My Lord, you need to stand up!

Chapter 566 Capitalists don't do charity; they're always forced into it.

The person from the Economic Commission and Rang Weidong emphasized that point very accurately.

Stop bringing up that land price issue; that's the real red line.

At least at this time, the land was not mentioned; it was just that the masses pooled their money to buy the buildings on the land.

This won't trigger some of the defenses in people's hearts.

Although it is still in the exploratory stage, there has been no official follow-up.

But suddenly, like a spring breeze, many places launched the sale of commercial housing.

It was as heavy as a piece of construction machinery thrown into a breach, instantly stopping the market's frenzied buying spree.

Buying firewood, rice, oil, and salt is not as good as buying a house.

The same building, if it's a welfare housing allocation, becomes a huge economic burden. The national and local governments have to pay for its construction, and then it costs money to maintain it. People don't care about or cherish public property.

It was built sloppily and lived in filthily.

If it's commercial housing, it instantly becomes a productive investment, and building materials and labor are immediately mobilized.

Not to mention that the allocated apartments are just like rented ones, and we don't know when we'll be able to move to another apartment or take it back to change the situation, so we don't dare to spend a lot of money on renovations.

If people don't put effort into decorating their own homes, how can they talk about a happy and fulfilling life?

This is the most basic and simple principle of managing family life.

Once you buy a house, it's yours to own.

This was the message that the news broadcast on CCTV conveyed to viewers across the country at the time.

Localities that reacted quickly tried to dig out some houses to show that they also had commercial housing for sale.

It doesn't matter if it's an apartment building with an elevator, a high-rise building, or even a new apartment.

Just like the commercial sale of old houses organized by Jiangzhou last year, you can always find some in various places.

Wherever there are residential properties for sale, the buying frenzy in the market can be brought to an abrupt halt!

Anyone would weigh whether buying these things now can compare to buying a house.

Okay, once you've planted the seed of wanting to buy a house in your mind, you'll subconsciously start saving money.

Rang Weidong's logic was that everyone would rush to buy things, driving up the prices of everything available on the market, making the buying frenzy even more intense.

Now we're just dumping the most valuable and largest commodities, and there aren't many private real estate developers who can participate in driving up prices for these items.

The brick-and-mortar store has publicly stated that it costs five or six hundred yuan per square meter, and that's for an apartment building with an elevator. If it were an old Khrushchev-era building, the market price would be around three hundred to four hundred yuan.

That's the nature of housing prices; it's difficult to make a precise comparison.

Especially those old houses, even if they cost more than 300, they can easily cost tens of thousands of yuan to buy.

Just like stopping diarrhea, they all put their money in their own pockets.

If you can buy a house, then buy one.

Jiangzhou directly launched 800 apartments from the Municipal Real Estate Development Corporation for sale. Animal Village had actually been sold out long ago, but 2300 apartments from the pharmaceutical factory site that Chi Shiming had previously applied for were put up for pre-sale.

Pingjing did indeed put the Pingqi Buildings 3 and 4, which were under construction but not yet sold, out for sale to the outside world, and then conduct pre-sales on that brand new plot of land.

Huhai also listed more than 3,000 brick-concrete structure low-rise buildings at more than 500 yuan per square meter, near the Electronics Industrial Park, which are considered ready-built houses. Then, Pudong has more than 1,000 unsold units at more than 400 yuan per square meter.

However, only those with a Shanghai local household registration can purchase these.

Finally, a building project nearing completion, touted as a modern community with Hong Kong investment, is priced at 1200 yuan, while a foreign-related community is advertised as being around 1500 US dollars. There is also a high-end community project planned to be developed by Shanghai Real Estate Group, which is priced at 1000 yuan.

These three are not limited by household registration.

Even now, Shanghai still operates according to its own logic. It won't stick to a price of a few hundred yuan. That's why we haven't raised prices; it's always been this expensive!
The original intention was to use real estate, the most expensive commodity, to express that the economic order was stable and there was no soaring price.

As a result, all consumer demand was directly shifted to the real estate sector.

About two weeks later, the originally frenzied buying spree was overshadowed by a sudden nationwide push for real estate sales.

Meanwhile, the authorities, now free to act, also cracked down on a group of unscrupulous merchants who took advantage of the situation to raise prices.

Even though food and clothing fabrics have indeed increased in price.

However, most places are still in the reality of an agricultural economy and society. The price increase of meat, eggs and vegetables is largely due to the reform of the grain and oil departments in urban areas.

It just so happened that the management of private pig slaughtering and meat sales was chaotic, while state-run meat shops were losing money and raising prices, and a free market had not yet been established.

This has amplified the problems in the financial system.

Now that the financial sector has been stabilized and people have had a chance to catch their breath, many have started buying groceries at open agricultural markets, which has alleviated many of the most sensitive price concerns related to food, clothing, housing, and transportation.

Besides, even the advertisements for Hilalai clothing still emphasize that beauty doesn't mean price increases.

Just like the panic buying of salt and masks that Wei Dong experienced, this buying frenzy suddenly disappeared after only half a month.

It seems that with real estate as an anchor, even though prices are indeed rising, there's less panic. This made Wei Dong breathe a sigh of relief.

But he didn't go abroad at that time.

Because Dongsheng Trading has indeed been emphasizing that it will not raise prices since the surge in buying after prices soared in mid-to-late May, and has been frantically maximizing all its production capacity for sales.

