Treasure Hunting Divine Eyes

Li Mo has never participated in spring auctions and autumn auctions, so he doesn't know whether the entire auction market is booming or sluggish.

But the grand opening of the first New Century Auction House on the morning of September 10th made the entire Kyoto autumn auction market explode.

Sign-in began at 8:30 in the morning, and Li Mo entered the auction venue as a guest. The number plate he received was 0089, which meant that he was the 89th guest to sign in. The huge auction venue is filled with rows of seats, and most of the guests are accompanied by two or three people. They should be able to discuss and communicate at the first time when encountering difficult decisions.

There are also people who are alone like Li Mo, but relatively few, and I don't know if they are also here to make soy sauce.

When it started at nine o'clock, the venue was already full of guests. Li Mo looked around and found that there were no less than 160 guests participating in the first round of the first autumn auction.

Coupled with the online competition, the hotline has been opened, and the entire auction has not officially started.

The host is a woman in her thirties. She doesn't wear a solemn dress, but a very professional white shirt with a black skirt. She looks very energetic.

"Dear guests, the first auction of the New Century Auction House has officially started. This time there are a total of 18 auction items, including the familiar 'Longyou of the Qing Dynasty', 'The mountains and rivers of the whole country are red', late Ming and early Qing dynasties. Paintings by the famous painter Niu Shihui, etc., without further ado, let’s invite our auctioneer to make a debut.”

Sitting below, Li Mo felt that the atmosphere at the scene was getting hotter and hotter, especially after the simple warm-up by the male auctioneer in white gloves, the people around were all aroused and ready to fight hard.

Although the collection of stamps is a niche, it has to be said that as long as high-quality and rare stamps appear in auction houses, they will definitely attract the attention of many collectors.

"Today's first auction item is Qing Jiaqing famille rose Baizi large bowl. The starting price is 120,000 yuan, and the price will increase by 5,000 yuan each time the placard is raised. It starts now."

"One hundred twenty thousand."

"Twenty-five thousand."

"One hundred and thirty thousand."

Driven by the passionate words of the auctioneer, the price went up all the way, and soon broke through the 200,000 mark.

According to Li Mo's understanding, the general market price of such a large bowl of Qing Jiaqing pastel Baizi from official kilns is between 250,000 and 280,000.

But there were a lot of people participating in the auction, and the price quickly exceeded 250,000, and then 280,000. When Li Mo was a little dazed, the first auction item was hammered down at a price of 315,000.

This is just the auction price, plus the agency fee, in fact, it is close to 400,000 yuan to buy this large Jiaqing pastel bowl.

It was really beyond Li Mo's expectation. Is the current collection industry really so popular?

Because the competition for the first auction item was very high, even if the second auction item was a Four Treasures of the Study in the late Qing Dynasty, it attracted the attention of many guests.

The first six auction items successfully mobilized everyone's emotions. When the seventh auction item "The country's mountains and rivers are red" appeared, the two guests sitting next to Li Mo couldn't sit still. It seemed that this was their trip. one of the goals.

"The auctioneer has set a minimum price for this nationally popular postage stamp. If the final transaction price is lower than the set minimum price, it will be considered as an automatic failed auction. The starting price is 8.8 million, and the price will increase by 50,000 each time. Starting now .”

As soon as the auctioneer finished speaking, he saw the number plates erected one after another, and the auctioneer seemed overwhelmed. More than 8 million was the auction price ten years ago, and now it is the starting price. The fierce competition made the price keep rising, and soon exceeded 12 million, 15 million, and 20 million.

As the price is getting higher and higher, the number of participants has not decreased, but has increased, and those who participated later are the more powerful people.

"Twenty-two million." Li Mo put up the number plate, and he raised the price by one million at once. He didn't want to take this stamp, but purely wanted to feel the atmosphere of participation.

"Twenty-two million one hundred thousand."

As soon as Li Mo's words fell, they were immediately covered by other people's voices.

There are not many people who continue to hold placards after breaking through 24 million. There are still about seven or eight people, and the increase in repetitions is not that great.

