On New Year's Day, Tang Feng, accompanied by Sam, visited Sam's father and mother, had dinner in the mansion on the Upper East Side where Sam's father lived, and chatted with the old man about the auction items before getting up to leave.

It can be seen that Sam's father is still very satisfied with Tang Feng's approach, after all, his son didn't pay a penny, and he got 30% of the shares, which is tens of millions of dollars, so even Sam's father is well-informed, and he can't help but be surprised by Tang Feng's generous handwriting. Therefore, Sam's father still made a lot of effort in dealing with the auction, otherwise, Sotheby's auction house would not hold a special auction for you.

Although Tang Feng has never been in contact with the upper circle, he has never eaten pork, so he has seen pigs run. Tang Feng knew very well that from the moment he had the star core, he had to enter this circle, but to enter this circle, it was not something you could enter if you wanted to, to enter this circle, you had to have a lot of things, not just having money to integrate into this circle.

In this kind of upper circle, having money is only the most basic condition, and a person who only has money and nothing else can only be despised by people in this circle and called "nouveau riche". If you want to integrate into the upper circle to this extent, connections, abilities, and wrists are indispensable, especially connections and abilities, which are valued by people in this circle.

Integrating into this kind of upper-level circle is very beneficial to Tang Feng's future development, even if Tang Feng is unwilling to integrate into this circle, but the people or things around him will unconsciously push Tang Feng to integrate into this circle, after all, Tang Feng is the master of the star core, and already has the most basic condition for integrating into this circle - money.

Therefore, instead of being pushed into this circle by others, it is better to work hard to integrate into this circle, which will make you more independent.

Tang Feng is very clear about his situation, in terms of ability and money, with the star core, these two aspects are absolutely fine, but connections are Tang Feng's shortcomings, plus Sam has been very good to him for more than two years, so Tang Feng decided to bring Sam in, one is to repay Sam, and the other reason is that Tang Feng is ready to use Sam's father's power to integrate into this circle as soon as possible. In the advanced capitalist countries, if you want to grow your company, partnerships are inevitable, and no foreigner is stupid enough to just take your salary to work for you, they want shares. This is almost a common practice in Europe and the United States.

Once this batch of natural silver and natural gold is successfully auctioned, then Tang Feng can immediately step into the ranks of tens of millions or even billionaires, at this time, even if Tang Feng does not want to enter this circle, there will be people targeting Tang Feng.

More money is sometimes not necessarily a good thing!

But now that you've come this far, let's work hard to make money! Maybe you have a net worth of 100 million US dollars, and some people will covet you, but when you have a net worth of 1 billion US dollars, 10 billion US dollars or even more, those people will not covet you, and in turn, those people will slap you and revolve around you like Depp and Donnie!

Tang Feng is not a fool, of course he knows the benefits of integrating into this circle, and he also understands the darkness and cruelty in this circle, but since he is already destined to take this road, then simply take this road steadily!

On the third day after New Year's Day, Jan. 3, which happened to be a Saturday, it was just before nine o'clock in the morning, and in front of Southby's New York headquarters building, located on the east side of York Avenue between 71st and 72nd Streets on the Upper East Side, was full of luxury cars of all kinds.

This is a common occurrence here, and every time Sotheby holds an auction, the parking lot in front of the boxy building is filled with all sorts of luxury cars. Those who can participate in the auction are really not bad at money!

Southby's headquarters building on York Avenue was built in 1925 as a cigar factory and has been used as a Kodak warehouse since 1949. Sotheby moved into the building for the first time in 1980. Around 2000, the auction house bought the building for $11 million and invested $140 million to expand and renovate it. At that time, however, the F.B.I. was involved in the price collusion between Sotheby and Christie's and a series of other related lawsuits. Eventually, Sotheby's former director, owner Alfred . Taubman went to trial, and the company sold the building for $175 million. But it didn't take long for Sotheby to lease the building from the real estate company RFRHolding and buy it back in 2009 for $370 million.

Today, it is still Sotheby's headquarters in New York.

When it was almost half past nine, the large auction hall on the second floor of Sotheby's headquarters building was already full of people, this auction hall with more than 200 seats, today's attendance rate was as high as more than ninety, it was obvious that Sotheby's publicity for this special auction was in place, and many wealthy tycoons came, many of them could be seen on crutches, full of ancient European nobles tycoons, and those oil tycoons wearing turbans and Arab national costumes.

Tang Feng, as the owner of the auction item, waited with Sam in a small room next to the auction hall. Although this small room is not large, it is very luxuriously decorated, and from here you can clearly see the tycoons outside through the glass windows.

These tycoons are very literate, although there are more than two hundred people in the hall, there is still no noise, and the communication between everyone is either very low, or simply a slight smile, and there are few people who are loud and noisy.

At half past nine, a middle-aged man in his forties walked up to the auction table in the auction hall, the man was wearing a suit and had an inch of hair, looking very neat. This man is none other than the chief photographer of today's auction, Michael Brown, who has won the title of "White Glove" eight times. Dunst.

"Ladies and gentlemen, distinguished distinguished guests, first of all, I would like to introduce myself. Dunst is the chief auctioneer for today's auction. Here, on behalf of Sotheby, I would like to warmly welcome you to all of you! ”

After the applause in the audience had subsided, Dunst continued in very fluent words: "Today this auction house is commissioned by a mining company from Australia to auction natural gold and natural silver excavated from its mines. Please rest assured that these natural gold and natural silver have flowed into the market through formal channels, and the relevant procedures have been clearly marked in the brochure, so you can rest assured that you can boldly auction without worrying about the FBI visiting! ”

Dunst's words drew a good-natured low laugh from the audience, and it was clear that Mr. Dunst was worthy of the title of "white glove" eight times, and at least had a knack for enlivening the atmosphere.

"Okay, I won't talk much nonsense here, you must have seen the photos of the items auctioned today in the brochure, and everyone must be anxious to take such a beautiful baby home, so okay, the auction starts now! First of all, we invite the first lot of the day, a natural silver peacock of up to 31.296 kilograms! The starting reserve price is $200,000, and each increase is not less than $10,000! ”