Happy Tycoon

The meeting with the Koch brothers made Yang Jing go through the development plan for the past two years involuntarily. I have to say that this is a good time, as long as you seize the opportunity, there will be gold everywhere.

Following the conversation with the Koch brothers, more and more people joined in.

The man who appeared on this occasion today is really too mysterious. Just now, he came out of the cigar house next door with the core figures of the top ten consortiums. After he came out, the Koch Brothers, the top richest people in New York, joined him immediately.

Who the hell is this guy?

Americans are actually not small about gossip. For people or things they don't understand, they often take the most direct actions to find out.

For example, Yang Jing met Sam Walton, the richest man in the United States in 1985 and the founder of Wal-Mart, among the people who came after him. Now Walton is in good health. Although Yang Jing knew that the old man would pass away due to illness in five years, it didn't affect his friendship with the retail emperor.

After all, even after Sam Walton passed away, his children took over the banner of the old man and pushed Wal-Mart to the world. The Walton family is still worth making friends with.

In addition, there is Bernard Arnault, the head of the LVMH Group. This Frenchman, who is about the same age as Cole Smith, has just taken over the banner of Louis Vuitton for a few years. But this guy is very powerful. He swallowed Dior like a snake when he took over Louis Vuitton.

Bernard Arnott is also the master who can often be listed in the top 20 of the Forbes rich list 30 years later. His luxury goods empire swept the world in the next 30 years, especially after becoming rich in China. , but also rushes to the major brands under the name of Arnott

This time it also happened that Bernard Arnott was in the United States to deal with a business matter, and he rushed over after receiving the invitation letter.

In addition, some financial tycoons from Wall Street also came to have a chat with Yang Jing one after another. It was not until the reception officially started that the greetings came to an end.

The reception was held in a large banquet hall on the first floor of this building. The area of ​​this banquet hall is definitely more than 600 square meters. It is more than enough to accommodate the 70 or 80 people who came to the banquet today.

At this time, applause first erupted from a corner of the hall, and then the applause quickly spread throughout the hall, and everyone began to applaud.

Yang Jing was no exception. While applauding, he looked towards the direction where the applause first sounded, and saw seven or eight people coming out of a door in a corner of the hall.

At the beginning was a hale and hearty old man, and behind the old man were the Schaefer and his wife, but Schaefer was still pushing a wheelchair in his hand, and an older old man was sitting on the wheelchair.

Yang Jing knew that if nothing else happened, today's protagonist would appear on the stage.

Sure enough, when the seven or eight people stood still, the old man at the head picked up the microphone.

Gentlemen and ladies, welcome to the Long Island Mellon Manor, and thank you very much for taking time out of your busy schedule to attend the reception commemorating the 130th anniversary of the birth of the respected Mr. Richard Beatty Mellon .I am Paul Mellon, and on behalf of my cousin Richard King Mellon and my family, I welcome you all.”

After this self-introduction, Yang Jing realized that the old man who was talking turned out to be another of the two contemporary leaders of the Mellon family, that is, Paul, the son of Andrew Mellon.

And the old man in the wheelchair is Richard King Mellon, the son of Richard Beatty Mellon. The two old men are cousins.

Those people behind are naturally the core figures of the Mellon family now.

One hundred and thirty years ago today, my dear Uncle Richard came into this world. He is one of the most important achievements in the history of our Mellon family. It was under his leadership that our family developed rapidly

Although Paul is not keen on the family business, he has to admit that he is very eloquent. After his opening remarks, he won warm applause from all the people present.

In the United States, Richard Beatty Mellon is a legend. If his father, Mr. Thomas Mellon, created the foundation of the Mellon family, then he and his brother Andrew Mellon are the key figures for the Mellon family to take off .

This legendary figure has six siblings, but only he and his elder brother Andrew Mellon are the core leaders of the second generation of the Mellon family.

Later, in 2012, Forbes re-counted the fifteen richest people in American history. In order to more accurately reflect their impact on the American economy, Forbes compared the US Gross Domestic Product (GDP) at that time, and converted all personal assets into in 2006 dollars.

On this list, Richard Mellon ranks sixth with a net worth of US$82.3 billion, while his elder brother Andrew Mellon ranks fourteenth with a net worth of US$50.5 billion. The only pair of brothers on the list.

Although such an old man has passed away for a long time, this does not prevent people from admiring him.

After Paul finished his opening remarks, Richard King Mellon said a few more words tremblingly. He is almost ninety years old this year, and his health is very bad. It's not easy anymore.

