I was actively striving for a price reduction, but I didn’t expect to be stopped by Zhou Jimin. Isn’t this work in vain?

Phoenix still knows the proverb of striking while the iron is hot.

But precisely because he knew it, he was even more afraid.

So, we quickly finalized the time and place for tomorrow’s negotiation with Li Zhongkai and the others.

This time the time was set by Phoenix and others, and it was set at eight o'clock in the morning. It was very early, which also meant that they were in a hurry.

But the location was decided by Li Zhongkai and others in the Tanglou.

This means that Phoenix and the others need to take a ferry to the opposite West End tomorrow for negotiations.

Feng shui is really changing, and the retribution of this world is coming too fast.

On the way back, Li Zhongkai and the others were very excited. Apparently, they were very satisfied with today's twists and turns of negotiations.

However, they have already discussed tomorrow's negotiation strategy.

Zhou Jimin was not participating, saying that he wanted to go out for a walk and get a feel for it.

In this regard, Li Zhongkai and others said that there is no problem, but they must pay attention to safety.

After bidding farewell to Li Zhongkai and the others, Zhou Jimin hailed a taxi and headed to the top of the mountain.

We arrived near the top of the mountain, got off the car, and then slowly ran to the villa.

It was mid-afternoon, around three or four o'clock, and in the yard of the villa, three children were playing on the lawn.

The big dogs next to them were also playing with them, while Xu Mei and the others were sitting nearby, chatting and watching.

Suddenly, all the big dogs ran towards the door of the villa.

This scene stunned Zhou Qingyue and the others, and they wanted to call them back, but they couldn't.

You are usually obedient, why are you disobedient now?

Xu Mei and the three adults were also very surprised. This is the second time they have encountered this situation after coming to the island for so long.

Soon, they realized that Zhou Jimin must be back.

So, they also ran towards the gate.

The three little ones who were left behind stared blankly at their mother's back. The next moment, the tears and grievances of being abandoned all came out.

Zhou Jimin opened the door with the key, and he was greeted by big dogs.

After a while, he saw Xu Mei and the others, and then heard the cries of the children.

Before they had time to be intimate, Zhou Jimin, Xu Mei and the others hurriedly picked up the three little guys.

With the companionship last night, although I was still a little embarrassed when I hugged them today, it was much better after all.

"Brother Zhou, are you finished?"

After he had coaxed the children, Qin Jingru couldn't wait and asked cautiously.

Because she is very anxious and eager.

Nodding, Zhou Jimin did not tease them and said that he would stay at the villa to accompany them in the next few days.

After hearing the news, Xu Mei and the other three girls were very surprised.

The children are even more happy. Suddenly there is a father in the family, and he keeps playing with them. How can they be so happy?

So, the next few days will be a happy time for the three little guys.

Of course, Xu Mei and the others are also very happy. Everyone can have a chance every day.

After all, in addition to bedtime at night, there is also a lunch break.

In addition to spending time together, Zhou Jimin also learned that Xu Mei and the three girls' experiences on the island for more than a year were both boring and exciting.

It's boring because most of the time, I take care of my children at home, which is nothing to say.

The excitement is because of the business Xu Mei and the others are doing outside.

Before, that is, before the Spring Festival of 1962, Zhou Jimin sent them to the island. Before leaving the island, he suggested to them that they could just become charter wives.

At first, Xu Mei and the others were very obedient. They first found someone to understand the current situation of the island, especially the property market.

After all, Zhou Jimin had warned them not to engage in gambling or stocks, and it was best to buy a property.

I don’t know, I don’t know, I’ll be shocked when I understand.

The property market is very expensive, much more expensive than the prices in Beijing.

You know, in Beijing at this time, there were basically very few building transactions. Even private housing could still be traded, but it was very rare.

The main reason is that public houses can no longer be traded, and at that time, more than half of the houses in the capital were public houses.

For private residences, where there are few new buildings and there are no houses that have been vacant for many months, where are the housing transactions?

Even if there is a house transaction, the price generally ranges from a few hundred yuan to thousands of yuan.

However, here on the island, the price of houses has soared to tens of thousands of yuan.

