I am reborn and just want to concentrate on my studies

Hou Lin slowly talked about the history of Yi Hongyao's family. Yi Yang listened very carefully. He did not make a sound during the process. Whenever Hou Lin told a story, the image of his father became clearer in his mind.

Yi Hongyao's fortune originated from a construction company.

He came to Hanning City at a young age. At that time, Hanning City was undergoing urban development and there were opportunities everywhere. He worked with a construction company for a period of time and roughly understood the entire process of the construction company's operation. Finally, I concluded a truth: If you want to make money in construction, it does not depend on how high your company's architectural design capabilities are or how good your migrant workers are at building houses. If you really want to make money, you can sum it up in just two words. :project.

As long as someone is willing to give you a project, you will have expected income. As long as there is income...even if it is expected, you can recruit people. Not only can others work for you, but also various downstream suppliers can also do it. Willingly work for you.

But whether you can get a project is directly related to your own strength. How can a poor person get a project?

Hou Lin said that when they first met Yi Hongyao, they didn't even have an office space, but Yi Hongyao had the ability to make a group of people willingly follow him.

At that time, he, Hou Lin, was the best executor because of his pragmatism. Lu Dingsheng, who had just graduated from university at that time, was a top student with a background in architecture and became the technical backbone and dog-headed strategist of the team. The two of them also became Yi Hongyao's original team.

At that time, there were many construction sites in Hanning City, and there were naturally many opportunities. Moreover, information was not as developed as it is now. The information asymmetry was truly asymmetric. With his unique vision, Yi Hongyao did not think about joining other construction companies. Instead of competing for some construction work, we will focus on the primary land development market.

"Land development is mainly divided into two types, namely primary development and secondary development. What is primary development? This involves the concept of raw land. Raw land is land on which there is no way to build houses directly, such as in the wilderness. In the wild, such as old and shabby small land that is waiting to be demolished in urban villages... and mature land is land that can be used to directly build houses."

Yi Yang thought for a while and said, "Oh, first-level development is just the rough processing of the land."

Hou Lin glanced at Yi Yang and said, "That's right."

“Building a community or shopping mall on a piece of land is called secondary development, while bulldozing uneven land, demolishing some old and run-down buildings, and turning raw land into mature land is considered primary development.”

"At that time, there was no concept of secondary and primary development. For construction companies, secondary development was definitely more profitable, but to engage in secondary development was to follow the big real estate companies to eat meat and drink soup, and they would give you the construction site. Doing it depends on cost and strength, we simply can’t compete with those big construction companies.”

"But Brother Hong Yao didn't focus on those secondary development projects at all from the beginning."

"Although he was not highly educated, he loved reading newspapers. One day he saw a piece of news about the later famous 831 new regulations."

"The most important one is that after the new policy, government land must be tendered to real estate companies through open and transparent bidding..."

Hou Lin gave a wry smile: "To be honest, many people in the real estate industry gradually discovered the information behind this new regulation many years later. But at that time, everyone only saw the superficial layer and just thought that small real estate companies It’s sad... because if you bid based solely on strength, larger companies will be able to get better land more easily, and their size will get bigger and bigger, while small companies will not be able to get good land, and it will be more and more difficult... "

"But Brother Hong Yao is very excited. He said this means that land prices will start to rise!"

Hou Lin shrugged: "To be honest, I still can't figure out why Brother Hong Yao concluded that land prices will rise."

"But if land prices are going to rise, what good will it do to us?" Hou Lin's expression became pious and admiring: "This has to be said about my elder brother's vision that is far ahead of the times."

"Brother said that the rise in land prices is a government-led action. The ultimate goal of this kind of policy thing must be to return to its financial nature. To put it bluntly, the government must have funds to develop the economy, but land prices have risen. How to bring revenue to the government?”

Yi Yang smiled: "Selling land..."

Hou Lin glanced at Yi Yang in surprise. He was originally afraid that Yi Yang wouldn't understand what he said, but he didn't expect that he would understand the key to it all at once. Sure enough... he was better than his master?

Hou Lin nodded and said, "Yes, it's just selling land. So what does selling land have to do with a small construction company like ours?"

Yi Yang was also curious, what does it have to do with them?

Hou Lin said with admiration: "Brother said that the government wants to sell land, but where does the land come from? Many people think that the land belongs to the government. In fact, most of the cultivated land in Hanning City at that time was in the hands of some real estate companies, and the land in the hands of the government The land was not even as large as the land held by the top three real estate companies in Hanning City at that time.”

Yi Yang understood after thinking for a while, and then said: "But the government has an ability that real estate companies can never match, and that is turning raw land into mature land. At that time, starting from the third ring road in Hanning City, there were large tracts of undeveloped wasteland. , as well as many former residential buildings...these lands were developed and taken over by the government, and the government already had enough land in its hands..."

