Chapter 180 Eastern Garden
Fan Zhicheng was a sensitive person. As soon as he heard it, he knew that Tao Nanfeng had accepted him from the bottom of her heart and regarded him as a true friend. His eyes lit up, he looked up and responded loudly: "Okay!"
On the seventh day of the Lunar New Year, the first day of work at Nanfeng Company, everyone came to work one after another. I originally thought that I would just come here to chat and sort out some information, but I didn’t expect that the first construction project had already been launched.
Fan Yajun smiled and said, "Our company has a project coming on the seventh day of the Lunar New Year? Business is booming!"
Ye Yintong's arthritis has been relieved since he used Mr. Mei's ointment. It doesn't affect him much to go out in the cold weather. When he heard that people from Xiufengshan Farm came to visit on the sixth day of the New Year to discuss the project, he couldn't help but laugh: "This is a good omen. The people on your farm are thoughtful."
The construction team immediately started to get busy. Tao Nanfeng organized everyone to discuss the preliminary plan and optimize the sketch that was finalized yesterday. Tao Nanfeng has lived on the farm for more than four years and has a deep affection for every tree and blade of grass there. She personally took charge and decided to continue the earliest architectural features of the brick and tile houses.
The building materials are mainly stone, brick and tile, which are adapted to local conditions;
The colors highlight the original colors of the building materials, red walls, black tiles, and gray floors;
In order to avoid the influence of rain, snow, hail and other weather conditions, a large roof structure, curved ridge line treatment, and preserved eaves corridor structure;
It is cold in the mountains in winter and the road surface is easily frozen, so the walls are thickened to avoid large door and window openings, emphasis is placed on insulation, and colorful floor tiles are laid on the outdoor floor.
After a busy day, when the final plan was finalized, everyone was shocked when they saw the activity center that Tao Nanfeng had drawn.
Among the towering mountains and shaded by trees, the large-roofed public buildings with red bricks and green tiles appear particularly eye-catching. In order to avoid large windows, small holes of 500*500 and double-layer glass are specially chosen for lighting. The dense small squares bring sunlight into the room, making the appearance look lively and cute.
There is an indescribable spirituality.
Even the well-informed Fan Yajun praised: "What a creative work! It is in harmony with the surrounding environment and full of childlike fun."
Fan Zhicheng nodded: "Yes, it's like a child who just got out of school, running and jumping between the mountains and forests, with a kind of innocent agility."
Tao Nanfeng was also very satisfied with the activity center he designed. He tilted his head to take a look and added a few more strokes: "Okay, let's start. I am familiar with the terrain there. There are many rocks and good geological conditions. The architectural construction drawings and structural construction drawings can be carried out at the same time. When the drawings are completed, we will go to the farm together. I will take you to visit Xiufeng Mountain, drink Luohan Spring, and taste mountain game."
Before the architecture team said anything, several engineers from the structure and landscape teams cheered. The company paid a lot of money this year, and everyone had a good year. We bought a lot of chicken, duck, fish, meat, and candied fruits, and we just ate at home every day. I finally have the opportunity to go out and walk around, and experience the wildness of the mountain village. Great!
Everyone was full of energy and started to devote themselves to their work.
Things were also going smoothly for Fan Zhicheng. He asked someone to buy a small shop on the corner of Tongdeli Street in Jiangbei and helped Li Shunmei open a grocery store selling cigarettes, tea and other small groceries. The store was named "Shunmei Grocery Store."
Smooth and beautiful, this name is appealing as soon as it hears it. Although Li Shunmei is stubborn when it comes to emotions, she has a cheerful personality. She is very humble in front of her neighbors and greets everyone with a smile. Cigarettes were purchased directly from the North and South Cigarette Factories, and tea included osmanthus tea and jasmine tea from Yuanhou Village. Together with the essential daily necessities of oil, salt, sauce and vinegar, the small shop quickly established a foothold in Tongdeli.
Fan Zhicheng brought Li Shunmei to express his gratitude in person. At Xiangbei's house, he met Wang Lianghai's second son, Wang Gongzhu. Somehow, they fell in love with each other.
Wang Gongzhu was an honest person, and he was not as lucky as his brother Wang Gongsong, who was not able to be recruited into the factory as a worker and eat the state-controlled grain. However, he was filial to his parents and hardworking. Even though he was just a small security guard guarding the warehouse in a cigarette factory, he still abided by his duties and did his job conscientiously.
Wang Gongzhu had met Li Shunmei several times before due to work reasons, but they were not familiar with each other and were only nodding acquaintances. But since he met her once at Xiangbei's home and heard her story from his mother, Wang Gongzhu began to have other thoughts. He felt sorry for her unrequited love and regretted that she was alone far away from home. He admired her even more for being a woman who dared to open a shop and settle down in a foreign land. So the Wang family asked Liang Yinzhen to act as a matchmaker, and thus a marriage was hatched.
Li Shunmei had wasted so many years, and seeing that Fan Zhicheng even said that he liked men, it was obvious that he was determined not to live with her. Now seeing that Wang Gongsong was a decent and honest person, a native of Jiangcheng, with his parents still alive, and most importantly, the other party also had a rural household registration, the two had a common language, so he agreed to the marriage.
On the day of the wedding, Tao Nanfeng and Xiang Bei presented gifts. Li Shunmei held Tao Nanfeng's hand, her eyes slightly red, and her voice full of gratitude.
"When I first arrived in Jiangcheng, you bought me tea and helped me find Fan Zhicheng. If it weren't for you, I, Li Shunmei, would have died long ago, and how could I have gotten married and settled down in Jiangcheng? You are a great benefactor to Zhuzi and me. I will pray for you every day at home. Good people will be rewarded, and everything will go well and be harmonious in the future!"
