Chapter 263 Real Estate Merchant William
In any case, Sheffield is still grateful to Rockefeller Jr. for the time he was able to buy. However, he is far more concerned about the planning of New Orleans than anything else, and other business matters cannot be rushed.
Among the entire southern states, New Orleans was the largest city in the South at the time and was also the center of the labor trade, so it had the largest number of black people remaining. It was also the base camp of southern plantations. This can be seen from the endless landscape including Oak Manor.
The plantation can be seen.
It was basically an environment where the enemy was stronger and we were stronger. After Rockefeller Jr. left, Sheffield took the dog for a walk and asked Natalia who was accompanying him, "Do you think I am a racist?"
"What do you think?" Natalia rolled her eyes at the man who knew what he was asking. "You are a very conscious racist. You are even more knowledgeable than the average racist. I don't know where you learned it."
Haha! Sheffield smiled helplessly, naturally he learned this from a country that is not my kind and his mind must be different.
"Before there are facts, any racial discrimination can be said to be a slur. I am not that stupid. To solve this problem, we need a lot of statistics, such as the proportion of divorce among various ethnic groups, the pros and cons of crime and labor output. This
It is a systematic project, rather than simply thinking that they are worse than us and that it is useless. Numbers are more convincing than anything else!" Sheffield walked to a tree stump and sat down, and asked Natalia to sit on it.
On his lap, he narrated very reasonably, "And this is still not enough. There is a saying in the East that family scandals should not be made public, and it is the same from a national perspective."
"So you summoned a large number of black people to slander the image of the United States abroad and make the United States lose its people?" Natalia bit her lip and said, "Why are you so bad? Ivan the Terrible is no more than that."
"Times are progressing, and those who come after will of course surpass their predecessors!" Sheffield compared the woman to Ivan the Terrible as a compliment, and said with a hint of pride, "I hope the black people will harm Panama, and it is best to create one."
A tragedy or something like that will be dealt with by the United Corporation and the federal government, but this nail will be hammered into the hearts of Panamanians and explode when needed. This incident will spread throughout the United States and can completely destroy the image of the entire black community."
As for the national dignity issue of the United States, Sheffield is not the President of the Federation, so this matter is not his responsibility. But New Orleans is the place where the family originated, and he must sort it out here.
"In the long run, it will be a good thing for the United States that the black community will not become a problem. We will continue to accept European immigrants, but we must prevent immigrants from other places." Sheffield rambled, "If it doesn't work, we have to rely on other things.
Immigrants, such as Asians, have more and more places of origin, and many things become more and more difficult to handle."
In fact, the United States in the 21st century has become more and more like the Qing Dynasty in Sheffield's eyes. As we all know, the current Qing Dynasty is actually a collection of upper-class people from three ethnic groups. Although they are not exactly the same, some problems are similar.
However, the problem of the Qing Dynasty is not unsolvable. Although the Manchus, Mongols and Han are not brothers, the appearance problem is not big at least. The United States in the 21st century is not a problem of three nationalities, but of three races.
The problem, just the appearance problem is already huge.
"What exactly is your dream? To keep doing bad things and become the richest man in the United States?" Natalia stretched out her hand and pulled Sheffield's face. She sighed for several times, "Why are you so bad?"
"If I were really bad, I would have got you long ago!" Sheffield glanced at Natalia, "All the accounts of the Panama Canal project will have to go through your hands in the future. I, a lion, have other things to do."
Lion? Natalia was stunned for a moment, not knowing what Sheffield meant. This is the way of life of the lions. Hunting is mainly done by female lions. Male lions are mainly responsible for protecting the lions, and sometimes also participate in hunting, especially killing.
Large animals. For adult lions, female lions are generally responsible for hunting, while male lions are responsible for defending their territories. Therefore, male lions generally enjoy the benefits and are relatively lazy.
This means that the most ideal situation is that the women in the joint company are responsible for making money, and his boss is only responsible for sleeping with girls. Now Sheffield understands why Westerners like lions. It turns out that they envy the life of lions.
"The image of New Orleans should be on par with New York. After all, the surrounding land is ours. You don't want to watch the city continue to expand, right? This will encroach on our land! In fact, New Orleans has a very good real estate development environment.
