Chapter 681 Major Breakthrough

Chapter 681 Major Breakthrough

"Since the last Trump Tower meeting, Kushner \u0026 Company has been staying in New York, and the focus of Kushner's company is shifting here."

"Oh, Mr. Kushner, who is this?"

Nan Yi gestured to the child next to Charles Kushner and asked.

"Introduction, this is my son Jared."

Nan Yi stretched out his right hand to Jared Kushner and said with a smile, "Mr. Kushner, hello, I'm Adam."

"Hello, Mr. Adam."

Jared Kushner shook hands with Nanyi generously.

"Let me introduce to you, this is my eldest son Adler, this is my second son, you can call him Nan."

Nanyi treated Jared as an adult, introduced his two sons, and the three children chatted together after greeting each other.

"Mr. Kushner, please sit down." Nan Yi said to Charles Kushner again.

There are too many tables in the Chinese restaurant. If you really want to stand in groups like a reception, it really can’t be spread out here. Therefore, the restaurant is like a speed-dating game. People flow and go to other tables to sit with others. If you are chatting happily, just sit and don't leave, if you don't talk speculatively, just sit for a while and then change the table.

"Thank you, you can call me Charles." Charles Kushner thanked and sat down.

"You can call me Adam, too."

"Hmm, Adam, what do you think of Koch's 10-year plan?"

Since World War II, New York has been implementing one affordable housing program after another, the purpose is to provide housing security for low-income families.

The intention is good, but many of the plans implemented are actually taken advantage of by real estate developers, and few benefits fall into the hands of low-income people.

After entering the 1980s, in the face of the increasingly severe affordable housing crisis, New York Mayor Koch announced in 1985 that he would invest 4.4 billion US dollars in five years to build and improve 100,000 low- and middle-income housing units. The target is adjusted to 253,000 sets in 10 years.

This "ten-year plan" tries to create more affordable housing through various methods such as renting, reselling, and maintenance. Those who intend to repair houses in decaying communities and those who intend to purchase affordable housing can apply for different types of subsidies.

However, due to factors such as insufficient investment, procrastination, and cumbersome procedures, it has not been effectively implemented, so that the chairman of the Community and Housing Development Association cursed: "This is not a housing plan for low- and middle-income earners. The housing that receives government subsidies is middle-class housing.

The question is not whether to build middle-class housing, of course the answer is yes; the question is who is first and who is last, and for whom should cities build housing first? "

This lack of attention in the implementation process is also reflected in the fact that the affordable housing policy is easily suspended due to changes in the external environment.

However, for better or worse, this ten-year plan was launched. However, not long after the charge was sounded, this year’s Black Monday happened again. The stock market crash affected the real estate market, and the housing transaction volume in the Upper East Side, a traditional area where middle- and high-income earners live, dropped significantly. , not to mention other regions.

At present, the 10-year plan has been suspended, and Nan Yi has not received wind of what will happen next. After all, Nan is not engaged in the real estate industry in New York, and only cares about housing prices, and does not care much about the fine-tuning of real estate construction policies.

"Isn't it because the stock market crash has stopped?"

"It's not just a shutdown, this plan has actually existed in name only. In order to promote New York's economy and get out of the depression as soon as possible, the city hall has changed its strategy and given tax incentives to encourage developers to invest in high-end housing to activate the real estate market.

At present, there are plans for high-end commercial and residential areas such as Global Plaza and Riverwalk. The J-51 project, which was suspended in 1979 due to frequent protests by residents of decaying communities, has also been restarted and the amount of funding has been expanded. "

The J-51 plan is an old housing renovation plan. For some old apartments used for rent or self-occupation, the landlord pays for renovation and upgrading to improve living conditions. After the renovation is completed, the rent cannot be greatly increased, but can only be increased appropriately according to inflation. But it cannot be higher than the low-rent category.

As compensation, New York State will provide tax exemptions and tax reductions in property taxes, because the part of the property tax that renovates the house price appreciation will not be paid, and the property tax that should be paid each year will be deducted until the deducted part reaches 90% of the renovation cost. become.

"Can J-51 continue? This plan is too unfriendly to homeowners."

"Yes, very unfriendly, $100 ten years ago is not the same as $100 now, and after the house is transferred, the new owner still has to maintain the low-rent property of the apartment, no investor will be interested in it, I don't like the plan."

