Chapter 36
"Mr. Lu!"
"Mr. Lu, I haven't seen you for a long time!"
As soon as he entered the auction hall, Lu Xiancheng kept hearing people say hello to him. Some of them knew Lu Xiancheng, and some even looked familiar, but some of them had no impression of Lu Xiancheng.
"Hello, hello!" Lu Xiancheng was practicing one or two sentences of daily Japanese. Anyway, those who came to say hello would come back to the house and smiled. They also followed the local customs from time to time, and gave a sentence of Japanese roasted mud chicken and frog.
As soon as he greeted someone, Lu Xiancheng asked Keisuke Kishida next to him in a low voice, "Who is this person?"
After hearing Lu Xiancheng's words, Du Guohao and others who were following him couldn't help but smiled slightly.
Ye Yihong smiled and said, "No one knows how he is really talking to others!"
"I just don't know how hot I just hit me now! I nodded when I knew it." Lu Xiancheng replied with a smile, and then heard Keisuke Kishida introduce who this was.
"I didn't expect you to be quite famous here." Du Guohao whispered to Lu Xiancheng, and then followed the leading auction staff inside.
"A little false reputation is really not worth it."
When talking about this, Lu Xiancheng immediately became proud. Now his reputation in Japan, especially in Hokkaido is quite good, mainly because of Lu Xiancheng's "elephant arts".
At the beginning, I bought a scalpel, and then sold it after winning. This was the first batch. Later, I bought two or three horses for Kishida. The results are now pretty good, and the prices are all lower than the horse level. Not to mention anything else, I earned back the money to buy horses just by winning.
This made the horse owner, who was on the verge of bankruptcy, jumped into a medium-sized rancher. Now he is still very good. In Kishida Ranch, the horse level in the entire stable has been improved by more than two levels. It turned out that a horse was sold for horse raising money, but now almost every foal produced has risen by three or five times.
If only Kishida is the only one, we won’t say anything. The key is that the old Hashimoto, the old rancher who sold it to Lu Xiancheng to slim swords. It was originally a joke for everyone, but who knew that this shameless person didn’t care about others’ laughing. He took advantage of Lu Xiancheng’s visit to Japan and bought a horse under the guidance of Lu Xiancheng. He won two second-level matches two months ago.
Keisuke Kishida is the beneficiary, so he naturally has to speak out to praise his benefactor. Who knows that before he speaks, a short Japanese old man came over.
"Mr. Lu, when will I come to Japan?" He bowed politely as he said. Then he stretched out his hands and shook Lu Xiancheng for a moment, and his whole expression wanted to be respectful.
This person, Lu Xiancheng, met and said with a smile: "Mr. Fujiwara, long time no see. I just arrived in Japan for a few days, and I just arrived in Hokkaido today!"
"I agreed last time that I must come to my place next time when I come to Japan. Since I am here, I will definitely invite you to enjoy the gifts this time. I will make arrangements now. Let's go to my place in the evening. I have the most famous hot spring bath in Hokkaido at home." The old man Fujiwara immediately invited Lu Xiancheng to visit his home.
When Lu Xiancheng heard this, he immediately smiled bitterly and said, "I really don't have much time this time. I'm here with so many friends and want to run horse racing in China. I'll go to Los Angeles in two days. Why don't you wait for next time? I'll stay in Japan for a few more days next time."
When Fujiwara saw it, he immediately said, "Lu Jun's friend is my friend, so please give everyone a chance to enjoy the scenery." After that, Fujiwara began to shake hands with everyone next to him with a 90-degree bow, and then began to send invitations one by one in his Japanese English.
After a greeting with Fujiwara, Zhang Qiang asked in a low voice to Keisuke Kishida and said, "Who is this?"
Keisuke Kishida whispered in Chinese: "I met Xiancheng at a foreign stallion auction last year. At that time, many people were interested in buying an American stallion. The results were very good in the United States, especially the Kusama scored a surprise. The price was not too expensive compared to its results. The initial price was more than 6 million US dollars. Fujiwara originally made up his mind to buy it, but before bidding, he happened to meet Xiancheng, so he asked, and Lu Xiancheng said casually that if I wanted to buy it, he would change it to another one. No one believed it, nor did he know what the person was in at that time, so he believed it and chose the one suggested by Xiancheng."
