After the gambling game was over, everyone sat down to drink tea and chat. In the evening, Gao Yuande and Gao Jin stayed here.
After staying with Gao Yuanming for two days, the father and son returned home.
"Dad, didn't you say that my uncle's family settled in England, why are they back now?" Gao Jin asked in confusion.
"Your uncle has to come back."
"Some people in the UK are advocating for Brexit. This government has promised to hold a referendum. The market is extremely unstable. One wrong step will lead to disaster."
"In order to avoid uncertainty, your uncle has just adjusted his corporate development strategy, sold a batch of properties in the UK and returned them to Hong Kong, and started investing in China last year."
"After all this, your uncle has lost tens of billions," Gao Yuande curled his lips and said.
After hearing this, Gao Jin didn't ask about specific things. He knew very well that there must be other things involved.
The Gao Group has invested a lot in investment and layout over the years, and its exit now will definitely not be just because of Brexit, there must be other things.
If Dad doesn't tell you, don't ask yourself, so that everyone won't get off the stage.
"Uncle borrowed money from you"
Gao Jin said something, feeling very worried about this.
"No, don't underestimate your uncle's financial situation. The cash flow is definitely not inferior to ours."
"Starlink Supermarket, which is currently expanding crazily in China, is your uncle's industry."
Gao Yuande looked at Gao Jin and said.
Gao Jin slowly shook his head. Although supermarkets are very prosperous now, in a few years when rents will skyrocket, supermarkets will be uncomfortable.
"Dad, I dare to make a bet with you. Five years from now, the supermarket group in my uncle's hands will be a big burden." Gao Jin said this with great certainty.
Gao Yuande looked at his son curiously, wondering how his son judged it.
"How did you judge?" Gao Yuande asked.
"It's very simple. Domestic housing prices are rising, house rents, shop rents, warehouse rents...etc. are all rising."
"It's not obvious now. You'll see in a few years."
“Many business profits have been siphoned off by rent.”
"Coupled with factors such as increased personnel salaries, the future of supermarkets can be imagined."
"Didn't you notice?"
"Last year, the prices of some products in the hypermarkets in Shangjing increased a lot in the second half of the year compared to the first half of the year. There are already signs that the prices in supermarkets are not affordable."
"When supermarket prices are no longer affordable, people will definitely look for new affordable purchasing channels. This is a natural law."
"Since then, the salary of supermarket employees has increased by about 300 per month on average, costs are increasing step by step, and profits are decreasing step by step."
"E-commerce is developing at a rapid pace, and the sales volume and customer flow of supermarkets are shrinking."
“The future of supermarkets can be imagined”
Gao Jin explained it from another angle, and Gao Yuande nodded seriously.
"What about you, I don't believe you are just making movies, what else do you plan to do?" Gao Yuande asked with a smile, and Gao Jin also laughed.
"I'll show you a text message," Gao Jin said with a smile.
After saying that, he stood up and sat directly next to his father. He took out his mobile phone and called up a text message for Gao Yuande to read. Gao Yuande took the mobile phone and was stunned when he saw it.
This is a text message notification from ICBC. The deposit in Chen Hao's account is only over 8 million yuan. This is because he made 4 million yuan with Gao Yuanming in the past few days.
"Where did you transfer the money?" Gao Yuande asked.
"Futures market" Gao Jin said calmly.
"You're crazy. It's an industry that goes from heaven to hell. How dare you!"
Gao Yuande said directly and looked at Gao Jin with wide eyes. He didn't expect Gao Jin to dare to play like this.
"I'll show you something more"
Gao Jin said calmly, took out his cell phone, flipped through it, and showed Gao Yuande a text message.
Gao Yuande took it and took a look. It was also a text message sent by ICBC. It showed that Chen Hao's futures account had made a profit.
All 495.6 million were purchased in crude oil futures, and the profit has been more than 20 million, and it is still profitable.
"Dad, look at the news. Crude oil futures will continue to rise in the future. The fundamental reason is that the International Crude Oil Organization wants to discuss production cuts."
"I don't know how other countries are doing. I only know that China's demand for crude oil is very strong."
“On one side there is high demand, on the other side there is production reduction, and the results are self-evident.”
Gao Jin smiled and explained that this was the result of the Star Spirit, and Gao Jin shamelessly took the result as his own.
"Commander is so shameless"
Xing Ling said something directly in Gao Jin's mind, Gao Jin didn't care.
Pretending is the most important thing at the moment, everything else is just a cloud.
More importantly, Gao Jin also checked to see if this parallel world was related to the earth in his previous life.
A lifetime ago, in 2014, international crude oil prices rose sharply in the first half of the year.
Since June, the international crude oil price has dropped from US$115.19 per barrel to the latest US$48.11, a drop of 58%.
"Dad, I will never play for a long time. After a while, I will close my position and leave the market. This will enrich my funds a lot."
"I don't want to lose the bet with dad," Gao Jin said with a smile, and Gao Yuande smiled bitterly.
"Where did you learn futures knowledge?" Gao Yuande asked.
"Where did you learn about being a charterer?"
"Millions of people in dozens of communities in more than a dozen big cities pay you rent every month. Who taught you this trick?" Gao Jin asked rhetorically.
Gao Yuande smiled and was very satisfied with Gao Jin's answer.
But soon, the smile on Gao Yuande's face disappeared.
"If supermarkets go downhill in the future, your uncle will suffer heavy losses."
A worried expression appeared on Gao Yuande's face. Even though the two brothers separated at that time, the relationship between the two brothers was still very deep.
"Dad, if you want my uncle to see the danger in advance, the rent will rise a little more this year to trigger market changes."
"Only in this way can the uncle see the danger."
"Uncle will prepare in advance when he sees a crisis, instead of blindly expanding like this now."
Gao Jin said something from the side, and Gao Yuande began to think.
After thinking for a while, I took out my phone and started dialing. Soon, the call was connected.
"President" came a man's voice on the phone.
"Xiaowei, the rent increase in the community this year will not be implemented according to the original 100 yuan, but will be implemented according to the monthly increase of 200 yuan."
"The price of front-end houses is adjusted from a monthly increase of 300 to a monthly increase of 500."
"Office building prices increased by 50 cents per square meter"
Gao Yuande said this very simply.
On the other side of the phone, Desheng Property General Manager Wei Haitao was really surprised.
"President, what happened? The sudden increase will make many people and many companies unable to bear it."
"Follow what I said," Gao Yuande said and hung up the phone.
Wei Haitao thought for a while while listening to the disconnection sound on the phone, then picked up the phone and started to order, notifying the branch managers in other cities to start executing it immediately.
In March every year, the industry under Gao Yuande's name will begin to sign one-year agreements with customers, and there are still about two weeks until the new year's agreement is signed.
It’s totally time to adjust.
"Dad is domineering!"
Gao Jin said something aside, and Gao Yuande shook his head and smiled bitterly.
"I saw the difficulties faced by those renting houses back then. The rent prices have been rising by dozens of yuan every year."
"When I adjust the prices here, the rents in more than a dozen cities will rise accordingly."
"I hope your uncle can be alert."
Gao Yuande said calmly, Gao Yuande knew his eldest brother's temper very well, and the decisions he made could not tolerate other people's opinions, and you wouldn't listen even if you said so.
As a younger brother, this is the only way to remind the elder brother.