May 18th, the day of the special auction of the shipwreck relics of the "Suarez".

Alfonso González sat in the auction box with a look of rage, staring at every move in the auction table with resentful eyes.

He is the agent of the Inditex Group, a well-known Spanish consortium.

Speaking of the company Inditex Group, the Chinese may not know much about it, but when it comes to some of the brands it operates, it is basically well-known - ZARA, a fashion brand that is very popular among the middle class and petty bourgeoisie, is the business of Inditex Group.

Companies operating in the fashion and luxury industries, as well as the cultural tourism and entertainment industries, have always needed the most public image and exposure.

Therefore, this time the news about the "dispute over the ownership of the cultural relics of the shipwreck of the Suarez" was fully exposed in newspapers, television and other media in Spain.

Inditex Group has launched an emergency plan, hoping to buy these precious cultural relics back with money after the relevant departments fail to apply for arbitration, so as to publicize a wave of Inditex Group's "patriotic" selling points among the public.

This is the same reason that after the burning of Notre Dame Cathedral in later generations, the well-known French luxury consortium that operates the Donkey brand announced a high-profile donation of hundreds of millions of euros to help rebuild Notre Dame Cathedral.

Same time, same place.

Alfonso González was also represented by a consortium from Philippine Telecom, whose purpose was similar, but the financial resources and motivation to pay were worse than those of the Spanish side.

The protagonists of the Storm and Cloud Festival have arrived, and the auction has officially begun.

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On the stage, the auctioneer wielded a small hammer, trying his best to be rhythmic, trying to tell the selling points of batches of goods.

"The 001 batch of Mexican Eagle Ocean was minted in 1560. Don't underestimate this batch of silver coins. Although the Mexican Eagle Ocean is the largest silver coin in the world, it is rare to find a year like 1560.

As we all know, the silver mine in Potosí, Peru, was discovered in 1545, and the history of Peruvian silver being shipped to the Viceroyalty of Mexico began in the 1550s. The local mint in Potosi was only established in the mid-17th century.

As a result, the vast majority of the Mexican eagles that exist in the world are silver coins from the 17th century and beyond. The 1560 coinage in this lot is worth much more than any other Mexican silver coin on the market, and it symbolizes the Spanish control over the whole of Latin America......"

In the end, these words were properly blown to the Inditex Group and the boss of the ZARA brand: This is the glory of your Spaniards' conquest of the Americas, are you embarrassed not to buy it back at a high price and bridge the national pride of the Spanish people?

"Okay, guest number 16 has made a bid, and the reserve price is $15 per peso!"

"Guest number 4, $16 per peso. $18 for the 7th. ”

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"$28, is there anything higher? $28 per peso once...... Ah, customer number 7 over there is holding up again, $30 per peso! once, is there any? two, three, deal!"

As the auctioneer's hammer fell, the Spanish people of ZARA, winning the opener, bought the silver coins at a price of $30 per peso.

If you sell it at the price of silver itself, 1 peso of silver is only worth 6~7 US dollars. The Mexican Eagle Ocean, which is worse in ordinary years, can only be sold for 10~12 US dollars. This batch of early eagles was sold for 30 US dollars, and the key was that the quantity was still so large, obviously because the patriotic sentiment of foreigners was used.

This batch of 1560 eagles is worth more than 100,000 pesos, so this single lot is more than $5 million.

And the silver coins that can be auctioned this time are at least more than 1 million pesos, so there are more relatively worthless big road goods in the future, waiting to be shipped.

The battle continues, but not as fiercely as it began.

The auction house is obviously also well versed in rhythm, and every time a few waves of silver coins are auctioned, they will be mixed with some more valuable cultural relics, such as the Tumbaga gold mask and the Mayan gold sun disc......

The harvest feast continues.

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In another dark box of the auction house, Gu Kun, Van Birsson, and the lawyer, Miss Sophia, sat together, drinking champagne and celebrating the victory.

"You Dutch are really masters of rhythm, and we Orientals should really learn this aspect of rhythm. Gu Kun humbly admitted his shortcomings and toasted Sophia.

Sophia drank it deservedly, because of the effect of alcohol, her face was a little flushed, and she did not speak modestly at all, but proudly displayed: "I told you not to hide and take out all the lots, this decision is really wise, right?"

"Wise, my plan was stupid compared to your suggestion. Gu Kun was also very realistic and sincerely admitted it.

