money trouble

Chapter 212
The Desert Eagle uses 0.357 Magnum bullets, and its effective range reaches an astonishing 200 meters. This is a pistol, and the bullet's exit speed has reached an astonishing 400 meters per second, which has exceeded the speed of sound.

There are more tricks that can be played in indoor target shooting, such as fixed target, moving target, rotating target, etc., but for beginners, these tricks are not friendly.

The Desert Eagle is difficult to control. Wu Qian feels that every time he shoots out, his hands will shake. This also explains why in the game, after the Desert Eagle shoots a shot, it takes a while to recover. The same is true in reality, it takes a certain amount of time to aim again.

Such a "bulky" and exquisite gun is difficult to maintain stability in harsh environments, and it is no wonder that it will be abandoned by all armies.

It doesn't matter how good the grade is, the most important thing is being cool. In the end, Wu Qian fired 15 shuttle bullets, a total of 105 rounds.The bullets of the Desert Eagle are not as expensive as AWP, but they are also more expensive than ordinary pistols, 5 pounds a piece.

During this period, Wu Qian asked Rosalind and Kux if they wanted to play, their heads shook like rattles. They used to shoot hundreds of bullets a day during training, and they were already tired and crooked, and their muscles had already formed memories. I finally found an employer, and it's no problem to relax for a while.

Wu Qian played in the SSS Shooting Club for more than 2 hours, and spent only a little over 2000 pounds. He felt hearty, and it was no worse than driving a car for several hours. If he really owns a piece of land, he will throw some prey after he surrounds it. Hunting in the hunting ground, the feeling, even thinking about it is enjoyable, it is truly a noble entertainment.

Bang bang bang bang for half an afternoon, Wu Qian felt extremely excited, sat back on the phantom, relaxed, and suddenly felt a little tired, and even brought a bottle of red wine with him in the rented Rolls-Royce, the service was very good .

Rosalinde poured a glass of red wine for Wu Qian. It was a fine wine from Chateau Mouton. Although it was not Lafayette, it was still one of the top five chateaus, so it was acceptable.

Wu Qian half-lyed on the seat and said, "It's a pity, it would be great if I could play with fully automatic rifles..." This is Wu Qian's only regret for not being able to touch fully automatic rifles this time around.

The bursting feeling of a fully automatic rifle is simply not too pleasant, and it is precisely because of this factor that it is banned by law and can only be used in a very small number of areas.

Rosalind smiled and said, "Boss, if you want to play with a fully automatic rifle, you can consider going to Russia, where they are more relaxed about this."

Wu Qian shook his head with a smile, he was not "greedy" to the point where he had to play, and said, "Go back to the hotel and take a rest, let's prepare for the auction."

It was past 4 p.m. when we returned to the hotel. Wu Qian sat in the hotel and drank afternoon tea leisurely. All four bodyguards were beside him, discussing the auction in a low voice. Bauer and David selected the appraisers. The resulting list was handed over to Rosalind, and she was assigning tasks.

At this time, Wu Qian suddenly saw a large group of people walking into the hotel, there were 10 people in front of them, and the lineup was very strong.

Among this group of people was a middle-aged man in a checkered suit. The man was wearing sunglasses and had a small beard stubble on his chin. He was very cold and elegant. He looked like he was not an ordinary person.

"What a big show." Wu Qian said softly.

"Boss, that's one of the contemporary heirs of the Areotti family in Italy, Clark Viggio." Rosalind whispered in Wu Qian's ear, she was much more surprised than Wu Qian.

The Arreotti family business is the Menarini Group, founded in 1886. It is the largest multinational biopharmaceutical company in Italy. The company has established many branches around the world, and its total revenue ranks among the top in the European pharmaceutical industry. It is difficult to measure how much wealth they have, a veritable big family.

Not to mention the Italian family, Wu Qian didn't know much about any big family in any country, but felt that the other party's travel was exaggerated.

Walking among the bodyguards, Clark Vecchio didn't pay much attention to the people drinking tea under the "full moon" chandelier. He glanced roughly, his eyes passed by Wu Qian and his group, and he didn't do anything. Stay and walk towards the elevator.

"Boss, Clark Vecchio appeared in London at this time, possibly to participate in the Sotheby's auction." Rosalind said to Wu Qian when she saw Clark Vecchio and his group walking away.

Wu Qian nodded. It is not surprising that a world-renowned auction event attracts top families. He didn't care too much. You play yours, and I play mine.

While drinking tea, Wu Qian received a call from Tian Yewang, informing him of the progress of today's filming. Because of the rain, the progress was not very good, and he planned to end the filming at 5 o'clock, because it was already dark.

