The Wildenstein family has been the largest buyers, sellers and brokers of the Louvre. Their storage rooms, especially in New York, are said to be the largest single-person collection of works by masters of art in the world. A great contribution to this wealth
The last estimated value was in 1999, when it was worth $10 billion. If a complete property inventory were compiled, this number would be much higher. The collection list includes thousands of paintings and drawings, each with a famous name.
, Renoir, Van Gogh, Cezanne, Gauguin, Rembrandt, Rubens, El Gregor, Caravaggio, Leonardo da Vinci, Picasso, Manet, Bernard, Fragonard,
Monet, etc. Many of them have never been shown to the public. Of course, these paintings are very valuable in the eyes of Europeans, but Li Cong couldn't understand these things at all. He felt that each of them seemed to be painted by ghosts.
, apart from anything else, my youngest daughter’s paintings seem to be similar to theirs. It’s no wonder that the gap between Eastern and Western literature and art is not small.
In addition to a large collection, the Wildenstein family also owns a ranch in Kenya, with 200 buildings scattered on a ranch the size of five Manhattan islands. The land and animals there are cared for by about 400 employees. There is a ranch near Paris.
The estate, which is "the largest single-family residence within a 15-minute drive of Paris", has 5 gardeners, 3 concierges and 3 maids. In addition, it also owns real estate in Switzerland and the Upper East Side of New York. Such industries are
Others may seem to be envious in this way, but in Li Cong's opinion, this seems to be a generalization, and it is no big deal.
John Walsh, retired director of the John Paul Getty Museum in Los Angeles, said the Wildenstein family has achieved mythical status in the art world because of its collection.
A work by the masters of painting, this is an Aladdin’s cave, and no one knows what is inside.” The Times commented that the Wildenstein family often put up for sale a painting whose whereabouts were unknown 50 years ago.
Or on display, like a magician pulling a rabbit out of a hat.
The Wildenstein family was also famous for their horse racing. Daniel was a successful owner of racing breeding stock, winning four times in France's Arc de Triomphe. By the mid-1970s, he owned three herds, two in Normandy.
, a farm in Ireland with 600 racehorses and 200 people training them. Over the years, the Wildenstein family's mysterious collection and the source of their vast wealth have been subject to suspicion. In 1997, Alphonse, a descendant of a Jewish art collector,
? Kahn sued the Wildenstein family in New York, claiming that eight manuscripts dating back to the 15th, 16th and 17th centuries originally belonged to his family. The indictment stated that the Nazis robbed the collection from Kahn's home in 1940
The Wildenstein family's defense was that Daniel's father, George, had owned the scrolls before traveling to Paris and that the Nazis had mistakenly recorded their ownership. This became a muddled account, but about the Wiltons
Speculations that Stein was suspected of making deals with the Nazis have never stopped. In May 2000, Wildenstein lost the case in the Paris court. This time, art historian Hector Feliciano hinted in a book,
George Wildenstein may have collaborated with the Nazis.
"Boss, there is a saying in the collection industry. If this family bids for an item, it means that others cannot get it, because they all want to raise the item to a price that others cannot pay.
, Of course, these are things in the past. Now that they have met the boss, it is ultimately their fault that they are incompetent." Sometimes Karelina can flatter Li Cong. Who is Li Cong?
I will understand a little bit. If you keep flattering me, no one will be happy, but it would be nice to come here once in a while, especially if you say something from such a beautiful woman who is not very good at flattering others.
Li Cong nodded, made a sound like he was right, and immediately called out the price. However, at this time, the young man who was related to the Dassault family directly bid 7.5 million euros. It seemed that this boy was determined to get this thing.
, in fact, his grandfather gave him 10 million euros. If there was no such collection family and Li Cong to get involved, there would probably be no problem, but with these two people here, it might not be so easy, at least 1,000 euros.
It is impossible to close a transaction within the range of 10,000 euros.
The two people in the Wildenstein family also looked at each other. In their opinion, there is still no way for such forces in France to stop them. If the general or the big boss of Dassault comes, they may
You have to give in, but for such a little guy, no matter how important your position in the family is, it is impossible to give in, at least you will not have such qualifications now.
