Hello, 1983

With the New Year's Day approaching, Christie's auction house held a special New Year's auction on Hong Kong Island, which almost attracted the attention of the whole world.

After entering the 1980s, Christie's developed rapidly, with several auctions reaching new highs.

In particular, this New Year's auction has aroused heated discussions before it even started.

Liu Qingshan also accompanied Hong Yunsheng to the auction hall of Christie's Hong Kong Island branch. As for Secretary Wang and Zheng Hongqi, they went to visit the factory under the leadership of Qian Yuzhen.

After parking the car, I found that I couldn't enter the auction hall at all. There were hundreds of people at the gate, all with cloth strips wrapped around their heads, banners in their hands, and slogans in their mouths.

An unconscious smile appeared on Liu Qingshan's face: Everyone has come to protest here, aren't there still many islanders on this side of Hong Kong Island?

Most of them are hired locals and it's been a couple of days.

Hong Yunsheng also watched with great interest. Speaking of which, the source of this matter was the two of them.

Hehe, I declare that the protest is invalid.

Liu Qingshan did not forget to make a joke.

He was also extraordinarily organized today: a well-fitting high-end suit, which Qian Yuzhen led him to choose yesterday, dressed up this younger brother, very handsome.

If you don't know the details, you will definitely think that this is the wealthy young man of which big family.

Soon, a large team of police arrived to quickly disperse the protesting crowd. Christie's is an old auction house in Great Britain. Hong Kong Island is now part of England for the time being. Of course, no one is allowed to make trouble here.

Only then did Liu Qingshan follow the flow of people and enter the auction house calmly. Along the way, he attracted many people's attention.

I have to say that after changing into a brand-name outfit, it is really eye-catching with Liu Qingshan's unique temperament.

He also took it in stride, anyway, this time he had to act in a high-profile manner, so he didn't need to be secretive.

While walking, I found a man in his thirties and nodded to him, and Liu Qingshan smiled and nodded in greeting, recalling in his mind: Which star is this?

The middle-aged man with a big split head was lustrous, and he was wearing a big toad mirror.

After the man walked over with his female companion on his arm, Hong Yunsheng asked in a low voice, Qingshan, do you know Huo Sheng?

Liu Qingshan shook his head, then suddenly remembered something, and asked: Is it the Huo family from Hong Kong Island?

Hong Yunsheng nodded. Like the Huo family, he usually couldn't climb high at all.

That is to say, he knows people, and people don't know him.

There are a lot of celebrities here today.

While walking, Hong Yunsheng introduced the celebrities on Hong Kong Island he saw to Liu Qingshan in a low voice.

Some people, even Liu Qingshan, have heard of them. In previous lives, these people were the protagonists in the legends.

But now, Liu Qingshan feels that he may also become a legend in other people's mouths.

Their seats were at the back of the auction hall. This was also because Hong Yunsheng was the client. Otherwise, it is estimated that there would be no place for him to sit in such a big scene.

In Liu Qingshan's hand, he also received a number plate. That's right, he will also participate in the auction, and he has also paid a deposit of 100,000 pounds.

Of course, Liu Qingshan didn't have pounds on hand, so he asked his partner Victor to extract it from the money for buying morels and ground vegetables, which was barely enough.

In the auction hall, people kept coming in one after another.

When a group of guests with serious expressions and even anger entered the hall, there was a sound of discussion in the hall.

There are twenty or thirty people in this group, and Liu Qingshan knows that they should be islanders, because in this group,

He saw a familiar figure: Masaichi Fujita.

try{mad1('gad2');} catch(ex){} This guy is at the end of the group, and he is probably a follower.

Hong Yunsheng hurriedly introduced to Liu Qingshan: The representatives of several big consortiums from the island country have come. The young man with glasses is Mitsui Mu of the Mitsui Consortium, and the mustache is from the Fuji Consortium...

Liu Qingshan also nodded with satisfaction: The more people there are, the better prices we can get for our auction items.

Not necessarily, maybe the people of the island nation will unite to block it. Hong Yunsheng's face was a little worried, and the auction house was in deep water.

Especially in the current island countries, the bubble economy has not burst, it is the era that claims to be able to buy all over the world.

In the world's major auction houses, most of the artworks auctioned are sold at high prices by the island countries as a means of investment to preserve value.

The most famous incident here is that Yasuda Co., Ltd. took Van Gogh's famous painting Sunflower, which was said to have cost 5.9 billion, of course, Japanese yen.

The most dramatic scene is that after a few years, the island country's economy collapsed, and Yasuda could not hold it anymore, so they wanted to sell the sunflower, but it was sent to the auction house for identification, and it turned out to be a fake.

Once upon a time, the title of stupid people with more money turned out to be worn on the heads of islanders.

At ten o'clock in the morning, the auction officially started. The auctioneer was a white man, but he could speak fluent Cantonese.

After a few simple opening remarks, we get to the main topic. The first few works are not very valuable.

This is also a practice, first heat the field.

During this period, Liu Qingshan also randomly raised the sign twice, but it was soon submerged in the other number cards.

Lot No. 10 is one of the founders of Impressionist oil painting, a work by Edouard Manet. His works deeply influenced a large number of masters such as Cezanne and Van Gogh.

