Chapter 302: Real Estate

Although the Grand Theater is a more spacious and attractive place than the lecture hall of the Yi Zhan Building, it has become a common practice since this day that the various performance halls of the Grand Theater do not carry out any commercial activities unrelated to performances.

After Ye Tao released the design and plan of the new city of Gondor in Yunzhou, it had been several months until the auction. During these months, there was plenty of time to understand the location of the plots, their surroundings, the passages and distances to the city's important public buildings, the elements of water and sewerage, and the general landscape of the plot. In this way, for each plot, those discerning businessmen can also estimate how much the plot can be roughly worth. And these months also give everyone time to raise funds, you must know that once the desired plot of land is auctioned, you have to pay cash, and until the initial construction of Gondor City, such a huge amount of money will be frozen on the construction site of Gondor City. The impact that this lack of funds can have on the business of these bosses must also be taken into account. And it seems that everyone regards Gondor as an extremely important business, and the importance of Gondor even exceeds that of the new capital city that is still being planned.

Some people believe that the new capital city is an enlargement of Danyang. Now Danyang as the capital of Dongping, although a little busy, but basically can meet the needs, the future expansion of the territory, mainly to meet the needs of future development, although there is room for appreciation, but I am afraid that the need to wait for the investment cycle will be longer. However, Gondor's investment will be effective in a few years, as the central city of the entire north in the future, whether it is only for Yunzhou or for the northern territory including the existing boundaries of Northern Liao in the future, Gondor's position is irreplaceable, no matter from the political, military, and economic aspects. Some people, simply because they fancy the grandeur and beauty of the city of Gondor, may not make any bidding or investment in the city, but they will not hesitate to buy the few plots of land along the river, or the only few plots of land in the city that are allowed to be sold in the fortress circle, which are constantly rising with the mountains under the layers of city walls. Others have mobilized enough money to handle two mega auctions, and they will actively participate in it once the new capital city also learns from Gondor's model to spread the financial pressure......

In any case, when the date, time and place of Gondor's auction were finally decided, just to be able to enter the auction, the seats became a hot topic of contention. As a result of the rearrangement of the seating in the entire hall, the entire hall was divided into a total of 300 seats, each with two seats. Among them, 100 seats are targeted to invite representatives of powerful families, chambers of commerce, business groups and businessmen with prominent financial resources. The remaining 200 seats were originally intended to be open to interested parties, but when so many people said they wanted to come to the auction, this open admission became very scary. In the end, the "experienced" Ye Tao came up with a solution: queue up to receive the number, and then open the lottery, and the winner will enter......

To be honest, most modern people may be quite familiar with this set. At the time of the start of the numbered plate distribution, the pomp and circumstance was unprecedented, and almost all interested businessmen sent more than one person to line up to receive the numbered tickets. Get more number plates, and naturally the chances of winning the lottery will be greater. Since early in the morning, there have been no less than 2,000 people queuing up to receive the number, and at this time, Ye Tao regretted why he didn't make the threshold for receiving the number higher, such as charging a certain registration fee or something. But as soon as the word came out, it was difficult to chase the horse, Yi Zhanlou still pinched his nose and ate this list of troublesome things, and finally sent out a total of more than 3,200 numbers. And the lottery is even more undulating. Since the lottery is a four-digit number generated separately, and the duplicate number is re-drawn, this lottery alone took two whole days. Still, this relatively fair approach is quite popular with everyone.

After that, things are not something that Ye Tao can fully control. Many merchants who did not have the financial resources to get the admission tickets suddenly found that the admission tickets were so valuable, and they were the most advantageous tool for them to make friends with those big businessmen and great clans who had no relationship with each other. After several days of private circulation, the price of an admission ticket can be as high as 20,000 taels of silver.

The one who bought this ticket with a lot of money didn't expect that this Chunnan envoy to Dongping: Song Xiang County. The Song Xiang County beloved by Yan Gong does not only represent the Song family in Chun Song, but even represents a lot of people who are as optimistic about the development of Yunzhou as Yan Gong has a long history. These families have often experienced dynastic changes, some of them have a long history or even more than once, and their long-term interests are always more than the national context, but only focus on family issues. Song Xiangjun was originally going to bring an assistant who was good at trading, but what he didn't expect was that after learning about this, Jiang Yan asked to go with Song Xiangjun.

