This also made the painting shop's business boom for a while.

Just after the fifteenth day of the first lunar month, Zhang Junping had to go back to the painting shop.

According to Zhang Junping's request, during this period, the paintings in the painting shop will only be collected but not sold.

As a result, a problem arises: the painting shop does not have enough funds.

The start-up capital of 200,000 yuan given years ago has been spent.

If Zhang Junping hadn't bought a batch of paintings from an art shop years ago, he wouldn't have been able to survive even the fifteenth day of the first lunar month.

You can imagine how many paintings were collected during this period.

There are thousands of works by well-known artists, and there are even more paintings by some young artists, thousands of them.

This is all the inventory accumulated by these people over the past few years.

In fact, this is normal. If it were Zhang Junping, Zhang Junping would do the same thing. Selling my paintings to your art shop only costs a few cents or a few yuan. As long as I have the opportunity to go abroad, these paintings can be sold immediately.

A hundred times or thousands of times the price.

Although there are few opportunities to go abroad in this era, they still exist.

Especially famous artists are often invited to go abroad for exchanges and participate in some international art events.

At this time, it is normal to carry more than ten or twenty works with you.

When I went out and sold my works, I got tens of thousands of dollars in foreign exchange.

Zhang Junping understands this very well.

He himself can't be selfless and sells his works to art shops at low prices. How can he be embarrassed to ask others?

Those well-known artists still sell a few works to art shops every year.

Zhang Junping has not sold any of his works to art shops.

The reason is also very good. In order to avoid suspicion, he is afraid that others will say that he is taking advantage of the public.

Zhang Junping rushed to the painting store, took the data on calligraphy and painting purchases in the recent period, and then rushed to the Press and Publication Bureau without stopping.

At this time, someone was reporting work in Director Cao's office.

Zhang Junping waited outside the door for more than half an hour before going in.

"Xiao Zhang, your painting shop has been very prosperous recently!" Cao Xiangqian said with a smile as soon as they met.

"The boss is laughing at me, it's just a small fight." Zhang Junping said modestly.

"Tell me, why did you come to see me?" Cao Xiangqian didn't say much else and directly asked Zhang Junping's purpose.

"Come to ask for help from the leader.

This week, the art shop received a total of 1,152 works by famous artists and 5,667 works by famous young artists.

This alone cost more than three hundred thousand.

There is no money in the account." Zhang Junping spread his hands and said with a look of shame.

"Haha! You little Zhang, you have no money, do you want to come to me?

Why did I hear that your painting shop only accepts but not sells them now?

How much money do you have to pay for this?" Cao Qianqian asked with a smile.

Because Zhang Junping is the son-in-law of the deputy mayor of the Standing Committee, Cao Xiangqian is quite concerned about the painting shop, so he naturally knows the current situation of the painting shop.

"Leader, it's not that we don't sell calligraphy and paintings. As you know, the city wants painting shops here just to exchange artworks for foreign exchange.

If we sell these works of art at a low price in China, it will be a bit of a waste of money.

I plan to hold a world tour exhibition of Chinese art after the city approves the plan, and sell all the works that our artists have worked hard to create abroad.

Think about it, there are more than 30,000 pieces of art in the art shop now, and if they are all shipped abroad, even if one piece is sold for only one hundred US dollars, it will be more than three million US dollars in foreign exchange.

If there are 100,000 pieces, that would be 10 million US dollars.

The foreign art market is huge. I asked foreign friends to do a survey and found that the annual art transaction volume can reach hundreds of billions of dollars.

Think about it, an investment of several million RMB can be exchanged for 10 million or more US dollars in foreign exchange.

Director, I personally feel that if I don’t do this kind of business, I will be sorry for the trust that the party and the country have placed in me!” Zhang Junping said righteously.

"Haha! What do you mean, if I don't approve several million in funds for you, I will be sorry for the trust that the party and the country have placed in me?" Cao Xiangqian laughed angrily.

If it weren't for the fact that this guy was the son-in-law of his immediate boss, Cao Xiangqian would have wanted to kick him out.

