Chapter 557 The auction begins!

Chapter 557 The auction begins!

A dozen people suddenly walked over from the auction table. Standing next to the auction table, a middle-aged man in a suit came over in the center, holding a microphone in his hand, looking forward, and then said loudly. Press ctrl+d to quickly collect """

"Everyone is welcome to participate in this year's Rome auction. There are 39 auction items in this auction, including 26 conventional items, six advanced items, five information items, and three confidential documents!"

What do regular and high-end items mean?" The man on the stage stopped after he said that, as if he knew that there must be someone like Lin Yu who came here for the first time asking questions.

"Sir, regular categories are ordinary antiques or items. This category means you can safely collect things that will not have any problems!"

"The range of high-end items is somewhat wide, such as antique national treasure-level items that are prohibited from being bought and sold by the state, or things that are obviously stolen!"

Lin Yu nodded, 33 explained in detail, it seems that there will be no banned items sold at this night auction.

"Data refers to information that some people may need, such as a certain core technology or scientific research materials collected by a state secret. Confidential documents usually refer to news, very valuable news, and sometimes some commercial secrets and state secrets will also be included!"

"So that's it, I understand!" Lin Yu smiled and nodded, and suddenly asked again: "Is there any other category besides these?"

"Some, sir, there is another type of item. The starting price of this type of item is over 100 million US dollars, and it is unique in the world. There are also special items. This type is very wide, mainly referring to things that people cannot imagine!"

Just as 33 explained, the people on the stage began to speak.

"Everyone, let me tell you the first auction item, the snake-shaped bracelet."

At this time, I saw a beautiful woman walking up behind the auction table with a plate.

"This is a 610 grams luxury bracelet, and such a weight bracelet is rare. The bracelet is made of gold bars imitating the shape of a snake, with opposite snake heads at both ends. The snake's open mouth contains a gold disc. The disk is engraved with the moon god Serene and a crescent moon and seven stars above the goddess' head. Serene and Diana are treated equally. She is represented as a young and beautiful woman with her hair tied, her hands raised above her head, and a halo-like arched veil. This is a high-end item and an item that a noble lady can own. This snake bracelet has a history of nearly two thousand. Its starting price is 15 million US dollars, with a minimum price increase of 1 million US dollars each time."

"20 million." As soon as the auctioneer finished speaking, a bidding sound came from outside. When the sound was heard, it was a disguised sound. This sound gave people a hoarse feeling.

"drop!"

A ringtone rang, which also means that someone raised another million. The highest auction item in the daytime auction was only 23 million US dollars, and the second bid for the first auction item at night reached 21 million US dollars. It seems that the person who came this time was a real rich man.

"Sir, the biggest advantage of this snake bracelet is that it is for women, but this is both its advantage and its disadvantage. However, there are still many people present who spend a lot of money for beauty, so its starting price is not too high." 33 stood behind Lin Yu and said softly, explaining Lin Yu the advantages and disadvantages of this snake bracelet.

"Then tell me, how much can this bracelet cost today?" Lin Yu turned around and asked with a smile.

"I guess it can reach 60 million gold!" No. 33 hesitated for a moment before whispering softly. The auctioneer came up and auctioned an advanced item to mediate the auction atmosphere. The final price of this bracelet would definitely not be too low.

While speaking, the price of the robe has risen to 49 million. Now no one has added millions at a time. The ringtone will ring once a while.

Suddenly, Lin Yu shouted: "60 million."

As soon as the shout came out, no one immediately offered. The highest value of such a bracelet was only about 30 million US dollars. If it was better, it could be between 40 and 50 million, but the amount was 60 million. Few people were willing to spend such a huge price for such an inconsistency.

In the end, the snake-shaped bracelet was sold by Lin Yu at a high price of 60 million US dollars. After the auction item was taken away by the beauty, the auctioneer did not say who sold the auction item.

"The second item is a sword of Grand Duke Stefan!"

A small truck drove over behind the auction table. The car was also a glass cabinet, and a giant sword inside the cabinet was shining with silver light.

"This is a conventional item. Grand Duke Stefan has taken this sword to the battlefield many times. This sword killed at least dozens of people. It is also one of the favorite items of Grand Duke Stefan. The starting price is 3 million US dollars!"

"Sir, the starting price of regular items usually starts from one million yuan, except in special circumstances!" 33 explained to Lin Yu in a low voice, the items here are divided into grades and prices.

Lin Yu nodded. It was already a lot of things that started in millions, and there were still many things that started in tens of thousands or hundreds of thousands during the day.

Lin Yu was not familiar with this Grand Duke Stefan, so he turned to look at Elena who had been sitting next to him.

"Elena, who is this Grand Duke Stefan?" Lin Yu asked.

Elena gave Lin Yu a blank look and then said, "The Grand Duke of Stefan, also known as the Grand Duke of Moldova, is a national hero of Romania, also known as Stefan III. He was born into a royal family."