Tao Nanfeng smiled slightly: "You have to live your life to make it. I hope you and your husband will be united and your business will prosper this year."
Hearing her blessing, Li Shunmei grinned, with a bit more confidence on her face: "I, Li Shunmei, may not be good at other things, but I am okay at business. Don't worry, Zhuzi and I will find a way to open a few more stores in the future, and we will definitely be able to live a good life."
After marriage, Li Shunmei opened a small shop in Yuanhou Village, specializing in business with students and teachers of Jiangcheng University of Architecture. She also opened a North-South cigarette wholesale department in Jiangbei. Her parents-in-law and Wang Gongzhu were as busy as a top, but they were fulfilled and happy.
The arrival of the tide of the times will wash away the sand and what remains is the dazzling gold.
In October 1982, a cold wind suddenly blew in Jiangcheng.
After sending the three children to kindergarten, Tao Nanfeng returned to the company and received a call from Jiang Qizhu of Shenzhen Stock Exchange: "Nanfeng, Oriental Garden will be completed and inspected in three days. Please come and take charge with Xiangbei."
Tao Nanfeng was delighted when he heard this. It took a whole year, from attracting investment, designing to construction. More than a dozen residential buildings with a total of 438 households were built so quickly? This is truly SAR speed!
Xiangbei laughed at the side: "There are 240 sets of cadres' dormitories in Shenzhen, and the houses have been allocated before the completion and acceptance. I heard from Jiang Qizhu that cadres of all ranks have been coming to the site to check since July. With so many leading cadres inspecting the construction site, how can the speed not be fast?"
Tao Nanfeng had been busy with the design bidding for the Jiangcheng City Library recently and had not paid attention to the Shenzhen project. He only remembered it after hearing what Xiangbei said and asked him, "What about the other 198 houses for sale? Have they been sold?"
Xiangbei's smile deepened. "Yu Chengda is a real estate developer in Gangcheng. He is very skilled in selling pre-sale properties. As soon as our residential blueprints came out, Gangcheng built the Oriental Garden Sales Center. The sales price of 2,600 yuan per square meter attracted a lot of people. Now we just have to wait for the project to pass the acceptance. Gangcheng and Shenzhen will start selling at the same time. Judging from the situation, it is estimated that the units will be snapped up."
Hearing the conversation between Tao Nanfeng and Xiangbei, Fan Yajun said, "2,600 yuan per square meter, and there are still so many people competing for it? Wow... People in Hong Kong and Shenzhen are really rich."
Tao Nanfeng turned to Fan Yajun and said, "The housing prices in Gangcheng are all above 5,000. Do you think 2,600 is cheap?"
Fan Yajun was stunned: "How can the house be sold at such a high price with a construction cost of more than 100 yuan? Which business dares to make such a big profit!"
Thinking about how Jiang Qizhu was still worried about money when he first met him last year, and how he can now make his first fortune from the real estate market, Tao Nanfeng said, "Although the construction cost is not high, the land is valuable."
Ye Chu was a little nervous: "Land? Our country's laws stipulate that land belongs to the state or collective ownership, and units or individuals are not allowed to buy and sell land. You said that land is valuable... Do real estate companies in Shenzhen dare to sell land?"
Xiangbei explained: "This is also the first time that the Shenzhen Stock Exchange has tried this. They call this form of cooperation trade compensation. Hong Kong businessmen invest and sell some of their houses to others as compensation."
When Ye Chu was the deputy section chief of the infrastructure section at the towel factory, he had seen many struggles during the movement and was not impressed by Shenzhen's trade compensation: "Trade compensation is just a cover. Who doesn't know that Shenzhen real estate companies are making money from land? This... Shenzhen people are too bold!"
Fan Yajun pinched him and said, "Why do you care? We are just architects and technicians who do designs for them. Why do you care whether they are trading compensation or selling land?"
Ye Chu chuckled and said nothing more.
But when Xiangbei was leaving, Ye Chu quietly pulled him aside and told him, "The Shenzhen real estate companies are too bold and have shaken the foundation of the law. I'm afraid that if the policy changes in the future, someone will carry out a big liquidation. Our company should not get too involved."
Xiangbei's heart sank as he felt a dark cloud floating over in the sky.
The Special Administrative Region has special policies and the country encourages innovation, but what if someone makes a fuss about land transactions?
Thinking of the cooperation agreement signed by Nanfeng, Jiang Qizhuo and Yu Chengda, Nanfeng Company will take 5% of the profits for technical cooperation. At that time I thought the benefits were huge, but now I think it also comes with great risks.
Xiangbei said to Tao Nanfeng: "Let me be the legal representative of the company, and you can focus on your architectural design."
Tao Nanfeng didn't care about these things. He didn't even think about why Xiang Bei suddenly said he wanted to be the legal representative. He nodded and agreed, "Okay."
After deciding this point, Xiang Beifang finally felt at ease and went to Shenzhen with Tao Nanfeng.
The construction quality of Oriental Garden was very high. Even with Tao Nanfeng's discerning eyes, he could not find any problems, and the final acceptance was completed smoothly.
The next day, sales were carried out simultaneously in Hong Kong and Shenzhen.
Port city.
The first residential project in Shenzhen, priced so cheaply that ordinary working-class people can afford it.
People started queuing up at three o'clock in the evening, and when the sales office opened at eight-thirty in the morning, everyone rushed in. In less than half a day, all one hundred houses were sold out.
Shenzhen Stock Exchange.
One house comes with three city household registrations and installment payment is allowed.
The first batch of wealthy Chinese who went into business were born in Shenzhen. The price of RMB 200,000 per unit did not stop the wealthy from queuing up, and all 98 units were sold out in one day.
With 30 million in hand, Jiang Qizhuo made a fortune.
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