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Lin Xuan called the official.

The key to this high-level closed exhibition hall is divided into two.

One for the organizer, one for the host.

Avoid anyone touching the porcelain and avoid being stolen.

After the organizer's people came over, Lin Xuan said: "Everyone, make way."

Seeing that there was no movement from the crowd, Lin Xuan loudly said: "Give way, let me go in and open the glass door!"

There was a crash in front, and a whole aisle was given way.

"The real master is here!"

"Finally Mr. Lin is here, I want that set of chainmail and horse gear!" Ranieri, who had bought the cross sword at the Albert auction before, stepped forward directly:

"I want these two!"

Lin Xuan said cheerfully: "No hurry, no rush."

After Lin Xuan opened the glass door, people from outside wanted to pour in.

Lin Xuan: "Please stop, please, there are not so many people allowed to stand inside."

"Those who are willing to buy come in, others please wait outside."

However, a large number of people still rushed forward.

Lin Xuan: "Chain armor is at least 40 million euros, horse gear is at least 50 million euros, and the other two items are at least 30 million euros!"

“If I come in, as long as I verify that the item is genuine, I can ask anyone who comes in to buy it at the lowest price.

"If you want to buy it, come in."

At this moment, more than half of the people who wanted to come in were reduced.

But a dozen people still entered the house.

"Mr. Lin, I don't want to buy, but I am an expert in appraising ancient Roman and Ansa antiques. You have to have an appraiser come in, right?"

Lin Xuan thought for a moment: "Then you can come in too."

As soon as the expert came in, he looked at the chainmail glass cabinet.

Lin Xuan looked at Ranieri: "At Albert's auction, the cross sword was sold for 37 million. It was somewhat to give him face. It is not an auction here."

Ranieri: “We will bid at the base price you mentioned!”

Many nobles like to display a set of medieval knight armor in their homes. Many film and television works and animation works have shown this point.

So is reality.

The cost of chain mail armor was much higher than that of other armors of the same era. Later plate armors were so expensive to make that no private collector in Europe had the genuine article.

This set of chainmail is already the best thing that war enthusiasts and weapons enthusiasts can collect.

This is also the basis for Lin Xuan to make money.

Lin Xuan would not buy a set of knight's plate armor to sell.

Isn’t that digging a hole for yourself?

Everyone was the first to bid on this piece of chain mail.

"Forty-one million euros!"

"Let's start with 43 million euros. It's impossible to buy it for less than this price. I'll pay 43 million euros."

Ranieri: "Forty-five million!"

"Forty-five and a half million!"

"Forty-six million!"

Ranieri continued to bid: "Forty-six and a half million!"

Lin Xuan: "Does anyone else have an offer?"

Someone hesitated: "Forty-seven million.

"Forty-seven million and a half million." This time, Ranieri saw that his competitor had reached his limit and made a bid without hesitation.

In fact, this price has reached the limit of his psychological endurance. If the other party raises the price again, he will give up.

But what is needed is this momentum, which can be sustained when facing the opponent.

Lin Xuan: "No one bids anymore? That 47.5 million, Ranieli, this set of chain armor is yours."

Ranieli: "Please help the staff handle the contract."

A 3% handling fee will be charged here, and the contract will naturally be made by the official.

"This set of harness." Lin Xuan: "I got these things together, they are the same set."

"Although in that era, the cost of horse gear was not as high as that of chain mail."

"But what you need to know is that the large amount of leather on the harness is difficult to preserve."

"There are basically no horse harnesses from 700 years ago."

"The starting price is 50 million euros."

Several others were not prepared to bid.

Ranieri bid again: "Fifty million."

Lin Xuan knew that these people were here for the Roman dagger, but he still asked:

"Is there anyone else bidding?"

An old man with gray hair looked at the people around him and knew that they might all be here for the Roman dagger.

My own money probably couldn’t afford the Roman dagger, so I tried to make an offer: “Fifty-one million, Ranieli, if you bid again, I won’t follow.

La Nieli laughed: "You're trying to trick me. I'm ready to get the whole set of things."

"I have already auctioned the Knight's Cross Sword from Mr. Lin."

"Now that I have taken off the chainmail, I will also display this harness.

"Together, they can form a valuable collection kit."

"But for you, a separate harness is really of no use."

The white-haired old man shrugged: "You bid."

