Chapter 388: A Perfect Ending
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As soon as more than 100 paintings were unveiled, they immediately aroused the scramble of all the bidders present, and from the first painting, the bidding directly entered the white heat.
And this time, the Chinese tycoons and the 'national team', who had been holding back and not bidding much, began to make a move, and the two sides obviously reached a certain tacit understanding.
As long as one party makes a move, the other side doesn't make a move.
Soon he snatched more than a dozen of the more famous paintings, especially those of relatively famous artists, and they were even more popular.
And these guys made a bid, but they didn't play according to the rules at all, and there were also some foreign tycoons who wanted to shoot a few works they liked.
But these guys are trying to stir things up, and they can't even raise the price of a painting to millions or even millions of dollars, and they can't even ask for millions of dollars.
Where the hell are you here to buy paintings? This is completely here to smash the field!
These wealthy people in the West, or their representatives, even if they like those paintings, they still maintain their sanity, after all, in their opinion, those paintings are simply works of art used to preserve wealth and facilitate realization, not the type of antiques they really like.
Therefore, when bidding for investment in this area, they will have a psychological bottom line, and once someone offers more than their mental bottom line, then they will give up the bidding.
And by this point, many people have already seen it. The reason why these Chinese are so crazy about these ancient paintings. It's not necessarily all because I like these old paintings. And more of an idea, I'm afraid, is to let these national treasures return.
In addition, the fact that the Chinese are very rich, but it is a fact that everyone admits, so it does not make much sense to continue to fight with them like this.
Anyway, these ancient Chinese paintings, but there are more than 100 of them, even if you Chinese have money, it is impossible to cover all these paintings, right?
The plutocrats of the West have chosen to avoid it. And those drug @ lords in Central and South America didn't make trouble at this time, after all, they are not stupid, although they have a lot of money, but they also score points when they spend indiscriminately.
There were a few Japanese who represented the Yamaguchi-gumi, and they raised the price several times in the middle, but in the end they were ruthlessly crushed by those Chinese bigwigs and the 'national team'.
The more than 50 paintings that were auctioned in the early stage can be said to be the top batch of these paintings, and the paintings with names and surnames have basically been swept away by these Chinese.
By this time, Wang Xueming brought a group of relatives and friends. Finally a little exhausted, although they have money. But the pocket is not infinitely deep, in such a short period of effort, a total of nearly 300 million US dollars have been thrown out, and the boutique they want has basically arrived, and everyone feels that it is time to stop.
The next nearly 100 works are the spoils of those Western tycoons and Central and South American drug @ lords.
Although he didn't want these paintings to be lost overseas, Jin Muchen had to admit that only when these antiques were circulated could they further enhance the status and value of our Chinese antiques in the world, as well as the degree of awareness.
In addition, most of these paintings are the works of anonymous painters, even if the painting skills are excellent, but limited by the rules and regulations of ancient paintings, the space for future appreciation is also limited, and it is nothing for these gringos to buy them.
Soon, these more than 100 paintings were swept away by those European and American tycoons, as well as those bigwigs in the underground world, and brought Jin Muchen a total of more than 300 million US dollars.
Seeing the numbers in his bank account, Jin Muchen was already in full bloom, and this time it was really developed.
People say that those who play antiques will not open for three years, and they will eat for three years, but the money they earn from opening this time, let alone eating for three years, is enough for several lifetimes.
In the early stage, the oil paintings of well-known Western painters brought a total of 380 trillion US dollars to themselves, and now with the income of more than 600 million yuan brought by these 150 or so ancient Chinese paintings, he has now stepped into the billion-dollar club and become a real billionaire.
Of this money, more than 200 million is cash, and the rest has been transferred to the hundreds of small countries in Western Europe and the Caribbean that are known for money laundering.
Thinking about so much wealth, Jin Muchen was happy in his heart, but the money was not good for a while, and he blatantly took it out and spent it.
After all, this is all black money, and the supervision of cash flow in the United States is also very strict, and this money must be washed a few times on the Italian side before it can be landed openly.
If it had been before, he would have had a headache about how to launder the money.
