Chapter 205 This is my stuff, right?
Chen Zetao and Zhang Cuijian looked at Xiao Peng with fanaticism in their eyes. Zhang Cuijian poked Chen Zetao, who coughed twice and said, "Brother Xiao, should we make some plans..."
Xiao Peng interrupted him directly: "Don't give me that! Brother Chen, I told you, if you have anything to say, wait until I get back to talk! Besides, things like this can't be settled in a few words. Can you just talk to me and it'll be done?"
Chen Zetao clapped his hands and said, "This is perfect. Aren't you going back to China? You can negotiate with them while you're here!"
Xiao Peng waved his hand and said, "Don't come on! I'm going home with Pascal this time just to see my grandfather! You want Pascal to know about this? How am I going to do this job in the future?"
Zhang Cuijian said, "Why don't you just go back by yourself? Why bring Pascal with you?"
Xiao Peng frowned and said, "Brother Zhang, what do you mean? You want to control who I make friends with? Can't I bring my foreign friends back? Do you want to pull a string out of me so you can use me as a puppet?"
Zhang Cuijian hurriedly said, "Brother Xiao, don't get me wrong. I'm not saying you can't be friends with Pascal. The key is to prioritize things, right?"
After hearing this, Xiao Peng sat down and nodded: "Brother Zhang, you are absolutely right!"
Zhang Cuijian was delighted when he heard this. Xiao Peng picked up a pen from the table, wrote a string of numbers on the paper, folded it up, and handed it to Zhang Cuijian: "This contains a precise coordinate, with an error of no more than 500 meters. Now I give it to you. Now only you and I know this coordinate. Do whatever you want!"
Xiao Peng was still very careful. He didn't know whether Dou Wenran was an insider, so he didn't mention the name "Ansaldo".
Zhang Cuijian didn't take the note after hearing it, but jumped back as if he had been electrocuted: "Brother Xiao, don't hurt me!"
Would he dare to take it? If Xiao Peng really just ignored the matter, who would salvage the Ansaldo? The ship sank in the Mediterranean!
The key is that Xiao Peng can know the location of the ship without anyone knowing, so he naturally has a way to get the things inside without anyone knowing! No one else can do this!
If he wants to quit, it’s useless even if Zhang Cuijian has the coordinates!
Xiao Peng grinned and said, "How did I hurt you? You're right, everything has its priorities, and for me, my family is the most important! When I think of my grandfather now, I want to slap myself in the face. I keep talking about 'filial piety' all the time, but in the past few years, I haven't even been able to go back to see him except sending money. Now that I have money, I still think about not going back to see him? I will be struck by lightning! I am an ordinary person, not as great as you. Now I'm giving you the coordinates, you guys come and do something big!"
Zhang Cuijian desperately winked at Chen Zetao, but Chen Zetao sat down on the sofa next to him and lit a cigarette. "This matter has nothing to do with me. I didn't say anything. Zhang Cuijian, what are you thinking? 'Filial piety is the first of all virtues.' Brother Xiao should go home and see what he did wrong. Besides, why are you in such a hurry? Brother Xiao is right! Can such a big thing be resolved with just a few words? Besides, Brother Xiao just returned to shore, don't you plan to let him rest?"
Zhang Cuijian looked at Chen Zetao with a helpless expression, thinking that she was still young!
You're even more anxious than me, aren't you? And now you're the good guy and I'm the bad guy?
At this moment, Dou Wenran, who had been holding the Xuanwu paperweight tightly, suddenly burst into tears.
Zhang Cuijian took this opportunity to step down: "Mr. Dou, what's wrong with you?"
Dou Wenran wiped his tears and sighed to the sky, "Thank goodness, God, the treasure of our Chinese ancestors can finally return home!"
Xiao Peng sighed at this scene. Yes, for China, these relics from the Old Summer Palace are more than just relics; they are symbols of humiliation! They are of immense significance!
It is inevitable that Dou Wenran would be so excited.
He was just about to say something to comfort Dou Wenran, but Dou Wenran's next words stopped him from laughing: "Xiao Zhang, quickly find a way to take this thing back! Do you want to ask the auction house to whitewash it? Xiao Chen, you should be able to do this! Hurry up and get it done. A treasure like this shouldn't be left out there!"
Why are there so many auction houses in the West? A more important reason is that auction houses are, to put it bluntly, like "washing machines." They're used for everything from money laundering to laundering cultural relics. They're particularly effective at laundering cultural relics.
It’s an interesting fact to say that the term “money laundering” was originally related to the word “wash”.
In the 1920s, the "Godfathers" of Chicago had a large amount of criminal funds, and how to turn these funds into legal funds became a problem.
So, a financial director of their company came up with a plan: he bought coin-operated washing machines and opened a laundry business. Every day, he would declare both the criminal proceeds and the laundry business income together for tax purposes, thus turning the illegal income into legal income. From then on, people used the term "money laundering" to refer to this practice of laundering criminal proceeds.
In fact, Xiao Peng and his tax evasion methods can also be considered a form of "money laundering." There are at least 800, if not a thousand, ways to "launder money" in this world. Otherwise, why would so many people take such desperate risks to commit crimes?
Casinos, stocks, insurance, auctions, charitable foundations, overseas investments and even online games can all be used for money laundering.
All you need to do is invest in an online game company, produce an online game that no one plays and launch it into the market, then pour money into it like crazy, and finally get a return in the form of a share of the company's shares, and the stolen money will become clean.
Auction houses are the best place to launder money. They fabricate a story about cultural relics being lost during wars, then visit small auction houses with connections to create an 'auction record file'. Antiques of unknown origin can then appear openly on the market, and the stolen money can be laundered by buying low and selling high.
Westerners are not unaware of these money laundering methods, but why do they not care?
After all, these money laundering methods are for the rich. The poor don’t have money to launder money!
Then who would ruin his own job?
After hearing what Dou Wenran said, Xiao Peng blinked and looked at Chen Zetao and Zhang Cuijian: "What does this expert Dou mean?"
Chen Zetao and Zhang Cuijian waved their hands together: "That's not what we meant!"
Dou Wenran said, "What's there to not understand? I want to take this thing back home!"
Xiao Peng pointed at himself and asked Dou Wenran, "Expert Dou, your last name is Dou, but you shouldn't be so funny! You're taking this thing back to China now? Then don't you want to ask what I think? This thing is mine! You want to take it away? How much do you want to pay?"
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