My Lord, you need to stand up!

Chapter 391 You're not buying a house, you're buying your life.
This is not over yet.

If Wei Dong doesn't know whether these stocks will make or lose money after 20 or 30 years, he should at least know that the houses are a sure thing.

It all stemmed from the fact that when Wei Dong left, he didn't even have a place to stay. When he returned to Jiangzhou, he temporarily stayed at the military station guesthouse, and in Shangzhou, he stayed at Old He's rented house opposite the Dong family residence.

To balance out my emotions, I made small talk.

His impression of Shanghai from his previous life was that houses were extremely expensive.

Therefore, the manager of the Shanghai branch was instructed to contact the company and arrange for a purchase if any opportunity to buy a house in Shanghai came up.

That year, he worked tirelessly to expand in the southwest region, and his team launched the construction of several large buildings.

The Shanghai branch has bought several houses!

Even people from Shanghai can't do that.

The biggest problem restricting home purchases at this time is not money, but the lack of available channels for buying property.

As a city exploring housing reform, Jiangzhou cautiously held its first housing fair.

Shanghai, a place that has always been at the forefront of various sporting events, has not yet started commercial housing reform at all.

So when Wei Dong looked through the five property ownership certificates that Lao Zhang took out of his bag, his scalp tingled with fear. All he could think was, "Your whole family are bookworms!"

Is it okay to buy a house freely at this time?
He made millions in his first stock market attempt after the reform and opening up, but he's probably already been blacklisted by all parties.

They even managed to buy five houses through various clever maneuvers!
Wei Dong raised his hand to call Mao Zi, but everyone froze.

He found the eel shreds, eight-treasure gourd duck, and osmanthus-flavored mushroom and yellow croaker soup on the table tasteless.

The first set is this room, which belongs to the office of the audio and electronic components factory.

It's 35 square meters, 300 meters from the Bund, and it's purely the right to use a street-facing storefront. I would never have sold it otherwise.

It is said that Zhang Lanzhi had mentioned to the factory that she could buy the property no less than ten times, but she was always proudly rejected.

At that time, Zhang Lanzhi even suggested that she could help the X recorder's audio production line purchase parts from here and establish some business relationships.

This factory is unwilling to sell this street-facing storefront.

Once Dongsheng Trading acquired a 10% stake, making it the largest single shareholder outside the state-owned factory's 35% ownership, its influence changed dramatically.

During a factory event where someone was introduced to receive zero-point stock, he voluntarily agreed to sell the right to use the stock as well.

The transfer price was a staggering two thousand four hundred and fifty, enough to make Wei Dong's scalp tingle...

That's why they've never been willing to sell.

The old houses owned by the work unit also have factors related to the allocation and management by the housing management office.

They cannot have market pricing power.

No one has the right to set a price for this type of property.

Ownership belongs to the state, and before it is commercialized, the right to use it is worthless.

For example, right now, people living in public housing only pay a few cents or dollars in rent.

Why sell it if it won't fetch much money?

So in the end, the right to use the property was transferred to Dongsheng Trading by paying a housing exchange fee of seventy yuan per square meter.

When Wei Dong rented this place last year, the rent was sixty yuan per month.

In other words, the rent for three or four years would be enough to buy this house!

This is because when housing prices are under a vague dual-track system, the person in charge happens to be stubbornly inflexible.

They transferred the right to use the property without any time limit to a company at an astonishing price.

Having tasted success, the branch manager followed the same method and went to the vacuum machinery factory, buying four houses.

It's a bit pricey, 100 yuan per square meter.

These four apartments are four internal residences that make up the same new-style lane house.

After the restructuring, the people were transferred to public housing in the kind of Khrushchev-style buildings in the workers' new village, and the vacated units were still registered under the name of the Vacuum Machinery Factory.

Originally, it was a four-story building where factory cadres and their families lived together. Each floor had a total of five bedrooms, two living rooms, and three bathrooms, covering 213 square meters.

She bought the usage rights piece by piece, like a jigsaw puzzle, for a total price of 21,300.

It would be absolutely impossible to sell the shares of Vacuum Electronics held by the transfer point if it were not agreed to transfer them.

The new-style lane houses in Shanghai were renovated and transformed by capitalists and white-collar workers before liberation, into small buildings and courtyards similar to the later garden villas and townhouses.

It wasn't as beautiful and extravagant as the mansions of big capitalists, but it was still a high-end building in the concession area with distinctive Shanghai characteristics.

After liberation, there were two to three hundred thousand such buildings, most of which were public housing, and they were demolished and given to countless work units as dormitories or office buildings.

Many buildings can crammed with several to a dozen families, with each room potentially housing one family. So you can imagine how difficult it is to gather all the people in one building.

Only by becoming the largest private shareholder and agreeing to transfer some highly sought-after shares to someone else could one obtain such a right-to-use transaction.

The Zhang couple, who had lived half their lives in a third-tier factory, didn't find anything wrong with the price.

On the contrary, Zhang Lanzhi, who had accompanied Wei Dong to Guangzhou and experienced hotels that cost two or three hundred yuan a night, knew that there was definitely something wrong with the price of the property in Shanghai. She bought it quietly but did not stay there or make a fuss about it.

The family continued to live in the office storefront, which was filled with goods.

Even when Wu Shengyun came to check the accounts, he didn't say a word and insisted that Wei Dong come and see for himself.

Wei Dong was mostly surprised by the woman's intentions. He felt relieved that she hadn't made a scene for everyone.

