Courtyard House: Is Xu Damao a childless man? Let me help.

However, what they didn't know was that Ye Jianchuan was so generous because after building a Hope Primary School, the system would actually compensate him for most of the expenses he incurred.

Chapter 308 The Next Goal: Unifying the Courtyard Houses

If it costs others 10,000 yuan to build a Hope Primary School, then Ye Jianchuan might only need to spend 100 yuan to do so. This kind of system 'cashback' benefit allows Ye Jianchuan to do such charity work with peace of mind.

Moreover, Ye Jianchuan didn't spend this 'hundred yuan' for nothing, because in addition to the system being able to reimburse him for most of the expenses, it would also give him some extra rewards from time to time.

For example, there were high-tech items such as engine blueprints that greatly interested Ye Jianchuan.

When the technology and timing are right in the future, any one of these things could be used by Ye Jianchuan to build a leading company in the industry.

Moreover, when Ye Jianchuan did this, he also brought up the Lou family. Although the Lou family had a bad reputation before, under the influence of this incident, those previous issues were no longer a big deal.

And what about the Lou family? Besides their businesses in Hong Kong, they have also made considerable investments in mainland China in recent years, including building a large hotel in each of the most important cities.

Although such a move may not seem like a business opportunity now, Ye Jianchuan knows just how much money such a landmark building, especially a large hotel, could make in the future.

Of course, the Lou family is quite knowledgeable about water. While investing and making money back home, they also donated a lot of things back to China, especially the antiques and paintings that Ye Jianchuan had previously helped to hide. The Lou family generously decided to donate them all.

However, Ye Jianchuan rejected this idea and donated everything. In fact, it might not be a good thing for the Lou family. On the contrary, if all these things were collected and a museum was opened, it would be a good thing for the Lou family and for Ye Jianchuan.

After all, if you donate, then these things really don't belong to you anymore. But does that mean they belong to the country? Not necessarily. After all, this has happened before, with donated items becoming someone's private collection. This has happened in later generations.

However, if you open your own museum to exhibit these items, then these things can be properly preserved in China and the public can see them and understand their historical value.

This is the best place for antiques and cultural relics! The Lou family had no objection to Ye Jianchuan's suggestion, and the higher-ups also had no objection to the construction of such a museum.

Moreover, Ye Jianchuan also guaranteed that the museum would not charge admission. Doesn't that make it a 'public welfare project' in itself?

Now, because Ye Jianchuan has created Project Hope ahead of time, public welfare activities are directly linked to political achievements in the eyes of those in power.

Given this, what reason do they have to stop this free achievement that's been delivered to their doorstep?

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Aside from his various commercial advancements and achievements in philanthropy, Ye Jianchuan has also successfully completed the 'unification' of the courtyard houses in the past two years.

Indeed, after two more years of hard work, Ye Jianchuan finally succeeded in turning the entire courtyard into his private property. Whether it was Sha Zhu's properties or the properties of the Liu and Yan families, they were all eventually sold to Ye Jianchuan.

This wasn't because Ye Jianchuan had played any tricks, after all, Ye Jianchuan's relationship with Sha Zhu and the Yan family had always been very good.

However, this was just in time. Both the Sha Zhu family and the Lao Yan family benefited greatly from the reform and opening up and made a lot of money.

After making money, one naturally wants to consider improving one's quality of life. Food, clothing, and other necessities are not a problem for Sha Zhu, but housing is a bit of a dilemma.

Logically speaking, Sha Zhu's family owns quite a lot of property. The two rooms in the middle courtyard, plus the room left to him by the old lady in the back courtyard, are perfectly adequate for living in if one makes do with a little effort.

But what can they do when they have so many children? The four children are all growing up now, and Sha Zhu has to think about his children, so moving out to a bigger house, or even more than one house, has become inevitable.

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The same logic applies to the Yan family. The Yan family not only has to consider the affairs of the third uncle's sons and daughters, but also the affairs of the third generation.

Although it's unclear why the eldest son, Yan Jiecheng, and Yu Li haven't had a child yet, it's time for the two brothers, Yan Jiekuang and Yan Jiefang, to settle down!

Now that the family has made money, buying a few houses and moving out together has naturally become the best option for Lao Yan's family.

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As for the selfishness and self-interest among the characters in the original drama, where they wished they could spend no money on their families, that kind of situation was nowhere to be seen in Lao Yan's family.

This is actually thanks to Ye Jianchuan. With Ye Jianchuan's help, the Yan family managed to get by during the difficult period.

That's why Uncle San doesn't need to be so calculating and scheming with his family.