"9 million euros." The person who quoted the price from the Wildenstein family continued. He is very experienced in dealing with such a small family. He directly raised the price so that they did not have so much money. Of course, if you have money, you can
It doesn't matter, you can continue to bid. We have plenty of money. Our family is in the art business. No matter how high you raise the price, we can get it back. Besides, there is an unknown secret in these thumbs.
, so it must be photographed, otherwise it will be an even more shocking loss.
Li Cong originally wanted to bid, but he was not in a hurry at this time. Since both of you are interested in this, I will see which of you two has the ability, but the young master of the Dassault family is very interested.
Li Cong was soon disappointed. The guy's expression told everyone what was going on. The boy had no money. He still wanted to play with antiques without money? How could this be possible? This thing was like a waste of money.
The threshold for this thing is still very high. A chamber pot left over from the previous society is probably not a minority.
"Boss, although these ring keys are very precious, they don't seem to be worth the price. I think there seems to be a problem here. Do you want me to ask about it? We should find some clues in our intelligence library."
It is said that this thing cannot reach this price. After this guy shouted this price, everyone here was a little confused. This family is famous for its collection. It can be said that no one in the world understands this world better than them.
The price of antiques has increased, what do they mean by doing this? Is it really for liking? In Li Cong’s view, the person he likes should be like himself, but it must also be within a reasonable price. These few
Although a thumb ring is a rare treasure, it costs hundreds of millions of yuan, so the price seems to be a bit high.
Li Cong nodded and asked Karelina to find information. It can be said that it is very easy to find information about such a family. Intelligence agents from energy groups who usually walk around the world collect the information they collect.
When you arrive at the headquarters, you don't care whether these things are useful or not, but there is nothing wrong as long as you hand in what you see and know. As for what use it is, it is not up to you. The intelligence analysts at the headquarters have
Enough time to manage these things.
When Li Cong saw that the young master from the Dassault Group didn't know what he was saying to the shì next to him, the shì left with a face full of embarrassment. Then the auctioneer above asked to take a rest for half an hour.
It has only been more than an hour since the beginning, and there is no need to rest at all. But now that the organizer has said, can we still refuse? Li Cong can also see that this young master must not have much money.
, we need to raise funds at this time, and there is no need for Sotheby’s to offend this young master on such a small matter, at least not now.
"Boss, there is indeed something wrong with these thumb rings. The intelligence we detected is that when they set out to come here, their clan leader told them to bring these things back no matter what the cost, and their clan leader's
The stepmother also sent people to get these things, but they were killed by their clan leader's people." Karelina found out the reason in a short time, and at all costs, they had 100 million euros.
Yes, it may be possible if it costs tens of millions of euros. There should be such a price in a few years, but if it exceeds the actual price by more than ten times, it cannot be as simple as appreciation. Li Cong once heard it in Panjiayuan.
As I said, basically 70% of all collectors are used to make money, and only the 30% are what they like. Obviously this family is used to make money, but how can Li Cong
I don’t even think about how they use this to make money. At ten times the price, the cost is too high.
"Wait a minute, what's the matter with the patriarch and the patriarch's stepmother? This family is so complicated?" Li Cong turned around and was a little confused.
Karelina smiled and began to explain to her boss the tragic divorce history of the family and more detailed information about the family.
Although the Wildenstein family has maintained an almost paranoid silence for generations, drawing thick curtains to block out prying eyes, the first person to expose the situation of this Jewish family was a woman, Daniel's eldest son Alec.
Wife Jocelyn. If you have never heard of this name, it can only be said that you are a bit ignorant. She is to some extent the most famous person in this family, and that is entirely because of her appearance-"The Lion Queen".
Alec and Jocelyn's divorce battle lasted from the fall of 1997 to the spring of 1999. The happiest thing during this period was the New York tabloids. First, because the desperate Jocelyn began to frequently go under the knife on his face. One day in 1998, Ya
Alec told Jocelyn that if you looked like a jungle cat, you would definitely be cute. Jocelyn, who still wanted to please her husband, had her eyes lifted up like a cat the next day. As a result, Alec
"I don't recognize her at all." Li Cong believed that he should not sympathize with such a woman, but many people did not agree with Li Cong. They thought that women who treated love like this were really rare.
