Chapter 253 Roland Landlord Allen
"Hya! Hya! Hya!"
A marshal leaned forward, his **** off the saddle, shaped like a full bow, galloping his horse.
Golden sunlight gently sprinkles in the quiet forest, and the mountain wind blows over the cheeks, while passing the whistling, it also brings the rhythmic sound of horseshoes.
The rhythmic click sound is like drumming and marching, so that the knights who shuttle on the beautiful plain will rise to the heart of conquest.
And when he crossed the uplifted mountain and swooped down, the endless lake was like a sapphire embedded in the mountains and rivers.
With the arrival of the knights, the original tranquility is also torn apart. The wild ducks wandering on the lake, fluttering and flying high, and the dark brown figures draw a thick stroke in the air, waiting for you to pursue their traces , These little guys fell headlong into the dense forest by the lake and disappeared without a trace.
According to normal conditions, when going downhill, it is time to slow down.
But the problem is, this guy wanted to show off a cliff, so he didn't stop.
When he felt that the distance was about the same and he could step on the brakes, the horse stopped listening.
Ever since, the cry of "咕咱咚!" suddenly sounded.
Global Ball Grass, who didn't want to go into the water, tried his best to appease the horse under him, but unfortunately, the sky failed.
Even though he shouted heart-piercingly, the sorrel horse didn't listen, but quickened his pace, and rushed into the lake with a swish.
"Hahaha~~~"
Seeing the mighty water waves, the girl following behind reined in and laughed wildly.
When she drove the horse to the lake, the guy who was almost taken to the center of the lake by the horse finally swam back.
Stepping on the mud with one foot deep and one foot shallow, he walked back to the shore. When he found that the damned horse had jumped from a high place, he raised his hand and pointed at the lively crowd, who was too lazy to find a flat road. The guy yelled.
"Don't just watch! Come and pull me!"
The girl ignored him.
"No, you can't pretend you didn't hear it!"
The girl continued to laugh.
Looking at this situation, the guy in the water got anxious and jumped twice on the spot.
It's a pity that the height of three centimeters above the ground did not win sympathy, but made the laughter even stronger.
Seeing that the guy in the water was about to be **** to death by himself, the girl in the little vest and jeans turned over heroically from the horse, took off her helmet, squatted on the shore with a smile, and looked at the girl thinking about it with a playful look. The guy who wants to climb up asks: "Don't you want to compete? Don't you want to fight for the first place? Who wins now?"
"You won, you won..."
The boy conceded defeat in a perfunctory tone, and then shouted impatiently: "Quick, quick, pull me up."
The girl ignored the swinging hand, hugged the helmet in her arms, and said with the corner of her mouth hooked: "Is this your attitude of begging for help?"
"Oh..." The boy smiled wryly, and said, "You really won, okay?"
"No! Your attitude is still not sincere." The girl pouted and shook her head.
"Then what do you think is sincerity?" the boy asked back.
"I like it here..." the girl said to him.
While speaking, she also looked at the lake and mountains. The tranquility of the hidden mountains and forests makes people feel comfortable physically and mentally.
And when she said that, the boy naturally understood, nodded quickly and said, "I like this too!"
Not only that, he also thought about the future.
“There is no need for a major renovation here, what I like is the natural feeling here…”
"However, the houses in the residential area are too old. They don't even have normal electricity access. They can only be maintained by generators, so they must be pushed to rebuild..."
"Then, the plains here are suitable for riding horses. For convenience, we are building a stable..."
"Also, the lake here is running water, which is suitable for fishing. In order not to damage the ecological environment, we built a fishing platform with logs and a rest area on the side..."
"By the way, it's too far away from the urban area. When we lived here, it was impossible for people to go to the urban area every day to buy a pile of fresh vegetables in the refrigerator, so we had to open a plot of land, grow some vegetables, and grow them ourselves. Just order some livestock, enough for yourself to eat..."
"Oh! In order to enrich our entertainment life, we can also build an indoor swimming pool, draw out an 18-hole golf course, and then build a basketball court..."
"Hey??? Don't go! I haven't finished yet! Hey! Pull me up first!"
Seeing that the boy was daydreaming, the girl rolled her eyes, got up and got on the horse, and left with a twitter.
Looking at the relentless figure, the guy half-submerged in the water was helpless, and shouted: "The transformation plan is up to you!"
Eh!
After yelling like this, the horse that climbed halfway up the mountain turned its head.
"Really?" the girl asked.
"Of course!" the boy yelled assurance.
Immediately afterwards, the horse came back with small steps.
Looking at the satisfied guy, the boy stuck in the ditch, sighed, and began to read, "Hey... she is obviously older than me, but she is not humble in every way, no matter how old she is, she always I feel like I'm eighteen..."
Although he was making complaints, a smile appeared on his face, "Childish, unreasonable, really **** difficult..."
