Volume 3 Summer Rain Chapter 0353 The Land of Beverly Hills
Listening to Chen Fang's introduction to the San Fernando Valley, Nan Yi gained another reference factor in his understanding of Hollywood: how a small person who is involved in and trapped in the game views these phenomena from his perspective.
Nan Yi felt the existence of a chain of contempt from Chen Fang. Chen Fang looked down on the girls on the street outside the car, but there was also a bit of sourness in his tone.
It is conceivable that once he is able to break out of the quagmire and climb to a high position one day, he will not think about helping the girls outside, but will fully enjoy the privileges brought by being in a high position. Precisely because he paid a great price to climb up, his brutality will be even worse.
Therefore, the current situation of Hollywood will not change on its own even after another hundred years , unless a powerful external force comes and destroys the current Hollywood with great force and then rebuilds it.
In that case, Hollywood will fall into a temporary lucidity, and then new unspoken rules will emerge after a period of time. The form may change, but the core will never change, because the essence of human nature will not change.
After following Chen Fang around Hollywood again, when the lights came on, Nan Yi settled the commission with Chen Fang, and gave him a tip and the cost of dinner.
According to the unspoken rules in the country, when hiring a part-time tour guide like Chen Fang, in addition to commissions and tips, you also need to pay for his meals while he is working, so Nan Yi must pay for dinner.
Before leaving, Nan Yi left Chen Fang's number and agreed to contact him next time when he needed him.
After Chen Fang's car drove away, the school beauty waved to the back, and a car stopped in front of her and Nan Yi. She opened the door and let Nan Yi get in first, and then she sat next to Nan Yi.
"Nansheng, where are you going?"
"Call Rachel and ask her to rent a villa in Beverly Hills through 20th Century Fox. Stop by a bookstore and buy a map of Beverly Hills."
Beverly Hills sounds like the name of a residential area, but it is not. It is actually a micro-city with an elected mayor, police department, fire department and other functional departments.
It is where Hollywood stars and Los Angeles wealthy people live, and it is where wealth in Los Angeles is concentrated.
It has the title of "the most prestigious residential area in the world" and is the most famous city within a city in Los Angeles. It attracts countless tourists from all over the world every year who curiously explore its streets and alleys.
Among them, Rodel Street, which is surrounded by world-famous boutiques, is particularly famous. Hollywood movie stars, NBA basketball stars, American football stars, world-renowned artists and wealthy people from all over the world buy houses and land here.
Of course, this happened in the next few years, and Beverly Hills at that time had not yet reached the level of bustle that it would in the future.
Soon, Nan Yi, who got the map, began to study it. There is no such thing as hoarding land in the Kingdom of Qin. You can buy the land and develop it if you want to. If you don't want to develop it, just leave it idle and no one can say anything.
If Nan Yi bought a piece of land in Beverly Hills, instead of building high-end residences, he would leave the land there or invite poor people from the city center to set up tents there, and no one would be able to say anything to him.
However, this will drive down the housing prices in Beverly Hills and offend a lot of people. Some people will definitely be so angry that they will shoot him in the back, but legally, it is impossible to hold him accountable.
It’s like a person who has worked hard for more than ten years and finally bought a house. He happily moves in, but suddenly finds out that no one lives in the house, upstairs or downstairs, or in the same building.
Later I found out that they bought the house just to house the urn. At midnight, you could still hear the lively sound of mahjong, and the game was quite loud. Tiandi Bank vacated 1 billion yuan in cash.
But even if that's the case, what can we do to them? Can we sue them for turning the neighborhood into a cemetery? Or sue them for destroying Feng Shui? Or is it ghost stories?
The law states that there is noise pollution, but there is no such thing as pollution by urns. Urns are sacred things, and anyone who dares to complain will be beaten. Listening to Chen Fang's introduction to the San Fernando Valley, Nan Yi gained another reference factor in his understanding of Hollywood: how a small person who participated in it and was trapped in the game viewed these phenomena from his perspective.
Nan Yi felt the existence of a chain of contempt from Chen Fang. Chen Fang looked down on the girls on the street outside the car, but there was also a bit of sourness in his tone.
