In order to live in seclusion, I tricked my roommate into falling in love

Chapter 653 You Are Really a Little Old Man
The main reason is that Zi Xiaowei will only be rich for a few days.

At the same time, he maintained a reclusive mentality, allowing himself to be as close to the thinking of ordinary people as possible.

He is not used to the consumption concept of rich people at all, just like he is completely indifferent to famous watches and luxury cars.

Now we are still moving towards the path of spending little money to achieve great things.

They are not on the same channel as the rich at all.

Xia Yanping built the off-road park, and not counting the land acquisition costs, the bulk of the cost was for the buildings in the food court, with a total cost of only about 100 million yuan, less than 20 million US dollars.

What kind of career is this?

It has to be a big deal, a super grand event!

As a member of the royal family in charge of the sports system, Rashid can spend more than 100 million US dollars to buy 2,000 dune bashing vehicles just to "regulate" the chaotic situation of dune bashing.

Now that we have found a large-scale project, why not give it a big push?
This time, Zi Xiaowei witnessed how terrible a married man's escapist mentality is towards his marital status.

Rashid was like a fisherman. He pulled Zi Xiaowei to finalize the entire plan overnight. It was reported and approved the next day. He soon led a team to visit Dongda University in person!

Of course, I brought my concubine and two sons...

If Ding Minggui hadn't been hiding behind and sending group messages to Sister Lin, Xiaolian and the others about the boss's busy work.

The child's mother and wife both thought he was under house arrest by the White Turbans.

Li Xiang stayed for a while, then shook his head and left. There was no way to learn!

He couldn't learn Zi Xiaowei's service attitude from the very beginning, where he would bow and scrape to help people with white turbans get on the bus and pick up their white robes.

Since he was a teenager and started to rise to the top of the Internet, he has been unable to bend down.

Seeing that President Wei was fawning over the rich, Zi Xiaowei's gang became even more outrageous than him.

When several members of Wei's army heard that a magnificent off-road sand-rushing car world was going to be replicated in Dubai, they immediately sent a message to General Manager Xia, reminding him to package the existing venue, as the boss was marketing it to the super rich.

Because Rashid's requirement is to increase the scale to 1 to 2 billion US dollars.

The reason for this is that the construction cost of the Louvre Middle East branch in the Long Bay tourist attraction in neighboring Abu Dhabi is 2 billion US dollars.

As we all know, Dubai and Abu Dhabi are the two largest countries in the United Arab Emirates, similar to the relationship between Shanghai and Beijing. It is normal for economic centers and capitals to have a certain competitive mentality.

However, the Dubai Tower, which was hit hard by the economic crisis, was completed with the financial help of Abu Dhabi. Therefore, in recent years it has been in a situation where it is unwilling to be suppressed but has to accept it helplessly.

It's okay to stand out a little bit, not too big but about the same size.

And why did he accept the off-road sand dune park project so immediately? Because Abu Dhabi also has a famous Ferrari Automobile Park, which is actually a Ferrari-themed amusement park.

The cost was said to be 40 billion US dollars, and the bulk of it was taken away by the cunning Italians.

It means that they spent so much money to help Ferrari with brand promotion and also helped count the money.

The main purpose of this is to establish an image and increase tourist attractions, but the return on investment is almost zero. It is good enough that the income from tourists can cover daily maintenance. Fortunately, the rich never care about this.

The key is that our own people never go there.

I love sandboarding.

Moreover, there are dozens of sand dune "holy places" in the entire region, including those in neighboring countries, which have truly regarded this project as their own local feature and have also brought many surrounding jobs.

Rashid has been in the University of Tokyo for more than ten years, but he still subconsciously speaks in this official tone and even says that he needs to be down-to-earth!
So, with three cultural and tourism projects like Universal Studios and the Auto Park already existing in the entire Dubai-Abu Dhabi region, this fourth one has become his achievement and must be better than the previous ones.

The foreign assistant called by Rashid who "worked all night" reported data that these cultural and tourism projects were basically in the red before the epidemic, and the return rate was less than 30%.

Needless to say, after the epidemic, the situation was a mess.

In fact, the whole of Dubai is in a mess now. Under the international situation of overall economic downturn, all the touted projects have proved to be bubbles.

It is said that life is like a paradise on earth.

There are unfinished projects everywhere, and bankruptcy and depression are everywhere.

The wealthy people in the Middle East are rich, but they can’t afford to expand their business to such a large scale.

The root cause of all this is that they spend hundreds of millions, billions, and tens of billions of dollars hoping to attract hundreds of billions of international hot money and international tourists to establish themselves as an economic and financial center.

This is like the snowball in the game of pass the parcel. If it stops rolling, it will naturally start to melt and fall off.

After Diane and the others checked into the top luxury hotel, they kept cursing!

She and Chang Yueling had both experienced the top-level enjoyment here, and they had clearly discovered that the maintenance had deteriorated and it was no longer possible to maintain the previous super-high standards.

There may be some discounts here and there, but in the end there will be flaws exposed.

Whether it is the appearance of the building, the corners of the room, the level of dining service or the green maintenance.

The third generation of rich people who often go to such luxury hotels know very well that even if the two of them can now live in a shabby B&B with Zi Xiaowei, they will not lose their vision.

We really need to find some projects to boost the situation.

Zi Xiaowei, who has been involved in several cultural and tourism projects, gave the sports boss an idea. Since sandboarding in various parts of the Middle East is just a random game in the wild desert, why not make it a focused one, the best sandboarding site in the world, gather a few sandboarding masters to attract enthusiasts from all over to compete.