At this time, Jocelyn was already addicted to plastic surgery. She never tired of stuffing all kinds of materials into her body. She especially loved the vaginal vaginal surgery, so the final result of the vaginal vaginal surgery was two sausages. She was called the "powerful"
"The Bride of Wildenstein", where Wildenstein alludes to Frankenstein, also known as Frankenstein. In 2000, Alec married the 19-year-old Russian model Stupakova. And even after the divorce, Joe
Silin still can't stop yù. In the past 10 years, she has spent US$4 million on plastic surgery. She has become a very famous counterexample in the plastic surgery industry.
Another side effect of the divorce battle is that the Wildenstein family, which has been conservative and reclusive for more than a century, has entered a public display stage. Jocelyn requested a monthly living allowance of US$200,000 to cover her personal salary and expenses.
.Through her big sausage-shaped mouth, people learned that even by the standards of celebrities and wealthy people, the lifestyle of the Wildenstein family was considered luxurious.
Although the Wildenstein family has huge wealth, they are indeed notoriously stingy. The family expenses and extravagant expenses that Jocelyn announced in a high-profile manner are not the focus. The point is that this family alone spends 66 dollars on dogs every year.
A family whose annual income exceeds 3/4 of U.S. taxpayers' annual income of 10,000 U.S. dollars, actually did not pay a penny in taxes in the U.S., and they already lived in Manhattan from the time they got married in Las Vegas in 1978 to the start of divorce proceedings in 1997.
19 years.
Some details during the divorce proceedings reveal the family's high degree of "financial intelligence." Daniel Wildenstein seems to have the most powerful business operations capabilities in the world. He controls, through a secret network of trusts and interconnected enterprises,
holds the family’s billions in assets. For example, the Manhattan townhouse where sons Alec and Guy live together is owned by the family company at 19 East 64th Street, which in turn is an intermediary held by a “trust company.”
"Controlled entities". Another example is that most of the Wildenstein family's property exists in the form of trusts, real estate and works of art, thus minimizing their nominal personal assets and income.
In recent years, what has attracted the world's attention to the Wildenstein family is the inheritance dispute between his two sons Alec and Guy and their stepmother Sylvia after Daniel's death. Since Daniel's death, this dispute has not been settled.
The final result was announced. 75-year-old Sylvia did not want to give up, and Daniel's second son Guy who was still alive did not make any concessions. This dispute will continue, and people are eagerly looking forward to the final result.
In 2001, 84-year-old Daniel died in Paris due to complications from surgery. A few days after her husband's death, Sylvia signed an agreement giving up her property inheritance rights under the persuasion of her two stepsons. Sylvia said
, Alec and Guy told her at that time that she might face a huge tax bill and a criminal investigation, and she could sign a relinquishment agreement in exchange for a fixed monthly living allowance (it was later learned that this number was about US dollars per year). There was no lawyer at the time.
Sylvia was present. Sylvia had never been involved in the family business, and her relationship with her two stepsons was not bad. A few months after the agreement was signed, Sylvia discovered that something was wrong. The two brothers began to reduce the monthly payment given by their husband when he was alive.
Her cash subsidy. Within a year, Sylvia F&U Grave's apartment on Avenue MÉng in Paris was sold. It is a symbol of the luxury world and houses many of the world's top luxury brands. Sylvia was told to move
To another apartment located near the Forest of Dublogne. This was originally bought by Sylvia for her puppy Dolly when her husband was still alive.
Shortly thereafter, Sylvia discovered that requests for payment of household expenses and servants' salaries had also been rejected, and she realized that she was slowly being pushed away from the family and its wealth. When the two brothers gave her 4
When the racehorse was transferred to a company in her own name, Sylvia hired a lawyer. Within a week, the racehorse was returned.
Sylvia was determined to get her inheritance back, and she felt she had been cheated. When Sylvia signed the abandonment agreement, she did not know that her husband Daniel had made preparations before his death and had given two collections of paintings to a family.
investment bank, one Fragonard, one Boucher, in order to pay the tax burden of his estate. "I never thought it would go this far, but what could I do?" said Sylvia. Alex
Grams and Guy have always remained silent on the lawsuit filed by their stepmother four years after their father's death. They only expressed their dissatisfaction through their lawyers, believing that it was a family matter. The lawyer said that Sylvia's approach was to pass
Public opinion creates pressure on them.
