This auction was held in a private house not far from the Cairo Museum. Under the arrangement of the internal butler, John took the foreign affairs butler, the coachman, and two powerful followers of Kong Wu to the auction venue in his own luxurious carriage.
Although cars have been invented in the 1920s, they were just toys for young people who love trends, and were more used by the rich as toys, and were not widely accepted.
When traveling with powerful people on a daily basis, they still prefer to ride in private carriages with higher safety and stability.
Although there are cars passing through the streets of Cairo, most of them are Westerners to demonstrate their civilization and progress. In fact, as an old city, the car experience is not friendly, and they often face the embarrassment of breaking down.
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This is fifteen years after the famous Ford Model T-car was invented. It is estimated that it will not be until seventy or eight years later that human society will usher in a truly comprehensive and complete development of the automobile industry.
So in this embarrassing time, most of the old noble gentlemen choose carriages when going out every day. If you go far, you usually choose trains and ships. If you are not safe at all, you can't even think that it's not safe. And it's just a thin layer of iron covered with wood.
The body and ride experience are also extremely poor.
As for airships, the safety factor is higher, but they are affected by the weather and cannot be as safe as the down-to-earth peace of mind.
So it is not entirely because these people are old-fashioned and stubborn, and they do not follow the trend of the times. The big reason is that many emerging things are unreliable at the beginning.
When he arrived at the auction site, John, who was just ten minutes earlier than the prescribed time, had already met many acquaintances.
There is no need to adhere to the concept of time that cannot arrive early in the general social gatherings. However, as a big buyer with a slight superior identity, John still did not get too early, and there were about dozens of people on the scene.
Basically, foreign businessmen and adventurers were all mixed in the Cairo area, as well as a few military officers and government officials.
The following are all for fun. After all, the days in the colony are very boring for them. Apart from scraping some oil and water, even wine and women will be bored after a long time. Let's take a look at this novel thing.
The auction scene that appeared was also a fun thing, so what these people really like to collect is just an example.
Under the guidance of the foreign affairs housekeeper, John greeted each other for a while with a certain status of the guests who knew and did not know each other, but also collected a lot of recent current affairs information from these hypocritical and polite conspiracies.
After all, men often talk about topics other than women, naturally the hottest current affairs, such as where wars broke out, where workers went on strike and march, and a senior official raised his lover and was found to be in conflict with his real wife, etc. Don’t think that men are
If you don’t gossip, gossip is also very good, but the issues that men pay attention to are somewhat different from those of women.
At this time, the auction was about to begin. Everyone, under the arrangement of the waiter, reached the guest seat below the stage.
This place actually turned out to be a small theater that focuses on dramas. Later, it went bankrupt and was bought by private individuals. The smart buyer was a businessman, so he kept the small theater, transformed it into a commercial venue, and rented it to teams who wanted to hold an auction.
The business is actually very good. At least John has participated in auctions in this place three times these days.
The owner of the auction house is very good at being a human being, and the guests arranged are very intimate with everyone. For example, sitting on the left of John is his acquaintance, an aristocratic official named Adrick and likes to collect. The two have a certain commonality.
Topic, so after meeting at the auction several times, I became ordinary friends and were naturally arranged together.
On the right is a relatively powerful smuggling merchant who specializes in the Near East and North Africa circles. Because this merchant named Cologne had just completed a deal with John not long ago, the scroll from ancient Babylon was from this one
He was placed by John.
The three men have a common topic, so naturally they whispered to the auction. Everyone did this, and they were completely different from the auction scenes in later movies that were sitting upright and serious.
"I heard that you collected the ancient scrolls of ancient Babylon last time. It was so lucky that the relics of Near Eastern civilization that could escape the destruction of the barbaric Ottomans were rare!"
As an official of the British Empire, Adrick can proudly despise the Ottomans, after all, the other party is the common enemy of the Christ world.
John naturally nodded in agreement and condemned:
"Indeed, the treasure of this civilization was destroyed by those thugs at will, and it was simply a crime."
I have to say that such ancient scrolls are indeed very precious, because in addition to those ancient scrolls buried deep underground, many rare heritages bred by the civilizations in the Mesopotamia were destroyed by the barbaric Ottomans in the name of religion, and
Not once or twice, but countless times a year.
Haven't you seen that Afghan Buddha was blown up by armed personnel in modern times?
And in another world, there is also Oders, the Star and Moon Cult Empire, doing the same thing as the Ottomans.
From the perspective of the entire human civilization, this is undoubtedly a crime.
Therefore, this kind of civilization relics from two or three thousand years ago can be passed down, which is undoubtedly a very lucky thing for a mysterious person like John who is a mysterious person who is a transcendent field.
"I will pay tribute to you here to get this scroll thanks to Mr. Cologne's efforts..."
John said, raising a glass of wine to Cologne.
"Salute to you!"
Adrick, a middle-aged nobleman with a mustache over there, also raised the wine glass in his hand.
Cologne was slightly nervous and said humble, and then raised her glass to return.
"Haha! This is all what I should do. Shouldn't we businessmen save some resources worth protecting and provide two such gentlemen with more and better collections and research topics?"
Although Cologne is a little sleek, not most of the merchants are like this. From the fact that he rarely relies on force to rob some ancient artifacts from the natives, he will try to exchange them with some money. It can be seen that this smuggling person is smuggling
The hearts of businessmen have not turned dark yet. Unlike many businessmen who can do anything for profit, they have completely lost their moral bottom line.
It is precisely because Cologne has a good reputation in this regard that although he is not inferior to the large seller with great strength, no matter whether he buys John or collectors with identity like Adrick, he doesn't mind.
He, a businessman, made friends, not just simple transactions like other businessmen.
While talking, the three of them were also watching the auction proceeding, but generally there would not be any good things before the auction. Even if the first one was thrown out to attract everyone's attention and drive the buyer's emotions, some fine products would be arranged occasionally.
, but this time John hasn't seen anything worth paying attention to.
With his divine constitution and extraordinary spiritual vision, there are few times when he misses his eyes.
However, just when a new auction item came on stage, it immediately attracted John's attention.
"This is?"
The auctioneer hired by the cargo owner on the stage was shouting hard.
"Dear gentlemen, this next item is a treasure obtained from an indigenous tribe in southern Africa known as the Land of Gold. It is said to be a holy object that has been passed down for hundreds of years, but this item is
The origin is bloody and cruel, because it is a sacrificial tool used by the wizards of this tribe to remove blood from the totems believed in by the tribe."
The auctioneer said, uncovering the silk covered on the pallet, revealing the auction items inside.
As soon as the thing was revealed, golden light suddenly appeared under the light, which immediately attracted John's eyes.