The straight-line distance between San Francisco on the west coast of the United States and New York on the east coast is more than 4,100 kilometers. Of course, if you drive on Interstate 80, you need to walk 4,600 kilometers, which takes nearly two days.

Even if the old Mike’s Boeing BBJ3 business jet flies at a cruising speed of 955 km/h, it will take a little more than five hours to take off and land.

Old Mike's plane did not land at JFK Airport or LaGuardia Airport, but at Newark International Airport, west of Manhattan. Mainly because old Mike had a manor on Princefield's side, if he didn't live in his hometown of Baton Rouge, he would live in this manor.

This manor is relatively far away from the Kennedy Airport or LaGuardia Airport, east of Manhattan, so old Mike leased a hangar here for a long time at Newark Airport, and his planes usually start from this airport. Drop.

The distance from Newark Airport to Manhattan’s Fifth Avenue is slightly longer than the distance from LaGuardia Airport to Fifth Avenue, but the road here is better. Walk along Interstate 78 and then cross the cross. Through the Dutch tunnel at the bottom of the Hudson River, you can reach Manhattan Island directly.

Old Mike’s Boeing BBJ3 business jet is much faster than the C17 transport plane, so when Yang Jing and the others arrived at the private museum on Fifth Avenue from Newark Airport, they had lunch and waited for another. After many hours, this batch of babies arrived.

The two transport planes also landed at Newark Airport, and then Union Button’s New York branch took over the **** process of these babies. But the leader is still the middle-aged man Nathan confessed before.

Old Mike didn't follow him, because he was still healthy, but the continuous flight did not take him lightly, so he didn't follow him, he needed a good rest at home.

But with Nathan following, everything is not a problem.

The private museum that Mike bought for 40 million U.S. dollars twenty-five years ago is located on East 95th Street, and to the west is the famous Museum Avenue.

The so-called Museum Avenue actually refers to the part of the famous Fifth Avenue in the northern half of Central Park. Fifth Avenue is very long, but in this section between 80th Street and 105th Street, because there are gatherings such as the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Cooper Hewitt National Design Museum, Jewish Museum, Solomon Guggenham Fine Arts Museum, National Academy Museum and other famous museums, in addition there are more than a hundred national or private museums of various sizes, so this section of the avenue is called "Museum Avenue" by New Yorkers.

Old Mike was entrusted by Yang Jing to buy antique artworks all over the world with the abundant funds of the Evil Dragon Fund. As a result, he bought more and more antique works of art. In the end, there was nowhere to put it. So the old man simply spent 40 million US dollars on Museum Avenue to buy a bankrupt private museum.

This is a four-story brick-red building located on the south side of East 95th Street. There is a wrought iron railing at the door, and a wrought iron gate is closed.

According to Nathan, the four-story building of this private museum totals more than 4,000 square meters. At that time, if the owner of the private museum went bankrupt, it would be impossible to buy the building at this location for 40 million.

This is true. Even in 1995, a square meter of a house in this location would not be less than US$15,000. And old Mike was able to buy this building for 40 million US dollars, which is only about 10,000 US dollars per square meter. This is definitely a miss.

Because this building was a museum before, after buying it, old Mike just carried out a simple decoration and replaced the security facilities, but did not make any major changes to this building, so the antiques that old Mike bought over the years All the artworks are here.

The museum is specially protected by people from the Shield, so there is no need to worry about safety.

When Yang Jing walked into this museum, he was shocked by the dazzling array of antique artworks inside.

Yang Jing felt that the treasures he had found were enough, but compared with the antique works of art that old Mike had collected over the years, the number was still far behind.

There are thousands of these antique works of art in the museum, most of which were collected by old Mike before the new century. Yang Jing remembers that old Mike once told himself a number, that is, the money he spent on acquiring these antique artworks over the years was as high as more than two billion US dollars. There are a total of about 42 in the museum. There are more than one hundred antique artworks, and the average purchase price of each antique artwork is about 500,000 U.S. dollars.

Most of these antique artworks were acquired by Mike in the 1980s and early 1990s. At that time, the US dollars were quite valuable, and the price of half a million US dollars was definitely not low.

Of course, among these antique works of art, there are oil paintings by top masters whose purchase prices are tens of millions, and there are also sets of antique silver tableware whose purchase prices are only tens of thousands of dollars. But whether it's oil paintings or those silver tableware, the price has increased several times now.

For example, an oil painting by Paul Cézanne called "Out of the Bath" that Mike had spent 13 million US dollars on from an auction in Europe. Now if it goes up for auction, 100 million US dollars is just the starting price. !

