Rebirth of the Almighty Internet Celebrity

Chapter 279 A Building with a Story

The "house building history" of the four Wang family brothers is like a "miniature" of the hardworking Chinese people's house building experience in that era.

With the commonality of that era.

After all, people who came out of that era were not rich. They wanted to buy land, build the main body of a "world building", and even simply decorate and move in at the end - the whole process of building a house almost cost a lot of money. All the savings of every family dedicated to "building a house" were wiped out.

The "debt ratio" arising from the construction of houses is as high as more than [-]%.

Moreover, in that era of general poverty, the ability to build a "world building" is also very worthy of boasting.

The pressure to bear is enormous.But no home builder would say it's "not worth it."

Ordinary people have the "motivation" to struggle for a house.It is often because there are too many children in the family and there is no place to live, so they "do everything possible" to improve their living conditions.

In a sense, the four brothers of the Wang family were all successful in that era.

Luo Guochu also came from that era.But his family conditions are too good, and it is impossible for him to pursue the goal of his life, just to build a "self-built house".

Of course, his short-term goal can be, and must be: first strive for a "high-end villa" in the "Emperor Capital".

From the perspective of ordinary people, it may feel that there is no huge difference in living comfort between the "Tiandilou" of farmers' homes and the "high-end villas" sold by real estate developers.

The quality of the interior decoration of the house is the key to determining the "comfort".This part is all up to you to install.Even if it is a "high-end villa", it is just selling you a "rough housing".At that time, there was no concept of selling "hardcover houses".

Just like in a joke, a wealthy person who is struggling, dreams of a better life after retirement, that is, to buy land and build a small western-style building in a beautiful countryside.Eating pollution-free vegetables grown in their own backyard.In my spare time, go to the nearby streams to catch some green and pollution-free fish... chat with three or two friends, and play mahjong.

When the farmer heard his "dream", he couldn't help being very puzzled: What kind of dream is this?Isn't this the life I have been living now?

Therefore, when Luo Guochu felt that he was fighting for a villa worth billions, Director Wang and the others felt that if one day they could really hit the dog. It is really a boring decision to build a so-called "high-end villa" that is not as big as his "self-built house".

waste money!
This is the "generation gap" in the thinking of the two types of people.

But Luo Guochu is still sticking to his "dream".

As mentioned earlier, Luo Guochu presided over the establishment of three "development zones" during his tenure as "deputy mayor".These three development zones, as can be clearly seen from the map, are all cut into relatively square "jurisdictional areas" by "national highways".

They have two relatively prominent shortcomings: one is of course that they are "development zones", but they are not the concept of "development zones" specially set up for "investment attraction" in later generations.

In other words, the "development zone" was built at that time only to promote the so-called "urbanization" process. The area developed by the "development zone" can be counted as the "urban area".Before "development", that large area is the countryside.It belongs to "Yongshang Village".

To develop the countryside into an "urban area", the success rate of "investment attraction" was not high at that time, and it was impossible to attract large enterprises to settle in. Of course, we had to do everything possible to sell the land to various financially strong "public entities".

What schools, welfare homes, bus fleets, hospitals, real estate developers and other "big units" took over the large land.Small pieces of land are sold to some private individuals for "self-built houses".

At that time, it was in this way that the process of "urbanization" was slowly promoted.

Another shortcoming of the "development zone" is that it does not have too many "street shops".

The leaders of the town government are so active in promoting the construction of the "development zone". Apart from the fact that the "urbanization rate" is high, which is a real achievement, there is another important reason. The leaders actually hope to pass the "development zone" , to increase finance and income.

pity! The "investment attraction" failed, and the town government actually did not get much benefit.

In this case, if the "development zone" can have a row of "street shops" (a line of shops facing the national highway) for rent collection, it would be a great deal.

Among the three "development zones", only the south of No. 3 "development zone" has a large open space facing the street, which can be developed into a long series of "street shops".

The other two "development zones" do not have this advantage at all.The entrances of these two "development zones" are narrow and curved.