Nan Yi nodded and said: "Yes, in terms of investment, there is still a relatively large room for appreciation in high-end residential areas. The new policy of the city hall should be of great help to economic improvement, but it is still unfriendly to low-income earners. How many homeless people are there in New York now?"

"More than 70,000, and the current homeless are not only alcoholics, lazy, drug addicts, but also homeless families whose houses have been taken away by banks because of bankruptcy."

"It's really tragic, we should help them." Nanyi's eyes were sore, and he said with compassion: "Press the city hall to come up with feasible strategies to improve the living conditions of the homeless."

Charles Kushner raised his glass, "God bless them."

"God bless them."

Nan Yi also raised his glass and agreed.

After taking a sip of the wine, Charles Kushner said, "Adam, I plan to join the Global Plaza project. I wonder if you are interested?"

"Where is it?"

"825 Eighth Avenue."

When Nanyi heard that the location was not bad, he said, "Tell me more about the construction plan."

Hearing that Nanyi was interested in learning more about it, Charles Kushner was excited, organized his language a little and said: "The area of ​​No. 825 is enough to build three mixed commercial and residential buildings, the one closest to the street, The side facing the street can be used as a shop, the upper floor is a residence; the middle one is a high-end residential apartment; the innermost one is used as an office building.”

"Skyscraper?"

"Yes, the office building can cover about 50 floors, and the other two buildings are slightly shorter, high-end residential apartments. I plan to turn them into high-end apartments. After completion, the price will not be lower than 3 million per unit."

"The price is not cheap. Which customer groups are you planning to sell to?"

"Movie stars, sports stars, rich people in the Middle East, and emerging rich people on Wall Street. These groups are relatively young and have advanced consumption concepts. They will definitely like it."

According to the trend of housing prices in New York, although the price of apartments in the city center is high, and the annual holding cost is not low, as long as you don’t go bankrupt halfway and can persist until the housing prices skyrocket, buying an apartment is a good investment.

In Nanyi’s original Columbus apartment, there are two houses in the north and the south, each of which can be rented at a sky-high price of 70,000 US dollars a year, and it is still increasing by 15% every year.

Although Charles Kushner intends to set the house price at a sky-high price of 3 million US dollars, as long as the house itself is of considerable value and there are gimmicks, there is really no need to worry about not being able to sell it.

"Do you have time in the next few days?" Nan Yi asked after thinking for a while.

"I have no plans for the rest of the month."

"I'll have a chat with Scarlett, and we'll make an appointment later."

"OK!"

Charles Kushner responded with a smile on his face.

As long as Nanyi is willing to consider it, half of Charles Kushner's intention will be realized. Global Plaza is a good project. If it is not for his lack of funds, Charles Kushner will not find outsiders to share the cake.

After talking about the business, Charles Kushner and Nan Yi chatted a little more, and took their son to other tables.

When the two sons started to breathe, Nanyi took them back to Scarlet Manor first, leaving Scarlet here to continue socializing.

At breakfast the next day, Nanyi told Scarlett about Charles Kushner, and Scarlett said that she would let people from the Scarlett Fund connect.

As long as the Global Plaza project is good enough and has a promising return prospect, Scarlett Fund can package this project as a capital preservation fund project, calculate a reasonable premium, and sell part of the project to customers. Scarlett Fund can do a good job. A sale that breaks even, and even makes a profit, from the start.

It seems that the operation is very simple and the profit is stable without losing money, but in fact Scarlett Fund has to put its own reputation and reputation on the line. If it says that it has to protect its capital, it has to protect its capital. If it loses its own money, the client's funds cannot be lost.

Moreover, after the project is over, if the client only gets capital preservation, the client will definitely not be happy, and there is no need to think about absorbing their funds next time.

If a fund company wants to survive, it needs to maintain a purpose - to make big customers profitable, even if it swallows individual customers.

There will never be a good thing like a capital preservation fund for retail investors. If there is, it means that the fund company is starving and needs to overeat, and can no longer maintain a good look.

...

On the last day of 1987, Luo Shenshen got out of the car and walked towards an apartment building with good luck. He just got a big client. He was very happy, humming a song, and holding a bunch of keys in his hand. Throw it into the air from time to time, catch it after the key falls freely, and then throw it up again.

