The Blacklist

Chapter 337 Art Thief Grayson
When leaving the White House, Carrey sat in the car and said to Gina who was driving: "You see, even the president can't do whatever he wants, let alone being an official! So, I think we are doing well now, and we are more comfortable than Palmer, so I don't want to move up any further!"

"Well, I think it's okay." Gina nodded and said, "I am very satisfied with my current life. If you really want to be promoted to an administrative official, I think it will definitely not be as comfortable as it is now!"

"That's right! Long live understanding! Hahaha!" Carrie laughed, "Let's go home and live our own lives!"

"Okay!" Gina smiled happily and stepped on the accelerator...
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The next day, Carrie personally took Henry Prescott, who was detained in the detention room, and took him to the safe warehouse in the North District, and dealt with him directly - although the case in which he participated in the cover-up had to be dealt with step by step, this person could not be kept, because it would not be appropriate to detain him anywhere, and it was even worse to let him go!

Yesterday he and Palmer had agreed that Palmer would take the lead in handling the cases involving politicians, while he would decide how to deal with the cases involving the wealthy and big criminals. These things would be enough to keep the two of them busy for a while!
Carrey did not hide the relationship among the core agents of the Post Office. After communicating with Donald, he called a dinner for the agents and explained all these things to prevent everyone from speculating. This move made everyone feel valued, and now that everyone was a quasi-combat partner, there was no possibility of leaking secrets.

Over the past few years, the post office has become an integrated whole. Although the SER and SLR departments have different directions in their work, helping each other is actually the norm.

In everyone's mind, Kerry is the first leader and Donald is the second leader, but the former is habitually lazy, or only cares about big things, and it is basically the latter who leads everyone to investigate cases.
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In July, Palmer began to take action, but it was rather secretive. He only persuaded two bureau-level officials to resign for health reasons. The highlight was the removal of Henkel Dewey, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, due to a disagreement on the military budget, and replaced him with General Heck Dessler, the former commander of the Central Command, whom he trusted.

Carrie, on the other hand, cooperated with Reddington to eliminate a smuggling tycoon in Maryland, achieving a good wave of tax revenue performance.
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On July 7, Tuesday, Reddington came to Carrie and claimed that he would continue to teach Elizabeth how to use the resources in his hands to achieve his personal goals...

"Stop!" Carrie stopped his chatter, "Just keep it simple, what do you want to do? Will Liz be in danger?"

"Well... this is a rather interesting scam!" Reddington said, "It's definitely a little dangerous, but the result should be good!"

"No, Liz doesn't need to take such a risk!" Carrie refused. "She is now a special agent of SER. Even if she doesn't participate in your 'career', she can live a good life in the future..."

"NO, NO, NO!" Reddington waved his finger and said, "Lee, I know you want to protect Liz, whether it is because of emotion or responsibility, I think you are right, but you have to understand that flowers in a greenhouse cannot withstand wind and rain. She should be trained instead of being safely protected by your team!"

Kerry was speechless. After thinking for a while, he said, "Okay, I admit that what you said makes sense... So, I want to go with you!"

"Oh, that's great!" Reddington laughed.
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That afternoon, in the command hall of SER, Elizabeth introduced the new blacklist target provided by Reddington: "Grayson Bryce, on the surface he is a wealthy man who loves extreme sports. He is famous for riding a hot air balloon around the world in a week and walking across the Sahara Desert. But he is actually an art thief who loves to collect various famous paintings and artworks, and likes to do it himself. He once stole Van Gogh's paintings in Cairo and Picasso's paintings in Rio de Janeiro...

"Last night in New York, he stole the most important piece of an art exhibition he was sponsoring, the Napoleon necklace, which was on loan from the Smithsonian Museum!
"Reddington is sure that Grayson will sell these stolen artworks in the underground world and use these illegal incomes to expand his influence, intending to enter politics one day!" Donald, who has learned some political inside information from his previous experience, attaches great importance to this and asked, "Where can we find him?"

Elizabeth said, "Reddington found out that there will be an auction in Zagreb, the capital of Croatia, in 36 hours. Grayson should attend."

Donald decided to catch Grayson, but at this moment, Kerry appeared in the hall and said, "Don, let me take this case! You know, there is a lot of money in this!"

Everyone laughed when they heard this and expressed their understanding.

Carrey did not mobilize too many people. He and Gina were on the SLR side, and Elizabeth and Dembe were on the SER side. They flew to Croatia with Reddington that night.
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The auction in Zagreb was operated by a professional auction house. The items were mainly precious coins, stamps and ornaments. Many internationally renowned wealthy people were invited to participate, and the security measures were extremely strict.

However, Reddington used his connections to get an invitation, and he and Carrie brought Gina and Elizabeth to attend the auction on Wednesday afternoon.

According to the plan, Reddington took Elizabeth to participate in the auction, and Carrie and Gina were just guests who watched and did not interfere, but only protected.

After the auction started, Reddington used his extensive knowledge to introduce the items to Elizabeth. It must be said that his knowledge was broad enough, he knew everything and could even tell the origins of everything...

Kerry, on his part, was using his smart glasses to look at the wealthy people attending the conference, enriching his database and preparing information for the next step of finding someone to collect taxes - he felt it was the right decision to follow along this time.

Lot 348 is a 1943-D copper penny. Although the face value is only one cent, it is a rare and precious piece that has attracted a lot of interest. The starting price is $180 million. After several rounds, guest No. 143 bid $230 million. Reddington recognized that it was Grayson and raised his hand to bid $250 million!
Grayson, who was sitting in the front row, looked back and offered 260 million.

Reddington looked back at him and offered 280 million!
Grayson was a little unhappy and immediately raised the sign for 300 million!
Reddington spread his hands and said to Elizabeth beside him: "Liz, you know, although this copper penny is very good, it is not worth more than 300 million!"

(End of this chapter)