Hardy Empire 1945

  Chapter 212 "Hadi Group" was established

  Two days later,

   late at night,

  A truck drove into the backyard of HARDY Auction Company. The middle-aged man got out of the car and ordered him to carry four wooden boxes upstairs.

  The wooden box did not look big but it was very heavy. Both felt very strenuous to carry the box. The wooden box made a heavy sound when it was placed on the ground.

  The middle-aged man opened the wooden box, revealing the yellow gold bricks inside.

   "Mr. Victor, this is 240 kilograms of gold, all of which are standard treasury gold bricks. You can count them. These gold can be worth 300,000 US dollars."

  The current US dollar and gold price is 35 US dollars an ounce, which is 35 US dollars 28 grams, one gram of gold is equivalent to 1.25 US dollars, the current US dollar is the real US dollar.

   Victor asked people to come forward to count, and quickly counted them clearly. Victor asked them to move to the vault. Watching those Americans move the gold, the middle-aged people felt very painful.

  "For the remaining 300,000, I brought 100,000 US dollars in cash and 40,000 pounds. As for the rest, I brought a few boxes of antiques in the car. You will ask the appraiser to appraise the price." The middle-aged humane.

   Victor immediately sent someone to go downstairs to the truck to carry the antiques, and removed large wooden boxes from the truck. After opening, there were some boxes of different sizes with antiques in them.

  Several appraisers started to get busy.

  "Qing Dynasty·Palace·Open-carved ivory cloud dragon ball, available for 350 US dollars."

   "One volume of Ming Dynasty Wenzheng Ming Thousand-Character Writings in lower case, can be made for 800 US dollars."

  "Tang Yin's lady's picture, available for $1,260."

   "Lamb fat jade bottle, valued at 1680 US dollars."

   "The superb jade bracelet, at a price of US$2,400."

  "A small colored glaze bowl in Yongzheng, Qing Dynasty, at a price of US$185."

  "A picture of Qi Baishi's group of shrimps at a price of $600."

  "A picture of Qi Baishi's chrysanthemum, made at $320."

  "A picture of Qi Baishi's insects and birds, at a price of 380 US dollars."

  "Qi Baishi's landscape painting, cost 310 US dollars."

   Victor looked at the middle-aged man in doubt, "When was this Qi Baishi a painter and why did he paint so many paintings."

  The middle-aged man smiled: “This old Mr. Qi Baishi is the most famous painter in our country. He has extremely high artistic attainments. One of his paintings can be easily exchanged for a house in a big city in China.”

  The middle-aged man speaks very artistically, avoiding the importance completely, and he is afraid that the foreigner knows that Qi Baishi is still alive and cannot offer such a high price.

In order to raise money, he got dozens of Qi Baishi's paintings in one breath when he came. His idea is very simple. Mr. Qi is still alive anyway, so he can paint another batch of paintings. These paintings can be sold at high prices and they are all regarded as the country. Make a contribution.

  After counting,

  The middle-aged man brought a total of 465 antiques, and the price reached 316,000, which was much higher than he expected.

The middle-aged people said that Victor is still very kind in doing business. When he came, he found someone to estimate the price. The gold, cash and antiques he brought were almost exactly enough for 600,000 U.S. dollars. I didn’t expect Victor’s auction house. The price I gave was a lot more than I expected.

   "Mr. Victor, then I take the cash back, can I use all antiques to offset the account?" the middle-aged man asked.

   "Of course." Victor said.

  Middle-aged people are very happy. Now that the US dollar and pound are hard currency, you can buy anything, but this is not the case with antiques. You will never ask for antiques when you buy other materials.

  "What about the extra ten thousand dollars?" the middle-aged man asked.

   "Give you cash or you can bring back a few antiques." Victor said nonchalantly.

   "I want cash." The middle-aged man said quickly.

It is impossible to sell at such high prices in other places. Now, during the war, the value of antiques has plummeted. Many people want to exchange antiques for banknotes. This Hardy auction house is the fairest and highest price company he has ever seen. .

  The middle-aged person has an idea.

  "Mr. Victor, my friend also has antiques. Can you bring them and sell them at the same price?" the middle-aged man asked.

   "The same, as long as things are good." Victor said.

   Thirty boxes of penicillin were loaded into the truck, and the middle-aged man left with a smile. Victor smiled when he left.

  Do you really think you don’t understand.

  He is just putting a long line to catch big fish.

  Wait for the monument, those people will flock to themselves to sell antiques, and he can buy more and better antiques.

  He doesn’t know why Boss Hardy likes these things. Maybe he wants to please Mrs. Han Yezhen. After all, Miss Han is Chinese.

But anyway, as long as the boss likes it, that’s the motivation for his work. The boss is so rich and saves tens of thousands of dollars. He probably doesn’t care at all. But if the boss sees so many beautiful antiques, he must know that I’m working hard. .

   Victor has a thorough research on human nature.

  Two more days passed,

  A middle-aged man in his thirties walked into the HARDY auction house.

   "Sir, do you want to sell antiques?" the shopkeeper asked.

   "I want to see Mr. Victor, please help me to report it." This person said.

  The shopkeeper looked at this man. He was dressed in a gray robe with a bowler hat on his head. He spoke with a gentle manner and his accent was a pure Hong Kong accent.

   "Okay, sir, wait here for a while, I'll notify the boss."

  The shopkeeper informed Victor that time did not grow out, "Mr., our boss invites you to the second floor."

