Chapter 661 Whoever Takes Over Will Be a Damn Thing
Shi Cai's birthday was coming up, and it happened to be Saturday. After school on Friday afternoon, Lu Yiming and Shi Qingxue took a private plane back to Baiyun City.
Seeing Lu Yiming coming, Shi Caijiang and Su Yunjin were very enthusiastic, serving tea and water and bringing fruits, with smiles on their faces.
"This cantaloupe I bought today looks good and should be very sweet. Xiao Ming, you should try it."
Lu Yiming quickly said: "Uncle, you are too polite. I will do it myself."
Shi Caijiang was busy for a while, then sat opposite Lu Yiming and asked, "I went out for morning tea recently and often heard discussions about you. The newspapers also said that you spent 3 billion to buy two plots of land. They said that your price was too high and you would not be able to make money no matter what you did."
Lu Yiming smiled and said, "That's because they are short-sighted and don't know how to judge the situation."
Shi Qingxue laughed and said, "You are flattering yourself again. How do you know that they are short-sighted?"
Lu Yiming said as a matter of course: "If they are capable, then why am I the richest man instead of them?"
What Lu Yiming said was well-reasoned and there was really no way to refute it.
Shi Caijiang asked, "They all said you were going to build warehouses on these lands. I said, are you kidding me? With such expensive land, when will you be able to earn back the money you put into building warehouses?"
Lu Yiming did not explain too much, and said casually: "Anyway, the land is in our hands, so just take your time."
Shi Caijiang reminded: "It takes a lot of money to hoard land, so be careful not to get out of hand."
Lu Yiming smiled and said, "Any problem that can be solved with money is not a problem for me."
It seems that what he said is really annoying, but it is true. Who made Lu Yiming the richest man? With a lot of money, he can do whatever he wants.
Shi Caijiang still felt that this matter was very unreasonable, and couldn't help but mutter, "Even if you have money, this is not how you play the real estate business. With two such large plots of land, why not build something else but a storage and logistics center? Isn't it obvious that you will lose a lot of money?"
It is true that the land in big cities will continue to appreciate in value, but it also depends on what you build. Big villas and office buildings will of course appreciate in value, but how can it appreciate if you build a big warehouse?
The appreciation of land depends not only on the value of the building itself, but also on the value of the supporting facilities.
For example, if you build a high-end residential community, then the bus stops, schools, shopping malls, are all built on the edge of the community, the value of the community will naturally appreciate. After all, residents have to pay for the surrounding facilities.
But if you build a warehouse...
It's quite incredible.
Anyway, I won't be able to figure it out when the time comes.
Faced with Shi Caijiang's doubts, Lu Yiming smiled without saying anything.
Shi Caijiang muttered, "Logically speaking, you wouldn't make such a low-level mistake. Could it be that... you did it on purpose? You paid for the land in full, so you don't have any financial pressure and you're not in a hurry to get the money back."
After all, they would be a family soon, and Shi Caijiang had already guessed it, so Lu Yiming did not hide it deliberately and said with a smile: "You saw through it?"
Looking at the cunning smile on Lu Yiming's face, Shi Caijiang, who had been cheated by Lu Yiming once in the past, suddenly recalled those long-forgotten memories and felt a little complicated.
Lu Yiming pointed at the map hanging on the wall and said, "I secretly asked someone to investigate. The two plots of land I acquired have basically been bought by several well-known real estate companies such as Jiedi Group. As long as I lower the price of this piece of land, they will have to sell the land at a low price in order to recover funds. When the time comes, I will buy all of them, and then this large piece of land will be all mine."
Only then did he understand Lu Yiming's thoughts, and he couldn't help but complain: "I didn't expect that after a few years, you are still as insidious as before."
Lu Yiming disagreed with Shi Caijiang's evaluation of him as "sinister", and instead said openly: "Business is like a battlefield, and all is fair in war."
