The area of the auction hall is very large, and there are many guests who come to participate in the bidding, about 300 guests of honor, plus the accompanying female guests and the accompanying bodyguards and secretaries, I am afraid that there are 2,000 people. Although I didn't know anyone, judging from the clothes of these people, the jewelry worn by the women, and the things they talked about, it did gather Denver celebrities from all walks of life, as well as rich and dignitaries from nearby big cities.

After Chu Tianjiang and the others passed through the security check in turn, a beautiful woman wearing a short skirt and a small suit with a low open collar greeted them.

"Mr. Chu, please come here."

"You are?"

"My name is Christina, the master of ceremonies who serves you."

Only then did Chu Tianjiang notice that every VIP was accompanied by a master of ceremonies like Christina, and their duty was to assist the VIP in participating in the auction.

"Please come with me."

"Do I still need to go through the formalities?"

"Mr. Chu, which one of them is your secretary?"

"Secretary?" Chu Tianjiang was stunned for a moment, and said with a smile, "None of them are my secretaries, I don't have a secretary, or I am their secretary." ”

"You're their secretary?" Christina looked surprised. This is a male-centered world, how can a man be a secretary to a woman? Besides, how could a man like Chu Tianjiang, who was very stylish at first glance, be the secretary of a few little women?

"Of course, not only the secretary, but also the bodyguard, anyway, it's a chore. How, what else to do? ”

Christina came back to her senses and quickly said, "This is your first time participating in the auction, and you must first go through the membership procedures. ”

"Can't you bid if you're not a member?"

"This is the rule of the auction house, and today is a private auction, and the invitees are all members, and you are the only exception."

"So, I should feel honored?"

Christina smiled and led Chu Tianjiang and them into an office.

The main purpose of the membership procedure is to fill in the personal information of the member. Fortunately, Chu Tianjiang had already made up a plausible "life experience" for himself. Except for his name, gender, age and ethnicity, he entered "San Francisco" in the field of origin, "maritime trade", and "confidential" in his assets after consulting Christina.

In other words, Chu Tianjiang is no longer a "fitness coach" who opens a martial arts gym, but a "maritime trade businessman".

"Look, there's still something to fill."

"How many of them ......"

"Confidentiality." Chu Tianjiang smiled and said, "It's really inconvenient for me to disclose their information, so I'll treat them as female guests who accompany me." ”

Christina nodded, indicating that she understood what Chu Tianjiang meant.

She has also encountered such a situation. Because Denver is a completely open city that provides security for all outsiders, there are many powerful people from other places, including the children of some powerful people, especially the eldest lady who has not married out of Lu and wants to marry into a well-connected family. In order to facilitate travel and participate in social activities, these eldest ladies generally do not disclose their identities, but use their entourage as a cover, such as letting the accompanying housekeepers pretend to be powerful and powerful, and they pretend to be the family members of the big man. Some of the eldest ladies also dress up as men, and they are very handsome men. When they met Ruyi Langjun and got the favor of the other party, and even after they negotiated the marriage, these eldest ladies would get rid of their disguises and reveal their true faces.

Obviously, Christina regarded Nicol as the eldest lady of the powerful family, and Chu Tianjiang was their housekeeper.

It's just that there are seven eldest ladies at once, and there is only one housekeeper, which is indeed too rare. What's more, apart from Chu Tianjiang, they had no other retinue.

Thinking of this, Christina couldn't help but look at Chu Tianjiang a few more times.

The fact that this man was able to come to Denver safe and sound from the West Coast with seven eldest ladies showed that he was capable of protecting them.

"Is there anything else I need to do?" Although Christina is very beautiful, and the half of her breasts exposed at the neckline of her small suit are also very tempting, Chu Tianjiang has no interest in her. Compared to Nicole and the others, Christina is not a little bit worse.

Christina came back to her senses abruptly and said, "Mr. Chu, you still need to pay a deposit." ”

"Do members also have to pay a deposit?"

"There will be no need for the next time, but members who participate in the auction for the first time need to pay a deposit to avoid losses to everyone due to the unsuccessful auction."

"How much security deposit do I need to pay?"

"The most expensive item in tonight's auction starts at 35 million ounces of gold, and according to the rules, you need to pay a deposit of 3.5 million ounces of gold. Because this treasure is auctioned at the last of the auction, if you buy other treasures before then, you will have to pay a deposit of one-tenth of the price of the other treasures. Christina smiled and said, "Of course, regardless of whether you have auctioned the treasure or not, the deposit will be returned after the auction is over, and we will not charge any handling fee." ”

"It's a pity that I didn't bring that much gold, and I'm afraid no one can carry that much gold with me."

