Chapter 93: The Great Depression (12)

Hammer first showed Huang Xuan Aivazovsky's famous "Ice on the Dnieper", which is also a favorite Russian painter in the United States, but for Russians, this famous marine painter is almost known to women. But alas, this painting already has an owner. In other words, if Huang Xuan brought it home, there would be two Dnieper Glaciers on his plane.

Seeing Huang Xuan shaking his head slightly, Hammer's face remained unchanged and took out another oil painting, Ernataria. Goncharova's 1909 "Picking Apples" is also a thing with an owner. Huang Xuan simply named at this time: "Mr. Hammer, you have Olbig. A painting by Oleg Vassiliev? ”

"Yes, let me look for it." Mr. Huang was slightly surprised by the name Mr. Himmer, which was not a name that non-Russians were familiar with.

"How's this 'Before Sunset'?" This is a contemporary oil painting, Huang Xuan nodded with satisfaction, according to Lorraine's estimate, this little guy weighing no more than 500 grams can be sold for 500,000 pounds, and the energy required to transport it will not exceed 5,000 US dollars.

"Help me put it away." Huang Xuan didn't even want to ask the price, so he said to Hans.

The veteran directly mentioned the oil painting, and Hammer hurriedly stopped it in distress, beckoned a waiter to let him hold it, and then said: "Mr. Huang Xuan, the price of this painting is 3,800 US dollars, of course ......"

"Do you need to pay the bill now?" Huang Xuan interrupted him.

"Of course not." Hammer had the small eyes of a businessman, he only glanced at Huang Xuan, and said, "You can continue to choose." ”

Huang Xuan laughed twice and said, "I heard that you brought some Tsar Easter eggs?" Since 1886, the Russian royal jeweler, Fabergé, has made an Easter egg for the Empress every year, which is a unique egg made of various precious jewels and sought after by countless people in later generations. At first, though, at the auction house, each Fabergé egg could only fetch $400 or $500, but 70 years later, its lowest estimate was above $3 million

Hammer quickly pulled 10 Easter eggs out of the room, and while the 1900 World's Fair had brought people to these classic Easter eggs, Americans in the Great Depression were skeptical of these works of art that did not necessarily hold their value, and it would be a few years before anyone would discover the value of these eggs.

To Huang Xuan's disappointment, only 3 of these easter eggs disappeared from people's sight, and only these three could be taken home. Of course, the disappointment is only temporary, and it only takes 14 self-printed dollar bills to get at least $10 million, and the energy consumed by transportation will not exceed 5 million kilowatt-hours of electricity, is there a better deal than this?

With Lorraine's help, Huang Xuan reported name by name. Soon, the number of waiters around me changed from 1 to 2, and then to 4......

When the "color" darkened that day, Huang Xuan had already selected more than 400 oil paintings and more than 70 pieces of jewelry. The principle of his selection was simple, firstly, there was no duplication in P112, that is, in his own plane, at least there was no record of collection, and secondly, the price of transporting it was much lower than its selling price. Especially the latter, because many jewels were inlaid with gold and silver and other ornaments, Huang Xuan had to reluctantly give them up - the consumption of gold and silver in the plane was too great, and most of the time the gains outweighed the losses.

However, a small amount of gems and pearls will not increase the burden in this regard, Huang Xuan likes Fabergé's works very much, and uses a large number of ceramics, gemstones and other materials, and the energy consumed is greatly reduced.

As for some valuable duplicate artworks, Huang Xuan was also tempted to take them home and collect them himself, but considering that it might cause energy consumption in the buffer zone - although it may be very small, Huang Xuan still gave up, rather than looking at these things that he didn't understand at all, it was better to expect it to be safer.

After taking the last item from the department store, Huang Xuan breathed a sigh of relief with a smile on his face, and said to Hammer, who was a little darkened: "Settle the account." The tone is like eating a bowl of beef noodles at a noodle restaurant.

"That's $7,800,680." The accountant next to him directly quoted the price, among which the higher price is the jewelry, compared to the products processed by unknown people, the name of the Russian royal collection will make it more likely to appreciate. Hammer looked at Huang Xuan with stars in his eyes, thinking to himself: If this guy can't pay......

"So much!" Huang Xuan really can't pay the money, his deposit in the bank is only 3 million US dollars, but the cash in the plane channel is inconvenient to take out immediately, he looked at Hammer, whose face was already dark, and said: "I really don't have enough money on me, but how about paying the deposit first?" ”

"The company's rule is a 40% deposit." The little accountant next to him bit the word 40% very clearly.

Huang Xuan smiled awkwardly, took out the deposit certificate issued by Chase from his jacket, and said, "I only seem to have 2.6 million, which is not enough for ......."

"That's enough." Seeing this copper deposit certificate, Hammer breathed a sigh of relief and couldn't wait to say: "A deposit of 2 million US dollars is enough, when does Mr. Huang want to pick up these artworks?" ”

Hearing Hamer's words, Huang Xuan laughed dumbly, which meant that he couldn't take it now. He didn't care, he threw the deposit certificate to Hammer and said, "Let's go through the formalities together, and put the things here first." ”

"Okay." Hammer agreed, and then he relaxed, and now in 1931, the turnover of 7.8 million a day, that is, the trade in art and arms, will exist.

Chase National Bank.

After Joseph completed the transfer formalities for Hamer, who said goodbye to Huang, Huang, the wholesaler of genuine banknotes, turned around and walked in with three more travel bags, each stuffed with 30 kilograms of green bills.

Chase Bank claims to be a bank of wholesale capital, but Joseph has never seen so much cash – at a more familiar exchange rate, before the 1934 U.S. Silver Acquisition Act, China's one-dollar silver coin was worth only 26 cents, while a 100-kilogram hundred-dollar bill was equivalent to 38.46 million silver dollars, equivalent to three-quarters of China's international surplus that year.

Hans was already somewhat immune to dollar bills, but the $2,000 paid to him by Huang Xuan made him excited for a long time, but these bundles of green bills gave people a completely different feeling.

A few bank MMs were tired of lighting banknotes that could kill people, and Rockefeller hurriedly walked downstairs, he held Huang Xuan's hand affectionately, and said, "Mr. Huang, I was about to find you......"

"Oh?" Of course, Huang Xuan knew what was going on, he beckoned to Hans and said, "Go and get the drawings in the car." ”

Rockefeller narrowed his eyes with a smile, but there were tens of thousands of aircraft drawings at every turn, and a car could not fit it, so he coughed lightly and said, "Mr. Huang, what is the price of this drawing?" ”

"Of course it won't be very high." Huang Xuan smiled: "I have prepared 200 drawings, you can find someone to take a look at first, if you are interested, we will talk about the price." "By that time, I'll be home. Huang Xuan thought so in his heart, picked up the coffee and drank it.

Rockefeller politely left the room, and Joseph handed the new deposit certificate to Huang Xuan: "A total of 9,807,400 US dollars, Mr. Huang." ”

"I'm in trouble."