No one could refuse the olive branch extended by Mrs. Maria. People like the former patrol supervisor Thomas, the former financial director, and Bockaar's father Ruby Will all agreed to mortgage their family properties to claim shares. It was only because of the merchant navy that they
They lost a lot of money, so they reluctantly could only claim 1% or 2% of the shares. Ruby Will, a big businessman in White Deer Town, could only claim five shares, which was the largest among them.
of one.
However, this was what Claude had expected, and life was difficult for everyone. Not only did the merchant navy cause these friends of his father to lose money, but even talking in Bailu Town was of no use. Losing public office was one aspect,
The most important thing is that the mayor of White Deer Town, Baron Robert, has the final say, and he sticks to his word in the town hall.
In addition, the fourth squadron of the newly established garrison brigade has become his minion, and has the support of National Congressman Sir Fox behind it. Mayor Robert even released a new tax plan in early April, adding two types of taxes.
One is the market management fee, and the other is the town's security fee, which is the daily expenses required to maintain the garrison.
These two taxes are targeted at all traders in Bailu Town. Whether they are large trading houses or street traders, they all need to pay these two newly added taxes. From this point of view, the mayor of the town, Baron Robert, is still smart.
Now that I'm sober, I know that the targets I should attack are still those traders, who are relatively wealthy. I don't want every household in the town to pay any security fees, which can easily arouse public resentment.
Although I don’t know why Madam Maria would mortgage her Norman Forest Farm to form some kind of real estate development company, everyone couldn’t help but feel happy when Butler Lutheran came to the door. They were grateful to Claude who introduced him. Like the former patrol supervisor
Thomas patted his chest and pledged all his property as a mortgage, and then subscribed for 2% of the shares.
The biggest news in White Deer Town in April was that the famous Baroness Maria Feng Normanly in the royal capital entrusted her butler Mr. Lutheran to mortgage her Normanly Forest Farm with the National Bank and invested 20,000 gold crowns to establish it.
She joined the Norman Real Estate Development Company. In addition to her, this company also has eleven shareholders, all of whom are well-known local people in Bailu Town who were originally involved in the opening of new routes. They started in the slums under the slogan of benefiting the country.
Enclosed land to purchase real estate.
Although I don't know what Madam Maria's calculation was, the house prices in White Deer Town suddenly increased by 30%. During this period, Mayor Robert and Sir Fox repeatedly requested to meet with Butler Lutheran, hoping to find out the truth.
But Butler Lutheran always claimed that it was Madam Maria who was sad about the decadence of the slums, and then decided to invest in changing the appearance of her hometown...
With the assistance of former patrol supervisor Thomas and others, the property acquisition in the slum area went smoothly. Laojie divided the slum area into east and west areas. Lutheran Butler mainly acquired properties in the east area, which accounted for three thirds of the entire slum area.
Two-thirds of the land. Of course, during the acquisition, we also encountered those troublemakers from time to time.
"The reason why these people are unwilling to sell their properties is because they have no other place to live. For them, they will lose their home after selling, so they will not sell it no matter how much money they have." Uncle Thomas is still very reliable in his work.
Yes, the investigation was also very detailed.
Claude nodded, this had been expected: "Since they are unwilling to sell the property for this reason, the simple solution is to give them another home. You still remember that I asked Butler Lutheran to buy it in the West End
That large piece of public land? Let’s build a few rows of buildings there first, sign contracts with these residents who are unwilling to move, and let them move there after the buildings are built. In this way, we only need to subsidize them.
A little fee is enough. No matter what, we have to get the entire eastern district’s real estate, so that we can carry out overall planning and build a mid- to high-end community.”
"Why don't you agree to those people and give them a room when the house here is built in the future, so that we don't need to build another building on the west side." Another person raised objections.
Claude shook his head: "The buildings we build on the public land to the west can be simpler, they just need to be sturdy and durable. To build the entire community here, we need supporting gardens, squares, and various shops to enhance the entire community.
