"Ms. Christina, where is the best place to register the overseas company of a Chinese art company?" Zhang Junping asked Christina after returning to the hotel.
"Mr. Zhang's overseas company mainly faces the European and American markets?"
"Yes!" Zhang Junping nodded.
"If that's the case, I recommend registering in Zurich.
Zurich's tax policy is very investor-friendly.
There are many world-class banks in Zurich, which facilitates fund settlement.
The wealthy circle in Zurich is larger than that in Paris.
Therefore, I suggest registering the company in Zurich and using Zurich as the center to expand to Europe."
"Okay! Then go to Zurich to register. The registration of the company will be entrusted to you.
In addition, your law firm has a wide network of contacts. Please help me keep an eye on Bahnhofstrasse in Zurich to see if there is a suitable store and rent it or buy it for me." Knowing that there was Christina's little thought in this, Zhang Junping also
He didn't say anything, he just said with a smile.
"No problem, you are the boss, you have the final say." Christina smiled happily.
Zhang Junping put the company in Zurich so that their business relationship could be considered stable. Otherwise, he would have to travel back and forth between Zurich and Paris every time, which would be inconvenient.
Who knows when this big customer might be stolen away by someone else.
"There is one more thing, please help me refer to it.
Today, Jordan Penniman proposed that he would like to cooperate in joining an art store..." Zhang Junping told what happened today and asked Christina for her opinion.
Let her give you some advice on the legal side.
Anyway, it’s not free of charge. The moment Christina set off from Zurich, she started counting money.
During your stay in Paris, attorney fees will be calculated.
There will be no planes again now, so if we want to leave, we can only leave tomorrow morning.
This is a time when money counts.
Therefore, in the spirit of seeking more opinions, Zhang Junping listened patiently to Christina's analysis of the pros and cons of the matter from a legal perspective.
After chatting for a long time, the doorbell of Zhang Junping's room rang.
When I opened the door, I saw that it was Chen Lijun and the others who had returned from shopping.
"Manager, have you eaten? Do you want to wait to eat with me?" Chen Lijun glanced at Christina in the room curiously and asked in a low voice.
"Let's eat together!
I just want to introduce to you the legal consultant I hired." Zhang Junping smiled and let Chen Lijun and others into the room.
"This is the legal counsel of the European company I hired, Miss Christina.
This is a colleague from my company..." He introduced Chen Lijun, Christina and others.
"Miss Christina, I'll invite you and your assistant to have dinner together tonight, just so we can get to know each other." Zhang Junping said with a smile again.
"Okay!" Christina had already put down her guard against Zhang Junping and agreed readily.
After dinner, Zhang Junping opened a room for Christina and arranged for them to stay.
"How's it going? Do you feel awkward? It's like being deaf and mute the whole time, doesn't it feel good?" Zhang Junping said to everyone with a smile in the living room of the business suite.
"yes!"
"It's worse than being deaf and dumb! At least the deaf can't really hear and doesn't feel embarrassed.
Now, listening to you chatting is like listening to a book from heaven."
“Do you now understand the importance of learning English?
If you understand English, we can definitely have a conversation in English today, so you won't be embarrassed.
Before, I repeatedly paid close attention to English training, but you didn't take it seriously, and some people even said that I was just messing around.
Do you know now?" Zhang Junping took the opportunity to teach.
"Manager, what did you say when you spoke to the lawyer named Christina today?" Lou Xinying asked with an admiring tone.
Lou Xinying is a student studying in France and understands French and English, but Zhang Junping does not speak these two languages.
"German! German is the main language in Zurich." Zhang Junping replied nonchalantly.
"Manager, how many languages do you speak?" Zheng Dongmei asked in surprise.
"About a dozen countries! I haven't calculated it specifically." Zhang Junping said with a smile.
"Manager, you are so awesome! Better than college students!" Wang Fenglan admired.
