Chapter 1223: The Mother-in-law Who Demolished the House
It seems that God knows which daughter Zhang Nan likes the most, and this time Jenny and Alice added two more sons to him, so as not to give him too much love.
They were all smooth births, and they were discharged from the hospital after five days of busyness, and they didn't have time to name them, because Zhang Nan racked his brains and didn't come up with a suitable one, so he planned to go to Chinatown to find the most famous fortune teller to help, otherwise it would be too troublesome.
The family team has expanded again, and now it is enough to form a mixed basketball team, and Zhang Nan expects to have to hire a soccer coach to wait at home in a few years.
As the family continued to grow, Nicole had been feeling since last spring that the main building on the estate was soon not spacious enough, so she asked for a new Renaissance-style palace-style mansion to be built in the northern part of her peninsula's territory!
A very prescient plan, because it is a modern construction, the infrastructure requirements are not as harsh as Zhang Nan's dream castle in Austria, and it will be completed and moved in the autumn of the next year at the latest.
It is an exaggerated main building, with an area of 18,800 square meters, which is more than the main building of the famous Bitmore Manor.
However, even if Nicole bought almost the entire land of the small peninsula, it would only be a little more than 3 square kilometers of land almost entirely covered with woods, and the more than 50 square kilometers of forest parks around the Biltmore Manor are still incomparable.
One is in North Carolina, Zhang Nan's home is in the small peninsula of Long Island Strait, which is close to the town of Oyster Bay, in the affluent area of Long Island, New York, and is less than 40 kilometers away from the Empire State Building in Manhattan, which is similar to the difference between villas in the third ring road of Beijing and rural self-built houses in small counties on the 18th parallel.
It is the same comfortable to live in, but the land price is very different, from this point alone, Zhang Nan's Long Island Star Manor is completely out of Bitmore Manor.
The new four-story main house has 45 bathrooms, 36 bedrooms, and 3 kitchens, with a total of 260 rooms, the largest number of individual homes in the United States.
Nicole once visited the Bitmore estate and knew that there were many works of art in the estate, including more than 1,600 paintings by Dürer, Renoir and others hanging on the walls alone, oriental carpets were used in many places on the floor, and British famous porcelain was placed on the classical table made of precious wood.
What if the Empress of the Stars wants her home in the United States to surpass Bitmore Manor at least in the luxury and artistic heritage of the main house?
No problem, the infrastructure is small, the decoration is the big head, and the most important thing in the home is the artwork.
In the Western world, there are all these paintings by Leonardo da Vinci, and as for the Huaxia side, Tang Yin's paintings can only be in the back row.
Not to mention the porcelain furnishings, British porcelain is used as tableware in the kitchen, and Zhang Nan is used as a fruit plate for the Zhengzheng Yuan blue and white plate, which can stun a group of old experts.
The cost is high, and the handmade wool carpet alone is a huge expense, which Nicole originally had to import from Turkey or Iran through a third party.
That's right, it's Iran, which makes the United States and Iran eager to stab each other every day, but many wealthy people in the United States use Iranian handmade carpets in their homes, and they are imported through third parties.
It's a wonderful thing that the more unobtainable things are from formal sources, the more sought after they seem to be, one of the paranoid pursuits of human beings for scarce things.
However, Zhang Nan didn't want his home to be full of carpets from the Middle East, so he made a phone call and ordered a large number of hand-produced Western Chinese carpets according to the design drawings of the residence.
When he visited the Grand Bazaar in Kashgar, he was really impressed by the wool blankets there, so why use all the Middle Eastern gadgets when there are such good carpets?
Besides, Zhang Nan doesn't like Turkey, there is no specific reason, he just doesn't like that country!
As for the cost...
Nicole didn't bother to say that in addition to decorative artworks and antiques, the cost of the new main house of the manor is estimated to be a fraction of the dream castle in Austria.
In her words, it's a matter of family members taking out a few dollars of pocket money, and they don't have to worry about how much it will cost.
After the house is completed and moved, the original house will be retained and will become the housing and office space for the work and rotation personnel in the manor, and will not be bulldozed.
Damn the U.S. property tax, Nicole has dominated the peninsula in recent years, and there are many buildings destroyed, and the new main building is to expand after bulldozing a villa covering an area of thousands of square meters, just to reduce the expenditure of property tax within a reasonable range.
It's either that you can't pay it, or it's unhappy, anyway, the house is enough, and those who don't need it are demolished and reforested, restore the greenery of the peninsula, and collect taxes in anger, and those vampires take advantage of it!
Such a crazy extravaganza stunned the entire wealthy circle of New York, and it was definitely too much money to burn - others tried their best to approve the construction of luxury houses in the northern part of Long Island, the most natural and green area near New York, and Mr. Allen's mother-in-law was good, and within a year, she destroyed seven or eight luxury residences worth more than 5 million each, and used the land to plant trees.
Many people are still speculating whether the family will bulldoze another dozen or so multi-million-dollar homes, but the news reached Nicole's ears, and when she chatted with her family, she said, "I'm stupid!
In a few years, the children in the family will be able to form a basketball team, and in the future, will they all live in the same house?"
Well, she obviously counted the bench players and the water cooler manager, Zhang Nan pretended to be an invisible person in a muffled voice on the side, and said in her heart that she was under a lot of pressure.
As for the meeting, those houses are not idle, and for the time being, they are all used as housing for senior employees and bodyguards who are far away from the company's homes and do not want to buy a house on Long Island.
This perk...
Leverage!
On March 1, Zhang Nan, a busy man, left New York again and took many people to Mumbai, India.
He was supposed to stay at home with Jenny and Alice, but the trip had been set months earlier to attend the wedding of the eldest daughter of Indian diamond magnate Manu Jain, an important partner.
For Indians, marrying a daughter is a big deal, but the bigger the pomp, the better, ordinary people will use many years, or even a lifetime of savings, in order to marry their daughters beautifully, just to prepare enough dowry for their daughters.
In India, women have a low status, and if the dowry is not thick, they will be looked down upon when they go to their in-laws' house, so there are many people who borrow money to marry their daughters!
As for the real rich, it is not only about pomp, but also about face, such as inviting all kinds of celebrities to attend. In Mumbai, for example, many Bollywood celebrities make a lot of extra money from attending other people's weddings every year.
The Jia Yin family is a well-known rich family in India, and it is even more important to save face, the more VIPs who come, the better, the more famous the better, Mr. Allen of the United States must be invited!