Year: I had a good time when I was young

Chapter 310 Master and apprentice team up to deceive people
Chu Xiangqian naturally didn't mind if Norton changed hands and sold the black tiger or the bloody horse he sold to him.

He smiled and said, "What you do with the things that come into your hands is your freedom.

However, if you are really short of cash, I suggest you follow the example of Hader and Gebai and join forces to buy the black tiger.

To reduce your stress on cash.

Secondly, we bought it together and sent it to the zoo to keep. From now on, just sharing the admission tickets every year will make up for it in two or three years at most.

As for my benefits, naturally I can get cash as quickly as possible, and I can also get more and more precious Chinese antiques and oil paintings. "

Norton was moved in his heart, but this guy was young after all, and he still wanted to monopolize the benefits.

"How about I go to the bank for a loan? As for the collateral, I have a manor in London, plus other properties, I can borrow almost 100 million pounds."

Chu Qianqian secretly thought that this boy was really rich, having inherited so much wealth at the age of only 18.

It’s no wonder that ordinary British people are becoming more and more hostile to aristocrats.

In fact, these guys are born to stand at the finish line of other people's lives.

And they will be prosperous for generations to come.

Fortunately, Chu Xiangqian did not need to envy the nobles. He looked at Norton and said, "If you are not willing to cooperate with Ge Bai and the others, you can contact the London Zoo directly.

Also, take a long-term view. Our business dealings are not just about black tigers and sweaty horses.

To be blunt, I invested a lot of money in the hunting team, and those guys are very motivated now.

Even if we and the others go deep into grasslands, deserts, and rainforests, they won’t even frown.

Even if necessary, it is okay to do things that cannot be made public.

So in the future, white lions, white elephants, white tigers, black tigers, white jaguars, and even golden tigers will fall into my hands.

At that time, you can’t just buy them all, right? "

Norton thought for a while and nodded helplessly.

Chu Xiangqian continued, "When the time comes, you help me find a buyer, and I will give you a 10% commission. Let's fool those nouveau riche who are stupid and have a lot of money."

Norton looked happy, but after a while, he frowned and said, "Master, if there are really so many mutant beasts, the price cannot be as high as it is now."

Chu Xiangqian naturally understands this. The first white tiger could be sold for 30 pounds, or because it was the first white tiger in the world to appear in the public eye.

When Chu Xiangqiang, the black tiger, dared to quote 150 million pounds, he thought that the white tiger could earn hundreds of thousands of pounds a year by selling tickets at the London Zoo.

Incidentally, it also enhances the reputation of London Zoo, and the more visitors there are, the better other projects and businesses in the zoo will be.

Therefore, if the black tiger is still kept in the London Zoo, the benefits it will bring will be 1+1 greater than 2.

In terms of income, if London Zoo knew about the existence of black tigers, they would have spent 150 million pounds to buy this black tiger.

Thinking of the London Zoo, Chu Xiangqian was moved, looked at Norton and said, "How about we tell the public that this black tiger is sold for 200 million pounds.

But in fact, I will sell it to you for 150 million.

Then you go talk to the people at London Zoo and tell them that they only need to bid 100 million and they will share the tickets to the Black Tiger Hall equally with you.

You just transport the black tiger to their zoo.

Otherwise, you contact the Paris, Rome or New York Zoo.

I believe that when they see the white tiger’s appeal to the public, they will definitely try to give you a price.

Then you take these quotes and go to London Zoo.Tell them that there is only one white tiger in the world, and the integrated benefits of the black tiger will definitely bring more tourists into their zoo.

In this way, the possibility of them agreeing is very high.

If the negotiation really fails, I believe you can go to the desert tycoons and sell it to them for 7 to 800 million U.S. dollars. It will still be no problem. "

Norton just did some casual calculations and knew that he could earn quite a lot.

150 million pounds is equivalent to 600 million US dollars. This alone can earn 200 million US dollars.

In addition to the antiques and oil paintings from the Celestial Dynasty that Chu Xiangqian asked for, he could also draw an agency fee from them.

And in the first two transactions, Chu Xiangqian didn't care about the commission.

The two transactions added up to at least more than 200 million US dollars in benefits. Just thinking about it, Norton felt that this business would definitely work.

He stood up hurriedly and said, "Master, I'm going to call my grandfather right now. However, you'd better give me some photos of the black tiger in the next few days and fly them back to London."

