Chapter 311 Greed
“Beep, beep, beep~”
"Come in."
"Teacher Mu, please give me a day off. Here is the note."
Li Ye smiled and placed the leave application in front of Mu Yuning.
Mu Yuning frowned and said in embarrassment: "Why did you ask for leave again? The exam is in a few days. What will happen to you if you anger the teacher?
If your grades are not good this year, your recommendation for active students next year will also be affected."
Li Ye smiled awkwardly and said, "It's just a small matter, just one day, it won't affect the test results."
"Just take responsibility for your own affairs."
Mu Yuning stopped dissuading him, put away the leave application, and waved his hand to let Li Ye go out.
She was not angry, but was worried about Li Ye.
Li Ye submitted his application for admission to D before the summer vacation. Mu Yuning helped him go through the fastest process. Now he is an activist. If he works hard, he can enter the preparatory stage next year. These steps are connected very closely.
However, many things cannot be accomplished just by your ability and contribution. If you have some flaws yourself, and someone stands out to oppose during the election, wouldn’t that mean failure?
Li Ye also knew this, but at the moment there was something urgent.
After leaving Mu Yuning's office, Li Ye rode his bicycle out of the campus. His sister Li Yue was already waiting for him in the car.
The renovation project of Xiushui Street was finally completed a few days ago. The rental standards were posted yesterday and the company started renting out the space.
As a result, Li Yue said something happened this morning.
After getting in the car, Li Yue said, "After the rent standards were announced yesterday, nothing happened, but this morning several of our stores were blocked by people. Jin Peng called Wen Guohua, and it turned out that someone was blocking the door on his side as well."
Li Ye asked back: "Why are you blocking the door? Is it because you think the rent is too expensive?"
Li Yue nodded and said, "Isn't it? Now it only costs two or three yuan to rent a courtyard house in Beijing!
The rent for a shop on Xiushui Street ranges from fifty or sixty yuan to several hundred yuan. It makes sense for the common people to say that they are unscrupulous. "
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Li Ye was stunned for a moment, and couldn't help but curse: "A bunch of idiots."
Li Yue braked the Volga to the side of the road, stared at Li Ye and asked coldly: "Who are you calling an idiot?"
Li Ye waved his hands and said, "That must be those greedy merchants. How dare I say that to you, sister? Haven't I been beaten enough by you over the years?"
"Humph~, you haven't been beaten since you were twelve years old, but this is the capital, and there's no grandma to protect you."
Li Yue snorted coldly before shifting gears again and accelerating.
But then she thought again and felt that something was wrong. Those merchants thought the rent was expensive, and she also thought it was expensive!
In fact, the renovation of Xiushui Street has always been under great pressure because the pace of the renovation is very large.
A small street could only accommodate a few hundred businesses, but later commercial buildings were built along the street, marking out thousands of shops.
Moreover, when determining the shop rental standards, Wen Guohua adopted Li Ye's opinion and increased the rental standards by another 30% on the original basis.
This is not because Li Ye is mean. In fact, Li Ye thinks this standard is already very cheap.
Moreover, Pengcheng No. 7 Factory is a participant in the transformation and owns nearly one-third of the shops on Xiushui Street. Even if it cannot use them all, it will rent them out.
The government rents 80 yuan a month, and you rent 120 yuan a month. There are too many conflicts here. People in Beijing are not civilized when they curse in the streets. The conflicts must be pushed to the government for resolution.
Of course, if individual business owners find it too expensive, they can set up stalls in a designated area outside, which only costs ten or twenty yuan a month.
But I never thought that there are so many people who don’t know the value of it.
Before the Volga reached the intersection of Xiushui Street, Li Ye saw the crowd of people blocking the way, at least two hundred people.
Pengcheng No.7 Factory originally had a store on Xiushui Street. After the renovation, it still occupied the original location at the street entrance, so this time the leasing was also conducted in the store.
But now it was blocked and no one could get in. If there weren't a dozen veterans standing at the door, something bad might have happened.
Li Yue had never experienced such a situation before, so he had to ask his brother: "Xiao Ye, what should we do?"
Li Ye said: "It's easy, let's find a place to make a phone call."
At this moment, Li Ye missed the mobile phone in his previous life very much. It was really difficult to communicate messages.
Li Ye found a public phone and called the store on Xiushui Street of Pengcheng No. 7 Factory, asking for Jin Peng to answer the call.
"Hey, Brother Peng, what are you going to do now?"
"What should I do? I want to raise the price, what a bunch of ungrateful people."
When Li Ye heard Jin Peng's laughter and scolding, Li Ye also laughed.
After two years, Jin Peng has been tempered. He is not afraid of pressure at all and can see the right direction.
Li Ye ordered: "Brother Peng, don't rush to raise the price yet. Notify all the business outlets and banks you are familiar with to send money to the management office immediately. The sooner the better, the more the better."
Jin Peng was stunned for a moment, then immediately laughed on the phone: "Xiao Ye, are you going to buy up all of Xiushui Street? Wouldn't that make people hate you?"
"You're not going to be hated," Li Ye said with a smile. "When they come to their senses, they will only envy you for having a good vision and snatching more hens that lay golden eggs. Then they will use their connections to say good things about you and rent a store in a better location. How can they have time to hate you?"
"Hehe, Xiaoye, you are still cunning. I will do as you say."
Li Ye returned to the car and asked his sister Li Yue to drive the car in from the north intersection and park it in front of the management office.
There were also a lot of people gathered at the entrance of the management office, but they were much more restrained and did not block the entrance. It seems that the public deterrent power is really real.
