Chapter 80: Little Woods; Meet the man's parents
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"I'm Scottish, and I'm in the auction field, so wouldn't it be a shame not to sell wine?"
Woods Jr.'s bluntness underscores his sincerity.
Li Yaoyang said with a smile:
"That makes sense, then, you want to work with me?"
"Christie's auction house needs to expand its business in North America, and this time I came here to help Mrs. Hudson and to come to the front."
Listening to him quietly, Li Yaoyang did not express his opinion for the time being.
"Auction houses have a wide range of businesses, and selling wine is part of it, but we have no roots in North America."
Li Yaoyang raised his eyebrows:
"How do I remember that Christie's auction house set up a branch in New York very early on?"
"The branch has been in place for a long time, but the business has not been expanded, and the post-war economy is weak, and the business volume has plummeted."
"So you're hoping to increase your income by selling alcohol?"
"To be precise, to keep the company running~"
He changed his legs and cocked his legs, took a slight sip of whiskey, and looked at Li Yaoyang's dark eyes:
"Am I right that this wine of yours is not of Scottish origin?"
"That's right, it's made in Manhattan~"
In front of experts, Li Yaoyang has no need to disguise.
"Thank you for your honesty, my family has a small legal distillery in Scotland that can help you get this batch of wine for real."
"Sounds great, but how?"
"I'll sell you the whiskey puree from Scotland, and you blend and bottle it in Manhattan and sell it, and you'll earn six or four cents!"
"I'm six, you're four?"
"Hmm~ you're six and I'm four!"
"You're in charge of transportation?"
"I'm in charge, Christie has cooperated with a number of shipping companies, and it's not difficult to hide a batch of whiskey puree in antiques~"
Li Yaoyang increased his chips:
"I have the qualification to import medical supplies, but whiskey is a spirit~"
"Huh?" Little Woods didn't expect Li Yaoyang to have chips at all.
His proposal can help Li Yaoyang's wine be more genuine, but it does not mean that it is legal.
And the qualifications that Li Yaoyang said can make wine real and legal, and if the cooperation is successful, the prospects are immeasurable.
As soon as the prohibition ended, Li Yaoyang could directly list the private brewery and turn it into a real brewery.
If it survives the 20th century, it will be a famous century-old distillery in the 21st century.
Sounds great, doesn't it? But it's not enough.
First, Li Yaoyang doesn't know Little Woods as a person, and it is not in line with his cautious style to cooperate with him;
Second, Scotland's local whisky puree does not necessarily mean that it is good, and it may not be as good as Albert's technology;
Third, letting Woods Jr. join the sharing, I'm afraid it will affect the interests of Ron and Albert, who knows if they are willing or not?
Based on these three points, Li Yaoyang did not directly nod in agreement, but only said to go back and think about it.
The most important thing is that he wants to investigate the person of Little Woods, who knows if he is hiding other thoughts?
Just as the show was about to start, the duo left the office and headed to the performance hall.
At the entrance, Woods Jr. gestured to him for a phone call, and then went to his box, where he and Sarah Hudson watched the show together.
At this time, at the door of Box 6 on the left side of the second floor of the hall, Ron was leaning against the wall and smoking a cigar.
After Li Yaoyang came over, he extinguished his cigar and shook his head inside:
"Let's go, my father is waiting~"
Simply straightened his clothes and calmed his breath, as if he was going to see the woman's parents, and the ghost knew where this emotion came from.
Pushing the door in, there were several people sitting inside, men and women, all of whom were Ron's family.
"Father, Lee is here~"
The middle-aged man sitting in the front row, his hair is already gray, but his temperament and spirit are very good.
He looked back and smiled kindly:
"Come and sit, you're busy tonight, aren't you?"
Okay, good start, a casual opening sentence resolved Li Yaoyang's nervousness.
At least not to look for trouble.
"It's okay, there are a lot of guests, you have to accompany them~"
"That's right~"
Sitting next to him, he didn't have time to greet Ron's family one by one, but listened to his father:
"I can call you Lee, right? You can also call me Noble~"
Ron helped explain:
"Noble is his middle name, and his full name is Henry II Noble Frick~"
Li Yaoyang suddenly:
"Noble, it's an honor to meet you~"
"Me too, Lee, I called you today to talk about Ron's future~"
This is going straight to the point, Li Yaoyang cheered up, the longer he spent with Ron, the more he could appreciate his importance.
A good surname can not only help him get a good starting line, but also indirectly help the people around him, such as himself.
"In fact, if it follows my father's wishes, Ron should return to the family.
Whether it's a career at Carnegie Steel or managing a family business.
But he was young and rebellious, and he was not interested in the family's industry, and he even longed for the hey gang who did not enter the stream. ”
After a pause, he didn't seem to feel sorry, but just said out of politeness and insincerity:
"Sao Rui, I don't mean to discriminate against you, but for him, the Hey Gang is really not in the stream."
Li Yaoyang wanted to say that he was not a Hey Gang, but he couldn't find a reason to refute it for a while, after all, what he did was indeed involved in the Hey Gang.
"In short, this is the field he likes and is willing to devote himself to, and I, as a father, can't do it, so I can only go with him."
In this way, Li Yaoyang can understand his thoughts, after all, he is still a father who wants his children to be good, although he himself is not successful.
I talked to Ron in the past that his father, also known as Noble, had achieved the greatest achievement in this life to keep his ancestral inheritance.
If he had the choice, he would prefer to work in the field of art, and in this regard, he has an absolute talent.
From this point of view, the father and son are very together, they should be biological, and they are really hammered.
"I heard you gave him twenty percent of the proceeds?" Noble's voice changed.
Li Yaoyang glanced back at Ron, this guy didn't react, and didn't seem to care about what they talked about at all.
After a slight hesitation, he nodded:
"Yes ~ this is what he deserves ~ "
"Hmm~ During the prohibition period, the income from the sale of alcohol should not be underestimated, 2 percent is a reasonable number, but it is not enough..."
Li Yaoyang frowned slightly, if he talked about money, then he didn't care about his feelings.
"Noble, I wish you knew..."
"Listen to me..."I didn't expect him to have such a strong personality, it stands to reason that people who like art are generally sensual, and their personality should not be so strong.
Well, maybe he's a genius with his own paranoid side.
"You're willing to recruit Ron into your team because you value his surname and the resources behind him, am I right?"
This is the truth, and Ron knows it himself, so there is no need to deny it.
"That's right, Noble, do you want to say that the value of the surname Twenty and Frick is not equal?"
Noble is also a sincere person, and nodded without hesitation: "Yes, that's what it means!" ”