From sanitary napkins, jeans, women's clothing, and suits to snacks, cameras, shampoo, and cosmetics, everything is produced, shipped, and sold in full.

Every day, trucks from all over the country line up at the entrance to pick up goods.

Those clever guys rented cars and came to the factory to pick up the goods themselves.

Wei Dong continued to require the main force to ship goods to its own sales system and to avoid accepting external pickups as much as possible.

Just like when he sold cameras in the early days, some of them were sold through oil merchants in the north, but the selling price was not under Wei Dong's control.

In the early days when there was a lack of sales channels, this was also an experiment.

Later, when the weekly production capacity reached 30,000 units, it was still a case of supply falling short of demand. As a result, Weidong stopped supplying the other side, citing the impact on the pricing system.

It's possible that computer production capacity is insufficient, and impulsive consumers wouldn't spend over a thousand dollars to buy a high-tech device they don't even know what it's for.

Sales figures haven't changed much.

All other production lines were forced to operate at full capacity, resulting in a sales increase of approximately 20%.

Tell Weidong to quickly use this profit for the construction of the Pingjing New Automobile Industrial Real Estate Company site and the demolition and construction of the Jiangzhou Pharmaceutical Factory site.

Of course, these constructions are all initial investments, and once the apartments are sold off-plan, the funds can be withdrawn and used elsewhere.

In short, the goal is to prevent any apparent profiteering from the national crisis.

They are still working tirelessly and devoting themselves to their work.

But Qin Yuye had to leave. He had originally planned to stay in Shanghai for a while, but now he could only fly directly to Citibank.

Apple's new computer launch event is about to take place, and if Wei Dong doesn't go, she has to attend as a relevant business representative.

For each of the 86 models manufactured by Shanghai Hai in cooperation with Apple Computer, Wei Dong could collect a patent royalty of $10.2.

Then, from each stage of the contract manufacturing process—vacuum electronics factory, Jinling factory, Xizhou factory, and Jiangzhou factory—the company can earn a total of $150 in profit.
Finally, for each "brand new" removable cartridge sold, Wei Dong had to pay a technology patent fee of $4.8!

The question is whether this return is worth holding onto.

If it weren't for the fear of being suspected of making money and running away, Wei Dong would definitely ask Steve to send a private business jet over, and I would personally pay for my whole family to take my confidants and henchmen to the United States for a good tour.

Now, the only thing we can do is ask the chairman of the cosmetics company to pay more attention to the cosmetics and skincare products sector in his spare time, as this is the key to Wei Dong's plan to make money.

Real estate is a trap.

As long as it can continue to help earn foreign exchange and US dollars, it is one of the insurance policies that will prevent the country from overturning the table.

Having spent decades working in the tax compound, Wei Dong's understanding was different from that of ordinary people.

Qin Yuye returned in May or June, hoping to persuade Wei Dong to go abroad with her, similar to their trip to Japan last year.

Making money, deepening your relationship, and enjoying time together as a couple – how perfect!

Who knew this would happen? I had no choice but to go myself.

Of course, she was also thrilled. How many businessmen in Hong Kong are qualified to collect technology patent fees from a large corporation like Citibank?

Moreover, she also knew that Wei Dong held, and even simultaneously held, the product distribution rights for IBM in Greater China, which was something she needed to negotiate and visit.

During her time in Jiangzhou, she went to the computer research center with Rang Weidong every day, learning a lot of professional knowledge, so that she wouldn't be like the smugglers who couldn't even distinguish the different parts of a computer.

Shen Cuiyue then focused on congratulating Fengchu: "He still has a heart; he understands that he intends to stay in Jiangzhou to take care of you during this period."

Dong Xueqing said irritably, "I know! What you want to do with him is your own business. I'm not bothering you. My brother and I are our own business. Let's keep things separate."

Shen Cuiyue's main point was: "He said he wants to get married and have a banquet with you. Now a lot of people are asking. Given our situation, we will definitely have to invite all the employees to dinner in the food street, and the managers and executives will all have a banquet at your rooftop restaurant. As for the specific time, should we hold it while we can still keep it a little secret, or should we hold it together with the baby's one-month celebration? I can't just bypass you and ask him, that would be deliberately trying to steal your partner behind your back."

So Fengchu had to soften his tone again: "I know you only care about him and don't care who I am. I do too, but I still have my sister... Sometimes I envy you for being so ruthless yet so simple."

Even Zhuoma and Lamu only take care of the pregnant woman in the White Building. They go to work every morning and stay in the White Building at night, either going to the zoo or the pharmaceutical factory, as long as they don't disturb the family life here.

My two younger brothers are kicked out to live independently and told not to bother them.

Old Shen wasn't sentimental at all; he was focused on getting things done: "When exactly should we do it? I need to prepare. There are also the procedures for getting the certificates. I asked him about that, and he said he couldn't find the household registration book."

Dong Xueqing pursed her lips and turned her head away, watching the figures playing ball with great energy and speed on the court, remaining silent.

When pushed to the limit, she cried out, "Of course I want to get the certificate! But what will happen when my sister comes back? I can't take what's mine from her. She gives me everything, I can't let her lose everything..."

Shen Cuiyue glanced at her sideways: "It seems you're similar to your sister, you don't see men as everything."

Holy crap, who can compete with you gangsters in terms of ruthlessness?

(End of this chapter)