Shi Cai was able to start from scratch and become the CEO of a real estate company with a net worth of over 100 million yuan. He naturally had vision and ability. In addition, he was about to become Lu Yiming's father-in-law, so Lu Yiming also valued him. He took out a sketch of the architectural design from his briefcase and said, "This is my plan. I want to move the model of Yiming Plaza to Zhonghai and build a new large-scale urban commercial complex. You can take a look."
What Lu Yiming wanted to intercept was naturally the commercial real estate model that Wanda had created in later generations.
After receiving the design, General Shi Cai was also stunned. He exclaimed in shock, "Combining the outdoor and indoor pedestrian streets with commercial buildings to create a huge urban complex, including a large commercial center, a commercial pedestrian street, a five-star hotel, a business hotel, office buildings, high-end apartments, etc., integrating shopping, leisure, catering, culture, entertainment and other functions into one, forming an independent large-scale business district. The cost alone is not cheap. You are really bold."
Compared with the test version in Baiyun, Lu Yiming plans to directly launch the third-generation Wanda Plaza model in the Yiming Plaza built in Zhonghai this time.
At present, Wanda is still groping forward on its first-generation commercial complex project. This is where the advantage of the reborn lies: it can predict the results, skip the tortuous trial and error stage, and reach the finish line directly.
Although he had never opened a real estate company, he was a ruthless person who planned to acquire Lean Real Estate. With his excellent business acumen, Shi Caijiang saw the huge potential and value of Yiming Plaza at a glance.
The core area is only rented and not sold, and then through various commercial bonus effects, the surrounding land prices are raised, and then the funds are quickly recovered through the sale of commercial housing and quickly invested in new projects.
As long as the capital chain is continuous and financial resources are sufficient, this will be a business model that can continuously replicate itself. Its theory is very advanced and can even be said to be unique!
Shi Caijiang asked incredulously: "Did you come up with this?"
It was hard for him to imagine how Lu Yiming, an outsider who knew almost nothing about real estate, could write such a penetrating planning proposal. It was incredible.
Lu Yiming said seriously, "I have ideas, funds, and land. Now I just need execution and management. Are you interested in helping me?"
Shi Caijiang has been working hard for many years and has considerable experience and abilities. He has also been working diligently and hard in Yiwen Company in recent times, so Lu Yiming has more trust in him.
Although Zhang Jinlai has been doing a good job, one must always be on guard against others. As Lean Real Estate continues to expand in size, Lu Yiming now urgently needs to arrange a reliable "own person" in the company.
Shi Caijiang is naturally the most suitable candidate. After all, he is Shi Qingxue's biological father and his future father-in-law.
Lu Ding's failure before was that he randomly assigned positions to his relatives in the company, not caring whether these people had the ability or not, and there were no rules and regulations to prevent possible problems. Although Lu Yiming now also lets his relatives and friends take over, he does so according to their respective abilities, and there are also various advanced management systems. Of course, the two cannot be compared.
Of course, it's okay for laymen to talk nonsense about real estate, but when it comes to specific execution , there are all kinds of trivial details. People who don't know the business will die on the spot. Even for veterans, it's not an easy task to deal with it. Of course, Lu Yiming can't do it himself. It's the right thing to leave it to his cheap father-in-law. With Zhang Jinlai around, the two of them can take care of each other, so Lu Yiming is not afraid of any trouble.
Shi Caijiang said, "How can I refuse your question?"
Although Yiwen is now a big company that is gaining popularity, it is still an Internet company after all. Shi Caijiang is in real estate and of course he likes his job more. If Lu Yiming hadn't shown him this plan, it would be fine. Now that Lu Yiming is bragging about it, Shi Caijiang's ambitions have been aroused. How can he stay in Yiwen with peace of mind?
If the Yiming Plaza project is done well, it is not impossible to support a trillion-dollar scale, and its development potential is incomparable to that of portal websites like Yiwen.
