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1644. Shares in the empire

One day in 1973, the yacht of "King of Pearl" was docked at Saint-Tropez in France, where a French young man named Jean-Claude-Bruye came to visit from a nearby yacht.

Bruye had just sold his air transport company and used the money to buy an island in French Polynesia. The coral reefs are surrounded by blue waters and are a paradise on earth. Judging from the scenery alone, it is even better than the Daqin Fishery.

Bruye introduced to El Salvador that the local Yingbi sea water is rich in black butterfly shells, and a rare treasure is produced in the shells of the black butterfly shells: black pearls.

From then on, Black Pearl, as a pride in the luxury jewelry market, began to slowly emerge.

At that time, there was no market for black pearls and not many people bought them. But Bruyer convinced El Salvador to jointly develop this product and cooperate to collect black pearls to sell them in the world market.

However, El Salvador's first battle was not good: the pearls were not good in color, gray and dark, and they were not good at size. Just like the small projectiles used in early muskets, people were used to white white pearls and were not interested in these small black beads. In this way, El Salvador did not even sell a single one, returned to Polynesia without success.

When things got to this point, Assawador could have given up on the black pearls and sold the inventory to discount stores at a low price, or used some white pearls as jewelry to sell them out. But El Salvador did not do this, and he waited for another year.

They worked hard to improve some excellent varieties, and then took the samples to meet an old friend, Harry Winston, a legendary gem merchant. Winston agreed to put the pearls in his Fifth Avenue store window to display them, marked with incredibly high prices.

At the same time, El Salvador has successively published full-page advertisements in several widely-influential and gorgeously printed magazines. In the advertisements, a string of Tahitian black pearls shines brightly against the backdrop of diamonds, rubies and emeralds.

Not long ago, it was contained in clusters of black-edged oyster shells and hung on ropes in the Polynesian sea. The pearls "raised in the deep sea and unknown to the people" have now come to New York City, surrounded by the pink necks of the most popular opera female star, and swaggering in Manhattan. In this way, things that were originally unknown in terms of value were finally praised by El Salvador as rare treasures.

But in Vincent's view, the value of black pearls is not only that. As the mysterious black culture gradually heats up in the world, the value of black pearls has far surpassed white pearls and small gold pearls. More and more people like them, which shows that their value should also increase.

If hype it up, Vincent thinks that the price of Black Pearl still has a lot of room for improvement, so he has an idea.

"If we buy your pearls, Qin, I mean all the pearls here, what do you think?" Vincent asked.

Qin Shiou smiled on his face, Vincent took the bait, and his second thought required him to think like this. But he couldn't turn the trump card open, but shook his head and said, "No, husband of Tiffany, you know the value gap between the full set of jewelry of Black Pearl and Black Pearl. Right? To be honest, I have a close relationship with the Black family of Li's Auction House. As long as I get jewelry, I can hold a special auction, which will make more profits."

Vincent said: "But this is not fair enough to us. Isn't it? If you launch such a full set of jewelry, our black pearls will be worth less. And I am a luxury merchant, I am a jewelry designer, you show me two thousand black pearls, and then tell me that they cannot belong to me, that hurts me too much!"

Qin Shiou sat down and stroked the black pearls casually with his hands. Liv and Kassel looked at the pearls nervously, for fear that he would accidentally sweep the pearls to the ground, which would be too regretful. Vincent was looking at his expression, hoping to win the two thousand black pearls.

After pretending to think for a while, Master Qin asked seriously: "Do you want to buy these black pearls? All of them are more than two thousand?"

Vinson said, "Yes, and I can pay in cash!"

Qin Shiou frowned in disguise. He thought for a while and asked, "So to be honest, Tiffany husband, how much money are you willing to pay?"

Vincent said: "This requires my team to assess and rating the texture of the pearls. We have a professional valuation team..."

Qin Shiou waved his hand and said, "If the texture of these black pearls is as good as the ones sold to you just now, you can give me an estimate first, how much is it willing to pay?"

It was Vincent's turn to consider it. He winked at Liv and Kassel. The two left, leaving only him and Qin Shiou, more than two thousand black pearls. This is a question about Tiffany's future development strategy, and a lot of information needs to be kept confidential.

"At least 140 million US dollars!" Vincent said after calculating in his mind for a while.

Qin Shiou laughed and said, "How much do you think the Dark Night Queen is worth? The black pearls used are incomparable to what I have. I can now make ten sets of Dark Night Queen, Sunny Queen and even Star Queen!"

"Well, then what price do you want me to pay?" Vincent asked in a sigh.

"I don't want the price. I want to invest in Tiffany with the final value of these black pearls!" Qin Shiou said his real purpose.

Yes, if you invest in Tiffany, he wants to join this huge luxury empire. Even if it is just a small territory of this empire, it is better than selling black pearls for money. Tiffany is a chicken that can lay golden eggs, and Qin Shiou wants to buy ownership of this chicken, rather than one or two golden eggs.

With the surge in the black butterfly shells and the huge red coral under the sea he owns, he has too many gems in his hand. If it is just used to sell money, then he will make less and less money in the future, because he can invest too many red corals and black pearls, which will impact the market price.

Things are precious because they are no longer rare, and when they are no longer rare, they are no longer valuable.

Therefore, it is not reliable to convert these gems into luxury jewelry to create the best interests, and it is not reliable to let him start a jewelry store by himself. Jewelry requires historical background, so he wants to invest in Tiffany.

After hearing his words, Vincent was startled and asked in disbelief: "Do you want to invest in my empire with only these black pearls? Just some black pearls?"

Qin Shiou shrugged and said, "No, in addition to black pearls, there are red corals."

"That's impossible!" Vincent smiled and looked at Qin Shiou with a little contempt. He had the confidence in this regard. Tiffany is the Taishan Beidou in the world's luxury goods industry!

Qin Shiou said lightly: "What about providing two thousand black pearls and one hundred kilograms of deep-sea red coral every year? I think if you are not interested in this, then Cartier and Pocarat should be interested."

Vincent frowned and said that today's matter is difficult to handle. (To be continued.)

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