The effect of housing prices. If houses are built here and then distributed to the original residents, we will lose more..."
There is nothing more convincing than one related to one's own profits. Everyone present understood what Claude meant.
"Okay, that's it, I'll go find those residents." Uncle Thomas turned around and prepared to go out.
"Wait a minute, Uncle Thomas." Claude stopped him: "If those people are still hesitant, you can use the shops on the first floor of the building to the west to attract them. We will not interfere with the shops over there, they are all ready for sale.
.As for the shops on the back floor after they are built in the community here, we will not use them to collect rent.”
"clear."
People in Bailu Town are more curious and puzzled about the massive construction work carried out by the Normanly Real Estate Development Company in the slums. Just like after the entire East District was acquired, the Normanly Real Estate Development Company also painted a huge community construction project.
The completed renderings were erected on the street, attracting countless people to watch. What they didn’t understand was, who would be sold to live in such a good community after it was completed? Rich people in Bailu Town would own their own homes, while people without money would buy them.
If they can't afford a house, Baroness Maria would not be so kind as to give each of those poor people a house...
Claude is very busy. Fortunately, his mother's health is almost recovered, and she has taken over the housework. Claude does not need to be busy anymore at home. And Claude can basically do things in the company.
Let go, Butler Lutheran will be in charge of the finances, and Claude also roped in Kaifani to be Butler Lutheran’s assistant. After all, Butler Lutheran is a bit old, and having someone to help him can ease his stress.
Some work and mental stress.
Twenty thousand gold crowns, after acquiring the entire east side of the slum and building a few rows of four-story buildings on the vacant land in the west side, was basically spent. Next, we have to demolish those dilapidated houses and level the land.
, these are managed by Uncle Thomas. Claude has privately told him to take this opportunity to recruit useful talents in the slums to prepare for the formation of construction teams, property management and security personnel in the future.
Claude is now busy gathering some architectural designers to carry out an overall plan for the entire community in order to achieve the most reasonable and beneficial layout so that the shareholders participating in the development company can obtain satisfactory returns. As for the construction costs, Claude
Not worried, the Lutheran housekeeper and the former financial director are communicating with the National Bank and are preparing to use the entire eastern district real estate as collateral to borrow a large amount of money to continue the subsequent construction.
Seeing that May was approaching, Vericro came to see Claude. After meeting, Vericro took out an exquisite dagger and put it into Claude's hand.
"What do you mean, isn't this your favorite collection?" Claude was a little strange.
Verricro likes to collect swords and other things. He used the profits from hunting in the past to buy these daggers and daggers. Claude remembered that they got this dagger from a merchant who set up a stall in the open-air market.
Viricero paid a high price of one gold crown for this dagger, and he was not willing to let his friends play with it.
"I'm leaving..." Viricero sighed softly.
"Where to go?"
"The Royal Capital." Verricro replied: "You know, my father offended Mayor Robert. He has been provoked several times by that Butcher Bill's Fourth Squadron for more than a month, and his life is not very comfortable. I
In a rage, my father wrote a letter to his old army commander, and also attached my junior high school transcript. Now the reply came, and there was my conscription order. I was banned from my father's old army.
The Guard Corps has been recruited. Today we go to the town office to get a pass. Tomorrow our family will set off for the royal capital, so I’m here to say goodbye to you now.”
Uncle Kubrick offended Mayor Robert when he formed the garrison brigade in White Deer Town. As a result, he was squeezed out after the garrison brigade was established. Now the fourth squadron of the Black Snake Association boss Bill the Butcher is responsible for the entrance and exit to the west of the town.
Guards, but Vericero's home is outside the town, at the foot of the mountain. Every time he goes to town, he has to pass through the west corner of the town.
Under the instruction of Mayor Robert, the Fourth Squadron always conducts extremely strict checks on Uncle Kubrick's entry and exit in White Deer Town, saying that they are checking whether there are any prohibited items in the things they carry. They rummage through the things in the car.
