More than a dozen people suddenly walked over to the auction table, standing on the edge of the auction table, and a middle-aged man in a suit and pen walked in the center, holding a microphone in his hand, looked ahead, and then said loudly.

"Welcome to this year's Rome auction, which has a total of 39 lots, including 26 regular items, 6 high-end items, 5 information items, and 3 confidential documents!"

What do you mean by regular and advanced items? The man on the stage stopped after speaking, as if he knew that there must be someone like Lin Yu who came for the first time to ask questions.

"Sir, the regular category is the general antiques or items, this category means that you can rest assured that you can collect things that will not have any problems!"

"The range of high-end items is somewhat wide, such as antique national treasure-level items that are prohibited from being bought and sold by the state, or things that are obviously stolen goods!"

Lin Yu nodded, 33 explained in detail, it seems that this night auction will not sell all prohibited things, and there are still some prohibited things.

"Data refers to the information that some people may need, such as a core technology or scientific research materials that are secretly treasured by a country. Confidential documents usually refer to messages, very valuable news, and sometimes there are some trade secrets and state secrets! ”

"I see, I see!" Lin Yu smiled and nodded, and suddenly asked again: "In addition to these, are there any other classifications?" ”

"Yes, sir, there is also a superb item, the first starting price of this kind of item is more than 100 million US dollars, and it is unique in the world, and there are special items, this kind of item is very wide, mainly refers to things that people can't think of!"

Just as 33 was explaining, the people on the stage began to speak.

"Guys, now I'd like to inform you of the first lot, the snake bracelet."

At this time, I saw a beautiful woman walking up with a plate behind the auction table.

"This is a luxury bracelet weighing 610 grams, which is rare for bracelets of this weight. The bracelet is made of gold bars that mimic the shape of a snake, with opposite snake heads at the ends. The serpent had a golden disc in its open mouth. The disc is engraved with the moon god Serene, as well as a crescent moon and seven stars above the goddess's head. Serene and Diana were treated equally. She is represented as a young and beautiful woman, with her hair tied and her hands raised above her head, holding up a halo-like arched veil. A high-end item, and an item that only a noble lady can own, this snake bracelet has a history of nearly 2,000 years, and her starting price is $15 million, with a minimum price increase of $1 million each time. ”

As soon as the words of the 200 seller fell, there was a bidding sound outside, and this voice knew that it was a disguised voice as soon as I heard it, and this voice gave people a feeling of hoarseness.

"Drop!"

A bell rang, which also means that someone has raised another million, the highest auction item in the daytime auction is only 23 million US dollars, and the second bid for the first auction item in the evening has reached 21 million US dollars, it seems that this time it is the real rich man.

"Sir, the biggest advantage of this snake bracelet is that it is for women, but this is both its strength and its disadvantage. However, there are still many people present who spend a lot of money for the beauty, so its starting price is not too high. 33 stood behind Lin Yu and said softly, explaining the advantages and disadvantages of this snake-shaped bracelet for Lin Yu.

"Then tell me, how much will this bracelet fetch today?" Lin Yu looked back and asked with a smile.

"I estimate that it can reach 60 million gold!" No. 33 hesitated slightly, and then said softly, the auctioneer came up to auction a high-end item in order to mediate the auction atmosphere, and the final price of this bracelet will definitely not be too low.

While speaking, the price of the robe has risen to 49 million, and now no one is adding millions at a time, and the bell rings every once in a while.

Suddenly, Lin Yu shouted, "60 million." ”

As soon as the shouts came out, there was no one to bid. The highest value of such a bracelet is only about 30 million US dollars, and if it is better, it can be 4000~50 million, but it will cost 60 million, and few people are willing to spend such a large price for such an innocuous thing.

In the end, the snake-shaped bracelet was auctioned off by Lin Yu at a high price of 60 million US dollars, and after the auction item was taken away by the beauty, the auctioneer did not say who took the auction item.

"The second item is a sword from Grand Duke Stefan!"

Behind the auction table drove a small truck, also a glass case, in which a greatsword was shining silver.

"This is a regular item, Grand Duke Stefan has carried this sword to the battlefield many times, this sword has killed at least dozens of people, and it is also one of Grand Duke Stefan's favorite items, with a starting price of three million dollars!"

"Sir, the starting price of conventional items generally starts at one million, except in special circumstances!" 33 explained to Lin Yu in a whisper, the items here are divided into grades, and they are also divided into prices.

Lin Yu nodded, there are already a lot of things starting from a million, and there are still a lot of things that start from tens of thousands or hundreds of thousands during the day.

Lin Yu was not familiar with this Grand Duke Stefan, and turned his head to look at Elena, who had been sitting next to him.

"Elena, who is this Grand Duke Stefan?" Lin Yu asked.

