Rebirth of the Almighty Internet Celebrity

Chapter 226 The Outdated Star

When Liang Teng and Wu Xia came to the headquarters of the "Emperor Capital Jiangshan" real estate agency company, they discovered that the company actually owned a building of several hundred square meters in the second ring road of the "Emperor Capital" as the company's office space.

Whether such an office space is rented or owned by the company's boss, one can see from it that the business of "Jiangshan Real Estate" is booming.

This is not as simple as renting a building to save face. You must really have a lot of business and hire a lot of employees to need a large office space.

Otherwise, just renting the entire building with a large area in the second ring road would be extremely expensive.

The real estate agency companies that Liang Teng was used to, at most, rented a small shop with a width of 5 meters, a depth of 7 or 8 meters, and [-] to [-] square meters in the downtown area to open a shop for business.

A real estate agency does not have its own business, so it only has commissions.Its biggest expenses are the rent of office space and the wages of hired employees.

If these two expenses can be reduced and the business is not too bad, a real estate agency will be able to gain a firm foothold.

Like "Emperor Capital Jiangshan", I don't know how huge the business volume is, enough to maintain such a large office space and employ so many staff.

Zhu Xuanlin, the boss of the "Didu Jiangshan" company, is a young man in his early thirties.He also has a super rich father, so he is a well-known figure in Wu Xia's "rich circle of friends".

The reason why he is famous in the "circle of friends of the rich" is not because of his great achievements.It's because Zhu Xuanlin's "prodigal" ability is second to none among many "rich second generations".

He is a rich second generation of the "Sicong" type.It seems that he has a lot of ideas and skills, dares to show off, and like Sicong, is also keen to promote Internet celebrity anchors and invest in the "e-sports" industry. As a result, he suffered a huge loss in business.

However, the rich second generation Sicong lost 20 billion, while Zhu Xuanlin lost several hundred million.

However, the father of the rich second generation of Sicong has a net worth of hundreds of billions, and he lost 20 billion, which is far from the level of injury.As for Zhu Xuanlin, the "rich second generation", his father only has a net worth of more than 10 billion, and his son lost several hundred million, which made his family miserable for half a year.

Later, in order not to listen to his father nagging at home, Zhu Xuanlin borrowed tens of millions from friends in various "rich circles" to start this "Emperor Capital Jiangshan" real estate company.

This change of career started as a "real estate agency", and it became very popular all of a sudden. In just a few years, he became a leader in the industry in the "Emperor Capital".

The reason is not surprising.

This kind of intermediary work sometimes relies on your "connections."Zhu Xuanlin is a typical "rich second generation", he is generous and righteous, and he has made friends of all kinds from the third-rate and the ninth-rate.As a "real estate agent", he has many advantages over ordinary people.

No, when Wu Xia's company intends to purchase the "Siheyuan" in the "Emperor Capital", it needs the help of a real estate intermediary company. She immediately thought of the "Emperor Capital Jiangshan" founded by "the second generation of rich" Zhu Xuanlin.

Of course, the reason why Zhu Xuanlin was able to flourish in the real estate intermediary industry in the "Emperor Capital" was not only because of his abundant contacts, but also because the real estate intermediary industry was considered "chicken ribs" in the eyes of real big bosses.

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In the real estate intermediary industry, profits are actually not that high.

A small real estate agency can make a comfortable living with an annual turnover of several million.For someone like Zhu Xuanlin who spreads his stall as big as he does, his gross profit is only tens of millions every year.

This is gross profit. After deducting the high rent he rented the entire building in the downtown area as an office space, the salaries of more than 100 employees, their business commissions, and the daily consumption of the office space, the remaining "pure profit" ", barely a few million a year.

The annual income of several million is enough for Mr. Zhu to live a decent life as an upper-class person.

But if you want to live a luxurious life, it's not enough.

Besides, he invested in the "Competition" Internet company before and lost hundreds of millions of dollars. If his father didn't give him a "coverage", it would be difficult to pay off his debts in his new real estate agency company alone.

Therefore, a large-scale real estate intermediary company like "Emperor Capital Jiangshan" seems to be very impressive and prosperous, but in the eyes of the rich and powerful who do big business, they are just doing small things to earn "pocket money" kind of.

A real big boss disdains to invest in this kind of industry.

This gave Zhu Xuanlin the opportunity to enter the industry.Like the "online sports platform" that burns hundreds of millions of dollars, Zhu Xuanlin has no capital to play those big projects in the short term.He borrowed from his best friends and relatives to raise tens of millions of capital for his "comeback". After repeated weighing, he could only play a "small business" like "real estate agency".