"It's only been less than a year, and it's impossible to achieve results," Ye Yihong couldn't help asking.
Keisuke Kishida said: "The horse that many people snatched was sold for the last 10 million yuan. It was identified three months later and it was difficult to conceive the horse. Now no one wants it for free. The horse bought by Fujiwara has a pony that is good. At present, four or five are good. The price of breeding has increased slightly by 100,000 yen! A one-time increase of 100,000 yuan, and a year of breeding alone will generate an additional income of 30,000 to 40 million yuan. If you buy that horse, Fujiwara's ranch will probably be at least ten years to recover. Do you think Fujiwara can't be enthusiastic?"
"So that's it." Zhang Qiang said and glanced at Lu Xiancheng.
As for Lu Xiancheng's ability to take horses, Ye Yihong and others knew about it, and their horses were also selected by Lu Xiancheng. But I didn't know that this man was so powerful when he saw the stallion, and he immediately looked at Lao Lu with a look of looking at the silence of the old man in the house.
"I didn't expect you to see that your father-in-law is coming!" Everyone said so.
Lu Xiancheng had no choice but to ask everyone for his enthusiastic Fujiwara, so he had to ask everyone for advice. Now everyone is so kind, so he had to agree to visit his ranch in the evening.
Hearing Lu Xiancheng agreed, Fujiwara simply stopped leaving and directly mingled into the team on Lu Xiancheng's side and went to the auction.
When we arrived at the auction hall, we found a place to sit down. Because it was a racetrack, the auction venue was still quite stylish. The horseshoe-shaped stairs were surrounded by horseshoe-shaped stairs facing the auctioneer's large platform.
Sitting down, everyone chatted while waiting for the opening.
"Does Lu Jun have any horses you can look at this time?" Fujiwara asked Lu Xiancheng.
Lu Xiancheng was about to answer when he suddenly saw Old Hashimoto walking towards him with a smile, reached out to say hello to him, and then said, "As soon as I got off the plane, Kishida was pulled over to see the horses. I didn't come and looked at the auctioned horses at all. If there was a good horse, I wouldn't mind taking action."
This time the auction was a two-year-old horse, and the ponies of this age were naturally briefly trained.
After you get the hand, you hand it over to the horse trainer. If it is fast, you can go on the track in half a year. If it is not good, you can see it quickly. Of course, you can also see it now. The results on the track are naturally unrecognizable. Now it mainly depends on the bloodline and the body shape of the horse. At this time, whether it is a stallion or a mare, the glorious bloodline of a horse will make a very good-looking horse’s value soar.
"I also liked a horse, but I'm afraid the competition will be very fierce at that time." Fujiwara said after hearing this: "The bloodline is great, and it looks great from the appearance. The muscles are strong and they are very good at seeing a horse that is known for speed..."
After talking about it, Fujiwara said, "I am going to take this horse for 130 to 150 million. If it is higher, I will not have the funds."
In fact, choosing a horse at this time is not less gamble than choosing a horse at one year old. In Lu Xiancheng's opinion, it is actually bigger. Because you are optimistic about the horse, many people will also like it, so the price will naturally increase.
Horses with both bloodline and body shape are eye-catching, in such auction venues, they cannot be bought with millions of yen, and at least the transaction price will be tens of millions or even hundreds of millions of yen.
It's like Fujiwara who likes such a horse, and it's not OK to take it down without bleeding. It's like that. It's like that.
As for whether the track you are on can win back the money, God knows! I guess most horses cannot win back their value. Some may not even be able to run out of the group stage.
"Okay, when the horse is waiting for the horse to appear, you can point it to me!" Lu Xiancheng said, 150 million, Lu Xiancheng was not interested in competing with Fujiwara.
Now Lu Xiancheng's interest in horse racing in Japan has plummeted, and he said that he was mainly to give Keisuke Kishida. Of course, if there is any leakage, Lu Xiancheng would not let it go.
But now in Lao Lu's opinion, the Japanese are a bit too conservative in terms of horse racing events, and it is not an exaggeration to say that they are closed to the country. Perhaps because there are many subsidies here, and based on the principle of not losing weight to outsiders, in addition to several world-class first-class competitions, foreigners and horses are restricted in Japan. It is like reminding you that you are a foreigner, here is a Japanese racecourse.
