Year: I had a good time when I was young

Chapter 766 Personal Customization
They had almost finished talking about the horse, and it was almost noon, so Chu Xiangqian invited the three of them to have lunch together, but the two representatives had no appetite at all.

Although Chu Xiangqian agreed not to take cash, he didn't want any stocks or real estate.

The two representatives apologized quickly and made a phone call to report.

Chu Xiangqian knew that the two were eager to take credit, so he naturally wouldn't stop them from leaving.

He smiled and shrugged at Ahmed, "Come on, my friend, let's go eat tiger meat."

Many wealthy people in the Middle East indulge in food and wine as soon as they leave their own country. When Chu Xiangqian thanked the buyers who participated in the auction two years ago, Ahmed had already eaten tiger meat and venison with his backbone.

After getting into Chu Xiangqian's Rolls-Royce, Ahmed saw that the car was obviously different from the Rolls-Royce he bought, and he immediately guessed that it was related to Margaret.

He said with a slightly envious tone, "Stark, you are really an enviable guy."

Chu Xiangqian was stunned. He thought the other party was talking about the fact that he had a stable source of horses and could get champion horses one after another.

But Ahmed continued, "Even my father's car is not as good as yours."

Chu Xiangqian finally understood and said with a smile, "Okay, when the auction is over, I'll call Margaret and give you and your father two Rolls-Royces of this level.

If you want to customize the interior, you can send someone to London to talk to Rolls-Royce.”

Ahmed was pleasantly surprised after hearing this. It was originally just a complaint, but he didn't expect Chu Xiangqian to be so understanding.

And it's so comprehensive.

If he just gave me a car like this, it would really be embarrassing for my father.

But Chu Xiangqian sent two at a time, so he didn't have to worry so much and would even receive praise from his father.

As for whether other brothers would be envious, Ahmed didn't care. He even looked forward to showing off in front of his brothers.

Then he said to Chu Xiangqian, "It's easy to customize the interior, as long as it's similar to your car, but can I have my and my father's badges on the frame of the rear door like yours?"

Chu Xiangqian smiled. Although there were not many rich people who were eligible to buy a Rolls-Royce, from another perspective, there were actually quite a few.

But there aren't many that have family emblems on their frames.

Chu Xiangqian thought about it and came up with an idea. "You ask someone to draw the designs of the two badges for me. I'll have someone use pure gold and gemstones such as rubies, sapphires, diamonds, and agates as raw materials, and make them here in Hong Kong Island and give them to you for review.

It's confirmed that there is no problem. I will hand it over to Philips personally when I fly to London in a few days.

Given his status, it's easy."

As Ahmed felt more and more grateful, he was also shocked by the relationship between Chu Xiangqian and Philip.

I thought that the relationship between Chu Xiangqian and Margaret would make Philip and his wife unhappy, but now it seems that Chu Xiangqian and Philip have a very good relationship.

Ahmed couldn't help but think of the British army that was still lingering in Oman, and thought to himself that it seemed that he would have to continue to deepen his relationship with Chu Xiangqian in the future.

If there is a dispute with the Ying army in the future, we can also ask Chu Xiangqian for help in mediating.

Then he thought, since Chu Xiangqian agreed to have someone forge a jeweled gold badge, he also had to think about what gift to give him in return.

To Chu Xiangqian, sapphires and diamonds might still seem a little rare.

But gold and rubies are nothing to him.

Rubies can be earned in the Novice Village. Chu Xiangqian thought that the Omani royal family must not be short of jewelry and gold. Since they are going to give them as gifts, they should make them better.

Otherwise, if you give something away and the other person doesn’t like it, not only will they feel like it’s just a waste of money, but they may even despise you in their hearts.

Chu Xiangqian thought for a few seconds and decided to use the rubies worth 10,000 or 20,000 pounds to make two ruby ​​and gold badges.
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When Chu Xiangqian arrived at Youguqi Restaurant, he was surprised that although delicious food had already been prepared at the racecourse, many guests who attended the auction this morning actually came to Youguqi for lunch.

When Chu Xiangqian looked around, he saw that most of the tables were filled with venison and tiger meat dishes.

I immediately realized that having backbone has already gained considerable fame among the wealthy circles in Southeast Asia.

Since Chu Xiangqian was the host, he naturally had to greet the guests and chat for a while, and half an hour passed.

After a round, when he entered the exclusive private room on the second floor, he could only eat something casually so as not to miss the second half of the auction which started at 1: pm.

Ahmed had just taken the opportunity to meet several powerful people, so he didn't care what to eat at this moment.

Fortunately, among the venison and tiger meat, several dishes have to be prepared a day or two in advance.

Ahmed was very satisfied with just the braised deer tendons, fried tiger heart, stir-fried tiger tenderloin, charcoal-grilled tiger and venison skewers and Middle Eastern style mixed bean rice, accompanied by tiger bone wine.

After finishing their meal, the two did not sit down to digest the food, but got in the car and went straight back to Kowloon Racecourse.

On the way back, Ahmed and Chu Xiangqian chatted and talked about tiger bone wine.

Starting from the year before last, after Ahmed and Rahman tasted tiger bone wine, they immediately felt that there was a market for this wine.

After talking with Chu Xiangqian several times, I became the agent of tiger bone wine in the desert area at the end of 61.

At the beginning, Chu Xiangqian used Japan as an example and insisted on selling the bottle at 3,000 Hong Kong dollars, otherwise he would sell all of them to Japan and the British.

