Chapter 39: The Tokyo Auction
The Tokyo auction has officially begun.
On the first day, Hu Chuyuan was absent, of course, Sheng Xuanhuai and the others did not go, everyone just sent a person in charge, plus a master who was proficient in antiques to help identify the items.
Once in a rare encounter, Sheng Xuanhuai, Tang Yanshu, Qiao Jingyan and other mainland giants gathered together to gamble and talk about cooperation in the mall by the way.
There is no doubt that Hu Chuyuan was isolated by them and left alone.
Hu Chuyuan didn't care, so he stayed in his room and talked to Pan Limei about these Western translations, he couldn't understand them, Pan Limei helped him read them and interpreted them for him.
Because Miss Pan Limei has been wearing a kimono, and when she meets others, she speaks in Chinese, and she looks very attractive, Lu Wenjin and others thought that Hu Chuyuan had hooked up with an Oriental chick as soon as she arrived, which was both envious and sarcastic.
But in these days, Hu Chuyuan has felt more and more that Pan Limei is not only extremely attractive, but also very smart and proficient in Mandarin, and is indeed a rare assistant, which is very helpful to the great cause he wants to engage in.
So, he started Pan Limei's idea, originally just brought over as a translator temporarily, but now he wants to bring her back to China for use.
On the third day, Hu Chuyuan's "Yuan Qinghua" entered the ranks of the lots, and he appeared with Wang Yirong.
In Asia today, art auctions have not yet been formalized, and Togaku Togaku is simply following the example of the West.
There was no formal auction venue, so they rented a traditional Shinto hall in Tokyo's Bunkyo district that could accommodate hundreds of people.
No one could have imagined that such a heavyweight figure as Hu Chuyuan would appear today, as soon as Hu Chuyuan entered the venue, the whole audience began to discuss, and the staff of the Dongyi Club quickly opened the way in front, asked the people on both sides to make way for him, and arranged for him to sit in the first row.
The person in charge of the auction was Shibusawa Tohei, and he didn't expect Hu Chuyuan to appear in person, and it was on this day.
He looked at Hu Chuyuan carefully, and kept guessing in his heart, not knowing which thing Hu Chuyuan was fanciing.
After waiting for about 20 minutes, Shibusawa saw that the whole room was full, so he began to hold an auction.
Now, the entire cultural relics community does not have an exact understanding of the "Yuan Qinghua", and the attention of the Dongyi Club to this collection is not high, so placing it in the third order of auction today is purely a warm-up role.
"The third collection of this auction is the Tang Dynasty blue and white sea white dragon pattern Bafang plum vase, according to the dragon pattern on the bottle for the five claws, our hired connoisseurs believe that the porcelain is a tribute to the imperial court, the fetal quality is thick and uniform, the glaze painting is exquisite, it is a rare boutique in the blue and white porcelain of the Ming Dynasty, the bidding price is only 1,000 Mexican dollars, and the minimum price will increase by 50 yuan per auction!"
Shibusawa Heito made a brief introduction to this blue and white porcelain in Chinese, and the Chinese translator in the field then said again, at this time, Shibusawa Pingdong continued to say in Chinese and Yue: "Who is willing to bid, please bid!" ”
"Mr. Nakamura, bid two thousand foreign won." Soon there were people bidding.
Hearing the surname "Nakamura", Hu Chuyuan thought it was Koji Nakamura coming.
At present, the new foreign yuan has been fully used, but there are still a large number of Mexican foreign yuan in the private sector, and considering that Chinese merchants are also accustomed to using foreign yuan, the common currency of this auction is set as foreign yuan.
"Mr. Watanabe, bid two thousand and fifty yuan."
"Mr. Qiao, bid two thousand one hundred yuan!"
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The merchants of China and Samoto took turns bidding, and the price soon reached 3,000 yuan, and when they reached this position, only Mr. Nakamura and Mr. Qiao, who had been bidding for the auction in the first place, were left in the audience.
