Chapter 332 Be neighbors with the richest man
The small town Pisouri did not disappoint Yang Jing and Princess.
This is a small town that is almost the place of Taoyuan. It is alone between two hills with an altitude of about 100 meters. The St. Pierre River passes through the valley between the two mountains and finally breaks out of a small alluvial plain more than 800 meters long and more than 500 meters wide at the estuary of the Mediterranean Sea. The town of Pisouri is located on this small alluvial plain.
There are mountains on both sides of the town, and to the north is a valley about 200 meters wide to connect with the outside world. This valley not only contains the St. Pierre River, but also has a highway to the outside world. To the south of the town is the rippling blue waves and boundless Mediterranean.
When Yang Jing came to the town, he realized that the town said there were about 1,000 people, but in fact the permanent population was only about 400, and the other populations were rich.
The houses in the town are very distinctive, and the biggest feature is that almost every house has a small swimming pool. This is really difficult to see in other places, and it also shows how wealthy the residents of this town are.
However, walking on the quiet path of the town, Yang Jing found that this town was really amazing. Walking along the way, there were less than a hundred luxury vacation villas you saw. If you took out one of these villas, it would cost millions of dollars.
However, there is also a very strange phenomenon here, that is, many luxury vacation villas have signs for "sell" hanging on the doors.
"What's going on? Why do so many villas have to be sold?" Yang Jing asked Lin Dan beside him.
"Well, aren't this all caused by the Greek debt crisis? Most people in Nansei are Greeks. Although they have nothing to do with Greece now, you must know the influence of the Greek debt crisis. Although Cyprus is a developed country, it is also a southern European country. Therefore, it was quite affected by the Greek debt crisis in the past few years. And now Cyprus has gradually become the preferred target for many wealthy immigrants in the world. It is very easy for these billionaires to immigrate to Cyprus. It only costs more than 1.1 million pounds, which is about 2.4 million US dollars. You can get nationality by buying a property here, and then you can get an EU passport after half a year. Just like the small town of Pisouri, it is actually an immigration town, and 60% of the villas here are purchased by immigrants."
"The consequences of Cyprus being affected by the Greek debt crisis in the past two years have begun to gradually emerge, so some wealthy people are preparing to sell their properties. Moreover, those who immigrate to Cyprus through house purchases only need to keep a property worth more than 300,000 euros after three years, and other properties can be sold. For example, the villas here are good for those rich people to live here for half a month in a year, so under the current situation, most of the rich people who immigrate through immigration have begun to sell their properties. This is the case in the small town of Pisouri."
Princess smiled and said, "Will the Cypriot authorities shoot themselves in the foot? Do you play houses? You can buy a house with money and sell it in three years. This is not good for Nansai's economy. If you catch up with a large number of people selling houses at the same time, it will easily trigger Nansai's real estate crisis."
Yang Jing shook his head and said, "It should be no big problem. Nansai's current economic pillars are financial services, banking and tourism. Real estate accounts for a small proportion of Nansai's economy. Moreover, these villas are taking action, and some of them are buyers behind them, such as us..."
Princess covered her mouth and laughed.
Lin Dan looked completely defeated.
Yang Jing asked, "Then how much are the prices of these houses?"
Lin Dan said: "Brother Yang, you just said that you are the takeover warriors. Now Cyprus is very attractive to foreign wealthy people, especially the rich immigrants from China and Russia, so these houses are not worried about selling. In terms of price, it is difficult to be cheap. These villas are worth more than 2.4 million US dollars. As long as you buy such a villa, you can immediately have Cyprus nationality."
Yang Jing shrugged his shoulders and was about to say something, but the princess beside him pointed at a three-story villa in surprise and said, "God, this villa is so beautiful."
Yang Jing looked in the direction pointed by the princess. Sure enough, there was a separate villa about fifty or sixty meters ahead of him. The area of this villa alone exceeded that of other villas. Because the altitude of this villa is much lower than that of Yang Jing and the others, you can vaguely see the general situation of the villa through the lush tree canopy here.
This villa covers a very large area. Most of the other villas in the town cover an area of about 600 to 700 square meters, while this villa covers an area of more than 3,000 square meters. The rough length alone is estimated to exceed 60 meters.
Moreover, in the courtyard of this villa, there is also a huge swimming pool. The swimming pools in other resorts are about twenty or thirty meters long, while this irregular swimming pool is more than fifty meters long, and the widest part is also thirty meters.
