"The Kanghou Gui is an early Western Zhou Dynasty bronze ware unearthed in the Central Plains in 1931. It was later resold overseas and donated to the museum by Brooke Sewell in 1977. It was originally part of the collection of Yiheyuan."
"Gui is a vessel used to hold cooked meals in ancient times. It is also used as a ritual vessel with a round mouth and two ears. It was popular from the Shang Dynasty to the Eastern Zhou Dynasty. It is one of the iconic bronze vessels of the Bronze Age. The bottom of the vessel has an inscription of 4 lines 24 Words. It was unearthed from the tomb of Wei Hou in Xincun in 1931. The most eye-catching thing about this Gui is its handle. It is a beast with long teeth, sharp horns and big square ears, and it is devouring a small bird."
"The starting price is 300 million! Start bidding now."
The host looked at this Gui and couldn't bear it.
He couldn't bear to see this thing taken away by foreign businessmen.
It should be of the Empire and it should stay in the Empire!
But just now, Francis threatened, and many people actually knew it.
After multiple rounds of attacks and biddings by Yemu Capital and Qiankun Group, the capital pool has bottomed out.
No money!
Seeing that Zungui was about to be taken down by Francis, after all, before the cultural relics exhibition, he had already bid 800 million, intending to take it down.
And among the rich people present, who is willing to spend 800 million to buy this Gui?
Even if there is really a rich man with 800 million assets on site, that is still his entire net worth.
Who would spend all their money to buy it?
As a result, everyone turned their attention to Xia Ye and Qin Guanghe, focusing on the two of them.
Francis smiled sinisterly.
"I am very disappointed with this auction. I thought that this auction was fair and just, and everyone came with the principle of bidding. Who knew that most of the treasures fell into the hands of you two Xia merchants? in the hands.”
After saying this, Francis stood up slowly in full view of everyone.
His eyes were sinister, and he said in a deep voice: "Now I have the right to question whether your conference is suspected of cheating. Xia, your Night Capital colluded with the organizers of the conference to illegally raise funds. I suspect that you transferred the auction funds from one hand to the other, violating the rules. , but in fact, Night Capital doesn’t have that much money at all! Doesn’t it?”
There was an uproar.
Many merchants looked at Xia Ye and others with horror in their eyes.
"Seriously? Is Mr. Xia really colluding with the organizer?"
"How is this possible? Those billions are not fake, you and I have seen it."
"I can only say that sometimes what you see may not be true, and it may be a show."
"That's right. Behind the scenes of Qiankun Group is Yemu Capital. They are a family."
"This summer night, in order to avoid risks and participate in the auction, I did not show up in person to host this auction. But in fact, from the beginning to the end of the conference, there was no trace of Longyin Pavilion and Night Capital?!"
Some foreign businessmen began to point fingers.
They are not necessarily foreigners.
On the contrary, they are all Xia people like Hong Fenhao.
All of them frowned and questioned Xia Ye.
Francis, on the other hand, stood in front of his seat, put his hands in his pockets, and said with a smile: "Although I have no evidence, the Xiou Group has been secretly investigating you. Your capital pool has definitely bottomed out. If you can still afford this auction, , I can almost conclude that you are cheating!"
Hong Fenhao stood up and echoed: "This auction was witnessed by so many people and the media was present. The apparent funds of your Night Capital are only 2.5 billion. Do you really think we don't know about it? Counting Qiankun Group's With help, with some miscellaneous cash flow, the limit is already 5 billion!"
"And you have already used up the 5 billion in the previous bidding!"
"Everyone can see clearly that if Xia Ye and Qin Guanghe take action again, then they are cheating! They are conjuring up funds that do not exist at all! Then there must be something fishy in this auction! We have the right to ask the conference to host Fang, return our funds, and have the owner of the cultural relics, Jones, the deputy director of the Sun Never Sets Museum, report it to the Sun Never Sets Congress to urgently recover these cultural relics!”
Hong Fenhao sneered: "Xia Ye, it's almost impossible for you to play tricks. If you want to monopolize this batch of cultural relics, unless you want to cause an international dispute! The issue of the ownership of cultural relics is a confrontation at the national level. With you group of private Enterprise, it doesn’t matter at all, I advise you not to do such a thing.”
He suddenly seemed to remember something, and told Xia Ye with a smile: "By the way, I forgot to tell you that the young master's father is an honorary earl in Japan. He has the right to enter and leave the parliament freely. When the time comes, in Japan I’ll give you a copy, but in order to save face, will the empire let you continue to do whatever you want?!”
"You are committing international fraud! After all, legally speaking, the sun never sets on these cultural relics!"
Hong Fenhao's words were obviously prepared long ago.
Anyone who cares can tell that this move was discussed before they went on stage.
No matter what the outcome of this conference is, even if Francis has the upper hand, he will still kill them all!
From the beginning, he had the intention of preventing cultural relics from flowing into the empire.
No matter how much money they spent on summer nights, the artifacts would eventually circulate on a small scale among European aristocrats and the wealthy.
No matter how you handle it or how big the auction is, there are rules.
Not only that, there will be many people involved in this matter.
Xia Ye will definitely not be able to keep his position as the richest man in Dragon City, and he may have to face fines from the empire.
After all, if Sun Bu Luo is held accountable, the empire may not really protect him for the sake of the overall situation. Instead, it will cut Xia Ye's leeks and give Sun Bu Luo an explanation first.
There's a lot of room for maneuver here.
Maybe the overlord will also intervene by then.
"Is that the end? I thought a miracle would happen."
"It seems that the other party has been preparing to set a trap on Xia Ye for a long time."
"Francis's method is both civil and military. He not only needs to spend money to buy cultural relics, but also blocks the possibility of the empire to recover these cultural relics from all aspects."
"Alas, they are deliberately raising the cost of recovering cultural relics. I'm afraid it will be troublesome if the state takes action."
"It's useless, since they have already talked about it... we can't get the bronze gui and the female history admonishment picture back..."
Some people were helpless, some sighed sadly, and some shook their heads and smiled bitterly.
But no matter what kind of emotions these people present expressed, Xia Ye was indifferent.
Even the wealthy people in Longcheng were also unmoved!
Everyone knows it!
Their boss, Mr. Xia, the richest man in Dragon City, would not just give in!
Right in plain sight!
Under Francis's proud gaze.
Xia Ye slowly stood up, holding a document:
"You are questioning my violation of the rules. I don't want to explain any more. This is the amount of funds that our Yemu Capital has raised in this auction, a total of 5 billion!"
As soon as he finished speaking, Hong Fenhao burst out laughing!
