Chapter 2228: Land King

While Zhao Fusheng was observing Pan Ren and his group, the people from Vantone were also watching Zhao Fusheng and his team.

"President Pan, it looks like they're from Future Real Estate."

The secretary beside Pan Ren said to him in a low voice.

"Yeah, I know."

Pan Ren nodded.

Although he was a rich second-generation, he wasn't the kind of person without brains. Pan Shiyi allowed him to be the company's vice president because Pan Ren indeed had outstanding qualities.

After returning from studying in the UK, he had successively closed several deals, making Vantone Real Estate a huge profit.

With this achievement, he was recognized by Pan Shiyi and entered the company's management.

Otherwise, according to Pan Shiyi's intention, Pan Ren would have had to start from the grassroots level of the company.

"That seems to be Wang Kai, their vice president. We've met before. The others..." Pan Ren sized up the Future Real Estate team, frowning when he saw Zhao Fusheng's side.

He didn't know Zhao Fusheng, and naturally had never met Liu Yiming and the others.

So, facing this, he was somewhat bewildered.

The reason was naturally that Wang Kai and the others were all clustering around Zhao Fusheng.

After all, Wang Kai was the vice president of Future Real Estate, a figure second only to the top. For someone like him to willingly surround that stranger showed that the other party's status must be high.

And Pan Ren had reviewed the profiles of the entire leadership of Future Real Estate.

He could be one hundred percent certain that this person was definitely not part of Future Real Estate's management.

"Do any of you know that person?"

Pan Ren stood there, asking the people around him in a low voice.

He was very curious—who was that person?

The people around looked at each other, and after a glance, found that no one knew.

"President Pan, I don't know him."

"I don't know him either."

"Could he be from Future Real Estate headquarters?"

"Are you saying Future Group has sent someone?"

Soon, the subordinates reached a new conclusion.

To be honest, Pan Ren somewhat agreed with this conclusion. After all, Future Real Estate had suffered consecutive losses at his hands, so it was understandable for the parent company Future Group to send someone.

"Let's go."

Having figured this out, Pan Ren smiled and strode forward with a swaggering gait.

In his view, even if it was someone from Future Group headquarters, so what?

Every trade has its own specialty. Future Group might be able to call the shots in other fields, but in the real estate sector, they were just amateurs!

That was the truth. Often, people think that if a company succeeds in one field, it will surely succeed in another.

But that's not the case.

For instance, during acquisitions, if a company has a market value of one hundred million, they often ask for two hundred million or more.

The reason, on one hand, is naturally to ask a high price and negotiate, and on the other hand, because the value of a company varies in different hands.

For example, an animation company in the hands of a real estate firm has a different value than under Disney.

On this point, Zhao Fusheng was undoubtedly the most perceptive.

That's why he had previously facilitated the cooperation between Disney and Future Investment to acquire Marvel.

Because Zhao Fusheng knew very well that Marvel in his hands and Marvel in Disney's hands would have absolutely different values.

In short, by letting Disney join, he could make more money. Why wouldn't he?

"President Wang, long time no see."

"President Pan, hello."

Wang Kai and Pan Ren greeted each other with smiles.

After all, although they were competitors in business, they still had to maintain surface relations.

"President Wang, you'd better be careful today. I hear several powerful companies are also participating in the auction." Pan Ren looked at Wang Kai, speaking with implication.

Wang Kai frowned slightly but still smiled: "Thanks for your concern. I hope our two companies won't become rivals."

"And this is?"

Pan Ren looked at Zhao Fusheng, asking curiously: "He looks a bit unfamiliar."

Wang Kai hesitated for a moment: "Well..."

"President Pan, right?"

Zhao Fusheng chuckled: "Please give my regards to your father."

With that, he turned and walked inside, leaving a stunned Pan Ren standing there, not knowing what to say.

What did he mean by 'give my regards to your father'?

Was he directly greeting his father?

Pan Ren was completely bewildered.

