Chapter 91 Contact with Education Group

Hua Mengmeng was very smart. She immediately pulled out some renderings of the project from her laptop and introduced the project to the school director in Y language. She even mentioned that they had just returned from a study tour in Europe, where they had seen many luxury homes. They strived to make this project the best real urban luxury home in Beijing.

As an assistant to the president's office, she has been paying close attention to the progress of the luxury housing project. She participates in every project report and internal study and discussion. She understands that the problem with the kindergarten is not simply a design issue, but involves much more.

From a design perspective, it is not difficult to plan a kindergarten on their project site, but the sales department is more concerned about that area and has always hoped to spend some money to move the kindergarten off the land so that the sales area can be increased.

However, Lin Ruoyan believes that if a well-known education group opens a kindergarten in a luxury housing project, no matter how big or small it is, it will be a golden signboard, and it may be able to raise the sales price per square meter to a higher level. All in all, the sales volume gained in exchange for the given sales area will definitely be higher.

Without Lin Ruoyan's reminder, Hua Mengmeng finished introducing the luxury housing project and explained the need for a six-class kindergarten and asked if international schools were interested. In the future, the owners of this community would all be top-tier wealthy individuals, and a high percentage of their children would attend international schools and study abroad when they grow up.

The owners of this luxury housing project will be the key targets for international school enrollment in the future. The school director named Thomas immediately smelled a business opportunity.

He said he would relay this information to the rest of the group's board of directors and organize a special inspection team to investigate Lin Ruoyan's project. Even if it was just a small kindergarten with six classes, they would definitely not hesitate. After fully understanding the region and the project's future prospects, they would respond as soon as possible regarding whether to open a school there.

Lin Ruoyan immediately assigned Hua Mengmeng to keep in touch with Thomas, and to prepare all the necessary entertainment arrangements when Thomas' team went to Beijing to inspect the project in the future.

Thomas, in a chat, then mentioned that he knew a real estate developer named Fang Yue, who, like Lin Ruoyan, was a powerful woman in the real estate industry. Fang Yue had previously discussed opening an international school within her high-end residential development, but had never found a particularly suitable entry point.

Lin Ruoyan couldn't say that she didn't know Fang Yue, so she took the opportunity to praise Fang Yue a few words. After all, Fang Yue's current project in the south didn't have any competition or conflict with Lin Ruoyan, and they were supporting each other.

However, Thomas might meet Fang Yue again in the future, and it was hard to say whether Fang Yue would disparage her as a legitimate daughter. So Lin Ruoyan lowered her expectations, not expecting to have to negotiate with Thomas's education group. She could have her staff search for other domestic education groups and invite them to inspect the project. If several of them competed for the kindergarten's operating rights, wouldn't her profits be even greater?

After seeing Thomas off, Hu Quan and Lin Ruoyan closed the door and seriously discussed the details of investing in expanding the factory.

Hu Quan knew that the Lin Group was a well-known industrial enterprise in the north, while Lin Real Estate was very young and had just been established, so he must insist on his dominant management rights in the furniture factory and declare in advance that he would not be incorporated into the Lin Group.

Furniture manufacturing wasn't part of Lin's business. Lin Ruoyan had asked her brother before this trip, and he said it was up to her to decide. He wouldn't force Lin to create a new category, so she felt less pressure. Authority was normally restricted based on the investment ratio; she would only assign supervisors and generally wouldn't interfere with the normal operations of the furniture factory.

The experience of starting a company with Li Yiqi and investing in Lu Xueli's Go school had given Lin Ruoyan the ability to discuss the investment without involving legal counsel and to directly outline the key terms. The other contracts were standard, so Hua Mengmeng brought an electronic version with her. After making some minor adjustments and revisions, she drafted the terms and waited for Hu Quan to fill in the investment amount.

Hu Quan hadn't expected Lin Ruoyan to be so sincere. She'd already thought through the contract and details, so he dropped all the clichés about carefully considering and writing a plan. He'd already been planning the factory expansion, and now he'd mentioned the eight million yuan it would cost.

Lin Ruoyan initially considered it to be around 10 million. She agreed immediately, neither giving more nor reducing it.

She wouldn't invest all the money at once, but would instead distribute the funds in installments over two months. Hu Quan still had to submit a business plan, complete the agreed-upon tasks, and pass her review before he could receive the funds. This was a form of protection for the investor, and Hu Quan naturally understood it.

The next day, Hu Quan and his wife accompanied Lin Ruoyan and Hua Mengmeng to visit scenic spots in Guangdong Province. They sent them on the plane in the afternoon, and Lin Ruoyan and her friends returned to Beijing that night.

Lin Ruoyan returned to the courtyard to rest for a night. She didn't want to go to work the next day, but the 100 million yuan target had not been spent yet, so she had to go to the company again, as she felt that there was still some money to be paid.

As soon as she arrived at the company at around ten o'clock, Lao Jiao from the Engineering Department ran to her office and reported that the construction company had basically reached an agreement. If the contract was signed this month, she would need to pay the entry fee immediately.

This is not the 30% full-process engineering contract amount, but is based on the segmented contract signing model proposed by Li Jia, Director of the Cost Department. First, a large strategic cooperation framework agreement is signed, and then the site leveling and foundation construction are divided into small preliminary contracts.

If the cooperation in this small contract is pleasant, then there will be a series of regular contracts for the main construction project, interior decoration project, etc. Otherwise, if a large contract is signed all at once, the contract amount is too large, and 30% of the project payment is directly paid, if there is any problem with the construction team and it goes bankrupt and runs away, the company will suffer a great loss.

In short, thanks to the efforts of Lao Jiao and Li Jia, the construction unit agreed to use this early part of the project as a sample to let Party A see the construction quality and on-site management capabilities. Party A will pay the project fee in installments, and the cash flow of each batch will be relatively abundant.

This just happened to meet Lin Ruoyan's 100 million yuan spending target for this month. Whether or not to make such detailed payments next month would depend entirely on the quality of the construction company's work and Lin Ruoyan's spending through other payment channels, all of which could be adjusted flexibly.

Lin Ruoyan couldn't help but applaud Li Jia in her heart. With an expert like Li Jia looking after the cost department, the flexibility of external payments was greatly improved, which really made her worry less.

Next, Lin Ruoyan unexpectedly received an invitation from Fang Yue.

She suspected it might be related to the Dax project, but her work in the biopharmaceutical industry there didn't conflict with Fang Yue's plans to buy land and build commercial housing in the Dax area. It was rare for Fang Yue to use such polite language on the phone. She had already met her spending targets for the month and had nothing else to do, so it wouldn't hurt to meet up and chat.