Chapter One Thousand and Ninety-Seven: The Burj Al Arab Returns to China

"Shameless! I won't talk nonsense with you, I have to hurry. "Jin Yue can't talk back this time, don't expect Hong Tao to brag about this kind of thing, he can do it 100%, rather than being angry here, it's better to retreat quickly.

"Let the driver drive slower and think about handing in his homework!" Hong Tao watched Jin Yue run away, his heart was much happier, why is it so enjoyable to torture people?

Damai Village, Wheat Island, these are the two place names near the sea in Laoshan District, Qingdao City, the coast is called Damai Village, a few hundred meters away from the sea, there is a small island, called Wheat Island. The island is indeed not big, with a radius of less than 0.5 square kilometers, it was originally a desert island, with dozens of residents on it, most of them fishermen from Damai Village, and a Qingdao Marine Corrosion Research Institute and the Wheat Island Marine Environmental Monitoring Station of the State Oceanic Administration, which should be regarded as the most formal buildings on the island.

When Hong Tao arrived here, Wheat Island was no longer the same as it was before the development, the residents of the island had moved back to Damai Village, and the Qingdao Marine Corrosion Research Institute and the State Oceanic Administration's Wheat Island Marine Environmental Monitoring Station had also been invited out and changed offices. In the northern part of the island, a strangely shaped building rises from the ground, about 40 stories high, and if anyone who has traveled to Dubai in later generations will definitely be able to recognize that this is not the Burj Al Arab Hotel! Originally, he wanted to build higher, but the rocky layers on the island were not very stable and could not bear much weight without special reinforcement. Special handling words. The construction period was delayed for at least a year, so in the end it was abandoned.

The interior of this sailboat-shaped building is divided into two parts. The first floor to the 10th floor is the hotel, the 11th to the 20th floor is the apartment, and the top floor is the equipment floor. This is just an external statement, in fact, the upper part is the equipment floor, most of the area belongs to Hongtao, is a private duplex residence, and there is a helicopter hangar. It can accommodate 3 light helicopters at the same time.

Although the hotel, apartment, and top floor are in the same building, the entry and exit are independent and do not interfere with each other. Even the underground garage is separated. There are 120 rooms in the hotel and only 98 apartments, so why are there so few? The smallest is 150 square meters. The largest is close to 1,000 square meters, which is why a building with more than 40 floors is only 21 floors inside. Apartment rooms are not rented but sold, but sold as residential houses, but you can enjoy some hotel-style services.

Can you sell such a large area of house? Others can't, Hong Tao can, just such a big ability! And it's not a cheap sale, and the house price is close to the Liyuan villa area in Beijing. The reason is simple. With the golden sign of Crystal Orchid Capital, Hongtao is now investing in the construction of public toilets. There are also people who are willing to buy. There is no need to analyze the reasons for profit, as long as you follow Crystal Orchid Capital, you will definitely make money, which is already the consensus of everyone. If everyone can figure out this question, then there is no Crystal Orchid Capital, people play with expectations, vision, investment is the future, facts have been proven many times, people play is good, is accurate.

If you believe it, follow it, and if you don't believe it, you won't necessarily be able to play with it. Looking at the list of the first customers to buy these apartments, it is possible to imagine whether these apartments will sell and at what price. From the world's top 50 companies to the top of the world's richest list, at least a third of them are on the list. Now the apartment rooms are not worried about not selling, but worried that they are not enough to sell, the main body has just been capped, and the decoration work has not been completed, and the 98 apartment rooms have been sold out. By the time the renovation was completed and the surrounding facilities and greenery work began, the prices of these houses had risen by 20 percent, and by 10 percent every month if we were to count on time, and there were still people waiting to take over.

This is the celebrity effect, who doesn't want to tell people that Bill Gates and I are neighbors, Jobs lives upstairs from me, and I live on Jackson's head every day! You can not believe in Crystal Orchid Capital, but you have to believe in the vision of the world's richest man and many big names, right? As long as the house price rises, it will not fall in a short period of time, and now the customers of the apartment are mainly from Europe and the United States, supplemented by Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan. When those rich people in the Chinese mainland show up, housing prices have to go up, they prefer to live with world celebrities, don't care if the real person is not there, what they want is this name, and saying it is a representative of identity.

