Felix carefully opened the lockbox in front of William, put on white gloves and carefully took out a square milky white jade seal and placed it on the table in front of William.
William took the glove and carefully picked up the jade seal and looked at it carefully. The first thing that caught his eye was the words "Kowloon" and "Treasure of the Emperor" on the jade seal. Seeing this made William look a little nervous. After getting Felix's affirmative answer,
William was so excited that his breathing was a little messy. This was the lost Han national seal.
William's voice was trembling as he asked: Is this true?
Seeing William being so excited, Felix nodded quickly and said: Of course, Mr. Devonshire, this was mortgaged in the bank by a customer of the National Bank of France a month ago.
This client had to sell his family's collection due to the stock market crash. This jade seal is the best antique in the collection and is priced at US$20 million.
After learning about this, Mr. Grace spent more than a month looking for the best appraisal institutions in Europe to jointly appraise it. After signing for confirmation, he asked me to bring it to you. He felt that you would definitely be interested in this Great Celestial Empire.
Yu Xi is interested.
Of course, of course I am interested. This is a national treasure. William stroked the nine dragons on the jade seal and was secretly happy. These foreigners really don’t know what they are selling. If this jade seal is really taken back to the Great Celestial Empire, there will be no offer of hundreds of millions of dollars. Don’t even think about it.
look.
William took a deep breath, carefully put the Han Dynasty Seal back into the lockbox and said: How much does it cost? How much money do I need to have it?
Felix said with a smile: As a gift, Mr. Grace decides, you only need to pay 16 million US dollars to own it.
After hearing that it was only 16 million U.S. dollars, William signed a check from the National Bank without thinking and handed it to Felix. Please keep it in the National Bank for me first. I will notify you to send it back to Oxford Castle after I finish my work this time.
In the future, you can inform me about the treasures and antiques of the Great Celestial Dynasty, and thank President Grace for me.
Felix took the check and put it into his pocket without even looking at it. No problem, Mr. Devonshire. It is very easy for you to buy Chinese antiques at this time. Many European collectors are waiting for the money. The price may be
About half of the bottom,
This time the French customer brought out many precious Chinese antiques, and the bank also has many Chinese antiques mortgaged by customers. If you are interested, we can charter a flight directly to Switzerland.
No problem, of course I'm interested in taking a look. Let's go, Felix, let's set off now, William said with a smile on his face.
When Ambrosio heard William saying he was leaving, he glared at Felix fiercely and said hurriedly: Wait, dear, weren't we talking about a house in the Upper East Side today? Aren't you going to buy that house?
William was in a very good mood at this time, thinking that with just this jade seal, he would be able to buy a dozen or twenty 369-square-meter houses in New York in a few years.
Moreover, a house in New York is not a necessity for him at this time. He only wants to buy a house for investment and to have a place to live in New York.
Looking at the anxious Ambrosio, he walked up and hugged his girlfriend and said: My dear, what I want to do is the business. Go check out the house on the Upper East Side and the manor on Long Island first. If you like it,
Tell me, I will sign the check directly.
Okay, let me tell you which one I like. I have to look at all the dozen or so houses in these two days.
Yik, I will let Felix arrange for someone to take you to see the house. They will accompany you throughout the process. If you need anything, you can talk to the people at the bank. They will meet all your requirements, right, Felix?
William turned to look at Felix.
Felix smiled and nodded hurriedly, "No problem, Mr. Devonshire, I guarantee that our staff will help Miss Ambrosio arrange it properly."
Ambrosio, who thought he could live in a luxury house in New York in the future, stopped dragging William away. After seeing William off in a happy mood, he went to see the house with the bank employees and the real estate consultant who came here specially.
The group of people drove their luxury business car directly to the US$35 million penthouse suite on the Upper East Side of Manhattan as their first stop.
Ambrosio stood on the balcony of the rooftop suite on the 26th floor and nodded with satisfaction as she looked at Central Park opposite the house. She was very satisfied with the location and decoration of this house. She was wondering how to get William to agree to buy it.
this house,
As she thought about it, her face slowly turned red, and she thought that if William agreed to buy this house, then it would not be impossible for her to agree to some of the fitness postures that William wanted her to do.
Ambrosio is satisfied, but if William comes to see it this time, he will definitely not buy this house, because a few kilometers away from this house there is a strange-looking building standing tall and towering over the crowd.
In high-rise buildings.
William, who was preoccupied with Chinese antiques, had no idea that he might regret it soon.
After Ambrosio acted coquettishly and promised him some professional fitness postures, William agreed to buy the Upper East Side house for her without much thought.
Shaking his head and smiling, he put the phone away from his ears, listened to Ambrosio's screams of joy, and after a moment of comfort, William hung up the phone.
It took more than ten hours to get to Switzerland. As soon as I got off the plane, I saw the vice president of National Bank, John Grace, standing on the tarmac waiting for William with a smile on his face.
The two hugged and said hello happily, and Grace and William took a car together to the National Bank.
In the bank's reception room, Changris introduced five or six experts on Chinese antiques to William. After everyone got to know each other, Changris took William and the experts to a vault underground in the bank.
Felix had called the National Bank before leaving New York yesterday, so the bank had already prepared a lot of Chinese treasures and antiques, porcelain, calligraphy, paintings and jade. It was as dazzling as picking out souvenirs in a craft store.
William himself didn't know much about antiques, so he only picked those things that he had heard about and found interesting during the introductions by several experts.
What about Tang Bohu, Ming and Qing official kilns, and Ming Dynasty Hetian jade? After picking for several hours, I selected more than 20 antiques. After the National Bank showed William the appraisal contract jointly issued by several major appraisal agencies in Europe, William signed a piece of antique.
Check for $18 million to Jon Grace.
After arranging the storage of the antiques, William boarded the chartered flight back to New York with some unfinished thoughts. When leaving, he specifically told Felix who was seeing him off at the airport, telling Felix to pay attention to the Chinese antiques that would be mortgaged in the bank in the future.
He harvested more than 20 pieces of antiques so easily this time. Each piece of antiques could be sold for tens of millions of Chinese coins in the future. This made him quickly understand that the price of Chinese antiques in Europe at this time was still very low. As long as he waited,
Prices have increased dozens of times over the past decade or so.
This allowed William, who had spare money in his hands, to fulfill his antique dream from his previous life and make a fortune at the same time.
This made William suddenly become more interested in the Templar treasure that Henry left him, and he couldn't wait to find the ship called Shylock.