Chapter 140 The Dream Girl and Manganese Zoisite
Inside the auction house.
Richard, Pandora, Gero, and Gero's guards walked into the auction venue and followed the directions into a box on the upper floor of the venue.
The box is not small, with more than ten square meters, and there are several soft and comfortable seats. Pandora unceremoniously occupied the largest one, and yawned on it and started to sleep. Richard and Gero had no choice but to choose the other two smaller ones, while Gero's guards stood around.
Pulling open the curtain on one side of the box, Li Cha looked outside, overlooking the entire auction venue, and found that it was very delicate.
The entire auction venue is not very large. After all, there are not many people who can participate in the auction, either noble or rich. However, the venue is not too small. There are almost 300 seats, plus some boxes, which can accommodate nearly 350 people, which fully meets the needs. At this time, more than half of the seats in the venue were filled with people. People were talking about it, it was so lively.
Gro in the box said: "Basically, they came for the 'exemption certificate'. Originally, they wanted to get it through snatch, but they all failed, so they had to sit here honestly and compete with financial resources. Last night, every family suffered losses, and I heard that some of their direct bloodlines were killed, so it is inevitable that there will be anger, but there will be a good show to watch in a while."
Li Cha glanced at Gero, who seemed to be gloating about misfortune, and said, "Don't worry, these people are trying to snatch the 'exemption certificate' from you? Since they are all angry, in a fit of rage, they spend a lot of money on the 'exemption certificate'. The voucher' is auctioned off and you can't get one, what should you do?"
"Oh, just them?" Groo was slightly disdainful. "Although they are all big families, they all have a lot of money. But most of the money must be used for daily expenses to maintain the operation of the family. OK, there's really not much that can be taken out.
If I can mortgage the territory, real estate, and shops, I really dare not compare with them, but the auction house does not accept real objects, only the official gold coins of the Emerald Kingdom. And when it comes to gold coins, I really don't know who has more than me. I am a prince. Logically speaking, the entire Emerald Kingdom has a part of me, so how many gold coins are there? "
"Alas." Groo suddenly thought of something again and sighed, "It's a pity it wasn't earlier. I heard that earlier, when the Emerald Kingdom was still strong, the royal family's words were much better than they are now. That At that time, if there is such a thing as a 'exemption certificate', there is no money at all, just a word, and the nobles below will obediently give it to the royal family. Unfortunately, the power of the royal family is now weakened a lot, and the nobles are becoming more and more disobedient. However, even so, I have the confidence to kill them with gold coins."
"So, are you going to auction off all three 'exemption vouchers'?"
"I do have this idea." Gero smiled, full of confidence, looking at Richard,
"But if you want one, Mr. Li Cha, I will naturally give it to you."
"No, you can do whatever you want." Li Cha smiled.
"Uh..." Gero only thought that Richard was being polite and didn't think much about it.
Li Cha continued to look outside the box, and saw that while he was talking, the number of people in the auction venue increased by a lot, and the attendance rate had almost reached 60%.
And then seventy percent...
Eighty percent...
After 80%, the number of people entering the venue began to decrease, and finally reached about 85%, and it stopped increasing.
This is no wonder, after all, it is impossible for all the nobles of the entire Cuijin City to come here, 85%, which is already nearly 300 people, which is an extremely terrifying number.
At this time, an auctioneer wearing a black dress, about fifty years old, appeared, stepped onto a high platform in the auction center, knocked on the gavel on the table, and said without much nonsense, "The auction begins!"
The whole place was silent.
"The first auction item, please," the auctioneer said succinctly, "It's a miniature stone statue from the famous sculptor Habacus."
When the auctioneer finished speaking, someone walked up to the stage with a tray and showed a pink miniature stone statue more than ten centimeters high to everyone. I saw that it was a **** girl, and the carvings were lifelike. Whether it was the expression on the face, the realistic facial features, the raised chest, and the tight thighs, there were no flaws. It is a masterpiece in craftsmanship, and it can be seen that the author has spent a lot of effort.
