Golden Fishery

After the security guard left, Weini and Qin Shiou walked at the back, and then said in a low voice in Chinese: "I don't like Japanese people very much, people shouldn't be like this, shouldn't they?"

"Culture and education are different, but I don't like it either." Qin Shiou said.

There are many people participating in the auction and the place is big, but it is not noisy at all.

No matter the staff of the organizer or the seafood agents participating in the auction, they would all talk together and whisper their ears together. If they were far away, they would directly use sign language to keep the information confidential to the extreme.

At half past five, the auction started on time.

Staff members in sky-blue overalls walked to the front of the first row of tuna fish. A fat man with a bald head was standing at the front with a brass bell in his hand. Others were holding iPads, notepads, and After manipulating the camera, the auction begins.

The auctioneers all gathered in front of the auctioneer, but a group of people were still checking the tuna. Nishimura Ryo explained that those people were not interested in this batch of fish, and the tuna was auctioned in different regions.

Qin Shiou went to check it out. It turned out that these tuna were divided into regions according to the place of origin, including the Sea of ​​Japan, the Sea of ​​Australia, New Zealand, the American Atlantic, the American Pacific, and the Canadian North Atlantic.

This made him not know what to say. The Japanese are indeed rigorous in doing things, but they are a bit rigid. Tuna is a global roving fish species. They can turn around between the Antarctic and the Arctic several times in their lifetime, and there is not much difference in where they are caught.

The bald auctioneer rang the copper bell. The scene became extremely quiet, not even the sound of footsteps.

The price of seafood at Tsukiji Market is very important, and the wholesale price of the bid here is called the "standard price". When it comes out, it will become the standard price for market transactions in Japan, so as long as it comes to pricing, people are very quiet.

Affected by the crowd, Qin Shiou also became a little nervous, and the atmosphere of the auction became more intense.

The bald auctioneer stood on an old log auction table. Qin Shiou thought it was a dilapidated old table, and Xi Cun Ling explained that this table had a background. It was moved from the original site of Tsukiji Market, during the Great Kanto Earthquake. This table is the only intact table and chairs recovered from the ruins of the marketplace.

Seeing that the auction was about to start, Qin Shiou saw that everyone was holding their breath and preparing to start, but suddenly a blond young foreigner rushed out from the crowd of visitors.

After running out of the crowd, the foreigner took off his outer coat with his hands and feet. This guy was not wearing anything underneath. So you're naked. His body is covered with slogans in Japanese and English,

After taking off his clothes, he started chanting: "Boycott the tuna auction! Boycott the tuna trade! Boycott the tuna fishing!"

The few people who were standing with the foreigners immediately picked up their mobile phones, cameras, etc. and began to shoot wildly, followed by chanting slogans, and the atmosphere of the auction suddenly disappeared.

The expressions of the surrounding security guards suddenly changed. They hurriedly picked up their clothes and wrapped the blond young man, but the young man turned out to be quite skilled, even punching and kicking the two security guards down.

The auctioneer roared, and more security guards ran in, surrounding the young man and other foreigners. Force them out of the market. Of course, it is not illegal to confiscate mobile phones and cameras before sending them away. This is the regulation of the market.

Weini admired these young people a little bit, and said regretfully: "It's a pity that those photos, if they can be published in newspapers, will definitely help a lot in protecting tuna."

Byrd and Nelson looked at each other, then laughed.

Qin Shiou asked what you were laughing at, and Bird pointed to the button of the suit. Whispered: "Portable video camera, 720p. You can take pictures and record videos."

Nelson asked him to look at his watch, and said: "Israeli Mossad agents special camera watch, one photo in five seconds, automatically stored, I took pictures of everything just now."

Qin Shiou was dizzy and said, "Why are you bringing this?"

Nelson said as a matter of course: "Tokyo is not our territory. What should we do if we encounter trouble? These things can keep evidence, and we are not afraid of anything."

Hearing what he said, Qin Shiou felt that it was right for him to raise the salaries of the two of them, and they were worth that money just for their professionalism.

Finally, the auction started. The bald and fat auctioneer had a loud voice and was full of confidence. After the opening greeting, he shouted "It will be listed today, and all sales will be made." Xi Cunling explained to Qin Shiou: "This is the iron law of the auction. All the goods must be auctioned off on the same day.”

After finishing the preparations, the auctioneer started the auction from the first fish. Qin Shiou couldn't understand what he was saying or what his gestures meant—the auctioneer kept making complicated gestures besides shouting loudly.

The agents participating in the auction below also gestured repeatedly. At this time, Qin Shiou noticed that Butler had also brought a group of people to the scene, discussing something in a low voice with Takata Tezuka in the distance.

Nishimura Ryo translated and explained to Qin Shiou: "This batch of fish comes from the Sea of ​​Japan, the smallest is 25 kilograms, the largest is 55 kilograms, and the auction reserve price is 20,000 yuan per kilogram... The first fish, Mr. Kamitanigawa Higashiyama Shoma, is 20,000 yuan. Two thousand yuan, Nara Shoko Co., Ltd. gave 22,500 yuan, deal! The second... the third..."

Nishimura Ryo's voice of translation was low and fast, Qin Shiou only heard a rough idea before, but couldn't keep up behind.

The pace of the auction is super fast, too, more than a thousand fish have to be auctioned in one morning, what if the speed is slow?

Just like punching while drinking, the auctioneer shouts and punches and gestures, and the bidders below continue to make gestures to bid. They only have one chance to bid, and the auctioneer shouts the reserve price, and what they come out is the final price.

In this way, the auctioneer looked at all directions and waved his hands in all directions, and kept calling out the name of the agent with the highest bid. The pen behind him was writing quickly in his notebook. The pace of the scene was astonishingly fast!

After selling the fish in one area, the bald auctioneer goes down to rest, someone lifts the table to the next area, and another auctioneer stands on it for a new round of auctions.

In this way, just like the assembly line, all the fish were quickly photographed from small to large, divided into sea areas, and finally the Asian one was the king of fish, Qin Shiou's golden gun king!

The tuna overlord was packed, and the four-meter-long fish was covered with silver plastic paper. Several young men roared and lifted the box containing the fish to the auction table. A hale and hearty old auctioneer came out and shouted. Said: "The King of Fish Auction has started! The King of Fish Auction has started! The King of Fish is here!"

Kota Tezuka and a group of bosses stood at the front. The king fish that the auctioneer said was not this tuna, but these bosses. Whoever can take this fish will be the king fish at this auction.

This auction is the only one where you can bid for a single fish. Previously, all fish, regardless of their size, had only one opportunity to raise their placards during the bidding, and whoever offered the highest price would sell it.

The price of the king of fish is still based on kilograms. In the past, most of the small fish started at 20,000 yen, and the price of the big fish started at 4,000 yen. When it came to the king of fish, the auctioneer directly shouted: "The base price of the king of fish is 500,000 yuan. !” (to be continued)