Chapter 49 "Take Care on the Road, Brother Ai"

"Take care on the road, Brother Ai."

After lunch, at the entrance of the Ming Mansion family banquet, Pei Qian reluctantly saw Eric off, his face filled with melancholy.

Mainly, now that Eric was gone, who else could so readily help him burn money?

The thought that the Dayak Corporation might not play along with him in the future filled Pei Qian with sorrow.

However, this sorrow took on a different meaning in Eric's eyes.

Eric was already in a taxi, heading for the high-speed rail station. Seeing President Pei's expression, he couldn't help but roll down the window like an old friend, waving goodbye to President Pei.

"As expected, President Pei and I still appreciate each other."

"This shows that as an opponent, I have earned his respect."

Eric felt a strange sense of satisfaction in his heart, a pride of being recognized by a competitor.

He was well aware that in the future, he would probably have to bear the blame for ioi's failure along with the Dayak Corporation.

When people talked about this past event, they might say: Dayak Corporation was short-sighted, buying the promising Finger Company but exploiting it extremely shortsightedly, ultimately causing a company that was originally expected to become a global giant to die young; and Eric, who was parachuted in by Dayak Corporation to be in charge of the Greater China region, was the number one war criminal, whose series of muddleheaded moves and divine assistance dragged down Finger Company, handing over victory.

This was almost a foregone conclusion, unavoidable.

After all, unless you were involved, it was impossible to know the intricate inside story of the business world; people would simply attribute the failure to the incompetence of a certain person in charge.

Eric had foreseen the infamy he would endure, but so what?

President Pei, his greatest opponent, would understand his value, and perhaps that was enough.

With this in mind, Eric watched President Pei gradually fade away outside the car window, then rolled up the window, ready to embark on the return journey to Dayak Corporation headquarters and face the ultimate fate of himself and ioi.

Watching Eric leave, Pei Qian felt even more melancholic.

According to the needs of the plot, it would be more appropriate to light a cigarette at this time, but Pei Qian didn't smoke, so he decided against it.

From then on, he had one less true friend, one less good brother.

For Pei Qian, his true good brothers were all outside the company, all among his competitors.

But in recent years, there were fewer and fewer competitors, and naturally, fewer and fewer good brothers.

Truly a sad story.

Pei Qian looked at his watch, it was already one o'clock in the afternoon.

It was about time to go back and take a nap.

Just as he got into the car, his phone rang.

"Hmm? Why is someone calling me again?"

"Who loves work so much, on a Monday? I just sent my good brother away, and I'm still grieving!"

"Oh, it's my mom, never mind then."

Pei Qian silently answered the phone, "Mom, what's up?"

His mother's slightly anxious voice came from the phone: "I called you a few days ago and told you to buy a house in the old industrial area, did you buy it?"

Pei Qian was a little speechless, "Mom, why are you in such a hurry? It's only been a week, and you're already urging me."

Mom: "Just tell me, did you buy it or not? Didn't buy it?"

Pei Qian: "...Bought it, bought a 170-square-meter apartment in the Jixiang Garden residential area."

Mom's tone rose a full octave: "Jixiang Garden residential area?! Did you pay for the house in full or take out a loan? How far along are the procedures?"

Pei Qian answered truthfully: "Full payment, all the procedures are completed, and I've already got the property certificate, just need to find a time to renovate. Seriously, Mom, why are you asking so many details?"

Mom seemed to put the phone aside and said to someone next to her, "Bought it! Bought it! It's exactly the house in Jixiang Garden residential area, 170 square meters, full payment, and got the property certificate!"

Pei Qian: "Mom?"

Something felt wrong.

After a while, Mom spoke into the phone again, "Of course, I'm afraid the seller will go back on their word halfway through the procedures! You're busy with work, you probably don't know yet, right? The new phase of Jingzhou's subway plan has been released!"

"Mom has been telling you all along, when it comes to investment, you still have to listen to professionals like Manager Li, they definitely know a lot of inside information that ordinary people don't know!"

"If he didn't know in advance that the subway line was going to be built there, would he have bought buildings and shops there in such a big way?"

Pei Qian's hand holding the phone froze: "Sub...Subway?"

Mom said: "Yes! The new phase of the subway plan has just been announced online, and there's a station right next to the Jixiang Garden residential area! Now this house can be considered a subway house, and it's estimated that it will rise in price soon."

"Tell me, if it wasn't for your mom's news, would you have been able to get such a good deal? Just be happy about it!"

Her words were full of pride.

Pei Qian felt that the situation was not good and quickly said: "Okay, Mom, I have to go see what's going on, I'm hanging up now!"

After hanging up the phone, Pei Qian quickly went online to check.