"Master Harbacs, the name of this statue is the girl of dreams. It is his latest work in the past six months, and it definitely satisfies many people's imagination of the dream lover. Whether it is placed at home as a decoration, or in free time. It's good to play." The auctioneer pointed to the stone statue and exclaimed, and then announced: "The starting price of the statue is 5 gold coins, and each increase shall not be less than 20 silver coins."
"Okay, is there a bid?" the auctioneer asked, waiting for everyone to bid.
The method of bidding is also simple. Everyone has a number plate, and once the number plate is raised, it means a price increase. Of course, you can also directly shout out the number of price increases.
Gro's number plate is number 1 and Richard's is number 2.
Richard guessed that this was definitely not a coincidence, it should be that the auction acted to please Gero, and specially reserved the smallest number plate for Gero. This also shows from a certain angle that Gro is the person with the highest status in the entire auction.
The reason why Gro is confident to auction all three "exemption vouchers". There is no other reason, it's just to oppress people with power, and to have money and self-will.
Thinking of this, Li Cha looked at the auction venue with great interest, watching the reactions of the crowd, but found that it was very deserted.
Not only was it deserted, but it was dead silence. For more than a minute, no one asked for the price. The atmosphere in the venue suddenly became a little weird and awkward.
This is not because the statue is garbage. According to the quality of the statue, it only sells for 5 gold coins, which is already a low price. After all, Richard spent 100 gold coins to buy a huge ruby at that time. The reason why the nobles remained silent is because most of them came with the "exemption certificate" and did not want to waste money on any "dream girl", not even a single gold coin.
As a result, the first item in the auction was about to pass in the auction.
The face of the auctioneer on the stage was a little ugly, and many nobles responded with cold eyes.
The auctioneer wiped the sweat from his face, took a deep breath, and was about to announce the result helplessly when Li Cha raised the sign and made a bid.
"No. 2! Raise the price once, 5 gold coins and 20 silver coins!" The auctioneer immediately shouted, the muscles on his face were shaking with excitement, "No. 2 once, did anyone increase the price?"
"No. 2 twice, 5 gold coins and 20 silver coins, has anyone increased the price?" the auctioneer shouted.
"Three times on the 2nd, 5 gold coins and 20 silver coins, did anyone increase the price? No, that's good, the deal!" The auctioneer made a final decision, and then heaved a sigh of relief.
Although the stone statue sold for 5 gold coins and 20 silver coins, almost no money was made, but at least the embarrassing scene of unsold shots was avoided. Not caring about gains and losses, the auctioneer waved his hand and asked the staff to bring things to Richard and Gero's box.
Originally, according to reason, the payment for goods will not be handed over until the end of the auction, but that is a system established only by modern auctions. In the Middle Ages when the auction system was not perfect, basically it was convenient .
Soon, the things were delivered to the box, and Richard Lisuo paid the money.
Gero looked at Li Cha strangely, and asked in a puzzled voice, "Your Excellency Li Cha, what's the use of this thing you want?"
"Well, I just like it a little bit, and the price is not expensive anyway." Li Cha said.
"Uh, okay." Groo didn't ask anymore.
In fact, the reason why Li Cha auctioned off the statue was not because he liked it, nor could he like it. The real reason was because Li Cha took a fancy to the material for carving the statue—pink stone.
Richard suspects that this pink stone is not an ordinary material, but a manganese zoisite. Manganese zoisite is a variant of zoisite, which is pink because it is rich in manganese.
Richard auctioned off the stone statue in order to smash the stone statue to extract the manganese element inside. After all, because of the cobalt blue glass, a part of manganese was used before, and the reserves were already somewhat insufficient and needed to be replenished in time.
Such behavior is naturally suspected of buying pearls and returning them, but Li Cha didn't care.
Compared with the stone statue, Li Cha felt that the scarce manganese element was more precious, and it was completely worth more than 5 gold coins without investing a lot of energy to find it.
With this thought in mind, Richard put away the pink stone statue and looked out of the box.
In the venue, the auction is still going on.
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