Year: I had a good time when I was young

Chapter 844: The Opportunity to Enter Luguo

Like all monarchies, the royal family of China lost its absolute power as early as the 30s.

However, the royal family of England has existed for more than 700 years, and compared with Elizabeth, the support from all walks of life for Queen Elizabeth is much higher than that for the royal family of England.

And although he had no executive power, he always had a deep control over the military.

No matter how many military strongmen appear, no one dares to touch the royal family in this era.

After all, it has only been more than a decade since the end of World War II, and people's minds have settled down, while the North-South dispute is happening in neighboring Vietnam.

The popular base in China that wants to stir up trouble is much smaller than in the past and in ancient times.

During the political revolution in the late 40s, after the military overthrew the then president, they did not dare to take power themselves.

Instead, he took the initiative to draft a new constitution that was beneficial to the interests of the royal family.

To put it bluntly, these gun-wielding people also know that witnesses are their biggest opponents.

However, in the current domestic and international environment, military rule is basically against the trend.

Therefore, in order to drive his opponent out of power and securely maintain the power and wealth in his hands, he had to take the initiative to move closer to King Lu.

King Lu also needed the support of the army to suppress anti-monarch forces.

And to be honest, the King of Lu who was in power at that time was also in super long standby mode.

Many of her experiences were similar to those of Elizabeth; both came to power at a young age and experienced numerous internal turmoil and troubles.

Moreover, in terms of personal charm, political strategy, and the ability to maintain and create wealth, both of them are definitely among the top kings in their respective countries.

So even though the princess's stable is not big, or even a little small, the quality of the horses raised there is not low.

Unfortunately, no matter how high your status or how rich you are, winning a championship horse is all about luck.

Of course, it’s not that there are no good horses, but that champion horses are one in a million.

The Triple Crown horse is one in a million.

However, there is no problem at all with the pedigree of this 2-year-old thoroughbred horse.

The paternal and maternal lines are clearly traceable, so after buying the horse, there is no need to worry about people suspecting your pedigree and preventing you from participating in the Triple Crown.

If Chu Xiangqian had not gotten involved, the auction price of this horse would have reached hundreds of thousands or even hundreds of thousands and it would have been sold.

But Chu Xiangqian is still hesitating about whether to win the championship again.

But this thought only lasted for a few seconds before Chu Xiangqian decided to buy it first.

Anyway, we still have more than a year to consider whether to participate in the Triple Crown next year.

Moreover, even if you spend 200 million US dollars to buy it, but do not participate in the Triple Crown competitions in England and Magnesium, you only need to participate in competitions in Hong Kong Island, Southeast Asia, and Japan, and win a few championships to make your money back.

If Chu Xiangqian could win the Triple Crown in Japan, it would be equivalent to winning the Grand Slam.

Moreover, as long as Chu Xiangqian does not go to England or the United States to participate in the Triple Crown next year, he will no longer compete for interests with the horse farms and horse owners in these two countries.

Naturally, no one would cause trouble for him.

Decades later, the world's triple crown winners have always been Britain, the United States, Japan and Hong Kong.

However, the Hong Kong Island Triple Crown did not start until 91-92, while the Japanese Triple Crown started in 64, which is this year.

Next year, this 2-year-old pony will be 3 years old, which is the perfect age. One of the conditions for participating in all Triple Crown competitions is that the horse must be 3 years old.

This adds countless difficulties, and it is no wonder that there are so few Triple Crown winners in history.

Once this horse wins the Japanese Triple Crown, there will definitely be wealthy people in Japan who are willing to spend tens of millions, or even tens of millions of dollars to buy this horse.

More importantly, Chu Xiangqian believed that the royal family of Lu State was likely willing to spend more money, or use other benefits instead of money, to buy back the horse.

If I could take advantage of this opportunity, I could buy a lot of land in Langkawi, preferably in places like Phuket or Pattaya.

Anyway, in this era, one of these two places is a remote area, and the other is a small place that is not valued in the capital area.

Phuket is located in the southernmost part of Malaysia, a bit isolated overseas, and no one pays attention to it at all.

But once the tourism industry flourishes, this place will be a golden treasure trove.

As for Pattaya, it is not far from Bangkok, but unfortunately it also had to wait until the 7s and 80s to develop.

However, the development of Pattaya actually began in 61.

A few years ago, some people in China thought that Pattaya's crescent-shaped beach was very suitable for developing a tourism economy.

Unfortunately, if a poor place wants to be developed, it needs not only the funds, but also the international reputation to attract tourists, which takes time.

