Chapter 93: The Great Depression (12)

Hamer first showed Huang Xuanfu's masterpiece "Dnepr Glacier" (), which is also a Russian painter that Americans prefer, but for Russians, this famous ocean The painter is almost known to women and children. Unfortunately, this painting already has a master. In other words, if Huang Xuan brought it home, he would have two "Dnepr Glaciers" on his plane.
Seeing Huang Xuan gently shaking his head, Hamer took out another oil painting without changing his face. The "Picking an Apple" created by Enatalia Goncharova in 1909 was also a subject. Huang Xuan simply named: "Mr. Hamer, do you have any paintings by Oligo Usariu?"
"Yes, let me find it." The name mentioned by Huang Xuan surprised Hamer a little. This is not a name that is not familiar to non-Russians.
"How about this" Before Sunset "." This is a contemporary oil painting. Huang Xuan nodded in satisfaction. According to Lorraine's estimate, this little guy weighing less than 500 grams can sell for 500,000 pounds, and ship it. The energy consumed will not exceed $ 5,000.
"Help me put it away." Huang Xuan said to Hans without even asking for the price.
The veteran directly mentioned the oil painting, and Hamer quickly stopped, distressed, and beckoned a waiter to let him hold it, and then said: "Mr. Huang Xuan, the price of this painting is 3800 US dollars, of course ..."
"Do I need to pay the bill now?" Huang Xuan interrupted.
"Of course not." Hammer had small businessmen's eyes. He only glanced at Huang Xuan and said, "You can continue to choose."
Huang Xuan chuckled twice. Dao: "I heard that you brought some Tsarist eggs?" Among the Russian artworks brought by Hammer, the most valuable is the Faberge egg. Since 1886, the Russian royal jeweler Faberge Every year, an Easter egg is made for the queen. This unique one, inlaid with various precious jewelry, is sought after by countless people in later generations. However, at the beginning in the auction house, each Faberge egg can only be sold for 400 or 500 US dollars, but after 70 years, its minimum valuation is also more than 3 million US dollars
Hammer quickly took out 10 eggs from the room. Although the 1900 World Expo will let people see these classic Easter eggs, but the Americans in the Great Depression. It will take a few more years for these skeptical interest in these artworks not necessarily to preserve value. Only then will someone discover the value of these eggs.
To Huang Xuan's disappointment, only three of these eggs disappeared in people's eyes, and only these three eggs can be taken home. Of course, the disappointment is only temporary. You only need 14 pieces of self-printed US dollars to get at least 10 million dollars. And the energy consumed by transportation will not exceed 5 million kWh. Is there a better transaction than this?
With the help of Lorraine, Huang Xuan reported one by one. Soon, the waiters around changed from one to two, and then four ...
When it was dark that day, Huang Xuan had selected more than 400 oil paintings and more than 70 pieces of jewelry. His selection principle is simple. First of all, there is no duplication in P112, that is, in your own plane. At least there is no record of collection. Second, the price of shipping it is much lower than its selling price. Especially the latter, because many jewels are inlaid with gold and silver and other ornaments, Huang Xuan had to give up with painful pain-the consumption of gold and silver in the plane is too large, most of the time it is not worth the gains.
A small amount of gems and pearls will not increase the burden in this regard. Huang Xuan likes Fabergé's works very much. A large number of materials such as ceramics and gems are used, and the energy consumption is greatly reduced.
As for some valuable repetitive artworks, Huang Xuan also once wanted to take it home for collection, but considering that it may cause buffer energy consumption-although it may be very small, Huang Xuan still gave up, instead of looking at these himself Something you don't understand at all is safer than expected.
After taking away the last product from the department store, Huang Xuan smiled with a sigh of relief, and the darkened Hamer said: "Come on." The tone is like eating a bowl of beef noodles in a noodle restaurant.
"A total of 7.8 million 680 US dollars." The accountant next to the price directly reported, which is the higher price of jewelry, relative to those products processed by unknown people, the name of the Russian royal collection will make it more valuable for appreciation . Hamer's eyes flickered with stars and stared at Huang Xuan, and he thought to himself: If this guy can't pay for it ...
"So much!" Huang Xuan really can't pay. His deposit in the bank is currently only 3 million US dollars, but the cash in the plane channel is inconvenient to withdraw immediately. He looked at Hammer, who had already turned black. I did n’t bring enough money, but how about paying the deposit first? "
"The company's rule is a deposit of 40." The little accountant next to him bit the word 40 very clearly.
Huang Xuan smiled embarrassingly, took out the deposit certificate issued by Chase from his jacket, and said: "I seem to have only 2.6 million, not enough ..."
"Enough." Seeing this copper deposit voucher, Hamer suddenly breathed a sigh of relief and couldn't wait to say: "A deposit of 2 million US dollars is enough. When will Mr. Huang hope to take these artworks? "
Hearing Hamer's words, Huang Xuan laughed dumbly. This means that he can't take it now. He didn't care, he threw his hands and deposited the deposit voucher to Hamer, saying: "Let's go through the formalities with Chase, let's put the things here first."
"Okay." Hammer promised that he only relaxed at this time, but now in 1931, a day's turnover of 7.8 million, that is, art and arms transactions will have.
Chase National Bank.
After Joseph completed the transfer procedure for Hammer, the latter said goodbye to Huang Xuan, the real money wholesaler Huang turned around and carried three travel bags in, each bag was stuffed with 30 kg of green banknotes.
Chase Bank is known as a bank of wholesale capital, but Joseph has never seen so much cash-at a more familiar exchange rate, before the US Silver Acquisition Act of 1934, China ’s one dollar silver coin was only worth 26 cents and 100 kilograms. The hundred-dollar dollar bill is equivalent to 38.46 million silver dollars, which is equivalent to 3/4 of China ’s international surplus that year. Since the developed countries in the economic crisis are all based on the gold standard, the silver-based China won the superpower that year.
Hans is already somewhat immune to US dollar bills ~ EbookFREE.me ~ But the $ 2,000 paid by Huang Xuan made him excited for a long time. Instead, these bundles of green notes have a completely different feeling.
Several banks MM screamed money that could smash the dead, Rockefeller hurried down the stairs, he held Huang Xuan's hand cordially, and said: "Mr. Huang, I was looking for you ... "
"Oh?" Of course Huang Xuan knew what was going on. He beckoned Hans and said, "Go and get the drawings in the car."
Rockefeller narrowed his eyes with a smile, but there were tens of thousands of drawings of the aircraft. A car could not fit. He coughed and said, "Mr. Huang, what is the price of this drawing?"
"Of course it won't be very high." Huang Xuan said with a smile: "I have prepared 200 drawings. You can find someone to look at. If you are interested, we will talk about the price." After that time, I also went home. Huang Xuan thought this way, picked up the coffee and drank.
Rockefeller left the room politely, and Joseph handed over the new deposit voucher to Huang Xuandao: "A total of $ 9.8074 million, Mr. Huang."
"Trouble."