Chapter 40 Buy a reputation
Where is the most prosperous in Shanghai?
There is no doubt that it is a concession!
So who will control the power of the concession?
Naturally, they are consuls of various countries, but the consuls of various countries control the control of the concession. They also need to use an institution, which is naturally the Bureau of the Ministry of Industry.
A two-story small building with a red brick and cement wall at the intersection of Nanjing Road and Guangxi. This building does not look like a dew. It seems to be nothing special, but everyone knows that this is the location of the Ministry of Industry in the Shanghai Public Concession.
Although for more than half a century, with the continuous development of the concession, the institutions of the Ministry of Industry have been expanding, and the original houses are no longer enough, but at least before a new building was built, the Bureau of the Ministry of Industry is still working in this inconspicuous European-style two-house red building, but the offices of various institutions are getting smaller and smaller, and the Bureau of the Ministry of Industry is narrow. Xiao obviously can't match the prosperity of the concession.
The old institutions of the Ministry of Industry can more or less occupy more offices with their own capital, but for newly established institutions, they can only work in houses vacated by rooms such as storage rooms and utility rooms, but this must not be used in the real estate committee of the Ministry of Industry.
The real estate committee, which has been established for less than two years, has a certain administrative power, which is completely different from other committees appointed by the Ministry of Industry Bureau that only play an advisory role. It decides on land expropriation disputes, decides on the repayment price, shares the road construction project fees that should be shared by the practitioners on the side of the public road, examines the building charters set by the Bureau of Industry, and evaluates the soil. Value and so on.
It is the executive power that these other committees do not have that allows the real estate committee to squeeze the band from the office to the utility room, occupying several offices on the east side of the first floor.
In 1902, the Ministry of Industry and Technology did not have a Chinese director, and there were also a handful of Chinese employees. As a talented student at Harvard Business School, Ge Chengqian is the only Chinese employee of the whole real estate committee. Unlike others, there are few people here who discriminate against this top student of Harvard Business School, but although It is not discriminated against, but it is not taken seriously.
"Yihe, Sassoon..."
Looking at the list submitted by Sotheby's auction house to sign up for the "Rich Garden" auction list, all of them are well-known tycoons in Shanghai. For these names or foreign banks, Ge Chengqian and any Shanghai people are familiar with them. The Shanghai Concession is not so much from various countries as these tycoons, and they really master the concession. Person.
For these tycoons, the rich garden is nothing more than an embellishment. In Shanghai, these foreigners who are famous for their reality are also stained with the habit of Chinese people's preference for face. For them, the rich garden may not have much commercial value. It is not a business district planned by the Ministry of Industry. But it can win a little face.
"Chen Moran, China Industrial Company."
In the nouns stringed on one side, the sudden appearance of the Chinese name made Ge Chengqian stunned.
"Chen Moran, industrial company?"
Staring at the name on the paper, if it hadn't been marked in Chinese, Ge Chengqian almost subconsciously thought it was a foreigner, but he was a Chinese. The name was quite strange. Because he worked in the real estate committee, he had more or less attended some dances and banquets held by tycoons, but he had never heard of this person. Come on.
"Is it possible that it is a newly emerging tycoon in Shanghai?"
However, as soon as this idea came up, Ge Chengqian shook his head. Shanghai is a golden place. Anyone can become a rich man from a penniless name, but this requires a process. If it is a newly rising tycoon, he should have heard of his name before.
"Is it a rich gentry from the mainland?"
Muttering the name and industrial company, Ge Chengqian knew that if this person really took a picture of the "rich garden", I'm afraid that in a few days, the whole Shanghai beach will know the existence of this rich gentry, but is it possible?
Impossible!
There may be many people in China who can buy a house with one million taels, but there are not many people who are willing to spend a million taels to buy a house. Ge Chengqian, who participated in the evaluation of Fuli Manor, knows its value.
"I'm afraid it's a price increase!"
Subconsciously, Ge Chengqian transferred Chen Moran and the industrial company to join the lively people. Some of those tycoons were just to buy Fuli, and some were just to add obstacles to others. They not only raised the price by themselves, but also hired people to raise the price. Chen Moran and his industrial company may have been hired.
"Thirteen in total!"
Chen Moran squeaked his straight pipe, and when the smoke was about to burn out, he began to pour the white ash into the ashes box on the wall of the car.
"Thirteen families?"
"Saxon, Matt, Henry, almost famous tycoons in Shanghai, either signed up for the auction in the name of an individual or a company."
When mentioning the names of these people, Xiao Yanren shook his head helplessly and sighed.
"I dare to say that the price of Fuli Garden this time will be speculated to more than 1.3 million taels!"
He has been in Shanghai for more than 20 years. Xiao Yiren knows those foreign tycoons too well. On the surface, they are intimate, but in private, they are another face. Every time a large auction, there are always a few people who buy it, and several people carry it up. The purpose is just to see the "crying face of the wronged".
"Oh!"
Chen Moran frowned.
"Maybe it's possible! But as I said before, if these tycoons go, and finally the rich garden becomes Chen's garden.
He reluctantly smiled and looked at Xiao Yanren.
"I guess the whole Shanghai will be a sensation then, right?"
"However, I checked with the real estate committee that the average land price of the concession last month was only 4,065 taels, while the average price in the area of Fuli Garden is only 3,084 taels, which costs 1.3 million taels. Maybe it's a little too much!"
"Not raised!"
Chen Moran slowly rubbed his hot pipe pot. In this era, there were no filter cigarettes. At the beginning, he was still smoking the cigarette. Now he has changed his pipe, and the tobacco leaves are rubbed out of cigarettes.
"It's just to spend more money. Silver buys fame. This money always needs to be spent?"
Chen Moran smiled and looked at the hesitant Xiao Yiren. Yesterday, Meihe Yanghang sent someone to inform him that the paper had been shipped in advance and will arrive in Shanghai this evening. Tomorrow, Yangxing will send the paper. When the paper comes, will there be less money?
"Yes, I just don't want to waste money! Being slaughtered by those foreigners! For so many years, they have made a lot of money from China!"
"This silver flower is not wronged at all. After all, the reputation at that time can't be bought by silver?"
Xiao Yu nodded helplessly.
"Okay!"
Then he looked at the information in his hand again.
"Ye. Have you ever thought about who you would take to the auction?"
"Who should I take?"
"Yes."
Xiao Yuren repeated, put the information in his hand in the bag on the side, and looked at Chen Moran without squinting.
"Usually, these tycoons will bring their wives or lovers to this kind of auction. You have stayed abroad and you should know this."
"I know! But I don't have the right person!"
Chen Moran's answer made Xiao Yanren smile. There was a perfect candidate around him.
"There is a suitable person around you! If you want, you can invite her.
"Who?"