Chapter 137: Suspicious
Then look at the second picture, which is also a row of information that comes into view.
"Hetian white jade Guanyin sheep fat jade jade in Xinjiang, China. Artificial splicing, there are four spelling marks on the jade, and then the jade powder is used to polish it in the later stage. This splicing is different from colored stone inlay, which is a new type of technology for illegal traders to transfer jade for profiteering. β
Fake?
Zhuo Feng didn't have the ability to check it, but he didn't feel comfortable at first glance, such a perfect jade photo, under the scrutiny of his special ability, this jade turned out to be fake and spliced.
Alas. To put it bluntly, this is not a piece of raw jade, it is made of several pieces of splicing.
Zhuo Feng stabilized his emotions and continued to examine the third picture with his consciousness.
"Late Shang Dynasty Chinese willow leaf bronze sword. One of the most commonly used and common weapons in ancient China. Excavated from the tomb of the Western Zhou Dynasty in Shaanxi, China. China's first-class cultural relics. β
Huh, this rusty sword, which has no sword grid and no sword head, and the blade is also mutilated, is actually a first-class cultural relic of our country.
It seems that the cultural relics that Chen Lao said are suspected of being lost overseas is this bronze sword.
With a goal in mind, Zhuo Feng touched Chen Xiaoyan's arm and pointed to the third picture.
Chen Xiaoyan understood.
Zhuo Feng continued to examine the past in the fourth picture.
"Brass chimes. One of the 13 sets of Chu copper chimes, it is one of the first batch of cultural relics prohibited from going abroad (territory) in China. This is a performance imitation. β
It seems that this auction is indiscriminate, and I want to attract people's attention with shoddy products.
Zhuo Feng hurriedly looked at the other auction items on this information, and found that there were only two or three real real items, and the rest were all imitations, refurbisheds, or works of pseudo-well-known art by unknown artists.
It seems that this so-called mysterious auction is actually a fake sales conference.
Using that consciousness, the essence energy was somewhat depleted, Zhuo Feng hurriedly took out the chicken disguised as a snack from his pocket and ate two pieces.
When coming from the hotel, everyone had this kind of chicken with them, just in case.
After eating the chicken, he filled up his energy and whispered in Chen Xiaoyan's ear, revealing the information he had just gotten.
In the interval between Zhuo Feng looking at the pictures, bidders entered the venue one after another, and it was almost full.
When the time scale points to 8 p.m., the auction officially begins.
There were two auctioneers on the stage, one of the main auctioneers was a native who spoke the local language, and the other was translating in English.
Zhuo Feng couldn't understand what the chief auctioneer was talking about, but fortunately, Manager Lei was on the side to translate.
Roughly speaking: this auction, why didn't you let everyone see the real thing at the beginning, mainly because I was worried that someone would leak the news and cause unnecessary trouble, but when the real auction was held, everyone would see the real thing. This is a test of the bidder's concentration and eyesight.
In addition, in this auction, the starting price of each auction treasure is not high, and everyone can compete, and the price is 100 US dollars for each increase, and you can also skip the price increase, such as 100,000, 200,000, 500,000...... There is no cap.
Slowly, Zhuo Feng felt that something was wrong with this auction, but it was difficult to say the reason for it for a while.
Similarly, Chen Xiaoyan also gave a look through the mask, signaling Zhuo Feng to be calm first and not to move.
Start bidding on your first treasure now.
It is a local copper Buddha artifact of country S, and the starting price is $500.
After the auctioneer's hammer sound, the lights illuminated, a man in black walked around the venue holding a Buddha statue, and a 360-degree photo of the Buddha artifact was also played on the large screen display on the wall, so that bidders could understand the information.
Ten minutes after the show, the lights were half turned off, the venue was darkened again, and the bidding began below.
Chen Xiaoyan leaned over and whispered in Zhuo Feng's ear: "Such a Buddhist artifact can be seen all over the streets of this tourist country, but I just don't know if it really came out of the temple." This information is not comprehensive, but if it can be auctioned here, it will certainly not be very bad, and I think the final bid price of this Buddha artifact will not exceed 10,000 US dollars at most. β
Zhuo Feng nodded in agreement with Chen Xiaoyan's statement, and then raised his head to see how the bidders came to bid for this first treasure.
But the result was completely unexpected by Chen Xiaoyan and Zhuo Feng, and the bidders in the venue enthusiastically raised their cards to bid, many of them holding a number plate that did not represent money, but also a piece of cardboard.
Chen Xiaoyan and Zhuo Feng looked at each other, what's wrong?
The first auction item is so hot, and the next auction item is bidding, and you can't go up and grab it.
Zhuo Feng was a little suspicious that these people were not bringing banknotes, but banks.
"$50,000, the first time, 51,000 times, 55,000 times... β
Bidding prices are constantly updated on the big screen.
Manager Lei was there to translate synchronously, and Zhuo Feng stepped forward a little bit to stop Manager Lei's move to stop translating, which was beyond their imagination and was meaningless.
In the end, this local bronze Buddhist artifact was auctioned for a high price of 72,000 US dollars, which is converted into more than 480,000 yuan.
Chen Xiaoyan clenched the check in her pocket, feeling that the check was too small and insufficient.
