"Shanghai is becoming more prosperous day by day," said Kwan Zhuofan, "and there is no doubt that Shanghai will be the largest city in China on a different day." There will be more and more wealthy people who settle down, live in, and sojourn in Shanghai, and they will all have to find a house to live in -- they must find a good house to live in! Therefore, 'Fu Ya Yuan' is just a way to explore and test the water, and the big business is still to come! ”

"Yes!"

Libin echoed loudly and said with a smile: "The word 'Yuan' of 'Fuya Garden', everyone says that it is wonderful!" Compared with what 'inside' and 'get', it's too clever, and when buyers hear it, they immediately feel that their identities are different! It's just—"

After a pause, he continued: "The word 'Fuya'...... Well, there was an old master who said, can you think about it again? ”

"The house has been estimated," Guan Zhuofan smiled slightly, "What else are you considering?" That old master, I think that the word 'Fuya' is not bookish enough? ”

"Yes, Lord Mingjian."

"Mr. Li, let me ask you, who are the people who bought 'Fu Ya Yuan'?"

"The prince is talking about ......"

"Most of them are businessmen, right? Among them, are there any serious gentry? ”

"Uh, this...... Not really. ”

"That's it, how many of the buyers are serious readers? If I change 'Fuli Lane' to 'Hanxu Garden', 'Zaojian Garden', and 'Zhijing Garden', buyers will also have to understand what's going on! People who do business, don't they think of the word 'rich'? If you have money, if you are a vassal and elegant, you will be considered a 'Confucian merchant', and you will be able to explain it very well. 'Rich' plus 'elegant'. Just do what they want! ”

"The prince has insight into people's hearts! Well. If you are 'rich', you want to be 'expensive' -- you will glorify your ancestors! Let's go to the next 'garden'. It's called 'Guiya', what does the prince think? ”

"Mr. Leigh, Gao Ming!"

The two laughed together.

While laughing, Libin thought that the three names of "Hanxu", "Zaojian" and "Zhijing" are really "smart", and the prince came up with it casually, and it is really "capable of anything". If you don't admire, you can't!

He didn't know that these three names were actually the names of the pavilions on the "Penglai Three Islands" in Kunming Lake in the Summer Palace.

After laughing, Guan Zhuofan said: "Mr. Li, please pay attention to the 'big business' I just talked about, first of all, it is not on our own land, but in the concession. ”

"Oh? Please give the prince a lecture. ”

"Like 'Fu Ya Yuan', buy the old house first and tear it all down. Then build a new house on the original site, and there are many procedures. It's more troublesome. Buying 'Fuli Lane' is considered smooth, if you bump into one or two people who refuse to sell their houses, they will hate it very much. ”

After a pause, Guan Zhuofan continued: "That's it, the key is that the alley like 'Fuli Lane' is too small!" After buying them all, a total of 48 households had to be raised, and all of them were sold, but they only made more than 100,000 silver, which was not enough...... Joyfully! Hehe, if it's not forty-eight households, it's ...... What about four hundred and eighty households? ”

Libin's heart jumped big, his brain turned rapidly, and he already realized: "Four hundred and eighty households, that has to occupy a large area, the prince means it, it means that the concession is ......."

"Yes, on the other side of the concession, most of them are wasteland and tidal flats, and they are used to build houses, not to mention 480 households, 4,800 households, 9,600 households, which are more than enough!"

Libin opened his mouth slightly: The spirit of the prince is really ...... Amazing!

"Of course," Guan Zhuofan smiled, "4,800 households, 9,600 households or something, it's not a one-time build, and you have to come with a 'garden' or a 'garden'." Otherwise, for a while, we can't find so many buyers, and our money will be pressed all the time, and it is not appropriate. ”

"Yes."

