Chapter 145: Fortune is a game of wolves and tigers!

Walk into the Magic City Global Center Building.

Xi Ming looked at the rich people in suits and leather shoes who entered and exited this building, all of them looked like gentlemen, and he knew that under those glamorous appearances, they were actually bloodthirsty wolves.

Devour human bones without blinking.

The truth of this world is that the rich get richer and the poor get poorer.

It's a brutal world with a brutal wealth gap, with eight of the world's richest super-rich people owning as much wealth as the poorer half of the world's population, the 3.6 billion people combined.

That is, the wealth of eight people is the sum of the wealth of those 3.6 billion people.

If this doesn't shock you, here is another statistic: since 2015, the richest 1% of the world's population has owned more wealth than the rest of the world combined.

Among the 1,810 billionaires on the Forbes list in 2016, they have a combined wealth of $6.5 trillion, equivalent to the combined wealth of the bottom 70% of the world's wealth.

Wealth is concentrated in a few.

These few include billionaires who have made billions of dollars on their own, including founders of companies, CEOs of top public companies, and the sports and entertainment industry's obviouss, as well as a group of legacy inheritors.

The nouveau riche and the old rich unite to form the privileged 1% of this world.

Corporate tax avoidance, lowering employee wages, influencing policies, super-shareholder capitalism, crony capitalism...... are exacerbating the concentration of wealth to fewer people.

The world is experiencing a dramatic acceleration of the predation of the poor by the first rich.

Many people have a disgraceful first pot of gold, and once their wealth is accumulated or acquired, it can generate its own motivation: for example, the super-rich have the financial means to buy the best investment advice.

Therefore, the rich always say that the first 100 million is the hardest, and the second 100 million is much easier.

The wealth controlled by the super-rich has always grown at an annual rate of 11%. This accumulation rate is far beyond the reach of ordinary savers.

Whether it's hedge funds or warehouses full of art and vintage cars, real estate, etc., the highly secretive asset management industry has a long and successful track record of growing the wealth of the super-rich.

In Huaxia.

After more than 20 years of economic waves and ideological transformation, some of the people who got rich first used various resources after they got rich to form their own interest groups and accelerated the plundering of the wealth in the hands of low-income people, such as the skyrocketing real estate is the most typical example.

The group of people who became rich first became real estate developers, real estate agents or related interest groups, and real estate speculators, and the reason why they became super-rich is that they are a vicious bloodthirsty force in this game of real estate plundering wealth.

The property speculators are profit-seeking, they fully embody the market economy, and there are no tears in Moscow.

Speculate on housing prices and plunder the savings of the poor.

In the stock market, the market makers devour the small scatters, and the professional stock speculators are all capital giants, devouring the wealth of countless small shareholders.

There are also coal bosses who got rich first, they are all rich wolves, tigers and leopards, and it is a joke in their eyes that they bring the workers in the coal mine together to take the road of common prosperity, and it is already merciful enough not to push them down the deeper and darker coal mines, but to bring them more is to let the workers go to Huangquan together.

As for the many interest groups that have formed partial monopolies, they are vigorously safeguarding and expanding their own interests.

It is very difficult for the poor to enter the circle of their interest groups.

Now Xi Ming has entered this circle with a lot of wealth earned by the prophet, and he wants to play a wealth game with such a group of tigers, leopards and wolves.

The auction of Ronggu villas is the highlight of the autumn auction in Shanghai.

Among them, Sotheby's Hong Kong achieved a total turnover of more than HK$3.15 billion, with an overall turnover rate of 86%, an increase of 43.1%; Guardian Hong Kong's autumn auction this year sold a total of HK$652.6 million, creating its highest total turnover in the past season; Poly Hong Kong Autumn Auction also set a record high of HK$1.808 billion in a single season's auction; and Kuangshi Hong Kong Autumn Auction also closed with a total turnover of HK$260 million.

Hong Kong's autumn auctions are one step ahead of the mainland.

In the autumn auction of Shanghai, Ronggu Villa is a boutique drama of the bridgehead auction house.

After entering the Magic City Global Center Building, there are special staff members to guide you.

"We are here to participate in the auction of the bridgehead Ronggu villa. “

"Welcome. ”

"Hello Mr. and Madam, participating in the auction of Ronggu Villa is either rich or expensive, so we have a threshold, and we need you to raise the proof of more than 100 million assets first. "Because we have so many customers, we need asset verification, which is really embarrassing. ”

After Liu Yanyan showed the materials prepared in advance to the staff in the work building, they were ushered into the auction hall on the 88th floor by a beautiful female staff.

The staff is dressed in a red cheongsam, and the figure is bumpy and convex, just that back can make ordinary men think about it.

As soon as you enter the bridgehead auction hall, the huge space inside appears in front of you.

The auction hall is huge, and the pillars of the building are wrapped in golden dragon-shaped columns.

The noise was overwhelming.

"There are so many people! Isn't it 100 million assets? Why are there so many!" someone sighed.

Since the reform and opening up of Chinese mainland, a large number of rich people have rapidly risen through various means of crossing the sea, they not only love European and American rich people to raise famous horses, buy airplanes, and race luxury cars, but some rich people are also keen to visit auctions.

So there are a lot of people.

That is, from time to time, these people make and shoot a landscape painting for hundreds of millions, and the porcelain is for tens of millions.

This auction house has a small table with a huge silver screen behind it.

At this moment, a woman in a suit and uniform on the stage is trying to silence everyone.

When the cheongsam woman left, she gave Xi Ming and Liu Yanyan a number, and this is the number of the sign.

Xi Ming, Liu Yanyan and the others found a relatively remote position.

They sat down quietly.

Xi Ming's gaze moved throughout the auction hall, and there were several special areas, which seemed to be the VIP area of the auction house, where some of the most powerful celebrities, the super-rich.

Xi Ming saw a few "acquaintances", all of whom were common celebrities in the magic capital on TV, such as Yang Million, Guan Jinjin, Jiang Nanchun of Focus Media, and the Liu family.

When he saw Shi Yuzhu, Xi Ming was surprised, he actually came.

In addition to Shi Yuzhu's bald head, there was also a bald head that suddenly appeared in Xi Ming's field of vision, and Huang Guangyu also came!

That is a strange person, bald head, square face, big ears, small eyes, like a smile and mighty, like Sima Yi's "eagle and wolf Gu", to put it more idealistically: Huang Guangyu This person has a heroic appearance!

Back then, when Huang Guangyu was in charge of China's retail industry, the word he felt the most was probably lonely!

In the five years from 2004 to 2008, he won the Hurun Report list as the richest man in the mainland three times, and in 2006, he became the richest man in the mainland on the Forbes list!

He was detained in 2008 and then, according to various sources, he was still in prison directing a vast business empire. Nine years in prison.

The most recent news is that in March 2017, Huang Guangyu and his wife bought a 14,000-square-foot townhouse on East 76th Street in New York, valued at $41.5 million, or 250 million yuan.

Unexpectedly, he also fell in love with Gulangyu Ronggu Villa......

This time, the king of villas is really eyed by many people.