A wealthy man from Hong Kong like Chu Xiangqian would definitely be the investor that Lu Guo most wants to invite.

Firstly, there were not so many political demands. Secondly, Luguo was still very poor at that time and urgently needed foreign investment to revitalize the economy.

Moreover, there are quite a lot of Chinese people in Hong Kong. Regardless of whether these people recognize the Red Celestial Empire or not, they are at least quite friendly to the people of Hong Kong Island.

Of course, if you try to steal someone else's job, that's another matter.

But there were plenty of investment opportunities in this era, and Chu Xiangqian was good at forbearance and bribing people. As long as the money was enough, he would buy land and build factories.

Even the natives would treat him as a god for the sake of money and food.

Who knows, in ten or twenty years, Chu Xiangqian will become the largest local landlord, the richest businessman, and the behind-the-scenes financier and controller of the largest political group.

And it becomes necessary to gain the friendship of the royal family.

Moreover, Hong Kong Island is indeed too small. Although the economy will be extremely developed in the future, the core circle of Hong Kong Island is just that small.

Buy a few pieces of land this year, a few buildings next year, and in ten or thirty years, it is possible that Chu Xiangqian will have bought up all the core business district.

At that time, it was not the Hong Kong people who protected the Chu family, but the Chu family became the object of disgust for both the rich and ordinary people.

Therefore, Chu Xiangqian would never regard Hong Kong Island as the only settlement for his family to be passed down for several or even dozens of generations.

Then the safest way is to diversify investments in Singapore, Seoul, Tokyo, and in the future Beijing, Shanghai, Guangzhou, and even Mumbai and New Delhi, and buy a large number of office buildings for rent.

If there are more than ten or twenty buildings in one place, it means tens or hundreds of billions of wealth.

Although they make money by renting out the property and the property is valuable, it does not affect the local governance at all.

Chu Xiangqian is a well-known wealthy man in Asia or even the world. Various regions and countries will definitely not confiscate Chu Xiangqian's local wealth just because of these buildings.

On the contrary, investors like him who only invest and do not involve other aspects are the most favorite friends of all countries.

Thinking of this, Chu Xiangqian smiled and nodded to Zheng Baoyi again.

The girl didn't shout out a price this time, but every time someone followed up with a quote, she would look at Chu Xiangqian.

When Chu Xiangqian nodded, she raised her placard, and before she knew it, the price had exceeded $150 million. Now, even those who trusted Chu Xiangqian's vision no longer had the confidence to continue bidding.

But Ahmed, who was not far away, shrugged at Chu Xiangqian, then took the number plate from his subordinate and raised it up.

Then, the agents of McDonald and Morgan Jr., as well as the heads of several major European and American horse farms, made an apologetic gesture to Chu Xiangqian and began to raise their signs.

Or maybe they are ready to make a move.

These people are not short of money. Although tens or millions of dollars are a lot, compared with a good horse, money is not that important.

Zheng Baoyi knew Ahmed, the bearded man from the Middle East, and had even received jewelry gifts from him personally.

Seeing that Ahmed personally participated in the bidding, he quickly turned to look at Chu Xiangqian.

That little expression looked like a child who was bullied by an adult and was about to cry.

Chu Xiangqian quickly put his arms around the little girl and bent down to kiss her on the top of her head.

Zheng Baoyi finally felt relieved, and then Chu Xiangqian took the number plate from her, raised it without even looking at it, and said, "Two million US dollars."

The scene suddenly became lively. This was the first time that Chu Xiangqian officially raised a placard at his own auction.

Even a fool would know that even the owner himself had misjudged this 2-year-old colt.

The representative who came to the auction on behalf of Princess Patina was now completely panicked.

Although the auction price has soared to 200 million US dollars, the offer was made by Chu Xiangqian, and everyone can see how much he is optimistic about this 2-year-old foal.

Don’t think that Luoguo is very poor now, but the royal family has never been short of money from the past to the future.

It can even be said that the wealth of the Royal Family of England is far greater than that of the Royal Family of Great Britain.

It is no exaggeration to say that they are the richest royal family in the world.

Of course, some will argue that the English royal family has hidden a great deal of wealth over the next few decades.

But the people of Lu are not stupid. All constitutional monarchies in the world live a low-key life, and King Lu also knows how to hide his wealth.

Most of the things that are still known to the outside world decades later are royal palaces, royal real estate, jewelry and land deeds that have appeared in history, as well as a small number of companies, funds and trusts that need to be contacted with the outside world.

Among them, the Yingguo royal family was the most thorough.

