Chen Mo's team quickly started acquiring the three areas, but due to the limited number of people in the team, they still carried out the acquisition one by one, starting with the Bronx in northern Manhattan.
However, not long after the acquisition started, something went wrong. They found that many land owners they had just talked to but who had not yet given a reply suddenly sold their land to others. Some land they had not yet had time to contact and negotiate were also sold at high prices.
It seems that a large number of competitors have suddenly appeared to compete with them for land in these areas.
Regarding this unexpected situation, Tom, the head of Chen Mo's private business team, immediately reported to Chen Mo.
"Boss, our acquisition of the Bronx has just begun, and many competitors suddenly appeared. They are large in number and move faster than us. They raised the price of the land a lot as soon as they made the purchase. It is difficult for us to maintain normal operations now.
price to complete the acquisition.”
Tom, the head of Chen Mo's private business team, came to the office in Chen Mo's manor, reported the latest situation to Chen Mo, and asked for Chen Mo's opinion whether to raise the price and continue the acquisition, start a fight with them, or simply give up the acquisition. Based on the current situation
Look, even if they turn to acquire land in Queens and Staten Island, the other party is likely to continue to follow.
Chen Mo received their report without any surprise. Although the person behind the scenes deliberately concealed his identity and sent a large number of agents to create the illusion that Chen Mo's previous massive acquisitions had caused many businessmen to blindly follow the trend and rush to buy. However,
Chen Mo knew very well that behind these people stood the same person, the current richest man in the United States, John Jacob Astor!
When Chen Mo first decided to attack John Jacob Astor, he had already expected his revenge. Chen Mo had no intention of hiding the Indians, which already showed that Chen Mo did not take the richest man in the United States seriously.
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Chen Mo is actually not in a hurry to acquire these lands. These areas are still far away from real development. There is actually not much difference between the acquisition now and the acquisition decades later. The price and other aspects have not changed much. He just wants to take a step forward.
Once you're in place, do this little thing at once.
But the other party suddenly intervened at this time, obviously seeing Chen Mo's persistence in enclosing land, and wanted to trick Chen Mo.
"Boss, the current price of these lands has exceeded their actual value. There is no need to buy them now. Do you want to continue the acquisition plan?"
Tom, the head of the commercial team, asked Chen Mo.
They just made suggestions, and ultimately whether to continue the acquisition still depends on Chen Mo's order.
"Continue to make acquisitions. If he raises the price, we will also raise the price. We must show a posture that we are bound to win, no matter how much it costs! I want to buy this land!"
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John Jacob Astor thought he was secretly tricking Chen Mo, but he didn't know that Chen Mo was already waiting for him!
Now that he had taken action, Chen Mo just continued.
Immediately, under Chen Mo's instruction, the acquisition team immediately increased the acquisition price appropriately in response to the current situation, and finally grabbed some more land. However, the other party responded quickly and immediately raised the acquisition price again.
The price of these originally very cheap lands has quickly increased by nearly half due to the competition between the two parties. If this continues, it will soon double.
In fact, John Jacob Astor did not blindly raise the price to snap up the land. He was actually testing it at first. He first raised the price and snapped up some land from Chen Mo. Chen Mo also raised the price immediately, and then,
John Jacob Astor gradually controlled the price to continue to increase. At this time, if Chen Mo gave up the acquisition, he would have failed at best and bought several pieces of suburban land that were already very cheap at a higher price.
That's all.
But if Chen Mo still continues to acquire them at high prices, it means that Chen Mo is really as determined as he expected and is very determined to acquire these lands. In this way, he can proceed with his next plan with confidence!
John Jacob Astor's purpose was not just to raise the price and trick Chen Mo, but to make a huge profit from it and get back all the profits from the fur trade that Chen Mo had stolen from him!
When the price of land in the most competitive area of the Bronx, bordering northern Manhattan, rose to 1.5 times its original value, some people began to sell it out. Many lands that had been bought at low prices began to be sold at high prices.
, it looks very much like someone is following the trend and hyping it up.
This was actually John Jacob Astor's last test to see how determined Chen Mo was to buy this land, so that he could make subsequent arrangements with confidence.
The result was as he expected. As long as someone was selling, Chen Mo would buy them all without hesitation, regardless of the price. Now John Jacob Astor was completely relieved and began to use all the power in his hands to make purchases.
Land in the Bronx, Queens and Staten Island.
Since John Jacob Astor took control of the contested terrain, only the southernmost borough of the Bronx and areas bordering northern Manhattan have seen the highest land price increases, with only slight increases elsewhere in Queens and Staten Island.
Land prices have not changed much.
These lands were quickly taken over by John Jacob Astor with his many years of connections and power in New York.
Afterwards, John Jacob Astor directly doubled the price and began selling them to the outside world, waiting happily for Chen Mo to eat them in one bite.
If Chen Mo is really an ordinary rich man from China, it is really possible that because of his inner attachment to land and to obtain these vast lands, he paid a high price to buy these lands from John Jacob Astor.
Although the price of these lands has more than doubled from the original price, compared to China, which is far more densely populated than the United States and is dominated by farming, these lands are still at a bargain price.
It's a pity that although Chen Mo is also from China, he is not from China at this time.
After John Jacob Astor took all the land in these areas, Chen Mo directly stopped acquiring the land. When they started selling the land in their hands and waiting for Chen Mo to take it over at a high price, they found that Chen Mo
It suddenly stopped!
"master!"
In John Jacob Astor's luxurious villa, in a luxuriously decorated study room full of culture and art, the housekeeper knocked on the door and walked in, lowered his head and called out.