After making a wish, financial freedom

Chapter 604 Buying a floor of the World Financial Center

Li Zhuo stayed at the World Trade Center Sheshan Manor for a while and spent time with Chen Duling.

In the end, she couldn't bear it any more, so she had no choice but to beg for mercy, and then she found a reason to go filming and ran away.

After she left, Li Zhuo went to Xiaobai's place.

Her belly was getting bigger day by day, and Li Zhuo thought she was a little bored, and she hadn't gone out for a while.

So he took her out for a drive.

When I walked to Lujiazui, I saw the famous three-piece kitchen set here.

The 492-meter-tall Magic World Financial Center is a bottle opener.

The 420-meter Jinmao Tower is a syringe,

The 632-meter-tall Magic City Center Building is an eggbeater.

Li Zhuo parked the car in the parking lot, then took her hand and walked around Lujiazui.

He asked Xiaobai:

"Do you think it's prosperous here?"

Xiaobai nodded and said:
"It's prosperous. It's the most prosperous place. It's probably hard to compare with other places in the country."

Li Zhuo smiled and said:

"Come on, let's go up and ask if we can buy a floor above the three-piece suite. From now on, our children will be able to collect the rent."

Xiaobai covered her mouth in surprise. She didn't expect that Li Zhuo actually wanted to buy a floor in a landmark building.

He called the agency to inquire about the three-piece suit.

The agent explained:
"Currently, only the entire floor of the World Financial Center is for sale, and the other two are not for sale."

After the World Financial Center was built, some floors were sold to private owners, and now they are being resold by the owners.

After all, the World Financial Center ranked second in the three-piece suit. It felt good, so Li Zhuo asked the agent to come over.

The agent drove over in a hurry and said after seeing Li Zhuo:
"Sir, you have great discernment. The office buildings in the World Financial Center are among the best in Shanghai. The rent for the high-rise buildings above is 15-16 yuan per square meter per day, which is quite high. You can earn money just for food and rent. "

They then went to the World Financial Center and saw the entire 88th floor. The World Financial Center has 101 floors in total, and the 88th floor is considered a proper high-rise.

The area of ​​this floor is 3195 square meters, and the selling price is 11 yuan per square meter, which works out to 3.51 million yuan.

Li Zhuo took a look and found that most of the offices on this floor were rented out. Calculated at 15 yuan per square meter per day, if only 80% of the area was rented out, the annual rent would be 1400 million yuan.

The rental return is still very high, almost 3.99%.

Li Zhuo was moved, and he heard from the intermediary that the price was not the lowest price. It was said that the owner was short of funds and it was a urgent sale.

That would be easy. Li Zhuo had previously established a small asset management company in order to manage domestic commercial real estate. Now he simply turned it into a subsidiary of Sino-Ocean Land and asked them to send people to negotiate.

Two days later, Li Zhuo finally bought the entire 3.45th floor of the World Financial Center for 88 million yuan.

After paying this amount and paying taxes, his bank card in Shanghai has about 24 billion yuan.

After taking over this office building, Li Zhuo went into hibernation again and continued to save money, not planning to make any further purchases.

After staying with Xiaobai for a few more days, he returned to the Sunshine Coast of Hangzhou to continue his next mission.

Li Zhuo lit the incense and threw it into the incense burner. Li Zhuo looked at the yin and yang fish on the incense burner attentively.

In half a minute, he once again tore open the curtain of history and walked in.

This time he came to France in 1862.

Paris.

Li Zhuo appeared in front of a noble lady.

He looked down and saw the lady praying to him.

Li Zhuo asked: "Why do you pray to me?"

After the lady saw Li Zhuo and the black light behind him, there was fear on her face. She stumbled and said:
"Noble Angel, my name is Anastache, I am married to a count, I am a countess, my husband's native place is Burgundy, where he and I lived in early life until the beginning of this year when we Come to Paris.”

