Rebirth of the Strongest Tycoon

The matter of antiques was handed over to George Berkeley and Hua Shengshi, and Xia Yu became more and more relaxed.

The employees left by the Galaxy Fund continued to operate the London Gold, but because the price of London Gold has been rising steadily, the workload is not large, and most of the time they just watch it, watching more and more funds...

And the Bright Fund does not need Xia Yu to manage it. George Berkeley can easily deal with things such as buying bank stocks and speculating in USD/GBP.

Therefore, Xia Yu continued to put his energy into the construction and improvement of Huashang Bank.

Time unknowingly came to September.

Sotheby's auction house finally recovered all the shares and completed the privatization.

From the beginning to the completion of the acquisition, it cost a total of 240 million pounds.

After the acquisition, Xia Yu personally went to Sotheby's auction house. After some understanding, he left the original general manager Ron Eric.

Ron Eric is just a professional manager. The information provided by the Bright Fund shows that he is a pure person with high professional ethics. Although he has a good relationship with Sam Nelson, he does not have too many other complicated relationships.

Moreover, Xia Yu found that Ron Eric had been in the position of general manager for fifteen years, and he knew Sotheby's auction house well, and even the company was able to develop to this level.

Xia Yu was not worried about what he was doing, so he simply let him continue to control Sotheby's auction house.

However, like the head of the cashier, finance and personnel departments, Xia Yu resigned mercilessly.

Korn Ferry's business in the UK is developing very well, and Xia Yu easily found satisfactory talents to fill the vacancies.

Afterwards, Xia Yu had a good chat with Ron Eric all morning, and told him about the future development direction of Sotheby's Auction House and the strategies available for development. At the same time, he also invested 30 million pounds for the acquisition. Art center and exhibition gallery, establishment of branch offices, contracted artists, etc.

Just after dealing with the Sotheby's auction house, another good news came that the transaction with the Eskenazi family was completed.

The stake held by Bright Fund was valued at £28 million.

The 6,218 Chinese cultural relics belonging to the Eskenazi family cost 53 million pounds, with an average of less than 10,000 pounds.

Although the good and bad are mixed, in Xia Yu's opinion, the total value is definitely far more than 53 million pounds. This price is absolutely worth it. After 40 years of existence, these antiques are worth at least tens of billions of yuan.

However, compared to Huashengshi's purchase from ordinary people or poor nobles who don't know the goods, the current price is definitely high. After all, the Eskenazi family has always been in the business of antiques and cultural relics, and they still have some eyesight and thinking.

In the end, the Bright Fund paid for its equity in Eskenazi Limited, plus 25 million pounds in cash, to acquire all the antiques.

Due to the huge number of antiques, even Xia Yu's country estate could not fit.

Therefore, Xia Yu bought another manor near the manor and asked Huashengshi to pull all the antiques for temporary storage.

Thinking that he had obtained such a large number of Chinese antiques, Xia Yu couldn't help but drive there with Li Qian and others.

Entering the manor, Xia Yu found that the entire hall was full of old wooden boxes, many of which were rotted. Personal wailing, it is a pity that the antiques are not well preserved.

"Elder Hua, gentlemen, good afternoon!"

To this group of people, Xia Yu had a good attitude and said with a smile after stepping into the door.

"Hello, Mr. Xia!"

...

After a few chats, Xia Yu asked these old men to work first, and found Huashengshi alone to understand the relevant situation.

"Elder Hua, what's the situation now?"

"Mr. Xia, because I was in a hurry, I just ordered the box to buy it without even opening the box, so I didn't take protective measures for the antiques. These antiques have accumulated dust in the treasure house of the Eskenazi family. There are some antiques. Because the transportation, storage and other links went wrong,

caused serious damage. "

"Now that all the antiques have been shipped back, we are re-unboxing and classifying them, and taking preliminary protective measures. It is best to wait until they are sorted out and then return to Xiangjiang by air."

