Chapter 51: The Auction Begins
"Okay, then you can arrange it for me."
Chen Xuan nodded.
"Okay, please."
The woman in the long skirt took Chen Xuan to go through the formalities.
And, after checking the assets, the woman in the long skirt immediately gave Chen Xuan a gold-level VIP token.
With this gold-level VIP token, you don't need to verify your assets to participate in auctions at Sihai Auction House in the future, and you can also waive the registration fee for the auction, as well as an exclusive VIP box.
The formalities have been completed.
The woman in the long skirt led Chen Xuan all the way to the auction venue.
The auction venue, the first floor is a large hall.
There are rows of seats in the hall, each with a number.
At this time, there were already more than a hundred people sitting in the hall.
These people, basically dressed in black and wearing masks on their faces, obviously don't want people to know their identities and avoid being targeted after auctioning off treasures.
The Four Seas Auction House will definitely not do that murderous thing and smash its own signboard.
However, those who attended the auction said that it was not necessarily.
The large-scale auction held by the auction house of the four seas, there are internal strength, elixir, divine weapons, etc., this is a major event in Lingnan Prefecture, and masters from all over the world will be attracted to it.
Even, there are some wanted criminals of the imperial court, demon sects, etc...... Hidden in it after the disguise.
Some clever disguise techniques, unless the innate grandmaster checks them, it is difficult to find flaws.
For example, Chen Xuan's disfigurement exercise of transferring muscles and bones, even if it is a person he is familiar with, he cannot be recognized.
However, the background of the Four Seas Auction House is also extraordinary, the Four Seas Chamber of Commerce behind it is one of the top ten chambers of commerce in the Great Jin Dynasty, and every time a large-scale auction is held, a congenital grandmaster will be invited from the chamber of commerce in the state city.
Therefore, basically no one dares to make trouble at the auction and disrupt the order of the auction.
"Honor, upstairs, please."
The woman in the long skirt led Chen Xuan through the passage on one side to the second floor of the auction hall.
Chen Xuan observed that the entire auction hall had three floors.
Among them, the box on the second floor is only eligible for those with assets of more than 100,000 taels of silver.
The silver taels that Chen Xuan carried just met this requirement.
As for the box on the third floor, it is prepared for the top few big forces in the capital city and some powerful figures, or the assets reach more than 200,000 taels of silver, or they are martial artists of the Tongqi Realm.
After a while, Chen Xuan came to the box numbered '228' on the second floor.
Entering the box, the woman in the long skirt explained some of the rules of the auction to Chen.
"It's hard work!"
After the woman in the long skirt finished explaining, Chen Xuan took out a silver ticket of five taels from her body as a tip.
"Thank you, very much." The woman in the long skirt put away the silver ticket, and suddenly smiled like a flower and said: "After the auction, if the VIP has any needs, you can come to the little girl at any time, the little woman's number is '88', of course, if the VIP needs to leave the little girl to serve now, it is also okay, no one will come in and disturb." ”
As she spoke, the woman in the long skirt also showed a look of anticipation on her face.
The VIPs who entered the second floor of the auction hall had assets of more than 100,000 taels of silver, and if they served well, they might redeem her from the auction and live a life of brocade clothes and jade.
This is also an opportunity for all the maids in the auction hall to change their fate.
"I see, I'll call you when I need to."
Chen Xuan politely refused the service of the '88' maid.
Hearing this, the '88' maid also walked out of the box with some loss.
Chen Xuan sat in the box, waiting for the auction to begin.
Half an hour later.
The hall on the first floor was almost full.
The cost of participating in the auction alone can be at least tens of thousands of taels.
In addition, if something is handed over to the auction house for auction, a certain fee will be charged.
In addition to some of the items auctioned at the auction, some of them belong to the Four Seas Chamber of Commerce, and some of them are entrusted by others to the auction house for auction.
After a while, the auction began.
Chen Xuan sat in the box and watched the auction held below, and the things auctioned were indeed extraordinary.
Exercises, medicinal herbs, pills, rare treasures from all over the world, etc., are all difficult to buy outside, and basically all start with five hundred taels of silver, and things below five hundred taels of silver are not eligible to appear at auctions at this level.
However, these are only hors d'oeuvres, and the auctions are all from the first floor.
The VIPs in the box on the second floor have not made a bid until now.
Chen Xuan observed, and soon found that the price was not all customers, but also a few trusts.
These trusts, when encountering unpopular things, when the item is auctioned, a starting price is called to avoid unsuccessful auctions, as long as there are other customers who continue to bid, then these people will basically not continue to bid after that.
When you encounter something that is hot, you will also ask for it at the right time and raise the price.
These trusts are basically the auction's own people, which is a normal marketing method.
Little by little, time passed.
An hour has passed, and ordinary items have almost been auctioned.
"The next thing to be auctioned is the elixir, and the first elixir is called Extreme Cold Lingzhi." The auctioneer introduced: "Extremely cold Lingzhi, this is one of the elixirs for refining Tongmai Pill, there are a total of ten plants, each with a starting price of one thousand taels of silver, and each increase in price shall not be less than one hundred taels of silver. ”
"I'll give you a thousand taels."
Seeing the appearance of the extremely cold Ganoderma lucidum, Chen Xuan also cheered up and opened his mouth to bid.
"One thousand one hundred taels."
"One thousand two hundred taels."
"One thousand three hundred taels."
“……”
As Chen Xuan spoke, voices also sounded one after another, competing for the bid.
Soon, the price broke through two thousand taels of silver.
"Three thousand taels!"
Seeing this, Chen Xuan directly increased the price by 1,000 taels of silver.
"Three thousand taels, it's too expensive."
"Forget it, there are nine Extreme Cold Lingzhi underneath."
Hearing Chen Xuan's bid of three thousand taels, some people shook their heads one after another.
"Congratulations to the guests of No. 228 for taking pictures of the Extreme Cold Lingzhi."
As the auctioneer's voice fell, someone from the auction immediately sent the Extreme Cold Lingzhi to the '228' box.
Then, Chen Xuan spent another 6,000 taels to auction two strains of Extremely Cold Lingzhi, a total of three, and spent 9,000 taels of silver.
Next, there are more than 30 different elixirs such as Qingxin Grass, Tianfei Fruit, Snow Jade Ginseng, Huoyuan Leaf, etc., and the lowest of these elixirs is more than 1,000 taels of silver.
There were a few elixirs, and they even fetched a high price of more than 10,000 taels of silver.
When Chen Xuan saw the elixir he needed, he opened his mouth to ask for a price, spending a total of 35,000 taels of silver to buy three copies of the elixir for refining the Tongmai Pill.