Li Yi had known before that all customers who entered the auction must pay a certain amount of deposit. If the goods were finally sold and the deposit would not be paid, the deposit would be confiscated.

However, the amount of this deposit is generally not too large, and it will be confiscated if it is confiscated. He is not short of that little money. However, now Liu Xibo wants to set a threshold for this work alone. Isn’t this to let him shoot himself in the foot?

To prove that you have the ability to participate in the auction of an item that may be worth 100 million yuan, how much deposit should you need? One hundred million yuan or two hundred million yuan?

nnd, he is willing to give Yintong 100 million, but this does not mean that he is also willing to throw out 100 million at Sotheby's!

Alas, why is it so difficult to cheat someone?

"Mr. Li, it is not a good idea to set a separate margin threshold, because it will not have any effect if the setting is low. If the setting is high, the customer will have a rebellious mentality, which will affect the subsequent auctions. So I think it would be better to provide financial proof."

"Ah? Can you still play like this?"

If Liu Xibo was in front of him, Li Yi would never mind kicking him hard. What he hated the most was such a person who spoke halfway through his words.

"Yes, provide funding proof. For example, the starting price we set for a certain item is HK$100 million. Then, we will make an explanation in advance and ask customers who are interested in auctioning the item to provide a minimum HK$100 million in funding proof. Then, with some other measures, it can basically be guaranteed."

In Liu Xibo's view, customers who can have over 100 million cash assets have to take care of their reputation and even go through everything else, so their integrity is absolutely guaranteed.

But when Li Yi heard this, he was not relieved, but secretly wiped his cold sweat. This should be the opposite? Anyway, others don’t know that just the two people he has come into contact with recently, whether it is Song Jiaming or Brother Hong, these two guys have used all kinds of tricks to transfer the mine!

In addition, he, a guy who had been lying to pay off the debt from the beginning, these so-called billionaires should be more honest than the other!

But no matter what, since this condition has no effect on his plan, he can take the things to take them on the photo. So the two of them agreed on other conditions in a few seconds, and the rest was waiting for Liu Xibo to come to pick up the things.

After hanging up the phone, Li Yi sorted out what happened recently. Zheng Shusen and Guangming were supervised by the diamond mine. They just carried out the work step by step, and there was nothing to worry about. The museum has done almost everything they can, and they are waiting to open. As for the jewelry company, it has contacted 7 auction houses before and sent out 7 top-grade jewelry pieces, and it seems that they are all left to wait for money.

Then, now there is only Brother Hong’s Hetian Jade Mine.

Although Brother Hong expressed his meaning that it would be fine to find an investor to cooperate, Li Yi believed that if he could find the next company to take over, he would definitely be more willing to transfer the whole thing. The only obstacle now is whether the price can be negotiated.

However, I may have this problem with others. Can you tell him? No matter how expensive he is, he has to buy it!

"I'm still short of money, why don't I take this opportunity to go out again?"

Although it is indeed possible to borrow money, Li Yi believes that through the relationship between Wang Haoqing or Zhou Hang, he should be able to lend out all the funds he needs according to his ideas. However, in his opinion, the interest rate for a 200 million loan is at least one million, and the most important thing is not a one-time expenditure, it is available every year. With his ability, the money paid is a bit unfair.

However, even if he travels to Europe or the United States again, he is unwilling to sell the real good things. You must know that compared to money, those are the real things that are hard to come by.

So what else can I do?

Frowning for a while, he suddenly remembered the note that he had obtained 32 oil paintings before, and there were several accounts on it. Because he was worried about being unsafe, he had not moved. So, can you consider it now?

On the note he received at that time, there were 11 account information recorded in total, three of which were located in the bank that had gone bankrupt. He was not the real owner and was not in the mood to track where the funds in the account went.

Of the remaining 8 accounts, 5 were safes, and they were in a bank. He just opened one of them and got 32 oil paintings, and the rest did not have time to move.

For the other three accounts, one of them has about 1.7 million US dollars in funds, and it is not clear that the remaining two are left.

