Chapter 141: A Chance Encounter in Paris
Li Tie left Germany with a large purchase contract, at the moment of leaving Germany, Li Tie took a good look at the German ** people in front of him, maybe this is his only trip to Germany, although he knows that Germany will embark on a road of no return in the future, but he really has no ability to change too much.
Fortunately, he has established some personal relationship with the future commander of Germany, and maybe one day in the future, Li Tie can help Germany.
With the blessings of Hoffman and others, the Huaxing flew into the sky full of supplies, and the plane flew to Paris, the capital of France, in only half a day.
Since Li Tie had little contact with the French government, the welcoming ceremony at the airport in Paris was much worse than that of Germany, and it was only a few of France's largest grain companies, not only did not a single French government official come, but not even a reporter arrived.
However, this is not important, because Li Tie is now one of the shareholders of Louis Dreyfus Company, and Li Tie came to France this time in addition to opening up international routes between France and China, but also wants to invest in several good French military enterprises.
Don't think that in the original history, France let the Germans defeat in a few weeks in World War II, and think that France was poorly equipped. At that time, the French were defeated at the level of national command, and at the same time on morale.
France's military products had always been the world's leading at that time, and Li Tie only wanted to take a stake in France's military industrial enterprises in order to wait until the future, when Germany occupied France, so that he could embezzle these military industrial enterprises.
Therefore, Li Tie only made a symbolic visit to Louis Dreyfus Company when he got off the plane, and then entrusted Louis Dreyfus Company executives to help him contact several of France's most famous military enterprises, including Renault, which makes tanks.
These military industrial enterprises in France today are not having a good time, military industrial enterprises? There is no war to fight, and their business will naturally plummet, and now these large-scale military industrial enterprises have to research weapons and maintain a certain degree of competitiveness. There have been several layoffs.
Now, when I heard that there is a big gold from China that mainly invests in these military enterprises, and it spends a lot of money, and it really only needs a small number of shares, where can I find such a cheap thing?
So under the guidance of Louis Dreyfus Company, Li Tie successively visited several of the most famous French arms companies, which specialized in making tanks, guns, and even bombs and mines. Li Tie had friendly negotiations with each of the arms companies, and asked a professional financial company to conduct an asset appraisal of these companies.
After more than 10 days of difficult negotiations, several companies have signed a share transfer agreement with Li Tie, Li Tie to each enterprise to invest two layers of total assets, but only in exchange for five percent of the total assets, this share ratio is only a qualification to sit on the board of directors, has no impact on the major decisions of the enterprise.
Who can not take advantage of such a bargain? As a result, several of France's most powerful military enterprises signed share transfer agreements with Li Tie. When Li Tie's big seal was pressed on these contracts.
The two sides laughed happily together, the French arms dealers were secretly happy, this East is really a place where people are stupid and have a lot of money, and they took nearly a million francs and only subscribed for less than 300,000 shares.
If it weren't for the fact that this military enterprise was a chicken that laid golden eggs, it would be nice to really want to sell it all to Li Tie at one time, and it would be good to turn around and start a new military enterprise by himself.
Seeing these French profiteers in front of him one by one, Li Tie was also very happy, and at this time his heart was even more proud: "Hahaha, there is a day when you cry, but when I annex your factory, I'm afraid you will have to thank me?" β
In the same vein, with the help of Louis Dreyfus Company and several arms companies, Li Tie's Huaxing Company also obtained a license to open air routes between China and France.
Although Li Tie didn't have much to do when he came to France, he couldn't be in a hurry when dealing with businessmen, so whenever the negotiations fell into bargaining, Li Tie would always take the thousand-tailed scorpion to visit the places of interest in Paris when the meeting was adjourned.
What the Louvre, the Arc de Triomphe, Notre Dame Cathedral all go through. After seeing the Royal Palace, go to the Palace of Versailles, and after strolling through the Champs-ElysΓ©es, go to see the Eiffel Tower.
Although Paris at this time was not as prosperous as in later generations, it was more fresh and romantic. But when you see all kinds of frescoes and oil paintings in the palace.
The thousand-tailed scorpion still fought at Li Tie, scolding Li Tie while fighting, scolding Li Tie for being a bad breed by nature, full of bad thoughts.
