Once the exhibition is successfully held, I will casually buy all the oil paintings created by Harder Richter in the last year or two.

Basically, there is no hope.

Moreover, if you buy all the paintings of a painter and keep the price of these paintings, you will not be able to increase the expected price in the future.

The reason is very simple, unless this person is already an undisputed great painter, the price of oil paintings has skyrocketed, and it also needs to be hyped.

And the time of hype may last for ten or twenty years.

As long as galleries and collectors can profit from it, they can attract more collectors, galleries, and auction houses to participate in the painting.

In this case, it is necessary for the artist to create and hand over oil paintings to galleries and auction houses, neither more nor less.

If most of them were bought by Chu Xiangqian, the ghost would help him to promote the painter's oil paintings.

And the dozens of oil paintings of Harder Richter in Chu Xiang's hands, waiting for more than ten or twenty years, the price of these oil paintings can rise dozens of times, to say the least.

When one of his oil paintings was auctioned for 30 million pounds, Chu Xiangqian's paintings of Harder Richter were more valuable the longer they were stored.

If the painter dies, there will definitely be another wave of surge.

Even if not every painting can be bought in the tens of millions of pounds, but millions of pounds, that is a hundredfold increase.

So Chu Xiangqian looked at the 12 oil paintings and made sure that these words were all true, and there were still a few paintings in them, and the gold coupons added were sixty or seventy points.

Chu Xiangqian knew that these paintings would be tens of millions of Heavenly Dynasty coins in the future, or even more than 100 million.

Converted into pounds, there are hundreds, tens of millions.

What's more, a big collector can be more respected than the super-rich.

More than ten hours later, the plane landed smoothly in Xinjiapo.

After Chu Xiangqian and Norton stayed in the hotel, they used the excuse of disposing of the 13 oil paintings properly, and separated from Norton, who was thinking about greeting the twenty or so crew members.

Naturally, the painting was directly put into the warehouse of the novice village, and then found a place where no one entered the novice village, made some camouflage for himself, and then went to the dock to rent a yacht that could go to the sea.

At around 4 o'clock in the afternoon, seeing that there was nothing to do, Chu Xiangqian simply went to the dock.

When it was almost dark, I finally waited for the twenty or so crew members to dock in an ordinary fishing boat left behind by ninjas.

Waiting for Norton to take the people of the Mountbatten family and play a reunion scene with these crew members Rory, Chu Xiangqian took the opportunity to say to Norton.

"Why don't you take these crew members on my private jet and fly straight to London?"

Norton nodded his head in delight, which also showed the importance he attached to these crew members.

Fortunately, this kid still has a conscience, "Master, why don't you make a plane and fly back to Hong Kong Island first, and then let the plane come and take us back to London." ”

Chu Xiangqian smiled and waved his hand, "No need, I'm not in a hurry, just play in Xinjiapo for three or four days." By the way, I met up with a friend who helped save people. ”

Norton's eyes lit up after hearing this, and he also wanted to meet with the forces that saved people, but when the words came to his lips, he suddenly felt that the friend Chu Xiangqian said might have deliberately said it to himself.

The group of people who saved people were most likely his master's subordinates.

After all, Chu Xiangqian had caught several white and black tigers one after another, and he was able to transport so many sweaty horses from Central Asia into Hong Kong Island.

It is a fool to say that he does not have a group of people who specialize in roaming the steppes of Central Asia and the rainforests of Southeast Asia.

However, although he was so suspicious in his mind, he still asked cautiously, "Master, do you want me to bring gifts and follow you to meet them, and thank and thank you for those friends?" ”

Chu Xiangqian laughed, knowing Norton's careful thoughts.

"Fuck off, it's not a good thing to expose you to the dark side too early."

Norton nodded helplessly, and then saw Chu Xiangqian's expression become serious, "The collaborators behind those pirates, or the forces behind them, you'd better tell your grandfather to get rid of them as soon as possible." ”

Norton nodded hurriedly, "Before we came, Kuala Lumpur and Jakarta had already started to do it.

I believe that in a few days, there will be newspapers reporting the news that several local families have been jointly arrested by Interpol and local police. ”

Chu Xiangqian nodded, Norton and Mountbatten behind him may find it tricky to deal with pirates.

But it is indeed not difficult at all to deal with a few indigenous forces on the shore.

In the evening, a group of people had a sumptuous dinner at the hotel, and Norton took someone to the airport on the bus found by the hotel.

Chu Xiangqian, on the other hand, got on a rickshaw and went to the dock.

