When Li Du took out the paintings, he also took out the appraisal report jointly given by the Los Angeles Art Collection Center and Christie's oil painting experts. Pen % fun % Pavilion www.biquge.info

Jacob laughed when he saw the appraisal report, and said, "They gave you the appraisal, little Potter, this time the matter is simple, maybe you don't need me to help." ”

Potter asked curiously, "Why do you say that, Uncle Jacob?"

Jacob said: "Three of the appraisers for this painting are my friends, and I know them well, and they are honest and competent, and the results are authoritative enough. ”

Li Du smiled, it seems that the two groups of people that Rogge helped him find are very reliable.

That being said, Jacob was still very serious about appraising the portrait.

He also brought with him a small machine that could analyze the paints and canvases of the portraits.

Li Du asked curiously, "Is this a carbon-14 analysis tool?"

He had long heard of this archaeological and antiquities identification technique, but he had never had the opportunity to meet it.

The old gentleman shook his head and smiled: "No, the carbon-14 identification method is not suitable for oil painting, first, the accuracy is not enough, and second, the sample size required is relatively large, but not all oil paintings can provide so many sample sizes." ”

However, this machine is identified in a similar way to carbon-14, which identifies cesium-137 and strontium-90.

Cesium-137 and strontium-90 are nuclear weapons explosions in the forties and fifties of the last century, which have released two special isotopes, which have terrifying penetrating power, penetrating the entire earth's soil layer, flora and fauna.

Among them, the creation of oil paintings requires the use of glue natural oil, which is also the object of penetration of the two isotopes.

Before the nuclear explosion, these two isotopes never appeared in nature.

Therefore, if experts find these two isotopes in a pre-1945 oil painting, there is only one conclusion - the painting is a forgery from 1945.

"What if these paintings were forged before 1945?" asked Li Du.

The old gentleman patiently explained: "Because the counterfeiting technology has only developed by leaps and bounds after World War II, before 1945, the counterfeiting technology of oil paintings was immature and easy to identify. ”

"In addition, Van Gogh's paintings only began to dominate the art market after World War II, and no one used to make any efforts to create fakes. ”

Of course, these reasons are not absolute, they are only reference reasons. Mainly rely on professional analysis and identification, from the lines, colors, we can identify the difference between the real and fake paintings. ”

There is no crime without buying and selling, and this phrase is very suitable for art counterfeiting.

The final appraisal result is the same as the appraisal report, these are two real paintings.

Potter nodded with satisfaction and said, "Then let's agree on the value of the two paintings, and if the price is right, I can buy them together." ”

"Together?" Li Du smacked, this is really extraordinarily rich.

"I have an elder who wants to give a gift to an important client who likes paintings, so I think those two paintings should please him," Porter said. ”

Li Du exclaimed: "Tens of millions of gifts? ”

Potter didn't continue to talk about it, he smiled and said, "I don't know much about this, let's talk about the price." ”

The price of the two paintings is based on the market price of other paintings, and when he was authentic before, the two groups of experts had already given him advice.

Hans is an expert in this regard, Li Du is angry with him, and the price is negotiated by him.

"Based on our inquiries from collectors, museums and auction houses, Scheveningen Beach is 32 million and Leaving Nieernen Church is 20 million," says Hans. ”

Potter was about to speak, but Jacob laughed, and he stopped Potter and motioned for him to come.

It was another long bargaining, during which the two sides made various phone calls, and asked friends for advice for reference, and finally the price was set:

"Scheveningen Beach" is 30 million, and "Leaving the Church of Nieernen" is 16 million.

Li Du accepted this price, which was about the same as the suggested price given by the two groups of experts, obviously the other party was not Kaizi, so it was not easy to fool.

A total of 46 million, the two paintings were traded, and Li Du's wallet was bulging again.

He called Rogge and lawyer Ball to complete the acquisition of the Norman pair's shares.

Together, the two men had a 1 percent stake, and Li Dude used the price he paid to buy Tatiq, and he spent 11.2 million to acquire 8/1,000 of the shares, and this time the purchase price was 14 million.

At the end of the acquisition, Li Du owned 8.8% of the equity of Hairui Group and was an important shareholder.

He can't spend the remaining $32 million anymore, and there is a lot of unpaid taxes, which he has to keep to pay taxes, otherwise he will be targeted by the US tax office, and he will be miserable.

After making enough money from the fire opal, Li Du still wants to go back and continue to do it.

He has already planned to dig up opal in the United States, dig it for two years, help Hairui Group complete the transformation, during which he will acquire the equity of Hairui Group, and eat dividends in the future.

As for Hai Rui Group, if he can't eat his fire opal, he can sell it to other luxury companies.

In the ranking of the world's top luxury companies, Hairui Group's comprehensive strength is not even ranked in the top 50, and other large companies still have huge markets to tap.

After a few days off, Li Du returned to the national park full of ambition.

Then when he was ready to lease the land, he was denied......

Li Du asked in surprise, "Why did you deny me access to the national park?"

The manager in charge of managing the ticket office smiled, "We don't deny you entry, we just can't allow you to go in and look for gems, you're already in our Treasure Hunt Hall of Fame." ”

Li Du looked dazed: "Damn, what's going on?"

He thought that the last time he helped Rose clean up the matter of Surgi and Hughes, the East Window had happened, and it had aroused the hatred of the national park management.

Actually, that's not the case, at least not for the main reason.

It was Owen who set him along, and Owen told the National Park that Li Du had found more than thirty fire opals here at once.

The National Park has a ridiculous rule that if an ore picker harvests more than 24 fire opals in a year, he will be inducted into the Hall of Fame and barred from entering......

According to the theory of probability, it is difficult for the average person to obtain twenty-four gems in a year, and if the number exceeds this value, it proves that illegal means have been used.

The ore pickers all know this rule, but this rule is actually formalism, and the park security guards have no right to check the harvest of the ore pickers, so as long as they don't get too high-profile and get the gems out and dispose of them themselves, then no one knows how much they harvest in a year.

Li Du didn't know about this rule, so he threw himself into the street......