Chapter 0228 – A Stone Stirs Up Thousands of Waves
“Twelve million RMB ……”
This was another offer that silenced the crowd, looking at the way that kid was holding his right hand high in the air, except for Zhuang Rui and the others, everyone present, could not wait to go up and teach him a good lesson.
“Twelve million, this gentleman called again, twelve million yuan, there is no one out of a higher price, twelve million once ……”
Don’t say these jade bosses present, even the host on the stage, Wei Zijiang have no good feelings, you want to shout price that’s right, but you a little bit of shouting ah! All of a sudden, it is twice as high as others, which makes the host want to show his auction skills and elegance of the opportunity to be deprived of.
“Twelve million for the second time …… twelve million for the third time, congratulations, this gentleman, the second piece of jadeite bright material, will belong to you again. Pah!”
Seeing that the following crowd did not have the intention to raise the price again, the host ended the bidding quickly, just knocking down the hammer with a slightly upset heart.
Zhuang Rui or for the first time found that the original these sons of the family pretending to 13, there is also a little bit cute, of course, at this time to go to the formalities of Wei Zijiang with his head held high, in the eyes of others, that the rest of the whole thing is hateful.
Some people look at the only remaining fourteen pieces of ice seed material, the heart seems to understand a little what, hundreds of people fighting for this more than ten pieces of jade material, if a little bit of the price to shout up, less than ten million may not be able to take it down, this young man shouted out two slightly higher than the crowd’s heart affordability of the price, but it is very safe to shoot to the two pieces of emerald material, it does not necessarily mean that it is at a loss, because the stage! The remaining jadeite material the less, the competition will be more intense.
“The following to shoot is today’s third ice seed floating jadeite bright material, the third lot total weight of forty one hundred and two pounds, the starting price of five million yuan RMB, please friends bid …….”
Only after seeing Wei Zijiang go through the formalities and sit back in his chair did the guest auctioneer on stage begin to call out for the third piece of jadeite material.
“Eight million ……”
“Eight million three hundred thousand ……”
“Eight million eight hundred thousand ……”
“I bid nine million ……”
This time the following shouting price is different from the previous two times, without the beginning of the trial, the first offer of the person shouted eight million, exceeding the reserve price of three million. And the back of the person’s also followed closely, and soon raised the price to nine million yuan RMB.
Just in the shout to nine million, everyone paused for a moment, put their eyes on Wei Zijiang’s body, that kid do not know whether intentionally or unintentionally, arms spread out, in the chair stretched a hard lazy waist, so that the crowd’s heart “thump” a lift, but fortunately, he did not make a sound offer.
“Fuck!!!”
Everyone heart to this kid put up a middle finger, hate to beat him up, and that shouted out the price of nine million boss, heart also settled down some, without this messenger, nine million should be able to take a piece of jadeite material, right?
“Nine million two hundred thousand ……”
Unfortunately, things didn’t develop in the direction that that boss had in mind, time hadn’t even passed thirty seconds when a new offer was generated.
“Nine million two hundred thousand, this friend has called out a price of nine million two hundred thousand ……”
It was only then that the host on the stage felt a little bit of hosting the bidding, and immediately shouted out the latest offer through the microphone.
The field fell silent for a moment. But this is more to the silence before the storm, sure enough, in the host’s voice just fell, Han’s jewelry Han boss, finally also opened the price: “I bid ten million!”
Maybe this price in two rounds before, can shock the crowd present, but with the previous twelve million sold examples, Han boss this price and did not maintain a long time, even did not use the host on the stage to repeat once, was broken.
“Ten million and two hundred thousand ……”
“Ten million and three hundred thousand ……”
“I bid ten million and five hundred thousand ……”
“Okay, this gentleman has bid up to ten million and five hundred thousand, are there any more friends to bid.” The host was excited by the rising offers, this is what he wanted!
“Ten million and seven hundred thousand ……”
“I bid eleven million ……”
It seemed that the bosses of the jewelry companies had realized that it was almost impossible to take one of the pieces of wool on the cheap, and the price was gradually shouted higher.
Until someone shouted out eleven million, they realized that this price was already higher than the first piece of emerald auctioned ten million dollars, while the young man who had auctioned two pieces of emerald in a row, but no longer spoke out to offer.
“Damn, where is this a little guy whose hair hasn’t even grown! Simply an old fox.”
Everyone understands the strategy of this young man shouting, that is, at the beginning with a price higher than people’s mental capacity, auction wool, although it seems to be a very high price, but it avoids the risk of bidding with the crowd, and now called out the price, but also not lower than his auction price.
“Elder brother Zhuang. That friend of yours has someone high up in his family!”
From the time Wei Zijiang shouted 10 million, Fatty Ma guessed his intention, even he had to admire the person who came up with this idea, two times shouting, are the reserve price or double the bid of others, which not only have to have an accurate measurement of the actual value of the emerald, but also have to make a judgment on the crowd’s psychological activities, not the average person can do.
