After sending them off, Xiao Yifei drove to the headquarters of Phu Fargo, and Catherine warmly received him:

"Mr. Xiao, your money has been transferred to our bank, and we will start absorbing the stocks today, and it will be completed in a few days. Plus, we've increased your card privileges and gave you a small gift. ”

After speaking, she smiled and handed Xiao Yifei an envelope.

"What's this?"

"Just open it and see."

In the envelope was a black credit card, Xiao Yifei thought it was the legendary Yuntong Centurion, but it turned out that the card was not.

"World Elite" (translated as the world's extreme card in China), is the most high-end credit card launched by Mastercard, which is used to compete with the black centurion card of American Express. I'm not sure if it will be released in '09, let's say it's already there. ）

It is also true that Mastercard's main competitors are Visa, Express and other companies, and they have also sued Mastercard for monopolistic practices. And how could Wells Fargo, as one of the founders and most important supporters of Mastercard, give him credit cards from other card issuers.

"Yes, this is our highest-grade credit card, specifically asked you about the establishment of this kind of wealth elite."

Then Balabala introduced its services. Its practical words can be clearly stated in one sentence: "Please call the service line on the back of your card". This sentence may be inexplicable to some people, which means that no matter where you are, no matter if you have any trouble, no matter what needs you have, you can call this service line, and someone will wait for your call 24 hours a day to provide you with services.

Fuguo is also very interesting, obviously knew that Xiao Yifei had hundreds of millions of oil paintings waiting for auction, and he was willing to lend 200 million to Xiao Yifei, but he only gave a credit card with a limit of hundreds of thousands. Obviously, he has signed the entrusted financial management contract, and he has to wait for the money to arrive before giving away this black card. If you don't see a rabbit and don't scatter an eagle, that's what you're talking about.

Although the annual fee of this black card is scary, Xiao Yifei still accepted the gift.

"Thank you for the gift, let's get down to business."

This time, Xiao Yifei wants to buy $100 million in Apple shares and 50 million Netflix shares, which seems to be a lot of money, but it is not enough to see it when it comes to the plate of these two stocks. Apple's stock price is now below $190, and he can only buy more than 500,000 shares of the 100 million, while Apple's stock has a daily trading volume of about 20 million shares, so these more than 500,000 shares are not enough to see.

Although Netflix's stock price is only under $60, the number of shares bought for $50 million is less than 1 million, and the daily trading volume is more than 1 million shares. And even if these stocks are concentrated in one company, these stocks do not even account for 2% of Netflix's total share capital of 60 million.

As soon as she finished speaking, Catherine stood up and invited:

"Let's go, Mr. Xiao, I'll take you somewhere."

Take the elevator downstairs, pass through two gates, and take the special elevator to the underground. After passing through another gate, Xiao Yifei knew what she was going to take herself for.

"Mr. Xiao, this is our San Francisco vault, please keep the information here confidential."

Xiao Yifei hurriedly agreed. It's similar to in the movie, first a biometric verification, then two people turn two keys, and finally the giant round wheel spins, and the door to the vault finally opens.

Passing through the Precious SafeValuable Safe, they came to the most important storage area of the vault, where piles of things were placed on wooden rakes, made of green currency, silver bars with white flowers, and golden bricks. Xiao Yifei's eyes widened, good things, really good things, he really wanted to get these piles of things into the space, so he didn't have to farm at all, he could buy anything directly in cash, or just smash it with gold bricks. But I can only think about it, the big black hand of the security guard standing not far behind him can always be on the holster.

"Mr. Xiao, regarding your $50 million in gold, we have two plans. First, if you choose the standard London BRICS, then we need to wait for the New York side to ship it. ”

"Don't you have any gold here?"

"We don't have that many standard London gold bricks here, compared to you, it's about 50,000 ounces."

"What's the other option?"

"If you can just accept other standard gold bricks, then we can deliver them now."

"Is there any difference between the two standards?"

Catherine led him to a pile of gold bricks:

"This is the standard London gold brick, 400 ounces each, about 12.4 kilograms. Its purity is 99.5%. The piles of gold bricks next to them are 10 kilograms and have a purity of 99.99%. ”

"The purity of the London gold bricks is so much lower? Not even 3 9s? ”

Catherine patiently explained:

"This is due to historical reasons, the history of the London BRICS has been more than 300 years, and the conditions at that time could only be refined to this point."

Xiao Yifei's head turned to the past, intending to count how many gold bricks there were.

