Age of Legends

Chapter 153 A strange combination of circumstances
During the intense sprint at the end of the semester, Zhang Chen was not idle. The European Cup was being held in Belgium and the Netherlands and would last until July 7.

NetEase was listed on the NASDAQ, but this period was not a good time. Starting from March this year, the NASDAQ index, which is dominated by technology stocks, reached its peak and then began to fall sharply. The market value of global Internet companies shrank, and even countless previously famous companies went bankrupt, such as pets.com. Many strong companies fell, and new gods were lurking and rising.

For Zhang Chen, the Internet is the general trend that will determine the future of this era, but he does not have the ability or the mind to get involved for the time being. He can buy some Internet stocks or individual stocks in the future to reserve a position in advance.

After being reborn, there is only one thing that he cares about most, which is what someone said: the most important thing for a person is to live his life the way he likes.

I used to think that it was easy to say if I could live my life the way I like. If I could live my life the way I like, wouldn't I? The way I like is to have a lot of money, a long life for my family, and a life without disasters. Can I live a good life just because I like it?

It is possible that even if you try your best, you still cannot touch the most basic line.

But looking back now, sometimes, don’t say it, this sentence actually makes some sense.

There is a saying called disenchantment. In fact, many of the things you desire to have are just things you have never had. But often these things you have never had constitute the distant mountains you yearn for and the far places you want to go.

Some people always talk about going hiking, going to a distant place to cleanse their souls, but later they put their experiences into practice like the Iraqi refugees, which shattered their pampered bourgeois mentality. They went to a distant place and escaped death, and after coming back they did what they were supposed to do honestly and never pretended to be cool again.

Sometimes, that thing that you desire so much that you are willing to give up everything to get it, after you have obtained it by any means necessary, will become boring like the sage's moment.

Instead, when I think about it carefully, I realize that I was blinded by greed, and the things I gave up in the process of seizing these things have become more and more of an obsession that I cannot get rid of, and even became a black hole after a long time.

So, are all these material desires and the success models set by others really suitable for you? Is becoming an admirer or a successful person in the eyes of others really your own path?
But this cannot be said, so this sentence is also right, "Live your life the way you like", but the premise is that you have to find out what is the way you really like.

But this is the hardest part.

Because you only have one life, the things you don’t grasp, the people you miss.

The cost of trial and error is often a lifetime.

……

For Zhang Chen, this sentence is even more profound.

Is he still running around like he did in his previous life? There is no need for that. He is not the one who charges into battle. In later generations, there is a phrase called "lying down and growing". Zhang Chen thinks it is good. He can lie down and grow at the same time. He can also make money while lying down. Isn't this more comfortable than making money while standing?

But Zhang Chen is contradictory, or he goes with the flow. He wants to lie down, but he doesn't do it completely. For example, after being reborn, he actually starts to work hard on solving questions. This is strange. If he doesn't invest in the Internet and doesn't make a fuss in this era, how can he be a reborn person by solving questions?

But for Zhang Chen, doing exercises and solving problems to make up for the missed knowledge and paying attention to what is happening around him actually makes him feel more at ease.

It seems much more practical than jumping out of school right now and going to the Nasdaq in the United States to make a fortune, or building a business empire immediately.

Perhaps he knew the development rules of these events in advance, and felt that he could not control the changes at present, and just needed to watch the situation and act accordingly. Now that he was asked to lead the trend and stand in the spotlight early, he felt that he was not the one who should be the first to stand out.

After all, among the many people who achieved success early on, there were also many who were buried in the ground later, both in terms of their careers and in the people who were overturned because the rules were subverted.

The present time seems concrete. Doing homework for the final exam every day has become a small part of my life now.

Father Zhang Zhonghua was still working hard to gather people, but he just sold his house and had money, which made him feel more confident. Zhang Chen supported Zhang Zhonghua in this path, and the 700,000 yuan was also used to support his parents. He now had nearly 3 million yuan in total, including the share of the cultural festival that Wang Bowen deposited into his card. He took out 700,000 yuan to support his parents, and actually had a lot of food left.