There is only the entrance of No. 3 "Development Zone", which is very large, and the open space along the street is a full 20 acres.

On the 20 mu of land, after Luo Guochu discussed with the top leaders of the town government, it was decided to build an 8-storey "guest house hotel building".

After the "hotel building" is built, it can be used except when "receiving superiors" in the town.Normally, foreign business should also increase a lot of income.

Another one is that the 300-meter-long street area under the "building" can be divided into 5 "shops" according to the plan of a shop of 60 meters.

Even if the business of the "guest house and hotel building" run by the town government will be bleak in the future, and there will be 60 "first-line shops" collecting rent, it will be enough for the heads of the town government to live a more nourishing life.

The head of the town government has no objection to Luo Guochu's plan to build a "guest house hotel building", and the other "deputies" are of course optimistic about its success.

But the town government also has a "bottom line". When it was building the three "development zones", it had already invested a lot.Land acquisition from the villagers of "Yongshang Village" and "three links and one leveling" in the "development zone" are expensive in the early stage.

Expecting "investment attraction" to increase fiscal revenue, the road is not going well, so the land in the "development zone" that has been expropriated can only be cut and sold to various "units".

The recovered money basically "flattened" the huge financial "shortage" of the town government during the previous land acquisition for the "development zone".If it weren't for the fact that many units connected to the government acted as "buyers", and the town government had been responsible for the investment in the construction of the "development zone", the town government's fortune would be almost empty, and it would be so poor that it would hardly be able to pay the salaries of civil servants.

Really go that far.Things got serious.

The town government is also scared.I don't want to invest a lot of money in this area.

A "guest house hotel complex" along the street is a very good suggestion.The town government had acquired a lot of land in the "development zone" before, and could provide "land" for this big project free of charge.

But the strength of support can only go so far.

Building a building requires money, at least 2000 to [-] million (according to the prices at the time), and the town government has no way to support this money.You, Luo Guochu, must attract foreign capital.Maybe, find a way to solve it yourself.

Everyone has given up hope for "investment attraction".After all, with so many lands in the three development zones, it is impossible to successfully attract a single investor when one chooses one.Now there is only the last piece of land left, ready to build a "guest house hotel building", but can you successfully persuade investors to "take shares" in this building?
Feeling even more hopeless.

Luo Guochu is indeed worthy of being a person who is concentrating on all kinds of business methods.

He was not sure about "attracting investment", but he thought of another trick to build the "hotel building", which was to mobilize the town's civil servants to "raise funds".

There are about 300 "civil servants" in the town who are and are not.

The construction cost of building that "guest house building" is estimated at 2000 to 1500 million.Then calculate it based on the "middle price" of 300 million, and "raise funds" from 5 civil servants in the town, and one civil servant can contribute about [-].

Of course, in that era, 5 yuan was enough for a rural family to build a two-story building.The annual income of civil servants at that time was only a few thousand yuan.It is also very unrealistic for you to want each of the public servants in the town to spend 2 yuan to build a "guest house building" for the "town government".

Luo Guochu never thought of "taking" the fundraiser's money for nothing.

Of course, it is impossible for everyone to "share" the "guest house building" built by the public.However, the government can raise funds for the construction of the "building" by "borrowing" from civil servants.

This is not a free loan, and the interest can be calculated two or three times higher than that of the bank.

Only by promising "heavy interest" can the attraction be strong.

After the "building" is completed and put into operation, the town government will be able to pay the interest on the "fund-raising funds" of civil servants.

Civil servants also have a fairly stable and considerable interest income.After 10 years and 8 years, the financial revenue of the town is relatively abundant, and then consider repaying the principal slowly.

In this way, the government can improve the "building" and expand financial resources, and the town's civil servants can also increase their income.

But among the hundreds of civil servants in the town, which one of them is not relying on salary income to live a tight life?In that era of ordinary low income, how many people could take out 5 yuan of savings to eat your doubled interest? !

