Lin Zhe, who was deeply touched by the huge profits of the real estate industry in later generations, had already directly used military funds in the name of Yu Shengjun to buy all the more than 1,000 acres of land that were scheduled to be expanded in the charter of the business zone.

At this time, due to the cooperation of the local government, Yu Shengjun directly came to the door with a bayonet to buy, and it took almost less than two days, and Yu Shengjun bought all the more than 1,000 acres of land at a low price.

Later, the ownership of the land in the original British Concession was also purchased by the Yamen of the commercial and trade zone from the original Chinese landlords in the official name.

In the entire trade zone, there are only two big landlords, one is the yamen of the trade zone, and the other is Yu Shengjun.

The Yamen of the trade zone purchased the land in the original British Concession, and the ownership was only nominal ownership, because in the past, when foreigners rented these lands, the rent was extremely low, and they were all in the mode of permanent rent, unless they took the initiative to surrender the rent, they could not get it back at all.

The foreigners in the entire business area do not have the right to buy land, but they have the right to perpetual rent, so on the other hand, this perpetual lease is actually no different from buying!

Originally, most of the land in the British Concession had been leased by foreigners from all over the world, so from this point of view, the ownership of these lands by the Yamen of the Trade Zone was only nominal.

The reason why the trade zone also purchased the more than 800 acres of land was actually to avoid political risks and unnecessary conflicts between Chinese landlords and foreigners who rented land.

The British Concession has all been leased out, but the expanded land is not like that!

Yu Shengjun directly used the small treasury to buy these lands, but they have not been rented out, and in order to make money, Lin Zhe will naturally not set the perpetual rental price extremely low as at the beginning, according to the geographical location of each block, Lin Zhe asked his subordinates to set different permanent rental prices.

Well, this is actually not a lease of land, but a direct sale of land, and the reason why it is still a permanent lease model is actually to avoid the fact that foreigners are not allowed to buy land directly.

And there are not only foreigners who rent land, but also a large number of Chinese businessmen!

You must know that before this, although there were many Chinese active in the British Concession before, legally speaking, they did not have the right to buy houses and live in the concession, so they have always been private behaviors, and now they can openly buy houses and live in the business area, and they will naturally not give up this opportunity.

Others don't say that the Lin firm is to buy a piece of land near the south bank of the pidgin and the Huangpu River, because this is a high-quality land close to the Huangpu River, the permanent rent is extremely high, and the permanent rent of the land with an area of only more than two acres is as high as 1,500 taels per mu.

Therefore, just to rent this plot of land to build the headquarters of the new Shanghai branch of the Lin Commercial Bank, the Lin Commercial Bank spent more than 3,000 taels of silver.

Its price has risen at least dozens of times compared to the original land price!

Why is the price so expensive, it's simple, Lin Zhe is planning to sell the land at one time, and considering the large demand for land in the business zone by businessmen and Chinese businessmen from all over the world, if the price does not increase dozens of times, you are embarrassed to say that you are engaged in real estate.

Of course, the price is so expensive is only limited to the land along the Huangpu River, because on the one hand, in addition to the inherent port advantages, in fact, along the north bank of the Huangpu River, this area is used as the office land of major commercial banks and government agencies.

To put it bluntly, the land along the river not only has commercial value, but also has face value!

If you don't set up a headquarters along the river as a façade, you will be embarrassed to negotiate business with others!

The farther away from the Huangpu River, the cheaper it is, the cheaper it is, the plots along the river are generally hundreds of taels or even thousands of taels of silver per mu, but the inland areas far away from the river are much cheaper, there are also expensive hundreds of taels of one mu, and there are dozens of taels of cheap.

If all the more than 1,000 acres of land in Yu Shengjun's hands are rented, it will not be a problem to make hundreds of thousands of taels of silver, but how much did Yu Shengjun spend when he bought these lands? The average price of one mu is only about 30 taels, and it only cost more than 30,000 taels of silver in total to pocket this more than 1,000 mu of land, and now it has earned hundreds of thousands of taels of silver just by changing hands.

