"Four million, four and a half million. Four and a half million, going once. Five million."
"Eight million, going once. Eight million, going twice. Any higher bids? Good, someone has bid eight and a half million."
"..."
The bidding conference hosted by the Motor Aviation Industry Company had only a few units in attendance, giving it the feel of a ragtag operation. But once the bidding officially began, the competition turned fiercely intense.
Because the Korshi Company, where Lu Zixue worked, had locked horns with the White Elephant people, neither side giving an inch as they chased each other's bids. It seemed that because the White Elephant side had provided Sophia with some assistance over the Kamaz Automobile Plant matter, the Korshi Company had come to hate them as well.
At an auction, the most annoying thing was running into this kind of rivalry. It left no chance at all to pick up a bargain.
But as the bidding price climbed past ten million dollars, Li Ye felt that things had become somewhat surreal.
The great ship that the Flower Planter Country bought from Ukraine in later years had cost only twenty million dollars. Though that vessel had been unsellable scrap-bound stock, the production line being auctioned by the Motor Aviation Industry Company today was hardly some hot commodity people would scramble to buy.
And while the White Elephant people were indeed among the first to introduce the MiG-29 and had a genuine need to imitate it, why was the Korshi Company being so irrational too? Weren't Jewish conglomerates supposed to be the best at doing business?
Seeing Lu Zixue flushed red as if he had been injected with chicken blood, repeatedly turning to look at Li Ye with eyes full of provocation that made one want to leap over