"No problem." Chu Qianqian smiled, and then secretly sighed. If he were Norton, or if he had the connections and power behind him, he wouldn't have to let his kid take a kickback.

Fortunately, the bulk of it was eaten by me, so I didn’t suffer a loss.

However, Chu Xiangqian also realized that he had to develop a new middleman.

Otherwise, all the antiques and oil paintings of the Celestial Dynasty would be collected by the Mountbatten family. As time goes by, the number of manipulations and the proportion of funds he has blackmailed will become higher and higher.

After Norton left, Chu looked forward to Margaret who looked admiringly.

When Margaret saw her lover looking at her, she sincerely sighed, "My dear, I really don't know how you came up with this idea involving a three-party or four-party transaction."

Chu Qianqian laughed. The intelligence of people in this era is definitely no worse than that of people a few decades later.

But the vision, knowledge and information received will be much different.

Even in this era when television has not yet been widely spread, all information depends on newspapers, books and real people.Even wealthy nobles like Margaret and Norton may not have received as much information as a 10-year-old child in the past twenty years.

So in terms of vision, compared with Chu Xiangqian, the two of them are indeed far behind.

Chu Xiangqian smiled and said, "Just read more books."

Margaret immediately curled her lips. She didn’t know why. Anyway, the proportion of people with dyslexia among Europeans and Americans was quite high.

There are rumors that this proportion reaches 10%.

Maybe this has something to do with the text itself.

There is no one-to-one correspondence in English from glyphs to pronunciation, and from sounds to words.

The Chinese language is different. Each stroke itself embodies the rules.

In addition, since I have been writing repeatedly since childhood, it is easy to remember the meaning and image represented by the words in my mind.

Therefore, there is basically no saying that Chinese people have dyslexia, but when we start to learn English, the irregular text patterns will also make it difficult for some Chinese people to read books smoothly.

Margaret curled her lips and murmured in a low voice, "I hate geniuses like you who learn everything quickly and can remember it after seeing it the most."

Chu Xiangqian laughed after hearing this.

Margaret suddenly became dissatisfied.

He reached out and grabbed the girl's hand that was twisted around his waist, and whispered, "Does the Devonshire family also have many antiques from the Celestial Dynasty?"

As soon as Margaret heard this, she understood that Chu Xiangqian, a collector, was eyeing the antiques of the Cavendish family.

After thinking about it, he shook his head and said, "I don't know the specifics, but I believe their family must have collected a lot.

After all, I heard that many Chinese porcelains and ancient paintings were very cheap.It's even so cheap that you can buy a carriage of antiques from some officers for just 100 pounds. "Chu Xiangqian's face darkened, knowing that this was talking about the soldiers who returned to England and France from China 100 years ago and sold the treasures they had stolen from China.

Of course, 100 pounds 100 years ago was actually worth a lot.

Margaret also realized that she had said the wrong thing, hugged Chu's forward arm and shook it, saying, "Sorry, dear, I shouldn't have mentioned what happened 100 years ago."

Chu Qianqian took a deep breath. If he had no positive or negative relationship with Margaret, even if he knew what happened back then and had nothing to do with Margaret, he might not be able to forgive their descendants for the mistakes made by his ancestors.

If you really want to forgive yourself, you should at least give back what was taken away.

But this is not possible.

Expecting the descendants of the robbers to admit their mistakes is simply ridiculous.

Therefore, when Europeans and Americans discover in the future that Chu Xiangqian has a large number of precious European and American oil paintings and antiques, he will not return them.

Besides, you paid for it with your own money, why should you pay it back?

I want to take it back and buy it with money.

When the time comes, Chu Xiangqian will 100% contact collectors in Europe and the United States who have oil paintings by Picasso and others, and work together to copy Picasso's oil paintings.

Even if a rich man from China wants to buy it, he will do it.

At this moment, Chu Xiangqian made up his mind to go to the Daying Museum when he arrived in London.

If you have the chance, become a thief.

But Chu Xiangqian is not stupid. It is difficult to get the things that have been displayed, but if his memory is correct.

It seems that the Daying Museum has hundreds of thousands of Chinese antiques, and even if they are decades in the future, they have not been registered.

Taking these things, there are really one or two thousand missing. In a few years, the Daying Museum may not even know that something is missing.

This is not Chu Xiangqian's nonsense. The six large-scale thefts of the Daying Museum have long been no secret on the Internet in later generations.

The mole even committed crimes for several years and stole hundreds of items, but the museum itself didn't even know about it.

