After the restaurant, Benjamin followed her back to Jia Lian's other house. Now it has become the residence of Baochai and Yingchun, who usually lives in the school and will come back on weekends.

And today happened to be the weekend, and Benjamin knew that he was coming back for the Spring Festival today, so he was very cheeky and insisted on staying for dinner.

Baochai didn't rush him, and ordered the housekeeper in the house to bring afternoon tea, and the two began to talk about Baochai's original plan in the living room.

There is no shortage of industry in England, but what is lacking is gastronomy and aesthetics.

It is these two things that Baochai is preparing to introduce to England. The spices were prepared to be introduced after the fire in her restaurant, while the silk threads were used to start an oriental embroidery workshop.

"It's a pity that so many people in England pursue oriental silk, but it's a pity that no one can use it when they take it, but they can only hang it at home and enjoy it." Back at home, Baochai had recovered her Chinese, and her assistant Joe didn't understand it, so she sat down with a book and read it.

Benjamin saw that Baochai used Chinese, and knew that he didn't want his assistant to hear too much about the plan, and he felt a little proud in his heart, it seems that Baochai's plan should include himself.

"So you want to take apprentices here and sell the embroiderers in Huaxia?" Benjamin laughed and said, "Your aunt is really like a god, she asked me to bring twelve embroidery girls over, saying that it was for you." The people are still on my ship, and I am ready to send them to you after all the goods are unloaded. ”

Baochai was pleasantly surprised when she heard this, and hurriedly asked, "Did you really send me an embroidery girl?" What is the place? ”

Benjamin smiled: "Three in Shudi, three in Suzhou, three in Hunan, and three in Guangzhou." ”

Baochai was even more ecstatic when he heard this: "This Shu embroidery, Suzhou embroidery, Hunan embroidery, and Guangdong embroidery are all complete?" It's really an aunt, who can not only guess my thoughts, but also solve my biggest problem. I thought it would be enough to pass on my own craft, but these embroiderers she found for me were the icing on the cake! ”

Benjamin asked her, "What are you going to do with these embroiderers?" Open an embroidery workshop? However, the embroidery of Huaxia is complicated, and an embroidery product takes a lot of time, which is not suitable for trading. ”

Baochai smiled: "Who said that I must start a workshop?" This embroidery is naturally to be sold, but not everyone can buy it.

"I'll need a few months to plan, and I'll ask you for a favor then. Don't worry, I will never let you do it in vain, and there will be your benefits. ”

Benjamin cocked Erlang's legs, took Qiao and said, "What are the benefits, you talk about it first, it's not good enough, I don't agree." ”

Xue Baochai smiled: "Do you know James Christie?" ”

Benjamin was stunned, shook his head and said, "I haven't heard of it, I'm often not in England, and I know very little about newcomers in the social circle over the years." ”

Baochai let out a puff of joy and said, "You always know about the auction house in Covent Garden, right?" ”

Benjamin listened, "That's an auction of books, of course I know." But what does this have to do with the person you're talking about? Wait, you mean, your embroidery wants to be sold through auction? ”

Benjamin got excited when he said this, and his voice couldn't help but get louder, "That's a good idea, no, no, it's a genius idea." Then the less embroidery you have, the more expensive it can be sold! ”

Xue Baochai listened to Benjamin's words, but sighed and rubbed his eyebrows: "It's not that simple. I contacted Shan Milbeck, and although he respected my uncle's status, he said that he did not know much about Oriental embroidery and did not dare to conduct an auction easily.

"And recently his nephew John Sotheby's has become his partner, and he has started to gradually accept all kinds of art into the auction house's ranks, and I tried again, but still won't accept my offer."

Benjamin frowned and said, "Won't you accept embroidery?" Why? Oriental embroidery is a rare thing in the royal family, and they refuse to accept it? ”

Xue Baochai sighed: "One is that I don't have a physical object, and the second is estimated that because the price of embroidery is too expensive, they are afraid that they will not be able to sell it." But I recently heard about a Scotsman named James Christie, who had just returned from Australia and was about to open a new auction house.

"He's good, at least he's richer than those booksellers. But his financial resources can't make the auction house as luxurious as I want. So I'd like to ask you to contact him and fund the opening of this new auction house.

"Listen to me, I'm definitely not cheating on you, the auction is definitely profitable. The most profitable shop in my family is the pawnshop, and the pawnshop makes a fortune by auctioning off the valuables of the dead pawn. ”

Benjamin was silent for a moment, his mind racing.

Baochai's ingenuity is highly praised by the Jia family. In the eyes of the Jia family, there are few people who recognize the wrong person. Moreover, I saw Baochai's restaurant this time, and I believe that her vision is unique. At the same time, he also knew that the spices that Baochai brought over would eventually turn into gold.

The auction house industry has never been considered before, and that is because most of the auctions in England are slave auctions, and there are very few art auctions.

So far, there is only one auction house in Covent Garden, which is now officially called Sotheby's. But the auction house didn't make much money because they were limited to books.

If you can fund a high-end auction house and raise the variety to the ranks of various artworks, then you will definitely be able to do something bigger than Sotheby's.

Benjamin was intrigued, and this was a rare opportunity.

"Actually, I borrowed some money from my uncle, and I was able to support it." Baochai suddenly said at this time: "It's just that I'm not a local, and I always have a head by borrowing my uncle's momentum." My uncle is going back after the New Year, and someone is secretly squeezing me, and I can't cope with it.

"It's your family's identity that is more suitable. For one thing, your family is still only a baron, and if you can make a name for yourself, maybe you can mention the title again. Second, your family has been very rich in funds in recent years, but it is all cash, and there are no investment projects, right?

"It's time to invest seriously, so that you can keep making money. There will always be a day when you can't run, do you have to rely on you to run until you grow old? ”

Benjamin gritted his teeth and said indignantly: "Your mouth is really dead and alive, no wonder your cousin always says that you are not an ordinary person, okay, I'll contact that James Christie tomorrow to see, but I need his information, you should always have it, right?" ”

Baochai laughed, and said to Joe, who was reading quietly, "Go and bring him Mr. Christie's information." ”

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