"You can use other hard currencies, like diamonds."

"Really?" Chu Tianjiang smiled and took out a cloth bag containing hundreds of twenty-carat colorless diamonds.

"Wait a minute!" Christina picked up the wired phone on her desk and called the diamond grader.

After careful screening by the appraiser, Chu Tianjiang left three hundred and fifty colorless diamonds of twenty carats, and then Christina put these diamonds into a large bag sealed with wax seals in front of him, and then asked Chu Tianjiang to check the packaging of the bag, and finally handed them over to the appraiser and put them in a locked iron box. The appraiser handed the key to Chu Tianjiang before leaving with the box.

"Mr. Chu, please come with me, the auction is about to start."

Under Christina's arrangement, Chu Tianjiang and the others entered a private room on the left side of the third row of the auction hall. The auction hall was formerly an opera house, and the stage became a trading table and a display table, and the private room with the best view on the surrounding area remained unchanged, while the central auditorium was replaced by a separate private room.

The room has several sofas, as well as a coffee table, with a separate toilet. The auction tool is an electronic device similar to a calculator. When placing a bid, the VIP only needs to enter the price on it and press the confirm button. If it is the highest bid won by all VIPs within five seconds, the price information and the bidder's room number will be displayed in yellow font on the large screen above the trading desk. The master of ceremonies who is in the room will then ask the VIP if he wants to buy the item being auctioned at this price, and if the VIP confirms that the price displayed is correct, he needs to press the confirmation button again, and then the font on the big screen will turn red. Within fifteen seconds, if no other VIP offers a higher price, the font will turn green, and the master of ceremonies will send the transaction formalities.

It's a bit cumbersome, but it's necessary.

First up at auction is the ring that was once worn on the hand of the former Shah of Iran, Pahlavi, and set with a 50-carat red diamond, a symbol of power.

Seeing that ring, Chu Tianjiang suddenly thought of a question.

Because paper money has lost its credit value, precious metals such as gold and silver have regained their currency. However, the amount of gold and silver in existence is far from sufficient to meet the needs of the market, that is, the amount of gold and silver is too small to be used as currency, and the gold and silver are too bulky to carry, especially for the merchants who travel from city to city during the week. For this reason, there is a need for something that is easy to carry and more valuable than gold and silver to be used as currency, and natural diamonds, especially large natural diamonds, are the best choice.

From Las Vegas to Denver, all the way through, Chu Tianjiang also roughly understood. Natural diamonds ranging from 1 carat to 20 carats are the most common "currency" in the market, with the most common natural diamonds of 5, 10 and 20 carats, and they can be exchanged for gold and silver everywhere.

Herein lies the problem!

Before the Great Tribulation, not to mention a 20-carat diamond, even a 5-carat diamond was worth a lot of money, and there were not many in existence.

Although, according to Stewart, before the catastrophe, in order to sell diamonds at a good price, the world's largest jewelry companies not only monopolized the main diamond sources, but also hoarded a large number of diamonds, and only a small part of them were put into the market, most of which were stored in "diamond warehouses". For example, Kimberlite stocks 70 times the annual global sales of diamonds before the catastrophe. In other words, even if all the world's diamond mines were to shut down, Kimberley's diamond inventory would continue to sell for 70 years.

Even so, there are not enough diamonds in global stocks to be used in large quantities as currency.

What's more, it is very rare to mine natural diamonds that reach 20 carats.

Also, now that diamonds have become "currency", they are no longer treasures, and diamonds that are now auctioned are obviously still considered treasures.

There's definitely something wrong with that!

Chu Tianjiang had a bit of a headache because he didn't know much about economics and finance, and as far as he knew, finance was the strength of the Jews. Among other things, Israel, the land of projectiles, was able to occupy a seat on the Planetary Defense Council by relying on the Jews, who hold the lifeblood of global finance. According to Zhang, Jewish businessmen's donations account for half of the Council's total expenses.

The Denver Jewish group is making a fuss about diamonds, and there must be some kind of attempt.

Soon after, the ring was bought by a wealthy man from abroad for 75 million ounces of gold, and this was only the first treasure to be auctioned.

If every treasure could be sold for such a high price, the total auction price would be billions of ounces of gold!

What is this concept?

Equivalent to thousands of tons of gold!