The counting units of English and Chinese are inconsistent. The name of the counting unit is changed every four digits in English and every five digits in Chinese, which results in different ways of expressing numbers above four digits.
In the counting units of English and Chinese, ones, tens, hundreds, and thousands are the same, but Chinese has the two counting units "wan" and "yi billion", which do not exist in English; in the counting units of English, the only two counting units after thousand are million and billion.
And what Yang Jing just said, "Maruhan Zhuode Milin", is written in English as "one-hundred-million", which means one hundred million, totaling one hundred million!
That is, after Harper Lawrence gritted his teeth and quoted a price of 50.1 million, Yang Jing quoted a price of "100 million US dollars" without hesitation.
Following Yang Jing's faint words, the whole place immediately fell eerily quiet again. Almost everyone was stunned by the number Yang Jing reported.
If it is put in 20 or 30 years, there will be several auction items that are worth over 100 million US dollars. For example, the most expensive auction item in the world is the painting "When Will You Marry" created by Gauguin during his stay in Tahiti in 1892. This painting was sold at an auction in February 2015 for 300 million US dollars.
However, even after 20 or 30 years, there are only five auction items in the world that can exceed 100 million US dollars. Except for the masterpiece "Walking Man" by Swiss sculptor Alberto Giacometti, which was sold for 104.3 billion US dollars, the other four works are all oil paintings.
And it is only the 1980s. In this era, auction items worth over 100 million US dollars have never appeared before!
However, in the grand banquet hall of the Mellon Manor, an auction price of "100 million US dollars" suddenly emerged. This was even more surprising than the British infantry who were still charging in the old dense charge formation in the early stage of World War I encountering the German Maxim heavy machine gun.
At that time, the British Army was still adhering to the old style of intensive infantry charge, while the Germans on the opposite side merely raised the muzzle of the Maxim heavy machine gun slightly by one foot, resulting in the death of 50,000 British infantrymen on the battlefield within one attack.
The "100 million US dollars" figure that Yang Jing just reported is no less lethal in this room than the German Maxim heavy machine gun.
Bloomberg was stunned. He didn't even have the heart to persuade Yang Jing.
What is there to persuade? Bloomberg's current total net worth is only over 200 million US dollars, but the man next to him threw out 100 million US dollars in cash as if throwing a stone!
The whole place was silent for three full seconds before there was a sound again.
But unlike the noisy buzzing sound when Yang Jing announced the 50 million before, the sound this time was much louder, and everyone's eyes were focused on Colesmith.
Alfred Lowell, who was in the distance, sighed slightly, turned around and walked out of the banquet hall on the pretext of going to the bathroom.
As for the other protagonist in the competition, the arrogant Mr. Harper Lawrence, he stood there for a long time, unable to speak, as if he had lost his parents.
Yang Jing waved his arm at the auctioneer who was also standing there in a daze, and that attracted the auctioneer's attention. Then the auctioneer was so excited that he said in a trembling voice, "One hundred million! First time!"
The auctioneer's voice was loud enough, but it could not wake Harper Lawrence up. He was already frightened by the price of $100 million that Mr. Cole Smith had just quoted.
At this point, everyone, including Harper Lawrence, had no doubt about Cole Smith's determination to buy the broken box. They even knew that based on the momentum of this guy's offer, if Harper Lawrence continued to bid, this mysterious Cole Smith would definitely offer 200 million or even a higher price.
Although there is a saying in the United States, "If you have money, you are awesome?" But here, Cole Smith gave a perfect answer to this saying - I am fucking rich, so I am fucking awesome! If you don't agree, bite me!
I don’t care who you are. If you dare to compete with me, I will use my money to smash you to death!
Are you tired of comparing your wealth to mine?
"One hundred million! Second time!" The auctioneer's voice sounded again, and Harper Lawrence's face turned even paler. He raised his head and looked at Cole Smith, and moved his lips twice, as if he wanted to continue bidding, but in the end he sighed heavily and lowered his big head.
"One hundred million! The third time! Congratulations to Mr. Smith for winning this Lu Ban Hai." Perhaps because of excitement, the auctioneer's voice was a little distorted. No wonder, this was the first time in human history that a $100 million auction item appeared, and this auction item was sold by him. This alone was enough to make him occupy a very important position among auctioneers.
Perhaps in the next ten or even fifteen years, he will be the only one to maintain the title of "billion-dollar auctioneer"! This is an honor that cannot be exchanged for any number of white gloves!
As the hammer in the auctioneer's hand fell heavily on the table, Harper Lawrence raised his head, silently glanced at the man who was competing with him, and walked out of the banquet hall with a bitter face.
No one was paying attention to Harper Lawrence at this time. In this war without gunpowder, Lawrence had completely lost.
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