"When I went to Yanjing for the first time last year, I brought a Chinese American named Peter Wu with him. This Peter Wu is 35 years old this year and his home is in Lower New York Chinatown. An old friend of mine works under him. This Pete Wu is a second-generation immigrant who speaks fluent Chinese, and he is also quite proficient in antique art, so I found it through my friend No. Now Pete Wu lives in Yanjing, specializing in buying some antique art for you, and over the past year, he has really collected a lot of good things. When I went to Yanjing last time, The antique furniture, calligraphy and painting porcelain and other things he bought have filled five large rooms, and the purchase of these things only cost less than five million U.S. dollars. He hosted this over there. It’s an excellent job."

　　 Yang Jing asked: "How is this person's human nature?"

"There is no big problem. The most important thing is that every transaction of Pete Wu has related procedures, and I also arranged three people to accompany him there. You can rest assured about the financial matters. Other things Maybe I’m not proficient, but I think I’m quite proficient in fund monitoring."

　　 Hearing these words, Yang Jing was relieved.

　　 Originally, Yang Jing wanted to use the restricted space-time shuttle skills to return to Yanjing in the 1980s to purchase those old objects. Later, he thought about it and thought it was a bit unsafe, so he made such a plan.

　　 If you go back to buy, although there is a reminder of the holy ring, you can avoid the paradox of time and space as much as possible, but it is not as fast and safe for foreigners to buy.

　　 The most important thing is that I went back to the 1980s to buy old things, but it was necessary to exchange a large amount of old national currency in the original time and space. However, these problems do not exist when foreigners are used for acquisition.

　　 At that time, China was short of foreign exchange. Let foreigners buy those old objects in Yanjing with US dollars. Not only did they not have the restrictions of the old national currency, but they could also increase some foreign exchange reserves for the motherland. Why not?

　　 After a certain time point, you can send these foreigners back, and then you can quietly wait for a person in charge of the evil dragon fund to give the evil dragon fund to yourself in the original time and space...

　　 "Mike, you will continue to do what I have given you in the past two years. You can buy as much as you can. Funds are not a problem. As long as you can buy as many fine art as possible."

"Hehe, BSS, I like this job very much, so you don't have to worry about it. After New Year's Day, I will quit my current job and return to my hometown of Louisiana. At that time , I have more time and freedom to serve you."

　　 "Well, I will trouble you a lot in the next few years. By the way, there is one more thing you should pay attention to. In about 5 years, I need Cesar and the others to do another trader for me."

　　 "Is there another good investment project?" Mike Aller asked in surprise.

　　 Yang Jing nodded and said: "It's hard to say now, I just have such a judgment, and the specific situation will need to be observed for a few years."

"Well, as long as you need it, you can directly call my home phone." With that, Mike Aller took out one of his business cards, wrote a series of numbers on the back of the business card, and handed it to Yang. Jing, "This is my home phone number. If you need to find me, just call this phone number. If I'm not at home, my family will have a way to contact me."

　　 Yang Jing took this business card and put it in his wallet carefully.

"Mike, you can contact that Pete Wu and say that I might have a look at Yanjing recently and tell him my name. Well, it's the name of Michael Lynch, not my real name. ."

　　 Mike Aller made a "don't worry" expression and said: "I know what to do, don't worry BSS, except for me and Cesar, outsiders will not know your real name."

　　 At noon, Yang Jing and Mike Aller had a meal, and after discussing it for a long time, Yang Jing left the door and strolled down an alley to the distance.

　　 walked to a corner, and after observing the surroundings to determine that no one was around, Yang Jing decisively activated the restricted-level time-space shuttle skill. The next moment, he returned to the hotel room in Jinling.

　　 Because of the flow of time, Yang Jing went to the Cayman Islands this time and stayed there for about ten hours, but in the original time and space, less than two hours have passed, and it is still late at night.

　　 Mike Aller did a great job, some of which were beyond Yang Jing's expectations.

　　 Originally, Yang Jing thought that during the time he was away, Mike Aller would have done something wrong, but he did not expect this calm old guy to do everything without leaking, and he took all the things into consideration.

　　 The most important thing is that the quantity and quality of the artworks he bought really made Yang Jing never expect it.

Originally, Yang Jing thought that Mike Aller could buy about five famous oil paintings a year. It was already very good. As a result, in less than two years, Mike Aller directly bought 16 oil paintings, including even more. There is no shortage of works by such masters as Picasso, Henri Matisse, and Simon Hue.

　　 Especially Picasso’s picture is a pleasant surprise.

　　 When this painting finally becomes the collection of his own private museum, it will definitely cause quite a sensation.

　　 For this painting, Yang Jing has to give Mike Ale a compliment.