Within five months of coming to New York, his situation had changed drastically.

First of all, he is no longer an office assistant, but a fund sales manager, and he no longer needs to be ordered to do various trivial tasks every day.

Secondly, after get off work, he went to a convenience store to buy something, bought a lottery ticket on a whim, and won. Although the money was not much, it was only a mere 100,000 US dollars, and he also chose to receive the bonus in one lump sum, only 30,000 in his hand Many dollars.

But with the money, his living conditions improved dramatically, buying a used Cadillac and renting a nice apartment.

As soon as he walked to the door of the apartment building, Luo Shenshen saw Deng Lulu, a woman he met at the fellowship meeting a few days ago.

"Deng Lulu, why are you here?"

Deng Lulu smiled and said, "I'm here to celebrate New Year's Day with you. Don't you know that New Year's Day is already in China at this time?"

"The facial features are clear, the facial features are three-dimensional, the mouth is not small, the standard European and American lips, and the body has a muscular line, which is very in line with the aesthetics of Westerners." Nan Yi sat in the car and commented on a woman whose name he didn't know yet. .

With Luo Qianqian's relationship and a good evaluation from the Scarlett Fund, Nanyi wanted to come and visit Luo Shenshen on the occasion of the New Year's Day in China.

However, at present, it seems that this is not necessary.

Celebrating New Year's Day with a big man, how can you be happy with a woman, even if this woman is not good-looking according to the aesthetics of Chinese people, and can even be described as ugly, but who makes Luo Shenshen should be a woman who has a lot of sex? What about the dead.

"School beauty, let's go."

"Nansheng, do you want me to send the things over there?"

"No, let someone send it to the company for him tomorrow, don't hinder his luck today."

Nanyi has a very strong premonition that Luo Shenshen and this woman will have sex today. Women look at Luo Shenshen as if they are looking at prey. Women should take the initiative. Luo Shenshen is not a woman, and she may never have How could the hairy young man who had smelled the smell of meat be able to control it.

The first day of 1988.

Before Nanyi got up, Xiaohua woke him up with a phone.

Tiptoing out of the bedroom, Nan Yi asked the school beauty waiting outside, "Who is calling?"

"Li Jiapo, Erlanger." The school girl replied succinctly.

Nan Yi took the phone from Xiaohua, walked into the study quickly, sat on the chair and took a while to clear his mind before picking up the phone and saying, "Erlanger, what's the matter?"

"Boss, two pieces of good news."

"explain."

"Botox can block the transmission of information between motor nerves and muscles..."

Nan Yi interrupted Erlanger, "Let's be more direct, more popular, has the anti-wrinkle effect of Botox been verified?"

"Yes, we've tested it, and the only thing we need to do to develop a safe way to inject botulinum toxin is to test it on humans."

"very good."

Nanyi's spirit was greatly lifted when he heard the words.

Although botulinum toxin was used clinically as early as seven or eight years ago, the business of botulinum toxin cannot be monopolized at all, but the market potential is large enough, and it is one step ahead of others. It is not a problem to earn hundreds of millions of dollars a year steadily. And profits will increase year by year.

"Erlanger, is there any other good news?" Nan Yi reminded after hearing no voice from the opposite side for a few seconds.

"I thought it would take a long time for you to digest the good news just now, Boss."

"There is nothing to digest. Although the market prospect is good, if you want to make money, there is still a lot of work to be done, and a lot of money needs to be invested. Within three or four years, don't expect to see money back."

"Boss, you are too boring."

"Haha, Erlanger, you can tell jokes. It seems that the second good news is a great good news."

In Nanyi's impression, Erlanger is a very rigid person. His interest is in research. It is best to stay in the laboratory 24 hours a day without going out.

"Yes, it should be good news. Just two hours ago, the snake venom research team announced their latest discovery - snake venom can play a role in tumor inhibition, beauty, anticoagulation, hemostasis, and pain relief. Large utility, and several unproven utility in addition to these."

"Erlanger, apart from the new discoveries of tumor suppression and beauty treatment, several other mature drugs have appeared on the market." Nanyi suppressed his surprise and said, "Tell me about the tumor suppression effect in detail."

