Collection of Gods

Chapter 881 Charity Auction

Half an hour later, the charity dinner officially began.

Today, the Zhonghe Charity Foundation was established, and indeed no artist from the entertainment industry was invited, but this does not mean that there will be no artists from the entertainment industry appearing at today's charity dinner.

The only reason they are here is simply because of work. They have to go on stage to sing on time and leave immediately after the performance. Not to mention eating at the table after the performance, they don't even have the most basic working meals.

The singers who can perform on the stage today are all powerful singers, and all of them have a high status in the entertainment industry. On weekdays, they attend various activities, and the organizers have to serve them well. If the organizers are a little negligent, they will at best not have a good face and be perfunctory on the stage, or directly find a reason to strike and leave.

Judging from the attitude of Zhonghe Charity Foundation today, if it happened to an ordinary organizer, there would have been chaos backstage, and the agents of the stars would have surrounded the person in charge of the organizer and criticized him.

However, the stars who were used to being pampered in the past did not say a word when faced with such treatment today. All of them were as well-behaved as quails. They went backstage in advance to prepare for the performance, sang with all their might on stage, and left as soon as they were required after leaving the stage. The whole process did not even require any staff to urge them.

The reason is simple, just three words: can’t afford to offend!
If anyone dares to act like a big shot here, he will definitely die. No matter how popular this person is or how high his commercial value is, there will be no place for him in the entire entertainment industry.

You know, let alone the financial backers behind them, even the financial backers of the financial backers behind them may not be qualified to attend today's charity dinner. You can imagine how powerful those people who can sit in the audience today are.

star?

King and Queen?

In front of this group of people, he is just an actor.

If you are asked to sing, you have to sing; if you are asked to smile, you have to smile.

Under this circumstance, the warm-up session of the entire charity dinner can be said to be very lively, with many powerful singers performing with all their might, while the many guests sitting in the audience were enjoying fine wine and delicious food.

Tonight's charity dinner and the establishment ceremony this morning were all broadcast live across the entire network. Many netizens were very proud to see their favorite singers appear at the charity dinner, thinking that their favorite singers had received an invitation today.

In fact, this group of fans had no idea that their favorite singer was only there to sing today. Even after the performance, they couldn’t even step into the door of the charity dinner.

of course……

If we think about the problem from another perspective, this group of fans do have reason to be proud, because the fact that they were invited to perform on stage today is enough to show their strength and popularity.

The warm-up segment with star singing lasted for about forty minutes. After the many guests in the audience had eaten and drunk their fill, the highlight of the day, the charity auction, began.

The banquet hall, which was originally dimly lit, became brightly lit again.

The host Shen Fanyu left the stage and Lin Yuehua, chief auctioneer of Yanjing Guardian Auction House, came on stage.

"Hello, everyone." "I am Lin Yuehua, the chief auctioneer of Yanjing Guardian Auction House. Today, I am very honored to be entrusted by Chairman Tang Yuan to serve as the auctioneer of the first charity auction of Zhonghe Charity Foundation."

Lin Yuehua stood in the center of the stage, looking dignified and confident. Although the level of guests at today's auction far exceeded all the auctions she had hosted before, her past experiences not only did not make her feel nervous, but instead made her feel unusually excited.

"Today's charity auction has a total of 67 lots, all of which are donated by members of the Zhonghe Charity Foundation. All the money raised through the auction today will be deposited into the charity account of the Zhonghe Charity Foundation and will be used for many charity activities in the future."

"Here, on behalf of Chairman Tang Yuan and all the directors of the Zhonghe Charity Foundation, I would like to express my heartfelt thanks to all the donors of this charity auction!"

As Lin Yuehua finished speaking, Tang Yuan, who was sitting in the center of the banquet hall, stood up at the same time along with the other ten directors, and then faced all the guests and bowed slightly.

In response to Tang Yuan and others' thanks, the whole audience burst into warm applause. The applause did not subside until Tang Yuan and others sat down again.

"Dear guests, next..."

"Let us welcome the first item of today's charity auction!"

"This is a collection donated by Mr. Ji Qi, Chairman of Huazhu Group. It is a Ming Dynasty Hetian jade auspicious beast double-eared tripod furnace. The starting price is 1 yuan!"

After Lin Yuehua announced the official launch of the charity foundation, two good-looking and tall etiquette girls came to the center of the stage pushing a movable column-shaped glass booth.

In this pillar-shaped glass exhibition stand, the Ming Dynasty Hetian jade auspicious beast double-eared tripod furnace introduced by Lin Yuehua just now stood prominently inside, and on the huge LED screen behind the stage, detailed information and detailed pictures of this item were quickly listed, as well as the appraisal report jointly issued by many top appraisers.

Although the multi-functional banquet hall of Amanyangyun Hotel has limited conditions and cannot be compared with the professional venues of auction houses such as China Guardian and Sotheby's, Lin Ziyang and others who are responsible for hosting today's event have tried their best to make the scene close to the professional venues of those auction houses.

Judging from the current results, it is indeed very good.

At the same time, the donor of this Ming Dynasty Hetian jade auspicious beast double-eared tripod furnace, Ji Qi, chairman of Huazhu Group, slowly stood up from his chair when Lin Yuehua read out his name, waved to the guests from all directions, with a bright smile on his face. The guests at the scene were also very considerate and gave Chairman Ji some applause at the right time.

As for the starting price of this collection being set at 1 yuan, it is certainly not because the collection is estimated to be worth only 1 yuan, but because that is the rule of the charity auction. No matter how precious the collection is, the starting price is 1 yuan.

If the collection is very popular, the donor will naturally be happy to see it, but if the collection is not popular, or the donor feels that the final price is unsatisfactory and differs too much from what he expected, the donor can also choose to join the auction and then bid back the donated collection. Although this situation is not common, it is not uncommon in many charity auctions.

Similar situations usually occur in collections that have very important life significance to the donor. They are priceless to the donor, but they themselves do not have much actual value.

If this kind of collection appears in a charity auction, the final transaction price is actually a concrete manifestation of the donor's personal value. Usually only top bosses are qualified to do this. Ji Qi knows that he is not a top boss at all in today's occasion, so the collection he chose to donate is actually a very valuable antique, so naturally there is no situation where no one is interested. The price of this Ming Dynasty Hetian jade auspicious beast double-eared tripod furnace was quickly pushed up by everyone...

(End of this chapter)