Because Shimazu Nakano doesn't put up a show, even Liu Xing and others have his private phone number, so Liu Xing directly sent the news of the auction to Shimazu Nakano.

As a result, before a minute had passed, Shimazu Nakano called, "Mr. Meteor, are you sure there is such an auction?" ”

"That's right, now the Fallen Wood Auction House has started to advertise this auction, so I want to know if this Fallen Wood Auction House is related to our samurai faction or the public faction?" Liu Xing replied directly.

Shimazu Nakano on the other end of the phone was silent for a moment before he spoke: "Judging from the news I know, there is a good chance that this falling wood auction house is on the side of the public faction, because when a foreign auction house like this enters the island country, it will generally cooperate with a certain family in the island country, so that it can be convenient to act, after all, the things involved in the auction house are relatively special, and the people for the group are also relatively special, so if you can cooperate with the big family of the island country, the auction house can integrate into the island country faster. Find more and better quality buyers. ”

"Therefore, when this falling wood auction house entered the island country, it was a cooperation with the Eagle Division family in the Five Photographers' family, although this Eagle Division family is the bottom of the Five Photographers' family, and the overall strength is not very good, but the name of the Five Photographers still adds a lot of glory to it, after all, before the real fight, we still have to give some respect to the name of the Five Photographers; It is also because of the name of the Five Shooters that the Eagle Priest family must belong to the public faction, but I believe that you should have heard of Mr. Meteor, and the Five Shooters family actually does not intend to interfere in the battle of the public army. ”

"The reason is very simple, the Five Families are not so much a public family as a royal family, so even if the Public Family faction is defeated in the Battle of Gongwu, the Five Families will not be affected too much, of course, if the Five Families participate too much in the Battle of Gongwu, our martial arts faction still doesn't mind cutting off one of their arms; Therefore, today's Wushi family is to participate in the war in name, and at most send a few family members to join the battle in their personal name, so that the Wushi family can win blood and earn, and lose without loss, in short, unless the royal family is finished, the Wushi family cannot fall. ”

"So I now suspect that the reason why the Fallen Wood Auction House is holding an auction at this time should be the ghost behind the Takaji family, and the reason is simple, that is, after our samurai faction took over the city of Nagoya, it is not easy for the public faction to transport some things to the city through normal channels, after all, we have already controlled the channels for all kinds of materials to enter the city, and we are also prepared on the main road for the smuggling car route, although it is impossible to do a drop of water, but it can also be stopped."

"But the antiques and works of art to be sold at the auction are not a channel that we can intervene in, because these things are sent to the airport by air route, and then escorted to the auction house by the auction house's own security forces, so in this process, it is difficult for us to get in touch with those auction items, because these auction items have been inspected by customs, and it is normal for the customs to not find something abnormal... So even if we know there's something wrong with those things, we can only watch them enter the auction house, unless we send someone to disguise themselves as robbers. ”

After listening to Shimazu Nakano's words, Liu Xing could only sigh and said: "That's true, it seems that the public faction came prepared this time, and it was decided that even if we knew, we would be helpless against them... So I suspect that the Fallen Wood Auction House will provoke us by sending invitations to our samurai factions. ”

As soon as Liu Xing's voice fell, Sonoda Juri's mobile phone rang, and then Sonoda Juri turned his mobile phone screen towards Liu Xing, and Liu Xing saw an invitation letter, and the sender of this message was Sawada Yayin.

It seems that the Fallen Wood Auction House is really starting to jump in the face.

"It seems that Mr. Meteor, you are still a prophet, and just now the Falling Wood Auction House sent someone to send me an invitation, hoping that our Shimazu family can enjoy their faces to participate in this auction tomorrow."

Liu Xing could hear that although Shimazu Nakano's tone was slightly smiling, he was also a little gritted his teeth.

After all, this level of face jumping is still very unpleasant, because this is what "I know you look at me unpleasantly, but you can't bite me".

One thing to say, Liu Xing is also a little unhappy now, but he can't find a place to vent it.

Therefore, Liu Xing could only ask, "What should we do now?" Do you want to go to this auction and add a few shows to them? ”

"Forget it, even if we maliciously raise the price, the result will be that the public faction will take what they want, after all, the public faction has already colluded with the Falling Wood Auction House, not to mention that the water in this auction industry is already very deep."

Shimazu Nakano said with a wry smile: "There is such a saying in the auction world, that is, when a thing is auctioned at a high price, then there will be a hundred similar things in the market to increase its value at the same time, so you can see from the news that after a calligraphy and painting is sold at a high price, the news for the next period of time will mention that other auctions are also won by calligraphy and painting, and this trick is also used by some people to raise the value of a famous artist." ”

"Oh, I know, more than ten years ago, there was a painter whose works cost more than 100,000 yuan, but in just a few years, because his works would cost tens of thousands of dollars every time they appeared on the auction house, so now his works are already guaranteed to be millions... To put it mildly, I think Van Gogh's paintings have been hyped up little by little, although his paintings are indeed quite good. Liu Xing couldn't help but complain.

"I think so too."

To Liu Xing's surprise, Shimazu Nakano actually agreed with his idea, "Actually, Mr. Meteor, you may not know, I used to be an oil painting lover when I was in college, and Van Gogh at that time could only be regarded as a little famous, after all, he was also a typical posthumous fame... Let me just say that the works of a painter like this, who became famous after his death, are the most likely to be hyped up, because the tragic life of Huai Cai is the most acceptable plus point for the public, after all, tragic stories are often more memorable than comedy stories, and people are also easy to sympathize with the weak. ”

"For most of the antiques, their workmanship is certainly far inferior to the modern ones, so there is only one reason why they can be sold at sky-high prices - history, and the history here can be divided into two, that is, the age and the story, generally speaking, the older the age, the more valuable the antique, but the antiques of the last few hundred years or so will not change much because of the age, so these ancient stories will be told, and the stories here should focus on its producers and owners."