Wu Xia called Zhu Xuanlin and expressed his desire to buy a "siheyuan" worth over [-] million yuan.It just so happens that the owner of the "siheyuan" is willing to sell... This kind of business is the most welcomed by all "real estate agencies".

If the transaction can be facilitated, it will be the largest single transaction received since the establishment of "Emperor Capital Jiangshan".

When doing publicity in the future, there are examples to blow.

Mr. Zhu's enthusiasm was mobilized at once.

After Zhu Xuanlin chatted briefly with Wu Xia, Liang Teng, and Yan Qianyu, he invited them to his spacious office on the third floor.

The "Siheyuan" in "Houhai" covering an area of ​​3000 square meters was only put up for sale in "Emperor Capital Jiangshan" half a month ago.

Mr. Zhu, of course, had to treat such an astonishing real estate property with special treatment, so he sent people to collect and understand the owner's situation.

This kind of "information and intelligence" collection work usually does not seem to have much practical use, but in fact, it can help you know whether the seller's willingness to sell real estate is strong or not?
Can provide first-hand materials for your analysis, what is the owner's psychological price for the lowest transaction? (Sometimes the reserve price disclosed by himself may not be true).

In short, it is impossible for small-scale real estate intermediary companies to conduct such detailed investigations. Only large intermediary companies like "Emperor Capital Jiangshan" can afford it.

After all, this investigation is also time-consuming and labor-intensive.Even the "Didu Jiangshan" company will only investigate the "information" of their owners for "real estate" with a market price of more than 800 million.

If, for all the "real estate" listed in their intermediary, they sent people one by one to investigate the owner's information behind the scenes, then even if all the employees of the company were sent out, there would still be insufficient manpower.

Now that Wu Xia and his team have made a special trip to understand the situation of "Houhai Courtyard", Boss Zhu's previous investigation work on major customers has practical uses.

Before Wu Xia, Liang Teng, and Yan Qianyu arrived, Zhu Xuanlin called his female secretary to complete the investigation two days ago, and formed a written report, printing out all the information about the owner of the "Houhai Courtyard".

It's just three full pages of A4 paper.

Seemingly simple materials, but it took a whole day for a key employee of "Emperor Capital Jiangshan" to complete the investigation.

After reading the materials, Liang Teng and Wu Xia knew that the owner of the "Houhai Courtyard" covering an area of ​​more than 3000 square meters was an artist surnamed Xie who was well-known in the 60s but has long since passed away.

This "Siheyuan" in Nuo University was not passed down from ancestors. It was entirely purchased by an artist surnamed Xie with the money he earned.

Of course, looking at it from today's perspective, it was very cheap for him to buy this "siheyuan" back then. He only spent 50. Now it is on the market for 1.2 million according to the market price.

However, the older generation of artists in the mainland have a common feature, that is, the channels for quick money in that era were relatively simple, basically the income from filming "film and television dramas".Even for celebrities, it is not an exaggeration to use the word "meager" to describe their income compared to the current big names.

The old artist surnamed Xie was "affiliated" with a municipal-level "drama company" at that time, and received a fixed salary on a monthly basis.

His wife is also in the same unit.The salary income of two people can ensure that the family expenses are worry-free.

After the artist surnamed Xie took the leading role in a very popular movie, although there were almost no "commercial performances" and "commercials" at that time, he has continued to "play appointments" since then.Every time a series is filmed, he is paid for the episodes, about 1 per episode. After 30 episodes, there are more than 3 yuan.

If you are the male lead in a movie, you will be paid 1 yuan for every movie you make.

The old artist surnamed Xie has no bad habits.The two parents-in-law usually live very frugally.The living expenses were their salaries from the "drama company".All the income my husband makes from movies and TV shows is saved.

About two or three films are filmed a year, with an income of 5 to 6 yuan.

The couple didn't have the consciousness of a "star family" at all, and their lives were very "picky".

To what extent is "stingy"?Originally, their company, a municipal theater company, was fortunate enough to be one of the first "pension insurance" reform companies in the city.In other words, in the past, the pensions of retired employees from various units were paid monthly by the original units.After becoming a reform pilot unit, a portion of the employees' salary income will be deducted every month and paid to the municipal insurance company.In the future, when you retire at the age of 60, your employer will no longer have to bear the high pension, and the insurance company will pay your pension instead.This is the so-called "social distribution".

