City: No One Understands Finance Better Than Me

As one of the most famous auction houses in the world, Sotheby's Auction is world-renowned, but few people know that this auction house was founded in 1744, until 1778 when John Sue, the nephew of founder Samir Baker Forbes became a partner of the auction house, and the name of the auction house was officially established.

In 1843, a reporter described the scene when John Sotheby's son, Sam Lee Sotheby's, presided over a book auction: "Whenever Sotheby's holds up a precious document or Books, there was a commotion in the audience. The excitement fluctuated with the auction, and only at the moment when the auction lawsuit fell, there was a moment of silence.39

It is precisely because of Sotheby's auction skills that the reputation of this auction house has grown, so "Sotheby's" has become the company's golden sign.

Not long after Chu Ge brought Shangguanqing into the venue, the auction time arrived. A middle-aged man in a tuxedo with a good temperament walked up to the stage and looked around the whole scene gracefully. After a deep bow, he said, "Dear gentlemen and ladies, good evening!"

"Thank you very much for being invited to participate in this auction. On behalf of Sotheby's Auction 20, I would like to express my sincerest gratitude to all of you!" The elegant middle-aged man said with a smile.

"Before the official auction, please allow me to take a few minutes of your precious time to introduce the rules of this auction. Tonight, in addition to some regular auction items, we also prepared ten very precious auction items for you. Except for the last extremely precious antique, nine of them will be auctioned according to the normal process. As for the last one, only a small number of collectors will have the opportunity to see it." Said the elegant middle The young man, bowed deeply again.

After hearing the auctioneer's words, Chu Ge turned to look at Li Mingcheng behind him, "Are we qualified to participate in the final auction?"

After being invited by Sotheby's auction house, it was the follow-up matter handled by Li Mingcheng, and Chu Ge just asked casually, so he didn't expect Sotheby's auction house to have such a "meeting-in-meeting" auction. Way.

Of course, it is precisely because of this special method that Chu Ge is very interested in the last lot. After all, Sotheby's is obviously screening users.

It seems that the last lot was so valuable that they had to pre-screen it!

"Of course, sir" Li Mingcheng immediately replied after hearing Chu Ge's question, "You, of course, have the qualifications to participate in this auction!

After Chu Ge nodded, he tapped the armrest of the sofa with his fingers and turned his attention to the auctioneer on the display stand again.

The regular auction is coming to an end soon, and there are different kinds of auctions, including antiques, calligraphy and painting, jewelry and even wine, etc. All valuable items.

During this period, Chu Ge also shot two bottles of wine worth hundreds of thousands of years of cellaring, which he plans to bring back to his grandfather and father to taste.

Apart from that, Chu Ge has no other intention to sell, of course not because of his wallet embarrassment, but on the contrary because these ordinary auction items are really not worthy of Chu Ge's identity now, most of them are Hundreds of thousands of things, only a few are worth millions.

Too cheap!

When the last regular auction item, an oil painting by a current artist, was auctioned off for 170,000 Hong Kong dollars, the original auctioneer on the booth bowed deeply and left. The elegant middle-aged man who showed his side appeared again in front of everyone.

"Next, I will preside over the remaining ten extremely precious auctions for you," the elegant middle-aged man said with a smile after bowing slightly.

The auction officially started. As expected, the quality of the auctions was completely different from those of the regular auctions. The first of these ten auctions surprised Chu Ge.

Besides the price, it's more about familiarity!

Chu Ge rubbed the dragon stone jadeite ring on his finger and set his eyes on the jadeite of the same texture on the booth.

The first piece is actually a rare and top-quality jadeite, a dragon stone type jadeite!

Although this piece of jadeite is smaller than the piece that Chu Ge solved, it is roughly estimated to be worth at least 40 million yuan!

Forty million lots are worthy of Sotheby's name, Chu Ge thought. At the same time, he sat up straight. He was going to participate in the auction of this dragon stone jadeite.

Apart from the ring and earrings he wore, the piece he solved by himself made three pendants and gave them to his parents and his first girlfriend, Cheng, and the rest. Some of the scraps are also made into small jewelry such as earrings.

Chu Ge glanced at the lazy and charming Shangguanqing beside him. After he met Shangguanqing, he had to give her one, and it wasn't just her. After all, Chu Ge knew a lot of girls who had the opportunity to become girlfriends. There are also many.

Gotta get one!

Just as it is, a token of love!

"I believe in the preciousness of dragon stone jadeite. Even if I don't say much about it, everyone is very clear. In this case, I will not waste everyone's time. The starting price is 40 million Hong Kong dollars, and each increase shall not be less than 1 million Hong Kong dollars! Elegant! The middle-aged man said with a smile.

After the auctioneer finished speaking, someone immediately made a bid, and the price increase was a full five million, raising the value of this extremely precious dragon stone jade to forty-five million.

Of course, Chu Ge knew very well that this was definitely not the real value of this dragonstone-type jadeite, so even when three or four people started bidding, he was not in a hurry.

He is waiting, after this dragon stone jadeite reaches a high price of 480, and then takes this piece of jade that he likes very much with the momentum of thunder.

Time passed by minute by minute. After raising the price of this jadeite to 5,000, the frequency of subsequent price increases began to gradually decrease. It was obvious that the rich people present were not fools. This dragon stone is the highest value of jadeite, although they are rich, they will not be taken advantage of.

"Five-two million!"

It had been quite a while since the last bid, and even after the elegant middle-aged man had already asked twice, a collector made another bid.

Seeing this situation, a smile appeared on the face of the elegant middle-aged man. Although this precious dragon stone jadeite did not sell for a super high price, the final transaction price of this jadeite worth 45 million yuan could reach 50 million yuan. Above, he is satisfied enough.

Just after he asked twice again, and was about to hit the hammer that heralded success, a voice appeared in the field again.

"Fifty-five million!"

As soon as he opened his mouth, the price was increased by as much as 3 million, which made the original buyer who was going to take this dragon stone jade shook his head.

The price is already too much higher than the item itself, it's not worth fighting for!

The bidder was naturally Chu Ge and his party, but it was not Chu Ge, but the lazy Shangguanqing.

Shangguanqing, who represents the two major families in Shanghai, naturally also has the qualification to auction!

Forehead!

She is really a little rich woman!