Chapter 869: 868. Government Auction (2/5)

Chapter 869 868. Government Auction (25)

The four little ones just picked grapes for fun, and after Li Du encouraged them, they found it more fun and worked even more enthusiastically.

In this way, Li Du can't go fishing, he has to stay here with the fourth child.

After staying in Turtle Island for two days, he had a lot of conversations with Steve. According to the experience of the other party buying the island, Li Du has gained a lot of experience, which should be useful when he buys the Sea-Gull Island in the future.

They returned to Sydney two days later and went their separate ways.

Steve flew back to the United States, and Li Du and his party stayed in Australia to wait for Ivana's postoperative diagnosis and treatment.

During this period, he did not waste time, flew to Tasmania, and sent some materials to Bull Stewart and Theodore Tony.

After staying for another ten days, Ivana's postoperative diagnosis and treatment were over, and she could return to the United States for recuperation.

At this time, the little girl still has to wear a veil, but when there are no outsiders, she can accept taking off the veil.

It is true that she still looks very bad now, with gauze on her face, under the gauze are all cuts, and there are many seams, like a broken doll.

However, she looks much better now than before. At least her facial features are formed. After applying ointment on her skin, the scars began to fade, and she regained her previous cute loli look.

Sophie gave her a gift, which was blond hair, which was exactly the same as Ivana's previous hair texture and hairstyle. After wearing the wig, Ivana's mood improved even more.

At first, Li Du's plan was to let Brother Wolf and Sophie take Ivana back to the United States for recuperation, and he had to stay here to continue to manage the black opal excavation.

Because he wants to buy Shagull Island, he needs a lot of money. The Black Ouba Mine in Lightning Ridge is the fastest way to get money. According to his estimation, the gemstones in the veins around the No. 122 mine must have a few The value of tens of millions.

As a result, he soon discovered that this road was not going to work, and he wanted to sell the black opal to his own Winston Group, as the saying goes, the rich water does not flow to outsiders.

But Cole doesn't have enough cash to make the acquisition, so he can only pay with equity, and he doesn't want to continue selling equity, at least not now.

In this way, the black opal dug up by Li Du had to be sold to other luxury goods companies in exchange for money.

Black Opal is very popular in the international market, if he wants to sell, there is always someone willing to buy it.

But considering that these luxury companies are all competitors of Winston Group, and now Winston Group is preparing to launch a new series of jewelry with the theme of opal, if he sells a large number of black opal, it will depress the value of this jewelry series. value.

After thinking about it, Li Du suspended the sale of black opal. He asked Obradovic and others to continue mining, but all the excavated gemstones were preserved and not sold outside.

He made this consideration not only because he had to think about the Winston Group, but also because Hans told him about a brand new money-making opportunity.

Government Warehouse Auction!

The Arizona state government is preparing to auction the property confiscated by state agencies in the first half year in early July. The place will be in Phoenix, and a grand government warehouse auction will be held at that time.

Li Du had heard of this kind of auction when he was in Flagstaff City. This is the biggest banquet in the warehouse auction industry, and it will attract a large number of treasure hunters to participate.

For various reasons, local governments, police stations, banks, etc. will confiscate a large amount of property, some of which are illegal items, some are confiscated after the creditor fails to repay the loan, and some are lost items.

There are two ways to deal with illegal income. If it is a threat to social stability, the police will destroy it. If it is not a threat to society, it will be handed over to the government for auction.

Houses, vehicles, jewelry and other items not recovered by the bank also have two processing channels. One is to auction them off. If the auction fails, they will be stored in a warehouse.

Government storage auctions mainly deal with items collected from these two channels. Although these items are not accepted for auction on the surface, it does not mean that they are all garbage.

On the contrary, there are a lot of treasures and valuable goods in it, but it is a test of one's vision.

Hans said: "Every government storage auction produces multimillionaires. Someone finds a classic car in it, someone finds a box of jewelry, and someone finds a lot of shit!"

"We might as well go back and participate in this auction, Li. With your vision and my good luck, we might make a lot of money."

Li Du looked at him suspiciously and said, "My eyesight is fine, but your good luck?"

Hans puffed out his chest: "I feel insulted. Of course my luck is good. What's the problem?"

"There are a lot of questions." Li Dubai gave him a look, "If we rely on your luck to participate in the storage auction, we might starve to death for a long time!"

Hans thought about it for a while, then said with a smile: "It seems to be the same, we can't rely on luck to pick up treasures."

At the end of June, Li Du shipped the Mi-8 helicopter back to the United States by sea, and then the group flew from Sydney to Los Angeles on a passenger plane.

At this time, Los Angeles was about to enter summer, and the sun was hot and the wind was warm. Hans opened his arms immediately after getting off the plane, and Li Du asked, "Are you going to kneel again?"

The last time they returned to the United States from China, they got off the plane in Los Angeles, and as a result, this guy knelt down directly. Li Du still remembers this incident vividly.

Hans snorted, "I'm not an idiot, why would I do this?"

After a short stay in Los Angeles, they continued to fly to Phoenix. This journey was relatively short, and Hans and others were considered to be home.

Compared with Los Angeles, Phoenix, the desert stove, has completely entered summer. As soon as Li Du stepped out of the plane door, a gust of scorching wind hit his face, and he immediately broke out in a layer of sweat.

Not long ago, they were shivering in the cold at night on Shagull Island, but this time they returned to Phoenix, but they were sweating from the heat. Both extreme feelings made them feel uncomfortable.

When Hans got off the plane, Baji knelt down, threw himself on the ground and kissed the ground with his lips, shouting loudly: "Ah, my Arizona, I'm back!"

Passengers around pointed and pointed, Sophie and her party were full of embarrassment, but Li Du was calm and unflappable.

Hans didn't care about the eyes of the passengers. He got up happily and breathed hard: "The air in my hometown is sweeter. I feel my lungs are cheering."

Lu Guan said: "Boss Fu, this is an airport. Every day, planes emit a large amount of waste gas with excessive metal elements. If you breathe like this, you will get lung disease."

Brother Wolf, Godzilla and Da Ou all laughed and nodded in agreement.

When they arrived in Phoenix, Li Du and the others did not return to Flagstaff City, but directly stayed here.

Sophie went to contact the nursing home to receive Ivana, while the others stayed in the steampunk hotel, preparing for the auction soon.