Chapter 102: Reducing Costs and Increasing Efficiency
Lin Ruoyan added, "We can't just make money on our own. We need to involve relevant people in this. For example, if someone in the relevant government offices in the Cy District wants to buy a house or something, but doesn't have enough money, we have a good personal relationship with them and can lend them money. The deposit amount also has an internal price and an external price."
Lu Gan quickly calculated that the initial internal subscription price for his own house was 40,000 yuan per square meter. With a 400-square-meter house costing 16 million yuan, the 80% discount on the deposit would bring the total to 3.2 million yuan. Even with a further discount, the deposit would still be 3 million yuan per unit. If he could release no more than ten units a month, he could collect around 30 million yuan in deposits.
In the second month, we can increase the unit price or the total price slightly. After all, it is normal for luxury homes to have different prices for each room. This seems to make sense and can be tried. The path Mr. Lin points out is really great!
In the era of the book, few people could afford to invest three million yuan in real estate speculation. Many people could only save a few hundred thousand yuan in their lifetime. Even for ordinary people, this was a huge amount of working capital. How could they easily move it to speculate in real estate?
The housing bubble in some southern provinces is still fresh in our memory. Beijing's housing prices, at 30,000 yuan per square meter, are already sky-high, and major newspapers and magazines have criticized the high housing prices. People prefer to believe that housing prices are not that outrageous.
In the real world, Lin Ruoyan once believed that the property market wouldn't be so outrageous. However, twenty years later, those who tightened their belts to buy houses have only made a tenfold profit, which is a small amount. They can earn more than any other business. Those who always believed that housing prices would fall have been repeatedly slapped in the face.
Newspapers of this era also denounced the high housing prices of 11,000 yuan per square meter, saying that in the future, you won't be able to find decent commercial housing in Beijing with a unit price of less than 50,000 yuan even with a lantern.
Her luxury house is now sold for only 50,000 yuan per square meter, which is such a reasonable price.
Lin Ruoyan, who has seen in real life that a 70-year-old, 80-square-meter, dilapidated house in Beijing was priced at 10 million yuan, is not at all impressed by the so-called "high" housing prices, and will not hesitate to set prices for luxury houses.
The marketing department has figured out how to increase revenue, and from September or October they may be able to steadily bring in tens of millions of dollars in revenue. The engineering and cost departments have to come up with ways to reduce costs and increase efficiency, and study how to save money from the source.
They can boast to the outside world about the cost of their luxury homes being tens of thousands per square meter, but in reality the internal accounts must be actuarially calculated and strictly controlled to be below ten thousand yuan.
Purchasing building materials in bulk can save money, so the basic materials needed in large quantities for fine decoration must also be purchased in bulk to save money.
For example, the 1.8-meter-long copper-clad double doors and each luxurious unit door are not small in quantity. If you save tens of thousands on one door, wouldn't that save tens of millions on more than 200 doors?
Of course, the idea of a door costing 40,000 to 50,000 yuan, and a toilet costing tens of thousands, was unthinkable to Li Jia from the Cost Department. Only after a trip abroad did he realize this was standard practice for luxury homes. Luxury homeowners value appearance, and not only the landscaping and facades, but also the unit doors and household doors must be designed to look beyond the reach of ordinary people.
If domestic manufacturers can't reduce costs and imitate, then they can go to European manufacturers. There are more than 200 doors and hundreds of toilets. If any manufacturer takes this order, they won't have to work for three years.
At this time, there are also some joint venture building material brands in China. In the invisible places or public areas of luxury houses, you can use domestic products. Whether they are really good quality and low price, the cost department and engineering department need to send people to the factory to conduct personal inspections and comparisons.
Lin Ruoyan was very pleased to see a group of directors studying how to quickly collect payments and racking their brains to think of ways to save money.
She was sure to spend the 100 million yuan in July, and maybe she would start receiving a large sum of money starting in September. Her mood became increasingly better, and she felt a little dizzy: "System, do you think I have the potential to live a few more months?"
After the daily flattery, the prodigal system still offered a realistic reminder: "Host, you've only been researching how to make and save money, but have you considered how to spend it next month? You've already spent all the big bucks you could this month, and next month there won't be any big corporate acquisitions or project payments to make. So, what else do you need to flatter?"
Lin Ruoyan thought about it and it made sense. The large contracts worth tens of millions that could be executed were nothing more than the acquisition of foreign-funded enterprises and the construction of luxury houses. The design contracts together were worth less than ten million.
Although there is still a long way to go next month, the indicators for this month have been met. Why can't she relax for a while?
Summer vacation is coming soon. It's time to put aside all the worries and take my son on a trip. What if this is her last summer in the book? I have to be worthy of myself and leave my son with good memories.
"Summer vacation starts this month. I'm going to take the kids and invite some wealthy and free friends, like the Yu family, to travel abroad. That'll cost a million." Lin Ruoyan used the concept of summer vacation to talk a little bit. "If we're lucky, maybe we can come across some good investment projects abroad."
During the era described in the book, more Chinese, encouraged by national policies, were willing to venture abroad. While traditional trade flourished, other technologically connected industries also emerged. Overseas, with its abundant resources and vast, undeveloped areas more backward than those in China, some were exporting advanced domestic experience, buying mines, investing in factories, and so on.
According to the host, the prodigal system found the plot of the vicious female supporting character in the original book and suggested: [Host can consider trying out casinos and other consumption abroad, or consider investing heavily in overseas projects.]
This reminded Lin Ruoyan of the pitfalls in the plot, which she had to avoid to feel at ease.
In the original novel, the vicious female supporting character, the real daughter of a wealthy family, is set to die early next month. The underlying reason is that she spent all of her 800 million yuan prematurely. How could she have spent so much money so quickly? Did she buy a house or land? No. She lost all of her 800 million yuan due to jealousy, losses in overseas casinos, and a failed overseas investment project.
Needless to say, Lin Ruoyan would definitely not get involved with the casino, so which overseas project did she invest in that could lead to failure so quickly?
The original book doesn't elaborate on this story in detail, merely mentioning that the real daughter traveled to Southeast Asia and was scammed out of 300 million yuan. The person behind the scheme had been hanging around Beijing for a while, had learned about the real daughter's foibles, and had spent considerable time and effort planning a targeted operation. The crime scene was outside China, and there were protective figures there. With no clear evidence available domestically, the only conclusion was that the investment had failed.
It wasn't just the real daughter; the gang had also defrauded other families before, their methods gradually becoming more sophisticated, and wealthy businessmen from both China and neighboring countries were deceived one after another. As for the routine, analyzing it with the perspective of reality more than a decade later, it should be a variant of the Ponzi scheme.
Of course, they are not like the ordinary people who cheat tens of thousands of dollars. If they encounter a fat sheep like a real daughter, it would be a waste of the initial cost and effort if they can't cheat 100 million.
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