It's just that the tricycle didn't go far, and the chickadee, which was responsible for acting as an AWACS aircraft in the sky, suddenly issued a warning.

Chu Xiangqian's attention was immediately on the sight of the, and he saw that not far behind him, three people riding bicycles and wearing sunhats were following him.

To be able to attract the attention of the, it must have been following him all the way for a short time.

Let the fly low, and it's easy to see from the action of the three-person riding that they have guns on them.

Chu Xiangqian scolded in his heart, but he didn't rush to kill these three people first.

After saying a few words to the driver of the tricycle, the route quickly detoured, but the three bicycles behind him kept following.

Now Chu Xiangqian is confirmed, and these three people are following him.

Looking around, although it was 8 o'clock at night, there were still quite a lot of people, Chu Xiangqian simply stopped going around in circles and asked the coachman to go directly to the yacht dock.

But these three people were not in a hurry to make a move, and Chu Xiangqian, who had all the guns out, was not sure for a while whether these three people wanted to be unfavorable to themselves, or just to follow themselves.

When he arrived at the yacht dock, Chu Xiangqian easily entered the dock because he hired a boat.

The three people outside didn't get in so easily.

Chu Xiangqian was not sure of the motives of the three of them for the time being, so he simply didn't rush to sail, just waited on this chartered, 27-meter-long, three-story yacht.

Sure enough, when the three of them saw him enter the yacht club, they didn't dare to continue to enter, but they also continued to stare and left one of them.

Looks like I'm going to call someone.

Chu Qianqian turned down to a more reassuring and continued to wait.

While lying on the indoor sofa on the second floor of the yacht, he was checking two silver modified M1911s in his hands to make sure that the guns were fine, and then loaded with a large magazine of 15 rounds.

Then he took out a few more M1 Garand rifles, checked and reloaded, and waited for someone to come to his trouble.

It then closes its eyes and pretends to sleep, while the chickadee hovers in the sky, acting as an AWACS aircraft.

The stingrays are near the dock where the yacht is docked, guarding against fish that the have not found that have slipped through the net.

At about 10 o'clock in the evening, two cars drove over quickly.

Out of the car came four thugs dressed in short trolls and riding jackets, with pistols or revolvers.

The two thugs who had been staring at the marina hurriedly ran to the second car, nodded and said something to the people in the back seat of the car.

Fortunately, the stingray was not slow, and it ran dozens of meters in an instant, and when it was more than a hundred meters away from the car, it was easy to hear the conversation of these people.

After listening to it for a few minutes, Chu Xiangqian was probably sure that this group of people was the local gang force in Xinjiapo.

It's just that for the time being, I don't know whether these people are targeting themselves to avenge the pirates.

still recognized himself and wanted to kidnap a ticket and make a big profit.

What Chu Xiangqian cared more about was how this group of people recognized him.

After thinking about it, Chu Xiangqian started the yacht to leave the port.

Killing a few thugs and capturing the leader of the car alive, Chu Xiangqian is full of information.

But the news that came out of the forced question is not necessarily true.

But if these people saw the target leave the port in a boat, knowing that they would not be able to catch up, what they said during the conversation would definitely be true.

So although Chu Xiangqian drove the boat away, Sable'er took the opportunity to climb into a car.

Seeing Chu Xiangqian's yacht leaving the port, the group of people immediately cursed.

The leader of the car shook his head helplessly, and then said to one of his subordinates, "You go and inform Mr. Cao from Kuala Lumpur, and let them go out on their own to keep an eye on this Mr. Chu from Hong Kong Island." ”

One of the thugs nodded hurriedly and led the two of them to the car in front of them to look for the phone booth.

The other two got into the back car and asked as they drove, "Boss, I heard that this Mr. Chu is very rich, why don't you control him when he leaves the hotel?" ”

The boss sighed, "I have no grievances with him, and this Mr. Chu is helping the baby guy to ransom people this time, if something happens to him, in case the baby guy is investigated."

For the hundreds of thousands of dollars of Mr. Cao in Kuala Lumpur, it is not worth it. ”

Only then did Chu Xiangqian understand that the three people who followed him before might be following him openly, but secretly they were reminding him that they were in danger.

Even if this speculation is not reliable, Chu Xiangqian also determined that this group of people had no ill will towards him through what he had just heard.

So Chu Xiangqian quickly decided to let these people go.

As for how they knew their whereabouts, wait until they got that Mr. Cao from Kuala Lumpur.

Anyway, these people are mixed with Xinjiapo and can't run.

As for Mr. Cao from Kuala Lumpur, he should be the collaborator behind the pirates, or the boss behind the pirates.