It wasn't until some stolen cultural relics appeared in the auction house that they were exposed.

But even so, the Daying Museum still said to the outside world that this was not the case at all.

Then a source broke the news that there were hundreds of thousands of Chinese antiques in the museum that were not recorded.

There's nothing fishy here, Chu Xiangqian doesn't believe it.

Maybe the museum people did this on purpose.

However, this kind of thing seems to be the same all over the world.

This made Chu Xiangxiang feel that if he built a private museum in the future, it would be difficult to completely ban human greed.

"Okay, okay." Chu stepped forward and patted Margaret's hand, "This matter has nothing to do with you. Of course, if you feel something is wrong, then help me get more antiques from the Celestial Dynasty.

Of course, I'll pay for it. "

Margaret rolled her eyes at Chu Xiangqian, knowing that he was being sarcastic, but it was the same reason that Chu Xiangqian didn't blame Margaret.

Margaret had long placed Chu Xiangqian in a very important position in her heart, and it would be no exaggeration to say that she was conquered by him both physically and mentally.

In addition, this woman is a love brain, otherwise she would not be able to fall in love with a married man who is 18 years older than her for the first time.

After thinking for a while, he said, "How about I sell the porcelain-white sweat-blooded horse you gave me to the Cavendish girl first?"

Chu Qianqian shook his head. Although he was using Margaret's influence, this girl was so considerate of herself, plus there were so many positive and negative relationships, it was impossible to say that she didn't have any feelings at all.

If you think about it carefully, the Devonshire family, the Cavendish family of the Duke of Devonshire, has its largest source of income from agricultural and animal husbandry products.

Maybe I can wholesale the peaches, lychees, bayberries and cherries produced in Xinshou Village to their families.

But this thought only lasted for a moment before Chu Qianqian rejected it himself.

Don't look at these fruit trees. In Xinshou Village, there are 10 of each kind, weighing 100 kilograms per day, but only 3 kilograms per month, which is equivalent to only 1.5 tons.

If you eat it alone, you will never finish it.

Use it as a good fruit gift, or to maintain a high-end customer base, or to establish dozens or hundreds of customers.

But these days, fruit preservation technology is extremely underdeveloped and must be transported to London by air.

And the quantity is really too small, people simply don’t like it.

But maybe I can open a fresh fruit shop in London.

But if we really want to open this store, we might as well open it on Hong Kong Island.

Air transportation, packaging, and management thousands of miles away are all a big hassle.

After much deliberation, I finally settled on horse racing.

And thinking about it carefully, the matter of recovering Chinese antiques from England seems a bit urgent.

Just from the transaction with Norton, nearly 60 pieces of porcelain, 15 pieces of calligraphy and painting, and [-] pieces of bronze were recovered.

And each piece is a treasure worth hundreds or thousands of pounds.

Of course, in the eyes of the English, these antiques are just ordinary goods.But in the future era of universal collection, it is no exaggeration to say it is a treasure.

Perhaps the cultural toys that cost a few pounds or dozens of pounds at this time will be treasures priced at 10,000+ or ​​hundreds of thousands in the future.

If it weren't so easy to buy treasures now, Chu Xiangqian would have wanted to wholesale thousands or thousands of these antiques.

But if you really do that, it seems too stupid. After all, there are treasures, who can value ordinary goods.

Moreover, if the number of these things becomes too large in the future, it will not be so easy to sell them.

Rich people look down on it, but ordinary people can't afford it and won't buy it.

If there is a price but no market, then it is really in your own hands.

Unless Chu Xiangqian is really not short of money, it will make sense to buy more and use it to increase the number of collections when building a museum.

Looking at Margaret with a worried expression on her face, Chu Xiangqian smiled and said, "Forget it, when our champion knight wins the championship, there is no need to contact the Cavendish family specifically."

Margaret thought for a while and nodded. The Triple Crown championship itself was an advertisement. There would definitely be many nobles and rich people looking for their beaus to order horses.

Among these people, there must be many people, just like the Mountbatten family, who would rather give out some Chinese antiques and oil paintings by unknown painters to offset the cash payment.

There is really no need to go out of your way to contact the Cavendish family.

Besides, their family is most likely to be like the Mountbatten family. After a few transactions, if they are reluctant to come up with the best quality, they will have to go out and buy it themselves.

As a result, things are more expensive.

Rather than letting them make a fortune, it would be better to contact other nobles directly.

(End of this chapter)