Super Rich from Winning a Lottery-Chapter 351 - 245: 8 Years, a 400-Fold Increase (Part 3)
"This should work. Besides continuing the cooperation with the Guo brothers, we can also go directly to Pingxiang and trade with Vietnamese timber merchants, buying Vietnamese huanghuali directly from them."
Yi Xiaolin nodded and said: "I see many merchants in the market are using Vietnamese huanghuali to impersonate Hainan huanghuali. Should we do the same?"
"The furniture we make with real Hainan huanghuali is priced so high that it doesn't sell at all, and pricing it lower is not cost-effective. If we use Vietnamese huanghuali to impersonate Hainan huanghuali, we can price it lower and still make more profit."
"Others are others, but we absolutely cannot do that. If we ruin our reputation, how will consumers trust us in the future?" Yi Anguo said firmly and seriously.
"The reason our Hainan huanghuali furniture is priced so high is because I deliberately instructed you to price it that way. You don't need to worry about not being able to sell it in the future."
Arriving at the warehouse storing the precious wood, Yi Anguo felt particularly happy looking at the pile of valuable timber.
The most expensive and valuable among these woods is, of course, the Hainan huanghuali, but there isn't much of it. It's all thanks to Yi Xiaolin and Yi Xiaoman's good luck back then, finding the Li Ethnic Group's village deep in the mountains and unexpectedly discovering quite a bit of Hainan huanghuali.
But even with some old furniture and farm tools included, it's only about eight hundred tons.
Eight hundred tons may not seem like much, but nowadays it's hard to even find a few tons, almost impossible.
The annual import of Vietnamese huanghuali into the country is only a few hundred tons.
The key is that the purchase price of these Hainan huanghuali was very low, almost like getting them for free. We spent 20 million on donations to help the locals build a winding road out of the village.
If we hadn't spent that 20 million, the cost price would have been even lower.
All costs combined were less than 50 million, yet in the villagers' eyes, Yi Xiaolin and the others seemed very generous!
Yi Xiaoling and Yi Xiaoman not only built a road out of the mountains for the villagers, but also constructed new houses for them and gifted them furniture and appliances.
There was no other way, as they had dismantled all the old wooden houses. In exchange, they built new houses for the villagers, bought new furniture, exchanged their old furniture, and even provided all new appliances.
In the eyes of the villagers, they were regarded as great people, akin to wealth gods, but they didn't know that their boss, Yi Anguo, was making a significant profit behind the scenes.
The actual money spent on acquiring Hainan huanghuali wood was not much; most was used to help build new houses for the villagers, buy furniture and appliances, and construct asphalt roads.
Yi Anguo suddenly thought about whether he should also consider the auction route. Although the Hainan huanghuali furniture he holds isn't antique furniture, even the old Hainan huanghuali furniture collected is antique, but the workmanship is quite rough. The Li Ethnic Group's village is, after all, like a secluded life in the mountains, not very particular about craftsmanship. Practicality is key.
But the modern craftsmanship of Hainan huanghuali imitation Ming and Qing furniture is quite good. Apart from the difference in patina, they're no less inferior to genuine Ming and Qing furniture.
As for patina, that's something that can't be helped; it requires the passage of time. New furniture and old furniture can be distinguished at a glance; it's impossible to fake.
However, modern craftsmanship makes Hainan huanghuali furniture also highly collectible. Even if you don't mention how much the furniture is worth, just the old Hainan huanghuali material itself is so valuable.
Forget it! Why not wait a few more years? It's not a loss anyway, and the longer we wait, the more valuable it becomes, Yi Anguo thought to himself.