But you don’t know it!”
While Gale and McHale were recruiting workers, Sheffield had already begun renovating New Orleans. "To be honest, I really hate board houses, but they are everywhere here. They don't fit the image of the American century at all."
Sheffield did not hesitate to criticize the wooden houses in the southern states, especially New Orleans. This was not because he was thinking that there are many hurricanes in the Caribbean, which may bring disaster to New Orleans. The family has moved to Arlington, where the
The disaster is just drizzle, but he wants to squeeze out the last bit of value here.
The road to transforming real estate is actually not easy. The Vanderbilt family is the representative of this road. There are dozens of mansions and countless properties in New York belonging to the Vanderbilt family, and they are still in decline.
But he has an advantage of the Vanderbilt family, that is, New Orleans was the home base of southern planters. Except for every piece of land in the city, Sheffield knows exactly who they belong to. The owners of these estates are
And the man who wears a pair of pants in United.
Just a word of greeting from Sheffield can cut off access to New Orleans in any direction. Fix New Orleans within a range, within which New Orleans cannot expand because the owners of these private lands will not allow it.
These lands on the edge of the city are all in the hands of Sheffield and his friends, and the pattern of New Orleans has been set. This environment, surrounded by private land, and all private land is in the hands of a group of people, is similar to Hong Kong.
He can build apartments within this limited range and set the price of the apartment to a level that ordinary people need to work hard, and he does not worry about the house price falling, because all the surrounding land is owned by him and his allies.
In their hands. They are a group of people who do not sell an inch of land, keep the land without development, and still have enough power to support housing prices. Unless the residents of New Orleans move to other states, it is useless.
"The land around New Orleans is ours. As long as we can cover it, we can say whatever the price is. Do you understand what this means? This is a huge prison. We are all prison guards and the people inside are all prisoners. And I
We have a steel company and a cement company under our control, so we can reduce costs as much as possible."
"The most urgent task now is to popularize the dangers of wooden houses!" McHale said with admiration, "What a vivid metaphor. The city of New Orleans is only so big, but the population will become more and more. This is the largest city in the South.
The port will definitely not cause population loss."
"Board houses are inherently harmful!" Sheffield raised his head slightly and said, "Citizens in the South should live in better houses, built according to New York's building standards."
Most areas in the United States are vast and sparsely populated, with only a few concentrated areas in cities and towns filled with high-rise buildings. Most of the low- and mid-rise buildings use wooden structures, while ordinary people's residences have almost no reinforced concrete structures. In later generations, wooden houses were rampant.
, there is also the factor of property tax. The value of the wooden house is not high, so the tax paid will naturally be low.
However, New Orleans can completely abandon the wooden houses. After all, it is the center of the South and the mouth of the Mississippi River. As long as Sheffield seals the city, reinforced concrete houses are a matter of course.
"I just don't know, do the original residents agree?" Gale thought for a moment and said, "Sealing the surrounding land and only building in the original urban area will cause huge costs. What should I do if they don't want to?"
"You have so many weapons? Are all the weapons equipped with fire sticks? As long as you are a normal person, something that you always value is either your job, your partner, your children, or your parents. If it is not normal
If a person is mentally ill, that's great, who will care if he collapses?"
Sheffield said that this is also a problem? For the job problem, give him a stable job. For the partner problem, start with his wife. The child problem can be easily solved by building a school. The parent problem is just an expanded child problem.
If they dare not demolish in New Orleans, it is an insult to the hard work of their fathers. Where has the courage to fight the Civil War gone? "And I have an advanced experience that no one has used. We are the first to eat
Crab people.”
"Oh?" Both of them were very interested when they heard this. They knew that Sheffield's new ideas often have huge gains.
As Sheffield slowly narrated, the eyes of the two people became brighter and brighter. How could they still calculate the accounts like this? They were very surprised and said, "How could they still calculate like this? The area of the shared pool? It really belongs to you!"
"Of course, this is a calculation method that has never appeared before!" Sheffield's old god said, "There is no force that can restrain the things that appear for the first time. As long as we kill the reason for doing this, it will be
Chapter completed!