Chapter 241 Customs Warehouse No. 2
Soon, someone sent the auction information to Xiao Xingyun.
Xiao Xingyun opened the sealed document bag. In addition to the identity information and bidding number plate, there was also a detailed introduction to the entire bidding process.
At 8 o'clock tomorrow morning, with relevant identity certificates, go to the Xiangjiang Customs Warehouse No. 2 to check the bidding items in advance and the container conditions where the items are located.
Some items can see part of their appearance and quality, while other items are tightly sealed in the container, and only a sample is taken out and placed on the container.
When visiting the warehouse, you can check the items you are interested in on the auction item information.
Leave the warehouse at 17:00 at the latest.
At 19:30 in the evening, you can enter the venue and go through deposit registration and other procedures, and the auction will officially start at 20:00.
After reading the information and process, Xiao Xingyun breathed a sigh of relief. As long as he gave himself the opportunity to inspect the auction items with his own eyes, otherwise he would not dare to bid blindly.
In the evening, the organizer of the International Jewelry Exhibition arranged a reception.
Xiao Xingyun and Master Luo, as members of Gu Qingcheng's accompanying team, also participated, but the bodyguards could only be outside in the waiting room.
In fact, Xiao Xingyun was not very interested in such an occasion. He accompanied Gu Qingcheng to attend, just because he was afraid that she would be harassed at the reception.
After entering, I discovered that on such occasions, the so-called celebrities and major jewelers still pay attention to style and appearance, and act like a high-society person.
So, he found a remote corner, first solved the problem of food and clothing with a buffet, and then slowly tasted red wine.
"Mr. Xiao, it's a pleasure to meet you. I didn't expect to meet you in Xiangjiang." Wang Xingshan, a jadeite merchant from Guangdong Province, walked over with a glass of ice wine.
"It turned out to be Mr. Wang, what a coincidence." Xiao Xingyun remembered this jade merchant he met at the Jieyang public sale. On the day he purchased his jade, Hu Lili was assassinated by Wang Banxian's men.
When I met people from the mainland in Xiangjiang, they were particularly friendly, unlike when I was in Jieyang, where both sides were very wary.
After shaking hands, the two exchanged a few words.
At the same time, we also learned the reason why everyone came to Xiangjiang to participate in the jewelry exhibition.
Xiao Xingyun said that he was accompanying the boss of Gu's Jewelry to come and get to know him better. Wang Xingshan said that his family was a well-known jeweler in the south and would come to Xiangjiang every year to participate in the exhibition.
The two agreed to meet again when they have time in Hong Kong. If they don't have time, they can strengthen contact and cooperation after returning to the mainland.
In a word, Wang Xingshan wants to buy high-quality jadeite raw materials from Xiao Xingyun.
This kind of cooperation is beneficial to both parties. Xiao Xingyun has hundreds of millions in his hands. After participating in this internal customs auction, it is estimated that there will be very little money left.
If business comes to you, you will naturally not refuse.
Xiao Xingyun felt that time was almost up, so he went to look for Gu Qingcheng.
At this time, Gu Qingcheng was chatting with an equally beautiful girl. The two communicated in Cantonese, laughing a few times from time to time, and they were particularly harmonious.
This was the first time that Xiao Xingyun knew that his senior sister could speak Cantonese. Seeing their energetic communication, he couldn't bear to disturb them.
Gu Qingcheng, however, had sharp eyes. When he saw Xiao Xingyun, he waved to him and asked him to come over.
"Junior brother, you are here at the right time. I will introduce you to a beautiful woman. When you come to Xiangjiang for business in the future, you can ask Miss Huo to take you out for a walk to avoid getting lost."
The beautiful woman next to her took the initiative to say hello to Xiao Xingyun: "Hello, pretty boy, I am Huo Jingjing, please meet me."
"Hello, I'm Xiao Xingyun, nice to meet you."
The three of them chatted for a while, and Xiao Xingyun found out that they had known each other since they were studying abroad in the United States. They were particularly happy to meet again in Xiangjiang this time.
The reception had already begun to end, and both parties took their leave, taking their own bodyguard teams with them and heading back to their respective homes.
On the way back to the hotel room, Xiao Xingyun communicated with Gu Qingcheng about tomorrow's arrangements. During the three-day jewelry exhibition period, Xiao Xingyun did not need help. She could just hand out business cards at the booth and develop potential customers.
Xiao Xingyun did not hide the fact that she was going to participate in the internal auction of Xiangjiang Customs.
A night of silence.
Early the next morning, Xiao Xingyun took his bodyguards and used the vehicle provided by the hotel to arrive at Customs Warehouse No. 2. www.bǐqυgetν.℃ǒm
There are a total of 100 people who signed up to participate in the auction this time, and Xiao Xingyun was ranked 98th and was among the last batch of people to join.
When Xiao Xingyun arrived, two-thirds of the people who had entered Customs Warehouse No. 2 had already entered.
He took the relevant information, passed the verification area, and when he queued at the entrance, there were almost no people queuing at the door.
This was Xiao Xingyun's first time entering the Customs Confiscated Warehouse. Everything was quite strange, but he did not look around, pretending to be a regular visitor, and calmly observed the whereabouts of other bidders.
This warehouse is divided into two areas, one is the freezing area and the other is the normal temperature area.
The items in the freezer area are almost all items that need to be stored at low temperatures, such as confiscated smuggled meat, canned food, special ingredients, seafood, spices, etc.
In the normal temperature zone, there are more things, all kinds of things, and some things that ordinary people can't imagine.
Brand-name clothing, brand-name bags, brand-name cosmetics, perfume, cigars, valuable electronic products, valuable integrated circuit boards, chips, ivory products, diamonds, various gemstones, etc.
Jadeite rough stones are not common and appear occasionally.
Some of these items were confiscated at normal customs inspection windows, and more items were seized through smuggling channels.
Compare the coded number on the container with the number on the auction information booklet, which also indicates the place of origin and auction reserve price.
At the bottom of these information manuals, there is a parentheses indicating in small letters that there are many commodities that cannot be verified by customs and require auctioneers to identify themselves.
In other words, the auctioneer does not guarantee that luxury goods such as Louis Vuitton, Gucci, and Chanel are genuine goods, and they may also be high imitation goods.
This is rather embarrassing, so there is a process of letting bidders go to the warehouse to view the goods by themselves before the auction.
Xiao Xingyun was not interested in other things, so he followed the directions on the road signs in the warehouse and directly found the raw jade stone.
There are two containers here, each containing thirty tons of jadeite rough.
In other words, there are a total of sixty tons of jadeite stones participating in today's auction.
This amount instantly suffocated Xiao Xingyun, feeling that he was finished. The more than 500 million funds he had just raised were simply not enough.
What is the concept of sixty tons of jadeite rough? One ton is 1,000 kilograms, and sixty tons is 60,000 kilograms. Even if the gray transaction price in Tengchong last time was 10,000 yuan per kilogram, these jadeite roughs are still worth 60 million yuan.
, that is, 600 million.
The more than 500 million funds on Xiao Xingyun's card are simply not enough.
Even if you temporarily ask Gu Qingcheng to borrow several hundred million, there is no guarantee that you will be able to buy it, because the price of jadeite in the international market is getting higher and higher. The unit price of one kilogram of high-quality rough stone, traded in large quantities, has already exceeded 10,000.
Chapter completed!