There are 4 safes and 3 accounts. Although Li Yi thinks that there are no good things like 32 oil paintings in the remaining 4 safes, these 7 accounts are definitely a very amazing asset!

Take or not? How should I get it if I want to take it?

The things in the safe are easy to deal with. As long as the things can be taken out, with Gu Feng and others' skills, they will definitely get out of it smoothly. But what should I do if the money in the account is? You can't just take cash, right?

But what he is in urgent need of is money rather than things!

After thinking for a long time, Li Yi simply stopped thinking about it and asked Gu Feng to go directly to Wang Haoqing. He was still planning to share 10% of Lao Wang's shares like a diamond mine, but he didn't know if this guy still invested.

"You kid, if you don't do it, just don't do it. If you do it, just do it! Tell me, what's wrong with this Hetian Jade Mine this time? It's worth letting you intervene at the risk of offending the Hong family?"

He is worthy of knowing Li Yi well, and Wang Haoqing knew at once that there must be something wrong with it.

"Hehe, it's not that I offended him. Strictly speaking, if I really bought it, it's that he cheated me!"

"Take you? What's going on?"

Li Yi talked about what happened last time to Brother Hong’s current statement, and then spread his hands together, “Look at Brother Wang, is there something wrong with me here?”

"It's true! But since you boy knows, then don't buy it?"

"But the key is that I want to buy it!" Seeing Wang Haoqing grinning at him, Li Yi couldn't help laughing: "Brother Wang, I went to see it last time. Although I didn't look at it very carefully, I think there should be mine veins in that place, but they didn't look for it. How about it, are you interested in playing together?"

"Play it? Now I have no news, no price, no price, I know you want to pull me into the water to help you block the Hong family, but no matter what, I have to wait for you to figure out everything before you come?"

"Okay, no problem! I'll call Brother Hong now and ask him not to come. I'll go there directly and can also go to the mine to check it out."

The next day, Li Yi took Gu Feng and Tan Moxuan to Xining directly. After seeing Brother Hong, he didn't say much, and said directly that he needed to go to the mine to take a look.

The buyers need to look at the goods, so the seller naturally had nothing to say. Brother Hong arranged a car and a group of people rushed to the mine again.

When Li Yi came here last time, he followed Academician Zhu and the others to the valley, and then the mine veins appeared, so he didn't pay attention to the two mines and mine caves in the mining area. This time, he had to take a good look even if he was doing it. Otherwise, he would not be afraid that Brother Hong would treat him as a fool, and he would be afraid that Brother Hong would be suspicious.

At present, both mines have stopped mining. Brother Hong said that since he wants to sell, he must show sincerity, and there is no need to make the buyer unhappy for the production in the past few days. However, in Li Yi's opinion, the reason why he ordered the mining to stop was that he was afraid that he would dig up the little thing on the surface and affect the final price.

However, Brother Hong's people are indeed right. If mining is released, these two mines will be mined in less than 10 days and no more jade will be dug out. However, after taking protective measures, the current mines are at least a little confusing. If they encounter people with low levels and greedy levels, they will probably be fooled by him.

Although he saw the truth, Li Yi did not intend to say it directly, because if everything was put on the table, what reason would he use to acquire it in the end?

After seeing the mine, Brother Hong brought Li Yi and the others to the mine again.

"If you dig this position about ten meters, there should be a new ore vein. This is the information left by the exploration team before. You can take a look first."

This mine cave was dug along the horizontal line to the depths of the mountain. Although the ore vein that Li Yi saw before was above it, even if he could see through the slope and distance of the hill, he could not see the new vein. As for what Brother Hong said about digging another 10 meters, he was simply a fraud. If the distance was wrong, he even pointed the direction in the wrong direction!

Li Yi casually looked through the information, walked into the mine cave and carefully looked at it, turned his head and asked, "What price is Brother Hong going to take action?"

