Chapter 156: A Thorny Problem
Midnight at half past eleven.
The exhausted Song Shaojun fell asleep sweetly with a sweet and satisfied smile, and Zhu Daolin, who had the pretext of wanting to practice, put on his nightgown and came to the hall downstairs, observed for a while, walked unhurriedly to the courtyard in front of the villa, and walked in the drizzle.
didn't walk for long, Zhu Daolin clearly felt that Uncle Zhang and his two Filipino maids in the small building outside had fallen asleep.
He unhurriedly returned to the dimly lit living room, put the ten boxes of books neatly stacked in the corner of the villa into the King Kong circle, and then transferred the four large and small wooden boxes in the King Kong circle to the original place where the books were stacked, and then opened the boxes one by one, carefully inspected the two bronze tripods in the box, a gilded statue of Sakyamuni in the Northern and Southern Dynasties and a set of secret color porcelain in the Tang Dynasty, and then closed the lid of the box with confidence, and went upstairs to sleep with ease.
Early the next morning, Zhu Daolin, who was still asleep, was woken up by Song Shaojun, after listening to Song Shaojun's questioning full of doubts, and then looking at her shocked face, Zhu Daolin couldn't help laughing:
"I told you a long time ago, my brothers are all highly skilled, and it is common to walk on the eaves and walls, what is the point of moving a few things?"
"I'll sleep for another half an hour, you go and call your uncle, he handles hundreds of thousands of busy people in minutes, and his time is much more precious than mine."
"I'll settle accounts with you later, you and your fox friends and dogs are mysterious, you go in and out without opening the door, Uncle Zhang and the two servants are frightened when they get up in the morning, don't do this next time."
Song Shaojun complained while walking to the small living room in front of him, picked up the cordless phone and told his uncle to bring someone over for identification.
Song Yiming's movements were very fast, and in less than an hour, he brought the three old experts from last time, as well as eight hidden bodyguards and three wide American cars, which made Uncle Zhang and his two young Filipino maids nervous.
Zhu Daolin didn't care at all, he only got up when he learned that Song Yiming was coming, and unhurriedly took a shower and changed into a casual suit. Slowly descend to the living room on the first floor, bypass the busy group of people and sit directly at the dining table, while enjoying the exquisite Western breakfast delivered by the Filipino maid, while enjoying the tense appraisal scene of Song Yiming's uncle and nephew and three old experts.
In fact, Zhu Daolin's heart is far from being as relaxed as he seems on the surface, he has been trying to find out about Song Yiming, pondering the Song family behind Song Yiming and his relationship with Song Shaojun. The more I thought about it, the heavier I felt.
Zhu Daolin doesn't care about making more and less money, he knows how high the risk of buying and selling cultural relics is, he has no way to get a proper origin for the cultural relics he brought back, rather than handing it over to an auction house he doesn't know, and performing various cumbersome procedures may not be able to obtain a guarantee of safety and interests, it is better to continue to trade with Song Yiming, who is strong and familiar with each other, and the long-term solution is to evenly dip interests and make appropriate profits, this truth Zhu Daolin is very clear.
However, now his relationship with the Song family has become quite complicated. Zhu Daolin is very willing to return to the original simple business relationship, but now there are too many concerns, and there are many places that need to rely on Song Yiming, at least until he buys enough silver, Zhu Daolin needs to continue to maintain the existing relationship.
As for how much silver could be bought back, Zhu Daolin did not think about it further, or he did not want to think too deeply.
It was almost noon, and Zhu Daolin finished breakfast. After drinking two pots of special Pu'er tea, I went to pee again. After coming back and sitting for a long time, the intense appraisal work was over.
Song Yiming, Song Shaojun and the three old experts half-knelt and half-sat in a circle, excitedly looking at the full set of secret color porcelain placed on the coffee table in the middle, one by one in amazement, and the discussion continued.
After listening to their conversation, Zhu Daolin knew that this set of things was really from the secret color porcelain of the Yue kiln. At present, there are only two sets in the world, one of which is still placed in the specially built museum of Famen Temple in Shaanxi, and several other pieces of secret color porcelain that have caused a sensation in auctions around the world in recent years are not at all in the flow compared with this set of 12-piece secret color porcelain.
The old experts finished packing the full set of secret color porcelain with amazement, and Song Yiming finally came to sit down opposite Zhu Daolin. stared at Zhu Daolin, who had a calm expression for a long time, and finally couldn't help but sigh:
"It's not easy! More calm than I thought, not bad! Although the two bronze tripods of the late Western Zhou Dynasty and the gilded Buddha statues of the Northern Dynasties are precious, they are easy to price, but the secret color porcelain is difficult...... Now it's my turn to have a headache, and I don't know how to set a price for you, and even I don't know how much it's worth now. ”
"You can take it back first, and when the price is set, it's not too late to inform me when it's time." Zhu Daolin kicked the ball back, he didn't want to ask for a penny less, even if he could add some pressure to Song Yiming, it would be a gain.
Song Yiming seemed to have guessed that Zhu Daolin would say this, nodded and directly said the price of the other three antiques: "The two bronze tripods are in good condition, and the inscriptions of a few hundred words on the tripods are more precious, give you 50 million US dollars, and the gilded Buddha statue 8 million US dollars, is it okay?" ”
Zhu Daolin thought for a while: "Let's make up enough 60 million, I'm short of money." ”
Song Yiming couldn't help but be happy: "If your kid is short of money, the whole world will be beggars, haha!" Just kidding, don't care, 60 million is 60 million, and it will be transferred to your UBS account in the afternoon. ”
"You can deduct the payment for 12 tons of silver first." Zhu Daolin said with a smile.
Song Yiming took out a Cuban cigar and played with it slowly, lit it and took two deep breaths, spewing out two puffs of spicy smoke, before he smiled comfortably: "Worried that my words don't count?" ”
Zhu Daolin hurriedly explained: "No, I just don't want to transfer the money around, it's troublesome." ”
"Well, although twelve tons of silver is nothing, a twenty-foot container can be loaded, but it is always more than 1,000 or nearly 20 million dollars of valuable goods, how are you going to receive the goods? Where do you pick up the freight? Song Yiming asked.
Zhu Daolin had a lot of headaches about this, he had thought about this problem many times, but there was no good solution, and now he had to decide on it, so he simply pushed the problem to Song Yiming: "Can you send it here?" ”
Song Yiming waved his hand again and again: "This is not good, the 12 tons of silver you want have been shipped from Indonesia, and it will arrive at the shore in the morning of the day after tomorrow at the latest, and it will be sent to the bonded warehouse after the customs declaration is completed. ”
"Unless you pay enough import taxes in the name of the Hong Kong company, the customs will not care where you ship it, but in this way, the taxes and fees are hundreds of thousands of dollars, and you have to find a way for this batch of silver and settle the company's accounts, otherwise you will go to jail once you find out."
"What then?"
Zhu Dao's head is as big as a fight.
He really doesn't have any way, he doesn't know anything about Hong Kong's import and export trade, entrepot trade and related tariff policies, where is there a way to solve this matter?
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