For tens of thousands of yuan, you can buy a car in the mainland.

The emergence of such high building prices has a lot to do with the background at that time.

Since 1954, the number of residents migrating to the island from the mainland has increased dramatically, bringing with them a considerable amount of money.

In the early 1960s, the population increased to 3 million.

What followed was a boom in the industrial economy. In the past seven or eight years, the number of manufacturing factories on the island increased from 2,944 to 8,941.

The accumulation of wealth and the rapid growth of the population, coupled with the "strata home ownership" and "installment payment" models promoted by real estate developers, have led to the prosperity of the island's post-war real estate market.

Therefore, the increase in housing prices during this period was astonishing. In the Tsim Sha Tsui business district, the housing prices of shops in better locations doubled in 1954.

At the same time, the monthly salary of ordinary grassroots workers starts at about 200 yuan, and a monthly salary of 300 yuan is already available as a delivery driver.

If you have needs and funds, even if a house costs tens of thousands of yuan, as long as you work diligently for four or five years and save enough for a down payment of 10,000 yuan, you can buy a house, and the monthly payment will only cost more than 400 yuan.

As long as both husband and wife work diligently and the monthly family income is 700 to 1,000 yuan, it is not a big problem.

During this period, many police officers were notorious for corruption. A person who had just become a police officer could buy a house with full payment in less than a year and a half.

Just talking about those small traders, that is even more exaggerated. Anyway, the speed of making money is not only comparable to that of a car, but at least it is as fast as a motorcycle.

Xu Mei and the others discovered that housing prices on the island were not only expensive, but management was also a big problem.

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Therefore, setting up a small company is the most important thing.

If there was no company, how could Xu Mei and the others dare to collect rent by themselves as mere individuals?

Wouldn't it be even worse if something unexpected happened?

So, they directly set up a small company and hired seven or eight employees.

In this way, it is indeed much simpler.

However, this matter is not over yet.

Less than three months after the company was established, two employees secretly came up with a yin and yang contract, cheating Xu Mei and the others.

It’s up to Xu Mei and the others to talk about this.

When she was in Beijing, Xu Mei was also one of the leaders of the management of Red Star Group Company, in charge of the financial department.

Therefore, she feels that she is relatively familiar with the company's operating system.

Therefore, not long after the company was established, she safely handed over the company to her employees, and she only needed to be responsible for checking the accounts.

After all, rents are fixed and generally won’t increase too much.

But, as the saying goes, the devil is as high as the Tao.

The island's economy is changing rapidly. The rent three months ago is completely different from the rent three months later.

The employees realized that the boss only checked the accounts, rarely appeared in the company, and never visited the tenants.

Yes, that’s a bad idea.

Even if the rent of a house only increases by five yuan in three months, how can the company only have one house?

That’s quite a few houses!

Not to mention there are shops, and shop prices vary even more.

Because this thing is at the forefront of the market, maybe a cake shop opens next door today and takes away customers, and the day after tomorrow a tea restaurant or something opens further away, taking away customers again.
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If this continues, within a few months, the flow of people near the shop will be taken away by the street next door.

As a result, if the shop is not making money, why do we still have to find a way?

Therefore, precisely because of these circumstances, employees follow market prices and re-sign contracts with merchants.

Then, the contract reported to the company not only did not increase in price, but actually decreased in price.

The reason is that the merchants feel that the store is not prosperous and cannot make money. If the rent is not lowered, then they will find another place.

Xu Mei and the others have just arrived on the island and don’t go out very often, so how do they know this?

Xu Mei, who was deceived, foolishly praised the employees for their hard work and conscientiousness.

But a few months later, when they happened to go shopping in the vegetable market, they saw the shop they bought, which was filled with people. This was not what the employees said.

When they learned that they had been deceived, Xu Mei and the others were extremely angry. Qin Jingru even directly stated that she would go to the employees to settle the score.

Fortunately, Xu Mei pulled her back.

This mute can't admit it anymore, he must be taught a lesson.

At the same time, we must find a way to prevent such incidents from happening.

How to teach a lesson?
To be continued...