Chapter 52 Buying a piece of land?
Although Zhang Cheng has never imagined that he has passed the A-level college course, he cannot go to college all his life. He is not a university degree. But where does the graduation thesis come from?
Moreover, the credit system does not care how many years you go to college. If you complete four years of courses in two or three years, you can get a degree in two or three years. For many international students who are not in particularly good financial situations, especially Chinese students who are very good at brains, the average annual cost of studying in American universities is 40,000 or 50,000 yuan (overall) of economic pressure is still very high.
One of the reasons why many Chinese students are so diligent is that the cost of studying abroad in American universities is high, but scholarships are also enjoyable. Taking scholarships is much better than going to work as an unscrupulous worker to brush plates.
This time, Zhang Cheng was in a good mood. He swayed to the school's cafe. It was actually the school's restaurant. Most students thought that the coffee here was quite authentic, the environment was good, and the price was not expensive. Is the school buffet? Is it a lot of non-alcoholic drinks to drink. I secretly renamed it a cafe a long time ago.
I accidentally met Jen, Tess and the others from the Student Union here.
Zhang Cheng naturally went up and greeted a plate of macaroni (tomato noodles): "Hi, what are you busy with recently?"
Tess: "What else can be there? The student union will be involved in promoting the school's football team and baseball team games recently."
If there are few teams or track and field experts in American universities that can be used to make a move, it doesn’t have to be seen at the level of a fifth-rate pheasant university. A good university gives the green light to students with sports talents and then trains university star players through college competitions, which is a win-win situation for students with sports talents.
Take the most popular football in the United States as an example. Not to mention university games, high school and school games can make profits through selling tickets. Since they are profitable, according to the nature of capitalism, they must be vigorously promoted.
Zhang Cheng has also watched several live football games at home. How do you think it is indeed a battle of wits and courage on the court, and its excitement is something you haven't seen in football and basketball games before. It's no wonder that football has become the largest football sport in the United States, and even spreads rugby culture to developed countries such as Europe and the United States - of course, there is still a lot of resistance.
Tess asked: "Zhang, what are you busy with recently?"
Zhang Cheng: "Study hard and improve every day."
Zhen and the others all laughed when they heard this. In their opinion, rich people are of course studying to get a diploma. Even if they get a full four-point degree certificate, would they still work for others?
What Zhang Cheng said is true. In addition to regular and elective courses this month, Zhang Cheng himself also works in biopharmaceuticals, and it is not without results. At least he has opened up a channel to enter a master's degree and has also jointly organized a project with Nelson, a leading professor of biology. You can see how many years or even more than ten years it takes for other students to do in a month.
Seeing that Zhen and the others were completely unbelievable, Zhang Cheng had to express his recent plan: "Buy a RV, the kind that can drive a trip. He is also planning to buy a piece of land as an investment."
These two things are actually for legal tax avoidance. Zhang Cheng still has a total of 1,000 million US dollars on his book. If he has not spent or invested by the end of the year, at least 20% of them will be from the Taxation Bureau. Zhang Cheng is planning to keep a few million for emergency response and spend the rest before the end of the year.
The US tax policy is very strange. If you make money and save money directly, sooner or later, a large piece will become a tax bureau. If you spend it clean, the US tax bureau will give you a tax refund at the end of the year.
In a word, it is to encourage consumption, spend money, and encourage investment.
Zhang Cheng’s accountant suggested that Zhang Cheng invest in stock funds to avoid taxes reasonably. But Zhang Cheng is not that stupid. I won’t say that there are too many tricks in the fund. Is stocks played by ordinary investors like Zhang Cheng with a net worth of tens of millions?
Surely not. In Zhang Cheng's opinion, the stock market has always been a killing field for capital tycoons to play big fish and eat small fish games. Looking at the history of stocks, after a rise, a black week or something happened, so that the big crowds could leave the money of retail investors to the US government.
If you have a choice, Zhang Cheng would rather choose to invest in land. After all, American land has been slowly appreciating over the years. Zhang Cheng planned to buy such a piece of commercial forest land for about 10 million US dollars. Although the low return rate of commercial forest land is low and the capital is recovered for too long, the profit is stable.
Even if the forest is burned when encountering natural disasters and man-made disasters, the land is still there, and if insurance is taken, the insurance company will actually lose it. If gold and oil are dug out from the ground you bought, it will be yours.
As for the RV, Zhang Cheng considered that the Pokémon had already entered the scrap car treatment station, and the Bugatti sports car was majestic, but only two seats.
Zhang Cheng fell in love with a new luxury Mercedes-Benz RV, with four sofas and TVs, a bed, bathroom and kitchen water dispenser, a fax machine and a computer. The point is that such a large car costs only 200,000 US dollars, which is cheap.
Since the United States is a car kingdom, how can I live here without a car that can drive out and travel?
Zhang Cheng thought it was very simple, the main reason was that it was not that bad for more than 200,000 (plus insurance), but Americans really couldn't afford a luxury RV of hundreds of thousands - for low-income American families, more than 200,000 US dollars is enough for two children to go to college. The United States claims to be the kingdom of automobiles because cars are cheap. American sedans cost thousands of US dollars apart were originally not expensive, and Japanese cars in the United States were even cheaper.
Zhen and her friends had something else to say, so they could only continue to say the old complaint: "Chinese people are really rich."
"NO, NO, NO." Zhang Cheng shook his head and said, "This little money in Chinese is really nothing. In our opinion, Buffett, Gates, the British royal family, and the Saudi royal family, that is what it means to be rich."
There are chatting and laughing here, but no one knows that disaster comes from the sky.
Someone disliked Zhang Cheng at the next table and shouted to Zhang Cheng here: "Hey, Asian guys go back to Asia."
Hearing this, Zhang Cheng was not angry. He looked sideways and saw that the person who was speaking was a mixed-race black man, who could even get out of his weight. Zhang Cheng smiled and said, "You can go to college with this little IQ, so you must be a sports student."
Jen knew the speaker: "The No. 2 catcher of the school baseball team is Jimmy."
Jimmy slapped the table and got up: "So what?"
Zhang Cheng continued to laugh: "So you should learn more about the history of the United States and America. The ancestors of Asians, that is, my ancestors, arrived in America tens of thousands of years ago. You have only been here for hundreds of years. If you want to go back, you will go back. But others are lucky enough to say, are you going back to Africa? Or Europe?"
Zhang Cheng said, and started laughing.
Chapter completed!