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Chapter 774: The Unity of the Chinese Rich

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This time, without the signal of the person in charge of Christie's auction, the auctioneer had already taken the initiative to say: "In 1860, the Second Opium War broke out, and the British and French forces captured the capital of the Qing Empire, and ransacked and burned the ...... of the Old Summer Palace!"

However, his unscrupulous publicity for the auction obviously angered all the rich Chinese people present!

"Okay, you don't need to say it anymore, we know the history of China better than you, we won't auction these two beast heads of the Old Summer Palace, there was already a shame more than a hundred years ago, we don't want it to be sold again!" A half-hundred-year-old man with gray hair and wearing a Chinese-style cardigan coat interrupted the auctioneer's words, and said with a stern expression.

"That's right, we don't want the 12 zodiac beast heads of the Old Summer Palace this time, let's take them down!" a young man in his early 30s in a suit and leather shoes stood up and echoed loudly.

"What Elder Wang means is what we mean by the Chinese General Chamber of Commerce in the United States, no one will shoot the head of the pig and the head of the tiger!" a middle-aged man who was also wearing a suit stood up and said solemnly.

"Who do you think you are, and you Chinese are not the only ones participating in Christie's auctions, why can't we auction them!" Charles Kushner suddenly said loudly.

Because he couldn't get used to Liu Dong's relationship, he didn't even have a good impression of the Chinese of the same clan and clan as Liu Dong.

But before he could finish speaking, the middle-aged man who had spoken on behalf of the Chinese American Chamber of Commerce had already turned his head and said coldly, "You try it again?"

"...... me?"

Charles Kushner was just about to speak, but suddenly he found that he didn't know when. Almost all the wealthy Chinese in the entire auction hall have all stood up. And at the same time, they all have strict faces. His eyes stared at him coldly!

"This idiot, the Kushner family's estate is in his hands, and it's not far from being finished!" Steven Rockefeller said coldly.

Don't look at China, which lost its position as the world's economic and cultural center hundreds of years ago, but the influence of the Chinese in the world has not diminished, but has become more powerful with the rise of contemporary China!

Moreover, in terms of the ability to get rich through hard work, the Chinese are not inferior to the Jews, otherwise Hong Kong and Singapore, which are just a small land, would not have given birth to so many Chinese super-rich!

In the United States. Although the wealth of a single Chinese billionaire or family is not top-notch, there are definitely quite a few of them, and if they join forces, even Morgan and Rockefeller will have to retreat! Not to mention the Kushner family, whose assets do not exceed $3 billion!

"This stupid guy, it seems that he really needs to teach him another lesson if he has a chance!" Liu Dong, who stood with his arms crossed, stared at Charles Kushner with a cold expression, and said secretly in his heart.

However, Charles Kushner's incident was just a small episode, and no matter how stupid he was, he knew that confronting so many Chinese billionaires was tantamount to asking for trouble, so even if he was lost, he didn't dare to say a word and sat down.

And other rich people in the auction hall. They know more or less about Chinese history, so they don't say anything in the face of this situation. After all, this is about the humiliating history of other countries, as long as it is not brain-dead, no one will stand up against it at this time!

You know, this is not a matter of offending one person, but of offending a group and a country!

Faced with the joint efforts of more than 30 Chinese tycoons, Christie's, which encountered this situation for the first time, hurriedly removed the two animal heads after urgent discussion.

Chinese art has always been the best-selling auction item at Christie's, offending more and more wealthy Chinese tycoons who are becoming more and more financially powerful, what money will they make in the future!

Moreover, Christie's auction houses are now considering entering the Chinese market, and if today's events leave any bad impression on the increasingly powerful Chinese government, then they should not want to enter Chinese mainland.

The increase in the strength of the country has slowly changed many things that were not too concerned about at the beginning.

This kind of change is especially felt by Chinese people abroad!

"Now let's look at the fourth lot......!"

Because of the incident just now, the atmosphere in the auction hall was obviously much more depressed, so the twelve lots worth more than one million dollars prepared by Christie's auction house in the morning were basically sold at or below the market price!

And after the 12 zodiac animal heads in the Old Summer Palace were forced to fail the auction by the Chinese tycoons present, Liu Dong's money in his hands was no longer kept, and finally at the end of the morning auction, Liu Dong spent 2.38 million US dollars to auction the "Chaoyuan Immortal Battle Picture Scroll" by the great painter Wu Zongyuan of the Northern Song Dynasty!

Wu Zongyuan is a native of the Northern Song Dynasty, good at painting Taoist figures, and has made a large number of murals for the temples of Kai-Feng and Luo-Yang. Shi Wu Daozi method, the pen is like flowing water, the spirit is active, about the same as writing cursive, and the pen is fine. When he was seventeen years old, he was able to paint the murals of the Laozi Temple in Beibi Mountain, which was quite "exquisite".

