The auction ended successfully with a round of applause.
Everyone who participated in this auction felt that their trip was worthwhile and they made a huge profit.
First, I watched a good show in which a nouveau riche battled two hundred and fifty.
It was really thrilling at that time. Jeffrey's grandson usually looked sick and had a drunken face all day long, as if he could collapse at the slightest wind.
Unexpectedly, he was so cruel and vicious that he would use the knife at the slightest disagreement.
But the fat man was so cool that he actually took care of the grandson in a few seconds.
It can be said that it has come full circle. This section alone was enough to make it popular in Akadeline for three months.
What's more, the current world is in decline and people's hearts are not as old as they used to be. Young men these days don't like to duel with white gloves anymore. There hasn't been any decent excitement in Akadeline for a long time. All day long, people are eloping and cuckolding.
Whose son looks like a groom and makes such boring gossip?
Now I finally have a good enough episode.
What was even more exciting was the atmosphere after the auction.
After taking out a few rare treasures, the guests at the venue finally couldn't stand it anymore and started a buying spree.
Lorraine's ridicule was very effective. Semitic people have always been bold and bold, so many people don't care about anything when they become bold.
What's more, the items in this auction are really good. In order to make the auction a success, Lorraine took out some treasures from the bottom of the box from Whitebeard. Even if Whitebeard didn't have them, he could still find them from other pirates.
The selected goods are all of the best quality.
Whether it is a luxury car, a precious sword, a purebred famous horse or gorgeous silk, they are all in-demand items that rarely appear on the market, sometimes only once in a year or two.
Arkadelin has always been short of rich people, especially super-rich people. For them, all they can do is make a beautiful woman smile or earn some face. No matter how much money they spend, it doesn't matter.
The guests quickly forgot about the Plantagenets. For them, it was a buy. The Plantagenets would be unhappy, so what?
It would be a fool to miss this opportunity.
Under the host's eloquent eloquence, the bidding climax of the guests was higher and higher, and the price record for similar products of Arkadelin was continuously refreshed.
The guards in the venue were stunned by the luxury of the nobles. The items sold at sky-high prices made them speechless, which was an eye-opener.
The guests bidding were also very excited. At the critical moment, some people simply pulled their collars and yelled and jumped to increase their bids.
This made Lorraine, who had been relying on Fiona's arms, smile from ear to ear, secretly thinking that the Semites were a typical example of the stupid people with lots of money.
The auction ended successfully, and everyone returned with a full load of goods. Leo, who was settling accounts in the room, couldn't stop laughing and frequently expressed his regret for not developing the Semitic market earlier. This foreign trade business is all about making money.
At the same time, the Sotheby's auction also became an instant hit.
Just by passing the BMW luxury carriage, the glass mirror imprinted with Impressionist paintings, the sky-high price of brand-name perfume, and the extremely sharp sword that broke hair and cut iron like clay, it had already caused a sensation in the whole city.
All the dignitaries in the entire imperial city already know that there is a Sotheby's auction house in the Imperial Guard. The items in it are all high-end luxury goods from humans, and the prices are not affordable for ordinary people.
Different from what ordinary people think, the powerful people of Akadelin think it is shameful to buy cheap goods. Of course, the concept of buying a glass bead for the price of a diamond is different.
One thing is only 10% better than others, but the price is twice as expensive. On the contrary, they like to buy it the most.
Sotheby's auction instantly became a symbol of high-end professionalism.
The people there are extremely resourceful, and the goods they get are not at all like the shoddy and high-priced goods obtained by the Semitic official import and export companies, which are designed to defraud people of their money.
What they get are all the best quality brand-name goods, luxuries that can increase the owner's attribute value~!
Just pick out a set at random, and the minimum is a piece of blue equipment like the most famous "Silver Scale Breastplate" in history, not to mention, they hold auctions every day, and there are gold equipment.
There are many things, even rare items that have a price but no market, and you can make a profit if you take a look at them when you have the opportunity.
Even though he is an experienced noble in the imperial city's social circle, the knowledgeable ruffian who claims to have "eat, seen and played" has only heard about it and may not have seen it with his own eyes.
What's more, Lorraine also launched a tiered membership system in an extremely vicious way. As long as you spend a certain amount of money, you can get corresponding discounts.
This is the legend, ‘the more you spend, the more you save’.
Although these people are powerful people, their money does not come easily from the wind. If you can save one, of course it is better to save one.
And he is also a diamond VIP member. If nothing else, the name alone sounds impressive enough, and he can easily look down on those members who only have silver and gold cards.
