Chapter 219: Picking Up Money and Picking Up Hand Cramps (Part I)
I have to say that this safe is quite powerful, although it is sealed inside, but such a safe is still not broken by the strong water pressure at a depth of about 1000 meters in the sea, which has to be said to be a miracle. However, it must have something to do with the thickness and material of this safe.
However, although it was not crushed by the water pressure, the safe had been seriously deformed, and it was impossible to open the door. It took more than 100 points of energy to cut open this unusually thick and perverted safe.
When the insurance was opened, a faint musty smell came out of it. "By the way, Konishi is okay, right? I've seen a lot of things in movies, and many things turn into ashes when they see the air. Yang Yiwei suddenly remembered the movies he had seen.
"It's less than 100 years old." Xiaoxi gave a helpless answer, Yang Yiwei choked for a moment, thinking about it, but a hundred years is also a long time. took out the top stack of thick paper from the treasure chest, this is Yang Yiwei's purpose this time, and Xiaoxi also clearly told Yang Yiwei what it was.
Bond! Unnamed Bonds! The national bonds issued by the United Kingdom, the issuance date was 1905, and the maturity time was 1945, a full 40 years, Yang Yiwei had asked Xiaoxi to check the interest rate of this batch of bonds, and the annual interest rate stipulated at that time was 18.12 percent. And the face value of this bond in Yang Yiwei's hand is 100,000 pounds!
And such a thick stack, although Yang Yiwei didn't count it, Xiaoxi had already told Yang Yiwei the answer, the number of British bearer bonds in it is 100 million pounds! This number is already terrifying, you must know that it was 1905, that era was still the era of the gold and silver standard, and each country could issue very little currency. Even if Britain was a powerful empire on which the sun never sets, the currency that the entire country could issue was only about 10 billion pounds, and it was already terrifying to get 100 million pounds of unnamed bonds.
Not to mention the fact that there are still 20 years of a full $500 million US issuance here. The same bearer bonds. The interest rate on bonds in the United States is relatively high, with an annual interest rate of about 13.8 percent. Although it seems that the fixed annual interest rate is not as high as that of the United Kingdom, the British government bonds are 40 years! The longer the maturity of the national debt. The higher its interest rate, otherwise who will buy it, and although the interest rate of the US Treasury bond is relatively low, it is 20 years less than the other party, of course, these are meaningless to Yang Yiwei, because they are all expired for decades.
Although these bonds are different from bank deposits, bank fixed deposits will automatically be converted to current deposits when they are not withdrawn at maturity, but although you can not withdraw these bonds after maturity, they will not generate new interest after maturity.
In other words, interest is calculated only until the year of termination. And the annual interest rate of the country is not cumulative, but it is the interest of this 100 million pounds for 40 years that reaches a terrifying 720 million pounds! A total of 820 million pounds, according to the current exchange rate of the pound against the dollar, it is about 1:1.49, that is. The 820 million pounds, converted into dollars, is more than 1.2 billion dollars! Not to mention the $500 million in unnamed Treasury bonds issued by the United States.
The $500 million U.S.-issued Treasury bond is close to $1.9 billion in exchange, and with the $1.2 billion, that's $3.1 billion! It has even exceeded the value of more than 50 tons of gold! This...... Yang Yiwei finally knew what many people were going to rob the tomb, Nima's dead man's wealth was really easy to make, but his own money was not a dead man's wealth. It is no exaggeration to say that this money is almost all the wealth left after Germany confronted Europe and the United States at the end of World War II!
It seems that in order to satisfy Yang Yiwei's curiosity, there is still a pile of gold nuggets in the stomach of the mechanical whale Yang Yiwei walked over and looked at it, and couldn't help but feel a little pain. These gold nuggets are standard gold nuggets, but it is stamped with a very unique imprint, Yang Yiwei, who has seen a lot of World War II movies, came out, it is the Nazi eagle emblem, and the purity mark of the gold nugget and so on. These undoubtedly prove that it was indeed the treasure of the Third Reich, and what I found was the missing Fourth Reich.