It is conceivable that once he is able to break out of the quagmire and climb to a high position one day, he will not think about helping the girls outside, but will fully enjoy the privileges brought by being in a high position. Precisely because he paid a great price to climb up, his brutality will be even worse.
Therefore, the current situation of Hollywood will not change on its own even after another hundred years, unless a powerful external force comes and destroys the current Hollywood with great force and then rebuilds it.
In that case, Hollywood will fall into a temporary lucidity, and then new unspoken rules will emerge after a period of time. The form may change, but the core will never change, because the essence of human nature will not change.
After following Chen Fang around Hollywood again, when the lights came on, Nan Yi settled the commission with Chen Fang, and gave him a tip and the cost of dinner.
According to the unspoken rules in the country, when hiring a part-time tour guide like Chen Fang, in addition to commissions and tips, you also need to pay for his meals while he is working, so Nan Yi must pay for dinner.
Before leaving, Nan Yi left Chen Fang's number and agreed to contact him next time when he needed him.
After Chen Fang's car drove away, the school beauty waved to the back, and a car stopped in front of her and Nan Yi. She opened the door and let Nan Yi get in first, and then she sat next to Nan Yi.
"Nansheng, where are you going?"
"Call Rachel and ask her to rent a villa in Beverly Hills through 20th Century Fox. Stop by a bookstore and buy a map of Beverly Hills."
Beverly Hills sounds like the name of a residential area, but it is not. It is actually a micro-city with an elected mayor, police department, fire department and other functional departments.
It is where Hollywood stars and Los Angeles wealthy people live, and it is where wealth in Los Angeles is concentrated.
It has the title of "the most prestigious residential area in the world" and is the most famous city within a city in Los Angeles. It attracts countless tourists from all over the world every year who curiously explore its streets and alleys.
Among them, Rodel Street, which is surrounded by world-famous boutiques, is particularly famous. Hollywood movie stars, NBA basketball stars, American football stars, world-renowned artists and wealthy people from all over the world buy houses and land here.
Of course, this happened in the next few years, and Beverly Hills at that time had not yet reached the level of bustle that it would in the future.
Soon, Nan Yi, who got the map, began to study it. There is no such thing as hoarding land in the Kingdom of Qin. You can buy the land and develop it if you want to. If you don't want to develop it, just leave it idle and no one can say anything.
If Nan Yi bought a piece of land in Beverly Hills, instead of building high-end residences, he would leave the land there or invite poor people from the city center to set up tents there, and no one would be able to say anything to him.
However, this will drive down the housing prices in Beverly Hills and offend a lot of people. Some people will definitely be so angry that they will shoot him in the back, but legally, it is impossible to hold him accountable.
It’s like a person who has worked hard for more than ten years and finally bought a house. He happily moves in, but suddenly finds out that no one lives in the house, upstairs or downstairs, or in the same building.
Later I found out that they bought the house just to house the urn. At midnight, you could still hear the lively sound of mahjong, and the game was quite loud. Tiandi Bank vacated 1 billion yuan in cash.
But even if that's the case, what can we do to them? Can we sue them for turning the neighborhood into a cemetery? Or sue them for destroying Feng Shui? Or is it ghost stories?
The law stipulates noise pollution, but there is no such thing as urn pollution. The urn is a sacred thing. Anyone who dares to make noises about it will be severely beaten.
Of course, this is just arguing. Nan Yi is researching where there are vacant land in Beverly Hills, whether it is owned or not. It is easy to deal with if it is unowned, just go to the city hall and buy it; if it is owned, it is fine too. Most people don't dare to bet like him that the housing prices in Beverly Hills will rise to sky-high prices. If they are not dear to them, they can still sell it by spending a little more money.
The era of the nouveau riche is about to come, and the wind direction for many industries is about to arrive. The pigs blown by the wind will be very fond of buying houses here.
Imagine that when you are sunbathing on the roof, you see the neighbor's hostess swimming in the pool or sunbathing. The beautiful girl who is wearing revealing clothes or even topless may be a Hollywood star or even an Oscar winner.
And when they see you peeping, instead of yelling "you jerk", they will greet you in a friendly manner and say "come on baby" to you. Then they will ask you, if you can afford it, would you be willing to spend tens of millions of dollars to buy a house like this?
