Chapter 18: Kuroko is also quite hard
Munich, Bavarian State Government. Pen, fun, and www.biquge.info
It was a bright morning, and the official business was not too busy.
If it weren't for Gu Mojie's violent mudslide, this day might have been for Hearst. Governor Zerkhov left a fond memory.
Unfortunately, there are no ifs in history.
After approving a few papers and drinking a cup of coffee in his office, Governor Hearst's backup phone rang. When I picked it up, it was an unfamiliar number that I had barely contacted.
Governor Hearst frowned.
The backup phone is a private number for him, and not many people know about it.
"Hello."
"Hello Governor, I'm 'Maximilian. Albrecht. Ruprecht. Ferdinand', I hope you remember me. ”
"Maximilian. Albrecht. Ruprecht. Ferdinand? ”
Governor Hearst struggled to repeat the awkward and unfamiliar name, and when he read the suffix "Ruprecht" at the end, it dawned on him that the other party's family was
The other party is the grandson of the Duke of Ruprecht during the imperial era, and the heir to the property of the former Bavarian royal family.
Duke Ruprecht, the last Bavarian **** before the fall of the German Empire in World War I, was also the imperial field marshal at that time, and led the Bavarian German 6th Army in World War I to fight in the south and north for 4 years, with considerable military merits.
After the fall of the empire, the duke also lost his fiefdom, but theoretically retained the property rights of the royal family. In World War II, the family was liquidated because the duke opposed the Führer. After the war, he was supported back by the Americans, and died in 1955 in Leutztertenberg, Munich.
The Duke's second son, Albrecht, inherited the title and family business and died in 1996 at the age of 90. Now in charge of the family, it is the third generation, that is, the old man who called in just now.
In Germany, after the last generation of nobles, it is often easy to take longer and longer names, just to intercept a paragraph of the new ancestral name of each generation after losing the title as a prefix. For example, the descendants of the last Austrian emperor next door now have five-stage names.
This kind of person has no energy and rarely deals with the government. However, for historical reasons, administrative officials such as governors still treat them more favorably.
What's more, there used to be a lot of royal real estate, which was gradually taken over by the state government in history. But the nominal ownership of those things still belongs to the descendants of the royal family.
Could it be that you are here to fight the autumn wind?
Thinking of this, Governor Hearst cleared his throat and decided that it would be better to be more reserved.
"Hello, Mr. Rupresit, is there anything I can do to help you?"
"There was a madman from China, who didn't know which tendon was wrong, and actually wanted to ask me to buy 'Neuschwanstein Castle'! I can't deal with him, you'll have to figure it out!" ”
Captain Hearst was taken aback: "What? Neuschwanstein Castle. Isn't that already entrusted to the state government as a historical attraction? ”
Neuschwanstein Castle is Germany's greatest castle! A symbol of German tourism!
"I'm old, I don't understand the Internet, I don't know how a Chinese named 'Gu Mojie' has popped up in the world in the past two years, and it's very rampant. He threatened me a lot, as if he was very powerful, but I didn't understand it. Since the state government has managed my castle to collect admission, you can't ignore it. ”
"Gu Mojie? Is it Gu Mojie, who just reached a deal with Bayern Club and Siemens a few days ago? ”
Governor Hearst is a knowledgeable person who understands the importance of attracting investment. The world's leading wealthy businessmen are still relatively clear, no better than the old man who doesn't care about the world. So as soon as he heard Gu Mojie's name, he was not so impulsive.
Don't be a rich generation who pretends to be forced to buy it!
The voice on the other end of the phone was impatient: "How do I know which Gu Mojie is!" He said he would come to visit me in person in the afternoon. ”
Governor Hearst hurriedly agreed: "No problem, I will bring people from the Land Bureau and the Real Estate Registry, as well as lawyers, to your house in person in the afternoon to deal with it." ”
……
After lunch, Governor Hearst led his men to Loitztertenberg, the castle where the former royal family still lives.
When I arrived at the place, I chatted with Ruprecht for a while, and Gu Mojie and his party also came to visit.
Gu Mojie was very friendly, except for the bodyguards, he only brought one Phililuo. As soon as they meet, they greet people and animals harmlessly.