During the period of Zhao Hengjingde of Song Zhenzong, in order to build the Zhaoying Palace of Yuqing, 3,000 painters from all over the world were summoned, of which there were only more than 100 painters who were selected, divided into two parts, Wu Zongyuan served as the head of the left part, which shows the superb painting skills.

And his hand-me-down work "Chaoyuan Immortal Battle Map" volume, silk, ink pen, 58 cm long, 777.5 cm wide, dignified and plump, demeanor and manners, extraordinary weather, no money seal, is a manuscript of a Taoist mural, the painting is the Taoist emperor, the gods and immortals of the Yuan Shi Tianzun battle ranks, a total of 81 people, the characters are radiant, the clothes are fluttering, the lines are sparse and dense, and the strength is smooth. At the back of the volume, there is an inscription by Zhang Zimin in the eighth year of the Southern Song Dynasty, and there is an inscription by Zhao Mengfu in the Yuan Dynasty!

In the face of this thousand-year-old ancient painting, and it is also a large-scale masterpiece, Liu Dong originally thought that it would take a lot of effort to win it, but he didn't expect to buy it at a price of more than 2 million US dollars and more than 20 million Chinese coins!

Although this price is not cheap compared to an ancient painting of the Song Dynasty, Liu Dong thinks that he is already a great value!

However, Liu Dong is not without regrets, originally after the Twelve Beast Heads of the Old Summer Palace, he still wanted to compete for the final finale of Vincent Van Gogh's famous painting "Orville Town Hall"!

But I don't know who made a phone call to bid and directly raised the price to a super high price of 90 million US dollars, which not only suppressed the super-rich in the auction hall, but also made Liu Dong sigh.

Excluding the $100 million paid for Zhang Fan's acquisition of New Line Films and investment in the stock market and futures, as well as the artworks he bought earlier, the money in Liu Dong's pocket adds up to less than $80 million!

Faced with "Orville Town Hall", which has been ranked as one of the "ten most valuable oil paintings in the world", Liu Dong is really powerless.

But fortunately, on the last day of this high-quality gathering, Liu Dong was not completely fruitless!

John Constable, a member of the Royal Academy of Arts and one of the greatest British landscape painters of the 19th century, bought the Unveiling of the Waterloo Bridge for $21 million!

In addition, the Shang Dynasty bronze animal face pattern Fang Yi that cost $950,000, the Ming Dynasty imperial kiln 'Yipin Palace porcelain' Xuande blue and white dragon jar that cost $2.8 million, and the Yuan Dynasty calligraphy master Xian Yushu's "Lao Tzu Tao Te Ching" authentic work for $1.2 million!

However, while buying these precious works of art, the money in Liu Dong's pocket has also shrunk from the initial 220 million US dollars to the current 60 million!

However, as a direct consequence of spending $60 million at Christie's auctions, Liu Dong directly became a platinum member of Christie's, and could participate in any Christie's auction by phone from anywhere in the world, and could participate in the social reception organized by Christie's every year!

But these are all meaningless things in Liu Dong's eyes, and although Christie's auction is good, even without this card, with his wealth, this kind of opportunity is just a 'call to come and go' thing.

As for the social reception organized by Christie's, even if he is invited, Liu Dong may not have time!

In general, these benefits are not as good as a nine-percent discount for Liu Dong.

But he also knows that it is too difficult for them to extract a little profit from the mouths of these mercenary businessmen!

In the evening, it was no surprise that Del Roosevelt and Steven Rockefeller III were again the center of everyone's circle.

Although there are not no political and economic families that can be compared with them in the United States, the children of the top wealthy families in the United States, such as Morgan and Rockefeller, usually live a relatively low-key life, and compared with some ordinary American tycoons, they rarely appear in the public eye, after all, Americans also have a hatred of the rich.

If it weren't for the support of Liu Dong this time, Del Roosevelt would not have appeared directly at the auction, and even if he was involved in Christie's auctions, he would have called Guò.

And Steven Rockefeller III was originally the same, but he wanted the key in Liu Dong's hand, so he also appeared here.

The appearance of the two directly ignited the desire of many American tycoons present to get to know each other in order to pave the way for their future.

Of course, there were many people who came to talk to Liu Dong, but compared to the crowd around Del Roosevelt and Steven Rockefeller, it was too far behind.

"Mr. Liu......!"

Hearing the voice, Liu Dong turned around with a little curiosity, and what appeared in front of him was the second young man in his thirties who stood up at the morning auction to support the old man surnamed Wang and let the Old Summer Palace be the first to be auctioned.

It is precisely because of this incident that Liu Dong has a good impression of this person, so his attitude is more polite!

………………………………………………………………………………… (To be continued......)