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Atlantis hotel.

Ji Sheng just finished cutting the ribbon with the local leaders, Master Fan Zeng and others.

A lot of important customers who arrived early rushed over as soon as the ribbon cutting was finished.

"Teacher Fan, I saw you."

"Oh, I'm here for you this time."

"Teacher Fan, can I make an appointment with you for a painting?"

A large group of people surrounded Fan Zeng, who was in his 80s, and their attitude was indescribably eager.

Even Liu Xiong, a billionaire in Hong Kong and a top collector, fawned on him: "Mr. Fan, I just came to the auction when I heard you came. Let's have a drink together later?"

Fan Zeng smiled generously and said, "Isn't Mr. Liu in poor health? We can just replace wine with tea later."

Ji Sheng watched from the side and secretly rejoiced that he had invited Fan Zeng here, otherwise there would not have been so many people present, especially Liu Xiong, who is very famous in the collector circle, and some auction houses even wanted to auction things , have to ask him to collect.

Of course, there were also a small number of people surrounding Ji Sheng.

These people are basically in the rare treasures of the world.

"Xiao Ji, I wish you a complete success in this autumn auction."

"Thank you, Mr. Qu."

"Xiao Ji, this time I took a fancy to the baby, it is the Yuan blue and white standard device, how much do you think I can get it?"

"Ouch, Old Yun, I can't tell you that. Of course, I hope that you will pay as much as possible."

"Haha, you little slicker."

A group of people chatted and entered the restaurant inside the hotel.

Those who can participate in the ribbon-cutting ceremony are heavyweight customers. Ji Sheng and the others will definitely treat them to dinner. As for ordinary customers, they don't have this treatment.

Although the mallet is about to be raised soon, Ji Sheng, Lu Zhengqing and the others still don't have much confidence in their hearts. Although there will be a total of four to five thousand customers coming this time, in fact, there are only seventy or eighty real heavyweights. , so if you want to have a good turnover figure, it is these heavyweight customers who really play a decisive role.

Take advantage of everyone to go to the restaurant to eat.

Ji Sheng chatted with Lu Zhengqing, Master Cheng, Zou Qingqiu and others for a while.

"It's finally about to start, and I don't know what will happen tonight."

"I hope there will be more transactions tonight, otherwise the outside world will know that we can't compare with Sotheby's, so they will die of laughter?"

"Old Lu, why don't you have confidence? We're not really fighting Sotheby's, do you really think we can beat Sotheby's?"

"That is, to attract so many customers, 'Pengci' is already a success, what else do you expect?"

Niu Yuanzhong, Wu Hongyi and Tian Liangping said with a smile.

That being said, Ji Sheng could also see nervousness from their expressions, but why wasn't he nervous?After all, it is related to how much money they can earn.

……

at the same time.

The outside world is not peaceful either.

Ever since Ji Sheng and others released the news that they were going to fight Sotheby's, people in the collection circle were all concerned whether they participated in the auction of the two parties or not.

"Hey, tonight is the auction of Sotheby's and ancient and modern art."

"Oh, don't tell me, I almost forgot. There will be a duel tonight. One is a giant in the auction industry, and the other is an unknown ancient and modern art that is said to have brought top-level collections such as the Chenghua Doucai Chicken Crock Cup. Who do you think will win?"

"Does it need to be said? It must be Sotheby's!"

"That's right, don't even ask this kind of question."

"That's true. Although ancient and modern art has brought such peerless treasures as chicken cups, it is far behind Sotheby's in terms of hard power. I estimate that the turnover of Sotheby's autumn auction this time should be more than 35 billion. , As for ancient and modern art, it is already very good to have a turnover of 15 billion, Xiling Yinshe's autumn auction this year is only 15 million, and [-] billion is already very high for ancient and modern art."

"That's my opinion too."

……

Topics continue.

In fact, these are normal discussions.

It is true that Sotheby's is too famous, and now being challenged by an auction company that has just been known to everyone is like an ant challenging an elephant. How can people in the collector circle not talk about such a popular thing?

Although this ant is very strong from the current situation, no matter how strong it is, it is still an ant. It is normal that no one is optimistic that the auction held by Ji Sheng, Lu Zhengqing and others can beat Sotheby's.

However, at this moment, a senior vice president of Jiangsu Forbes in Hong Kong suddenly spoke up, tearing his face without warning: "I can only use despicable behaviors such as ancient and modern art to gain popularity. To describe it, this is an extremely shameless thing in the auction industry. Some people actually ask me if Sotheby’s will be compared with ancient and modern art? Anyone with a long head knows that this is impossible. How can the joint auction put together by a group of ragtag people compare with our Sotheby's?"

This sentence was uttered in front of a reporter interviewing him. The reason was that the reporter asked what would happen if Sotheby's lost tonight. The senior vice president of Sotheby's became angry.