As mentioned earlier, Gu Kun's initial plan was to rent a C130 transport plane and get a container of goods to sell in the Netherlands.

There are more than a dozen tons of good things, but he is afraid that he will not be able to sell them, and he will release too much at one time and cause the market to fall, so he stayed in Lanfang and did not bring them.

However, with the huge success of the hype rhythm some time ago, and after Sophia suggested that he find a few babysitters to disgust the Spaniards, Gu Kun's initial plan showed its shortcomings.

"If you look for a nursery, it is inevitable that there will be a few fake scenes that are really raised too high, and the Spaniards do not take the plate, resulting in smashing in their own hands. Rather than letting the child care lose the auction deposit and raise the card and not buy it, you should just buy it.

In this way, you can't afford to pick some of the goods to sell, just take them all, and in the end, the fake show really does the collapsed part and smashes it in your own hands, and you can take it back and collect it yourself, or open a museum. ”

This is Sophia's original plan to solve the problem of "overacting childcare".

Gu Kun was still skeptical at first, and he asked rhetorically: "However, if you buy it yourself, you still have to pay the auction house a transaction commission, right? Isn't the transaction commission more expensive than the auction deposit prepaid by the nursery?"

The auction deposit is generally only one or two percent, while the transaction commission is as high as 15%, and half after a large discount. The reason why it is designed this way is that the auction behavior prevents "after the collapse of Toto, the fake show is really done and the fake show is bought" - because if you really do the fake show, you also have to send money to the auction house.

It's like the black industry of wool in the east of the dog, as long as you provide a certain percentage of the commission to the platform, then you will brush the order, and the platform can turn a blind eye.

In the face of Gu Kun's concerns, lawyer Van Bilsson and Sophia smiled mysteriously at that time: "Do you think that the auction house said that the deposit it wanted to collect must be collected in full, and it will not refund the false accounts under the table? As long as you can expand the scope of the auction objects and let him make more money overall, these black accounts can be negotiated in detail in private." ”

Gu Kun was dumbfounded when he heard it.

In his previous life, he still didn't understand the darkness of capital, in comparison, he earned all his hard money!

Damn, those rhythm masters are so dark!

So he half-pushed and half-agreed: take all the catches and go through the motions, symbolically shoot them, smash them with rhythm and fire, and then take them back for exhibition/collection!

The auction house secretly gave him some false accounts and discounted commissions. Whoever ends up with the left hand to the right hand will be guaranteed a commission lower than the auction deposit!

This time, Gu Kun used childcare to raise the price so presumptuously, and he had today's exaggerated gain.

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"Boss, it seems to be counted. 1.63 million silver pesos, all of which were taken and auctioned, and finally 1.22 million were auctioned, and 410,000 were smashed in their hands, and they had to buy it back by themselves. The silver coin sold for $22.8 million. ”

"Tumbaga, Inca rose, Mayan gold sun discs, a total of 4.8 tons were auctioned, of which 350 kilograms of gold-containing products were sold. The total price realized was $38.5 million. ”

"The auction house actually collected a total of $4.6 million in commissions. ”

As the auction ended, Van Bilsson reported these data to Gu Kun for review.

There are two more that he didn't say, and that is his own commission, which is about a third of that of the auction house and more than $1.5 million.

Sophia's attorney's fees, on the other hand, are lower, at about $1.1 million.

However, considering the transaction price that they set up to find a game to lead the war with rhythmic coaxing, this commission is definitely cost-effective.

Gu Kun's total income was 61.3 million US dollars, excluding 7.2 million (460 + 150 + 110) costs, and the net income after tax was 54.1 million US dollars.

However, Gu Kun felt that he was not at a loss at all about this money.

Every pore of the fashion and luxury industry is flowing with dirty black blood that attracts attention by any means.

Who makes the wealth of this industry not manufactured, but defined by seniority, and being famous is valuable.

He is just pushing the boat with the current, not letting this dirty black blood flow away in vain and waste, flow into the black soil he controls, and decompose into nutrients and fertilizer.

"Give me the money to earn, you have promoted yourself as well, it is better to make money than to actually burn down a Notre Dame Cathedral. Alas, I am really a merciful person, and in order to make the advertising effect of the Western capitalists on the attention of their own nation, they have to play the villain, and no one has thanked me yet. ”