Without the "good example" of Uncle San scheming against his family members, the Yan family naturally no longer had the tradition of scheming against each other. So, although the shop was nominally opened by Yan Jiecheng, the family members were ultimately able to enjoy the profits.

So Sha Zhu and Lao Yan's family chose to move away one after the other. As for the courtyard house, Lao Yan's family sold it directly to Ye Jianchuan when they moved away. Well, actually, at first, Third Uncle even wanted to 'give' it to Ye Jianchuan directly.

However, Ye Jianchuan ultimately insisted on paying the money; this thing... Although everyone has a good relationship now and trusts each other a lot, there are limits to trust.

What if, in twenty or thirty years, you find out that this courtyard house has become a highly sought-after property, and then you come back to cause trouble?

Even if you don't want to, your descendants might have the same idea! So Ye Jianchuan felt that the procedures and formalities still needed to be followed.

Chapter 309 The Remaining Three Old Rivals

And so, the Yan family sold their house to Ye Jianchuan. As for Sha Zhu, he didn't initially plan to sell the house, since he already had enough money to live on.

Moreover, Sha Zhu is a rather sentimental person. He has lived in this house for so many years and has developed an emotional attachment to it. Selling it wouldn't fetch much money, so he might as well keep it and come back for a 'nostalgic' visit in the future.

However, after Ye Jianchuan's persuasion, he eventually gave up on this idea. But compared to others, Ye Jianchuan was quite good to Sha Zhu, and he directly made things clear to Sha Zhu.

He told Shazhu that he wanted to buy the entire courtyard house so that it would all belong to him, and he could make some minor renovations to it.

At the same time, Ye Jianchuan also told Sha Zhu that the value of the courtyard house might increase significantly in the future. However, Sha Zhu did not care much about this "prophecy". On the one hand, Ye Jianchuan also said that it would be thirty or forty years later, and Sha Zhu felt that it was uncertain whether he would still be around at that time.

On the other hand, it was also because the value Ye Jianchuan mentioned was simply too exaggerated. If the restaurant's annual revenue could only buy a house, Sha Zhu simply refused to believe it.

After all, Ran Qiuye was in charge of the restaurant's accounts. Even in this era, the restaurant's annual net profit was close to seven figures.

What kind of house can sell for millions? Sha Zhu didn't actually know that Ye Jianchuan's estimate was conservative. Based on the fact that a one-courtyard house in later generations could sell for tens of thousands, a house might even be worth tens of millions!

However, the value of this kind of money is naturally completely different from the value of money now. After all, an ice pop only costs two cents now, and a bowl of beef noodles only costs forty cents.

They said they were going out to eat, but even now, the dishes in Sha Zhu's restaurant's main hall would only cost a dozen or so yuan to prepare a whole table of food.

This was still considered a 'high-end' restaurant. In Liu's restaurant, a stir-fry dish only cost a few cents. It was nothing like the exaggerated prices of tens of dollars per dish in later generations.

Anyway, the houses belonging to Sha Zhu and Lao Yan were thus acquired by Ye Jianchuan.

In addition, in this day and age, most people feel that apartment buildings are a more 'high-end' living environment, so many residents chose to sell their houses to Ye Jianchuan and then buy an apartment building themselves.

In this way, after more than a year, apart from Ye Jianchuan's family, there were only seven families left in the entire courtyard. Moreover, four of these seven families were renting Ye Jianchuan's house.

It's not that they don't want to move, it's just that they haven't been able to make a living, and the house was already sold to Ye Jianchuan, so they have nowhere to go if they want to leave the courtyard house.

This includes the Jia Zhang family, and apart from these four families, only the Liu family, Uncle Yi's family, and Xu Damao's family remain.

Aside from the fact that Uncle Yi is about to retire and doesn't plan to leave the courtyard house before retirement, since it's not too far from the steel mill.

Of the remaining two families, Xu Damao was not short of money at all. Since he was not short of money, why would he sell the house?

And what about the Liu family? Well, Uncle Er's situation is a bit tragic. Other people's sons, after making money, think about taking care of their parents, but Uncle Er's situation is quite the opposite.

Did the Liu family make money in this wave of trends? The answer is definitely yes, but who made the money? The answer is Liu Guangtian.

Liu Guangtian made money, isn't that the same as Uncle Er making money? They're all family anyway. If this happened in someone else's family, then that would be true, but in the Liu family, it's completely different.

Although Uncle Er and Aunt Er had both contributed to Liu Guangtian's restaurant, Liu Guangtian had no intention of sharing the good life with the two elderly people after he made money.

Amidst the wave of buying apartments and upgrading to new homes, Liu Guangtian splurged on a very nice house, but he moved out, leaving his two elderly parents behind...

