Chapter 63 Dual Citizenship
But it is not surprising. After all, gold is a dead thing. Compared with the treasures found before that contain the richness of history, this Jincheng reveals the aura of a rich man and a nouveau riche everywhere.
"We need tools, a large number of manpower, and it still takes time!" James glanced around and concluded the excavation work.
Su Chen nodded and shook his head again, "Only tools, no manpower, and not enough time... Forget it, just move as much as you can. Anyway, it is impossible to move all of them. Besides, if there is no support for this gold, this cave might collapse."
If you can only travel back and forth between the two worlds of reality and national treasure, then Su Chen will definitely make plans. Even if he uses ten years of hard work, he will have to hollow out every piece of gold here. The problem is that compared with countless movie worlds, no matter how much gold is, what is it?
Compared to something truly valuable, the amount of gold seems meaningless.
In the next two days, Su Chen and James began their life as porters.
Compared with the treasures I found before, the transport of Golden City is more difficult. The main reason is that there is water everywhere, and large machinery is useless. It cannot pump water with great fanfare like in the movie, so I can only use a trolley to ship the gold bricks.
Su Chen brought in a small forklift from the Green Card World, and James drove the forklift. Several trolleys could be filled at one time, while Su Chen was responsible for transporting them.
After two days of busy life, he barely emptied a pyramid made entirely of gold. As for the remaining few pyramids, Su Chen could only say that he was willing but not able to do so.
It’s not that he doesn’t want to continue moving, but he really can’t move anymore. He doesn’t have as good physical fitness as James. Even if he only has two days of high-intensity exercise, it’s enough for him to feel overwhelmed.
Vespa has long been numb. Thousands of large gold bricks weighing dozens of kilograms are piled up in the warehouse. Even the treasures I found before are almost squeezed out. If I continue to move them down, I will find a new warehouse.
After returning to the green card world, the three of them sat down and made a rough calculation, and finally came to a conclusion - if these golds were pushed to the market at one time, the international gold futures market would collapse.
"There are 3,657 tons in total, congratulations! From now on, you can use gold to build a villa." After the calculation, Vespa couldn't help but sigh.
James picked up a gold brick and put it on his hand a few times, "The gold content is about 80%.
Su Chen thought about it and found that he seemed to be the richest man in the world - even based on 80% of the gold content, these golds are worth more than 670 billion yuan!
However, this is the real world conversion ratio. If it were placed in the green card world, the gold price in 2004 would be even lower, which is less than half of this value.
Even so, he can still be regarded as a standard overnight wealth.
Su Chen has already thought about it. Most of these golds are consumed in the green card world. He only needs to take a small part of the real world. He doesn't want to disturb his life in the real world just because of a little gold.
Just two days after he and James acted as porters, Sotheby's Auction also sent good news to Vesper. The number of buyers participating in the auction this time was mainly several times higher than originally expected!
In fact, this was originally expected by Su Chen and James. After all, the things that were auctioned were rare treasures, especially the crown. According to Sotheby's cultural relics experts, the owner of the crown is probably Alexander the Great!
This crown alone can sell hundreds of millions of dollars - this is still calculated based on conservative estimates.
The even more exaggerated auction item is the Caesar's Scepter. This thing is only found in history books, and it is believed that many rich people in Europe are interested in this thing.
The auction is scheduled for a week, and someone will be responsible for the safety and protection of the auction items, and James and Vesper don’t even have to show off their faces, just wait to collect the money.
The person in charge of the auction house also promised that once the auction ended, the green cards of James and Vesper would be settled in the shortest time.
Su Chen slept beautifully, took another shower, changed into a custom-made Armani suit. Accompanied by James and Vesper, he came to the Four Seasons Hotel that night to discuss the issue of belonging to the scimitar with the ambassadors of the three rich countries.
At 8 o'clock in the evening, ambassadors from all three countries arrived at the hotel in person and met the current "master" of the scimitar in the business suite.
When I saw Su Chen at first sight, both the ambassador and the cultural relics experts they brought, their eyes clearly showed suspicion and distrust. Who made Su Chen's age really unconvincing?