Beauty care is not new to Nanyi. He has dated many women, and he has heard of many cosmetics. He knows that many high-end cosmetics contain snake venom ingredients, but he forgot the word for that ingredient.

"The snake venom research team extracted snake venom from 20 different venomous snakes, and carried out a tumor inhibition experiment comparing the original venom and the isolated venom. 17 kinds of snake venoms with different concentrations had different degrees of inhibitory effects on mouse sarcoma, and the tumor inhibition rate was the highest. reached 89.72%."

"Is this number high?"

"Among the plans announced by the outside world, there is no one with a higher ratio than this."

"Does that mean that if we continue to study, we can eliminate cancer?" Nanyi asked a question that even he didn't believe.

"It's possible, decades or a hundred years later."

"Erlanger, you should return to your original style. Let me ask the most direct question. Can this discovery make money for the company in the short term?"

"Yes, and it will be very soon. A tumor-suppressing drug that can be marketed will be developed within one or two years at most."

"Very good." Nanyi nodded in satisfaction and said, "What do I need to do?"

"Provide a variety of snake venoms with a stable quantity, for further research, and also for future large-scale production."

"Got it, don't say much on the phone, I'll fly there today."

After hanging up the phone, Nanyi asked Xiaohua to call to apply for a flight route around three or four in the afternoon, and he went back to the bedroom to continue sleeping.

...

The next day, Nanyi went straight to the Third Institute of Biopharmaceuticals after getting off the plane at Lijiapo.

Not long after listening to the report of the snake venom research team in Nanyi, snake catchers in many places in the country no longer continue cat wintering, but take their own food and dry food and go into the mountains overnight.

The students of Bao'an University lamented that "weird things happen every year, especially this year", and many snake catchers came to the school suddenly.

Although there may not be fewer poisonous snakes in their school than students, snake catchers often appear in their school in summer and autumn, but they are rarely seen in winter. You must know that snakes are cold-blooded animals. They have to hibernate and hide in winter. In the cave, very difficult to catch.

Even if not every snake hibernates because the weather is not cold in deep winter, it is still rare to come out to catch snakes in winter.

If you are curious, you will go to the snake catcher to inquire, and the reply you get is very unreliable-it is said that there is a big water pipe to hold a feast of snakes, and they are buying poisonous snakes with a lot of money. Not disclosed.

Snake catchers are of course unwilling to say that the worst poisonous snakes can be sold for twenty, and the good ones can be sold for fifty or sixty. If there is enough, I won’t accept any more. I have to hurry up and grab some more, and sell them quickly.

The big water hose that the snake catchers are talking about is naturally Ge Cuizhu, only she can quickly spread the news to the snake catchers, and only she can convince the snake catchers that "receiving snakes at a high price" is not a rumor.

After managing the reclamation group for so many years, Ge Cuizhu's mass base and popularity in the countryside are not well built.

On Nanyi's side, he is inspecting Nan's property in Lijiapo.

In particular, the Urban Agriculture Development Company, which studies urban farms, is the top priority of his inspection.

"Mr. Nan, the one in front is the three-dimensional circulation multi-layer vegetable planting system. The principle is the same as that of the elevator. Each floor can be raised or lowered by power."

Cao Mingshun, the general manager of Urban Agriculture Development Company, introduced to Nanyi the several large elevated roads in front of him.

"Raising and lowering are determined by what?"

"There are many factors, Mr. Nan, let's go to the central control room, and I will introduce you." Cao Mingshun led Nanyi into the central control room, pointed to a row of computer screens and said: "For the convenience of monitoring, each screen has a different display. Data, temperature, humidity, light angle, soil pH, etc.

When a certain data is abnormal, a warning prompt pattern will appear on that terminal, and the manual control system will be raised and lowered according to the prompt. "

Following what Cao Mingshun pointed out, Nan Yi walked to the terminal he mentioned.

After looking at the various data on the screen for a while, Nan Yi asked, "Can't the system run automatically now?"

"We are still in the exploratory stage. We haven't concluded a set of feasible system operation rules. There are many emergencies, and each step requires manual intervention."

"Well." Nanyi nodded and said, "I won't ask about the cost of vegetables. Looking at the current situation, I know that the cost of planting will definitely not be low. Vegetables are sold at sky-high prices."

"Yes, the cost is very high."

"Oh, go see the others."