"Manager, how did you learn the dialects of so many countries?" Lou Xinying also had a look of admiration on her face.
“Study hard and you will find that learning a foreign language is not difficult.
We are all adults, and our learning ability is stronger than that of children.
It shouldn’t be difficult to learn two or three sentences a day, right?
As long as you persist, you will be able to speak 70 or 80 sentences in a month. In less than a year, you will be able to converse with foreigners fluently.
I have always emphasized that we are a large international company and we must integrate with the world.
Although I don’t want to admit it, English is the most widely used language in the world.”
"Manager, we will study English seriously when we go back." Everyone promised in unison.
"Okay, let me tell you two pieces of good news.
One is: I have reached an agreement with an art dealer here in Paris.
They will be responsible for helping us organize a European touring exhibition of Chinese traditional arts and crafts.
Preheating will begin next month and exhibitions will begin in July. We still have more than two months to prepare."
Zhang Junping paused for a while to let everyone digest the news, and then continued: "The other thing is that I rented two stores on the Champs Elysées through art dealers in Paris.
One is a gallery and the other is a traditional art store.
Not only the Champs Elysees, I also commissioned Christina to rent two stores on Bahnhofstrasse in Zurich."
“The manager is awesome!”
"If nothing else, our manager is still great.
Not only is it delicious at home, but it’s also delicious abroad.”
"Manager, where is Shasu and Shafu Street?" Wang Fenglan asked in a low voice.
“In Zurich, the largest city in Switzerland, Bahnhofstrasse is equivalent to Wangfujing in BJ.
For the time being, it is more awesome than Wangfujing.
There are more than a hundred banks on that street alone.
It’s similar to the Champs Elysées we visited these days.” Zhang Junping explained with a smile.
After chatting with everyone for a while, he let everyone leave.
After seeing everyone off, Zhang Junping breathed a sigh of relief. Although he was faced with so many filled eyes, he was very happy.
However, there was something wrong with the eyes of those six old ladies.
If there hadn't been so many people in the room just now, Zhang Junping would have been raped by them.
Men really need to protect themselves when they go out.
In the next few days, everyone will continue to visit and study.
George Fairborn was very fast. On the third day after signing the contract, he notified Zhang Junping and found a suitable store for him.
Zhang Junping had no choice but to change his itinerary and took everyone to the store that George Fairburn mentioned.
The store is located near Place Charles de Gaulle, which is a good location.
The two stores are very close to each other, with only three stores in between.
The area of the stores is not small. They are all three-story facades. One of them has an area of about 200 square meters on the first floor, and the other one has an area of more than 300 square meters.
It is very suitable for opening a gallery and art store. It has transparent floor-to-ceiling windows and clean white ceramic tiles inside. It does not need to be decorated and can be used directly. The second floor can also be used as an exhibition hall and the third floor can be used as an office.
Sure enough, whether it is domestic or foreign, you still have to have connections.
The Champs Elysées Management Committee is not just as simple as collecting management fees, they truly provide various services to the merchants of the Champs Elysées.
It can be said that the Champs Elysées Management Committee knows very well how well each company is doing.
"Mr. Stuart, thank you very much for your selfless help. These two stores are perfect." Zhang Junping held George Fairburn's hand and thanked him.
"Mr. Zhang is too polite. This is an obligation stipulated in the contract.
These two stores used to sell clothing and were owned by the same owner. Recently, the owners of these two stores had to sell off their properties to repay the loans due to failed investments.
These two stores were also for sale. After I found out, I kept them for Mr. Zhang. This building is very popular." George Fairburn said with a smile.
George Fairborn said this for a purpose, that is, he wanted to see the quality of the so-called Chinese art company.
"Mr. Stuart, are you talking about these two stores, not for rent, but for sale?"
"Yes! Not just these two stores, but this entire building." George Fairburn gestured with his hand.
Only then did Zhang Junping realize that the two stores he had just seen happened to be the two stores on the east and west sides of a building.