More than half an hour later, Jin Peng's Crown car and the 130 from Pengcheng Factory No. 7 drove over. Seven or eight veterans surrounded Jin Peng, Ma Qianshan, and several female financial officers got out of the car.
The female accountants all carried large bags in their hands, which were full of cash.
Li Ye said to Li Yue, "Just watch, sister! In less than an hour, these people will lose their patience."
Li Yue and Li Ye followed Jin Peng and others into the management office, and were followed by many hesitant self-employed individuals.
"The one in front is Jin Peng from Pengcheng Seventh Factory. Why is he here instead of staying at home?"
"I don't know, but this guy is more evil than the evil capitalists. When we were setting up stalls in Xiushui Street, no one cared. Now, we pay a few dozen yuan a month and get a legal identity."
"Actually, a stall selling ten yuan is fine. At least it won't be accused of speculation. It really isn't okay."
After the renovation of Xiushui Street, it will be under unified management, so the vendors there will have a legal and compliant identity. This is also one of the issues that everyone is concerned about. Otherwise, many people would have been angry and run away when they heard the price.
"Are you stupid? If the same thing is sold for eight yuan at the stall, will it also be sold for eight yuan in the store? If it's all sold for eight yuan, who would buy it from the stall outside?"
"What should I do? The smallest store still makes 70 or 80 yuan! That's more than my parents' salary combined."
"So we have to ask them to lower their prices. They must lower their prices, or we will report it to the relevant departments."
"Yes, the price must be reduced, or else a letter will be written."
Li Yue listened to the "threats" from the crowd behind him, and looked at Li Ye beside him and Jin Peng and Ma Qianshan in front of him with some concern.
But looking at Jin Peng and others with their heads held high and their chests puffed out, Li Yue suddenly realized that if he wanted to become a manager, he still had a lot to learn.
When leaving Qingshui County, Li Yue came with the mentality of "I am not as good as Jin Peng", but after several months of contact, she calmed down and began to learn humbly.
After Jin Peng and others entered the management office, the originally depressing atmosphere quickly took a 180-degree turn.
It took more than an hour this morning and only about 20 upper bunks were rented out, including a few vendors who were familiar with the staff. It can be said that it was a surprise start.
Everyone's future bonuses and benefits are closely related to the rent on this street. If it cannot be rented out, then we won't be able to eat meat every day, and we won't even be able to drink the northwest wind.
It cost so much money to renovate this street, and it needs to be paid back.
But when Jin Peng threw six large bags on the floor of the finance office and said, "I'll take all the ones that can't be rented out," everyone calmed down.
It would save them a lot of trouble if they could do it all by themselves!
"Can we just stay here? They're going to buy all the shops, and then we won't be able to rent any."
"How could he not be able to rent one? No matter how rich he is, how much money can he have? With so many shops, the monthly rent is hundreds of thousands. That's hundreds of thousands every month. How many clothes does Manager Jin have to sell to make hundreds of thousands?"
"It's hard to say! Pengcheng Seventh Factory is now very prosperous in both East and West City."
"Then what are you talking about? Why don't you rent it now? Why are you arguing with us?"
Li Ye and Li Yue stood aside, looking at the vendors who were trying to find out what was going on, and they were obviously losing their temper.
At this time, Li Ye saw Wen Guohua appear at the end of the corridor, waving at him.
Li Ye walked over and said with a smile, "Brother, are you sitting on the Diaoyutai?"
Wen Guohua smiled and said, "I don't want to be Jiang Taigong. If I really can't catch any fish in three days, it will be a joke."
Li Ye smiled and said, "How could that be? If you can promise not to accuse Factory 7 of speculation, do you believe that the rent can be increased by another 50% tomorrow?"
Wen Guohua said unhappily, "You are insulting your brother! If you really want to buy it all, I will talk to you and ask you to lower the price."
Li Ye shook his head and said, "Let's take a look first! I don't like to eat alone, but if a big piece of fat meat is really close to my mouth, no one will feel full, right?"
The two were talking when suddenly five or six people came in carrying sacks, speaking with southern accents.
"Excuse me, where is the place to pay? We want to rent a shop."
"It's over there. Have you checked the rental standards?"
"I checked it out, it's fine."
Five or six people entered the finance office, opened the sacks and poured money onto the floor, which scared Jin Peng who was inside.
[There is someone more vigorous than me, Jin Baiwan? ]
Jin Peng waved his hand, exhaled from his dantian, and said, "Don't move, I was here first."
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Li Ye whispered to Wen Guohua: "Brother, you have to go out and post a new notice, otherwise those people will make trouble again later."
Five minutes later, a large red paper written in brush was posted at the door of the management office, informing the small vendors outside that there were only 400 shops left out of the thousands that were originally vacant.
"Want to rent as soon as possible? Fourth brother, what does this mean?"
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"Why are you asking? Hurry up and grab it!"
Hundreds of people who were squatting outside smoking the moment before suddenly moved and swarmed into the management office.
"I want to rent Room 106, District 7"
"Zone 7 is gone."
"How come it's gone? There were some this morning."
"It's almost noon now. Do you want to rent it or not? If not, let me take the next one."
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Some smart self-employed people behind couldn’t squeeze in, so they turned around and ran to the other end of Xiushui Street.
That's the rental office of Pengcheng Factory No. 7, and there are also shops for rent there.
As a result, when these people ran to Pengcheng Factory No. 7, they found that there were more people queuing there and it was more crowded.
"Oh, I told you not to stretch it! Now you are being chased all over the street in the wind and rain. What a sin!"
(End of this chapter)
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