Yang Jing was very satisfied with Mike Aller's work. The precious antique artifacts and artworks in front of him were enough to prove that Mike Aller had not slacked off in the past two years.

In the vault of a Swiss bank in Cayman, Yang Jing saw sixteen oil paintings, all of which were from some famous European and American painters, but the number of works by American painters is the largest.

Among these oil paintings, there are many works by Andrew Wise, the most famous American painter in the last century, the works of Henry Mattis, the works of the famous Fauvism painter Henry Mattis, the works of Simon Ue, the famous French courtist art in the first half of the 17th century, and the works of Norman Rockwell, who just passed away for three years in this era, and the works of Albert Bilstadt, the most famous American landscape painter in the last century...

What surprised Yang Jing the most was that Mike Aller actually bought a Picasso work "The Girl of Avignon".

This is an amazing work. The size of this "Avenon Girl" is 244 cm*234 cm, which is a rare large-size work in Picasso's works. However, Yang Jing knew that this work should have been collected by the Museum of Modern Art in New York, but for some reason it was bought by Mike Aller.

Seeing that Yang Jing was interested in this painting, Mike Aller said with a smile: "This painting was a special auction in Cannes in June this year, so I rushed over and finally bought the painting for $12 million. This painting is also the painting I spent the most money in the past two years."

"It's only $12 million?" Yang Jing asked in surprise.

"What's wrong? 12 million is already very expensive, okay?" Mike Aller said excitedly, "This was taken only by me and many people. If you hadn't given me so much money, this painting wouldn't have reached my hands. And I still retained various procedures for the auction at that time."

Yang Jing raised one hand and said, "Sorry, Mike, I didn't mean that. You may have misunderstood me. I was just surprised that this painting was so cheap, only $12 million."

In 2015, Picasso's "Woman in Algiers (O Edition)" was sold at a sky-high price of US$179 million at Christie's New York auction, and it is also the most auctioned painting among Picasso's works. However, this "Woman in Algiers (O Edition)" is generally recognized as inferior to the "Girls of Avignon" in terms of size and artistic quality. However, the work "Girls of Avignon" has always been collected by the Museum of Modern Art in New York, and no one knows what a sky-high price it would have been sold if this work was filmed.

Yang Jing carefully looked at the painting "The Girl of Yavinon", and only saw some unusual signatures in the lower right corner of the painting - Picasso, "The Girl of Yavinon", the first edition.

After discovering these words, Yang Jing suddenly realized. Mr. Picasso painted tens of thousands of works in his life, which has a lot to do with his frequent paintings several times when he painted the same painting. For example, in the painting "The Woman of Algiers", Picasso painted a total of fifteen paintings.

Since Picasso has this habit, it is not surprising that two paintings of "Avenon Girls". The most important thing is that this painting is still in the first edition, which is even rarer, and its value is even higher than the "Avenon Girls" collected by the New York Museum of Art!

But now the painting actually fell into Mike Aller's hands, and the price was only $12 million, which was a bit surprising.

However, Yang Jing then felt relieved after thinking about it. It was only 1981, and it was less than ten years since Picasso passed away. At this time, the price of Picasso's works was far less than that of later generations, and 12 million US dollars was an absolute huge sum of money in this era.

To put it simply, in 1981, $12 million was definitely no different from $120 million thirty years later!

"BOSS, I like the job you gave me very much, but it also makes me very distressed." Looking at Yang Jing admiring the sixteen oil paintings there, Mike Aller began to complain.

"Hmm? What's wrong? Can spending money also make you feel distressed?" Yang Jing turned his head and asked with a smile.

"Sometimes, if you have too much money, you can't spend it, it's a worry. This is exactly what I want to say." Mike Aller said with a wry smile, shook his head, "BOSS, you have a lot of money in your hand to spend at will, which is really a kind of happiness. But in the same way, you have too much money for me. The goal you set for me is to spend 100 million dollars a year, but now, two years are almost over, and I still have 70 million dollars. I don't know where to spend it..."

Yang Jing no longer admired the oil paintings, but patted Mike Aller on the shoulder and said, "Mike, don't worry about these things. I'm very satisfied with what you are doing now, so in the next few years, I hope you can continue to do this and strive to acquire more oil paintings like this."

"BOSS, are you going to invest in art?" Mike Aller thought for a while before finally asking the questions in his heart.

Yang Jing smiled and said, "You can think so too. In fact, under the current circumstances, investing in artworks is also a pretty good investment project."

"Okay, BOSS, this kind of investment is something that billionaires like you can afford to play, and I can only serve you..."

Yang Jing smiled and said, "How did you do the other thing I told you?"

"Are you talking about Yanjing, China?"

