"Your goods are quite good. I think we will become good partners." The old man smiled and shook hands with Li Cong, but his mind was on a piece of news just released by the Ministry of Commerce. As of November 2041

Sales of jewelry and watches in the United States reached US$450 billion, up 12.5 percentage points from the same period last year. According to business data from the U.S. Department of Commerce, in November 2041, jewelry products rebounded strongly after experiencing a trough. Jewelry sales in November

The profit was 41, and jewelry sales increased by 8.9 percentage points. However, the strong upward momentum did not have much impact on jewelry sales, mainly for the following two reasons: merchants such as Kay and Tiffany, which mainly retail jewelry, are

Losing market share, in contrast, sales of merchants such as Wal-Mart, Costco, J.C. Penney and other merchants with multiple sales channels surged 15.4 percentage points in December. Looking at the full-year sales, sales in December 2041

The amount is showing a downward trend, accounting for 19.3% of the full-year jewelry sales, and the sales in December 2040 were 19.7%. As the economy slowly accelerates, if the price inflation rate of U.S. cut diamonds and heavy metals remains at a moderate level, U.S. jewelry sales are expected to increase in 2052

Sales of watches and watches will show growth of around 6%.

"Mr. Li, please forgive me. At the beginning, I did not expect that you would have so many high-quality diamonds here. Although the U.S. economy is in recession now, and the number of people buying jewelry is still declining, that is for ordinary people.

As for jewelry, just like those rich people, it is impossible for them to become very poor because of a period of recession. This is impossible. From their perspective, even if they lose hundreds of millions of dollars, they can buy

Jewelry worth millions of dollars is not a problem, so what I want to order are absolutely high-end diamonds, which are the ones on your table just now. I will give you a price. Please consider it. We are a long-term cooperation. If you can

If so, I will ask for a sum of US$700 million every month from now on. This is one month's worth. At the end of the year, because of Christmas, I will ask for two months' worth. I wonder what Mr. Li would like?"

The old man said with a smile, and during the conversation, he decided to buy and sell nearly tens of billions of gold every year. If word spreads about this, it may be the largest diamond transaction this year.

Li Cong glanced at the old man. To be honest, the price he gave was not very high. It was just a little higher than Qin Guozhong's. However, the sincerity he gave was very good. The price for the whole year was nearly 10 billion US dollars.

, although his annual turnover is hundreds of billions of dollars, not all of them are diamonds. He also bought a lot of jadeite a while ago and resold them. Li Cong smiled and shook his hand. This contract

Even if something is decided, verbal contracts are still very useful when some big shots decide things.

"I remember that in the past, you had a line about renting a friend and having wine. Now that our contract has basically been finalized, will we have wine?" The old man indeed knew a lot about China.

Li Cong smiled and nodded and asked Karelina to bring a few glasses of fine wine. This was indeed fine wine. Li Cong had never used wine from Europe. He knew that the things he made by himself would definitely not be as good as those in Europe in terms of his own eyesight.

Those red wines are different in the eyes of Americans. They feel that the best wine in the world may be from Li Cong Group. No matter what it is, they like it, so Li Cong took out the VIP6 wine.

Wine, there are only 70,000 bottles of this kind of thing in the world every year, which is already very good. If you take more, they will be suspicious.

"Old man, this bottle of wine was rewarded to me by my superiors when I made contributions to the group. I have never been willing to drink it. Today we have become friends and drank together." Li Cong said with a smile, and several of him beside him

Everyone wants to laugh right now, but they dare not. This guy doesn’t even blush when he lies. You can’t get as many rewards as you want from the higher-ups.

"Haha, Mr. Li is indeed a member of the first family and has courage. Old man, I am lucky today. In fact, I have been looking for such wine, but you also know that your group sells so little every year.

It doesn't matter how much it costs. I heard someone was selling it on the black market a few days ago, so I asked my juniors to go over and have a look. Who knew that before I even got there, someone called me and said, "The steel king's house is selling it for 3.5 million US dollars."

I bought two bottles. You said I'm depressed. I'm right to come here." This guy spoke Chinese in an unambiguous manner and used some spoken language very well. Li Cong

Seeing that the old man was staring at his wine bottle while talking, I decided not to say anything else and just picked it up and drank.

