Chapter 1676

Money and beauty, money and beauty are never separated.

I experienced beauty last night. The next morning, Simon went to visit money.

In fact, it is the latest batch of gold purchased by Westeros system. It is located in the underground vault of Westeros building. This batch is 50 tons, not a small quantity.

Or a private deal from Eastern Europe.

After all, it is well known that the goose is the world's largest gold producer.

These years of continuous hoarding of gold happened to be the idea of the long-term downturn in gold prices in the 1990s. In fact, it was a big bargain. That is to say, recently, the price of gold has been hovering at a low level of $260 an ounce, which is lower than $300 or $400 an ounce in previous years. It can be described as the lowest price of gold in the past 30 years.

As for the reason, it is basically very simple. In the 1990s, the United States was at the peak of national power and strength, which also meant that the credit of the US dollar as a national currency reached the highest point. As one fades and the other fades, the dollar strengthens, and gold, as the antithesis to some extent, naturally weakens.

In short, over the past few years, the gold reserves in the vaults of North America and Australia have just exceeded 1000 tons through various public and private channels, including the latest batch of 50 tons.

That's why Simon came to watch the storage of this batch of gold today.

To be exact, a certain figure is actually 1036 tons. According to the current price of $260 per ounce, it is only equivalent to $8.6 billion, which doesn't seem to be much. However, this has actually exceeded the gold reserves of most countries in the world.

On the other side of the ocean, the current national gold reserves are only 450 tons.

Moreover, this is only the lowest price of current value.

According to the original time and space, the price of gold once soared to the high point of $2000 an ounce. At that time, the price of this batch of gold will immediately rise to $66 billion.

It seems that there are not many, but it is definitely the king of currencies in use all over the world without any credit guarantee. When necessary, relying on this gold, Westeros system and several times of leverage for financial operation is not a problem. In contrast, it is the US dollar. The same year 2000 is actually a turning point of prosperity and decline to some extent.

The evidence is also that gold prices have been rising since about 2000.

In addition, the Westeros family's hoarding of gold will certainly not stop, not to mention others, but the Westeros system has quietly invested in a large number of gold mines around the world. At present, it can be determined that the comprehensive annual output of several mines in Australia, Latin America and Africa has also reached about 35 tons, which will increase in the future.

This batch of gold is not intended to be sold and will only flow into the Westeros' own vault in the future.

Interestingly enough, Simon was initially worried that his hoarding of gold would attract more attention. However, as a result, it may not be possible to attract people's attention, but the relevant news has been limited to a very small circle.

The reason is also simple. In the era of credit currency, a super rich hoarding gold is obviously inconsistent with the mainstream concept. If it is known by too many people, it will certainly damage the value of credit currency of all parties.

Therefore, the opinions of western countries are quite unified and selectively ignore this matter. Naturally, the public opinion of the mainstream media will certainly not report it.

As for attitude?

There is certainly no shortage of people who are dissatisfied with Simon's doing so, but Simon's doing so does not obviously harm the interests of specific people, so all parties just keep silent.

Occasionally, some people around him who know the situation will ridicule Simon's "stupid investment".

After the disintegration of the Soviet Union, the price of gold continued to fall for ten years. It seems that it will fall forever, but it is unwise for someone to continue to buy gold for many years.

Simon just laughed it off.

As for the superficial ridicule, no one is sure whether it will follow the trend and hoard some in private. After all, the wealth miracle created by Simon over the years is obvious to all. In terms of making money, probably few people will feel that they have more vision than Simon westero.

After seeing the gold warehousing, he went to the Westeros headquarters in Rockefeller Center to deal with some work. Near noon, Simon took a helicopter to Southampton.

There's an engagement reception here today.

The parties are Grace's daughter Rita spurt and Alexander Levison, the heir of the Levison family.

Rita spurt, 22, followed her boyfriend to study international relations at Columbia University in 1997. Then, the girl was very smart and hard-working. It took only three years to graduate with her boyfriend who entered the university a year earlier. At present, both of them have entered Citibank with the advice and help of their parents.

Not going to cersei capital or First Boston, or even Levison group, which is more related to family relations, is also to better exercise themselves. After all, this job is only excessive, and both of them are actually heirs. Even if the scale of elite is far less than Levison group, grace has determined that she will give it to her daughter in the future.

Of course, it's not to let her daughter participate directly. After all, grace has always disagreed with her daughter's entry into the fashion circle, but even if she only inherits equity and makes behind the scenes control in the future, it's also a valuable asset.

Now.

The little children can smoothly go through high school and college. Their feelings are always stable. At the same time, they are considered a good match, so they decided to get married first.

The reception held here in Southampton is a manor of Levison family. After Levison group gradually shifted its foundation from southern Florida to New York, the family also began to buy more properties here.

The private Black Hawk helicopter stopped steadily on the lawn. Simon stepped down the gangway and was greeted by a group of people.

The parents on both sides, Francis Levison and Bryce Levison, grace krepp with her son ray, and Rita's father, Bill Poole, with his little wife, are surrounded by a pair of golden Michael Levison and Rita Poole.

There are also some other important guests.

Simon greeted the adults on both sides, just nodded to the people around him, went to the boys and girls, smiled and congratulated, handed in his gifts, and didn't forget to remind: "pay attention, Mike, it's a little heavy."

Even in a suit, Michael Levison is still hard to hide his standard athlete physique. He is six feet three inches tall and taller than Simon. It's just that someone deliberately reminded him that the boy caught the seemingly small exquisite gift box and almost got rid of it.

