Chapter 343: No Choice
When I took a taxi to Blowa's house, it was less than half past one o'clock, and Chen Dahe saw the appearance of this small manor clearly.
In front of the house is a small garden of more than 300 square meters, a three-meter-wide curved black asphalt road leads to the garage, on both sides is a verdant lawn, on the slightly larger grass, there is also a sun umbrella, and there are iron tables and chairs placed underneath, which is an outdoor resting place.
The border is a row of tall stone walls, covered with green vines, and in the corners of the walls are planted with low bushes, but now they have passed their flowering period, and only the green leaves are growing very vigorously.
Directly opposite the gate is a small three-story castle with four pointed domes in the four corners, and a row of slightly lower annexes on the side, and beautifully patterned glass windows neatly embedded in the gray-white stone walls, giving people a different artistic feeling.
The house is very old but very clean and looks very well maintained, not so much an old castle as a fortified villa.
Chen Dahe smiled and shook his head, small is a little small, but this is in the center of Paris, not the kind of country castle that looks huge but very dilapidated, if it is placed here in thirty or forty years, don't think about winning it without twenty or thirty million euros.
Standing at the door, I gently pressed the doorbell, thinking that there was no car at the door, and the people from the bank should not have come yet.
At this time, Sophie and Seline had already packed their bags and waited quietly for the banker to come to collect the house, and when they heard the doorbell, they both stiffened and looked at each other.
Sophie smiled and patted her daughter's hand gently, then stood up, calmly walked out, opened the door, was stunned at first, and then said in surprise, "It's Enzo!"
Selene hurriedly ran over and went out with her mother to open the door.
The two of them couldn't help but feel even more strange when they saw Chen Dahe, especially the appearance of being covered in stains and gray faces, Sophie opened the iron door and invited Chen Dahe in, "Enzo, why did you get like this, is something wrong?"
"I'm sorry, madam," Chen Dahe looked at his appearance and shrugged with a smile, "It's rude to come to see you in such an embarrassment." ”
Sophie smiled and led him inside, "Let's wash our faces first." ”
When he went to the bathroom to clean up, Sophie had prepared a glass of mineral water for him.
Chen Dahe sat on the sofa, took a sip of water and drank it dry, before he smiled at the inquiring eyes of the two, "Madam, are the people from the bank here?"
Sophie shook her head slightly, "Not yet, but it should be there soon." ”
"Then it seems that I am not late," Chen Dahe smiled, "Madam, I want to talk to you about business." ”
Sophie was stunned for a moment, turned her head to look at her daughter, and Selene was also full of surprise.
"Enzo, you mean you want to talk to me about business?" Sophie blinked with two crystal clear green eyes, "The Blois family is bankrupt, what else do you think you can work with?"
"The name of the Blois family, and you, Madame," Chen Dahe said with a smile, "I need an agent to help me collect Chinese antiques in the European market, and the nobility of the Blois family can easily reach the upper echelons of the collecting world, are you interested in this business?"
A hint of gloom flashed in Sophie's eyes, "Enzo, I understand your good intentions, but the nobility of the Blois family will soon become a thing of the past, and after leaving here, the aristocratic world will no longer recognize Blois's status, in fact, in the past two years, many nobles have proposed to remove Blois from the list of nobles." ”
"Then stay," Chen Dahe took the backpack that was placed aside, took out a checkbook and wrote the numbers and handed it to her, "This money can pay off the mortgage loan and other private debts of the mortgage house first, and the debts of the Blois Company should not affect this ancient castle, right?"
Sophie hesitantly took it with both hands, glanced down, and suddenly let out a soft exclamation, and Selene also leaned over, with disbelief in her eyes, "A million dollars?"
Even when the Blois family's business was at its best, it was not easy to come up with a million dollars in cash, but now the young man in front of him easily wrote a check, who is he?
Neither of them doubted the authenticity of the check, it was too easy to verify, and when the person from the bank arrived, he could find out with a phone call, and it would not do him any good to open a blank check.
"Yes, a million dollars," Chen Dahe nodded, "This money is the first payment for the purchase of antiques, and you can spend it freely, while I only need a large number of high-quality Chinese antiques." ”
"Blois's debts are all signed in the name of the company, and even if the company goes bankrupt, it won't affect it," Sophie quickly calmed down and looked at him squarely, "Now I want to know, where will my profits come from, if I can reach a cooperation?"
"There are two points," Chen Dahe raised two fingers, "First of all, I will ask an expert to grade the antiques you acquired, those worth less than $500 are grade D, and you can get a commission of ten dollars for each piece, between five hundred and five thousand dollars for grade C, you can get a commission of one hundred dollars for each piece, five thousand to fifty thousand dollars or more for grade B, and you can get a commission of one thousand dollars for each piece, and more than $50,000 for grade A, and the commission amount is ten thousand dollars,"
Sophie looked at him in surprise, "Enzo, will there be any Chinese antiques worth more than five thousand dollars?"
The implication is that I don't believe in Chen Dahe's grading system at all.
Chen Dahe shrugged, "You didn't know about this before, if you find a nobleman who loves Chinese antiques, he will tell you a lot of things." ”
Sophie blinked, neither denying nor agreeing, but said, "What about the second point?"
"The second point comes from the difference in value," Chen Dahe said with a smile, "If you buy an A-grade antique at the price of D-grade, you can get 30% of the difference." ”
Sophie took a deep breath, "What if you receive a D-class item for the price of A-grade?"
Chen Dahe shrugged, "Then, you need to make up thirty percent of the lost part." ”
"Fair," Sophie smiled, then lowered her head and weighed silently.
With Enzo's way of paying, if he wants to get more returns, he must buy a sufficient number of antiques, and preferably high-quality antiques at a low price, so that he will also get more.
"Enzo," Sophie looked up at him, "can I understand why you're doing this? Is this a government action?"
"No," Chen Dahe shook his head with a smile, "These are my personal favorites, so I need to use your name as a cover, and you can't reveal my news to anyone." ”
Sophie was a little surprised, but she didn't ask much, in fact, this condition is also good for her, not revealing the financier behind it, it will only make outsiders speculate whether the Blois family has found a big backer, and if it leaks out, it will make the fame that has fallen to the bottom be trampled into the mud again.
"Enzo," Sophie asked suddenly, "I want to know what your acquisition budget is?"
Chen Dahe stretched out three fingers, "In the future, I will provide you with three million dollars of funds for acquisition every year, with additional commissions, and if you encounter B-grade and above items, you can also add to the budget, and in addition, I will also provide you with five thousand dollars per month for activities." ”
Three million dollars, more than twenty million francs, and at least sixty thousand dollars in commissions even for the purchase of all D-class items, plus five thousand monthly activity funds, were enough to maintain the dignity of the Blois family, and perhaps there would be a considerable surplus to pay the arrears of the Blois Trading Company.
If you can buy all the A-grade antiques, you will be able to pay off the company's debts soon, but are there so many A-grade antiques?
Sophie took a deep breath, "We need to sign a formal agency agreement, otherwise I can't explain to the outside world why I don't have money to save the company's debts, but to buy antiques, of course, you don't have to sign your real name, only your real fingerprints, and I will keep your identity a secret." ”
Chen Dahe was overjoyed when he heard this, "So, madam, do you agree?"
Sophie had a wry smile on her face, more relaxed, "I don't have any other options now, do I!"