Chapter 476: Money is Hard to Take [1]
Harry is from a big aristocratic background and has a lot of property in his family, but he is still a little different from the nobles who have formed a consortium like the Capet family, because he himself is a high-level member of the New Party, and those old aristocrats who have been "overthrown" by the New Party do not want to see this young junior, and no one wants to partner with his family to play the game of capital. So relatively speaking, in terms of cash flow, his thickness is not as good as that of a family and consortium like Capet.
As for why the nobility within the New Party did not form a consortium...... , the question is complex.
So he needs the support of the Northern Consortium, so he needs to get the friendship of these capitalists.
He has just experienced the mid-term election, and he has spent a lot of money for this, although there are still a lot of funds in the family's account, but these funds are needed when the family business is turnover. To put it simply, he didn't have much cash in his hands right now, which gave the mercenary merchant the opportunity to give him a gift.
The annoying guy left quickly and interestingly, and it wasn't a difficult thing for Harry to do, it was very easy to do. The other party wanted to buy an undeveloped vacant land in Leedswa, which had been vacant for several years, which was a disservice to the city itself. When a tourist from out of town comes to Leedswaard, surrounded by beautiful high-rise buildings, suddenly there is a garbage dump in the city that looks like a deserted dump, which definitely has a negative effect on the image of the city.
Since the original real estate developers were unwilling to develop, they changed to another person to develop it, and how much money they spent to get the land at the beginning, and now they just return the money to them.
As for whether people's interests will be harmed in this process, it doesn't matter, the interests of an individual or a small group of people are never as important as the interests of the entire city, even if they are damaged, they should be brave enough to bear it, and this is what Lydshua citizens should do.
The door was gently slammed shut, and Harry walked around the table and lifted the suitcase, which was a little heavy, and it looked like there was a lot of money inside. He didn't know how much money this guy gave him, but it shouldn't be less, and the cost of asking the governor to go out of the horse was much more than the cost of asking the mayor to go out. He smiled a little self-deprecatingly, if it weren't for Durin's federal plan and this midterm election that left him with little cash in his hands, he couldn't have let such a person come to his office and give him these things.
This is an act of self-deprecation, even if he really wants to collect money, he will collect those big capitalists, not such a small businessman.
He held the box in both hands and placed it on the table, then opened the combination lock, and in an instant a flash of golden light flashed from his face. In addition to the neatly stacked brick-thick banknotes, there was also a gold bar the thickness of a child's arm, which lay quietly in a red flannel, and the surface flowed with an intoxicating luster. Even a person like Harry, who is accustomed to seeing large numbers, has a slight distraction for a moment when faced with this box of money.
Money on paper is always just numbers, far less shocking than when it is placed in front of you. He picked up a wad of bills, the scent of ink had never been so mesmerizing, and the seal of the Imperial Central Bank was still wrapped around it, there were two layers in total. Each floor is two rows of five piles, and the upper and lower floors add up to almost 200,000. Plus this gold brick, he took it in his hand and checked it, no less than 300,000, this is 500,000.
Harry suddenly smacked his tongue, he didn't know much about the land, he only knew that the middleman said "a piece of land" when he contacted him, and he didn't know exactly where it was and how big it was. He realized that this money may not be so easy to pocket, and when a person is willing to spend 500,000 to buy an opportunity, it means that the benefits of this opportunity are far more than 500,000.
He closed the box again, carried it into the rest room and placed it in the safe, then asked him to press the button on the edge of the table, and the secretary quickly pushed the door in.
"I remember that there was a vacant lot in Leedswaer that had not been developed for a long time, didn't I?", he didn't say too specifically, it was purely a matter of habit.
The secretary nodded, "There is a piece of land at the northeast corner of the intersection of Seventeenth Street and Alley Avenue in Leedswael, which has been vacant, and it is said that the real estate developer has not been able to start construction because he has not raised enough funds. The secretary quickly answered Harry's question, and the state government was established in the suburbs of Leedswa, and the city center really couldn't find a place to house the state government office building and some supporting facilities, so it was placed in the suburbs.
The secretary paused for a moment, then said something more about the land than Harry knew.