The two finally agreed to the price, and Chu Xiangqian gave them a share of 2 bottles each per year.

Adding up to 1200 bottles, the business is worth a full HK$ million.

The year before last, because it was the end of the year, the two of them took away 4 bottles in total, and the sales were not very good. But as the nobles and wealthy people in London gradually began to like drinking tiger bone wine, the local tycoons in the desert also began to know about this wine.

Ahmed and Rahman promoted the wine many times in their respective countries, but the effect was not as good as that of a desert tycoon who used it as the main wine when entertaining other tycoons in London.

Since then, tiger bone wine has gradually become popular in the Middle East.

Although very few people drink it in the country, it does not prevent the rich from ordering it from Ahmed and Rahman, and then taking it to London to entertain British guests.

Seeing that the British people really like tiger bone wine, Ahmed and Rahman’s share of 4 bottles will not be enough for just half a year.

He asked Chu Xiangqian several times to expand the supply, but Chu Xiangqian refused.

The quantity of this kind of high-end, even luxury wine must be controlled.

Only when there is a shortage of stock in the market can the high-end style be maintained.

When Ahmed saw Chu Xiangqian refuse again, he couldn't help feeling ashamed and helpless.

They could only make a compromise and set their sights on Rahman's share of the 2,000 bottles.

After hearing this, Chu Xiangqian refused again. He would not go back on his word once he had promised.

Besides, Rahman had not defaulted on the payment for the tiger bone wine, so it was impossible for him to take away his agency rights just because he did not attend the auction this time.

And don’t be fooled by the fact that the import price of tiger bone wine is 3 Hong Kong dollars per bottle, which is almost equivalent to 750 US dollars.

But the tiger bone wine business does not make much money, relatively speaking.

The reason why Rahman and Ahmed attached so much importance to tiger bone wine was simply that they were using it to make friends with the dignitaries in the desert and London.
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Because the pound has been slowly falling in the past two years, the price of Norton & Margaret has increased from 63 pounds a bottle in the previous year to 200 pounds since the beginning of 250.

Of course, nominally the two did not raise the price, after all, the Hong Kong dollar was still pegged to the British pound at that time.

In other words, no matter how much the pound falls against the US dollar, 1 pound can still be exchanged for 16 Hong Kong dollars.

But at this time, the exchange rate between the Hong Kong dollar and the US dollar has risen from 4 to 1 to 4.45 to 1 US dollar.

Chu Xiangqian also knew that the exchange rate of the pound to the dollar would continue to fall in the future, which was why he had been holding dollars to reduce the amount of pounds in his hands as much as possible.

As for foreign exchange speculation, it is better to speculate in gold.

Borrowing US dollars from the Commonwealth system and repaying them in pounds after one or two years is foreign exchange speculation.

Chu Xiangqian knew that the pound would fall, but in reality the profit was only about 10% to 20%.

If you hold gold, you can earn more than foreign exchange because the US dollar is also falling.

As for leveraged foreign exchange trading, Chu Xiangqian gave up after thinking about it.

If the principal is 1 million US dollars, a leverage of 10 times is 10 billion.

Not to mention Standard Chartered and HSBC, except for a few banks in Magnesium, other banks simply didn't take the order.

If Chu Xiangqian used 10 million US dollars as a 1-fold leverage on his capital, it would only be million.

Chu Xiangqian is not so stupid as to earn 10 or 20 million US dollars a year but offend the government of Ying State.
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Most of the tiger bone wine in Norton and Margaret's hands is no longer supplied directly to the powerful.

It was just a matter of opening a few more companies on offshore islands and selling them to them for 200 pounds.

These companies not only make more money by selling the products in London at a price of £250, but they also do not have to pay tax on the extra £50 in net profit.

If they had not been selling tiger bone wine for over a year at a price of 200 pounds, they would have been worried about getting in trouble with the tax department.

Both Norton and Margaret wanted to use the offshore island company to purchase the goods directly from Chu Xiangqian at a price of 150 pounds.

Just with Norton's annual share of 3 bottles, this guy can earn 30 pounds a year from tiger bone wine.

Of course, 15 pounds of it cannot be taken directly back to England for use.

Another 15 pounds has to be taxed, but after paying the tax and deducting labor and other costs, the total profit is at least 22.5.

Margaret only had a quota of 500 bottles per year, but these 500 bottles were pocket money that Chu Xiangqian had agreed to give her.

This is equivalent to 12.5 pounds a year, which is five times more than what the royal family gives her every year.

So even though this woman complained every other day that Chu Xiangqian didn't come to London to see her, no matter how much she complained, she never thought of breaking up with him.

She even had a fake marriage and had a child with Chu Xiangqian to tie him down.
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Since the price of tiger bone wine in London is already 250 pounds, the profits of Rahman and Ahmed are actually easy to estimate.

Based on the current exchange rate of 1 pound to about 3.6 US dollars, after deducting some costs, the profit per bottle is about 70.

2 bottles per person per year means that Rahman and Ahmed can earn $50 per year from tiger bone wine.

Rahman and Ahmed would never give up such free money and the chance to make friends with more desert dignitaries by taking advantage of the shortage of tiger bone wine.

Chu Xiangqian also didn't want his reputation to become infamous in the desert.

They could only comfort and deceive Ahmed by saying that tiger bone wine would be supplied to him first at the beginning of every year, and only then did Ahmed feel satisfied.

(End of this chapter)