Atlantis.

Ji Sheng had just finished cutting the ribbon with the local leaders, Grandmaster Fan Zeng and others.

Many important customers who arrived in advance poured over as soon as they cut the ribbon.

"Teacher Fan, I can count myself as seeing you."

"Ouch, I'm here for you this time."

"Mr. Fan, can I make an appointment with you for a painting?"

A large group of people surrounded Fan Zeng, who was in his eighties, not to mention how eager his attitude was.

Even Liu Xiong, a billionaire in Xiangjiang and a top collector, was very stammering: "Teacher Fan, I heard that you came to participate in the auction, and we will have a drink together?" ”

Fan Zeng smiled magnanimously and said, "Isn't Mr. Liu not in good health?" Later, you can replace the wine with tea. ”

Ji Sheng was secretly glad to be watching from the side, thanks to himself for inviting Fan Zeng, otherwise there would definitely not be so many people present, especially Liu Xiong, who is very famous in the collection circle, and even some auction houses have to ask him to collect things if they want to auction them.

Of course, there are also a small number of people around Ji Sheng.

These people are basically among the world's treasures.

"Xiao Ji, I wish you a complete success in this autumn auction."

"Thank you, Mr. Qu."

"Xiao Ji, this time I took a fancy to the baby, it was the Yuan Qinghua standard, how much do you think I can take it down?"

"Ouch Yun Lao, I can't say this well, of course I hope you pay as much as possible."

"Haha, you little slippery head."

A group of people chatted and entered the restaurant inside the hotel.

These people who can participate in the ribbon-cutting ceremony are all heavyweight customers, Ji Sheng and they will definitely have to invite them to dinner, as for ordinary customers, they don't have this treatment.

Although the gavel is about to be raised, Ji Sheng, Lu Zhengqing and others still don't have much confidence in their hearts, don't look at the fact that there will be a total of four or five thousand customers coming this time, in fact, there are only seventy or eighty real heavyweights, so if you want the turnover figure to be beautiful, it is these heavyweight customers who play a real decisive role.

Take advantage of the crowd to go to the restaurant to eat.

Ji Sheng chatted with Lu Zhengqing, Master Cheng, Zou Qingqiu and others for a while.

"It's finally going to start, and I don't know what will happen tonight."

"I hope we can make more deals tonight, otherwise the outside knows that we can't compare to Sotheby's, and we won't die of laughter?"

"Lao Lu, why don't you have confidence? We didn't really fight Sotheby's, do you really think we can win Sotheby's? ”

"That is, to attract so many customers to come, it is already a success of 'touching porcelain', what do you expect?"

Niu Yuanzhong, Wu Hongyi and Tian Liangping said with a smile.

Having said that, Ji Sheng could also see the nervousness in their expressions, in fact, why wasn't he nervous? After all, it's about how much money a few of them can make.

……

Meanwhile.

The outside world is also not calm.

Since Ji Sheng and others released the news that they were going to fight with Sotheby's, people in the collection circle have been concerned about whether they participated in the auction of these two parties or not.

"Eh, it's time for Sotheby's and the auction of ancient and modern art in the evening."

"Ouch, don't you say that I almost forgot, tonight is going to be a showdown, one is a giant in the auction industry, and the other is a little-known ancient and modern art that is said to have brought such a top collection as the Chenghua Doucai Chicken Bowl Cup, who do you say will win?"

"Does that need to be said? It's got to be Sotheby's! ”

"That's it, don't ask this kind of question."

"This is also, although ancient and modern art has brought such a peerless treasure as the chicken bowl cup, but in terms of hard power, there is too much difference with Sotheby's, I estimate that the turnover of Sotheby's autumn auction should be more than 3.5 billion, as for ancient and modern art, it is good to have a turnover of 1.5 billion, Xiling Seal Society This autumn auction is only 900 million, and 1.5 billion is already very high to look at ancient and modern art."

"That's my opinion, too."

……

The topic goes on and on.

Originally, these were all normal discussions.

It is true that Sotheby's is too famous, and now it is being challenged by an auction company that has just been known to everyone, just like an ant challenging an elephant, how can people in the collecting circle not talk about such a happy thing?

Although this ant is very strong from the current situation, no matter how strong it is, it is still an ant, and it is normal for no one to be optimistic that Ji Sheng, Lu Zhengqing and others can win the auction held by Sotheby's.

However, at this time, a senior vice president of Xiangjiang Fubi suddenly spoke up, and he tore his face without warning and said: "I can only describe the behavior of ancient and modern art as despicable in order to gain popularity, which is extremely shameful in the auction industry. As long as the long-headed people know that this is impossible, how can their joint auction cobbled together by a group of rabble compare with our Sotheby's? ”

The phrase was uttered in front of a reporter who interviewed him when the reporter asked Sotheby's what would happen if he lost tonight, and Sotheby's senior vice president was annoyed.

