148 million, to be honest, this price has far exceeded Li Yi's original expectations, and it is also nearly double the highest transaction estimate of 77 million. But when he thought of the white jade cup that was going to be auctioned tomorrow, he still felt a little regretful, just a little, a little...... Well, more than 50 million is not a little ......

For Li Yi, who wants to use the money from the auction of "Lotus Wind in the Prosperous Age" to buy a white jade cup, no matter what the price is, he will be too low. But for another person who is also paying close attention to this lot, the price is simply too high! Not only does he not make any money, but he is likely to lose a lot of money!

Originally, when Bob took "The Lotus Wind" to Christie's in New York for appraisal, Christie's gave a price of $7 million to $8 million, but why it was only said to be worth $6 million when it was traded to Li Yi actually contained a deliberately misleading trap.

Liu Xibo's offer for "Untitled" is $18 million, but unfortunately, he is not the owner of the goods. And the real owner Li Yi, Bob tried out his true intention after a few simple communications with him, that is, he did not approve of Liu Xibo's valuation, he wanted more!

How much is this, Bob's judgment at that time was more than 21 million, and, most likely, even if he came up with this price, Li Yi would not sell it!

Because the Chinese people have a famous saying, called a mountain looks at the mountain high! When Li Yi didn't believe in the credibility of Liu Xibo, who helped him appraise the price, the higher the buyer's bid, the more he thought that the thing was valuable! How could he make a light move?

And that's true, because the Christie's appraiser he brought with him told him that Christie's New York was absolutely confident that the "Untitled" would cost more than $30 million! So, how to persuade Li Yi to agree to change hands, and how to take it at the lowest cost, this has become a problem that Bob must solve.

It's obviously not a smart way to get the price up step by step, so what other conditions can be taken advantage of?

Bob immediately thought of Liu Xibo. He is a regular client of Christie's, and Sotheby's has been trying to get him. He knew that Liu Xibo had always wanted to take "The Lotus Wind of the Prosperous Age" to Sotheby's for auction, so he decided to take advantage of him.

$13 million plus an estimate of $6 million "Lotus Wind" on the bright side. The value is only 19 million, but he believes that Liu Xibo will definitely tell Li Yi the true value of "Lotus Wind in the Prosperous Age", so that. His offer was actually $21 million, which was infinitely close to the price Li Yi wanted.

On the surface, the offer of 21 million will only make Li Yi want more, but he will not use this method! Because he had already bitten to death, he could only get 19 million, but he cleverly let Li Yi find that he could take advantage of more than 2 million US dollars in this transaction. And with this 2 million, it is exactly his psychological price!

At this time, the idea of taking advantage will occupy most of the thinking of this Chinese person, and he is barely satisfied with 21 million, coupled with Liu Xibo's promotion, the probability of a transaction is as high as 90%!

As for why there is a huge difference of $12 million between Liu Xibo's estimate and that of the Christie's appraiser, it is because Liu Xibo does not know the secret behind the "Untitled". If it weren't for that secret, the painting wouldn't even be worth $15 million!

A qiē is like this, a deal that both parties think they have taken advantage of will of course be closed quickly, so all the time, everyone is very happy.

But now Bob is unpleasant. Because "The Lotus Wind" unexpectedly fetched 148 million Hong Kong dollars, which is equivalent to 19 million US dollars, if you add the 13 million and 1.5 million US dollars in commissions, the cost of Bob to buy "Untitled" is as high as 33.5 million! And this price is more than one-tenth of Christie's maximum estimate of Untitled!

Moreover, if you want to decipher the secrets behind "Untitled", you need at least $1 million to operate, because that text is a top-secret document placed in the national archives!

In this way, he will lose $4.5 million in one mile and one away!

Of course, he can also look forward to being like "The Lotus Wind in the Prosperous Age". Christie's will be able to fetch a higher price for Untitled, but unlike the two, this is unlikely.

Because "The Lotus Wind of the Prosperous Age" is inflated no matter how high, but at least there is a little. That is, its price is supported by market conditions. But "Untitled" is different, because it was originally only worth 15 million, and it was originally able to operate to 30 million because of its bizarre political color, and the potential for such a work to appreciate violently is very small.

So, after all the calculations, he Bob turned from a net profit of $6.5 million at the beginning to a net loss of $4.5 million!

And. The most important thing is that once he started working on Untitled, Sotheby's would be able to guess what he was thinking right away!

This is the real stealing of chickens and rice!

Li Yi didn't know this qiē thought, so he still returned to the hotel happily, and after carefully calculating the accounts, he decided to give up the cup, he was only going to use 30 million to show his face, and he would not be accompanied by any more! Although his money is blown by a strong wind, this strong wind is not common, is it?

