919. Powerful Family (3/5)

Chapter 920 919. Powerful Family (35)

Compared to Jones, James is the real sports star, a rich star.

The 1.5 million was paid by James, but it would be a lie to say that he didn't feel sorry for the money. When he wrote the check later, his eyes trembled several times.

This is obviously distressing.

Li Du saw this, but he pretended not to see it. He's conceded enough about those sneakers that it's impossible to concede more.

Friendship is friendship, and business is business. If he regresses a little, he can show his kindness and gain James' friendship. If he regresses too much, it will easily make people feel that he is too weak.

Besides, in order to get these sneakers, he has tossed for several days, and even had conflicts with local treasure hunters in Indiana, and paid the price. If he can't make money from it, then what is he trying to do?

In fact, he didn't make any money in this way. The warehouse auction business belonged to him and Hans, and the two of them had to score the profits.

Li Du lowered the price to 1.5 million, so their profit was 400,000. He decided not to profit from it, and gave all 400,000 to Hans.

This is tantamount to giving up his 40,000 to 50,000 profits in order to gain James' friendship.

So, his regress is big enough, and he doesn't want to continue to regress, so he can't let him make up the money for Hans, right?

James is quite a man. In addition to giving the money, he also gave Li Du some tickets.

Ten of those tickets are for their Miami Heat-Phoenix Suns game next season, and a few for other Heat games.

The tickets he gave are all in the front, including the front row tickets, which cannot be bought even if you have money, and are used by the team or the leading stars for favors.

So, shortly after the two cars of sneakers were delivered to Phoenix, they were on the road again.

When we parted, Li Du smiled and said, "Mr. Jones, this time you rent the warehouse, don't forget to pay the fee."

Jones was depressed when he mentioned this, and he said with a dark face: "Thank you, I will never forget it in my life! Damn it, I will continue to sue the horse-walking warehouse company, I just didn't pay the rent of several hundred yuan, He actually auctioned off my two million things!"

Li Du comforted: "Life is alive, and it is inevitable to encounter unsatisfactory things. I hope you can win. They are doing too much."

Jones raged: "I was renting that warehouse company because they were related to the team. I know, now I go to the Mavericks, and the Pacers are annoyed by it, but I was traded away, damn it, I was the victim." People!"

James patted him on the shoulder and said, "Let the lawyer communicate, your anger won't help."

He turned around and waved to Li Du, saying, "Goodbye, buddy. It's nice to meet you. I hope you can watch our games. I swear, you will see wonderful games. Next season, we will punish the entire league!"

In the next two days, Li Du participated in another auction in Phoenix. He had no interest. There were no valuable items in these auctions, and at most he got some small items.

Hans and Lu Guan counted these things, and he sat by the side chatting with his classmates boredly.

At this moment, Cole called him, and Li Du answered in confusion, and asked, "Hello, buddy, what's the matter?"

Cole smiled and said, "I'll check your email later, and I've sent you an invitation to the annual meeting to see if you have time. Come to New York if you have time."

Li Du was surprised: "Invitation letter for the annual meeting? Isn't the annual meeting in January?"

At that time, he was preparing for the Chinese New Year in China. Although he was notified, he really couldn't participate.

Cole said: "Twice a year, the annual meeting is held every six months. This time, you'd better come over and introduce some of our Hai Rui-Winston Group's shareholders and important customers."

Li Du said: "Okay, I will usually go, I have nothing to do during this time."

It's time for him to attend the annual meeting, and now he is the top five major shareholders in the Winston Group.

Cole said: "Then let me say welcome in advance. I'm here to introduce you to a guy. There is a bit of conflict between the two of you. Of course, it's not a big deal."

Li Du wondered, "Contradictions? Who do I have conflicts with?"

Cole laughed loudly: "It's not a big deal, let me keep it a little mysterious."

After chatting casually for a few words, Li Du was about to hang up the phone, but then he felt blessed and suddenly asked, "Has my buddy Steve Tusenberg been invited? I contacted him yesterday, but he didn't hear back." He said it."

Cole said: "Of course, we invited him. How could we ignore the people of the Vanderbilt family? But he doesn't know if he will appreciate it. Steve doesn't show his face outside very much."

Li Du's goal was achieved. He heard a key word, the Vanderbilt family, and Steve's identity was gradually revealed.

After hanging up the phone, he asked Hans next to him, "The Vanderbilt family, do you know this family?"

Hans said with a smile: "Of course, Americans know that when Forbes selected the 15 richest people in American history in 2007, the founder of this family, Cornelius Vanderbilt, was ranked third, only Second only to John Rockefeller and Andrew Carnegie..."

Li Du asked with interest: "Tell me everything you know."

Hans was surprised: "Why do you ask this? Go online and check it out. There is more information on the Internet. In fact, I only know some basic information. This family is very low-key, and it is said that it has lost its glory."

Hearing his words, Brother Wolf shook his head next to him.

Li Du noticed it and asked in surprise, "Do you know this family?"

Brother Wolf nodded: "Vanderbilt, I have met people from their family. When they visited Munich, they were personally accompanied by the Minister of Finance, the Mayor of Munich and members of parliament. I was part of the security system at that time."

Hearing what he said, Li Du understood that this family must not have declined like Hans said, otherwise the German government would not attach so much importance to them.

He had also heard of this family, but he only got a glimpse of it while watching the news, and he only remembered that it seemed to be a giant in the transportation industry.

Later, he searched for relevant information on the Internet, and a huge and friendless family surfaced.

Cornelius Vanderbilt, whom Hans said could be compared to Carnegie and Rockefeller, was the founder of the family and was born in 1784 on Staten Island, New York.

He is a legend. Because of his poor family, he dropped out of school at the age of 11. At the age of 16, he borrowed 100 yuan from his father to buy a boat and began to engage in the ferry service between Staten Island and Manhattan Island.

Starting with this 100 yuan, he gradually became a shipping giant in New York State at that time.