Chapter 263 Real Estate Merchant William
In any case, Sheffield was grateful to Rockefeller Jr. for buying him time. However, he was now more concerned about the planning of New Orleans than anything else, and other business matters could not be rushed.
In the entire southern states, New Orleans was the largest city in the South and the center of labor trade, so the largest number of black people stayed there. It was also the base camp of southern plantations. This can be seen from the endless plantations including Oak Manor.
Basically, it was an environment where the stronger the enemy, the stronger I was. After Rockefeller Jr. left, Sheffield took his dog for a walk and asked Natalia, who was accompanying him, "Do you think I'm a racist?"
"What do you think?" Natalia rolled her eyes at the man who was asking the question knowingly. "You are a very sober racist, even more knowledgeable than the average racist. I don't know where you learned this from."
Haha! Sheffield smiled helplessly. This was naturally learned from countries where people of other races have different minds.
"Before there are facts, any racial discrimination can be regarded as slander. I am not that stupid. To solve this problem, we need a long list of statistics, such as the divorce rate of each ethnic group, the pros and cons of crime, and labor output. This is a systematic project, rather than simply thinking that they are worse than us. It is useless to think that numbers are more convincing than anything else!" Sheffield walked to a tree stump and sat down, letting Natalia sit on his lap. He spoke very reasonably, "And this is still not enough. There is a saying in the East that family disgrace should not be made public, and the same is true from the perspective of the country."
"So you gathered a large number of black people to smear the image of the United States abroad and make the United States lose face?" Natalia bit her lip and said, "How can you be so mean? Ivan the Terrible is no more than this."
"Times are advancing, and the latecomers will certainly surpass their predecessors!" Sheffield took the woman's comparison of him to Ivan the Terrible as a compliment, and said with a hint of pride, "I hope the blacks will wreak havoc on Panama, preferably by creating a tragedy or something, and then the United Company and the federal government will deal with the aftermath, but this nail will be driven into the hearts of Panamanians, and when needed, it will explode, and spread throughout the United States, completely destroying the image of the entire black community."
As for the national face of the United States, Sheffield is not the president of the federation, so it is not his business. But New Orleans is the place where his family originated, so he must sort it out here.
"In the long run, it's a good thing for the United States that the black community won't become a problem. We should continue to accept European immigrants, but we should prevent immigration from other places." Sheffield rambled on. "If it doesn't work, we have to rely on other immigrants, such as Asians, but the more sources there are, the more difficult it will be to deal with many things."
In fact, in Sheffield's eyes, the United States of the 21st century is becoming more and more like the Qing Dynasty. As we all know, the current Qing Dynasty is actually a collection of the upper classes of three ethnic groups. Although they are not exactly the same, some problems are similar.
However, the problems of the Qing Dynasty are not unsolvable. Although the Manchus, Mongols and Han are not brothers, at least their appearance is not a big problem. The United States in the 21st century is not a problem of three nations, but a problem of three races. The problem of appearance alone is already a big problem.
"What exactly is your dream? To keep doing bad things and become the richest man in the United States?" Natalia stretched out her hand and pulled Sheffield's face, exclaiming for the nth time, "Why are you so bad?"
"If I were really bad, I would have gotten you long ago!" Sheffield glanced at Natalia, "All the accounts of the Panama Canal project will pass through your hands in the future. I, a lion, have other things to do."
Lion? Natalia was stunned for a moment, not knowing what Sheffield meant. This is the way of life of a lion group. The lionesses are mainly responsible for hunting, while the male lions are mainly responsible for protecting the lion group. Sometimes they also participate in hunting, especially killing large animals. Adult lions are generally hunted by lionesses, while male lions are responsible for defending the territory, so male lions usually sit back and enjoy the fruits of others' labor and are relatively lazy.
This means that the ideal situation is that the women in the joint company are responsible for making money, and he, as the boss, is only responsible for sleeping with the girls. Sheffield now understands why Westerners like lions. It turns out that they envy the lives of lions.
"The image of New Orleans should be similar to that of New York. After all, the surrounding land is ours. You don't want to see the city continue to expand? This will encroach on our land! In fact, New Orleans has a very good real estate development environment, but you don't know it!"