To be honest, it is not easy to sit for a day and watch other people's elated, so once he relaxed, Li Yi immediately felt tired. After thinking about it for a while, he took out the auction catalogue and found that the white jade cup and the rough ruby were all arranged for the afternoon session, so he decided to simply sleep and participate directly in the afternoon session.

At ten o'clock in the morning the next day, Li Yi was woken up by the landline in the room, and when he looked at the number, it was the hotel front desk.

"Is it Mr. Li Yi? Here's a guest who came to you and said he was giving you a mobile phone card. ”

When Li Yi heard this, he immediately jumped up from the bed, the master was so powerful, and it was delivered so quickly, but he hadn't bought his mobile phone yet!

"I didn't come here to deliver the card, I am an employee of Zhong's Jewelry, I originally booked the flight at noon yesterday, but then there was something temporary, and I changed it to the evening, just in time to help you bring the mobile phone card."

Thanks to the buddy who sent the card, Li Yi went out and bought another Glory 7, went back to the hotel and imported the contacts backed up in the computer, first called the master to express his gratitude, and then called his mother one,

"It's almost over, there are three kinds of Heilan Shou Red and Bao Jin Lion Head, give her five of each, go to the market first, as for the red dragon, I want to wait until it is completely grown."

"Mom, I forgot to say it yesterday, the red dragon she sees now is 30 centimeters, but when I look at it again half a year later, it is actually a fish! Wouldn't she be suspicious? ”

"What do you suspect? She didn't show all the fish at home, and she didn't even go to the fish farm, so how did she know how many fish we had and how big they were......"

hung up the phone, and was about to go out to eat something when Liu Xibo's phone called,

"Li, your phone is really hard to call, it's either turned off or busy, where are you now?"

After learning that Li Yi was in the hotel, Liu Xibo asked him to go to Sotheby's immediately to improve some information, and if it was fast, he would be able to get his 148 million in two days.

Li Yi went to Sotheby's, and after coming out for dinner, it was just in time for the afternoon session.

Because he was about to make a move, this time he sat back in his seat and quietly waited for the auction to start.

The auction pace of jewelry and jade is much faster than that of calligraphy and painting, but the average value is about the same, which is mainly determined by the characteristics of the jewelry. Because except for some ancient treasures, or treasures with special significance, the value of modern jewelry products does not fluctuate much, and even the premium is not too much.

Soon, it was the turn of the white jade cup to appear, Li Yi found that there was obviously a bit of confusion in the field, everyone was talking about each other, obviously, they were very interested in this jade that was purely because of the words of the antique jade connoisseur Wang Song and the black chicken turned into a phoenix, and the starting price was so low, Li Yi estimated that it was likely to appear in the hot scene when the calligraphy and painting special opened yesterday later.

Sure enough, after the auctioneer announced the start of the auction, the scene was silent for a while, followed by a series of offers, and within three minutes, the white jade cup was lifted to 24 million, and then the rhythm suddenly dropped sharply, and it took another two minutes to slowly climb to 29.7 million. At this time, Li Yi raised the number plate in his hand without hesitation, 30 million!

Oh my god, it's a gesture of admiration for this masterpiece, but unfortunately, this offer can only last for a few seconds at most......

Li Yi took back the number plate and sat peacefully waiting for others to surpass his offer, but ten seconds passed, twenty seconds passed, and in addition to the auctioneer, he kept staging a one-man show on the stage, and strangely no one in the audience took the offer!

Is this swollen? Did someone have the power to ban the audience? No, people can still move...... It's just, what are they talking about?

Seeing that many people in the venue were whispering to each other, and some of them didn't pay attention to the auction, but took out their mobile phones and played, Li Yi was confused, is this swollen?

A minute passed, and the auctioneer was still trying to sell, and it was clear from his tone that he didn't know what had happened. At this time, a middle-aged man sitting next to Li Yi finally couldn't help it and handed his mobile phone to Li Yi.

"Look at the news."

Before Li Yi could look at it, he suddenly heard that the auctioneer on the stage had repeated the offer of 30 million three times, and then there was a crisp sound, and he won the bid!

What's going on? Why is this weird everywhere?

Li Yi didn't care about looking down at his phone at this moment, but after a glance, he opened his mouth wide in surprise!

"Morning News! Wang Song, a well-known antique jade expert in Hong Kong, was taken from his home by the Independent Commission Against Corruption last night, and according to his own confession, he had repeatedly accepted large sums of cash from collectors and identified a number of modern antique jade artifacts as ancient jade. According to people familiar with the matter, the Sotheby's spring auction of the heavy Baozigang white jade cup was also unfortunately involved in this big case......" (To be continued.) For mobile phone users, please visit wènhttp://mnet

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