Chapter 227: It can be bought for no more than 700 million

Actually, 300 million is nothing in such a grand scene.

After Yuese Company went into bankruptcy liquidation, there were three brand new cruise ships in total, each with an estimated price of over 700 million.

This is the reason why so many big shots with a net worth of 500 million came to participate in this sealed-bid auction today.

Among them, everyone had made full plans and preparations for this sealed-bid auction; there was no lack of big shots with a net worth of one or two billion who had already reserved enough cash on their accounts for this auction.

Holding 300 million to participate in this auction, Zhang Lekang just wanted to try his luck; the possibility of winning the bid was not high.

But for Zhao Ying and Lu Shanshan, these 300 million were already an astronomical figure. The total market value of Zhao Ying's clothing company currently did not exceed 40 million.

300 million could buy seven clothing companies, with money to spare.

Zhang Jian knew that 300 million couldn't do anything at this auction, but he could show off in front of the mother and daughter!

"300 million? I really haven't looked into the cruise ship side of things."

Sure enough, as soon as Zhao Ying heard 300 million, her eyes radiated a greedy gleam.

In other words, Zhang Jian currently had 300 million in cash on hand.

Asking for 30 million in financing was just one-tenth of this fund!

At the same time, Zhao Ying cast a scheming look at her daughter, Lu Shanshan.

My good daughter, my good daughter, did you hear that?

He has 300 million in his hands right now!

"However, it's highly likely that 300 million won't be enough to win the bid." Zhang Jian added.

"Ah? Why? 300 million isn't enough to win?"

"Are these cruise ships that expensive?"

Zhao Ying was full of surprise when she heard this.

Zhang Jian was smug, looking like he understood everything, and introduced the value of the three cruise ships in detail to the mother and daughter, Zhao Ying and Lu Shanshan.

The first one, platinum princess, 700 million.

The second one, jiuzhou dream, 800 million.

The third one, royal symphony, 1 billion.

Zhang Jian emphasized, "The prices I just mentioned are all estimated prices for second-hand ones; brand new ones are another 1/3 more expensive."

"Now you know how sought-after these three cruise ships are. My dad just wanted me to come over and try my luck; he didn't actually expect to be able to buy one."

"And, there is one very important thing I haven't disclosed to you."

"What is it?"

"The platinum princess has already been reserved in advance by my Uncle Hua."

"Uncle Hua? You mean Hua Yunfeng?" Zhao Ying's brows knitted together.

Lu Shanshan was also very curious. Wasn't this cruise ship auction a sealed-bid auction? Why would it be reserved in advance?

Since it had already been secured by Hua Yunfeng, what was the point of bidding? Why not just bid on the second one, the jiuzhou dream?

"Hehe, you guys don't understand that." Zhang Jian explained to Zhao Ying with a wicked smile.

He pointed at Zheng Qian in the sixth row.

Hua Yunfeng had actually already greeted the others; those other big shots would not bid more than 500 million on this cruise ship.

As for why it was 500 million, because Hua Yunfeng had already found out that Zheng Qian would bid 500 million for this platinum princess. As long as Hua Yunfeng bid just one increment more than Zheng Qian, he could win the bid and leave Zheng Qian full of regret.

Lu Shanshan was greatly shocked.

For a sealed-bid auction like this, the pre-set psychological price is absolutely confidential.

If Hua Yunfeng really had found out this information, that Zheng Qian would bid 500 million, then that meant there was a mole around Zheng Qian?

Lu Shanshan just wanted to take out her phone and send a message to Zheng Qian to inform him of this matter, hoping he could bid a bit higher in a moment.

If this worked out, Zheng Qian would owe her a huge favor, and previous matters might all be forgiven.

Crap.

Her phone had already been taken away during the security check before entering the venue.

As an attendee, she had no right to carry a phone.

Even if she wanted to tip off Zheng Qian, there was no way!

Now she was in trouble!

Thinking about this, Lu Shanshan couldn't help but pull her baseball cap lower.

If what Zhang Jian said was true, and they succeeded in this, then she definitely couldn't let Zheng Qian recognize her.

On stage.

A hot-bodied, sexily dressed auctioneer walked to the standing microphone with her long, slender, fair legs.

"Dear guests, thank you for sacrificing your precious time to come to today's auction."

"Yuese Company has entrusted our firm to hold this auction in its entirety."

"Let me introduce myself. My name is Auctioneer Wang Xiaoqi, and I am the auctioneer presiding over today's auction."

Her face was beaming with a confident smile as she introduced herself to the audience.

"Without further ado, the auction begins now..."

As today's chief auctioneer, Auctioneer Wang Xiaoqi had excellent professional skills and was very eloquent as she introduced the items up for auction on stage.

Today's auction was not for physical objects, but rather for assets and businesses sold off after splitting up Yuese Company. For example, some logistics items were physical goods.

