Xiao Yifei didn't take any of this auction. All the Chinese antiques that were pleasing to the eye were speculated by these Chinese buyers. All the high-value valuation of Nagao was more than twice the high-value valuation of Nagao. A rosewood thing actually reached 4 times the high-value valuation. This speculation made Xiao Yifei shake his head, and later threw the brand on the table and was too lazy to care. Fortunately, after the auction, Nagao and the sellers of the two flintlocks reached a private purchase agreement, which finally made Xiao Yifei not return empty-handed.

Xiao Yifei suddenly thought of the McHarche, who was pirates in South China, and fortunately he is old now, fortunately his motherland is now strong, and fortunately the country is now rich to salvage the South China Sea cultural relics by itself. Of course, it is also fortunately that Nagao sold the cultural relics of the Taixing at that time, and fortunately the Chinese who participated in the auction had a tacit understanding. If it were in this era, his items could easily be increased by more than ten or even hundreds of times, so he would get hundreds of millions of dollars, or more than ten million dollars at that time.

Although the gains were very small, Xiao Yifei was still very interested in the two beast heads of the Old Summer Palace mentioned at Leonard's auction. Before leaving, Xiao Yifei said:

"Leonard, I just mentioned the beast head. Can you arrange for a private negotiation?"

Leonard thought that news like the client of the beast head Pierre Beger and Christie's was having a quarrel, and you could tell if you pay a little attention. He just mentioned casually, since the person in front of him was a shareholder of Sosby, he would naturally arrange for Sosby's people to contact the client. Who knew that he would actually hand over this matter to Nagao, so wouldn't he deliver the commission to the door?

"Of course, we will definitely give you a discount."

"Okay, that's the decision, let me know if there is any news."

After three or four days of discussion, the descendants of the Lu family agreed to a quotation of 8 million yuan, so the two parties reached a preliminary agreement. Xiao Yifei's acquisition team added cultural relics appraisal experts (specially invited to the Jimei Museum in Paris to identify cultural relics of the Lu family.) Real estate experts and financial personnel began to enter Tongge to conduct the final inspection.

Xiao Yifei also received information about the Chinese antiques in recent auctions at Sosby and Christie's, which were much more detailed than what he searched online by himself.

The large-scale auction of Chinese antiques in September is mainly composed of Christie's Asian Art Week, in which two special auctions of Saikele Chinese porcelain will be held on the 14th and 15th.

After the "Sakler Chinese Artwork" special auction was successful in March this year, Christie's also fought for this year's performance. More than 500 art treasures will be launched in these two auctions. Among them, the finest products include the underglaze red rattle, with the blue and white six-character model "made in the Kangxi period of the Qing Dynasty" blue and white, with an estimated price of 600,000 US dollars. The Jun kiln three-legged daffodil basin in the early Ming Dynasty was estimated at US dollars. The three-legged enamel with a lid was estimated at US dollars. The imitation official glaze square pot with a poem written by Qianlong in the early Qing Dynasty was estimated at US dollars. The colorful large plate with the "made in the Kangxi period of the Qing Dynasty" was estimated at US dollars.

But Sotheby was a little worse. They also auctioned Chinese artworks in September by Secler, but they were all furniture and the estimates were not as high as those porcelains. But in October, Sotheby's will have an important auction in Hong Kong, with the items incredible, and there were 10 items with an estimated price of over one million US dollars.

The most eye-catching piece of porcelain is the "Qianlong Water Wave Cloud Dragon Throne" carefully carved from precious red sandalwood. This throne is thick and huge, 140.5 cm long, and is one of the largest red sandalwood thrones in the auction market so far. The estimated price is as high as HK$20 million, more than US$2.5 million.

There are several imperial seals related to Emperor Qianlong, including the "Treasure of the Supreme Emperor" (estimated at 1 million US dollars), the "Treasure Seal of the Qinzheng Hall of Xiyuan" and the "Treasure Seal of the Qianlong Imperial Pen Seal". Even Sotheby's still had his "Ba Zheng Mao Nian Treasure" seal at the London Autumn Auction on November 4.

Needless to say, all of these things were stolen by the Eight-Nation Alliance. I believe that the emperor, who claims to be the "Ten Complete Old Man", would never have expected that the things he left behind were burned by the British and French coalition forces to the Old Summer Palace. A large number of imperial supplies he left were also snatched into Europe. Now foreigners are using these things to rob the Chinese wealth again "legally" again.

Subsequently, Xiao Yifei participated in a Chinese art exhibition held by Christie's in Southampton, England, but there were not many precious things on it. However, these antiques with an estimated price of tens of thousands or hundreds of thousands of pounds were speculated by Chinese buyers to several times the price, which made Xiao Yifei completely lose interest in purchasing collections from auctions. Now he is increasingly thinking that private purchases are a good channel for collecting collections.

