Chapter 27: The Remains of the Berlin Wall!
Although Jia Lei went to the car and various enterprises this time, as a Chinese must travel abroad, Jia Lei was the boss this time, but fortunately he took his subordinates to see the most famous Berlin Wall - the land!
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After seeing the Berlin Wall, everyone went to another place to photograph the Brandenburg Gate. Jia Lei's actions are not unusual at all, all the sightseeing groups and tourists who go to Berlin have taken a bunch of photos here, but now the surroundings are not the same as they were back then, and all tourists regret not being able to see the Berlin Wall.
Near the Brandenburg Gate, there are a bunch of East Germans and Russians selling Soviet-style souvenirs around the desolate Gate, and for tourists, especially foreigners, the application of German is as simple as a good number, and the ability to say "zu teuer" (too expensive) and YES or NO will do the trick.
Jia Lei walked around and bought a few things: a synthetic belt of the Russian army, an oval car nationality identification plate with "DDR" (East Germany) written on it, and an unexpected surprise: the commemorative watch of the Soviet destroyer "Удалой" (Udaloy, with the translation of "Yongzhuang" class) cost only 13 marks, and Jia Lei immediately put it on with great interest.
"It's a good place, but I'd love to see the Berlin Wall!" Pete said regretfully in English.
But the people of East Berlin hate the Berlin Wall so much that they have dug out the foundations of the ground, and I am afraid that they will not be able to find it now. Jia Lei said.
Because West Germany is occupied by country M, many people in West Germany can speak English, and the conversation between Jia Lei and Pete before them was understood by the West German people who were present in English, and a West German souvenir seller suddenly ran to Jia Lei's vicinity.
"Do gentlemen want to see the Berlin Wall? I know where it is. The hawker spoke, and Jia Lei and the others immediately surrounded them with interest.
"Where is the Berlin Wall? tell us quickly!" Jia Lei hurriedly asked.
"I have a map of Berlin, a tourist brochure and a souvenir, do you want to buy a few gentlemen?" said the West German vendor, Jia Lei understood in seconds that this was a message fee!
"Give each of us a map and a booklet, and give you fifty marks to look for. Jia Lei took out 50 West German marks and handed it to him.
The vendor immediately opened his mouth after getting the tip, only to see him sneakily take Jia Lei to a nearby alley, knock on the door of a store, and take Jia Lei and them inside, there is actually a fragment of the Berlin Wall about three meters long in the store's warehouse, which is a relatively complete wall, although he was smashed by the angry D countryman, but he was picked up and put together by this shrewd peddler.
"You can take any picture you want, five dollars a photo! If you can take a picture for fifty dollars, you can get a memento of the Berlin Wall for another fifty dollars. Said the vendor.
The Berlin Wall was particularly hated by East Germans, who did not dare to do business openly because it was too close to the East, and he usually quietly solicited foreign tourists who did not speak Russian to come back and take pictures for a fee.
"Here you go, I'm going to take a picture. Pete said happily, and he handed out $50.
"Where's the souvenir?" can you show me?" asked Jia Lei.
"Of course, here!" said the West German vendor who led Jia Lei to the corner and pointed to a few boxes, Jia Lei stretched out his head to see that there were wall fragments with various spray graffiti inside.
"Get me a piece, can I pick it myself?" asked Jia Lei.
"Of course you can!" said the peddler, and Jia Lei carefully picked it up in the box, and finally he picked a piece of wall fragment with the word "freedom" written on it in a hot air balloon.
"Give you money!" Jia Lei took out $50 and handed it over.
"Boss, what are you buying this thing for? This thing looks like it was taken from the garbage dump and dirty!" said Pete in disgust.
"It's not dirty! It's not dirty! I didn't pick it up from the garbage dump, I picked it up myself in the days when the Berlin Wall fell. The peddler hastened.
"Really? You know, I'm not afraid of dirty, I'm afraid of dirty! I've heard that a lot of people died under the Berlin Wall, and I'm afraid that there are blood stains of dead people on it. Jia Lei asked as he weighed the fragments of his schoolbag in his hand.
"No! Definitely not! Those bloody things no one wanted at all, they were all dragged to the garbage dump landfill, these Berlin Wall are really too many I can pick at will, at that time the interested people took a few pieces home, and the rest were sent by the government to the garbage dump to landfill. The peddler said, and Jia Lei looked up at him when he heard this.
"Then I'm not at a loss, since you can pick me up casually in the garbage dump, why spend $50 to buy it with you!" Jia Lei said.
"How dirty is the dump, and besides, a lot of them have been buried in the ground, and you foreigners are looking for them, and you don't look like poor people, so you can't afford to save the fifty dollars and take out the garbage dump to pick up the rubbish!" said the vendor with a laugh.