Huashengshi said with a distressed expression, for him, who made the recovery of Chinese cultural relics as his lifelong wish, seeing pieces of valuable Chinese cultural relics being damaged, he was distressed to die.

But things have been happening for an unknown time. It is useless to accuse the Eskenazi family and those robbers. They can only do their best to protect themselves.

A trace of pity flashed in Xia Yu's eyes, and he comforted Hua Shengshi: "Elder Hua, this is also a no-brainer, think about it, although part of it was damaged, but most of it was recovered from the hands of the British. What a great occasion!"

"Yes, it's definitely a big happy event..."

Hua Shengshi muttered to himself.

After sighing, Hua Shengshi cleaned up his mood and said to Xia Yu: "Mr. Xia, some of them have been selected and stored in categories. Would you like to go and have a look?"

"Let's go!"

Xia Yu said immediately, and then led the way to a room inside by Huashengshi.

"squeak……"

After opening the door, Xia Yu saw neatly arranged boxes in good condition. The boxes were all covered. From the outside, he had no idea what was inside.

Seeing Hua Shengshi walking over to open the lid of a box, Xia Yu stopped him directly and told Li Wuming to do it.

Soon, the lids of the boxes all over the floor were opened.

The box is full of bronzes!

Dun, bamboo, bronze knives, chimes, etc. are all small and medium-sized bronzes, and heavy bronzes such as tripods have not been seen.

Xia Yu went further inside, looking at the box next to him from time to time.

When he walked to the innermost, his pupils shrank suddenly, and his eyes fixedly looked at the bronze wares in the three large boxes in front of him.

It turned out to be the head of the Yuanmingyuan beast!

One, two, three, four, five, six, seven, there are seven!

It accounted for more than half of the twelve animal heads in Yuanmingyuan!

Xia Yu returned to his senses and squatted down to observe carefully.

Seeing Xia Yu's actions, Hua Shengshi thought that Xia Yu was interested, so he introduced: "Mr. Xia, these seven bronzes are seven of the twelve animal heads in Yuanmingyuan, probably because they were designed by the Italian court painter Lang Shining and the French. The reason, the Eskenazy family thinks it has good value, and specially picked it out."

Xia Yu nodded slightly and did not reply, and continued to observe.

Bull, Monkey, Tiger, Rabbit, Rat, Chicken and Dragon!

Among them, the head of the cow, the head of the monkey, the head of the tiger, the head of the rabbit, and the head of the mouse have already been realized in their previous lives.

The head of the chicken has been missing.

As for the dragon head, it is suspected that it appeared at a small auction in Paris, France in 2018, and was bought by a Chinese buyer in Taiwan Province. It is uncertain whether it is true or not, because there has been no news since then.

These are indeed in the hands of the Eskenazi family!

Looking at these beast heads, Xia Yu's eyes were full of emotion. Every beast head in the previous life would cause a huge sensation, and even just some news could make headlines.

Western capitalists manipulate public opinion, use the national self-confidence and emotions of the Chinese to make money, and lie on the Chinese people to suck blood. Xia Yu could not help gnashing his teeth after seeing the news on the Internet in his previous life.

Unexpectedly, in this life, these beast heads that affect the emotions of the Chinese people came to him so easily, and there were seven at a time!

"Also, when these beast heads are in my hands, they will no longer be a tool to grab the interests of the Chinese people and hurt the feelings of the Chinese people."

Xia Yu thought to himself, at this moment he has decided that other antiques may be sold, but these animal heads are absolutely impossible to sell!

And he has to do his best to collect the other five beast heads!

As for the result, we can only say what we have to say and obey the destiny!

Xia Yu shook his head slightly, got up and said to Hua Shengshi, "Elder Hua, I like these animal heads very much. I must keep them well. I'll ask more about them in the future, and try to acquire the remaining five animal heads."

Hua Shengshi was stunned for a moment, and said with a smile: "Okay, Mr. Xia!"

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