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Chapter 163. Big Earthquake in the Auction World

When he was in school, Lin Yi clearly remembered what the teacher said, "In socialist society, people are equal and there is no class distinction." After school, Lin Yi struggled in society and believed that this sentence was true at the beginning. But the fact is that people are divided into different levels. When you are a waiter, you cannot offend customers, and when you are a security guard, you cannot offend customers. People who pull carts on the streets are the same level, and people who drive cars are the same level. People who farm in the hot world are the same level, and people who go to pay for exercise in the gym are the same level.

To put it bluntly, this is a society with distinct hierarchies. Those who say that everyone is equal are either fools or liars who believe that everyone is equal, either idiots or incompetent.

Lin Yi is not idiots or inferior, so he knows clearly what he needs. Compared to the words "Everyone is equal", he clearly remembers a sentence his mother said, "Your money, his money, putting it in your pocket is your own money!"

Therefore, Lin Yi was very merciless and asked for one million from the sea and rivers.

Didn’t you say you wanted to hire me? Yes, you can get one million first.

Hai Baichuan was a little confused about Lin Yi's intentions. In his heart, he might have regarded Lin Yi as a young man with high literary and artistic atmosphere and high interest, but this young man instantly became "loved money like life", which made Hai Baichuan a little stunned.

Fortunately, this is Hong Kong, which itself is a vicious capitalist money society. After being a little stunned, Hai Baichuan immediately made a decision: "Okay!"

A million people say more than more, and less, Hai Baichuan is not unworthy of being able to afford it. However, as a businessman, he is definitely the kind of person who doesn’t see a rabbit or a hawk. Before Lin Yi could get 1 million, the boss of Hai Baichuan Hai asked that Lin Yi must hand over the manuscript of Wang Duo in his hand to them for the photo.

Before this, Lin Yi had already understood the trick. It was nothing more than that New Century Company took the poem draft and arranged a minimum price to start the auction, and then tried hard to hype it up, and found a request to increase the auction price until it broke the "historical record" and "shocked Hong Kong", and it was considered successful.

The whole process is "the left hand is turned to the right hand". New Century Auction Company simply pays some publicity expenses, but it gets a good reputation of "breaking historical records".

Lin Yi is not at a disadvantage. His poems are his own, and they can be stored in the new century, and they can be charged interest every year, and there are also positions with annual salary of one million.

So in the next two days, Lin Yi let go of everything and enjoyed his life traveling in Hong Kong, and didn't care about how he used his own poems to make trouble with the New Century.

When mainlanders came to Hong Kong, they all had many wonderful fantasies at the beginning, thinking that Hong Kong was paradise. In fact, when they really arrived in Hong Kong, they realized that this was actually an old city. Xiangjiang was not too big and the tall buildings were not too high. The famous Admiralty Square, Times Square, and large shopping areas like Shanghai and Nanjing were similar, and even worse than those in the mainland.

The only thing Su Xue, Xu Dashao, Yue Han, Wang Zhen, Jiangdong and others can do is to find something they are interested in.

Mr. Xu went to find the legendary "rich man" in the paradise of men, and Su Xue went to buy duty-free goods, perfume, clothes, and brand-name bags. The three old men went to the supermarket to buy baby milk powder and diapers.

As for Lin Yi, his only goal is to Hong Kong used bookstores.

First, Lin Yi visited the second bookstore he selected, second only to the "Xinya Bookstore" of "Shenzhou Old Bookstore".

Xinya Bookstore is also very famous in Hong Kong Island and was established in 1968. The boss Su Gengzhe is a scholar and is said to be good friends with the mainland bookmaker Chen Zishan. The bookstore is located on the Laundry Street in Mong Kok. Lin Yi went there and found that most of the books sold were mainland books, and he was a little disappointed. However, if you carefully select, you can still find some books you like.

When Lin Yi was doing a book, Mr. Su's mother was taking care of the counter and did not see the legendary Boss Su. So Lin Yi picked some Hong Kong and Taiwan versions of books, and also bought Boss Su's book, Yu Dafu studied a sad review of the history of new literature, and a collection of Mou Runsun's notes published by the New Asia Institute in 1959. It is said that this New Asia Bookstore has some relationship with the New Asia Institute. Their ancient books are now auctioned and generally will not be presented.

After falling from Xinya Bookstore, the Xiyangcai Pedestrian Street was crowded with people, which made people a little dazed.

When I was shopping in Hong Kong, I was working hard and my third bookstore was the practical bookstore.

The Practical Bookstore is located in a building in Yau Ma Tei civilization. When Lin Yi went to study books for the first time, he didn’t understand many rules. For example, when he went there, he had to tell the old man who was guarding the door below that he would open the door for you.

