sea ​​monk

Chapter 96 Verbal confrontation

With the increase of domestic buyers who are keen on collecting, every year, the Spring Auction of Jiangsu Bifu in Hong Kong will attract the attention of many buyers.This year's Sobi Fuchun Auction still attracted many capable buyers.

When it comes to protecting the privacy of bidders and bidders, Sobifu also has a dedicated auction line. Some people can auction off their favorite antiques or works of art through telephone auctions even if they don't come to the site.

Xu Haibao, who has been in Xiangjiang for a while, not only found a professional manager for the company, but also rented a small villa in Repulse Bay of Xiangjiang.The cost of staying in a hotel every day is still a waste of money!

Even if Xu Haibao now has a net worth of tens of millions of Hong Kong dollars, if he really wants to buy a villa or real estate in Repulse Bay, this amount of money is really not enough.Not to mention those luxury villas that he couldn't afford, even the rented small villas he couldn't afford now.

Thinking of this, Xu Haibao couldn't help sighing, "I'm still a fucking poor man!" '

As the commissioner of this spring auction, Xu Haibao's five lots received a lot of attention from buyers.Among them, the most popular and consulted by buyers is the Ming Chenghua Doucai teapot.

In addition, among the other four lots, two pieces of gold and silver ingots produced by the official treasury of the Ming Dynasty attracted many small and medium-sized buyers.The number of collections like this in the official treasury is scarce, and there is a lot of room for appreciation of the collection.

When Xu Haibao brought Tang Xingyou and Wang Yuzhu who had already arrived in Xiangjiang, he appeared at the spring auction.Tang Siming, who came out to welcome him, also said warmly: "Mr. Xu, hello! Are these two your friends?"

"Well! These two are my best friends. This is Mr. Tang and this is Mr. Wang. They all followed me to see the excitement. Can you find a small private room for me? I don't like appearing in public location."

"Of course! Mr. Xu, this way please!"

As the executive manager of the auction house, Tang Siming naturally has a good eye for people.Judging from the steps of Tang and Wang, Tang Siming finally realized why he felt a little awkward when he saw Xu Haibao last time.

The reason is simple. Compared with ordinary people, Xu Haibao's behavior is somewhat rigid.Now seeing the other two, Tang Siming finally knew the reason.That is, Xu Haibao is probably the same as the other two, a soldier!
With this guess, Tang Siming also appeared more cautious. As a native of Xiangjiang, Tang Siming asked himself that he was more in awe of domestic soldiers than politicians.Everyone knows that the domestic army is still very strong!
After inviting the three of them to sit down, Xu Haibao also took out two wooden boxes at the right time and said, "Manager Tang, you have worked hard for my business these days. See you at the beginning of the new year, and I will give you a gift. I hope Manager Tang likes it.

The thing in the other box, please ask your bank's appraiser to do an appraisal.If possible, I plan to participate in the summer auction held by your auction house in the United States for the next batch. "

Seeing Xu Haibao give gifts as soon as they met, Tang Siming felt a little embarrassed: "Mr. Xu, our auction house has rules and cannot accept gifts from customers. I appreciate your kindness. Serving customers is our duty."

"Okay! Since your bank has rules, I don't want to break the rules. Old rules, please help me identify the contents of these two boxes. To be honest, I need a lot of money this year, and I want to sell a lot of money. Batch things in exchange for money!"

"This is no problem! Please wait a moment!"

Although the auction is about to start, for Tang Siming, neither he nor Xu Haibao can pay attention to the auction.How much an item can sell for depends on the enthusiasm of the buyers in the end. They just need to wait for the news.

As soon as they met, Xu Haibao entrusted a batch of things to be auctioned, which was the best news for Tang Siming.The commission ratio he won for Xu Haibao earlier made many senior executives of the company dissatisfied!
When I saw that the contents of Xu Haibao's box were not ancient coins unique to China.Tang Siming, who has been in the auction house for many years, recognized at a glance that this is the gold and silver currency produced in the UK in the early years.

This kind of gold coin and silver coin, the collection enthusiasm of the domestic market is not high.But overseas, it is the favorite of many collectors.However, thinking of what Xu Haibao said earlier, Tang Siming couldn't help feeling a little excited.

With a slightly excited expression, he said cautiously: "Mr. Xu, may I take the liberty to ask, do you mean the same collection when you said earlier that there are a batch of committee auctions? If so, can you tell me the specific quantity?"

