Hans Lincoln, as secretary to Rohedder, the head of the Trusteeship, has become a small celebrity in the Berlin shopping mall during the year when the Trusteeship has been in power, although he does not have the right to decide on corporate auctions, he is well-informed, and often communicates with merchants on behalf of Rohedder, and has a good reputation among middle and low-level businessmen who do not have enough dealings with Trusteeship officials.

"Hello Mr. Hans!" Jia Lei greeted Hans warmly, because Pete didn't dare to break the law, Jia Lei could only bite the bullet himself.

"Hello Master Lei, do you have anything to do with me?" asked Hans.

Just now Pete found him and quietly stuffed him with two gold coins and told him that Jia Lei was waiting for him in the garden, Hans thought about it for a while, just now Director Rohedder had signaled that he would contact Jia Lei, a stupid young master with a lot of money, and Hans and Director Rohedder came out after asking for instructions.

"It's not a big deal, it's just that I didn't know Berlin well after I first arrived in Berlin, and I heard that the price of houses in East Berlin is relatively low, so I want to buy a few, I don't know if Mr. Hans has any good recommendations?" asked Jia Lei.

"I don't know which neighborhood you want to buy?" asked Hans.

"The house near the Brandenburg Gate is good, and it should be developed soon near West Berlin. Jia Lei said.

"We do have a few nearby properties in our Trusteeship, but they belong to several East German companies! We even have a few shops and department stores for sale, but the prices of the buildings are relatively high, and there are many competitors, so it is better to buy the same companies. Secretary Hans said.

"But I don't know how to manage a factory or a business, and I can't run a business if I really buy it. Jia Lei said.

"It's not a problem to operate, those factories and enterprises have leaders in the first place, and if they don't do well, they can close down the factories. Hans said.

"That's not good, the workers will be laid off when the factory is closed, how will they live in the future?" Jia Lei subconsciously said, after all, Jia Lei had seen the life of laid-off workers in state-owned enterprises in his previous life.

"It's rare that there are still people who really care about the workers in the factory, and Master Lei really deserves to be a kind-hearted person! Only a truly kind-hearted person would run a public welfare enterprise like a museum that does not make money!" Hans praised Jia Lei sincerely, and Jia Lei's face turned red.

"Then I'm not so good......" Jia Lei accidentally said the Northeast dialect again.

"I just think that the Berlin Wall is just gone, it's a waste of money, and museums don't necessarily make money, museums can also make money if they are managed with care. Jia Lei was embarrassed to say, after all, Mr. Hans sincerely thought that he was a good person, and Jia Lei felt that he was a little embarrassed to lie to him.

"Master Lei, you don't have to hide it anymore, in fact, except for museums of the level of the British Museum and the Eiffel Tower, which can be maintained by buying tickets, such private small museums are maintained by collectors themselves. Hans said that he really felt that he should help Jia Lei and should not let this kind child suffer too much.

"I have friends at the town planning office, and I will help you find a shopping mall or a plot of land that will not be affected by the new town plan, just as I thank all Germans for your contribution to the East Germans. My grandfather was also an East German!" says Hans.

"Thank you so much, this is a little bit of my heart, please accept it, please help me tell Director Rohedder that I will thank him after the matter is completed. Jia Lei took out a bearer cash check for 500 marks from his pocket and handed it over.

"Young Master Lei, you don't need to do this, I really want to help you. Hans said he didn't take the check.

"You just take it, it's our Chinese tradition! And this money is just a small meaning to me, if you don't accept it, I won't feel at ease." Jia Lei said that Hans was not a hypocrite either, and he immediately accepted the check when he heard Jia Lei say this.

"Go back and wait for my good news, and I will definitely help you find the right company within three days." Hans said with a smile.

"I wish us a happy cooperation!" Mr. Jia said.

"Happy working together!" replied Hans.

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Ten o'clock in the evening at Secretary Hans's house

"Father, I remember my grandfather, they had a research institute in Berlin, right?" said Hans, as soon as he got home, and went to his father, Hans Sr.

"Why do you ask this?" asked old Hans.

"Recently someone wanted to buy an office building or a shopping mall in East Berlin, and I was going to introduce the buyer to my grandfather. Hans said.