I need to quickly patch up the hole.

After a quick meal, Li Erfeng, this little rich woman, went to pay the bill without saying a word.

Mother Zhang took the few country bumpkins to the guesthouse of the nearby audio and electronic components factory to stay, and then let Weidong go to the vacuum machinery factory with Old Zhang.

Stone stubbornly followed, deliberately keeping a few meters behind, like a little tail following him on and off the bus.

Since it wasn't about looking at houses, Wei Dong didn't intend to scare Lao Zhang: "The returns will definitely be considerable, including the houses, which will be worth a lot of money in the future. We'll split it 50/20 between our two families, but don't do this kind of thing again. Right now, we're lucky to have made money and houses, but who knows, if a political movement comes along, they'll say this kind of practice is illegal and confiscate and renovate everything. Wouldn't that be a huge loss? If we can make money steadily, we don't need to take such risks."

Old Zhang became a little uneasy: "Lanzhi said you must know what to do... She also said she had to wait for you to come before she could report. Isn't this a government-allocated housing system? Is it against the rules for us to spend some money to get a place first?"

Yeah, that's pretty much it, skirting the line.

They were unaware that welfare housing allocation would be completely abolished.

So they assumed it was just a change of ownership of the public housing, or that someone from their work unit or department was moving in.

This was a common occurrence during the era of welfare housing allocation.

With job transfers, changes in employers, and varying lengths of service, people may frequently need to change housing.

no big deal.

Some people couldn't wait, so they gave gifts and pulled strings to get a spot earlier or a better one.

But if the right to use the property is transferred to a private company, the nature of the situation changes completely.

Once the housing reform policies at this critical juncture are swept through, and the houses have a market price, they will skyrocket like stocks.

Returning to that alleyway machinery factory, it felt like despite the stock market reform, these state-owned factories hadn't fundamentally changed.

It's still the same old system of eating from the same pot and doing the tasks assigned in the plan.

The situation of sluggish product sales and outdated production technology was alleviated by the sudden surge in stock prices. The company's capital, which was originally less than 200,000, skyrocketed to several million, allowing it to survive for a while longer.

Some even think, "Why bother with any job? Stock trading is way more lucrative."

Wei Dong didn't understand, nor would he bother to educate them on the basics of financial hollowing out. Instead, he immediately took responsibility upon meeting them: "I've been busy with production and haven't had a chance to come and report. Our company is requesting to invest in the vacuum machinery factory, and we're asking for technical support. There's some very important work to be done."

By removing the financial speculation factor from the previous stock purchases, it shows that Lao Tzu genuinely wants to make something.

The factory leader was a little surprised: "I heard that Manager Zhang went abroad to study, and the general manager is so young... what does he do for a living?"

Wei Dong then began to recount the yak meat business in the high-altitude border region: "The food vacuum sealers we bought from Shanghai last time were eventually delivered to the border county town to establish this yak meat processing workshop. This avoided the need to use refrigerated trucks to transport fresh yak meat to the interior. This revolutionary method of transporting fresh meat was originally difficult to meet the cost requirements for sales, but now we have found a way to export to high-end restaurants overseas. This requires a large number of food vacuum sealers, based on the feedback from our actual use of these machines."

The factory leaders were initially somewhat nonchalant: "How many units could we possibly need?"

Let Wei Dong learn from You Qili, so that even if he doesn't brag, he can still brag: "There are about fifty or sixty counties in the plateau province. In the future, we need to install four to ten machines in each county. Our own food processing plant has been in operation for more than half a year and is now in the stage of large-scale capacity expansion. We need twenty or thirty machines to be equipped immediately. As the largest non-legal person shareholder, can you give us a preferential price?"

These imported devices cost over 100,000 yuan each. The test samples we bought in Shanghai last time cost over 8,000 yuan each, priced at over 10,000 yuan. That's an order of 200,000 to 300,000 yuan. Not to mention the hundreds of more units that are being offered up later.

The manufacturer was immediately interested: "What feedback have you received that warrants adjustments?"

Wei Dong was very familiar with it: "The vacuum chamber is made of ordinary carbon steel, right? All the equipment from Japan is made of stainless steel."

The manufacturer was helpless: "All our materials come from Shanghai Steel. Currently, the main production area of ​​stainless steel in China is in the southwest region... Aren't you from Jiangzhou? If you can get stainless steel, we can definitely replace you!"

Wei Dong raised an eyebrow nonchalantly: "Of course, no problem. I can even get my hands on titanium alloy steel plates. I just imported a few new models from Japan this time, and I hope to learn from them."

Shanghai manufacturers have a very high level of faith in imported goods. This is equivalent to getting hundreds of thousands or even millions of imported samples that they can disassemble and imitate without spending any money, which immediately makes them much more enthusiastic and proactive.

Wei Dong then began to communicate with them in detail about the aspects that needed improvement.

The vacuum pump produced by Shangzhou Machinery Factory is only functional at present; its failure rate is extremely high. Currently, a technician is on standby every day for maintenance.

Although the machine from the Shanghai factory was much smaller, it was transported from Shangzhou to the plateau, and its durability and maintenance were much better than the hand-machined machine from Shangzhou.

Therefore, coming to Shanghai made Weidong really willing to purchase another batch of vacuum machines produced in Shanghai.

Now that the other party has become a listed company, it's inevitable that we should try to get closer to them and become the rightful second-largest shareholder.

(End of this chapter)