Ranieli: "51.5 million, I will add 500,000."

The white-haired old man sighed: "You win, the single product is really not worth the higher price.

If it is a complete set, there will be bonuses to each other. If it is a single product, it does not have this value.

Ranieli laughed loudly: "With the knight's three-piece suit, I won't use the Roman dagger anymore."

“When I go back, I will definitely find a contemporary art master to make a set of bronze horse sculptures, and then display them in the middle of the hall of my castle.

Lin Xuan laughed happily: "Congratulations Ranieli, you got what you wanted."

Now comes the most difficult thing to do.

A bronze finger that lags behind the world.

Although this bronze wrench finger is inlaid with gold.

And it’s an 8th-century Angsa antique.

"This ring costs 30 million, is there any bid for it?"

A group of people shook their heads.

The expert was a little anxious: "This is a good thing. Now there is only one piece in the Museum of Modern Times, and no one is bidding?"

But isn't there one? This one is modeled after that one.

When buying it, the store owner also showed Lin Xuan a photo of the original item.

Seeing that no one was bidding, the expert said, "Wait a minute, I'll make a call to our museum."

"This kind of national treasure cultural relic..."

The old man dialed the phone and crackled together, telling him about the gold-encrusted finger ring.

Then he hung up the phone excitedly: "Mr. Lin, our National Museum of Art in England bought it for 30 million euros!"

Lin Xuan shook his head: "I don't have time to wait. I will return to the Dragon Kingdom soon. If no one bids, I will just find someone among you to buy it according to the agreement just now?"

Ranieli thought for a moment: "Mr. Lin, this Mr. Power is also an old acquaintance of mine. Let me talk to him."

Bauer was anxious: "Mr. Ranieri, can you help me advance the money first?"

Ranieri: "Yes, yes, but I have a request. I would like to borrow your museum's "Sunflower" for a week."

"Don't worry, safety will be guaranteed throughout the entire process. If something goes wrong, I will compensate you 150 million euros."

The price of Van Gogh's sunflowers is not even 150 million. If it were really put up for auction, it would be worth 120 million at most.

Ball thought about it and decided to call again.

After describing the situation, the other end of the phone discussed it for a long time and decided to agree.

After all, Ranieli is well-known in Europe. He is a rich man from his ancestors, and he can run away from the monks but not the temple. All he needs to do is sign a contract when borrowing.

Ball was excited: "Okay!"

Ranieli laughed loudly: "Lin, thank you so much. Not only did I get a complete set of medieval noble knight equipment, but I can also enjoy "Sunflower" for a week."

You know, in a museum, if you stand in front of a famous painting for more than five minutes, the security guard will ask you to leave quickly.

It’s not like I’ve never been to the National Gallery of England, but I never get enough of it.

Lin Xuan smiled: "Just pay, no need to thank you."

Ranieli could never know that Lin Xuan made these things out of thin air.

But, from his own perspective, he did buy the real thing.

Lin Xuan thought of something: "If you really want to thank me, you can help me find a private island in the windless area of ​​the Mediterranean or the Eastern Pacific that suits me."

Ranieli: "Okay, I'll help you find it."

"This is easy for me. If I have the opportunity, I know a lot of the owners of private islands in Fiji or the Maldives."

Many people don't know that the best scenery in the Maldives is actually on private islands.

However, those islands have basically been developed into top-level tourism resources, and ordinary people cannot go there.

Lin Xuan said happily: "Okay."

Everyone else came to their senses.

Now, here comes the thing that everyone is paying attention to.

The ancient Roman iron sword was most likely the weapon of a certain emperor in ancient Rome.

As long as you buy it, go back and slowly compare the history of ancient Rome, you may find clues.

This kind of collection will not appear on the market for almost ten years.

The auction house is simply not qualified to take on such a task.

There is a saying that if you can't get it, let it be destroyed.

In the 1930s, a similar knife appeared, but after a series of events, it disappeared without a trace.

If a private collector hadn't hidden it away, it would have been permanently destroyed.

Lin Xuan smiled: "Thirty million, please bid."

"But everyone must understand that this is an expo, not an auction. If I am not satisfied with the price, I will refuse to sell it.

Lin Xuan didn't know these people, and he didn't care whether they were famous rich people in Europe.

Lin Xuan's words prevented them from colluding to lower prices.