Hou Lin showed a surprised expression. He really didn't expect Yi Yang to have such insight, and nodded: "Yes, that's right. At that time, the eldest brother said categorically that the government was going to start hoarding land, so he started to Our sights are set on the primary development market.”

“With our pioneering vision, we became the first group of companies to specialize in primary development. At that time, the government also knew that the sooner the better, because the longer the delay, the higher the land price, the higher the cost. Some of them, the farther back they are, the more difficult it will be to demolish them when the people come to their senses.”

"So we didn't have many competitors at that time, and the government approved projects quickly. Soon we got several projects and made our first pot of gold."

Hou Lin took a sip of tea, shook his head, and sighed: "To be honest, if it hadn't been for what happened later, the company would definitely have reached a higher level under the helm of my eldest brother."

Yi Yang also smiled sadly, yes, it sounds like he could have become Wang Sicong of Hanning City, haha.

Seeing that it was getting late, Hou Lin looked at his watch and said, "Let's stop here today. There are many more stories about your father. I will visit you often in the future and tell you slowly. I’ll take you to my house next time. I have a daughter who is about the same age as you. Her grades are much worse than yours. You can give her some advice on her studies.”

Yi Yang nodded: "Okay, Uncle Hou."

This time, "Uncle Hou" is obviously much smoother.

Hou Lin also felt the difference, smiled happily, nodded, paid the money, and the two left the teahouse together.

There was a black Mercedes-Benz in the parking lot. Hou Lin pointed at it and said, "That car is mine. Where are you going next? I'll see it off for you."

Yi Yang was not surprised. After all, Hou Lin is considered a boss... right?

It's not surprising to have a car like this.

After thinking about it, Yi Yang was not polite and said, "I'll go back to school, so I'll have to worry about Uncle Waiting."

Hou Lin shook his head: "Look what you said, get in the car."

After getting into the car, Hou Lin sighed and said, "Although this is a Mercedes-Benz, in fact, if there is no business, I don't want to buy it at all."

Yi Yang's eyes moved, and then he understood what Hou Lin meant.

For some business people, luxury cars are often not for enjoyment, but to support their appearance. If you drive a car worth 500,000 yuan, you can negotiate a business of 5 million yuan. If you drive a car worth 100,000 yuan, People won't even think you are qualified to talk about cars.

However, Hou Lin had no intention of telling Yi Yang more about these principles. He started the car and gently stepped on the accelerator. The car drove forward smoothly... From the way a man stepped on the accelerator, he could probably tell that man's temperament. character.

Yiyang couldn't feel the frustration of the car filling the tank with gas at all.

…

Yi Yang had just returned to the dormitory, opened the door and thought he was doing some questions.

Zhou Xiang had a place to live in Hanning City. When school first started, Zhou Xiang's security father sent him to school. Yi Yang knew him, but Zhou Xiang never mentioned his father to everyone he met later. When someone even asked him about his occupation, he would just give a vague reply that he was working in such and such a place in Hanning City.

Of course, Yi Yang knew why Zhou wanted to do this, but he would not take the initiative to expose anything. It was probably for this reason that Zhou Xiang would not deliberately avoid himself every time he chatted with his family. Zhou Xiang said that as a farmer, he must be the same type of person as him.

After saying a simple hello, Zhou Xiang thought of something, took off his headphones and said, "By the way, Yi Yang, Teacher Shen came to see you just now."

"Teacher Shen?" Yi Yang was a little surprised.

Teacher Shen is their class teacher, but the key class is different from the former No. 2 Middle School of Qinghe County. The class teacher at the High School Affiliated to Normal University rarely cares about life matters. Although Teacher Shen is the nominal class teacher, his presence does not seem to be as strong as before. Liu Donghongqiang.

Today is the weekend, what can Teacher Shen do to him?

Yi Yang asked: "Did Teacher Shen say anything else?"

Zhou wanted to say: "Teacher Shen asked you to go to the office to find her if you come back before 5:30. She is probably waiting for you somewhere."

Yi Yang looked at the time, it was only four o'clock, and nodded, "Thanks, buddy."

"You're welcome."

But now in this school, although Yi Yang is not a top student, he has completed all the tasks assigned by the teacher meticulously. Except for the debate competition and sports meeting, he has not overstepped his abilities, so he does not have to worry about the teacher looking for him to criticize him. What.

So calm...

The reason why he has these messy thoughts is because in his previous life, when Yi Yang was this age, every time he was called by the class teacher, it was because he got into trouble.

When I arrived at the office, there was only one teacher, Shen Xiaoding. She was small, still had the same watermelon hairstyle she had when we first met, and was writing something very focused.