"The advantage of the concession, in addition to the large area, is also extremely important: the foreigners' roads are well repaired! Also, where the road is repaired, the sewer pipe is also repaired - in a word, the 'infrastructure' is well done! ”

Libin was stunned: "'Infrastructure'? ”

"Yes, just like we did in the 'Free Trade Zone' and 'Industrial Park': before other people's factories come in, we first level the land, build access roads, and build docks, and as soon as people's factories come in, we can start work;

"I don't know if I'm right?" Libin turned his mind and said tentatively, "What does the prince mean, is it...... Well, let's keep an eye on the foreigner's road - where the foreigner's road is built, let's take the first step and buy all the land around the road? ”

Guan Zhuofan cocked his thumb: "Mr. Li, that's right!" ”

After a pause, he continued: "In the future, it won't be long before the land prices around the newly built roads in the concession will definitely rise higher and higher, and even if we don't build a house, we can make a lot of money just by hoarding land!" At present, there are very few people who know this truth, the land price around the new road is still very cheap, the sooner we start, the less it costs, the greater the profit in the future! ”

"This-well, it's like the land that the prince bought in the United States......"

"That's right! When the civil war was fought in the south and north of the United States, even in a city like New York, which was not a soldier, the price of land fell undecently. But after the war, it only took a year or two to increase more than tenfold! Hehe, it's kind of a big leak for me! ”

"This is not a leak - this is the prince's eyes like a torch, and the candle shines thousands of miles away! For another person, where can he have such a good vision and take such a big risk? ”

Guan Zhuofan laughed and thought: This prince's vision is indeed good, but this vision is the vision of a "historical speculator", so he can't talk about taking much risk.

The purchase of land in the United States is indeed his proud work.

During the war, there was a shortage of materials and a lot of things were expensive, but there was one thing that was much cheaper than before the war, and that was land.

After the war, the United States built on a large scale and entered the so-called "Gilded Age", and these lands did not rise several times or several times, but dozens or hundreds of times.

Other investments, such as Rockefeller's Standard Oil, are considered long-term investments; In wartime, land can be realized within one or two years after the war at the earliest.

The house is the same cheap, but you don't know when a shell hits, and no matter how cheap it is, it's a pile of ruins, no better than land, and it can't be broken.

The land that Guan Zhuofan chose to buy is widely distributed, but it is mainly concentrated in the area from Washington to New York in the northeast of the United States, which is the most prosperous area in the United States. After the war, it must have been the earliest and fastest recovery area, and in the great development of the "Gilded Age", it was the most full of flowers and fire.

The areas that have repeatedly passed through the army are basically in the south, and the war has devastated strictly, and the north has deliberately suppressed it after the war, and it is a long process to restore vitality. For example, Virginia was one of the richest regions in the United States before the war, but because it was the main force of the rebellion and one of the main battlefields of the war, its development was sluggish after the war, and it was the poorest region in the United States until the 21st century.

Although some of these places eventually developed, the distant water does not quench the thirst of the near, so Guan Zhuofan will not provoke it.

There is also the west, of course, the land price is cheaper, almost no money, but you have to fight the Indians to the death first, it is completely a piece of cake, and Grandpa Guan was not interested in it at that time.

The bottom of the house can also be copied, but you have to choose a safer location on the East Coast, pick a big, good, buy a few of them, and it will definitely come in handy in the future - in fact, not long after, before the battle was over, Jacqueline and Mia lived in a villa that Guan Zhuofan bought on Long Island, New York.

Xiaoyun studied in the United States, and Bai's "accompaniment" did not need to buy another house.

Today, Guan Zhuofan has become the No. 1 landowner in the United States outside the government of the United States of America.

There is another proud thing about the purchase of land in the United States: Guan Zhuofan almost did not spend a tael of silver or a dollar from himself -- the funds for the purchase of land were all borrowed by a syndicate led by J.P. Morgan.

Now, I'm going to replicate the "American experience" in Shanghai.

"Mr. Li," said Kwan Zhuofan, "you don't even have to wait for the foreigners to repair the road when you buy land in the concession. You can go to the Ministry of Industry Bureau to find a map of their 'planning' and see where they want to build the road next? It's repaired, what kind of Chenguang is it? None of this is a secret, and foreigners don't hide it. ”

After a pause, he said: "As long as their 'planning map' has been finalized, they can buy land in advance!" ”

"Yes!"

Libin pondered for a while and said: "Lord, I have a thought: foreigners can plan and build roads like this in the concession, can we also plan and build roads like this on our own land?" ”

Guan Zhuofan was stunned.

*(To be continued......)