Almost everyone had already arrived and were seated when Jasper entered the auction venue.
There was around twenty groups of people within the hall.
Every group had around two to three members, so, coupled with the officers around the room, sixty to seventy people were currently packed into the meeting room.
The majority of people took their seats, while the most attention grabbing person was Scott.
The man sat with a high profile in the middle of the room with both arms placed over two empty chairs by his side. He also had someone pouring and offering tea as well as someone giving him massages.
Upon seeing Jasper enter the room, Scott raised his eyes lazily to glance at the man. He scoffed but did not say anything provoking.
After all, this was an auction venue and not even he dared to make a ruckus.
Not to mention that Julian was right beside Jasper, and the wound on Scott’s head had not recovered and still ached.
Scott retracted his sinister gaze once he saw Jasper sit down.
Scott took the coffee from his lackey’s hands and asked, “Did you talk to those people we asked yet?”
“Yeah. Everyone will go according to plan when the time comes,” A lackey quickly replied.
Scott nodded in satisfaction and asked, “What about that f*cker? Did you find out who he is?”
The lackey looked embarrassed and said, “Mr. Covington, we weren’t given enough time to investigate. We need more time.”
“Useless! ”
Scott glared at him and waved him off annoyedly, “You people can’t even do anything properly. Go ask the company hosting the auction later since he’s definitely registered his company if he came to participate in the auction. You’ll be able to learn about the man through them.”
The lackey’s eyes lit up and he praised, “I knew you’d have a great plan, Mr. Covington. I’m sure that’ll work”
“My life would’ve been over long ago if I had to count on you people,” Scott said with a sneer.
“The auction’s about to start so do that later. How powerful can this f*cker be anyway? Hmph, he’s got much to work on before he can beat me.”
A short moment later, the auctioneer walked up to the stage and said energetically, “Thank you for coming today. There’s only one item on the agenda today, and that’s Downstream Investment LLC!
“Now, before the auction begins, let me describe the situation we have today.”
“We’ve currently received a total of twenty two valid applications, which corresponds to the twenty two families or companies present who applied to participate.”
“Downstream Investment LLC is Tefa City City Government’s first investment company operating on state funds. According to the higher ups’ policy, we will now begin the auction for this company market valued at 16 million.”
“I’m sure everyone seated already understands the specifics of this company, but just to emphasize, we are auctioning the ownership of Downstream Investment LLC as a whole. This includes existing office building equipment, various financial investment qualifications, and licenses.”
“The opening bid is at 3 million Somer Dollars.”
“Without further ado, let the auction begin!”
“At an opening price of 3 million, interested bidders can start calling their bids now.”
The auctioneer had just finished speaking when someone raised their bidder card in the corner of the room.
“Number 11 calls for 3 million, are there any higher bids?”
“Number 9 calls for 3.1 million!”
“Number 13 calls for 3.3 million!”
Under the steady stream of bidders, Downstream Investment Company’s price rose from 3 million to 8 million.
Seated in the middle of the room, Scott stared sinisterly sideways at Jasper, who had yet to bid. He scoffed.
The people calling out prices now were all helpers Scott invited. If Jasper did not call a price, then Scott would get the company at a low cost. If Jasper raised his bidder card, then Scott would make his move as well. Everything depended on Jasper now.
At this moment, the man’s eyes were slightly narrowed. He caught onto something the auctioneer had said.
This company was being auctioned along with its financial investment qualifications and licenses!
This benefit did not exist in his past life.
The official financial investment license was something extremely rare in the country, both now and in the future.
Ninety five percent of the listed investment companies, regardless of size, did not have formal qualifications.
They either relied on, or borrowed from, another company that did.
