524.Atmosphere (Flowers Plus 4/5)
After the security guard left, Winnie and Qin Shiou walked at the back, and then whispered in Chinese: "I don't like Japanese people very much, people shouldn't be like this, right?" β
"Culture and education are different, but I don't like it either." Qin Shiou said.
There are many people attending the auction, and the place is large, but it is not noisy at all.
Whether it is the staff of the organizer or the seafood agents participating in the auction, they all bite their ears together when they speak, and if they are far away, they will directly start using sign language, and the information confidentiality work is done to the extreme.
At half past five, the auction started on time.
The staff in sky blue overalls walked to the front of the first row of tuna, a bald fat man with a copper bell in his hand stood at the front, others held iPads, some held notepads, and some controlled the camera, and the auction began.
The bidders all gathered in front of the auctioneer, but a group of people were still looking at the tuna, which Nishimura explained was not interested in the fish, and that the tuna was auctioned by region.
Qin Shiou went to take a look, and it turned out that these tuna were divided into regions according to the place of origin, including the Sea of Japan, the Australian Sea, New Zealand, the Atlantic Ocean of the United States, the Pacific Ocean of the United States, and the North Atlantic genus of Canada.
This made him not know what to say, the Japanese are really rigorous, but they are a little rigid. Tuna are global cruising species, and they can circle between the Antarctic and the North Pole several times in their lifetime, making little difference where they are caught.
The bald auctioneer rings the brass bell. The scene became so quiet that there was no sound of footsteps.
The price of seafood at Tsukiji Market is very important, and the wholesale price that is not advertised here is called the "standard price". When it comes out, it will become the standard price for trading in the national market in Japan, so people are quiet when it comes to pricing.
Affected by the crowd, Qin Shiou was also a little nervous, and the atmosphere of the auction rose.
The bald auctioneer stood on an old log auction table, Qin Shiou thought it was a tattered old table, and Nishimura explained that this table had a background. It was moved from the original site of Tsukiji Market at the time of the Great Kanto Earthquake. This table is the only intact table and chair found in the ruins of the market.
Seeing that the auction was about to start, Qin Shiou saw that everyone was holding their breath and preparing to start, but suddenly a blonde and blue-eyed young foreigner rushed out from the crowd of visitors.
After running out of the crowd, the foreigner took off his coat with his hands and feet, and this guy was wearing nothing inside. So it's naked. He was covered in slogans in Japanese and English, and when he took off his clothes, he began to shout: "Boycott the tuna auction!" Boycott the tuna trade! Boycott tuna fishing! β
A few people who stood with foreigners before immediately picked up their mobile phones, cameras and the like and began to shoot wildly, chanting slogans, and the atmosphere of the live auction disappeared all of a sudden.
The faces of the surrounding security guards suddenly changed, and they quickly picked up their clothes and wrapped them around the blonde youth, and the young man turned out to be good, and even punched and kicked the two security guards down directly.
The auctioneer roared, and more security guards outside ran in and surrounded the young man and the other foreigners. Forcibly send them out of the market. Of course, it is not illegal to have their phones and cameras seized before sending them away. This is the regulation of the market.
Winnie admired these young people a little, and said regretfully: "It's a pity that those photos, if they can be published in the newspaper, they will definitely help a lot to protect the tuna." β
Bird and Nelson looked at each other, then laughed.
Qin Shiou asked what you are laughing at, and Bird pointed to the buckle of the suit. Whispered: "Portable camera, 720p." Take photos and videos at the same time. β
Nelson asked him to look at his watch and said, "Israel's Mossad agents have a special camera watch, a photo in five seconds, automatically stored, and I took pictures of everything just now." β
Qin Shiou was dizzy and said, "Why are you bringing this?" β
Nelson said as a matter of course: "Tokyo is not our territory, what if we are in trouble?" These things can preserve evidence, and we are not afraid of anything. β
Hearing him say this, Qin Shiou felt that he was really right to raise the salary of the two of them, and they were worth that money for this dedication.
Finally, the auction began, the bald and fat auctioneer had a loud voice and full of confidence, and after the opening greeting, he shouted "Listed on the same day, full sales", Nishimura Ling explained to Qin Shiou: "This is the iron law of the auction, and all the goods that arrive on the same day must be auctioned off on the same day." β
After making preparations, the auctioneer started the auction with the first fish, Qin Shiou couldn't understand what he was saying, and he couldn't understand what his gestures meantβin addition to shouting loudly, the auctioneer kept making complex gestures.
The agents participating in the auction below also gestured again and again, and at this time, Qin Shiou found that Butler had also come to the scene with a group of people, and was discussing something in a low voice with Takatsuka Kota in the distance.
Nishimura translated and explained to Qin Shiou: "This batch of fish comes from the Sea of Japan, the smallest is 25 kilograms, the largest is 55 kilograms, and the auction reserve price is 20,000 yuan per kilogram...... The first fish, Mr. Shoma Higashiyama of the first fish god Tanigawa, 22,500 yuan, Nara Shoko Co., Ltd., was sold! Article 2...... Article 3 ......"
Nishimura Ling's voice was low and fast, Qin Shiou only listened to a rough idea in front, and he couldn't follow directly.
The pace of the auction is super fast, too, more than 1,000 fish have to be sold in one morning, how can the speed be slow?
It's like drinking and punching, the auctioneer is roaring and punching, and the bidders below are also constantly gesturing and bidding, their offer only has one chance, the auctioneer shouts the reserve price, and what they come out is the final price.
In this way, the auctioneer watched six ways, waved in all directions, and kept shouting the name of the highest bidder, and the pen in the hand of the recorder behind him wrote quickly in the notebook, and the rhythm of the scene was amazing!
After selling the fish in one area, the bald auctioneer goes down to rest, someone lifts the table to the next area, and another auctioneer stands up for a new round of auctions.
In this way, like the assembly line, from small to large, all the fish were quickly photographed in the sea area, and finally the king of fish in Asia was the king of fish, Qin Shiou's golden gun overlord!
The Golden Gun Overlord was packaged, the body of the fish more than four meters long was covered with silver plastic paper, several young men roared and carried the box containing the fish to the auction table, and a spirited old auctioneer came out and shouted: "The King of Fish auction has begun!" The King of Fish Auction has begun! Hello King of Fish! β
Tezuka Kota and a group of bigwigs stood at the forefront, and the king of fish in the auctioneer's mouth was not this tuna, but these bigwigs, whoever can auction this fish is the king of fish in this auction.
This auction is the only one that can be used to bid on a single fish, and in the past, regardless of the size of the fish, each family only had one chance to raise their cards during the bidding, and whoever gave the highest price would sell it to whomever they wanted.
The king of fish still gives the price according to the kilogram, before most of the small fish were priced at 20,000 yen, and the price of large fish was up to 4,000 yen, but when it came to the king of fish, the auctioneer shouted directly: "The bottom price of the king of fish, 500,000 yuan!" (To be continued)