Chapter 5: Getting Rich Overnight
Half a month later, at Sotheby's Auction House in London, a special auction was about to begin, and Yang Feng, a translator at the Chinese Embassy in the UK, commissioned Sotheby's auction firm to auction him a watch that can be said to represent the pinnacle of today's watchmaking technology. This has been confirmed by some of the most famous Swiss watchmakers, whether it is Boiso, Patek Philippe, Vacheron Constantin, Jaeger-LeCoultre, Audemars Piguet or Audemars Piguet, who have admitted that they are not capable of making the same watches, at least not in the short term.
That's enough to make the old British pirates flock to it, and what's even more crazy is that there are only nine such watches, because...
"This is a friend of mine who spent five years working hard to make it. He was an avid watch enthusiast whose lifelong quest was to one day reach the pinnacle of watchmaking. He succeeded, but unfortunately tragedy struck at this time. Yang Feng said and wiped a tear from the corner of his eye, but unfortunately the tears were wiped more and more.
"Mr. Yang, although it is rude to continue this topic at this time, we all hope to know what made such a master fall." The reporter who interviewed him said in an apologetic tone.
"Quite simply, my friend is Jewish, and he lives in Russia, so I don't think I need to say much about the rest." Yang Feng choked up and said.
Ma's, I knew that Lao Tzu's acting skills were so good that I didn't need to smear chili water on the handkerchief, this thing thought to himself as he spoke.
The reporter immediately understood the end of this master of watches, Russia has been expelling Jews all these years, and there have even been many killings, and this friend of Yang Translator must have been killed by those barbaric Russians.
Immediately afterwards, Boss Yang described the legendary experience of these ten watches (including the one he left with him to remember his friends). In this saga, he becomes Carden in Dickens's novel A Tale of Two Cities, and after learning that his friend's family is in danger, he travels thousands of miles to drive his yacht to Russia.
Unfortunately, by the time he arrived, the Bao disciples had already begun to attack the Jewish village, and he protected his friend's family and fled to the sea, but in the end, because of his lack of strength, his watchmaker friend and his wife both died at the hands of the Bao disciples, and before they died, they gave him ten watches that they had worked so hard to make.
When telling the whole story, Boss Yang also vaguely showed his deep love for that friend's wife.
With this legendary story as the background, this auction has an extra solemn color, and because Yang Feng has already explained that only one of these nine watches will be auctioned in the United Kingdom, and one will be dedicated to Her Majesty the Queen, of course, not to Victoria, but Xue Fucheng bought it as a Chinese minister and then presented it as a birthday gift for her.
The price is all for acquaintances, and Yang Feng can give him a seven-fold discount according to the auction price.
As for the other seven, they will be sold in France, Germany, Italy, Switzerland, the United States, Turkey and China, and as for what is not in the scope of sales in Russia, this does not need to be explained.
Therefore, the British tycoons and watchmakers who rushed to hear the news can be said to have turned the auction into a show off their wealth for this watch, and Boss Yang sat on the sidelines, listening to the rising bids, and the smile on his face was very hard.
"Brother Yang, 100,000 pounds is enough to buy a cruiser." Huang Zunxian said beside him, after working together for so many days, he knew what kind of character this guy was, and he simply scoffed at his story.
"Don't be in a hurry, don't be in a hurry, it looks like it can rise again." Yang Feng whispered with the sadness that he had tried to pretend to be.
"This price is too high, even if it is a seven-fold discount, Lord Xue will not be able to buy it again." Huang Zunxian said lightly.
"It doesn't matter, I just don't have a piece for sale in Spain." Yang Feng shrugged his shoulders and said, even if Xue Fucheng is willing to do this, he is not willing to do it! You must know that a seven-fold discount is a loss of nearly 40,000 pounds!
In the end, this seagull skeleton tourbillon was bought by a British duke for 120,000 pounds, which is almost equal to the cost of the Zhiyuan, Yang Feng couldn't help but feel that these old British pirates are really rich.
As for the auction of several other watches, he did not attend in person, and Boss Yang entrusted them to the auction houses of these countries, but he required that the auction must be staggered, once every other month, so that there is a lot of advertising effect. In fact, the last seven watches were sold for a total of 1 million pounds, the highest of which was in Turkey, where they were not auctioned, but were directly bought by the Ottoman Emperor for 200,000 pounds.