On April 14, 2005, the French Court of Appeal ruled that the inheritance relinquishment agreement signed by Sylvia was invalid. According to French inheritance law, Sylvia should receive half of all property acquired during the marriage. If a settlement cannot be reached, in July of that year
In August, some of the paintings collected by the Wildenstein family will be auctioned. Sylvia said that this accounts for about 1/4 of the family collection. At that time, 170 thoroughbred racehorses owned by the family had been frozen by the court, and the value of these racehorses was only estimated.
has reached US$150 million.
The result was that the Wildenstein brothers won. They appealed to the French Supreme Court, which ultimately agreed with their lawyers. That is, although the Wildenstein family owns billions in property, almost all of its collections
They are all in trust or stored in companies and art galleries. Daniel has almost no assets in his name, and Guy's personal assets are only a few million dollars. Sylvia's hope was dashed.
lù disclosed the latest situation on June 22, 2009. Sylvia's lawyer submitted the latest evidence to the French court that her late husband Daniel owned a precious collection in the Cayman Islands, including two Picasso works (valued at US$2.23 million and
($420,000), a work by the 18th-century French painter David (worth $6.98 million), two works by the post-Impressionist painter Pierre Bonnard (each worth $3.21 million), and this is just a small part of the iceberg.
Small corner.
For four years Sylvia has been asking the court to investigate the list of Wildenstein family collections so that they can be divided at auction and get her half. This time she hopes the court can adjust the verdict four years ago based on new evidence. In June 2005,
Although the French Court of Appeal ruled in her favor, the appeal by her two stepsons at the Supreme Court put a hold on the detailed investigation and division of the collection.
Current status of the family. Daniel’s two sons, Alec and Guy, were born from his first wife. They are not much younger than his stepmother Sylvia. The eldest son Alec was born in 1940 and died in February 2008.
During the last period of his life, he stayed in France and was entangled in two lawsuits. In addition to his stepmother's inheritance case, there was also a writer suing his grandfather for having an affair with the Nazis. His younger brother Guy, now 64, took over the family business after his father's death.
.Although Guy seems a bit unkind and stingy when it comes to his treatment of his stepmother, in terms of managing family affairs, the xxx leader of the family has made quite a lot of achievements.
The family's inheritance battle has been going on for four years, and 75-year-old Sylvia Wildenstein has no intention of stopping. The results have not yet come out, but she is not the only real beneficiary. The entire art collection world
Waiting with great interest. A large number of precious painting collections of Impressionist masters and older generation art masters have been sealed in bank vaults and storage rooms around the world for four generations and more than a century. If it were not for this protracted inheritance dispute
, they have no chance to appear in public. And the entire Wildenstein family will continue in the protracted legal battle, continue to collect their own collections and accumulate wealth, but they can no longer be as mysterious as in the past.
When Li Cong knew this, the first thing he thought about was not the inheritance. What he thought about was if he left before his wives, would his son treat his stepmothers in the same way? After all, the two brothers in the family had
He treated that woman well when he was young, but what happened later made him very uncomfortable. Although it was a matter of someone else's family, Li Cong somehow contacted his own family. In his opinion, if he was
After he left, his son must have been strong, and his women have become weak. Although now it seems that his son is treating them well, but they are not related by blood, so they can't expect to be very good to him.
.
"Did the deceased previous patriarch leave anything behind?" Li Cong quickly diverted his attention away from what he was thinking, otherwise he might have to pull his son over to ask, but no matter what
The answer always makes me feel a little uncomfortable.
"My guess is this. If we rashly put this thing up for auction, I don't think we would know what the secret is. Why don't we take a long-term approach and catch the big fish?" said Karelina, who probably knows this now.
There are not many people who keep secrets. If they act rashly, there will be no good results. What secrets are under the seven thumbs? It can be snatched by such a large-scale collector family. Li Cong's consciousness told him that this
There must be a big secret in this thing, but it's hard to tell how.
In New York, USA, in a villa owned by the Wildenstein family, the patriarch, who is now over eighty years old, and his stepmother, who is much younger than him, are sitting here. The outside world thinks that their relationship is as serious as the lawsuit.
