Chapter Ninety-Five: Bargaining
Moments later, Mr. Roosevelt, who was from the United States with his legs intact, sneaked out of the new Shengtai and went straight to the location of the French consulate.
If you want to exchange bonds, you have to mention the French, you must know that before the European War, Paris was one of the most important financial centers in the world at that time, and near the French consulate, there was a branch of the French bank.
Strictly speaking, it is a branch that serves only the consulate and French merchants in the Shandong region.
The Banque de France was founded in Paris in 1800 and opened in 1826 in the Paris Stock Exchange building. This is a large multinational bank that can deliver stocks and bearer bonds in different places around the world!
This is also the reason why Geng Chaozhong chose the French consulate. However, he prefers to go through Adrian's channel, because going to a bank, even if it is a foreign bank, will inevitably leave traces!
The French Consulate is located at No. 15 Qixia Road, which is also a two-story Western-style building, but the scale is relatively small, after all, the main colonies of the French are still in Vietnam and Africa, and the interests in the island city are relatively limited. But because of this, the French consul is still relatively detached from other countries, and basically does not intervene in the various interests of the great powers in the island city.
In fact, the owner of such a café changes with the political situation and the changing world pattern, Adrian's predecessor was an Italian, but since Mussolini came to power, Italy's political stance has become extremely radical, and the Italian is no longer suitable for this position - because an intelligence broker with obvious political leanings cannot gain the trust of others.
And the French, who are pursuing a policy of neutrality, have become the most suitable candidates for the Malcolm café now - so Adrian, the counselor of the French consulate, has become the current speaker of the Malcolm café.
What Geng Chaozhong is looking for is such a talker.
However, when he came to the door of the French consulate, he showed his intention to the French sentry on duty, but he was closed.
The sentry told Geng that Mr. Adrian did not know Mr. Roosevelt from the United States, and that he might remember the name in the evening.
Geng Chaozhong understood that this was not in accordance with the rules.
During the day, Adrian was only a counselor at the French consulate, and only at night did he become the fat owner of the café.
But at night, your bonds will depreciate again, and you can't wait!
Thinking of this, Geng Chaozhong took out a bond, folded it and handed it to the sentry, and said:
"Please hand this to Mr. Adrian, I think he'll be interested."
The sentry took the bond and walked in, and after a while, he walked out, signaling that Geng Chaozhong could go in.
After a rigorous body search, Geng Chaozhong followed the sentry to an office on the second floor, where Adrian was standing at the door, waiting for Geng Chaozhong's arrival.
"Mr. Roosevelt, it's a pleasure to meet you, tell me! What can you bring me this time? ”
Adrian was wearing suspenders and a bow tie, bending down to welcome Geng Chaozhong into the house, looking very gentlemanly.
"I want to sell a batch of bonds, can you afford it?"
Geng Chaozhong put forward his request straight to the point.
Adrian's eyes lit up, and he laughed:
"You can eat as much as you want! You should know that downstairs is the branch of our Banque de France! It's just that, Mr. Roosevelt, I'm getting more and more curious about who you really are! Forgive me, I can't help but grab you and see how many secrets you still have! ”
"Haha, if you think so, I can't ask for it, because I happen to have a piece of news."
Geng Chaozhong's eyes flashed with a cold light, but the expression on his face was also very happy.
"Oh, tell me about it?" Adrian's brown eyes showed a little curiosity.
"In Germany, there is a demon that will rise, and the Maginot Line of your homeland will be challenged like never before." Geng Chaozhong replied with a look on his face.
“........”
Adrian was speechless and said, "Let's talk about bonds!" How much is it, and how much is it worth? ”
"About 100 of them like the one I just gave you." Geng Chaozhong said lightly.
"It seems that I guessed correctly, the bond of old Germany really came into your hands." Adrian looked at Geng Chaozhong with burning eyes and chuckled, "I still have a question. ”
"If I catch you now, will I get that bond?"
"You can give it a try."
Geng Chaozhong said coldly.
Adrian didn't speak, his eyes narrowed slightly, and it seemed that he was really thinking about this problem seriously - this Roosevelt was obviously not an American, and this disguise couldn't hide it.
This guy is Japanese?
Geng Chaozhong still had a calm expression on his face, and there was no panic in his eyes.
"Okay!" Adrian finally spoke, "Compared to the value of this bond and my creditworthiness, I think it's more important to have creditworthiness. ”
Geng Chaozhong nodded, turned around, took out the bonds from his bubble space, and a small Colt pistol brought back from the United States, and placed it on the table at the same time.
Adrian's eyes changed - anyone who entered the second floor of the embassy was not allowed to carry weapons, but this guy brought in easily and naturally, although I don't know how he did it, but obviously, he was now qualified to negotiate terms with him.
"You've proven what you're up to."
Adrian sighed, took the bonds on the table, and began to count them carefully.
He first categorized the bonds belonging to different companies, then took out a newspaper and began to estimate the price.
Finally, I made several phone calls one after another, asking about the current market price of the companies on the bonds.
Half an hour later, Adrian finally looked up.
"It's worth $400,000 now, but you can't get that much from me, you know, the market is still going down, so I can only pay you $230,000."
Fuck off!
It's so dark!
This is because Geng Chaozhong did not dare to go to the bank to exchange it openly, so he offered such an outrageous price!
But if you think about it carefully, the stolen goods on the black market in the previous life were sold for about 30% of the original price at most, and if you went to the underground bank to launder money, you had to deduct nearly a quarter. To look at it that way, Adrian's asking price is not too outrageous.
However, Geng Chaozhong will never accept it!
Even if it drags on for a week, it will fall by 20% at most, and if you find a way to go abroad, you can get 300,000 US dollars, which is more than 700,000 oceans according to the current exchange ratio of 2.5 oceans per dollar!
"I'm sorry, I can't accept it, your price is outrageous!"
Geng Chaozhong shook his head in refusal, and turned to leave.
"Wait, $260,000, it can't be higher!"
Scholz's voice came.