Super-rich: Spending money is just a job!

Chapter 281 Investment 5

Upon receiving the goods, Xiaomeng immediately began searching for lapis lazuli carving masters within the industry.

Manager Huang was astonished when he learned that she had actually brought the rough stone back. They had planned to use their connections in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs to act as intermediaries in India, persuading the wealthy man to donate the ore. Unexpectedly, before they could even find a suitable middleman, Xiaomeng had already secured the goods. It just goes to show that there are truly skilled people out there.

However, considering that it was created by a billionaire who spent a lot of money, it's understandable. After all, throwing money at things can solve 90% of the world's problems.

Since Manager Huang couldn't play a role in the mineral trading, he can be more effective in finding master craftsmen in China. A private business owner like Xiaomeng certainly doesn't have his influence.

He has access to a list of national master craftsmen and master carvers, and they all give him face.

Xiaomeng agreed that this made sense. So she prepared a huge workshop in the company's property, equipped with various advanced detectors, CT scanners, cutting machines, hoisting and lifting equipment, precision carving equipment, and so on, planning to have people start working directly in this workshop when the time came.

Afterwards, a time was set up, and a group of retired experts were brought to this workshop to evaluate the material. They used a CT scanner to determine the location of cracks and impurities, where to cut it, how to cut it, and whose apprentices or grand-apprentices would be hired to carve it.

What pattern to choose for the border, what font to use... Oh, these aren't decisions they make. They just came up with a few preliminary ideas and sent them to the museum for approval from the leadership.

Xiaomeng was utterly astonished by the sheer volume, detail, and difficulty of the matters that needed to be finalized. She simply told the teachers to give it their all and then ran off.

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Back in her home in Beijing, Xiaomeng's work and life became quite regular.

Every afternoon, without fail, he sits at his desk and reviews the financial statements of the various industries under Lin's Investment.

Her financial assistant sat not far in front of her, ready to answer her questions at any moment.

"Hmm? Crystal products are selling so well in Western Europe? They're selling more than all other colored gemstone jewelry sets combined?" Xiaomeng quickly noticed the problem.

The assistant replied, "Yes, starting last month, our overseas sales of crystal jewelry suddenly exploded."

Xiaomeng was a little confused, "Did they suddenly jump on some trending topic?"

"Analysts have attached an analysis report to the financial statement. Their initial guess is that the sudden surge in popularity of crystal products is due to the deteriorating economic environment in the local community in recent years, leading people to seek help from metaphysical forces."

As you know, in Europe, people generally believe in the legends of the power of crystals.

Our crystal products are priced significantly lower than those of other jewelers. That's why sales suddenly surged.

"This analysis report seems a bit outrageous, but it also makes some sense. Whatever the cause, my friend is going to make a fortune from this."

The friend Xiaomeng mentioned is Xiaoping.

Xiaoping has been working at the Suzhou Embroidery Museum. Because she needs to collect promotional materials, she often travels with the museum team. By chance, she met her current boyfriend, a second-generation factory owner whose family is in the crystal business.

Although their initial meeting was based on attraction, her boyfriend turned out to be a very nice person. Xiaoping was also best friends with her boyfriend's sister, so they naturally started a crystal business together.

Xiaoping knows many people in the museum merchandise business and has access to some channels, so she put her boyfriend's crystal products in their display cases. Young people these days really like buying museum-related items; unique, inexpensive crystal bracelets sell very well.

Since she had a friend named Xiaomeng, and Xiaomeng happened to have her own distribution channels, Xiaoping naturally seized the opportunity to put her products on Xiaomeng's website.