The distance between San Francisco on the west coast of the United States and New York on the east coast is more than 4,100 kilometers in a straight line, and of course, if you drive Interstate 80, it would take nearly two days to walk 4,600 kilometers.Mike Sr.'
s Boeing BBJ3 business jet takes a little more than five hours to fly at a cruising speed of 955 kilometers per hour, including take-off and landing.Mike Sr.'
s plane didn't land at JFK or LaGuardia, but at Newark International Airport, west of Manhattan.The main reason is that Mike Sr. has a manor here in Princefield, and if he doesn't live in his hometown of Baton Rouge, he will live in this manor.The estate is far from JFK Airport or LaGuardia Airport east of Manhattan, so Mike Sr. has a long-term rental hangar here at Newark Airport, where his planes usually take off and land.Newark Airport is a little further from Manhattan's Fifth Avenue than it is from LaGuardia Airport, but it's easier to walk along Interstate 78 and then through the Dutch Tunnel across the Hudson River.Mike Sr.'
s Boeing BBJ3 business jet was much faster than the C17 transport plane, so when Yang Jing and his family arrived at the private museum on Fifth Avenue by car from Newark Airport, they waited for more than an hour after lunch.The two transport planes also landed at Newark Airport, and then the Union Patton branch in New York took over the escort process.But the leader of the team is still the middle-aged man Nathan confessed before.Old Mike didn't come along, Rao was still relatively strong, but the continuous flight also tossed him a lot, so he didn't follow, he needed to rest at home.But with Nathan with him, everything is not a problem.The private museum, which Mike Sr. bought for $40 million 25 years ago, is located on East 95th Street, just west of the famous Museum Mile.The so-called Museum Mile is actually a part of the famous Fifth Avenue located in the northern half of Central Park.Fifth Avenue is long, but the section between 80th and 105th Streets is known to New Yorkers as "Museum Mile" because of its concentration of prestigious museums such as the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Cooper Hewitt National Design Museum, the Jewish Museum, the Solomon Guggenham Museum, the National College Museum, and more than 100 national and private museums of various sizes.Old Mike was entrusted by Yang Jing to buy antique artworks all over the world with the abundant funds of the Evil Dragon Fund.As a result, more and more antiques and works of art were bought, and in the end there was no place to put them, so the old man simply spent $40 million on a bankrupt private museum in Museum Avenue.It is a four-story brick-red building located on the south side of East 95th Street, with a wrought iron railing at the entrance and a wrought iron gate closed.According to Nathan, the four-story building of this private museum has a total floor area of more than 4,000 square meters, and if the owner of this private museum had not gone bankrupt and closed down, he would not have been able to buy this building for 40 million yuan in this location.Even in 1995, a house in this location would not have cost less than $150,000 per square meter.And the fact that Mike Sr. was able to buy the building for $40 million, which is only about $10,000 per square meter, is definitely a mistake.Because this building was a museum before, Mike Sr. did not make a big move on this building after buying it, except for a simple renovation and replacement of security facilities, so all the antique artworks that Mike Sr. has bought over the years are placed in it.The museum is specially protected by the people of the dark shield, so there is no need to worry about security.When Yang Jing walked into this museum, he was shocked by the dazzling array of antique artworks inside.Yang Jing felt that there were enough treasures from the treasures he had found, but compared to the antique artworks that Old Mike had collected over the years, they were still far from the quantity.The museum houses thousands of these antique artworks, most of which were collected by Mike Sr. before the new century.Yang Jing remembers that the elder Mike once told himself a figure, that is, the money he spent on the acquisition of these antique works of art over the years alone was as high as more than two billion US dollars, and the museum had a total collection of about 4,200 antique artworks, with an average purchase price of about 500,000 US dollars per antique artwork.Most of these antique works of art were acquired by Mike Sr. in the '80s and early '90s, when dollars were worth a lot of money, and $500,000 was definitely not a small one.Of course, among these antique works of art are oil paintings painted by top masters with a purchase price of tens of millions of dollars, and there are also complete sets of antique silver tableware with a purchase price of only tens of thousands of dollars.But whether it is oil paintings or those silver tableware, the price has increased several times now.For example, an oil painting by Paul Cézanne, called "Out of the Bath", which Mike Sr. once spent 13 million dollars on an auction in Europe, is now only the starting price of 100 million US dollars!
