As A Trash Collector, I Collected A Imperial Jade Seal

Chapter 231 The Forbidden City Speaks! You Are Not Qualified to Bid on This! (3)

The room had become much quieter as everyone listened intently.

“For a single volume of the Yongle Encyclopedia, our bid is 110 million!”

Once the troublemakers had left, a short-haired girl around 28 years old made her bid. People were surprised to see someone so young bidding. They wondered how a private individual could afford such an item.

“That must be Director Lin’s daughter!” the mayor of Dalong County whispered in the ear of the governor of Jiangnan Province. They were seated in the front row.

!!

“Director Lin? From the Capital’s First Hospital?” The governor was speechless, as this was still a government-affiliated institution.

“Where did she come from?”

“Can a private individual even bid on something like this?”

“Exactly, young lady, didn’t your father tell you the significance of these items?”

“Quiet down, her father is the director of the Capital’s First Hospital!’ 11 “My goodness! What a mistake! Who would’ve thought other official institutions would want this item?”

“There’s no choice, it’s a medical book after all!”

“It seems like we’ll have to increase our budget, huh?”

Lin Yide from the Jiangnan Museum was also feeling the headache as he raised the bid: “120 million.”

Lin Shuyu: “We, the Capital’s First Hospital, will take it for 130 million!”

“We, Shanghai’s First Hospital, also want it! 140 million!”

“Another one has emerged!”

“Damn it!”

“There are about 8 or so medical books within the collection! This is bad!”

A complete miscalculation.

These newcomers had shown up without even a word of warning!

They showed up completely without notice?

Damn it.

Damn it!

The representatives of several museums wanted to curse out loud at this moment. It seemed like their budget would not be enough.

They began making frantic phone calls.

“Hello, director, can you find any more sponsors?”

“Isn’t the money enough?”

“No, some unexpected competitors have appeared! The Capital’s First Hospital, Shanghai’s… and even Sichuan’s! Many of them have emerged!”

“My goodness, how could we have forgotten about this?”

“Yes, among the Yongle Encyclopedia volumes uncovered, there are around 8 or so medical volumes, and I think they will all fight for them!”

“Alright, let me see if I can give you an additional 500 million. Will that be enough?”

“It might be enough, or it might not be. But you should know, hospitals have a lot of money!”

“Damn it! Then don’t even try to compete!”

“But it’s the Yongle Encyclopedia!”

It was here that Lin Shuyu took a deep breath and raised her bid again, “160 million!”

The Yongle Encyclopedia.

Even though the bids for its very first volume had only just began, it had already gotten off to an explosive start.

It left several people speechless.

The price of “Shanghan Weizhi Lun” had already reached an astronomical figure.

It seemed like there was room for it to break the 200 million mark.

In the end, the Capital’s First Hospital, with its deep pockets, won the bid with 200 million.

But…

The group of museum representatives wished they could kill these hospital delegates on the spot. Long Jianfei was the first to lose his patience, “Young lady! You should at least give us a heads up! We are all government institutions, and this kind of behavior is quite damaging to our relationships!”

Although his words did not make much sense, Long Jianfei simply wanted to vent his frustration.

Even if it was a medical book, they were just hospitals, right?

“Mr. Long, please calm down. We, the hospital, are only interested in the medical techniques recordedwithin these books! After all, if the museums were to acquire them, you would surely treasure them and not be willing to share them for our research. It is better for us to obtain them ourselves! Of course, once we have learned what we need from the contents of the books, we would be willing to sell them back to you museums at a “second-hand”

price!”

Lin Shuyu turned out to be a polite and considerate young lady. Understanding the other party’s complaints, she did not take offense.

“Ah? Is that so? Well, alright then!”

Long Jianfei was the type who would not yield to force but could be persuaded with kind words. Faced with the young girl’s courtesy, he could not object any further. The battle for the Yongle Encyclopedia could now only be fought over the other 12 non-medical volumes…

“Hahaha! It’s hilarious! A group of museum representatives is now fighting with hospital representatives!”

“Unbelievable! I never thought that people from hospitals would step in!”

“I heard the rumors earlier but thought they were fake. I didn’t expect it to be true!”

“The Capital’s First Hospital is impressive! They won the bid with 200 million?”

“Facing the hospitals, even the wealthy Shanghai and Palace museums cannot compete, can they?”

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“This is only a single volume, and the bids are already this crazy! I can’t imagine what will happen next!”

Qin Rubing quickly presented the second volume of the Yongle Encyclopedia, “Hehe, this volume records the ancient techniques of forging weapons! As you all know, even with today’s advanced technology, many ancient techniques for crafting swords cannot be replicated by modern means! Therefore, my suggestion is to start the bidding at 100 million!”

“110 million!” Lin Yide immediately shouted.

He felt that hospitals would not be interested in such an item.

After all, why would they buy it?

To forge surgical knives?

They definitely would not interfere this time.

“How frustrating.”

“How infuriating.”

“The information recorded in these volumes of the Yongle Encyclopedia is invaluable.”

“What a shame that they won’t let us bid on them.”

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A representative from the British Museum who had not yet left muttered angrily at the entrance.

“Get moving, what are you looking at? Do you want to be thrown out?”

“I He cast one last reluctant glance back in the direction of the conference room and left.

“Shanghai Museum, 120 million!”

“Xianyang Museum, 150 million!”

“China Aerospace, 160 million!”

Huh? Why did this company join? Damn it?

You’re in aerospace? Why are you joining in on this?

This is about forging cold, steel weapons! “Sorry, but the ancient techniques of forging cold weapons might provide inspiration for certain metal welding processes!”