Chapter 676: Honey, I Don't Like Women
With Brown and Joshua once again amazed and numb, Joshua took away the two sets of jewelry of Princess Sissi and a small bag of dozens of Kashmir cornflower sapphires. Pen Fun Pavilion wWw. biquge。 info
Princess Sissi's jewels need to be maintained, the leather bands of the necklace will need to be replaced, and the sapphires will be polished again, and some of them will be slightly cut to remove imperfections, and then designed and processed into a gorgeous set of jewelry, which should be comparable to Nicole's two sets of ruby jewelry.
As for Brown, there will be a period of time for him to be busy: after bringing back dozens of kilograms of gemstones, he will carefully sort them with several appraisers in the studio, which will be a big project - several top studios of the Xingchen Jewelry Group are also busy enough, and the orders of the two proprietors have been scheduled for next year, and they have to temporarily transfer appraisers from the Xingchen Diamond Group.
Of course, experts like Brown and Joshua do not only know diamonds, but are also experts in all kinds of gemstones, and this large number of gems "from unknown sources" must be screened by reliable people, and then the goods that do not reach the standard collection standards of the proprietress will pass through the operation and enter the jewelry processing and sales process within the company.
The income is high, and the workload is equally scary.
The boss is unreasonable, other people's gems are carats, he is on kilograms! The number of gems taken out each time is at least dozens of kilograms, and even hundreds of kilograms can be maddened by two more times!
Appraisers, designers are busy, cutters are even busier.
Studios like Anton Faure and Douglas Valentino Jr., which are still putting the finishing touches on the two diamonds that will drive the world crazy and the Queen cry in the bathroom, should be finished in three to four months.
Two diamonds alone consumed almost all of the time of the world's top cutters, again because the original shape of the Aurora was good, and it didn't take a whole year to design it in advance.
Now another batch of incredible diamonds has been sent to two studios: one of the proprietresses has purple diamonds that will never be sold, and once it is revealed, it will shock the world's top jewels.
The purple diamond of the Zimbabwean idol was cut by Anton Fore's studio, and the workshop of Douglas Jr. was given several red and pink diamonds from "Australia".
However, the processing time needs to be pressed, and Anton Fore clearly told Zhang Nan: After the aurora is completed, he will go to the Caribbean with his family for a vacation for two to three months!
He and little Douglas worked almost 10 hours a day for those two giant diamonds, and they needed to rest for a while to relax, otherwise their hair would fall out!
Zhang Nan is not stingy, the top resort island he bought in the Caribbean is open for them, and they will be reimbursed for food, housing and play.
The boss is generous, and the guys who work are also dedicated, except for those pink and red diamonds from "Australia", the cutter doesn't ask about the origin of other gemstones, just do your job, the boss won't sell it anyway.
As for the various colored gemstones distributed to the company's processing plants, they have a reasonable "birth history" through operation, and it is not something that processing cutters and designers need to care about.
Dad has a desire to collect top gemstones, and so do the proprietresss, especially after the huge purple diamond avoids flaws and cuts into several fine pieces, fools know that it will be Lady Nicole's baby, and even Lady Jenny will not fight - a set of purple diamond jewelry is difficult to draw conclusions all over the world, but it is definitely the most suitable to wear on Nicole in North America!
Because Nicole's eyes are purple, purple, purer than Elizabeth Taylor's purple eyes, and they are a perfect match for purple diamonds!
And it is said that the eyes of the boss's baby daughter are also inherited from her mother's extremely rare mutant gene, and her eyes are black with a touch of purple, so don't think about the purple diamonds that will cause a sensation in the world.
The boss's scepter is nothing more than his daughter's future toy, and Purple Diamond is something to think about.
On the other hand, two well-paid experts in oil paintings and World War II looted art have already begun to work, spending eight hours a day in the house north of the estate.
Now the two knew what they were doing - the big boss had definitely discovered the Nazi treasure, because several precious pieces of missing World War II art were displayed in front of them every day.
Now that he has been on the ship, he will be sold to the boss for the rest of his life.
Want to disembark?
That death is the end - the two of them are psychologically clear.
On the evening of July 10, in the manor, Jenny asked Zhang Nan something: when would the two experts be allowed to enter the underground warehouse.
