Chapter 208: Lack of money
"No, it's impossible." Alfonso XIII vetoed it.
Mu Yang heard the anger in His Majesty's tone, but he still did not stop, and continued: "And you want to make me a duke, Mallorca is my private domain, and all rights must belong to me, including garrisons, taxes, land, management, etc., everything, and the empire has no right to interfere." β
"Do you want to form a principality yourself!" His Majesty Alfonso glared at Mu Yang angrily, and the mustache on the side of his mouth was still curled, and it could be seen that he was really angry now.
"I just want to find a place where I can think freely, where I can spend my holidays, I love the sun of Mallorca, the beaches of the Mediterranean, do you think an island with nothing to produce can do much?" Mu Yang said very easily, not affected by King Alfonso's momentum at all.
"Does the place where you spend your vacation need to be that big?"
"When the time comes, you can call more people, you know, the beach by the sea is only crowded with people, it looks lively."
"Mallorca can't do it, I can give you Menorca."
"If it's a giveaway, then I can accept it."
"Don't you think you're too greedy?"
"We're in business, I've got a place to go on vacation, and you're saving millions of Spaniards, you know in your own heart."
Alfonso XIII was silent, and Muyang was also thinking about his own affairs.
Mu Yang wanted to use the matter of medicine to threaten Spain to achieve his goal of obtaining land, but later he thought about it and found that he did take it for granted. It is impossible for a country to give up the interests of its colonies so easily.
The reason for the outbreak of the European war. It is because the countries are not satisfied with the possession of the colonies, and it is a process of redistribution. Any country, nation, this doctrine and that ideal are nothing more than nonsense, nothing more than interests being promoted behind the scenes.
"I agree with your request, I will convince Congress and the Ministers, however, you must guarantee that the supply of medicines for all Spanish patients, and that the price must not be higher than in England, and that. The government can only pay you part of the money, and the rest is owed first. β
King Alfonso realized that this was a transaction, not a unilateral gift from himself, but a land exchange for the people, and it was indeed unacceptable for Muyang to make such a request now, but this is the reality.
"How much is a part?" Muyang asked.
"About a third, the rest is owed first, or compensated with something else."
"Is the land okay?"
"Yes. But it's not a fief, it's just the land you buy, and the sovereignty still belongs to Spain. β
"Got it, deal."
Muyang is a small victory. Being able to force a king to this extent, Mu Yang is proud enough, if this is also diplomacy. That can only be said that Muyang won this game.
Muyang returns to real time and space. He's here to procure medicines, but he has to think about funding first.
The factory has been done. Drugs are constantly produced, but Muyang also encountered one thing, that is, two countries are using the drugs purchased by Muyang from modern times, although the price of amantadine hydrochloride is not expensive, but it can't stand the large dosage, Muyang has spent nearly one million yuan to buy drugs during this time, and his funds have been spent nearly half.
Now it's time to think about getting some money in the real world.
Selling gold, too easy to expose. Antique artworks, to be honest, lack of historical precipitation, can easily be identified as fakes, and there is also the possibility of crashing.
Muyang can make a move, jade, jewelry, jadeite and even diamonds, these minerals have no age limit, so that they will not be found to be fakes, as long as the texture is good, the price is high enough, now the main consideration is how to sell.
Mu Yang searched carefully for a long time, and found that the value of jade and jadeite, in general, is still not as high as diamonds, Mu Yang is ready to target the diamond, you know, the batch of Southeast Asian treasures he intercepted from the Japanese, but there are two boxes of gems.
Muyang returned to MalmΓΆ Manor and went to the underground vault alone.
The two boxes containing gems were quietly staying on the storage shelves, Mu Yang had only seen them cursoly, and now he needed to pick out the ones suitable for auction, so he naturally had to check them carefully again.
Muyang opened one of the treasure chests, which was divided into dozens of small grids, each grid contained gems, all of which were gems from Southeast Asia, and among the gems in Southeast Asia, the rubies, sapphires, and golden green cat's eyes from Myanmar, Sri Lanka, and Vietnam were the best, and in these grids, there were many red sapphires.
"It's beautiful." Mu Yang picked up a handful of gems the size of soybean grains from a lattice, and carefully admired them under the light, the light reflected by the gems in his hands was intoxicating, no wonder people in the world were eager for them.
Although there are a lot of them here, but the single one is too small, and the sales of piles will be too big, and Muyang opened another treasure chest.
The ones stored in this one will be the kind of red sapphires that are relatively large and of high value, and the largest sapphire is the size of a ping-pong ball, which is definitely a rare treasure-level existence, but Muyang does not dare to take it out.
In the end, Muyang chose a ruby.
This ruby is about the size of a marble, and with the knowledge that Muyang just learned from the computer, it should belong to the pigeon's blood red, and the pigeon's blood is red, which is the highest grade in rubies.
This ruby has been cut and has a cubic polyhedral shape.
Of course, this is just Mu Yang, who is not even a beginner, the result of his own observation with the naked eye, as for the specific situation of this gem, it needs to be strictly measured, and the factors that affect the price of rubies are not only weight, but also transparency, color, impurities, cracks and so on.
Mu Yang estimated that even if the ruby in his hand was put up for auction, it would definitely cause a sensation, and it seemed that he had to think of a hidden method.
Muyang went out again, this time his destination was Hong Kong.
Pacific Place, 88 Queensway, Central and Western District, Hong Kong, where Sotheby's Hong Kong is located.
Mu Yang was sitting in the VIP room, and opposite him, there were two people conducting a preliminary appraisal of the ruby brought by Mu Yang.
"Colour, up to the RED level."
"Impurities, invisible to the naked eye."
"Weight, 19.38 carats."
"Cut, rough, needs to be re-sanded."
One of them was talking, and the other was carefully taking notes. At this time, the appraiser raised his head and asked Mu Yang, "Mr. Mu Yang, can you determine the place of origin, of course, and his origin, can you show the valid certificate of this gem." β
Muyang smiled lightly, "The origin is Myanmar, as for the origin, this is a treasure of my family, which has a history of 70 years, so I can't get any supporting documents." (To be continued......)