"Governor Hearst, glad. I was busy talking about business a while ago, so I didn't come to visit. ”
Hearst saw that Gu Mojie was not joking, and asked calmly: "Mr. Gu, I heard that you want to buy Neuschwanstein Castle?" Don't you know that it's a German cultural heritage? ”
"Really? I remember that you applied for the World Heritage Site, but you didn't succeed, right? In that case, I theoretically have the right to make an offer to buy. ”
Hearst's face was blank: "Mr. Gu, I can still treat you as a joke just now." If you do this again, be careful that I think you are provoking! ”
"Absolutely no provocation! I'm sincere: a house with a history of less than 130 years, what kind of heritage, it will definitely not be able to live, or it is more cost-effective to sell it to others. If you Germans really don't like the lack of ancient buildings, it's a good idea to make up the number of Cologne Cathedral - oh, I almost forgot that it was blown up by the Americans 60 years ago. ”
Gu Mojie said, turning his head to look at Fei Liluo as if no one was around: "By the way, Sister Fei, did you blow up the reconstruction, and you have to reassess the number of years when you apply for the World Heritage Site?" I don't know much about international law. ”
"Presumptuous!" Next to Maximilian, who is in his early eighties. Ruprecht's cane tapped on the floor and reprimanded him in German.
He was old, had a poor memory, and could no longer speak English, but could barely understand it.
Someone sang a white face, Governor Hearst can take a little relief, as a veteran politician, he doesn't want to directly tear people up. What can be solved by curves, it is better to solve them with curves.
"Mr. Gu, okay, let's not worry about legal issues. I admit that theoretically you do have the right to make an offer to buy, and legally that castle cannot be defined as a 'non-saleable'. Let's be pragmatic: in the past 100 years, you are the only one who wants to buy Neuschwanstein Castle? Are you the richest man in the world in the last 100 years? If I can sell it, will it be your turn?
The fact that those predecessors did not succeed shows that we are very determined not to sell. Maybe we won't just say that this thing can't be sold legally, but give you a price of 10 billion euros, what do you think? There is no point in this entanglement. We welcome you to do business and invest in Bavaria, but please don't be vexatious. ”
Hearst said a lot of bitterness, and Gu Mojie actually only listened to two sentences.
"So, theoretically, that castle can be sold."
"I've been talking for a long time, and that's all you hear!" Even politicians like Hearst are on fire.
"So, let's talk about the conditions -- I can pay a billion euros."
Before coming, Gu Mojie estimated the valuation of castle real estate in Europe, and the castle currently for sale in Germany is only one-20th of the size of Neuschwanstein Castle, but it can be traced back to the era of the Treaty of Westphalia (1618~1648, that is, the era of the Thirty Years' War), and the price is about 30 million euros.
Montegreni, Italy, has an ancient castle that is barely comparable in artistic value and decoration to Neuschwanstein Castle, but only one-sixth of its size, and costs 80 million euros.
According to the valuation given by the asset appraiser Gu Mojie found in the past few days, if there is a castle that is completely comparable in "size, size, and decoration grade" to Neuschwanstein Castle, the selling price should be about 400 million euros.
Gu Mo's outstanding 1 billion is already taking into account the historical value and artistic value of this castle, and it is not black. After all, this place was once the residence of the Bavarian kings.
Hearst, of course, will not negotiate a price with Gu Mojie.
"1 billion? Joke. 5 billion euros is impossible! ”
"Then it's not interesting, you can make a price." Gu Mojie cocked his legs and pulled out a cigar. This is a sign that his patience is about to wear off.
"No more!"
"Since you don't make an offer, I'll give you an additional condition." Gu Mojie twisted the cigar and threw it on the table.
"The Führer's Mein Kampf, the copyright is in the hands of the Bavarian state government, right? Mr. Ruprecht, Ling Zun and Ling Grandfather, also had an enmity with the Führer back then, right? I remember that my grandfather fled to Hungary during the war. However, in 1944, the Führer's German army occupied Hungary, and Ling Zun and Ling's grandmother were unable to escape and were captured in the camp-camp for a year. ”
Governor Hearst was slightly nervous and angry: "Why are you asking this?" Also, are you uneducated! You just expose the tragic experience of his youth in front of an 80-year-old man! ”
"I'm sorry, I didn't mean to be offended, I just wanted to illustrate." Gu Mojie's smile returned to a warm state in an instant, very pure and sincere.
Then he glanced at Feliro.
Velillo cleared her throat and said, "According to the federal copyright law, in Germany, the term of copyright is life plus 70 years after death, which is 20 years longer than in China. The copyright of the deceased who has no heirs is vested in the Länder – so the Führer's copyright of Mein Kampf is in the hands of the Bavarian State Government. He died in 1945, and by 2015, 70 years expired. When the time comes, the book will become a public edition, and anyone can reprint it and anyone can sell it. ”
"What do you want to do!"
