novelraw Chapter 277 : Circling Areas on the Map
Chapter 277 : Circling Areas on the Map
Chapter 277: Circling Areas on the Map
"Land?"
Chen Fan's expression froze slightly, then his heart pounded wildly, but he forcibly suppressed it.
Ding Dian explained, "The work team's intention is to first ask for our opinion. If we agree, they can use land exchange instead of compensation fees."
Chen Fan nodded, "I understand the meaning of land exchange. I want to ask which land the other party is preparing to exchange with us?"
Ding Dian was stumped, "This... they didn't mention it. At that time, I thought you definitely wouldn't agree, so I didn't ask further."
Seeing Chen Fan's expression, Ding Dian asked with some uncertainty, "You... don't really intend to forgo the demolition compensation and want land instead, do you?"
Chen grinned, "Do you have the contact number of the person in charge on the other side? Let's ask them right now about the specifics of this land exchange policy."
"Are they using land they've already selected to exchange with us, or can we choose the plot ourselves?"
"You really intend to exchange for land?"
Ding Dian was a bit puzzled, "The real estate market hasn't been doing well these past two years, and land prices have been dropping as well. There's not much point in getting land at this time, since you're not in the real estate development business."
"You'd be better off just taking the money. That's still several hundred million yuan. With that money, you can start any kind of business you want."
However, Chen Fan urged with a smile, "Just go ask. I have my own plans."
Ding Dian had no choice but to take out her phone and make a call.
After chatting with the person on the other end for a bit, Ding Dian hung up.
"I got it figured out. Their intention is that land exchange is possible, and we can choose the plot ourselves. However, it has to be undeveloped wasteland, as they don't have the authority to directly exchange prime plots with us."
Chen Fan's heart stirred.
Undeveloped land is exactly what he wanted.
"Do you have a map of Yunhai City here?"
"Yes, let me get it for you."
The map was spread out on the office desk, and Chen Fan, Feng Pojun, and Ding Dian gathered around it, studying the map of Yunhai City.
Ding Dian and Feng Pojun were puzzled.
"How are we supposed to choose? This is too unreliable."
"What if we end up with a lousy plot of land? Then you'll have wasted that several hundred million yuan in demolition compensation."
Feng Pojun also quietly advised from the side, "Boss, I think Director Ding makes a good point."
Chen Fan remained silent, only frowning as he stared at the map.
In fact, his heart was already surging like crashing waves, his heart pounding.
Others might not be familiar with Yunhai, but he was.
When it came to Yunhai's future development, no one knew better than him.
In 2000, Yunhai's urban area High-Speed Rail Line No. 1 officially opened.
Chen Fan knew that over the next dozen or so years, Line No. 2, Line No. 3, Line No. 4 and more would be successively opened...
And as someone who had lived in Yunhai in his previous life for many years, he was extremely familiar with every subway line in Yunhai, as well as the buildings surrounding each line.
If his dream when he had just been reborn was to buy his parents a house, and then buy a few more properties for himself to hold onto and sell later when prices rose to make a tidy profit...
Now, Chen Fan suddenly felt that his previous goals were too small.
This time, he would directly buy a plot of land near the subway lines.
Buy houses? No, no, this time he would build an entire building near the subway line himself.
Then, once Line No. 2 opened, just tell me, how valuable would that building be?
An astronomical figure.
Chen Fan forcibly suppressed his excitement and pretended to study the map for a long time.
Finally, he circled three areas with a pen.
"Hmm. These three places."
Of the three places he circled, two were near Line No. 2, and one was near the future Line No. 3.
As long as he got his hands on one of those plots, even if he did nothing at all and simply held onto it for ten years, when the time came to sell, it would be worth at least tens of billions.
That's a truly lucrative investment.
However, when Ding Dian saw the three circles Chen Fan had drawn on the map, she was dumbfounded.
"You... you're crazy?"