That would have been a good thing.After all, if your original unit has good benefits and long-term success, of course the original unit will get a lot of points and send you a pension.Take care of your pension issues until you die.

But what if the original unit goes bankrupt and goes bankrupt?

Then there is no way, even your pension has no money to pay.

People with insight have long been aware of the risks involved and have tried their best to avoid them as soon as possible.

But the two parents-in-law of the artist surnamed Xie felt that the city-level "drama company" they belonged to would not go bankrupt.And they are really reluctant to pay part of their own money to buy "endowment insurance".

Originally, their parents-in-law each received a monthly salary of about 100 yuan (which was considered a "high salary" in those days). If you implement the "socialized reform of pension insurance", they will deduct about the same every month. 20 yuan, 240 yuan will be deducted in one year.

If both parents-in-law are deducted, then 480 yuan will be deducted.

Nearly 500 yuan, keep it for yourself, isn't it delicious?

Anyway, when they really reached the retirement age, the unit still had to give them pensions.Why bother withholding so much money for socialized endowment insurance?
The two parents-in-law felt that this was nothing more than lightening the burden on the "drama company". As employees of the company, they did not reap any benefits.I have to pay a huge sum of nearly 500 yuan a year.

After the two parents-in-law discussed it, they insisted not to do it.

In short, in the 60s, the two parents-in-law of the artist surnamed Xie took out all their savings of 50 yuan and purchased this "siheyuan" in "Houhai".

Although the two parents-in-law's "savings" have become more and more abundant, they have been living in a single room provided by the "drama company", and even the toilets are shared.Although there is a kitchen, it is far away from the residence, and it is not convenient at all to take a basket back to the residence to eat the cooked meals.

But the two "stingy" guys were reluctant to buy a new house.

Just kept suffering like that.

Until the two sons and one daughter raised by them gradually grew up and reached the marriageable age, the two parents-in-law began to go through the retirement procedures at the work unit and received pensions.

At this time, Artist Xie didn't have so many "film appointments" anymore, and stayed at home for more than half of the year. The old couple began to feel a little bit that the house seemed really too crowded.You can't do without buying a new, spacious house.

At that time, a sad story happened.

That was when the eldest son found a girlfriend when he was working out of town.Both Da'er and the girlfriend are extroverted, and their relationship develops rapidly.The woman proposed to go to her boyfriend's house to see the elders.

If your girlfriend is willing to "meet the parents", good things are often coming.

However, the eldest son is worried that the family is too dilapidated and there is no new house, which will make his girlfriend feel frustrated.Maybe I don’t want to get married anymore.

Da'er had been procrastinating repeatedly, and was reluctant to take his girlfriend home to meet his parents.He also repeatedly "vaccinated" with his girlfriend, claiming that the family has not yet built a new house.

But his girlfriend always said that she was not afraid. What she took a fancy to was him, not his family status.

Speaking of this, Da'er had no choice but to take his girlfriend back and meet the artist couple surnamed Xie.

Artist Xie and his wife also felt that the woman was lively and cheerful, and had a good impression.

But the family didn't even have a place to stay, so they had to ask Da'er to open a room outside to settle down with his girlfriend.

On this trip, seeing the parents, Da'er's girlfriend just "leave without saying goodbye" and broke up very simply.

Not a single word was left behind.But the contact numbers of the eldest son and her were all deleted by the other party and blacklisted.

From then on, the girlfriend seemed to have disappeared from the world and could never be found again.

Although she didn't say it, the whole family guessed that Da'er and the artist surnamed Xie must think that his family looks "too poor" on the surface, and they don't even have a decent house.Fortunately, his father is still a well-known old artist? !Fortunately, there are so many brothers and sisters in his family!He couldn't even build a decent home! ! !
The incident this time did not stimulate the eldest son of the Xie family too deeply. Although he was depressed for a while, he soon regained his strength.

On the contrary, as the parents, the two parents-in-law of the artist surnamed Xie were irritated enough.

Not long after the incident happened, the two parents-in-law directly took out all their savings, a huge sum of 50 yuan, and purchased a "siheyuan" covering an area of ​​more than 3000 square meters in "Houhai".

If there was no such episode, his family would definitely have to buy a new house.But at most, you can buy a large-scale commercial housing.

I was so stimulated that I spent all my money to directly purchase such a large "siheyuan" that for ordinary families, looks like a palace.

(End of this chapter)