How much is Wang Ye's net worth now?

It's a difficult question to answer right now, and even his personal financial advisor, LISA, can't answer it accurately.

Because now his assets are too complicated, not only various industries, but also shares of two major commercial real estate companies, plus a large amount of cash.

Moreover, Meigou is facing listing, and its market value changes greatly, so it is difficult to calculate an accurate number.

However, the question of how much cash he has at his disposal is relatively simple.

Under Wang Ye's name, the largest amount of cash that can be used is, of course, the $3.5 billion obtained from the transfer of Meigou.com's shares to Temasek!

The others were the profits that were taken from the Floating Flower Cosmetics Company, plus the petty cash he received from the salaries and bonuses he received at several companies.

Although each company is basically a controlling shareholder, as the chairman, he also has a salary bonus. Of course, these salaries and bonuses are a small amount for Wang Ye.

The $3.5 billion is of course the largest amount of cash, and although Wang Ye plans to invest in the construction of the Goddess Island in Denmark, it does not mean that the money will be spent in one go.

The construction of the Goddess Island is a big project that will take a long time, and of course the funds will be invested in it. Therefore, theoretically speaking, he can use at least more than 2.5 billion of the $3.5 billion.

In a short period of time, it is enough to leave $1 billion in reserve.

As for the profits drawn from the Fuhua cosmetics company, that is not much in comparison, after all, although this cosmetics company is very profitable, it has been in operation for too short a time.

That is, with these 2.5 billion US dollars, Wang Ye has the confidence to consider the two bids in Christie's spring auction. Of course, in the end he decided to bid on only one thing besides a cigar.

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On March 12th, Christie's Hong Kong Spring Auction officially began.

Participating in such a large-scale auction does not mean just holding an invitation and casually holding up a sign on the spot.

There are various formalities that need to be completed in advance, and the most important thing is to remit your security deposit to the account designated by Christie's.

The amount of deposit also determines what level of bidding you can participate in.

Just like that mid-levels mansion, the starting price is 1.5 billion Hong Kong dollars, you pay a deposit of tens of thousands of Hong Kong dollars, what if you go there to make trouble.

So, for each auction item, there is a specific amount of deposit, and you need to pick out what you are going to bid on, and then pay enough deposit before you are eligible to bid on the spot.

Wang Ye has nothing to do in the past few days, so he flipped through the thick auction album and found that there were really a lot of good things.

These things, which are usually not available on the market, are truly rare items that will only appear at such large-scale auctions.

It's obviously not appropriate to let Elle go now, so you still have to go on your own.

Wang Ye informed Pete that he would remit a deposit of 100 million yuan directly to Christie's designated account in his own name, and it was US dollars!

That's enough money for him to auction anything in this spring auction.

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Christie's Asia Pacific President Jihard has been staying in Hong Kong for the past few days, not only because the Asia Pacific headquarters is located here, but more importantly, the "Christie's Hong Kong Spring Auction 2012" is about to begin.

This is Christie's Asia Pacific's biggest auction of the year, with the best of the best being sold for a record price!

For this reason, they even put a mansion in the middle of the mountain on the auction table, this kind of rare listing, but it has not appeared in the trading market for five or six years, and it is not an exaggeration to put it on the auction.

If it doesn't go unauctioned, this luxury house will be able to create a new high bidding price.

The price is more than a billion! This is also the highest price ever paid at Christie's Hong Kong auction.

Of course, this price may also fail, after all, it is too high, and people who really want to buy a house may not make up their minds to buy it in such a short time.

To be on the safe side, Jihard applied to the headquarters for another rare treasure, which was also put up for auction at this auction.

In case half of the mountain mansions are unsold, then there is also this thing to guarantee the bottom, and it should not be a problem to create a record high bidding price.

Don't question why auctions are always chasing new high prices, because reputation is the life of an auction house!

An auction house that repeatedly sets new auction prices will gain a lot of attention and reputation in the industry. Sellers will be confident that they will hand over their items to bid on, and powerful buyers will actively participate in the auction house's auctions.

It's a virtuous circle!

Therefore, before every big auction, Christie's will desperately promote it, and of course, the publicity is aimed at those who are the richest and have real spending power.

Whether an auction is successful or not can be seen before the auction takes place.

That's the deposit that goes through the bidder's designated account at Christie's!

