I want to be emperor

Chapter 1104 The interests behind the zoo

The newly opened Songjiang Xicheng Zoo is not the first zoo in Songjiang City. In fact, in the 1930s, businessmen had already invested in the construction of Songjiang City. It was even the first zoo in the Dachu Empire that was open to the public for a fee. of zoo.

However, the owner who invested in this zoo at that time was not very powerful. It seemed that there were many types of animals collected, but he lacked the corresponding technical capabilities for animal feeding and medical treatment.

After all, the animals in the zoo come from all over the world, and various types of animals have hugely different living environment and food requirements... In addition, many animals are simply captured wild animals, and if wild animals are not well taken care of after being kept in captivity, they will soon die. It is easy to die.

Therefore, although the first commercial zoo in Songjiang City made a lot of money at the beginning, it soon died due to a large number of animals. At the same time, it required a relatively high cost to replenish the animals. It was eventually forced to close a few years later due to poor management.

However, when it was closed, it attracted petitions from some ordinary people, especially parents of many students, and teachers at the school requested to continue to maintain the zoo... because it allows children to see and come into contact with a lot of things in a real sense. Animals are very good for children’s knowledge cultivation...

After all, no, every parent can take their children to Africa and let them see what a lion looks like.

However, capital will definitely not do such money-losing things, so the companies ignored it, and in the end the matter fell on the government... Then the government's educational institutions also vigorously promoted this matter, and of course, more importantly, the government's industrial and commercial departments A group of highly educated bureaucrats who are proficient in numbers used their abacus to calculate, and finally came to the conclusion that although the zoo itself had lost money to my grandma's family... But in the three or four years since the zoo was opened, it had It attracted a large number of people to gather, thus boosting business in the surrounding areas.

There are even many parents from other places who take their children to Songjiang to see animals in the zoo during holidays, which brings a lot of income from food and accommodation, gifts, and luxury accessories...

In this way, although the zoo itself loses money, the flow of people it brings effectively promotes tourism revenue, can provide more jobs, people's income, and allow the government to collect more tax revenue.

In the final analysis, if you take over the money-losing zoo, you can make up for it in other ways. If you run it well, you might even be able to make some extra money.

Of course, if a real estate company takes over a property...even if it is a wholly-owned government-owned real estate company taking over a money-losing property, additional subsidies and support must be given, otherwise the officials at the Department of Industry will definitely not approve it. .

Under such circumstances, the operators of Songjiang Zoo began planning to build a branch many years ago.

After doing this, the zoo finally turned a profit and made a lot of money...

Finally, under the instruction of Songjiang Prefecture Yamen, Songjiang Real Estate Company… a real estate enterprise that was originally engaged in real estate business and was controlled by Songjiang Prefecture Finance and under the jurisdiction of Jiangnan Province Industry Department, generously opened up this zoo and changed its name to Songjiang Prefecture Zoo.

Make sure that in the next 100 years, the government will not be able to forcefully take back the land by paying liquidated damages... because that will be a sky-high liquidated damages.

When everything was finally settled and officially opened to the public, it was fifty-one years since Chengshun.

It cannot be said to be a branch park, because this new branch park far exceeds the original old zoo in terms of scale and investment, and because the old zoo is located in the core old city, the land value is very high... The government I also want to move this thing away and free up the space to build commercial real estate.

Well, the important reason why Songjiang Real Estate Company invested so much in the new park is that the government agreed that as long as they build the new park, the land where the old park is located can be handed over to them for development... This old park Does the land still belong to official land?

Naturally, this official land cannot be sold... The official attitude of the Da Chu Empire towards official land is that it can only enter and not get out, it can only be purchased, and there has never been a precedent for selling it... This is related to the basic national policy of restraining land annexation, let alone As an ordinary official, even if the future emperor wants to change, it is probably unlikely.

As for Songjiang, as the city expands and the population increases, although the original zoo is very successful, it is located in the old city and has relatively large limitations. There is basically no hope of expansion... What's more important is that , there is really a traffic jam in the central old city... Many people living in other urban areas rushed to the zoo to see the animals. They set out early in the morning, but they were still stuck on the road after several hours...