In the 70s, the royal family's wealth was more than 90 billion pounds, but by the new millennium, it was only to million pounds.

Even if you say you haven't hidden any wealth, no one would believe you.

For example, many foreign investments and investments in the financial field have gone through complicated and tedious procedures and covers and have been slowly hidden.

Although Princess Patina is not the heir, as the niece of Prince Lu, her net worth is at least tens of millions of dollars.

This was given to Patina by her mother, grandmother and uncle. When she inherits her mother and grandmother's wealth in the future, she will definitely be worth more.

These tens of millions of dollars alone will be worth hundreds of millions or even billions in the future.

So let alone 200 million US dollars, even or million is not as important to Princess Patina as the horse.

If you give it to your grandmother or uncle, the benefits are far more important than the money.

After Songta panicked, he quickly found Watana Li, who came to participate in the auction with him and had been cooperating with Chu Xiangqian on tiger bone wine for more than two years.

Watana was also the buyer and supporter of Chu Xiangqian's Arabian horses.

这次虽然没带着当初买下的，3匹汗血马的马驹过来参加拍卖，但61年就花了9万1、8万3、11万英镑拍下3匹汗血马的老顾客。

Chu Xiangqian invites Watana to Hong Kong every year and several other old customers to have dinner together.

Of course, Chu Xiangqian knew that this woman and her family were of Chinese descent, otherwise with so many old customers, not everyone would be invited to dine together.

Although Watana wanted to help Songta, this was an auction. Even if he persuaded Chu Xiangqian to give up, it did not mean that other buyers would stop.

It is now impossible to let the auction go unsold.

So Watana frowned and thought for a moment, then pulled Songta and said, "Now what we can do is to hope that Chusheng will buy this foal."

Songta frowned, but forced himself to calm down and think about it for a moment, then quickly understood and nodded.

But Songta actually misunderstood, Watana-Li, whose Chinese name is Li Peishan, continued, "Based on my understanding of Chusheng.

As long as we explain to him how important this horse is to the princess, he will probably sell it back to us at the original auction price."

Songta subconsciously thought it was too expensive, but Li Peishan said, "Otherwise, someone else will buy it. Unless we raise the price, it will be impossible to buy it back."

Songta stopped talking immediately.

If you need to raise the price to buy it back, it would be better to bid on the spot and let Li Peishan act as a white glove to participate in the bidding.

Songta nodded helplessly, knowing that Li Peishan was right, and then cursed the person in charge of the stable and the horse trainer in his heart.

Li Peishan waited for Songta to nod, explained something to the other party, half stood up, lowered her body and trotted towards Chu Xiangqian's VIP seat.

Many people at the scene naturally noticed Songta and Li Peishan's actions.

Chu Xiangqian waved to Zhang Tianzhi who was standing behind him. Li Peishan then walked over to the chair next to Chu Xiangqian and sat on it, leaning her head over and whispering behind Chu Xiangqian.

After a few dozen seconds, Chu Xiangqian started cursing in his heart after hearing what he said.

Fortunately, he had a lot of ideas. He raised his sign and told the auctioneer that he would continue bidding according to the minimum bid increase amount and increase the bid by $500.

While whispering to Li Peishan behind him, "Sister, I am confident that I can train this horse to at least win the Hong Kong Island or Japan race, so I dare to offer more than 200 million.

But if this horse returns to Patina, or Patina's uncle or grandmother, I guarantee that this horse will be 9% useless. "

Even though there are already three Triple Crown winners from Chu Xiangqian’s hands, they were actually all won by cheating.

Upgrade and add points to any horse, and that horse will be the champion.

Li Peishan was stunned for a moment, then showed a look of disappointment.

There are people outside who have speculated that, in addition to being able to identify horses and having channels to purchase large numbers of good horses, Chu Xiangqian also has some secret methods of training horses.

Moreover, in East Asian culture, it is normal for people who can judge horses to be able to train horses.

In addition, Chu Xiangqian is a recognized Kung Fu master, even the best in Hong Kong Island. In recent years, he has been selling tiger bone wine, a medicinal wine that obviously has a strengthening effect after drinking.

Therefore, few people doubt that he is an expert in traditional Chinese medicine.

Combining so many factors together, Li Peishan suddenly felt that Chu Xiangqian must have used ancient prescriptions used by ancient nobles or even the royal family to train horses.

This is why he was able to win three Triple Crown racehorses in four consecutive years.

Now he clearly stated that only in his hands could this 2-year-old foal be truly trained. Li Peishan was both envious and had no doubt that he could really do it.

(End of this chapter)