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An old, dilapidated apartment of 80 square meters, if purchased in full, would cost at most a little over 200,000 yuan.

Given the high-tech zone's ability to extract premiums, as soon as the park's planning map is laid, the prices of these five residential areas will at least double, soaring to over 5,000 yuan per square meter! And that's just the most conservative estimate.

If several large companies can come this time, the price can rise even further.

"Monkey, listen up. Right now, get all the smart guys under you out there and get them to work on these secondhand house sales contracts tonight. Remember, make sure the penalty clause in the contract is tripled, and the deposit is written as the maximum percentage of 20%."

Brother Qiang is very experienced in dealing with these poorly informed, low-income residents.

Once the official document has been circulating throughout the streets and alleys of Jiangyang County for a few days, these original homeowners will definitely regret it.

Therefore, they must be completely trapped by high deposits and extremely harsh penalties for breach of contract.

"Tomorrow morning at eight o'clock, as soon as it's light, you all split up and go knocking on doors with cash."

"Don't haggle with them. As long as it's a two-bedroom or larger unit with clear title and transferable ownership, we don't even need to see the property. Just tell them that as long as they sign and put their fingerprints, the full payment will be made and the transfer will be completed on the same day. Tomorrow, we must get at least thirty deposit contracts."

Now we must race against time. There are many others who share the same thought. If we are late, they will probably leave him with nothing.

"Got it, Brother Qiang! We're not sleeping tonight, we're going to grab some meat first thing tomorrow morning!"

……

The next morning, it was just getting light in Jiangyang County.

Xu Qiang, along with Monkey and two other henchmen carrying black leather bags, each with a cigarette in their mouth, stormed into the Hongqi Machinery Factory's residential compound.

This old residential area, built in the early 1990s, doesn't even have a proper security guard. The walls are all made of cement, without any tile decorations.

"Brother Qiang, the landlord of apartment 401 in unit 2 of building 3 is a retired worker surnamed Wang. I called him last night to test the waters, and the old man is worried that he can't sell this dilapidated apartment and is in a hurry to raise money for his son's down payment on a new house."

The monkey lowered its voice, pointed at a gray cement building in front of it, and its eyes gleamed green.

Once you get the house, you can resell it and make a 50% profit.

"Let's go, let's go straight up and throw money at it!" Brother Qiang stubbed out his cigarette and rushed into the stairwell first.

On his way here, he had already seen several groups of cars heading this way. Now it was all about time; if you were slow, you'd miss out.

Just as they reached the flower bed in front of the building, two black Audi A6s with Zhejiang C license plates suddenly turned in, their tires scraping against the gravel-strewn ground, and came to an abrupt stop in front of them.

The car door opened, and five or six men dressed in well-made casual suits and carrying Hermès handbags got out of the car.

The leader was a thin, middle-aged man wearing gold-rimmed glasses, who was even twirling two walnuts in his hands.

Whoa! Qiang Ge's eyelids twitched suddenly, and he stopped in his tracks instantly.

Zhejiang C license plate? Wenzhou real estate speculators?!

These people are notorious locusts in the national real estate industry, taking advantage of everything they do.

They were all organized to buy up goods in groups with huge amounts of privately raised funds and leveraged capital, and their behavior was ten times more domineering than those of ordinary speculators.

Moreover, they don't buy them in sets; they buy an entire building at once.

The man with the gold-rimmed glasses had obviously noticed Qiang Ge and his group as well. His gaze swept over the bulging black leather bags in their hands, and he instantly understood their purpose.

A cold smile curled at the corner of his lips. He turned to the person next to him and quickly gave two instructions in the local dialect.

"Hey! What are you doing?" When the monkey saw that the other party was directly bypassing them and squeezing into the second unit's stairwell, he immediately got anxious and shouted as he tried to push them away.

"Don't use violence!"

Qiang grabbed Monkey, his face so dark it could drip water. "Damn it, the news leaked faster than a sieve! Are these Wenzhou bastards dogs? Their noses are so sharp!"