But these have nothing to do with Yang Yiwei, if it weren't for the central bank to reach out, Yang Yiwei really didn't know what to do with it, but now it's simple, anyway, it's a big deal to melt the gold back and make it into a gold brick again, these marks are naturally gone, as for these bonds, anyway, bearer bonds, as for how I came from, can I go out to pick it up?
The transportation of gold is not any problem, what Yang Yiwei didn't expect was that the most expensive thing to transport gold later was not Lu Hongbing's wear, but Mou Li personally brought people over. "Something wrong with you? Now that they've been salvaged, what are you throwing them down for? Isn't the salvaged money money? After Profit learned that Yang Yiwei threw the gold to the bottom of the sea again, he said with some pain.
"Nonsense, when I salvaged it, it was secretly salvaged, and this thing made the German government know, do you think I can get it?" Yang Yiwei directly threw a gold brick in his hand to Profit, although the gold brick was very light in Yang Yiwei's hands, but Profitie almost didn't catch it, in fact, this gold brick is a standard 10KG gold brick. The weight of 20 catties is thrown into a person's arms, and the volume is not large, and it is not good if it is not picked up at once, so it is good not to take it off.
Catching the gold bricks thrown by Yang Yiwei, Profit glanced at it and was a little surprised, sure enough, it was Germany's standard national reserve gold during World War II, the Nazi eagle emblem on it, and the purity, weight, etc. It's just that this guy is too lucky.
Mou Li was just about to say something, but he remembered the sound of talking on the walkie-talkie, and Mou Li said something on the walkie-talkie, and then looked at Yang Yiwei speechlessly and said, "Is there something wrong with you?" You pour them into the sea and forget it. Damn, you're not going to put it in a container and throw it down, huh? You actually threw it down in bulk? Aren't you afraid of losing a few dollars? ”
Nonsense, if I had a container, would I have to throw it into the sea? "Nonsense, in containers, more than 50 tons of gold do you think the volume is? A container is almost enough, what if someone else comes to salvage it at one time? Of course I'll have to use this tactic just in case. Yang Yiwei rolled his eyes.
"Okay. But you pay for the salvage this time. "Profit is really worthy of his name, and he is not wrong at all. But think about how much money you've spent on using a bunch of old techniques to make a profit, forget it. It's cheap for him. "I'll come, I'll come." Yang Yi stopped generously.
Anyway, nearly half of the value of the three submarines has been collected by themselves, and the rest of the gold can't run away now, and the iron tongs that are loaded with skills have also been quickly salvaged. But salvage is not that easy to do. It took a total of four or five days to salvage all the gold, but fortunately, the place chosen by the mechanical sailfish was the relatively flat seabed, otherwise, it would have been found.
The weight of the gold had been weighed, and there were no problems, and the transaction was only concluded after Yang Yiwei signed a formal contract text.
"The money will be credited to your ICBC account tomorrow, and it's $2.82 billion. I won't give you the fraction, and it will be our salvage fee. After the handover, Mou Li nodded and spoke. The profit-making was accompanied by a central bank staff. The contract is a three-party contract, there is no problem, Yang Yiwei is not afraid of making profits and can rely on the account, the main reason is that the money comes too easily, even if it is gone. Yang Yiwei probably didn't feel very distressed.
"Okay, no problem, by the way, do you want to come and sit with me?" Yang Yiwei said with a smile. After more than two months of rush work, the terminal was the first to be completed, but the entire port is still more than two months away from completion. The completely modern wharf can now dock no more than 100,000 tons of freighters, and is fully equipped with large loading and unloading tools, the only thing lacking is popularity, and other ancillary buildings on the wharf have not yet been built, and the first repair of the wharf is to facilitate transportation.
Before the completion of the port, all the raw materials were unloaded from Tamatave, the largest port city in Madagascar, and then hired a convoy to transport them to the city of Fanu, and now after the port is completed, the ships that load and unload the raw materials can dock directly at the docks in the city of Feinu.