While Xiao Yifei was impatiently waiting, Leonard finally called and agreed that they would visit Pierre Bell, the client of Rat Head and Rabbit Head, with Christie's, tomorrow.

This Pierre Bell is a homosexual. He (she) is the same-sex couple of the world costume master Yves Saint Laurent. They jointly run the cultural relics that Saint Laurent left to him in order to avoid being hurt. In order to avoid being hurt, he (she) gave all the things Saint Laurent left to him, and the rat and rabbit were among them.

In the eyes of the Chinese, Pierre is a bad guy. When the Chinese opposed the auction of rat heads and rabbit heads, he told the media that as long as China implements attention to the rights of the people and lets the monk return to that, he will immediately give the beast head to China.

In fact, this guy has a different mind than us. In November 2009, he accused a famous charity fundraising event in France, saying that they were "populism is parasitic on the generosity of the French", and called on people not to use these donations. As a result, he was sued by the charity fund for defamation and was sentenced to 1,500 euros in compensation by the court. In 2013, he tweeted the topic of inciting terrorism, and then talked about homosexuality, saying "What is the difference between renting her ** and renting a factory to produce weapons", and later agreed to cancel all Christian festivals in France.

Xiao Yifei has seen many French people. Even if they seem a little ignorant because of the romantic cells in their heads are too developed for a small amount of time, they are not so ignorant. It seems that he (she) is an atypical Frenchman.

Leonard was not a car when he came, but there was a car behind him.

"Xiao, this is Hooker, Christie's business manager, and he will accompany us today."

Xiao Yifei changed to German and asked Leonard quietly:

"How come Christie's get involved? I only give one commission."

Leonard explained with a smile. It turned out that the economic crisis not only made Sosby difficult to operate, but Christie's is the same. Although Christie's is now privately held, its boss Francois Pino has already planned to sell part of its equity. For performance, Christie's has laid off 300 employees in January this year, and by May, it is planning a second round of layoffs. Everyone knows that because of the support of the union, layoffs by foreign companies are a very troublesome thing, and with government interference, the second round of layoffs has not been achieved. At this time, Pierre was unhappy with Christie's due to the beast-headed issue.

Pierre and Christie's boss have a complicated relationship. Pierre originally worked for the YSL clothing company of gay partner Saint Laurent, and later sold YSL to Kering Group. (Keill Group's third largest luxury goods group in the world, with its brands such as Gucci, Saint Laurent (YSL), and Bottega Veneta. In addition, Puma is also controlled by them. They even once had a controlling stake in Paris Spring Department Store in France.)

The Kering Group is controlled by François Pino, who is also the holder of Christie's.

Therefore, Pierre and Pierre actually have superior and subordinate relationships. But since Saint Laurent's death, Kering Group has closed some of YSL's specialty stores in the United States due to the economic environment and sales decline. This naturally made Pierre unhappy. The lover's body was not cold, and the boss treated his lover's company like this, so he took advantage of the beast-headed incident and had to mess with Pierre.

Actually, it is easy to solve this problem. Christie's can buy the beast head at a certain price according to the commissioned auction agreement, or ask the boss Pino to buy it for money.

This is true in real historical events. Pinault bought them and finally donated them to the country. Don't think that Pinault is a kind man. As a businessman, he will not spend money in vain and will not benefit. Moreover, he has received more than a little benefit.

First of all, the luxury goods of Kering Group are popular in China, making a lot of money from the Chinese people.

Secondly, his Christie's Group actually obtained the license to start an auction company in China, which is an unprecedented event. Even Sosby, the world's number one, can only cooperate with the domestic Gehua to start a joint venture auction company, and he can actually obtain a sole proprietorship license.

Finally, with his donation, his Christie's completely got rid of the predicament in China and cleared the obstacles for the great development of Christie's domestic business.

In fact, this is completely unnecessary. This matter is very simple. Pino is not without weaknesses. Of course, Pino is very rich and has a lot of industries, but it takes a minute for the country to deal with him.

The easiest way is to strictly investigate the customs. Just like when I clean up Christie's at the beginning of the year, I directly clean up all the customs declaration items at Christie's, and not allow the entry of the beast head. Now I only need to expand the scope of strict investigation, such as expanding it to the Mouton winery he owns, and then expanding it to various luxury brands to ensure that he surrenders.

In fact, Pino did not intend to donate the beast head to the country. The first thing he asked was the Forbidden City in WW and asked them whether they would accept the donation. As a result, the Forbidden City refused because of unknown reasons, and then he considered China.

Of course, these are all later stories. Christie's is now being tortured by Pierre. She has to cope with financial pressure, internal employees, and the pressure of the Chinese government. She has no energy to argue with Pierre.

Now, Christie's knew that someone wanted to buy the beast head, and they were eager to get out now, so they sent Hooker, who had dealt with Pierre, to persuade Pierre to take the beast head as soon as possible and learn about the matter as soon as possible.
Chapter completed!