Road to becoming the wealthiest: Starting From Treasure Hunting in the Cabinets
Chapter 1161 - 600: It’s still better to wrap things up quietly and early!

Chapter 1161: Chapter 600: It’s still better to wrap things up quietly and early!

The following auction was a fierce battle between Sean Knight, bidder number three, and Elijah Hastings’s "Sean Knight."

In some luxury villa, Harry Joseph was watching the monitoring equipment, seeing Sean Knight and number three crazily outbidding each other for a batch of Chinese cultural relics, a smug smile spread across his face.

His nephew Will was full of admiration next to him:

"Uncle, that was a brilliant move! With this Sean Knight around, we can make at least 5 million dollars more from this auction!"

"It should be more," Harry Joseph shook his head and said, "This Sean Knight is a fanatical nationalist. Nearly one-fourth of our ’collection’ consists of Chinese cultural relics. What we’re putting out now is less than one-tenth of those, so wait and see..."

Will nodded in agreement, but then shook his head with a look of regret, saying:

"It’s a pity we can only let out a small portion today, otherwise we could make a billionaire’s fortune in one day..."

"Will," Harry Joseph said sternly, "I’ve told you before, in business you must always be cautious of greed. The reason we’ve been able to handle these items for so long without problems, and even managed to sell some off, is precisely because we weren’t greedy.

If we wanted to, we could certainly increase the auction volume, and then these items could have been sold off long ago.

But then our risk would also significantly increase. At the last auction, what I had the host say wasn’t just to scare people. If we’re not careful, we won’t only be unable to enjoy these treasures, but we could also end up in prison..."

"Surely it can’t be that bad?" After hearing this, Will was somewhat skeptical, "After all, even that person is involved with these items... It would be a scandal for them, how could they possibly let things fall apart?"

"Heh." To Harry Joseph, Will’s words seemed naive, "In the eyes of those big shots, we’re nothing but minor figures. Their future is what matters most to them! At the appropriate time, they would sell out even themselves, let alone us?"

Will felt like he somewhat understood, but Harry Joseph chose not to continue.

Some truths can’t be understood without reaching a certain stature, without going through certain trials and tribulations, no matter how much one might explain.

The bidding war between Sean Knight and number three ended with "Sean Knight" winning with a final bid of 2.25 million dollars.

This auction’s item was a set of golden-jade clothing from the Han Dynasty period of China.

It was truly bizarre that such things could have come onto the market.

"Sean Knight" once again received an address, the same as before.

The bodyguard accompanying "Sean Knight" expressionlessly took the address, glanced at it, and tucked it away inside his coat.

"Uncle, did you notice? This number three never ends up bidding over 2 million dollars by much. If it goes over that number, he backs down," Will suddenly remembered something and excitedly said.

"Hmm, good observation," Harry Joseph nodded, having also noted this trend.

"So..." Will stammered for a while but couldn’t come up with anything.

He felt there was some secret to it, but he couldn’t figure it out.

"Don’t worry about these details," Harry Joseph remarked, "At most it suggests this number three is a white glove for some billionaire or power. Now that we’ve blocked their auction signals, they can’t contact the people behind the scenes, so they just have to stick to a certain standard..."

"Like this standard being a 2 million dollar cap!" Will said excitedly.

"Yes. That seems to be the case."

As Will’s excitement was evident, Harry Joseph felt the need to temper it a bit, "This doesn’t prove anything. Number three doesn’t pose any threat, and besides, he’s brought us quite a sum of money. Everyone has their secrets, so don’t try to uncover others’ secrets, unless they truly pose a threat to you!"

Will was a bit disappointed; he had made a discovery but his uncle didn’t seem to appreciate it. He thought he had offered some useful information or secret, but how could it be useless?

Will thought about investigating number three after the auction was over, but then a new batch of items came up for auction.

They were a diverse collection of artifacts from Central Asia, including Stone Ware, jade ware, and gold ware, over twenty items in total.

Because they were not too famous, the prices weren’t very high.

Sean Knight and number three didn’t seem too interested, but in the end, number three paid seventy-eight thousand dollars for the lot—other buyers weren’t very interested either.

That night, a total of twelve lots adding up to more than a hundred artifacts were auctioned, bringing in a total sum of 17.25 million dollars.

Both Harry Joseph and Will were quite satisfied.

Looking at the monitors as the bidders left one by one, Will asked expectantly:

"Uncle, when is the next auction?"

"The next one? That wouldn’t be for at least a month," Harry Joseph said without hesitation, "We can’t hold another for a short time."

"Why not?" Will didn’t understand, "Isn’t the auction going well now? Why not continue?"

"Because we’ve had two auctions in a short period," Harry Joseph explained, "selling off a quarter of our total collection. This news is bound to leak out. So people will definitely start paying attention to us. If we hold another auction, we’ll definitely be watched by the relevant organizations. Then instead of making money, we might end up in prison!"

Harry Joseph patted Will’s shoulder, then added: