Age of Legends

Chapter 22 Business Opportunities
It would be better to listen to Zhang Chen's suggestions on doing business than to listen to his ambitions. After all, this kid is considered a half-scholar in the family. Although he is not good at reading regular books, he still reads a lot of miscellaneous books.

Besides, he is almost an adult, he is seventeen this year, which means he is already the mainstay of the family. At this time, Zhang Chen still has a say.

"Look, Mom and Dad, let's define what you can do. You have connections and connections at NanGuang Company, but can you make money with these connections? Dad, can you bypass NanGuang Company and talk to customers about production lines and raw materials? Can you act as a matchmaker?"

"How is this possible? How much money would it cost!" Nanguang Company makes picture tubes, which are technology-intensive, labor-intensive, and capital-intensive. Without the resources, how could it be possible? Zhang Zhonghua shook his head.

"So, do you have any other special skills? Are there any skills that will not be eliminated?"

"Your mother played the organ when she was young, does that count?"

"It's okay to start a sunset group live broadcast in the future, but forget it now." Zhang Chen shook his head, "Then, there is only one thing I can do, and that is to sell my labor and do hard work."

Huang Huifen clapped her hands and said, "What did I say? I still have to open a fruit stand!"

"You work in the fruit stall from dawn to dusk, and you work so hard. Can you bear this hardship? In the end, you ruin your health."

"That can't be helped..."

Zhang Chen felt his nose getting a little sour again, and took a deep breath, "There is another way. That is to own your own commercial assets. If you have such a shop, you can do whatever you want, without the pressure of rent. You can just buy some clothes and sell them. It doesn't matter if you can't sell them, you can make money regardless of the weather!"

"That's right!" Huang Huifen agreed. In those days, Rongcheng had wholesale markets connected to the whole country, as well as a textile base and a shoe city. With the development of the national economy, the clothing industry became the largest industry to benefit. At that time, many people were proud of owning tweed coats and clothes made in Guangzhou. Later, Rongcheng's shoe industry also became very famous. Anyone who got a head start would reap huge profits.

Opening a clothing store has become the first choice for many people to start a business.

Huang Huifen has a friend who went to Guangzhou and negotiated with the factory to ship new goods from Guangzhou to Rongcheng Wholesale Market, and then they picked up the goods and sold them here. The business is pretty good and it is said that they have even bought several houses.

Of course, the ideal situation is to have your own store, so that you can keep costs to a minimum.

"Have you seen the Hexianju building across the street from the TV station compound?"

"How many restaurants have gone bankrupt just because of that one? I said at the beginning that if you do a good job in this kind of business, you will make a fortune, but if you don't do it well, you will keep losing money. People also need good fortune!" said Huang Huifen.

Zhang Chen nodded, "Indeed, it is that house. We will make a lot of money in the future!"

"Ah, what do you mean by big profits? Don't talk nonsense. If you put it up for sale, who would take it over? Everyone knows that the three previous businesses here failed! All three bosses went bankrupt. Now people shake their heads when they hear about it. It's well-known! Otherwise, you see, no one is interested in it after several months!"

"Mom, do you know Wang Yi from our class? His family works in the Construction Bureau, and his dad is the director or deputy director. Last time I went to their house, I heard his dad talking about planning on the phone. He was talking about the piece of land behind Hexianju. It has been basically finalized. The new mayor intends to plan it into a large settlement of 40,000 to 50,000 people, with large shopping malls, as the future eastern district!" Zhang Chen said.

"Your Yude High School has many children from such government agencies. It's normal for their families to know this, but you must not tell anyone else!" Huang Huifen warned.

She was a little slow in thinking. Zhang Zhonghua was already staring at Zhang Chen.

"Mom, you don't understand what this means." Zhang Chen had to explain.

"What does it mean?" After all, Huang Huifen didn't have the mercenary sense of a businessman. She was just an ordinary employee who had worked in a state-owned company for decades.

His father Zhang Zhonghua spoke up, "The information is poor."

"You are worthy of being the first generation of engineers in the factory!" Zhang Chen gave a thumbs up.

Huang Huifen seemed to have realized what was happening, and she said with her eyes wide open, "There have always been plans for that area. Some say it's planned to be a flower planting base, some say it's planned to be a logistics base, there are all kinds of rumors!"