At the beginning, this land was called the king of Lydswaard, the capital of a state closest to the imperial capital, and the straight-line distance from the imperial capital was only 317 kilometers, which has great development potential. This piece of land is close to the city center, the location is very good, and the popularity is also very strong, and it was sold for 8.95 million yuan at the auction, which was the most expensive land in Leedsworth at that time, and there was no one.
Many people have high hopes for the development of this land and think that it is definitely a very profitable project, and the real estate developers have also shown great ambition, they have made a very gorgeous plan to raise funds from the society to jointly develop, and promised that the rebate will not be less than 20% per annum. If the investor is not willing to ask for a rebate, they will find a shop or house of equivalent value for the investor after the construction period is over.
Such bold promises and a visible future were very interesting to many people, and their plans were so beautifully done that even the town hall in Leeds took the initiative to endorse them, which caused a very sensational scene at the time - many middle-class people waved money in the hope of "taking shares", and the Reich Daily described the scene with the phrase "people are crazy".
But then because of the withdrawal of the partners and some other things, the development was delayed, and it has been six years now, and there has been no movement at all.
Some people say that the real estate developer has run away with the money, but the official has not expressed its position, and the reason for not expressing its position is that there is not only money from the Imperial Central Bank, but also part of the investment of the city hall.
public, and private.
After approving the land, the mayor wanted to take this opportunity to get a little more "own funds" for the city hall and to increase the thickness of the small treasury. At the same time, some officials and staff members also thought it was a good investment, so they all joined the program. In addition, the bank also has 8 million in it - the land was mortgaged immediately after it was auctioned off by the real estate developer, who claimed that they needed a lot of cash to build it as soon as possible.
The town hall has been deceived, the banks have been defrauded, a large number of middle classes have been deceived, many innocent people have suffered great loss of profits, and the situation that is difficult to deal with properly has left the land and even the land there to this day.
"You mean to say that this is a scam, because it involves the city hall and the Imperial Central Bank, so no one dares to touch that land?", Harper heard the secretary carefully tell him the inside story of this land, and the root of his teeth was a little sour and at the same time relieved, if it is a liar, it is best to take back this land directly to make up for the losses on the bank and the city hall, no one will think that he "operated" anything. As for the lawsuit...... That's not what Harry needs to worry about, if the other party sues the state government, it is a good thing, it means that the other party is not a liar, and when the time comes, pinch the other party to give them a deadline to operate the land, and if they can't do it, they will take it back.
If the other party is a liar, that's a happy thing for all.
The secretary showed a strange expression on his face, shook his head and said: "It can't be said that it is a liar, there are three holders of this land, two of them seem to have run away, and one lives in the city center, he has sued his partners in the Leedshua City Court, saying that they broke the agreement and defrauded him of all his money, and he is actively contacting some people in the Imperial Ministry of Justice, hoping to recover his losses." ”
Harry blinked, he suddenly didn't understand, the matter seemed a little troublesome, but it wasn't a big problem.
The unpleasant-looking philistine businessman left the state government and got into his car, entered the city, stopped on one of the most crowded streets, and then found a phone and called Doolin.
"He took the things, is there anything else I need to do?", the little fat man took out a handkerchief and wiped the sweat on his head, the first time he saw such a big man as the governor made him very frightened, the reason for the panic came from the fact that he actually obeyed Durin's order to send money to Harry, it didn't matter if he could get the land, the important thing was that Harry took the things.
"Did you take a picture?"
He nodded again and again, "It's shot, it's all down and above." ”
A strange smile appeared on Durin's face as he hung up the phone, and he raised an eyebrow, this inconspicuous guy was outside when he entered the state government, and there were people taking pictures outside, especially the box in his hand. In a high place outside the state government, people also took pictures, pointed a high-powered lens at Harry's office, and filmed all the process of Harry's bribery.
Harry put him in the driver's seat, he couldn't just forget that nothing had happened, he wasn't that generous.
This is also something that he and Maggs discussed overnight, and of course it has nothing to do with Harry here, it is purely a suggestion.
Dühring suggested that Maggs set up a new department to oversee the officials who had taken the capitalists' black money and caused losses to the empire. With such a department, it can play a certain deterrent role in the backroom transactions between officials and capitalists, and it is also a good way to restrain capital from infiltrating the political arena.
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