this man is not calm

Chapter 400 Trial Work

The nights in June in the capital are still relatively cool. I ate some barbecue and drank two glasses of juice, which was enough to fill my stomach. I couldn't eat too much before going to bed.

Since getting engaged, both of them have been very busy. It has been a long time since they had such a leisurely night out and enjoyed a meal at a roadside stall.

After eating and drinking, the two drove away.

More than thirty minutes later, I returned to the hot spring villa, took a hot bath, and lazily lay on the sofa watching TV.

The scale of TV dramas in the evening slot is obviously much larger than those in the prime time slot, and the overall quality is actually much worse.

Jin Shang, who has a picky taste, actually doesn't like this kind of mysterious TV dramas and lost interest after watching it for a while.

I looked at the time and it was almost twelve o'clock, so it would be better to go to bed early.

The next morning, Jin Shang woke up early as usual, went out for exercise, came back, washed up, and prepared breakfast. Then he saw Li Xuan rubbing her sleepy eyes and walking out of the bedroom.

"It's rare to be able to get up on your own during the weekend!"

"Didn't you say you wanted to go back and see your family? I remember! I haven't been there for a while. I heard that your grandmother went to Qiongzhou to see the sea and came back. She was so cool!"

"If I stay there any longer, it will be very hot and uncomfortable..."

It is certain that she will go to the south to relax when the weather is not too hot, and she may also think about going back to her hometown. I don’t know whether she has really been to western Guangdong, and it is not easy to keep asking about her whereabouts.

After a few pleasantries, the girlfriend packed up, quickly filled her stomach, and the two drove off.

Twenty minutes later, the two returned to the old house and saw old lady Xian Guizhen who came back with a bunch of abstract souvenirs.

To be honest, Jin Shang, who has been exposed to countless strange so-called "specialties" from all over the country since he was a child, has long known about this kind of thing.

Adults probably don’t have the taste to appreciate them, but children do like them. Little Jinfeng, who just turned one last month, was very happy holding a bunch of unknown objects and babbling in "baby language" that made no sense.

There are only so many people in the entire Jin family, but everyone has their own things to do. It is quite rare to have such a complete collection.

Father Jin Shi got a small cardboard box from somewhere, inside of which lay three puppies and two kittens with their eyes closed.

"The mother is a cross between a Caucasian Shepherd Dog and a Border Collie, and the father is a Golden Label and a Yellow-eared Collie. The two dogs in the house are a cross between a Northeastern Oroqen Dog, a Northwestern Shepherd Dog, and a Fuku Dog. They were carefully selected. They have stable temperaments, are used to living with humans, and have superior IQs. The two cats are a cross between a tabby cat and a Himalayan cat that was domesticated and are excellent breeds. They both look good and have good personalities..."

"Did my second uncle do it?"

"There is a great demand for cats and dogs on the grassland, and people are quite good at training pets. It only takes a word. They are not purebreds with a good reputation. If you need them, you can get them. It's not a big deal..."

"That's it. They're not interested in fancy gimmicks. They're smart, obedient, easy to keep, cute, and don't cause trouble. They can help me vent when I'm in a bad mood."

"Okay! As for the maids, there's no rush for them. Your villa is still a little far away. It's called a hot spring villa, and it's a townhouse... It's still a little bit off. I heard there are some nice mansions for sale by the Yongding River in the west. If you want one, buy one. It's closer..."

"Isn't it said that there is no demand for it?"

"It's not that troublesome. I just want to hold on to the property and wait for it to appreciate in value. If you really want to buy it, it's still possible."

The housing prices in Beijing have risen a lot recently. Many locals who have extra houses are indeed tempted. As long as they can spend the money to reach the desired price, they can buy one.

"What's the price and how big is it?"

"The total area is 6,000 square meters, which is super large. The price was only over 3 million yuan two years ago, but now it has more than doubled."

Not to mention this kind of single-family villa, the townhouse hot spring villa bought by Jin Shang and Li Xuan has seen an exaggerated increase in price in the past two years. It is estimated that by this time next year, the total price will be over one million.

"Wow, it's not small. It's so big, it's big enough to raise a horse."

A villa this big would probably cost hundreds of millions in ten years.

It’s only a few million now, less than ten million, so it’s definitely worth buying.

When the average price of commercial housing in Beijing was 10,000 yuan, ordinary people thought it was a sky-high price. No one would have thought that it could actually rise to 100,000 or even 200,000 yuan per square meter.

"That place... isn't much closer than World Park!"

"You won't always live in a townhouse, will you? That place is your private land, and outsiders won't come easily. But you're a businessman, and you're still young, so you'll have to socialize in the future. This kind of villa is not only for your own use, but also for show. When you want to hold a private party in the future, where are you going to get it?"

There are many clubs outside, but there are times when they are not so convenient. It is also nice to have a place where everyone can have fun.

"That's the truth. It would be better if there was one in the city center."

"That kind of... is hard to come by, and most of them are famous, and there are so many people watching them, so their privacy may not be reliable."

