Chapter 745: Selling Gold

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The city of Vancouver is a coastal city in the Lower Mainland region of British Columbia, Canada. With a population of 600,000 and a population of 2.3 million, Metro Vancouver is the third largest city in Canada after Toronto and Montreal, and the largest commercial, financial, technological and cultural center on the west coast of Canada.

Vancouver has developed film production and is the third largest production center in North America after Los Angeles and New York, and is known as the Hollywood of the North.

Metro Vancouver is home to nearly 400,000 Chinese, and its Chinese community is one of the largest in North America. Vancouver is home to a large number of Asian Americans.

Therefore, Liu Dong, who came to Vancouver for the first time, saw many compatriots with yellow skin and black eyes like himself among the pedestrians along the street, and he couldn't help but feel a little intimate with this city located on the other side of the ocean.

Liu Dong, who came out of the airport, did not go to find Uncle Long for the first time, but first found a hotel to stay.

After a short break, he rented a Hummer and drove to Vancouver's busiest downtown area, where he headed for the Bank of Canada's headquarters in Vancouver.

"Hello sir, is there anything I can do to help you?"

When Liu Dong came in, the front desk lady smiled.

"Hello, I want to sell some gold here with you, I don't know how to go?" Liu Dong said.

The reason why he promised Zhang Fan to hand over 200 million US dollars to him within half a month was that Liu Dong's confidence was the Aztec treasure that he had just arrived, in which Liu Dong not only harvested a complete Aztec ancient city, but also as many as hundreds of thousands of precious works of art. and huge amounts of gold and silver.

Historically. Even take it to the present. Mexico, plus several states such as Arizona and California in the southwestern United States, has always been an important region for gold and silver production in the world, and even Mexico's silver production still occupies the first place in the world, producing more than 3,000 tons of silver every year.

Therefore, it is only natural that the Aztec holy city, which once dominated Central America for more than 300 years, has accumulated a huge amount of gold and silver.

However, because gold was used to build works of art such as statues of gods, gold murals, and tableware, there were about 20 tons of gold nuggets and gold sands that had no artistic value, while nearly 300 tons of silver remained.

And the reason why Liu Dong chose to sell gold instead of silver. The main thing is that the price of silver is so low that an ounce is not more than $10, and 300 tons is worth less than $100 million!

Moreover, it is very troublesome to trade such a large amount of silver, and it is easy to attract more attention, so Liu Dong chose gold to sell more from one side.

"Sir, please go this way!" After the front desk lady glanced at Liu Dong in surprise, she called the manager of the bank lobby through the guò headset and greeted Liu Dong.

Soon, the right person took Liu Dong to a room in a bank specializing in precious metals.

"Hello sir, are you going to sell gold?" asked the Bank of Canada clerk in charge of the gold acquisition.

"That's right!" Liu Dong nodded.

"How much are you going to sell?"

Hear here. Liu Dong put the steel lockbox in his hand on the other party's desk with a 'bang', and then looked at the other party's stunned eyes and said indifferently: "1 ton!"

I felt that my desk was trembling and almost falling apart. The young bank clerk immediately understood that the other party was not lying, so he immediately stood up, said, "Sir, wait a minute!" and hurried away.

He's just an ordinary bank clerk, and when it comes to a ton of gold, it's not something he can decide!

Soon, the young clerk led a middle-aged man in a suit and leather shoes out.

"Manager Blair is this gentleman!"

The middle-aged man looked at Liu Dong for a moment, then stretched out his right hand, "Hello, sir, I am the manager of the bank's precious metals revenue and expenditure management department, and my name is Harder Blair!"

"Hello, my name is Dong Liu!"

After shaking hands and greeting each other, Blair said, "Mr. Liu, can you show me the gold?"

A ton of gold is not a small amount, although Liu Dong's dress and temperament look unusual, but Blair still has to be sure.

"Of course!"

As he spoke, Liu Dong opened the lockbox, and in the bright skylight, a box full of gold nuggets and golden sands appeared in front of everyone. This naked wealth instantly attracted the attention of everyone around him.

"This gold was left by my great-grandfather when he was a young man panning for gold in California, and I have been having trouble with my business recently and want to exchange it for a sum of money!" Liu Dong made a plausible excuse for his gold.

Moreover, California did develop because of gold panning in history!

