Lingnantang Company can be what it is today thanks to the Chinese medicinal materials and vision provided by Lin Sanqi. Lin Tianhua and Yin Lianyi are just executors.
Although Lin Tianhua had some reservations about Lin Sanqi's remarks, for example, he felt that the price of antiques would continue to rise and they should be held for a while longer.
But Lin Sanqi has not made any wrong steps in formulating the company strategy so far, so Lin Tianhua decided to be a good executor instead of questioning his boss's decision.
Although Lin Musen is his father, he doesn't care. After all, the antiques in front of him are not inherited from his ancestors, so he has no feelings for them. He can just sell them.
As for Yin Lianyi, she was even more confused. Young girls prefer beautiful bags. Who wants such junky things?
But if you're talking about selling antiques, that involves finance and economics, which she knows a little about.
“Sanqi, there are two ways to sell antiques now.
One is a private transaction. For example, we can invite the CEOs of various companies to visit. If the CEO likes an antique, we can negotiate a transaction price privately.
But there are many problems here. Our Lingnan Hall sells medicinal herbs, and suddenly we start selling antiques. This is considered a cross-border business, and those rich people may not necessarily trust us.
There are also too many legal issues involved in selling antiques, and any slight mistake could lead to a violation of the Cultural Relics Law.
How do you report the proceeds from selling antiques? How do you pay taxes? How do you transfer them overseas? These are all complex issues. After all, your sales are likely to be worth billions."
Lin Sanqi pondered. The risks of privately buying and selling cultural relics seemed quite high. He could easily break the law. It wasn't worth it to work on a sewing machine.
If you encounter a sales dispute, and someone replaces your real item with a fake cultural relic and then accuses you of selling fakes, the reputation of Lingnan Hall will be ruined.
"Is there a better way to trade? Like an auction?"
"I think auction is indeed the best method. We have so many antiques, we can definitely pick out some of them and hold special auctions, such as porcelain, Ming and Qing furniture, calligraphy and painting, etc.
Before the auction, we can also ask the auction company to hold a series of appreciation sessions. The auction company has connections all over the country and abroad, so I believe this kind of special session will be a piece of cake for them, and we will also reduce the legal risks."
Lin Sanqi knew that it would cost a lot of money to put the work up for auction, such as storage fees, appraisal fees, insurance fees, auction handling fees, etc. The auction company would take at least 20~30%.
But the proceeds from the auction are “white money”, which is legitimate and does not need to be washed.
But Lin Sanqi had other concerns. He wanted to sell the antiques because he had other uses for the money, and RMB was not enough.
Because in another time and space, although he recruited 500 veterans to Hong Kong, the number of veterans will increase in the future.
But there's a problem: the newly formed "Zhatian Gang" has no weapons. (How about a gang name?)
The same principle applies to power grabbing. If you don't have a Gatling gun, people won't be afraid of you and you won't be able to defend yourself.
What if the other person is holding an AK47 and you are holding a machete? How will you fight?
No matter how good your martial arts skills are, you are still afraid of a kitchen knife.
It's just like the Eight Banners soldiers of the Qing Dynasty, who charged towards the foreigners on horseback, holding swords. The foreigners had guns, cannons and bullets in their hands, and a few thousand of them could easily defeat your army of hundreds of thousands, and a large number of them would die if they were alone.
Therefore, the Zhatian Gang must have its own hot weapons.
Weapons are very specific. Different countries have different styles of weapons. The police can easily find out the type of weapon from the explosives or bullet trajectories, and then infer which country's standard weapon it is.
If the Zhatian Gang had large-scale Soviet-made weapons, or weapons with Chinese characteristics such as the Hanyang Cannon and the Unconscionable Cannon.
There is no need to think about it. The Hong Kong Eagle Government will immediately guess that the Zhatian Gang is a big circle gang from the mainland, and they must be resolutely eliminated.
During the War to Resist U.S. Aggression and Aid Korea, our army seized a large number of U.S. military weapons, but these weapons had been piled up in warehouses for more than ten years and had long since rotted. In addition, the supply of bullets and artillery shells was also a problem. They were not produced domestically and there was no way to use them.
Therefore, if Lin Sanqi or the Zhatian Gang want to stay in Hong Kong safely, they must superficially cut ties with the mainland of China and cannot have even the slightest relationship with them.
When necessary, we should even shout slogans and condemn certain policies in the mainland.
Excluding Soviet and Chinese weapons, the only weapons available for purchase are American or European versions.
If you can't beat them, just join them. Since Hong Kong is still the territory of the Eagle Country, I will use American and British weapons to make your Hong Kong Eagle Government defenseless and difficult to verify.
Since he had decided to use Western weapons, Lin Sanqi was prepared to do something more ruthless. He traveled through 60 years, bought modern weapons, and then brought them back to the 1960s.
