Not all of Rockwell's paintings are extremely valuable. At least the three paintings in front of us cannot be compared with his oil paintings that were sold at high prices, either in terms of size or artistic quality.
But Yang Jing was indeed very surprised. Yang Jing has many famous Western paintings, including paintings by Beethoven, Raphael, Cézanne, Ingres, Monet, Rusbon, Rembrandt and other world-class masters, but these three paintings really brought Yang Jing a surprise.
As mentioned earlier, Rockwell's studio caught fire in 1943, and all of his previously preserved manuscripts were destroyed in the fire. Even though a small number of Rockwell's original works were rescued at the time, the number is extremely precious.
Now three pictures appeared at once, which was of course a surprise.
If these three paintings were sold twenty years later, not to mention seven hundred thousand, they would probably be sold for even a few extra zeros.
Of course Yang Jing would not auction these three paintings. He is not short of money now, and these three paintings can just supplement the collection of the Grand Canal Museum.
Seeing the boss’s satisfied and surprised expression, Old Mike felt that his task for the day was completed.
His wife Vivian is now confirmed to be fine, and her health is getting better and better. A person in her sixties is no worse than a person in her thirties in terms of physical strength and energy.
Old Mike certainly knew that this was Yang Jing's work, so he was very grateful for it. But the old man was not very good at expressing his feelings, so he could only repay Yang Jing's kindness by constantly doing things for him.
Although Old Mike is over 60 years old now, he is still in good health and energy. Although he gave Yang Jing a surprise this time, Yang Jing had no intention of letting this old guy go.
Who made him look so free?
No problem, add more burden!
So, the next day after visiting the two galleries, old Mike was so sad that he almost cried.
Damn it, I just laundered those 300 tons of gold, how did you get so much gold again? This pile must be at least 300 tons!
Looking at Old Mike's sad face, Yang Jing smiled happily.
"Mike, there is an idiom in ancient China that best reflects your ability, which is 'Old but Strong'. It means that men like you become more powerful as they get older. So, you can't be scared by this little bit of gold in front of you. You need to continue to clean it!"
"Cole, can we not play like this? It could kill people..."
"Hey, take a look at this batch of gold first. Look carefully and see if you can guess where this batch of gold came from."
Hearing this, the old man's curiosity was immediately aroused. Although he looked sad, he was very happy in his heart. Although it was difficult to clean the gold, with the experience of the last time, these more than 300 tons of gold were nothing to him. The most important thing was that to do this kind of thing, one had to be the boss's absolute confidant. You couldn't just grab anyone to do this kind of work.
Whether it was Henry, David or Amanda, they all had the ability to launder the gold, but the boss never let them get involved, and even Cesar was not qualified.
At present, I am the only one who is qualified to do this!
For this, Old Mike was very grateful for his boss's appreciation.
But the boss's words seemed to imply that there was something fishy about this batch of gold?
Then let’s take a look?
Just take a look!
So Old Mike took out his reading glasses and put them on again, then he struggled to grab a gold brick and began to observe it carefully.
As he watched, Old Mike's face changed. He then put down the gold brick in his hand and picked up several gold bricks of different sizes to examine them carefully.
"Cole, could this be the legendary missing gold of the last Tsar?" After a long time, Old Mike raised his head and asked in shock.
Yang Jing nodded, "Yes, this batch of gold is the gold of the last Tsar that disappeared that year, but this is only a part of it."
"Cole, did you really find the legendary gold? One thousand six hundred tons?"
Yang Jing smiled and shook his head and said, "I did find that batch of gold, but the quantity is not that large, about 1,200 tons."
"Then this number is wrong! Now there is clear evidence that the batch of gold shipped out from St. Petersburg that year was 1,600 tons, but how come 400 tons are missing? Could it be that Kolchak really took the 400 tons away and sank them in Lake Baikal?"
Looking at the shining expression in Old Mike's eyes, Yang Jing knew that the old guy's passion for treasure hunting had been aroused, so Yang Jing decisively watered the plants.
"I don't know exactly how much gold Kolchak took away, but I can be sure that I searched the bottom of Lake Baikal and didn't find any gold. So, even if Kolchak took away 400 tons of gold, it must have been hidden somewhere. Without any clues, it's hard to find that batch of gold."
Hearing this, Old Mike shook his head regretfully and sighed, then he jumped up again, "Cole, don't tell me that in addition to these 300 tons of gold, you still have 900 tons of gold waiting to be washed!"
"Yes, that's what I mean. I think if all the 1,200 tons of gold were taken out at once, the difficulty of laundering would increase exponentially, so I hid the gold somewhere and laundered it bit by bit, so it wouldn't be easy to be discovered."
"Christ Jesus, please forgive me..." Old Mike looked like he had lost all hope in life.
"Take your time, don't be in a hurry. I hope you can work for me until you are 90 years old!" Yang Jing said this with a laugh, turned around and left.
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