"Come back, don't do it too late, it will be even more difficult if something happens later, don't you still have time, do it exquisitely." Wu Qian said, he chartered the Silverstone circuit for a week at that time, just for the shooting team to shoot A lot of material, which is not used as an episode.

There were not many people drinking afternoon tea under the "full moon" chandelier, but there were more than a dozen people besides Wu Qian, and everyone was chatting and talking softly.

After Rosalind told Wu Qian about the Areotti family, she continued to discuss the details of the auction with the other three, but she still heard other people's chatter in her ears.

Suddenly, the facial expressions of the four bodyguards froze because they heard some unusual information.

"People from the Berlusconi family have also come to the UK?" Bauer asked softly.

One of the wealthiest families in Italy, the Berlusconi family, Silvio Berlusconi is the chairman of the AC Milan club. He spans the business, politics, sports and entertainment circles with great business acumen.

Silvio Berlusconi invested in real estate at first so that he quickly gained economic capital, and later bought popular foreign programs to earn a lot of income, owned his own ace TV station, bought Mondadori Publishing Company and AC Milan Club .

Silvio Berlusconi has five children in total. Among them, his daughter Barbara Berlusconi is the president of the Milan Foundation and a director of Finenvist Group. Several other children are also members of the board of directors of various large companies. The family The property is immeasurable.

Kux nodded and said, "That's what the lady at the table at 6 o'clock said."

"What's the matter with the Italians? Why are they all rushing to London at this time? Don't they all come to participate in the auction?" David asked. Sotheby's auction is very exciting and there are many good things , A transaction of billions of dollars, a very large amount of funds.

But it would be an exaggeration to say that Berlusconi and Areotti, who are also big Italian families, sent people to attend at the same time. A consortium of that level does not need to be there in person at all, just stay at home comfortably , click your finger in front of the computer and it will be OK.

What's more, there are too few things that can arouse the interest of the consortium. It is impossible for ordinary collections and artworks. Paintings with a million or so level are just floating clouds, which are not worth mentioning in the eyes of those people.

It’s just that some people like Wu Qian don’t know that the Berlusconi and Areotti families just got a little news through special channels, and they are not the real masters.The owner is the Agnelli family, and the purpose of these well-known Italian consortiums is the Sotheby's auction.

As for the target of the auction, outsiders do not know the secret. Originally, only a few core members of the Agnelli family knew the secret. In the ears of the Lusconi and Areotti families.

The actions of the Berlusconi and Areotti families were relatively low-key and did not attract much attention, but the Agnelli family was not low-key. They entered London very high-profile, expressing their intention to participate in the Sotheby's auction.

The Agnelli family is one of the top rich families in Italy, and its family history is also the development history of the modern Italian industrial field. In 1899, Giovanni Agnelli founded Fiat Automobile Company, which has developed rapidly over the past century and has become the largest industrial group in Italy today.

The famous brands of Fiat Automobile Company, including Fiat, Alfa Romeo, Lancia, Ferrari, Maserati, etc., have become world famous automobile brands.The family wealth is immeasurable, and it is a behemoth. Only Ferrari, a company, has a market value of more than 300 billion dollars.

The actions of the Agnelli family made the consortiums of other countries very confused. The Agnelli family could not be aimless, but there was no news from various channels, and it was confusing.

Invisibly, the atmosphere of this auction became weird and tense.

After Wu Qian finished his afternoon tea, he went back to the suite. Kux had already installed a computer to watch the live broadcast during the auction in real time, and also gave Wu Qian a very high-end headset for real-time contact.

As for Rosalind, Bauer, and David, they set off for Sotheby's auction house without eating. The three of them will bid at the auction site, while Kux and Wu Qian stayed in the royal attic suite. Participate by phone.

The first sale of Sotheby's autumn auction started at 7:5 p.m., and it was just [-]:[-] when Wu Qian returned to his room. He ordered two simple dinners.

In a suite not many meters away from Wu Qian when he was having dinner, Clark Vecchio, the contemporary heir of the Areotti family, had just finished his dinner. On the table in front of him was a stack of Photos, the top photo is of a castle.

If Wu Qian were here, he would definitely find that this castle was exactly the one he visited this morning, the queen of the castles, Leeds Castle.

Clark Vecchio took a sip of red wine, lit a carrot-thick cigar and took a puff. He picked up the photos on the table and looked carefully one by one. Except for the first photo which was the main body of the castle, the others were all interior photos. Appears to be candid.

Not only Clark Vecchio, but also members of the Berlusconi family and the Agnelli family were also seriously looking at the photos of Leeds Castle with very serious expressions.

