My Son-in-law Is A War God
Chapter 855 - 856: Settlement Must Be in British Pounds!

Chapter 855: Chapter 856: Settlement Must Be in British Pounds!

"You..."

Zheng Chong’s face looked terrible, but there was nothing he could do. All these media, they were the ones who had invited them, and now they had become a nuisance. When someone else made a bid, he certainly couldn’t just have security throw them out.

That would be too obvious.

"Auctioneer, if nobody else is bidding, then these items are mine, right? Aren’t you going to start the countdown?"

Xiao Chen looked at the auctioneer and said coldly.

The auctioneer felt very awkward, continuing with the auction was problematic, but not continuing was also problematic. It was as if he was being roasted on a hot pan.

"What, could it be that I guessed right and today’s auction is all fake?"

Xiao Chen sneered.

Li Shengrong gave the auctioneer a meaningful glance, indicating to continue.

It was a joke, this auction was meant to whitewash those auction items, and if they didn’t continue, the scandal of the fake auction would be exposed, which would be a real trouble.

Anyway, from the very beginning, the auction was destined for March Group to win.

"2.1 billion!"

Zheng Chong raised the bid.

But not by much.

"2.5 billion!"

Xiao Chen looked at Zheng Chong indifferently, continue playing then; I want to see how you’ll carry on with this charade!

"You!"

Zheng Chong’s face became even uglier. When the price exceeded a certain level, the relevant departments would intervene and investigate. That’s when the situation would become troublesome.

But now he couldn’t give up.

"2.6 billion."

Zheng Chong gritted his teeth and said.

"Does March Group not have any money? Raising the bid by such a small amount, how boring."

Xiao Chen said with a faint smile, "3 billion!"

The whole venue gasped.

Ilana nearly fainted.

This was just too crazy; someone actually bid up to 3 billion.

Though the seventy-two items together could possibly be worth that amount, would someone actually spend so much money to purchase antiques?

That was too exaggerated.

"Who is this person?"

Someone asked.

"Don’t you know him? It’s Xiao Chen, the husband of the CEO of Xinmeng Group!"

"So it’s him. I’ve heard that this man is mad with his spending, and seeing him today, it’s indeed true."

"Ironic, isn’t it? Our national treasures might only be preserved thanks to a son-in-law entering the family."

Zheng Chong started to feel nervous and said to the auctioneer, "Pause for a moment, I need to make a call to our president."

"Sure!"

Xiao Chen didn’t obstruct him, allowing Zheng Chong to call Pei Yongjun.

Pei Yongjun was very angry when he heard about this.

But he still said coldly, "Keep raising the bid, up to 100 billion. If the other party still continues, then let it go. We’ll think of another way.

We initially wanted to obtain those items through legal means, but if that really doesn’t work out, we’ll just have to take another route!"

Pei Yongjun’s voice was icy.

"Understood!"

Zheng Chong, having received Pei Yongjun’s instructions, felt more confident.

"I bid 100 billion. Will you follow that?"

He directly raised the price to his limit, 100 billion.

If Xiao Chen continued to follow, then they would have to resort to other methods.

March Group was used to acting with arrogance. This lawful approach was actually not their forte.

However, they were very skilled with the unlawful ones.

"March Group is indeed wealthy and powerful, I won’t continue!"

Xiao Chen smiled and gave up.

Zheng Chong felt somewhat unfulfilled.

"You pauper, daring to compete with March Group, moron!"

Zheng Chong cursed viciously, finally venting the anger in his heart.

"Yes, I indeed don’t have the financial power of March Group, to spend 100 billion British pounds to purchase these antiques. I wish I could but unfortunately, I cannot afford it."

Xiao Chen laughed.

"Ten billion British pounds?"

Zheng Chong was stunned for a moment. "No way, aren’t all the auctions here in RMB?"

"You clearly didn’t look at this flyer carefully."

Xiao Chen smiled and said, "It’s clearly marked for settlement in British pounds on here, didn’t you know that?"

Zheng Chong’s face suddenly turned dark.

The flyer was produced by them, so when it was distributed, he never bothered to look at it.

But what he didn’t know was that the flyers had already been switched by someone else.

Even the entire auction house had already changed hands.

For this auction, March Group and Xiongcheng City’s Li Family had made meticulous arrangements.

Of course, Xiao Chen wouldn’t be careless either.

The first thing he did when he arrived in Xiongcheng was to buy the auction house.

How to bid was naturally up to him to decide.

Everyone else had read the flyer, that’s why they knew it was settled in British pounds.

So by the time it reached twelve billion British pounds, no one else continued to make offers.

Only Zheng Chong, this fool, kept going.

"Impossible! This can’t be possible!"

Angered, Zheng Chong grabbed the flyer, then brought over the auction detail sheet—all of them were marked in British pounds.

"How could this happen, how could this be!"

Li Shengrong was also dumbfounded.

Li Biao had already been alerted by this time and when he came out and saw what was happening, he was bewildered.

He angrily looked for the auction house manager to inquire.

"I’m sorry, Master Biao, but this auction house no longer belongs to the Li family. We have a new boss now and naturally have to follow the new rules," said the manager.

"Who’s your new boss?"

Li Biao bellowed.

"Yama Hall!"

The manager said with a smile.

What!

Li Biao trembled with fear; he hadn’t expected Yama Hall to have gotten involved in this affair. Now there was serious trouble.

"We can’t handle this matter. Let March Group pay, we can’t afford to offend Yama Hall!"

He hurriedly said to Li Shengrong.

Outside, Li Shengrong conveyed the situation to Zheng Chong, essentially saying that the authorities had intervened.

This transaction would now have to pay a hundred billion RMB. In addition, over ten billion in taxes and handling fees would have to be paid.

Zheng Chong was utterly dumbfounded.

How could this be.

Pei Yongjun had said a maximum of ten billion, but that was in RMB. Now it had become over a hundred billion. Who in their right mind would spend over a hundred billion to buy those antiques?

It was not worth it at all.

Indeed, when Zheng Chong told Pei Yongjun about the situation, Pei Yongjun cursed out loud in anger.

"President Yongjun, you don’t have to be so upset. In fact, besides the taxes and the auction house’s handling fees, the rest of the money can still be saved.

It means you only spent a little over ten billion after all,"

Li Biao said over the phone to Pei Yongjun.

"However, you have to quickly sell the items, otherwise it will be trouble once the authorities start investigating."

"That’s more like it!"

Pei Yongjun took a deep breath, but still felt dissatisfied. Originally, he could have gotten those items without spending a penny, and now he had actually spent ten billion—it just wasn’t satisfying.

But with things having come this far, there was no helping it.

And so, the Li Family of Xiongcheng and March Group conducted a private transaction, transferring the hundred billion again to March Group.

What they didn’t expect was that Xiao Chen had been waiting for them to do just that.

Otherwise, Xiao Chen would have purchased the items himself.

"Boss, we have the transfer records and the necessary video files. They can prove their private transactions; the auction was completely a front,"

Gates sent the message.

Xiao Chen smiled, sent the materials to Yama Hall and the police.

He also had Tianxing Media conduct a full-scale report.