Felix carefully opened the password box in front of William, put on white gloves, and carefully took out a square milky white jade seal and placed it on the table in front of William.
William took the gloves and carefully picked up the jade seal to look at it carefully. The first thing he saw was the words "Nine Dragons" and "Treasure of the Emperor" on the jade seal. William looked a little nervous when he saw this. After getting Felix's confirmation, William was so excited that his breathing was a little messy. This was the lost Great Seal of the Han Dynasty.
William asked in a trembling voice, "Is this real?"
Felix saw that William was so excited and nodded quickly. "Of course, Mr. Devonshire. This was mortgaged by a customer of the French National Bank a month ago.
This customer had to sell his family's collection because of the stock market crash. This jade seal is the best antique in this collection, and the price is 20 million dollars.
After Mr. Grice learned about this, he spent more than a month looking for the best appraisal institutions in Europe to jointly appraise it. After signing the documents, he asked me to bring it to you. He felt that you would definitely be interested in this imperial jade seal of the Great Celestial Empire.
"Of course, of course I'm interested. This is a national treasure." William stroked the nine dragons on the jade seal and was secretly happy. These foreigners really didn't know what was good for them. If this jade seal was really brought back to China, they wouldn't even be able to look at it without a few hundred million dollars.
William took a deep breath and carefully put the Great Seal of the Han Dynasty back into the password box. "How much? How much do I need to have it?"
Felix said with a smile, "As a gift, Mr. Grace, you only need to pay 16 million dollars to have it."
Hearing that it was only 16 million dollars, William signed a check from the National Bank and handed it to Felix without thinking. "Help me keep it in the National Bank first. After I'm done with this, I'll inform you to send it back to Oxford Castle. In the future, if there are any treasures or antiques in China, you can inform me. Also, thank President Grace for me."
Felix took the check and put it in his pocket without looking at it. "No problem, Mr. Devonshire. It's very easy for you to buy Chinese antiques during this period. Many collectors in Europe are waiting for money, and the price may be about half as high.
This time, the customer from France took out a lot of precious Celestial Dynasty antiques, and the bank also has a lot of Celestial Dynasty antiques mortgaged by customers. If you are interested, we can charter a plane to fly directly to Switzerland. "
"No problem, of course I'm interested. Let's go, Felix," William said with a smile.
When Ambrosius heard that William was leaving, he glared fiercely at Felix and hurriedly said, "Wait, dear, aren't we talking about the house in the East End today? Aren't you going to buy that house? "
At this time, William was in a great mood. He thought that with just this jade seal, he would be able to buy ten or twenty 369-square-meter houses in New York in a few years.
And at this time, a house in New York was not a necessity for him. He only wanted to buy a house for investment and to have a place to live in New York.
Looking at the anxious Ambrosius, he walked forward and hugged his girlfriend. "Dear, what I'm going to do is important. You can go look at the house in the Upper East End and the manor in Long Island first. If you like them, tell me, and I'll sign the check directly."
"Okay, then I'll tell you if I like one. I have to look at those houses in the next two days."
"Okay, I'll ask Felix to arrange for someone to take you to look at the houses. They will accompany you the whole time. If you need anything, you can tell the people at the bank. They will meet all your requirements, right, Felix?"
William turned to look at Felix.
Felix smiled and nodded. "No problem, Mr. Devonshire. I promise that our staff will arrange everything for Miss Ambrosius."
Thinking that he could live in a luxurious house in New York in the future, Ambrosius didn't stop William from leaving. After sending William off in a good mood, he followed the bank staff and the real estate consultant who had specially rushed over to look at the house.
They drove a luxury business car to the first stop, and went directly to the 35-million-dollar penthouse on the Upper East Side of Manhattan.
Ambrosius stood on the balcony of the penthouse on the 26th floor and looked at the Central Park opposite the house. She nodded with satisfaction. She was very satisfied with the location and decoration of the house. She wondered how she could make William agree to buy this house.
Her face slowly turned red as she thought about it. She thought that if William agreed to buy this house, then she could agree to some of the fitness positions that William wanted her to do.
Ambrosius was satisfied, but if William came with her this time, he would definitely not buy this house, because a few kilometers away from this house, there was a strange building that stood out among the high-rise buildings.
William, who was focused on the Chinese antiques, did not know that he might regret it soon.
After Ambrosius agreed to some professional fitness positions, William did not think much and agreed to buy the house on the Upper East Side.
Shaking his head and smiling, William put the phone away from his ear and listened to Ambrosius' happy scream. After comforting her for a moment, he hung up the phone.
It took more than ten hours to get to Switzerland. As soon as he got off the plane, he saw the vice president of the National Bank, Jean Grace, standing on the tarmac with a smile on his face, waiting for William.
The two hugged and said hello happily. Jean Grace and William took the same car to the National Bank.
In the bank's reception room, Jean Grace introduced five or six experts in the field of Chinese antiques to William. After everyone got to know each other, Jean Grace took William and the experts to an underground vault of the bank.
Felix had called the National Bank before he left New York yesterday, so the bank had already prepared a lot of Chinese antiques, porcelain, calligraphy, jade, and so on. There were so many of them that it was like picking out souvenirs in an art shop.
William did not know much about antiques, so he only picked those he had heard of and felt interested in during the introduction of the experts.
Tang Bohu, Ming and Qing dynasty official kiln, Ming and Qing dynasty jade. After a few hours of picking and choosing, he picked more than 20 antiques. After the National Bank showed William the appraisal contract jointly issued by several major appraisal institutions in Europe, William signed a check for 18 million dollars to Jean Grace.
After arranging the storage of the antiques, William got on the chartered plane back to New York. Before leaving, he specifically told Felix to pay attention to the Chinese antiques that he would mortgage in the bank in the future.
He had easily obtained more than 20 antiques, each of which could be sold for tens of millions of Chinese coins in the future. This made him quickly understand that the price of Chinese antiques in Europe was still very low at this time. As long as he waited for more than ten years, the price would increase dozens of times.
This allowed William, who had spare cash, to fulfill his antique dream in his previous life and make a lot of money at the same time.
This made William suddenly interested in the treasure of the Knights Templar that Henry had left him. He could not wait to find the ship called Sherlock.
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