At that time, Li Mo sold it to the New Century Auction House for 24.5 million yuan, and now the price has exceeded 25 million. After more than ten rounds of bidding, a woman in her forties It was auctioned off at a price of 27.08 million.

Li Mo finally understands why Niu Sanpang is determined to make the New Century Auction House the number one in the industry, and the profit is too high.

Next came five ordinary auction items, with prices ranging from hundreds of thousands to millions. These are transitional items. What everyone pays most attention to are those treasures that can cost tens of millions, or even over 100 million.

When the Great Qing Longyou was displayed, the whole scene became a sensation. This kind of treasure that can be auctioned for hundreds of millions also means that there is a huge potential for appreciation.

Daqing Longyou also set a minimum auction price, starting at 66 million, and increasing the price by 100,000 each time.

The guests who can participate in the hundreds of millions of auctions are all very valuable. Some of them participate in the auction themselves, and some entrust the art structure to bid on their behalf. Fewer and fewer, when it exceeds 100 million, only a few predators who are bound to win are still bidding.

Li Mo only raised his card once, and the others just waited and watched, but he was also infected by the atmosphere of the scene. After the last few rounds of bidding, the final transaction was 119 million yuan, which was 11 million yuan more than Li Mo's original buyout price of 108 million yuan. Adding the agency fee, the New Century Auction House made a lot of money.

It is estimated that Niu Sanpang and Gu Fengxian are all laughing from ear to ear in another room.

Li Mo took out his phone and sent a text message, and received a reply soon. He bent down and walked out of the scene, and came to a meeting room next door. Apart from Niu Sanpang and Gu Fengxian, there were quite a few other employees who were staring at the big screen with excitement on their faces.

"Young Master Li, sit here."

Niu Sanpang pulled Li Mo to sit on his original chair, and then moved a stool to sit beside him. The employees of the New Century Auction House all stared wide-eyed, wondering who this young man is, his big boss seems to be flattering him all the time.

"Congratulations on your good start to the autumn auction. I estimate that the total transaction in the first round of the first round will be around 400 million."

"Hahaha, win-win, win-win, Young Master Li, these are just small things, if you put those treasures in the autumn auction, then our New Century Auction House will immediately become the number one in the industry, and no one can shake this hegemony." .”

Li Mo coughed a few times.

Only then did Niu Sanpang realize that he was getting carried away and accidentally slipped his mouth.

"By the way, Young Master Li, after this auction is over, if the funds are in place, I will ask someone to settle the matter with Mr. Chen immediately. If not all funds are in place, our company also has tens of millions of reserve funds. How about you use them first?"

"Actually, there should be nothing to miss about the antiques that are on the autumn auction. I just prepared some. Maybe I meet someone I like and want to collect it for myself. Maybe I will sell it."

Niu Sanpang asked someone to make a cup of green tea for Li Mo: "Aren't you in military training, how can you find time again?"

"Meet a good thing, toss in the Kyoto Museum for a few days, and then stop participating in the military training there."

Sitting on the side, Gu Fengxian was the first to know Li Mo, and he was very familiar with his growth path. In just a few months, his life transformation can be said to be at a rocket speed.

Just the Hongwu amphora of the Ming Dynasty and the two collections of the pictures of emperors in the past have established his unparalleled position in the collection field. Now he said that there is a good thing in the Kyoto Museum, so it must be some kind of great national treasure.

"Li Mo, can you tell me?"

"Although it hasn't been announced to the public yet, there is nothing to hide from you. I just bought an antique from a second-hand goods dealer not long ago. After research, it was identified as the golden gong of the twelve zodiac signs in the Qin and Han Dynasties."

Niu Sanpang and Gu Fengxian had never heard of such a treasure.

Li Mo then added: "Some experts and professors also believe that it is one of the twelve golden gongs left by Xiang Yu, the overlord of Western Chu."

With a bang, the tea cup in Niu Sanpang's hand was not stable, and his hand trembled and fell to the ground and fell to pieces.