When the media in America were arguing about whether Roland could win the Oscar, Roland had already left the mainland of America for no other reason than that he didn't want Kate to notice the abnormality before the Oscar was announced.
Kate is not an idiot. Even if she didn't hear the news about the Olympics, as long as she sees the media propaganda, she will definitely guess that the dream she said at the beginning is gradually becoming a reality by Roland.
And when she discovered this, the so-called surprise may still exist, but compared with the bombing at the awards ceremony, the effect will be much worse. Even though she knew that it was impossible to win an Oscar based on strength alone, Roland I think it's better to let her know about things like public relations after the fact.
Even if happiness will eventually return to reality, the happiness obtained in the unknown and the happiness obtained based on reality are two different kinds of satisfaction.
The former will be too excited to restrain themselves, while the latter will take it for granted.
Because of this, Roland had to drag Kate out of America in order to maximize her happiness.
Because he believes that in the non-mobile Internet era, only the news of the three former commanders speaking at the same time can spread all over the world!
As for the reason for dragging Kate out of America—
It was asked David to do it years ago, and the other party had already prepared to buy land and houses according to his requirements.
As soon as he talked about buying land and building a house, Roland jumped angrily.
It may be that the money came too easily, or it may be that what Roland said that day was too grand, and it is more likely that Roland's brand concept made David think that Roland wanted a wedding room, so when choosing, this Guy is unambiguous.
In America alone, he picked three properties.
Atherton, a city near Stanford, is a small city with a permanent population of only 7,000 people. It has many quiet mansions. David chose a European castle-style mansion for Roland. With an area of ??11,843 square feet, there are seven bedrooms, seven bathrooms, a gym, an indoor swimming pool, and a spa room.
Not only that, the space in the basement is also surprisingly large.
When Roland learned that even the basement had bedrooms, movie theaters and wine tasting spaces.
Having witnessed all this with his own eyes, he finally saw the extravagance of capitalism.
But this is not the point. The point is that the left side of the mansion is Paul Allen's home.
On the right is the home of Meg Whitman, vice president of global marketing for Disney.
If you walk forward for a while and turn over a hill, you can see the home of Eric Schmidt, the future chairman of Google, who was personally introduced to Roland when he had dinner with David Shaw in New York.
After hearing the names of these people, ah, no, after seeing Kate's affection.
Roland made a decision to buy this place.
The second property is in Malibu, Los Angeles.
After hearing about Malibu, Roland didn't ask about the size, but asked about the neighbors.
When he learned that the mansion is next door to Spielberg's home, he didn't even bother to ask about the interior decoration and exterior structure, because when the share of "Jurassic Park" came down, the old man tricked him into buying it. The house next door to his own, he had seen the unoccupied mansion at that time, but now he just bought it.
The third property is located in Irvine.
When Roland and Kate followed David, they saw a modern villa covering an area of ??nearly 20,000 square feet.
Compared with the old castle mansions near Stanford and the sea view mansions in Malibu, the modern villas in Irvine can enjoy the magnificent city scenery and canyon scenery. Of course, in David’s words, the scenery and the area are not the most important Yes, the important thing is that twenty miles north of the villa area, there is a real estate agent who is selling nearly fifteen acres of land that he holds.
If Roland is willing to buy the 20,000-square-foot modern villa, he can use the money he earned from the baht to take over the real estate over there, and then level it up to build it according to the style Roland wants.
After hearing such inexplicable words, Roland felt that there were many small question marks beside him.
‘You are engaged in commercial real estate, why do you want to see where I buy a house? '
When he asked the question in his heart, David did not answer directly, but said: "I think Irvine has a bright future, and if the land is acquired now, it will definitely appreciate in the future..."
Hearing such remarks, Roland became even more confused. When he frowned and asked David not to go around, David said embarrassedly: "The house at Blizzard headquarters is a bit small. Since you are going to expand wildly , so do you need a building?"
"Since you want a building, it shouldn't be too far from where you live, and don't you like playing games? It's 20 miles away, and you can drive there in half an hour, which is convenient and quick."
Grab the grass!
Hearing these words, Roland was stunned on the spot.
It is not easy to do commercial real estate these days, and he knows it.
But what he didn't know was that David actually raised the butcher knife to his own people when commercial real estate was not easy to do?
Blizzard only has a hundred employees in total, so you built the headquarters with a thousand employees?
This is too much!
but-
he likes.
"Okay, I bought this house, and you can take that land too."
"You come up with a design first, and then discuss with Mike and the others."
"I just have one request, the entrance must be the same as Disney's Burbank headquarters, and there must be a statue."
"Walt Disney is holding Mickey at the entrance of Disney, so the three founders of Blizzard will be molded at the entrance, and then there must be a large space around them. When a classic IP is released in the future, a statue will be built beside them..."