The starting price for this work is £1 million, with an increase of no less than £10,000 each time.

As soon as the auctioneer finished his introduction, there were people holding placards one after another at the scene, and the price quickly climbed to more than 1.5 million pounds.

Liu Qingshan observed, and there were mainly two groups of people holding the placards, one group was Westerners, and the other group was a team of islanders.

Manet's works were inspired and influenced by Ukiyo-e in the island country, so they are very famous and popular in the island country.

More importantly, at this time, there was a frenzy of collecting Western art in the island country, and the purchases were very frenzied.

This kind of wealth and wealth, the few Westerners quickly couldn't resist, when the price climbed to more than 2 million pounds, they could only shrug their shoulders, but had no choice but to withdraw from the competition.

The young and golden spokesperson of the Mitsui Group, the guy named Mitsui Mu, also cast a contemptuous look at them, and muttered something in his mouth, which is probably something like I mean everyone here is garbage or the like of.

There is really no one to pull hatred in public.

Liu Qingshan felt that he couldn't be cheap, so he happened to fight him first, so he also started to raise his cards, and added 100,000 pounds at one time.

Seeing Hong Yunsheng next to him, the muscles on his face twitched involuntarily.

He knew Liu Qingshan's family background, and it was only 100,000 pounds in total.

If the other party refuses to increase the price, then it will not be in the hands, and where will he deliver more than two million pounds?

However, Liu Qingshan's face is calm, and others don't know his depth. Coupled with the faint smile on the corner of his mouth, he really thinks that he is the heir of some big family, the kind who doesn't take money as money. .

After Liu Qingshan raised the sign a few times, the Mitsuigi got angry and directly increased the price to three million pounds, and then shot his provocative gaze towards Liu Qingshan.

try{mad1('gad2');} catch(ex){} This kind of fight, of course, attracted the attention of most of the people in the field. There was also a whisper in the hall, and it was estimated that they were inquiring about the origin of Liu Qingshan.

So many people are watching, after all, you can't disappoint everyone, right?

Liu Qingshan happily raised the sign again, and did not add more, just 10,000, which belongs to the kind of increase that is not very harmful, but is extremely insulting.

Even if the other party refuses to increase the price, Liu Qingshan is not afraid that the painting will fall into his hands. Anyway, after the auction of his item, he will be able to get a lot of cash back.

His current approach is mainly to warm up the bidding for a while, otherwise, it would be a bit too eye-catching and too obvious to only bid on that item.

Sure enough, the young man Mitsuigi couldn't stand the provocation, and he added another hundred thousand all at once.

Then Liu Qingshan saw that Fujita Masaichi suddenly approached Mitsuigi, nodded and said something. Obviously, this guy recognized Liu Qingshan.

Qingshan, don't add any more.

Hong Yunsheng also saw that the situation was not good, and quickly reminded in a low voice that he was also afraid that Liu Qingshan had played too much.

Under normal circumstances, Liu Qingshan should also stop. After all, there are people in the opponent's camp who know his bottom line and know that he is a poor boy.

However, Liu Qingshan did not play cards according to common sense, and he raised his cards lightly to add 10,000, causing an uproar on the scene.

This price has actually far exceeded the estimate of the painting.

Liu Qingshan has already made a move, and it depends on how Mitsuigi responds. More than half of the eyes in the hall are projected on Mitsuimu, and even the auctioneer is looking directly at him with anticipation.

This also means that Mitsuigi enjoys this kind of gaze, and at the same time feels more pressure.

He no longer blindly followed the price, but sternly asked Fujita Masaichi something, and Fujita Masaichi nodded again and again with a look of panic, sweating profusely on his forehead.

Three hundred and twelve thousand once, three hundred and twenty thousand twice... The auctioneer raised the hammer in his hand.

Hong Yunsheng, who was sitting beside Liu Qingshan, was soaked in cold sweat on his back, and there was only one thought left in his heart: It's over, it's over, this is really a mess!

Just as the small hammer in the auctioneer's hand was about to smash down, someone finally raised a card, but it was not Mitsuigi, but a Westerner with Mediterranean hairstyle not far away.

At this moment, Hong Yunsheng felt his body soften, and the big stone in his heart finally fell to the ground.

However, Liu Qingshan didn't seem to care, and raised the number plate gently, and secretly gave a thumbs up to Victor who had just made a bid: Not bad, it was timely to raise the number plate.

Mitsuigi hesitated, glared at Masaichi Fujita, and then joined the fray again, looking like he was fighting to the end.

So a new round of competition started again, until the price was raised to 3.5 million pounds, Liu Qingshan shook his head with a smile and withdrew from the competition.

And Victor, shrugging his shoulders, also gave up.

Although Mitsuigi won, his heart felt like he had swallowed a fly, and he had no joy in winning at all.

After several auctions, Liu Qingshan also brushed a wave of existence, but in the end, he got nothing, and he didn't want to get anything.

When the finale finally arrived, the auctioneer's tone was raised a bit:

Ladies and gentlemen, the last item in this auction is one of a kind in the world. It was the flag of the National League during World War II.

At present, there is only one spliced ​​alliance flag in the world, which is kept in the island country; and this alliance flag is the only one that has been preserved in its entirety. We will conduct an auction without reserve price, please bid below!