According to the rules of the trading floor, there is a fifteen-minute break after the five rounds of auctions.

In addition to allowing buyers to breathe a sigh of relief, the main reason is to ensure the safety of the transaction. In other words, successful buyers in the first five rounds of bidding will need to pay a deposit and complete some necessary transaction procedures to ensure that the buyer can pay in full after the auction is over. If the buyer does not pay the deposit in time, the transaction will be cancelled and the auction will be rescheduled unless the full purchase price is paid immediately.

Under this rule, Stewart had to pay a deposit of about 150,000 ounces of gold.

Luckily, diamonds can be used directly on the exchange.

Because the price of entertainment slaves is relatively high, and there is often a scene of competitive bidding, so there are professional diamond appraisers in the trading room, as well as instruments and equipment used to identify the grade of diamonds, which can price the diamonds taken out by merchants on the spot. Although the price set may not be fair, and is generally about 20% lower than the market price, most merchants will not carry too many gold bars, so they can only suffer a dumb loss.

150,000 ounces of gold, equivalent to fifteen twenty-carat colorless diamonds.

Of course, Stewart was also shrewd, and he only used a fifty-carat diamond.

In the case of the same quality, the value of a diamond is not linear but exponential to its quality. A 50-carat colorless diamond is worth more than 10 times as much as a 20-carat diamond of the same quality. Because large diamonds are rare, in large transactions, sellers are more willing to accept large diamonds than common ordinary diamonds. Replacing a fifty-carat one with a twenty-carat one, Stewart did not suffer.

In the next five rounds, the auctions were all for teenagers between the ages of 10 and 14.

Perez was not interested in the minors, and the other merchants were not interested, so Stewart bought the five slaves at a relatively low price.

After that, there were five batches of adult males, and all of them were men of strong physique.

Obviously, these male slaves had the basic qualities to become gladiators, and it is likely that some of them were other powerful legionnaires.

In the first four rounds, Stewart made no bids.

Chu Tianjiang made it very clear that they did not buy male slaves.

To Chu Tianjiang's slight surprise, Perez bought two of them, and they were the two batches with the best quality, and the prices were not low.

"Denver has an arena for gladiatorial performances?"

Stewart was laughing with Carol, who was sitting on the other side, when he heard Chu Tianjiang's words, he immediately turned around and said, "I haven't heard of it, and the Jewish group forbids all barbaric entertainment. ”

"Perez bought those guys for?"

"This ...... I guess it's used for private gladiatorial performances. ”

"Private wrestling?"

Stewart smiled and said, "Any rules that are made by the power of the people are only used to deceive people. Even if almost all the separatist powers banned the slave trade, they all supported it covertly, or even engaged in it, as long as it was not done openly. Whether it's in Denver, or in Houston, or anywhere else where dueling is prohibited, it's going to be done in private. ”

Chu Tianjiang nodded and didn't say anything more.

At this time, the fifth group of male slaves came to power. There were only two male slaves, and neither of them was very strong, and they were both Orientals.

Chu Tianjiang was secretly surprised, and Stuart was a little surprised, and he also glanced at Chu Tianjiang.

"Old Chu ......"

"Don't worry, let's see."

At this time, the trader came to the stage and made an exception to introduce the identities of the two slaves. They are all Japanese expatriates, Japanese-Americans to be exact, members of the Los Angeles Japanese Yakuza before the Apocalypse, and are extremely skilled in martial arts, skilled in the use of Japanese katanas. To prove this, the trader also had his men send two katanas. Just to be on the safe side, two wooden knives for training. Subsequently, under the whip of the personnel of the trading place, the two slaves reluctantly engaged in a combat performance with wooden knives.

Although it was just a performance, Chu Tianjiang could see that these two guys were indeed extraordinary.

Subsequently, the auction began, with prices starting at 100,000 ounces of gold.

This time, Perez took the lead in raising the price, and directly offered a high price of 200,000.

"If they were sold to an arena, or a gladiator training ground, how much would they be worth?"

"It depends on their opponents and the gladiatorial performances they participate in. If they are really powerful and can become the masters of large-scale gladiatorial performances, that is, the main generals who appear in the last place, their value will be incalculable. Even if it is only a fierce general who appears in the middle of the game, it is worth more than 500,000. Stewart glanced at Chu Tianjiang and said, "They are also Asian, do you want to buy them?" ”

"Don't worry, let's see."

Moments later, the price of the two slaves was raised to 400,000 ounces of gold, and it was Perez who called out the price.

Although there are still two merchants who are raising the price, the increase is very small, and even Perez is no exception.

