Han Du was very satisfied with everyone's reaction, nodded with a smile and said: "Exquisite official kiln porcelain is extremely rare even in the Ming Empire. You are all lucky today, and I happened to bring a piece of official kiln porcelain here. Everyone, Please look!"
Han Du raised his hand to signal, and the maid came onto the stage holding a wooden box.
Han Du took it carefully, as if he was afraid that if he moved too much, he would damage the porcelain inside.
The wooden box was opened, and Han Du held up a disk as white as snow in his hands, holding it high to face the crowd. The light was projected from Han Du's back and passed directly through the porcelain disc, making people seem to see a transparent full moon.
Such a magical scene suddenly made everyone in the audience shout out in shock. It seemed that it was difficult to vent the excitement in their hearts without shouting loudly.
Han Du smiled with satisfaction, gently put the porcelain disc back into the box, pointed and said: "This porcelain is called a white jade plate. Among tens of thousands of porcelains, there may not be one like this. Moreover, there is only one such porcelain." Such a pair."
Han Du opened another box and showed it to everyone. Said: "These two white jade plates are exactly the same, completely made from nature, and extremely rare."
"The auction begins now. The two pieces of porcelain are auctioned together. The base price is two hundred pounds of gold. Each increase in price cannot be less than ten pounds. Let's start bidding now!"
"Two hundred pounds!" The city lord raised his hand for the first time today.
Han Du saw the city lord's active bid and said happily: "The city lord bids 200 pounds, is there anything higher?"
After shouting several times in succession, Han Du found that no one bid. How is this going? Are they afraid of the power of the city lord, so they dare not continue bidding?
Han Du's face suddenly darkened, if this pair of porcelain were sold for two hundred pounds of gold. Although I didn't lose money, the price was far different from what I expected, and it was very uneconomical.
At the same time, Han Du also thought of something. If these people are afraid of the power of the city lord and dare not increase the price. As for the following items, if every city lord is the first to bid, wouldn't it mean that no one would dare to continue to increase the price, which means that each item can only be sold at a low price?
In this case, what is the significance of Handu's auction?
Seeing that the banquet hall was still silent, everyone's eyes were fixed on Han Du. Some people even think that in the future, we can all agree to buy everything at the lowest price and then distribute it among themselves. In this way, it can be said that Han Du took advantage of everything.
Han Du looked at everyone's rather proud expressions and thought of this. If these people really unite to deal with themselves, then not only will their auction plan go bankrupt, but even future auctions will be aborted.
What is the value of an auction that does not bring any benefit at all?
The city lord sat below, looked back at everyone, and smiled at Han Du with satisfaction: "Since no one continues to bid, the businessman from the mysterious East should hurry up and announce the result."
Han Du understood the meaning of the city lord from Hader's mouth, but felt that these words were very harsh. Think about it a few days ago, when Han Du just spent 350,000 gold coins, how kind the city lord was to him at that time. But in the blink of an eye, the city lord found an opportunity to profit and killed Han Du without hesitation.
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In the pit.
Han Du lowered his head and pondered for a moment, then slowly raised his head and said with a smile: "Since no one bids, then two hundred pounds of gold at a time~"
The gavel in his hand was smashed down casually, but it was different from the previous times when it hit the long table. This time, Han Du deliberately shifted the position of the hammer a little, and hit it directly on the open and raised side of the wooden box.
"Bang~clang~crack..."
The wooden box was smashed and rolled to the ground. The white jade plate inside instantly fell to the ground and shattered into pieces.
"No!!!" The city lord suddenly jumped up in shock and ran directly to the stage without caring about anything. He squatted on the ground with a face full of regret. He looked at the white jade fragments on the ground with trembling hands, feeling very distressed.
The city lord has a secret that Han Du doesn't know, and that is his extreme obsession with porcelain. There is usually not a single piece of porcelain in his city lord's palace. People who don't know better would think that he doesn't like porcelain. But in fact, on the contrary, he likes porcelain very much. He even built a special room for porcelain to store his collection of porcelain.
The first time the city lord saw the white jade plate, he fell in love with this pair of porcelain. But the more he liked it, the more calm he became. It wasn't until Han Du asked for a quote that he raised his hand and quoted a minimum price.
Others naturally understood the Lord's hobby, so no one offered to compete with him.
But no one expected that Han Du would break one. Not only the city lord, but also others felt sorry for the white jade plate. How could such a treasure be broken into pieces like this?
The city lord looked at the white fragments on the ground, raised his head and looked at Han Du with murderous eyes. His eyes were red, as if Han Du would never give up if he didn't give him an explanation.