This is someone who Song Xiangjun would never dare to refuse, and Jiang Yan not only came, but even borrowed Dongping's Flying Eagle in just a few days, and obtained the consent of the lord of Chunnan to temporarily borrow two million taels from Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu for a short period of time. This is the largest short-term loan in the history of Deloitte Accounting Firm, and it is actually linked to Chunnan's "state power capital". This short-term loan of 10 days can also bring more than 50,000 taels of income to Deloitte Accounting Firm......

Things have come to this point, not only the top management of Dongping, but almost the entire Middle-earth continent was shocked by the magnitude of the interests involved in Gondor. According to preliminary statistics, the total amount of funds prepared by all the merchants who entered the market was almost five to ten times the average treasury income of the four countries of the entire Middle-earth continent in the past five years...... The amount of money is simply outrageous. Together, the money could do almost anything, and now, Gondor had stirred up such power.

On the day of the auction, the most high-profile groups and businessmen did not attend, but sent their deputies to participate in the auction. The highest position in the field was the old chief Golan. He represents all the tribes of the entire Wolf Plain, as well as all the merchants and families who are close to them, and there is almost no upper limit to the funds in his hands. Because the deputy he brought with him was Guan Yinhang, who Tan Weixin had just cultivated and was ready to be appointed as the first president of Yunzhou Bank in the future. This guy whose name can be homophonically pronounced as "managing the bank" was originally just the young owner of Ningcheng Yunyao, a low-level officer of the Blood Qi Army, but after leaving the military, even after Ningcheng Yunyao was merged into the Jingdezhen porcelain production system united by Ye's Workshop and Neifu, and he was no longer in charge of Yunyao affairs, but gradually became Tan Weixin's trusted deputy, a junior banker. Guan Yinhang, who is still the senior deacon of the Yunzhou Development Fund, has been instructed by Tan Weixin that he can grant Golan a credit to use millions of taels of silver at any time as long as Golan needs it, but only for the two auctions of the Gondor City plots in Danyang and Ningyuan.

Kyushu Trading Company and Nanami Trading Company will spare no effort to invest huge sums of money to buy the land they want, even out of support for Ye Tao and Tan Weixin, not to mention that the appreciation potential of Gondor City is still so huge. However, the old man Qi Zhentao is now in Nanyang, and Qi Zhu is present on behalf of the old man and the entire Seven Seas Trading Company, and the assistant he brought is Liu Qing's younger brother, Liu Zhu.

The first to be auctioned were a few plots along the Dihe River, adjacent to the port area of Gondor, which is quite commercially valuable. A plot of land has long been numbered, and for those who are determined to acquire it, the value of each mark has long been known.

"Lot 19, the starting price is 65,000 taels of silver. The fineness of silver is calculated according to the fineness of the official ingots of the Higashihira Division. The auction starts now. "The auctioneer is a little-known young man, and he doesn't need to say anything to stir up everyone's emotions if he is instructed in advance.

"One hundred thousand taels." The first to call out the price of 100,000 taels was actually Jiang Yan. The high jump of 35,000 taels is really a good start for the whole auction.

But 100,000 taels is just a not very optimistic assessment of the value of this plot, and as soon as Jiang Yan's voice fell, another voice sounded. The one who shouted the price was the young owner of the Tu family, Tu Jihai, who had not been noticed much. "One hundred and twenty thousand!"

This is how the craze was raised. Merchants, families, and representatives of the merchant community do notice the relationship between each other, and the potential benefits that asserting authority may bring to themselves. But the problem is that there is so much cementing in the middle of the auction room that it is almost impossible to consider every aspect in detail. And no one is strong enough to control the entire Gondor. Naturally, if there is such a person, Ye Tao and Tan Weixin will also have enough ways to control it. Everyone is just showing their financial resources and trying to get a better starting point in their own field of expertise. Seven Seas Trading Co., Ltd., inland waterway shipping families, etc., focus on the port area and the area planned as a shipyard, as well as the surrounding storage area, auxiliary function area, etc. Those who are obsessed with commerce will focus on commercial areas and those plots around residential areas. The Yunzhou Jingluo Prefecture has taken the power of planning, construction, and use of the city's ordinary living quarters into its own hands to the greatest extent, in order to avoid the situation that ordinary people cannot afford to live in houses. Ye Tao and Tan Weixin, who have lived in modern society, naturally understand what it means for ordinary people to be able to heirloom houses.

But the prices of high-end residential areas with good views, especially those with the conditions that Yip's Workshop undertook to design and build, are high-priced, and have become a sign of wealth and status for some. In particular, the two plots on the mountain were auctioned at a very high price of more than 1.2 million taels, including the design and construction costs......