Chapter 68: I'm Just an Antique Dealer and Collector
Although it was already time to get off work, Howard, the general manager of Citibank's business department, and several assistants were waiting for him, and as soon as Zhang Nan arrived, he was immediately invited to the office of the general manager of the business department on the 16th floor. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info
"Mr. Allen, thank you very much for trusting us at Citibank, you will receive the best service in the world! At the same time, although your question of having permanent residency in the United States may be a little cumbersome under your special request, we can help you handle it as quickly as possible. ”
Asking for a U.S. green card is the goal that Zhang Nan has been thinking about, even if he doesn't win the jackpot, he has to do it: his two patent ideas and more than 20 design drawings are the backhands prepared for this.
Howard is responsive, and Zhang Nan's requests are trivial.
"Mr. Allen, with all due respect, with your current value, we can help you settle the nationality issue within a week, why not just immigrate. ”
"Because I don't stay in the U.S. all year round, and I have some personal reasons. ”
As soon as he heard it was personal, Howard was silent about the question: Americans respect privacy, it's tradition.
To have permanent residency in the United States is to obtain that "green card" and then apply for naturalization after a few years: this is the general process for foreign nationals to become U.S. citizens. But for billionaires and financial giants like Citibank, it's just a small problem.
This is a capitalist society, and there is nothing that cannot be solved by abundant capital.
However, why Zhang Nan is not an American citizen now, the reason here is that Howard, as an American, will not understand.
In Howard's view, Zhang Nan is already a billionaire, why doesn't he live in the United States?
But fortunately, Zhang Nan has made it clear that this huge amount of money will be deposited in Citibank for investment, and will not be transferred to Huaxia, otherwise Howard would have to go crazy!
In his previous life, Zhang Nan worked as a tomb robber in order to survive, and later became an antique merchant in order to have enough to eat, and finally became an antique collector. In that life, there was no shortage of abductions, violations of law and discipline, and resale of cultural relics!
Is he a bad guy?
For the sake of life, maybe yes, maybe not, personal opinion is different. Of course, in a legal sense, the sum of what he did is estimated to have little value worth saving.
In this life, for his hobbies, he has taken kickbacks, falsely reported expenses, bought and re-sold, traded on the black market, and stolen underground cultural relics.
So he had to have a proper protective case!
For example, it's good to be an overseas Chinese!
Overseas Chinese, it is normal to have money, and he is already tired of working as a buyer.
Most people think that foreign Chinese talents are overseas Chinese, but in fact, this is not the case: as long as you get the right of permanent residence in a foreign country, then you are an overseas Chinese.
Although China later issued regulations on how many months before Chinese citizens can be treated as overseas Chinese after obtaining permanent residency abroad, now, as long as Zhang Nan gets the American green card, he is a proper overseas Chinese in the United States.
is still a Chinese citizen, but has become an overseas Chinese.
Zhang Nan became an American citizen, that is, a Chinese American, not an overseas Chinese.
If he becomes an American citizen inexplicably in the eyes of others, it will cause great trouble to Zhang Nan!
That's obviously not normal!
Some people say that it is best for people to have a hardcore hobby in this life, and Zhang Nan has it, that is, collecting antiques, and it was originally only playing Chinese antiques, and now it may be collected by the whole world.
With a U.S. green card, it will be very convenient to travel all over the world to obtain a visa.
Hobbies have little to do with the amount of money: how many world-class rich people have bizarre lifelong hobbies: fishing, do they want to eat fish?
If you ride a motorcycle, he's not afraid of falling?
There are people who go on adventures and play extreme sports everywhere!
There are also those who are addicted to playing computer games!
Among the various hobbies, Zhang Nan is the most normal to play antiques, but he generally likes to do it himself, unlike those who play antiques after they have money and basically go to the auction house.
Zhang Nan's hobby of playing with antiques and collecting antiques is like bringing it from his mother's womb and carving it in his bones!
He thinks that he is definitely not a good person, nor is he a bad person in the absolute sense of the word: he will not do anything that endangers national security.
As for rescuing those Chinese cultural relics that may be lost overseas, he is not a saint, he just wants to own it himself and satisfy his desire to collect!
Maybe in the future, he will donate some to the country, but this will be absolutely impossible - now Zhang Nan's greedy desire for antique treasures can be compared to gluttony!
I'm not a good person, I'm not a bad person, just an antique dealer and collector who goes around scavenging for antiques and satisfying his desires!
Zhang Nan is very clear about this.
If you become an overseas Chinese in the United States, you can partner with your sister in a factory that can become the object of government support, and there will be many preferential measures. Moreover, Zhang Nan will also set up a leather bag company in the United States, inject capital into his sister's company, and even directly set up a wholly foreign-funded company.
Two brands and a set of people, now in Huaxia, such foreign-funded companies and joint ventures, can give great preferential treatment in policy!
Let my sister show her ambitions, to put it bluntly, she is also helping herself to make money, and the amount of money that needs to be invested is actually not much, millions of dollars are killed!
The scale of investment is enough for my sister to become a guest of the regional leader.
As for the main funds, Zhang Nan will currently operate in the United States, although the capital operation is not very familiar, but it is still possible to multiply the 200 million US dollars within 5 years.
If you become a Chinese-American, you will be subject to many restrictions when you go to China -- the black market is a trivial matter, and no one will know about it.
But there are some places where Zhang Nan is inconvenient to go: at present, many places are still forbidden to foreigners.
Sneaking around?
Do you really treat the Huaxia police as dry food?
And he has a way to make Secretary Xiang and others feel that the process of obtaining a "green card" is reasonable, and it will definitely not be associated with any American lottery jackpots.
This requires the cooperation of Citibank and Xinlixiu.
Samsonite and Citibank had business dealings, and Manager Howard knew John Sr.
Zhang Nan needs to sell the idea to Old John, and then use the funds as a gimmick to invest in the United States, and use this investment as capital to obtain a "green card".
With Citibank's operations, it will all be seamless – Citibank will be able to keep secrets better than the CIA for $200 million in deposits!
As for Old John's side, it's okay to tell the truth, and it's okay to tell lies, at least that's what Howard thinks.
However, Zhang Nan still decided to let Old John know the inside story: as the owner of a large company with an annual output value of hundreds of millions, Old John will understand that the benefits of having a good friend of a billionaire must be very great!