Chen Mo's team quickly launched the acquisition of the three areas. However, due to the limited number of people in the team, they still carried out the acquisition one by one. The first area they started with was the Bronx, north of Manhattan.
However, shortly after the acquisition began, a problem occurred. They found that many of the land owners that they had just talked to and had yet to give a reply suddenly sold their land to others. Some of the land that they had not had time to negotiate with were also snapped up at high prices. It seemed that a large number of competitors had suddenly appeared to compete with them for the land in these areas.
Regarding this sudden situation, Tom, the person in charge of Chen Mo's private business team, immediately reported to Chen Mo.
"Boss, we have just started the acquisition of the Bronx when many competitors suddenly appeared. They have a large number of people and are moving faster than us. As soon as they made their move, they raised the price of the land by a lot. It is now very difficult for us to complete the acquisition at a normal price."
Tom, the person in charge of Chen Mo's private business team, came to the office in Chen Mo's manor and reported the latest situation to Chen Mo. He also asked for Chen Mo's opinion on whether to continue the acquisition at a higher price and compete with them or simply give up on the acquisition. Based on the current situation, even if they turned to acquire the land in Queens and Staten Island, the other party was likely to continue to follow.
Chen Mo was not surprised when he received their report. The person behind the scenes deliberately hid his identity and sent out a large number of agents to create the illusion that Chen Mo's previous acquisition had caused many businessmen to blindly follow his trend. However, Chen Mo was well aware that the person behind all these people was the same person. The current richest man in America, John Jacob Astor!
When Chen Mo first decided to make a move on John Jacob Astor, he had already expected his revenge. Chen Mo did not have the slightest intention of hiding the Native Americans. This already showed that Chen Mo did not take the richest man in America seriously.
Chen Mo was not in a hurry to acquire these lands. These areas were still far from being developed. There was not much difference between acquiring now and acquiring decades later. There was not much change in terms of price and other aspects. He just wanted to take one step at a time and finish this small matter in one go.
The other party suddenly intervened at this time. Obviously, he saw Chen Mo's persistence in the enclosure and wanted to trap Chen Mo.
"Boss, the current price of these lands has already exceeded their actual value. There's no need to buy them now. Do you still want to continue with the acquisition plan?"
Tom, the head of the business team, asked Chen Mo.
They were just making suggestions. Whether or not they would continue the acquisition would depend on Chen Mo's orders.
"Continue to buy. If he raises the price, we will raise the price as well. We must show that we are determined to get it, no matter how much it costs! This piece of land is mine! "
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John Jacob Astor thought that he was secretly trapping Chen Mo, but he didn't know that Chen Mo was already waiting for him!
Now that he had made his move, Chen Mo had no choice but to accept it.
Immediately, under Chen Mo's instructions, the acquisition team immediately raised the acquisition price appropriately based on the current situation. They finally got some land, but the other party reacted quickly and immediately raised the acquisition price again.
The price of these originally very cheap lands quickly increased by nearly half under the competition between the two parties. If this continued, it would soon double.
In fact, John Jacob Astor did not blindly raise the price to buy. He was actually probing at the beginning. He first raised the price and bought some land from Chen Mo. Chen Mo's side also raised the price. Then, John Jacob Astor gradually controlled the price and kept raising it. At this time, if Chen Mo gave up on the acquisition, he would at most fail in his plan and use a higher price to buy a few pieces of very cheap suburban land.
But if Chen Mo continued to buy at a high price, it meant that Chen Mo was really as he expected. He had a strong attachment to these lands, and it could even be said that he was determined to get them. Then, he could carry out his next plan without worry!
John Jacob Astor's purpose was not just to raise the price and trick Chen Mo, but also to make a lot of money from it. He wanted to take back all the profits from the fur trade that Chen Mo had snatched from him!
When the price of the land in the Bronx that bordered the northern part of Manhattan, where the competition was the fiercest, rose to 1.5 times the original price, someone began to sell it. Many of the lands that were previously bought at a low price began to be sold at a high price. It looked like someone was following the trend to create hype.
This was actually John Jacob Astor's last test to see how determined Chen Mo was to buy this land. Then, he could carry out his next arrangements without worry.
The result was as he expected. As long as someone was selling, Chen Mo would buy all of it without hesitation, regardless of the price. Now, John Jacob Astor was completely relieved. He began to mobilize all the power in his hands and wantonly buy the land in the Bronx, Queens, and Staten Island.
Because John Jacob Astor controlled the area of competition, only the southernmost part of the Bronx bordering the northern part of Manhattan had the highest price increase. The land prices in other places only increased slightly. The land prices in Queens and Staten Island did not change much.
These lands were quickly bought up by John Jacob Astor using his many years of connections and power in New York.
Then, John Jacob Astor directly doubled the price and began to sell them to the public. He was full of joy as he waited for Chen Mo to take them in one bite.
If Chen Mo was really an ordinary tycoon from China, it was possible that he would pay a high price to buy the land in John Jacob Astor's hands because of his obsession with land and in order to obtain this vast land.
Although the price of these lands had more than doubled, compared to Hua Xia, which had a much denser population than the United States and mainly relied on agriculture, these lands were still considered cabbage prices.
Unfortunately, although Chen Mo was also from Hua Xia, he was not from Hua Xia in this era.
When John Jacob Astor bought up all the land in these areas, Chen Mo immediately stopped buying land. When they began to sell the land in their hands and waited for Chen Mo to buy it at a high price, they discovered that Chen Mo had suddenly stopped!
"Master!"
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