The 253rd chapter special pit old rivers and lakes
Lu Fang's enemies are currently opening auction houses on Hong Kong Island, and most of the auction houses doing Oriental Market business are concentrated in areas such as Hong Kong Island or Singapore and Malaysia.
The older ones are just in Europe and the United States, but the main auctions of European and American famous paintings and other famous wines are auctioned.
Chen Shi asked Zheng Qidong to help check the background of the auction house. It was definitely worthwhile in Zheng Qidong's house on Hong Kong Island.
After receiving the information, Chen Shi asked Zheng Qidong to help release some fake news, that is, there is a small winery in a small town in F country, and there is a group of famous wines of ages in the winery.
The owner of the winery is an old man in his seventies, with no children and no successors.
But the old man stored a large amount of famous wine in his winery, and the old man was a side branch of a certain Filipino wine family. His ancestors came out of the family and took away a batch of red wine to this small town to open a winery.
More than a dozen acres of land were contracted to plant grapes, but due to poor management, the winery was not continued to operate, and the winery was also semi-banked, but the winery has stored a large amount of famous wines for decades.
If you take it out for auction, those wines will be worth at least over 100 million US dollars, and there will be more wines for a few years in three years in four years, and more wines for a few years in five years to eight years.
Not many people know about this news, but Zheng Qidong asked the partner of the major shareholder of the auction house to pretend to drink too much and say it out.
The major shareholder and this partner had a meal recently. The partner was drunk and told the secret that only he knew and was ready to collect it at a low price.
The partner said that he accidentally traveled to F Country and then drove by himself to the town to discover this secret. The town there was not a large population, and it was basically a group of elderly people.
Not many people there care about the value of red wine. After all, not every region is popular for drinking some old wines. He told the winery owner that he came to buy them for a while.
Because the partner's son is about to get married, the family is dealing with the lifelong event of his son's marriage.
This partner does have to hold a wedding banquet, but his daughter-in-law is a wealthy daughter introduced by Zheng Qidong. The wedding also exists, but it is just to attract fish to take the bait.
The boss behind the auction house is Liu Jiuhua, and the person in the martial arts world is called Jiuye. Jiuye didn't care much after hearing this.
Soon, in the next few days, several people in the Hong Kong financial circle were talking about wine, brandy, whiskey and other famous wines, and talked about some old wines. They said that many rich people are now buying high prices, and they only sell 30,000 to 50,000 US dollars per bottle. As long as there is good wine, the rich people don’t care about money.
This made Liu Jiuhua a little moved, but Liu Jiuhua, the old man, was not a fool. He took his team to the small town in F country first and did not rush to go to the winery.
Instead, I asked in the next town if anyone knew the winery. After getting a positive answer, I went to the town to inquire about some information.
Then he found someone to go to the parent company of a Fei Winery to find out if there was this old man and whether this old man had anything to do with the Rothschild family.
That's right, the world-renowned Filipino wine and several other brands of wine are all industries of the Rothschild family.
This family has said before that it is definitely not as good as it was in its heyday, but it is definitely not something that ordinary rich people can touch now.
The best thing to do with trust management is Rothschild's first generation, and there is also a saying that although the first generation is dead, his spirit is immortal in this family.
The first generation found a trust and handed over all family assets to the trust. The trust used the money to manage the finances, and distributed the income to the people in the family every year.
It is mainly distributed to the education fund of the family. Apart from education, it is just some living expenses. In fact, many industries are not invested by the Rothschild family, but by trust companies using their family’s money.
The Rothschild family is more like a company, with all descendants becoming shareholders, but only the right to dividends and no decision-making power, just like the rich family on Hong Kong Island.
This is also why the Rothschild family cannot be listed, because this is a trust investment, and family members distribute dividends and have too many family members.
Just like some royal relatives of the Zhu family were so hungry that they couldn't eat because they had too many members and too many descendants of the Ming Taizu. Some people said that the surname Zhu were basically descendants of the Ming Taizu, so it may be that the descendants were not adulterated.
If the Rothschild family completely declines one day, it must be caused by fertility. Therefore, controlling the fertility rate and maintaining a population base is what the family is doing, and kicking away the sidelines to reduce property distribution.
The larger the family, the more people there are. After several generations, only the core members remain unchanged, and there is basically no connection between relatives with some bloodline.
But the family like the Rothschild family has a genealogy, and if you can find out the specific person, Jiu Ye asked someone to check the winery owner.
It turned out that the boss's father was born to a woman from a Rothschild family and a son-in-law who married into the family, and the woman was not a core member of the family.
Finally, for some reason, the father and mother of the winery owner left with the young boss. More than fifty or sixty years have passed.
As for whether to take the wine away or not, there is no record in the family, but it is nothing to take some wine away. After all, these wines were not very valuable at that time.
All the information was true. Now Jiu Ye felt at ease and began to contact the owner of the winery and negotiate the price.
In addition, Jiuye also invited a group of professional tasters to identify these wines.
The answer I got was that these wines were all true, which made Jiu Ye feel at ease again.
When talking about the price, the winery owner is seventy years old and has no children, but he has a wish to build a nursing home.
Moreover, the old man also went to consult someone for consultation. How much does his wine cost? Someone came to him before to discuss the acquisition plan.
Jiu Ye still wanted to kill the price, but the previous partner called Jiu Ye and said that his son's wedding was about to be held and invited Jiu Ye to attend the wedding.
Time was too fast. Master Jiu knew that after the wedding, the other party would definitely come to discuss the acquisition, so he finally gritted his teeth and bought the winery for $30 million.
There are tens of thousands of bottles of famous wines in the winery, including brandy, whiskey, and all kinds of wines, all of which are money.
These bottles were used to recycle them from many people in various regions such as Europe and the United States, and they even went from street to town to collect them.
Most of the wine in bottles are here, and it took nearly a year.
This type of technique was actually pioneered by the Chinese, such as recycling Maotai empty wine bottles. There is also this industry. A Feitian Maotai empty wine bottle is recycled by 180 yuan, and some are even 200 yuan.
After receiving it, I pretended to be fake wine and sold it as real wine. This was the case in 1982. Why couldn’t Lafite identify the real one in the end? It’s because the bottle of the wine bottle is real.
As for the biggest case of red wine fraud, it is worth more than one billion US dollars, which is also something that a big man in our country has operated in Europe and the United States. The most awesome thing about that big man is that their family is a big liar, and they are all cheated by hundreds of millions of dollars.
The boss was imprisoned in the later stage, and a group of rich people came out to protect the boss. You can't catch him, but what he sold was real. If you say he sold fake wine, we would lose everything.
The reason why people dare not buy some high-end famous wines in the world so far is that this big guy made too many fakes back then, and no one knows whether he bought fakes.
This is the situation that Jiu Ye encountered. All he had in front of him were real wine bottles. He also had these famous wines at home. He brought a few bottles and carefully compared them and found that they were exactly the same.
Chapter completed!