People in Hong Kong create super chaebols

Chapter 171 Bidding
The time soon came to eight o'clock in the evening.

At this time, an older Chinese auctioneer from the Hong Kong Royal International Art Auction walked onto the auction stage.

"At the invitation of Mr. Governor, our Hong Kong Royal International Art Auction is responsible for this charity auction. Here, on behalf of the disaster area, I would like to express my heartfelt thanks to everyone for taking time out of their busy schedules to come to the site. The auction will now begin. !" A hammer hit the auction table, indicating the official start of the auction.

"Boss, what do you want to photograph?" Zhong Chuhong looked over the list of auction items handed over by Su Cheng and asked in a low voice.

"Don't worry, I'll tell you later." Su Cheng said with a smile.

The first item is an ink painting hand-painted by a teacher from the art museum. The starting price is HK$1.

Perhaps because it was the first item to be auctioned, many people wanted to show off in front of Governor Maliho, so the bidding was very fierce.

"1."

"5."

"10."

In the end, the bidding price was fixed at 32 Hong Kong dollars, and it was bought by a wealthy Chinese man whom Suzhou had never met.

Subsequently, the progress of the auction was obviously much faster. Basically, the auction transaction time for each item was no more than 2 minutes.

One item after another was photographed by the wealthy people at the scene.

If it were an ordinary auction, this kind of item would be good if it could fetch tens of thousands.

But in this auction, not a single item was priced below HK$20.

After all, everyone came to this auction not for the items, but for charity.

When meeting business rivals, even for secret competition, the transaction price of an ordinary calligraphy and painting can be raised to millions.

Most of the people present were wealthy people with a net worth of over one hundred million and hundreds of thousands of Hong Kong dollars, so they naturally looked down upon them.

Soon, more than 40 donated items were auctioned off one by one.

Finally it’s time for the auction of the last ten consignment items.

The first item is an item that has attracted much attention. According to the list, it is an jade necklace composed of 8 emerald green jade eggs and 188 diamonds with a total weight of 38.88 carats. The starting price is the list of auction items. The highest price among them was HK$50.

Two hostesses carried a sealed glass box and walked through several aisles until everyone could see its true face before the auction began.

"The 8 jade eggs are all glass jade. The germ plasm is delicate and translucent, the color is bright and gorgeous, the emerald green is dense and sunny, round and full, without a trace of impurities. The light penetrates into the bottom of the stone, and the light is agile and crystal clear. It is a century-old A rare treasure in the green." Xiao Ai commented in Su Cheng's mind.

"Do you want it? How about I take a photo of it for you?" Su Cheng turned around and said to Zhong Chuhong with a smile.

"It's too expensive, I don't want it." Zhong Chuhong shook his head and said.

Su Cheng smiled and said nothing more.

Soon, the auction begins.

"50."

"60."

"80."

Soon, the auction price exceeded 100 million.

After all, the market value of this necklace outside is 300 to 40 million yuan. If it lasts another [-] to [-] years, it would not be surprising to see it even cost tens of millions or hundreds of millions. We are all rich people at this level, so they naturally know the goods.

"230 million, is there anything higher?" the auctioneer asked repeatedly.

"300 million!" At this time, Su Cheng directly took the sign from Zhong Chuhong's hand and let him call out the price himself.

"300 million, Mr. Su asked for 300 million. Is there anyone who wants to increase the price? This is a rare necklace made of high-quality glass jade. It is very rare on the market." The auctioneer continued to encourage everyone.

However, perhaps everyone gave Su City a face, and because the price was too high, no one continued to compete with Su City in the end.

Zhong Chuhong on the side was extremely troubled.

She didn't know if Su Cheng took this necklace as a gift to her.

If it was given to herself, she felt that she should stop it because she felt that she was not worthy of such an expensive necklace.

But what if the boss didn’t take the photo to give it to himself?If that's the case, wouldn't it make the boss angry if you try to stop him from auctioning it yourself?

So, in the end, she remained silent.

After a long time, when no one bid again, the auctioneer could only continue: "300 million once, 300 million twice, the deal was completed. Congratulations to Mr. Su for the successful bid." 300 million Hong Kong dollars, for Su Cheng, It's not a lot of money.

Next, one item after another was auctioned off.

The auction prices for the following items are not as high as the jade necklace.

The highest one was a pair of sun-green jade bracelets, which were eventually bought by a foreigner for HK$220 million.

Finally, on the third to last auction item, it was the turn of the dog-headed bronze statue.

The bronze statue of the dog's head that had been moved out and placed on the auction stage now faced everyone.

The starting price for the bronze dog head statue is not high, only HK$1.

Moreover, after hearing the auctioneer's introduction that it was just the nozzle of a fountain in the Old Summer Palace, not many people paid attention to it.

"Xiao Ai, is this bronze statue of a dog head real?" Although after appraisal at the auction, this one should be authentic, but it would be better for Su Cheng to let Xiao Ai authenticate it multiple times.

Otherwise, if you buy a fake dog head bronze statue and take it home, you will only be embarrassed.

Of course, in this era, the twelve zodiac animal head bronze statues were not well-known yet, and people didn’t know enough about them, so there was no need to imitate them.

"Master, this bronze statue of a dog's head has been authenticated by me and is authentic. Master, please feel free to buy it." Xiao Ai quickly fed back the information to Su Cheng.

After getting Xiao Ai's approval, Su Cheng felt relieved.

"2."

"3."

"4."

……

The dog-headed bronze statue was not as popular as expected. Before Su City made any bids, there were only two people bidding, one foreigner and one Chinese.

Su Cheng didn't know either of them, and it seemed that in the world of rich people, they were just relatively unknown rich people.

Moreover, their bids were all ten million land plus.

Perhaps the reason why the owner wanted to auction it in Xiangjiang was because he hoped that people in Xiangjiang would pay a high price for it.

However, what he didn't expect was that not many people were interested in the bronze dog-headed statue.

"Bid 10." Su Cheng said directly to Zhong Chuhong.

So Zhong Chuhong raised the bidding sign and shouted 10.

Su Cheng was a very famous celebrity at the scene. After he made a bid, the Chinese who originally bid no longer bid. Perhaps he did not want to offend the famous Hutchison Whampoa Taipan for a cultural relic.

The foreigner, after hesitating for a moment, continued to bid.

"11 million!"

"Bid 15." Su Cheng said to Zhong Chuhong.

Zhong Chuhong quickly followed suit.

"16 million!"

"Let's bid 20," Su Cheng continued.

"Bid 12 on the 20th!" Zhong Chuhong continued to do so.

At this time, the foreigner finally stopped raising his sign.

The imaginary drag did not appear. This time, the bidding went more smoothly than Su Cheng had imagined. Therefore, this bronze dog head statue was bought by Su City for HK$20.

At this price, the owner behind the scenes is actually very satisfied.

If it were put up for auction in Europe, it would be good for a few thousand pounds.

In fact, a few years later, in 1985, a beautiful Chinese antique dealer accidentally discovered a bronze statue of a horse head from the Old Summer Palace in a private residence in California, together with a bronze statue of an ox head and a tiger head. This antique dealer The merchant bought these three bronze heads at a low price of US$1500 each.

It can be seen that the twelve zodiac animal heads were not well known to the public in this era.

(End of this chapter)