After walking around for a long time, are you feeling hungry? The restaurants in this scenic spot are also very unique. Would you like to have a meal? It only costs a few hundred yuan to feed the whole family. It is not too expensive. ?

Of course...it is true that some people bring their own water and even food. There are many people who are just walking along the way...but it doesn't matter...there are other shopping items, some small gifts, such as animals You are not allowed to buy two of the trinkets and the like? Otherwise, why would you have been here?

Also, there is a photo service in the scenic spot. Don’t you want to take a photo with the animals?

However, it is not impossible to avoid it. What is very popular now is the century-old land leasing model... Well, the company and the government directly sign a land lease contract, rent it for a hundred years, pay the rent all at once, and then set up a super high amount. Liquidated damages, this liquidated damages is very interesting. It is not directly based on the Chu Yuan. Even though the contemporary Chu Yuan is a gold standard currency and is very stable, businessmen are still worried. Therefore, many years later, it was agreed that the mature liquidated damages pricing unit is gold... ...No matter how things change, gold is always a scarce precious metal. One hundred tons of gold now is very valuable, and one hundred tons of gold one hundred years from now will be equally valuable!

Although this kind of project itself is considered a public welfare project, it can also bring a large number of people and have a great commercial promotion effect. Therefore, the operator of Songjiang Zoo, namely Songjiang Cultural Tourism Company, a subsidiary of Songjiang Real Estate Company, has been negotiating with the local government. .

This is the newly opened Songjiang Beicheng Zoo that Jiao Tiancheng and Chen Linlin came to. It is actually a branch of Songjiang Zoo...

It took several years to negotiate, and then it took several more years to acquire the land and build it. After the construction was completed, it was not finished. Then many animals and relevant staff had to be prepared, and then various merchants had to be attracted and introduced, etc.

The success of Songjiang Zoo has also allowed many latecomers to see business opportunities, and other cities have successively opened similar zoos, or botanical gardens.

Then when you are tired from walking, can you spend extra money to take a public carriage in the scenic area?

The previous zoo owner could only be said to be an animal lover, and with a little money, the zoo he built was just a zoo... But then Songjiang Real Estate Company came in. This group of people who are interested in real estate, especially commercial real estate, have many tricks. , Leng Shengsheng turned a zoo into a comprehensive cultural tourism project.

Therefore, the local government office of Songjiang Prefecture sold a piece of land next to the zoo to the company at market price, allowing the company to expand the scale of the zoo. The expanded scale was not used for animals, but for tourist food. Accommodation and shopping... Tourists who come to see animals from out of town can stay and eat directly in the hotel in the zoo, and then go shopping for one-stop service... In order to attract more people, they have also significantly reduced the entrance fee, only 2 or 3 You can get in for only ten yuan... People are not afraid that you won't spend money when you come. Even if the locals can't make money for your accommodation, but if the locals get in, the zoo is so big and you have to walk, so you have to drink water. If you don’t drink, your children will have to drink too...

As for administrative forced recycling, this does not involve commercial matters and will not be discussed.

The government-owned land lease contract lasts for a hundred years, and the rent is paid in one lump sum, and a super high liquidated damages are charged. This is actually no different from selling land... The top management of the empire... In fact, it is mainly Luo After Zhixue learned about these situations, he did not ban it immediately... because there was indeed a practical demand for this thing, especially in industrial and commercial real estate and large-scale mechanized farms.

There is also a lot of urban land needed for industry and commerce, and the government, which holds a large amount of land, cannot build office buildings, factories, and residences by itself and then rent them out... This is not in line with the positioning of the government. Therefore, it is necessary to use some means to release land to the market and allow private funds, including government-run enterprise funds, to participate.

In addition, large-scale mechanized farms are also the main group of this model...mainly occurring in overseas areas and local border areas.

For example, in the Americas, there are a lot of large-scale farms. In fact, these lands are rarely private, because the imperial government imposed an upper limit on private land ownership... At the same time, it also stipulated that companies or organizations were not allowed to hold land...

That's right, so far, there are still only two types of land owners in the Chu Empire: the first is the government, and the second is natural persons...

