The days with Audrey are always happy and go by without worry. The next morning, Audrey was sent away, and Zhou Nan took Etinny, Fawward and Slooney to the warehouse containing antiques.

In the West, there are few antiques that rely on the essence of things and sell at a price of 100 times, such as Oriental jade and golden silk nanmu, which are generally not too valuable.

This is mainly because of the influence of culture, only antiques with humanistic significance will be of high value in their eyes. Like those works of art, like those oil paintings,...... As for diamonds, let's not mention it.

However, even though diamonds are one of the biggest scams in human history. But diamonds are also known for their hard material, which is why they are used to describe strong love.

Therefore, even if it is golden silk nanmu and red sandalwood furniture, although the price will be higher than ordinary furniture. But it's not like the East, which will rise to an unreliable sky-high price in the future.

Because these things are just a little less, they don't have any cultural significance in themselves, only hype.

It's the 40s, or the 40s just after the end of World War II, and even the prices of famous Western artworks are not high, let alone some ordinary antiquities.

According to the current price of wheat, a ton of wheat has risen from 50 US dollars a ton in the autumn of 46 to nearly 150 US dollars a ton now, and these 7,000 tons of grain are only worth 1 million US dollars.

However, the mountain of wooden furniture in the underground garage, as well as the various antiques in the entire two rooms, are really of immeasurable value.

These pieces of furniture are not ordinary furniture, they are at least two or three hundred years old, or they are made of rare quality wood. Some of them are even furniture of the German royal family.

Zhou Nan is not much interested in these, and their fate will continue here. Unless it is very special furniture, Zhou Nan will be interested in shipping it back to Switzerland.

Yannick also knew Zhou Nan's arrangement, and after Zhou Nan had chosen, he would have people wrap up the furniture and sell it decades later.

Zhou Nan's main target was the various small works of art and artifacts in the two rooms, of which only a small part were European relics, and most of the rest were cultural relics from the East.

On the list, there are more than 200 antiques that the Germans looted from the Far East during the Eight-Nation Alliance. However, the most antiquities in the Orient are not the largest, the most are ancient Egypt and ancient Babylon, and there are at least more than 300 items on the list.

These were snatched back by the ancestors of the Germans from all over the world, but now, in order to survive, their descendants can only exchange them for a little food.

Zhou Nan actually only made a small profit, and it was the British who really profited. Since 45 years, they have been exchanging in an organized manner.

They had more than 200 grain merchants in various cities in the British occupation zone, and the antiquities exchanged from Germany were loaded with at least a few ships of 100,000 tons.

Although Zhou Nan robbed them of a little business, Zhou Nan only had this batch of 7,000 tons of grain, and it was impossible to compete in the future, so they did not regard Zhou Nan as a threat.

Of course, Zhou Nan can only do such a thing this once, and next time he wants to do it again, the British will not allow it.

Most of the artifacts have been identified by Yannick, and each of them has an appraisal certificate, but half of the artifacts have not been confirmed.

Most of the unidentified artifacts do not belong to Europe, and if you want to confirm them, you need to find different cultural relics experts to identify them.

Zhou Nan and the others worked in the basement for three days, and Etinny and the others were responsible for wrapping and packing the relics according to the list, and the outside of the boxes had to be tied with straw rope.

On the one hand, it is easy to carry with straw rope, and the toughness and partition of straw rope can also protect these antiques during the journey. Especially some ancient Oriental porcelain, you have to be careful and careful when transporting them.

Zhou Nan has been constantly studying these cultural relics from the East, and in them, he has found no less than ten antiques that can be called national treasures.

However, he is not an expert, and he is not sure of the origin of many antiques. He can know the source of some texts and ancient books, and he can know the source of some paintings and calligraphy, but he doesn't know the origin of some porcelain, let alone the value of some porcelain.

The only thing that is certain is that these antiques were all in circulation in Europe decades ago, and each one is genuine, there are no fakes.

It took three days for Zhou Nan to determine more than a dozen ancient books, more than a dozen paintings and calligraphy, and there are many authentic works of great painters.

Most of the remaining bronze tripods, jade, porcelain, and antiquities he couldn't recognize, so he could only make a registration and keep them first.

After counting these and packing them all, Zhou Nan asked Etinny to run the relationship first.

On the way back, not only did they have to pass through the British-controlled areas, but also the Americans-French-controlled areas, and the relationship between each family had to be in place, otherwise it would not have been so easy to ship these things back to Switzerland.