Watching the bodyguards take the artwork out of the basement and hand it over to the two of them to identify is too slow!
"Tomorrow let them into Treasury 5, where I am blinded by the oil paintings!
I want them to think of their own way, classify and count, and let me divide the five hundred paintings in a small room!"
"Do you want to estimate the price?"
Listening to Jenny's words, Zhang Nan said: "If they have the ability, let them do it." But get down to business, lest someone find something in Goering's fat man's living room in my drawing-room......"
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Zhang Nan was very busy, working as a good father and man on Long Island for a few days, and on the 11th and 12th, he met with representatives of several of the world's top architectural design companies in New York to solve problems related to his dream castle.
The design tender is about to be officially issued, so the design company must know what the requirements of the money spender are?
So far, there are only five or six companies and design studios that are likely to participate in the design competition.
Is there a lot of them?
Not much, if not very little!
It is normal for a project design bid of hundreds of millions of dollars to receive two or three hundred design drawings, let alone hundreds of millions, or even billions of dollars.
Only five or six companies are competing because the actual goal is the castle, which is a genuine non-mainstream.
Villas, mansions, and even modern manors that resemble castles are common, but this is a castle, not a castle in Disney Park, but a real castle made of granite and white marble, and there will be almost no steel inside!
Of course, it is not that reinforced concrete does not appear in all places: the main body takes a thousand years, but places such as internal toilets, expect to use thousands of years?
The "modern part" belongs to the part that can be easily repaired and replaced after a few years in the future, and the traditional craft part is eternal.
This part of the requirement alone scares away the vast majority of design companies: today's rich people don't play retro like this!
How can you build a house without steel bars?
This will be a castle, not a two- or three-story brick farmhouse.
How to lay out the space, how to deal with the load-bearing structure, and how thick should the exterior wall be?......
There are all kinds of things, and there are 108,000 miles different from modern architectural design, and the companies that can play this design are either giants in the industry, or "non-mainstream" that has studied ancient castles.
Zhang Nan also has a lot of requirements: under the premise of being suitable for the structure and environment of the mountaintop, build it as big as possible!
The lighting should be good, the foundation can be high, the interior of the tower can be dim, but the rooms and halls should maintain sufficient clearance and natural lighting, like the interior of the Palace of Versailles.
As for the appearance, it would be better to be able to put Neuschwanstein Castle down, at least not worse......
As for the question of interior decoration...... Wait for the external structure to be built, but building the castle is a super difficult project, and the house is built first, and you can't become a fat man in one bite.
Decoration is not as simple as building a house, and it can even reach the point where a top design studio is responsible for a few rooms, and the actual decoration may also face a similar situation.
Zhang Nan and the two losers in the family have discussed the idea of the castle several times, as for how to find the interior decoration, it can't be more low-key than the Louvre, right?
The world's top European ancient and modern artworks have what to want, the Palace of Versailles has Mona Lisa, Venus and the Goddess of Victory, and Zhang Nan has "most of Europe", and even the Amber Palace!
Oh, the Amber Palace is not considered, unless Zhang Nan doesn't want to live anymore.
People from design companies and design studios went to Austria to check on the spot, and they also had to contact local government departments, but those things had nothing to do with Zhang Nan.
The expenses of the design company have nothing to do with Zhang Nan, but the design fee for the castle theme is 2 million US dollars, and the winning bidder can get it, and the others will only accompany the prince to study in the end.
The rules of the construction industry are also quite cruel, and the decision is entirely up to the personal preference of the payer.
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After solving the problems of castle design, Zhang Nan left for France on the night of the 12th.
The National Day of the United States was a little soured by Zhang Nan, and the 14th was the celebration of the 200th anniversary of the French Revolution.
Zhang Nan has an invitation letter issued by the French government to the "Sunshine Star" company.
Nicole and Jenny didn't have time, so they let Zhang Nan go. Even if she knew that Zhang Nan had someone in France, Nicole and the two didn't eat it, who made that person call her Isabel Adjani.
Nicole and Jenny both hope that Zhang Nan can bring Adjani to New York to get to know them officially, but they don't know how the two will react if they know that Adjani has a boy in her belly......
Many Orientals can't figure out which of the national days of the United States and France is which, very close, and very similar.
In the United States, it is July 4, while in France it is July 14, the day of the destruction of the Bastille prison in Paris during the French Revolution.
