Chapter 729: Give In?

Although Yanjing in 1999 is not the most congested city, it has already shown signs of being so. With the rapid increase of the number of immigrants every year, Yanjing is also rapidly expanding to the suburbs.

So when night falls, traffic jams in bustling places like Houhai are becoming more and more common. Of course, with the development of the city, the neon lights at night are also flashing more and more.

People who own antiques are not necessarily rich, because they lack the means to turn antiques into cash. Don't look at some things in some treasure appraisal programs that are worth millions or tens of millions at any time. After all, these things are dead objects. Only when they can be sold can they make money. If they can't be sold, they are just ornaments.

But people who can afford antiques are definitely local tycoons, there is no doubt about that. After all, people who can spend millions, tens of millions or even hundreds of millions of funds on their hobbies every year can be called local tycoons no matter what business they are in.

So at such a large-scale auction, the number of cars parked in front of the door is almost as high as that of a luxury car show. However, the people who come to the auction are basically older, and the occasional young faces are all brought by their elders at home.

After all, unless young people are investing or have been influenced by their families since childhood, few people like to play with this. They prefer sports cars and foreign luxury brands. They feel that they can have face and keep up with the trend without being called old-fashioned.

"Is collecting popular now?" Yang Dongxu asked curiously when he saw many people coming in and out of the auction, especially many people who brought many professional appraisal analysts with them in addition to relatives and friends.

Although he occasionally collects some things, he usually collects loose pieces. If he sees something he likes and negotiates the price, he will take it away. He really doesn't know the specific situation of the entire collection business.

"In the past two years, there are indeed many people who play with this. The price of antiques in our country has increased several times in some foreign auction houses. In addition to this, jade is also very popular. I heard that gambling on jade in the south is even crazier than this auction. There are too many rich people and many people don't take money as money." Li Yihang couldn't help but curl his lips to the side.

Yang Dongxu turned his head and took a look. He saw some rough-looking men wearing a big gold chain around their necks and three rings on one hand. They all had jade and gemstones, which made them look very rich. Then he nodded.

Needless to say, this must be someone who has a mine at home. The first batch of rich people in China can be called rich. Only those who have mines at home can be called rich. Those who make money by doing business are not rich at all.

Because people who do business cannot spend hundreds of millions of dollars, but those who have mines can do it. And the richer these people with mines are, the more they want to get rid of the rusticity in their bodies, so they spend a lot of money to change, but the more they spend, the more rustic they become, which makes people very helpless.

Walking into the auction hall, Yang Dongxu saw an acquaintance. Bai Qian was already sitting in the front row with a few foreigners, and they were holding an auction item manual issued before the auction and talking about something.

Seeing Yang Dongxu, Bai Qian smiled and nodded. Several foreigners around her also looked at Yang Dongxu in her direction, and then continued to look down at the auction item information in their hands.

"Baijia has been fighting for a while and has taken on several big projects." Li Yihang couldn't help but say, and then he turned around and looked at Yang Dongxu with a strange look.

"It's not a small project." Yang Dongxu nodded, and then found that Li Yihang's eyes were a little strange: "Why are you looking at me like that? I'm just a matchmaker. It's their ability to do so big."

Yes, Baijia has received several big businesses during this period, which have something to do with Yang Dongxu, because one of these big businesses is a cable project.

This project is that after Yang Dongxu acted as a middleman, Baijia spent a lot of money to buy a very advanced production line and technology from the big brother in the north, and it is said that many technical personnel have been recruited.

At present, whether it is the national cable, private cable engineering, or even the Huaxia Telecom used by Yang Dongxu, they are all ready to order from Baijia, which made the originally shaky Baijia tremble again, and it can be said that it was in a prosperous period.

Although the hundred families started shaking, Yang Dongxu felt that this had nothing to do with him. He was just a stepping stone at most. They had such great achievements because they were willing to invest. If they invested enough, they would naturally get more benefits after success.

"It's okay." Li Yihang smiled and shook his head.

However, Yang Dongxu always felt that Li Yihang had something to say, but he didn't find anything wrong for a while, so he frowned and ignored him. Instead, like most of the others, he flipped through the album of auction items in his hand.

The auction items were basically Chinese shareholders, including porcelain, calligraphy and painting, and various sculptures. Yang Dongxu liked a rhino horn cup with very good color and luster, and a whole ivory carved ornament.

At present, the country does not strictly check for contraband such as rhino horns and ivory, so it is actually quite good to collect a few pieces and put them in the collection room at this time. After a few years, when trading this thing is illegal, it is basically impossible to buy it through formal channels.

There was basically no ripples at the auction. Although one of the things Yang Dongxu liked was a little expensive, he felt it was worth it after he won it.

But he encountered some trouble when picking up the items. When Yang Dongxu paid for the rhino horn cup and took the item, he was told that the auctioneer did not want to sell it anymore and the auction house was willing to replace it with a similar item.