And he calmed down, he came to Germany for almost ten days, he didn't bother to write an article, and it was time to pay attention.

He was about to start writing, and Caroline immediately made it a priority.

The house does not receive visitors during the day, and even the servants are not allowed to be too loud when they work. If it weren't for Zhou Nan's opposition, she would almost have someone poke a few bird's nests in the yard.

In the past, the eldest in the family were Lily and little Erwin, who loved to cry, but now Lily is not allowed to disturb Zhou Nan in the morning, and as long as little Erwin cries, he and Claudio will be locked in the room immediately, or kicked out of the house.

Although she felt that it was a bit of a fuss, Caroline's heart to create a quiet environment for Zhou Nan was really felt by Zhou Nan.

Although this mother is not a biological mother, for Zhou Nan, her biological mother is just the shy smiling face in the photo. Only in Caroline's body did she feel the motherly love like the sea.

Zhou Nan's life stabilized again, but unlike in Switzerland, he switched to morning and afternoon writing in Germany because of the lack of socializing.

In the evenings, he would take care of some official business, and in the evenings, he would usually be with Yannick for some business receptions.

In Germany, there are many people who want to know Zhou Nan, but only through Yannick can they have the opportunity to meet Zhou Nan.

Every evening, Zhou Nan would meet with some guests and have some business conversations and communication with Yannick. Yannick has a lot of questions from the media, and he always gives answers that satisfy Yannick.

Many things are worthless in Zhou Nan's memory, but they are worth a thousand gold in Yannick's heart.

For example, put a tape in a car, and put a stereo in a car. In this era before the advent of cassette tapes, even records could only be sung for more than three minutes, which is nothing less than a fantasy.

However, Chevrolet tried to install radios in cars in the twenties, and sales increased significantly, causing many car manufacturers to follow suit and start to work service and driving experience.

Yannick now knows the importance of tape development and can go into the tape industry now. But Zhou Nan did not know much about the development of tape, and his only impression was that the Japanese had the earliest development of the tape industry, but they could compete with the Japanese such as General Electric and Philips.

Zhou Nan thinks that these are useless, but in Yannick's heart, he knows how to focus on entering this industry. If you want to know about the development of tape, you just need to send someone to these two companies to find out.

From the car tape, when it comes to the composition of the tape, Zhou Nan simply drew a tape style with a hard pen, but Zhou Nan didn't know what the composition of the tape was.

But since it's a tape, there must be a magnetic powder and a head. Now the style of this tape cartridge is drawn, and then a patent is applied, and whoever wants to produce tapes in the future will need to pay patent fees to Zhou Nan.

Yannick felt more and more that Zhou Nan was a treasure, but he didn't know it. Everything had to be squeezed a little, and Zhou Nan knew that he didn't think it was important yet, which made Yannick extremely depressed.

Many things that are common sense to Zhou Nan, but I don't know it, are groundbreaking inventions for this era.

There are also electric doors and windows, and the windows of the car are now all hand-cranked, a simple electric motor, and a transmission device, so that the glass can be raised and lowered automatically.

This kind of invention is not difficult, it is easy to develop, and even Yannick understood as soon as he heard it, these patents can be exchanged for huge profits.

"Jonas, I'll help you assemble a research and development team. There are many things in your mind that are worth a thousand dollars, but you don't pay attention to them. Those electronic products need technological innovation, not to mention, but some simple inventions, but can facilitate people's lives, but also in exchange for huge profits, why don't you turn these into reality? ”

"But I don't know why, and I don't have the means to turn this into reality!"

"You don't have to worry about this, either you set up a studio in Switzerland, or I will build a studio for you in Wolfsburg, and you can come once a month in the future and point out the direction of development."

Zhou Nan hurriedly said: "Then I'll come to Germany, I don't want my home to become a factory." ”

There are many more conversations like this, and Yannick intends to inquire about Zhounan's future development and changes in various aspects and industries.

When I heard that the world in the future is connected by the Internet, satellites are all over the outer space of the earth, in any corner of the earth, satellite phones can be directly contacted, and ordinary people in Asia can directly make video calls to ordinary people in Europe through the Internet, these future scenes will always make Yannick sigh.

He likes to listen to Zhou Nan talk about this, and through Zhou Nan, he seems to see the future changes in the world. Sometimes he is also longing, he is 44 years old this year, can he live to that day in the future?