Wu Qian didn't know anything about it. After eating something at night, he sat comfortably in the study of the royal attic suite, ready to start the first auction in his life. Time don't look for him.

"Kux, why do I feel that you are a little nervous?" Wu Qian said to Kukus not far away, he was not nervous, he was a little excited, after all, he was participating in something that he had never experienced before, and he was looking forward to it. And excitement is normal.

Cooks smiled and said, "Boss, I have a bad feeling. I don't know where this feeling comes from. In short, I feel that Sotheby's autumn auction will not be that simple."

Wu Qian shrugged his shoulders and said: "Top auction houses like Sotheby's and Christie's, every Spring and Autumn large-scale auction is not simple, it's nothing. I said you are dying every day, it's rare to see you So nervous. Anyway, there is still half an hour to start, let's chat."

Kux followed Wu Qian's intentions, and the two big men chatted about their family affairs. Although Wu Qian knew the details of Kux's family, he still asked about it as a chat topic, and most of them were unnutritious conversations. , For example, where is your wife, how are your parents, how old are your children, etc.

There were still 10 minutes before the start of the auction, and the two ended their chat.

The atmosphere in the auction house was very warm, and many people came to participate in the auction.Rosalind, Bauer, and David have already sat down separately, and they can communicate with each other through the communicator. The three of them entered the auction house through their own identities, and the registration is not Wu Qian's information.

Anyway, Wu Qian's information will be authenticated when the lot is collected at the end, so this part doesn't matter, only a simple asset authentication is required.

Sotheby's autumn auction this time puts cultural relics from the Celestial Dynasty in the first auction. There are a total of more than 300 lots, most of which are porcelain, and the proportion of calligraphy, painting and jade is not very large.

In the auction house, there are also people from the Celestial Dynasty who have the same purpose as Wu Qian, thinking of buying some cultural relics living overseas to return to China.There are too many cultural relics lost in the Chinese Empire. Counted in tens of thousands, although the strength of one person is small, it is still possible to spend tens of thousands or hundreds of thousands of dollars to buy a small piece of porcelain and return it to China.

Wu Qian could roughly feel the atmosphere in the auction house through the real-time live broadcast. There were many well-dressed people present, accompanied by people who looked like bodyguards. He guessed that the person he saw in the hotel lobby before might be among them.

Wu Qian guessed completely wrong. The descendants of the three major Italian consortiums came to London with a very clear goal. They didn't spend their energy on other things at all, and they were all doing their best at the moment.

At 7:[-] sharp, the auction started, and an auctioneer in a neat suit came onto the stage, followed by two assistants.Through the live broadcast, Wu Qian could hear the auctioneer chattering a lot, and he could understand what he was saying without the Kuxs translator.

"Good evening Jets of Ratson Dark. Welcome everyone... blah blah blah blah blah blah..."

All Wu Qian's auction items were pre-determined. There were 102 items in total, including 89 pieces of porcelain, 13 pieces of jade, and none of calligraphy and painting works.Wu Qian's goal was very clear. Although there were a lot of items that he wanted to bid on, but because there were four people helping to participate in the auction, it didn't seem so eye-catching.

There will be many uncertainties during the auction. Rosalind mentioned to Wu Qian before that it is difficult to win all the 102 lots, and even a small part should be won in the end.The facts are indeed as Rosalind said before.

For example, there is a white-glazed peony-pattern pillow carved in the Cizhou Kiln of the Song Dynasty. The estimated price is 3 pounds. There are not a few people who are interested in this lot. There are many bidders. The price has been rising all the way. Pound, the atmosphere at the scene cooled down.

In the end, only David was left to compete with another Celestial Dynasty businessman. Wu Qian learned about the situation through a phone call with Rosalind, and instructed him to give up.

There is another piece of auction, a white-glazed leaf-carved pot of the Northern Song Dynasty, estimated at 7 pounds, and the starting price is 5 pounds. This is a piece of porcelain that Wu Qian liked more. Three people bid, and one of them was Cooks.

Through a series of previous observations, Rosalind finally concluded that the two men were suspected of operating in the dark, probably because they were instructed to deliberately push them up, and suggested that Wu Qian should give up.

There is no effective way to curb this kind of behavior. After all, the price is not high, and even if the transaction is false, there are not many taxes and fees.And it may have already promised the lowest transaction price, it doesn't matter whether it succeeds or not, so Wu Qian gave up very decisively.

The auction proceeded very quickly, and there was no competition for heavyweight lots. The most expensive item Wu Qian participated in was a yellow-glazed horse porcelain from the Tang Dynasty, with an estimated price of 15 pounds and a starting price of 12.