Elena glanced at Lin Yu, and then said: "Grand Duke Stefan, also known as Grand Duke of Moldova, is a national hero of Romania, also known as Stefan III. Born into a royal family. ”

"Moldova is a small country in Eastern Europe, located in the lower reaches of the Danube River in the northeastern part of the Balkan Peninsula in Europe, on the southern edge of the Eastern European Plain, mainly between the Prut and Transnistrian rivers. It is bordered by Ukraine to the east and north, Wallachia to the west by the Prut River, and the Black Sea to the south. ”

"The first to inhabit Transnistria-Carpathia were the Gothic and Dacian tribes of the Sèreis, who united the Gothic and Dacian tribes in 70 BC and established the Dacian state. In 101-105 AD, the Roman Emperor Trajan led his army to conquer the kingdom of Dacia and establish the province of Dacia. A large number of Romans then moved into the area, bringing with them the Latin culture of Rome, and the Roman settlers merged with the locals to form the Latin-speaking Dacian-Romans. Rome began to decline in the 3rd century AD, and in 271-272 the Roman Emperor Aurelianus ordered the Roman army and administration to evacuate from the province of Dacia, which was separated from Roman rule. At the end of the 5th and 6th centuries AD, Slavs moved into the region in large numbers and intermarried with the local Romanized population, and by the end of the 9th century the Walloch people, the precursors of the Moldovans, were formed. Three Grand Duchyes were then formed: the Principality of Transylvania, now Algeria, and the Principality of Wallachia, now Romania, and the Principality of Moldova, Archduke Stefan, the Grand Duke of Moldova. ”

"So this Archduke Stefan is still tǐng?" Lin Yu couldn't help but say.

"Of course, Archduke Stefan has been overthrowing his uncle Peter since 1457? Aaron's reign. After taking the throne, he carried out military and political reforms, developed the economy, revitalized national defense, and strengthened the centralization of power. In 1465 the southern fortress of Kilia in Moldova was recaptured from the Hungarians. Defeat the invading Hungarian army in 1467. In January 1475, he led an army of 40,000 men to set up an ambush in the Vaslui Marshes and defeated a Turkish army of 120,000. In 1476, he led his army to inflict heavy losses on more than 100,000 Turkish troops who invaded again in the Hakuya area. However, he was outnumbered and defeated, and was forced to sign a peace treaty in 1489 and pay tribute to Turkey. In 1497, he led his army to defeat him in the Koswan Forest

Ōlan Army. ”

After Elena's narration, Lin Yu is still sympathetic to this Grand Duke Stefan, and he is really a bitter baby.

In 1400 Alexandru the Elder of the House of Musat ascended to the throne of Moldova with the support of Mircea the Elder, Grand Duke of Wallachia, who was also the grandfather of our protagonist. During the 32nd year of his reign, the country was in peace, but after his death there was serious chaos. At first his eldest son Iliye inherited the throne, but later ceded the southern part of the country to Stefan II under the threat of his younger brother Stefan II (who was Stefan II, not our hero).

This double-headed politics lasted until 1444, when Stefan II killed his elder brother Iliya and then took charge of the court with his third brother Peter II.

Queen Ōlan's sister Maria fled with her two sons, Roman and Alexandru Jr

Ōran went. Soon Roman was there

The Ōlans returned to Moldova with the support of the Ōlans, killed Stefan II, avenging his father, while Peter II fled to Transylvania and took a place in the Grand Duke of Transylvania, Yanos? With the support of Hunyati, he returned to Moldova, and the Roman family went into exile again

Ōlan, soon Roman was in

Ōlan died, and Alexandru Jr. was there again

With the help of the Ōlan people regained the throne of Moldova, with his other uncle, Peter. Aaron is in charge of the government.

The matter is not over yet, and one of the old Alexandrus's sons, named Bogdan, is in Janos? With the support of Hunyadi, he rebelled and became the Grand Duke of Moldova, called Bogdan II, who was the father of Stefan III. Peter. Aaron and Alexandru Jr. fled again

Ōlan went, and later Peter? Aaron is in

Ōlan recruited troops and led his army back to Moldova on the night of the Harvest Festival, capturing and beheading Bogdan II in a village called Reusseni who was attending the Harvest Festival Ball, which Stefan was also attending, but he escaped with his mother Ortia and fled to her maiden principality of Wallachia.

In 1457 Stefan recruited more than 1,000 troops to return to Moldova with the support of Vlad III, the Grand Duke of Wallachia, and after returning a large number of Moldovans rushed to defect, and the army soon increased to 6,000 people, and on the evening of April 11, the army reached outside the city of Roman, and Peter? Aron's army was deployed in the township of Dolgunshti on the west bank of the Serlett River, and Stefan ordered a quick maneuver to outflank him, and the next day he launched an attack, but Aron was defeated and fled with a few close nobles

At this point, Moldova ended 26 years of political turmoil, and Stefan ascended to the position of Grand Duke of Moldova.

After Stefan ascended to the throne, he began to put the broken country in order, first writing letters to the nobles who had fled to Aron with him, assuring that as long as he abandoned the old and made a new one, he would not be held accountable; secondly, the establishment of law and order, restoring the old Alexandru's practice of relying on Byzantine law; Thirdly, it was the development of religion, the revision of history, the compilation of a large number of religious books, the establishment of several monasteries, the compilation of the first Slavic "Chronicle of Moldova"; At the same time, Stefan invited the famous Saxon winemaker Huang Erding to the Kotenari vineyard in Helleu County, and produced a mellow wine called Almáš, which is still a Moldovan specialty to this day.

