Chapter 468: Han Xuan's Charitable Trust
The grass grows in the cracks of the stones, absorbing sunlight and rain, and that is not a miracle.
What Han Xuan, Isabele, and Harris saw in front of them at this moment is called a miracle!
They had just gone underground through the hole that had been drilled by a tunnel boring machine on the side of the peninsula.
Walk through a few hundred meters long, brightly lit tunnels to this cave of thousands of square meters.
Countless lights illuminate the place.
The roots of the giant sequoia, several meters thick, are densely distributed around the cave, which is more than five meters high.
The ground beneath your feet is flat, with marks left by chiseling.
It is conceivable that thousands of years ago, the devout inhabitants of the area dug out the stones little by little and shipped them to other places.
The roots of the tree were not destroyed, and the marks left on them by the stones and dirt that had been carved in the past were now clearer as the roots grew thicker.
Piles of gold jewels, scattered haphazardly on the ground, remained as they had been when they were found.
Masks, walking sticks, ornaments with animal figures made of gold, as well as colonial gold coins and precious stones, sparkle under the light of tungsten lamps.
Most of the other things have been eroded and broken by the years.
After it was converted into a museum, the four sides of the treasure were covered with bulletproof glass, and it could only be viewed through the glass.
There were equal numbers of security guards and construction workers, monitoring their movements, and the workers seemed to be used to it and didn't care.
In the face of so much low-hanging fruit, no one guards it, maybe it will really do stupid things, but with a large salary, even ten people are willing to watch it.
After work, I smiled and chatted with the security guards who guarded me, and after more than a month, I have become familiar with each other.
The contractor was notified, trotted over to greet Han Xuan, and shouted from afar: "Wait for me!"
I'm the supervisor here, Jerome Bruner, and welcome here!
The vents are being built, there is a lot of dust, and it is better to wear a mask like me. β
Han Xuan took out a mask from his pocket, "Thank you, Mr. Bruner, I brought it myself."
It's a lot of fun, it's more beautiful than I thought. β
"Haha! We tried to keep it as it was, only adding some anti-theft measures to the outside of the treasure, as well as lights and vents.
Nothing else has changed, and it's a strange place in the first place. β
Isabelle asked him, "Why doesn't it collapse when the top of his head isn't full of stones?" β
"I guess it's because of that. β
Bruner patted the roots of the trees beside him, "Their roots hold the soil in place and support the space.
Geologists came to check and said that at least until the trees die in large numbers, nothing will go wrong.
The old tree dies, and the new tree grows again, and if it really collapses, there is an escape exit.
We dug an escape exit on each side, which was mandated by the government. β
Han Xuan asked him: "With so many exits, what about security?"
I mean, if someone comes to steal these treasures and antiques, it's not safe to have a safe exit. β
"There are security guards patrolling during the day, and the exits are locked at night, so no one can get in.
Look at the machine overhead, it's motion sensors, and there's a hundred and thirty of them installed in a museum!
Even if a mouse climbs two steps forward, or a butterfly flapps its wings, an alarm will be triggered.
Within two and a half minutes, heavily armed security guards will come down to check on them.
If there is a power outage, in a minute, the backup power supply will be activated, and the thieves will not have time to break through the bulletproof glass.
When the security device is turned on, hundreds of laser sensors will be activated, and the cameras will operate 24 hours a day, so you can rest assured.
Come with me, I'll show you around here, there are some places under construction, and if you think the sound of drilling into the wall is noisy, you can block your ears. β
"Thank you"
Harris probed his head and looked out.
Passing by every bulletproof glass wall, you have to take a look at the strange things inside and muttering how much it's worth.
Isabelle muttered to herself, "I'm afraid the greatest treasure in the United States is here, right?"
Bruna nodded affirmatively, "It's very likely that nothing more valuable has ever been found in history, and the history of the United States is too short."
After this treasure was discovered, treasure hunters have recently set their sights on several other legends, and one couple actually found a small treasure worth more than 100,000 dollars.
It was a batch of silver buried during the Civil War, which was worth a lot of money back then, but now it has dropped in price.
I envy you, if only I could find a treasure. β
Han Xuan smiled, "I'm just lucky......"
But in fact, he knew a treasure, a treasure more valuable than this!
After it was unearthed in the previous life, it caused a sensation for a long time, and it was introduced in the headlines of Chinese newspapers, because it was worth more than 10 billion US dollars!
However, the address of the treasure is not in the United States, but in India, buried in an underground palace called the Padmanaba Swamy Temple.
After tasting the sweetness this time, Han Xuan moved his mind.
However, this temple had many local believers, and it was under the jurisdiction of the descendants of the royal family of this small country at that time, so it was not easy to move.
But it's just not easy, not that it's impossible.
Han Xuan felt that when he grew up, for the sake of more than 1,200 2.5-kilogram gold bars and countless treasures, it was necessary to travel to India and earn some pocket money
Listen to Bruner introduce items like a tour guide, and slowly come to a place where hundreds of empty glass cabinets are placed.
The dΓ©cor is obviously different from the previous style, a little more modern.
Harris looked up and asked Bruner, "What are you going to put here?"
"Antiques, oil paintings, stuff like that. Bruner looked at Han Xuan: "Mr. Quark and Mr. Han came to me some time ago and planned to donate their collections to this museum. β
"Really?"
Han Xuan came back to his senses from the thought of thinking about tens of billions of dollars in treasures, and his eyes widened!
Grandpa and grandfather didn't tell him about it, their expressions were quite surprised, the two old men of their own family had collected good things for a lifetime, and they were willing to take them out and show them to others!
"Well, it seems that I am planning to set up a charitable trust in your name.
Donate those things to a charity in your name, and 50% of the net profits from the annual ticket fee will be used for charity, and it will take 30 years for these things to truly belong to you. β
Hearing him say this, Han Xuan suddenly realized!
This is preparing to take advantage of the loopholes of the law and exempt from gift tax!
When I used to watch the news, the rich Americans donated naked at every turn, thinking that they were really so generous.
Later, I learned that it wasn't quite like that.
Some of them are charitable, but more often than not, they are designed to exempt up to 55% or even 60% of inheritance and gift taxes, leaving their wealth to their descendants.
Those charitable organizations are generally run by their descendants, and they do not have to pay taxes if they donate their businesses and wealth to these charitable trust organizations.
Their descendants can take a part of the profits every year, and use the rest for the company's operations, and the proportion of profits that actually enter the charity industry is very small.
In this way, there is no fear that future generations will bring down the enterprise, and it can also avoid government taxes and pass on the wealth.
Like Bill Gates, Warren Buffett, the Rockefeller family, Walmart and Ford's family charitable trusts, etc.
Descendants can receive dividends every year, and the property will not be nationalized until an agreed time, such as ten generations, or 200 years later.
And the charitable trust of the old man and his grandfather is obviously different from those, and these things cannot be sold now, but they will be returned to the descendants of the donors after 30 years, which belongs to private individuals.
Han Xuan saw Bruner's strange gaze, thinking that he was despising himself, he felt a little weak, and glared: "Our family is Chinese!"
The custom is that wealth is passed on, not to mention that there are a lot of donations!
Comments?!"
"No, I want to say, you've got cobwebs on your head."
Bruna pointed to his hair and smiled wryly.
"Oh. β
After spending more than an hour looking at this, Isabelli said, "There's a Chinese tomb down here, how about going and see?" )