Governor Hearst was really a little panicked this time, but he was still fantasizing in his mind that the two young men opposite him should not think of any evil schemes.
Unfortunately, the facts will obviously disappoint him.
Gu Mojie smiled fiercely.
"Guizhou has exercised its copyright for 65 years, what is the mode of exercising? It was hidden, and it was not printed once. Because you want the Führer's doctrine to disappear forever, you spend hundreds of millions of euros every year to maintain (harmony) on this issue, so that young people do not know what the Führer said back then.
And today, I will tell you: if you don't sell me Neuschwanstein Castle, in five years you will see that Mein Kampf is flying all over the Internet, especially in Europe, with abridged e-books for no money. And it's going to make positive annotation popular on the world's major search engines, and the 'critical annotation' version you hope for will be pushed down to a few dozen pages of search results -- five years from now, I'll be the biggest Internet provider on the planet, and I'll do what I say. ”
"You brute!"
"Demons! You're going to die! ”
The era of paper books is long gone. In today's world, it is useless to threaten people to publish physical books, but it is terrible to threaten people to spread digital libraries and spread content that the top chaebols in Europe and the United States do not want to see. Especially when the threat comes from a giant like Gu Mojie, even the wall can't be stopped.
Gu Mojie, who has no fear, of course will not care about the other party's impulsive abuse.
Should I take these words as compliments? Or will you take the search results you want to pin to the top and kick back twenty pages? That's fine, just now the past is not to blame. From now on, every time you scold, I'm going to kick back 10 pages of the search results you want, and you can see how deep you want to do it. ”
What is the use of barking wildly for people who have no strength.
Hurst was sweating profusely, his brain racing wildly, trying to find a way to break the game:
"Wait! Mr. Gu! We know you've risen very quickly, and it's quite possible to say you're going to overtake Zuckerberg. However, if you want to be the strongest in the field of search and library in 5 years, you should not be as good as Google!
And there is only one Neuschwanstein Castle, if I sell it to you, tomorrow other Internet giants will also threaten me with this condition, won't we be in vain? Since you can't promise to guarantee that 'even if we obey you, you will do what you say', why should we sell it to you! It's better to die with you! ”
"Well, that makes sense - to make people pay protection, or at least to show that I have what it takes to cover you, right? If I hadn't been able to cover you, you'd rather be burned and looted by me than paid for protection. ”
Gu Mojie sincerely helped Governor Hearst analyze it, and then changed the conversation.
"But you seem to have forgotten one thing—Larry Page is a Jew! Zuckerberg is also a Jew-too man! Do you think that the Jews, in order to satisfy their own desires, would choose the condition of 'disseminating the Führer's writings' to blackmail? On this planet, who has reached this level of Internet tycoon, besides me, is there anyone who is not a Judah? ”
Governor Hearst suddenly felt bitterness in his mouth.
Yes, it seems that on this planet, the people who are qualified to issue such a threat, except for Gu Mojie, the rest are Judah-Tai-people.
"I ...... I can also apply to Prime Minister Murphy to amend the Federal Copyright Act! Fix the law for Mein Kampf! ”
Fei Liluo, who had been silent, sneered beside her: "Tsk, I have forgotten the basic principle of 'the law does not apply retroactively', and I am embarrassed to say that your Germany is a country with a legal system." It's really not even as good as China! I'm ashamed of you! ”
Fei Liluo's words are from the heart, as a girl with a sense of justice who has been aspiring to be a barrister since she was a child, respecting the seriousness of the law is the criterion of her life.
Governor Hearst is torn between a rock and a hard place. After much melancholy, he could only say to the old man Ruprecht:
"Mark, I can't help you. The state government could not explain why it compromised, and if the state stepped in and sold Neuschwanstein Castle, the state government's credit would be ruined. I will revoke the trusteeship and return all management of the castle to your family. Then you come forward and sell the castle to Mr. Gu, it will be just an ordinary civil transaction. ”
"Hearst! You can't leave me alone! ”
"Do you want to see that demon's writings spread all over the world? Think about it! Where did you and your father and mother spend 1944! ”
Maximilian. Ruprecht looked pained and said for a long time: "Well, I'll sell!" ”
"Honestly, I kind of admire you. Alas, you white leftists are also fighting hard for the black Führer. (To be continued.) )