Chapter 371: Megev
Just casually asked, Su Mu didn't plan to come to the Louvre to buy something.
Except for the well-known works of art whose names are deeply rooted in people's hearts, the prices of other things are seriously inflated, and the bubble is bigger than the NASDAQ, but if it is Van Gogh's "Sunflowers", Monet's "Water Lilies" and other famous paintings, there will never be a shortage of buyers.
The biggest bubble in the value of modern painters is Picasso, who also saw Picasso's paintings in the Louvre, honestly...... I really can't appreciate it.
After two days in Paris and a visit to the beautiful towns around Paris, Lily's depression finally calmed down, and on March 8, they took a helicopter ride to the famous ski town of Megève.
At the beginning of the 20th century, the Rothschild family, a long-established financial tycoon, wanted to create a winter sports resort emblematic of the French art de vivre, and with the help of Swedish technicians, they chose Megève as the ski town.
The richest family in the world at the time is now in decline, with a wealth of only about one-tenth of Su Mu's personal wealth, and the emaciated camel is bigger than a horse, and the members of the Ross Aschild family are still much richer than the vast majority of the world.
Su Mu has studied the methods of ancient Western families to preserve their wealth, and he has been inspired by this, and he doesn't want to be squandered by his descendants in a short period of time after his death, at least for four or five generations.
Look at the descendants of Rothschild, Rockefeller, DuPont and other families, but they are still rich. Their so-called decline is more like being overtaken by others, but in fact, wealth is still increasing, not counting the depreciation caused by inflation, and the wealth figure is still increasing.
Compared with the ancestors of the Rothschilds, the ancestors of the Lily family were at best a small nouveau riche and could not be compared in that era, but recently Lily had made a fortune, and when the helicopter landed, she gloated and said to Su Mu: "I once heard my grandfather say that my great-grandfather fell in love with a girl from the Rothschild family, but unfortunately he was turned away when he visited the other party's house."
At that time, Europeans looked down on us Americans, thinking that they were all descendants of criminals, my great-grandfather made hundreds of thousands of dollars at that time, and he was not very poor, compared with this family, and now the Rothschilds do not have any capable heirs, and it is estimated that they will continue to decline, look at you from Chinatown, you are much more powerful than them!"
Considering this sentence as a compliment, Su Mu asked her, "I remember that this family is mainly married between relatives?"
"That's right, the girl my great-grandfather liked, who later married her cousin, seems to be doing the same. ”
"It's really brave, it's not long proven that inbreeding is not good for the next generation, this is how the Habsburgs perished in history, and the offspring will have all kinds of strange diseases, and there are also children who are mentally retarded.
The history of Europe since the Middle Ages seems to be a history of consanguineous marriages, and they need to ensure that wealth does not leak out through marriage, and that inheritance rights are guaranteed, as long as the gender and identity match, nothing else is a problem. Marriage between uncles and nephews was also very popular, and King Philip IV of France married his niece, and later gave birth to a son, Charles II, who became a deformity. ”
Lily added: "You forgot to mention that the most important task is that Queen Victoria married her cousin, and gave birth to nine children who married European royal families, and the result was nightmarish hemophilia in European royal families. ”
"It's really messy, it's a hotbed for the development of genetic diseases, so think about the Rothschilds There are no smart characters, it seems to make sense, and then look at our son, the teachers say that he is very smart!"
"Maybe it's because you're paying them well, Leon. Lily poured cold water on her and continued: "After teaching our son, it means that it will be much easier to continue looking for a job in the future, and more than 100 people have applied for a math teacher alone. ”
“…… Don't always tell the truth, it's not cute at all. Su Mu said in a suffocated tone.
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Megève is a very beautiful ski town.
The surrounding hills are not high, and the trees are cut out of the slopes, which are more suitable for beginners and skiers with average skills, if you want to challenge the high difficulty, France Meriber, Gao Xuemel and other places are good places, the French have high welfare and low work pressure, and they like to take time out for vacation and travel in their busy time.
First go to the hotel to put things away, and then go out to ski, calculate the time, it is already morning in California, and I specially called my father Su Dingcai to ask his grandson if he has studied hard and let him supervise more.
In fact, it is also in vain, the family is now too rich, so that even the old man Su, who thought that studying was the only way out, now keeps his mouth shut about it, last time Su Mu donated 50 million US dollars to Yale and Stanford respectively, how many years do students in the school have to work to earn so much?
After more than ten years of long edification, Su Mu finally succeeded in transforming the values of his family, and recently began to be willing to spend money to improve his life.
Staying in a family hotel with a strong sense of life, the room is not luxurious, but it is very exquisite, and it can be seen that it has been cleaned up with care.
The owners are a middle-aged couple who used to live in the center of Paris, where the housing prices are not low, and it is estimated that they have a little money, but then they are tired of urban life, so they decided to move to this small city with almost no stress, and spend most of the year receiving customers, and in the summer they find a place to travel, and live a very chic life.
They didn't know Su Mu, but as long as they were not blind, they could see that the person who went out in a helicopter with more than a dozen bodyguards would not be ordinary people.
Listening to the introduction of the owner and his wife, Su Mu was ready to try it now, he had only seen it on TV before, and he had never really tried skiing, and on the way Lily asked him speechlessly: "You go skiing, then what am I going to do?" Don't forget that I still have your child in my belly. ”
"Hmm...... Very nice question. Why didn't you warn me before I came, or I'd go skiing, and you'd be watching?"
Su Mu pointed to the sleigh that was dragged by the deer, "Otherwise, you can play this, if you slow down, you probably won't fall, let's go to the hot spring at night, just now I asked the shopkeeper to help me find a clean hot spring bag down, let's go soak together." ”
Lily, who was full of slander about this, really beckoned to ask the owner who was holding the reindeer in French how much it cost to rent for two hours.
Her French skills were mediocre, not even as good as Su Mu's, and after a while, Lily sat on the sleigh and smirked and asked Su Mu to take pictures of herself......