"I'm going to tell you that, I paid a total of 3.2 billion yuan for this mine, including mining rights and prospecting rights in the surrounding area. In addition, the investments in later equipment, roads, factories and other investments, I threw them in a total of about 3.5 billion yuan. The jade mined in recent years is worth about 100 million yuan, and I don't ask for money. I can only keep the original one. Brother, what do you think of 100 million yuan?"

Li Yi was stunned for a moment, and then realized that his 100 million yuan should have included the loan interest. He couldn't help but shake his head secretly. Brother Hong was too petty. The price seemed to be very honest, but in fact, it would be better not to say anything and just ask for a 100 million yuan!

"Brother Hong, I can't see too much of it even if I look at it like this. Let's go back and find someone to come and take a look. Let's talk about it then?"

"Okay, I just need to find someone to come over, how do you need to cooperate and speak directly!"

Brother Hong also knew that such a big business could not be negotiated in one go, so he agreed very simply. A group of people left the mine and were about to walk back. He suddenly stared at the two people not far away and frowned. Why are they coming again?

Seeing Li Yi’s eyes were puzzled, Brother Hong smiled bitterly and explained: “I’m going to tell you this mine, I was going to take action a year ago. Several companies also liked it and came to negotiate, but the price has not been negotiated. This is one of the customers at that time, a famous gambling master, Chu Honglei, Master Chu, I wonder if you have heard of it?”

Li Yi shook his head. He didn't even have time to get involved in gambling stones. Moreover, because of the spirit cards, he still played stand-alone players most of the time, let alone knowing famous gambling mines.

"Master Chu's most famous record is to bring the Tatlek Suyu Mine back to life. According to historical records, the Tatlek Suyu Mine began to be mined five or six thousand years ago, but in modern times, it gradually faded out of people's sight. Everyone thought that the mine had been dug long ago, but unexpectedly, after Master Chu's golden saint hand, over the years, nearly 5ooo tons of high-quality jade materials were mined!"

"Oh, that's really amazing."

Li Yi knew about the Tatlerk Suyu Mine, but he didn't know that the Tatlerk Suyu Mine was resurrected because of this person. He couldn't help but feel a little nervous. They wouldn't have that big mine vein appeared, right?

As they were talking, the two people over there also saw them and greeted them from afar. Soon, the two groups of people gathered together.

"Master Chu, how are you watching this time? If you hesitate, my little brother will start first?"

Chu Honglei glanced at Li Yi and the others, but there was no familiar face. It could be seen from the temperament of several people that they were all pampered and were not people running around to watch the mines. He waved his hand casually and said, "It's okay, everyone sees their own things. Just compete fairly. This way, Boss Hong can sell more money, right?"

It turns out that he directly treated Li Yi and the others as the ones found by Brother Hong!

"Haha, Master Chu is just generous, what's wrong? Should I go back with us? Or watch here for a while?"

Seeing that he looked like this, Brother Hong stopped introducing Li Yi. He asked them that they would be on the mountain for a while and then took Li Yi and the others down the mountain.

"Teacher Chu insists that this person has mine veins, but everyone can basically guess that there is mine veins, but whether it can be found is another matter. If you throw away the investment of tens of billions of yuan, it's nothing to find it in a year, and nothing to find it in two years. But what if it takes longer? Interest alone can crush people to death!"

Brother Hong seemed to be a little emotional, and there was a hint of sincerity in what he said. Li Yi didn't agree. He was still thinking, is it really okay to just let Master Chu wander around here?

"Haha, Mr. Li, you're just fooled. In my opinion, that so-called Master Chu is probably the one found by Boss Hong!" It was the guest room where I rested last time. When Tan Moxuan heard Li Yi's doubts, he laughed. How could there be so many coincidences in the world?

"Oh? How do you say it?"

"First, this is a mining area. Although the guards are not very tight, they can't come in just because they want to. Even if they are arranged by the subordinates, how can those people not report to the boss? Second, if such a big business is an ordinary kind of entrusting, it will be too easy to see through. Now they deliberately do the opposite and let the other side take us as entrusting, which shows that they really want to buy it. Look, hasn't their goal been achieved?"