At the same time, you can also enjoy corresponding privileged services. There is a special VIP channel for entering the venue, and you can visit the auction items before the auction begins.
As the auctions go on day after day, even if more and more people know the reputation of Sotheby's, what good things have been sold there, what good things have been bought, and how good is that thing?
The focus of the small talk.
In the aristocratic circle of the imperial city, there are many aristocratic ladies and ladies who are full of food and have nothing to do all day long.
One of the best ways for them to pass the time is to go shopping, and then compare and show off the things they bought with each other. Once there is no comparison, they will go shopping again.
But now, they find that they have another thing to show off. And this thing is not the same as a title. In many cases, a title is fixed, and it may not be possible to move up a level in a few lifetimes.
But this membership can be purchased easily for a small amount of money.
Moreover, this membership can still be upgraded. Members of different levels can be upgraded to the upper level of membership as long as they purchase a certain amount.
Therefore, everyone flocked to it even more. Even though they knew that this was a big pit that could trap people, they were still very excited. Like housewives who saw a big sale in a department store, they jumped into the big pit regardless of their own safety.
And he continued to move forward bravely without any hesitation.
When everyone meets, they no longer greet each other with "have you eaten?" nor do they say "good belly fat" in a London country accent, making people think that they are selling braised intestines.
Instead, he asked, "Have you joined the membership? What is your membership level?"
If you don't have a Diamond Platinum Card in your hand and you only have a Gold Card, it's like driving a Japanese carriage. You're embarrassed to say hello to people, and there's no room for you next to a bunch of Diamond members.
Under such circumstances, those who took the initiative to apply for membership almost all crossed the threshold.
Leo was too busy counting money every day. Le's big eyes narrowed into thin slits, and he sighed that making money in the Semitic tribe was the most satisfying thing.
But this little gangster is indeed a born politician, and he has always had an insatiable personality.
Even though his hands were cramped when counting the money and he was so happy that he could not open his mouth from ear to ear, he still complained repeatedly to Lorraine: It is such a pity that this membership system was launched too late. If it had been possible before, this
How much more money can you make~!
What a loss, what a big loss~!
Lorraine also regretted it a little, but there was nothing he could do about it. At the time, he was also busy with many things. He was leading troops in wars and engaged in development. He had a lot of official duties every day, and he also had to deal with his group of dancing girls.
Friends.
He has to maintain world peace and maintain the stability of his family. He is already very busy with this alone. This is because Catherine and Adele handle the government affairs for him, otherwise Lorraine would be so tired that he sticks out his tongue like a dog every day.
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Lorraine didn't have time to calm down, think seriously about management, and bring out this extremely powerful killer weapon.
You know, this membership system, plus the discount and upgrade system, is the most classic marketing trap. It has always been a great weapon for gods to kill gods and Buddhas to kill Buddhas.
In Lorraine's time, this was not only the most genius idea of the business elites who knew the most about business, but it had also been tested by hundreds of years of business reforms and hundreds of millions of customers.
It can be said that it took a lot of hard work to dig out a trap that can kill people.
Everyone just thinks that the more they spend, the more they will earn.
Therefore, when there is a huge discount, if you see the goods there, whether you need them or not, as long as they look good, you will spend money to buy them.
Driven by this trend and atmosphere, everyone is rushing to buy, and a few people can calmly understand that at this time, not spending money is actually the best choice.
It may seem like you are taking advantage, but in fact you have completely fallen into the trap of the merchant and spent more.
With such marketing methods that were completely ahead of the times and the support of a huge number of luxury goods, auctions became increasingly popular.
Later, it even became difficult to get a vote.
The scalpers also followed the trend of the times and came into being amidst a series of extraordinary events such as purple air coming from the east, strange fragrance falling from the sky, red light falling to the ground, etc.
Every day, there are a large group of gangsters wandering back and forth outside the auction venue. Whenever they see someone coming, like a gangster selling pirated CDs, they will go up and talk to each other: "Hey, do you want a ticket? Come forward.
Row, VIP seats, only 899 yuan..."
Because many nobles queued for a long time, but they couldn't buy tickets and couldn't participate in the auction.
Therefore, everyone was angry and made strong protests to the company's upper management, Chairman Lei Guangguang, demanding a severe crackdown on scalpers.
This matter also attracted great attention from Chairman Lei, who gave important instructions to his subordinates.
After receiving the order, the subordinates did not dare to neglect. They united multiple departments to enforce the law and carried out several severe crackdowns on the ticket dealers.
However, those ticket sellers were like weeds. After the fire passed, they seemed to be burned out, but within two days, they grew vigorously out of the soil again. Facing the breeze, a group of flourishing
appearance.