Obviously, most businessmen think that they have the potential to become fierce generals, but they do not believe that they can become strong generals, so 500,000 is the highest price.

Soon, Perez shouted out half a million.

"If you don't make a move, it's too late."

Chu Tianjiang smiled and said, "Do you think we should buy them?" ”

"You are the big boss, and it is your money, it is up to you to decide whether to buy it or not."

"Clara, what do you think?"

"Me?" Clara was stunned for a moment and said, "You can't let Alexei and Valentin be drivers all the time." It's just that if these two guys can't be tamed, your money will be in vain. Of course, money is not an issue, and it doesn't matter if you buy it or not. ”

"Then take it as a good thing."

"Buy?" Stewart hurriedly asked.

"Buy! Million. ”

Stewart was stunned for a moment, quickly raised the bidding sign in his hand, and shouted "one million".

Now, the audience was shocked again.

It is important to know that the merchants who are qualified to come here to participate in the auction are all experts in the slave trade, and they can see the value of each slave at a glance. Buying two slaves who were only worthy of gladiatorial performances in the arena for twice the price was definitely not a good deal. What's more, slave traders are only merchants, not gladiator trainers, so after buying such slaves, most of them will be sold to gladiator trainers, and gladiator trainers are more picky about slaves and may not pay such a high price. Obviously, there was a big difference between this gladiatorial slave and the previous female slaves, especially in the pricing mechanism, there was a clear difference.

If you buy it, but you can't sell it, it's an out-and-out loss-making business.

Perez was furious, but it was the nature of the businessman, the notion of never trading at a loss, that made him resist the urge to raise the price again.

At this time, Perez also saw that Chu Tianjiang was not buying slaves as a businessman at all.

Although the last five rounds are the essence of the daily auction, and the best quality of the most sought-after female slaves will be arranged for the last five rounds of auctions, but seeing that Stewart actively went to make up the deposit, and heard that Stewart had already taken out a fifty-carat diamond, Perez knew that it was hopeless today, and left the auction before the last five rounds of auction expenses, and did not leave to take his own humiliation.

It's just that Perez is not the only one who is working against Stewart.

In the last five rounds, only thirty female slaves were auctioned, all of whom were about twenty years old, most of them were very beautiful, and the last round of auctions was a pair of sisters, but they were not twins. According to Chu Tianjiang's instructions, Stewart offered a price that other merchants were unable to surpass every time.

"If this continues, I'm afraid the funds you gave me today will be spent tomorrow."

"That's what you said yesterday." Chu Tianjiang smiled and patted Stewart's shoulder. "As I said, money is not an issue."

Although he couldn't understand how strong Chu Tianjiang's capital was, but thinking that Chu Tianjiang had never broken his promise, Stewart didn't say much.

At this time, the staff of the trading floor took the initiative to come to Stewart to settle the settlement.

Twenty slaves, sixteen of which Stuart bought, spent a total of about seven million ounces of gold, or seven hundred twenty-carat colorless diamonds.

This time, Stewart was clever but mistaken by cleverness, and when it came time to settle, he took out the ten-carat blood diamond. After a unanimous appraisal by five diamond graders and a comprehensive appraisal, the Exchange exchanged 1,000 20-carat colorless diamonds for the blood diamond. In other words, with only this blood diamond, Stewart not only bought all the slaves, but also recovered the diamonds that were used as a security deposit, and finally asked the trading house to make up 300 colorless diamonds of 20 carats for him, which seemed to be a loss. In fact, Stewart not only suffered, but suffered a big loss. Two days later, the blood diamond was bought at auction for twice the price of a member of the Las Vegas white group, and it was later set in a ring symbolizing power.

Upon learning the news, Stewart regretted it.

Of course, Chu Tianjiang didn't think so. Not to mention a ten-carat blood diamond, as long as he is willing, it is only a matter of making a thousand-carat blood diamond. Besides, on the necklace on Clara's chest, there was a heart-shaped blood diamond weighing fifty carats of the finest color. If a ten-carat blood diamond is worth 20 million ounces, that is, more than 70 tons of gold, then the blood diamond on Clara's necklace may be able to buy Las Vegas. If you count the diamonds in those four boxes, you might be able to buy the whole of America. It's just that if Chu Tianjiang really wants to do this, it means that the value of the diamond will depreciate significantly, and the total value will inevitably shrink significantly.

When Stewart settled the bill, the staff of the trading house sent the slaves he had bought.

The three Andrei brothers had already arrived, and together with two of Stewart's men, they drove five coaches, just enough to fit more than a hundred slaves.