Looking at the land rental income statement handed over by Bi Yutong, Lin Zhe had to sigh, no matter what the end of the year, it is still the most profitable to do real estate business!

In fact, what is more profitable is that Yu Shengjun directly built these places and rented them out, or hoarded them for a few years, and sold them after the land price soared again, so that the income would not be hundreds of thousands of taels, but maybe millions.

However, this kind of thing is still too far away for Lin Zhe, on the one hand, Lin Zhe has taken the initiative to raise the price, although the land price in Shanghai has risen more than 100 times in just ten years, but it will take more than ten years, Yu Shengjun can not wait so long, Yu Shengjun now needs to gather a large amount of military spending in a short period of time.

In the final analysis, Lin Zhe is not here to do business, he just takes this opportunity to make a fortune to solve the problem of shortage of military spending, but he is not interested in being a real estate developer, so he would rather raise the price more than ten times or even twenty or thirty times and rent it out directly in perpetuity rather than engage in some trickle.

Throw it out directly and make a lot of money to expand the army and hold it in your hands and wait for appreciation to make money, this is the difference between a politician and a businessman!

With a large number of land being purchased by foreign merchants and Chinese businessmen, a construction frenzy naturally arose!

Especially in the area along the river from the south bank of the pidgin to the moat, because the people who bought this area were foreign merchants and Chinese businessmen who were not short of money, and the land was purchased for the office of the commercial house, clubhouse, and mansion, and was used as a façade, so naturally as soon as the land was in hand, the construction began immediately.

For a time, a large number of war refugees who had originally poured into the Shanghai area were hired, and not only most of the strong labor of these tens of thousands of people was put into this huge construction site, but also because of the urgent shortage of strong labor in the trade area, even the local natives in the surrounding areas also poured into the trade area to work.

At the same time, I heard that there was no thief army harassing the Shanghai Business Zone, and there were a large number of job opportunities to support the family, so that a large number of people from southern Jiangsu poured into the Shanghai Business Zone.

In just one month, the number of Chinese in the business zone has increased from less than 30,000 to 60,000, and a large number of people continue to pour in.

Seeing so many Chinese people pouring in, whether they are Chinese businessmen or foreign businessmen, they all laughed, which not only solved their labor gap, but also brought them a broad market.

For example, some businessmen saw so many Chinese pouring into the business area, these people always eat and drink, and always have a place to live, so a British businessman Hao Liande saw the business opportunity, and built a large number of simple houses on the land he rented, which was specially rented to these Chinese who poured into the business area.

It has the potential to develop into the No. 1 real estate developer in Shanghai!

When the others saw that such a simple house was so turned around, they all rushed in with local property developers.

Artificially promoted coupled with considerable market demand, the land price in the business area continued to rise, and the increase was quite terrifying, a piece of ordinary land far from the river, at the beginning no one cared, but a month later, there were Chinese businessmen from Yu Shengjun's hands at the price of one hundred taels of silver to obtain the right to perpetual lease, but a month later, there were foreign businessmen to bid one hundred and twenty taels of silver for this land, and the value continued to rise, and it had risen to one hundred and eighty taels of silver in less than three months.

The blowout prosperity of the business zone also made Lin Zhe unexpected, although he knew that the development potential of this business zone was great, but he never thought that the development would be so fast.

It has to be said that it was the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom that single-handedly created the Shanghai Concession in the original time and space, and today it is the same that has created the Shanghai Business Zone.

However, this blowout development of the business zone has also brought great trouble to Lin Zhe's governance!

Lin Zhe has to worry about the influx of a large number of Chinese and foreigners every day, such as public security issues, the influx of a large number of Chinese, and the population of the business and trade area quickly exceeded 100,000 people, and there are more people and all kinds of messy people.

