50s: Starting with a storage ring

Chapter 418 Robbers
To be fair, Huang Mingyu was capable, and that street was indeed a good place if we disregard the changes that followed.

If you just wander around the streets, you can see some second- or third-rate celebrities shopping.

Robert De Niro (The Godfather Part II), Raquel Welch (One Million Years B.C.), Elizabeth Taylor (Cleopatra), Dolly Parton (country music icon), David Thompson (NBA star), and many other celebrities and socialites live in this neighborhood.

Therefore, the purchasing power of the people in this area is undeniable.

Moreover, the new store is surrounded by luxury stores.

Louis Vuitton, Dior, Tiffany & Co., Cartier, Gucci, Versace, Chanel, Escada and many other top global brands are gathered here.

This has created a clustering effect, making this place a high-end business hub.

It's different from Fifth Avenue, which is more famous and attracts many visitors from all over the world, but the crowds are more mixed.

Tribeca isn't as well-known, and the houses aren't as new, but it feels more like a high-end, fashionable community with fewer outsiders.

He didn't know how Huang Mingyu had acquired the shop here, and the business area was three times larger than that on "Billionaire Road," with an attached basement.

During the past few months of renovations, this basement has been transformed into a vault, allowing the store to store large quantities of valuable inventory long-term.

The shops on Billionaire Road are small, with only one safe. When they have a lot of stock, they have to hire a security company to help deliver it to a nearby bank.

These transportation costs can amount to a significant amount each year, and they are all included in the operating costs. However, this cost can be saved after the move.

The following day, Sun Zhiwei took a short-haul flight to New York. He needed to be present during the move to prevent any accidents.

On the afternoon of September 16, Sun Zhiwei returned to New York and moved into his home on 81st Street.

The house on 77th Street is almost finished with renovations, and Ms. Daisy has helped him furnish and equip the room with all the furniture and appliances, but he hasn't had time to go and check it out yet.

The only missing part is the three large trees that are planned to be planted in the back garden.

According to the designer's requirements, the plants must be over 20 meters tall. Since they need to be planted in the city, they cannot be deciduous plants, otherwise the annual sanitation fines would be a large sum of money.

Moreover, since the large tree is planted in the back garden of the villa, it naturally needs to maintain a beautiful shape to meet the requirements of aesthetics.

So many teams were sent out to search for suitable trees in the vicinity of New York State, but two months passed without any results.

Actually, there are quite a few trees that reach 20 meters in height, but when you add other requirements, it becomes difficult to find them.

Finally, they had to search for it at Adirondack State Park, 400 kilometers away.

Adirondack State Park is the largest old-growth temperate forest in eastern North America, covering more than 64 hectares, where centuries-old trees are everywhere.

After careful selection by the staff, two red maple trees and one oak tree with suitable shapes were finally found deep in the forest.

Sun Zhiwei had already seen the photos. The two red maple trees are evergreen trees with beautiful and straight shapes. Each tree is over 20 meters tall with a wide canopy and dense foliage, enough to block the view from the surrounding high-rise buildings.

The other oak tree has a thick trunk and a large, neat crown, which can be aptly described as "graceful and shady".

The three trees have now been carefully excavated and loaded onto a boat along the Hudson River to be shipped downstream.

The engineer who came up with the idea of ​​water transport was truly brilliant. If transported by road, the vast canopy of trees would have to pass through, and who knows how much effort it would have taken along the way. Now, by water, following the Hudson River unimpeded, it only takes two days to reach the shores of Manhattan Island.

They had already chosen their landing spot: an abandoned pier at the end of 79th Street. It was a place rarely visited, perfect for landing amidst a few large trees.

Then, a flatbed truck was used to haul the tree from the shore to the villa at 45 77th Street, 1 kilometer away.

This one-kilometer stretch is where you'll have to pay. The traffic department will come and temporarily close off sections of the road, and the police will also come to help maintain order.

The contract was already signed last time, and Sun Zhiwei donated $50,000 to each of the two departments in August.

New York is a paradise for the wealthy; as long as you're willing to pay, the mayor and the NYPD will be happy to serve you.

The 17th was the scheduled moving date, and the jewelry store staff were already waiting at the new store in the Tribeca district.

At 9 a.m., at the entrance of the old store, ten armed guards from the security company loaded ten boxes onto two armored vehicles and then headed towards the new store.

Sun Zhiwei drove behind the armored vehicle himself.

It is 8 kilometers from Billionaire Road, south of Central Park, to Tribeca in downtown London.

Because of the complex road conditions in the city, the armored vehicle will first drive along 57th Street to the riverbank, and then head south along Highway 12 along the riverbank, all the way to the entrance of the new store.

The journey was uneventful until the convoy was about to reach the lower city area when a runaway dump truck suddenly overturned in the middle of the road, blocking the road.

The armored vehicles had to stop with the other vehicles. Sun Zhiwei had already noticed the problem from behind: the two armored vehicles were surrounded by seven or eight cars.

As the armored vehicle slowly came to a stop, everyone in the seven or eight vehicles around it put on black hoods and drew their weapons.

The armored vehicle driver also saw the danger and began to restart the vehicle.

Unfortunately, although the armored vehicle was powerful, it was surrounded by two other vehicles and had no room to accelerate, so it was unable to move for a while.

A dozen or so hooded robbers got out of the car, and the first thing they did was shoot out the tires of the armored vehicle.

Then, several smoke grenades were thrown around, engulfing a section of road around the armored vehicle in smoke.

Sun Zhiwei was just thinking about how to make a move without attracting attention when the smoke began to spread, engulfing his car that was following behind.

There was no point in hiding it then. He immediately opened the door and got out of the car, then took out two Remington M870 shotguns, the same model as the security guards in the armored vehicle, from the pile of weapons in the space.

With space available, his vision was unaffected, while the robbers, due to the smoke, could only see the surrounding area.

The smoke bombs, originally intended to conceal their vision for safety, are about to become their death warrant.

Unaware of this, they continued to surround the armored vehicle, installing explosives in an attempt to blow open the vehicle's doors.

Sun Zhiwei, carrying the Remington, used the surrounding vehicles for cover and quickly approached the armored vehicle.

When he got within about ten meters, he decisively opened fire.

(End of this chapter)