While Gale and McHale were recruiting workers, Sheffield had already started to transform New Orleans. "To be honest, I hate board houses, but they are everywhere here. They don't fit the image of the American century at all."
Sheffield did not hesitate to criticize the board houses in the southern states, especially in New Orleans. This was not because he was worried that there would be many hurricanes in the Caribbean, which might bring disasters to New Orleans. His family had moved to Arlington, and the disasters here were just a drizzle. He just wanted to squeeze out the last bit of value here.
The road to transformation in real estate is actually not easy. The Vanderbilt family is the representative of this road. There are dozens of buildings and countless properties in New York belonging to the Vanderbilt family, and they are still in decline.
However, he had an advantage over the Vanderbilt family, that is, New Orleans was the base camp of southern plantation owners, and Sheffield knew exactly who each piece of land in the city belonged to. The owners of these estates were all in the same boat with the United Company.
As long as Sheffield gave a word, he could cut off New Orleans' access in any direction, fixing New Orleans within a certain range, within which New Orleans could not expand because the owners of these private lands would not allow it.
The land on the edge of the city is in the hands of Sheffield and his friends, and the pattern of New Orleans has been set. This environment of being surrounded by private land and all private land in the hands of a group of people is similar to Hong Kong.
He can build apartments within this limited area and set the price to a level that ordinary people need to work hard to afford, and he doesn't have to worry about the housing prices falling, because all the surrounding land is in his hands and those of his allies. They won't sell an inch of land, they won't develop the land, and they have enough power to support the housing prices. Unless the residents of New Orleans move to other states, it will be useless.
"The land around New Orleans is ours. As long as we can keep it under control, we have the final say on the housing price. Do you understand what I mean? This is a huge prison. We are all prison guards, and the people inside are all prisoners. Moreover, I have steel companies and cement companies under my control, so I can cut costs as much as possible."
"Then the most urgent task now is to popularize the harm of wooden houses!" McHale said in admiration, "What a vivid metaphor. The city of New Orleans is only this large, but the population will continue to grow. This is also the largest port in the South. It will definitely not cause population loss."
"Wooden houses are inherently harmful!" Sheffield raised his head slightly and said, "Southern citizens should live in better houses, built according to New York's building standards."
Most areas in the United States are sparsely populated, with only a few cities and some concentrated areas with tall buildings. Most low-rise and medium-rise buildings are made of wood, and ordinary people's houses are almost not made of reinforced concrete. In later generations, wooden houses were rampant, and there was also the factor of property tax. Wooden houses were not valuable, so the tax paid was naturally low.
However, New Orleans could have completely abandoned the wooden houses. After all, it was the center of the South, at the mouth of the Mississippi River. As long as Sheffield sealed off the city, reinforced concrete houses would have been a natural development.
"I just don't know if the original residents agree to it?" Gale thought for a moment and said, "If we seal off the surrounding land and only build in the original urban area, will it cost a lot? What if they don't agree?"
"You have so many armed forces? The weapons they are equipped with are all fire sticks? As long as a person is normal, there will always be something that he values, whether it is work, a partner, children, or parents. If the person is not normal but a mentally ill person, that's great, who would care if he is killed?"
Sheffield said, is this a problem? If there is a work problem, give him a stable job. If there is a partner problem, take action against his wife. The child problem is easy to solve by building a school. Parents' problems are just enlarged children's problems.
If they didn't dare to demolish the buildings in New Orleans, it would be an insult to the hard work of their fathers. Where did the courage to fight the Civil War go? "And I have an advanced experience that no one has used before. We are the first to try it."
"Oh?" Both of them were very interested when they heard it. They knew that Sheffield's new ideas often had huge rewards.
As Sheffield slowly narrated, the two people's eyes became brighter and brighter. They could actually calculate it this way? They were very surprised and said, "They could actually calculate it this way? The shared area? You are amazing!"
"Of course, this is a calculation method that has never appeared before!" Sheffield said calmly, "No force can restrain something that appears for the first time. As long as we stick to the reason for doing this, we will be right even if we sue it in the federal court. Even if we lose the case in the end, it will be several years later. We have already made back the money long ago."
(End of this chapter)
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