My Lord, you need to stand up!

Chapter 500 Those Who Believe in Me Prosper
For the entire Shanghai team, this was a series of setbacks.

In July and August, the company moved from its 30-square-meter warehouse and branch office location to a new-style lane house with four or five floors, totaling more than 200 square meters of space.

It feels like they've upgraded from rags to riches and grown into a company.

As a result, in November, Wei Dong was brought over and the company was moved to an old villa-style detached building of three or four hundred square meters, with a lawn and garage.

These days, part-time salespeople from all over like to bring customers to the company to pick up goods, looking at the advanced-looking dozen or twenty computers lined up in the office.

I already think it's a god-tier organization.

Full-time employees are working hard to achieve their sales targets, while part-time college students are working even harder to stay with the company in the future.

It's not even the end of January yet, and... what is this? Are they exchanging self-propelled artillery for nuclear weapons?
Old buildings along the Bund!
Is our company the entire 6,000-square-meter building?
The four buildings next door are the city government offices!

The original plan was to convene a meeting with over a hundred employees, including part-time key personnel from various universities, to potentially redistribute resources among the affiliated companies.

As a result, just hearing the meeting location was enough to gather all the personnel from various universities, and some even brought their classmates and teachers to see the spectacle.

After all, these towering buildings from all over the world are just for sightseeing; no one ever imagined they would actually be working inside them!

They couldn't see that the company had become a model private enterprise worthy of praise because it had accurately seized opportunities in high technology, foreign trade, and the development of Pudong.

I just feel like the boss really has a powerful background!
The eldest child, who was carrying a baby, also has an extraordinary background.

Old Geng immediately rushed from Beijing to Shanghai, where the construction scale was even larger.

Wu Shengyun also immediately flew over from Jiangzhou with some men.

Tell Wei Dong to ask him to bring Lao Zhang along. His own decoration company might not be able to operate in Shanghai, but they could learn this kind of interior decoration from Shanghai.

Next, the interior and exterior decoration of the foreign-related community and the X Computer Building in Pudong will need to be completed by our own team.

As his generals gathered, many data details came to light.

Old Geng estimated that the total cost of building this 40-story building in Pudong, with each floor measuring over 1,000 square meters, should be over 70 million yuan.

After all, this is a high-end office building, not an ordinary residence. In addition to the basic reinforced concrete structure, there are also exterior and interior decorations, elevators, central air conditioning and other electromechanical equipment, and finally, the surrounding landscaping facilities.

This is where the advantage comes into play. The combination of glass curtain wall and granite for the exterior walls alone would probably cost 30 to 50 million yuan for other companies!

Only about a quarter of it is needed here.

Moreover, Wei Dong also suggested reserving space for "low-voltage" wiring, at least to ensure there would be a channel for network lines in the future.

Chi Shiming still invited Jenny over to play. Although he didn't ask for money, he clearly conveyed the message that the young lady should go home, allowing Wei Dong and his gang to make big moves in Shanghai.

The two million square meter community for foreigners was reported back immediately, and the plan prepared by the HK architectural and planning company contacted by Chi Shih-ming is being reviewed and weighed.

Now I hear he's planning to invest in building a 40-story building in Pudong.

Several Hong Kong businessmen flew over in a flash, wanting to find out what the idea was!

It will take about a week.

The seventh-floor terrace has been prepared, and Qin Yuye really likes this rooftop garden-like place.

Before even opening to the public, they started by collecting and moving flowerpots to create a garden atmosphere. Colorful tarpaulins covered up the corners that couldn't be repaired in time, and white cloths were laid on the tables and chairs, making them look very elegant and classy.

The foundation of these buildings from all over the world is simply too good.

Wei Dong was allowed to have afternoon tea upstairs while receiving Lao Heng, Uncle De, and the others.

Just a year and a half ago, when Wei Dong was sitting in the green space with a sunlit roof on the top floor of the Heinz Group building, chatting with Lao Heng and the others, he didn't have any decent reception venues.

Even their main office space was a tiny suite rented from the military post guesthouse.

At this point, Dong Xueying really couldn't proactively help him improve his understanding in this area.

Now even seasoned Hong Kong businessmen, who have seen it all, are standing by the stone railing in amazement, looking at it again and again. Now that they have binoculars, they specifically tell them to bring a few pairs, the more expensive the better, when they come from Hong Kong.

Wei Dong joked, "Be careful when you look to the left. That white-roofed building is the municipal government building. It would be funny if they found out you, a Hong Kong businessman, were spying and came to arrest you as a spy. Look across the way, we need to develop the area across the way!"

The veteran Hong Kong businessmen stared intently at the land across the street: "The plot is very large and vast, but what kind of returns can it bring?"

As Wei Dong gestured, Chi Shiming also tried to get involved, pushing up two newspapers he had found: "At the end of 1984, the tunnel connecting this side to the other side of the river had already started construction, and the tunnel entrance here is only 200 meters to our right."

Honestly, telling this to people in any other city in China wouldn't have such a huge impact.

What changes will an underwater tunnel bring to two urban areas separated by a river and a sea?

The bigwigs in Hong Kong know this all too well!
Get it instantly! The Heinz Group building is right in Tsim Sha Tsui, only a kilometer away from the tunnel entrance.

