Chapter 92: The Great Depression (11)

The next day, Huang Xuan stayed in the Beta Printing Factory and looked at the bills coming in. Huang Xuan felt that the noise was also melodious.
The money-printing machine after Lorraine's transformation is still old, but the green banknotes produced are genuine. To make it easier to sell, Huang Xuan asked him to add an old process, which is very simple, but let Lorraine go Dry, and almost consumed 3 million US dollars of energy.
Roughly calculated, from reaching P101, Lorraine has eaten about 25 million US dollars. This is still the light crude oil that was purchased last time. If it depends on several electrolytic aluminum plants, even the energy returned is owed. Fortunately, it's harvest time.
Overnight, the beta printing plant produced $ 15 million. This is not 15 million after the depreciation of the US dollar. Even before the Great Depression, this amount of money was equivalent to Ford ’s half-year profitable funds, enough to enter the national rich list.
Huang Xuan first took about 20 kilograms of green banknotes-about 2 million US dollars, packed it in a large travel bag, and put the remaining banknotes into the plane channel. This turned off the machine and walked out of the workshop. Handed the travel bag to Hans and said, "Chase National Bank."
In the bank lobby, Joseph immediately noticed the tall Hans beside him, especially the travel bag in his hand.
"Is there anything I can do for you?" Joseph said with a cliché, wearing white gloves and crossed his fingers on his waist, while leading Huang Xuan to the room. The deposit of 600,000 dollars was enough for him to use it at will The room is gone.
There are only three of them in the beautifully decorated small room. In this era, naturally, there will be no monitors. Huang Xuan took the travel bag in Hans' hands and opened the zipper, saying: "Come on, please, I want to store them in your bank."
Joseph only glanced at it, and he knew that his performance this month was completed. He quickly beckoned his deputy, and while respectfully serving coffee for Huang Xuan, he said: "Please wait a while, our employees will Order for you soon. "
Huang Xuan nodded incomprehensiblely. Road: "Well, I want to meet Mr. Rockefeller. John Rockefeller Jr."
"I will inform you immediately." Joseph said as he went out.
Huang Xuan knew that Rockefeller would definitely come to see him. Two million dollars is a huge sum of money. If it must be compared, it can be regarded as 100 million US dollars in 70 years. Especially in 1931 when liquidity was in short supply, this cash effect was like a timely rain for banks. The bank run tide occurred in 1933. By that time, countless commercial banks would fail due to lack of cash and could not withdraw their withdrawals.
"Hans. Go and get the drawings I put in the car." Huang Xuan gently stirred the sugar stick.
"Okay." Hans glanced at the employees in the room, beckoned another bodyguard, and asked him a few words, then he stood behind Huang Xuan again.
Rockefeller Jr. spent a long time in the business of Chase Bank, and today is no exception. He received news from Joseph. He quickly packed his clothes and walked down. When he saw Huang Xuan, the reserved man shook hands with him slightly affectionately. Tao: "I heard that you are Chinese? A good place." China in the 1930s was actually not very good. The golden period of national capitalism in World War I was over, but Rockefeller took this as the start, and indeed made Huang Xuan very good. Have a good opinion.
He stood up and shook hands, saying, "Mr. Rockefeller is a busy man, and I said straight away. This time, I heard that you invested in Pan American Airlines?"
"Yes," Rockefeller poured a glass of whisky for himself, and said, "Mr. Huang also wants to invest in Pan American?"
During the Great Depression, Pan American Airlines was one of the few large profit-making enterprises. By 31 years, more and more people wanted to buy shares in this sunrise company. Rockefeller took it for granted that Huang Xuan thought the same.
But the Chinese shaking his head was a bit confusing. Huang Xuan stretched out his hand and took the drawing held by Hans. He unfolded and said: "I think you must be curious. Why would Mr. Sloan and Ford have a relationship with me? "
"There are some." Rockefeller admitted.
"It's because of this." During the speech, Huang Xuan had unfolded the drawings completely. He handed this to Joseph and held it empty-handedly beside Rockefeller. "Are you also interested?"
"This is ..., aircraft drawings?"
"Yes." Huang Xuan is still the most familiar with this word. He smiled and rolled up the drawings again and handed it to Rockefeller: "If you have any ideas, you can come to me again." He looked at Joseph.
Mr. Manager immediately responded, and took the deposit voucher handed to him by his deputy, and handed over to Huang Xuandao with his hands: "A total of US $ 2,84,700. Welcome to Chase National Bank."