But on the other hand, Zhang Chen felt a little confused. After Chen Xuran and Huang Huifen became sworn sisters, they were actually going to join forces to start a business?
This was beyond Zhang Chen's expectation. When he got home that day, he heard his mother saying, "The origin is that Rongcheng is renovating the old city. Xu Ran has dealt with many bosses before, and the government has also heard about this. Many places are attracting investment. We definitely can't get a large plot of land, but now there are many plans, such as those in the urban-rural fringe, where you can start a company. In fact, the qualifications don't need to be too high. We are responsible for turning farmland into a municipal park, and then in exchange for a portion of regular land for real estate development."

Zhang Chen was a little shocked. No...it was because his mother Huang Huifen had tasted the sweetness of the previous shop and started to invest in real estate?
And go straight into real estate?

Zhang Zhonghua didn't understand this at all, so he kept trying to stop her, saying that Huang Huifen was not cut out for business and shouldn't even think about these things.

What he said was right. Even Zhang Chen was shocked when he heard it. If Chen Xuran had not been involved, Zhang Chen would have been worried that his mother had fallen into a scam trap.

Huang Huifen started to curse, "Look at you, you don't support anything I say! You want to start a business and get a loan, I support you! But you don't support this? You two are my stumbling blocks!"

Zhang Chen thought to himself, I haven't said anything yet, why are you throwing stones at your own head?
I quickly said, "Mom, no, tell me what it is."

He knew that during this period many things were growing wildly and many regulations were not that strict. The so-called rules and regulations had to give way to economic development. He just wanted to listen to what this was all about.

Huang Huifen had been studying and learning some knowledge at the real estate exchange center since she bought the shop. It seemed that these knowledge came in handy at this time. Seeing that Zhang Chen did not object like Zhang Zhonghua and took the arbitration position in the family affairs, she told Zhang Chen everything.

From historical experience, if something has the right time, right place and right people, it is likely to succeed. In Zhang Chen's view, the right time is the combination of multiple factors, the right place is nothing more than resources and financial support, and the right people and nature are personal connections.

What Huang Huifen said is actually a "hot spot" in Rongcheng's real estate industry. Under the trend of western development and investment attraction, various urban planning were carried out. During this period, there were still many urban-rural fringe areas, farmlands, and areas to be developed in the second ring of Rongcheng. With the trend of western development, the planning of the entire Rongcheng was expanding outward. To put it bluntly, a systematic urbanization movement was underway.

This is not just the beginning of Rongcheng, but the beginning of the entire domestic urbanization movement.

Many marginal lands became planned lands overnight, and then the city began to attract investment, selling land to developers at prices ranging from hundreds of thousands to millions per acre. This was the beginning of land finance.

Of course, this situation is also in the starting stage. At this time, various real estate companies of all sizes begin to be established, start up, and then plan their layout.

From the enclosure movement to the capital game, small real estate companies were basically merged by large capital and real estate companies. However, during this period, small real estate companies were established to acquire land, develop plots and sell houses, which started from this trend.

If Huang Huifen wants to do this, of course there is no problem.

But the opportunity alone is not enough, the funding issue is more critical.

Where does the money come from?
Huang Huifen said, "So, that's why I said that your godmother Chen Xuran meant this. We set up a company, get the old city renovation and real estate development project, and then use this project to apply for a loan from the Provincial Agricultural Bank. Your godmother Xuran is very capable, and the president of the bank has to buy her face, so basically the funding problem is not a problem. We can borrow several million to do development."

Zhang Chen had no problem with this. He had never expected that Chen Xuran had connections and financial support. By some strange coincidence, he had actually let his mother get on this train?
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There is one today at ten o'clock.

(End of this chapter)