Even if personality cult is not allowed, it is still okay to promote this place through short videos and make it a popular check-in spot.

Take a look at these internet-famous check-in spots we created ourselves.

He also compared the magnificent Minlu and South Dike Gardens with the snowy Peter Garden.

It's fair to say that temperate climates are naturally more livable than both frigid and tropical zones. While building a botanical garden in Dubai, a place often plagued by scorching sun, building a fully indoor elevated walkway across the wild area in that shopping and food court is certainly possible.

It would be nice to create a green belt in the shaded area to liven up the atmosphere. Dongda University now has a lot of experience in planting and breeding in desert areas.

Southwest Associated University has considerable technical reserves in this area, and its sister universities in the Northwest have even more relevant technologies.

The Italians tricked the rich into building a high-end supercar theme park, so we will build a larger-scale off-road farm stay, and the key effect will definitely be better.

Now that even the Agricultural College was involved, Zi Xiaowei was secretly delighted.

Getting more and more excited.

Of course, he then used the excuse of inspecting the Ferrari Auto Park and went there with Rashid and his family to have a great day.

Both Dai Anni and Chang Yueling described that the treatment they received was indeed very different when they were with the rich.

Basically, all kinds of projects are special shows, but there are really few tourists, and the movie studio next door also joins in the fun.

Zi Xiaowei, who is now considered an expert in cultural and tourism projects, immediately saw the problem. The international tycoons who boasted about taking luxury airlines and staying in seven-star sail hotels were almost two different types of people from consumers who could stay in theme parks for a longer time.

These are almost two different classes: those who play sports cars and those who consume daily family cars.

How is it possible to promote luxury goods and yet want to increase sales?

Plus, there are natural space costs for coming here from all over the world, so it's quite torn.

Real data also proves that India, Saudi Arabia and Australia are the top three source markets for Dubai, and Tokyo is actually ranked fifth. Judging from the financial reports available internally, most of the tourists in these resorts come from the Gulf region and surrounding countries.

Despite boasting so much about the world, the consumer group that should be captured the most is the neighboring countries.

From this perspective, the down-to-earth world of sandboarding and off-roading is far more vibrant than the Ferrari Auto Park.

Zi Xiaowei then went with Li Xiang to investigate the car sales market around Dubai. Rashid said that he didn't want to go back and see his annoying wife, so he followed them.

Sure enough, the two product managers noticed the details again.

In the eyes of everyone, including Rashid, they thought that luxury cars were everywhere from Dubai to Abu Dhabi, and only lower-class people drove Volkswagens, Fords or even Japanese cars.

Indeed, the streets are full of supercars and luxury cars, and the proportion is definitely higher than anywhere else in the world.

But when it comes to the used car market, its true nature is immediately revealed.

This place is equivalent to concentrating all supercars and luxury cars on a few busy streets, so of course the density is high.

Just like 80% of foreign workers who live and work quietly away from the glamorous world.

In fact, more than 80% of the used cars in the second-hand market are Japanese, and even a large number of used cars are shipped in from Japan, and then use this place as a transit station to cover the entire Middle East.

This is the real Dubai.

Hundreds of years ago, the European colonization of the East India Company used this place as a transit point to East Asia.

This place has long been one of the world's three largest transshipment trade centers. As the largest commodity distribution center in the Middle East and even Africa, its purpose is not how much consumption can be achieved here, but to cover more than 50 countries and regions in the Middle East, Africa, and Eastern Europe.

Now, used cars are being dumped here from East Asia, and the impact is spreading to a large number of poor areas in the Middle East. For example, you can see Japanese cars running in war-torn and impoverished areas on TV news.

Of course, it needs to be cheap, tough and durable.

Li Xiangshi's eyes immediately lit up.

He didn't want to go through the trouble of building a sales system on his own. With this second-hand car coverage system, he could transfer cars from new to second-hand and then sell them to various parts of the Middle East.

Because there is a 5% tariff on imports from here, but it is tax-free during transit, and there are many zero tariffs from Dubai to other countries in the Middle East.

One can imagine the tricks used by the car transfer dealers here.

For example, Saudi Arabia next door, Iran across the strait dozens of kilometers away, and devastated Iraq all have huge demands.

Zi Xiaowei can only say that you are so stingy because of the domestic situation.

Are you content with a monthly sales of two to three thousand vehicles to catch up with the domestic sales?

What he was thinking was, I'm doing that low-end used car business, and with all the costs involved in shipping it ashore, it only costs a thousand dollars per car. Let's see if I can grab the market!
Because before, he and Lao Jin and his gang had discussed using Southeast Asia as a dumping ground for discarded used cars, which would also help clear out the domestic inventory backlog and completely help new energy vehicles occupy the market.

But most cars in Southeast Asia are right-hand drive, so the cost of just making this change is high.

The cost of repairing this broken car, which only costs a few thousand dollars, is much higher.

But if it is sold to the Middle East or even Africa, it can be shipped directly from Jiangzhou and delivered by sea.

Small used car dealers cannot afford to sell thousands of cars, and large car dealers cannot guarantee the quality of so many cars.

Only a used car market that has established a complete evaluation system has this operational capability.

The key point of Zi Xiaowei's doing this is not to make money, but to change the current situation of the domestic industry through this large-scale second-hand car business and help Jingxi Automobile find a way out for the dumping of its second-hand car segment.

This kind of business involving listing profits can benefit from the capital market as long as it does not lose money, or even if it subsidizes a little to expand its scale.

It looks great on paper.

Rashid, relying on his knowledge of Chinese, watched quietly from the side.

He only said that he wanted to invest when he flew to Jiangzhou.

(End of this chapter)