The auction soon came to an end.

Gu Biao had only raised his cards twice, bought a 100 million 5 mansion, tested a 10 million mansion, and then gave up as soon as he dipped it.

Kong's forcibly auctioned houses have all been sold, operating real estate and movable assets have also been sold, and finally it is the turn of some long-term value-preserving investments.

"The next lot, 3,000 cases of 1980 Bordeaux Château Lafite, delivery mode: original Cru storage ......"

"500 cases of 1981 vintage, Burgundy, DRC Cru red, each containing 1 bottle of Romanée-Conti ......"

"1,000 cases of 1981 vintage, Picardy-Champagne, Don Tingjie ......"

According to the order of vintage, the auctioneer auctioned the famous liquor investment products that Kong had held for a long time and used as additional collateral for the loan.

All the goods are just contracts and bills of lading, and then they are still sealed in the cellar - that is, the wine is still in France, and in the cellars of Château Lafite and Romanée Conti, there is no Xiangjiang.

This is also the proper meaning of the question, after all, they are only brewed for a short time, and it is not conducive to the formation of flavor if they are transported too early.

However, there is absolutely no need to doubt the liquidity of bills of lading. If it is a year with reduced production, there are more pre-sales, and finally when it is replaced by the actual bill of lading, it will be supplemented accordingly to negotiate, change, or refund the money. In short, the bills of lading sold at the auction are absolutely genuine.

Kong Shangzhong was the largest luxury merchant in Xiangjiang at the beginning, and he had strong channels, so he got the vast majority of the share that the French sold to the Xiangjiang market. For example, the annual output of Château Lafite is only 3 to 50,000 cases in six bottles, and what Kong Shangzhong is pinching here is equivalent to the entire East Asian and Southeast Asian markets, after removing himself, most of the share, can account for more than 5% of the production capacity of Lafite.

In addition to red wine, there are other things that can be held to add value.

But at least it has to be something that can be standardized for mass production - because banks are not pawnshops, they will not accept things that cannot be standardized as collateral for loans. So don't expect a lot of antique porcelain, celebrity calligraphy and paintings at one price on the compulsory auction of this kind of bank collateral.

However, as long as it is a standard thing, it can be mortgaged by the bank, and it will also be photographed.

Gu Biao even saw Pu'er tea, which was specially supplied by some state-owned factories in some inland Yunnan Province in the late 60s, and he didn't know where Kong Shangzhong came from, with a total amount of about tens of thousands of cakes.

However, this guy obviously hasn't figured out how to fry the concept of Pu'er, and just put it there as a shotgun investment. In terms of the current situation that no one in the world appreciates Pu'er, these teas are as cheap as weeds compared to those red wines.

Rao is auctioneer tried his best to say how good these teas are, which is considered a top-level special supply in the mainland, and can only be fried for a few tens of Hong Kong dollars a cake before the rich businessmen present are willing to take over.

Gu Biao watched for a while, made a timely move, and grabbed most of the inventory, which cost less than 1 million Hong Kong dollars, about 20,000 or 30,000 cakes.

And the process of this and that goods is not offensive at all, Gu Biao raised the card, and no one grabbed it at all.

It's not that I didn't dare to grab it when I photographed a luxury house just now, but I really couldn't see the value potential and didn't want to rob it.

Everyone thinks that this price is deserved, because during the indescribable period of ten years, even if it is specially supplied to the highest level of Longjing in the mainland, it is only 32 yuan a catty, and it has not changed for ten years - 5 years ago, when the 414 guest house in Hujiang was just asked by the great man to open to the outside world, it was still selling at this price.

In the past few years, I gradually found that the planned price of the year was low, and it rose a little bit every year.

But in the values of the Xiangjiang people in the 80s, Longjing is definitely a much better tea than Pu'er, and Pu'er is only two taels of "cake", less than a catty, and selling it for dozens of Hong Kong dollars a catty is already the sky.

The reason why Pu'er is expensive in later generations is nothing more than because this is over-fermented tea, that is, black tea, black tea is "old" as the price, the older the fermentation, the heavier and more mellow, collectors are willing to spend media resources to hype-

Because, Chen's things will only become less and less, and they cannot be resurrected, and you can only speculate after hoarding goods and then hyping them.

And new things are endless, and no one can fry green tea like Longjing. Green tea is expensive to new tea, collectors spend a lot of effort to fry the concept of value, next year the tea farmers grow more than you sell more money, the benefit is the farmers, who will fry it.

Even if Gu Biao buys it, he won't fry it, it's a big deal to ask how to store it, and store it like a wine cellar for red wine.

If someone fries in the future, he will release it to disgust those fried dogs, and make a profit by the way, if no one fries, it's nothing, anyway, it's hundreds of thousands, and it's a fart.

What he really cares about is the red wine that will be released year by year.

The 80 and 81 wines sold out quickly.

The next one came up first, first last year's Romanée Conti, and Gu Biao continued to let it go.

Then it was last year's Lafite, which was smaller than in other years, with only 1,000 boxes, about half to two-thirds of the contract.

"Last year's Château Lafite, 1,000 cases, the average price of each case starts at $1,000, and you can quote in batches of 100 cases. The auctioneer introduced the lots.

There are still some people in the circle who don't know much about red wine, and when they first heard the starting price, they were still wondering why it was more expensive than the year before and the year before - in the previous year, the cheapest time was Lafite was $600 a case, that is, the reserve price was only $100 per bottle.