A middle-aged man: "If that's the case, I won't be polite. I'll pay 50 million, but I don't know if I can meet Mr. Lin's minimum price.

Lin Xuan smiled slightly and said nothing.

Half of the other people's expressions changed when they heard the price, and they couldn't help but bid.

Ranieli: "No, just 50 million? Then I'll make a bid."

A fat man wearing glasses: "Ranieli, you agreed not to bid, but I will pay you 55 million euros!"

"But I can only pay with U.S. dollars, based on today's exchange rate."

This fat man is a famous collector in the United States, and he is also the owner of Caesars Palace, the famous casino in the United States - Gary.

The middle-aged man who made the previous bid: “Fifty-six million.”

Fat Gary: "Everyone, this is not an auction. Isn't it interesting to add little by little? I'll pay 60 million. If it's higher than me, forget it."

"If I take this knife off, I will say that it is the knife that Caesar used during his lifetime. There will be absolutely no objection. Put it in my Caesar's Palace. That will be called the real Caesar's Palace.

Ranieli laughed: "Then why don't you spend 10 million to let experts in the industry come out to support you and add credibility to it?"

Fat Gary: "Raniel, can you stop telling the truth all the time?"

The previous expert on ancient Roman antiques couldn't help but want to curse when he heard two people discussing this issue in a big way.

But he didn't say anything. Who asked Ranieri to help him get the bronze and gold-inlaid ring ring just now?

Middle-aged man: "Made, it seems that opening a casino is profitable. I will open a casino too."

Gary was stunned for a moment after hearing this: "Mettesuchi, you'd better forget it."

"Mette Suchi?" Lin Xuan was confused: "What a familiar name."

Always

Wang Ruoya, who was watching: "He is the owner of Red Bull.

Lin Xuan suddenly realized.

But this person doesn’t appear on TV very often, so I’ve only heard his name but not his face.

Lin Xuan smiled: "Mete Suchi, please leave your contact information. I will still have a knife like this in a while."

Metsuchi's eyes lit up: "Okay!"

Gary heard this: "Haha, I won't wait for the shadowless thing. I'll be relieved if I get it as soon as possible!"

Gary said that he has a certain connection with the Dragon Kingdom. His son-in-law is from the Dragon Kingdom, and he is a Dragon Kingdom star named Yanzu.

Of course, Yanzu’s nationality is not in China.

Under the official witness, the transaction was completed, and Lin Xuan immediately called the bank to apply to keep 20 million of the money and remit the rest to a domestic account.

After handling the transaction, Lin Xuan had some free time and visited the town with Wang Ruoya.

Wang Ruoya: "Where did you get these antiques?"

Lin Xuan: "Do you still remember when you fell asleep on the first night in Baoli?"

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Wang Ruoya nodded: "I remember."

Lin Xuan pointed at Abreu: "At that time, Abreu and I went shopping in a nearby art street, and accidentally discovered a store that was selling real things as fakes.

Abreu nodded. He bought the things that day anyway. Abreu didn't go in and didn't know the actual situation.

Lin Xuan was happy: "I asked the shopkeeper and found out that the items belonged to a friend of his who was traveling in the same industry. The old friend passed away without leaving a suicide note. The younger members of the family didn't know whether the items were real, so they added them to the list."

All the artworks were packaged and sold to the shop owner. "

"The shop owner didn't know the history of these real things. He just saw that they were too well preserved, so he naturally sold them as fakes.'

"But this shop owner was a little tricked. The items in the shop were priced very high, so he never sold them until I saw them."

Wang Ruoya: "Ah? Next time I go to the art or antique market, I will definitely follow you."

“It’s so exciting to pick up nearly two billion worth of stuff!”

Abreu added: "Miss Wang, it is more than two billion soft sister coins, based on today's exchange rate."

Wang Ruoya: "This kind of picking up leaks is unheard of."

Lin Xuan is helpless: "Domestic antique collection has been highly marketized."

"Any real thing can be identified by any knowledgeable appraiser, and there is no chance of a big mistake."

In fact, counterfeiting in the antique industry is related to leakage.

Picking up leaks is the most comfortable and embarrassing thing in the antique collection industry.

Something that is obviously worth millions can be bought for only one hundred yuan, which seems to be a high price!

So, more than a hundred years ago from the late Qing Dynasty to the Min Dynasty.