Seeing Li Yi still a little bit unwilling to let go, Tan Moxuan said bitterly: "Li Yi, this is not an ordinary thing worth tens of thousands or hundreds of thousands. If you are deceived, you will be deceived. It will have no effect on you at all. But this is a billion yuan. Is he stupid by the surname Hong? If there is a possibility, he will give up such huge benefits? So I think it is not a question of how much money is there at all. It is because we shouldn't be involved in this matter!"

Li Yi smiled bitterly. This is what he was embarrassed about, because he was different from others. He knew very clearly that there was a mine here! Moreover, it was a large mine worth over 100 million yuan!

In theory, the quotation of 100 million is really nothing to the value of this ore vein, and the difficulty of mining this ore vein is not very high, but he couldn't agree so happily, otherwise when the ore vein came out, it would be when he and the Hong family became mortal enemies!

If the Hong family really had the will to oppose him, let alone Wang Haoqing and Zhou Hang, it would be useless to protect the church. After all, it is on the other person's territory, and strong dragons are hard to defeat local snakes after all!

Now, there is no good way, so I can only drag it first, until Brother Hong can't hold it anymore and takes the initiative to lower the price. At that time, he will show a gambler's mentality as a greedy gambler. It would be reasonable to buy this mine. The price paid for this is to bear the risk that others will also have a mine vein!

"Keep in touch first. Let's go back and ask which diamond mine to help us find it, if it is capable of taking such a job, let them come and have a look. Lao Tan, don't worry, even if I want to buy it, I won't be so stupid that he said it's as much as he said. I'll tell you the bottom of this mine. I will pay up to 1.5 billion at most, and I won't pay any more than one point!"

Tan Moxuan shook his head with a bitter face, OK, one billion is money, 1.5 billion is not money? I really don’t understand the world of a rich man!

All the things that should be read have been read, and all the things that should be expressed have been expressed. In the next step, we must rely on data to speak, so Li Yi did not stay here and returned to Yanjing the next day. Let's leave this matter like this first. Anyway, he is not the one who is anxious.

Time passed in a blink of an eye. As the time for Sotheby's Spring Auction was approaching, Li Yi asked Gu Feng to find two trustworthy comrades, as agents of the mysterious figure, to sign up for this spring auction.

Li Yi has also paid attention to the items in this spring auction before. There are many good things, especially a picture of "Spring Mountain Plant and Tree Picture" by Song Xu, a painter in the Ming Dynasty. Because it is not signed, it is not popular among people. So he is going to go there early and participate in the last preview. If this painting is an authentic work, it is still impossible to pick it up.

Unexpectedly, before he set off, the company he asked to help prospecting called first. The prospecting work made significant progress and a new vein appeared!

When Li Yi received the call, he almost spurted out without a mouthful of old blood. You sister, I just asked them to do it so that they could prepare for future bargaining. Unexpectedly, these guys were so lucky that they found the ore veins at once. Should he say that he shot himself in the foot?

"Where are the ore veins that appear? What is the reserve?"

"It's about 5 kilometers east of mine pit No. 1. The specific reserves are not clear, but they should not be large, just a small branch." On the phone, the person in charge looked guilty, "Mr. Li, I'm sorry, someone happened to be next to the mine when the sample was collected, so this matter was not hidden."

When Li Yi heard that the big ore vein that was not the previous one, he breathed a sigh of relief. But then he sighed again. He had a reason for this ore vein. But this price, let alone the cheaper one, maybe it would be possible to rise a little further!

But there is nothing he can do. If he doesn't find someone to do it, he can't do it. But he can't tell those people too thoroughly, saying that they are just doing it. It's better not to let them go, but who would have thought that they actually found a mine vein!

nnd, can these guys also get some of his luck because of the diamond mine?

Seeing Brother Hong again this time is completely different from the previous few times. It’s so proud!
To be continued...