At nine o'clock in the morning, the auction started on time. Pen, fun, and www.biquge.info

Christie's chief auctioneer in Paris, Ramsey Steel, walked in, and after adjusting the microphone, he looked around at the crowd, greeted them politely, and then introduced the rules.

After finishing, he cleared his throat and said: "Ladies and gentlemen, this auction will auction a total of 23 items, you can bid freely, the last bidder, if there is no higher bid within a minute after the bidding, will get the right to claim the lot, the seller who has the right to claim, after paying various fees in the auction hall and going through the formalities, can take the lot."

In order to ensure the safety of the sellers, we specially contacted the police detachment of the 4th district and sent a group of police to maintain law and order, so you don't have to worry about safety!"

Security in Paris has always been bad, and that's something everyone knows.

The so-called wealth is not exposed, this kind of thing everyone understands, for ordinary auction items, if the price is not high, it is nothing, others will not take risks, because there is no need, but for the kind of very expensive things, once the seller gets it, the possibility of being remembered is very large.

After all, this is in Paris, this is in France, and there is a red light district...... Oh no, it's the presence of mercenaries!

So the people who are there to bid with them are likely to threaten their safety.

And it is precisely for this reason that every time there is an auction, the auction house will not only raise its own security level, but also invite the police to take care of the security, these police are paid to take care of the security, in France, in order to reduce financial expenditure, there is a service that the government pays to hire the police, just like paying for bodyguards, such a service is very practical for those who are rich.

But of course, the dirty work has to rely on mercenaries.

The reaction of everyone in the audience was mixed, which Ramsey has already seen a lot.

"Alright, now the auction of our first item, the sword of the Duke of Reims, this is a two-handed sword, weighing 7.2 kilograms, made of pure steel, made in 1523, and its merits are ......"

Europe is the region with the most cultural relics in the world, although their own civilization is not long, there are basically no cultural relics before the Middle Ages, and in a place where even clay pots can't be fired, how many things can be expected from them?

But their weapons and armies solved this problem for them, and in the Age of Discovery, the Spaniards, the Dutch, the British, and the French took turns to rob countless gold and silver treasures from all over the world, and in addition to the hard currency of gold and silver treasures, they also plundered a lot of cultural relics, and some of the cultural relics were plundered in a rough process.

Some large cultural relics are not easy to carry and transport, so they often grab the most formal parts of them, such as heads, gems, pearls, and so on!

Like the twelve bronze heads of the Old Summer Palace, they were cut down and taken away.

After these things were brought back to France, they became the private property of those soldiers and generals, who sold these things at will, many of them were ruined and destroyed, and those that survived, with the loss of time, became less and less, most of them fell into the hands of collectors, and many were sent to auction houses and sold on the market because of the collectors' emergencies.

Often, every time this kind of auction of cultural relics plundered from other countries will arouse strong condemnation and dissatisfaction from other countries, but Western countries turn a deaf ear to this, standing on the moral high ground, waving the banner of democracy and freedom, they can arbitrarily criticize others, but for other people's accusations, but do not pay attention to other people's accusations, slandering other countries can be said to be freedom of speech, others accuse them, but they say that others are nationalist, double standards play slippery!

Occasionally, however, they would auction off some local European artifacts, but there were not many of them.

The first few auction items Yuris was not interested, he had a lot of them in his house, not to mention a duke's sword, and even Louis XIV's sword.

The aristocratic saber was a one-handed sword, and its weight and size were actually inferior to the two-handed greatsword used by the knights, and the longsword Yuris could not move, but this did not prevent him from liking the larger sabers.

"Okay, the things we're going to auction now aren't relics, but they're worth no less than what we auctioned before......"

Ramsey was talking on the stage, Yuris also sat up a little straighter, and the others also adjusted their sitting postures, they knew in their hearts that it was now the final stage of the auction, and the good things in the auction house were basically coming out now.

"These are five fine mahogany, the age of the mahogany is more than 2000 years, all of them have been mined in the last month, the diameter of the tree is more than one meter, because the real thing is too large, so we only brought one up, you can see the relevant pictures of these things through the video on the screen!"

There is a special boom on the distribution hall, which is carefully lifted under the control of dozens of workers, and then sent to the freight trailer and sent to the booth.

"It's so big, it's really rare!"

"It's the first time I've seen such a big mahogany!"

"Is this really 2,000 years old?"

After this mahogany appeared, everyone talked about it, and it was obvious that this thing was indeed very shocking, and what they heard and what they saw actually felt very different.

After seeing the true appearance of this mahogany, many buyers began to become cramped, staring directly at the wood on the stage, their eyes were like beasts protecting food, their eyes were full of vigilance and desire to possess.

Yuris glanced around and snorted.

These rosewoods are their own, and no one wants to snatch them!

But he was also a little surprised, even if it is one, it is very difficult to take out such a mahogany, I don't know how Christie's auction house got five?

Ramsey on stage is still explaining the points and value of mahogany, which is also a common practice, after all, before the official start of bidding, everyone must know what they are going to buy and where the value is?

"Everyone, please be quiet, we have completed the introduction of these mahogany, and now we will move on to the next mitigation, that is, the bidding ease, five mahogany over 2000 years old, each with a starting price of 4 million euros, and each increase shall not be less than 10,000 euros, and now you can start bidding!"

"5 million euros!"