The bad thing is that no one knew that their relationship was actually very good, but their relationship began to deteriorate in the past few years after their father passed away.
"Dear aunt, I think you can make a request if you have any. The auction in Paris has come to an end, and my people have already bought it. We all know the secret. You should understand now.
Yes, my father has passed away and my brother has left. I am now in charge of the family. If possible, I can restore your old life. We don’t have many days left. We should enjoy it now, right?
?You must have been having a hard time over the past year or so. There is a Chinese saying that we are born from the same roots. Why rush to fight against each other? We are all members of this family. Shouldn't we fight for the existence of this family?
And work hard?" Guy Wildenstein said, the way he spoke was very bright, he looked like a devout believer in God, but his stepmother didn't believe in this person very much, not long ago
, this guy executed one of his stepmother's nephews, because that kid also wanted those few thumbs, which is absolutely not allowed. It represents huge wealth. As for how much there is, it may only be the dead corrupt Chinese official.
knew.
The stepmother opposite did not answer anything, but this guy fell into the secret that his father told the family, the secret among the seven fingers. This is about He Shen, a big corrupt official in China during the Qianlong period.
, because that person is the first person in charge of this wealth, to be precise, that is the owner of this wealth.
He Shen (May 28, 1750 - February 22, 1799, that is, the fifteenth year of Qianlong - the eighteenth day of the first month of the fourth year of Jiaqing), formerly known as Shanbao, with the courtesy name Zhizhai, Niu Hulu clan, Manchuria
Erjia Laren of Zhenghong Banner. He once held many positions, including the title of first-class loyal minister, chief bachelor, foreman of the military aircraft minister, and concurrently in charge of the Ministry of Personnel, the Ministry of Husbandry, the Ministry of Punishment, the Academy of Lifan, and the Three Treasurys of the Ministry of Households. He also served concurrently as the Hanlin Academy.
He holds important positions such as bachelor of the academy, president of the "Sikuquanshu", minister of the imperial guard, commander of the infantry and other important positions. He is extremely favored by the emperor. He has a high official rank, a wide range of affairs, many part-time jobs, and great power. He is rare in the Qing Dynasty.
He was also the emperor's relative, and his son Fengshen Yinde was designated as the son-in-law of the ten most favored princesses of the emperor. He was later sentenced to death by Emperor Jiaqing.
That wealth was Heshen's wealth in the first place. "Heshen fell, Jiaqing was full" and "Heshen fell, Jiaqing became rich". These widely circulated sayings are an image of Heshen's wealth, a corrupt official in the Qing Dynasty.
Description. Heshen amassed so much wealth that he was second to none among the civil and military ministers of the past dynasties. However, how much property Heshen had has always been a historical mystery. On the third day of the first lunar month of the fourth year of Jiaqing, the 89-year-old Qianlong Emperor Hongli died.
Hongli's favorite Heshen also ushered in his end. On the eighth day of the lunar month, Emperor Jiaqing issued an edict announcing that Heshen would be dismissed from his post and his family property confiscated. On the ninth day of the lunar month, Prince Yongxuan of Mingyi and Prince Yongxuan were responsible for inspecting Heshen's property.
.Led by the two princes, a group of people arrived in front of Heshen's Mansion. The scribe had already counted the items in Heshen's Mansion and compiled a property list. Within a few hours, the two princes who led the team came to Heshen's Mansion.
They already knew the treasures Heshen possessed. The two of them couldn't help but stick out their tongues and said, "Heshen is really good at plundering. His wealth is several times more than we expected."
The accompanying ministers looked at each other, and the hall fell into silence.
Not long after, one of them coughed lightly and said, "The Han people have a saying, 'You can travel thousands of miles to become an official just for the sake of wealth.' This time the emperor's grace is so great, why did the emperor send us as an envoy?" He saw that everyone was displeased.
He made a sound and continued: "This list is of great importance and needs to be discussed carefully. What do you think, sir?" Before he finished speaking, everyone nodded in agreement.
…
The next day, Jiaqing met with the princes and ministers who presided over the search of the house, and received a list of the confiscation of the house. There were more than 32,000 taels of gold in the vault under the wall, and more than 3 million taels of silver buried in the cellar. Jiaqing gave full consideration to the list of house searches.
