472. Cruise ships
The Lianhua Township in midsummer is full of greenery, and the temperature here seems to be cooler and more pleasant than Bincheng.
Li Yifan had been driving here for a long time, and his cousin Billy had been here for several days. After receiving a call from Li Yifan two days ago, Billy had to run over from the Wenrou Village on the North Baseball side, and had been squatting here for several days.
It hasn't rained these days, and the weather has been good, so the construction work in Lotus Valley is in full swing. I have to say that Li Tieguai is indeed a very powerful village head. In just a few months, he completed the three-way and one-level work of Lotus Valley.
Nowadays, there are countless large-scale engineering vehicles and trucks transporting goods every day, traveling between Lianhua Township and Lianhua Valley. It is only more than 20 miles away, but it has become the busiest highway in Lianhua Township.
The investment of the Li family has been destroyed, and these truck drivers have also made the economy of Lianhua Township prosper. Various small restaurants along the street are now almost full of customers every day.
This made the tax office and township government staff in Lianhua Township so happy that they couldn't open their eyes. As well as many villagers in Lianhua Township, they also benefited from it and made a lot of money. In short, it was a good situation now.
The engineering projects in Lianhua Valley are also very busy. The construction team working here was found by my brother-in-law from Bincheng. Some of the technical work of the construction team is usually completed by themselves, while the scrap workers are mainly hired from Lianhua Township, which also stimulates the economic development of Lianhua Township from another perspective.
The first phase of this Lotus Valley is the second phase expansion project of Phoenix Winery. Because it is necessary to use the spring water from Taohua Valley, which is ten miles away from here to make wine, and it is also facing huge pressure on production capacity, the project is the first to be completed.
Of course, this has a major relationship with the lack of special buildings required by the winery and the low requirements. However, considering the beautiful appearance of the winery, Li Yifan and Qin Mingliang discussed it and increased their investment. They extracted more than one million from the winery's profits and deeply packaged the winery, using good materials.
The well-built fermentation pond and better storage and filling equipment. Now the second phase expansion project of this winery has basically been completed, and only some scraps of materials have not been completed. However, even after it is completely completed, it will not be put into use immediately. First, it is because the water supply pipeline in Taohua Valley has not been completed, and second, it is because the winery uses some relatively new materials, so the taste is relatively large.
After the construction was completed, Li Yifan and Qin Mingliang discussed that they planned to leave it for three months before they could start to be put into use. After all, they were anxious and could not eat hot tofu. If one of them was not done well, because these chemical raw materials affected the quality of the wine produced in the future, it would be more than worth the cost.
Another project in Lotus Valley, the hot spring resort hotel, has now been basically half built, the foundation has been laid, and some selected hot springs have been basically divided separately and have been renovated along the hot spring pool. A small hotel that can accommodate hundreds of people at the same time has now risen and has reached the height of four floors. It is expected to be 18 floors high and has 200 guest rooms.
On the other side of the hot spring resort is a sightseeing cable car that has been built directly to the top of the mountain. This sightseeing cable car is the big investment this time, and it is even more expensive than some small infrastructure projects. However, because of the ski resort, although this cable car is relatively expensive, Li Yifan finally gritted his teeth and got on the horse.
The cable car goes straight to the top of the mountain from the foot of the west slope of Lianhua Valley. It is designed as the lowest end of the ski resort. After sliding down from the top of the mountain, you can take the cable car directly to the top of the mountain. In the future, at the bottom of the ear slope on the north side, Li Yifan also considers whether he is in the previous cable car system.
However, the sightseeing cable car that has been built now does not carry any tourists. Now they are mainly responsible for transporting building materials to the top of the mountain. Now the sightseeing hotel on the top of the mountain is also in full swing.
However, compared with the resort at the foot of the mountain, the progress of this project is relatively slow, because there are a lot of preliminary work to be done, such as flattening a piece of land from the top of the mountain, and laying the foundation. Because of Li Yifan's special idea, the foundation of this mountain-top tourist hotel must be laid deeper, and the underground building alone must be three floors deep.