"Thank you." Huang Xuan glanced at Rockefeller again and left with a smile. In fact, he did not really intend to sell Rockefeller aircraft drawings. Time has not allowed him to do so. On the other hand, with the US dollar bills printed in batches, it is only a waste of time to discuss business with Rockefeller. But there is an advantage in doing so. As long as he can stop Little Rockefeller's appetite, he will not move his hands because of the inexplicable large assets in the bank account, which is what Huang Xuan needs most.
Going down the bank steps, Huang Xuan's expression became serious again, took a deep breath, and sat in the car and said to Hans: "Go to see Mr. Hamer."
Even in the United States, Hamer is also a legend. He is called the king of golden ideas. This Russian-American has been involved in dozens of industries, from farming, pencils, medicine, art collections, and even oil. The field has obtained huge profits, and Hamer also has an amazing experience in the collections that Huang Xuan cares about. In 1922, Hamer took his younger brother (curio connoisseur) to Russia to discover a new field of Russian cultural relics that no one had yet set foot in. They accumulated bit by bit and arranged their villa in Moscow like a museum. One day, an American antique dealer named E Saco came to visit the house, and when he saw the vision, the antique dealer's eyes almost glared out. Hammer was inspired by this. After the 15% export tax was paid to the Soviet government, most of the collection was shipped back to the United States by him and joined the Saco firm. Later, Saco went bankrupt and Hamer bought his shares.
During the Great Depression, it was from 1931 that Hammer made a thing that surprised many people. He boldly sold art on the counters of department stores and achieved great success. Throughout the history of the United States During the worst economic depression, millions of dollars were made. And Huang Xuan is going to go to Hammer's department store.
In a depression where most industrial products are depreciating, art is a rare commodity that preserves or even increases in value. It is under this kind of thinking that Hammer ’s department store has become a rare and popular place in New York.
When Huang Xuan got out of the car, the shopping malls were so crowded that he suddenly felt like watching a movie from the 1990s.
The well-dressed gentlemen, carrying their wives or other women, wearing high hats and carrying civilized sticks, passed by politely. The small parking lot is full of various models, like a grand classic car exhibition. 33-year-old Armand Hammer wears a compact stand-up suit and shuttles in the lobby to be intimate with every customer who is close to him. Greeted.
Huang Xuan's arrival immediately caught his attention.
A yellow man and two bodyguards reminded the young Hammer of his experience in the Soviet Union. He handed over the work at hand to the manager. Hammer quickly walked over, leaning his head and speaking in very slow English: "Hello, this is Amand Hamer, the owner of this art firm. Can I help you?"
"I think so." Huang Xuan answered in proficient East Coast English. The American life in the past few days has taught him a lot of daily slang.
Taking two steps inwards, Huang Xuan casually looked at the artworks inside and outside the counter, and said to Lorraine: "Look at what is not in P112, it is valuable, but it cannot be repeated, understand?"
"No problem." Lorraine also seemed to get used to this kind of search, and soon started to work. Huang Xuan smiled at Hamer: "I heard that you have the most complete collection of Russian royal family here.
As with every new regime change, the end of the Romanov dynasty also ended the collections of the successive czars. Under Lenin's order, all the artworks were sent to Moscow. In the passage of the dark storage room of the Kremlin military factory, some treasures are missing ~ EbookFREE.me ~ No one knows where they are now. Most of the wicker boxes containing artworks are intact, and even unopened, and the Kremlin ’s army guards them. But when Stalin came to power, Lenin's efforts to protect Russian cultural heritage were dispelled. In exchange for Western economic support for his new regime, Stalin exchanged these precious Russian royal relics. Starting in 1927, the new regime took out some treasures, evaluated them, and finally bought them to the West. In their opinion, it is most natural to use these decayed treasures for economic support.
However, from the beginning, the value of all Russian treasures has always been underestimated, especially its artistic value, just as Chinese calligraphy and paintings are more appreciated by the Chinese, the value of Russian art, especially its humanistic value, In many cases, it is only appreciated by the Russians. In 1931, Han Mo brought thousands of Russian artworks to New York to sell these treasures for the new Russian regime. Although he did very well, if compared with the value after 70 years, the value of most works of art is underestimated hundreds of times.
Of course, at this moment, Hamer did not have this kind of knowledge. He was very happy that someone was willing to buy Russian art, and it seemed that it was a large purchase.
"Let's go talk inside." Hammer always wins with his eyes. In his view, the young people in front of him may be more willing to pay than everyone here.
Huang Xuan smiled and nodded.