Trust and affirmation. Then he "gifted" Heshen to commit suicide. The emperor kindly said that this was for the sake of the country's face, so Heshen's family would not be implicated. Later, Minister Sabin Tu reported that the copy so far was less than 10% of the Heshen family's property.
First, when he asked for a thorough investigation and rigorous pursuit, he was severely criticized by the emperor.
The actual list of house searches has not appeared on official occasions since then.
In 2001, the "Wall Street Journal" conducted a survey of "the richest people in the world over the past millennium", and Heshen was selected into the top 50 richest people. According to the report, Heshen owned a wealth of 220 million taels of silver. However, this is far from that.
This is the largest amount among various records of Heshen's net worth.
Ji Lianhai, a teacher at the High School Affiliated to Beijing Normal University, once conducted an investigation in order to tell the story of Heshen on CCTV's "Hundred Forum" column. He actually found three lists of Heshen's house seizures from different sources in the existing historical materials.
One clear difference can be seen in these three lists - the amount of land owned by Heshen.
Ji Lianhai believed that the "Complete Criminal Case Files of Heshen" collected by China's First Historical Archives was the official historical basis for studying the wealth of the Heshen family. He then consulted other historical materials about this period, including "Records of the Qing Dynasty" and "Manuscripts of the History of the Qing Dynasty"
, "Biographies of Qing History" and other works indicate that the total land owned by Heshen was only about 1,200 hectares.
Later, Ji Lianhai found two more records of Heshen's house raids in "Yong'an Notes" written by Xue Fucheng, a diplomat of the late Qing Dynasty: "Inspection of Heshen's Residence and Garden" and "Inspection of Heshen's Property". After comparison, Xue found out that
Compared with the "Complete Crime Files of Heshen", the two lists recorded by Fucheng cover an additional 6,800 hectares of land. However, Xue Fucheng's "Notes of Yong'an" is only unofficial history and has average credibility.
Although Ji Lianhai's story about He Shen on CCTV caused a sensation, he still has not found the real list of He Shen's house confiscation.
"List"
Buildings: main house with 7 entrances and 33 rooms; 1 Hui-style room with 62 rooms; 42 garden terraces; 1 side room with 52 rooms; 1 imperial garden room with 64 rooms; 12 watchtowers; 130 miscellaneous rooms; 1 porcelain warehouse
; 1 tinware warehouse; 1 delicacy room with 16 rooms; 6 Tieli red sandalwood rooms; 1 glassware warehouse; 1 medicinal material warehouse.
Gold, silver and copper: 22 ancient bronze tripods, 11 Han bronze tripods; 18 Wang tripods; 10 ancient swords; 32 tables and 4,288 pieces of gold dishes; 32 tables and 4,288 pieces of silver dishes; 500 pairs of gold inlaid tooth chopsticks; gold spit
120 bowls; 53 gold basins; 150 silver basins; 64 gold foot basins; 683 silver foot basins; 18 golden Arhats, each 1 foot 8 inches tall; 500 pairs of gold inlaid jade; 40 gold eight-treasure kang screen
Frames; 20 gold kang chuáng frames; 6 old gold-threaded chuáng tents; 100 gold ingots, 100 C each; 9.4 million taels of silver ingots; 5 million taels of red gold; 2 million taels of raw sand gold; 58,000 silver coins; silver number
Treasury silver 4 million taels.
Jade antiques: 28 jade chimes; 1 pair of jade horses, 1 foot 3 inches high and 4 feet long; 1 white jade Guanyin, 1 foot 2 inches high; 18 jade Arhats, each 1 foot 2 inches high; the whole
120 jade Ruyi handles; 387 white jade Ruyi handles; 99 arsenic swallow bowls; 300 arsenic tobacco bottles; 154 white jade soup bowls; 124 white jade wine glasses; 25 white jade ice trays; 18 arsenic ice trays; white jade smoke
800 pots; 100 agate smoke bottles; 100 Han jade smoke bottles; 28,000 pieces of gold bead jewelry; 60 Dadong beads, each weighing 10 cents; 18 plates of pearls; 2 Ru kiln brush washers; Ru Guan
1 kiln agate glazed statue; 5 Chizhou water pillows in the Northern Song Dynasty; 18 bracelets with 326 strands; 180 rubies; 980 small rubies; 4700 sapphires; 1008 gem beads; 373 coral beads; 13 dense wax beads; coral
There are 236 pieces on the top of the hat; 10 coral trees, each 3 feet 8 inches tall; 38 self-ringing bells; 100 foreign watches.