Of course, the few attendants next to me didn't have such good luck. It would be bad if they felt that such good things could be supplied in unlimited quantities. In fact, such limited editions are said to be tens of thousands of bottles per year, but when you visit Li Cong

There must be a certain number when you take it out to give away. As long as it is not too overdone, no one will be able to tell. Besides, if someone says it, just say it is fake wine, and just talk about their cost-making skills.

It's really awesome.

After everyone had a few drinks, Qin Guozhong and Fatty Zhou saw that the old guy obviously wanted to talk to Li Cong. They both excused themselves and left, and several of his assistants also went out at this time.

Li Cong knew that the formal negotiations had only begun now.

"Mr. Li, actually I have another idea when I come here this time. I wonder what Mr. Li thinks of the European jewelry market?" Sure enough, they are waiting for him here. If Li Cong feels that he guessed correctly, this

The old guy probably wants to join forces with him to do something in Europe. Of course he has the same ideas as you. Who doesn’t want to make money in vain? His army is like a gold-swallowing beast, and he has just

Three trillion US dollars have been spent, and I will feel uncomfortable if I don’t earn it back quickly.

"Haha, the old gentleman should be very familiar with the jewelry market in Europe. I don't know much about these things, so I think it would be better for you to give me a plan on how to cooperate." Li Cong said.

To be honest, I really don’t know how to invest in things there, especially in industries like jewelry. Although the jewelry group under the Energy Group has landed in Europe, the results achieved are only sustainable. If not

If Jade holds on, it may lose money.

Different countries in the Europa region have different jewelry consumption habits and characteristics. Jewelry exporters should design jewelry products that suit local needs based on the unique markets and fashion trends of these countries. This energy group has also been studied, but not many people understand it.

Yes, this old gentleman is an absolute expert, and his turnover in Europe is not comparable to his.

France occupies the third position in the EU's jewelry market consumption. In jewelry sales, gold jewelry accounts for 52%; diamond jewelry accounts for 38%; platinum jewelry and silver jewelry account for 5% and 1% respectively. In the market, neck jewelry and wrist jewelry account for

The most popular. Generally, jewelry tends to be made of gray metal with pearls, or inlaid with colored gemstones such as peridot, blue topaz, citrine and garnet. Different colors of gemstones or metals and other materials are used together.

And the jewelry made from it was also very popular.

Italy: It has the largest jewelry market among the EU countries. Gold jewelry accounts for the largest proportion in the Italian jewelry market. Lighter hollow styles such as large hoop earrings, necklaces, rings and platinum wedding rings are the most popular.

Italian ladies are attracted to larger pieces of jewelry. Inlaid jewelry is mainly group-set, and platinum jewelry prefers "new classic" designs. Jewelry with low prices and national style is also quite popular in Italy. In addition to original designs,

In addition to paying special attention to the materials, I also prefer higher-grade crystals and small metal discs.

Germany: occupies 13% of the EU jewelry market consumption. Since most of the jewelry imported by the country comes from German factories in Eastern Europe and Asia, the production cost is relatively low, and the market retail price is low. At present, people tend to buy sterling silver.

, low-priced jewelry such as artificial jewelry and semi-precious stones.

Spain: The total value of jewelry consumption accounts for 7% of the total consumption value of the EU market. Gold jewelry accounts for 42% of the total value of the entire jewelry market, among which 18k gold jewelry is the most popular. In terms of categories, it is set with 50-cent diamonds and pearls.

, sapphires, rubies and emeralds are the most popular varieties.

"Mr. Li, your Energy Group Jewelry Group has 39 chain stores in various regions of Europe, while I only have seven, but my turnover is still higher than yours. These are facts. You always like to do things immediately.

To put it bluntly, this is actually a wrong idea. We are in the jewelry industry, so we have to create our own brand. In fact, at this point, I still have some differences with Harry Winston, who is ranked first.

There is a huge gap. Their stores around the world are much fewer than ours, but their profits are no less than mine, or even much greater. This is the business route they follow, and we also need to change.

"The old man was also observing Li Cong as he spoke. People in the energy group generally don't like others saying they are incompetent. If that happens, they probably won't be able to do any business. He felt like he was taking a big risk when he said this.

It's a risk, but Li Cong thought carefully about what people said at this moment. Isn't that what it's like to run his own business? No matter what, he first opens various stores around the world and takes up a lot of his own funds. Of course, this

Doing it also has an effect. For example, if your real estate is growing rapidly, if you have money and don’t spend it, it will only depreciate in your own hands. Sometimes real estate will depreciate, but most of the time it will depreciate.