If that's not enough, they'll hold a few dances, cocktail parties, and charity events from time to time, so that you, who have nothing but dirty money, can show off your masculinity in front of female stars and spend a fortune to win the beauty. Are you willing?
Don't force yourself to say you don't want to. Men like Nan Yi who treat women like dirt and exchange dirt for money are only a minority. He is an outlier.
He drew circles on the map with a compass and drew lines with a ruler. He calculated the size of each vacant space according to the scale, and asked the driver to drive to the vacant space he liked to observe the level of the ground.
If you don't care about McDonald's and KFC, you will run a few more kilometers to Wonderford to buy a few hamburgers, eat the hamburgers with a flashlight, and wander around the open space overgrown with weeds at around 10 o'clock in the evening.
Passersby who didn't understand the situation thought they were filming a special effects blockbuster like "The Peach Blossom Man visits the vampire at night, uses singing and dancing rap skills, fights for three days and three nights, and is sent to the fortress hospital. The doctor says it's a good thing they arrived early."
Before the Los Angeles RCMP drew their sabers and charged at them, Nan Yi had already finished his on-site inspection. It was too dark and he would miss some details, so he planned to check again tomorrow during the day.
That night, Nan Yi did not stay in any five-star hotel, but found a motel on the side of the highway. He could get a room for eight US dollars, and it was also convenient for bodyguards to monitor him.
No matter if there is a murderer or a couple of thieves living in the motel, they have to keep it to themselves. If anyone dares to poke around Nan Yi's room in the middle of the night, there will be no warning. I will beat him to pieces first and leave the rest to the lawyer.
Not daring to use the hotel’s bedding roll, Nan Yi spent the night sleeping on a mat on the floor and in a sleeping bag, and left the motel at daybreak.
In the early morning, when people who led regular lives in Beverly Hills got up to exercise, Nan Yi was already holding a cup of coffee and continuing his field observations from last night. From time to time, he would take out a rangefinder and level to survey and map.
First, close your left eye and use your other eye to observe the distance through your raised thumb. Then close your right eye and observe with your left eye. By applying formula 1, you can calculate the distance.
This is the so-called jumping eye method. Although the results obtained each time are somewhat different from those measured by the rangefinder, Nan Yi still enjoys it.
There are always occasions when the eye-jumping method can be used, and it won’t be a bad thing to master this skill.
After running around all the vacant lots in the morning, Nan Yi looked for a real estate agent in the afternoon. He made good use of his time and found two agents from different companies to look at four representative houses. He got a rough idea of the current housing prices in Beverly Hills.
The housing prices here are not expensive now. You can buy a nice house and settle down here with just a few hundred thousand dollars. Of course, there are also expensive ones. The most expensive one Nan Yi saw was nearly 9 million dollars, and this is not the ceiling of Beverly Hills.
There are many houses that are more expensive than this price, but the consumer group for such houses is relatively narrow, they will be kept for a longer time, and the maintenance costs will also be higher.
From the real estate agent, Nan Yi also got a lot of gossip about where a certain celebrity lived or where a certain wealthy person lived, and also found out the approximate price of their houses.
"Rachel, have you settled the rent?" After looking at the house, Nan Yi called Rachel on the roadside.
"It's already been rented, No. 5103. I'm sunbathing by the swimming pool right now. Oh, I forgot to mention that the master bedroom is already occupied by me. Adam, you can only stay in the second bedroom."
"Got it, I'll go over now."
In Beverly Hills, there are naturally smart businessmen who rent out some villas and estates. The rent is naturally not cheap, but for someone like Nan Yi who often travels with a large entourage, renting a villa will save money than staying in a hotel, and it will also be more convenient to control.
The cost of renting a floor in a five-star hotel is not low, and you often have to pay for favors. Unless you make a reservation several months in advance so the hotel can make arrangements at ease, otherwise, you will have to pay for favors and high fees.
I found the hotel front desk, slapped a black card on the table, and said arrogantly, "I want to book your top floor. I don't care how much it costs. If anyone is living there, kick them out."
It is conceivable how unfair this kind of behavior is and how many people will be offended invisibly?
