Alchemy Greater China

【169】Winterthur Bank

() "Ahem, what bastard is here to make trouble?"

Long Hao's unremitting efforts finally paid off. Ten minutes later, a faint yellow light lit up in the bank building. A night watchman held an oil lamp, squinted his eyes, and opened the small window on the door through the iron fence.

"Hmph, which manager is on duty? Look carefully, it's me, why don't you open the door quickly?"

Don't look at Boert who has always been weak in front of Long Hao and Breeze, but when facing the night watchman, he showed his strong side as the representative of the Fuld family, he scolded and was full of aura! ..

"Ah, ah, it's Mr. Semit! I'm sorry, I'm very sorry, I'll open the door now, I'll open the door now!"

The night watchman saw a badge in Boert's palm, and his face immediately changed violently. He hurriedly apologized, and hurriedly opened the door of the building. Even the oil lamp in his hand accidentally broke a corner, causing Glass shards splashed everywhere.

After the door was opened, Boert led Long Hao and the three of them in, and the night watchman saw Boert's respectful companionship, and his heart became more and more frightened: Where did this big man come from?I didn't hold back my words just now, but don't be held hostage by him!

Winterthur Bank, founded in 1862 in the city of Winterthur in northeastern Switzerland, because of the extensive construction of Swiss railways in recent decades, the capital of Winterthur Bank has expanded rapidly, and it was able to open a branch in Basel.

After Burt entered the Winterthur branch, he picked up the manager on duty who was lazy and fell asleep. He didn't reprimand, but just stared at him, and the manager on duty almost knelt down in fright. beg for mercy. ..

Although the Fuld family has declined a lot compared to its heyday, in Switzerland, a lean camel is still bigger than a horse, and its prestige still exists, not to mention.The largest shareholder of Winterthur Bank is the Fuld family!As the "imperial envoy" of the Fuld family, Burt has every right to fire a manager who is dereliction of duty. In Europe, it is not easy to find a decent job as a bank manager.so.The manager on duty, like the sky falling, kept explaining to Burt, hoping that the 'special envoy' would forgive him for his carelessness.

To be honest, he was also quite depressed: who would have expected that they would suddenly appear at the gate of the bank at almost four o'clock in the morning?

"Stop talking nonsense!"

Burt impatiently interrupted the manager's chatter, pointed at Long Hao and said, "I'm here to accompany this gentleman, wait a minute, and you will do whatever he asks. If anything goes wrong, hmph, After the bank opens in the morning, you can pack up and get out!"

Sir?

The manager, Sha Wei, blinked Mung Dou's eyes vigorously, thinking he hadn't woken up yet!The person who was referred to by the 'special envoy' as a 'lord' is clearly a young man and an oriental man, how could he be a lord?ah.Could it be the royal family from the Eastern Qing Dynasty?But that's not right, where's his braid?I heard about people from that country.They all have ugly and cumbersome braids!

Shawei suddenly felt that his IQ was not enough.

"Why are you still standing there, step forward and obey the orders of the lord!" Seeing that Shawei was still wandering away, Bolt cursed angrily.

"Oh, oh... Your honorable lord, if you have any requests, please tell me, I, Xavi Iniesta. I will serve you wholeheartedly!" Xavi secretly scolded himself for being confused, no matter what kind of lord he is Well, anyway, they are big people that they can't afford to offend, and it is king to serve them as best as they can.

Long Hao smiled kindly, and he handed Shawei a note: "Hello, Mr. Iniesta! What you have to do is very simple. Check the account corresponding to this password for me, and I want to open the safe!"

Phew, it turned out that I came to pick up the objects!

Shawei breathed a sigh of relief. In terms of business ability, he is one of the best in the northern part of Switzerland. Sometimes he can quickly and accurately take out the stored items for customers without checking the bank's stubs.

"Hey, this is a premium account, it's encrypted!" But Shawei frowned after taking the note.

There was a long string of weird characters on the note that Shawei didn't recognize, but the top five characters represented the special account of Winterthur Bank.The value of items stored in Winterthur, which can be called a 'special account', exceeds 500 million francs!

"Encryption? Isn't this the password?" Long Hao also frowned.

"That's not what it means. The encryption here is an internal measure of our bank, and has nothing to do with you, Sir! I need to go upstairs to check the files before I can make sure to open the safe." Sha Wei wiped off his sweat and explained to Long Hao.

"how much time is required?"

"My lord, I will as soon as possible!"

"Well, hurry up, I must see the safe before dawn!"

"Hehe, it doesn't take that long."

Sha Wei trotted away, and about 10 minutes later, he trotted back again, with an extra document box with a red cover in his hand.

Sha Wei heaved a sigh of relief, put the document box on the table, then took out a document with flowers on it, and looked at Long Hao apologetically.

"Your Excellency, I have checked, this matter may be a bit troublesome..."

"Trouble?" Long Hao raised his eyebrows: "What's the trouble? Isn't your Winterthur Bank only recognizing passwords but not people?"

"In theory, yes, but...the account holder of this special account left a special request at the beginning!" Shawei's cheeks were dripping with sweat, and he handed over the decal document respectfully: "It's written on it, please Take a look!"