Of course, if you say you are gambling, the Japanese immediately welcome you with both hands and feet, because you are here to give money to the Japanese.
In addition, Japan has no political influence internationally. With the development of Lu Xiancheng itself, Japanese horse racing and Japanese reputation are becoming less and less attractive to Lu Xiancheng, not to mention that Lu Xiancheng focuses his layout on the American side.
While chatting here, they saw that the auctioneer at the auction table had entered the venue. The people who were originally chatting in the venue were quietly looking for their seats to sit down.
As the auctioneer finished talking, the staff led the first horse to the center of the auction house. Then the auctioneer began to say that the horse's bloodline caught up with the previous three generations and also chased the "Northern Dancer". In short, this is a paternal first-class champion horse. My father won two championships in Japan, and the mare won one of the three championships in the mare. Moreover, the same father horse in the field now has a good result. He won six third-class competitions, three second-class competitions, and two first-class competitions. Overall, the bloodline is very high.
It looks good, but as a starting horse, it is necessary. You will never lead a horse that looks like a donkey at the beginning of the auction.
The starting price of this horse is 10 million yen, and it quickly won 40 million yen, and the price will continue to soar.
"How is it?" Fujiwara asked.
Lu Xiancheng didn't say anything, but just shook his head and smiled bitterly. Not to mention that this horse is 40 million, it would be good to be able to trade at the lowest price. Now it's not worth it.
Lu Xiancheng had just shook his head and turned his eyes to the venue. He immediately found that a very strange scene appeared on the scene, and the scene was cold! Suddenly, the auction scene that was still enthusiastic just now became cold, and no one raised his signs when he was constantly asking for the price.
The auctioneer shouted: "Sixty million! Is there anyone more than sixty million..."
Lu Xiancheng found that not half of the venue was said, at least twenty Japanese people looked at him.
After these twenty or so listened to Lu Xiancheng, some people next to him were stunned for a moment, and then everyone began to turn to Lu Xiancheng, so almost everyone's eyes were focused on Lu Xiancheng at this time.
Among them is the auctioneer. This guy is counting 60 million times and 60 million times, while looking at Lao Lu with great grudges.
People can’t help but have a deep grudge because they get the share, and the higher the transaction price, the higher the commission.
Now, because Lu Xiancheng shook his head, the competition in the venue came to an abrupt end. It was originally estimated that this horse would be able to reach 130 million, but now it is only 60 million. No one has raised the sign before half of it. Moreover, the 60 million people were raised without any joy. His whole face was mourning, and it didn't look like he was winning the bid.
"Damn!" Lu Xiancheng quickly understood how much consequences a shaking his head caused, so he said with a laugh and cry: "Is my reputation so great now?"
Fujiwara smiled and said, "It's almost the same. If I want to buy a horse and see you shaking your head at my horse, I will be very frustrated!"
"I have never seen any of my favorites until now. This accuracy is indeed quite scary," Keisuke Kishida also said softly with a smile.
The price of the first horse was set at 60 million, and the second one appeared. Although the horse was not very good, it was much better than the first one.
However, this time Lu Xiancheng learned his lesson and could not help others in vain. He always smiled on his face, and he didn't know whether it was to recognize it or not.
After two or three consecutive games were sold, the atmosphere in the auction house finally became warm. At this time, the auctioneer was already sweating on his forehead. It was probably because this person was exhausted. If the atmosphere didn't get up, it would be a bit of a big deal.
Even so, this person still silently put a hundred and twenty middle fingers in his heart at Lu Xiancheng who was sitting in the audience for auction. Cursing Lu Xiancheng for not lifting it was like a surging river. After a few horses, the results of the auctioneer were less than half as expected. Do you think the auctioneer could not be angry?
The venue became warm, and the price of the auction rose rapidly. However, the auctioneer was still a little unsure, because even if every horse was brought to the auction now, many auctioneers would feel unconsciously looking towards Lu Xiancheng.
"You are so awesome," Zhang Qiang couldn't help but say.
Chapter completed!