Chapter 687 Another Basin of Dirty Water

Chapter 687 Another Basin of Dirty Water

At first, Zhao Benshan was very confident about the film and television city project. He felt that his fame could drive ticket revenue and earn back the investment cost as soon as possible.

However, seeing that Fan Wumian, the famous "little god of wealth", was so pessimistic about building a film and television base outside Shenyang, Zhao Benshan couldn't help but feel deeply suspicious and began to re-examine the entire business plan.

Although it was unclear why Fan Wumian was not good-looking, the shadow of a famous person and a famous tree was enough to make Zhao Benshan back off, given that he had never made mistakes in business and investment.

I'm really worried.

Zhao Benshan scratched his head again and asked humbly:
"Hearing what you said, Mr. Fan, this guy made my heart beat faster and my blood pressure rise. I will invest about 30 million in the project, which is basically all the money I earned in the past two years. If I spend it to waste, I will be screwed."

"Xiao Fan is right about one thing. I have been thinking about how to succeed, but I have not considered what will happen if the film and television base fails. I have not made any preparations. I can only make a few dollars by lending it to the photo studio to take wedding photos. Don't you agree?"

"It looks like the plan needs to be changed, but for this project, we did give some notice, so it's not appropriate to suddenly quit. No wonder everyone is scrambling to work with Mr. Fan. His vision is much better than ours, he considers things carefully, and does things flawlessly. I would like to ask what should be done specifically. The land is in the Qipanshan Scenic Area, more than ten kilometers away from the city, covering an area of ​​about 3000 acres."

Fan Wumian was not afraid of teaching his apprentice to starve his master to death, so he said:

"I've just been discussing cooperation with Tsunako, the owner of Deyun Society, and I plan to acquire land next to the Yanjing Olympic Park to build a tourist ranch-style resort."

"People are getting richer and richer. Rather than having enough food and clothing, some people are beginning to pay more attention to the enjoyment of material culture. If we cooperate with each other, we can attract people with performances, comfortable environment and delicious food around Liu Laogen Grand Stage and Deyunshe Crosstalk Club. We can also build the largest and most luxurious bathhouse in Northeast China, where people can enjoy a whole day comfortably, and build a hotel to provide accommodation services."

"With the motivation to attract people to play, and with the addition of some shopping streets, exhibition halls, parent-child parks and other money-making projects, even if it's not particularly profitable, the overall revenue should be much higher than that of a film and television base. If some holiday villas are built as a supporting facility, it will be even more stable."

After listening to this, Zhao Benshan felt that Fan Wumian's idea was more comprehensive, and replied:

"In fact, someone asked me to develop some villas before, but I didn't agree, mainly because I thought there were so many developers and it might not be possible to sell them. It's good to do it this way, but the investment cost is too high. The cost of a hotel is probably 8000 million."

Fan Wumian continued:
"It can be developed slowly in two phases. Bathhouse culture may not be popular in Northeast China, but it may be of great interest to tourists from other places. In addition, Northeast China has a large population. If there is a particularly luxurious bathhouse that provides buffets, cinemas, Internet cafes, amusement parks and other facilities, at least young people will be very interested."

Zhao Benshan was a little unsure for a moment and just replied that he would go back and think about it.

The three-legged stove with gold-plated spiked ears from the Chongzhen period of the Ming Dynasty was still kept by Zhao Benshan. It was not until he left that Fan Wumian took a closer look at it and found that the small stove was both beautiful and exquisite, and had been handed down for many years with a patina.

Although the small incense burners carved out of jade were good, they lacked the flavor of history and were not as interesting as these collections.

His museum's special exhibition hall only has a ten-year contract with the museum. If he wants to keep this business going for a long time, Fan Wumian needs to buy more good items.

Because the museum is already considering building a new exhibition hall. If everything is removed, the special exhibition hall that he and Zhuang Muxi have opened will become empty in an instant.

The Louvre, the British Museum, and the Metropolitan Museum of Art that I visited earlier, all have profits of tens of millions of Euros each year, which has a huge effect on boosting tourism. Plus, the prices of the collections are not that outrageous right now, so Fan Wumian thought it would be nice to buy more if he had some spare money.

In his eyes, items like the five famous kilns of the Song Dynasty, the Chenghua Doucai Chicken Cup, the Yuan Dynasty blue and white porcelain, etc. are all suitable as heirlooms. With the speed at which Fan Wumian makes money, his assets will one day be so abundant that he will never be able to spend them all. If he can build a private museum that can be passed down from generation to generation, he will have a chance to be remembered indirectly because of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, just like the Rockefeller family.

