Riding the wind of rebirth

Chapter 1619: The Domineering Taxation Bureau

Chapter 1619: The Domineering Taxation Bureau

In Zhou Zhi's impression, auctions are all those held by Hanhai and China Guardian. At the very least, even those held by Shudu People's Park are at least presentable.

As a result, when he arrived at the customs auction site at the airport, the situation almost made Zhou Zhi fall backward.

There is a luggage conveyor belt at the airport that everyone is very familiar with. Then, one big blue plastic basket after another with some suitcases or wooden boxes inside is sent out from the end of the conveyor belt, circles along the conveyor belt, and finally returns to the end of the conveyor belt.

There were some buyers participating in the auction standing around the conveyor belt, each holding a sign in their hands, and they kept writing numbers on the sign, raising the sign, and rubbing the numbers.

There is also a display screen above the conveyor belt, similar to the one that notifies flight arrival and departure information. However, instead of the flight position, the display screen now shows the number of the blue plastic basket where the luggage to be auctioned is placed. Behind the number, what keeps jumping and changing is the buyer's number and his latest bid.

A fat white man holding a microphone, dressed like a McDonald's manager and wearing a red baseball cap, was passionately reporting timely information about the sign.

"This... this is too exaggerated, right?" Zhou Zhi couldn't help but be stunned as he looked at the scene where there were not many people here but the atmosphere was made particularly lively by the fat man.

You can imagine that at a normal auction, every time an item is auctioned, it is already very lively when the competition is fierce. But here, almost ten items are auctioned at the same time, which is a "continuous process". After looking at the top, you have to look at the bottom. Zhou Zhi, who is used to the "serial processing mechanism", felt like his brain was freezing for a while.

"Is it fun?" Old John was very satisfied with Zhou Zhi's reaction. He took a number plate from the staff member who was walking over and clipped it on Zhou Zhi's collar while asking.

"OH, John, you old man, you brought another Curly Coat here." The staff seemed to be very familiar with old John and said to him.

"This is my VIP." Old John greeted the other bidders around him. It was obvious that they were all acquaintances, and he introduced them to the staff.

The staff shrugged and said to Zhou Zhi, "Red Hat Bonnie knows magic, young man, don't get too carried away."

"Thanks for the reminder." Old John raised his fist to the staff in annoyance: "Tom, I represent my lost commission, thank you for your reminder."

The staff member named Tom walked away laughing.

Zhou Zhi was also happy. It seemed that this Tom was pretty good. He even knew to remind novices to just play around and not get too carried away.

But he was a little bit sarcastic. Curly Coat refers to a leather coat with a curly collar, which was the standard winter wear for cowboys in the past. This kind of curly collar is usually made of lambskin. So what Old Tom meant by this was to compare Zhou Zhi to the tender skin peeled off a lamb.

It seems that this phrase and the jargon "Yang Gu" in the oriental cultural relics circle can be translated perfectly.

However, Zhou Zhi was not angry, because Tom meant well, and giving people nicknames was his specialty. He did not expect that he would suffer "retribution from the United States".

"Tell me if you like any of them." Old Tom held a round white sign in his left hand, a marker in his right hand, and a foam sponge in his palm: "I like number 15. I'll raise my sign first."

"As you wish." Zhou Zhi nodded: "I'll observe further."

After a while, Zhou Zhi figured out a little bit of the trick. Although Red Hat Bonnie was shouting as loudly as a rabbit, it was because he was very busy bidding for more than ten pieces of luggage at the same time. But for each buyer in the audience, it was not too busy, because although there were more than ten pieces of luggage on the turntable at the same time, in the same batch, the bidders mainly focused on the one or two pieces they were interested in, and no more than three pieces were bid. So compared with auctions like Hanhai and China Guardian, the bidders were not that busy.

Another interesting thing is that there may be too much inventory here, so the decision to make a deal is often very "capricious". Sometimes you may even miss the person holding the bid behind you, and then shout "deal", causing the item to be won by the previous person holding the bid.

If Lin Wanqiu were to comment, Red Hat Bonnie's performance was quite amateurish. However, considering that this was a "wholesale auction", such a mistake was not unacceptable compared to the transaction volume and speed.

Sure enough, it seemed that everyone tacitly understood Red Hat Bonnie's approach. Only the unseen bidders raised their hands and punched to express their anger. Apart from being laughed at by their peers, everyone would continue bidding in the blink of an eye. Their anger was limited to complaints.

After seeing through the routine, Zhou Zhi began to shift his attention to the items on auction.

After several rounds of bidding, Old John has won the suitcase number 15 that he was interested in. The transaction after the deal is also very simple, which is to directly take the luggage out of the large basket with the number and put it next to him.

And now, new luggage has been put into the large blue plastic basket number 15.

"Number 15, number 23, number 28." Old John said seriously, "These are my lucky numbers."

"Does every sign holder have his or her own lucky number?" Zhou Zhi asked.

"Yes." Old John asked, "George, what's your lucky number?"

"That's not the case." Zhou Zhi said helplessly, "It seems that we Orientals pay more attention to taboo numbers rather than lucky numbers."

"So, is there anything you like?" Old John asked Zhou Zhi while he was excitedly chasing after luggage number 28.

"Nothing has been found so far." Zhou Zhi said politely: "You know, my expertise in this area is limited."

"The customs officials are not fools. If the boxes were brand-name products, they would not have put them here for auction. They would have carefully opened the boxes for inspection."

"Will they take out the valuables from the box after a careful inspection and then leave it here for us to auction?"

"That won't happen." Old John said affirmatively: "You underestimate our country's tax bureau. They will stare at the customs like hungry wolves, and their appraisal experts are much more powerful than those of the customs."

Zhou Zhi reacted immediately. It is said that you can offend the US government, military, and police, but you must never offend the IRS because of their armed strike system, which is said to be feared by even the unofficial forces in Colombia that the US military and police cannot deal with.

Then Zhou Zhi realized that he had been living in the home of the chief collection consultant of the US Internal Revenue Service for the past few days. Yes, that's right, this is one of the few positions that An Siyuan still retains. This also shows the strength of the US Internal Revenue Service, which is indeed arrogant.


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