At this time, the price increases will be even more severe, as if they want to make up for the losses caused by the two days of closure.
This situation puzzled all the nobles who were eager to participate in the auction. They could only lament that the magic power of this gold coin was really too great.
There were also quite a few dead people who wrote long sonnets and other poems very coquettishly, in order to satirize the old people's hearts and the corrupt social atmosphere.
Like "gold~"! A yellow, shining treasure. This thing, just a little bit, can turn the black into white, the ugly into beauty, the wrong into right, the humble into noble, and the old into young.
, a coward becomes a warrior..."
But later, after the famous Semitic general Kano wrote his memoirs, everyone realized that more than half of the money earned by the ticket dealers ended up in the pocket of General Manager Lei Da.
Every time a ticket seller takes a ticket, he takes his note to the back of the ticket office, takes the ticket and leaves. Ticket sellers who don’t hand over management fees to Chairman Lei are waiting to face Chairman Lei’s wrath.
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Through this incident, the despicable, greedy, and greedy true colors of the great emperor and super gangster were fully exposed, and the world was also able to see the huge gap between them and talented managers.
They didn't know that Leo was actually pushed out to be the main tank and draw hatred. There was also a huge shadow behind Leo.
At the same time, another piece of work is also in progress.
Lord Geoffrey of the Plantagenet family actually caused trouble at the meeting in public, and even took out a controlled weapon in an attempt to murder a merchant from out of town.
This method is extremely cruel, the circumstances are extremely abominable, the crime is extremely serious, the harm to society is extremely great, and the consequences are extremely serious. It is even heinous.
Superior leaders personally came to guide the investigation of the case and gave important instructions for handling the case as quickly as possible.
Inspired by the spirit of his superiors, the Imperial Guard military judge deeply understood the spirit of his superiors and immediately interrogated him severely, quickly and strictly.
Charges were immediately filed in a military court.
After receiving the accusation, the military court did not dare to neglect and immediately started the trial.
However, during the trial, someone filed a civil lawsuit in court.
Although the gang of soldiers in the military court were all carrying stars and flowers on their shoulders, General Manager Lei Guanglei was not afraid at all despite his young age.
He faced those ruffians, pounded the table and said angrily: "You bastards, you just took people away like this. Did you know that he hasn't paid the money for taking pictures of the carriage~!"
Let Yating pay the money quickly~!"
As the presiding judge, Military Judge Lavoe was extremely helpless towards this little gangster who came to the court and roared. He smiled bitterly, laughed with him, and said: "General Manager Lei, what is that carriage worth? Why don't you take pictures again later?"
Come on."
Leo snorted coldly and looked at Jeffrey, who was standing in the dock with his hands and feet shackled, and looked up and down, seeing that he looked like he would rather die than surrender.
Although his face was stained with blood, he still held his head high, his eyes spitting out angry flames, staring coldly at the prosecutor next to him, and the victims Saddam, Osama bin Laden, and George W. Bush sitting on the other side with glowing faces.
,Obama.
Leo didn't care either. He had seen many guys like this pretending to be heroes and good men before. But in the end, there were only a few who could make it to the end. And those who made it to the end were usually all dead.
There is no future.
Not to mention, if that fool offended Lorraine, he would be dead.
Leo turned back and said to Lavoe disdainfully: "Nonsense, your carriage can sell for 85,000 gold coins? Where can I find such a stupid thing?
It's okay to go back to auction, but what if we can't get such a high price again? If there is a shortfall in the account, it will be difficult to explain to the shareholders."
He paused, a smile appeared on his face, and said: "How about you make up the difference in price for me?"
Laveau immediately shuddered. He knew that the carriage was a high-end luxury product. The difference in price could be tens of thousands, so he had to pay for it himself. Even though the price of pork is expensive now, he could buy all his meat.
If you pawn pork, even if the case is sold out, you may not be able to get a small change.
Lavo thought of this and hurriedly said with a smile: "Manager Lei, General Manager Lei, Brother Lei, haha, let's discuss it again?
Hey, hey, don’t leave~!
We have something to say, something to say."
Leo snorted coldly, turned around and said: "When we come out to fool around, we must be trustworthy. Since they have photographed it, we have to sell it to them. Otherwise, how can we win people's trust when we do business in the future?
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Lavoe was stunned for a moment, and then said with admiration: "General Manager Lei Da is really based on integrity and can be called a generation of business wizards."
Leo immediately waved his chubby hand and said loudly: "Stop flattering me, I won't be happy even if you flatter me again, not at all, really not at all..."