Then the auctioneer took out the auction items completely out of control, and each one sold for a strangely higher price.
Zhuo Feng made up his mind at this time, pulled Chen Xiaoyan's arm, and gave him a look.
"Manager Lei, what should be done if S state-owned company or group is suspected of money laundering?"
After Chen Xiaoyan understood what Zhuo Feng meant, she asked Manager Lei on the edge of her seat.
"Ahh Is there such a suspicion in this auction venue?"
Manager Lei asked with an unbelievable face, and forgot to translate when he stayed there.
"Judging from the dozen or so treasures auctioned out, each one of them is ordinary and not worth the high price, but the people in this venue are crazy to bid like a demon, so it can only show one situation, someone is buying these bidders to launder money.
You immediately leave the venue and report the situation here to the authoritative organization with the connections you can grasp, and at the same time, you also contact the Chinese embassy in country S to tell me about the situation, saying that there are Chinese cultural relics that have been lost and are being auctioned.
I asked my friend, this big black man, to accompany you, be careful on the way. β
Occasionally, there are people in and out of the bathroom, going out to answer the phone, and receiving instructions. Manager Lei is going out with Hanwa so early now, it shouldn't arouse suspicion.
But when Manager Lei and Hanwa exited the venue and came to the registration office, they were still stopped by four men in black.
Manager Lei was busy communicating with the four men in black in the local language, saying that he was only accompanying the bidders to bid for the treasures, and that he did not have enough money for a while, so he went out to work on funds.
The blacks saw that Manager Lei spoke an authentic local language, and the reason was so good, so they let the two of them leave.
When Manager Lei left the Regal Universal East Asia Hotel, he contacted the international anti-money laundering agency at all levels according to Chen Xiaoyan's arrangement, explained the situation here in detail, and said that he would immediately arrange personnel to come over to investigate, so that they could wait nearby.
Manager Lei hurriedly dialed the phone number of the Chinese embassy in country S and reported that China's lost overseas cultural relics were being auctioned at a mysterious auction, and explained these situations in detail.
In less than ten minutes, people and horses on both sides arrived.
Now that the auction is already underway, outsiders can no longer enter the venue without qualified documents, and the international anti-money laundering agency has installed the latest eavesdropping equipment on Manager Lei and Hanwa, so that they can screw on the cash box they have just prepared and return to the venue.
When Manager Lei and Hanwa returned to the venue, the four men in black searched them in detail, but fortunately they did not find the hidden eavesdropping equipment.
Sitting back in place, the second of the four Chinese treasures that Zhuo Feng had seen was already being auctioned on the podium.
The first collection, the blue and white dragon and phoenix wearing a patterned light porcelain bowl, Zhuo Feng and Chen Xiaoyan did not even have time to raise the number plate to offer, and were overwhelmed by the people who held the number plate everywhere, and finally was auctioned off by the bidder of the No. 116 license plate at a high price of 3.5 million US dollars.
Zhuo Feng and Chen Xiaoyan stuck out their tongues, and an imitation sold for more than 23 million yuan, which was five times higher than their Qing Dynasty concubine's regular clothes.
The white jade Guanyin mutton fat jade, which is now being auctioned, has been auctioned for 1.6 million US dollars, and the bidding price is displayed on the big screen, with many 0s.
Manager Lei quietly communicated with Zhuo Feng and Chen Xiaoyan and made an OK gesture.
The two nodded, Manager Lei handed over the new cash box to Zhuo Feng, and started the translation again.
"$2.1 million once, $2.15 million at a time, this friend here added $500,000, and everyone applaudedγγγγγγ 3 million once, 3 million twice, 3 million three times, transaction. Congratulations to the bidder with number 62 on the successful bidding, this white jade Guanyin mutton fat jade is yours. β
Another counterfeit sold for $3 million, these people are crazy.
Chen Xiaoyan paid attention to the calculation, so far in the auction, each collection has been successfully auctioned, and there is no unsuccessful auction, adding up the amount of all these successful auctions, it has been 54 million US dollars, which is more than 300 million yuan when converted into RMB.
Fortunately, little by little, the information of this venue is being transmitted to the receiver of the international anti-money laundering agency.
The international anti-money laundering agency immediately contacted the Interpol of country S to report the situation, and the two sides began to round up the situation.
Now is the peak time for people to come out at night, and this Regal Universal East Asia Hotel is a five-star hotel, if you don't arrange a round-up task, it is likely to be a surprise and lose all your efforts.
The international anti-money laundering agency and the embassy in country S contacted the mayor of the capital of country S and asked him to contact the hotel, and asked the person in charge of the hotel to gather the hotel security personnel, cut off the elevator power supply, and then silently arrest the people in black outside the door, so that a quiet round-up activity was carried out in a tense and orderly manner.
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In the venue, the auction is still being carried out nervously.
The enthusiasm of the bidders rose wave after wave, and all of them seemed to be bidding with bankrupt belongings, and those who were bidding shouted loudly, and those who did not bid wept and wept, as if the God of Wealth had slipped away from his hand.
Driven by such emotions, other bidders who don't know what is going on are also full of strength, as if they are about to throw out the old bottom for the first time and fight a fish to a dead net.
After the auction of two suspected Chinese cultural relics, several other cultural relics were interspersed in between, followed by the auction of the bronze sword.