Material Empire

After Qin Hai settled Ning Mo and the others down, he went on a business trip with Lu Xiaolin and Heizi. Xia Yangjie handed over his resignation report to Yang Xinyu and concentrated on researching the subject of fiber winding resin, so he couldn't go out with Qin Hai and the others. Qin Hai found a few more enthusiastic teachers from other colleges and universities as the special experts of the working group. According to the different contents of the investigation, he brought different people with him, and it was enough to bluff people when he went to various places.

Ning Mo and the other three took the letter of introduction issued by the localization office and went to Pujiang Automobile Factory to learn how to drive a car for a week. Afterwards, they all got their driver's licenses and became the first batch of non-professional drivers in China. In the following days, they drove the Pusang car and began to look for a suitable site for Qin Hai's material technology service company.

Back then, the Pujiang River could be said to be under the whole world, could it be the land of the king. All sites belong to various units, and there is no such thing as a development zone or headquarters base where factories and offices can be rented out. Liu Yaozhong's Dongyao Plastic Factory has a large piece of free space, and he is willing to lend it to Qin Hai and the others. After deliberating for a while, Qin Hai rejected Liu Yaozhong's offer. The reasons for his refusal were firstly because he did not want to mix two different units together, and secondly because Dongyao Plastic Factory was located in a suburban county with inconvenient transportation, which was not conducive to recruiting research talents.

Ning Mo and the others took the map, walked the streets and alleys, and searched for places everywhere. They almost smoothed out the patterns on the tires of the car, but they still found nothing. In the end, what they didn't expect was that the landlord Zhou Quanmei helped them solve this problem.

Ever since she discovered that a few tenants from out of town had a brand new Pushang, Zhou Quanmei no longer regarded them as ordinary "country folks". From time to time, she would run over to visit a few young people and send them some small dishes from home to accompany their meals. Among these few people, Yu Haitao is the one who knows how to do things the most. His aunt is long and his aunt is short, so he coaxed Zhou Quanmei into confusion. During this period, Yu Haitao also graciously drove Zhou Quanmei to do two things, which made Zhou Quanmei show off in front of relatives. Since then, Zhou Quanmei has become more enthusiastic about these young people.

That time, several young people came back exhausted from the outside very late, and they met Zhou Quanmei who was cooking supper in the kitchen. Zhou Quanmei asked with concern how their affairs were going, and Yu Haitao sighed, "Oh, now I know what every inch of land is worth. It's really not easy to find a venue in Pujiang."

"What venue are you looking for?" Zhou Quanmei asked while stirring the egg flower in the bowl.

Yu Haitao said: "Our Beixi No. 2 Iron and Steel Plant wants to build a research institute in Pujiang, and we want to rent a site with a size of tens of acres. But after running for so many days, people say that unless we go to the outer suburbs, around the city It will definitely not be found."

Yu Haitao's statement was an agreement between Qin Hai and them. If it is said that it is to build a private technology service company, I am afraid that the difficulty of renting land will be several times greater. It is relatively common for foreign companies to establish liaison offices in Pujiang, and the background of Beixi No. 2 Iron and Steel Plant is also large enough to not easily arouse the vigilance of others.

"The size of dozens of acres?" Zhou Quanmei frowned and thought for a while, then asked: "You want to build a research institute, do you need a house on it?"

Yu Haitao said: "It doesn't matter if there is a house or not. If we don't have a house, we can build it ourselves. However, we hope that the lease time will be longer, otherwise it will not be cost-effective to build a house."

"Is that so? How about I go and ask for you." Zhou Quanmei said.

Yu Haitao took Zhou Quanmei's words as a casual strike-up, and didn't take it to heart. Unexpectedly, two days later, Zhou Quanmei actually knocked on Yu Haitao's door and handed him a small note with an address, a unit name, a contact name and a phone number written on it.

"This is..." Yu Haitao asked in surprise.

"This unit has a venue, which may suit your needs. However, you need to discuss the specific matters. This person is their manager." Zhou Quanmei pointed to the name on the note and said.

With the mentality of trying it out, Yu Haitao called the contact person early the next morning. The name of the contact person was Peng Xingzong, and the position written on the note was the manager of the No. It's not a big cadre either.

After hearing Yu Haitao's self-introduction, Peng Xingzong responded lightly and said, "I know about this matter. If you are interested, come and talk."

These days, everyone is used to all kinds of disappointments. When they heard that there was such a clue, several people became excited, packed up quickly, drove to Pujiao University to pick up Xia Yangjie, and then went straight to the old school. The address somewhere on the Puhuang Highway.