Clothing, cloth and skins: 800 pieces of 5sè denim; 110 pieces of mandarin duck velvet; 600 pieces of 5sè feather satin; 200 pieces of serge; 12 yuan fox skins; 800 mink skins; 1,500 pieces of each sè fox skin; 56,000 miscellaneous skins;
37 mink python robes; 54 mink hats; 48 mink jackets; 120 pairs of mink boots; and countless ready-made garments.
Recently, a "List of Heshen's Confiscated Households" that is very different from the above list appeared in Rugao, Jiangsu. According to Dai Shixiang, who collected it, it was "rewarded" by Emperor Jiaqing to his ancestor Dai Liankui after Heshen was overthrown. This is
The list includes 3,000 houses, 8,000 hectares of fields, 42 silver shops, and 75 pawn shops; a total of lumber shops, medicine shops, wine shops, grain shops, hotels, antique shops, celadon shops, gray tile shops, vehicle shops, and sedan shops.
There are more than 100 companies, and they also engage in horse and cart transportation, land trading, etc.; 60,000 taels of red gold, 1,200 Jilin ginseng handles, 230 strings of small pearls, 100 large gold ingots (100 taels each), 56,600 small silver ingots, and 9 million silver ingots.
, 15,800 yuan in foreign currency, 1.5 million yuan in coinage, 10 strings of longan pearls, 10 large rubies, 40 large sapphires; 40 silver tables, 11 coral trees over 3 feet tall, 12,300 pieces of clothing, 550 fox skins,
850 mink skins, 56,000 thick and thin skins; 3.61 million pieces of bronze, 100,000 pieces of porcelain, 24 gold-plated eight treasures, 700 Western clocks, and 7,000 pieces of good clothes for all seasons. All items total about 1 billion taels of silver, and Heshen
The wealth is as great as that of the country.
That treasure was Heshen's wealth at the beginning. The wealth recorded in these historical books can be said to be true, and the items found are only one-tenth of Heshen's wealth. It can be said that Heshen has a full tenth.
Hundreds of millions of dollars, of course, those antique calligraphy and paintings cannot be measured in terms of money. If converted to today's prices, it may cost more than a trillion dollars. The secret place where the treasure is hidden is on those few fingers.
The stepmother of the patriarch only knew these things, but there were some things that the stepmother did not know, which were the consequences of this wealth.
This wealth was eventually discovered by the Manchu authorities, but they did not take out the wealth. Even when the country was subjugated, they did not think of taking out the wealth and continue to squander it. They just continued to accumulate this wealth, hoping that
Leaving something behind for your descendants will make your wealth even more amazing.
The Qing Dynasty was the richest country in the world until the early days of the Opium War, and the amount of wealth it occupied was not even a tiny bit. It was impossible to say that the court at that time did not seek wealth. Gaia remembered what his father told him.
If we get this wealth, it will be enough for us to become a new big force. By then, even the Skull and Bones Society in the United States may also look at us seriously.
"Guy, you are really direct in your speech. This is much better than your elder brother. He lied to me before. Forget it, that was all in the past. What you said is very right. This matter we
Let's not discuss it. Let's talk about practical issues. Only we may know how much wealth there is. I don't want to ask for those things. What I want now is to live a good life. I want half of my current family property. I can
I promise not to say anything nonsense, but if my request cannot be met, I think the whole world will know the news in a few days. I think there are many, many people who are more powerful than our family." Neither does this old lady.
He is easy to bully. Outsiders don't know how much half of his family fortune is, but he knows that it must be at least tens of billions of dollars.
If Li Cong knew that you two foreigners were actually talking about our treasures, he would immediately go up and give you both a slap in the face. Are you kidding me? Can you get this money? I haven't enjoyed it yet.
You just took it without opening your eyes to see what you are all about. Are you worthy? Ro!.