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"Three hundred thousand!" After the auctioneer announced that bidding could begin, Su Cheng directly raised the price from one hundred thousand Macanese Patacas to three hundred thousand.

This small amount of money was almost nothing to Su Cheng, not even pocket change. He certainly couldn't bring himself to call out the starting price of one hundred thousand, so he simply called out three hundred thousand.

Surprisingly, after Su Cheng called out the price, no one continued to bid.

Clearly, everyone was giving Su Cheng face and didn't want to compete with him.

After a moment of silence, the auctioneer said, "Is there anyone else who wants to bid? If not, I will start the countdown."

"Three hundred thousand once, three hundred thousand twice, three hundred thousand three times, congratulations to Mr. Su Cheng for successfully acquiring this Yuan Dynasty Jingdezhen blue and white porcelain for the price of three hundred thousand Macanese Patacas!" With the sound of the gavel, the auctioneer announced Su Cheng's successful purchase of an item.

This was also the fastest transaction since the start of the auction.

Previous auction items had basically gone through multiple rounds of bidding.

"Congratulations, Mr. Su," the big shots on both sides said with polite smiles.

In reality, everyone knew that Su Cheng probably didn't even care about these auctioned items, but was simply doing it for charity.

Soon, the auction continued with the next round.

The money would be settled uniformly after the auction ended, and the successfully auctioned items would also be handed over to their respective owners at that time.

In such an occasion, the auction organizers were not afraid of anyone randomly calling out a price and then not paying. If that really happened, it would be very embarrassing, and they could forget about doing business in Macau in the future.

After all, those who could participate in this auction were all well-known figures in Macau.

Su Cheng also noticed that the big bosses of Macau's large gangs basically participated in the auction and bid on items.

Obviously, they wanted to show off in front of all the big shots in Macau.

These gang bosses had thousands of people under their command, so they were naturally not short of money. Moreover, they had a hand in various gray industries, which were basically high-profit industries. Several tens or hundreds of thousands of Macanese Patacas was nothing to them.

About twenty minutes later, it was finally time for the auction of the 18th item.

"Next, we have the snake head bronze statue from the Yuanmingyuan Twelve Zodiac Animal Head Bronze Statues.

The Yuanmingyuan Twelve Zodiac Animal Head Bronze Statues were originally part of the fountain outside the Haiyantang of the Yuanmingyuan. They were red copper statues cast during the Qianlong period of the Qing Dynasty, built in 1759 (the twenty-fourth year of Qianlong).

In 1860, the Anglo-French Allied Forces invaded China and burned down the Yuanmingyuan, and the animal head bronze statues began to be lost overseas.

This snake head bronze statue was entrusted to us for auction by a collector from the Netherlands. The starting price is two hundred thousand Macanese Patacas, and each bid must not be less than ten thousand Macanese Patacas."

The auctioneer briefly introduced the historical origin of the item again.

Soon, the staff also brought out the snake head bronze statue, protected inside a glass frame. The spotlights on the ceiling shone on the snake head bronze statue, allowing Su Cheng, who was sitting in the first row, to see it very clearly.

Today, the Twelve Zodiac Animal Head Bronze Statues are not well-known internationally. In the eyes of many people, they are just modern antiques with a history of only more than two hundred years.

Perhaps because of this, the collector from the Netherlands was hoping to sell it for a good price in a city like Macau, which is dominated by Chinese people.

Just as Su Cheng was about to bid, unexpectedly, Mr. He was the first to bid.

"I bid three hundred thousand Macanese Patacas," Mr. He called out directly.

Su Cheng thought for a moment and raised his paddle, calling out, "I bid four hundred thousand Macanese Patacas."

Instantly, everyone in the audience became interested.

This was the first time since the auction that top-level big shots were bidding against each other.

Of course, Mr. He was a top-level big shot in Macau. If calculated by status, there was definitely a big gap between him and Su Cheng.

However, this was, after all, Macau, the territory of the Macau people.

Although Su Cheng now also had Macau identity, he was ultimately based in Hong Kong, which was different from the locals.

And Mr. He, even if he was from Hong Kong, was based in Macau, where he had already built a huge foundation, and could be considered a local overlord here.

"Mr. Su is also interested in this bronze statue?" Mr. He didn't continue to bid, but turned his head and asked curiously.

"Yes, I quite like this bronze statue. Mr. He, don't blame me for competing with you," Su Cheng said with a laugh.

In fact, Su Cheng did remember news of Mr. He funding the purchase of the Twelve Zodiac bronze statues, but that should have been in the 21st century.

In his memory, Mr. He had funded the purchase of the pig head bronze statue and the horse head bronze statue in 2003 and 2019 respectively, and donated them to the country free of charge.

However, in this world, the pig head bronze statue and the horse head bronze statue had already been found by Su Cheng from around the world, and they were bought at very low prices.

After all, even Mr. He was not bidding, and if they bid, they would only disgust Mr. Su.

Seeing this, the auctioneer understood that no one dared to compete with Su Cheng.

So he didn't delay any longer, and directly went through the process, calling out three times before announcing that Su Cheng had successfully bid for the price of four hundred thousand Macanese Patacas.

"Mr. Su seems to be more interested in Chinese antiques," Itzhak asked curiously.

Because in this auction, Su Cheng had only made two moves so far, and both times it was for Chinese antiques. As for auctioning those Western antique artworks, Su Cheng had not bid even once.

"I am a Chinese after all, so I am more interested in Chinese antiques. In fact, I don't know much about art. I only bid for things that I think are pleasing to the eye," Su Cheng replied with a smile.

Itzhak was a government official, the Governor of Macau. He had not bid this time, and calling him over was just to keep things in order.

As a government official, if he could easily take out hundreds of thousands to do charity, others would definitely think he was corrupt, so Itzhak could not bid.

After the snake head bronze statue was auctioned off, Su Cheng had no interest in the items behind.

Of these 28 auction items, Su Cheng was only slightly more interested in the blue and white porcelain and this snake head bronze statue. As for the others, he had no interest at all.

By the time these 28 items were auctioned off, it was already 9:30 in the evening.

Judging by the transaction price, this "Macau Charity Night" auction was obviously very successful. (End of this chapter)