Start by trimming cow hooves

If you only focus on income, acquiring a red wine estate in Italy is obviously not a cost-effective deal.

Just like operating ranches and fruit and vegetable farms on Lanai, the annual output of a wine estate is limited, and it is difficult to generate returns of dozens or hundreds of times like other projects.

However, there is more than business in life.

Especially for top rich people like Suri who are already rich, how to make life fulfilling, exciting and enjoyable is the most important thing.

He has long thought about purchasing a red wine estate, and he happened to have the opportunity today. I just wanted to ask by the way. It would be great to be able to purchase Chateau Jia Ya. It doesn't matter if the negotiation fails.

Compared with French wine estates, which are good at marketing, Italian wineries are more cost-effective.

Many farmers in Europe disdain to grow ordinary crops and develop them into high value-added wineries, resorts, flower fields and the like.

These small wineries are often priced but not marketable, and are far less valuable than people think. There are far more sellers who want to sell their wineries at high prices than there are potential buyers on the market.

Suri has been to Italy.

The impressions of cities such as Rome, Milan, and Florence are much better than those of Paris and New York. They are more suitable for occasional vacations and short stays.

The so-called good impression is only relative.

Due to the economic recession, in many tourist cities in Italy, there are relatively few open robberies like those in the United States, but street thieves are becoming more and more rampant.

The official maintenance of various infrastructures is not adequate. High welfare has fostered countless lazy people and almost emptied Italy's finances.

Many of the buildings on the street are just beautiful on the outside. Looking inside will make you want to run away.

Fortunately, Suri doesn't need to be exposed to these, just be a tourist...

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Still at the banquet.

Hungry, when Suri was tasting lobster balls and vanilla ice cream, a short Greek representative with a Mediterranean hairstyle came to him and asked:

"I heard others discussing it. It seems that you are planning to acquire a wine estate in Italy? That is simply boring. I have a more suitable project to recommend to you."

All right.

Greece and Italy are now brothers in the same boat. Both are on the verge of bankruptcy, triggering the European debt crisis one after another and dragging the entire European Union into trouble.

It seems that their trip to Washington a few days ago did not go well, and it even reached the point of stabbing each other in the back and competing for investment.

With Suri's current status and reputation.

If he indirectly supports a certain country by investing at the bottom, it can more or less boost market confidence and is obviously worth taking seriously.

After briefly greeting Mr. Itoudis from Greece, Suri asked him with interest:

"If you don't mind if I grab a bite to eat, we can talk now. What project are you referring to?"

Mr. Itoudis smiled and said:

"The only surviving descendant of the late Greek shipping king Onassis, Miss Athena Onassis, owns the island of Skorpios in her name."

"It was noticed by the media last year and is being sold for 140 million euros. By then you can renovate the building above and own a private island in Europe."

"Miss Athena Onassis and my daughter were classmates in the same private middle school and often rode horses together. I think she would definitely be happy to meet you..."

Suri had heard about the precious granddaughter of the Greek shipping king for a long time.

When he saw relevant news in the 1990s, he once envied the other person who had hundreds of millions of dollars of wealth right after he was born, lying on a mountain of gold and silver.

Unlike myself, I can only rely on hard work and sweat, and accumulate hundreds of millions of points.

Later, it was reported that Miss Athena Onassis made a will at a young age, was always shadowed by death, and was sued by her father to fight for her inheritance.

The entire shipping family is facing a curse because of their wealth, and some even suspect that her wealthy mother actually died of murder.

The reason why Suri has a bit of "persecution paranoia" now is because there are too many examples like this, involving a huge number of conflicts of interest, and any danger may occur.

Such as those media oligarchs.

Although it can't compete with Netflix Entertainment's self-produced dramas, it has the opportunity to spend hundreds of thousands of dollars to hire people to make Suri, the director, smile and go west.

Then, while pretending to mourn, they will carve up a market share worth hundreds of billions of dollars. They may also make a personal biopic of Suri to completely drain his value.

Think of this.

Su Rui suddenly sympathized with Miss Athena Onassis. Wealth and happiness sometimes cannot be directly equated.

He felt panicked when he thought that his descendants might also suffer the "curse" like the Ship King family.

Wiping his mouth with paper, Suri said to Mr. Itoudis:

"The development of Lanai Island has taken up a lot of my funds. Next, I have to develop two new projects in Dubai. I have no extra energy to invest in new projects."

Mr. Itoudis was just disappointed when he heard Suri say again:

"However, I think the Greek tourism industry has great potential. If I can find some suitable hotels and they are located in Athens or Santorini, I may choose to acquire them."

Just like the reason for investing in the Dubai project, this is also to use overseas investment to transfer some funds out of the United States.

Due to the collective surge in assets such as Apple, Netflix Entertainment, and Facebook, approximately 75% of Suri's wealth is located in the United States, and this number is gradually increasing.

Even if he doesn't come to tonight's banquet, Suri will still invest in some stable overseas projects.

When Mr. Itoudis heard this, he was very surprised and said:

"The King George Hotel in the center of Athens happens to be looking for a new buyer due to huge losses. One of the shareholders is a good friend of mine!"

"I also have many friends over in Santorini. You can invest in a new hotel and design it exactly the way you like. I will be responsible for coordinating it for you..."

Su Rui's mouth twitched and she said:

"Mr. Itoudis has so many friends. How about the King George Hotel?"

"The facilities inside are a bit old and may need to be renovated, but its location is very good. From some rooms, you can see the Acropolis and the Parthenon."

After listening to Mr. Itoudis' words, Suri first used Google Chrome to search for information about this hotel.

Judging from the online pictures, it also has a rooftop swimming pool and an open-air restaurant. There are a total of 102 rooms, which are not too big or too small, just in line with Suri's needs.

Subsequently.

Seeing that Mr. Itoudis also successfully pitched the project to Suri, he received a reply that he would seriously consider it.

Representatives from other countries at the scene immediately became envious and jealous, and asked their subordinates to look for wineries, hotels, resorts, etc. in their own countries. They are currently looking for buyers... (End of Chapter)