Even the complete sets of Victorian British royal silver tableware that he spent tens of thousands of dollars to photograph are now worth hundreds of thousands of dollars!

Therefore, investing in antique art is actually a very good business, of course, provided that you invest in antique art early enough. For example, the old Mike started investing in antique art in the early 1980s in accordance with Yang Jing's instructions. That was naturally a good time. If you enter the new century and invest in this business, it doesn't make much sense.

In general, the collections of this museum alone are now worth no less than 20 billion U.S. dollars!

It is not an exaggeration to say that if Yang Jing has no money in the future, just selling these antique works of art will be enough to make him comfortable for eight lifetimes.

After the **** convoy arrived, the person in charge of the dark shield guarding the museum took over the rest of the work. Although this museum bears the name of a museum, since the old Mike took over, the museum has never opened to the outside world. To put it bluntly, this museum was bought by the old Mike to serve as a vault.

Although it is safer to store these antique artworks in bank vaults, it is easy to expose the specific circumstances of these antique artworks. So old Mike was very wise to directly buy this museum as a vault.

Anyway, it is a private museum. I am not open for business and no one can say anything else. Besides, there is no shortage of people for the Dark Shield. A large group of trusted retired soldiers squatted here and took turns on duty 24 hours a day. It is estimated that no thief would dare to look coveted here.

This is a private museum. Whoever his sister wants to commit crimes from here, those retired soldiers with weapons will definitely let the thieves feel what is called the battlefield in Iraq or Afghanistan.

There are so many people and powerful, besides, these boxes do not need to be opened and re-arranged after they are transported to the museum. You only need to ask Yang Jing to open them for inspection, and then arrange them in order. So a group of people worked hard for more than ten minutes. They were all moved into the museum.

Seeing all the babies safely entered the museum, Yang Jing and Nathan were also completely relieved.

After tomorrow, when old Mike brings the named curator of the museum, he can issue "cultural relics exchange" documents for all the items in the museum. And Yang Jing also has a Grand Canal Museum, and there is nothing else to say about cultural relic exchanges between the two museums.

As for those antique artworks that are not allowed to leave the country, who cares! Who can control it? With the current connections of the Dragon Fund, even the US Customs cannot control these antique artworks for cultural relic exchanges.

What a big deal, those sensitive antique works of art are directly exported under the name of "fake"!

Of course, to do these procedures, experts have to do it. Those works of art can be exported, and those works of art cannot be exported, and the named curator knows best. The curator still knows best how to handle cultural relics exchange procedures. With experts, plus money and connections, everything is fine.

However, it will take several days to go through these procedures, so Yang Jing is not going to wait here anymore. He will need to return to China when he confesses to old Mike tomorrow. There are still a series of things that need to be handled after returning home.

That night, Yang Jing moved into the apartment on Fifth Avenue, which was the first apartment Yang Jing bought in New York.

After the U.S. stock market crash that year, the price of real estate in the U.S. plummeted. Old Mike took the opportunity to buy such a top-floor apartment for Cole Smith on Fifth Avenue. This was also the first property that Yang Jing bought in the past. .

The location of this house is very good, it is located at the southeast corner of Central Park, opposite to Central Park and next to Plaza Hotel. The house has three floors above and below, the upper two floors are still double floors, and there is also a huge sky garden outside, with a total area of ​​more than 12,000 square feet, which is about 1,100 square meters.

When the house was bought, the price plummeted, so it cost nine million dollars. Now, the value of this house has exceeded 100 million U.S. dollars, and if it is placed at the highest point of US housing prices before the subprime mortgage crisis broke out~lightnovelpub.net~ the price of this house has reached 150 million U.S. dollars!

However, after the house was bought, Yang Jing rarely lived. When he was in New York, he would live in the manor in East Hampton on Long Island most of the time. This time Yang Jing didn't want to go to Long Island anymore, so he stayed here.

Although the house has been bought for more than 30 years, and no one lives for a long time, the house is well maintained. Although the house is unoccupied, the property fees paid in one year are extremely high. If the property company of this apartment building dares to maintain the house, Yang Jingneng will sue the property company to close down!

Living in this kind of tens of-storey penthouse apartment, Yang Jing can personally feel what is called the super-rich class.

In any case, no matter how hard it was before, when standing on the large rooftop outside this house and looking down at the opposite Central Park, all the hard work would drift away with the wind!

This feeling is so good

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