Chapter 12: Hu Wenkai Enjoying Tranquility (2)
Industrial real estate transactions and other housing customers have reached the number queue situation, the company has a good reputation, each house first repair and finishing, after the doors and windows are repainted, the bulbs inside are replaced with new ones and a year of maintenance, the purchase of furniture is also 20% discount, word of mouth to pay a deposit three months to get a new house, who is not tempted, the public concession housing in Sun Daming's advertising offensive gradually also gathered in the Industrial Real Estate, a month of 90 sets of transactions in half a month to break through.
Sun Daming has been busy these days, and there is not enough manpower, and the evaluation staff has to run seven or eight houses every day to set prices, and every day when he gets home, he remembers that he has to change places with the boss, and he is busy forgetting when he arrives at the company. Today, I saw the boss in the office, and hurriedly ran up to Wang Xihai to report to the boss.
After listening to Wang Xihai's report, Hu Wenkai took out the map and showed that there were 245 houses in the public concession and only 127 in the French concession. The houses in the French Concession can be satisfied with the rich and powerful, and the general customers in the public Concession are more likely to buy company furniture by the way, and most of the customers in the French Concession are custom-made by themselves.
"What about house prices in Scott Road now?"
"The price of Scott Road is much lower than that of the French Concession"
"You submit a report this week to recruit 6 people, 4 women and 2 men, and go to Scott Road in the early stage to inspect the specific housing prices and suitable houses"
"Boss, won't you, what do you want the female staff to do? Two are not worth one man, how can the company be put on Scott Road is a bit off. ”
I don't understand marketing at all, the effect of four female employees is stronger than ten men, and the sales champion of the real estate company in the future is not a woman, and women can give people a sense of trust. Scott Road will soon become a high-end residential area in the public concession, and Hu Wenkai can't say that the conclusions reached by later generations can only say that it is not tiring to do things first with men and women.
I didn't expect the second-hand housing agent to save so much money, and the real estate transaction for a few months was not as fast as the intermediary, or the information asymmetry caused by the convenience of the buyer. Standing up, holding a beautiful brand cigarette, standing in front of the window, looking downstairs, there were few pedestrians on Xiafei Road, the leaves were drooping, and the cicadas were chirping. The fairness of doing business in the French Concession is not very good, and the French have adopted a monopolistic policy on the politics and economy of the French Concession, and there are too many human factors. The initial stage of the company is suitable in the French Concession, and the company's business must still be in the Public Concession after the accumulation of original capital.
The public concession management body is called the Taxpayers' Committee, commonly known as the Ministry of Industry Bureau, which adopts the parliamentary system of later generations, and the managers of various countries have different seats in the Ministry of Industry Bureau, which are elected by recommendation, and the fairness is a leading position in the world. Hu Wenkai's brain was filtering the information of later generations, and he thought again and again that it would be better for the department store to be placed in the public concession on North Sichuan Road.
There is such a description in "Miscellaneous Notes of Shanghai Customs": "North Dance Field, middle and lower class movie theaters, Cantonese restaurants, Cantonese tea houses, Cantonese brothels, Japanese restaurants, bathhouses, brothels, European brothels, beauty salons, massage parlors are very numerous, the whole Shanghai except Nanjing Road, Fuzhou Road, North Sichuan Road is the most prosperous, day and night vehicles, pedestrians are crowded. Since you have the experience of later generations, why not let go of your thinking and slowly encroach on North Sichuan Road in a year, create a commercial and residential block with your own model, and temporarily stop the operation of department stores at the company level. Next month's company meeting will focus on discussing this matter, where major decisions are made to study the meeting as well, a person's point of view is always not comprehensive, and they need to brainstorm ideas to improve the plan.
At noon, he returned to No. 3, Lane 181, after riding for more than 2 kilometers in the scorching heat, the beads of sweat on his body had wet his clothes and pants, and he soaked in the bathtub for a while and changed his clothes, and the ice cubes lowered the temperature in the room to a level acceptable to the human body. There were duck soup, cold noodles, and fried gourd with shredded pork on the table, and the two maids had gone home, and he was used to eating slowly.
Drinking duck soup and browsing the declaration of the day, Hu Wenkai is now the author who has a relatively large number of appearances in the declaration, and the aftermath of the article on the difference between the north and the south some time ago has not ended, and today the declaration has published another rebuttal article. He laughed when he saw it, this article must be from the north, full of righteousness, Ling Ran said that when a country rises and falls, it should not care about the difference between the habits of the north and the south, and it is the same nation, saying that the author Shuifowl is a villain with a dark psychology who instigates the dispute between the north and the south. It's just to talk a little about the difference between the north and the south, and it is necessary to go online, and ignore this kind of hat buttoning language.
After lunch, lie down on the ceiling fan and rest for two hours in the afternoon, sit quietly in the afternoon and read Stendhal's "The Red and the Black" in French, chew slowly word by word, occasionally smoke a cigarette and drink tea, life is meant to live slowly like this.
Seeing that Yu Lian rejected the maid Elisa's love place, Hu Wenkai reluctantly closed the book and felt sorry for Elisa. After resting on the mahogany Taishi chair for a while, I looked at my watch at a quarter past six, and the hot temperature dropped in the evening, and I knew that it was calling outside. Hu Wenkai moved a chaise longue in the center of the alley, and lay on the chair with a fan in his hand.
From time to time, neighbors passed by to greet him, and he responded politely. The residents of Lane 181 belong to the high-end area of Shanghai, and when they come home from work, men wear trousers, shirts and ties, women's dresses, cheongsam, and the smell of perfume wafts into his nose when he passes by.
No. 4, Lane 181 is a big family surnamed Wu, a husband and wife in their forties, the male owner is like a soldier with a loud voice, a very straight waist, once I saw him wearing a very old white military shirt, the hostess does not like to talk and is busy every day, the son rarely sees it during the day when he goes home with a briefcase in his twenties, and the daughter-in-law is very beautiful, plump and white-skinned, and the typical Shanghai jasper. The family also has a teenage daughter who lives at a church school.
Some time ago, Hu Wenkai's bicycle rear wheel bearing was broken, he used a tool to remove the rear wheel of the bicycle, remove the bearing to find the damaged marbles, find a replacement marble in the butter box and put it on, smear it with butter and put it on. When he looked up and saw Lao Wu's family of three standing beside him and watching him repair the car, he grinned and said hello. Lao Wu's family has a bicycle chain that is broken, and the place where the bike is repaired is too far away and has been parked at home for several days, so I asked him to help fix it. With a gesture, Hu Wenkai replaced a chain for his bicycle, and helped clean and oil the bicycle by the way.
Sometimes Lao Wu often comes to borrow Hu Wenkai's bicycle, and occasionally his daughter-in-law will come to borrow a bicycle to go out, but the family has the advantage of never entering Hu Wenkai's room. Hu Wenkai put the pu fan on his face and pretended to be asleep, and secretly looked at the old Wu family's daughter-in-law reading the newspaper on the chair in front of his door from the gap in the pu fan, and his angle just happened to see her legs exposed outside the skirt.
The gaze was also strong, and the daughter-in-law of the Wu family seemed to feel that he was peeping at her, so she inadvertently pulled her skirt so that her pink legs were exposed and swayed gently. Hu Wenkai's heart was rippling in spring, and he was reacting to the daughter-in-law of the Wu family, and hurriedly covered it with a pu fan, revealing a face that was not sleepy. The daughter-in-law of the Wu family burst out laughing, his face was hot, he went back to the house to take a shower to calm down the impulse, and came out to move the chair back to the room The daughter-in-law of the Wu family is gone.
Since July's gang of all sorts of people who came often rarely came because of the hot weather, he was also accustomed to and liked the quiet life at night. After a brief dinner, I turned on the gramophone and played the solo cello of Kobe's record, and sat on the sofa with my eyes closed.
After nine o'clock, it was his time to exercise, and after 200 push-ups and de-strength, he lay down in a large shape sweating profusely and panting, and the heat in his body flowed out of his body with sweat. I took a few tomatoes from the kitchen and nibbled on them for supper, made a cup of tea and put it on the coffee table, soaked in the bathtub for twenty minutes, dried my body with a bath towel, and looked at my youthful and energetic body in the mirror.
Spread out the detailed map of the Shanghai Concession, the red squares are the properties that have been purchased, the blue ones are under negotiation, and the green ones are ready to be purchased, and the land price and short-term appreciation expectations of each place are attached in small print next to them.
Hu Wenkai calculates when to throw away the plot, when to eat the plot, the funds are not much, and he needs to sell and buy in time to let the funds in his hands flow to obtain the maximum benefits. Some of the methods of controlling the market price in later generations cannot be used now, and they have become other people's wedding dresses if they use their own strength.
After the study continued to refine the work plan for the next four months, he turned out the books that Bryant had left behind. Hu Wenkai recently discovered that the industrial revolution has reached the harvest period, a large number of machinery has been used, according to the magazine books left by Kobe, the United States has been large-scale mechanized steelmaking, Carnegie built a large steelmaking plant in Pennsylvania, in 1910 steel production has reached 26.09 million tons, these steels are some crude steel, the added value is very little, just like later China. Standardization has been adopted to realize the interconnection of spare parts, and motors, steam hammers, machine tools, hydraulic presses, etc. have developed rapidly.