Long Hao took the document, his fingertips flew like flying, he lowered his head and quickly scanned it, then he closed the document and closed his eyes: This Charles Sultan, the struggle for power is a mess, and the design of this legacy has been exhausted!snort!

It turned out that this decal document clearly stated: only the person holding the golden hairpin comes and uses it to show the password, and the safe can be opened!

On one page of the document, a photo of the golden hairpin is attached, as well as an overview of the hairpin 'broken' into three pieces when the password is revealed.

"Hmph, my young master missed a move, but I memorized that string of obscure passwords for nothing..." Long Hao muttered inaudibly to himself, seeming a little unwilling.

You know, during the day when Princess Gemma showed her hairpin, the password was like looking at a flower in water, and you can't remember it even if you have the best memory, only Long Hao, a "freak".Only by using the alchemy instrument "Shorthand Pavilion" can this password be "photographed" and saved.

But who would have thought that the Sultan King Charles actually left a document statement in advance, setting up a 'gateway', abruptly turning the password recorded by Long Hao into a useless thing!

"Uh. Excuse me, my lord, is this password... your own?"

Seeing Long Hao holding the document in his hand, frowning and not saying a word, Sha Wei asked cautiously.

"Huh?" Long Haoxuan raised his eyebrows: "Does it matter? Your bank also checks customers? Is the rule of only recognizing passwords but not people a fake?"

"No, no, you misunderstood!"

Sha Wei was sweating profusely from Long Hao's eyes, and hastily pulled out another piece of paper from the file box, and hurriedly said: "There is also a rule on it, if the blood of the person holding the code is of the same origin as the account holder, then it is considered Without the golden hairpin, the safe can be opened a third of the way..."

Is there such a rule?

Long Hao had some admiration for Charles, the Sultan.An inheritance has set up a lot of checkpoints, why don't you organize people to wrestle with Singleton if you have the energy?

"Hehe...the password is not mine, I'm just entrusted by others, and it's a matter of loyalty!" Long Hao pushed Xiao Green up, pointed at him and said: "The password is his, if you want to test blood, you can test his .”

Green was a little confused when he first arrived, but he has been listening and watching for so long.Somewhat understood.

Green whispered to Long Hao: "The safe is my father..."

"Yes!" Long Hao nodded emphatically.He pressed Green's question back: "Go for a blood test, if it succeeds, we can at least take back one-third of your sister's inheritance!"

"Okay!" Green's eyes suddenly lit up, he puffed out his small chest, and followed Shawei upstairs.

Needless to say, the Winterthur Bank has a special place for blood tests.

As for how to test the homology of blood with the medical technology of this era, Long Hao has no time to care about it.He looked at his watch, and half an hour later, Shawei led Green down the stairs with a guilty face.

Seeing Shawei's guilty and Green's frustrated expressions, Long Hao felt something was wrong.

"No, I'm very sorry. Your Excellency!" Sha Wei was the first to speak, "I didn't expect the blood test process to be so complicated. It will take ten days to wait for the results to come out!"

ten days?Soon it will be dawn, and Gemma will come here to open the safe and take away the inheritance!You still make me wait for ten days?What kind of international joke are you making?

Long Hao was very angry, pointed at Shawei and said, "Mr. Iniesta, I am very dissatisfied with you. You have wasted a lot of my time, but you finally told me that there is nothing I can do about it?"

Green raised his arms and yelled, "You took all the blood, and it turned out that I was my father's son. Why wait ten days?"

"This is only part of the proof." Shawei explained with a look of embarrassment: "According to the regulations, if you want to open the safe and take away the items, you must wait for the entire proof process to be completed. It only proves that you are the son of the account holder. It's not enough! Right now, you only have a very small number of permissions that you can use..."

Long Hao's heart moved, and he interrupted and asked, "A very small number of permissions? What are they?"

"Oh, let me see, um, the permissions include viewing, depositing, and freezing..." Sha Wei turned out a notebook and read to it.

"Stop!" Long Hao shouted: "What is the frozen authority for?"

"Freeze the account, with your authority, during the freezing period, one-third of the property in the safe cannot be taken away...Your Excellency, do you want to partially freeze this account?" Sha Wei was stunned halfway through the speech. Wake up, and then added: "According to our bank's regulations, freezing some accounts requires a certain amount of handling fees!"

"The handling fee is not a problem, yes, I just want to freeze one-third of this account!" Long Hao patted Green on the shoulder and said with a smile: "First freeze, after your sister leaves, you have completed all the blood certificates. content, and then unfreeze."

"Does this part of the freeze need to be disclosed?" Shawei has a wealth of experience in the banking industry, and he immediately suggested: "If you need to hide this part of the frozen content, you only need to pay a little more handling fee."

"Hehe, you really know how to make money for your bank!" Long Hao thought for a while, and then happily agreed: "Of course we have to hide it, I want her to never know that this inheritance is less than one-third!"

After confirming that one-third of the accounts are to be frozen, the next step is to check the contents of the safe and select the one-third that needs to be hidden according to the estimated value.

This is also the 'view' permission function that Green has.