Even the sets of Victorian British royal silver cutlery that he spent tens of thousands of dollars on are now worth hundreds of thousands of dollars!
So, investing in antique art is actually a good deal, of course, provided that you invest in antique art early enough.Like Old Mike who began to invest in antique art in the early eighties according to Yang Jing's instructions, it was naturally a very good time.If you enter the new century and invest in this industry, it will not make much sense.Overall, the museum's collection alone is now worth no less than $20 billion!
It is no exaggeration to say that if Yang Jing has no money in the future, just selling these antique works of art will be enough to make him live comfortably for eight lifetimes.When the convoy arrived, the man in charge of guarding the museum's shield took over the rest.Although the museum bears the name of the museum, it has not been open to the public since Mike Sr. took over.To put it bluntly, this museum was bought by Mike Sr. to be used as a vault.Although it would be safer to keep these antique works of art in a bank vault, it would be easy to expose the specific circumstances of these antique artworks.So Mike Sr. wisely bought the museum as a vault.Anyway, it's a private museum, and I don't open it to the public, and no one can say anything else.Besides, there is no shortage of people in the dark shield, and a large group of trustworthy retired soldiers squat here, taking turns to be on duty 24 hours a day, and it is estimated that no thief dares to put their covetous eyes here.This is a private museum, who the hell wants to dare to commit crimes from here, those retired soldiers with weapons will definitely let those thieves feel what it means to be in Iraq or Afghanistan The battlefield is full of people, besides, these boxes don't need to be opened and rearranged after they are transported to the museum, just let Yang Jing open them for inspection, and then put them out in order, so a group of people were busy for more than ten minutes, and all these boxes were moved into the museum.Seeing that all the treasures had entered this museum safely, Yang Jing and Nathan were completely relieved.When the old Mike arrives tomorrow with the nominal curator of the museum, he can issue a "cultural relics exchange" document for all the items in the museum's collection.And Yang Jing also has a Grand Canal Museum in his hand, and no one can say anything else about the exchange of cultural relics between the two museums.As for those antique works of art that are not allowed to leave the country, who cares!
Who can manage it?
With the current connections of the Evil Dragon Fund, even the U.S.
Customs cannot control these antique artworks for cultural relics exchange.It's a big deal that those sensitive antique artworks are directly out of customs under the name of "imitations"!
Of course, to do these procedures, you have to do it by experts.Those works of art can leave the country, and those works of art can't leave the country, the nominal curator knows best.How to handle the cultural relics exchange procedures is still the curator who knows best.With experts here, plus money and connections, everything is fine.However, it will take several days to go through these procedures, so Yang Jing is not going to wait here, and he needs to return to China after explaining to Old Mike tomorrow.There are still a series of things to deal with after returning to China.That night, Yang Jing moved into the apartment on Fifth Avenue, which was the first apartment Yang Jing had bought in New York.After the outbreak of the stock market crash in the United States, the price of real estate in the United States plummeted, and Mike Sr. took the opportunity to buy such a penthouse duplex apartment for Cole Smith on Fifth Avenue, which was also the first property purchased by Yang Jing in the past time and space.The location of the house is excellent, just on the southeast corner of Central Park, opposite Central Park and next to the Plaza Hotel.The house has three floors, the top two are also duplexes, and there is a huge sky garden outside, with a total area of more than 12,000 square feet, or about 1,100 square meters.When I bought the house, I spent $9 million because the price of the house had plummeted.Now, the house is worth more than $100 million, and if you put it at the peak of U.S. home prices before the subprime mortgage crisis, the house was worth $1.5 billion!
However, after the house was bought, Yang Jing lived in it very little, and when he was in New York, he lived most of the time in the estate in East Hampton, Long Island.This time, Yang Jing didn't want to go to Long Island again, so he stayed here.Although the house has been bought for more than 30 years and has not been inhabited for a long time, the house is very well maintained.Although no one lives in this house, the property fee paid for a year is extremely high, if the property management company of this apartment building dares not to maintain the house, Yang Jing can sue the property company for bankruptcy!
Living in this kind of top-floor luxury apartment with dozens of floors, Yang Jing can feel what it means to be a super-rich class.In any case, no matter how tired I was before, when I stood on the large rooftop outside this house and looked down on the Central Park opposite, all the hard work would be blown away in the wind!
This feeling is so beautiful ps: bow and thank the "first kiss gave the hand" 5000 tip, and the "very lazy fish" 100 tip.