Because this mountain is a stone mountain, many of them involve blasting when laying the foundation, so the progress is relatively slow. It was not until the foundation project was basically completed last month, and it was only now that it was built on the ground floor. However, Li Yifan was not in a hurry because this resort hotel would not be built very high.
The first floor is the business premises of ski resorts, the second floor is the hotel starting from the second floor, the second floor is mainly provided for skiers to rest, mainly providing snacks and drinks, the third and fourth floors will be tourist restaurants, and the fifth floor will be rooms. Moreover, the rooms here are different from the resorts downstairs, and the area will be large and the prices will be very expensive, because this place is specially prepared for rich people.
Of course, these are not the key. In Li Yifan's view, the most important thing is that he and Billy agreed to have long ago, the underground casino.
"Yifan, you don't know that during this period, what I've been waiting for is almost moldy. I have prepared those machinery, equipment, etc. I also specially invited a manager from Macau and Hong Kong to help me run this place. But the construction speed, look at it, I'm really worried. I'm afraid this hotel will not be able to open at this time next year..."
Looking at the mountain top sightseeing hotel with slow construction progress, as the future nominal boss Billy, he was very dissatisfied with such construction progress. After hearing this, Li Yifan smiled slightly. His cousin is too playful. He is so eager to open this hotel, probably not to make money, but to have a casino for fun!
"What's the hurry? Cousin, this hotel will be built sooner or later. If you are really anxious, I think you might as well invest some money in yourself, find a few more construction teams and take shifts to do it. In this way, the construction speed will be up soon? Anyway, there are still several months before the shutdown period in November. I think as long as you have enough money, this hotel will definitely be completed before the freezing period this year!"
"Really? Are you willing to let me take the stake?"
When Billy heard this, his eyes lit up. You should know that he and Li Yifan were born and died two years ago, but he really distributed millions of dollars from Li Yifan. Although he had squandered a lot in the past two years, he still had at least more than three million in the bank, and there was no good place to go.
"Why not? If you like it, you can invest in it. Then we will allocate equity according to the investment."
Li Yifan said with a smile that this hotel will definitely make money every day in the future, so it is not a bad idea to point out the money for my cousin.
"Okay, just wait! Haha, I plan to invest 2 million US dollars in, and I will make a lot of money by then, hahaha!"
Billy is very happy. In recent times, he has been to his friend of Beibang. In the casino of Beibang, he has really seen the courage of Chinese officials. He won and lost millions of wins and losses, and they didn’t take them seriously. Those experiences made him have two impressions of the gamblers in China. One is that there are so many rich Chinese people! The other is that these Chinese people are really born gamblers.
"In fact, cousin, I don't think your attention should be mainly focused on this hotel. If you really like the gambling industry so much, I think you can consider the luxury cruise tourism industry."
Li Yifan said to Billy with a smile. Speaking of cruise ships, many people sound very far away. In fact, with the highly developed aviation industry, sailing cruises are no longer the first choice for people to choose to travel far.
However, this new era has given cruise ships a new meaning, that is, vacation travel.
For many Chinese people, taking a cruise to take a vacation and traveling sounds very far away, but a few years later, such tourism projects are in full swing. Many rich people in China like to take cruises and take a walk around the sea.
Those who are closer can go to Japan, South Korea, Southeast Asia, those who are farther away can go to Hawaii, the Caribbean, and even further away. You can even take a cruise directly to Europe and travel around the world.
The cost of such a trip ranges from thousands to tens of thousands, but this is not the most critical. The most critical thing is that once these cruise ships enter the high seas, they are no longer subject to the laws of countries around the world. Many of them have transformed into large casinos.
Therefore, Li Yifan believes that such an industry is really suitable for his cousin who is quite interested in the gambling industry.
"Stop kidding. I've been on that cruise ship, it's really good. I have a lot of food and fun. But brother, how much does that cruise ship cost? Even if I want to do it, I can't afford it!"
Billy is still very clear about how much he has. If it is Li Yifan's net worth, he can buy a cruise ship and play with it. But with his small net worth, let alone a cruise ship, he may not be able to afford it even a yacht.
Chapter completed!