Riding the wind of rebirth

"The reason we want to buy that hotel is because it has a great location. It is located on the shore of West Lake, covers a large area, and has superb scenery. It was once one of the most famous hotels in Yuhang and has the potential for appreciation in value." Zhou Zhi explained to everyone.

“The design of that hotel is also good. It is a five-story L-shaped building. Although it is no longer suitable as a modern hotel, it can be easily converted into an exhibition hall.”

"So we can transform that hotel into a jade carving exhibition hall that integrates exhibition, sales, and mortgage preservation. We can exhibit the mortgaged items, which can also bring out their value and can be displayed to potential customers intuitively."

"Then we can mortgage this exhibition hall to the bank in exchange for a loan to purchase jade materials. This way we can reduce the investment to a minimum and maximize the value of the tripartite guarantee company."

"What's the name of the hotel? How much does it cost?"

"That hotel is called the Overseas Chinese Hotel. Currently, Ansheng has negotiated 70 million yuan with the Yuhang Government Affairs Bureau. If the deal is successful, the overall renovation may also cost tens of millions."

"More than 100 million?"

"Almost. Suzhou originally wanted us to set up business there, but they don't have the resources as good as the Overseas Chinese Hotel. Yuhang has much more customers than Suzhou, so we prefer Yuhang."

Dad couldn't help but secretly take a breath.

After arduous efforts, the GDP of the entire Manzhou City this year is very close to 10 billion, but it is also very regrettable that it is just a few hundred million short.

Jiachuan is considered to be a county with good economic conditions in Manzhou City, and its GDP this year is only 1.4 billion. However, Yongning County, the poorest county in Manzhou, received special praise from the city for successfully breaking through 500 million this year.

And the fund that had a close relationship with his son was ready to spend the value created by the people of Yongning County in one quarter.

Actually, Zhou Zhi originally planned to manage his business in Suzhou, but Yuhang found out about Suzhou's move through the Ministry of Culture and tried to intercept it.

There is a reason for intercepting the deal. Although Suzhou and Hangzhou belong to two provinces, they are not far apart. Suzhou got the big carrot of jade carving base construction, and it is not a big sin for us in Yuhang to build a jade carving exhibition hall next to it, right?

The most important thing is to revitalize the assets that have been poorly managed. Those are buildings by the West Lake. If they continue to fall into disrepair as they are now, with so many tourists coming and going from all over the country every day, how can Yuhang and Zhejiang Province put their faces?

Therefore, the ministry was also moved by Yuhang's words, and finally neither side helped each other. Investment attraction depends on regional advantages and local attitudes. You two provinces should strive for it based on your own abilities. However, there is one thing, no one can let go of this big investment from AXA Fund!

However, no one knew that the reason why Zhou Zhi chose the Overseas Chinese Hotel was not because of all the reasons mentioned above.

The biggest reason is that there is a large painting among the assets of the Overseas Chinese Hotel!

The Overseas Chinese Hotel was founded in 1958 and was the most famous hotel in Hangzhou at that time. Pan Tianshou, then president of the Zhejiang Academy of Fine Arts, received an invitation from the provincial government to customize a large painting for the newly built hotel.

After receiving the task, Pan Tianshou used the scenery of Shiliang Waterfall, which he sketched in Tiantai Mountain, as the material, and used ancient pines, rocks, and exotic flowers to paint a huge work "First Sunshine" with a height of 141 cm and a width of 365 cm. It was the peak moment of Pan Tianshou's creative career. The creation of "First Sunshine" broke the traditional classification framework of paintings, and organically combined the composition of landscape painting with flower and bird painting. The composition is novel and the conception is novel. If you look closely at the picture itself, you will find that it is majestic and full of rich poetry. The ancient pines, rocks, weeds and wild flowers are regular and strange. In addition to the magnificent temperament, there is also the freshness and beauty of nature and the flourishing life interest.

This painting proves that Pan Tianshou successfully practiced the method of seeking common ground while reserving differences between the traditional meaning of literati painting and the cultural context of the new era. He combined vivid real life with vigorous, bold and unrestrained brushwork, a positive and optimistic, enterprising spirit, magnificent momentum, and extraordinary demeanor of boldness and openness, leading the creative path of "innovation from tradition" in modern Chinese painting, and became an important milestone in Pan Tianshou's artistic career.

As large paintings are easily damaged if hung for a long time, in 1979 the Provincial Government Affairs Bureau commissioned the leaders of the Zhejiang Academy of Fine Arts to ask Pan Tianshou's students to copy another painting of the same size, "Early Sunshine", based on the photograph and hang it on the wall instead. Since then, the original work has been put into storage and has never appeared in public again.

Now these two paintings have become part of the Overseas Chinese Hotel's assets. If Zhou Zhi had not intervened, the Overseas Chinese Hotel would have been auctioned off in five years, and the Guangsha Group would have won the hotel building and all of its assets for 200 million yuan.

But the current real estate prices have not gone crazy, and this building is actually only worth 50 million. The other affiliated assets and Pan Tianshou's paintings have not reached the same price as they will be in a dozen years. 70 million is actually a more realistic price.

What's more, Zhouzhi also agreed to invest tens of millions to transform the Overseas Chinese Hotel into an exhibition hall, so that the hotel can regain vitality and become the real face of Yuhang. Yuhang will definitely also have to share the subsequent loans. The benefits are not as simple as selling the building in one go.

But the embarrassing thing now is that I can't explain it to my dad and sister Xiaoliu. I can't just say that this Pan Tianshou painting alone will be worth hundreds of millions in a dozen years. Now it's actually equivalent to buying a painting and giving away a building, right?

If I really explained it this way, Dad and Little Sister Xiaoliu would not only not believe it, but would also think I was crazy.

"One hundred million is not too much." Seeing that the scene was a little quiet, Mai Xiaomiao felt that he needed to adjust the atmosphere: "I have already spent more than one hundred million now."

"Ah?" It would have been better if he hadn't said it. As soon as these words came out, Dad and Little Sister Xiaoliu's faces changed.

Before these words were spoken, my father, my sister Xiaoliu, and my grandmother all thought that it would be great for this girl to be Zhou Zhi's girlfriend. She was pretty, cheerful, polite, and would get along naturally and closely with Zhou Zhi.

I heard he is a scientist, so what is his IQ?

As a result, now, Dad and Xiaoliu's heart are filled with a big exclamation mark and countless question marks. How can such a thing be tolerated even with such a rich family background? !

Grandma was fine, her expression didn't change at all, mainly because she had no idea how much one hundred million was.

"Xiao Miao, how did you spend it?" Seeing that Zhou Zhiyang and Feng Xueshan had no reaction, Xiao Liujie was stunned for a long time before she thought of this question: "You two have only known each other for a short time, right?"

It cost him a lot to buy such a big restaurant, but the rumors in Manzhou City only estimated it to be tens of millions, and no one dared to raise it to a higher level.

Yes, it is said that spending money is easy, but in 1995, if you can spend 100 million in a few months, shouldn’t you be considered… a great talent? (End of this chapter)