In addition, the gold nuggets in Liu Dong's box are irregular and very scattered, if it is a bank, or the gold sold in the market will obviously not be like this, so his words are still more credible.

"Mr. Liu, let's go in and talk!" Blair beckoned.

After Liu Dong nodded, he followed the other party into a VIP room.

"Is Mr. Liu going to sell all this gold to our bank?"

"Not bad!"

"Thank you, Mr. Liu, for trusting our bank, but before we do that, we have to verify the fineness of the gold!" said Blair with joy in his heart.

Although it is no longer the era of the gold standard, a bank, or even a country's gold reserves, is still a sign of its financial strength.

"No problem, but it has to be done on the spot!" Liu Dong agreed.

"Of course!"

After Blair agreed, he quickly asked the bank staff to come in to verify the fineness of the gold, which was not a complicated matter, and it took ten minutes to get it done.

And Liu Dong's weight of a box of gold was also weighed clearly.

"Mr. Liu, your gold has a total of 45,273.97 ounces, and the fineness is 87.65%, don't you think there is a problem?" said Blair.

"No problem!"

Although the weight exceeded a ton, Liu Dong was not surprised, after all, he also weighed it when he put gold in it!

"How do you calculate the price?" Liu Dong said.

Because of the outbreak of the 9/11 terrorist attacks, the stock of Wall Street, which is the financial heart of the world, fell by more than 200 percentage points on the same day, and the stock market fell all the way down.

The impact is almost as great as a global economic crisis.

However, this has also caused the price of precious metals such as gold and silver to soar, especially gold, which is still the only precious metal that can still replace the currency.

Its price has more than doubled from $342 an ounce before 9.11, but Liu Dong also knows that this surge in gold prices will not last long, and when the crisis subsides and financial order is restored, it will slowly fall, but this does not prevent him from taking advantage of this opportunity to make a fortune.

In addition, the reason why he no longer sells gold in the United States, but runs to Canada, is mainly because his watch in the crash has been on the attention list of the FBI, and there is an accident, and it just so happens that Liu Dong is also coming to Canada, so he came here.

"According to the current price of the New York gold exchange, the price of gold per ounce is $812, 1,062.18 Canadian dollars!

"No problem!" Liu Dong nodded very dryly.

Compared to what he had previously known about the price of gold, the price of gold in New York had improved in less than a day, which was undoubtedly good news for him.

About an hour later, Liu Dong left the Bank of Canada with a check for $32 million under Blair's personal hand!

In the next three days, Liu Dong sold all the scattered gold obtained from the ancient city of Aztlán at major banks and large jewelry stores in Vancouver, totaling 23.68 tons of gold with only precious metal value, at an average price of 820 US dollars per ounce.

And this gold also brought Liu Dong an income of 685 million US dollars, plus the 50 million US dollars that Liu Dong had originally prepared for the auction, Liu Dong's purse suddenly bulged.

After putting 200 million US dollars into Qingyang Venture Capital's account, looking at the remaining 535 million US dollars in the bank card, Liu Dong felt relieved, with so much money in hand, he finally didn't have to be afraid to participate in Christie's auctions and couldn't afford to buy good things!

After finishing this qiē, Liu Dong took the prepared gift and looked for it according to the address that Uncle Long had given him before.

Although Vancouver is the third largest city in Canada, the population of the city is only 600,000, which is not as large as the population of an ordinary county in China, so it is very easy to find.

Soon, he found Uncle Long's address in a luxurious community in Vancouver's Chinatown, a two-story building with a mix of Chinese and Western styles.

In front of the building is an open garden, separated by a one-meter-high fence, and a gravel path more than a meter wide leads to the door.

After Liu Dong rang the doorbell, a mixed-race young man of about eighteen or nineteen, wearing a red T-shirt, a ping pong cap, and studs on his ears, walked out of it.

Looking at Liu Dong, the young man couldn't help but be stunned for a moment, and after looking up and down, he asked, "Who are you looking for?"

"I'm from China, and I'm looking for Mr. Long Desheng!" Liu Dong said.

Uncle Long has never told Liu Dong about his family, so without understanding, Liu Dong had to say Uncle Long's tuba!

"Do you know my grandfather?" said the young man after looking at Liu Dong again.

"Acquaintance!" Liu Dong nodded with a smile.

"Wait a minute!" After speaking, the young man turned his head and shouted into the house, "Dad, there is a guest here, looking for grandpa!" (to be continued......)