Aaron fled, and Stefan's position was not yet consolidated, so the Grand Duke sent troops to attack

The castle on the border between Ōlan and Moldova, recovered

Ōlan occupied the Khottingburg, giving

Ōlan exerted pressure, forced

Ōlan gave up his asylum and Aaron fled to Hungary. On 26 January 1465, the Hungarian king, the young Matthias I, had ambitions for Moldova and sought to restore Aron to the throne, and on 26 January 1465, Grand Duke Stefan decided to preemptively capture the strategic Hungarian city of Kilia. Two years later, in November, King Mattias commanded 40,000 troops across the Carpathians to invade Moldova, and by December he had penetrated deep into the vicinity of the Roman and began to consider attacking the Moldovan capital Suceava, but there was no trace of the main Moldovan force, and supplies became more and more difficult, because Archduke Stefan adopted the tactic of fortifying the walls (which was the most common tactic used by Archduke Stefan against invaders), and the weather was getting colder day by day. In a place called Baya, at midnight on December 14, the Hungarian army was raided, the whole army fell into confusion, 12,000 Moldovan troops set fire to the Hungarian camp, the king's army was scattered, the battle lasted for three days, the king was wounded by three arrows, and was carried back to Hungary by his cronies. In the spring of 1469, Archduke Stefan launched an attack on Aron in the county of Three Castles, which was in exile in Transylvania (Matthias I was also the Archduke of Transylvania, and his father was Janos?). Hunyati), who finally captured and killed Aron in the township of Olbik, at which point Stefan's heart was sick.

In the centuries before and after Stefan's life, it was the period of expansion of the Ottoman Empire, and in the Battle of Nicoburg in 1396, tens of thousands of Christian crusaders led by the Hungarian king Sigis Méngde were defeated by the Turkish army of Bayezid I. Bayezid I took advantage of the victory to sweep the Balkans, including Thessaloniki, Epirus and other famous cities were captured, and only Constantinople and part of the Peloponnese remained unoccupied in the Balkans. Fortunately for the Christian nations, the rise of Timur in Central Asia slowed Turkey's expansion. On July 20, 1402, Bayezid I was defeated and captured at the Battle of Ankara, and died in captivity eight months later. For 10 years after the Battle of Ankara, Ottoman Turkey was divided until Mehmed I reunited. In 1438, Murad II, the son of Mehmed I, led an army into Serbia, seizing the rich silver mines and Semendria, the most important fortress in the Balkans. In 1444, in the Battle of Varna

King Vladislav III of Ōland - Hungary was killed in battle. Subsequently, in 1453, the army under the command of Mehmed II captured New Rome - Constantinople.

However, in the hearts of Moldovans and even many Europeans, Stefan is the great commander of Moldova, although he did not stop the pace of Turkish expansion in the end, but his efforts made Turkey's march towards Europe stagnate for 15 years, in his life dozens of battles, large and small, the vast majority of them were victorious, and many times the weak defeated the strong, such a result should be remarkable. Some people may say that it is nothing, much worse than Napoleon and other military strategists who dominated Europe, but I would say that Napoleon's domination of Europe was backed by the powerful France, while Stefan only had a small Moldova. ”

Lin Yu was really a little surprised this time, he didn't expect Elena to compare this Archduke Stefan with Napoleon, Elena, who has a deep study of European history, can have such a big evaluation of this person, which is enough to show that this person is extraordinary.

At this time, the Archduke Stefan's used see was finally bought for 13 million dollars.

The next thirteen auctions in a row, none of which Lin Yu wanted, only two of the thirteen items that have appeared are high-end items, and they have all been auctioned for a high price of more than 50 million, and those two things alone make today's auction volume exceed 100 million US dollars.

More than an hour has passed, and the 33rd inquired about it, and specially made a cup of coffee for Lin Yu and Elena, according to the current progress, the auction will probably not end until twelve o'clock, and it will affect the customer's bidding if you don't mention it.

Elena is a little sleepy now, for Elena, such an auction will not mean anything to her at all, if it weren't for accompanying Lin Yu, she wouldn't have come here.

For her, the British Museum is their back garden. Well, not really, speaking of which, the British Museum is more like the back garden of the Habsburgs.

What is not in the British Museum? Precious artifacts from Babylon, India, China and Greece, the birthplace of human civilization, abound. Greek stone carvings, Indian gemstone rings, Babylonian silverware, and Chinese porcelain are dazzling. There are also a few ancient corpses that are thousands of years earlier than the female corpses of Mawangdui, but not from the United Kingdom, but from Egypt, and the dozen or so mummies on display are only part of the collection. The British Museum's collection of Egyptian antiquities, especially mummies, is the largest outside of Egypt.

As the heir to the Welf family, where would she still look at this garbage stuff.!...