Chapter 92 the following day of the great depression (11), Huang Xuan stayed in the Beta printing plant and looked at the rolling dollar bills


    Huang Xuan thought the noise was also pleasing


    Lorraine''s modified money printing machine was still old, but the green money produced was real


    In order to make it easy to sell, Huang Xuan asked him to add an old process


    This was very simple, but let Lorraine do it, and almost used up three million dollars in energy


    Roughly speaking, Lorraine had already eaten about 25 million us dollars by the time he reached p 101, which was the same as the light crude oil he bought last time


    If he had relied on a few Aluminum electrolysis plant, he would not have been able to return to the country with enough energy


    Fortunately, it was harvest time


    Overnight, the Beta printing plant produced $ 15 million


    This was not 15 million after the dollar fell


    Even before the great depression, the money was equivalent to half a year''s profit for Ford Motor Co, enough to make it into the list of the richest people in america


    First, he took about 20 kilograms of green banknotes - about two million us dollars, put them in a large travel bag, and then put the rest of the banknotes into the plane passage before turning off the machine and walking out of the workshop


    He handed the bag to Hans and said, "Chase national bank


    " In the bank lobby, Joseph immediately noticed the tall Hans beside him, especially the travel bag in his hand


    " What can I do for you


    " Joseph said the same thing and crossed his white gloved fingers around his waist as he led huang xuan to the vip room


    The $ 600,000 deposit was enough for him to use the room at will


    There were only three of them in the beautifully decorated little room


    In this era, there would naturally be no monitors


    Huang Xuan took the travel bag in Hans''s hand, opened the zipper and said," please order a little


    I want to keep them in your bank


    " Joseph only glanced at it and knew that his performance this month had been completed


    He quickly beckoned his deputy and respectfully served huang xuan a cup of coffee as he said," please wait a moment


    Our employees will order it for you very soon


    " He nodded helplessly and said," yes, I would like to meet Mr


    Rockefeller, little john Rockefeller


    "" I will inform you immediately


    " Joseph said and walked out


    I know


    Rockefeller will definitely come to see me


    Two million dollars is a huge sum of money


    If you have to compare it, you can consider it as one hundred million dollars in 70 years


    Especially in the year of 1931, when liquidity was scarce, the cash was more timely to the banks


    The bank run took place in 1933, when countless commercial banks would fail due to a lack of cash to make withdrawals, but two years ago, the signs were clear


    " Hans, go get the blueprints I left in the car


    " Huang Xuan gently stirred the candy bar


    " Okay


    " Hans looked at the employee in the room, waved for another bodyguard, gave a few instructions, and then stood behind Huang Xuan


    Little Rockefeller spent a long time in the business of datong bank, and today was no exception


    When he received the news from Joseph, he quickly packed his clothes and walked down


    When he saw Huang Xuan, he shook his hand with a reserved but slightly affectionate manner and said," I heard you are chinese


    Very good place


    " In fact, china in the 1930s was not very good


    The golden age of national capitalism in the first world war was over, but Rockefeller really liked Huang Xuan for starting with this


    He got up and shook hands with him


    " Mr


    Rockefeller is a busy man


    I''ll be straight to the point


    This time, I heard that you invested in pan am


    "" Yes


    " Rockefeller poured himself a glass of whiskey and said," does Mr


    Huang want to join the Pan american


    " During the great depression, pan am was one of the few big profitable companies


    In 31 years, more and more people wanted to take a stake in this rising sun company


    Rockefeller assumed that Huang Xuan was thinking the same way


    But the chinese shaking his head made him a little confused


    Huang Xuan reached out for the drawing that Hans was holding, unfolded it, and said," I think you must be very curious why Mr


    Sloan and the Ford Motor Co are related to me, right


    "" There are some," Rockefeller admitted


    " Because of this


    " As he spoke, Huang Xuan had completely unfolded the drawing


    He simply handed this end to Joseph and stood next to Rockefeller empty-handed, saying," are you interested in this as well


    "" Is this


    A plane blueprint


    "" Yes


    " Huang Xuan was still the most familiar with the word


    He smiled and rolled up the drawing again


    He handed it to Rockefeller and said," if you have any ideas, you can look for me again


    " He looked at Joseph


    The manager immediately reacted, took the deposit certificate handed to him by his deputy, and handed it to huang xuan with both hands