More than half of the north side of the whole island is the area of the Burj Al Arab Hotel and apartments, and the design style of the Bird Garden is the same, the house prices are expensive for the reason that the house prices are expensive, and the bottom is full of green belts, making it the same as a forest garden. In order to feed the trees and lawns transplanted from the inland, it took half a month to pull the soil suitable for planting on the island. In the midst of these greenery, tennis courts, miniature golf courses, football fields are all available, and the first floor of the hotel also has shopping malls, kindergartens, beauty salons, banks, post offices and other supporting facilities, and even car repair shops are prepared. It doesn't matter if there is a business or not, you have to open a business here, these are all run by the hotel management itself, and they are completely service facilities, not seeking to make money.

About a third of the way to the south is blocked by a low fence that houses the Hung Tao Sailing Yacht Club. If you have been to the Jinhai Lake Club, it is easy to see that the architectural style here is a complete copy of the Jinhai Lake Club. There are still a few courtyard houses and small villas guarding a two-story black building, surrounded by woods. However, in this wood, a straight road was also built, which is located in the widest part of the whole island, connecting east and west, with a length of more than 600 meters. However, it is not yet finished, and there are still machinery on the east side that is reclaiming the sea day and night, as if to stretch this road into the sea.

Supposedly, if you want to connect this highway with the land, you have to reclaim the sea to the west, but how can you go east, and it can't be like connecting with the Korean Peninsula, right? In fact, people who understand it can see at a glance that this highway is not a highway at all, it is the runway of an airport, but it is painted with solid lines, dotted lines, and zebra crossings, making it look like a highway. Nominally, it is indeed an intra-island road, because the Wheat Island development project has not obtained the qualification to build a first-class airport, Hong Tao can only sell dog meat on the head of a sheep, and build the runway by building a road.

Eventually, the runway will be 800 meters long, which is the standard for safe take-off and landing for the average small jet, which is fully capable of meeting the needs of his own private jet. As for whether the state let him take off and land here, Hong Tao felt that it was not a difficult matter, as long as he pulled those big heads to form a group that day, came here for a circle, and released some signals by the way, it was enough to exchange for a qualification to take off and land a private jet.

Since it is a sailing yacht club, there must always be a pier, and yes, the dock on the island is also under construction. A circular breakwater has been built in the small bay to the west, and inside the breakwater is a sailing dock and ancillary facilities built in accordance with the requirements of the International Water Sports Federation, which can be used at any time once the Olympic Games are selected to host water sports competitions here, at least to ensure that the hardware standards are met. With the existence of Hong Tao, a prophet, he even got out of the press conference hall with the function of network media in later generations, and the fiber optic cable was directly connected to the land through the small strait.

The other pier is out of sight from the shore, on the southeast corner of Wheat Island, northeast of the small spired building of the former Qingdao Marine Corrosion Research Institute and the State Oceanic Administration's Wheat Island Marine Environmental Monitoring Station. This is also the only building on the island that has been preserved and not demolished, it has now become the island's communication center and tower, there are planes on the left to land it to command, on the right a cement embankment that has stretched out from the shore for nearly 100 meters has been formed, and there is a T-shaped fork at the end, that is, the island's deep-water dock, the water depth is close to 30 meters, and most ships are no problem mooring.

Under the embankment, there is actually a cave hidden, which is mainly an oil depot, which is used to store oil and refuel the ships themselves. This thing is in a semi-legal state, and in terms of registration procedures, this terminal does not exist, and it is not qualified to reserve a large amount of diesel. However, the authorities in charge of this matter will selectively ignore it as if it does not exist, just like the island called the road is actually a running track, as long as the hotel and water sports center are built, the other local governments will not bother, and even let the island overstock marine diesel on the grounds of hotel demand.

Originally, there was a simple embankment between Wheat Island and the mainland, but at the insistence of the waves, this embankment was demolished and replaced with a wider iron bridge. But there is one thing, the side of the iron bridge near the island can be raised, and the lifting equipment is also built on the side of the island. In other words, once the iron bridge is raised, the island is really an island, and it is impossible to cross it without taking a boat. It is not easy to think about the past by boat, and it is not obvious now, but when all the works are completed, there will be engineering ships coming and starting piling along the perimeter of the island, and thousands of I-beams will be inserted into the waters around the island.

In addition to the two piers, it is dangerous to approach the island by boat from anywhere, the waves will push your boat to the I-beam and break it, and if you want to get to the island safely, you must either pass through the hotel security booth on the iron bridge, dock at the two piers, or land from the sky on the runway, it is not realistic to sneak up anyway. (To be continued......)