Knowing the location, it is logical, and the next thing is to buy land. Xiao Yifei did not choose to come forward himself, but asked lawyer Grange to help him complete this matter. Anyway, the lawyer has a confidentiality clause, and he can't talk nonsense about his client's affairs, so don't let your yellow skin come out to attract attention.

The next day, Attorney Grange informed him that the Leon detective had done it. Xiao Yifei couldn't help but be impressed by Leon's efficiency. In order to deceive Detective Leon, Xiao Yifei randomly chose several small cities around Paris, circled a few properties, and asked Leon to continue to investigate the past owners. All of these properties have one thing in common, they are all in the vicinity of the old castle.

Xiao Yifei checked the information obtained from Leon's investigation and determined that he had indeed found the manor that Pierre had purchased, but the original manor was nationalized and re-auctioned after the war because of the murder of Lei's family, and the father of the current owner bought it, because the manor was old, it was demolished and rebuilt in the 90s. After the current owner inherited the land, he didn't like to continue to be a farmer like his father, so he rented out the land and went to Paris to find a job.

Xiao Yifei is very satisfied with the existing conditions of the estate, which was originally auctioned by the government as a whole, and the entire plot includes 29 acres of agricultural land, 15 acres of forest land, and now this two-storey 200-square-meter villa. Since this farmer has no intention of farming, Xiao Yifei can naturally buy them easily.

The amount of this real estate transaction is not large, and it cannot be compared with the hundreds of millions of transactions in the winery, so Xiao Yifei is too lazy to participate too much. However, lawyers, notaries, real estate experts, land experts, accountants, etc., should be indispensable in the transaction. On the one hand, it shows that it is legitimate, and on the other hand, for the future acquisition of the Paris Tong Ge inspection team, the most important thing is that he must ensure that the deal must not be flawed, and it must be bought completely reasonably and legally. If there is a slight flaw, after the treasure is exposed in the future, once the flaw is discovered by the original owner or his lawyer, he may ask the court to invalidate the transaction, and then the treasure may change hands, or at least half of it will be divided.

After waiting for another two days, the private detective Leon handed over the information of several other places, these properties were all selected by Xiao Yifei, and their prices were higher than those of Pierre Manor, so Xiao Yifei naturally chose the cheapest, which was also the real goal he wanted to be disguised.

Xiao Yifei came to his lawyer, Grange.

"Hello Xiao, do you need help today?"

"I'm going to buy a villa and a piece of farmland in the countryside, worth about 1 million euros, and I need your help."

"No problem, Mr. Xiao, then let's go and see it tomorrow?"

Of course, there is no problem, when Xiao Yifei was looking for someone to investigate the property situation, he knew that there was business coming to the door.

After leaving the law firm, I turned around and entered KPMG next to me. This is KPMG in Paris, and like KPMG in Shenyang and Xiamen, they are not qualified to do those large-scale M&A activities, but only to serve small and medium-sized enterprises in and around Paris. It also mainly provides audit, tax and consulting services. I've just inquired with Grange lawyers, and it's a small firm with only 15 employees.

Seeing a yellow-skinned face walking in, the front desk asked:

"Sir, do you have an appointment?"

"Yes, I made an appointment with Mr. Didier."

Soon, Xiao Yifei met Mr. Didier, who was in charge of the firm.

Xiao Yifei briefly introduced his needs, and Didier felt that although the deal was not big, it could not be said to be small, and he immediately said that they could take over the business.

"Mr. Xiao, please be seated. Nakata, come in. ”

A short, yellow-skinned man came in, and Xiao Yifei felt strange when Didier called nakata (Nakata's English pronunciation), and when he saw this person, he knew that it must be a Japanese. It seems that he wants to put this Japanese person in charge of this business.

"Mr. Didier, I would like to speak to you alone."

Didier glanced at Xiao Yifei suspiciously, and then ordered Nakata to go out.

"Mr. Didier, I would like you to have someone else in charge. You should know that there are some problems between China and Japan. ”

Didier shrugged his shoulders and said, "I'm sorry, I thought you were all yellow, so it's easy to communicate." Actually, Nakata is the best assistant accountant we have here, okay, I'll change someone. If you're younger, you'll have no problem. ”

"No problem, it's not Japanese."

Didier smiled, "Dan come in a bit." ”

He said to the young man who came in, "This is Dan. Sandro, a college student who graduated last year, has very good abilities and has a lot of room for growth. ”

"Okay, that's him, I'll see you tomorrow."

After getting important accountants and lawyers, Granger lawyers took Xiao Yifei's power of attorney and quickly formed a small acquisition team.