Meanwhile, Wang Kai said to Zhao Fusheng with some concern: "Chairman, it seems they're going to cause trouble again..."

"Hmph, just the same old tricks."

Zhao Fusheng said calmly: "How much land deposit do you think Vantone can afford to lose?"

Participating in such land auctions requires a deposit, at least twenty percent. Even if Pan Ren relied on Vantone's connections to cause trouble, the cost they'd have to bear wouldn't be small.

In Zhao Fusheng's view, Vantone was purely using money to annoy Future Real Estate.

Of course, they could definitely recover that cost, at most including it in the land development expenses.

But for Zhao Fusheng, he had no mood to play any cat-and-mouse games with Vantone.

Since he was here today, he intended to completely resolve this issue.

"So what do we do today?"

Wang Kai asked Zhao Fusheng in a low voice.

Normally, he might have made the decision himself, but today the chairman was personally present. Wang Kai knew that the decision-maker would be Zhao Fusheng, the chairman.

Although he hadn't been at Future Real Estate for long, he had long heard of Zhao Fusheng, the boss. Everyone knew that the chairman was always decisive; once he decided something, no one could change it.

"No special plan."

Zhao Fusheng smiled, then said calmly: "Let's see which piece of land Vantone Real Estate is most interested in today."

"No need to look; I know."

Wang Kai quickly replied: "Today they're eyeing a piece of land near Chaoyang, about 120,000 square meters, located between the Fourth and Fifth Ring Roads. It's practically today's land king."

"Oh?"

Zhao Fusheng smiled: "And what about us?"

"Well, we had our eyes on a few plots before, but it seems Pan Ren won't let us have our way today."

Wang Kai explained somewhat apologetically.

In fact, he understood that things had reached a point where, in a sense, he and his colleagues at Future Real Estate had been somewhat negligent. Since it had come to the point where the group chairman had to personally intervene, as subordinates, they couldn't claim they had done everything right.

But Wang Kai had no choice. The company's funds were limited; one can't make bricks without straw. They had no other option.

Facing the opponent's malicious competition, they had truly done their best within their capabilities to fight back.

But since their strength was inferior, they could only accept their bad luck.

Zhao Fusheng smiled. He could understand these subordinates; otherwise, he wouldn't have been so amiable today.

"Come on, tell me the specifics of the land they're interested in."

Zhao Fusheng smiled and asked Wang Kai.

"Ah, okay."

Although a bit puzzled, Wang Kai began to explain to Zhao Fusheng.

The land Vantone was eyeing was the highlight of the day, fully named Wangjing B29 plot project land. The total land area was 115,000 square meters, with a buildable area of 48,000 square meters, the rest being green space and roads, and an above-ground building area of 390,000 square meters.

Considering the transportation in the area, in terms of rail transit, Metro Line 14 and Line 15 intersect at Wangjing Station, providing quick access to Wangjing West Station on Line 13, and Sanyuanqiao Station on Line 10 and the Airport Express. Additionally, the nearby roads are well-connected.

Moreover, it is adjacent to the headquarters clusters of Fortune 500 companies like Daimler, Caterpillar, and Microsoft. Nearby are large shopping centers like Jiamao Center, Huatang Department Store, IKEA, and Walmart, with a developed commercial area. Medical institutions include Wangjing Hospital of China Academy of Chinese Medical Sciences and Wangjing Xiyuan District 4 Community Health Service Station.

Furthermore, the favorable policy of including Wangjing Business District in the Zhongguancun Science Park preferential policy area has attracted many domestic and foreign high-tech enterprise headquarters and R&D centers to settle here.

Clearly, Vantone planned to use this land to play a big game.

"Estimate, what's their bottom line?"

Zhao Fusheng casually asked Wang Kai.

"My conservative estimate is no less than 3.5 billion."

Wang Kai muttered: "Basically, it's the land king recently."

3.5 billion?

Zhao Fusheng nodded but said nothing more. In his mind, however, he had already formed his own plan.