"Bolt, you accompany Green to choose. It's late, I have to go first!"

Seeing that the hour hand was pointing to six o'clock, Long Hao confessed, and hurriedly left Winterthur Bank with a breeze.

In the hotel, Gemma and Sherin Mir were still asleep after taking the medicine, and they were still waiting for Long Hao to go back and relieve them of the medicine!

late words.I'm afraid it will arouse Gemma's suspicion.

After Long Hao left, Shawei led Burt and Green into the bank's underground vault.

The treasury is divided into two parts, one is an important place for storing safes, and the other is where the three of Shawei are standing at the moment. This place is also very important, as there are countless lists of items and auxiliary documents in the safes.

Sha Wei found out the inventory document of Charles' inheritance and handed it to Green according to the rules.Green didn't know how to read it, so he simply passed the list to Burt and asked the representative of the Fuld family to choose for him.

"Yo, you kid, you are a bit clever."

Burt took the list and muttered with a smile, but waited until he opened the list.When I looked down line by line, the smile on my face became very strange.Puzzled for a while, surprised for a while, worried for a while, ecstatic for a while...

Seeing this situation, Green couldn't help thinking to himself: This list will not be cursed by the devil. This Mr. Semit seems to be bewitched.

Indeed, Burt Semit almost got a magic barrier, there is no other reason.It was really because of this list that he didn't pay much attention to at first, and the items listed on it surprised him so much!

The deposit slips of several world-renowned banks are okay, and the amount on them is only a little over 300 million pounds, which is not bad for the inheritance of a royal sultan.

But next.Bolt was surprised by a single contract. In this contract, nearly 70% of the land in the Nile Delta region of Egypt was leased out. The lease period was 70 years, and the lessee's office was... blank!

The Nile Delta, even if Bolt doesn't know much about Egypt, he knows that it is a treasure land with rich mineral deposits. Taking a step back, even if there are no mineral deposits, the strategic value of that land is absolutely difficult to use money. Estimate!

Just a piece of paper and rent it out?

This is not over yet, another contract sheet is even more exaggerated. This is also a lease contract. It actually rents out all the mountains in Suez Province, including Grud, Jalali, etc., and the lease period is as long... 100 years!The lessee's place is also blank!

Who doesn't know that the mountains in Suez province are rich in marble resources. Even if these marbles are not counted, as long as these mountains are occupied and soldiers are stationed in a legitimate way, isn't the Suez Canal still under its supervision?

In addition to these two appalling 'lease agreements', there are no less than [-] 'ownership' documents on the list. Most of the ownership indicated in these documents are small mines located in the Sinai Peninsula. Not big, but added up, the total is quite impressive!

After reading these dreadful contracts, the rest of the list is the 40-year bonds issued by the United Kingdom and Germany, the amount is so-so, no more than 100 million pounds, and several cruise ships and cargo ships stored in other countries , if it is sold, it can be exchanged for about 70 to 80 pounds.

At the end of the list, the total estimated price is stated: '7' pounds. This number is the reason why Burt was stunned at first, and then ecstatic!

"It's written wrong here? Why is there only more than 730 million pounds?"

Shawei is one of his own, so Bolt tapped the bottom corner of the list without any scruples and asked, "Shawei, come and check, is there anything wrong?"

Shawei was stunned for a moment, then squatted down and opened the drawer, found the document that recorded the valuation of each item on the list, threw it on the table, and read it line by line: "...the deposit is 3,126,000 pounds, that's right...the bond valuation is 898,123 Pound sterling, that's right...the British cruise ship 'Fajbe' built in 88 has a discounted value of 250,000 pounds, that's right...the Nile area lease is estimated at 500,000 pounds..."

"Wait, what are you talking about, this lease is only estimated at 50 pounds?"

Burt yelled, and Shawei almost scattered the documents on the table in fright.

(The valuation document is very thick, not only recording the valuation value, but also recording the valuation basis of all parties, relevant photos, fixed asset parameters, etc.)

"Ah? Yes, yes, 50 pounds, the Nile River area lease, there is nothing wrong, Mr. Semitt!" Sha Wei hastily checked it twice, and replied with some confusion.

"That's right? I'll come and see for myself!"

Boerte was so emotional that he didn't care about the rules of the banking industry. He snatched the documents from Shawei's hand and went to check them himself.

After a while, Bolt put down the document, and there was an uncontrollable joy in his eyes, as if he had found a rare antique in a garbage dump: "No wonder the total price is so low. It turns out that these two leases are It’s so cheap!”

It turned out that not only the lease for the Nile River area, but also the other lease for the Suez Mountains that Bolt valued was only estimated at 55 pounds.

This is simply a pie that fell from the sky!It's double layered!

Burt called Shawi, and tapped his finger on the document: "How did you estimate the value of Winterthur Bank? These two leases cover nearly one-fifth of Egypt's land, and the total is only 105 million pounds." ? At this price, Charles Sultan would agree to it?"

Boerte was old and cautious, although he was ecstatic when he found Bao, but he still asked Shawei to ask again, lest there be other bad factors that he had missed that made the valuation low. (To be continued.)

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