"There are not many silver coins, only more than 100, but the styles are similar. There are more than 1000 gold coins, and the one in the box is a sample. As for the other small gold coins, I don't plan to sell them for the time being."

Xu Haibao planned to sell the box of gold and silver coins on the sunken foreign ship found on Waiding Island a while ago.In fact, what was really valuable on that ship was not the batch of gold coins, but a small box of porcelain.

As for those large boxes of overseas porcelain, Xu Haibao also planned to send them to auction at an appropriate time.Just considering the plan to order a salvage ship this year, the funds that can be obtained from this auction alone are somewhat insufficient.

In addition to Fulin Island for domestic investment, Xu Haibao also plans to develop Washan Island.In this case, tens of millions of funds invested just around the village may not be enough.

In addition, to buy yachts and purchase amusement facilities, at least tens of millions of funds must be prepared.Even the things that were sent for auction last time were estimated to be as high as more than 3000 million Hong Kong dollars.But no one knows how many shots will be made in the end.

In this way, to order a high-end salvage ship, Xu Haibao needs to prepare at least 3000 to [-] million funds.This also means that it is difficult to ensure that he will not have any financial problems with the five items that were sent for auction last time.

If he had the money earned from sending this batch of gold and silver coins to the auction, Xu Haibao believed that it would be enough.Although this kind of gold coin is sold in batches, the value will be lower than the average selling price of a single coin.But this batch of gold coins is believed to be of interest to many foreign collectors.

After all, the collection value of the first batch of gold and silver coins minted during the period of George III in England is still very high.Of course, the most important thing is that Xu Haibao feels that he is not very interested in these foreign gold and silver coins.

Selling it for money is more in line with his current needs!
Sure enough, knowing that Xu Haibao still had thousands of gold and silver coins produced in the UK in the early stage, Tang Siming knew very well that these gold and silver coins appeared in the summer auction held in the United States, and I believe they would also attract the attention of many European and American collectors.

"Thank you, Mr. Xu, for your trust in our firm. Please wait a moment, Mr. Xu. I will invite the appraiser to come over!"

Not long after, not only the appraiser from the auction house came to Xu Haibao's box, but also Sobifu's foreign general manager came in person.As an Englishman, the general manager is well aware of the value of these gold and silver coins.

After Tang Siming's introduction, the general manager still asked with a smile: "Mr. Xu, can you tell me where the batch of gold coins in your collection came from? As far as I know, how are these gold coins found in Asia?" Not many!"

"Mr. Hebrew, if I remember correctly, there should be no such rules in your bank, right? Do you need to ask about the origin of each lot? Mr. Hebrew should know that during the period of George III, your country has already followed the Is our country open to trade?"

Facing Xu Haibao's refusal to explain where the batch of gold coins came from, he pointed out that during the reign of George III, Britain had established trade relations with the Qing Dynasty at that time.Even if the Qing Dynasty closed the country again later, Britain also began colonial rule in Asia.

In that case, it is very possible for someone to bring a large number of gold and silver coins from China to Asia!

Seeing Xu Haibao's calm and proficient English question, Benson Hebrew was really surprised.I already knew from Tang Siming earlier that Xu Haibao's real identity is very likely to be the soldier on the opposite side.

As a British, Hebrew is somewhat dissatisfied with Xiangjiang being taken back by China.Just as a businessman, Hebrew still knows that Huaxia is developing very fast and its status in the world is constantly improving.

In view of Xu Haibao's indifferent attitude, Hebrew, who is a businessman, still smiled and said: "I'm taking the liberty! I asked Mr. Xu about the origin of these gold coins, and I also hope to increase their topicality during the auction! "

"Oh! That's right! Then I can tell you about the origin of this batch of gold coins. I found this batch of gold coins in a cave on an unnamed island. As far as I know, that island was occupied by pirates in the early years.

With the attitude of trying, I went to the unnamed island to play, and finally discovered these buried treasures.In addition to gold and silver coins, I also found a batch of export porcelain and silver products from your country.

It's just the rest, I don't want to sell them for now, and I plan to collect them for a while.I intend to commission this batch of gold and silver coins to thank your bank and Manager Tang for their preferential treatment to me.After all, your bank has given me a lot of sincerity! "

The sincerity that Xu Haibao said naturally meant that the commission ratio enjoyed by Sobifu was very low.Tang Xingyou and the two who accompanied him were stunned by this kind of verbal confrontation.In their view, Xu Haibao's changes are really great!

(End of this chapter)