Together with the three houses in the middle, it just happens to be a three-story building along the street.
Zhang Junping scratched his head, China Art Company is now an empty shell, there is no money to buy real estate.
"Okay!" Zhang Junping finally said through gritted teeth.
George Fairborn is right. Properties close to Place de Gaulle are definitely very popular and have huge room for appreciation in the future.
The Chinese Art Company has no money, but he does.
Originally, he didn't want to use his own money to take care of family matters, but the situation was urgent and he couldn't care less.
At the same time, he also knew in his heart that this was a test set for him by George Fairborn. If he passed it, he would be able to cooperate better in the future.
If you can't even afford the property of a building, how can you talk about cooperation?
The promised value preservation and value-added recovery are also equal to zero.
Therefore, Zhang Junping could only use his own money to buy the building and worry about the rest.
After viewing the building, we agreed to sign the contract and handle the property transfer the next day.
After returning to the hotel, Zhang Junping summoned everyone to his room.
"Everyone has seen the store just now. It is an extraordinary time to open a gallery and art store.
But now there is a question that Mr. Lou should understand, please tell everyone about it!" Zhang Junping said straight to the point.
Lou Xinying is a French student and knows French, so he naturally understood the conversation he had just had with George Fairborn.
"The man named Stuart just told the manager that the store we just looked at, the entire building, is only for sale and not for rent." Lou Xinying told what she knew straightforwardly.
"Then this building is quite expensive, right?"
"Ah! Sell it? We can't afford it."
"Co-authoring is a joy for nothing."
"Yes! I'm so happy."
When everyone heard that it was only for sale but not for rent, they were immediately discouraged.
Everyone knows what is going on with the art company. If Zhang Junping hadn't obtained a loan of 20 million RMB, it would have been shut down long ago.
"Okay, let's see that each of you becomes dejected when encountering some difficulties.
Everyone has been in Paris for almost a week. As far as you know, whether this building is worth buying.
Don’t worry about money, just whether it’s worth it.” Zhang Junping cursed with a smile, and then asked for everyone’s opinions.
“It’s definitely worth it!”
"We are not just having fun these days. That place is close to Charles de Gaulle Square and is one of the most crowded places on the entire street."
“I also think it’s worth buying!”
Regardless of money, everyone agreed that it was worth buying.
"Well! It seems that everyone is unanimous and thinks it is worth buying.
Then we'll buy it.
As for the money issue, that’s easy to handle!
The company doesn’t have it, but I have it!”
"Manager, do you have so much money?"
"Manager, it costs a lot of money to buy a building, right?"
"It requires a lot of money! It is estimated to be more than 200 million French francs." Zhang Junping nodded.
"Manager, I'm not asking for your secrets! Do you have relatives abroad who are rich and have no children and inherited all their property to you?" Lou Xinying asked gossiping.
Although the reform and opening up has just begun, BJ has already seen relatives from abroad coming back to visit relatives.
Of course, most of the people who come back to visit relatives are from the Xiangjiang side.
It turns out that if any family has a foreign connection, they are extremely afraid, for fear that others will find out.
Things are different now, with the reform and opening up. Whenever relatives come back to visit, that guy will make the neighbors envious and sleepless if he leaks out.
Having relatives overseas has become an object of envy.
To put it bluntly, as long as you say you have overseas relatives, it will be easy to find a partner. You can just rummage through everything.
"What are you thinking about? My family is a poor farmer for eight generations.
All my money is legal income, earned from painting." Zhang Junping laughed and cursed, throwing a newspaper on the coffee table.
"Did you see the news above?
By the way, you are all blind, Mr. Lou, please read the news in the middle to everyone and copy it." Zhang Junping pointed at the newspaper and said with a smile.
Lou Xinying picked up the newspaper and saw the news report about Pingfang. She didn't read it, but looked at Zhang Junping in surprise: "Manager, you won't say that you are the author of Pingfang, right?"