Han Du shrugged and said nonchalantly: "Sorry, my hand slipped just now."
When Hard heard Han Du's ridiculous reason, he secretly swallowed his saliva and didn't know how to tell the Lord of the City. But facing the fierce gaze of the city lord, he could only bite the bullet and convey Han Du's intention to him.
Of course, the city lord didn't believe Han Du's ridiculous reason, but he still had some sense and didn't directly fall out with Han Du. Instead, he pointed at the only remaining white jade plate and asked.
Seeing that the city lord did not start a fight with Han Du, Hader breathed a sigh of relief and quickly told Han Du: "The city lord is asking the Marquis, how should I sell the remaining white jade plate?"
Han Du smiled and said: "This is not simple, just re-auction."
After hearing Han Du's words, the city lord had no choice but to return to his seat and sit down, waiting for Han Du to continue the auction.
Han Du didn't feel any sadness at all. He could still smile in front of everyone and said, "I made a mistake just now and I broke a white jade plate. Now let's auction the last white jade plate. The base price is five hundred pounds of gold, please bid!”
When Hard heard such a price, he was shocked. He didn't bother to tell others, and asked Han Du with a puzzled face: "Master Marquis, is this price a mistake? A pair is only two hundred pounds. , now there is only one but it costs 500 pounds?”
Han Du glanced at him with a faint smile, "That's right. It's just a white jade plate, five hundred pounds."
Harder gritted his teeth and persuaded in a low voice: "Master Hou, at such a price...
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...I'm afraid it will cause everyone's dissatisfaction. "Indeed, a pair only cost 200 pounds, but now there is only one and the price is 500 pounds. Such blatant bullying will easily lead to everyone's dissatisfaction.
"Humph, they are dissatisfied? I am not satisfied yet." Han Du glanced at everyone coldly, "How dare you join forces to lower my price without giving you some pain? What do you think? You can lower the price as much as you want, but I can make you unable to buy anything no matter how much money you have."
Han Du said directly to Hade: "Don't worry, just tell them what I said. As for whether they are willing to buy it, that is their business. After all, the transaction is based on your own will, and I am also willing to do so." We can’t force them to buy it, right?”
Harder is not stupid. He certainly knows what those people wanted to do when they united to lower the price of Handu. Seeing this, he stopped insisting and relayed the price of Handu to everyone.
When everyone heard this, they immediately became noisy. The entire banquet hall instantly became like a vegetable market. Most people were very dissatisfied with Handu's outrageous prices, and many even threatened to never buy anything from Handu again.
The noisy situation lasted for a while before gradually calming down.
Seeing everyone's anger towards him, Han Du said nonchalantly: "Is there no one bidding? If no one bids, then this white jade plate will not be auctioned."
Hader relayed Han Du's words to everyone.
Just when Han Du raised his gavel again, someone finally raised his hand to bid.
"Five hundred pounds!"
Han Du's face suddenly seemed to bloom like a flower. He raised his hand and pointed at the bidder, shouting excitedly: "This gentleman has really good vision. Five hundred pounds a time. Is there anything higher?"
Next, without any urging from Han Du, the price of the white jade plate gradually increased from ten pounds to twenty pounds, reaching eight hundred and seventy pounds.
"One thousand pounds." The city lord, who had been silent for a long time, finally couldn't bear to bid. He was frightened by Han Du's actions just now, and fearing that the price would be low, Han Du smashed the only white jade plate with another hammer.
Although Han Du had been emphasizing just now, he accidentally smashed the white jade plate because his hand slipped and he made a mistake. But no one present was a fool. Everyone could see that Han Du disliked the price being too low, so he would rather smash it than sell it to them.
The city lord did not dare to let the price of this auction be too low, so he never stopped other people from bidding, and even directly increased the price to one thousand pounds. He believed that this price was the limit he could bear. If Han Du was still not satisfied, then if he wanted to throw it away, he might as well throw it away.
Han Du put a smile on his face and shouted loudly: "One thousand pounds once, is there anyone who bids higher?"
"Twice for one thousand pounds...Three times for one thousand pounds...the deal is done! Congratulations, Lord City Lord, the precious porcelain and white jade plate that came to the official kiln of the Ming Empire this time belongs to you."
Seeing that Han Du had not smashed the last white jade plate, Harder immediately let out a sigh of relief and quickly conveyed Han Du's intention to the city lord.
The city owner slowly became happy when he saw that Han Du was finally satisfied with the price. Although it cost him a lot of gold to buy this white jade plate, he still felt that it was worth it when his eyes were filled with white jade plates.
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