Due to the terrain of Cyprus and the best plains to the north are controlled by the Tu people, there are few places suitable for establishing towns within the control of Nansai, which also leads to the very high land prices in Nansai towns.
It is like the small town of Pisuli. It is just an alluvial plain at the mouth of the river, and it is pitifully small. However, even such a flat small place was used by the Nansai people and built such a small town.
Similarly, in this small town, villas worth millions of dollars can be seen everywhere, but these villas do not cover a large area, because it is hard to say that every inch of land is worth every inch of land, and probably not much is far from it.
But the villa in front of me actually occupied such a large area of land very luxuriously, which is really shocking. The area occupied by this villa alone is enough to build five or six vacation villas.
Lin Dan found a stack of information from his bag, looked it up and said, "Brother Yang, sister-in-law, you two can't think about this villa in front of you. If the information is correct, this villa is a vacation villa of John Frederickson, the richest man in Cyprus. The value of this villa is about 30 million euros..."
When the princess heard the price, she not only stuck out her tongue. The price was almost as good as some villas in Yanjing's high-end villa areas. But where is this? This is just a small town and it cannot be compared with the Great Yanjing anyway. But this villa is so valuable.
Yang Jing asked in surprise: "John Frederickson? The world ship king who immigrated from Norway to Cyprus?"
Lin Dan nodded and said, "That's right, it's that guy. The largest ship king in the world at present."
Yang Jing shook his head speechlessly and said, "Have even this guy immigrated to Cyprus?"
Lin Dan said: "It's not okay to not immigrate. Norway's tax revenue is very terrifying, ranking fourth in the world. John Frederickson was a Norwegian before. His net worth of $12 billion made him unable to continue in Norway. Don't forget that he is engaged in the ancient shipping industry. There are not many ways to avoid taxes in this industry. As for his net worth, if he still stays in Norway, nearly half of his property will have to be handed over to the Norwegian government."
Yang Jing knew that Lin Dan's words were definitely not alarmist. Norway's tax revenue was very high. The United States, known as the "country of ten thousand taxes", was a terrible figure compared to Norway. 45% of Norway's fiscal revenue comes from tax revenue, and the domestic tax rate is so high that it is scary.
Princess obviously knew this person, and asked Yang Jing in a low voice: "Is this John Frederick the Norwegian ship king who made a fortune and rose up in the Iran-Iraq War? Unexpectedly, even he has immigrated to Cyprus now."
Yang Jing didn't say anything, Lin Dan explained on the side: "Sister-in-law, it's the ship king. This guy's rise is similar to that of the legendary American figure Mark Ritchie, but John Frederick is not as greedy as Mark Ritchie, so he can eventually become the world's ship king, and Mark Ritchie became a criminal wanted by the United States for 51 crimes including treason. Although Mark Ritchie was pardoned on the last day of US President Clinton's president in 2001, Mark Ritchie has never returned to the United States since he was wanted and eventually died of illness in Lucerne, Switzerland. Oh, by the way, Glencore's predecessor was the Rich Fund founded by Mark Ritchie."
Yang Jing added: "John Frederick's father was an electric welder at the Oslo shipyard. He dropped out of high school at the age of sixteen and worked as a broker at a Norwegian ship company. This guy is very brave. When he was 27 years old, the Iran-Iran-Iran-Iran-Vietnamese War broke out. At that time, no one dared to transport oil in the Persian Gulf, so he dared. In the end, he made his first pot of gold in his life by transporting oil in the Persian Gulf during the Iran-Iran-Iran-Iran-Vietnamese War, and since then it has been out of control."
"Up to this day, the world ship king controls a $12 billion shipping empire, with nearly 150 tankers, LNG transport ships, deep-sea rigs, dry bulk carriers and other ever-changing collections of ocean-related assets. Frederickson was once called the 'modern version of Onassis', but now he is 8 times as valuable as his Greek predecessors. In the industry, the Norwegian tycoon has the nicknames of 'Sea Wolf' and 'Pirate King'!"
Yang Jing shook his head and said, "I really didn't expect that this Norwegian ship king would become the Cyprus ship king now."
The princess smiled and said, "If we buy a villa here, wouldn't we become a neighbor with the richest man in Cyprus and the ship king?"
Yang Jing nodded with a smile and said, "If you are willing to be your neighbor with the richest man, we can do this!"
Chapter completed!