"Yes, so the landlord of that store is in a hurry to sell it. Why is he in a hurry to sell it? He needs to make a cash flow. He has been stuck with it for a long time. Now he dares not open the store. The labor, water and electricity costs are too high. He will lose money if he opens it. He has been waiting for several months and has been looking for the next buyer. But no one dares to take it over. Who would dare to take it over? If someone takes it over, the land behind will become a flower plantation. That would be the end of it. Who would go there except to buy flowers!"

“That’s why they didn’t sell it for months and the price went to the bottom.”

Zhang Chen felt like he was a demon bewitching people. "But now, our family knows about the future plan there. The mayor knows about it, the director of the Construction Bureau knows about it, but other people outside don't know about it."

"The landlord is in a hurry to sell, the price is the lowest." "If you miss this opportunity, you will miss it forever."

"You have to get it now. Although it will take some time to build, as soon as the plan is released, the price of that store will not be the same as it is now. By then, it will be a rare commodity in your hands, and many people will want to take it!"

Zhang Chen was talking about what he knew. In the previous life, many owners of the Hexianju store went bankrupt, and finally the landlord had no choice but to resell it at the lowest price.

Later, a restaurant owner did take over. Then the government plan was introduced, and the area was upgraded, until it became one of the most prosperous areas in Rongcheng. The restaurant reaped the benefits that would probably last a lifetime, with guests filling up every day and becoming a long-established store in Rongcheng.

Of course, Zhang Chen never thought of letting his parents run the business. They might not be able to run a store at all. Running a restaurant is very tiring and requires management and experience in all aspects. His parents might not be suitable for it.

But one thing is, once you are fooled into buying the store, within a few months or half a year, once the government plan is released, this place will become a popular spot that everyone will scramble for.

Naturally, Zhang Chen wanted to get this kind of thing for him.

Now, the only way to get it is to convince my parents.

"Are you sure that your classmate's father, the director, said this?"

"Dad, I'm basically an adult, and I'm responsible for what I say."

"What responsibility do you take? Can you afford it?" Huang Huifen wanted to take action again.

But it seems that this is also a better way out or opportunity for the family.

What if it's true?

After thinking about it for a while, Zhang Zhonghua said, "Then I'll ask around later. How much does it cost?"

"If the price is right, even if the planning of the place is not the same, at least there is a shop and I can do anything." Zhang Zhonghua has decided to do business with debt. He doesn't expect it to be as Zhang Chen said.

"One hundred thousand yuan, maybe we can bargain." Zhang Chen said without thinking. In the past few days, he thought about how he would start if he had some money, and he chose this plan first. As for this store, he confirmed it and compared it with his memory.

"A shop of eighty square meters."

At that time, the general housing prices in Rongcheng were around 1,500 to 2,000 yuan. Occasionally, those priced at 3,000 yuan were already high-end properties. This was the stage when the commodity economy had just started.

At that time, the housing price in Chaoyang District, Beijing was 4000 yuan per square meter, a 62-square-meter house in Guangqumen, Chongwen District sold for 30 yuan, and a 68-square-meter house in Xiaoying, Dianqinghe District sold for 21 yuan, which is equivalent to a unit price of more than 3000 yuan.

Some newspapers have criticized that "a two-bedroom apartment costs at least 6 yuan. A college student saving 50 yuan a month is already the limit. It will take 100 years to afford it."

And here.

Because the shops of Hexianju have been hit continuously and there is also the risk of being completely ruined if they are planned to be turned into a flower planting base in the future, they are basically sold and transferred at extremely low prices.

In just a few months, the government will issue an official document, and the value of this shop will at least increase fivefold!
"But our family can't afford that much money!" Huang Huifen shook her head repeatedly, "The most our family can afford is 30,000 yuan!"

"That's easy." Zhang Chen said, "Because I have discussed this with Wang Shuowei before. If you want to do it, you can ask Wang Shuowei's dad... um, godfather to borrow money. Godfather has money."

Of course, Zhang Chen did not tell Wang Shuowei about this, and even Wang Bowen didn't know about it at all.

The reason why Zhang Chen made such a solemn vow was because he believed that his godfather Wang Bowen would definitely acknowledge the matter.

As a famous host in Rongcheng in the 1970s and 1980s, he could also borrow this money!

(End of this chapter)