Listening to the discussions of the people behind him, Hu Chuyuan roughly knew that he was a member of the Six Societies of the Ming Dynasty and had served as a Confucian instructor in the shogunate, and Nakamura Masanao was competing with Qiao Jingyan, and in terms of financial resources, there was no doubt that Qiao Jingyan had an absolute advantage, but although this type of collection was rare in China, the price would not exceed three hundred taels of silver, that is, more than 450 foreign yuan.
Three thousand foreign dollars is definitely a big loss.
Therefore, Qiao Jingyan did not crush the other party in one go, hoping to spend as little money as possible.
The two continued to entangle for a few turns, and Qiao Jingyan finally couldn't help it, and quoted 3,500 foreign yuan at a time.
This price seems to be much higher than Nakamura's estimate, and when Shibusawa Pingdong asked twice in a row, he still didn't raise his card again, and without waiting for Shibusawa Pingdong to ask for the third time, Hu Chuyuan personally raised his card and said, "3550 foreign yuan!" ”
His patience is very great, 50 foreign dollars at a time, and he can call until tomorrow morning.
Wang Yirong had a close appreciation yesterday and confirmed that the "Yuan blue and white" they received in Suzhou last time belonged to the same era, and the quality of craftsmanship was similar, but this "Yuan blue and white" was more exquisite, even in the imperial tribute porcelain, it was a rare boutique.
The reason why the price is not high is mainly due to doubts about the age and style, and it is difficult to believe that it is porcelain from the Ming Dynasty.
However, for the current international porcelain collection price, the price of 3550 foreign yen is still very high.
As soon as Hu Chuyuan finished speaking, he was soon humane: "Mr. Sheng, 4,000 foreign yuan!" ”
Hu Chuyuan sneered in his heart, he couldn't afford to fight with one of Sheng Xuanhuai's subordinates, and whispered a few words to Wang Yirong.
Immediately, Wang Yirong raised his card and said: "Hu Chuyuan, 5,000 foreign yuan!" ”
"Sheng ...... Sir, 5500 foreign yen. "The person holding the sign was a little hesitant.
Wang Yirong raised the sign again and said: "Hu Chuyuan, 6,000 foreign yuan." ”
“……!” Someone held up a sign and waited for a long time before saying, "Mr. Sheng, 6,100 foreign yuan!" ”
"Hu Chuyuan, 7,000 foreign yuan!"
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"Isn't it, this bottle isn't worth all that money, is it?"
"Of course it's not worth it, even if this is really the imperial official kiln porcelain in the late Ming Dynasty, that's a thousand taels of silver, can you do it, the two masters are fighting!"
"Sheng Xuanhuai is not here, I'm afraid the people he sent don't have the courage to report again!"
There was a lot of discussion in the auction hall, whether it was himself or a Chinese businessman, everyone felt incredible.
Hu Chuyuan is very calm, he is now in charge of the salt industry in the five provinces south of the Yangtze River, and he earns more than 10,000 taels of silver every day.
The most important thing is that he is on the spot.
The incident happened suddenly, even if Sheng Xuanhuai had explained to him in advance, he had to grab everything that Hu Chuyuan fancied, but such a broken bottle grabbed the price of 7,000 foreign yuan, what if Hu Chuyuan finished teasing you and lifted it to 10,000 foreign yuan and didn't report it?
"7,000 foreign yen at a time...... Twice, and no one else bid...... Three times, the deal, congratulations, Mr. Hu Chuyuan! ”
Shibusawa Pingdong happily congratulated Hu Chuyuan, he also felt that Hu Chuyuan was purely fighting with Chinese businessmen, and this porcelain would never be worth so much money.
After buying the only thing he wanted, Hu Chuyuan immediately got up and left, leaving only Wang Yirong to be responsible for receiving the inspection.
He is not stupid, the cheap cultural relics here can be found in various thrift markets in the capital, Europe and the United States, as long as the expensive cultural relics really want to buy, it is definitely twice the market price, or even more.
Why bother!
It's better to pick up girls than to wait silly here.