Everyone present was so happy that they couldn't even close their eyes when they looked at him, and they couldn't help but break into a cold sweat. Although this kid was smart, he was naive. No matter what kind of flattery he was trying to do, he would take it all in his favor.
Look at how proud he is...er, arrogant. You can even see his tonsils through his mouth that can't be closed.
Leo paused for a moment, then waved to Lavo, and said: "Brother Lavo, let me teach you a way. You first let him spend money to buy it. Then, this carriage will be the key evidence for their fight.
It’s a thing, right?”
Lavoe didn't know what he wanted to do, so he nodded hesitantly and said, "What you said seems to be... good. But what's the use of it?"
Leo sighed: "Brother, think about it carefully. Since it is already an exhibit, no matter what happens to the case, do you have to put it away first? In order to have a fair and reasonable solution to the case and preserve valid evidence,
So find a place to put it for thirty or fifty years?"
Lavo couldn't help but be even more confused. He looked at Leo's weird smile, like a little traitor, and couldn't help but murmured: "Then... so what?"
Seeing that he still couldn't figure it out, Leo couldn't help but became a little anxious and said: "You still need me to teach you? Who knows this evidence? If you put it there, wouldn't it be yours?"
You don’t have to spend a single copper, you get a carriage for free, where can you find such a cheap thing?”
Ravo suddenly woke up as if from a dream.
He stretched out his hand, slapped his forehead heavily, and said, "Why did I forget this? It seems I'm not proficient enough in my business~!"
Then he looked at Leo, raised his thumb involuntarily, and praised loudly: "High, really high~!"
Leo crossed his arms, curled his lips in disdain, and said, "I know Gao, why don't you hurry up? What are you waiting for?"
Laveau immediately paused, then sat up straight and said loudly: "The defendant Jeffrey bought the carriage in advance but still failed to pay for it. A civil lawsuit was filed. Therefore, I hereby pronounce the verdict.
The defendant Jeffrey must pay eighty-five thousand gold coins to pay for the carriage."
Jeffrey snorted coldly and did not speak. Instead, he raised his head higher.
Laveau immediately winked, and two Guardsmen wearing crimson uniforms walked over and took the money out of Jeffrey's arms without any explanation.
Just as Jeffrey was about to struggle, he was slapped skillfully by the military policeman.
He was stunned immediately, and then the military policeman took out several checks and a small bag of gold coins from his arms.
Leo took the check from the hands of the gendarmes, first looked at the watermarks in the sunshine very skillfully, then picked out two of them, and finally returned the rest.
He said to Jeffrey seriously: "We must be trustworthy when we go out to hang out. I said, Lao Jie, although you are not honest, I can't help but be trustworthy. I took the money. A total of 85,000
Gold coins. One is not too much, the other is not too little. You take care of it."
As he said that, he waved the two checks in front of his eyes. Then he continued with a righteous look: "Although the money has not arrived in the account in the past two days, if you calculate it seriously, I will still charge you a late fee, but
Seeing as there is a reason for the incident, I don’t want the money.”
After he finished speaking, he turned around, put the check into his pocket, then ran to the auditorium and sat down. He took the popcorn and drink from Fiona, the beautiful female secretary next to him, and finally turned back
As soon as he lay down, he crossed his legs on the back of the chair in front of him and watched the court proceedings comfortably.
Lieutenant Colonel Laveau also coughed at this time, put on a dignified face, sat up straight, and then continued the interrogation just now, saying: "Defendant Jeffrey, you are accused of using a weapon to attack others in public.
, do you plead guilty?"
Jeffrey said proudly: "I don't admit it. I am a noble, and your military court has no right to interrogate me.
Don’t forget, our Plantagenet family is very powerful in the court. You bunch of dead soldiers, you actually want to interrogate me? I really don’t know how to write the word dead~!"
The soldiers who were watching suddenly broke out into a buzzing discussion. Although many soldiers looked angry, more people showed worry on their faces - they knew that Jeffrey
That's not unreasonable.
And now the civil servants are also extremely serious about suppressing Wu Bian. Although it has not reached the level of perversion like the legendary 'Ming Dynasty', where a dead eunuch could be sent to climb on the heads of the military officers to poop and urinate, but everyone is now
Under the control of civil servants, life was indeed not a good one.
Laveau immediately slammed the table and shouted angrily: "How dare you yell at the court? I will knock you down and beat you~!"
Immediately, someone walked over, pushed Jeffrey to the ground, then picked up a stick and hit him on the buttocks.
With the sound of "crack", Jeffrey kept screaming in pain.
At this moment, I heard footsteps coming from outside, and then a voice shouted loudly: "Wait a minute, don't hit anyone~!"