Fortunately, Simon didn't completely let go and took advantage of the situation to help him hold it.

However, in the end, Michael had to hold the gift in both hands before he could hold it firmly.

Everyone chuckled and wondered what westlow had given so heavy? It seems that there is only a box the size of a dictionary. Perhaps the heaviest thing is probably only gold.

Isn't it so tacky?

Simon arrived and the reception officially began.

The Levison family did not hesitate to pay a lot of money for the engagement reception. David Letterman was specially invited as the host. It was grace who quietly greeted Simon and gave him a large appearance fee.

In fact, Simon thinks that Jay Leno on the NBC side is more in line with the atmosphere here. However, since David Letterman of his own TV station is selected here, he can't dismantle his own station.

Perhaps it's because the big boss greeted him personally and gave enough money. David Letterman obviously prepared carefully. The whole process is full of golden sentences and the atmosphere is quite active.

Half an hour's formal process passed in an instant, followed by free time.

After all, it's the children's engagement reception, not to mention Bryce Levison. Even if grace, even if all parties know her relationship with a man, keeps some distance from Simon intentionally or unintentionally, it doesn't affect Simon's popularity in the slightest.

Celine Dion, who was invited to sing for the reception, just started the classic my heart will go on. Simon was surrounded by a group of little girls. Finally, a girl who claimed to be cousin Michael Levison grabbed the top and took Simon into the lawn dance floor.

Then there are various rounds.

An unnamed young lady of a banker, an unnamed daughter of a steelmaker, and an unnamed small TV star

While Simon was enjoying himself and was inevitably confused, today's heroine Rita spurt helped him out and took the initiative to invite him. After all, although Simon has never claimed anything these years, a man is quite good for her and her brother ray. Even if he doesn't show up on his birthday or holiday, he never forgets to give them a gift.

Rita, who changed into a Gucci dress suitable for dancing, took Simon to the dance floor and danced slowly with the soothing jazz. The girl finally asked, "Simon, what did you give just now? Mike almost made a fool of himself?"

The girl seemed curious, obviously with some little resentment.

Simon smiled, "guess?"

Rita rolled her eyes gently. "How can I guess?"

"Here's a hint," Simon said. "It's about 30 pounds."

Rita stared slightly and then responded, "the box that size weighs 30 pounds, only gold?"

"Yes, gold." Simon half joked: "I forgot to prepare gifts in advance. I happened to go to the vault in the morning and picked a gold brick for you."

Rita rolled her eyes again. "It's so tacky."

Speaking, I'm inevitably more curious.

Gold is certain. However, considering that this man has been quite careful to his sister and brother over the years, he will not carelessly forget to prepare for such an important occasion today, so he becomes more and more curious.

It's really gold.

Of course, Simon really won't take a gold brick to make a living, but a batch of very exquisite gold coins. Chen Qing in China helped find craftsmen to make them. Each gold coin has very beautiful words and pictures. Therefore, in addition to its own value, each gold coin can also be called a work of art and is very worthy of collection.

Even very resistant to collection.

After all, there is no more stable substance in the world than gold.

In addition, although he gave out a full 30 pounds, Simon actually had a lot in his hand, which was worth playing with.

Chatting casually, at the end of a dance, Rita finally said in a more formal way: "Simon, I mean, you will take care of my mother more in the future. You will, won't you?"

"Of course," Simon said without hesitation, but joked subconsciously, "you're just engaged and won't care about your mother in the future?"

"That's not what I meant." The girl took some blame: "I just you understand."

Simon saw the girl's eyes beg, and also restrained his expression: "I promise."

The music is over.

The two left the dance floor together, and Rita's words with Simon turned to something of a snack: "in fact, I and ray, of course, we love mom very much, but in recent years, mom cares about you most."

Simon just noticed grace in the crowd outside the dance floor, looked softly at her, nodded and said, "don't worry."

Rita's tone suddenly perked up again, looked at no one around, and then said, "of course, don't worry, Simon, although you are recognized as a flower, you are really good to your mother. You are very careful to me and ray, and John. Oh, I can only suggest that you should give John more time, otherwise he may be alienated from you when he grows up."

Simon just nodded gently again.

John westero, the little guy with grace, his ninth son.

Simon, of course.

However, I have to say that for my children, maybe subconsciously, I have higher expectations, which inevitably leads to a lack of warmth that ordinary fathers should have for their children.

Even, Simon actually quite agrees with a certain idea.

Father and son are natural enemies.

Generally speaking, the higher the social class, the more prominent the similar emotions between father and son.

Of course, there are ways to change.

For example, the strategy of tiger father and dog son is to raise children in the direction of abandonment.

However, Simon would rather have his own group of little guys against him in the future than be inferior to each other.

In short, from the beginning, Simon's attitude was very clear and not contradictory at all. Therefore, for a group of boys in his family, he has never been a good father of any standard. Instead, he should be more gentle towards a few daughters, even not his own daughters.

This is actually an obvious preference for boys over girls.

Don't have too high expectations for your daughter, so you can more purely show the image of a gentle father. As for the boys who can't get much warmth from their father, will they complain about it in the future and think that Simon doesn't care too much about his eccentricity as a father.

After leaving the dance floor, another woman immediately came forward. Simon chose to refuse this time and walked to grace with Rita.

So he stayed at the reception for more than half an hour. At two o'clock in the afternoon, Simon said goodbye to everyone and flew back to Manhattan by helicopter.