They don't understand why wine doesn't apply to the principle that "the older the vintage, the more expensive it is".

The auctioneer could only explain: "Please note that last year's climatic conditions in France led to a serious reduction in Bordeaux grape production. However, experts say that this reduction in production is a reduction in quality, and the quality of the wine is definitely better than the previous year......"

Some knowledgeable wealthy businessmen secretly hate auctioneers for having a lot of things to do.

If you don't beep these and let the layman continue to be a layman, there will be many fewer competitors.

Looking at it now, if it is really high, it is not worth chasing up.

Everyone was still making careful calculations, but Gu Biao, who had been silent, made a quick move: "$1,200 per box, all for it." ”

Everyone was in high spirits, and the auctioneer also encouragedly declared: "1,200 US dollars once, Gu Sheng saw the scarcity and appreciation space of Lafite last year, and his vision is very good." Who else is going to follow?"

"Gu Sheng, are you very optimistic about this year's wine? With all due respect, these are the words of experts who have received money to speculate, and they may not be believed. Miss He, who was sitting next to Gu Biao, analyzed and dissuaded in a low voice,

"What kind of discipline can these collectors and colluding experts have? As long as they know that something is scarce, they will come up with a good gimmick. Last year's Tibetan wine, how many people in the world really drank it immediately, aren't they all hiding there waiting to see the price?

Kong Shangzhong has only monopolized the channel of Southeast Asia's top luxury red wine for more than ten years, so he smashed this book and entrusted this favor, and he had to take Lafite's share. If you don't plan to get involved in the luxury industry, if you don't want to stand up, you can't do it. ”

What she said is indeed reasonable, the so-called 82-year-old Lafite can really drink better than 81 and 83? Not necessarily. The current situation does not see such an obvious difference in appreciation space in the future.

But Gu Biao knows that the hundreds of thousands of yuan a bottle of Lafite opened in China in later generations were all from the mid-to-late 80s, and definitely not from 82, even if it is said that it is fake.

The theoretical value of 82 years can be increased several times, but unfortunately it has long been drunk, or although there is, it cannot prove that it is "inherited in an orderly manner".

Even the red wine of a specific year can be said to be "inherited in an orderly manner" just like the authentic calligraphy and painting of celebrities, and this industry is so wonderful. Gu Biao really didn't want to play deeply, just picked up a leak.

The auctioneer shouted once, perhaps because he felt that the target could be unpacked and bid this time, so as not to offend people, and two people bid: "$1,300, 500 boxes." ”

"$1300, 200 boxes. ”

Then no one shouted the price, maybe everyone thinks that people like Gu Biao, who rarely make a move, still have to give face, why do they have to leave 3 pieces for Gu Biao, they can't be divided, or wait for Gu Biao to go back.

This is also testing Gu Wei's determination: whether Gu Sheng wants to pick up the leak again, or is he determined to win, and no one is allowed to divide the meat at all.

Gu Biao spent 30 seconds looking around the audience, during which he waited for the auctioneer to shout "$1,300 twice" before he fought back again:

"$1,500, all in one. ”

Or all of them.

Gu Biao's determination was tested.

Not only did he want to pick up the leaks, but at least he wanted to take the lion's share, and someone wanted to share half with him, which angered him.

After this time, there was no noise from anyone, and most of the competition was extinguished in an instant. When the auctioneer shouted "the second time", there was a charter king and Boss Zheng, who each took 100 boxes and 1,600 US dollars.

Gu Biao still looked at the audience coldly, only 20% of the inventory, others wanted to try it, he could still accept it.

Previously, he could only add $100 per box at a time, or even less, but he still chose to add 200 directly, which was also to deter competitors. He can't rely on deterrence all night, and occasionally he has to rely on financial resources, both civil and military.

"$1,600 for 3 times! Congratulations to the charter king and boss Zheng, who each won 100 boxes of 82-year-old Lafite at a unit price of $1,600 per box. Congratulations to Gu Sheng for auctioning the remaining 800 boxes at a price of $1,500. ”

The auctioneer finally dropped the hammer, and Gu Biao eventually had to pay $1.2 million for the collection.

If this money is considered to be in absolute terms, it is less than 20% of the manor he just bought, but Gu Biao knows that the total value of this batch of collections after appreciation in the future can definitely be as good as the value of the manor he bought.

His manor in Baijiadao has risen 30 times in 30 years, but this batch of Lafite can increase by more than 100 times.

If he could, Gu Biao also wanted to buy more, but this year's production of Lafite was indeed too low, less than 20,000 boxes in the world, and about 3,000 in Asia, and what Gu Biao was holding in his hands was already a quarter of Lafite's in Asia, and 5% of the world's production capacity.

Xiangjiang, a small land, can only squeeze out so much by relying on the number one luxury giant Kong's. Even if Gu Biao himself knew in advance that last year's Lafite would be awesome, he had no channels and connections all year round, and he couldn't buy it directly if he wanted to buy it with money, and the other party would only compensate him for liquidated damages for insufficient production capacity and return the goods.

So, now it's the best outcome. bought it in the name of bank collateral, Kong Shangzhong actually didn't earn anything, he just took his favor and face, and worked for Gu Biao, which is very good.

Soon after, the auction ended.

Those who didn't get anything good, or were frightened by Gu Biao, began to inquire whether they had missed any inside information before, or had left out any evidence that was enough to prove Gu Ao's murderous reputation.