Catherine laughed:

"Don't count it, this wooden shelf is 80 pieces, which is the standard way to put London gold. Mr. Xiao is our guest of honor, you can pick it up and try it. ”

Xiao Yifei unceremoniously picked up a gold brick, it was really heavy, this thing is almost 25 catties, you can't realize it at all, this thing is less than 30 centimeters long, 10 centimeters wide, and 3.5 centimeters high.

Speaking of this kind of gold brick, there is an anecdote that everyone may have heard before, that there is a place where you can clamp the two sides of the gold brick from above with your thumb and index finger, as long as you can clamp it, the gold brick will belong to you. In fact, this is the case of the Golden City near Johannesburg, South Africa, which is a famous gold mine in South Africa, which became a tourist attraction after the closure of the gold mine in 1971.

In fact, as long as you calculate the friction coefficient between your fingers and the gold bricks, the angle between the friction of your fingers and the gravity of the gold bricks, and the weight of the gold bricks, you will know that people will never be able to pick up 12.4 kg of gold bricks with two fingers. However, if you can't pick up your fingers, it doesn't mean that the BRICS is safe, and then the BRICS was robbed at gunpoint, and now you can't try it even if you go to South Africa.

Xiao Yifei counted the piles of gold bricks.

"There are more than two tons of gold bricks in London here, why do you say they are not enough?"

"Those were kept here by other customers. Mr. Xiao, I suggest that you also keep the gold bricks with us. It's really not safe for you to keep it yourself. ”

I have space, and no one can steal it inside.

"I have a safe place to store it."

"No, you don't fully understand what I mean, I mean, maybe you can find a safe place to keep the gold bricks, but in case anyone knows about it, there are risks in the transportation process, and it will also pose a hidden danger to your personal safety. It's different with us, no one will know that you have gold, and it's also a kind of protection for you and your family. ”

The last sentence touched Xiao Yifei, after all, he still wanted to take his parents over to live, in case someone thought that he had gold at home, it would indeed threaten the personal safety of his parents.

"Okay, then I'll keep you here. I'll be able to check it out anytime. ”

"No problem."

"Then let's calculate it at the current price."

Gold prices have now entered a new wave of upward trend after consolidation and adjustment in October, and Xiao Yifei can take advantage of the current price for delivery.

"No problem."

After taking care of the investment, Catherine flew over the Bay Bridge with Xiao Yi to the office of Professor Ward in the College of Arts and Sciences at UC Berkeley.

"Hello Professor Ward, this is what I told you about Shaw."

"Hello, Shaw."

"Hello Professor."

"Catherine said you want to learn ancient Egyptian?"

"Yes."

"Learning ancient Egyptian is boring, I don't know if you can stick to it."

Yes, absolutely, only by learning the ancient Egyptian language can the stone tablet in Isis space be translated more accurately. The words on the front of the stele should be similar to those in the Osiris space, but if you talk about the stone statue on the back, you have to learn ancient Egyptian to figure out what is so special about it.

Xiao Yifei wanted to find a house near Berkeley in the first place in order to learn the holy script. Ancient Egyptology at the University of California, Berkeley, is at the top of the list on the West Coast, and Professor Ward is one of the best among them. He had planned to find his own connections and get in touch with a professor of ancient Egyptology at Berkeley, but later met Catherine of Wells Fargo. Xiao Yifei knew that Catherine must have far more resources than him, so he asked her to help him find a professor who could teach his holy script.

Catherine naturally did not slack off on the requirements of Xiao Yifei's VIP, and found Professor Ward in three turns and two rounds. At first, Professor Ward was reluctant, but American professors need funding if they want to do research, and if they want to do research, they will definitely not have as much funding as private universities, so these research funds will mainly rely on sponsorship.

And Catherine's Wells Fargo Bank, or many American companies, basically has a budget dedicated to sponsoring research at universities and research institutes every year, although Catherine does not have the authority to move the sponsorship of Wells Fargo, but her boss, Vice President Marshall, has the right. So under the bait of more than 100,000 sponsorship dollars, Professor Ward fell.

"Yes, I'm very interested in ancient Egyptian hieroglyphs, isn't it that interest is the best teacher, I'm sure I'll be able to stick to it."

"And what about your academic qualifications? Have you learned any other language? ”

"I finished university in China, but I studied computers. I taught myself German and French. ”

"Then why don't you apply for graduate school?"

"Professor, I don't know if Catherine told you that I have a winery in Napa, and the management of the winery takes up my time, so I can't spare more time to study. Moreover, I just learn the script, and I can even skip their pronunciation, as long as I can read the meaning. ”

Professor Ward complained to himself: Then you might as well go to a community college and study for a few days, and then buy a few dictionaries.