Holding the small stove in his hand, Fan Wumian then thought of the museum and the National Museum in Yanjing. The competition was too fierce. When it came to where the passenger flow was large and most suitable for building a private museum, the first place that came to his mind was the Bund.

Building 19, The Bund has been taken over by Fan Wumian. The first floor is the headquarters flagship store of Valentino in the mainland, and the upper floor is the mainland headquarters of the Bandit King Fund.

At this moment, I checked on my computer and found that No. 2 The Bund, also known as the Shanghai General Chamber of Commerce Building, was converted into the Dongfeng Hotel in 1971 and later selected by KFC as a store. Some netizens who knew about the situation mentioned that because the rent was too expensive, it has been vacant recently after KFC moved out. This discovery cheered up Fan Wumian, who thought that opening a private museum in No. 2 The Bund might be more suitable than converting it into a hotel or office building.

As for No. 28 Di'anmen West Street, which he jointly owns with Zhuang Muxi, he will definitely not suffer any loss whether he sells it or transforms it into a luxury hotel after the contract with the museum expires.

Since last year, the price of Yanjing courtyard houses has skyrocketed. The royal courtyard house with the Nine Dragon Wall from the Qing Dynasty has such a good location that its overall value is estimated to have almost doubled.

When thinking of this, Fan Wumian still remembered the Yanjing real estate agent he had met before, who decided to sell his courtyard house to accompany his child to study and work in Germany. He was afraid that he would faint from tears after learning about the latest market conditions.

But it doesn’t matter. House prices have just started to rise and there will be plenty of opportunities to cry slowly in the future.

There is no need to take over The Bund No. 2 for the time being.

However, considering that the opportunity to take over the entire building is rare and once missed, you don’t know when you will have the chance to do so, in the early stage it can be temporarily used as an office for other companies so that it will not be completely idle and wasted.

Therefore, Fan Wumian asked his subordinates to help and try to take over The Bund No. 2, and temporarily hand it over to the Xinhua Insurance Group for use. With the huge passenger flow of tens of millions of people every year on The Bund, the advertising effect is really good.

Once the sign of Xinhua Insurance Group is hung up first, it means that Fan Wumian can advertise for Valentino, Bandit King Fund, Xinhua Insurance and Feili at the same time on the Bund, subtly enhancing the image of these brands.

Some time ago, for the sake of the overall situation, the financial paths of countless people were blocked.

In addition to international hot money and some shady big rats, many stock investors who are similar to gamblers also hate Fan Wumian to the point of gnashing their teeth.

As expected, he still suffered some retaliation for this.

On the evening of the day when I met Zhao Benshan, a well-known Internet celebrity suddenly opened fire on him, accusing the new courtyard house located in Yaer Hutong on the north bank of Houhai of turning on the lights at a fixed time every night and not turning them off until 11 o'clock in the evening. Fan Wumian was obviously not in Yanjing, so there was suspicion of extravagance, disregard for environmental protection, and wasting electricity for no reason.

The angle of attack on him this time was a bit tricky, and it soon attracted other public figures, who used private yachts, private jets, and large-displacement supercars to accuse Fan Wumian of not paying attention to environmental protection and living an extravagant life.

Not to mention his hatred of the rich, making a fuss about environmental protection and energy conservation can also damage his image in the outside world. Some public intellectuals have even accused him of saying one thing and doing another. On the surface, he clamors to ban the import of foreign garbage, but in private he is destroying the environment and polluting the air.

Finding that the matter had become a big deal in a short period of time, Fan Wumian always felt that the smell was a bit familiar, like what foreigners are good at, and they like to make a fuss about environmental protection.

It's not his character to let others throw dirty water on him.

As soon as the crew finished work that night, Fan Wumian asked the staff of Penguin Weibo to cooperate in searching for similar texts attacking him online.

Then they released the news anonymously, fighting back, saying that the proposal to ban the import of foreign garbage had affected the interests of overseas forces, and they hired internet trolls to attack them in order to deal with the foreign garbage. Many big Vs and public intellectuals took the money and betrayed their own people against their conscience.

After the private operation, Fan Wumian successfully won back a game and won the support of many people, while at the same time diverting the attention of the outside world.

(End of this chapter)