Leaving aside Kevin Roosevelt, a small role that is already insignificant, the strength of the two is not in the same weight class.

With the governor personally coming forward to entrap the relationship and take him to socialize with other wealthy businessmen in the same camp, it means that Han Chudong is gradually being accepted by the upper echelons and becoming a big financier worth attracting in the eyes of others.

The donkeys are coming, will the elephants be far away?

Once these two parties compete with each other, the situation should be a little safer, as for whether they can get the benefits left and right, it depends on Han Chudong's own ability.

Even the "left and right" thing itself often comes with a certain amount of risk, because no one likes wall grass, but if the wall grass is thick and strong into a big tree, it becomes a different matter.

Compared with other businessmen who promote policies and seek benefits for themselves, his advantage is that he doesn't need to ask anyone at all, anyway, there are investment opportunities everywhere, and those who are not willing to earn more than ten or eight times the income are not willing to earn, which makes the donkey elephant need him on both sides more than he needs the group of people.

Since the valuation of Rainbow Beauty has skyrocketed, Han Chudong has become more and more at ease recently.

......

After visiting Paul Getty Sr.'s house, Han Chudong started the idea of buying some old things.

I asked Arthur's assistant to help me find a middleman, and I quickly contacted a few professionals who were a little famous in the industry, and the requirements were very simple, as long as the shape was beautiful and long-lasting, he would be willing to take over if the price was right.

In addition, I also contacted several experienced appraisers to help me try to buy some exquisite Chinese antiques to decorate my new home in the future.

Considering the general environment of these years, ordinary objects are not worth much, and the price of real rare items is not too high.

Perhaps because he wished that Han Chudong could not repay the loan, the bank gave him a loan, and did not even make any requirements for the purpose of the loan, which was only a general category of "business investment".

So for a long time, Han Chudong has not been subject to too many constraints, and even transferred some shares of Mason United Group to the United Kingdom, Switzerland, Ireland and other places, without notifying the bank, anyway, the subject matter has not been transferred, as long as the loan is repaid on time, the banks will not care.

It's not that I believe in his personal creditworthiness, but that his assets far outweigh his liabilities, and his credit rating is the highest, and there is no risk of default.

This makes it so that in recent times, Han Chudong has been very free, building houses, buying buildings, buying airplanes, and making investments, Mango Toy Company can make money, Baofeng Electric has obtained a large amount of financing, and Rainbow Beauty's current income is enough to maintain its own expansion, and there is also spare money to remember the shares of Chanel, Christo Dior, Maybelline and other companies.

Looking at the luxury goods company, the acquired companies are already in a profitable state, but the amount is small, and after a one-time investment in financing, there is no need to worry about money for the time being.

Aside from Hermès, which only has shares and no management rights, Gucci and later acquired Yves Saint Laurent (YSL) of France are trying to adjust their strategic layout and shift their development focus to the United States and Asia.

In addition, it has also stepped up publicity efforts to speed up product upgrading, Han Chudong is trying to set up production plants in South Korea and Yueben respectively to reduce production and operating costs, and also announced to other shareholders that they will not pay dividends for five years, focusing funds on expansion.

The situation is very good, and even the rainbow beauty, whose development momentum has been curbed, is a money-printing machine that makes people blush.

Under this premise, it is no wonder that Han Chudong got up, not only went to travel and vacation, but also thought about starting to play with cultural relics and antiques.

It's not easy to make money, it's easy to spend money, but in the next few days, there are middlemen who help find a bunch of good things to buy, including a marble statue of Aphrodite of the Roman Empire born around the beginning of the first century AD, as well as hundreds of ancient marble wall tiles, and many sculptures and oil paintings using ancient Greek mythological characters as the theme of creation.

These materials are compiled and organized into a very thick book, and some things in private museums can also be traded, and all Han Chudong needs to do is to select the eye-catching items from them and then pay to buy them.

The price of oil paintings is high, and the price of sculptures ranges from thousands to more than 100,000 US dollars, and the really well-known and expensive ones have long been treasured by major museums, and he has not encountered them anyway.

Looking at the hired appraisers and collectors, they are only listing the fine Chinese cultural relics they know about according to Han Chudong's needs for the time being.

and other materials were handed over to Han Chudong, and seeing familiar names made his heart dry and his mouth was dry.

For example, "Six Dragons", the closest to Wang Xizhi's original "Funeral Post", the bronze tiger cannibal, the porcelain Yao Changtianmu Zhan, etc., good guys, it seems that let them find high-quality products, and they are really counted according to the most famous and valuable ones.

The number of Chinese cultural relics scattered around the world may be as high as 10 million, and the vast majority of them are only a little old and do not have too high artistic and collection value.

Due to the similarity of cultural backgrounds, some collectors and museums have a very vicious eye, and they know very well which Chinese cultural relics are the most valuable, or they are bought at a low price, or they are robbed in the Ming Dynasty, so that many of them have flowed to the book.

Han Chudong also recently learned that the appraisers of Chinese cultural relics in many well-known museums in Europe and the United States, such as the Louvre, the British Museum, the Metropolitan Museum, etc., will find himself to be responsible, so he can always select and collect the real masterpieces, and then list them for display.

September begins on Labor Day in the United States, with a total of three days off.

On the morning of the first day, Han Chudong took Kiko Mochizuki to a country club to play tennis with the staff who were specially responsible for playing with her, and she was so tired that she was sweating profusely.

Because there were too many strangers who came to talk, many of them asked for investment and sponsorship, and in addition to being annoyed, the short vacation that was originally scheduled for a whole day was shortened to half a day, and after eating the buffet at noon, they drove back to the city and silently blacked out this country club.

It's not that he looks down on others after he gets rich, it's just that too many people come to harass him, he imagined that coming to the country club should be very comfortable and leisurely, but he didn't expect hundreds of guests to pour in during the holiday, making the vacation a party, and they all talked about topics that Han Chudong was not interested in, so he was a little unhappy.

On the way back.

He said to Kiko Mochizuki, "Your Japanese level, it's okay to be a translator, right? Just leave early, and accompany me to meet someone later." ”

"If it's a daily conversation, I think it's okay, who to meet, me?"

"Well, I live in Tachibana Prefecture, and I was told that he has a lot of artifacts in his hands, and that he belongs to a famous collector in Kyoto. Recently I've been interested in collecting, and if I have the chance, I'd like to buy a painting from him......"