No one in the grand banquet hall of the Mellon family's estate had expected that this inconspicuous box, which had not even been bid for a moment ago, would soar to a full 10 million US dollars in just a few minutes!
Just now, after Mr. Cole Smith offered a low price of $120,000, everyone thought that this mysterious tycoon would buy this equally mysterious box at a low price. As a result, Harper Lawrence from Boston also participated in the bidding.
From the perspective of auction rules, there is nothing wrong with Harper Lawrence's actions. After all, an auction is a place for bidding, and whoever offers the highest price gets the item.
But the problem is that this is not a formal auction, and you, Harper Lawrence, clearly did not like this half box, otherwise why didn't you bid?
You had to wait until Cole Smith made his bid before you followed suit. There was clearly something wrong with you. In this situation, to use the words of Yanjing, this was an extremely embarrassing thing to do.
The most important thing is, can you, Harper Lawrence, really see the value in this box? Or do you really need this box? The Mellon family has been trying to figure out what this box is for for almost a century, but you can figure it out by just taking it?
What you did was not nice, and it was clearly targeting Cole Smith.
And judging from your actions, you clearly did just that.
Cole Smith offered a low price of $120,000, and you offered $200,000. Cole Smith offered $210,000, and you offered $500,000. As a result, Harper Lawrence offered a broken box that no one had bid for at $10 million.
You, Harper Lawrence, are indeed rich, with a net worth of perhaps even more than 10 billion dollars, but with your stingy character, which is known to all Americans, if you were willing to spend 10 million dollars to buy such a useless broken box, then it would be like the sun rising from the Pacific Ocean.
You are not bidding, you are just here to make trouble. You are openly slapping the Mellon family in the face.
Timothy Mellon and Scaife's faces had become extremely ugly, and even Paul Mellon, who had never been interested in the family business, could hardly sit still. Richard King Mellon returned to his room early. If the old man was here, he would definitely kick this troublemaker out with his temper.
"One million and ten thousand" Yang Jing still gave a number so calmly. Just like the previous bid, his bid was only ten thousand dollars higher than that of Harper Lawrence.
Although the people at the scene didn't know whether this mysterious Cole Smith was competing with Harper Lawrence, it was obvious that even if he was competing, Cole Smith was confident.
But it was obvious that Harper Lawrence, who had just come to cause trouble, was really angry this time. After Cole Smith offered the number of 10.1 million, he offered a price of "20 million" without even considering it.
As soon as the price was announced, a low cheer was heard in the hall.
This box was different from the bronze mountaineer sculpture. Everyone present knew how much that sculpture was worth, but this broken box could not be worth $20 million. Harper Lawrence was just kidding when they quoted this price.
With a bang, Paul Mellon, who was over 80 years old, slammed the table and stood up. "Mr. Lawrence, this is Mellon Manor, not your Massachusetts Mutual Life Insurance Company. Please show some respect."
As soon as Old Paul said this, the whole audience fell silent.
Everyone knows that although this third-generation core figure of the Mellon family does not manage the family business, his temper is well known in the circle. More than 40 years ago, at a gathering of top executives celebrating the victory of World War II, Paul Mellon, who was in his 40s at the time, scolded President Truman on the spot because of a disagreement. If no one stopped him, Truman would probably have been beaten by Paul.
Although old Paul is now over 80 years old, his temper is still as good as before.
"Mr. Lowell, this is the Mellon family, not your Boston. Please show some respect to your people!" As soon as Old Paul finished speaking to Lawrence, he aimed directly at Alex Lowell, the chairman of the First National Bank of Boston and the core figure of the Lowell family in the contemporary era.
Unlike the domineering Harper Lawrence, Alex Lowell is the core flagship figure of the contemporary Boston consortium. In the Boston consortium composed of several major families, Alex Lowell is the real core figure. Among the eleven people who were smoking cigars with Yang Jing and others in the cigar house just now, Alex Lowell was one, but Harper Lawrence was not.
What was unexpected was that even when Old Paul got angry, Alex Lowell just smiled bitterly, spread his hands and shook his head, which clearly meant: "I can't control that guy, it's useless for you to come to me."
Obviously, something is wrong with this matter. It was originally just an unknown broken box, but this broken box turned out to be a fuse. Now the fuse has been lit, and the other end of the fuse is connected to the two behemoths, the Boston Consortium and the Mellon Family.
Everyone who could come here was not a fool, they were the smartest of the smart, so they immediately realized that something was wrong, and the entire banquet hall immediately fell silent.
This involved a fight between two major financial groups. Although everyone present knew that the Mellon family and the Boston financial group had been fighting fiercely in secret for nearly a decade, and although the Mellon family had a slight advantage, the advantage was not very obvious.
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