Many collectors like to go to the countryside to look for treasures.

Every day they say: “Fellow fellow, your dog bowl is pretty good, sell it to me.

"Fellow, this table in your house is interesting. I want it."

Over time, these farmers discovered that they had been missed.

In the eyes of the person involved, he was cheated!

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Who can be happy if his things worth hundreds of oceans are sold for a few copper coins?

As a result, these people learned about antiques and deliberately started to fake them.

Later, in the long tug-of-war, stories such as bumping into pieces, making holes (taking fakes as genuine), and picking up leaks (buying genuine ones at a low price) were formed.

The term "picking and missing" comes from the fact that farmers all know what antiques are, but sometimes they still admit their mistakes and are picked up by others.

It is different from the West. Western antique trading, jewelry trading, and art trading are mixed.

After many people become rich overnight, they want to increase their so-called wealth and become Old-money (English slang, referring to multiple generations of nobles or family wealth).

I started buying all kinds of things that were worth a lot of money.

Because there are so many countries with different cultures, there is no systematic antique identification discipline.

On the contrary, a complete trading system was formed in advance.

As a result, many collectors have a large number of fakes in their hands.

There are also many counterfeit dealers who buy genuine goods and sell them as fakes.

To put it simply, their identification system is still at the beginning of the "picking out holes and making holes" struggle in the Dragon Kingdom a hundred years ago.

But precisely because of this, a large number of fakes can appear in auction houses.

Some experts even rushed to foreign museums to inspect lost cultural relics.

But it was discovered that those gadgets were all fakes made by cost experts in the late Qing Dynasty.

Go happily and come back happily.

But the two happinesses are completely different from the same state of mind.

The scenery in the Netherlands is indeed good. Lin Xuan and Wang Ruoya spent two days in the Netherlands.

After the bank notified Lin Xuan that the remittance processing was completed, Lin Xuan took Wang Ruoya and took a plane back to China.

The route target is not Haicheng.

But the capital of Shu.

Before this trip, Lin Xuan made an appointment with Wang Ruoya.

When I return home, I will go to Shudu first.

After coming out of Tianfu Airport, Wang Ruoya felt lost.

Lin Xuan was confused: "Why do you have such an expression?"

Wang Ruoya sniffed the air: "When I came to Shudu before, I could smell the hot pot smell as soon as I got off the plane. It's so comfortable!"

"Now Tianfu Airport is too far away from the city, so it doesn't have that flavor anymore."

The former Shuangliu Airport was located in the city.

Lin Xuan laughed loudly and asked Fengxiang's driver: "Master, does the perfume in Shudu smell like hot pot? I'll buy a bottle for your eldest lady."

Driver: "It really does!"

"It's not just perfume, ice cream also has spicy flavors, and chocolate also has spicy flavors."

Lin Xuan and Wang Ruoya looked at each other.

This guy is too fantastic here in Shudu!

Driver: "Dr. Wang, should I take you back to the hotel to catch up on jet lag, or where are you going?"

Wang Ruoya: "Let's go to Shu Daxia (a famous hotpot chain in Shudu) first."

Driver: "Then I'll find one closer to the hotel. There should be no queues at this time."

In the passenger seat, Abreu said: "Master, do you know where I can get more authentic hot pot base ingredients? I'll buy some and send them back to my family."

Driver: "It's terrible! There is a hotpot restaurant. You fill in the address and they will deliver the goods directly to you. Free shipping."

Lin Xuan: "I bet five yuan that I can't cover the postage."

The driver was confused: "What?"

Abreu said cheerfully: "I am from Mongolia. If you get free shipping, I will wake up laughing when I fall asleep."

The driver laughed loudly: "It's really Netherworld (humor in Sichuan dialect)."

As he spoke, he took out five dollars.

Nowadays, cash is not used in China, and the driver has a hard time finding it.

Lin Xuan laughed loudly: "Forget it, I'll treat you to milk tea."

Are you really giving money for gambling?

The driver suddenly laughed: "Then you owe me twenty-five dollars."

When we arrived in Shudu, there was a joyful atmosphere that was simply different from other places.

Lin Xuan and Wang Ruoya are sleepy hotpot restaurants.

When they came out, they were in good spirits, but one of them was covering his mouth and the other was covering his stomach.

The worst thing was that Abreu came out with the knife covering his buttocks. .