"What's so unusual about someone wanting to sell office buildings in East Berlin? Recently, people have been buying all kinds of enterprises and factories in East Berlin every day, but you must know that your grandfather's collective farm can only produce a bunch of vegetables and fruits, and there is nothing of value other than that, and even the research institute building can sell some seeds, pesticides, fertilizers, and so on! The agricultural products of West Germany and other European countries are cheap and good, and your grandfather and his goods cannot be sold at all. No one wants the institute or the farm auction!" said Old Hans.

"Father, don't you often tell us that you want to go back to East Berlin to help Grandpa and Uncle and Uncle, and this is a great opportunity!" said Hans, who had spent the last year using almost all of his pension to buy things for his father and his siblings living in East Berlin.

"I want to help too, I'm just an ordinary retired clerk in a bank, and you're just a secretary! How can we help? If only your grandfather and your aunt and uncle had come with me to West Berlin. The elder Hans said that he had come to West Berlin to attend school and stayed here.

"Don't look at me as a secretary, but I'm working in the Trusteeship Bureau, and this time I helped my grandfather find a good buyer!" said Hans.

"What a good buyer? The hearts of those merchants are black, what do you think of the BB by them?" said old Hans, angrily, one of his younger brothers worked at one of the BB's heating stations.

"This time he really is a good man, the owner of the newly opened Berlin Wall Museum!" says Hans.

"Really? Really?" Old Hans put down the newspaper in his hand and stood up excitedly and asked, who in Germany now does not know that the owner of the Berlin Wall Museum is a real philanthropist, and the important thing is that Jia Lei is still a child, and his heart will definitely not be as black as those treacherous and cunning businessmen!

"Of course it's true, that's why I asked you to call Grandpa and them to confirm the location of their institute, and if the location is suitable, I'll find a way for Young Master Lei to buy Grandpa's farm!" Hans said.

It's a big deal to sell it cheaper, it's better to be bought by Jia Lei than to be bought by other black-hearted businessmen and sell all the valuable things, and everyone will be laid off in the future!

"I'll call your grandfather now......," said old Hans excitedly.

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"Did my grandson really say that someone would buy our farm?" asked old Hans excitedly.

You must know that almost all of the more than 300 families in their town work on this farm, and this year's cheap vegetables and fruits have entered the market from other places, and the things on their farm cannot be sold at all. Moreover, all the farms and agriculture-related industries in East Germany were losing money, and they were rated as loss-making properties by the Trusteeship Bureau, and even then no one came to buy their country farms.

"People don't want to buy farms, they really want to buy land in buildings or factories near the Berlin Wall, and farms are just incidental. I think there seems to be a courtyard around here, right?" asked old Hans.

"How did we come to be incidental, our Boulder Farm was originally the experimental field of the Boulder Research Institute, and the property rights were all together, did we have our Boulder Farm after we had a research house! The Institute does have an experimental building over there, and a small experimental field!" said Old Hans.

"Oh, that's great, if people are willing to buy the institute's building, then the townspeople won't worry!" said old Hans happily.

"I want to ask, is the buyer really a good man?" asked the old Hans worriedly, adding that in less than a year millions of people in East Germany had lost their jobs.

"The buyer is the owner of the new Berlin Wall Museum, and he is a good man!" affirms Hans the Elder.

"I ...... I know him, and if he wants to buy our farm, we don't have to pay a penny! He's a friend of the East Germans!" said old Hans excitedly.

"I'm afraid you can't be the master of how much my father's farm sells?" reminded old Hans of his father.

"Hey, you're right, I forgot there's a Trusteeship Bureau......"

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The next day, the Trusteeship Bureau

"Hans, how about Master Lei, I asked you to contact yesterday?" asked Director Rohedder.

"Very nice people, humble, kind and caring!" Hans said.

"Okay, no kidding! You know that's not what I'm asking. Director Rohedder said, banging on the table.

"Clever, rich, and above all, very generous, he gave me a check for 5,000 marks last night! Master Lei also asked me to tell you that he would be grateful to you if you could grant him his wish this time!" said Hans.