Yang Jing nodded. After the last time he finished London Gold Investment, when Yang Jing was about to leave the Cayman Islands, he discussed with Mike Aller and formulated a plan called "Operation Yanjing". Now Yang Jing is asking about the implementation of this plan.

"There is progressing very smoothly there. As you said, China now needs US dollars in urgent need. I went there twice and I have truly experienced that kind of urgency."

After a pause, Mike Aller continued: "I went to Yanjing last summer as you told me. I have to say that it was a beautiful and quaint city." Mike Aller praised, "And the authorities there really need US dollars. I just told the local government that the Dragon Fund was preparing to invest 10 million US dollars in public welfare funds to invest in the Three North Shelterbelt forest, which immediately alarmed the senior leaders. When I transferred the 10 million US dollars of funds to the designated account, a deputy prime minister there even came to meet me in person... Oh Maiga, this is the first time I met a leader of such a high level, and I was very excited."

Yang Jing thought to himself: "Can you not alarm the senior leaders? In the late 1970s and early 1980s, China's demand for foreign exchange was the most prosperous period, and that period was also the period when China had the least foreign exchange reserves. Not to mention anything else, in 1980 last year, the US dollar reserves of the entire China were less than 100 million US dollars. Even in 1981, China's US dollar reserves were only 2.7 billion US dollars. He asked Mike Aller to throw out the ten million US dollars, which was definitely a great foreign exchange for China at that time."

Mike Aller was still a little excited, "When the Deputy Prime Minister met me, I promised to invest another 20 million US dollars, what I wanted to do in Yanjing will become extremely simple."

"As you said, I bought a huge manor near a lake behind the famous imperial city. The manor was so big, I guess it would have to be at least 25,000 square feet, because I bought it for US dollars, but it only cost 500,000 US dollars. Oh, I really can't imagine that such a large manor would only cost such a little money. However, the manor was too dilapidated, and I invested a full two million dollars to renovate the manor. Now it is estimated that the manor has been repaired."

For Mike Aller, the courtyard covering an area of ​​more than 3,000 square meters is a manor.

Hearing this, Yang Jing nodded with satisfaction.

When Yang Jing traveled here to invest in London gold last month, he took the time to go to Yanjing and stayed in Yanjing for more than a week. In fact, he was looking for a suitable courtyard house.

Because the Holy Ring once said that as long as the property rights of the courtyards in the original time and space belong to the public or foreigners, Yang Jing would not cause the paradox of time and space when he was traveling through time and space. Therefore, Yang Jing chose the courtyards that were most famous in the original time and space.

The courtyard is located on the northern edge of Houhai, just across a small road from Houhai. That courtyard is the famous courtyard. In 2007, a Russian oil tycoon bought it for 110 million national currency. It was the most expensive courtyard in Yanjing that year.

Even in 2017, that courtyard was the top yard in Yanjing. The area of ​​more than 3,000 square meters is the only private courtyard within the second ring road of Yanjing. In 2017, the courtyard was said to have exceeded 1.5 billion national currency.

With such a good yard, Yang Jing naturally didn't want it to fall into the hands of foreigners.

Damn, you, an old man, went to the capital of our country and bought the best courtyard house in our capital. How could we feel?

Therefore, Yang Jing naturally turned his attention to the Shiheyuan, which was so expensive in later generations.

However, Yang Jing still did not plan to take action by himself. This kind of matter involving various property rights in the original time and space is still the safest thing to let Mike Aller take action.

However, Yang Jing did not have any effort for this yard. Of course, this effort is not considered a great effort for Yang Jing.

He used the name of the Dragon Fund to invest 30 million US dollars to develop the Three North Shelterbelt, which was a public welfare nature. Yang Jing knew very well what the environment in Yanjing looked like in later generations, and now he made a lot of money from foreigners and gave back to his motherland. Yang Jing thought it was quite meaningful.

He did not have such ability before, but now he has such ability, as a descendant of the Chinese Yan and Huang, he would like to repay the environmental protection cause of his motherland. Yang Jing believes it is very necessary.

The most important thing is that with this purely public welfare investment, Mike Aller will be more convenient to do business in China.

Using the money earned from foreigners to contribute to the environmental protection cause of our motherland and making things easier by the way, this is simply killing two birds with one stone.

If it weren't for the 30 million US dollars of charity investment, Mike Aller wouldn't have bought the courtyard house in Yanjing, let alone acquire some old items in Yanjing.

Now with this investment, Mike Aller not only easily bought the courtyard house, but Yang Jing told him to ask him to acquire old items in that era, and the progress was also going smoothly.

Although Yang Jing has not seen the old objects, through Mike Aller's introduction, he learned that the "Yanjing Action" plan was still very smooth.
Chapter completed!