He was waiting for news from the provincial capital, thinking he could buy some time, but he didn't expect that these people from other provinces knew about it even earlier than him.

As the two sides were locked in a stalemate, the dilapidated security door of Unit 2 was pushed open from the inside, and an old man wearing a white vest and carrying a birdcage leisurely walked out. It was none other than Old Wang, the landlord they had their eyes on.

"Uncle Wang, right? We'll take this apartment!" The man with the gold-rimmed glasses, who had been aloof just moments before, greeted them with a beaming smile, unzipping his handbag to reveal stacks of bright red hundred-yuan bills inside.

"The agent said your asking price was 210,000 last night? I'll offer 250,000! Here's the 50,000 deposit, let's sign the contract right away!"

Old Wang was startled by the sudden commotion. The birdcage in his hand shook, and the thrushes inside fluttered wildly in fright.

"Huh? Two...two hundred and fifty thousand?"

"Bullshit! I saw this house last night, sir. I'll offer 280,000! Full cash payment, we'll go to the housing authority this afternoon to transfer the title! I've brought the contract, just sign it, and you can use the money to pay your son's down payment!"

"Three hundred thousand."

The man with the gold-rimmed glasses didn't even flinch, directly adding 20,000 yuan to the amount, glancing at Brother Qiang with a contemptuous look.

"Young man, trying to outmaneuver us? Is your pool deep enough?"

"Three hundred and twenty thousand!"

Qiang gritted his teeth, the veins on his neck bulging. This was the limit he could bear; any more, and after deducting transaction taxes and capital costs, the profit margin on this property would be drastically compressed.

The man with the gold-rimmed glasses stopped eating the walnuts and finally looked Qiang Ge up and down, the mocking smile on his lips growing wider and wider.

He didn't continue bidding, but turned his head and gestured with his chin to the man in the suit behind him, "Open the trunk."

A man who looked like a bodyguard immediately turned around and walked to the back of the Audi A6, then laboriously pulled out two large black canvas bags.

Seeing this, Xu Qiang's eyelids twitched, and he knew that this matter was in trouble.

We live in a society governed by the rule of law, so the canvas bag couldn't possibly contain illegal items. If it's not illegal, then it can only be…

Sure enough, the zipper was ripped open.

At that moment, not only Qiang Ge and Monkey, but also the elderly men and women watching the commotion, and even Old Wang carrying the birdcage, were stunned.

Two full sacks, each containing a neatly bundled bundle of 100-yuan bills, still sealed with the bank seal.

Xu Qiang could roughly tell the price from just one glance, but this canvas bag was worth about two million.

If both cars had trunks like this, Xu Qiang quickly did the math and his face immediately darkened.

In the morning sunlight of Jiangyang County, the pile of red banknotes, resembling a small mountain, exudes a suffocating, violent aesthetic.

"Young man, you might not understand the rules for Zhejiang C license plates. When we go shopping, we never buy them in sets."

The man with the gold-rimmed glasses took out a cigar from his pocket, and his henchman immediately pulled out a windproof lighter to light it for him.

He squinted through the swirling smoke, looked at Old Wang who was completely dumbfounded, and uttered a shocking statement.

"Uncle Wang, right? I'll give you 350,000 yuan for this apartment. Also, go knock on every neighbor's door in this building right now. Anyone willing to bring their property certificate and sign a full payment contract with me this morning will get at least 350,000 yuan! For each successful contract, I'll give you an extra 5,000 yuan as a 'tea fee'!"

As soon as he said that, Old Wang almost dropped the birdcage from his hand, but luckily a neighbor in a white vest caught it in time.

Several elderly men and women who were squatting by the flower bed, eating sunflower seeds and watching the commotion, all stopped eating, leaving the seed shells stuck to their lips and forgetting to spit them out.

My eyes were fixed on the two open canvas bags. I'd lived most of my life and had only ever seen so much cash piled up together on television news.

Unexpectedly, it's now right in front of them like this.