If you choose to hand it over to the auction house for safekeeping, Kawei will have to pay at least a hundred francs in storage fees every day. Even if he returns to Vienna at the end of the month, he will still need to spend time solving the warehouse and guarding problems. Once these are taken care of, including the round trip.

Telegraph time, at least, costs more than a thousand francs.

If he left Paris halfway, the several-day round trip would also attract the attention of many people. Those assistants were also indispensable, and Carvey was not close enough to share private matters with them.

"If it doesn't work, we can only keep it in the warehouse for a while."

Gustav nodded and changed a custody receipt: "In that case, you need to sign this. Because some items may require maintenance by experts, which is not the responsibility of our auction house. If there is any loss,

It has nothing to do with Drouot."

After hearing this, Kawei was thinking: It is indeed troublesome to cross the line.

The choice was put on hold again. He couldn't think of any good way to avoid this expense for a while, and Gustave couldn't give him any good advice.

The two of them just sat there, drinking coffee and chatting wordlessly.

At first, it was just about Kawei’s career and interest in oriental art. Kawei also made it clear that the art was more for investment. Then they talked about Gustav’s ideals, but as the chat became more and more

Going deeper and deeper, Kawei found that he seemed to have missed some key information.

"Is your home in Switzerland?"

"Yes, my grandfather opened a small bank in Winterthur and has been running it to this day."

"That's a nice little bank."

"It's pretty good. If I hadn't been unable to stay, I might have been working in a bank now. I can live a comfortable life and don't have to look at other people's faces." Gustav said with a wry smile, "But when I think about the future, I can only stay.

I am not willing to live a simple life day after day in this bank."

"The bank will definitely become bigger in the future."

"Actually, it can no longer be called a small bank. After all, it is a neutral country. Before the Austro-Prussian War, our family received deposits from several wealthy people."

After all, it is his family's business. Even if Gustav is not interested, he still knows something about it: "By the way, if Dr. Kawei is interested, you can open an account there. Even if the whole of Europe is destroyed, our security will be absolutely guaranteed."

There won’t be any problems.”

At this time, Swiss banks could not compare with those during World War II, but the name of a neutral country was already being called out.

As far as Kawei knows, Switzerland was safe during World War I and World War II, otherwise it would not have attracted so much foreign capital after World War II.

Compared to small Switzerland, Joseph's ambitions were very great. Unfortunately, the internal affairs of the empire were quite bad, and the future of the entire country was uncertain.

His work is closely connected with the top management, and he will not leave Vienna easily unless he has to. But after experiencing the war, he also needs to find a way out of Vienna.

Now seems like a good opportunity.

"If you have a safe business, such as storing my collections and ensuring their safety, I would be interested in opening an account in Switzerland."
Chapter completed!