“Ginger is really old and hot!”
Zhuang Rui sniffed, could not help but look toward Lei Lei and others sitting in the row behind Wei Zijiang, that old master Wei seemed to feel Zhuang Rui’s gaze, turned back to him and smiled.
In fact, Master Wei also has a bitter heart, Wei’s jewelry in Hong Kong does not have much fame, can only be regarded as one of the many engaged in the jewelry business, and Qin Xuan Bing’s family is not comparable, and just a few months ago, their gambling in Burma also ended in failure, not only is the company faced with the dilemma of a lack of raw materials, and even the turnover of funds, is not so flexible.
That’s why Elder Wei personally participated in this gambling conference at the age of seventy, but yesterday’s auction of a few pieces of wool is not so satisfactory, if not for Lei Lei’s piece of wool betting up. This time again is considered a failure to return.
And when Zhuang Rui’s king of the bidding wool bet up, Wei old man on the spot, overnight from Hong Kong’s underground money changers to borrow thirty million (commonly known as usury), for today’s jadeite bidding, fortunately, Wei Zijiang performance is good, with a lower than the old man’s psychological price, the auction of two pieces of material, which is enough to let the Wei’s jewelry in a long period of time, do not have to worry about the finished product for the middle to high grade emerald.
Some friends see here will say, to borrow loan sharks to participate in the auction. If you can not pay back how to do ah? In fact, Hong Kong’s underground money changers are not as exaggerated as those movies such as the kooks, most of which are used for some businessmen’s short-term capital turnover, the interest rate, although higher, but it is also the borrower and lender are willing to fight willing to suffer.
That being said, after Master Wei returned to Hong Kong, he had all the time in the world, and could have used one of the jadeite or his own property as collateral, and loaned a sum of money from a regular bank to pay back the loan from the underground money changer.
“Eleven million eight hundred thousand, this gentleman quoted eleven million eight hundred thousand, there is no friend to open the price?”
Not to mention Zhuang Rui and other people have their own thoughts, this auction is still going on, the price has been lifted to eleven million eight hundred thousand, compared to Wei Zijiang’s second auction price is only less than two hundred thousand only, look at this momentum, there should be someone else to bid.
“Twelve and a half million!”
Sure enough, just before the host’s words fell, Boss Han stood up and shouted out the current highest price in the arena.
“Twelve and a half million …… This gentleman has called out a price of twelve and a half million, is there any friend who has raised the price? Twelve million five hundred thousand once …… twelve million five hundred thousand twice, twelve million five hundred thousand three times, sold, congratulations to this gentleman, please move for the next formalities ……”
In the end, the third piece of jadeite material was auctioned off by Boss Han at a price of twelve and a half million dollars, but he was a little bitter in his heart, this price has actually exceeded his psychological price.
But this is no way things, the domestic jadeite raw material market price increases, has been the nail in the coffin of the thing, and with it, must be the mid-range and high-end jadeite jewelry prices rose dramatically, if you do not take advantage of now hoard some jadeite raw materials, and then wait for a period of time, who knows the price will be raised to what point, although now know that some of the losses, but who can not say that, this price is to take advantage of the bargain later on! It!
“Boy, the youngest. Your three pieces of material on the shoot out, I calculate, one thousand plus twelve, plus twelve and a half, is thirty-four million four hundred and fifty thousand, this capital has returned more than half!
Sitting next to Zhuang Rui Wei, rough calculation, can not help but shocked a big jump, although their family business to do not small, but also on the Zhuang Rui this sucking money speed surprised, if the following jadeite material can be sold in accordance with this price, even if the Zhuang Rui only one-third of the share, it is also going to become a quasi-billionaires.
Zhuang Rui after hearing, God also some trance, he participated in this gambling conference, although it is for the money and come, but for himself will become a legendary billionaire, he is still not psychologically prepared, think about a few months ago, more than 100,000 sold grasshopper gourd when the euphoria, and now the mood, it seems to be similar Well, does it say that this money is more, it is really just a string of figures?
Of course, Zhuang Rui can only think in his heart, if he dares to say out words, will be designated by the Wei brother and the old four beat, these two gnawing old man, now but on Zhuang Rui’s achievements …… uh, or wealth, envious ah!
“The following begins the auction of the fifth piece of jade …… “Just as Zhuang Rui froze this moment, the fourth piece of jade actually has finished.
“The fourth piece of auction how much money?” Zhuang Rui casually asked to the side of Wei brother.
“Thirteen million eight hundred thousand dollars!”
Brother Wei’s answer made Zhuang Rui’s jaw not close for a long time, Wei Zijiang’s behavior was definitely a stone that stirred up a thousand waves.