Treasure hunt begins in England

Chapter 247 Auction

"This is obviously a conspiracy." After Liang En went back and told Joan about the whole process before him, Joan quickly analyzed the possible situation.

"If I'm not wrong, the source of these things is probably not very legal, so after finding out that the situation is wrong, the other party will run away in such a hurry."

"What you said makes sense," Liang En nodded. "However, after the appraisal is completed, my work is over. The rest of the matter has nothing to do with me. We just need to take a stroll around in peace of mind."

Liang En is still very interested in the upcoming auction, especially since several of their appraisers who were invited before were promised to give them the highest bid in the upcoming auction. The price will be borne by the organizer 1/ 10.

So taking advantage of the remaining time, Liang En came to the display board on the rostrum, and then carefully looked at the detailed introduction of today's auction items on the display board.

More than half of these auction items are items with clearly marked prices, that is, items whose quality is indeed good, but the price is also very reasonable.

In this case, buying the auction item would probably not make much money under normal circumstances, but for some people who need these items, these items will be very valuable.

For example, for a set of relatively low-yield silverware or ceramics, or for a certain type of classical furniture, the transaction price at auction is often higher than the individual market price of such items.

For most of the people present, they would not buy unless they really like it, but for others, these things can just make up for the collection in their hands, and then put together a whole set to sell at a high price.

In addition to these auction items that are mainly used to facilitate everyone's communication, the auction naturally also has some regular items.And Liang En's goal is those regular auction items.

"By the way, is there anything you're interested in?" Liang En asked Joan of Arc after reading the display boards. "I thought I saw a suit of Japanese armor just now—"

"That thing is a show." As a real soldier who has fought bloody battles on the battlefield, Joan of Arc can see the details of the armor even just by looking at the picture, "But this knife is worth buying."

"Is there anything special about this knife?" Liang En said as he glanced at the profile, only to find that the profile introduced that this knife was a Sheshir scimitar from Ottoman Turkey.

According to the introduction under the photo, this is a practical machete, using a simple gold-clad process, and the handle is made of horn.The whole knife looks very simple and smooth.

"The back of this knife is too thin." Joan of Arc said in a low voice, "Only the top-level Persian Sheshir scimitar can cast such a narrow blade and back, while the scimitar with a slightly lower level can only Increase strength by increasing width and thickness."

"Then buy it." Hearing what Joan of Arc said, Liang En immediately made a decision to buy this thing.After all, Joan is an expert in this area, and this knife is not expensive.

After all, ancient weapons are relatively unpopular in both the East and the West, so apart from the Malayan Iron Knife, Uzi Steel Knife or Japan's top knives, the prices of other cold weapons have not been able to rise.

For example, the starting price of this scimitar, marked as manufactured in the 16th century, is only 800 Euros because of its heavy oxidation marks. As long as there is no one who is very interested in this knife, Liang En thinks that 1500 Euros can be won.

After a while, the auction started. As Liang En expected, not many people were interested in the scimitar that was auctioned in the early stage. Liang En bought the knife for only 1150 Euros .

As items were sold or failed to auction, some high-value items gradually appeared on the auction block.

Naturally, these things included the notebook that Liang En took a fancy to that belonged to Stein, a famous cultural relic thief, and recorded his investigations in Central Asia.

Fortunately, compared with several countries in China and Central Asia where Stein stole a large number of cultural relics, Stein was only one of the large number of explorers in the Victorian era to the British.

So the price of his notebook was not as expensive as Liang had imagined before, but after calling the price three times, several other people put in their purchases, and Liang En got the notebook at a price of 2100 euros.

"Sometimes the truth is always hard to accept." Looking at the notebook he got at a cheap price, Liang En muttered inwardly.

Obviously, when Britain was still the empire on which the sun never sets, it robbed the whole world, so it didn't care about such a notorious cultural relic robber among other nations.

At least compared with the river-like wealth that flowed from the colonies to the British mainland in that era, and the piles of bones produced to extract the wealth, cultural relics robbers like Stein are really nothing.

Since the so-called remains of Joan of Arc were determined to be very problematic, the last thing sold was a jewelry box made by the famous Russian craftsman Faberge for the queen.

This thing quickly aroused everyone's enthusiasm, and everyone's quotations became higher and higher.In the end, the whole thing was successfully sold for €52.

After the auction ended, Liang En went to the auction organizer to pay for the item he had just bought at the auction.As a result, after dealing with these matters, the middle-aged organizer just stopped him.

"Thank you very much for your help to us." After shaking hands with Liang En, the person in charge said seriously, "We have confirmed that the so-called remains of Joan of Arc came from a certain church in France and belonged to Stolen filth."

"If you hadn't just verified that this thing is fake and successfully prevented these things from being auctioned, I think our current communication will encounter a big trouble."

"It's nothing, the appraisal just now was just the work I should have done." Liang En smiled and said, "If there is nothing else, I will leave. My companion is still waiting for me outside."

"Please accept this card." Realizing that Liang En has something to do now, the person in charge immediately stopped greeting, then took out a card from his pocket and handed it over.

After receiving the card, Liang En found that it was a gold-plated metal card with a barcode, on which his name, profile picture and capitalized VIP were engraved with lasers. ""

"This is the VIP gold card for our exchange meeting." After Liang En took the card, the person in charge explained, "In the future, you only need to go to a few locations under our sponsor to enjoy the VIP service."

The locations of these subordinates are some antique shops or auction houses. For explorers like Liang En, it will be easier to ship or buy things with such a VIP card.

In particular, it is useful for Liang En that VIP customers can obtain information about new products before the store puts them on sale, allowing him to collect information that is very important to him.

"Thank you, I like this gift very much." After listening to the other party's explanation, Liang En nodded slightly to express his gratitude, then the other party said goodbye and left the auction with the things he just bought.

(End of this chapter)