Poor Li Tie had to endure the great pain, and explained with a face full of grievances: "This is art, do you understand art?" β
Just when the thousand-tailed scorpion kept beating Li Tie, I saw that next to the square, among a large group of painters with art stalls, there was a bearded painter with his whole body hidden in his hat and suddenly shouted in Spanish: "I have inspiration." β
Then the painter didn't even have time to clean up the stall in front of him, so he ran away. However, this painter seems to be very famous, and many painters who set up stalls exclaimed. More than a dozen painters chased after the painter who had run away earlier.
Li Tie asked Mike beside him incomprehensibly, what were these people talking about just now? Who knew that Mike also said with envy: "They said that the painter who ran away just now was the great painter Picasso, and he came to Paris to find inspiration.
Just now, when Picasso saw the sudden inspiration when Miss Qian hit you, he shouted, "I'm inspired" and ran away. β
"Ah, he's Picasso? Damn, Wang Qi, pack up all the things on this push and take it away. Li Tie ordered Wang Qi beside him.
Although Wang Qi didn't know why Li Tie did this, he still listened to Li Tie's words, and stepped forward to pack Picasso's drawing board and several half-finished paintings on the ground into a large package on the ground.
Mike persuaded Li Tie: "Dear Tie, you look very bad, right?" It's Picasso's stuff, what if he comes back and can't find it? β
Li Tie said indifferently: "What's the matter with me?" He's been inspired by me, and I haven't charged him yet? Isn't it okay to use him as my inspiration royalty?"
Mike can't help it. could only let Li Tie take Picasso's things away, and he didn't even let go of the half of the paintbrush that fell on the ground.
I only heard Li Tie muttering in a low voice while counting the contents of the bag: "Get rich, get rich." Anything here is a priceless treasure for future generations, even if it is not sold for money, I donate it to the Chinese Painting Academy, and it is also a great virtue. β
Not long after Li Tie packed up his things and left here with the thousand-tailed scorpions, he saw Picasso, who was panting and empty, returned to the booth where he painted again, looking at the empty stall, Picasso couldn't help but look up to the sky and howl.
"Who is so lacking in virtue? I take the half-finished picture, too. "What if only these half-finished paintings were taken away, and the key is that there are still more than a dozen letters between myself and my lover in the mezzanine of the bag? If this spreads, it will not be good for your reputation.
Picasso asked the people around him about the physical characteristics of the person who took his package, and when Picasso learned that Li Tie and his party had left here in two Louis Dreyfus cars.
Picasso immediately found Li Tie and his party through acquaintances in Paris.
In a luxury hotel in Paris, when Li Tie saw Picasso angrily begging for a letter from him, Li Tie smiled again.
In his previous life, he knew that Picasso was still a big lover, and he showed mercy everywhere. So Li Tie was not polite, and gave him a letter, but asked Picasso to draw a sub-painting for him.
It must be a portrait, Li Tie was thrilled by the thought that he could have a portrait painted by Picasso himself.
And Picasso was also very straightforward, and accepted Li Tie's request on the spot, and it happened that Li Tie was still visiting Paris, so a week later, the day before Li Tie was about to leave Paris, Picasso came to Li Tie's hotel again.
When Li Tie took the portrait painted by Picasso himself, he really couldn't cry or laugh, and Picasso was also a good person, and he would take advantage of loopholes.
But after all, the people had finished painting, and there was no way, Li Tie could only return the dozen or so love letters he had received to Picasso. After Picasso checked the letter and made sure it was correct, he left the hotel in high spirits.
It was then that the people in the hotel had time to look at Picasso's paintings.
Seeing that Li Tie was very embarrassed, everyone asked Li Tie to show it to everyone, although Li Tie repeatedly excused himself, but he couldn't stand it, and the thousand-tailed scorpion personally stepped forward to seize it, and as soon as the painting was taken out, it immediately caused laughter all over the room.
It turned out that the so-called portrait that Picasso gave to Li Tie was the scene when the thousand-tailed scorpion beat Li Tie that day. Picasso deserves to be called the greatest master of painting of his time.
In a seemingly simple oil painting, the beauty and violence of the thousand-tailed scorpion in the painting, and Li Tie's flattery and grievances are vividly displayed.
The most excessive thing is that in the bottom corner of a painting, there is also a line of small Spanish letters, "Dedicated to the most shameless villain in the world." β
Of course, no one noticed this line of small print, and when Li Tie finally knew the meaning of this sentence, it was already many years later.
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