Seeing Shi Cai's resentful and helpless look, Lu Yiming laughed and said immediately: "Okay, then you join us and be responsible for the supervision and personnel management of the entire project. The specific operation and construction will still be handled by Zhang Jinlai."
Without waiting for the time to speak, Lu Yiming continued to paint a big picture, saying: "This is just the beginning. I plan to build 300 Yiming Plazas of this scale across the country in the next ten years. You will be in charge of this matter. If you do a good job in this matter, I can give you 5% of the stock options."
"Three hundred?"
Even though he had a glimpse of Lu Yiming's ambition, Shi Caijiang was still shocked by this number.
Just for this place, Lu Yiming spent 3 billion yuan to acquire the land. Putting aside other things, according to this standard, the funds required to acquire the land are more than 900 billion yuan. Adding construction and operation, this is a trillion-level market.
Although the 5% stock option was very tempting, Shi Caijiang still said: "This plan is too crazy and feels very risky. It's too radical! Too crazy !"
Lu Yiming said confidently: "You can't live without being crazy. Those who changed the world, which one of them is not a madman in the eyes of ordinary people?"
Seeing that Lu Yiming refused to listen, Shi Caijiang said nothing. He thought that even if Lu Yiming ruined all this, at least Shijinji was developing very well now, and it was still possible for everyone to live comfortably for the rest of their lives.
Thinking that he had lived for most of his life, he couldn't lose to a teenager, so he gritted his teeth and said, "Okay, since you said so, I'll go crazy with you. I really want to see how you can change the world!"
The other side.
Zhao Bin asked Luo Yongjie to keep an eye on Lu Yiming's every move, and after staring for a while, Luo Yongjie became panicked.
On this day, Luo Yongjie found Zhao Bin in a panic and shouted, "It's over, it's over, that bastard surnamed Lu is really building a warehouse!"
Although the news that Lu Yiming was going to acquire land to build a warehouse had leaked out and was no longer a secret, few people believed it at all.
You spent 3 billion to buy the land, and you use it to build a warehouse? Whose intelligence are you insulting?
As a result, a construction sign was actually erected on the land, and it looked like a big square box, a real warehouse.
This is so fucking painful!
After hearing what Luo Yongjie said, Zhao Bin felt like he was going crazy: "That place is the city center! It has convenient transportation and complete facilities. It was originally a place for building a high-end residential community and core business district. He actually built a warehouse here? Is he crazy?"
Although the name written on Lu Yiming's notice board is "Logistics Park", isn't it just a warehouse? Think about it, big trucks come and go day and night. Not to mention how annoying it is to live next to them, even if they pass by the door, you will feel unsafe.
And the key point is that this is warehousing and logistics, not a train station or a bus station. There is not much daily passenger flow, and you can't run a shop. You will lose money no matter how you do it.
Zhao Bin didn't believe that there were people in the world who would leave money unearned, so he asked with a hopeful heart, "Could it be a smokescreen?"
Luo Yongjie said he couldn't understand it at all: "How can it be possible? It's all publicized! Now it's hard to sell the land we have next to it! We probably won't be able to sell it if we build a community! Who wants to live next to a warehouse? We have to worry about a truck passing by the door when we go out."
Zhao Bin frowned and asked, "Is he deliberately messing with us?"
Luo Yongjie said with a sad face: "What does he want? The lands we have taken around us are all fragmented, and the total value is not as high as his two plots. He will lose more by messing with us. It's just hurting the enemy 800 and hurting himself 1,000. What deep hatred do we have with him?"
Although Luo Yongjie's analysis made sense, Zhao Bin felt that Lu Yiming was obviously mentally ill and said, "Who knows? What if he is really that crazy? I think it would be better to find someone to test it out."
Lu Yiming's actions not only made real estate developers like Luo Yongjie and Zhao Bin anxious, but also the bigwigs in Zhonghai City.
After all, when you are in charge of a place, you have to talk about political achievements, but what are political achievements these days?
The success of the economic development is the greatest political achievement!