"Moldova is a small country in Eastern Europe, located in the lower Danube River in the northeast of the Balkans of Europe, and the southern edge of the Eastern European plains. Its territory is mainly between the Prut River and the Transnistrian River. It is adjacent to Ukraine to the east and the north, adjacent to Wallachia through the Prut River in the west, and the Black Sea to the south."

"The first ones living in the Transniest-Carpathians were the Thracian Gothic and Dacian tribes. In 70 BC, the Gothic chief Bresbita unified the Gothic and Dacian tribes and established the Dacian kingdom. From 101 to 105 AD, the Roman emperor Tulazhen led his army to conquer the Dacian kingdom and established the Dacian province. Then a large number of Romans moved into this area, and at the same time brought about the Latin-Latin culture. Roman immigrants merged with the locals to form the Dacian-Roman. Rome began to decline in the 3rd century AD, and the Roman Emperor Orelianus Emperor was the Emperor.

From 271 to 272, the emperor ordered the Roman army and administrative agencies to evacuate the province of Dacia, and it was separated from Roman rule. From the end of the 5th to the 6th century AD, the Slavs moved into this area in large numbers and intermarried with local Romanized residents. By the end of the 9th century, the Valochs were formed, which was the predecessor of the Moldovans. Then three major priests were formed in this area: the Duchy of Transylvania, the current Principal of Algeria and Wallachia, the current Romania, and the Principal of Moldova, and the Grand Duke of Stefan, the Grand Duke of Moldova."

"So this Grand Duke Stefan is quite powerful?" Lin Yu couldn't help but say.

"Of course, since the reign of his uncle Peter Aaron in 1457, he implemented military and political reforms, developed the economy, revitalized national defense, and strengthened centralization. In 1465, he recaptured Killia, the fortress of southern Moldova from the Hungarians. In 1467, he defeated the invading Hungarian army. In January 1475, he led 40,000 troops to ambush the Vasluy swamp and defeated Turkey's 120,000 troops. In 1476, he led his army to severely damage the more than 100,000 Turkish troops that invaded again in the White Valley area. However, he later failed because he was outnumbered and was forced to sign a peace treaty in 1489 to pay tribute to Turkey. In 1497, he led his army to defeat the Polish army in the Koswan Forest."

After Elena's story, Lin Yu was quite sympathetic to this Grand Duke Stefan, and he was such a miserable child.

In 1400, Alexandru, the old Musharth family, ascended the throne of Moldova with the support of the Grand Duke of Wallachia, and he was also the grandfather of our protagonist. After his 32 years of reign, the country was peaceful and peaceful, but after his death, serious chaos occurred. At first, his eldest son Ilier inherited the throne, but later, under the threat of his younger brother Stefan (Stefan II, not our protagonist) the southern part of the country was given to Stefan II.

This double-headed politics lasted until 1444. Stefan II killed his elder brother Ilier, and then took charge of the government with his third brother Peter II. Ilier's wife, the sister of the Polish queen, Maria, fled to Poland with two sons Roman and Alexandru the little one. Soon, Roman returned to Moldova with the support of the Poles, killed Stefan II, and avenged his father. Peter II fled to Transylvania and returned to Moldova with the support of the Grand Duke of Transylvania, Yanos Hungaryti. The Roman family went into exile in Poland again. Soon, Roman died in Poland, and Alexandru the little one returned to the throne of Moldova with the help of the Poles, and Peter again with his other uncle.

Aaron was in charge of the government.

The matter was not over yet. An illegitimate son of Alexandru, named Bogdan, rose up with the support of Yanos Hungaryti, and became the Grand Duke of Moldova, called Bogdan II, and he was the father of Stefan III. Peter.

Aaron and Alexandru Jr. fled to Poland again. Later, Peter Aaron recruited troops in Poland and led his army back to Moldova on a Harvest Festival night. In a village called Reuseni, he grabbed Bogdan II, who was attending the Harvest Festival dance and cut off his head. Stefan also participated in the dance, but he took advantage of the chaos and escaped with his mother Orthia, the Principal of Wallachia.

In 1457, Stefan recruited more than 1,000 troops with the support of Vlad III of Wallachia, and returned to Moldova. After returning, a large number of Moldovans rushed to join the army, and the army soon increased to 6,000. At dusk on April 11, the army arrived outside Roman City, and Peter Aaron's army was deployed in the Dorheshti town on the west bank of the Seret River. Stefan ordered a rapid maneuver to carry out encirclement and launched an attack the next day. Aaron was defeated and led a few trusted nobles to flee to Poland. At this point, Moldova ended 26 years of political turmoil and Stefan took the position of the Grand Duke of Moldova.

After Stefan ascended the throne, he began to sort out the broken countries. He first wrote to the nobles who depended on Aaron and fled, and promised that as long as the old was abandoned and the new, he would no longer be held accountable. Secondly, he established the law and restored the old Alexandre's practice of relying on Byzantine legal governance; secondly, he developed religion, compiled history, compiled a large number of religious books, established several monasteries, and compiled the first Slavic Chronicle of Moldova; at the same time, he developed the economy, Stefan invited Huang Erding, a famous Saxon winemaking expert, to the Kotnari Vineyard in Helleu County, to create a mellow wine called Almash. To this day, wine is still a specialty of Moldova.

