Giuseppe Eskenazi is not stupid, he has already established that someone is going to mess with him, and there is definitely a follow-up.

It's not clear who you've offended, but the best way to defend against unknown dangers is to disrupt the enemy's offensive routine.

The secret enemy obviously wants to let these forty-eight pieces of Huaxia literature be auctioned, and his best way to deal with it is to prevent this from happening.

The second-highest bidder is his own trust, because he does not want himself to buy back the lot he provided, after all, buying all of them back will cause a loss of more than 500,000 pounds.

You must know that Eskenazi Ltd., last year's net profit was only more than 5 million pounds, which is equivalent to a one-tenth loss for him at one time.

Eskenazi Co., Ltd. is family, although he is the head of the family, but the shareholding ratio is only more than ten points, and it is impossible for him to pay for this money out of his own pocket.

If the company is allowed to come out, then this year's financial report will definitely be much inferior, and it will affect the company's stock price at that time, which is not advisable.

Therefore, it is absolutely not advisable to buy it back by yourself or the company!

In this case, the best thing to do is to let the third highest bidder buy them all.

It's just that it takes some time, and there's no guarantee that everything will be successful.

Without further ado, you have to act now!

Thinking of this, Giuseppe Eskenazi said to Sotheby's general manager: "Manager Ron, I need to trouble you to contact the customer, the sooner the better!"

The general manager named Ron was a grasshopper on the same rope as Giuseppe Eskenazi, and he immediately said, "Since you agree to sell, then I'll arrange it right away." ”

After saying that, Manager Ron hurriedly removed the customer information, wanting to intercept many customers while they had not left, complete the private transaction as soon as possible, and reduce the unsold rate.

At the same time, he also asked people to find out as soon as possible what the five Britons who refused to pay were.

Not to mention, that night, Ron and Giuseppe Eskenazi completed eight private transactions, reducing the number of unsold Chinese artifacts from 48 to 40.

They intend to continue the operation the next day.

But Xia Yu had long expected them to do this, so he didn't plan to give them more time to respond.

The next day, with the delivery of major newspapers, a blockbuster news caused heated discussions.

The Sun: Shocking! Sotheby's summer auction of a large number of sold items was refused payment by buyers!

The famous gossip newspaper "Daily Mirror": Sotheby's summer auction has not seen a bad situation in a century, and all Chinese cultural relics have been unsold!

Financial Times: According to reliable sources, all the Chinese cultural relics provided by Eskenazi Ltd. to participate in the Sotheby's London auction have all been unsold, with a total transaction value of up to 1.7 million pounds, and Sotheby's summer auctions in the United States, France and Hong Kong have also seen a similar situation, and the total turnover of Sotheby's auction houses will be reduced by 9.2 million pounds......

The Telegraph......

As if an appointment had been made, many major mainstream newspapers reported negative news about Sotheby's auction house, and it was written in such detail that people could assume that it was true at a glance.

In fact, the news reported in these newspapers was arranged by Xia Yu.

City of London, China Commercial Bank.

Xia Yu and Wu Hongyi sat down to drink tea face to face.

Looking at the newspaper in his hand, Wu Hongyi said with a smile: "Xia Yu, it seems that Sotheby's Auction House and Eskenazi Co., Ltd. are busy, I thought you wanted to buy those antiques, but now I still don't understand what you want to do." ”

Although it was not reported on the news that Xia Yu did it, Wu Hongyi was 100% sure that Xia Yu did it.

After all, Xia Yu had specially told him not to participate in the auction of Chinese cultural relics, and others also agreed.

At this time, as soon as this situation occurs, who else can it be if it is not Xia Yu's doing?

Xia Yu shook his head slightly, blew away the white mist coming out of the teacup, took a sip, and smiled faintly.

"I just don't want foreign devils to maliciously inflate the price of Chinese cultural relics and suck blood on us Chinese. ”

Wu Hongyi was stunned for a moment, and his mind turned to figure out the key, and then looked at Xia Yu with admiration: "I see, admire!"

"Read the newspaper that this is the case in the United States, France and Xiangjiang, and Xiangjiang is the most serious?"

Wu Hongyi hesitated and asked.

Anyway, Wu Hongyi also knew that it was his hand, and he was not worried that Wu Hongyi would leak out, so Xia Yu did not hide it, nodded calmly and said, "Yes, I have said hello to some people in Xiangjiang." ”

In fact, the largest market for Chinese cultural relics today is Asia, with a focus on Southeast Asia and East Asia, after all, these places have the largest number of Chinese and know how to collect and appreciate Chinese cultural relics.

Sotheby's summer auction took place in Xiangjiang, which is Xia Yu's territory.

Before Xia Yu came, he greeted a group of Chinese bigwigs, and everyone was willing to give Xia Yu a face, anyway, it was not a channel for Sotheby's auction house to collect antiques.

As a result, the unsuccessful auction of the summer auction in Hong Kong was the most serious, with more than half of the Huaxia cultural and logistics auctions or buyers refusing to pay, and the total transaction price reached more than 6 million pounds, equivalent to nearly 60 million Hong Kong dollars.

These lots are not all provided by Eskenazi Co., Ltd., but all the Chinese cultural relics provided by it have all been refused to pay, and none of them have failed!

This situation was known last night by the head office of Sotheby's in England and Giuseppe Eskenazi.

Both sides wanted to tighten the lid and worked overnight to find a solution.

It's just that they didn't expect Xia Yu to make such a shocking move!

At this time, the two companies were already anxious, and in the face of a large number of reporters gathered at the gates of the two companies, the heads of the two companies did not dare to go out at all.

And that's not all, the impact is far from the limit.

Prior to this, Xia Yu had arranged for people to short Sotheby's and Eskenazi Ltd.

At this time, the major mainstream media reported negative news involving the two companies, especially after the Financial Times analyzed the actual situation and future prospects of the two companies from a fair and objective perspective and based on the actual data, the majority of capital was immediately affected.

The share prices of Sotheby's and Eskenazi Ltd. fell in response, and the bad influence spread further again, creating a vicious circle.

Speaking of Huashang Bank, when Wu Hongyi heard Xia Yu admit that the shock in his eyes was unabated, a key question suddenly came to mind.

He immediately asked: "Xia Yu, according to the current situation, Chinese cultural relics are famous, in the next few years, it will be difficult for Chinese cultural relics to be auctioned at a high price, you buy so many Chinese cultural relics, isn't it more difficult to realize them?"

Xia Yu smiled and said nonchalantly: "The antiques I bought will not be sold in the next thirty years, the reputation of Chinese cultural relics will stink when it stinks, so it is better, the foreign devils in the province will take our cultural pride and suck blood on us." ”

In Xia Yu's view, the reputation of Chinese cultural relics is more beneficial to him, and the difficulty of his acquisition of Chinese cultural relics will be lower, and the price will be lower, after all, when most people realize that the Chinese cultural relics market is not good, many people dare not collect and invest, and it is more difficult to speculate the price.

And he also knows that the reputation of Chinese cultural relics stinks when it stinks, and a few decades is enough time to wipe out the current bad influence.

No matter how bad it is, after a few decades, the Chinese economy will rise, and the price of Chinese cultural relics will still be speculated, and the people who fry cultural relics and antiques at that time will definitely no longer be limited to the British, and the Chinese people involved in interests will also be the people behind the scenes.

"You're right, once this time passes, the price of Chinese cultural relics is set to fall, and not many people dare to invest, it seems that I have to seize the opportunity to buy more, and I will touch your light again." ”

Wu Hongyi laughed and said.

Xia Yu couldn't help but wonder.