Originally, it was just to see the goods today, but Ye Dongqing had already shown the intention of buying on the spot, which made the middleman, Mr. Beckenbauer, very diligent, and specially called the owner of the castle, Little Brooke III Seymour.

Upon learning that a potential American high roller was also coming, the guy came over to say hello with great enthusiasm.

During the visit, Ye Dongqing had already heard the general experience from the talk of others, it turned out that the descendants of Marshal Seymour like horses, especially all kinds of famous horses, and once went to the inland to buy Akhal-Teke horses, which cost a lot of money, and also liked to bet on horses on the side of the Xiangjiang River, and spent most of the year in the Xiangjiang River.

Ye Dongqing's manor also has a few horses.

Little Edward gave him a few horses on his twentieth birthday, and it is said that they cost him more than two million dollars in total, and Richard later selected three horses from his own stable and sent them directly to the island, all of which were mixed breeds, and recruited two trainers to help take care of them.

It's not bad, at least it won't make the knowledgeable feel ashamed, but compared with the horse-loving little Brooke III, his billionaire horse farm has become a small fight, and some people said that this guy spent more than six million dollars some time ago in order to buy an Arabian horse, and successfully lost all the little inheritance left by his father before he died.

Hundreds of antiques have been sold before, and they have been packaged and bought by a museum in Xiangjiang, and the money seems to be used to bet on horses, only pressing their own horses, losing more and winning less.

That's probably the case, Ye Dongqing accidentally heard some inside stories, and didn't mean to ask carefully.

Occasionally riding a horse is very relaxing, but his interest in tennis is stronger than raising horses, and he is not ready to learn from this guy to raise some first-class famous horses, to be honest, Ye Dongqing is already a relatively homely kind in the rich group, going to bars, attending parties or something, it is nothing in his circle at all.

It is precisely because of his lack of hobbies that he was ready to implement the idea of building the Cobra Mansion directly, and people always have something to like to do in life, such as witnessing the completion of a strange building in New York.

After introducing each other.

Little Brooke III asked: "Have you found an antique you like? If you are not satisfied with my basement there is more, Mr. Beckenbauer has already told me that you can take as much as you want as long as the price is right, and last year the water pipes in the basement were broken, and a few old carpets and a batch of books were even moldy, and I don't want to keep them anymore." ”

At a glance, he is a person who is not very good at business, and these words have already given Ye Dongqing a reason to lower the price.

He could guess why the descendants of Marshal Seymour's family only released 200 pieces, probably because they were afraid that they would sell too much at one time, causing the international trading market of Chinese antiques to collapse to a certain extent, and if thousands of things were sold at the same time, the consequences could be imagined, and it would be difficult to find a buyer who ate this batch of goods in a short period of time.

"You can go and have a look, but I'm going to wait for other appraisers to come and help me choose first, funding is definitely not a problem, as long as you have good things, I can buy them today." ”

Ye Dongqing replied that although he had not had much contact with the antique trade, he could guess that there were not many opportunities to purchase antiques in large quantities like this and go to the supermarket.

If you go to the auction house to pick something, the fee and commission are so high that there is no need to give money to those auction agencies for nothing, unless it is something you really like, such as the "Starry Night" hanging in the Museum of Modern Art in New York, by Van Gogh, it seems that it has not been auctioned since it came out, even if it costs 100 million US dollars, he is happy to buy it.

"Okay, I'll be upstairs, and I'll let the butler let me know when the time comes. Little Brooke III looked a little listless, if he didn't know the scale of Ye Dongqing's wealth, he wouldn't have gone downstairs to receive him at all, and was about to go back to the room to catch up on sleep, there was a mare giving birth last night, which tossed him badly, but unfortunately the little pony died shortly after birth, and the 400,000 pounds breeding fee was wasted......

"This ...... This...... Our ancestors have too many things, right! These robbers have emptied the Old Summer Palace!?"

More than two hours have passed, Ye Dongqing has just gone down to the basement of Seymour Manor Castle with them, the air is still dry, and several machines are removing the moisture from the air, so that the collections in the basement can have a good preservation environment.

An old man from China who came to communicate with the British Museum exclaimed after seeing the things in the basement, because a huge dragon chair was placed next to it, and the color was obviously made of golden silk nan wood, representing the highest craftsmanship in the wood, and the chairs that symbolized the imperial power at that time were called dragon chairs, not just one, the emperor often worked on vacation, and he couldn't take the bulky dragon chair with him everywhere.

Ye Dongqing listened to these experts, only to know that the dragon chair actually looked like this, and then heard another middle-aged fat man in his forties whispering: "Isn't it just empty, and finally set a fire, you have a quieter voice, this is not in the Forbidden City!"

The exchange at the official level is not good if it causes any contradictions, the fat man coughed dryly, looked at the old Neil appraiser and the little Brooke III with sleep marks on his face, and saw that they were confused before he was relieved.

There is no reason to fan the flames, Ye Dongqing explained in English: "They are praising your collection here, after all, few people can collect so many things from Chinese history, just like coming to a museum." ”

When he lived in Xiangjiang, Little Brook III knew enough English, and within a few years of his return, the English popularity there was quite high, and he didn't understand the meaning of the phrase "robber" at all, and he was happy: "Thank you very much, my great-grandfather used two ships to transport these things back, and I left a photo before, I don't know where they were placed." ”

Triumphant, which made Ye Dongqing feel that he was indebted, and pretended to be a translator and explained: "His ancestor is Marshal Seymour, there shouldn't be much of a problem with things, please help me pick out some fine products, the most valuable batch, don't show surprise, excitement and other expressions, otherwise it will be difficult for me to talk about the right price." ”

"Seymour, he was the one who commanded the coalition forces at that time, right? British Admiral? Grandma, don't worry, it is better to pick out all the good things and put them in the hands of overseas Chinese than in their hands!" The fat man surnamed Gao had a smile on his face, but there was nothing to laugh at when he said this.

Ye Dongqing once again translated indiscriminately to Little Brooke III: "They said that this chair is very good, and it is still intact, so let's start now, I will pick it out first, and then talk about the price, I must give some discounts if I buy it in bulk, right? Send it to auction, you and I will both suffer, and there are too many things to sell at a price, people who like Chinese antiques are like this, I want to use them to decorate my mansion, it looks more connotative......"