After all, a billion dollars, this is not a small amount, if you want to clean up, you have to find those professional money laundering syndicates, but those guys are famous for eating people and not spitting out bones.
The more money you're going to launder, the more they charge.
And their commissions are generally charged at a rate of 20 percent, or 30 percent, which is only for tens of millions of levels of wealth.
If it's a billion dollars like yourself, those guys will definitely dare to open their mouths to you, and ask for half or even six to seven layers, because they will eat the minds of those money launderers.
As long as the money is not washed, you don't dare to blatantly take it out and spend it, so even if you have billions of underground wealth, it is a pile of waste paper.
You can spend this money in countries where money is not tightly regulated, but where are those countries?
In addition to kidnapping, robbery, and frequent crimes in Central and South America, especially in black Africa, think about which billionaire, put North America, Europe and other fancy worlds do not enjoy, would they be willing to go to Central and South America or black Africa to suffer?
What's more, even if you don't wash the money there, you will be arrested by the police one day, and then the money will be cheaper for those police.
It is precisely because they have eaten the hearts of those money launderers who have a large amount of black money to be laundered that these money laundering groups dare to ask for such a price.
If it was before, Jin Muchen would have no choice but to grit his teeth and admit it, but this time he spent so long in Italy, spent millions of dollars, put Di Maggio on the throne, and finally secretly supported a mayor and promoted the completion of a new logistics port plan, isn't it just for this day.
The money doesn't need those money laundering groups, and with the logistics port construction plan, he can wash it himself.
The more than 200 million cash contributed by the drug lord, he didn't plan to put it back in the bank, others had so much cash that they couldn't run away, and they had to worry about being robbed or something, he had Ziyu space, but he didn't have to worry about this.
These two hundred million dollars, he plans to put them in his purple jade space, has been needed from time to time, in case of an incident in the east window one day, he can pat his ass and run away, this money is enough for him to spend the rest of his life in the world.
As for the remaining 800 million, it will be injected into some shell companies, and then these shell companies will take the money to the financial market for a turn, and then these funds will become the funds raised by a certain company, and finally invested in the construction of the new logistics port in Naples.
Anyway, with Di Maggio in charge, he is not worried that he will not be able to recover the money, but the recovery period may be a little long, but this is better, more secure, and this is a long-term sustainable 'investment project'.
The auction was over, and it was already early in the morning, and in another hour or two, it was about to dawn, and the cruise ships began to return to port, but the rich guys couldn't wait that much.
Many people directly called their own private yachts, or private jets, and before the boat reached the shore, they were basically gone.
However, Wang Xueming and his group of people, when they were leaving, they were specially left behind, and a group of Chinese who were left behind were a little confused, and at the same time, many people began to worry, could it be that the other party wanted to eat black?
After all, these guys who did this auction are not good at it.
But just when they were confused, they were taken to a large passenger compartment behind the ship, and the things piled up in this warehouse, these Chinese, especially the representatives of the 'national team', just took a look and went crazy.
The sculpture of the Five Treasures of the Buddha Gate, which was stolen at the same time in the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, was quietly placed on the wall of this cabin and was held in place with a rope.
These Buddha shrines, Buddha carvings, all of them are well preserved, and in the middle of the room, there are more than a dozen bronzes of all sizes and sizes.
"This is the bronze bag tripod, I've seen ...... at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston."
One of them exclaimed as he gathered around the largest bronze tripod, and then several experts danced in front of the bronzes, unable to pull their eyes out.
"The boss said, as long as 100 million dollars, these are yours!"
The militants who brought their group over with black hoods said to the group of Chinese.
"We're going to do it!"
Professor Yang agreed almost hurriedly, completely ignoring the fact that their funds had been exhausted in the previous auction, but in his opinion, it didn't matter, didn't there still be a dozen tycoons standing behind him?
100 million dollars, for them, is not a big deal at all?
"Xiao Wang, I'll discuss something with you......"
After Professor Yang promised the militant, he walked to Wang Xueming's side with a sly smile on his face, and Wang Xueming could only smile bitterly at this time, Professor Yang's request, can he not agree? (To be continued......)