    " The total is us $ 20


    84700


    Welcome to Chase national bank


    "" Thank you


    " Huang Xuan glanced at Rockefeller again and left with a smile


    In fact, he didn''t really intend to sell Rockefeller the plane blueprints


    Time no longer allowed him to do so


    On the other hand, with a lot of printed dollar bills, it was just a waste of time to talk business with Rockefeller


    But there was one benefit


    As long as little Rockefeller''s appetite was satisfied, he would not be tempted by the large amount of assets in the bank account that were inexplicably large


    That was what Huang Xuan needed the most


    Walking down the bank steps, Huang Xuan''s expression became serious again


    Taking a deep breath, he got into the car and said to Hans," go see Mr


    Hammer


    " Even in the united states, Hammer was a legendary figure, known as the king of golden ideas


    This russian american had dabbled in dozens of industries, from farming, pencils, medical" medicine" to art collections and even oil, and he had made huge profits in every area


    Hammer also had an amazing experience with the collection that Huang Xuan cared about


    In 1922, hammer brought his younger brother (an antique connoisseur) to russia to explore the new field of russian cultural relics that no one had yet set foot in


    Little by little, they built their villa in moscow into a museum


    One day, an american antique dealer named e & sako came to visit the house


    When he saw the scene in front of him, his eyes almost popped out


    Hammer was inspired by this


    After paying 15 % of the export tax to the soviet" government," he shipped most of his collections back to the united states to join the sako business


    When sako went bankrupt, Hammer bought his shares


    During the great depression, it was from 1931 that Hammer did something that surprised countless people


    He boldly sold art at the counter of a department store and succeeded


    During the worst depression in american history, he made millions of dollars


    Huang Xuan was going to Hammer''s department store


    In a depression where most of the industrial products were devalued, art was rare to preserve or even appreciate value


    It was under this thought that Hammer''s department store became one of the few popular places in New York


    When huang xuan got out of the car, the crowded shopping mall suddenly made him feel like watching a 90s movie


    The well-dressed gentlemen, with their wives or other women in their arms, wore tall hats, leaned on civilized sticks, and politely brushed past each other


    The small parking lot was filled with all kinds of cars, like a grand exhibition of vintage cars, the 33-year-old Armand


    Hammer was wearing a tight suit with a vertical collar, shuttling through the hall and greeting every customer who approached him


    His arrival immediately caught his attention


    A yellow man and two bodyguards reminded the young hammer of his experience in the soviet union and handed over his work to the manager


    Hammer quickly walked over, tilted his head and said in slow english," hello, I''m Armand


    Hammer, the owner of this art shop, what can I do for you


    "" I think so


    " Huang xuan answered in fluent east coast english


    His days of american life had taught him a lot of everyday slang


    Taking two steps in, Huang Xuan casually looked at the artwork inside and outside the counter and said to Lorraine," look at what''s not on p 112


    It''s valuable, but it can''t be repeated


    Do you understand


    "" No problem


    " Lorraine seemed to be getting used to this kind of search, and soon began to work


    Huang xuanze smiled at him and said," I heard that you have the most complete collection of russian royal family here


    You came here


    " Just like every new regime, the end of the Romanov dynasty also ended the collection of past generations of tsars


    Under Lenin''s orders, all the works of art were sent to moscow


    In the passage through the dark storage room of the kremlin military factory, some treasures were lost and no one knew where they were


    Most of the crates containing artwork were well preserved and not even opened, and the kremlin''s army guarded them


    But when Stalin came to power, Lenin''s efforts to protect the russian cultural heritage were canceled


    In exchange for the western economy to support his new regime, Stalin used these precious russian royal relics in exchange


    From 1927, the new regime took out some treasures, valued them, and finally bought them to the west


    In their view, it was natural to trade these treasures for financial support


    However, from the beginning, the value of all the russian treasures was always underestimated, especially their artistic value, just as chinese calligraphy and painting were more appreciated by the chinese


    The value of russian art, especially its cultural value, was more often only appreciated by the russians


    In 1931, han and mo brought thousands of pieces of russian art to New York to sell these treasures for the new russian regime


    Although he did a good job, the value of most works of art was underestimated hundreds of times compared to the value 70 years later


    Of course, at this moment, Hammer did not have this kind of understanding


    He was very happy that someone was willing to buy russian art, and it seemed that it was a large purchase


    " Let''s talk inside


    " Hammer had always won with his eyes, and in his opinion, the young man in front of him might be more willing to pay than everyone here


    She smiled and nodded