In fact, I don't blame the senior vice president of Sotheby's for being angry, in previous years, they had five or six thousand customers present at the autumn auction, but this time they were trumpeted by Ji Sheng, and in the end there were only about 5,000 customers who went to Sotheby's to participate in the auction, which was a thousand fewer than in previous years, especially Liu Xiong, who often cooperates with them at Sotheby's, also went to participate in Ji Sheng's autumn auction this time, how could this not make Sotheby's angry?

Oh, just rub my heat.

And now we have kidnapped our big customers.

What's more, just because of Ji Sheng's trouble, Sotheby's has nearly 20% fewer customers in this autumn auction than in previous years.

Anyone would be angry.

In fact, Sotheby's senior vice president said that it was nothing.

What is the misinterpretation of those media outlets, after Sotheby's senior vice president said these words, the major media outlets immediately sent out a series of sensationalist news to attract traffic.

"Sotheby's threatens to do ancient and modern art!" 》

"Sotheby's high-level bombardment of ancient and modern art rabble! 》

Despicable Art of Ancient and Modern? Sotheby's denounced! 》

The negativity is getting louder!

This matter is getting bigger and bigger!

Even, many people who don't care about auctions and collections have seen a burst of auction-related information on Weibo today, and the terms Sotheby's and ancient and modern art occupy two positions in the top ten hot searches, respectively in eighth and ninth.

There are also people who don't think it's a big deal to see the excitement and take the initiative to open the vote, asking everyone to vote for who has more sales in this auction between Sotheby's and ancient and modern art.

Sotheby's took about 80 percent of the vote.

There are only 15 percent of ancient and modern art.

Another five percent are hard to say about the vote.

Obviously, even on the day of the auction, the vast majority of people are still not optimistic about the autumn auction of ancient and modern art.

……

Around five o'clock in the afternoon.

Atlantis One.

The customers are gradually entering the market, coming in one by one, and a third of the customers are almost ready in their seats, and the auctioneer Gao Mingde, who is in charge of this auction today, is also waiting in the background, and the master of equipment debugging is still in the final inspection.

Ji Sheng also said to the walkie-talkie in the backstage: "Have all the customers in Hall 2 entered?" ”

There was a smack, "All are entering in an orderly manner." ”

Ji Sheng said, "Received, what's going on in Hall 3?" ”

Subsequently, Hall 3, Hall 4 and Hall 5 all reported on the situation one after another.

Because the auctions in the five halls were held at the same time, Ji Sheng would definitely be too busy alone, so he could only stare at the most important hall tonight.

But just when all the preparations were ready and the customers were halfway in, Lu Zhengqing, Niu Yuanzhong, Zou Qingqiu and several other people hurriedly ran over.

Ji Sheng's brows furrowed as soon as he saw them, "Mr. Lu, Mr. Niu, Mr. Zou, why don't you each stare at a few auction halls here?" ”

"Mr. Ji, something happened!" Lu Zhengqing said with a solemn face.

"What's wrong?" Ji Sheng's heart tightened.

Zou Qingqiu pointed to the mobile phone screen and said: "Just now, the staff at the propaganda outlet told me that our auction was bombarded by Sotheby's, saying that we were a rabble, and that they would take us down, and now the outside world is waiting to see our jokes." ”

Niu Yuanzhong said angrily: "Even if we really rub off on the popularity of Sotheby's, Sotheby's can't bombard us like this, right?" Everyone is mixed up in the auction industry, and they don't see each other when they look up, and I really don't know what they mean by such a bad bombardment. ”

Tian Liangping also said beside him: "This is maliciously smearing us!" ”

Wu Hongyi said solemnly: "I really don't take us in my eyes because of the auction brother, I am angry when I hear it, Mr. Ji, you say, how do we respond to Sotheby's?" ”

Many of their staff were indignant when they heard it.

Yes, they have rubbed off on Sotheby's popularity, but they have never publicly slandered Sotheby's in the public, let alone taken the initiative to say that they really want to challenge Sotheby's, but the auction announcement was released one after another, making the outside world think that they were going to challenge Sotheby's and attracted some attention, but what about Sotheby's now? actually bombarded the media directly, if their auction was relatively successful, it would be easy to say, but if it was really not ideal, it would definitely be laughed to death by people outside, everyone has been busy for so many days, they are already very nervous, and now there is this kind of thing, of course everyone can't accept it!

"Mr. Ji."

"How do we do it?"

"You say something."

Everyone was very angry and asked, and many staff members who were busy with other things came over.

Ji Sheng looked at them, "What else can I do?" Of course, it is to do the work at hand well, and there is still a short time before the official gavel is raised, as long as our turnover is good, all smear and doubt will come to an abrupt end, this is the best response, okay, go busy with your own business! ”

When the people heard this, they dispersed.

Ji Sheng really thinks so, in this case, in addition to hoping to be able to make more transactions, the turnover is higher, there is really nothing to refute, as long as their turnover figures are beautiful, they will give Sotheby's a resounding slap in the face, naturally, he will not respond to anything, if he has the time to respond, it is better to pray to God that he can make more transactions tonight!