However, when he took out the knife from the suitcase behind him, everyone's eyes were immediately attracted by the gems on the blade.
Inlaying gems on the scabbard is originally a tradition in Arab countries, but gems are rare resources after all, and they don’t have as much as they want. Especially for gems on this scimitar, whether they are of color or size, a single one is rare, let alone in the handle and the blade.
"Hello, I am Emil Tamim, Ambassador of the Qatar Consulate General in the United States..."
"Hello, I am Phelsa, Ambassador of the Saudi Arabian Consulate General to the United States..."
"Hello, I am Benbynfaye, Ambassador of the United Arab Emirates Consulate General to the United States..."
The cultural relics experts brought by the Ambassadors of the Three Kingdoms went to verify the scimitar, while the three ambassadors began to contact Su Chen.
Relatively speaking, these three ambassadors are still low-key and do not follow a large group of bodyguards behind their butts. However, this is also related to the situation of the Middle Eastern people in the United States. It has only been three years since 911, and Americans are still highly vigilant about the race of Middle Eastern people.
Even in the movie world, it is no exception.
Su Chen’s requirements are actually very simple. Basically, they are mainly the following points-
First of all, after verification, if the knife is confirmed to be a genuine Saladin sword, it can be given to a country for free, but this country must give it to him a title like "honored national", and at the same time it must also be granted a certificate of identity equivalent to his own citizen.
Secondly, the country must sign a gold transaction contract with him, which must indicate that the country purchases the gold on his hand at a price not lower than the market price, with a term of less than ten years.
These two requirements are not too strict. For titles like "Honored National". As long as you can get Saladin's sword, it is originally necessary to give him a title. The key to the problem is... Su Chen also requires that the country's nationality, that is, dual nationality treatment.
However, Middle Eastern countries usually tend to be conservative, especially the strict laws are rare around the world. If Su Chen relies on his dual nationality to act recklessly, wouldn’t it be like slandering the country?
Among the three ambassadors, only Qatar ambassador Emir Tamim was the happiest, because Qatar is one of the few countries in the Middle East that support dual nationality and has taken advantage of it innately.
As for gold trading, Emil Tamim didn't care at all. Everyone in Qatar's wealthy people know, what is a little gold worth? Anyway, it's all a transaction, so what's the difference between who to buy and sell?
As a result, the results after the negotiations became clear soon, especially after several cultural relics experts learned that 99% of the scimitar were probably Saladin's sabre, and both Saudi and UAE ambassadors felt extremely regretful.
But after all, they were just ambassadors and had no right to change the national constitution. They were powerless to do anything about Su Chen's requirement for dual nationality.
This is something Su Chen didn't expect. He originally wanted to compare the stores, but now it seems... it seems that only Qatar can choose from.
The ambassadors of the other two countries left with regret, and the ambassador of Qatar also left the hotel with a smile. He was anxious to go back to contact the country and report this extremely important matter.
If it works well, his status in the royal family may be improved - it is worth mentioning that Ambassador Emil Tamim himself is the prince of Qatar, although he is only the most inconspicuous marginal person.
"What do you think?" In the hotel room, Su Chen, James and Vespa discussed the gains and losses of this matter before.
Vespa looked indifferent, "It's just a dual nationality. I really don't understand why you have to choose a Middle Eastern country."
Only James looked at Su Chen thoughtfully and smiled knowingly, "I guess he must have his own reason, right?"
Su Chen looked around and looked around, "We have worked hard these days, why don't we go to have a big meal? How about French cuisine?"
"Why isn't it British food?" Vespa raised objection.
Su Chen burst out laughing, "Please, Vespa, do you have to make me laugh? Do you know how to describe British food in the world I came to? Dark cuisine! According to legend, only those who have lost their sense of smell and taste can eat it."
Vespa was a little annoyed. Although it is well known that the food in Britain is unpalatable, there is no need to say it so badly, right? How could this make her, a British man who grew up eating "dark cuisine"?
Chapter completed!