Chapter 707 (1/2)
Simon left New York at more than five o'clock in the afternoon and returned to Los Angeles. The west coast time was less than seven o'clock in the evening.
Domay point manor.
Simon's car into the manor, just to leave with an armored escort car in the corridor.
Janet was waiting in the small square in front of shell villa when she saw Simon get out of the car and kiss the man intimately. Simon, arm in arm by Janet, enters the villa and asks with a smile, ”how much is it this time?”
Janet put out two fingers and shook them. She said, ”dinner will wait for a while. Let's go down and have a look.”
Simon nodded.
Two people through the hall, from a room on the east side of the villa into the shell villa basement.
Shell villa underground vault has more than 200 square meters of space, from top to bottom, need to go through three safety doors to reach.
The inside of the rectangular vault is divided into three rooms from outside to inside.
After Simon entered the door, there was a large room on the outside. On one side, there were piles of banknotes like hills. On the other side, the shelves were full of gold. It was the two tons that had just been escorted. Unconsciously, 20 tons of gold had been stored here.
After some plans were made in the first half of the year, many things have been carried out step by step.
Although the main location of the planned gold hoarding is in the underground vault of the headquarters building of Johnston Holdings Group in Melbourne, before that, Simon decided to store part of the gold in domay point manor, including a total of US $100 million in cash in the vault, in case of need from time to time.
It's not a good idea to keep a lot of cash and gold in your home.
However, if anyone can get here, it can only be said that the Westeros have had a great change that even Simon can't control. Besides, Simon is really not afraid of the robbers who just covet these things in the vault.
The continuous expansion of domay point manor, in addition to Simon's preference for more living space, is also to strengthen the manor's defensive ability.
At this stage, not only the large area of land around the shell villa, including the waters within a mile of the coastal waters, are privately owned by the Westeros. Unauthorized intruders will be intercepted and even attacked by the security team of domay point manor before they get close to the shell villa.
After that incident in the first half of the year, Simon strengthened the security of domay point manor again.
Inside and outside the domay point manor, the number of long-term garrison security team reached 150, of which 50 were responsible for guarding the interior of the manor, and 100 were scattered around the manor.
Considering the fact that shell villa faces the sea, in addition to conventional weapons, the security team is also equipped with water and air defense firepower. In my memory, the scene of iron man villa being bombed by helicopter will never happen in domay point manor. As long as the aircraft with unknown purpose is close to it, after the warning is invalid, the security team in the manor can counterattack in one minute.
As for some ordinary bandits trying to break into the domay point manor, it is even more wishful thinking.
In the vault.
Simon picked up a 10kg brick and looked at it. He took it to Janet and joked, ”come on, take a bite and try the real thing.”
Janet grabbed Simon's gold brick obediently, opened her white teeth, but changed her target as soon as her head deviated. She bit Simon's wrist impolitely, looked at her teeth and said with a smile, ”really.”
Simon grinned, weighed the bricks in his hand and asked, ”what's the purchase price of this gold?”
”The current international gold price is $395 an ounce, and the Russian government gives us a discount of $380, two tons of gold, a total of $24.5 million,” Janet said
In order to avoid attention as much as possible, the Westeros did not buy gold in the international gold market, but directly from some gold mines or national governments.
In terms of mining, the Johnston family has a very wide range of contacts. As for the government, at this stage, many countries in Eastern Europe and even Latin America need to rely on the sale of large quantities of gold reserves to make a living, which also gives the Westeros a chance.
Compared with being manipulated by gold exchanges and high commissions, Eastern European countries are more willing to sell directly without intermediary channels.
Of course, there are few buyers in this area, and the purchase volume will not be too large.
Simon showed great restraint. In half a year, he just quietly bought 20 tons of gold in front of him.
20 tons of gold, according to the price of gold in the past six months between $350 and $400 per ounce, the Westeros only spent about $230 million in cash. This is only a fraction of the vast cash reserves of the Westeros system.
With the opening of Melbourne's vault, Simon will increase his efforts to buy gold from next year. It is estimated that he will buy 50 to 100 tons of gold every year.
At that time, this matter can't be concealed any more.
However, since we have to do it, we can't hide it all the time.Standing in the vault, he discussed some follow-up plans with Janet. Simon was about to take the woman away, but janetra stopped him and pointed to a door leading to the inner room: ”I've made another batch of files recently, including the six little vases you like very much in livny. Do you want to go in and have a look?”
The vault is divided into three rooms, the outermost one is gold and cash.
Inside, there are various kinds of expensive wristwatch jewelry of Simon and two jennies, as well as files of many people in the westero system, including executives of various subsidiaries, members of the family service team, and women outside Simon. Basically, Janet is responsible for the arrangement of the service team of the Westeros, so Janet is clear about Simon's various movements outside.
Simon never wanted to hide from Janet.
Further inside, in the third room, which is separated by a secret door, are the files of members of the intelligence team of the Westeros family, as well as all kinds of sensitive information collected by the intelligence team in recent years.
Simon felt Janet's insincere tone, put his arm around the woman's waist and walked out, saying, ”don't bully them. You know, I have other plans for them.”
Janet walked out with Simon and said, ”sometimes I want to help you get a few.”
Simon cooperatively made a very wrong appearance: ”this ah, quietly, maybe I forgot.”
Janet snorted menacingly: ”let's start with yekaterina. Don't think I don't know. You have a private plane gift sent to those vases. Yekaterina is the most. Well, you haven't given me so many presents. ”
Simon is even more wrong: ”can you change it? What's more, mine is yours. Even I'm yours. Isn't it weird to give yourself a gift? ”
Janet listened to the man's sophistry and gave him a pinch.
They leave the underground vault and go upstairs. Aliya is waiting at the door to remind them that dinner is ready.
Janet agreed and sent aliya to leave first. She took Simon's arm and walked slowly through the hall. Suddenly, she came up to the man's ear and asked in a low voice, ”how do those three women feel?”