They understood all too well what the city would be like before the tunnel was built in the 1970s, when it could only be reached by ferry.

Instant excitement: "And then what! What will the other side do?"

Wei Dong was actually just guessing: "Whatever Hong Kong does, I think we'll do the same here. But no matter what, this area we can see across the river will definitely be the hottest. I've gone through a lot of trouble to get a piece of land, and I'll build it independently. I guess it will be my corporate headquarters building in the mainland. Right now, other foreign companies are still in a wait-and-see state. Shanghai citizens still have the foolish idea that something across the river is absolutely worthless. If you want to come, I can help you get land for joint ventures. After you make money, you can just give a symbolic token of appreciation."

This is how real estate projects from Jiangzhou to Shanghai were operated in the past.

Because Hong Kong capital must be controlled by mainlanders.

Compared to those boastful and capable individuals, Hong Kong businessmen certainly know that the controlling stake is genuine, the kind that's like throwing good money after bad.

Even if they were willing to cultivate such connections, giving away more than half of a five-star hotel worth hundreds of millions to others would be too costly.

So this may be the reason why they are indirectly deterred from investing in the mainland.

Even a blind man could see the explosive growth that followed the opening up of the economy.

However, in 1986, the market was still in a trial phase where there was a possibility of repeated back and forth. Would they dare to step out at this time and act as a test strip?

It still takes a lot of courage.

This allowed Weidong to reduce this cost.

You might own something worth hundreds of millions, but then you could get something worth a few million or a few thousand and have it all to yourself.

Of course, no one knew that his idea was that if you invest 100 million now, it would probably be worth 3 billion or even 10 billion in 30 years. Would you feel embarrassed not to take 100 or 200 million?

What he wants is this premium share.

So it's not unreasonable to now open up services to Hong Kong businessmen, such as local liaisons, translators, and compradors.

The key point is that the Hong Kong business investment that entered at this time was a much-needed lifeline.

Chi Shiming quietly pulled out another map of Pudong, which marked the area on the opposite bank of the river that Wei Dong wanted: "I've surveyed it all. It's basically all factory demolition. We've prepared two plans. One is to build ordinary commercial and residential buildings and resettlement housing in a more distant area, and we can also make some money from selling residential properties. We're quite familiar with selling off-plan properties in this area in China. The other is to build a foreign-related community near the electronics industrial park, which also has resettlement housing communities. In short, we'll try to avoid cash compensation."

This was Wei Dong's request. Before the Spring Festival of 1986, one could already sense the soaring prices of various goods.

The compensation for demolition at this time was definitely not as high as it was later, with hundreds of millions or even millions of dollars. In reality, it completely deprived these citizens, mostly workers, of their place of residence.

It would be better to choose only the option of buying a house with a loss. Even in ten years, the price will likely skyrocket, not just twenty or thirty years from now.

The veteran Hong Kong businessmen slowly moved their fingers across the map of Pudong: "If this is Tsim Sha Tsui, then this is the center of commerce and trade, and the other side is Central, the financial development zone?"

Wei Dong's thinking was: "Who cares what district it is? What we need to seize is the top spot, the location that's in front of us, with rows of beautiful high-rise buildings. How much land is there for development in the Central area? This place can be extended for kilometers indefinitely. Even if we build luxury riverfront residences, it won't be a loss."

Holding on-site meetings is still the most effective method.

Chi Shih-ming finally presented a color rendering hand-drawn by Zhang Jianyuan, a top student.

The architectural design was still provided by Uncle De, but the exterior was changed to be almost a cube, with one corner facing this side.

On one side is a glass curtain wall with a whole strip of white stone embedded in the middle, similar to the new factory at home, but there is a huge blank stone exterior wall at the top.

The brand lettering used to embed "X" can be changed.

The other side is simply a full white granite exterior wall, without any windows!
The entire wall was blank, practically covered in the word "advertisement"!
Wei Dong's plan was to first hang super-large characters, then paint on the walls, and finally hang dynamic images when LED wall technology matured. In short, he wanted to secure the top advertising space in China first.

The condition of the building itself is unimportant; advertising and leasing is a huge business.

Otherwise, wouldn't it be better to face both walls towards this side as much as possible to generate more advertising space and make money?

The watercolor painting is beautiful. Holding it up to the river view, it feels like looking out at the future.

But Chi Shih-ming slowly peeled back the white paper covering the area around the X Building.

The building that originally stood out from the crowd was surrounded by dozens of buildings of varying heights, creating a skyline of skyscrapers that is currently only found in Manhattan and is not even as dense as that on Hong Kong Island.

Several billionaires understood: "Whether this building can be used for anything now is not important, we just need to grab a spot first?"

Wei Dong nodded: "The opportunity may be just this small. You all know many talented people with extensive connections. They haven't accumulated the kind of operating funds we have now. The country doesn't have the money for them to make a fuss either. So this small gap allows us to take advantage of the low prices. The premise is that I believe things will get better and better here!"

Looking at Rang Weidong, who was in his early twenties, he pointed to the vast river view and the opposite bank with great pride.

It must be admitted that the future still lies in the hands of young people.

(End of this chapter)