Seeing through the village doctor is also crazy

Chapter 154 Count Pierre

In the early morning of the next day, Ye Xiu and his team drove to the Pagan Auction after a long drive.

Today, there will be a much-anticipated auction of high-grade rough jadeite in the inner field of the Pagan Auction. Nowadays, the demand for high-quality rough jadeite is increasing sharply, but good rough jadeites are being mined less and less, and the supply is far short of demand. Therefore, the Myanmar Army The government strictly controls the trade of top-grade rough stones.

Rough stones excavated from various sites with a price exceeding 1000 million must be archived and left to be evaluated by an expert appraisal team hired by the government before deciding whether to go on the market or not. High-priced rough stones are traded privately without authorization from the state. Once discovered, people will be arrested and sealed off!

Ye Xiu and the others were not the only ones rushing early today. The gate of the Pagan Auction has not yet opened, and a large group of people who came to the meeting were already standing outside the gate. Among them were jade merchants from all over the world, as well as jade collectors and enthusiasts.

Bai Shenglong, the white master of the Hongmen Hongmen, was chatting happily with a foreign middle-aged man with a very gentlemanly appearance and temperament. After seeing Ye Xiu and his party approaching, Bai Sheng waved hello and asked Ye Xiu to come over.

"Come on, Xiaoye, let me introduce you. This is Count Pierre from France. Count Pierre is France's leading wine supplier. Several of his company's wineries are in the world wine industry. It's in the top ten of Zhuang's leaderboard." Bai Shenglong warmly introduced Ye Xiu.

After Bai Shenglong's introduction, Count Pierre nodded politely to Ye Xiu with a smile, and offered to shake hands with Ye Xiu in greeting.

"Ye Xiu, the owner of a small rough stone store in Huaxia." Ye Xiu introduced himself in fluent English.

"What? The owner of the small rough stone store?" After hearing Ye Xiu's introduction, Count Pierre looked at Bai Shenglong and then at Ye Xiu with an expression of disbelief. He seemed a little disappointed. of.

In Earl Pierre's opinion, the person who is highly valued by the Hongmen and Baiye will definitely not be a lackluster person, but Ye Xiu said in his self-introduction that he is just the owner of a small rough stone store in Huaxia, which made people full of expectations. Count Pierre was greatly disappointed, and couldn't help but feel contemptuous of Ye Xiu's status as a small businessman.

It's just that Count Pierre's self-cultivation is not bad, and he didn't show it very clearly, but Ye Xiu could feel the inadvertent contempt in Count Pierre's expression.

Count Pierre's ancestors were all ministers and nobles of the French Kingdom, with pure French aristocratic blood. Count Pierre also more or less inherited the self-righteous arrogance unique to the European aristocracy, especially in the face of identity. This sense of superiority will be magnified when people are far inferior to them in terms of quality, status, and strength.

The title of earl was passed down to his generation. Pierre made full use of his inherited wealth and land resources, combined with modern business management and operation mode, to successfully develop and package a variety of high-quality wines.

Now the high-end red wine produced by his company's winery is popular and sold all over the world. This also transformed Count Pierre from a traditional big landowner aristocrat into the most successful wine merchant. His personal net worth is on the Forbes list of the world's richest people It is tentatively listed at US$150 billion.

"Open the door!" someone in the crowd yelled.

Bai Shenglong immediately stretched out his right hand, made a gesture of invitation, and said, "Let's go in too."

Count Pierre nodded slightly, he did his part, and walked in the forefront with his head held high, with an air of superiority.

Ye Xiu and Bai Shenglong followed behind Pierre. Along the way, Ye Xiu asked Bai Ye in Mandarin, "Brother Bai, that Count Pierre also wants to buy rough jadeite?"

Bai Shenglong responded: "Yes, I heard from him that Earl Pierre's youngest daughter Sophia is very obsessed with jadeite from the East, and this youngest daughter Sophia is very much loved by Pierre, so this time he chose I traveled thousands of miles to fly to Pagan on a private plane, selected the best rough stones for my little daughter, made some jadeite jewelry with top-level jadeite as gifts, and gave it to her at Sofia’s coming-of-age ceremony.”

"This father is quite arrogant. My daughter will hold a coming-of-age ceremony, and give gifts worth hundreds of millions with a wave of my hand." Ye Xiu smiled slightly in surprise.

"Hehe, for a hereditary aristocratic landlord like him, money is just a number symbol. Even if he doesn't do anything, the rent of his private land alone is enough for him to live like a king." Bai Ye laughed.

"The rent of private land? How much can it be?" Ye Xiu asked curiously.

"It is said that Pierre owns an entire bustling market in the largest city in France! The shops on both sides of the market pay rent to him every year. How much do you think?" Bai Ye laughed.

"Shut up obediently, how arrogant are you? How can we compete with him in the auction later?" Ye Xiu sighed, the world is nothing special, only more arrogant, not the most arrogant.

"Don't worry about that. A nobleman like Pierre is only interested in the best things, and he doesn't bother to buy anything else." Bai Ye said in a very firm tone.

"The best? Isn't that the most expensive?" Ye Xiu said with a smile.

"That's for sure. Pierre doesn't understand rough stones at all, so he only buys the most expensive one." Master Bai nodded in response.

Ye Xiu and Bai Ye walked and chatted together, and soon entered the auction hall.

The hall of the auction house is very similar to the structure of a theater stage. There are two rows of leather sofa seats under the auction platform. There is a two-meter-wide corridor behind the leather sofa seats that connects the front two rows of leather sofa seats with the ordinary seats behind. The chair area is spaced apart.

There are rows of seats behind the corridor, and these seats are the simplest kind of wooden seats, which are completely different from the luxurious and comfortable leather sofa seats in the first two rows.

Ye Xiu and Master Bai walked side by side to the first two rows of leather sofa seats closest to the auction platform. Where the seats are not only comfortable, but also close to the auction platform, Ye Xiu can observe clearly The condition of the jadeite in the original stone, if you are far away, you can't see it clearly.

But at the temporary checkpoint in the corridor between the leather sofa and the ordinary seat area, a pair of soldiers with live ammunition blocked everyone's way.

Count Pierre's assistant seemed to take out a black card and showed it to the inspecting Burmese officials. Count Pierre and others were quickly released and allowed to enter the first two rows of leather sofa seats.

Not many people were allowed to enter the first two rows, only about eleven or two people.Many people who failed to get the qualification to enter the front row complained a lot, and the hall of the auction house soon boiled up, like a vegetable market, very noisy.

(End of this chapter)