A century-old wealthy family that rose from Shanghai

Chapter 98: Aboveboard (Please subscribe~Please give me a monthly ticket)
After obtaining the cooperation of land owners and banks, Changjiang Real Estate's second real estate project can be said to be "all ready except for the east wind", that is, the only thing left is to get the owners to pay.

Before the launch, it is necessary to plan carefully so that the owners will be willing to pay for it. This project has an advantage, that is, there is a previous "Happy Home" as a model, so buyers can better feel the superiority of this model.

Chen Guangliang also thought about it and named his second home "Sunshine Home".

Although "Happy Home" and "Sunshine Home" are the most common community names in later generations, their use today is still in line with the times. Moreover, if they are still in use in 2024, they can be regarded as the originators of communities with these two names across the country.

Also.

Sunshine Home will build 39 houses, one of which will be Chen Guangliang’s private land, but he will also pay for it; this is equivalent to 117 floors, and the total sales amount is expected to be 48 yuan.

Still following the old rules, we will add some money to the construction cost, which will be considered as the profit of Changjiang Real Estate on this project this year, which is about more than 40,000 yuan.

In this way, "Happy Home" and "Sunshine Home" can generate more than 9 profits for Changjiang Real Estate in one year.

Very exciting!
After working hard for a year running the car dealership, Chen Guangliang only earns about half of this money. There is really no comparison!
"Yuantai, have Zhuang Jun's office hurry up and design the blueprints. We want to start construction by the end of April."

Lu Yuantai nodded quickly and said, "Okay, I'll go and get it done right away. It should be quick though. The blueprints are all from Happy Home. With a few tweaks, it should be ready by the end of the month."

Chen Guangliang immediately said, "We have to put the advertisement in the newspaper by the end of the month, and the brochure and other items also require architectural drawings. Anyway, tell them to hurry up!"

The design drawings weren't difficult; Lu Yuantai could have produced them. The key was to have a complete design draft and the qualifications of an architectural firm. Zhuang Jun Architectural Firm's fees weren't expensive, though. Last time, they'd charged 3,000 yuan for the design, but this time, they'd only charged 2,000.

"Well, the brochure will definitely be ready by the end of the month!"

Chen Guangliang arranged the tasks one by one: "Deming, how is the budget?"

Guo Deming looked up and said, "Almost there. For greater accuracy, we're planning to recalculate."

This time, the budget can be referred to the drawings and conditions of the Happy Home, and the difference will not be big.

Moreover, this budget is only for reference, and there will be separate calculations later.

Chen Guangliang clapped his hands and said, "Everyone, work harder. The three new colleagues should also learn more from Deming and Yuantai. At the end of the year, I plan to give you three a bonus of 1 percentage point of profit. Of course, the prerequisite is that you can keep up with the company's development pace."

"Yes, boss"

"thank you boss"

The main players are still Guo Deming and Lu Yuantai, each of whom will receive 2% of the profits. The same applies to the second project. This means that if the profit is 9 this year, each of them can get a bonus of 1800 yuan.

There is no such thing as "equity incentives" in this era, but bonuses and dividends are not uncommon, and are even a necessary practice for many companies.

Chen Guangliang needs the full commitment of Guo Deming and Lu Yuantai, so naturally he has to show sincerity.

No. 203, Yingchunfang, Lane 13, Hubei Road.

Gu Zhuxuan was furious at this moment, yelling at Tang Jiapeng, "It's been almost a month since the incident, and not only have we still not found the murderer, but we haven't even dealt with the matter of those six car dealerships. How did you do it?"

Sun Yingjie, who was standing aside, was watching the joke.

As soon as Tang Jiapeng started working at Gu's, he became his deputy, overshadowing the general manager and gaining the boss's trust. But ever since the shooting at the boss's villa last month, Tang Jiapeng has been under increasing pressure.

The current suspects are: the Municipal Council, Wing On Company, and rickshaw companies.

Tang Jiapeng said fiercely, "Boss, give me some more time. I promise to bring these six dealerships under control and force them to hand over their vehicle registrations. I'll take a 10% cut. Furthermore, we've put a lot of pressure on them over the past month, and they've suffered significant losses. I'm sure they'll soon be unable to hold on."

Ever since the incident at Gu Zhuxuan's villa, Gu Zhuxuan first doubled the security at the villa, then mobilized his disciples to investigate the murderer, and at the same time put enormous pressure on the six car dealerships.

