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082 Frank, who switched to selling diamonds

"That's good," Li Changheng thought for a while, "Is the 60,000 US dollars in your hand enough to buy and change the name of the farm farm several times?"

"Enough," Barney said with a smile, "Since I want to buy a farm, I plan to go to the homes of a few of my best-affiliated comrades, spend 3,000 US dollars to buy a small farm and leave it to my comrades' family to take care of.

It took a few years to let them invest in manpower and management, and transfer most of the shares to them little by little, which can also be regarded as a source of income for their comrades-in-arms' families."

"This is a good idea," Li Changheng smiled and spent a few years reducing shares, and then the name was placed under other shareholders, making it even harder to check.

After hugging Barney, Li Changheng left Barney's house and went to find Frank Abanel.

Frank, who has been back in New York for four days, has been waiting for news about Li Changheng anxiously and worriedly these days.

13 days ago, after getting 1,000 Pan American Captain's salary check from Li Changheng, Frank was like a wild horse that had been rid of his reins.

In the idea of ​​making a move and not going to Europe in the future, Frank wandered wildly in Spain, France, Italy and other countries.

Then he went to West Germany and even used his captain's identity to easily enter West Berlin, surrounded by polar bears and East Germany.

Unexpectedly, after entering Berlin, which is jointly managed by the four countries, Frank soon felt that he had come to heaven.

In the 1960s and 1970s, although the per capita living standard in East Germany did not exceed West Germany, the per capita living satisfaction index exceeded 100%.

As a window to show the outside world, the polar bears and East Germany have allowed 500,000 West German and West Berliners, who have incomes of less than 500,000,000, to join the Red Empire, to enjoy the dividends of everyone’s job and an increase of 5% annual growth.

It was not until the second oil crisis more than a decade later that severely damaged the polar bear's economy that this situation turned around and a large number of East Germans went to West Germany.

In the future, a female prime minister's family ran from West Germany to East Germany during this period.

Moreover, because of the Vietnam War, the red polar bear has been catching up with the United States these days.

Although this wish has never been truly realized, it does not prevent the polar bear from trying hard to publicize that it is better than the West.

Since you say you are better than others, you cannot exclude others from coming in and take a look.

Many people in the West think that the more mysterious the more they want to go and see, and there are many people like this.

So even though there are very limited places to go after coming in.

But things like black caviar, nesting dolls, vagrants, and East Germany's unique precision watches and cameras have become popular all of a sudden.

Of course the top caviar and watches involved in confidentiality, cameras, polar bears and East Germany are sure to keep them themselves.

But this faces the problem of insufficient money in tourists, and crew members bring private cargo onto the plane as long as there is no more than one box, which is a destined rule in this era.

Otherwise, who would be willing to take the risk to enter East Germany or even Moscow?

When Frank was on the plane, he heard from the captain and deputy captain that they would wear caviar when they went to East Germany and bring cigars when they went to Cuba.

Therefore, Berlin's airports and hotels have many bank sub-desks, and Pan American and other airlines have also heard of the interests to join in and establish outlets.

In just one day, Frank easily exchanged 300 checks in East Berlin and planned to run away after making a profit. Without any hesitation, he went to the airport in East Berlin without any accidents.

However, I didn't expect that while waiting for a plane at the airport, I saw in an English magazine published by Polar Bears, which was specially used for publicity. After Sierra Leone, West Africa, became independent from the Commonwealth in 1964.

The large amount of oil, diamonds, rubber, and various metal ores mined were blocked by the entire West and were accumulated in their hands.

Frank's first reaction was that this was in East Germany, otherwise New York or other Western cities would definitely not see such reports.

But when he was about to get on the plane, an idea suddenly appeared in his mind.

With excitement, Frank did not board the plane to London to New York, but thought about using the $290,000 he had in his hand to exchange it for diamonds to bring it back to New York. How much money could he make?

He was very adventurous and then boarded a plane to Johannesburg, South Africa.

After arriving in South Africa, he packed a small propeller plane for $1,000 and entered the capital of Sierra Leone, Freetown.

What he didn't expect was that the buying and selling process was extremely simple.

In the largest diamond shop in Freetown, as long as you have money, not only will you choose any diamonds, but you can even have pink and red diamonds, but there are also soldiers who will protect you from returning to the hotel or airport.

But Frank overlooked one of the most important issues.

If a diamond costs $100, then the real price of a diamond should be only $40, or even lower, so where does the remaining value come from?

Authoritative appraisal certificate.

After Frank returned to New York, he found out that twenty colored diamonds with an average price of $14,500 can indeed make twice the profit, and this is not the final profit of the diamond dealer.

But without a legal certificate in the diamond in your hand, it means that legitimate businessmen will not buy the raw stone in your hand.

Because all diamond merchants knew in their hearts that diamonds were by no means what Debeth said, but rare.

The reason why it sells more expensive than other gems is entirely an illusion created by man.

An advertisement that "diamonds will last forever, one will be passed on forever" makes diamonds replace other gems a symbol of love, and those who get married have to buy one.

And the most important thing is that the divorce rate in this era is not high, and basically no one will sell wedding rings.

Few people sell it, which means that as long as the market is maintained, it will never be outdated.

Regardless of whether you want it or not, as long as your future wife needs it, every man faces the situation where he must buy one in his life.

The institutions that issued the appraisal certificates all had the shadow of Debeth and other diamond mining companies behind them.

In addition, New York is not a polishing ground for diamond rough stones, so there are very few merchants who directly collect raw stones.

Of course, this does not mean that all diamond merchants in New York are law-abiding businessmen.

But Frank didn't dare to take out the colored diamond rough stone that was at least 5 carats and was rightfully unable to find a buyer.

After all, Frank is not stupid. New York has a stolen goods market, but there is of course a market for diamonds without certificates. Moreover, the profit of 290,000 US dollars is doubled, and the total amount of capital and profit is 580,000 US dollars.

He still thought in his mind that if the profit of the diamond merchant was added, it would be worth more than 80.9 million US dollars.

But Frank didn't think about it carefully. The diamond merchant dared to double the offer without even seeing the physical goods. Then what he could earn was not 200,300,000, but double or even double.

After all, colored diamonds and white diamonds are all different things, because flawless colored diamonds are truly rare.

Fortunately, what Frank can confirm is that such a large amount of money is enough for any buyer to get rid of.

Therefore, during these four days, he not only had a stable life, but also regretted asking the diamond dealer about the price of the Dakar colored diamond rough stone, forcing him to change his residence every day.

What made him even more worried was that the gray gangs that appeared on the street today were originally just five major families who were guarding against being attacked by others, so they deliberately placed them on the street.
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