"I like smart people! I don't get tired of dealing with them, and smart and generous people are the best. Since he wants to open a department store in East Berlin, it would be better to find him a business near Alexanderplatz. Director Rohedder said.

"I remember that the ZC Bearing Factory has an office building there, so why don't you just leave it there?" said Director Rohedder, who thought for a moment.

ZC bearing factory benefits can also, in addition to the staff is particularly many products are OK, is too many people! The profit of the bearing factory used to barely be able to support the more than 3,000 workers, although half of them are not active in labor, originally not needed state-owned enterprise characteristic employees.

However, all the products of the ZC Bearing Factory were supplied to the major automobile factories and machinery factories in the Soviet Union, but now that East Germany is independent, there is no way to sell the products of the ZC Bearing Factory, and their factories have been losing money for half a year in a row, and every day they start work will lose more than one day's money! The Trusteeship Bureau is eager to throw this hot potato out immediately.

"That's not good, Master Lei is now very famous in Berlin, and his reputation is very good! You are so blatantly pitied, and those high-ranking people who think they are noble will speak out to denounce you, and it is very bad for your reputation!" Hans reminded Director Rohedder.

"You're right! But you also know that the ZC Bearing Factory is too troublesome, and no one in West Germany wants to take over it, and their products are backward and expensive, especially those workers are particularly difficult to deal with! Who would buy it except for an ignorant child like Master Lei!" said Director Rohedder worriedly.

"Actually, we can sell it in a bundle! The Great Stone Agricultural Research Institute has a large plot of land in East Berlin, which is just what Master Lei wants!" Hans said.

"But there are several farms under the Boulder Agricultural Research Institute that are loss-making enterprises, will Master Lei buy them?" asked Director Rohedder.

"As long as we book the price cheaper, after all, Master Lei is going for the land of these two companies. Hans said Director Rohedder felt it was a good note.

"I hope Master Lei can help us, and I think these two are in big trouble!" said Director Rohedder.

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"I don't agree! Both companies are in big trouble!" said Richard, who had carefully studied the asset appraisal report sent by the custodian authority.

"Why? These two plots of land are in good locations?" Jia Lei said, looking at the report.

Alexanderplatz is the former central square of East Berlin. The 365-metre-high East Berlin TV Tower, built in 1969 in the middle of the square, has a tourist hall and a revolving restaurant overlooking Berlin.

Behind the TV tower is the former East Berlin State Hotel, 39 storeys high, converted into a hotel, the top floor with a casino and the red town hall, it is named after the red wall, it is a neo-Renaissance building, built in 1869, the tower in the middle is 74 meters high, there is also a Fountain of Neptune built in 1891, in the center is the statue of Neptune, the god of the sea, around the four goddesses statues represent the four great rivers Elbe, Oder, Rhine and Vistula;

Next to it are the World Clock and the World Friendship Fountain, and the most famous Berlin Cathedral, a neo-baroque domed church on the west side of the square.

The building that Jia Lei wants to buy is next to the street, which was originally a store of ZC Bearing Factory, and East Berlin is a large place and all state-run stores, so even a bearing factory can have a separate store.

The other plot of land is next to a large vacant lot near the Berlin Wall, which is why Richard, an asset appraiser at Citibank, disagrees with Mr. Jia's purchase.

"The buildings on this site are not worth much, and even if we rebuild apartments or shopping malls on it, there will certainly be no one to come, and the most important thing is that there are two farms underneath it that have been losing money, and there are more than 5,000 workers in total, and we can't afford severance pay alone!" Richard said.

"But I really want this land! I don't think I'll lose anything if I buy it. Jia Lei said confidently, you must know that he has the big golden finger of rebirth.

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The land near the megalith research will be great in the future, and a world-famous square will be built there!

Potsdamer Platz was located on the border between East and West Germany at the time of the division of East and West Germany, and it was not until the reunification of Germany that it became the largest commercial center in Berlin.

It is close to Berlin's largest casino (bank-berlin.de) and the world-famous Berlin Philharmonic Symphony Hall.

Jia Lei had been here in his previous life, and Jia Lei knew that the current rotten land of the institute that no one wanted would be worth at least hundreds of millions of dollars in the future!

The pies are all in his mouth, Jia Lei will definitely bite it and never let go!