Yang Feng, who became rich overnight, the essence of the loser was immediately revealed, this goods first bought a small manor by the river in the suburbs of London, and then got a batch of housekeepers, servants, coachmen, bodyguards and the like, and even chose a blonde beauty like Keira Knightley as a tutor for herself, responsible for teaching herself to play the piano, draw oil painting or something, and occasionally get wet together, as for the real purpose, this does not need to be explained.
However, the job of interpreter at the Chinese embassy has not quit, but he is just a little unprofessional, but when he is needed, he is still on call, but he usually no longer lives in the embassy, to be honest, Yang Feng feels that if he continues to live in London, maybe he will have to live many years less!
At this time, London really lived up to its name as the fog capital, with towering chimneys spitting out billowing soot, fog mixed with thick smoke throughout a PM2.5 world, at this time no one in Europe will talk about environmental protection, that is after people have had enough, and now this is a symbol of national strength.
In addition to a comfortable life, his career is also thriving, after curing several dying patients who came to him one after another, or it can also be said to be an experiment of a dead horse as a live horse doctor, the mysterious oriental elixir of Tiansheng Water has also spread rapidly in London, especially when Yang Feng used it to easily cure an incurable disease of an earl, this reputation has become golden.
At this point, Xue Fucheng and others also gave him a lot of help, because he relied more and more on Yang Feng's reputation in high society, and Lao Xue had to lie to him against his will.
"Yes, Tiansheng Water is indeed a famous medicine in our Chinese legends, but this thing requires a variety of rare medicinal materials, so it is very difficult to prepare, I have only seen it in some books, but I didn't expect to be able to see it now." As a Chinese minister, Xue Fucheng stubbornly the reporters who came to cover him.
"Lord Xue, thank you!" After sending the reporter away, Yang Feng said to Xue Fucheng with a smile.
"Don't make this mess for me in the future, there are a lot of British people in our country, if these reporters check with them, and find out that there is no such drug in China after the most lucrative time, it will have a great impact on my reputation, I am a minister, not a businessman." Xue Fucheng said angrily.
"Don't worry! Our Chinese medicine is broad and profound, how can they understand these ghosts, besides, you have told them, this is legendary, they don't know that it is normal, and it is said that we still have immortal medicine, do they also go to check if it is true? Yang Feng said with a smile.
He came to ask Xue Fucheng this time if he still wanted the watch, if he didn't want it, he would really get it to Spain to sell it.
"No, we've already prepared gifts, and it doesn't matter if your watch is cheap, but a hundred thousand pounds a piece is impossible to buy anyway." Xue Fucheng said.
This was expected by Yang Feng as early as possible, just go back and put this watch for auction in Spain, he actually came to Xue Fucheng for another purpose.
"Lord Xue, you have to attend the queen's birthday in person, right?" This thing came to Xue Fucheng and said mysteriously.
Xue Fucheng nodded and looked at him.
"I'm your translator too, don't I?"
Xue Fucheng nodded again, although he had more than one translator, but Yang Feng was the best choice to attend such an occasion, and sometimes he wondered if the gentle and personable young man in the social occasion was the same person as the profiteer in front of him who smelled of copper.
"Can I say a few more words while I'm translating?"
Xue Fucheng immediately became vigilant, if he went to the queen's birthday to sell his things, it would be a big joke.
"No way!" Lao Xue said without hesitation.
"Listen to me! First of all, my pills are amazing, you should admit that, right?" Yang Feng said unhurriedly.
Xue Fucheng admitted this point that he had seen Yang Feng use Tiansheng water to treat people's diseases, so it could almost be said that the medicine would cure the disease.
"So you recommend me to the British royal family, absolutely only good and no harm, first of all, as a Chinese, if they don't have no other way, they won't think of me, that is to say, if they use me to treat the disease, it must be that the British doctor can't cure it, at this time, if I can cure it, it can definitely be said to be an unexpected surprise, if I can't treat it, it is reasonable, so there is no danger at all." Yang Feng said.
Xue Fucheng thought about it, but this is indeed the case, and Yang Feng's Tianyi Divine Water, the effect can be said to bring the dead back to life, if he can really cure the illness of a member of the British royal family, it will definitely be of great help to Sino-British relations.
The old man's eyes rolled for a while, and he felt that this matter was worth gambling, and there would be no loss left and right, it was nothing more than finding a name to recommend to Yang Feng, and besides, he was indeed very confident in Yang Feng's natural life.