Chapter 31: The Mona Lisa Who Doesn't Smile

"You don't know this, do you? See the logo of this Taurus? This is called Lamborghini, a supercar" The young man said to his colleague before, he is more interested in cars, so he knows most of the more famous international brands, but although he knows it, it is the first time he has seen a real car, and he usually sees it on Weibo.

Li Zimu smiled and didn't answer, these two cars were imported through formal procedures, all kinds of documents and procedures were complete, and the customs duties were also paid to him, and the rest of the purchase tax had to be run by himself tomorrow.

According to Huaxia's new policy this year, the tariff price of luxury cars is 25 percentage points of its own price, and the purchase tax is also 17 percentage points, which add up to almost half of the price of the car, which means that the tariffs on the import of these two cars can allow him to buy another Audi RS7......

However, this is also understandable, the intention is to protect the development of local corporate brands, for example, if there are no such high tariffs, then everyone will choose imported cars, because the quality of domestic cars is still slightly insufficient compared to imported cars. If everyone buys imported cars, what should domestic car brands do?

Both of these vehicles were imported back through regular channels, and they could be handled by any ocean shipping company. The reason why Chris said that Li Zimu owed him a big favor was not because of these two cars, but because of the three hundred wooden boxes in the container in front of him.

As mentioned earlier, the contents are all antiques, and the market price of each one is very expensive, and some of them are even worth more than this Lamborghini, and the total value of this container is definitely more than nine figures.

If you bring it back to China according to the regular procedure, the tax alone is not a small amount, you must know that antique works of art are also subject to customs duties, and the tax rate is only higher than that of imported cars. But this is only one aspect, and the other is that it will cause panic.

If so many high-value antiques are imported at one time, it will definitely attract the attention of the relevant departments, and it may bring him a lot of trouble, because there are some things in it that cannot be seen, and Li Zimu will definitely not take this risk.

Another reason is that antiques belong to the property of the state, not only in China, but also in other countries. So if you want to bring so many things back, you have to have a special channel, so Li Zimu will find Chris and ask him to help.

A large company like the US Presidential Steamship Company, which has been in business for more than 100 years, naturally has channels in this regard, but it still has to open up a lot of relationships and run a lot of roads, and the condition is a three-year contract for transportation work for a company under Li Zimu's name. This deal can be regarded as a win-win situation, anyway, there is no loss for Li Zimu, and it is the same for Chris, and the result is of course happy for everyone.

"Let's go, I'll lead the way in front, hard work everyone" Li Zimu said with a smile, looking at the time, it was already three o'clock in the afternoon.

A few people were familiar with the road and put the car on the company's trailer. And Li Zimu followed the driver master into the pickup truck, and he guided the way and took the lead to drive ahead.

Half an hour later, several trucks stopped at the entrance of the Emgrand Garden Community, and after saying hello to the doorman, several cars went into the underground garage.

In addition to the pedestrian elevator, this kind of high-end community also sets up a freight elevator, which is used to load goods, because the furniture that the householder generally buys is relatively large, and the space is relatively large, a freight elevator can be loaded with more than 20 boxes at a time, and all the things that run a dozen times are transported to the living room of the house.

"Hard work everyone" Li Zimu said to the group of employees, everyone was busy for more than an hour, in addition to a bottle of mineral water per person, cigarettes are indispensable, fortunately there were preparations before, ten people each sent a pack of hard Chinese, everyone smiled and drove back.

Looking at the pile of wooden boxes that covered half of the living room, Li Zimu smiled and shook his head, it seems that some of them are busy these days, and it is estimated that it will take a lot of time to unpack the boxes......

Pudding looked like he didn't care about himself, lazily lying on the sofa watching this scene, wagging his furry tail from time to time to indicate that he was still alive, while Li Zimu on the other side had already begun to unpack the box.

It was not too easy for him to break open this kind of box assembled with wooden planks with his bare hands, and after opening it, there was a thick foam box inside, which was filled with cotton, and the cotton was wrapped in his things, which was also packed in small boxes, but it was a high-end sandalwood box.

There was only one sandalwood box in each box at most, and a whole hour passed, and Li Zimu only took out more than sixty of them, and many more were not taken out. But after looking at the time, it was almost six o'clock, and I got up and stretched and walked to the kitchen. I haven't even drunk saliva after a busy afternoon, so it's time to make something to eat.

"Pudding, don't make trouble...... "Just brought out two bowls of fragrant egg fried rice from the kitchen and prepared to feast, he saw Pudding lying on the ground and tinkering with the sandalwood box that Li Zimu had just taken out, he put down the plate and walked over, picked up this guy and put it on the table.

The box was pulled open by this guy, Li Zimu shook his head and looked at the box that was opened on the ground, and rubbed the pudding's hairy head, but the latter was so shameless that Li Zimu couldn't do anything about it.

There was a cylindrical thing lying in the box, wrapped in a layer of black plastic sheeting, which had now been rubbed open by the pudding, Li Zimu picked up the thing, and gently tore off the plastic sheet wrapped in several layers, revealing the contents inside, which was an oil painting.

This guy must have smelled the scent of beeswax and was greedy, otherwise what are you doing with this thing, Li Zimu thought to himself. He applied two layers of turpentine dissolved in natural beeswax to the back of the painting, which was to prevent the ingress of humid air and damage to the painting.

The oil painting is rolled around a paper tube, and the picture is facing outward, so you can see a small part of the painting, but the color still looks very bright, and it feels very textured, and the oil paint has not fallen off because of the passage of time.

Slowly spreading out the oil painting little by little, the painting is fully revealed, this is a portrait of a young girl.

If anyone else is here, they will recognize it, isn't this the well-known portrait of the Mona Lisa's smile? But if you look closely, you will find that the Mona Lisa in this painting is not smiling......