This lot was appraised by the team of appraisers invited by Wu Qian, and finally concluded that it was a genuine piece. It was considered a very valuable lot in this auction, and it was naturally to be taken.The final transaction price reached 38 pounds, which is No.3 in this auction.

As for the auction items with the first and second prices, they were identified as doubtful by the appraisal team at the time, so Wu Qianguo did not sell them. They were a painting and a jade pendant respectively.

The auction lasted for more than 3 hours. Wu Qian's harvest was good. A total of 40 lots were auctioned. Of the remaining 62 lots, more than 40 pieces were suspected to be entrusted. Wu Qian directly gave up the competition and wanted to buy things. But you can't be taken advantage of. If you think the price is low, keep it.

Among the 40 lots, porcelain occupies the vast majority, ranging from Tang, Song, Yuan and Ming dynasties, as large as a horse to as small as a bowl, and there are only 4 pieces of jade.

"Boss, in this auction of cultural relics from the Celestial Dynasty, your total turnover is 306.8 million pounds." Cooks reported the situation to Wu Qian.

The delivery of the lot does not need to be carried out immediately after the auction, but can be traded at another time, and can be temporarily stored in the auction house after paying the fee.After all, it is also a very precious treasure. It is not necessarily that the itinerary to leave London will be arranged after participating in the auction. What to do in case of any accident.

The vault of Sotheby's auction house is still very safe, and it is safer to keep it there.

Wu Qian contacted the auction house by phone. Rosalind, David, and Ball briefly explained the consignment, and the auction house immediately revised the relevant information of the lot.

This technique of participating in auctions is very common. It is an operation with policies and countermeasures. Sotheby's auction house does not care about it. Some things cannot be overdone.After Wu Qian paid the fee, all the auction items he got were stored in the vault, and he just had to wait for the scheduled time to pick them up.

One night, Wu Qian really didn't feel the enthusiasm of the auction. On the contrary, there were a lot of intrigues, and the money was not too much. The total was only more than 2000 million soft sister coins. The excitement at the beginning dissipated a lot.

At 23 o'clock, Bauer and David returned to the Royal Attic Suite first.

"Huh? Where's Rosalind?" Wu Qian was a little surprised. Rosalind didn't come back with the two of them. He was surprised. This big Israeli girl ran away with money.No, the money was sent directly to Sotheby's, and Rosalind didn't deal with it, so she couldn't get the money.

"Boss, Rosalind said that she has something to do at the moment, and she will come back to report to you later. I saw her before as if she received a message and then left. It should indeed be something at the moment." Bauer stammered. , poor Chinese proficiency.

Wu Qian nodded, he dialed Rosalind's phone number, but the other party hung up, and then sent back a message saying "I'll be right back".Wu Qian felt that something was wrong with this matter, why did it get so mysterious.

There were four elders sitting in a room, and the atmosphere was a little gloomy.

Rosalind did not tell anyone the real reason for her departure alone. Cooks, Ball, and David were also bodyguards and had heard of some unhealthy incidents in the industry.Did Rosalind betray the boss?
It's only a 300 million pound auction, it shouldn't be like this, the value of the contract is much higher than that, because the relationship is very extensive and involves family members!
The thoughts of the few people were wild, thinking that Rosalind found a certain mysterious person and sold Wu Qian's information to him.Or plotting to seize the treasure or something.Anyway, it's Miss "Rosalind" who can't think about it.

Wu Qian smoked a few cigars, stood up and was about to go to the window to have a look at the scenery, but was persuaded by Cooks to come back to his seat.

"Boss, don't get close to the window at this time." Cooks said, his face was very serious, as if he was approaching the city.

Wu Qian frowned, is it so serious?

"What's the matter?"

Just as Kux was about to tell Wu Qian his judgment, he heard a knock on the door. Ball opened the door with his gun, and saw that it was Rosalind who had returned.

"BOSS." Rosalind's face was serious, she walked into the room quickly, and closed the door behind her backhand.

"There is a problem!" Rosalind said in a deep voice.

Wu Qian's eyes narrowed slightly, and he said, "Rosalind, sit down first and speak slowly, is there something wrong with my lot?"

Rosalind shook her head, sat on the small sofa pier opposite Wu Qian, and said, "That's not true. I..." Having said that, Rosalind took a look at Kux, David and Ball. .

Seeing Rosalind's expression, Wu Qian also became a little nervous, saying: "There are not many people I can trust in London, but you guys are the ones I can trust, so just say what you have to say."

Do not use suspicious people, do not use suspicious people, and the superficial skills must be done properly.

　Thank you for the 100 rewards for the book friend’s greatest wish to buy a supercar.

　　3 days, 4000 kilometers round trip, ho ho ho...

　　
　
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