"Okay! Ask for me. If the price isn't too outrageous, just give me a heads up and I'll go take a look someday when I have time. Speaking of which, if you live in such a big house and sell it for a few million or tens of millions, are you not thinking straight?"

Jin Toki glared at his eldest son who was laughing, and said unhappily:

"He has more than one villa, and he may have properties all over the country. He probably used them to keep mistresses or give them to his illegitimate children. Now that they are no longer needed, he just sells them. It costs money to maintain them, and he lets the housekeeper and nanny live in them year after year for nothing..."

"So it's the invisible boss, no wonder!"

Luxury homes in Beijing are extremely hard to buy, and very few people are willing to buy them. Newly built homes in the city center are even more popular. It took my second aunt a lot of effort to buy a large flat.

A good house is hard to buy, and cheap houses are not good. Especially when you have plenty of money and just want the best and most suitable one, it is even more difficult.

"Our house... How much is the current market price?"

"It's about 5 million. Although it's only about 2,000 square meters, it's in a good location and has great development potential around it. I think it has great potential for appreciation."

The area is large, but the building area is not large. The house is a bit old, but it is well maintained. If it is renovated, modernized, and the courtyard made more beautiful, it will be a really nice house.

The current appearance is actually quite good.

"Speaking of which, my family didn't do anything and made a lot of money just by lying down. We enjoyed the benefits of the country's development and the capital's urbanization expansion!"

Twenty or thirty years ago, who could have imagined that the urban-rural fringe area, which was surrounded by farmland everywhere, would become what it is today and be on the verge of becoming developed.

"Since the opening of the Jingxi Railway Station, it has been very busy, especially since the completion of the Hailong Building and its commissioning. In this large area, high-rise buildings have been rising one after another. Even now, there are still construction sites everywhere. The period of large-scale construction has not yet passed, and the future... is still long!"

Jin Shi agreed with great satisfaction.

Land in the city center has long been extremely expensive, and even locals like the Jin family father and son find it difficult to get in. However, western Beijing is not bad either, and it is completely sufficient as a base for the upstarts.

"In a few years, we will move the cotton mill and the garment factory to a farther place with lower costs, and transform the old factory into a commercial and residential center. I have discussed this with your second uncle, and that place is a good place..."

"there?"

Jin Shang pondered for a moment, then tried to ask, "Can we take over the surrounding areas and build a movie theater resort center, a sub-center of the city that integrates leisure and entertainment, business center, high-end residences, and tourist attractions?"

"How much does that cost?"

Jin Shi asked back in surprise,

"Whether it's difficult to get the land is another matter. You can't just build whatever you want. The planning over there really doesn't have much heavy industry. It's mainly based on primary and tertiary industries, especially the latter. There are many wetland parks, protected areas and scenic spots over there. It's indeed more suitable for developing cultural tourism. But... aren't you building it in the north?"

"It's a bit far over there, and it's too close to the water source, so it's hard to deal with the surrounding area. There are so many places around the steel plant that are not used much, so it's normal for me to try to find a solution here!"

The strategy of basing oneself in western Beijing, radiating to the surrounding areas of Beijing, and heading towards the whole country has never been abandoned.

Jinxi Mall is located to the southeast, and the film and television base is in the north because there is a certain foundation there and there is no need to start from scratch. As for the tertiary industry of agriculture and animal husbandry and the marine chemical factory, they are not the unshakable core and can be located anywhere.

It would be even better if today's culture, which relies on both science and technology and culture, were as important to the local area as the little penguin is to Nanshan District.

The area of ​​western Beijing alone is larger than most prefecture-level cities in the country, which is big enough to cause trouble.

"Okay, I'll keep an eye on it for you! Anyway, it's not something that can be done in the near future. It will probably take a year or two to get ready! Aren't you working on a data center, a thermal power station, and a seawater desalination plant? Have you finished it?"

"It doesn't require me to care about every detail to follow the process. I just need to find the right person to help me do it."

There is no need to say too much to my father about this matter. However, Jinshi's foreign trade business has been extremely good this year, and the factory has expanded its production a lot. Even Uniqlo has moved out of Beijing and started to expand into surrounding cities.

With a total of eleven stores, it is already a clothing chain store with some influence in the Gyeonggi region.

The fact that he has achieved this step step by step is enough to prove that Lao Jin has good personal ability, he just didn't have the opportunity to show it before.

only……

Taking a look at his contented father, Jin Shang sighed slightly in his heart.

Lack of ambition, or in other words, not having the aspiration to make the business bigger and stronger and to expand across the country.

There are old people above and young people below, and no capable brothers or sisters to help at home. It is not that he started from scratch. He had a group of old brothers to conquer the world, and the most capable son set up his own business and did what he wanted. His elder brother-in-law and younger brother-in-law also have their own careers. There is nothing at my maternal uncle's house, and there are few uncles and cousins ​​who can work together, and it is too late to distance themselves from them.

The inability to devote all of its energy to the family business meant that Jinshi was doomed to be unable to leverage the power of capital to quickly grow bigger and stronger, seize the industry's opportunities, and get listed. It could only advance steadily, step by step, and expand slowly.