"Leader, you have misunderstood. You need to worry about so many things at the top and bottom of the Press and Publication Bureau.

Ten million US dollars in foreign exchange is a huge amount of income for our painting shop, but for you, it is just a negligible amount of money." Zhang Junping said with a smile.

"The Press and Publication Bureau doesn't run a bank. It's a few million dollars, just for what you said.

What is the annual financial budget of the entire Press and Publication Bureau?

I'll give you up to five hundred thousand, if you want it, if you don't... you can think of other ways." Cao Xiangqian said angrily.

The subtext is to tell Zhang Junping, if it’s only 500,000 yuan, go to your father-in-law.

"Um, leader! You misunderstood, I didn't want to ask you for money!"

"You don't want money? What do you want?" Cao Qianqian was stunned for a moment and asked with a smile.

“I want policies and authorization!

As long as you agree, I can contact the bank and apply for a loan!" Zhang Junping said his purpose.

The Press and Publication Bureau is an administrative institution and receives full financial support. How can we say that it can just casually grant millions of funds to a painting shop?

Therefore, Zhang Junping did not intend to directly ask Cao Xiangqian for money at the beginning.

"Get a loan from a bank? Can someone lend it to you?"

"Leader, the value of the works of those well-known artists is obvious to all. Many of them have held art exhibitions abroad. How much their works are worth abroad can be found out with a little research.

How could they disagree if I use those artworks as collateral for a loan?

If domestic banks refuse to lend me a loan, I will contact foreign banks for a loan." Zhang Junping said confidently.

"Okay, as long as you can convince the bank to lend you a loan, I can authorize you!" Cao Xiangqian nodded and said.

“Thank you for your leadership’s support!”

"Is there anything else?" Cao Qianqian asked with a smile.

The subtext of this sentence is: If you have something to say, talk about it; if nothing else, get out of here.

"Leader, we also want to apply for two magazines! One is called "BJ Painting Shop", one is to commemorate BJ Painting Shop, and the other is to promote the art of calligraphy and painting; the other is called "Chinese Traditional Art", the purpose is also for better publicity

Our traditional art.”

"Yes! I understand, you can write a report." Cao nodded forward and said happily.

Setting up a magazine for publicity was mentioned in the previous plan, so Cao Xiangqian readily approved it.

Mainly, he also received news that Zhang Junping's plan had been approved by the city government, and the municipal party committee had no objections. He could only go through it at the meeting and then approve it.

It’s not a big deal to publish two magazines in advance.

Running a magazine, which seems to be a difficult task to most people, is nothing to Cao Xiangqian.

Who asked the Press and Publication Bureau to be responsible for this?

After leaving the Press and Publication Bureau, Zhang Junping went to the BJ Branch of Bank of China.

Zhang Junping did not go to the business hall in front, but walked around and went to the office building in the back.

"Comrade, who are you looking for?" A young man wearing a gray tunic suit stopped Zhang Junping and asked.

"I'm looking for the leader of our bank! I have a large amount of foreign exchange business to handle." Zhang Junping said with a smile.

"To handle foreign exchange business, go to the front business hall."

"This is tens of millions of dollars in foreign exchange business." Zhang Junping said, taking out a check drawn in the car and giving it a look.

"Then you come with me! I am the president's correspondent, and I will take you to the leader." When the young man saw that the check was genuine, and then saw that Zhang Junping had an extraordinary bearing, he politely took Zhang Junping to the president.

office.

Tens of millions of dollars in foreign exchange is not a small amount.

Even in later generations, with tens of millions of dollars, you can talk directly to the president of a municipal branch.

In this era, you are fully qualified to talk to the president of the Capital Branch.

"Comrade, what is the last name of our president?"

"The president's surname is Liu! What a coincidence, I happened to be here to print a document.

Otherwise, it would be really difficult for you to meet the president." The young man said with a smile.

"I seem to have better luck." Zhang Junping said with a smile.

After a while, we arrived at the president's office.
Chapter completed!