"Mr. Lou, what do you mean? How about a plain copy?"
"Yes, please tell us quickly, what happened to Ping Fang?" Everyone urged.
But in my heart, I secretly made up my mind that after returning to China, I must learn foreign languages well, otherwise I will become deaf or mute when I go abroad, which is really uncomfortable.
"What this says is that at the Sotheby's spring auction that just ended yesterday, a replica of Leonardo da Vinci's oil painting was sold for US$78 million, once again setting a transaction record for replicas."
There is no need to explain what imitation is. Everyone who is engaged in art work knows what imitation refers to.
In the past, BJ never lacked this. There were many such as Zhou imitation, Qian imitation, and Zheng imitation.
"Manager, are you just an ordinary person?"
"Probably, our manager's name is Zhang Junping, so naturally he is Ping Fang."
"No wonder the manager is so rich."
"Manager, could you please tell me how much money you have?"
"Manager, he must be the richest man in the country, right?"
Everyone started talking and looked at Zhang Junping with even more intense eyes.
"Okay, Sister Song, you draft a loan contract. The interest will be calculated according to bank interest. I will personally lend the money to the company and buy the building first."
"Manager, isn't this inappropriate?"
"Yes, manager, although you have money, how can you lend your own money to the public?"
"Manager, if you do this, you will suffer a huge loss." Song Heping, Zheng Dongmei, and Chen Lijun all objected.
"I will explain to the leader that the matter is urgent. We must buy this building, otherwise it will not be a matter of whether we can open a store, but it will directly affect our future cooperation with art dealers.
People will doubt our strength." Zhang Junping said decisively.
Everyone also knew that what Zhang Junping said was true. Seeing that Zhang Junping persisted, they stopped trying to persuade him.
With no objections, the next thing was easier to handle. Song Heping drafted the loan contract and Zhang Junping signed it.
Others, as witnesses, also signed and fingerprinted the loan contract.
Zhang Junping issued a check for US$60 million on the spot.
According to the exchange rate of French francs to US dollars, US$60 million is equivalent to 340 million French francs, which is enough to buy the three-story facade building, and there is still a lot of money left over as working capital.
With money, the rest becomes easy.
On the same day, Zhang Junping took Song Heping to Credit Suisse to open an account and transfer funds to the newly opened account.
The next day, we found a lawyer, reviewed the qualifications, and signed a house purchase contract.
Because the property transfer takes time, Zhang Junping did not pay the other party's purchase price. Instead, on the advice of his lawyer, the bank provided a guarantee. The bank would not lend money to the other party until the property was transferred.
After signing the contract, everyone faced another problem.
Their passports are for studying abroad, and they only have ten days, and they will leave the country tomorrow.
Zhang Junping had no choice but to find the embassy and explain the situation, and then the embassy would coordinate with the Exit-Entry Administration.
Because the Chinese art company represented by Zhang Junping and the others had indeed invested in Paris, special arrangements were made to convert Zhang Junping's passport into a work visa that day.
As for the others, Zhang Junping did not stay.
They don't understand French, so I can't help them if I stay.
Zhang Junping did not dare to stay with Lou Xinying, the only one who knew French.
What would happen if a man and a woman alone stayed in France? He was not afraid, but Lou Xinying was not. After returning, he was not allowed to get divorced?
The most important thing is, from the way Lou Xinying looks at him, as long as he stays, something will happen 100% of the time.
For safety reasons, Zhang Junping stayed alone.
The night before returning to China, Zhang Junping called everyone for a meeting.
"After you go back, you have two tasks.
The first task is to classify all our works of art according to their authors and compile files.
The file requirements include a file number, the name of the author, the year, month and day of creation, and photos of the work. The photos should be made in triplicate, one to be kept in the file, and the other two to follow the work and be used to sign the sales contract."
"I know, manager!" Chen Lijun and Niu Wensheng nodded in agreement.