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Chapter 148: A 5.6 Billion Yuan Work Meal (Seeking Subscriptions)

With the leader's nod of approval, coupled with Chen Jue's genuine investment in purchasing the land, and his rejection of the commercial real estate pre-sale model to recoup funds—truly embodying the principle that "houses are for living in, not for speculation"—Chen Jue's land transaction with Wenzhou City Investment proceeded exceptionally smoothly.

After Chen Jue circled and marked items on the list, he acquired five residential plots and two commercial plots in Louqiao, Ouhai District, Wenzhou, at an average price of 8,600 yuan per square meter.

The residential land area exceeded 500,000 square meters, sufficient to build five moderately comfortable, medium-sized residential complexes, each accommodating over 4,000 households.

Even when Chen Jue's enterprises form a group in the future, and the scale of employees reaches a new level, it will be enough for allocation for a long time.

As for the remaining two smaller commercial plots, which meet the construction standards for super-high-rise buildings, Chen Jue intends to use them to build the group's headquarters and a high-tech vegetable factory for external display.

"President Chen, I've roughly calculated that the seven plots of land you want will likely cost around 5.16 billion yuan. There will also be land appreciation tax, stamp duty, deed tax…"

Seeing Chen Jue, this young boss, being so generous, Wang Kaichun, the director of the Natural Resources and Planning Bureau, also relaxed his formality and unceremoniously took out his mobile phone calculator to calculate the price.

Finally, the calculator showed a total land purchase price of 5.6 billion yuan.

Seeing this astonishing price, Chen Jue couldn't help but twitch his face a few times, wondering how many ships of soybeans he would have to sell to earn it back?

After all, he had made a budget in his mind before coming, planning to spend about 1 billion yuan on land acquisition.

This exceeded his expectations by more than five times, which was quite beyond his anticipation.

"Chen Jue, is this price a problem? If there is financial pressure, can I help you contact a few large banks to share the credit?" Secretary Lin said smoothly, seizing the opportunity.

Hearing that the city was not only giving discounts and preferential treatment for his land purchase but also rushing to offer him loan support, Chen Jue immediately realized that this was probably the real, substantial reward!

However, having been scarred by loans in the past, he still waved his hand and politely declined Secretary Lin's suggestion: "Loans are not necessary. I should be able to squeeze out 5.6 billion yuan by finding partners to pool resources, but the payment time may have to be slightly delayed."

"All cash payment? No loan?"

"No!"

Upon hearing this bold statement of paying out of pocket, both Wang Kaichun and Secretary Lin were stunned.

Compared with those greedy real estate developers, Chen Jue's behavior of building residential areas and dormitories for his employees out of his own pocket is definitely a super philanthropist among entrepreneurs!

Even those big companies on the internet who boast about taking their brothers to get rich together and giving each employee a house have few who can truly implement it.

As a result, even the mayor of Wenzhou, who had not expressed much opinion, praised Chen Jue after hearing this decision: "Young President Chen, work hard! Wenzhou's development needs young talents like you to actively strive and struggle!"

"Okay, Mayor, I will continue to work hard." Chen Jue smiled on the surface, but kept muttering in his heart.

Shouldn't he praise himself well?

You need to know that land transfer fees are included in the local government's 'non-tax revenue,' which is extra income outside of fiscal revenue, and is generally used to fill deficits and for emergency relief.

And because Wenzhou developed early, the land that should have been sold was mostly sold in the early 21st century, and last year's non-tax revenue was only over 15 billion yuan.

Chen Jue's sudden massive order of 5.6 billion yuan accounted for one-third of the city's total non-tax revenue last year.

It not only alleviated the debt pressure of City Investment but also made the extra expenditure budget of various units skyrocket, which can be regarded as a prosperous year that has never been seen before.

Such a great political achievement was delivered to them for free, and it would not be an exaggeration to praise Chen Jue, this young man, to the sky!

As a result, before leaving, the mayor's eyes on Chen Jue became more and more pleasing.

…

With the intention of acquiring the land settled, the remaining task was to sign a specific contract with Wenzhou City Investment and the Natural Resources and Planning Bureau.

Chen Jue didn't need to worry about this aspect and handed over the task to the legal department to follow up and handle.

The only slightly troublesome thing was that he didn't have such a large amount of funds on hand at the moment.

"5.6 billion yuan!"

"The income from selling soybeans is too slow. I have to hurry up and dispose of the wood from the Far East in batches." Chen Jue muttered in his heart, having a clear idea of the next step in his money-making plan.

Taking advantage of the lunch time, he accompanied the mayor and Secretary Lin and other leaders to the city government's cafeteria for a very delicious work meal.

Having already spent 5.6 billion yuan here, Chen Jue's mentality was much more relaxed at this time, and he shamelessly sat at the same table with the leaders for dinner.

Those directors, chiefs, and deputy mayors at the table, after learning that he had voluntarily spent 5.6 billion yuan in the morning to invest in his hometown, nodded and smiled at him one by one.

In short, the biggest hurdle in Wenzhou had basically been cleared by him with his money power!

Of course, in order to satisfy his vanity, Chen Jue consciously took out his mobile phone and took a picture of the three-dish-and-one-soup style of the city government cafeteria.

He posted a very ostentatious dynamic with a location tag on Weibo, along with an extremely Versailles-style title: "This meal cost me 5.6 billion yuan, I'm so happy! (Smile)".

If he hadn't become popular on the internet before, his dynamic would definitely have sunk into the sea without a trace.

But now it's different. As a newly promoted big internet celebrity with millions of fans, Chen Jue's dynamic with the picture immediately started to see the number of likes and comments soar.

Especially those ignorant and awesome sand sculpture netizens, after seeing the explosive monetary figure of 5.6 billion yuan, started to speculate one by one.

"What the hell? A meal costs 5.6 billion yuan? Is it Zimbabwean dollars? (Black man with question mark)"

"Braised pork, scrambled eggs with tomatoes, pan-fried beltfish, and a bowl of tofu and cabbage soup, this is just a normal cafeteria work meal! How can it be so expensive? (Dumbfounded)"

"Look at the location, sisters! President Jue must have gone to discuss a big project. (Worship)"

"Then wouldn't the people accompanying him at the table be… (Thunderbolt from a clear sky)"

"It is said that it doesn't matter what rich people eat, what matters is who they eat with. Today, I have gained knowledge! (Tactical lean back)"

Not only did the netizens and fans explode.

Even Zheng Bocheng, who pays attention to Chen Jue's dynamics, @ him in the WeChat group at the first time.

Zheng Bocheng: "No way, brother! You're taking off directly! My old man has been running a factory for decades, and he still doesn't have the qualifications to eat in the city's cafeteria. At most, he's only eaten in the county's cafeteria."

Chen Jue: "Your own dad is useless. Godfather will take you over for a meal next time (Evil smile)"

Guo Sen: "Too awesome! (Laughing and crying)"

Li Te: "I want to improve so much (Godfather is above, please accept my bow)"

Zheng Bocheng: "…"

Today's first update ~