Conan: Rice Flower Spring

Chapter 314 308. Huge cost of preliminary preparation

"Wait, I have a question." Lin Longma listened quietly to Okami Zhushan telling the story of Chikan Kyoudai's mental journey when he discovered the treasure of Karasuma Renya.

After listening to most of it, he suddenly asked a question.

"President Erlin, please ask."

“If I understand correctly, Ms. Qianjian had received the hint from her parents 20 years ago.

Then it took twenty years to decipher it, and now they have come to you, Mr. Ohgami - two famous detectives are not enough for this treasure, and we need to add more collaborators?"

This is what Lin Longma finds the strangest.

Detectives, especially famous detectives, are top-notch in terms of both income and connections.

The social resources they mobilized might not be as good as those of the Suzuki Group or Hayashi Ryoma, but the energy unleashed by the two famous detectives combined should not be underestimated.

What on earth is this treasure of Karasuma Renya that even two veteran detectives combined can’t figure it out?
Lin Longma didn't think that the problem between Qianjian Jiangdai and Da Shang Zhushan was in reasoning.

Lack of money? Lack of people? Lack of channels?
"In fact, they are all missing." Dashang Zhushan laughed awkwardly and spoke without any confidence.

"You're short of everything? You're short of money too?" Lin Longma was completely stunned. It would be fine if Dashang Zhushan was short of other things.

How could he be short of money?

After the Shikishima incident, Lin Ryoma just gave him a check for more than 2 billion yen. Is this money not enough for him?
Are they planning to buy the Imperial Palace in Tokyo?
"It's true, President Lin." Da Shang Zhu Shan also knew that his words were a bit outrageous, so he explained to Lin Longma in a soft voice:
“It is because the location where the Karasuma Renya treasure is buried is so unique that Sister Chiken and I need to introduce new partners.

It’s not that we don’t have confidence in our abilities, but that Sister Qianjian and I have almost put all our assets, plus the extra money I made last time, into this treasure hunt.

But the preliminary preparations were still somewhat insufficient.”

"What on earth did you find?!" Lin Longma was completely stunned.

Famous detectives are a serious high-income group in the island country - with the exception of Kogoro Mori.

After all, a commission either results in the client's death or the client is the murderer. When working as a taxi driver, all kinds of things are scrapped. The money that Kogoro Maori can save can be regarded as Maori Ran's good housekeeping.

In short, there is a group of people who write novels for love, and Kogoro Mouri can also be considered as a part of the detective industry who writes novels for love.

Of course, he was completely forced to do this.

Unlike Kogoro Mori, Chima Kyouyo and Okami Nozomi are veteran detectives.

Especially in the Qianjian generation, although the old lady did not inherit her father's career as an archaeologist, she was very successful in the detective industry.

He has been a leader in the detective industry since he was young, and he has become more and more powerful as he gets older.

Armchair detective was the name she was re-christened as she aged.

Lin Longma really couldn't have imagined that even if two veteran detectives competed with each other, they would still be insufficiently prepared.

"Actually, it's this." Dashang Zhushan had made sufficient preparations before coming this time. Seeing that Lin Longma was interested, he took out a thick stack of information from his handbag.

This information does not look like it was collected temporarily, but more like a "product catalogue" specially prepared by some organization.

"The former residence of the Karasuma Group's wealthy man, the Dusk Annex?"

"Yes, it's here." Okami Zhushan nodded and said that after their investigation, Senken Jyoudai's father was "invited" here by Karasuma Renya and never came back.

"Because Sister Qianjian and I are still unsure of what the treasure in this annex is and how big it is. So the safest way is to take over the Dusk Annex.

Otherwise, even if we really found the treasure left by the mother of the wealthy Karasuma Renya, there would probably be complications.

After all, this villa still has an owner."

The Dusk Annex is not like the Navy Cave on Shikishima. The Navy Cave on Shikishima is a public place, not someone else's private property.

Finding gold in that place can be said to be a natural treasure that belongs to those who are destined to have it.

But this cannot be explained in the place where the Lord is.

It's like you heard about a treasure, then rushed to a house's yard, dug out the money that the previous owner buried in the yard, and finally wanted to take it away.

Once this matter is exposed, it is hard to say whether the money will belong to the current owner, but it will definitely not belong to you, the treasure hunter.

Therefore, Dashang Zhushan’s idea was to buy the Dusk Villa first.

After understanding what Okami Zhushan meant, Hayashi Ryoma opened the catalogue he brought. The Dusk Villa originally belonged to the Karasuma Group, and the last owner of the group was the wealthy Karasuma Renya.

Later, the Karasuma Group declined, and the Twilight Annex changed hands several times. The current owner put it up for sale due to business problems of his company.

The Dusk Villa is located deep in the mountains, covering a vast area. The surrounding hills are all private forest areas belonging to the owner of the villa.

This piece of forest originally belonged to the wealthy Karasuma Renya, which means that the treasure of the Karasuma Group may be buried anywhere in the forest - so this 15-hectare private forest land must also be purchased.

Fortunately, this land does not contain mineral and landscape resources, so according to the island country's forest land price of 100 million yen per hectare, 15 hectares of private forest land will cost about 1500 million yen.

This part is the least valuable in purchasing the Dusk Villa.

As the legacy of the Karasuma family, Twilight Annex carries the architectural craftsmanship of the Meiji-Taisho period and is an important "cultural asset" currently existing in the island country (if Japan's Meiji period ancient houses are listed as cultural assets, the estimated value can reach 50-100 billion yen).

The main building of the Dusk Annex makes extensive use of granite, cypress wood, stained glass and other materials, all of which are top-notch configurations.

The cost of its repair is also a huge expense. According to European castles, it would cost about 30-50 billion yen.

In addition, the Han Chinese interior of the annex also contains antique furniture and oil paintings, which are conservatively estimated to be worth 20 billion yen.

也就是说黄昏别馆的历史与艺术价值50亿-100亿日元，土地价值1500万日元，建筑修缮成本30亿-50亿日元。

In addition, the interior decoration and antiques are worth 20 billion yen.

In total, it will cost at least 100.15 billion to 170.15 billion yen to complete the purchase and renovation of the Twilight Annex.

This may sound like a lot, but converted into US dollars it is roughly $8346 million to $1.41 million.

Famous detectives are indeed a high-income group in the island country, but it would probably be difficult to ask them to pay out more than 80 million or even more than 100 million US dollars at once.

"So, how much did you collect, Mr. Okami and Ms. Chiken?" Lin Longma, who had some idea of the valuation of the Dusk Annex after reading the product catalog, asked curiously.

"My sister Qianjian and I have collected nearly 4000 million U.S. dollars so far, including all the available funds and real estate that can be sold.

There is still a large gap.”

(End of this chapter)