Sure enough, he found an officially released document: *Jingzhou City Rail Transit Phase II Construction Plan Social Stability Risk Assessment Public Participation Announcement*!

It stated the construction period, from 2012 to 2017, meaning it would open in as little as five years.

It also stated the specific route plan.

This subway project had a total of 7 projects, some of which were not closely related to Tenda's current industries, but there were also a few lines closely related to Tenda's current industries!

Pei Qian saw the plan for subway line 7 in the upper right corner of the map at a glance, the terminal station was right near the Thriller Hostel!

Subway Line 7 was a right-angled broken line, a bit like a mirror-reversed "7", reaching directly to the Thriller Hostel at the easternmost end, and then extending westward. It did not directly set up a station at the Snack Market, but set up a station at the intersection slightly south of the Jixiang Garden residential area.

This station was a little bit away from the Snack Market and Snack Street, about a three-minute walk.

The reason why the station was set here, instead of directly at the Snack Market or Snack Street, might be due to construction issues.

Subway construction took a long time, as long as five years. If the station was set directly on the Snack Street, it might affect normal business operations, and the shops there were relatively dense, so it might not be convenient to build.

Moving it slightly north, it was easier to construct, and as a result, it happened to move to the intersection near the south gate of the Jixiang Garden residential area.

Then, Subway Line 7 went west and then south, connecting to the original Yuanda Tiandi shopping mall station, except that an additional subway station exit was opened at the Jinsheng Plaza side.

Yuanda Tiandi was originally connected to the high-speed rail station through subway line 2, so now it was equivalent to taking the high-speed rail South Station and transferring once within the station to directly reach the Snack Market and the Thriller Hostel.

Of course, it could also be connected to the airport express rail through other lines.

In addition, in the new route plan, the subway line 4 in the south had an additional extension project, with a new station built at the Mingyun Mountain Villa residential area.

Line 4 was also connected to Line 2, which could reach the high-speed rail South Station.

In the future, in addition to taking a car, esports clubs would have another option to take the subway to the high-speed rail station.

These were the two lines directly related to Tenda's industry, but there were also indirect connections.

Previously, when Pei Qian was selecting locations for various physical stores, he had more or less deliberately avoided existing subway lines.

And the new subway plan naturally had to be built to places without subways, so it was inevitable to run into them.

Many branches of physical industries such as Mo Yu Internet Cafe, Mo Yu Takeaway, Sloth Apartment, and Trustee Gym appeared along the new subway line.

He couldn't count how many exactly.

"What the hell..."

Pei Qian fell into a daze, feeling like he had been struck by lightning!

Although this subway would take five years to build, five years was not a particularly long time!

Moreover, the Thriller Hostel and the Snack Market would be connected by the subway, making transportation more convenient; the shops in the Snack Market and several buildings in the Sloth Apartment were affected by the subway line, and the housing prices were estimated to rise, meaning that the fixed assets were likely to skyrocket this settlement cycle!

Of course, how much it would rise was uncertain, and he would only know when the settlement came.

But a surge in fixed assets meant that the upper limit for losing money had decreased, a huge loss!

If he had to say something good...

The house in Jixiang Garden should increase in price.

But he only had one house, how much could it increase? What's more, Pei Qian planned to live in it himself, and didn't plan to sell it in the first place.

Come to think of it, if it wasn't for his mother's call, he really wouldn't have bought this house.

What was this?

Pei Qian slightly sorted out this closed loop.

Li Shi judged that the land price in this area was going to rise because Tenda's Snack Market and Thriller Hostel were built near the old industrial area, and he also bought shops near the Snack Street, so he also crazily bought shops;

Mom heard "internal news" from the staff of Fuhui Capital, and felt that following Manager Li to buy was definitely right, so she called Pei Qian and asked him to buy a house there for investment;

Pei Qian didn't think about investment in the first place, but felt that buying a house near the Snack Market for his parents would be more livable, so he bought it.

So the source of all this seemed to be Pei Qian himself.

The problem was that Pei Qian never felt that this place would appreciate in value, let alone the subway.

So how should this be calculated?

In short, this was a double whammy!

His good brother Eric had just left, and the subway was about to be built.

It was conceivable that gog's revenue would likely explode again, and the various physical industries in Jingzhou were likely to be in dire straits...

Pei Qian couldn't help but feel speechless, and even a little regretful.

If only he had bought one more!

The Snack Market and other projects were planned a few months in advance, and it was too late to change them, but the house was only bought a week ago.

Moreover, Pei Qian now had more than three million, and could completely buy two sets in full and sell one set.

In that case, the money earned might be able to catch up with the money converted from losses in one settlement cycle...

"Investment genius" President Pei leaned weakly on the seat, speechless.

It was painful!