In order to maintain the law and order of the trade area, Lin Zhe specially set up a patrol police department in order to maintain the law and order of the trade area, and had to rely heavily on Yu Shengjun's soldiers to maintain law and order due to its own scarcity of police forces.

However, Lin Zhe considered that Yu Shengjun had his own training and combat missions, and it was impossible to maintain law and order for a long time, so on the one hand, he asked Wu Jianzhang for help, and asked him to transfer many arresters from Shanghai County to join the patrol police department of the business zone temporarily, and on the other hand, he also vigorously recruited patrols.

"In the past week, the Patrol Police Department and Yu Shengjun have arrested a total of 220 criminals of various kinds, including 58 foreigners, who have been transferred to the courts of various countries, and the rest of the Chinese criminals have been tried and taken into custody by the judicial department!" The first Acting Chief of the Patrol Office, Lin Chengjia, continued with a worried face:

"Nowadays, the security problem in the business area is very prominent, not only there are common petty thefts, but also a lot of various underground parties, which not only threaten ordinary public security, but also gradually evolve into organized crime, and there are many parties on the docks and construction sites trying to prosecute ordinary workers, which my patrol police department has vigorously cracked down, but I still hope that Yu Shengjun can give strong cooperation!"

Speaking of this, Lin Chengjia paused, and then continued: "Yesterday, the British Consular Package sent a note to my patrol police office to inquire about the progress of Chen Linqiao's case!" ”

When Lin Chengjia said these words, he also showed a bitter face, he is not a professional public security talent, he is the same as most of the officials in the yamen of the current business zone, he is from Yu Shengjun, he was originally the deputy company commander of the sixth company of Yu Shengjun's first step corps, Si'an was injured in the first battle, and was infected when he was injured, after the director took care of his injury, he has become a person who has to pant for breath when he runs a few steps.

As his body could no longer meet the needs of serving as an officer in the field army, he was forced to quit the field army and transferred to the military department as a civilian officer.

This is also Lin Zhe's helpless arrangement for other wounded and sick officers, and they can't let them retire from active duty after they are injured, but Yu Shengjun is not a country's army, which is actually quite troublesome for the arrangement of disabled and retired soldiers.

Moreover, even if these officers are disabled and unable to continue to lead the troops to fight, they can still be regarded as professional officers urgently needed by Yu Shengjun, so Lin Zhe specially arranged for disabled officers who are still able to work as civilian officers to continue their military careers.

After the establishment of the Shanghai Business Zone, Lin Chengjia knew that he was limited by physical reasons and could not go too far on the road to joining the army, so he set his sights on the Yamen of the Business Zone and took the initiative to apply for transfer to the Yamen of the Business Zone.

For this first officer who took the initiative to apply for a professional to the local area, Lin Zhe gave great preferential treatment and directly asked him to serve as the acting general office of the patrol police department of the business zone.

However, after Lin Chengjia took office, he found that the errand of the patrol police department was more difficult than fighting in the army, and the security of the trade zone continued to deteriorate, and a few days ago there was an extremely bad murder case, several British people were robbed and killed in Chenjiaqiao, because it also included a woman, which caused the British consul to make great accusations against the security work of the yamen in the trade zone, and even once asked the soldiers on the British military ship on the Huangpu River to go ashore to search for the murderer.

It is best for Lin Zhe to persuade him personally, and ensure that he will do his best to catch the murderer, so that Bao Ling will dispel the idea of sending troops ashore to search the shop in person.

"This case of Chen Jiaqiao can't be dragged on, it will change for a long time!" Lin Zhe looked at the case file sent by Lin Chengjia, and then put it down and said: "Now the British want the murderer, then you will give him the murderer!" ”

Lin Chengjia faced the look of danger: "But now that the people in the business zone are mixed, I am afraid it is ...... to find the murderer."

The implication is that it is impossible to find the murderer!

Lin Zhe shook his head lightly: "You, you are still this upright person, you are fine in Yu Shengjun, but you still need to be more flexible when you do things in the local yamen!" ”