Rebirth of England.

Chapter 674 Tianhe Real Estate
On the day that Barron left HK for mainland China, a "small incident" also happened in France.

That was a sports car that was speeding when its brakes failed, causing it to run off the road and the driver to die on the spot.

The man driving the sports car is named Miso Edou, a 35-year-old French Jew.

The Edu family has always had close relations with the Rothschild family, and Miso Edu is an important partner and close friend of Benjamin Rothschild.

"Has the matter come to fruition?"

In response to Benjamin Rothschild's question, an ordinary-looking man replied:
"Yes, Mr. Rothschild, someone tampered with Mr. Edu's sports car, which caused this car accident..."

"Did the Weber family do it?"

"Although there is no evidence, the previous incident just happened, and now..."

"There must be our old British friend behind this..."

In fact, although there is no clear evidence of the relationship between William Weber Capital and Baron Cavendish, when NM Rothschild Bank lost a large sum of money to William Weber Capital due to a bet agreement, the Rothschild family had already doubted the source of funds for William Weber Capital.

After all, although the Weber family is behind William Weber Capital, it is not the Weber family's style to dare to make such a huge bet with them.

Although some superficial information can be found about the equity structure of William Weber Capital, it is obvious that many of the shareholders are offshore companies that are hiding their true colors...

The source of William Weber Capital’s funding…

Although the Rothschild family still has its heritage and influence, it cannot be as strong as the U.S. government to penetrate the global financial system and trace funds - even the U.S. government cannot trace funds in many cases.

But there are various signs, such as the fact that Ashley Webb, CEO of William Webb Capital, had met with Barron, and that after her car accident, a group of security personnel with British passports protected her... Combining all this information, in Benjamin Rothschild's eyes, there is one conclusion that is the most likely.

From this perspective, Miso Edu’s death can be considered as a part of the other party’s revenge.

This did make Benjamin Rothschild feel a little uncomfortable, mainly because although the Edu family had cooperated with their family for many years, after the death of Misso Edu, the heir of the Edu family would undoubtedly fall to his younger brother Guido Edu...

Guido Edu had many frictions with Benjamin Rothschild, and the two did not get along well.

"Send someone to find out where those British people are. I don't believe they can escape our sight after coming to France..."

Benjamin said with a grim expression.

"Yes, Mr. Rothschild."

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After arriving in mainland China, Barron's first stop was to land in Shanghai.

In fact, the subprime mortgage crisis that swept the world has also had a certain impact on China. The most direct impact is that some Chinese financial investment companies have purchased American subprime mortgage-related products, which has caused considerable losses.

But objectively speaking, because Huaxia has relatively strict restrictions on investing in foreign financial products, the scale of these investments is not large and is within an affordable range. In addition, with the decline of global stock markets, Huaxia A shares also fell sharply last year.

Taking the Shanghai Stock Exchange as an example, the stock index fell from its highest point of 5499.6 points at the beginning of last year to a low of 1664.93 points by the end of the year, which can be said to be very tragic.

Of course, in addition to these, the subprime mortgage crisis has also had a lot of indirect impacts on China. For example, the United States is its largest source of trade surplus, and another major trading partner, Europe, is also deeply affected by the subprime mortgage crisis. Therefore, China’s exports will also be greatly affected.

At the same time, because major countries around the world have gradually entered into quantitative easing policies, the Chinese currency is also under considerable appreciation pressure, which will also be unfavorable to exports.

Faced with this situation, China also launched a 4 trillion plan to stimulate the domestic economy...

"With the easing of credit, the real estate industry has become active again, and the development of our Tianhe Real Estate has also begun to accelerate..."

Li Lu came to Cavendish Gardens at No. 699 Yuyuan Road, where she met Barron and said:
"We have reached an agreement with the Shanghai government. After Costco settles in Shanghai, we will build a series of commercial complexes with this supermarket as the center..."

Yes, according to the plan, Costco’s first store in China will soon be located in Shanghai, which is nearly ten years earlier than in Barron’s previous life!

In fact, there has been some discussion within Costco about whether to enter the Chinese mainland market now.

After all, Costco’s style is to sell high-quality and low-priced mass-market warehouse supermarkets. In the United States, many families drive to Costco for bulk shopping...

At this time in China, the popularity of private cars is still not high, so it is worth discussing whether Costco's approach will not be suitable for the local environment.

However, on the one hand, Costco has successful experience in Taiwan, and its first store in China was also chosen in Shanghai, the economic center of China. All conditions here are relatively ideal, so it finally decided to enter the Shanghai market.

Of course, this is just an intention at the moment. The earliest Costco will open will be next year.

Tianhe Real Estate can also take advantage of this opportunity to build a commercial complex centered on Costco, and at that time, the world's first Gucci-Hermès integrated flagship store will open in this commercial complex. In this integrated flagship store, all brands under the Gucci-Hermès Group will appear. This is also the first time that the Gucci-Hermès Group has tried this type of store in the world.

Therefore, this project is quite attractive to Shanghai. Currently, the project is under negotiation with the local government. Once it is implemented, the local government will provide Tianhe Real Estate with a more ideal location for construction.

It can be said that this is the most important real estate project since the establishment of Tianhe Real Estate.

Not only Li Lu, CEO of Tianhe Capital, but also Barron attaches great importance to this.

"In addition to this project, when I was in Hong Kong, I also talked to Li Chaoren about taking over part of his land and carrying out construction later. So we can send someone to contact them in this regard."

After all, Li Chaoren himself is a businessman who rose to prominence with the support of HSBC. In fact, even among businessmen, his bottom line is relatively low...

This can be seen from his various outrageous operations in mainland China. He took advantage of investment and development opportunities in various places and used huge investments as bait to acquire large tracts of land at low prices. As a result, he taught a lesson to those local governments who were unaware of the dangers of the business world. After getting the land, he almost stopped investing in construction, holding on to the land and waiting for China's economy to take off before selling it at a high price.

Well, it's not like they won't build anything at all. They'll just do some repairs every once in a while. Who told you that your contract doesn't stipulate a deadline for the project to be completed? I'm striving for perfection, so why can't I build it for 100 years?

(End of this chapter)