"But the nobles and ladies in Paris have always looked down upon people like me who come from a small place. I have always wanted to enter the salon and ball circle of the Vicomte de Beauseant, the most popular person in Paris, but I have never been accepted. , I went to visit, but I could only get back a few perfunctory replies from her."

Li Zhuo said:

"If that's the case, then don't join her circle. Why do you have to join her? Can't you form your own circle?"

Anastaci smiled bitterly:

"Lord Angel, I am an outsider with no reputation and I am not from a wealthy family. I am currently unable to form my own circle. Even if I do, I will be laughed at."

She then explained:
"What you don't know is that I'm not out of vanity, and I must follow the crowd. It's like this. The circle of Viscountess Beauseon is not something ordinary people can enter casually. Her circle is filled with noble ladies from the imperial court. , generals’ wives, high-ranking officials’ wives, bankers’ wives, and their husbands, as well as famous European artists and writers, these people are also necessary embellishments. Even members of the royal family occasionally attend meetings.”

"In such a salon, it is not only a place for entertainment and relaxation, but also a place for socializing. Some national events and personnel appointments can even be decided in the salon. Such examples are not uncommon in Paris."

"And I want to go to the Viscountess's salon. Actually, I want to seek a civilian position for my husband, and also want to seek an opportunity for my son to become an officer in the Guards."

Li Zhuo had nothing to say after hearing this. It turns out that French salons are so awesome and they can get things done through connections.

Li Zhuo asked:

"Then what do you wish for?"

Anastaci said:
"That's it, Lord Angel, eight years ago, Mr. Deville in our country produced several aluminum ingots in the laboratory, and then His Majesty the Emperor sent them to the exposition for the world to see, because this was the first time Someone can extract aluminum.”

Li Zhuo knew that aluminum was actually found in high amounts in the earth's crust, but unfortunately it was difficult to purify. Pure aluminum had never been seen before 1854.

Frenchman Claire Deville finally made a breakthrough in 1854, and with great difficulty came up with a few small aluminum blocks, which were relatively pure.

Since the output is very small, far less than gold, its price is not comparable to gold.

Anastachy continued:
“Since the discovery of aluminum, this metal is much lighter than gold and silver, so it is very suitable for making jewelry. Ladies love this kind of aluminum jewelry. Therefore, aluminum has become very popular in Paris, and the price has even reached 10% of gold. times."

"Lord Angel, I know that Viscountess Bosa has always wanted to find a larger piece of metal aluminum to make a set of aluminum jewelry for herself. I think if I can find such a piece of aluminum, it doesn't need to be big, just weighing two pounds. Enough, I gave it to the Viscountess as a gift, and I thought my family would benefit from it.”

Li Zhuo's expression was very exciting after hearing this.

Aluminum is not uncommon in modern times. Aluminum pots and spoons are everywhere, and they are very cheap.

And the weight of two pounds of aluminum is approximately equivalent to 0.9 kilograms.

This question was so easy that he had nothing to say.

Seeing that Li Zhuo didn't speak, Anastaci hurriedly said:

"Lord Angel, I know this is difficult. I am willing to give you a famous painting "Christ Mockingly" passed down from our family for this purpose. It was a painting by the Frenchman Cimabue 500 years ago. An art dealer once wanted to For the acquisition, the appraisal price was very high.”

After hearing this, Li Zhuo said:

"Then just as you said, I will give you the aluminum block soon. I hope you will also prepare your painting."

Anastasia said in surprise:

"Thank you, Lord Angel."

Li Zhuo returned to the real world, then drove to the hardware store and bought pure aluminum blocks, which were cheaper than aluminum alloys at 10 yuan per kilogram.

Li Zhuo bought a kilogram and asked an experienced person to check it. He confirmed that it was pure aluminum and took it away.

That night, Li Zhuo took this piece of pure aluminum back to Paris in 1862. After handing the aluminum piece to Anastaci, Li Zhuo got the painting called "The Mockered Christ".

Li Zhuo took it back to modern society and soon flew to Bangkok to give it to Zheng Kun.

A few days later, the painting was sold for $1000 million.

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(End of this chapter)