Early the next morning, Xiao Yifei drove to Shevrus again, and soon, the people on his side gathered, and they all began to busy their own affairs.

Two days later, the various assessment reports came out. Negotiations will begin. Xiao Yifei is the lawyer entrusted here as the main negotiator, and he is the audience. The final deal was 1,035,000 euros, which, together with the money and taxes paid to these people, must have cost more than the buyer's 1.2 million euros. It seems that Xiao Yifei has made a loss-making business, but in fact, Xiao Yifei is equivalent to spending this amount of money to ensure that the entire transaction is completely reasonable and legal, avoiding future ruffles, and the money is still worth it.

According to the law, the change of ownership should not affect the continued execution of the lease, that is, the land cannot be cultivated by Xiao Yifei for two years. But this is just right, Xiao Yifei just wants treasures, and he doesn't care too much about farmland at all.

The next step was to handle the transfer of land and houses and pay taxes, and although the new legal certificates and documents had not yet arrived, he officially became the legal owner of the land. Now Xiao Yifei's heart has relaxed a little, and he can slowly carry out detailed planning.

Some people take it for granted that foreign land is private, everything underground belongs to the landowner, and the same is true of the treasure that is dug up. In fact, this is not true, and the regulations on this aspect vary from country to country.

In Greece, for example, the law stipulates that all antiquities, whether movable or immovable; Whatever is found in Greek rivers, lakes, seas, public and religious groups and private lands, both ancient and modern, is the property of the state. It is only said that the state will give some compensation to the discoverer and the owner of the land.

In addition, the underground things are also classified, and there are many legal concepts of these things, such as buried objects, lost objects, abandoned objects, etc., some of which are directly attributed to the discoverer, some of which are to be found by the original owner, and some of which are to be publicized and returned to the discoverer only if no one claims them.

Of course, according to the law, this treasure should be buried. In the case of buried objects, the French civil law adopts the doctrine of possession by the discoverer. That is, the buried objects found in one's own land belong to oneself; Half of the buried objects found on other people's land belong to the discoverer and half to the owner of the land. Note that when you find someone else's land, you need the permission of the landowner, and if you don't, you will face a lawsuit from the landowner.

The French Civil Code provides for the discovery of buried objects in article 716, paragraph 2, which defines buried objects in three ways, the first is that they must be buried, the second is that the owner of the object is unknown, and the third is that the discovery is purely accidental.

The first two are very satisfying, the bronze porcelain is originally buried in the ground, and the owner is unknown, as long as the diaries of Pierre and Ray do not appear in the treasure, and the portraits of the Louis Latour family do not appear, they can be satisfied. Thankfully, according to his diary, Ray didn't put anything in that would identify the treasure's owner.

The most troublesome is the third. That is to say, Xiao Yifei must have discovered the treasure by chance. This law does not apply to finding clues to treasures and then digging for treasures. If you find a clue to the treasure and want to dig it, you must apply for a permit from the government to excavate it. Depending on the type of treasure, if the excavation land is public land held by the government, how much of the share belongs to you and how much belongs to the government. In the case of private land, there is still the landowner's share on the permission order. Moreover, the law does not grant permits for certain archaeological objects that are not allowed to be searched and excavated.

In addition, the buried objects found on the Internet are generally gold and silver coins, but most of these treasures are bronzes, porcelain, and a small number of gold and silver objects, which belong to the category of high-value cultural relics. This kind of cultural relics, whether the civil law is still applicable, it is estimated that the lawyer must still turn over the provisions to give an answer.

Xiao Yifei was worried about arousing the lawyer's suspicion about these treasures, so he didn't dare to ask them blatantly, so he could only check the information and law books by himself. He found a lawyer on the Internet who said that if the treasure was of archaeological value, the government could keep it for five years before returning it.

Therefore, it was certainly not a good idea to dig up the treasure now, and he should wait until he had a detailed understanding of the legal issues before deciding. According to the market capitalization, this batch of treasures is worth more than 50 million euros, or even hundreds of millions of euros, so once unearthed, it will inevitably cause a great sensation.

Of course, some people say that it is enough to dig it up secretly. This is also a way, but Xiao Yifei feels that there is a certain amount of trouble in digging it out secretly, and in addition, his intuition tells him that maybe it will be more beneficial for him to dig openly. After a few days of careful consideration, combined with his original rough plan, he planned to formulate his own future development plan, and in this plan, there were more advantages to digging openly than secretly, and according to this plan, he did not need to dig up the treasure now.

And his legal documents have not yet arrived, in case the original owner comes to ruck, the lawsuit will drag on for several years, but it will delay the work. Looking at the speed of the French government, it is estimated that there will be no drama this month.