Under the guise of forging cannons, Eugene could enter and exit the Porte de Chapelle without any hindrance. Those National Guardsmen didn't care about the 'junk' in the carriage!
A foot or so of crappy oil painting that didn’t even have a wooden frame and looked like a rag!
Dirty marble statue, the scratches are full of mud!
A whole cart full of swords? Since these medieval rags cannot be fought, they should be melted in the smelting factory outside the city!
God, there is actually a knight's full plate armor? Even the full body armor of war horses in the past?
Eugene, Eugene, how long has it been since your steel plant replenished iron ore? Why are you collecting all the junk in your own factory?
Ignorant people are not guilty. Of course they didn’t know that the one-foot oil painting was an authentic work by Titian! Little did they know that the Venus statue unearthed in ancient Greece is thousands of years old!
Although swords and armor have withdrawn from the stage of war, these palace goods have recorded the evolution of the history of human weapons. These swords all have their owners, and each one can tell a story of vicissitudes of life.
The shortest of these rags has a history of more than 150 years. In order to continue to cooperate with the Chinese, Eugene and Andrew gave the third truck of goods a very good quality, which almost overwhelmed the best boxes in the warehouse. All the pawned items were taken out.
These three carts of goods were sold to Sima Yun at five times the pawn price. It seemed like a lot, but it was not expensive in real terms. The three carts of cultural relics cost a total of 210,000 francs!
The full-body plate armor from the Louis XIV era, every part was spared, and it only cost 16,000 francs!
The final transaction price of Titian's original work was only 3,500 francs!
It is indeed a literary play in prosperous times and gold in troubled times! You may not be able to buy these cultural relics with money in ordinary times, but amid the great historical changes of dynasties, they are as cheap as rubbish!
Sima Yun is not afraid that these two people will deceive him with fake goods, because he is very aware of this kind of brain-dropping business. As long as he offends the head of state, he has ten thousand ways to send them to hell!
If they reveal even a little information about collaborating with the enemy, these two relatives will have their heads chopped off!
Of course, with so many pawned items, there must be some mistakes, but this is an inevitable loss in the business world!
Xiao Letian once calculated that as long as the proportion of fakes among these cultural relics does not exceed 30%, then the final result will be considered a bumper harvest!
More importantly, the cultural relics market in this era is not as impetuous as in the 21st century. Many fakes are not exaggerated. They are just 17th-century cultural relics that deceive you into saying they are from the 14th century!
Qianlong pastels are sold to you as Kangxi pastels, and you are only fooling your eyesight. As for pure fraud, there are not many in Europe now!
The cashier's check of 210,000 francs made Eugene and Andrew go crazy. Standard Chartered, HSBC, Bank of Scotland... are all big and well-known banks in Europe. These cashier's checks are recognized throughout Europe and can be freely exchanged!
The bearded man in London once said that if capitalists have 100% profit, they will take desperate risks; if they have 200% profit, they will flout the law!
With more than 300% profit, they can trample everything in the world!
This was simply a business without capital. In Paris, Eugene and Andrew took advantage of the historical opportunity of the war and chaos to start eating like crazy.
The oil painting collected for one hundred francs is already a treasure of the Renaissance!
If it is resold to the Chinese, it will be five hundred francs, a full five times profit. Not only can they trample on everything in the world, they even dare to trample on God!
Selling cultural relics is just one way to make a fortune, and another way to make a fortune is the secret underground funding pipeline!
The cash that was besieged by all the capitalists in Paris suddenly found the secret circulation channel controlled by these two people. Now they are going crazy!
It started with low-interest loans to Eugene and Andrew, but soon the two began to stop paying interest and directly borrow money without interest!
Don’t you just want your funds to be safe? I have a way to exchange it for you into a cashier's check from a British bank. How dare you ask me for interest on such a good condition? Go ahead and dream!
Without interest, these capitalists are flocking in. In order to leave a safe escape route for their money, they no longer care about anything.
Three days later, Eugene immediately changed the rules. Not only would no interest be given to anyone who sent money, but Eugene would also charge a 2% handling fee. Do you like it or not?
Even if there is a handling fee, these Parisian capitalists have to accept their fate! Money still pours into Andrew’s pawn shop every day!
This formed a triangular cycle process. The pawnshop purchased low-priced cultural relics from Paris citizens, then secretly transported them out of Paris and sold them to the Chinese in exchange for British bank cashier's checks.
These cashier's checks were then transported to Paris to be secretly exchanged for cash in the hands of Parisian merchants!
With cash, Andrew can collect large amounts of low-priced cultural relics, and the funds begin to increase in value like crazy over and over again!
In this financial game, the poor get the cash they need to survive, ensuring their basic food, clothing, housing and transportation!
Eugene and Andrew made a lot of profits and began to acquire other underperforming pawn shops to increase their own industry!
Capitalists in Paris have gained a safe channel for capital to escape, while the Chinese are frantically acquiring European works of art at floor prices!
It seems that no one suffers, the poor, Eugene Andre, the Paris capitalists, the Chinese... all four links seem to have benefited, but who suffers?
After all, everyone has made money, and someone has to lose money!
Of course, France, the country and the nation, has lost money. Cultural relics that were originally worth hundreds of millions were squeezed into the millions by this perverted business model... This shortfall can only be shouldered by the people of France!
Just when Eugene Andrew's business was in full swing, the wind direction in Paris changed dramatically. Instead of making a decision to take the initiative, the left and right parties only intensified the rift between the two parties.
On September 15, the Central Committees of the twenty arrondissements of Paris jointly signed a notice calling on all Parisians to arm themselves to jointly resist enemy aggression.
He also proposed unified management of the entire city's supplies. Defense, housing, food, medicine, ammunition... all resources should be centralized and distributed.
One stone stirred up a thousand waves, and the 26-member Committee was immediately furious. They angrily denounced the Central Committee as illegal, a rebellion, and a conspiracy to separate Paris from French autonomy!
There are a total of twenty districts in Paris, and each district has its own committee. Because these committees are elected by the people in the district, the working class with the largest number naturally has the advantage.
Twenty committees are all controlled by the left. They come together to form a common committee. This is to fight against the 26-member national defense government!
