First Arrival Territory: 46. Heart of the Ranch

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So, Charlie went over and hugged him and comforted: "Don't be like this, brother, in fact, this is a good opportunity, you need money, don't you?" Sir also left you with more important territories, and you need money to develop them, so why not sell the hymns? ”

Adams agreed, "I understand your thoughts, King, but obviously you need money for more important things, and selling hymns is the best option at the moment." ”

"When your territory develops, you can buy back what you sold before." Auction Director Greg added.

After enough entanglement and psychological struggle, Lao Wang reluctantly handed the hymn to Gregor, and then covered his face and lay on the table: he laughed excitedly for fear of himself.

Gregor and two experts began a careful examination that took them two hours, studying not only paper, handwriting, ink, but even page by page.

Finally, Gregor nodded to Adams, who walked over, and after the two exchanged a few words in a whisper, the latter's expression became stern and serious.

Wang Bo's heart also hung up, but don't suddenly tell him that this is a fake, he can't stand this blow.

The first edition of the Hymn of the Bay was only 1,700 copies, but many imitations appeared, not to sell them for money, but to make money on Luoyang paper, which was reprinted by the believers themselves.

It is precisely because of the large number of reprints that a large number of the original "Hymns of the Bay" will be lost, otherwise most of the 1,700 books in the major libraries will always have hundreds of copies.

Most of the 11 hymns that remain in the world are preserved in institutions such as the Library of Congress in New York and the Harvard University Library. Among them, there are two copies in the Old South Church in Boston, and one copy each in the Library of Congress, Yale University, and Brown University.

After Adams and Gregor finished chatting, he shook hands with Wang Bo, shook his wrist vigorously and said in an accentuated tone: "Congratulations, Wang, you have the 12th book of the Hymn of the Bay in your hand. As far as we know, this is also the second time this book has appeared in the world since 1947, God forbid! ”

Wang Bo pursed his lips and said: "Thank you for your congratulations, but I know that this is the original hymn, because my godfather's family are all devout Christians, they are old aristocrats, and the hymn in the collection must be the original of the first edition, and I am confident in this." ”

Charlie sighed on the side, the old jazz is too stubborn and closed-minded, if he plays the Internet or cares more about the outside world, why is his finances so embarrassed in his later years?

But then he thought that with the stubbornness and pride of the old knight who would rather borrow from usury than sell the red box, perhaps he would not sell it even if he knew that he had a hymn in his hand.

After a round of praise on the Roberts, Adams asked, "King, my fellow, what do you think of this hymn?" ”

There were a lot of thoughts, but he kept his normal mind and said, "I'm very confused now, I don't have any ideas, what about you?" ”

Adams said, "I have two hymns, one is that you sell us hymns, and we are willing to buy them at twice the starting price; The second is that you may be able to commission an auction with us, because a month from now, our group is going to have a spring auction in New York, which is a good opportunity. ”

The first one was rejected by Wang Bo, and Adams gave a double starting bid, the last time the book appeared at auction, the starting price was $6 million, and the final price was $14.16 million.

If you follow Adams's construction, it is 12 million US dollars, so Lao Wang feels that he is too much of a loss.

The second one is good, he is not in a hurry to use the money, and besides, he has some money in his hand, so the two sides can cooperate completely.

However, the stakes are high, close to 20 million New Zealand dollars in valuables, and such cooperation requires the presence of a lawyer.

Mr. Wang's most trusted lawyer was Mr. Mueller, but he apparently couldn't make it, so he held a video conference with Mr. Mueller on camera.

The end result was that he entrusted the hymn to Christie's for the New York spring auction, but the price had to be higher than $12 million, and if it didn't, Wang Bo would withdraw the authorization and only pay Christie's $50,000 in publicity fees.

As for the auction for more than $12 million, Christie's would charge a commission fee of 7.6 percent – 9.8 percent under normal circumstances, and Mueller negotiated with Adams and eventually reduced the commission fee by 2.2 percentage points.

Christie's needed this auction opportunity because their biggest competitor, Sotheby's, had just auctioned off one of these books, and they were going to fight back!

Under the witness of both parties, the book was sent to Christie's New Zealand in the safe at the headquarters of ANZ Bank, and since then Wang Bo has not been bothered, if there is a problem with the book, Christie's will compensate for 14.17 million.

Lunch was a treat for Adams, and a few people had a big meal at the Green Olive Hotel.

During the dinner, Adams and Greg popularized some knowledge and unspoken rules of the auction industry to Wang Bo, and they were very attentive to Wang Bo, because Lao Wang was very shameless in claiming that his godfather had left him some other things.

For this kind of news, Adams must rather believe it than not, so before parting, the two sides exchanged all the contact information that could be contacted, and then they were reluctant to part.

After lunch, the helicopter whistled in the direction of Sunset Town.

On this trip to Wellington, Wang Bo didn't expect to gain so much, if he was a billionaire, he would be a multimillionaire in a month!

Suddenly turned into a rich man, Wang Bo was in a good mood, and after returning to Sunset Town, he cooked a few good dishes to celebrate that day, but Charlie and the cowboy drank very much, and they were poured under the table while drinking Lao Wang.

Lying on the bed in a daze, Lao Wang habitually opened the sand table, when he found that the drawing plate turned pale green, he chose to use it, the drawing plate turned, the pointer stopped on the heart of the territory, and then a 'ranch heart' appeared.

He was already dazed, and when he saw the heart of the ranch, his head would not turn, and he fell asleep.

After getting up early in the morning, Lao Wang stretched comfortably, and then remembered the heart of the ranch he had drawn last night.

In this way, he was startled, and quickly opened the sand table, but fortunately, the heart of the pasture did not disappear, and a palm-sized grass appeared above the sand table, and the grass grew neatly on the grass, and the wind blew the leaves.

There is no doubt that this is the heart of the pasture, like a neat and beautiful little grassland, which is extremely pleasing to the eye.

Lao Wang thought about it for a while, and chose to install this pasture heart on the grass in the south of the territory. For mobile phone users, please visit wènhttp://mnet

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