Chapter 56: A Car Cheaper Than a Tank of Gasoline!

Jia Lei deliberately rushed back to Germany this time to get in touch with the people of Sotheby's auction house, after all, mammoths need to rely on such professionals to sell them at a good price, but that is a month or two later, and the most important thing for Jia Lei now is to find someone to process the ivory and diamond rough in his hands.

"We need to find professionals for diamond cutting, and Indu is currently the most gemstone cutting and ivory carving place in the world, and they are skilled and cheap, and the processing fee for a diamond is usually about 100 to 200 yuan. Novan took out the information that had been prepared a long time ago and kicked it to Jia Lei.

"If I don't go to Yindu, I hate Ah San! I plan to take these things to Hong Kong Island, there are many famous jewelry brands and carving masters on Hong Kong Island, and the things they make are more in line with the taste of Chinese people. Jia Lei said.

"You don't have to worry about this matter, you still want to report to me about the company's situation in the month that I am away?" Jia Lei asked.

"The company is in good shape, we are building a new building near the farm, the shops in Alexandria Plaza have been demolished and the foundations are being dug, and the blueprints for the new mall have come out, do you want to take a look?" asked Novan.

"Take it and I'll take a look!" Jia Lei stretched out his hand and said.

"This is a design drawing from a famous designer in Berlin, our land is relatively small only 1,200 square meters, it is a rectangular plot of 30×40 square land, the designer decided to make a parking lot on the two floors downstairs, and build a seven-storey shopping mall upstairs!" Novan explained to Jia Lei.

"What is this? It looks weird, and the outside of the building is actually made into a honeycomb shape? The building is full of holes, and it doesn't look comfortable at all. Jia Lei glanced at the design with disgust and said that this design is not friendly to people with dense phobia at all.

"This is art! Master Borman is a particularly famous master of modern art architecture and design, and many of his works have become landmarks in the city. Novan explained.

"It's strange that such a special look doesn't become a landmark, but his design is too wasteful of space, I'm a commercial developer rather than a group headquarters, I just need as much rental space as possible and don't need to be unconventional. Jia Lei said.

"Okay, I'll talk to the master!" said Novan.

"Don't discuss, settle his design fee! You go to an ordinary architectural engineer to redo it, preferably an old designer of the school of architecture, and you ask them to carefully investigate the geology and strive to build as high a building as possible within the limits of what the land can bear! Dig deep underground, especially the parking lot must dig at least seven or eight floors, and the underground parking lot will be more expensive than the office building above in the future." After the development of this place, we will rent out the parking space will also be a large amount of income!" Jia Lei sat on the boss's chair and began to pull and pull, saying with a small calculation.

"But in order for customers to discover our new mall, the appearance of the mall should be a little more prominent! A simple square office building can't make tourists and customers notice our mall?" Novan explained to Jia Lei.

"It's not easy to stand out, you can change the exterior façade of our building to gold. Jia Lei said.

"Although gold looks rich but tasteless, many famous luxury brands have always labeled themselves as a symbol of taste, if the mall is built like this, many high-end luxury brands will refuse to enter! Don't you want to make the new mall a top luxury shopping mall?" reminded Jia Lei.

"What you said is indeed a question, let me think about it......" Jia Lei knocked on the table and thought.

"Why don't we build a statue of Alexander the Great on the top floor! The statue should be hollow and light, so as not to crush the building below, and it should be a little taller, at least fifty meters high! Jia Lei patted the table and said.

"Isn't that right? Similar buildings were destroyed during the revolution in country E, and the Soviet Union was not allowed to build similar buildings at all. Novan said that as a D-countryman, he still knows these things very well.

"Don't worry! Now the more we can resist the Soviet government, the happier the government of country D will be, and the people will like it, maybe they will even give us some subsidies when they are happy!" Jia Lei said, anyway, he knows that if he wants to attract attention, the first way is to be big!

"By the way, when it comes to government subsidies, I just have one thing to report to you. Novan took out another document from his bag and said.

"What can you say? I won't be in Berlin for a few days, and I'm going to Hong Kong Island soon! Jia Lei said.

"The Berlin government came to discuss with us a few days ago about the subsidy for the recycling of scrap cars, according to the German standard, we will be engaged in the recycling of scrap cars can get government subsidies, the subsidy standard is that each scrapped car recovered according to the standard of the model of a few hundred marks! Novan said.

In Germany, there are many such second-hand car recycling companies, and they only need to pay a certification fee of 500 to 700 marks per year to operate.

"We can't collect this money, what we want to buy is a second-hand car that can be used again, and if we buy scrapped cars, it will make customers worry about the source of our second-hand cars, I do a second-hand goods trading business! I don't sell foreign garbage!" Jia Lei said "snap"!

"But the boss is legal in country D, Germany's second-hand cars are recycled, dismantled and recycled with a particularly high recycling rate, this kind of enterprise similar to environmental protection, the government will give us great preferential treatment in terms of taxes. Novan said that after all, the tax rate of Western companies in all aspects is quite high.

"Again, I'm running a second-hand trading company, and I'm going to reject anything that has to do with garbage! After all, in some places people confuse the two, and you have to make an attitude that the whole world can see. Our company refuses garbage! The second-hand goods sold from us are definitely not garbage!" Jia Lei said categorically.

"Okay, we're going to refuse the government's request!" What do you want us to do if we have received a batch of cars recently?" asked Novan .

"Go to the port and contact the ship and load them to the ...... as soon as possible For the time being, it will be stored in the warehouse at the pier, and I will go to China to go through the formalities first. Jia Lei thought about it for a while and said.

"That's right. These cars have all been tested for safety, right?" asked Jia Lei.

"All of them have been inspected according to your requirements, but all the cars do not have a certificate of inspection of the car of country D, because the cost of this inspection is very high, about 500 to 700 marks per car!" said Novan.

"It doesn't matter, as long as the workers have checked the quality of the car, it's fine, and our customers do it themselves. Jia Lei said.

"But I don't understand why you have to take the East German Sputnik car, it's slow, it's black, it's not of good quality! Even his carport is not made of steel, it's synthetic!" asked Novan. You must know that most of the cars they recycle are Sputnik cars made in East Germany that do not meet EU environmental standards.

"Of course, it's because it's cheap! A Trabant "Sputnik" car is not as expensive as a tank of gasoline, and you can buy one for only a dozen marks!" Jia Lei replied quickly.

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"Trabant" means "satellite" in German. The name has a special meaning. It is rumored that in 1957 it was the socialist "big brother" that the Soviet Union launched its first artificial satellite in 1957, and in order to commemorate this great moment in history, the East German civilian car born in the same year was named "trabant". You have to find the latest chapters by yourself to read books?