In fact, it’s no wonder that the senior vice president of Sotheby’s was angry. In previous years, their autumn auctions had five or six thousand customers present, but this time they were messed with by Ji Sheng. In the end, only about five thousand customers went to Sotheby’s auctions. There are 1000 fewer people than in previous years, especially Liu Xiong, who often cooperates with Sotheby's, also ran to participate in Ji Sheng's autumn auction this time. How can this not make Sotheby's angry?

Oh, it's fine if you rub my heat.

Now they have abducted our major customers.

What's more, because of Ji Sheng's fuss, Sotheby's clientele for this autumn auction has decreased by nearly [-]% compared to previous years.

Anyone will be angry.

In fact, the senior vice president of Sotheby's has nothing to say.

What's wrong is that the media misinterpreted it. After the senior vice president of Sotheby's said these words, the major media immediately issued a series of sensational news to attract traffic.

Negative voices are getting louder!

This matter is getting bigger and bigger!

Even, many people who don't care about auctions and collections have seen a burst of auction-related information on Weibo today. The two terms Sotheby's and Ancient and Modern Art occupy two of the top ten most searched positions, ranking eighth and ninth.

Some people who watched the excitement and didn't think it was a big deal took the initiative to start voting, asking everyone to vote on who had the most sales in this auction, Sotheby's or Ancient and Modern Art.

Sotheby's did my part and accounted for about 80.00% of the votes.

Ancient and modern art is only 15.00%.

And 5.00% is a bad vote.

Obviously, even on the day of the auction, most people are still not optimistic about the autumn auction of ancient and modern art.

……

Around five in the afternoon.

Atlantis Auction Room One.

Customers are gradually entering the arena, come in and sit down one by one, one-third of the customers are almost ready for their seats, Gao Mingde, the auctioneer who is in charge of this auction today, is also waiting in the background, and the master of equipment adjustment is still waiting. Check at the end.

Ji Sheng also said to the walkie-talkie from the backstage: "Have all the customers in Hall [-] entered?"

There was a sizzle over there, "Everyone is entering the arena in an orderly manner."

Ji Sheng hummed: "Got it, what's going on in Hall No. [-]?"

Afterwards, halls [-], [-], and [-] all reported the situation one after another.

Because the auctions were held in five halls at the same time, Ji Sheng definitely couldn't handle it alone, so he could only stare at the most important Hall No. [-] tonight.

But just when all the preparations were in place and the customers were halfway in, Lu Zhengqing, Niu Yuanzhong, Zou Qingqiu and several others rushed over.

Ji Sheng frowned when he saw them, "Mr. Lu, Mr. Niu, Mr. Zou, why don't you come here to stare at several auction halls?"

"President Ji, something has happened!" Lu Zhengqing said with a serious face.

"What's wrong?" Ji Sheng's heart tightened.

Zou Qingqiu pointed to the phone screen and said, "Just now the staff at the publicity office told me that our auction was bombarded by Sotheby's, saying that we are a mob and that they want to get rid of us. Now the outside world is waiting for us." Look at our jokes."

Niu Yuanzhong said angrily: "Even if we really took advantage of Sotheby's popularity, Sotheby's can't bombard us like this? Everyone is in the auction industry, and you can't look up and look down. Such a vicious bombardment I really don't know what they mean."

Tian Liangping also said beside him: "This is maliciously smearing us!"

Wu Hongyi said solemnly: "It's because of auctioning the first brother that we really don't take us seriously. I'm so angry when I hear it. Mr. Ji, tell me, how should we respond to Sotheby's?"

Many of their staff members were outraged.

Yes, they took advantage of the popularity of Sotheby's, but they never publicly slandered Sotheby's, let alone actively stated that they really wanted to challenge Sotheby's. They just released auction announcements one after another to let the outside world I thought they were going to challenge Sotheby's and attracted some attention, but what about Sotheby's now?They actually directly bombarded the media. If their auction is more successful, it’s okay, but if it’s really not ideal, they will definitely be laughed to death by outsiders. Everyone has been busy for so many days, and they are already very nervous. , and now there is such a thing again, of course everyone can't accept it!

"Mr. Ji."

"How do we do it?"

"Say something."

Everyone was very angry but asked, and many staff who were busy with other things looked over.

Ji Sheng looked at them, "What else can I do? Of course, do the work at hand well, and we will officially raise the gavel in a short while. As long as our turnover is good, all smears and doubts will stop abruptly. This is The best response is, that's all, go get busy with your own business!"

When everyone heard this, they dispersed.

Ji Sheng really thinks so. Under the current situation, apart from hoping to sell more bids and a higher turnover, there is really nothing to refute. As long as their turnover figures are good, they will give Sotheby's a A loud slap in the face, naturally, he will not respond to anything, if he has that time to respond, why not pray to God for more deals tonight!