However, when it comes to investigating the murderer, the information reported by the disciples does not point to the six major car dealerships, and there is not even any evidence of the dealerships' involvement.

Of course, it is not ruled out that the car dealers hired a killer.

Gu Zhuxuan said angrily, "How can we feel good if they can't hold on? You robbed someone else's car, and our car was lost too. Now you've messed up everything."

At this time, he missed Chen Guangliang. If this man was willing to help him, the situation would never be "a lose-lose situation" now.

It turned out that when Gu's car dealership was divided into six other car dealerships, the six dealerships also used some tricks to target Gu's car dealership. It was not as Tang Jiapeng said.

After all, the six car dealerships were all established "medium-sized car dealerships," and their combined fleet of vehicles surpassed that of Gu's. Even if they weren't as powerful as Gu Zhuxuan in the Green Gang, they weren't easy prey.

Gu Zhuxuan's only advantage is that he can use the white forces in Zhabei and the black forces in Jiangbei to deal with others.

Sun Yingjie added, "We've lost seven cars this month and ten of our brothers have been injured. Boss, if this continues, we'll all be out of business!"

Gu Zhuxuan frowned and said, "Do you mean for me to admit defeat?"

Sun Yingjie originally wanted to trick Tang Jiapeng, but he didn't expect Gu Zhuxuan to blame him instead.

Tang Jiapeng immediately said, "Boss, whatever we lose today, we'll make up for it tomorrow by taking their cut. More importantly, your reputation can't be damaged!"

Gu Zhuxuan picked up the newspaper again and said, "Reputation? Now everyone knows that someone shot at my villa, injuring several bodyguards, and the murderer hasn't been caught yet. Some media reported that we were the result of a car dealership's corruption, while others reported that I was being targeted by the Municipal Council and Wing On Company. What the hell is this?"

I am now a victim, but I am being blamed by the newspaper.

Tang Jiapeng said, "Why don't we talk to one of the six car dealerships? If they tell us which dealership the murderer is from, we'll be exempt from the lottery. Then we can exact our revenge."

With some of Chen Guangliang's brains, he chose to defeat the enemies one by one, and Gu Zhuxuan's expression finally relaxed.

"I'll leave it to you. Anyway, it needs to be done as soon as possible. My case will be decided in the Commonwealth Supreme Court in two months, and I don't want things to drag on for too long."

"Okay." On the other side, the owners of the six car dealerships were also complaining. After all, everyone came here to do business, not to fight.

So everyone invited Chen Guangliang to meet in a teahouse, hoping that Chen Guangliang could mediate.

Chen Guangliang drank a cup of tea and asked seriously, "Did you attack No. 13 Yingchunfang?"

The six bosses hurriedly shook their heads, and Han Yanbao said, "We are not stupid. We don't have any deep hatred with Mr. Gu. How could we do such a thing?"

Wu Guangpeng then nodded and added, "Now it's Mr. Gu who's relentlessly pursuing us, causing us all to suffer heavy losses. If this continues, we'll all be left with nothing to eat!"

These words may be able to fool others, but they cannot fool Chen Guangliang.

In this industry, if Gu Zhuxuan relied on the people of Jiangbei to rise to power, Chen Guangliang was no pushover either - the thousands of rickshaw drivers and more than 700 rickshaw shareholder members under him were also his spies and influence.

Therefore, Chen Guangliang was very clear about what had happened recently. Both sides were not easy to deal with. Although Gu Zhuxuan occupied the upper hand, he also suffered a lot of losses.

Chen Guangliang smiled bitterly and said, "To be honest, whether it's you or not, Mr. Gu probably won't resolve this matter easily. If I speak up for you, he'll probably hate me."

Obviously, he didn't want to get involved in this mess, especially since he was the one who started the fire.

Seeing that things were hopeless, Han Yanbao immediately said, "Boss Chen, if we lose, won't Gu Zhuxuan target you? You know, your current strength has surpassed the six families here. Even if Gu Zhuxuan gives you face, Tang Jiapeng won't give you face either."

A method of provoking generals?

Nothing useful.

Seeing Chen Guangliang remained silent, Wu Guangpeng gritted his teeth and said, "Boss Chen, if you can help us mediate, the six of us can sell you 90 large-scale vehicles with chauffeured cards for a low price of only 36000 yuan. In other words, we'll only charge you for the license plates! We know that your Changjiang Car Dealership has been buying up large-scale chauffeured cards in small quantities from the market recently."