"Isn't Disney showing off how big its own IP is? I want to see who has the most!"
Fat water doesn't flow into outsiders' fields!
In the case of crazy money, Blizzard's headquarters will soon be overwhelmed.
Since David's main business is real estate development, the company's business of building buildings will be outsourced to him in the future.
Regardless of whether it is Apple's spaceship or Amazon's three glass eggs, Roland believes that David can do it.
As for the sculpture design?
Isn’t this a pure copy of Disney…
Do you have Mickey Mouse, Donald Duck, Winnie the Pooh?
We have Lei Yuetian, Sa Yuedi, and Dange Yue wall brush CD!
Roland was very satisfied with the three mansions, and at the same time, the price of the mansions was also very impressive.
One thousand five, two thousand five, one thousand two...
Mouth touching three times in a row, fifty-two million yuan was burned away.
Of course, these mansions are all located in the country, and it is the overseas resort chosen by David that allows Roland to pull Kate out.
Located in Hamilton, New Zealand, it covers a total area of ??2,125 hectares of wilderness, forests, and lakes.
New Zealand is a very good pension country. Not to mention the absence of heavy industry, there are still 14 national parks, hundreds of nature reserves and ecological areas on the huge island. There is absolutely nothing wrong with the environment.
The average temperature in summer is 20 to 25 degrees Celsius, and in winter it is 10 to 15 degrees Celsius. Coupled with the biggest advantage of the vast land and sparse population, you don’t have to worry about people coming to disturb your good mood when you are on vacation here.
Plant a flower, catch a fish, ride a horse, swim a swim, raise a dorky Garfield, raise a British short-haired blue cat, and then put together a sleigh and three idiots, the sky is the quilt, the earth is the bed, this is simply human The old man's retirement life that people envy!
Well, maybe the old man will dislike Husky for being too stupid.
But no matter how you say it, Roland fell in love with this place after galloping his horse. After being pulled up by Kate, he directly abandoned the horse that was still having fun in the lake, stuck to Kate, and took a ride with her. Youzai Youzai returned the same way.
Looking at the verdant green hills, Roland, who was still hanging on the water, rubbed his chin on Kate's neck, and whispered in her ear.
"Do you like it here?"
"Yeah." Kate pronounced it through her nose, she was used to Roland's 'sloppy', "When I was filming "Sinful Angel", I felt that living here is much more comfortable than London, if I have the opportunity to buy land and build Room, of course I am willing."
"However, is 5,250 acres of land too expensive?"
"Mua." Roland smiled and kissed the other party's neck, "Okay, then let's go back and let David talk to New Zealand."
As for the price, "You don't have to worry about the money, as long as you like it, I will buy it no matter how expensive it is..."
"Hmph!" Hearing this, Kate turned her head and gave Roland a healthy eye.
Holding it with both hands, it rested on Roland's waist.
Seeing Kate's tendency to tickle himself, Roland, who was riding a horse, turned pale and said, "Okay, okay, more than 5,000 acres of land is not as expensive as those three villas, but if I come forward Buy it, New Zealand doesn’t charge for it…”
That’s right, the reason why Roland took a fancy to New Zealand was mainly because the land doesn’t cost money—
Government free gift.
The entire area of ??Hamilton is only 27,000 acres. The wilderness, forests, and lakes that David likes account for 20% of Hamilton's total area. Don't take a bite out of a fifth of a city, but In fact, the forests, lakes, and wilderness here are not allowed to be developed, and if you buy them, you can't log, breed, or reclaim them.
Lands that are not allowed to be developed are meaningless to businessmen, but Roland doesn't develop them...
Not only does it not develop, but he can also allow these lands to bring a steady stream of income to New Zealand without development.
Why?
Because the shooting copyright of "The Lord of the Rings" is now in his hands!
Peter Jackson is a New Zealander, Weta Digital is a New Zealand company, and the Shire in the movie was filmed in Hamilton. When Roland saw the familiar Waikato in the overseas resort provided by David, He knew the place—
Completely free.
There are a series of preferential policies for filming in New Zealand, and this includes free land.
Because the land cannot be developed, letting Hollywood film companies come here to film movies, and through the huge promotion of overseas distribution, to promote the development of domestic tourism is one of New Zealand's means of promoting economic growth.
And when they learned that Roland Allen would shoot "The Lord of the Rings" in New Zealand, and that the special effects company in Wellington would also undertake the production in the later stage. More than 90% of the live-action actors were New Zealanders, and the total investment of the whole project broke through. After 300 million.
Any preferential policy is a death blow.
Fifteen percent of the tax rebate is directly paid out. As long as the movie premieres in New Zealand when it is released, and in the subsequent release of the video tape, add tidbits related to New Zealand, and then get another 5 percent. subsidy.
