It is said that in the modern Western auction - the so-called "modern times" here refers to the era when those nobles such as dukes and counts were still very good and fought as hard as the capitalists, that is, in the 19th century, nobles with status and dignity would not personally go to the auction to raise their cards.

Because it's too fishy.

The big guys all asked the spokesperson who ran errands to help raise a sign to bid, and at most they went to the box to watch.

If Gu Biao was just to buy something, there was no need to ask Kissinger to take an extra two days off and take a weekend off to make a 30,000-kilometer round-trip voyage in person.

Therefore, he came this time, not only to show off his money, but also to take over for HSBC to do charity.

If you just show off your money, you can find an agent to sell it, and you won't miss a thing.

What he wants is money and muscles to sell together.

The premise of all this is that Han Ting wants to help him inquire about as much information as possible in the circle in advance, such as knowing how many people will be present at this wave of auctions on the weekend, whether there will be anyone to disrupt the situation, and who can be used to deter him.

For example, if some of the lots were already known to be wanted by the super-rich merchants from Brittany, it would be impossible for them to be won at a low price by the united front. However, if some of the lots are only notified to wealthy Hong Kong businessmen, and they do not think of finding outsiders to win the lot, and there are not many people in Hong Kong who can take the deal, they can mediate a little.

The auction doesn't officially start until the weekend, so all day on Friday, Gu Biao can visit a lot of friends.

However, considering that Gu Biao has no excuses for other businesses, his only business in Xiangjiang now is still in the entertainment industry, so he had to borrow Sir Shao to convene again.

After being sent to Yau Ma Tei's apartment by Han Ting, it was not yet noon, so Gu Biao called Sir Shao first.

"Sixth uncle, can you borrow the banquet hall in the house tonight, and gather a few stars in the film and television industry to accompany you, I want to meet a few guests. In the name, let's just say that I talked to you about co-producing TV series, and there are many stars, please have a good time. ”

Sir Shao received Gu Ao's care, and he was also slightly shocked in his heart.

Kong Shangzhong's accident, worth tens of billions of Hong Kong dollars, depreciated by one-third in half a month, such a sensational news still shocked other Hong Kong tycoons.

Although judging from the information currently public, this matter is that the Argentines themselves want to wash their tickets internally, and the things they have done have been hardened by the Americans, and it should have nothing to do with Chinese capital.

However, the inside story of the mysterious power is still believed to exist rather than to be believed.

Gu Biao returned to Xiangjiang at this juncture, and also put on a reaper's posture, which has to be reminiscent of the energy behind it.

If you can find out more information, let's find out.

Sir Shao thought about it like this, and immediately agreed very politely: "No problem, the virtuous nephew is willing to come to the mansion to feast guests, just to save face for the foolish uncle." Do you have any special guests you'd like to invite?"

Gu Biao: "Thank you so much, you don't need too many people, less than a dozen, it's the same." ”

After hanging up the phone, Gu Biao first had some lunch at home, and then confessed to Han Ting and discussed it all afternoon.

Take a shower and change into a banquet suit, and go to the banquet early.

……

In the evening, Baijiadao Shaofu.

In Xiangjiang in December, it was dark relatively early, and the afterglow of the sunset had not completely faded at this moment, and the time was obviously only more than four o'clock in the afternoon.

The bigwigs from all walks of life, usually attend the banquet, and they all arrive relatively late - when the organizer makes an appointment, he will make an appointment quite late, such as starting at 6 o'clock.

Today, Sir Shao originally made an appointment for everyone at 6 o'clock, but he couldn't help everyone to come early.

Piles of rich businessmen, whispering there.

Boss Guo of Hongkai Properties is now on a par with the Huang Li family in the real estate business, which is also the top three real estate giants in Hong Kong.

In addition to the company's properties, the family's non-operating holdings of real estate in North America alone are worth hundreds of millions of dollars - that is, it is equivalent to two or three percent of the entire Vancouver real estate market that Gu Biao and Huo's jointly speculated this time.

However, at this moment, Boss Guo was on the sidelines, eager to exchange information with Boss Zheng, a luxury and jewelry tycoon.

Boss Zheng is not inferior to Kong Shangzhong in terms of jewelry, luxury goods and shopping mall real estate. It's nothing more than Boss Zheng's background is Chinese-owned, and Kong Shangzhong is British-funded and Taikoo-based.

Now, the old peers who have been competing for many years have been destroyed by mysterious forces overnight, and Boss Zheng actually has a sense of sadness about the death of a rabbit and a dead fox, and a dead rabbit and a dead dog. If you don't figure out the truth, you feel a chill down your spine.

"Eh, you said that Gu Biao didn't really have so much influence in the American diplomatic community because he was Kissinger's close disciple, right?" Boss Guo speculated.

According to my information, Kissinger has accepted twenty or thirty graduate students in Georgetown over the years, and among them, there are high-ranking princes of various countries and sons of prime ministers.

The most important is also the son of a financial chaebol and an industrial magnate and a foreign ambassador. Even if Gu Wei is a closed disciple, the Chinese blood is there, and his background is not noble, so he won't let Professor Ji support him so much, right?"

Boss Guo retorted: "However, my intelligence shows that in Watsington a while ago, the current national security adviser to the President of the United States, a staff member named William Clark, had a close relationship with Gu Biao and seemed to be very close."

