Vladimir was quite calm when faced with the proposal of his old friend. In fact, his calmness was not a joke with Liu Zhixiong, but because he had his own deep thoughts and plans.
Seeing that Liu Zhixiong was not calm at all, he couldn't help but laugh after taking a few sips of tea.
This smile made Liu Zhixiong's hair tingle with laughter.
"Old man, what are you laughing at?"
"I have a plan." Vladimir smiled slightly.
"what's the plan?"
"Do you think that if Campbell goes bankrupt, this painting will be greatly reduced? Maybe with luck, it will directly belong to us."
This time it was Liu Zhixiong's turn to laugh.
"Old man, he is a Duke, has a certain political status, and has backstage support. I am afraid that the possibility of him going bankrupt is lower than the possibility of me winning consecutive jackpots."
"What happened to the Duke? Aren't there many Dukes in history who became commoners?"
Liu Zhixiong carefully studied these words and seemed to understand something.
"Old man, what do you think?"
"Let's jointly set up a trap for Campbell?"
"He has no grievances or grudges against us."
"You don't want to get that work at a low price? No, you can even get it for free."
Liu Zhixiong made no secret of it: "Of course I have. I think if that painting enters the auction house now, the starting price will be at least 100 million, and it is estimated that it will be worth no less than 200 to 300 million."
"Well, there are a few people who can stay calm under the temptation of money. You know Bracken, right?"
Liu Zhixiong did not hesitate, "I know, isn't he our classmate in the Attenborough MBA?"
"Campbell is his maternal grandfather, and the Campbell family participated in the invasion of your country more than a hundred years ago..." Vladimir began to popularize the dark history of the Campbell family.
Liu Zhixiong was also shocked after hearing this.
When he was in the MBA class, he also knew that Bracken looked down on East Asians like them. In private, Bracken called them narrow eyes.
"The logic of the robber is not something we can clearly understand, but we know that we should treat the other person the same way he did."
"Then how should we set up a trap for him?" Liu Zhixiong felt that it would be much more comfortable for the Campbell family to receive the punishment they deserve than the pleasure he would get from spending huge sums of money through the auction house.
"As far as I know, the Campbell family's current main investment direction is real estate. If we can join forces and you can connect with customers in China, Campbell's business will definitely be affected."
After hearing this, Liu Zhixiong couldn't help but nodded: "It means we jointly set up a real estate company, right?"
"Yes, but not in your name, but in the name of Chinese state-owned enterprises developing overseas."
"But our country's central enterprises have no experience in developing real estate overseas."
"This is not important. What is important is that you have to convince them. This is why I asked you to cooperate."
"I can try this."
"Give you a week, if possible, we will take a photo of a two-hundred-acre piece of land next to Financial Street."
One acre is almost 6 acres of land, which is about 4,000 square meters, and two hundred acres is 800,000 square meters. In places like Financial Street where land is at a premium, building high-end apartments is definitely the first choice for the rich.
Liu Zhixiong's strength obviously does not support his ability to invest too much.
"Old man, I can invest up to 200 million US dollars." He was quite embarrassed.
"We need to spend US$3 million per acre, and we need to spend US$600 million for two hundred acres, plus various deeds and taxes. The cost of the land price alone is US$800 million. Then the construction cost is about 1.5 billion, and our cost will reach 2.3 billion.
, this is the most conservative estimate.”
"What about the floor area ratio?"
"There are about two thousand houses, and the average area of each house is two hundred square meters. According to the cost of one square meter of room in London, which is US$100,000, that is 2,000 times 200 and then times 100,000, which is almost four billion US dollars.
Of course, we can’t sell all our houses at once, and the bank interest tax rate is conservative at US$500 million, which means we can almost make a profit of one billion US dollars.”
Liu Zhixiong gritted his teeth and said, "Then I will invest another US$200 million."
"It doesn't matter, as much as you have."
"I think you still need to recruit partners." Liu Zhixiong knew that Vladimir was an out-and-out rich second generation, but it was impossible to spend two billion US dollars at once.
"I've already found them, and I'm just leaving you."
"Well, ask your airline to arrange a business jet for me. I'm going to fly to China tomorrow." Liu Zhixiong is determined to invest in real estate in London. "I'll go there to attract customers."
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Vladimir came up with the idea of investing in real estate. On the one hand, he keenly sensed that London, as the world's financial center, was extremely profitable in real estate development. On the other hand, he wanted to deal with the Campbell family.
The shareholders of Yingguo Royal Bank are not only Bracken, but also Campbell.
They are already eating heads without spitting out bones.
There just happened to be such a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity.
Prince Hussein's trust fund is basically Vladimir's cash machine. Of course, he still has good credit and will not miss a penny when the installment date in the agreement is reached.
This time, he even brought with him the dead organization Rykylenko.
This guy's life was not easy. For the sake of the dead organization, he also asked Rigilenko to invest 10 million US dollars.
If everything goes well, Rigilenko's ten million dollars will turn into twenty million dollars in two or three years.
No, if luck is good, it won't even take two or three years for Rigilenko, maybe just a few months.
One week came quickly, and Liu Zhixiong returned to London from China as scheduled.
Sure enough, under his active operation, this high-ranking state-owned enterprise that had been committed to overseas investment agreed to work with them to develop real estate in London Financial Street.
"That's good, let's form a company team as soon as possible."
"The key is whether we can take pictures of that land?" Liu Zhixiong couldn't help but remind him when he saw that this guy was very anxious.
"There is absolutely no problem in winning that piece of land. The key is how we can get the funds back as soon as possible." Vladimir is quite confident about winning that piece of land.
"If the price is too high, our profits will be further compressed."
"We can buy that piece of land at the average price at most." Vladimir patted Liu Zhixiong on the shoulder with a smile on his face and said.
Liu Zhixiong nodded without hesitation, knowing that whatever Vladimir said was absolutely true.