Therefore, if Van Gogh's works want to sell for a high price, in addition to being good-looking, then Van Gogh must also become a real celebrity, so that these works can sell for sky-high prices... To put it mildly, two paintings with a similar level of painting can be sold for 10 million by a famous artist, and it is almost the same if an unknown person can sell for 1,000. . . So I also witnessed how Van Gogh became the most famous painter in the world, because I was also a witness in the first round of the hype about Van Gogh. ”

"Hype? You mean "Sunflowers"? ”

Because Liu Xing's mobile phone was on hands-free, Sonoda Akari on the side also heard Shimazu Nakano's words.

"That's right, it's "Sunflowers", when the golden age of the island country, that is, when the economic bubble just started, I also felt that I had countless money in my hands, plus I liked oil painting at that time, so I waved money to buy famous works all over the world, and at that time I knew several of the same oil painting lovers, one of them once bought a pair of "Sunflowers", and that "Sunflowers" was destroyed because of the war, so he wanted to buy another one, after all, Van Gogh's "Sunflowers" But there are more than a dozen. ”

"Because I was going to Europa to buy paintings, I set off with the man, and on the way he got a call from the seller, and something interesting happened - the seller decided to put Sunflowers up for auction, but in the end, no matter how high the man's bid, he could get the Sunflowers for free; So, that person won the "Sunflowers" for hundreds of times the price, and Van Gogh's paintings have risen from then on. ”

"By the way, Van Gogh created thousands of paintings in his lifetime, but most of the paintings are practiced according to the current term, or works of immature skills, and after Van Gogh's death, the best of more than 200 paintings were bought by the same collector, which can be said to be controlled by today's stock market, of course, we can't rule out that this collector really likes Van Gogh's paintings, but if this collector really likes it, then Van Gogh will not find a short-term in poverty; Of course, the most important thing is that Van Gogh is indeed qualified to be portrayed as a tragic genius who has never met a talent. ”

In addition, Van Gogh's main score is that his works are different, and there are certain differences between his works and the mainstream painters of the time in terms of technique and subject selection, which makes Van Gogh a non-mainstream artist, representing rebellion against the world and speaking for the people... In short, if you look up Van Gogh's Wikipedia now, you can see that his paintings have become a symbol, representing a spirit, and this is a typical subjective assumption, anyway, Van Gogh is now speechless. ”

Hearing Shimazu Nakano say this, Liu Xing suddenly felt as if he had seen a reading comprehension question - what kind of spirit do you think Van Gogh's painting "XX" shows him?

Maybe if Van Gogh was asked to do this question, the result might be a zero score.

Wait, this topic seems to be getting more and more biased.

Listening to Shimazu Nakano's tone, Liu Xing felt that he could still talk about the topic of "Van Gogh" for an hour or two, so Liu Xing hurriedly said: "Well, Mr. Shimazu, let's talk about tomorrow's auction now." ”

"Well, okay, okay, let's get back to the topic, in fact, the main reason why I talk about Van Gogh is to prove the conclusion I mentioned before - one person attains the Tao, and the chicken and dog ascend to heaven; I took a look at tomorrow's auction and found that the auction will last for three days, and the composition of the auction items for the three days is actually about the same, and the auction items on the first day are not as good as the similar auctions in the next two days, so I think you know what I mean, right? Shimazu Nakano said seriously.

"I understand, Mr. Shimazu, what you mean is that the Fallen Wood Auction House wants to use the first day of auction to raise the price, so that the price of the auction items in the next two days will rise, so that if we want to participate in the auction, it is very likely that we will pay a high premium to buy it, and it is not necessarily what the public faction wants... It seems that this fallen wood auction house wants to eat it both ways! ”

Liu Xing immediately pondered and continued: "If we participate in the auction, although we may lose some money, we can determine how many items the public faction took from this auction, and then determine what may be in it according to these things, so we still have to participate in this auction, and we must also participate in the bidding." ”

"That's not a lot of money."

Shimazu Nakano sighed and said: "Prosperous antiques, troubled gold, now after a few decades of peace, the price of antiques has been rising, and it can even be said that it is inflated, so we increase the price on the inflated price, so the loss is not a star and a half, so I have been looking at the album while talking on the phone at this time, and found that even if it is tomorrow's auction, the cheapest painting can be sold for hundreds of thousands, or even millions, and a total of 120 items will be sold in these three days!" ”

"Hiss~"

Liu Xing and the others couldn't help but gasp.

Although Liu Xing and others have always said that there is no shortage of money, but this is not short of money is only relatively speaking, if you really want Liu Xing and others to take out 100 million at a time, although it is indeed possible to take it out, but it will also be a little nerve-wracking, not to mention that this is just an antique that has no practical use, and it is not easy to change it into cash in the follow-up... The most important thing is that the price of this antique is still inflated, so this time around, Liu Xing's 100 million may become half a billion.

"Since there is a person in the auction industry who has attained the Tao, the saying that the chicken and dog ascend to heaven, that person will be convicted and beheaded, and recently there was a porcelain that had just been sold at a sky-high price was revealed to be a fake, and as a result, the porcelain in the last few auctions was either unsold or the price fell directly to the bottom."

Yes, it seems that this 100 million may only be 0.10 million.