　　 As for how the Yanjing operation is going on, Yang Jing still needs to find time to shuttle back and see.

　　 And Mike Aller complained about the situation that money can't be spent at all. Of course, Yang Jing is also happy to see it.

In fact, in the Western European and American countries in the early 1980s, tens of millions of dollars worth of artworks were very rare. Except for the untouchable treasures of the town hall, most of the other artworks that could be auctioned were in the dozens. The price of tens of thousands or millions of dollars, the art of more than tens of millions of dollars is really rare in that era.

It was not until the 1990s that the number of tens of millions of dollars in art gradually increased. One was that in the 1990s, the US dollar was not as valuable as the 1980s, and the other was the increase in the global economic aggregate, so that the price of art also increased. It has risen a lot.

　　In other words, those artworks that cost tens of millions or even hundreds of millions of dollars in later generations were actually not that expensive at all in the early 1980s. Therefore, this period is also a good period for the acquisition of some European and American works of art.

　　 looked at his watch and found that before 1 am, Yang Jing was not drowsy at this time, so he thought about it, and simply activated the restricted-level space-time shuttle skill, and directly arrived at Yanjing on the 5th of February, 1992.

　　 Of course, Yang Jing put the place where he shuttled in Xiangshan Park. At five o'clock in the morning in the winter, there are still basically no people in Xiangshan Park.

　　 After coming out of the park, he waited for a long time. Yang Jing got on the first bus from Xiangshan to the city. After backing another bus, he arrived at Deshengmen.

　　 Deshengmen is not far from Houhai. Yang Jing didn't bother to take a car anymore, so he strolled along Gulou West Street and walked to the northern edge of Houhai.

The courtyard house that Mike Aller bought is not currently called the Hai Sihe Courtyard. It will have to wait until the area is renovated in 2002. This courtyard is called the “Hai Sihe Courtyard” because it is in the “Hai” area. .

　　 In February 2002, after years of deliberation, the Yanjing Municipal Government finally promulgated that 25 historical and cultural protection areas appeared for the first time in Yangjing Second Ring Road. However, as the modernization process of the city accelerates, more and more areas need to be protected. By 2007, Yenching had 40 historical and cultural protection areas mainly for traditional courtyard buildings. Outside of these 40 protected areas, the traditional courtyard houses of Yanjing are rapidly disappearing, and the total number of courtyards in the protected area will hardly change due to regional restrictions. Especially as more and more people realize the preciousness of Siheyuan, the price of Siheyuan in Yanjing City is getting more and more expensive.

　　 The courtyards on the north coast of Houhai were the first siheyuans to be included in the historical and cultural protection area. When they began to undergo special protective transformation, the siheyuans in this area were coded with Tiangandizhi according to different locations. The courtyard house bought by the Russian oil tycoon in the previous life happened to be in the "Hai" area.

Of course, the Hai Siheyuan was bought by the Russian tycoon in 2007. After the purchase, the Russian tycoon began to rebuild and restore the Siheyuan. In the end, the cost of the entire Hai Siheyuan was delivered to the owner. It will reach about 40 million U.S. dollars, based on the exchange rate in 2007, that is nearly 300 million yuan~lightnovelpub.net~ The final price of this courtyard is so expensive, except for the geographical location of the courtyard itself. In addition to the uniqueness, special architectural form, and huge area, another important reason is the luxury of building materials.

When the courtyard was rebuilt, there were as many as 24 supporting wooden pillars for the main house in the courtyard, all of which were logs with a diameter of half a meter in thickness. The related taxes and transportation costs are as high as 25,000 yuan/cubic meter. And this is only the wood for construction. Most of the other related materials are almost all top-level configuration imported from abroad, coupled with the huge basement, so it is not surprising that the overall cost will eventually become so high. .

　　 But when the Russian tycoon bought the yard and rebuilt it in 2007, Yang Jing commissioned Mike Aller to buy the yard only 9 years ago. There was a full 26 years difference between the two.

　　 Don't underestimate these 26 years, it is the time difference of these 26 years that the value of many things has changed drastically.

　　For example, in 9 years, a small courtyard house with an area of ​​about 40 square meters near Houhai can be bought for 2,000 yuan, but in 2007, the price of 20 million yuan for this courtyard was the starting price!

The yard that Mike Aller bought only spent 500,000 U.S. dollars in 9 years. Calculated according to the official exchange rate of US dollar to .7 national currency at that time, this 3,000-square-meter superb courtyard house was only 80 years old. Ten thousand national currency, even if calculated at the exchange rate of US dollar to 2. yuan national currency according to the internal trade settlement exchange rate, this yard is only 1.4 million national currency!