  This person thanked him and went up to the second floor.

   Victor looked at the people, and asked, "I don’t know what you want to do with me?"

  The man took off his hat and said politely: "Hello Mr. Victor, my last name is Xu, I want to buy a batch of Penicillin from you."

   Victor is a very savvy person, and immediately saw that this person is probably in the same situation as the middle-aged person from the previous wave, but the two are definitely not the same.

   "Penicillin is sold out." Victor said.

  Mr. Xu was taken aback, with an anxious look on his face, "It's sold out, then can you get Mr. Victor?"

   "I'm afraid I will wait next month. How much do you want to buy?" Victor said.

  Mr. Xu heaved a sigh of relief, and said that it would be good if it was in stock, and it would be okay to wait a few days, "I don’t know what the price is?"

   "$15 each."

   "Can it be cheaper, I plan to buy 20,000?" Mr. Xu said.

   "13 dollars, it can't be cheaper anymore." Victor said.

  Mr. Xu knew that another wave of people also bought at this price, and knew that he might not be able to bargain further, so he nodded and said yes.

  "Don't know how to pay?"

"No legal currency, US dollars, British pounds, gold, jewelry, jade, and antiques are also okay. I am an auction house and can appraise the price." Victor told Mr. Xu what he said to the middle-aged man. Again.

   "Okay, Mr. Victor, I will go to raise money now, and come back in half a month." Mr. Xu finished speaking and stood up to leave.

  After this person left,

   Victor has guessed 80% of his identity.

   "It's relatively poor at first glance, otherwise it's impossible to only have 20,000 pieces. Another wave will come over and open your mouth and you will have as many as you want." Victor muttered to himself.

   After 10 days, the second batch of goods arrived in Hong Kong. Victor sent someone to bring Penicillin back to the auction. The next day the middle-aged man named Xu arrived.

   "Mr. Victor, I'll pick up the goods."

  The middle-aged man said and took out a check from him, “Mr. Victor, this is Citibank’s promissory note, totaling 260,000 U.S. dollars.”

   said and pushed the check in front of Victor.

  Victor was a little surprised. He originally thought that the other party would also get a bunch of gold and antiques, and struggled to collect the money for the medicine. He never expected that the other party would directly take out the bank's promissory note. He picked up the promissory note and looked at it.

  "I need to go to Citibank to verify."

  He had played with fake checks before, and he was afraid that the checks the other party brought were forged, and the loss would be great.

   "No problem, please."

  Victor drove to Citibank and directly approached the bank manager Carlson. At the last reception, the two had a good time and they seemed to have become friends.

   "Carlson, help me see if there is any problem with this check."

  After checking, Carlson and the two salesmen said that the check was ok, it was true, and the account number was correct.

   "Carlson, where did this check come from?" Victor asked.

  Banks need to keep customers confidential. Originally, these can’t be said, but now this check is brought by Victor, and Carlson can determine that Victor is the owner.

  "This promissory note was issued by the San Francisco branch." Carlson said.

Victor thanked the other party and returned to the auction with the check. The Mr. Xu was still sitting in the guest’s seat and drinking tea. Victor did not seem to have moved the place at all for more than an hour after he went out. The concentration was really strong. .

   "Mr. Victor, is there a problem with the check?" Mr. Xu asked.

   Victor smiled, “It’s totally okay. You can pick up the medicine anytime when you plan to take it.”

   "Since the check is ok, we will pick up the goods in a while, thank you Mr. Victor." Mr. Xu stood up.

   "This is business." Victor smiled.

  After the New Year, Hardy is also very busy.

  In a blink of an eye we entered 1948.

  Hadi has been in this world for three years.

  On January 8, Hardy formally applied to the Las Vegas City Government to establish the ‘Hadi Group’ in Las Vegas.

  To the Hardy Group settled in Las Vegas, the Las Vegas government gave a warm welcome. Any place hopes to develop, not just taxation, and sometimes a large company can drive the economy of a region.

  A few days later.

  The Hardy Group held a grand group company establishment event at the Hardy Hotel. ABC TV and Las Vegas TV broadcasted the whole process of the establishment.

  Almost all officials from the city government were present.

A congressman from Nevada also came to congratulate ~www.readwn.com~ This congressman is a friend of the mayor. He brought his family to Las Vegas last year for tourism. The Hardy Hotel provided accommodation for free, and Hardy also Become friends with this congressman.

  At the event site, the mayor made a speech, saying that Hardy Group’s presence in Las Vegas will definitely inject more vitality into Las Vegas, and the city's development will take it to a higher level.

Hardy said that in the near future, Hardy Group will invest in the construction of two large hotels in Las Vegas, with an investment scale of US$200 million. After completion, Las Vegas will become a real tourism and entertainment capital. Both.

  One of the two complexes is called the "Caesar Palace Hotel" and the other is called the "Venetian Hotel". Both are complexes integrating shopping, entertainment, gambling, accommodation, tourism, and holding international exhibitions.

  Construction is expected to be 2 years.

  At the same time, the Hardy Group will invest in building the "Hadi Group Building", which is expected to have 69 floors and a height of about 230 meters.

At the same time, it will build a hospital covering tens of acres in Las Vegas to improve the overall treatment level of the city. It will also build the first university in Las Vegas. We have already negotiated with Nevada State University, Las Vegas. Sri Lanka University will become a branch campus of Nevada State University.

  (End of this chapter)