People in Pujiang have always been very meticulous in their work. When Peng Xingzong asked Yu Haitao to meet, he guessed in advance that Yu Haitao was not familiar with geography. He explained all kinds of road signs clearly on the phone, and even the number of meters to walk after passing a certain canteen before turning around was exactly the same. After the Pusang car drove around the maze-like road for an hour, a dilapidated factory gate appeared in front of everyone. On the mottled door plate was written: Mechanical Repair Factory of the Fourth Branch of Pujiang No. 2 Construction Company.

"Is it Xiao Yu from An He?" A man in a tunic suit stood at the factory gate and asked the people in the car.

"I'm Xiao Yu." Yu Haitao opened the door and jumped out of the car, asking, "Excuse me, are you Manager Peng?"

"Yes, I am Manager Peng." The man was not polite, and he called his official position. However, he didn't have any pretensions. Seeing that a few people came by car, he stepped forward, opened the factory door for them, and let them drive into the factory area.

It is said that it is a factory area, but the area is really not that big, and it looks like thirty or forty acres by visual inspection. The factory area is surrounded by walls, and there is a standard single-storey factory building and several rows of bungalows inside. On an empty site, there are some rusty construction machinery piled up, all of which are so rotten that they are only worth going back to the furnace for smelting. The factory area is covered with waist-high weeds, which shows that no one has entered here for at least three to five years.

"This place has been deserted for several years, and we can't find a place to sit. Let's just stand here and talk." Peng Xingzong pointed to the factory area and said to everyone.

"Isn't this your company's machine repair shop? How could it be deserted?" Qin Rongqing asked strangely.

Peng Xingzong said: "We used to do engineering here, so we set aside a piece of land and set up a machine repair shop. Now our construction site has moved to the west, so we can't send the equipment here for repairs all the way. ? So this place is deserted."

"You mean, you built a new machine repair shop over there?" Xia Yangjie asked.

"That's for sure." Peng Xingzong replied disapprovingly.

I sell cakes... Ning Mo and others rubbed their foreheads with their hands, and he was as tired as a dog, looking for a place everywhere but couldn't find it, but such a branch company can build a new machine repair shop at a different construction site, and then put the old The area of ​​the machine repair shop is used to grow grass, what is this?

"Mr. Xia, do you think this place is suitable?" Yu Haitao pulled Xia Yangjie aside and asked him in a low voice. Before Qin Hai went on a business trip, he told them that they should listen to Xia Yangjie's opinions on choosing a venue, because only Xia Yangjie knows the venue and working conditions best.

Xia Yangjie nodded and said, "It's suitable! If we can rent out all of this site, these bungalows can be used as research offices, and the workshops can be converted into laboratories and experimental factories. In the future, if we have money, we can build a few more houses next to it." , this is a very perfect research institute."

"So, we can consider renting this place?" Yu Haitao said.

"It's absolutely fine." Xia Yangjie said.

"In your opinion, what is the appropriate annual rent for this site?" Yu Haitao asked again.

This stopped Xia Yangjie from asking. He is a scholar, so he has never studied such things. Back then, there was no mature real estate market, and Xia Yangjie couldn't find any second-hand information for comparison, so it was impossible to answer Yu Haitao's question.

Seeing Xia Yangjie's confused face, Yu Haitao knew that he had asked Yu Blind. He shook off Xia Yangjie, pulled Ning Mo over, and discussed with him the reserve price for renting the venue. Ning Mo also has no experience in renting land, but he has some understanding of the operating costs of enterprises. He and Yu Haitao chatted for a while, and finally agreed that if the annual rent can be controlled below 100,000 yuan, then you can consider renting it.

This factory area covers an area of ​​40 mu. If the annual rent is 100,000 yuan, it is equivalent to 2,500 yuan per mu per year, which is about 4 yuan per square meter.

According to the land use management measures formulated by the Pujiang Municipal Government at that time, if foreign-funded enterprises want to occupy land for construction, the annual use fee per square meter of special-grade areas is calculated according to the standards of industrial, storage and transportation land. 50 to 90 yuan, to the lowest level of urban self-level land, 3 to 9 yuan per square meter. Ning Mo and Yu Haitao didn't know what level of land the machine repair factory was in, but the psychological price they negotiated was more or less reliable.

When Ning Mo and others were discussing in private, Peng Xingzong did not disturb them, but looked around in the small factory area by himself, tearing down a few weeds from time to time, as if he wanted to tidy up the factory area. Seeing that Yu Haitao and Ning Mo stopped muttering and walked towards him, Peng Xingzong smiled slightly and asked, "How is it? Have you discussed it?"

"We have discussed it." Yu Haitao said, "We think this place is more suitable for us, but we don't know how much it will cost to rent such a place a year."

"We don't want money." As soon as Peng Xingzong said that, everyone was shocked.