Therefore, on the surface, all enterprises in the Dachu Empire, including government-run enterprises, do not own even an inch of land... all they have is the right to lease... but they often rent it for fifty or one hundred years.

This is most obvious in those agricultural companies... As early as the 1920s, the imperial government implemented this model in the Northeast region. The government put out land for lease, with a lease period of twenty years, thirty years or even Fifty years... There is no requirement to pay the rent in full at once, just pay it every year.

Then this model was implemented in other sparsely populated frontier areas, and finally overseas areas...

Eventually it became popular on a large scale in the Americas... Farmers in the Americas actually don't own much private land, basically just a few hundred acres, with one or two thousand acres reaching the sky.

Farmers who can own one or two thousand acres of land often inherit multiple properties from different inheritances... They do not obtain it directly from the government, because the government directly limits the upper limit of free and fee-based land that each person can obtain.

These large farmers actually rent a large amount of land from the government... and the local governments in the Americas are also happy to rent it to them. Anyway, there are a lot of wastelands in the Americas. If you have the ability to develop them, you can rent as much as you like, tens of thousands of acres. Even hundreds of thousands of acres are possible.

Of course, you have to pay rent every year... But you only need to pay rent, and you don't need to pay agricultural tax... After all, in the Dachu Empire, agricultural tax is only levied on land owners, and the official owner of the land is the government... The government cannot ask itself to collect agricultural taxes...

And the rent of these lands, to some extent, replaces agricultural taxes and land taxes...

Based on the current land-related laws of the Dachu Empire, Songjiang Real Estate Company, even if it is a government-run enterprise, cannot directly hold the land in the old park of Songjiang Zoo. The rent of the original park land is about to expire, and the original park land The lease contract stipulates the use... That thing can only be used to develop cultural tourism projects such as zoos, but not for commercial real estate development.

If you want to develop it, you can only ask the government to re-sign the land lease contract... But the government cannot give you such a good place easily... Even if you are a government-run real estate company, you have to pay the price.

Ever since, there was a new project for Songjiang Beicheng Zoo.

Songjiang Beicheng Zoo, this project involves a lot of exchanges of interests, especially the land behind it in the core urban area worth millions of dollars, and the subsequent large-scale commercial real estate development project with an investment of more than ten million dollars... and then The project development itself and the new zoo project involve a lot of various suppliers, banks, etc., making it very complicated.

Otherwise, the two parties would not have been wrangling for so many years before finally finalizing the deal.

As ordinary people, Jiao Tiancheng and Chen Linlin did not understand the entanglements of interests behind Beicheng Zoo, but they were still shocked by the scale of Beicheng Zoo.

Entering from the gate, after walking for a long time, we still haven’t arrived at the scenic spot... The part in front of the scenic spot is actually a hotel, restaurant and various shops... This unknown person came and thought he was here for commercial shopping. Where is the center?

After passing this place, they continued forward for a long distance, and then they arrived at the real zoo area.

Next, they saw different animals from all over the world, including elephants from the south, lions from Africa, zebras, other monkeys, deer, tigers, etc.

Basically, there are all kinds of animals... Songjiang City is the largest city in the world, and Songjiang Beicheng Zoo is the largest zoo. It can be said that it is very strong, and it has brought in a large number of different animals from all over the world.

At the same time, the old campus of Songjiang Zoo has been in operation for more than ten years, and has accumulated some talents and technologies, so that many animals will not die soon after arriving.

Of course, most of the animals, especially wild animals, are still difficult to breed in zoos and need to be replenished frequently...

Jiao Tiancheng and Chen Linlin didn't know or care about these things behind them. They were shocked when they saw all kinds of animals and felt that their trip was worthwhile.

After seeing many animals, they went to the botanical garden in the scenic area. They were shocked by the large number of animals here, especially the several large-scale seas of flowers.

In the end, even though they were usually quite shrewd and had their own clear life plans, these two bad guys couldn't help but spend a lot of money to take a group of photos in the sea of ​​flowers...

This sea of ​​flowers is so beautiful and shocking, I can’t help but buy it...

(End of this chapter)