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Chapter 503 - 225: Yang Chen, Please Continue My Dream (Part 3)

Liang Tao shouted, "Impossible! How could he be the new owner of the Tang Pavilion? What’s the evidence?"

Tan Hongkai chuckled and said, "The legal entity has already changed to Mr. Yang. You can check online."

Liang Tao couldn’t accept the fact and quickly went online to check. The legal entity of the Tang Pavilion Catering Company indeed changed recently, and the current owner is indeed Yang Chen, with 100% sole ownership.

Zhang Jiacheng, who was just enjoying his meal, now felt disgusted as if he had swallowed maggots.

Yang Chen handed the transaction slip back to Tan Hongkai, saying, "Nice, keep up the good work, I’ll give you more year-end bonuses this year."

Tan Hongkai: "Understood! Thank you, Mr. Yang."

Yang Chen: "You should thank Young Master Zhang; the extra 600,000 he spent today is enough for your year-end bonus."

Tan Hongkai: "Haha... Yes, yes, yes, thank you Young Master Zhang. I can have a prosperous year this year, all thanks to Young Master Zhang’s generosity."

Zhang Jiacheng suddenly felt a tightness in his chest, then began to breathe heavily, unable to speak at all.

Oh damn, don’t die here.

Tan Hongkai urgently urged Liang Tao and others to take him to the hospital for a check-up, so if something happens, Tang Pavilion won’t be blamed.

Liang Tao and the others hurriedly carried Zhang Jiacheng out and sent him to the hospital.

Yang Chen and Yu Shishi cheerfully went home to sleep.

Early the next morning, Yang Chen did not immediately go for a drive after breakfast.

At 7:50, a delivery guy from Shunfeng arrived with a package.

Yang Chen signed for it and quickly opened it. Inside was indeed the acquisition letter for the Minghai Art Gallery, the land deed, and a box of keys, with a note saying they were keys for some safes.

Some valuable documents, such as auction records and precious artifacts, were stored in the safes.

Yang Chen packed these things into his bag and said to Yu Shishi, "Shishi, let’s go; accompany me to visit an art gallery."

Yu Shishi quickly ran out of the kitchen and replied, "Okay, almost ready, sir. Please wait a moment."

Yang Chen called Qiu Yuhong, asking him to bring his son Qiu Tian along to the Minghai Art Gallery to visit together later.

At half-past nine, Yang Chen and Yu Shishi arrived first at the Minghai Art Gallery.

There was only one old man responsible for guarding the gallery.

The old man didn’t have the keys; he could only enter with Guo Minghai, who came by occasionally, to check and clean.

Yang Chen revealed his identity, and the old man was very excited, shaking Yang Chen’s hands, saying, "You are the new owner who acquired the gallery from Mr. Guo! Hello, my name is Wang Wangdu, I’ve been watching over the gallery for Mr. Guo for 20 years."

Yang Chen smiled and nodded, saying, "Then Mr. Wang must be very familiar with this place. I’ll continue to rely on you to watch over it, so I can be at ease."

Wang Wangdu nodded happily, saying, "As long as the new owner doesn’t mind, I can watch over it until I die."

Yang Chen: "Haha... If the old gentleman can continue to watch over it, that’d be ideal; why would I mind?"

At this moment, the Qiu father and son arrived.

Yang Chen immediately took out the keys and opened the door of the Minghai Art Gallery.

If we don’t count the small square and the surrounding garden in front, the gallery itself is about 30*30=900 square meters.

However, the gallery has six floors, with plenty of usable space.

If all six floors are utilized, placing tens of thousands of artworks would absolutely be possible.

According to Guo Minghai’s plan, he hoped the new owner could separate the six floors to display different types of artworks.

For example, porcelain on the first floor, gold and silver jade on the second, paintings on the third, and ancient books on the fourth...

Also, each category should be divided according to the dynasties, and each dynasty further divided by types.

Like the porcelain floor, divided according to Tang, Song, Yuan, Ming, Qing, then further divided by Jun, Ding styles.

When all six floors are filled, the hope is for the new owner to open it for student groups to visit.

Throughout his life, Guo Minghai collected over 8,000 pieces, aiming for the descendants of the Dragon Country to see what their ancestors left them here, rather than buying tickets to foreign museums.

History can’t be changed, but the future is still up to our own creation.

With his efforts, Minghai Art Gallery’s collection is extensive, with some pieces very valuable.

Like the blue-and-white porcelain before us, a grand blue-and-white vase from the Yuan Dynasty’s Zhi Zheng era, Guo Minghai spent 56 million euros to bid it back from France.

Then there’s some classical furniture, gold-thread nanmu wood, rosewood, sandalwood, huanghuali wood, all available. A table, a chair, each costing millions, and far more cultural than those big-brand furniture.

There is even an emperor’s robe from Qianlong in the art gallery, although it’s morbid to wear a dead man’s clothes, Yang Chen could put it on and experience feeling like an emperor.

From the collection alone, Guo Minghai is indeed a man with vision.

However, opinions on Guo Minghai vary outside.

Those who praise him believe he devoted his life to Minghai Technology, helping the country achieve great success in chips and other fields, and used his earnings to buy back looted relics worldwide; his life is worthy of praise.

Detractors just speak about his private life—he never married, had no children, but had so many women, he couldn’t even remember.