After the two brothers finished speaking, the reception officially began. As Bloomberg has said before, the reception was interspersed with auctions of rare items.

This kind of auction is naturally a charity auction, and all proceeds from the auction will be donated to the A.W. Mellon Educational-Charitable Trust, which was established with $58 million by Andrew Mellon during his lifetime.

This kind of charity auction is different from the kind of charity auctions in Hollywood or other places. This is a truly high-end charity auction. After all, those who can come to this kind of occasion have a personal net worth of at least 100 million US dollars.

In this kind of charity auction, the items that these rich people bring out are naturally impossible to be worth tens of thousands of dollars, and the items they bring out must at least be worth at least one hundred thousand dollars.

For example, the auction item brought by Bloomberg today is an emerald + diamond necklace. Bloomberg was still in his car when he pulled out the necklace.

The appearance of this necklace is a bit outdated, and the value of the necklace itself is at most two to three hundred thousand dollars. If Bloomberg doesn't tell the origin of this necklace, Yang Jing will really look down on this necklace.

This is a necklace worn by Marilyn Monroe when she won the 17th Golden Globe Award for Best Actress in a Musical Comedy for her film Some Like It Hot in 1960. I was in It sold for $800,000 at an auction three years ago. Looking at the necklace, Bloomberg's eyes were full of reluctance.

Yang Jinglei's words made Yang Jinglei very serious. Looking at Bloomberg's silver expression, it was obvious that this was also a young man who was fascinated by Monroe's style.

Based on Bloomberg's age, when Monroe swept the United States and the world, Bloomberg was just a teenager in his teens. How could he not be fascinated by that charming woman?

I just don’t know if this guy’s wife Margaret will give this guy a roar after knowing that he even has a necklace that Marilyn Monroe wore next year.

Well, the necklace this guy brought out is indeed quite valuable. Although the necklace itself is not worth much, once it hooks up with Monroe, it is estimated that all the men under the age of 60 present here today will be tempted.

Yang Jing slandered this old coward, but this year of complaint was also very interested in the auction items that Yang Jing put up for auction. He also wanted to see what Yang Jing was going to auction today.

To be honest, this was Yang Jing's first time participating in such a top-level reception. He didn't know that people attending the reception needed to bring a high-end auction item, so he was not prepared at all.

However, he has a lot of good things in his storage space, and a random piece can be worth a few million dollars at least.

Take a Monet oil painting? Yang Jing immediately shook his head and rejected this idea. Monet's works are also quite popular in the United States. Even in the 1980s, a Monet oil painting was worth a lot. Tens of millions of dollars, it is obviously inappropriate to take out such a painting on this occasion.

Among the treasures of the last tsar in Siberia, some oil paintings that have been preserved have been put back into the storage space by Yang Jing, so now he has no shortage of paintings by famous artists.

Then why don't you take a golden scepter? Yang Jing immediately vetoed this idea. There are also two golden scepters found in Gaddafi's treasure in the space. They are made of gold and require no maintenance at all. Just rub them and they will immediately become golden.

However, the value of this golden scepter is also quite high. After all, it is something from ancient Egypt, and it is a veritable antique cultural relic. It is not uncommon for people to spend tens of millions of dollars to buy.

Yang Jing thought of the eight-shaped escudo gold coin in the batch of pirate treasures obtained in Alert. Although the value of such a gold coin can be sold for four to five hundred thousand dollars in later generations, it is hard to say now, after all Gold coin collection is not very popular now, it is a niche collection, if no one accepts this kind of gold coin, it will be depressing if the auction fails.

Yang Jing also intends to find a set of jewelry from the treasures of the last tsar, but Bloomberg has already taken out a necklace. If he gets another set of jewelry, it seems to be the legendary crash.

The most important thing is that the jewelry once worn by the Russian empress or even the empress may be worth far more than the necklace that Bloomberg took out, but it can’t stand the necklace of Bloomberg, but Monroe once wore it of. This is the United States, who knows if those rich Americans will not hang on to the queen or empress of Russia?

This guy Bloomberg kept urging him, and Yang Jing couldn't do anything about it. In the end, he had no choice but to take out a colorless diamond the size of a broad bean from a box full of gems.

This diamond is a cut diamond. It is so big and weighs more than 30 carats. It is definitely a huge diamond.

Even in this day and age, the starting price of an extra-large diamond over 30 carats is in the million-dollar range. Most importantly, well-cut diamonds of this size are rare, even in the United States