The auction continues, and none of the items sold has a low price. The two sides are still arguing, and any item is about 30% higher than the real price.
Zhou Zichen also called out the price several times. As long as he was a little slower, someone would rush to take the photo at a good price.
Invisibly, everyone has turned this auction into a small "battlefield", a battlefield to protect their country's cultural relics.
The auctioneer also began to get nervous. This small auction had a strange atmosphere, and there was no need for him to promote it at all.
"It's not an exaggeration to say that the next auction item is a national treasure. What is it?" After the auctioneer finished speaking, a painting was displayed on the big screen. A knowledgeable person could tell the origin of this painting at a glance. This painting had been sold before.
There has been an exhibition of Bada Shanren's "Gathering of Singing Geese", which once sold for a high price of 45 million yuan at an auction. Such things are hard to come by. Don't look at antiques that are often worth hundreds of millions.
But those are the best of the best, the only ones in the world.
The auctioneer pointed to the painting on the monitor: "I think you all know this painting. It was once sold at a high price of 45 million. Now that it appears in our auction this time, it is also
For a fate, the starting price is 10 million, with an increase of 50 yuan."
Zhou Zichen had seen this painting at an exhibition before. It was a fake copy, but the master who copied it was so skilled that you couldn't tell it without careful comparison.
The most important thing is that this paper is really from the Ming Dynasty, so whether you go to check it or use Zhou Zichen's eyes to see it, there will be no problem, because this time it is from the Ming Dynasty, even if you use it
The instrument inspection time will not be too different, at most it will be on the ink stain, but today's aging methods are superb, and it is very easy to age the ink stain. Anyway, there is no way to completely detect the age of the ink stain.
The reason why Zhou Zichen was able to discover it was also due to the fact that after he had the power, he knew that the power was not omnipotent and spent a lot of time to see and read the information. Even if he didn't have the power one day, the knowledge in his own mind
It also allows him to maintain a high level, at least he won't live as hard as he once did.
"Sixteen million!"
"Eighteen million!"
At this time, both China and Japan were bidding, but neither side was too eager to raise the price too high. As long as it was below 50 million, there was no need to worry about stopping bidding.
However, this piece of "Gathering of Singing Geese" has also stopped many people. Not many people can afford such a large amount of money, so there are only a few bidders.
Zhou Zichen has been observing to see who is bidding on his side, so he has a good idea.
Soon, the price had been raised to 30 million. On the Chinese side, there were only three people shouting the price. On the Japanese side, almost all the people who came this time were rich people, and there were quite a few people shouting the price.
"Brother Wang, do you know the people who are still bidding?" Zhou Zichen asked in Wang Changlin's ear.
Wang Changlin looked at them and nodded: "I know them. Two of them were invited by me."
"One is Mr. Fang from Tuoteng Group, one is Mr. Wu Qishu, and the other is Mr. Hu from the provincial capital. I know him, but I'm not very familiar with him."
Zhou Zichen said in a low voice: "Brother, you will notify them later and ask them all to give up the auction. I will auction it with the Japanese people. This painting is a fake and it is estimated to be worth one or two million."
Although this is a fake, it is authentic and the paper is from the Ming Dynasty. Most people will be stunned when they see it.
When Wang Changlin heard this, he almost jumped up: "Zi Chen, this is no joke. It's worth tens of millions. It has been verified by more than a dozen experts and has been verified by instruments. There is absolutely no problem with the age. How could it be fake?
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Zhou Zichen patted Wang Changlin lightly: "Brother Wang, don't get excited. Listen to me, this paper is from the Ming Dynasty and there is absolutely nothing wrong with it, but this painting is a copy, and the person who copied it is a master.
If you don't compare the painting carefully, even if you have instruments to verify the seal, it will be useless. The painting is only thirty years old at most."
Wang Changlin completely believed it in his heart. Zhou Zichen had never looked at antiques before: "Then what are you going to do?"
Zhou Zichen said: "Raise the price and let the Japanese people buy it."
Wang Changlin nodded. If this painting was not the original work of Bada Shanren, what he bought was just a piece of paper from the Ming Dynasty.
"Then I'll find a way to notify them first."
"Thank you for your hard work, Brother Wang!"
Wang Changlin smiled: "What's so hard about this? It's what I should do."
After Wang Changlin finished speaking, he stood up and left quietly without attracting anyone's attention.
At general auctions, everyone sets their mobile phones to silent or even airplane mode. It is obviously not safe to use mobile phones for notifications.
Wang Changlin came back soon. After sitting down, he nodded to Zhou Zichen, indicating that he had said hello.
"Forty-five million!" The Japanese shouted the price, which was almost the same as the price a few years ago.
Zhou Zichen raised his hand: "Sixty million!"
"boom……"
There was a buzz of discussion at the auction. Zhou Zichen's increase in price was too high. The price increased by fifteen million.
People from the Japanese country also looked at them in surprise, but soon someone raised their hand and shouted the price: "Sixty-five million."
This time the price increase suddenly increased significantly, and an additional five million was added at once. Even the people watching on the side found it exciting, and just opened their mouths and asked for millions.
Zhou Zichen lowered his head and said to Wang Changlin: "I want someone to release the news about the painting later."