Appreciated.

For example, one of Li Cong's stores in downtown Paris had an annual turnover of less than 7 million euros. It was a small profit of hundreds of thousands of euros. But including real estate, when the store was purchased, it was

9,500 euros per square meter, but two years later, someone has offered to buy it for 23,000 euros. The value has appreciated a lot in two years, so Li Cong’s point of view is that no matter what, just spread it out. Anyway, he has plenty of money, so he needs to

Otherwise, we can only wait for devaluation. Of course, we cannot say these words ourselves.

"The old gentleman is right. Is our cooperation in Europe going to change?" Li Cong thought of something, but he needed to confirm it.

"Yes, my idea is this. We can select the stores that you and I have that are relatively powerful to form a new group, vigorously expand them, and make them the flagship stores of European jewelry. In the jewelry industry,

As long as there are no problems with the investment, then we can reap huge profits. I have also calculated that the size of the four stores must be more than 3,000 square meters, and the various expenses of each store will cost more than 100 million US dollars.

, This does not include their goods. If the goods are included, the cost of four stores will exceed tens of billions of dollars. I wonder if Mr. Li can give me an accurate estimate." This old guy thought that Li Cong might not be able to do it.

Although the Lord belongs to the Li family, it is rare to see such a young person in power. I hope to give both parties some room and let Li Cong ask for instructions from above.

"Haha, please don't worry about this, old man. Our group is a family-owned enterprise. I believe you also know that I am in charge of the jewelry business in this family. I am very satisfied with the old man's plan. No.

Do you know where the four stores we are going to open are?" Li Cong knew that the reason why they proposed to cooperate with the four stores was for business reasons, and the other was because he was afraid that a large group like the Energy Group would have such troubles.

"I also have an idea about this. What about Milan, Paris, London and St. Petersburg? I know you are definitely willing to do the other three. Maybe you will ask me why St. Petersburg." Seeing Li Cong nod, he continued, "This

There are more and more rich people in Russia. Their economy has problems before and now. The consequence of these problems is that the gap between the rich and the poor has widened." This old guy seems to be really interested in jewelry.

A group of people have done very in-depth research and even got the information about some rich people very clearly.

"Finance" magazine said that Russia's strong economic growth in recent years has led to a surge in the number of billionaires in Russia. Today, 411 billionaires have crossed the $1 billion mark, a fourfold increase in five years. "Finance"

The list shows that many of the richest people at the top are involved in the metal industry. In 2007, metal prices soared, and the top four richest people all benefited from this. In addition, Alexei, the stock owner of Russia's Northern Steel Company.

Mordashov also took advantage of the "east wind" of rising steel prices to reach the fifth place on the "Finance" list, with a personal wealth of US$22.1 billion. Weaver, a policymaker at the Ural-Siberian Bank, said on the 19th: "

Although the economy has grown in other areas, this list can still see how dependent Russia’s economic growth is on rising commodity prices.” The St. Petersburg Times said that the wealth of Russia’s 500 richest people has increased by 3% in 5 years.

times, reaching 1.716 billion US dollars, more than half of Russia’s GDP last year.

Unlike the rich descendants of European aristocrats and the wealthy real estate families in the United States, Russian billionaires are all "nouveau riche" who have just made their fortunes. Most of them are in their 40s, married, with at least two children and at least one mistress. They have all made their fortunes.

After the disintegration of the Soviet Union, they quickly grasped the national resources with unique vision and spicy methods. They are all workaholics, working 18 hours a day to prosper their wealth empire. Their wealth does not depend on production, but on production.

It is based on the development and sale of the country's rich mineral resources. The iron ore and steel industries have created the most wealthy people, and their wealth is also the most considerable, followed by the metal mining, processing and forest logging industries. They are generous and spend money like

They pay attention to ostentation, and their money must be seen. They believe that spending hard and living luxuriously can fully reflect their success. Opening such a high-end jewelry store in St. Petersburg is a dream for them, and

What these people like most is collecting diamonds, which can be seen from the treasure house Li Cong found.

In fact, these rich people spend a lot of money in the world because it is easier for them to get money than other people. In the 1980s, they were not much different from other people, but in the 1990s

In the 1900s, when the country declined, they became rich. One by one, they became rich overnight. In the most luxurious jewelry stores in Paris, they could often buy things like cabbage. A Russian

A super-rich man once bought tens of millions of dollars worth of diamonds in one day and took them back to his home.
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