Yang Dongxu didn't care too much at first. He looked at similar items and didn't like any of them, so he said forget it and pretended that he had never bid before and didn't care about anything. But now the auction house was unwilling to do so, saying that the auction deposit paid by Li Yihang before entering the venue needed to deduct a part of the handling fee.

This time, not only Yang Dongxu, but also Li Yihang was unwilling. I have only heard of auction houses charging auctioneers handling fees, but this is the first time I have encountered auction houses that charge auctioneers handling fees even if the auctioneers fail to buy the items.

"You pay the money and you bring so much nonsense." Just after the two sides argued, a young man glanced at Yang Dongxu and Li Yihang impatiently, then raised his chin and waved to the auction staff: "Where is that thing? Bring it to me quickly."

"This." The staff was a little embarrassed for a moment, looking at Yang Dongxu and then at the arrogant young man in front of him.

"What this and that, believe it or not, I will ask your manager to fire you?" The young man glared and stretched out his hand to ask for adults.

"Mr. Du, Mr. Du, calm down. The newcomer is ignorant. Here is what you want. Here it is." A manager-like man hurried over and handed the thing in his hand to the young man called Mr. Du.

Mr. Du snorted in dissatisfaction, took the thing, opened the box and took a look: "It's not as beautiful as the one on the exhibition stand, but it looks good. Isn't it good?"

Mr. Du held the box in his hand and shook it in front of Yang Dongxu, with an indescribable pride on his face. Yang Dongxu raised his eyebrows because the thing in the box was nothing else but the rhino horn cup he had bid for.

"Is he the owner?" Yang Dongxu turned his head and looked at the man with a name tag on his chest that said manager.

"This." Originally, when Mr. Du opened it to look, the manager of the auction house changed his expression. After seeing Mr. Du showing off in front of the bidder, his expression instantly became pale. Obviously, he didn't want to offend anyone if he could. After all, those who can spend money to consume are not clear whether they have power or not, but they must have money.

"Why do you care if I am the owner? What I like is mine." Mr. Du snorted coldly and turned his nose up.

"Do you know him?" Yang Dongxu ignored this Mr. Du and turned to look at Li Yihang.

"I haven't seen him." Li Yihang shook his head with a faint smile on his face.

"Hey! You want to show off in front of me? I'm still the same and my surname is Du Tianyi. Want this thing? Come on, tell me who your backers are. Maybe you'll scare me and I'll give it to you." Du Tianyi looked provocative and asked for a beating.

"Hey, beauty, I think we've seen him somewhere before. You seem to want this thing. Can I give it to you?" Before Yang Dongxu could speak, Du Tianyi's eyes lit up and looked behind him.

Turning his head, he saw that it was Bai Xi who led a few foreigners to pick up the auction items he had bought. At this time, Yang Dongxu remembered that the boy in front of him seemed to have greeted Bai Xi at the auction just now, but Bai Xi ignored him.

At that time, Du Tianyi looked very polite and walked away. Later, when the rhino horn cup was auctioned, the guests around Bai Xi probably liked it, so she bid twice. Later, when she saw Yang Dongxu raised the price and seemed to like it very much and was determined to get it, she stopped bidding.

Who would have thought that the seemingly polite Du Tianyi was waiting here. I don’t know what kind of relationship he had with his family, so he directly asked the auction house to cut off the item and took it to Bai Xi to show his courtesy.

"Do you know each other?" Seeing that the rhino horn cup that the guests around her saw at the auction just now was no longer in Yang Dongxu’s hands, but in the hands of Du Tianyi who had just harassed her.

"I am also a victim. The auction house said that the auctioneer would not sell this item and would take it back." Yang Dongxu smiled and shrugged.

Bai Xi's face suddenly became weird. She looked at Yang Dongxu with a smile, and then looked at Du Tianyi with a smug look and said, "Who is his family who was just transferred to Beijing at the beginning of the year."

Obviously, Bai Xi knew more about some things in Yanjing than Li Yihang, who had been busy getting out of it before.

"County magistrate!" Yang Dongxu thought for a moment, matched the person Bai Xi mentioned with a position, glanced at Du Tianyi and ignored him, turned to Li Yihang and said, "I'm a little hungry. Should we go eat first, or wait until they return the deposit?"

"The world is big and the stomach is the biggest. Let them send the money back to me when the time comes." Li Yihang curled his lips and didn't look at the little sister who had argued with him just now and insisted on deducting the rhino horn cup handling fee. Instead, he glanced at the manager who hurried over with a smile.

He didn't feel strange that Yang Dongxu didn't want to pursue this matter. For such trivial matters, although Yang Dongxu was young, he rarely did things on impulse to earn face in recent years. He just regarded it as a kind of respect for the county magistrate of Yanjing.

"I'm sending it back to you. Is the auction held by your family? Just admit your mistake, why are you saying such polite words?" Du Tianyi felt unhappy when he saw that several people ignored him, especially the beautiful woman he liked, who seemed to be very familiar with the girl in front of him who had always been nonchalant and made him feel disgusted.