Then, Nanyi followed Cao Mingshun to visit the vertical aquaculture system and vegetable planting space, and finally went to the roof of a residential building to visit the "Solution Case for Vegetable Planting in Idle Space".

After coming out of the residential building, Nan Yi said to Cao Mingshun, "Have you contacted the Food Bureau?"

Cao Mingshun nodded, "The Food Bureau has promised to sponsor us 3 million Singapore dollars free of charge, and will give us appropriate subsidies when our vegetables and aquatic products go on sale in the future."

"Appropriate, the word has a lot of room for flexibility." Nanyi pouted and said, "You have to emphasize the objective difficulties to the Food Bureau. We are a company, not Lijiapo's food security unit;

Our goal is to make a profit. You have shareholders suppressing you. If the shareholders do not see the hope of making profits for a long time, the project is likely to be cut off and the company will go bankrupt. "

The urban agricultural development company is currently exploring several sets of planting and breeding solutions. For a long period of time in the future, the cost will not be reduced to the same level as conventional farming. This is a company that must rely on subsidies to survive.

The reason why this company will be established in Lijiapo is because Lijiapo is a small city-state, more than 90% of the food needs to be imported from other countries, and less than 1% of the land can be used for agriculture, so it is very dependent on foreign countries .

Ensuring a stable food supply is a major problem facing Lijiapo. For food security, this problem must be effectively solved, and a set of practical solutions must be summed up, and the layout needs to be made early.

When other businessmen are staring at the fields of electronics, oil refining and shipping, and when the Food Bureau is still talking about it on paper, a foreign company came to Lijiapo to explore food security solutions. Is it reasonable for Lijiapo not to give some sponsorship?

In order to ensure the survival of this foreign company, should subsidies be given to lower the prices of aquatic products and vegetables in the future? Do you want to give a certain policy preference and call on the citizens to actively buy the products of this company?

From Li Jiapo's point of view, such enterprises must provide sponsorship and subsidies, of course, both sponsorship and subsidies must be "appropriate".

Take a carrot and hang it in front, so that this enterprise can see the "hope" ahead, and at the same time let it continue to explore hungry, and cultivate it into a "giant shoulder" for Li Jiapo to step on. Best deal.

Agriculture, especially farming, does not have a considerable scale, and it is impossible to make profits at all, unless it is in a country where labor costs are not considered costs.

If a Lijiapo person has a capital of 1 million, he can speculate in stocks, futures, trade, and loans. At the end, he can also invest in some kind of factory. Garment factories and electronics factories are projects that Lijiapo highly encourages.

If someone says to take 1 million to farm, the family and friends will not be able to pass the test first, and the national level will not encourage it. The Four Tigers, if you don’t hurry up and start more light industry, you can’t do agriculture.

Everyone knows that agriculture is important, food security is important, it is more important to develop industries, and it is more important to make quick money. If some of the funds invested in industry are allocated to agriculture, vested interest groups will not agree, and neither will the workers.

Knowing that it is important, but can't allocate too much money to support it, the best way is to "properly" support the urban agricultural development company, a fool who is willing to jump into the pit by himself.

From Nanyi's point of view, what he needs to seize is this window period, and take advantage of this time to explore a mature plan and develop seeds, nutrient soil, and organic/chemical fertilizers suitable for this plan.

A mature plan will never be kept secret. It will be given to anyone who asks, and it will be sold at the door if no one asks. It is Nanyi's simple wish to make people all over the world not lack food. It is Nanyi's simple wish to let people all over the world use cheap seeds and fertilizers. Yi's little goal.

He wants to crush the sinister intentions of interest groups, and must not let the price of seeds exceed that of diamonds.

"Yes, promote artificial drilling and lower the price of diamonds. Diamonds that cannot be eaten or drank are more expensive than seeds. Is this plausible? Housing prices should also be lowered. There must be no more than 100 seeds per square meter in a prime location."

...

After leaving Lijiapo, Nanyi flew to Dubai again.

Avanti Desert Agricultural Development Company is located in the Nazwa Desert, 50 kilometers southwest of downtown Dubai.

Compared with Lijiapo, the development speed here in Dubai is much faster. The vegetables planted are already on the market, and the investment has been slowly recovered.

