Conan: Rice Flower Spring

Chapter 318 312. Good news, bad news

"Is this the foundation of the No. 1 financial group that surpasses the Suzuki Group and the Ooka Family? This is incredible."

Lin Longma really wanted to show the spirit of not being happy with things or sad with himself, but when facing this golden villa, who can really stay calm?
Lin Longma couldn't do it anyway. The moment he saw this golden hall, he rarely showed a "stunned" expression.

Fortunately, the scene before our eyes was shocking enough that almost everyone who saw it could not ignore it.

Lin Longma was relatively reserved among them.

The "shedding" of the Dusk Villa lasted for about an hour. After forty or fifty minutes, the slight shaking of the ground finally stopped, and the outer wall of the villa stopped falling off.

The golden light of the villa under the setting sun almost blinded everyone's eyes.

"I'm going to get rich, I'm going to get rich, I'm really going to get rich this time!" Dashang Zhushan stared at the Dusk Villa in front of him enthusiastically.

A annex built with gold. How much would it cost if it was sold? Would he become the richest man in the island nation?
No, that’s a bit too arrogant. He’s still the richest man in Tokyo, right?
Unlike Da Shang Zhu Shan's enthusiasm, Lin Longma calmed down quickly. Lin Longma, who had gotten rid of the shock of gold, suddenly realized something.

Although the entire Dusk Villa looks golden, is it really made of pure gold?
Not to mention that gold has no mechanical properties to form a house structure, how much would so much gold cost? Even if the Karasuma Group was the top group in the island country at that time, it couldn't afford that much money.

The most important thing is, will this amount of gold usage empty the Bank of Japan’s gold reserves at once?
No matter how Lin Longma thought about it, he felt that this shouldn't be the case. In other words, the amount of gold was far less than what Dashang Zhushan and the others had guessed?
Lin Longma decided to verify it a little bit.

While everyone was still looking up at the entire Golden Pavilion from a close distance, Lin Longma walked to an inconspicuous corner, took the tool from his subordinates, and poked it hard on the golden wall of the Pavilion -

Lin Longma instantly poked a hole in the golden outer wall, and then knocked off a brick along the grain of the wall.

Sure enough, when the bricks came down, Lin Longma found that they were just ordinary bricks, not the gold bricks they expected.

Then Lin Longma began to observe the golden faults on the bricks.

"I feel that this gold coating seems very thin. About 1 millimeter?" Lin Longma held up the gold and looked at it for a while, and finally shook his head.

He felt that the gold on the wall tiles didn't even reach one millimeter.

"Someone come and measure how thick the gold plating is." Lin Longma handed the gold in his hand to his men behind him.

His men immediately took out professional measuring tools and began to measure the gold plating on the wall tiles.

Lin Longma used his mobile phone to connect to the Wi-Fi of the annex and searched the Internet for some basic knowledge about gold plating technology.

Generally speaking, the thickness of gold used in the gold plating process for building structures is usually 5 to 50 microns, depending on environmental requirements and durability requirements.

5-25 microns, suitable for most building facades or sculptures, balancing aesthetics and corrosion resistance.

Structures that need to be exposed outdoors for a long time, such as church domes and monuments, often use a 10-25 micron coating to resist weathering.

When the coating is less than 0.05 microns, the coating is too thin. This will cause the coating to be easily oxidized, increase contact resistance, and have poor wear resistance. The applicability of coatings less than 0.05 microns is very low and is only used for low-cost temporary production.

However, when the coating is larger than 5 microns, there is a risk of it being too thick, which will lead to a sharp increase in costs.

On the other hand, it will also affect the dimensional accuracy of the product and may even cause cracking or peeling due to increased stress.

In short, the gold plating cannot be too thin, and it also cannot be too thick.

"Have you found out?" Lin Longma looked at the dusk villa in front of him. This coating was used on the ancestral home of the Karasuma family, so it couldn't be too thin.

However, after all these years, there is no sign of cracking or peeling of the gold, and it doesn't seem to be very thick?

"Brother, the measurement has been completed." The subordinate returned the wall tiles to Lin Longma: "The coating on the wall tiles is about 10 microns." "10 microns." Lin Longma nodded thoughtfully. Are the measured data similar to the little common sense he found on the Internet?

But if the coating is 10 microns thick, it seems that there really isn't much gold left in this Dusk Villa?
The "small" here does not refer to the small amount of gold in the Dusk Villa. The Dusk Villa covers a huge area, and including the exterior walls, roof, decorations, etc., it is no less than 10000 square meters.

Although the coating of the annex is thin, it is still large. Quantitative change leads to qualitative change, so there will naturally be more gold.

But compared to what Da Shang Zhu Shan had guessed at the beginning that the entire building was made of gold, that was a huge difference.

After confirming the nature of the gold, Lin Longma led his men back to the main entrance of the annex. At the main entrance, Zhu Shan was still observing the "Golden Hall" in front of him enthusiastically.

"Everyone, which one do you want to hear first, the good news or the bad news?" Lin Longma walked over and clapped his hands, attracting everyone's attention.

Da Shang Zhu Shan finally recovered from his frenzy, blinked and said, "Bad news?"

"The bad news is that the gold in the Annex may not be as much as you think, Mr. Okami."

Lin Longma threw the wall tile in his hand to Dashang Zhushan. Dashang caught it in a hurry and saw the coating on the wall tile at a glance.

"Gold-plated?"

"Yes, it is gold-plated." Lin Longma nodded: "This is a wall tile I randomly took from the outer wall.

If nothing goes wrong, all wall tiles should be like this. Also the roofs, window frames and even the decorations on the buildings."

To be honest, when hearing the news, Da Shang Zhushan should have been the most depressed person.

After all, the difference between hundreds of millions of dollars and hundreds of billions of dollars is huge.

Is it equivalent to suddenly becoming an ordinary rich man from the richest man in Tokyo?

But the ups and downs of the day finally made Da Shang Zhu Shan tougher. He just slightly restrained the smile on his face and asked Lin Longma:

"So what's the good news?"

“The good news is that even if it’s gold-plated, it’s solid gold—the value of our annex has been greatly increased.

At the same time, it will be quicker to sell it. This is the only golden house in the island country, maybe it can be sold for a good price. "

To be honest, compared to getting gold worth hundreds of billions of dollars at once, this kind of harvest is more in line with Lin Longma's expectations.

What is the difference between suddenly acquiring hundreds of billions of dollars worth of gold and a child holding gold in a busy market?
Even though Lin Longma can call the shots in the organization, to put it bluntly, if some large institutions or even large consortiums really want to do something, crushing Lin Longma, Yi Xin Hui or even the organization will not be much more difficult than crushing an ant.

Why is Gin busy purging undercover agents and spies from within the organization every day? Isn't it because he is afraid of the organization behind them?

Otherwise, if they are really confident and want to go undercover, then just do it. Why bother?
If it's just a golden annex, that's great, everyone can negotiate and just make an offer directly.

This money belongs to Lin Longma, who has a good eye for money, and will not make others jealous. Or in other words, those who can deal with Lin Longma will not be jealous.

The jealous Lin Longma's Yi Xin Hui is no pushover either.

"Now there are several options that you two need to choose from." Lin Longma observed his two partners and said to them after finding that they were in good condition.

(End of this chapter)