Yi Yang knocked on the door gently.

Shen Xiaoding looked up and smiled when he saw it was Yi Yang, "Yi Yang? Come in."

Yi Yang saw this smile and knew that it was at least not a bad thing for Shen Xiaoding to come to him.

Shen Xiaoding put down what she was doing and Yi Yang took a look and saw that she was writing instructions for the original book Dream of Red Mansions.

Shen Xiaoding looked Yi Yang up and down, showed a thoughtful expression, and said, "I'll tell you directly, I asked you to come here because Teacher Gao came here specifically to look for me."

"Teacher Gao?" Yi Yang's expression changed slightly.

There were not many teachers named Gao in this school, so naturally the only one who had any contact with him was Gao Runxiang.

Shen Xiaoding continued: "Teacher Gao wants to invite you to join the school basketball team. I want to hear your thoughts."

Yi Yang hesitated for a moment and said, "To be honest, Teacher Shen, I haven't thought about it yet."

Shen Xiaoding nodded slightly and continued to ask: "That is to say, you have concerns, right?"

Yi Yang didn't expect that Shen Xiaoding would directly interpret "didn't think well" as "concerned", but he still nodded: "That's right."

Shen Xiaoding thought for a while and said, "Can you tell me your concerns?"

Yi Yang was silent for a moment and did not answer directly. Instead, he asked: "Mr. Shen, to be honest, I'm not sure whether I should participate. Do you have any suggestions?"

Shen Xiaoding smiled and said simply: "I suggest it? If I suggest it, do you still need to consider it? Of course I want to participate!"

"Well……"

"Basketball in our school is taken very seriously by the school. As far as I know, there are not many high schools that take this seriously. Those who can name it are among the top high schools in the country, such as Tsinghua High School and SJZ No. 2 Middle School. This kind of... if you join our school team, you should have a lot of fun."

"Have fun... are you having fun?"

"Haha, just kidding." Seeing how serious Yi Yang was, Shen Xiaoding became a little more serious and said seriously: "Okay, then I will give you a serious analysis."

"I can probably guess your concerns. It's just that your idea is that you want to be cultural, but you are worried that playing basketball will delay your studies, which deviates from the main line, right?"

Yi Yang hesitated and nodded. This was indeed what he was most worried about.

Shen Xiaoding shook his head and said: "Actually, you are completely wrong to think so. Strictly speaking, playing basketball in the first year of high school will not affect your main line of cultural studies at all. In the first year of high school and the second year of high school, you are not so nervous. Even if you If you don’t play basketball, there will still be many things occupying your extracurricular life.”

"Next, let's analyze it again. What is the purpose of your hard study?" After a pause, Shen Xiaoding said: "I think... well, except for a few people, it is probably to get into a good university, right?"

"As far as I know, there are only a few dozen colleges and universities that are qualified to recruit high-level athletes for basketball programs, which are almost equivalent to the top dozens of prestigious schools in the country."

“The next most important thing is that you don’t need to play basketball for three years!”

"This is what I think. If you can really follow the team to the top in the National High School Basketball League from this semester to March next semester, and even be awarded a national first-level certificate...according to the enrollment method of high-level athlete examination in colleges and universities , when you graduate, you can apply for high-level athletes. Even if you don't sign up for this and follow a normal culture, you can still get extra points. How many points are you right? 50, it seems to be 50." After a pause, Shen Xiaoding continued: "And you only need to spend one semester! Did you know that many sports students in our school struggle to get in!"

"If you don't get a ranking this year, go back and continue studying. Let's put it this way, it won't have any impact at all!"

"If I were you, I would definitely spend less than a semester making a bet. If I win the bet, it is equivalent to stepping into the threshold of the top universities in the country. But if I lose the bet, the worst... The result is nothing more than a waste of several months of spare time just having fun.”

"If you think about it this way, it shouldn't be a loss at all."

After a pause, Shen Xiaoding said with a smile: "When I was in high school, I had a classmate who was recommended to the University of Science and Technology of China in his first year of high school. Do you know how he spent the next two years? He just served his classmates and so on. I took the time to get a driver's license and became a tutor for a little kid. In theory, I could even stay at home. When we were in our senior year of high school, we were studying hard at school. We were so stressed that our hair fell out a lot every day, but he came to school every day to write papers. The euphemistic saying is that he wants to advance and retreat together with his classmates and cherish the time spent with everyone, but I feel that he is just here to make us angry, which makes people’s teeth itch."

"If you can really lead our school to the finals, although you won't be like my classmate who submitted the application, your study will become very easy..." Shen Xiaoding showed an expression like tempting a child and said: "It's very, very easy!"

"Are you sure you don't want to try?"