To be able to achieve the current scale is already the result of outstanding personal abilities and reaping the dividends of the times.

Don’t expect too much from your father to become Jacky Cheung or something like that.

On the other hand, my mother's comic creation seems to be quite promising. Her career is experiencing a second spring and there is a good chance that her fame will rise to a higher level.
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After having lunch happily, grandmother Xian Guizhen went out for a walk and chatted with the old ladies nearby. No one knew when she would be back. Mother Mei Xinghong was on the phone, discussing something with the studio. Jin Shi rarely had a drinking party, so he rested at home. Jin Shang held the somewhat unfamiliar little Jin Feng and played games with the two sheepdogs. After playing for a while, the child couldn't stand it anymore and kept yawning. He wanted to take a nap.

After Mei Xinghong finished her work, she put Xiao Jinfeng into the crib, and he fell asleep in less than a minute.

"The cutest period is almost over. This guy is very stubborn and opinionated. When he can speak fluently and walk a few steps, he will be really hated by everyone. He is too naughty."

Children of this age cannot be left alone for a moment. You never know what kind of trouble they may cause when you are not paying attention.

The tables and chairs, door thresholds, walls, and all the corners in the house are covered with cushions, and all the sockets that can be touched by hands are sealed.

"I heard that you weren't so noisy when you were little."

Can that be the same?

What do children know?
As a time traveler, Jin Shang knew from the day he opened his eyes that playing in water was dangerous and that touching the electric switch could kill people. Curious little Jin Feng wanted to try everything.

Now only Huang Er and Jin Biao have to work a little harder, but in the future their parents and nanny will have to take more care of them.

"The little guy was upset when he was awake, but he also felt a little unreal when he fell asleep."

Reaching out to wipe the dirt off Xiao Jinfeng's face, Mei Xinghong smiled and said,
"It's much better now. There are surveillance cameras installed in key places in the house. We didn't have this convenience before. By the way, the remote office equipment and software you got are very interesting. We don't have to wait for the fax machine all the time."

"Yeah, as long as it works!"

The 2G mobile phone signal has been rolled out for nearly three years, and the coverage rate is still quite high, but the transmission rate is really touching, only about 15 to 20kbs, which is only enough to send and receive MMS and read text messages. It is difficult to open even slightly complex web pages.

Correspondingly, Xiaolingtong can run at a full 64kbs if the signal strength is sufficient, and can even reach 128kbs after technological upgrading.

Of course, to achieve this level, the device must be close enough to the base station and there must be no obstructions.

Why 2G could not outperform Xiaolingtong in the past was not only because it was cheaper, but also because its speed was too low, its practicality was average, and it was completely incompatible with the mobile Internet.

Xiaolingtong devices cannot send or receive MMS. To be more precise, they cannot process signals other than calls and text messages. However, this is not a technical limitation, but is caused by the receiving device being too low-end.

In order to meet the needs of paperless office and remote processing of official business, Jin Shang asked the hardware department to pile up materials at all costs and came up with a strange electronic device with a screen close to that of a large tablet and a thickness comparable to that of a brick. It is like a dual-standby version of a traffic light with both PHS and mobile signals.

It definitely won’t work if you put it in your pocket, but it’s okay if you put it in a larger bag.

Such a simple thing, even if it is half-made by hand, costs more than 40,000 yuan, which is quite exaggerated.

This thing cannot be sold to the public at all. After filing, only a few hundred units were made for trial use. Some were given to acquaintances for trial use, and the rest were sold internally within the company.

Its advantages are that you can send and receive emails, log in to Jinxi chat, listen to Jinxi music, and read news on mobile optimized sites. It is difficult to even play games in real time, so you can only try the built-in games in the stand-alone version.

Rather than a mobile phone or a tablet, it is an all-in-one portable computer that has the functions of making calls and sending and receiving text messages.

If it is to be used for a long time, it must be equipped with specially customized distributed cooling equipment, otherwise it will overheat and crash.

With the combined efforts of Jinxi Culture and the many subsidiaries and grandson companies it actually controls, they have already reached their limit by producing such a shameless trial work.

The limitations of the times are still too difficult to overcome.

In the eyes of people like my mother Mei Xinghong who have not experienced the convenience of the mobile Internet era, a "weird" product that can bring benefits is already a good technological masterpiece.

"Although the user experience is OK, this...is not really flat, nor is it a tablet. Isn't it a bit unrealistic to call it a tablet?"

"You can't call the cell phone, right?"

Jin Shang replied somewhat awkwardly,
"Let's try it first. We will try to add real-time image transmission to the next generation of products. Now we can only transfer through a third-party server, and there are restrictions on the format and size, which is not very convenient. Email is much more convenient, but there are some problems with viewing. Next month, an LCD display device will be offline. After testing and transferring the screen, there will be no problem. With the addition of an external data cable, we can do secondary office work..."

Scratching his head, Jin Shang felt something was not right.

"Why do I feel like I've gone off the track? Adding so many ancillaries for this is putting the cart before the horse."

"Take your time. It's not very powerful right now and it's still too big."

(End of this chapter)