action immediately.

Although, he didn't know what Li Jiandong meant or why he suddenly asked all the workers to leave the workshop?

But he could see that Li Jiandong was very anxious now.

As a secretary, he only needs to obey orders.

Li Jiandong was not idle at this moment.

He quickly went downstairs, started the car and drove towards the courtyard.

As for the factory workers, Secretary Cui and other leaders are in charge, but his family is still unaware of the impending earthquake.

Li Jiandong was driving very fast. He didn't know how long it would take for the earthquake to happen, so he had to seize every moment.
Sha Zhu was working in the office when he heard Li Jiandong's voice.

Sha Zhu immediately walked out of the office and asked Li Jiandong, "Master, what's wrong with you?"
(End of this chapter)