As for the land?
Knowing that buying land is for simple layout, after shooting, what a fifth of a city...
Can't see it at all!
All that is required is for Roland to sign the terms of protecting the natural environment, promising not to cut down trees, raise livestock, or reclaim land on a large scale, and when the filming site has a certain reputation, it cannot prevent the government from commercially developing that part of the area. The proportion, New Zealand can take up to 60%, and the remaining 40%, in the name of protecting the natural environment, establish a foundation and keep it in New Zealand, and what Roland said, for The necessary facilities that must be built for filming shall not exceed 3% of the total area...
5250 acres of land, 10 million won.
Three percent of it, or 157.5 acres, is Roland's vacation paradise.
With such a large land, let alone building villas, stables, Diaoyutai, basketball courts, and swimming pools.
Even if it is to build an eighteen-hole golf course, it is more than enough.
After signing the contract, Roland, with his hands on his hips, heaved a sigh of relief when he saw Kate excitedly planning for the future.
Staring at the back of the other party, he stood side by side with David and asked, "How is the domestic situation?"
"Is anyone looking for me?"
Faced with such a problem, David, who has been helping Roland answer the phone these days, turned dark and said bitterly: "Don't talk about it, the Sixth University is too troublesome, they use your punch Oh topic, made a lot of money!"
"And the phone calls between you and Kate are almost blown up by those acquaintances!"
"If I didn't answer your phone every day, saying that you wanted to give Kate a surprise, they would all suspect that you were killed by some jealous guys..."
"Wow? Really?" Roland's face was full of surprise.
"What else?" David rolled his eyes at Roland.
The vented question made Roland laugh. Since so many people are looking for him, it means that things are going well!
"As long as I can get the award smoothly, my hard work these days will not be wasted."
"In order to make her forget about socializing, my head is almost bald!"
Hearing what Roland said, David glanced at his head with interest, and when he found that the blond hair was still very thick, he thought that God had opened his eyes, so he pouted, "Okay, okay, I will Work harder than you?"
"You just spent 110 million, but I tried to help you spend 110 million!"
David emphasized this, and Roland stopped complaining.
Compared with David, he did not do much.
As for consolation—
Roland raised his hand, hooked David's shoulder, and said with emotion: "Okay, okay, your role has been completed..."
"Everything that follows is my business."
"Fly to Wellington tonight, arrive in Los Angeles tomorrow, and attend the awards ceremony the night after tomorrow. As for the dresses and jewelry..."
"Everything is ready." David said with certainty.
"Okay, thank you..." Roland expressed his gratitude, "Thank you for helping me all these years..."
Suddenly affectionate, David was very uncomfortable. He turned his head and glanced at Roland. After finding that the guy's eyes had been focused on Kate, David raised his hands and pushed him forward.
"You have time to thank me, why not spend more time with her."
"Although everything is a business, I still hope that you will find true love!"
"For me and your aunt, for your parents!"
Although he was pushed back by David, Roland still stood up with a smile on his face.
Instead of turning his head to diss, he raised his right hand and waved it.
After briefly indicating that he understood, he walked in the direction of Kate.
Seeing the two figures approaching gradually, David took a deep breath and let it out slowly.
Eyes full of anticipation.
"Brat!"
"Say you are more stable than James..."
"But you really don't have to worry about James!"
Note: ①I didn’t find the price in 1998 for the three housing prices in the United States, because the **** house buying website required me to provide a proof of assets of 10 million dollars before I could see the price trend chart, which I really couldn’t do. Therefore, the housing prices in this article are converted according to the local average price trend over the years. ② Filming a masterpiece in New Zealand, it’s really an uncle. After learning that “Avatar” was filmed in New Zealand, New Zealand hoped that “Avatar” could solve the employment of some people. Then, James Cameron got it at a super low price. A vineyard in Lalapa, more than 100 acres, I didn't scribble about the land given away for filming in the article. Later, when the "Avatar" sequel project was established, New Zealand also deliberately changed the 15-point tax rebate for everyone to 20 points for the "Avatar" crew, plus subsidies, there can be 25 points, and there is no upper limit. The incident happened in 2014, which aroused the dissatisfaction of the local business group in New Zealand, but Cameron still got the policy smoothly. ③Compared with the policy of Germany, New Zealand is simply a large piece of paradise. Weta Digital can develop rapidly because of the support policy. Next is Australia, which can basically reach 15. Every state in the United States also has tax rebates, such as It is said that Hawaii is 15 to 20 points, with a cap of 8 million, which is very good for small-budget movies. Many romance movies are shot there. Colorado, 10 points, in fact, the production cost of many movies is not as high as that of other big movies. There are so many data in the database, because the producer can use the company's total tax rebate to disclose the part of the refund, and the cost is raised, which is more conducive to publicity.
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