The reason why the speed of development is fast is that Avanti adopts a violent development model. It is not the way of studying how to grow vegetables in yellow sand, but the way of covering and cultivating vegetables.

If the desert lacks water, deep wells should be drilled. If 100 meters is not enough, then 200 meters should be used, and if it is not enough, 1,000 meters should be drilled.

Not to mention, it took a lot of effort to fetch water. There is no way. If there is no water for more than 100 meters, oil will leak out from the ground, and a well will be useless and must be re-drilled.

If there is no soil, it is transported from the outside. Avanti was born in the desert and transformed 1,500 mu of black land.

With water and fertile soil, the remaining high-temperature problems can be easily solved. Spend money and go directly to water-cooled temperature-controlled greenhouses and fresh-keeping warehouses.

At the beginning of December last year, that is, last month, Avanti began to supply vegetables to the Dubai market. In just one month, Avanti created a revenue of 7 million US dollars.

Dubai raises sheep and camels, meat is not too expensive, and there is a long coastline, seafood is not too expensive, but vegetables are completely dependent on imports, transportation costs and middlemen make a difference, resulting in very expensive vegetables, Avanti’s Maori is naturally not bad.

If it develops smoothly according to the current form, it will take less than a year for Avanti to recover its cost, and then start to make a profit. After two years of earning money, with a certain accumulation of funds, it can be invested in real desertification planting research. among.

After staying in Avanti for half a day, Nanyi returned to the urban area.

The car was driving on Sheikh Zayed Avenue, and Nanyi looked at the clumps of green in the yellow sand on the side of the road, and the large construction site revealed through the yellow sand.

Today’s Dubai has clarified the policy of "de-petroleumization". For the development of the tourism industry, it is building infrastructure. I have to say that the chief here has a long-term vision. He realized this bowl just after eating oil for less than ten years. I can't eat for a lifetime.

However, it is not surprising to propose de-petroleumization. Compared with oil-poor countries, Dubai’s oil reserves are abundant; but compared with oil-rich countries, Dubai’s oil is really not enough. A generation has not been sent away, and the oil in the ground has been emptied.

Climbing up to the World Trade Center, the tallest building in Dubai today, and standing on the edge of the lightning protection tower, Nanyi took a high-powered telescope to carefully observe the four directions of east, west, north and south.

"Zhenhe, what do you think about the prospects of investing in real estate in Dubai?" After observing, Nanyi handed the telescope to Xiaohua, and turned to ask Han Zhenhe.

"Judging from Mohammed's speech on the news, he wants to build Dubai into a world-class tourist city. Moreover, he once said: People will only remember the first and not care about the second. who is the name;

Through the analysis of this sentence, the iconic buildings in Dubai will definitely strive for the tallest, most luxurious, and largest buildings, and there may be the best hotels, the best office buildings, and the best shopping malls in the world;

It is also possible that there will be an entertainment venue with the best service quality and the most comprehensive service content in the world here in Dubai. If these are realized, high-end customers from all over the world will definitely flock here, even if it is just a desert. "

Nan Yi smiled and said: "It's impossible to be the most complete, the Arabs have too many taboos, it is unlikely that a casino will be built here, but the sex industry may not be restricted and will be vigorously developed.

Tomorrow, I will fly back to New York first, you stay here, take a good look at the real estate market in Dubai, and then make a real estate investment plan for me, after that, you fly to Hong Kong by yourself. "

"Yes, President."

After talking with Han Zhenhe, Nanyi picked up the binoculars and continued to observe the large construction sites in Dubai. He didn't take people away from the top of the building until he saw yellow sand filling the southeast, and saw that the sandstorm was about to sweep over.

Once the sandstorm was over, Nanyi seized the time to go to the old city of Dubai, visited NAIF SOUQ, the earliest market in Dubai, saw camel auctions, and saw many leather products at the stalls.

At dusk, I ran to the Dubai Creek and looked at the dhow carrying sheep on the river...

When night falls, Nanyi haunts the Ramadan Night Market again.

After visiting the whole night market, Nanyi made an astonishing discovery that there was not a single domestic product in the whole night market.

At the same time, he just recalled that he hadn't seen a strange oriental face outside today.

With this discovery, Nanyi's itinerary changed. He stayed in Dubai for an extra day, and hurriedly ran all over the representative shopping malls and markets in Dubai.