This year marks the 200th anniversary of the French Revolution, and France will celebrate it with great pomp. On July 14, a grand military parade was held on the Elysée de l'Elysée in Paris.
"It is said that more than 300 tanks and armored vehicles, 5,000 soldiers and 250 planes and helicopters will be reviewed. Thirty-three foreign heads of state or government plus more than 10,000 foreign guests were invited to the ceremony.
There may be 800,000 ordinary people watching the ceremony, and there will be a large-scale theatrical performance in the evening......"
Zhang Nan will talk to Guan Xingquan about the French National Day military parade on the plane, but Guan Boss is generally interested.
"I was on the side of the viewing platform during the military parade in '84. ”
Zhang Nan said a lot, but Boss Guan said a word, and Zhang Nan was speechless.
The French army has been a joke since World War II, and apart from their Foreign Legion, which is a bit of a sight to behold, the rest of the troops are nothing to say.
As for the military parade, how much interest will those who have watched the military parade in China in 84 be interested in the military parades of other countries?
Not to mention anything else, the troops of the 84 military parade still have a smell of iron-blooded troops who have participated in actual combat, Zhang Nan has watched many Chinese military parade movies and documentaries on TV in his previous life, if you want to say that the most shocking, it is definitely the one in 1984!
No one, one of a kind!
As for military parades abroad, the military parades in the USSR may feel a little bit, and the others are not interesting at all......
Zhang Nan was in the category of more than 10,000 guests from all over the world, and he was able to go to two people, and when he reported before, he sent the identity information of Zhang Nan and Alyosha to the French.
Boss Guan is an overseas Chinese or a Chinese citizen, and although he has another completely legal American identity, this kind of occasion is not appropriate.
Zhang Nan also wanted to get together with Adjani, but as the most influential movie star in France now, he was originally within the scope of the invitation, so he didn't need to worry about it.
As soon as I arrived in Paris, I still stayed at the Ritz Hotel, which I was used to.
Now that the hotel was full, when Zhang Nan arrived at his suite, Adjani was already there.
"Lisa, I miss you. ”
Directly hugged the French goddess into his arms, smelling the good smell on the other party's body, Zhang Nan didn't want to raise his head.
"I miss you too!"
At this moment, Adjani, who is already 34 years old, is like a little girl whose age is divided by 2, and she doesn't want to move the man who hugs her.
The bodyguard in the back left automatically and helped close the door of the suite.
After a while, Zhang Nan asked Adjani to sit on his lap, and the two talked about love on the sofa.
The baby in the belly is fine, but the appetite is a little bad, but Adjani has experience in this and knows how to adjust.
Zhang Nan is also a father, not in a hurry, and this time is not suitable for certain activities.
After a while, Zhang Nan said: "Come to the United States with me, Nicole and Jenny want to see you." ”
Hearing this, Adjani smiled and said, "I'm afraid of war. ”
Zhang Nan smiled and whispered a few words in the goddess's ear, which was about Nicole and Jenny's careful thoughts about Adjani.
The eyes of the French goddess widened, and it took a long time before she said: "You are so happy, it is incredible!"
"Go ahead. ”
"No, wait until the child is born, find a suitable opportunity, such as you said to go when the movie is made, otherwise it will be embarrassing. ”
Zhang Nan didn't force it, let her get off her lap, and saw where the box she was looking for at the door was placed.
Unpack the box and take two flat boxes, one large and one small, from the inside.
"After leaving Paris last time, I asked the jewelry company to make it ordered, I don't know if I like it for you. ”
As soon as he opened the larger box, even Adjani, who had a special personality, was dazzled.
Full set of diamond jewelry, nostalgic style from the 50s. The colorless pear-shaped center diamond on the necklace is definitely 200 carats, and the 5 to 10 carats side diamonds have twenty or thirty diamonds, not to mention hundreds of smaller diamonds.
A bracelet made entirely of 10-carat cushion-shaped and rectangular yellow diamonds, a pair of colorless pear-shaped diamond pendants of about 15 carats each, and a 15-carat pink pear-shaped diamond ring.
Adjani looked at her little man with her deep eyes and said, "Won't they be jealous?"
"Nicole and Jenny chose, what do you say?"
"Honey, I don't like women. ”