I have a friend who had the privilege of attending two important meetings in Watston at the end of last month, and judging from the performance of the banquet after the meeting, it is not an exaggeration to say that Clarke's adviser has a superficial attitude towards Gu Biao. I always feel that there is a mysterious power behind Gu Biao that cannot be explained. ”

It is not surprising that wealthy businessmen with hundreds of millions of dollars worth of real estate in the United States and Canada have a few friends who can attend such top gatherings in Washengton's circles.

So the audience accepted the reliability of Boss Guo's statement.

A wealthy businessman who had just been audited by a third party next to him also joined the discussion when he heard the words.

"Big brother said this very much, so I remembered a recent incident—"

The speaker was a middle-aged man in his 50s, and Guo and Zheng followed their prestige and found out that it was another Guo boss - a Malaysian real estate tycoon, also surnamed Guo, but who lived in Hong Kong all the year round to preside over business. Moreover, they are focused on hotel real estate, known as the king of hotels in Southeast Asia, and their positioning is between Boss Guo and Boss Zheng, and there is no conflict between each other.

This Xiao Guo Boss has no blood relationship with Boss Guo of Hongkai Real Estate, but the relationship is not bad, because the same surname is considered to be the family, and he usually calls Boss Guo "big brother" in private, and people who don't know still think that their friendship is really so affectionate.

"What is the opinion of the virtuous brother?" Boss Da Guo and Boss Zheng asked for advice very humbly.

Boss Xiao Guo cleared his throat and analyzed: "I have always heard that former US Secretary of State Haig, after stepping down in April, transferred to the director of AOL and UTC, responsible for external public relations. Soon after, it was rumored that Haig wanted to expand UTC's exports to China and cooperate with other businesses for the new owner......

It's a pity that at that time, the high-level and the Ba Barrel in the United States still had some doubts about this matter, and many things were stuck, and Pratt & Whitney's fighter engines were absolutely not allowed to be sold, and it was impossible to outsource spare parts technology. In the end, when I got to the national security adviser, the consultant's opinion was only to approve the Otis elevator company under UTC, which can cooperate with China and build a joint venture factory, because the technology is not sensitive. And Pratt & Whitney, an engine manufacturer, don't even think about it.

However, recently I heard that this matter has been loosened again, and perhaps at the beginning of next year, Director Heyg will visit China, not only to talk about the establishment of Otis Elevator in China, but also to open an opening for the introduction of cooperation in Pratt & Whitney's business——

If it is as the eldest brother just said, this Gu Biao can really let William Clarke's advisers speak for him and help him repay the favor of the former secretary of state of Haig, this matter will be easy to explain. ”

Boss Zheng was shocked when he heard this: "In this way, isn't Gu Biao his friend from the former secretary of state to the current national security adviser, and he is also very talkative? In addition, he also has a secretary of state who was in the limelight in the first two terms as a mentor, and he is simply like a fish in water in the foreign affairs decision-making circle of the United States! This son is so terrifying?!"

They have made up their brains, and they have already made up Gu Biao's ability to instigate and imperceptibly imply that Li Gen has used force against a small country.

Although this kind of brain supplement is a bit too forceful, it is obviously a symptom of the attack of victimization paranoia.

……

"Gu Shenghao, please inside. The welcome of the Shao Mansion shouted softly, and then personally led Gu Biao inside.

Obviously, it was Gu Biao who came to the banquet.

His appearance made the arena slightly quiet for a while, and everyone's eyes were on it.

At tonight's dinner, Shaw Brothers arranged for many of its artists to accompany them. And the artist who led Gu Biao was also a very popular TV actress in the past few years, named Wang Mingquan.

The Shaw Brothers asked the female star to be a welcome to Gu Biao, which was a very polite courtesy, and when other wealthy businessmen came, the people who greeted them had not yet reached this level.

This is a senior actress who has passed the age of 35, and her popularity has gradually declined this year, and she is no longer as good as the newly rising Zhao Yazhi, and her appearance is indeed far inferior to Zhao Yazhi, so future audiences may not be familiar with it.

However, people have been Zheng Shaoqiu's golden partner for ten years, and they have played a lot of dramas, and their status in the rivers and lakes is still there, and last year they also filmed "Thousands of Rivers, Thousands of Mountains, Always Love" - Wang Mingquan and Zhao Yazhi's coffee position comparison is roughly equivalent to the correspondence between Zheng Shaoqiu and Zhou Runfa. Zhou Yunfa started by filming "Zheng Shaoqiu's drama that he didn't dare to shoot because he was busy and afraid of being banned by Wanwan" 3 years ago.

However, Shaw Brothers arranged it like this, but it would not make other wealthy businessmen feel that their treatment was overpowered by Gu Biao, and they could all understand it.

Because of this, Wang Mingquan is very difficult to mix up now - in September, because in the diplomatic negotiations between China and Burkina, she stood up for the Chinese side ceremoniously on a certain occasion, and then she was blocked by Wanwan, and sent a note to the Shaw Brothers side, and from now on, all the scenes she filmed will not be allowed to be introduced into the Wanwan market.

So the embarrassing situation faced by Wang Mingquan is the same as that of Andy Lau and Leung Jiahui. The Shaw Brothers asked a person who had no future in Wanwan to greet the wealthy businessmen on the mainland, which could be regarded as making the best use of his attitude and being very shrewd.

"It seems that this Gu Biao is working against the relevant departments of Wanwan Film and Television Supervision, and the people who are banned by Wanwan can exert their residual heat when they go to the mainland. The rich businessmen secretly wondered in their hearts.