silent farm

Chapter 6 Oil, Well, AC, Porridge King
However, before becoming a landlord, Li Sheng still needs to raise enough money.For him now, there is only one way that suits him: sell the valuable things in the space.

Among the things he can use in that space, the most valuable are those emeralds.The price of jade raw materials is not easy to estimate.

If the price of the jade taken out is not enough, then a second transaction is required, which is a waste of time.Because that's not a business where you seize and pay for it. What he wants to do is auction.

Auctions are indeed the easiest way to sell items for a high price.However, the success of the auction requires a prerequisite, that is, the popularity of the lot must be sufficient.If no one knows that you are auctioning this item, there will be too few people to bid.Wanting to shoot a good price can only be a luxury.

So auctions always need a process.Many large auction companies even need to wait for a quarter to collect enough lots before holding an auction.Of course, there are also auctions dedicated to a lot, but those are extremely rare.

Li Sheng had never brought anything up for auction, and he had never even participated in such a grand occasion as an auction.But he knew that the strongest auction company in the world was Christie's—from the novel.The protagonists of the novel will find this company to auction their own things, or participate in this company's auction to stomp people.

He checked, and recently, Christie's planned to hold a summer auction in Lingang.It is not a special auction, as long as there is something of auction value, you can participate in the auction.

The headquarters of China Christie's is located in Lingang.After making a hasty decision, Li Sheng rushed to Lingang, rented a small warehouse on the outskirts of the city, and then called someone from Christie's to come and see the goods.

The people at Christie's heard that there were several pieces of high-grade jadeite raw materials to be auctioned, and they were also very active.Because such things can often be sold at a high price far exceeding the actual value in Huaxia.

They make money by charging commissions on a proportional basis, and the high-priced auctions are the most profitable for them.They agreed to come and see the goods on the same day.

Li Sheng was waiting in the small warehouse.

Among the people who came to Christie's were a man and woman in their thirties, and a middle-aged man with a bald head.The man was wearing a white embroidered silk fan, very much like an old Chinese landlord.

After saying hello, the woman asked: "Mr. Li, I wonder if the jadeite raw material you want to auction is here?"

"Yes. It's in these boxes." Li Sheng said as he opened one of the boxes.The shape of the untied emerald inside is not very regular, it is flat on the side, but the thickness is at least fifteen centimeters.The longest part is two feet, and the widest part is more than one foot.Under the light, the eyes are ice blue.

The bald landlord's eyes widened, he took out a small flashlight from nowhere, and turned on the surface of the emerald.The light from the strong flashlight shone in, and the entire emerald became brighter.

After Lin Ming opened the other boxes, he also came over.The bald man looked at it for a while, then put away the flashlight, and said, "This is a full-color blue jadeite from the high ice species that is very close to the glass species. The species and the ground are excellent."

As for whether it was a fake, he just looked at it, and when he saw that there was still a little leather shell, he knew that it couldn't be a fake.Judging from the method used to interpret the stone, the person who interpreted the stone was a novice, and they all cut the jade meat directly, which must have wasted a lot of jade meat.Although the item is not his, he still feels distressed: "The minimum market price of such a material is about 15 euros per kilogram."

Then he looked at the remaining six or seven yuan, and there was a piece of full green glass with the mouth of a bowl, and the color was emerald.The bald man weighed it carefully and said, "The market price of this piece can reach 800 million euros."

According to him, the combined market price of the pieces of jade that Li Sheng took out is about 4000 million euros.Of course, the auction price is likely to be higher, and there is also the risk of a low price.

"Mr. Li, we think these emeralds can participate in our summer auction. But we need to send these emeralds back to the headquarters for valuation. I don't know what you mean?"

Li Sheng thought for a while and said, "You want to take it away? Of course you can. I still have a few rosewood trees here. Will you also auction them at the auction?"

"Red sandalwood?" The woman's eyes lit up. It has been a long time since this thing appeared at Christie's auction. "Is it small-leaf red sandalwood?"

Of course, one that hasn’t been featured at a Christie’s auction for a long time is the small-leaved red sandalwood.Small-leaved red sandalwood is mainly produced in the tropical forests of Southeast Asia and South Asia.However, in the past few hundred years, the small leaf red sandalwood has been cut down.Finding one in the forest now can make a person rich overnight.

It is very difficult for this kind of tree to grow into usefulness.The saying of ten sandalwood and nine emptiness is because this kind of tree is easy to be emptied by moth when the mouth of the bowl is big.This also leads to a reality that there are few big talents in small-leaf red sandalwood.

In fact, Europeans are also very rare to red sandalwood.Finding a coffin model more than a foot long among Napoleon's funeral objects made them shout inconceivable.

But they can't be blamed for being petty, the existing lobular red sandalwood is basically collected in China.It is said that there is a red sandalwood queen in China, who has hundreds or thousands of red sandalwood collections, each of which is bigger than that incredible coffin model.

It can be said that being able to play red sandalwood is not only about money, but also a kind of interest.Once those collections are collected, it is impossible to see them on the market again within a few decades.Therefore, it is indeed very rare to have new small-leaf red sandalwood aniseed.

Li Sheng pointed to a pile of four-meter-long logs piled up in the corner: "You can identify it." It must be red sandalwood.He checked it on the computer.

The woman saw the pile of logs, each of which was several meters long and more than a foot in diameter.Such a large self-red sandalwood log may not have appeared for more than 100 years.This wood seems to be damp.It was precisely because of this that she was skeptical: "These are all red sandalwood?"

Li Sheng nodded.

The young man said at this time: "I think we can ship the things back first and test them."

His suggestion was very reasonable, Li Sheng had no objection, and the woman agreed.So they called for a cab.Need a truck though.They need to find again.

Half an hour later, a truck with a carriage drove over.There were two small cars following behind, and several people got out of the car.

One of them, a very young man, came in and nodded to the young men and women, and then glanced at the corner of the warehouse where the wood was piled up.Li Sheng saw that his eyes seemed to be shining.The man walked up to the log, sniffed it a few times, and scraped it with a knife.He took out a small metal box from his pocket, opened it and put the knife in it.Soon he turned his head with a smile on his face and said to the few people who approached him: "It's red sandalwood, but it seems that it was cut not long ago."

Although it doesn't matter whether the red sandalwood is an antique or not, if it is of a certain age, the price will indeed increase in value.If it is a complete piece of furniture, the price cannot be calculated by weight and volume.

If it is newly picked red sandalwood, the price will of course be subject to certain restrictions.But if there are so many in front of us now, then this restriction can basically be ignored.The red sandalwood that could be bought before was only a small piece at most.Where have you seen such a pile that you can use it to build several sets of new furniture?This may be the first time in a century.

It is preliminarily determined that the item is genuine, but the price cannot be estimated here.Things were quickly loaded onto the carriage.Then there was a small car with bodyguards at the front and back to escort them back to Christie's warehouse.Li Sheng signed a custody agreement with the other party.

After a tense estimate, the woman asked Li Sheng what he meant: "Because the jadeite raw materials are of different grades, I suggest that they be auctioned separately, so that the high-end jadeite is easier to fetch a high price. But for those red sandalwood, I suggest that they should be auctioned as a whole."

(End of this chapter)