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Chapter 45 I Should Fire the Stock Broker

After continuing to chat with them at Monica's apartment for a while, Locke left Monica's apartment with the breakfast he brought to Tang Wei.

From their conversation, Locke knew that Chandler's best friend roommate would be available soon, but Rachel would probably have to wait a year or two.

In the past year, every time Locke came to New York, he would go to the bar to drink and chat with them.

But so far, no missions have been triggered, which made Locke think of the robbery of Fuzhong Building and Prosperity Town, and the same is true.

Combining the missions he has completed before, Locke has some vague guesses about how the system triggers the mission rules, but it still needs some attempts.

"I really didn't expect your custom-made dress to fit so well." Standing in front of the full-length mirror, Tang Wei looked at himself in the mirror, looking up and down.

The dress that Locke ordered for her is very good, fully showing her advantages. Obviously, Locke knows her body size well, after all, he has carefully measured it with both hands.

In order to prepare for the writer's dinner in the evening, Tang Wei had been busy all day. The stylist arranged by Locke never let go of any detail. Even though she felt perfect, she still kept making minor adjustments.

Even with such busy work, the tension in her heart dissipated a lot.

"So those who put money into my project in the past have gained beyond imagination." At the dinner, the man chatting with Locke said so.

Martin Channing, who was in front of him, talked about his investment incessantly, letting Locke know that the big man of the Ponzi scheme seemed to be eyeing him.

The 4000 million US dollars obtained from Fuzhong Building, excluding the necessary "handling fees", of which more than 4 million US dollars were successfully inherited after being converted into a family fund by Locke. He did not make any publicity about this matter.

Even now, he has successfully doubled this asset, except for his stock broker, few people know that he already has hundreds of millions of assets.

But now Martin Channing's behavior made Locke have some guesses in his mind. It happened that he planned to stay in New York for a whole summer vacation, instead of choosing vacation travel like other high school graduates, and also to deal with some things.

The tax rate in the United States is very high, especially through the stock market or financial investment profits, but such investment profits are not taxable until you are ready to withdraw them for personal consumption.

Financial investment only has stamp duty and no other taxes, because financial investment is a very risky investment, and most of the time it is a loss. If you make a profit, you have to pay nearly half of the tax. When the investment loses money, do you want a tax refund?

"It's a pleasure to talk to you about this. If I have time, I will learn more about your fund." Locke said with a smile.

"No problem, I'll have my assistant send you the information."

"Ah, no problem." Locke ended his conversation with Martin Channing with a smile, and then he whispered in Tang Wei's ear, "I think I should fire my current stockbroker."

"Fire the stock broker? Why?" Tang Wei was taken aback.

Locke smiled without explaining, and continued to chat with the people he met at the banquet, talking about the economy with men, mocking the government, talking about fashion and art with them in front of women, in short, all kinds of bragging.

Unknowingly, time passed, and Tang Wei went back to the residence at night. After Tang Wei fell asleep, Locke came to Trinity Church again.

The entry went smoothly this time. Locke bought the equipment during the day and fell directly to the bottom through the rope. He didn't want to step on the wooden spiral staircase that had been corroded for 200 years at all.

As for the pipe, he also thought of a way, which is actually not difficult, as long as he knows the shape and size of the pipe on the mechanism, and then it should not be difficult to directly build one.

As for notifying the U.S. government, at least wait until Locke gets all the gold, jewelry and other things that are easy to take away from the treasure before considering it. Of course, it is best to keep the secret.

Those huge individual works of art may have sufficient value, but the large number of works of art is not so easy to hide and sell.

Ordinary small works of art are fine, they can be sold by ants moving, but large works of art are another matter, you need to find a suitable place to put them, and it is difficult to explain the source if you want to sell them.

Not to mention how much money can be sold, the key is that there are so many large-scale works of art, if you are not careful, you may face all kinds of troubles.

Now Locke may have money, but the corresponding contacts have not been established, and the troubles caused by it may make him scramble.

As for transporting things out, it is not as difficult as imagined. After all, Locke has storage space, especially after discovering this treasure, Locke expanded the storage space to 5 cubic meters.

According to Locke's thinking, it is best to leave these things that are inconvenient to take away here, so as to save a lot of trouble that may be caused. Even if the treasure hunting expert finds here in the future, it is impossible to contact Locke.

Just thinking that the US government may be so cheap in the future still makes Locke feel uncomfortable.

With this in mind, Locke came to the keyhole of the pipe, took out the prepared measuring instruments and started measuring, and then drew the pipe little by little based on the keychain and the picture in his memory.

After finally confirming that it was correct, he took out the prepared materials and tools and got busy.

After the production was completed, Locke put the pipe in, followed the action in the movie, first turned half a circle clockwise, and then pressed down.

The next moment, there was the sound of creaking and creaking mechanisms in the stone wall, and a new passage appeared in front of Locke.

At this time, Locke did not light the oil next to the escalator as in the plot, but took out several high-power lighting sticks.

As the treasure room lit up, dozens of large and small bronze, or gold, stone statues, and gold utensils were seen at a glance.

This is just a small part. What attracted Locke's attention the most was the location in the middle of the treasure room, where dozens of decayed and damaged wooden boxes reflected light.

This is gold, as well as the light reflected by diamonds and jewelry under the light. Locke walked over and saw more than a dozen white diamonds comparable to pigeon eggs, as well as thumb-sized red, pink, blue, and yellow diamonds. Diamonds or precious stones piled up in a pile.

In addition, there are a large number of gold coins piled up together. Stepping on them, Locke actually feels like he is lying on a gold mountain.

These gold coins were basically minted in the [-]th and [-]th centuries in European countries. Because of the huge circulation, they are not too rare, and the value of antiques is limited.

However, the quantity is quite a lot. Locke glanced at it and estimated that there are at least seven or eight tons piled up. Putting it into the time period that Locke traveled through, it would be worth at least a billion dollars.

When he came to the place where the gemstones were piled up, Locke picked up a red diamond casually. He looked at it and felt that it was bigger than the largest known colored diamond, which is the 59.9-carat pastel star.

Moreover, the value of red diamonds is higher than that of pink diamonds. If they are auctioned in the future, they may even fetch hundreds of millions of dollars.

In addition, there are all kinds of rubies, topaz, and sapphires. Seeing these gems and looking at them carefully, Lockebie is even more excited when he sees those diamonds.

These gems are excellent materials suitable for making the Lord of the Rings. Artificial gems cannot be used as alchemy materials. The gems here are many times better than the rubies that I bought for 600 million dollars and used to make the Lord of the Rings.

With a wave of his hand, Locke quickly put these diamonds and gems into the storage space, looked at the time, and found that the time was running out, so he waved his hand again to fill the storage space with gold coins.

Then Locke returned the same way, quickly returned to the entrance through the rope mechanism, and carefully left the church.

If nothing else happened, during the next period of time in New York, Locke would need to go in and out at least a dozen times before he could evacuate the treasures that needed to be moved.

(End of this chapter)