"No, what is there to do on a construction site where you are now, and when your place is completely completed, let me take a free vacation for a month every year." Profit-making naturally knew what Yang Yiwei was doing, and Yang Yiwei immediately despised him and said: "Don't even think about it, do you know how much money I have to build a month's cost there?" ”
"I don't know what to say, but you can see from the amount of your investment, but how many years are you going to recoup your investment? At the rate at which you are spending money now, even if most of the rich people in the world come to you for vacation, I am afraid it will take at least 20 years or more to be able to recoup their investment, right? Profit said with some curiosity.
Yang Yiwei smiled noncommittally, and he didn't explain, as the head of the intelligence department, Yang Yiwei admitted that he was very good at being an agent, but he was too far behind in business. Even Yang Yiwei didn't see the Tao here, let alone anything else, in fact, Xu Zhennan pointed this out to Yang Yiwei, Yang Yiwei just wanted to make a luxury tourist area to find an excuse for himself to come to Madagascar for investment.
But later in an online meeting, some of Xu Zhennan's words made Yang Yiwei react violently, for why he said that he would invest here at the beginning, Lulu's reaction was so big, but Xu Zhennan did not have such a big reaction. On the contrary, although it was not mentioned, it vaguely supported Yang Yiwei.
The reason why Xu Zhennan was not optimistic at the beginning was because Yang Yiwei's funds were insufficient, if this tourist area was built according to Yang Yiwei's standards, the amount of investment would reach nearly 10 billion US dollars! $10 billion, spent on 200 square kilometers of land, an average of $50 million per square kilometer.
In other words, $50 per square meter, which is more than 400 RMB. Is this still a scenic spot? Ordinary people decorate their houses, and it costs 40,000 yuan to decorate 100 square meters, which is purely paved with money. The scenic spots that can be built according to this standard are definitely worth visiting by those who are top rich, and those who can be called top rich people also have companies and other resources in their hands.
After getting to know these top rich people, as the owner of this tourist area, Yang Yiwei didn't say anything else, just saying that some of the news he got from these people could sometimes be hundreds of millions of dollars in profits. This is not an exaggeration at all, to use the simplest analogy, one of the most successful companies in the world, Apple! If the chairman of Apple's board of directors told Yang Yiwei that Apple would announce a major piece of good news tomorrow, Yang Yiwei would buy tens of millions of Apple shares today, and tomorrow it would rise by $10 per share, this figure would be terrifying.
This is also the reason why Xu Zhennan does not object to anything, all because of the circle problem. Sometimes when you enter this circle, you find that things are not as difficult as you think, and of course, some things are not as easy as you think. To be honest, after listening to Xu Zhennan's remarks at that time, Yang Yiwei was still very shocked, because he didn't think about it at all, he just wanted to use this as a cover-up.
But if you think about it carefully, it's really TM that as long as your tourist area can attract the attention of those rich people, you can know people about what you want to buy and sell in the future, and you can greet the boss directly, do you still need to find the door? Of course, Yang Yiwei just didn't expect that there was such an attached preferential condition for his construction of this thing, and his plan remained the same, but the factory area he imagined was probably a little farther away from this scenic spot.
The 200 square kilometres of land sold to himself are located in the northern part of the city of Feinu, including the hydropower station.
The wharf has been built, and the construction of the factory can also start at the same time, but China Earth Construction can no longer eat Yang Yiwei's order, no way, although China Earth Construction is also a domestic state-owned construction enterprise, but Yang Yiwei's list is too big, and China Earth Construction has other projects in Africa, maintaining Yang Yiwei's current progress of the project, and is their greatest ability. So Yang Yiwei had to invite another company introduced by China Soil Construction, which is also a state-owned enterprise, but don't compare them with those domestic construction companies.
Although these enterprises are state-owned enterprises, but to be honest, the same enterprise, the gap between domestic and foreign countries is huge, in foreign countries these enterprises are definitely one of the best enterprises, Nima, the service is called a in place, and you can send engineering supervisors throughout the process, will never give you corners, besides, they want to cut corners and have no chance, the entire construction site is within the scope of Bai Xue's monitoring, where to cut corners, Yang Yiwei can immediately know the way. (To be continued)