"That maybe......" Jia Lei said, looking at the dollar in his hand.
"Let's go, stop playing, do you want to work if you go shopping any longer?" Jia Lei and everyone else took a photo and said that he must know that he has something particularly important to do now.
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"Novan help me find out where the landfills in Berlin are, especially the ones in East Germany! Jia Lei said to Novan as soon as he returned to the hotel.
"Boss, why do you want the location of the garbage dump?"
"Yes!" Jia Lei replied to him hastily, Jia Lei has no time to talk nonsense with Pete now.
"Daddy Farr, I want to know if our company has the qualification to dispose of garbage?" Jia Lei turned around and asked Farr, who had handled the registration and business scope of several companies.
"The management of environmental protection enterprises in Germany is very strict, and different types of garbage need to be disposed of by different kinds of companies, and our company is only qualified to recycle second-hand goods!" said Father Farr.
"You are going to open an environmental protection company right away, and I want him to have all kinds of waste material processing qualifications, including domestic garbage, construction waste and other types of waste disposal qualifications, and you are helping me register a private museum, a tourism company. Jia Lei said.
"Okay, boss!" said the old man nodding, as an employee he abides by the character of an employee, and never asks the boss why he made this decision.
"Pete, you will help me buy me a plot of land near the Brandenburg Gate or the Charlie (C) checkpoint, and I will build a museum on it, and the space should be at least two thousand square meters. Jia Lei said.
"Open a museum, boss, what are you going to exhibit, are you painting or antique?" asked Pete.
"No, I'm going to exhibit the Berlin Wall!" Jia Lei raised his head and said with a golden glow in his eyes.
"Isn't there no Berlin Wall? How are you going to exhibit it?" asked Novan as a West German, who was not as repulsive to the Berlin Wall as East Germans.
"Who said that if the Berlin Wall is gone, shouldn't it just stay under the garbage site?" Jia Lei smiled evilly and looked at the people present and said, Pete shivered and felt that the boss might have fallen into evil.
"But it costs you a lot of money to build a museum with such fanfare, and it will take a long time to earn back this money just by selling tickets. Richard said that as an asset appraiser, he still has a good understanding of the commercial value of projects such as museums.
"Just kidding, my travel agency of the Great Celestial Dynasty will not lose money even if it is a zero-group tour! How can a mere museum lose money!" Jia Lei said with a laugh.
You must know that there are countless tourist attractions on the land of China in the last life, and there are thousands of ways to make money alone, and the business model of tourist attractions that Jia Lei has seen is enough to beat the whole of Europe!
"Ethan, you immediately help me contact an archaeological team and an excavation team, and we will start work as soon as Daddy Farr's formalities are completed, Richard, don't forget to help Daddy Farr do the asset appraisal, you better help us keep the price of the person who sold the house down, after all, we have limited funds." Jia Lei said.
"Do you know what business is the most profitable in this world?" Jia Lei asked.
"Smuggling!" said Pete.
"Drug trafficking!" said Farr without hesitation.
"Futures investment!" Novan said from a professional perspective.
"Dig for gold or oil!" said Richard, whispering as he quipped, for the two were indeed the most lucrative.
"It's all wrong! Smuggling and drug trafficking are illegal! The cost of violating the law is too high, and the profit is only a few dozen times higher, which is not cost-effective! The profit after the futures are leveraged is indeed good enough, but ...... Futures are a zero-sum game, and if there is a profit, there must be a loss! The risk is too great, and it is not cost-effective!" Jia Lei denied three people in a row.
"Then the ratio of output to input between gold and oil mines is always okay, but how much does mining cost? Gold and oil are huge profits! Profits can reach hundreds of times, you can't deny this, right?" asked Richard.
"I admit everything you say, but ...... Both gold mines and oil fields are non-renewable resources, which will be hollowed out one day, and his long-term growth is not good. Jia Lei said. In his previous life, as an otaku, Jia Lei was not good at other things, but he was very good at arguing and fighting with others.
"What's the most profitable thing you say?" asked Pete.
"Of course, it's a tourist attraction, do you know how much the Statue of Liberty and the Eiffel Tower cost a year? Admission to such places can sell for hundreds of millions of dollars every year! The Berlin Wall's reputation is no smaller than theirs, and the most important thing is that tourist attractions are more valuable the older and older they are, and as long as they are carefully maintained, they are a chicken that lays golden eggs forever! It can bring me a steady stream of wealth and fame!" Jia Lei said.
The domestic tourist attractions are all national, in the last life, many tourist attractions are located in the property rights of the villagers are all local tyrants, the villagers below the Yellow Mountain can invite the little star to sing birthday songs on their birthdays......
Jia Lei envied the property owners of these tourist attractions in his last life...... This time he can also leave a tourist attraction for future generations!