There are generation gaps in technology, and there are generation gaps in weapons.
Lin Sanqi just couldn't believe it. He had modern weapons, so how could anyone dare to threaten the Lin family in Hong Kong? If necessary, he could also get some modern weapons for the country of this era and let the country disassemble them for research.
In 2014, buying weapons domestically was a definite no-go.
Fortunately, the United States launched wars everywhere, and its arms dealers dumped guns and cannons all over the world, so as long as you have money, it is still easy to get American weapons.
It’s nothing more than a word of money.
The simplest one is that wherever there is a war involving Americans, there are weapons.
I used to hear that when the Soviet Union collapsed, you could buy a lot of weapons from the Soviet Union at a low price and in large quantities, and you could even exchange liquor for weapons.
In fact, the US military is similar. All crows are black.
For example, when the US military withdrew from Afghanistan, it left in a hurry and left behind $7 billion worth of weapons in Afghanistan.
Do you believe it?
To put it bluntly, these $7 billion worth of weapons had long been sold by the US military, and then they pretended to leave them behind during an emergency retreat. Look, the accounts were settled and no one was punished.
So Lin Sanqi had to sell the antiques, exchange them for US dollars to buy weapons, and then transport them to 1961 for the Zhatian Gang to use. This formed a closed loop, right?
So the question is, how to sell antiques?
Lin Sanqi made only one request:
"I don't want the auction proceeds in RMB, I only want US dollars or euros, because I have other uses for the money, and exchanging RMB is too troublesome."
Yin Lianyi replied:
"The best choice is an auction house in Hong Kong, such as Sotheby's or Christie's. These two auction houses are among the largest in Hong Kong and are both major international auction houses. Their clients are wealthy people from all over the world.
International auctions held in Hong Kong are all conducted in US dollars, and Hong Kong is a free port, so the US dollar can circulate freely, which meets your requirements. But there is a very serious problem here.
Lin Sanqi was a little puzzled: "What's the problem?"
Yin Lianyi said solemnly:
"It's a logistics issue. Most of the antiques here are rare. If you want to export them for auction, I'm afraid they won't be able to get through customs. If you're unlucky, the relevant authorities might even find an excuse to confiscate your antiques."
Lin Sanqi was stunned: "And then give me a 500 yuan bonus and a certificate?"
Hehehe, several people in the warehouse chuckled.
Lin Sanqi thought for a moment before saying to Lin Tianhua and Yin Lianyi:
"Help me secretly invite people from Sotheby's and Christie's to come here. Bring them to this warehouse and ask them to make a list of high-value cultural relics that can be auctioned publicly and are easy to sell.
I can certainly find a way to transport it to Hong Kong. As for how they preview and auction it, that's their business. The sooner this happens, the better, because I need this money urgently."
Yin Lianyi quietly pulled Lin Sanqi aside and asked in a low voice:
"Thirteen, if I'm not mistaken, from last year to the first half of this year, you've had at least $1 billion in your Hong Kong account. What do you need so much money for?"
Lin Sanqi sighed inwardly. It was because the financial director's girlfriend had control over his cash flow in Lingnantang Company and could roughly infer how much money he had, that was why he was unwilling to use the money.
Of course, as a man, he will never admit his mistakes easily.
"You, you only know how much the turnover is and how much is transferred out. Do you really think that I do business without any cost? This ginseng has no cost? Or this Hetian jade has no cost?
So some money can't be seen in public, I have to transfer it to certain people, just like when I bought a Da Vinci robot to please a boss behind the scenes. It's not easy for men to make money, and you are still suspicious?"
Yin Lianyi felt a little guilty after being bitten back.
"But, but you should have quite a bit of money on hand, right? You spent over a billion to acquire Southern Pharmaceutical Factory without even taking out a loan. You thought you had plenty of money, didn't you?"
Lin Sanqi knew that those who studied accounting and finance were all meticulous, and he had to give a reasonable explanation.
"I've invested all the money in my Hong Kong account in Apple stock, so I'm currently out of cash. People who owe me money are using antiques as collateral, so I have no choice but to sell them."
Yin Lianyi actually still had some doubts in her heart, but after Lin Sanqi's vague explanation, she was a little confused.
"Alright, just try not to invest recklessly. If things really don't work out, we'll just call it quits. Even if the company goes bankrupt, we have enough money to live on. There's no need to take risks, you hear me?"
Lin Sanqi pinched his girlfriend's face and comforted her:
"Don't worry, I know what I'm doing. I don't gamble, I don't play with women, and I don't touch drugs. I work so hard to make money because I want our son to become a rich second-generation rich man."
Yin Lianyi is a woman after all. Once she drank this magic potion, happiness filled her entire mind. (End of this chapter)
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