Aaron escaped, and Stefan's position was not yet solid, so the Grand Duke sent troops to attack the castle on the border between Poland and Moldova, recovered the Polish-occupied Fort Hotting, put pressure on Poland and forced Poland to give up the protection of Aaron, and Aaron fled to Hungary. The Hungarian king, the young Magash I, had ambitions for Moldova and attempted to support Aaron's reset. On January 26, 1465, Grand Duke Stefan decided to take the initiative and conquered the strategic key Hungarian land of Killia. Two years later, King Mathiash commanded 40,000 troops across the Carpathians and invaded Moldova. By December, he had already penetrated near Roman and began to consider attacking Suceava, the capital of Moldova, but there was no shadow of the main force of Moldova, and the supply was getting more and more

The difficulty was because the Grand Duke Stefan adopted the tactic of strengthening the walls and clearing the fields (this was the most commonly used tactic for the Grand Duke Stefan to deal with the invaders), and the weather was getting colder and colder day by day. In a place called Baya, the Hungarian army was raided at midnight on December 14, and the entire army fell into chaos. Ten thousand Moldovan troops set fire to the camp in Hungary. The king's army was completely disintegrated. The battle lasted for three days. The king was shot in three arrows and was carried back to Hungary by his confidants. In the spring of 1469, Grand Duke Stefan launched an attack on Aaron, who was in exile in the Sanbao County of Transylvania (Magash I was also Grand Duke Transylvania, and his father was Yanoshe Hungyati). Finally, he captured and killed Aaron in the town of Orbic. At this point, Stefan felt sick.

Before and after Stefan's life, it was the period of expansion of the Ottoman Empire. During the Battle of Nicoborg in 1396, tens of thousands of Christian crusaders led by Hungarian king Sigismund were defeated by the Turkish army of Bayeset I. Bayeszed I took advantage of the victory to sweep the Balkans, including Thessalonika and Epirus, and only some areas of Constantinople and the Peloponnese Peninsula were left unoccupied. Fortunately for the Christian countries, the rise of Timur in Central Asia delayed the pace of Turkey's expansion. In 1402

On July 20, Valjezed I was defeated and captured in the Battle of Ankara, and died in captivity eight months later. In 10 years after the Battle of Ankara, Ottoman Turkey fell into division until Muhammad I was reunified. In 1438, Murad II, son of Muhammad I, led his army into Serbia and captured a rich silver mine and Semendria, the most important Balkan fortress. In 1444, King Vladislav III of Polish-Hungarian was killed in the Battle of Varna. Subsequently, Mohammad II commanded a large army to capture Constantinople.

"However, in the hearts of Moldovans and even many Europeans, Stefan was the great commander of Moldovan. Although he did not stop Turkey's expansion in the end, his efforts made Turkey's progress towards Europe stagnate for 15 years. In his life, he fought dozens of times, most of which were victories, and he defeated the strong many times with weak. Such a result should be amazing. Some people may say that nothing is wrong, much worse than military strategists like Napoleon who dominate Europe, but I want to say that Napoleon dominate Europe with a strong France as his backing, while Stefan only had a small Moldova."

Lin Yu was really surprised this time. He didn't expect that Elena would compare this Grand Duke Stefan with Napoleon. Elena, who has a deep study of European history, could have such a big evaluation of this person, which is enough to show that this person is extraordinary.

At this time, this Stefan Grand Public was finally bought for $13 million.

Next, thirteen items were sold in a row, but none of them wanted. Only two of the thirteen items that had appeared were high-end items, and all of them were sold at high prices of more than 50 million yuan. Those two things alone made the auction today exceed 100 million US dollars.

More than an hour has passed. On the 33rd, I asked and made a cup of coffee for Lin Yu and Elena. According to the current progress, the auction will probably not end until twelve o'clock. If you don't mention refreshing, it will affect the customer's bidding.

Elena is already a little sleepy now. For Elena, such an auction has no meaning to her at all. If it weren't for accompanying Lin Yu, she wouldn't have come here.

To her, the British Museum belongs to their back garden. Well, it is not. Speaking of which, the British Museum is more like the Habsburg family's back garden.

What is there in the British Museum? There are many precious cultural relics in Babylon, India, China and Greece, the birthplace of human civilization. Greek stone carvings, Indian gem rings, Babylonian silverware, and Chinese porcelain are dazzling. There are also a few ancient corpses that are thousands of years earlier than the Mawangdui female corpse, but not from Britain, but from Egypt. More than a dozen mummies on display are only part of the collection. The British Museum’s Egyptian cultural relics collection, especially the mummies collection, can be regarded as the best outside Egypt.

As the heir to the Welf family, she would not like these garbage things.


Chapter completed!