Zhao Bin and Luo Yongjie, together with several colleagues with related interests, jointly reported Lu Yiming for disrupting the market.
In this kind of situation, the big guys above can't step in and ask for directions, so they can only throw a stone to test the water.
At the newly established China Overseas branch of Jingyi Real Estate Company, Lu Yiming personally received Xu Wentao who came to talk to him: "Secretary Xu, welcome, welcome."
It seems that because of the good food and drink, Xu Wentao has become more and more prosperous recently. His round face looks very blessed, and he speaks as kindly as before: "Sorry, Mr. Lu, I come to bother you again."
Lu Yiming smiled and said, "No, no, it's an honor for us at Jingyi Real Estate that Secretary Xu is here."
Xu Wentao said: "Mr. Lu is really generous. He actually spent 3 billion to buy two pieces of land. He really deserves the title of the richest man."
Lu Yiming said modestly: "It's only three billion, it's not a big deal."
Although Xu Wentao had seen Lu Yiming's plan, he pretended to know nothing at this time and said, "Boss Lu has acquired such a Feng Shui treasure land in the city center. I guess he is going to build a top-notch villa community."
Lu Yiming said with a half-smile: "Secretary Xu, the planning map of our construction site has been made public. That is the place I use to build a logistics center. How can I use it to build a villa?"
Xu Wentao took a deep breath and said, "This kind of center is only temporary. After all, the location is here, and the cost of acquiring the land is so high. If you want to make money, you have to go to a high-end community."
Xu Wentao knew the tricks. Lu Yiming entered the market through Tengyu Logistics, and the planning and design also said that a logistics center would be built. But planning, isn't that just a saying? No one has stipulated that we must follow the plan. Which cat doesn't steal fish these days? If they say that the previous plan was wrong, can you stop them from changing the plan?
However, Lu Yiming said righteously: "Secretary Xu, please stop talking. I, Lu Yiming, disdain to be a real estate profiteer who makes money from the hard-earned money of ordinary people by speculating on land and selling pre-sale properties."
Xu Wentao's scalp suddenly went numb when he heard this.
Is this idiot really going to build a warehouse in the city center?
Think about it, in the city center, the most prosperous area, with trucks coming and going every day, what kind of beautiful scenery would that be?
But no matter how Xu Wentao tried to hint at it, Lu Yiming refused to reveal a single word, causing Xu Wentao to secretly curse Lu Yiming as a little fox.
In the hotel, Zhao Bin, Luo Yongjie and a dozen well-known real estate developers in Zhonghai City gathered together.
Zhao Bin was the first to speak: "I called everyone here today to discuss the matter of Lu Yiming using the expensive land to build a warehouse. What do you think?"
The one who spoke was Lu Yian from the Lu family. He was about the same age as Zhao Bin, but his appearance was rather ordinary, the kind that you wouldn't be able to find in a crowd of people.
"Alas, I, Old Lu, have finally given in. I'm quitting."
If I can't afford to play, can't I just hide?
As for hoarding the land and competing with Lu Yiming, waiting for the land to appreciate in value, this plan seems feasible, but it is actually nonsense.
In terms of foundation and capital, domestic real estate developers are far behind the Hong Kong tycoons. Much of their money is borrowed from banks, and they play the game of robbing Peter to pay Paul. As long as the funds cannot be circulated, even if there is only a slight jam, they may go bankrupt.
Otherwise, where do all those unfinished buildings come from these days?
It was because they went too far, their capital chain broke, and then they collapsed and died.
Luo Yongjie was also troubled by Lu Yiming and said, "Even if we don't want to play, who can we find to take over?"
This question immediately silenced everyone.
The land everyone holds is adjacent to Lean Real Estate, and it depends on the situation whoever takes over will be an idiot.
Lu Yian suddenly thought of someone and said, "Recently I met a real estate developer from Hong Kong. He wants to invest in Zhonghai, but he doesn't know anything. How about we sell the land to him?"