"No problem!" Wang Changlin can still do this easily: "It's almost done!"
"One more time!" Zhou Zichen said and raised his hand again: "Eighty million!"
Everyone was shocked. Zhou Zichen's range was really too high. It was rare for someone to increase the price so high in the later stages of the auction. Everyone was already close to their low price. Adding more would probably be a waste of money.
The purpose of raising the price in the early stage is to scare some people away, but it is completely unnecessary in the later stage, unless you directly shout out the low price in your heart, and if it succeeds, you will quit.
Several people from the Japanese side began to whisper among themselves, Takeuchi Hideyoshi was among them. Zhou Zichen did not look over there, but Takeuchi Hideyoshi looked at Zhou Zichen several times.
"Mr. Takeuchi, this painting was sold for 46 million seven years ago. Do you think we should add a little more?" A Japanese businessman asked Takeuchi Hideyoshi for his opinion. After all, Takeuchi Hideyoshi was also at this exchange meeting.
One of the founders.
Takeuchi actually didn't have much interest in this painting, nor did he have any interest in these people raising the price. However, he must have an attitude at this time, otherwise he may be said to be a traitor and not patriotic.
Takeuchi Hideyoshi said: "The price of 80 million is a bit high. We still have some pressure to spend so much money."
In fact, those present did not feel much pressure to give out 80 million yuan, but no one wanted to take risks at this time. Takeuchi Hideyoshi's words immediately won the support of several Japanese people: "Indeed, there is a bit of pressure to give out 80 million Chinese coins at this time.
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"Why don't we raise funds to buy it and find a way to sell it to these Chinese people in the future? They are willing to pay high prices to buy their own things from abroad. It's stupid!"
That's what Takeuchi Hideyoshi meant, but he didn't want to say it himself: "I think this method is feasible."
"Then what's our base price?"
Takeuchi Hideyoshi thought about it: "Ninety million, for the five of us, eighteen million each."
"OK!"
"I agree too"
Several people hit it off and decided to form a joint venture to buy the painting.
While several people were discussing, the auctioneer had already started counting down: "If no one bids again, then we will start counting down."
"three……"
"two……"
Wang Changlin was worried about Zhou Zichen. If the Japanese really stopped bidding, Zhou Zichen would have to spend 80 million to buy a painting worth 2 million, which would be a huge loss.
Just when Wang Changlin's nervous palms began to sweat, Takeuchi Hideyoshi, as a representative, raised his hand and offered a high price: "Eighty-eight million, this number is auspicious in China, and I like it very much."
Zhou Zichen had actually been observing them secretly just now. But unfortunately, Zhou Zichen didn't understand Japanese, so he didn't see what a few people were saying. However, it was not difficult for me to judge from the expressions of several people. Takeuchi Hideyoshi and the others
He didn't intend to give up, so Zhou Zichen actually didn't feel any nervousness in his heart.
Zhou Zichen originally only planned to call out these two prices. Since Takeuchi Hideyoshi took over, Zhou Zichen did not continue to follow. Instead, he smiled and made a gesture of invitation towards Takeuchi Hideyoshi, indicating that he was quitting and giving this painting to you.
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When Takeuchi Hideyoshi saw Zhou Zichen's smile, he always felt something was wrong, but he didn't know what was wrong.
Wang Changlin is still very happy with this result. This is not a question of money. You must know that so many people spent a lot of money to take photos of their country's cultural relics at high prices. So what everyone cares about today is not money, but
It is a spirit and responsibility to protect one's own country's cultural relics.
Zhou Zichen gave up and no one continued to follow. This painting "Gathering of Wild Geese" by Bada Shanren was auctioned off by Takeuchi Hideyoshi for 88 million.
Most people didn't know the details, and shook their heads and sighed. Such a painting would go to Japan. Most of the people present couldn't afford to spend **millions to buy this painting. Most people could.
Understand, according to the current situation, it would cost at least 90 million to take this painting. This number is too large. I can only say that everyone tried their best.
But there are always some people who are incompetent but like to talk with their mouths.
"Zhou Zichen is obviously rich and can ask for a price of 80 million. Why can't he pay a little more? Maybe he can keep this painting in China. This is China's loss!"
On one side, a young man of similar age disliked this kind of person who just opened his mouth and couldn't help but choked back: "Zhao Jun, what qualifications do you have to say that Master Xiao Zhou has worked hard before, what about you?"
Zhao Jun is only 27 or 27 years old. He started from scratch. He is very proud of what he has achieved today: "If I had money, I would shoot because I have this responsibility, and I will not be like Zhou Zichen."
Back off.”
"You have a deposit of two to three million now, right? You also had a lot of antiques worth hundreds of thousands in the past, why didn't you even bid once?" The young man immediately responded.
This sentence left Zhao Jun speechless, because he knew very well that he came here not for any antique exchange meeting, but simply to find a Japanese businessman. They had a project they were discussing, and he recently learned about this Japanese businessman.
The businessman had already begun to contact other companies, but the other company did not see him. He knew that the businessman came to this antique exchange conference, so he specially found someone to buy an invitation at a high price.
Another reason is to hand over a few business cards, and maybe you can pick up one or two orders. Although his company is still making profits, it is not very profitable, and it is not as prosperous as it seems on the surface.