Yes, recently Changjiang Car Dealership bought another ten large photos, but they were purchased by three parties.

As the price of Dazhaohui licenses has soared, the amount of licenses flowing into the market has gradually increased. Coupled with the recent events in the rickshaw industry, more people want to sell and rent licenses.

Chen Guangliang wasn't particularly impressed. He knew this wasn't a simple matter, and that the six rickshaw companies might be trying to get him into trouble. If he got hold of the 90 large notes, he would have 455 rickshaws, a significant amount of power, far surpassing even the power of any of the six companies.

At that time, Gu Zhuxuan's vigilance towards Chen Guangliang began to emerge.

In other words, the six car dealerships wanted to make Chen Guangliang Gu Zhuxuan's new target in order to divert their attention.

Therefore, Chen Guangliang said tactfully: "This matter involves a lot of things. I will go to Mr. Gu to test his opinion on behalf of everyone, and then consider the matter of reconciliation."

But he didn't refuse it outright because the temptation was too great.

In fact, for Chen Guangliang, Gu Zhuxuan is no longer a threat.

At least, he is no longer someone that Gu Zhuxuan can manipulate at will.

Seeing that Chen Guangliang did not go home immediately, the six people were happy, because no matter whether it succeeded or not, at least Gu Zhuxuan would be worried about one thing, that is, the seven car dealerships might form an alliance.

With Chen Guangliang joining them, everyone's confidence increased; what's more, they also needed Chen Guangliang to attract firepower.

Chen Guangliang used traditional Chinese characters for the first time to write the article "A Rickshaw Puller's Lifelong Dream".

In this article, Chen Guangliang first cited various data to illustrate that seven out of ten rickshaws in Shanghai belong to rickshaw companies, and seven out of ten of them belong to large rickshaw companies. The biggest dream of rickshaw pullers in their life is to "own a rickshaw of their own", but this dream is too far away, mainly because of the license plate of the rickshaw.

Subsequently, the increasing monopoly of large rickshaw dealers was proved - large rickshaw dealers colluded with patrol police to suppress private rickshaws, and also collected fees from small rickshaw dealers, resulting in an increasing monopoly.

Finally, he gave an example - a recent incident in which a car dealership tycoon from Jiangbei had a conflict with small and medium-sized car dealerships over draw numbers, which disrupted the industry and he was eventually shot.

His writing style is naturally good. He first exaggerates the suffering of the rickshaw drivers, then describes the intrigues among the rickshaw dealers, and finally alludes to the tyranny and self-inflicted consequences of a certain rickshaw dealership overlord.

After writing this article, Chen Guangliang directly made an appointment to meet with Zhang Qihua.

"Professor Zhang, what do you think of this press release?"

Zhang Qihua took the manuscript with a smile. He knew that Chen Guangliang had a strong learning ability, so he checked it with great anticipation.

But when he saw this, his expression gradually changed.

Compared with Chen Guangliang, an insider in the industry, he suddenly felt that he didn't know enough about this industry.

"Do you want to publish this article?" Zhang Qihua asked.

He didn't think Chen Guangliang was exposing his own scars. After all, the Changjiang Coach Company had made every coachman's dream come true.

Chen Guangliang smiled bitterly and said, "Of course I can't publish it. After all, I still want to work in this industry."

Zhang Qihua immediately understood the key point and said, "Then I'll send it!"

The intellectuals of this era are truly "speaking for the people"!
There is also a type of writer, also called "GM writer". GM writers must be young and beautiful, with white teeth and red lips, such as Pan Hannian and Ye Lingfeng. These are natural literary masters.

Chen Guangliang then said, "Professor Zhang, this is a bit offensive. How about I give you 100 yuan and have a reporter you know publish the article in the newspaper, with the reporter's name signed on."

Zhang Qihua immediately said, "Guangliang, how can you be afraid of this? We are aboveboard. Let alone a mere Gu Zhuxuan, even if it's someone like Du Yuesheng or Huang Jinrong, I have nothing to fear! But don't worry, this matter will definitely not be disclosed to you."

Chen Guangliang was ashamed, thinking that you were being honest, but he was a thief!

He wanted to use public opinion to make Gu Zhuxuan restrain himself first, and then he would agree to "negotiate peace" with the six car dealerships.

(End of this chapter)