"Even if you wanted to choose, you should have chosen areas near the city center. Look at the three plots you picked, two of them are all the way out in the suburbs, and this one is even out in the countryside."
Chen Fan smiled and glanced at the so-called countryside plot that Ding Dian pointed out. He really wanted to tell her that this place would become a prosperous subway line area after Yunhai's urban expansion in the future. It would be the new city's CBD.
Of course, Chen Fan could not tell Ding Dian these things, so he just casually laughed it off.
"Actually, I'm quite optimistic about the future real estate market."
"The domestic economy will continue to rise, especially the real estate market, which will definitely become a hot industry in the future."
Chen Fan looked at Ding Dian, "I'm also considering the future here."
"If I only run a club, at most I'll just be a small boss for the rest of my life. But now that we have this opportunity, in the next few years, if there's a chance, I plan to try my hand in the real estate industry."
With these words, Chen Fan had actually revealed quite a lot.
However, Ding Dian was still a bit unconvinced.
"Even if you plan to transition into the real estate industry in the future, there's no need to exchange for these three plots, right? They're way too remote, how could they have any value?"
"Even if you build houses there, who would buy them?"
Chen Fan shook his head with a smile, "You can't just look at the present, you need to look to the future."
"The city needs development, and the land in Yunhai City will definitely appreciate in the future."
Chen Fan gave an example from the present, "If someone had told you a few years ago that the entire West City area would be redeveloped, would you have believed it? Look now, the demolition has already started."
Ding Dian was a bit speechless.
"To accidentally stumble upon something like that once is considered great luck already. Yet you actually want to hit the jackpot again."
"With this opportunity, wouldn't it be better to just securely pocket the compensation first? With that money, what couldn't you do in the future?"
Looking up at Chen Fan, Ding Dian shook her head.
"Since you've already made up your mind, I'll do as you say. But... I still insist on my opinion."
Chen Fan smiled.
"Let's just give it a try. Go ask them, maybe they won't even agree to the exchange."
Ding Dian shook her head, no longer saying anything. The matter was decided like this.
Over the next few days, Chen Fan devoted all his energy to these three plots of land.
In his plan, as long as he could secure one plot, he would make a huge profit.
However, there was still no response from above. When Ding Dian inquired, they only said they were still in a meeting discussing it.
While they didn't get a result on this end, some bad news came from another direction.
The First Encounter Internet cafe was vandalized.
This time, the other party didn't use any plots or schemes, they simply had more than a dozen young hoodlums charge into the internet cafe during broad daylight and wreak havoc in the main hall.
When Chen Fan received the news, he was chatting with Ding Dian at the studio.
The two of them rushed to the internet cafe, where all the customers had already left, and more than a dozen employees were silently cleaning up the mess on the floor.
Chen Fan glanced around - the entire main hall was in chaos, with many computer screens smashed.
The internet cafe manager walked over, his face bruised and swollen, suggesting he had also been beaten.
"What exactly happened?"
Chen Fan's expression was not pleasant.
The internet cafe manager shook his head, still in a daze.
"A gang came in and started smashing things, beating anyone they saw, without saying a word. When I went to reason with them, I got beaten up too."
Chen Fan watched the footage in the monitoring room of the vandals smashing things, his expression darkening.
The internet cafe manager leaned over and said in a low voice, "Before that gang left, they issued a stern warning, threatening that if any of us continued working here, they would beat us every time they saw us."
"Who's so arrogant?" Ding Dian was a bit angered, then asked Chen Fan, "Shall we report it to the police?"
Chen Fan shook his head, "No need to ask. It must have been done by the Zhao family's people."
"It might even have been ordered by Zhao Longqi himself."
Ding Dian immediately understood, "Is this revenge for the club incident?"
Chen Fan nodded, "It seems so."
"This time the other party didn't even try to conceal it, it looks like they're truly enraged."
Ding Dian glanced at Chen Fan, "If I were them, I'd be enraged too."
"So what do we do now? Report it to the police?"