The amount of this deposit determines how much the bidder is roughly prepared to spend, so Jachard, president of Christie's Asia Pacific region, has been staring at this account for the past few days.

He remembers very accurately that before last year's Spring Festival auction, the amount of deposit remitted was $150 million, and the total amount of the auction was $316 million!

In other words, most auctions have a rule, before the official start of the auction, the customer pays twice the amount of the deposit, which will basically be equal to the total amount of the entire auction.

This is also the reason why Jihard has paid special attention to the margin account these days, the amount of this account determines the total turnover of the entire auction, can he not pay attention to it.

At the 2011 Chinese New Year Auction, the highest bid was Zao Wou-Ki's magnificent 1964 masterpiece 29.09.64, which sold for nearly HK$153 million, setting a new world auction record for the artist!

And this year, there are two finale lots, both of which are worth far more than this painting, so Jihad is also full of confidence in this year's auction.

"Richard, how much is the margin account, how many customers have remitted money today, and what is the highest?"

At noon on March 11, the day before the auction began, Jihad couldn't hold back and asked the company's financial director, Chad, again.

"There weren't as many new clients this morning as there were in the previous two days, only 56 new clients came in for a deposit, with the highest one being $2 million and a total of $43 million. Richard shrugged his shoulders and said the situation was not optimistic.

From the beginning of the auction publicity, to today, in fact, the total amount of the deposit is not bad, it has reached 160 million US dollars, which has exceeded the total amount of last year's deposit.

But this year, there are two finales, and it stands to reason that they should far surpass last year.

Sweat was already pouring from Jihad's forehead, and if this year's auction was messed up, he wouldn't be able to explain it to headquarters.

In the office of the financial director Chad, the two were silent and the atmosphere was very solemn.

Suddenly, a message box popped up on Richard's office computer, he casually clicked on it, and exclaimed, "A new customer has remitted $100 million in deposit!"

As soon as Jihad heard this, he stood up with a "pout" and leaned his head in front of the computer to read the message.

In their background, customer information is naturally clearly visible.

"The mainland customer, Wang Ye, transferred $100 million to Christie's special margin account through Citibank Xiangjiang Branch. ”

Those who do auctions know all about these rich people.

Gerhard blurted out: "It's the new young man on the Forbes Global Chinese Rich List last year, who was worth 20 billion last year, and it is estimated that there will be more this year!"

From last year to now, he has commissioned a personal butler to participate in our mini-auctions eight times, all of which are cigars. It seems that this year's Spring Festival auction of ours, there are a lot of things he likes, and he is going to come over to show his style, haha......"

I have to admire this kind of person, as the president of the Asia-Pacific region, he also knows everything well about what customers have participated in several auctions and bidd.

What's more, Wang Ye hadn't bid for any valuables before, he just came to shoot some cigars.

But on Jihad's watchlist, Wang Ye is already very high.

Because this kind of newly rich people, although they may not come to this kind of auction much in the first few years, they will inevitably become big customers of the auction in the future.

It's just that he didn't expect that Wang Ye would come over to play a big game this year.

The deposit was paid 100 million US dollars, and it seems that Wang Ye's goal is to direct the finale bid, and it is even possible to win both! In this way, this year's spring auction will really create a record high!

The two were happily watching the news, and two messages popped up on the computer in a row.

"The Hong Kong customer, Chow Tai Fook Jewellery Company, on behalf of Zhou Jin, transferred $50 million to Christie's margin account through HSBC!"

"Mainland customers, personal customers Lao Ma, through the Swiss Bank, transferred 50 million US dollars to Christie's special quotation account!"

Two messages in a row, both Jerhard and Richard were stunned.

Chow Tai Fook Jewellery, this is the company's appearance, it seems that their goal is clear, is one of the finale bids.

And the mainland Lao Ma, this is a well-known figure, and the founder and major shareholder of the mainland's largest e-commerce platform, although the company has not yet been listed, but it has long been worth a lot of money.

According to Jihad's analysis, Lao Ma's target should be the mansion!

He really didn't expect that this year's auction would end miserably, but on the last day, he was given such a few big surprises.

The two finale bids should all be successful in the bidding, so that the total auction turnover of this year is really possible to put a big satellite!

"It seems that these new rich people in the mainland have increased their spending power and desire to spend year by year, and we at Christie's will have to pay more attention to these mainland rich people in the future!" Jerhard thought to himself.