Besides physical goods, a portion of the business was also for sale, such as creditor's rights, as well as the company's business department, transportation department, and logistics department, which were all available for sale.

Zheng Qian was not interested in these earlier items, and everyone else kept their heads down, dealing with their own matters.

Everyone's main goal today was the cruise ships, so they naturally had no interest in these petty profits, and they were very troublesome.

"President Zheng, that female sailor just now, which year's girl did you meet that one in?" Song Yaxian teased in a low voice.

Zheng Qian: "..."

"She is a captain, not a sailor, okay?"

"Yo, you know that so clearly?" Song Yaxian felt more and more that Zheng Qian was not a decent person; everywhere he went, beauties came to greet him.

Just yesterday in the restaurant, he ran into two beauties.

To gain Zheng Qian's favor, Lu Shanshan even abandoned her current date and proactively offered to share a table.

Jiang Yanran even stepped forward to help Zheng Qian out of a tight spot.

Today, before the auction started, there was even a girl with skin as white as snow who came to greet Zheng Qian.

Song Yaxian couldn't figure out how many women Zheng Qian actually had.

She guessed it was definitely not less than two digits!

It was even possible that he had already reached a hundred-man kill!

"Don't talk nonsense, I have absolutely no relationship with them."

"Hehe, I don't believe you."

Song Yaxian felt that even if there was no relationship, they all wanted to have some kind of relationship with Zheng Qian, right?

Otherwise, why would so many girls be so proactive!

In the eyes of ordinary people, those in their class are all aloof goddesses, okay?

Once they got in front of Zheng Qian, they all turned into bootlickers.

Jiang Yanran was a bit better, but the one who made Song Yaxian feel the most disgusted was Lu Shanshan.

The things she said and did almost made her vomit.

It was no different from throwing herself at him.

To put it bluntly, isn't she just a female bootlicker?

After two hours of bidding, it finally reached the final grand finale: the platinum princess!

"Dear guests, due to venue and condition limitations, we are unable to display the physical platinum princess..."

"However, our firm sent a professional photography team to board the ship and take thousands of photos. We selected 230 of them to make a PPT, which we are now showing for your viewing."

This PPT was actually optional, because everyone was here for this cruise ship, and everyone had an idea of how much it was worth.

To be able to reach this net worth today, no one was a fool.

It was just a measure taken by the auction company to demonstrate their professional ability and dedication.

At today's auction, Zheng Qian actually discovered quite a few internal personnel from Yuese Company; they were located on the left side of the first row, the right side of the third row, and the middle of the fourth row, respectively.

These three groups of people were definitely Yuese people, or perhaps people from the auction company itself; in industry jargon, they were called shills.

Whether it is an open-bid auction or a sealed-bid auction, shills are indispensable.

These people were arranged to come in for only one purpose, and that was to protect the price.

Once the price was lower than Yuese Company's psychological threshold, they would raise the price.

A sealed-bid auction was even simpler; they just needed to input their prices into the system. Once it was lower than the psychological threshold, it would be won by their own people, and then released again for auction after some time.

Whether it was Yuese's people or the auction house's people, they were very careful and directly arranged for three groups of people to come in and shill.

230 photos of the cruise ship, each one carefully retouched, were being slowly played one by one on the big screen.

Auctioneer Wang Xiaoqi played the PPT photo file while introducing the various parameters of the platinum princess: tonnage, volume, power, draft, displacement, and how many passengers it could accommodate.

Towards the end, Auctioneer Wang Xiaoqi stood out again and stated: "Everyone can now input your prices on the tablets in front of you."

"Be sure to be careful, don't let the person next to you see it!"

Hahaha.

There was a burst of laughter in the audience.

Before entering, everyone was given a tablet. The system had been modified by the auction house and was absolutely confidential.

If time were pushed back a few decades, everyone might still be writing prices on slips of paper, where the possibility of being swapped or rigged would be very high. It must be said that today's technology is really very advanced.

This large set of photos captivated Song Yaxian.

She had originally thought that this auction was just to sell off part of the Yuese Company's business; she hadn't expected that the cruise ships under it would also be sold off.

When she saw the tenth photo, her eyes were already deeply attracted by this platinum princess.

It was too beautiful!

How great it would be if she owned a cruise ship like this!

Song Yaxian's infatuated expression was clearly captured by Zheng Qian.

"What do you think of this cruise ship?" Zheng Qian asked, crossing his legs.

Song Yaxian quickly put away the envious and eager expression on her face and resumed her aloof face.

Utilizing her excellent calculation skills, as well as her analysis of the market after joining Qianhe Group, Song Yaxian quickly did the math in her head.

"I think if this cruise ship exceeds 700 million, it's not worth buying; it doesn't have much value. You can buy it if it's under 700 million."