So Luo Guochu came up with a second "fund-raising plan".That is, to expand the scope of "fundraising".The number of "civil servants" in the town is indeed only more than 300 (under the background of the reduction of institutions in later generations, on average, a town can only retain more than 100 people), but the personnel paid by the town's finance, But far more than this number.

For example, the salaries of the primary and junior high school teachers in the town are all paid by the town finance (this is not surprising. The primary and junior high schools implement "compulsory education", which does not generate much income. They do not rely on finance to pay salaries. How many schools can't even afford teachers).

In short, there are more than 1000 people in the town who receive wages from the finance department.So many people have mobilized and raised funds from them with "high interest". On average, each person only needs to contribute 8000 to [-] yuan to build the "guest house building".

The latter plan proposed by Luo Guochu is more practical.At least in the eyes of the leaders of the town, that is the case.

So N meetings were held, and after the "consensus" was gathered, the "fundraising" was carried out according to the second plan.

In the end, 1000 million funds were raised.

Although the town government keeps yelling "no money", but the project has reached this juncture, gritted its teeth, saved other expenses, and insisted on paying 350 million to support the construction of the "building".

Luo Guochu took the 1350 million funds back then, "frugal on food and expenses", and used every penny of the budget.In the end, the main body of the eight-storey "guest house building" was built.

With such a tight budget, Luo Guochu did not "cut corners".He completely "emptied" the lower three floors of the "mansion" (of course, this does not include the 60 shops that are in the pawn. Those are all separated), and only separated the guest rooms from the fourth floor.

After the main body was built, all the funds in hand were exhausted, and there was still a debt of more than 100 million.

The next decoration, that is really not a penny.

But Luo Guochu was determined to make the "building" produce benefits as soon as possible, and there were 60 shops along the street early and early.

After the main body of the "building" is built, the first-line shops along the street can be rented out.

Not even "decoration".Merchants who rent shops to do business will naturally decorate the shops themselves.If you want to install it and rent it out, it may not be in line with the other party's business style.

All the 60 "first-tier shops" have been rented out, which can bring about 50 yuan in shop rental income to the town government every year.

It only takes more than 20 years for the shops on the ground floor to repay the 1000 million "fundraising funds" for the construction of the "building".

This is not counting future rent increases.If the rent of "first-line shops" soars, it will only take a shorter time to pay off the debts.

In addition, there are a full seven floors of "buildings" that can be operated.The leaders of the town government, looking at this "building", feel like a hen that can lay "golden eggs".

The town government is in financial difficulties. It says it wants to build a hotel, but it can't afford the money to decorate it.We had to first rent out the "shops" of the "building", the first, second, third, and fourth floors of the building.The fifth, sixth, seventh, and eighth floors above, because they are too high, no merchants are willing to rent.

Let me ask, if a customer goes to visit your "big shopping mall", he can barely reach the third and fourth floors. Who would shop above the sixth floor?Even the super brand hypermarkets run by Lian Suo generally only operate five-story shopping malls.

The "mansion" of the town government is not decorated, not high-grade, and the semi-finished products are rented out, which can only be rented to some low-end merchants.On the first floor, there are many "small merchants" who want to rent cheaply and rent them out to deal in cultural goods.

On the second floor, there are individual book dealers who rent it out to engage in book wholesale business.

The third and fourth floors are for furniture business.This is still a business that buys and sells furniture, and the land area is relatively large, so it barely occupies two floors.

Further up, no merchant is willing to rent.

The rental income of these floors is also 150 million per year.Together with the rental of 60 "first-line shops", the annual rental income will reach 200 million.

However, the town government promised to pay the “fund raiser” three times the interest of the bank every year.The bank loan is six percent. For a loan of 3 million, the annual interest will be 1000.Three times the high interest rate is paid to the "fundraiser", and the annual payment is 60 million.

To pay for it with shop rent, the town government had very little left.

When it comes to the "harvest" season when the "mansion" is completed, the contradiction between the town leaders and the vast number of "fund-raisers" below is suddenly highlighted.

(End of this chapter)