It was a mess, but others could easily let it go. Uncle Kubrick was so angry that he had to fight with the Fourth Squadron several times...
No wonder Claude wanted Uncle Kubelik to invest in a real estate development company last time but he rejected him. He was just waiting for a reply from the capital. As the son of a retired army veteran, he also has such a good junior high school physical education department.
As a result, no army would refuse to recruit new recruits like Viricero.
"It's time for me to congratulate you for becoming an honorable Guardsman." Claude was a little sad. The first one to leave was Boquear, and then Erikson turned against him because of the merchant navy. Now,
Viricero is leaving too.
"You and your family are going to the royal capital?" Claude patted Vericro on the shoulder. After saying goodbye this time, he didn't know when we would see each other again.
"Yes, my father's old chief found a job for my father, saying that he would be a guard for a noble person, and the reward would be very generous. He couldn't stay in Bailu Town anyway, so my father decided that the whole family would go to the royal family.
Du, there are a lot of people over there, maybe you can find me a good brother-in-law."
Claude looked at himself and sadly found that he had nothing to offer, so he could not exchange souvenirs with Vericro. He had to spread his hands: "When are you leaving? I will give it to you then..."
"No, we're leaving early tomorrow morning. We've packed a carriage with all our things. We're not going through the town, we're taking a detour to avoid getting in trouble from those bastards. So you don't need to see me off. Wait until I settle down."
I will write to you, just remember to reply to me." Verricro smiled with a smile, hugged Claude tightly, turned around and left.
In the afternoon, I picked up my sister from school. During dinner, my mother mentioned that she lived in a forest farm and wanted to go to the open-air market in town to buy some food but there were no carriages. It was very inconvenient. Claude thought about it. There are only two carriages in the forest farm now.
, he had one for himself, and another was an old horse-drawn cart belonging to the forester Mr. and Mrs. Xioli.
During this time, I was busy in the town every day, and Sioli was not idle either. He drove his carriage to pick up rags in the acquired shabby houses, and was not at the forest farm. My mother could only walk if she wanted to go to town. It seemed that she
You have to buy a carriage to keep at home, and you have to choose a docile mare to pull the carriage.
As for Butler Lutheran, because he has established a real estate development company, the address is in a better house in the slums, and he lives there with his groom. After all, he has to guard such a large place for Mrs. Maria.
, so I no longer live in the forest farm.
"Let's do this. I'll go to the open-air market tomorrow and buy you a carriage. Now that the cabin belongs to our family, I can ask someone to build a stable next to it." Claude decided to buy a carriage for his mother.
After the family members all went to bed at night, Claude came to the study. During this time, he was busy with real estate development and did not do any alchemy magic experiments. The other one was also his mother and the others, which was a bit inconvenient, so he had to wait until they were all gone.
You can practice meditation only when you are asleep.
But now that the real estate development matter has come to an end, the next steps can be left to Butler Lutheran and Uncle Thomas. Just like a rowing boat on Lake Beringa, the direction has been set, and it depends on the efforts of each oarsman.
, from this aspect, Claude is the one who directs the course.
I should be able to relax a bit. Claude thought, and then he heard a gentle knock on the door.
Opening the door, it was my sister Anna's pale little face.
"Why are you still not sleeping? Can you get up and go to school tomorrow?" Claude asked with a smile.
"Tomorrow is Sunday, so we won't have school as a day off," my sister said.
Only then did Claude realize that his sister Anna was holding the magic recipe book in her arms.
"Oh, this recipe is here with you, no wonder I didn't see it." Claude then remembered that he took this magic recipe book from the stall set up by his father that day. Later, he went upstairs to look for his sister and brother, but he forgot it in her
There it is.
But sister Anna hugged the magic cookbook tightly: "Second brother, let me tell you a secret. There are blue words hidden in this cookbook..."