After the pirates plundered, some of the gold, silver and jewelry were left, and the other part had to be sold by a collaborator.

Or divide the money, or buy food and other daily necessities.

The vast majority of pirates in these years were actually poor or bankrupt fishermen and fishing boat owners.

Life was not easy, so I went to the extreme to become a pirate.

Of course, this is only the bottom, and in a few years, it will be difficult to continue to be a pirate.

After all, as the tonnage of ships grows larger and larger, it is wishful thinking to rob at sea in sailed wooden ships.

And as the shipping vessels in Malacca became busier, so did the crackdown on pirates.

In addition, the economy of Xinjiapo and Malay has soared to a certain extent since the 60s, but in just ten or twenty years, the pirates of Malacca who have been rampant for two or three hundred years have basically become a thing of the past.

The pirates that followed began to wreak havoc around the Red Sea.

To put it bluntly, it's actually because of poverty.

The most representative of nature is Somalia.

A mother ship of several tens of tons of oil was used as a supply ship, more than a dozen carrying bazookas, and three or five or seven people drove speedboats, wandering in all directions.

When you encounter a suitable passing boat, there will be many speedboats to surround you.

Not only is the bazooka a big threat, but there is also a ladder dedicated to climbing, and once the pirates board the freighter, they can basically control the ship.

And the target of these pirate robberies is not ordinary crew, but shipping companies.

An order is basically a few million dollars, which is much more than the money obtained from the kidnapping of the crew members.

After all, freighters plus cargo, a large million, or even twenty or thirty million is the normal price.

Coupled with the pressure on the safety of the crew, many shipping companies will indeed be unable to withstand the pressure of all parties and compromise.

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Chu drove the yacht forward while checking the map that came with the yacht.

Xinjiapo is 325 kilometers away from Kuala Lumpur in a straight line, and it takes about 6 hours to drive a boat along the Malacca Fairway.

Chu Xiangqian wanted to ask Norton if he had any information about a person surnamed Cao.

But Norton must still be on the plane now, and after thinking about it, he can only think about getting to the port in Kuala Lumpur first.

Find a car to Kuala Lumpur again, it's almost tomorrow morning.

Then Chu Xiangqian also began to worry that after the surnamed Cao got the news, he would send a messenger to take the initiative to stop him.

Chu Xiangqian was not only not afraid, but looked forward to it.

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As the yacht slowly passed through the narrow stretch of Malacca, five hours passed before you knew it.

The ship traveled at 30 knots and traveled almost 270 kilometers per hour.

The warned again, and Chu Qianqian saw several speedboats being carried by people and quickly pushed into the sea through the's line of sight.

Then a dozen thugs with long and short guns got into the speedboat and drove quickly towards their side.

Chu Xiangqian did not panic when he arrived, and silently calculated in his heart that Xinjiapo was 325 kilometers away from Kuala Lumpur.

It is basically certain that this group of people is the previous leader of the local forces in Singapore, the subordinate of Mr. Cao.

And judging by the movements of these speedboats, it is likely that these people are also pirates.

Or, usually an ordinary person, when there is business, when he gets on the ship, he is a pirate.

As for why he was staring at himself, Chu Xiangqian recalled what he had done in the past few days during the 5-hour voyage.

It was quickly determined that because he let Sanjiangshui find a relationship on Hong Kong Island to contact the pirates.

said that he wanted to spend 4 million Hong Kong dollars to redeem the more than 20 crew members.

If the surname Cao is really the boss behind the pirates, he will definitely investigate himself in the next few days.

Chu Xiangqian was not worried about his own safety, but the first thing to worry about was naturally Xue Jinglan.

Fortunately, his daughter-in-law raised the baby at her mother's house in the capital, and Hong Kong was born in the capital to accompany the master and the mother.

Margaret didn't have to worry, so in the past five hours, he had already called Fei Fei, who had returned to Hong Kong Island after the Chinese New Year from the capital, through the satellite phone on the yacht.

Let her live in a hilltop villa recently, protected by Zhang Tianzhi, Zhou Billy, Tony Jia and Yuan Hua, as well as the three sisters Zhaodi.

Unless a dozen pirates besiege it, Fei Fei's safety still doesn't have to worry.

However, as soon as the chick heard that it might be dangerous, she immediately said that she was going to the ranch.

There are so many cowboys on the ranch, and all of them are grazing with guns.

Even in normal times, it is a pistol or a revolver.

So in Fei Fei's heart, the ranch is the safest.

(End of chapter)