They call it giving the elderly couple their own private space, but frankly, isn't it just that they don't want to take care of them in their old age?

But to be honest, this was actually something that Uncle Er himself created. To use a comment from the original drama, the Liu family was a family where "the parents were not kind and the children were not filial."

Therefore, this situation is just a normal occurrence for the Liu family.

It would be incredibly easy for Ye Jianchuan to get rid of those people who were renting his house. After all, the house belonged to him, and it was extremely simple for him to take it back and not renew the lease.

However, Ye Jianchuan was not so heartless in the end. Although he still let them move out, they moved into an apartment building that Ye Jianchuan had bought. It was just like he rented them a different apartment.

Of course, Ye Jianchuan couldn't take care of them forever, so he ultimately set the lease term at five years. After five years, Ye Jianchuan would take these houses back.

Speaking of buying houses, well, since Ye Jianchuan knows that the housing prices in Beijing will skyrocket to an abnormal level in the future, hoarding houses naturally becomes one of the best choices for Ye Jianchuan's financial management.

There are no regulations now that limit the number of properties a person can own, so when Ye Jianchuan buys houses, he basically just picks them up blindly, one building at a time.

All told, Ye Jianchuan spent over ten million yuan on real estate, and his final gains were naturally quite extravagant. He bought more than a dozen six-story residential buildings alone.

If this were in later generations, where a single house would cost hundreds of millions, then Ye Jianchuan's dozen or so buildings would easily fetch billions.

After sending away the four families, including Jia Zhangshi, Ye Jianchuan's next task was to deal with three old rivals.

Of these three families, only Xu Damao is a tough nut to crack and difficult to deal with. The other two are actually easy targets. As long as one offers them some benefits, acquiring their houses shouldn't be a problem.

Chapter 310 Taking Down Uncle Yi, the Die-hard Xu Damao

Ye Jianchuan didn't stand on ceremony and went straight to Uncle Er, offering him a good deal in the hope that Uncle Er would sell him the courtyard house.

As for Uncle Er, perhaps because his will had been worn down by his son, he didn't put up much resistance. After negotiating the price with Ye Jianchuan and getting more money from him, he decisively sold the house and moved away.

After dealing with Uncle Er, Ye Jianchuan turned his attention to Uncle Yi, intending to use the same method to "persuade" Uncle Yi to give up as well.

However, Uncle Yi was clearly thinking about much more things than Uncle Er, for example... Why was Ye Jianchuan in such a hurry to buy the entire courtyard house?

Could it be that something was actually buried inside this courtyard house? After enduring so many years, he finally found an opportunity to buy the courtyard house, and then he was able to dig out the treasure?

Or... if he owns all the property rights to this courtyard house, and then resells the entire house for 27, he could get a good price?

Because he thought about many things, Uncle Yi also wanted to sell the house and use his savings for his future retirement to take Aunt Yi with him to live out their old age.

However, after much deliberation, he still did not agree to the price proposed by Ye Jianchuan, even when Ye Jianchuan offered the same price as Uncle Er's family.

Ye Jianchuan wasn't going to be a fool. Since you're unwilling to sell, then I don't need to rush to buy. After all, the soaring housing prices are still at least twenty years away.

Look at the state of Grandpa Yi now. Twenty years? Can you even live for twenty years? Even if you can, can you hold on to this house for twenty years without selling it?

Having abandoned negotiations with Uncle Yi, Ye Jianchuan turned directly to Xu Damao, the most troublesome person.

As for Xu Damao, since he opened this grain, oil and non-staple food store, he seems to have been quite 'well-behaved' in recent years, and he's not as envious of others' success as he used to be.

However, this is actually a fairly normal situation, since he has no one else in his family to help him, so he does everything by himself, from purchasing goods to running the shop.

He's so busy every day, how can he possibly have time to scheme against others or cause them trouble?

However, being too busy to cause trouble is not the same as not wanting to cause trouble at all. Therefore, Xu Damao was actually quite 'looking forward' to causing trouble.

It was for this reason that when Ye Jianchuan approached him, wanting to buy the house he was currently living in, Xu Damao decisively chose [internal group]: 9.8"0'2?0"5.8'5,6.

There was no reason, no bargaining, it was simply to annoy Ye Jianchuan, since the money for the house wasn't actually that much for him.

Even if the house becomes worthless in the future, it doesn't matter. After all, this amount of money is really nothing to Xu Damao, who has been running a grain and oil store for several years.

Xu Damao wasn't in a hurry, and Ye Jianchuan wasn't actually that anxious either, because Ye Jianchuan knew that Xu Damao's business wouldn't last much longer.