The owner, Mr. Long Liangchen, is 95 years old. He usually sleeps in a chair. Lin Yi doesn't have the heart to wake him up and chat with him. He probably can't talk much when he is awake, so he can only talk to the little girl who is watching the store. Fortunately, Lin Yi is handsome and gentle. After chatting for a few words, the little girl in Hong Kong takes the initiative and even asks Lin Yi when he has time to be his tour guide. Seeing the little girl's eyes blurry, Lin Yi knows that it's going to be bad. He is here to buy books, not to pick up girls. So he refused her kindness. The little girl's eyes changed from hazy to sorrow, but Lin Yi has no choice. I guess the little girl has been working in this bookstore and is tied in this cage. It's rare to meet her peers who are talking to each other. She's just going to have a love affair.

Lin Yi found an old news reporter about Qian Gang in this bookstore. Because he saw the mainland version on the Internet, he saw the Hong Kong version on the bottom of the bookshelf there, and was a little happy. He was even happier that he bought the signature collection of Ben Yanhuo's essays given to the poet Li Qing by Yanhuo Pan Yaoming, and also bought Professor Xiaosi's Hong Kong stories and Hong Kong literature walks. Zeng Minzhi's essays collection, and there were some gains.

The fourth stop of Hong Kong Taoshu, Mei Xin Bookstore.

The bookstore is located on the sixth floor of a building in downtown Mongkok. When Lin Yi went there, he asked people nearby because he didn't copy the address. The store was very warm, and there were sofas that allowed people to sit and read, and there were a lot of books. Lin Yi bought Yu Shiying's Chen Yinke's poems and essays and other books in his later years, but he didn't talk to the boss. Later, Lin Yi saw the self-reported articles of Zheng Guangwen, the owner of Meixin Bookstore, on the Internet, and knew that he was also a book lover. Because he liked to buy books, he simply opened an old bookstore, combining his profession and hobbies. He usually reads books in his own position when he has nothing to do, but whether he can continue to operate in a place where every inch of land is valuable is a question.

In this way, three days passed in the blink of an eye.

Just when Lin Yile was crazily shopping for books in Hong Kong without thinking about Shu, a major earthquake occurred in the Hong Kong auction industry.

The rising rookie in the auction industry, "New Century Auction Company", has created rare treasures, original works of poems given to Wang Duo by Tang Ruowang!

After several experts and scholars' identification, this poem was born during the Kangxi period of the Qing Dynasty. It was a volume of poem written by Wang Duo, a foreigner who came to China to preach Joshua Tsang.

The name of John Tang was not in China in 1622. Later, at the request of Xu Guangqi, he was summoned by the court to participate in the revision of the Li Bureau and began his service career in the Ming and Qing governments in China for 38 years. In the first year of the Kangxi reign, John Tang was finally granted the title of Guanglu Dafu after 18 years of supervision of the Imperial Heaven Supervision, and was able to use a first-class top belt and embroidered crane to make up his clothes. He became one of the highest official positions in China in history, and was a very small number of distant ministers who were awarded the title of three generations and had a special favor.

Wang Duo surrendered to the Qing Dynasty in Nanjing in the second year of Shunzhi and arrived in Beijing with the Qing army general Duoduo. Perhaps because he heard that the old friend of John Tang had taken over the imperial prison of the Qing Dynasty in December of the previous year, he decided to write a volume of gifts with him, and the content was to choose four seven-character regulated poems he gave to John Tang during the Chongzhen period. Although the purpose of his writing was never clearly pointed out in this manuscript, because Wang Duo was poor and sick at the time, he obviously hoped that this old work would make the upstart Tang remember the previous friendship between the two and help him.

However, the above is not the point. The focus is on the "story" of this volume of the poem itself. According to what Wang Duo himself, "Mr. Daowei, Tang Ruowang, whose name is Daowei, is well-educated by heaven and man, has many mysterious secrets, and is convinced that he is a dragon and elephant among humans. I once wrote a volume and was stolen. Because I wrote this again, I have compiled it and redeem the lost faults."

The so-called "written here again, now it is mounted" here is a precious collection in the calligraphy and painting industry, a famous poem book for Tang Ruowang. The stolen original poem draft is undoubtedly the "original poem draft" that will be taken on this volume!

Therefore, as soon as the news that the original copy of Jinling's poem was about to be filmed came out, it immediately caused a sensation in the entire collection industry. Whether it is from Hong Kong, mainland China, Taiwan, Southeast Asia, even the United States, Britain, France, all famous celebrities who like to collect calligraphy and paintings gathered in this small place in Hong Kong to have a look.

It can be said that this time, the New Century Auction Company relied on the magic weapon of the poem in her hand to drop an atomic bomb to the collection industry, causing an unprecedented earthquake.

In just three days, the hotels near New Century Auction Company were basically filled with guests, and even the slightly higher-end hotels were booked.

Those bigwigs who received invitation letters for the New Century auction were all on guard and wondered what price to buy this treasure. Calligraphy and painting enthusiasts who were not qualified to participate in the auction all wanted to get an invitation letter, with a simple purpose, just wanting to take a look at this rare treasure.

As the treasure holder of this treasure, Lin Yi was still leisurely rummaging through the books he had bought. Perhaps for him, these things were the real treasures, but at this moment, someone knocked on his door. To be continued.
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