I want to be emperor

Chapter 860
Songjiang City, this is a big city in the traditional feudal dynasty era, and it is also completely different from many small and medium-sized cities in the contemporary era.

In traditional feudal dynasties, even in Youzhou City or Jinling City, which had a population of several 10 in the past, the rich and powerful often lived in the core area of ​​the city.

In the contemporary Great Chu Empire, the upper class in many small and medium-sized cities is also concentrated in the core areas of the city.

But in the big cities of the Great Chu Empire, this situation was reversed.

The core area of ​​the city, which used to be very popular with the upper class, has gradually been abandoned by the upper class in the past ten years.

The upper class gradually migrated to the suburbs, and gradually developed from some sporadic suburban luxury manors to some high-end and upper-class communities in the suburbs.

These high-end suburban communities often have better scenery, complete infrastructure, such as education, transportation, etc., and better public security than urban areas.

When the upper class gradually migrated to the suburbs, some high-income groups, such as Section Chief Wang, also began to migrate from the urban area to the suburbs. They could not afford manor-like suburban mansions, but single-family houses in ordinary communities in the suburbs The court is still fine.

Even today, middle-income groups with a monthly income of around [-] to [-] Chu Yuan have chosen to settle down in suburban communities one after another, even if their income is less. Some real estate development companies have developed some mid-end suburban communities specifically for these mid-end customers. Most of them are also single-family courtyards, but the area is smaller and the distance between each other is less.

The reason for this situation is that Songjiang City, a super city, is developing extremely fast and its population is increasing rapidly, which eventually leads to the urban area of ​​the entire city becoming congested, and the environment and air becoming extremely bad.

Of course, this is also indispensable for the support of developed public transportation!
There are not a lot of good roads connecting the city and the suburbs. This rich man lives in the suburbs. Even if he has a private carriage, he cannot easily travel between the city and the suburbs.

Some ordinary middle- and high-income groups also need a large number of public carriages to and from the suburbs and urban areas to complete their daily commutes without private carriages.

In addition, there is another situation that must be mentioned, that is, many high-society groups who live in the suburbs, in addition to having houses in the suburbs, they often also have a very good luxury apartment in the city.

This is because even if there is a horse-drawn carriage to commute, but the speed of the horse-drawn carriage is limited, these upper-class people are unlikely to commute frequently between their homes and the city, so most of them will buy a property in a suitable place in the city as a temporary stay in the city place.

This is also the reason why a large number of upper-class people and middle-to-high-income groups in Songjiang City have moved out one after another, but the housing prices in the urban areas they dislike are still strong...For the rich, although their families do not live in the urban area, Can't live without a house in the city...

The urban development of Songjiang City is special, but it is not unique... In fact, several other industrial megacities also have similar situations.

For example, Tianjin in the north, Guangzhou in the south, and Hantian, the accompanying capital. In these large cities, the urban population is also very large, basically reaching more than 100 million.

They also face the same problems as Songjiang's traffic congestion and harsh natural environment.

Even some medium and large cities with a population of more than 10, but which are dominated by industry, are also facing the same problem.

Among these large cities with a population of hundreds of thousands, Jinling City is the only exception... Jinling City also has an urban population of more than 30. Well, this figure is only limited to the urban population of Jinling City, not the entire population of Yingtianfu. The population, the population of Yingtianfu is actually around 400 million...

The total population of a prefecture and the urban population of the local prefecture are two different concepts and should not be confused.

When you talk about Yingtian Mansion, it is a comprehensive super jurisdiction that integrates politics, culture, finance, industry, education, and military... The capital directly under the empire is naturally very important.

But Yingtian Mansion is very large... the entire jurisdiction includes Yingtian Mansion, Chuzhou, Taiping Mansion, and Hezhou in the pre-Ming Dynasty. Although its jurisdiction area is smaller than that of Jiangnan Province, it is not much less.

This is said to be a prefecture, but it is actually a small province... and economically it is much stronger than most of the provinces in the empire.

However, as the core of Yingtianfu, Jinling City, its industrial output value is very low, and its population is also small. The urban population is only about 40.

This is because the industrial center of Yingtianfu is not in Jinling City, but Dangtu in the west, Chuzhou in the north... Even Lishui in the south has an industrial output value that exceeds that of Jinling City.

Today, in the 36th year of Chengshun, Jinling City is a very pure political, financial, cultural, educational, and military central city. Its population is mainly composed of imperial dignitaries, bureaucrats, and their families, students from various colleges, and guard soldiers. Practitioners in the financial industry and the cultural industry, and personnel in various other tertiary industries, such as various commerce and service industries, etc.

Only there are no factories and workers... because there are no factories in the city except for a few special factories, such as the Jinling Arsenal.

When you are in Jinling City, you can't see the dense chimneys and smoke columns like those other industrial cities with a population of tens of thousands.

At the same time, Jinling City, as the capital of the empire, naturally has no shortage of funds for urban infrastructure... Although it does not have any industry itself, it does not mean that its local financial revenue is low. After all, it is also the financial center of the empire. Finance also has to pay taxes, right?
At the same time, as the capital of the empire, even if the local fiscal revenue is not good, it can still get money from other places. The central government will give Jinling City a large amount of special financial subsidies every year for the local construction of various infrastructures.

Therefore, the level of infrastructure in Jinling City is quite high, even surpassing that of Songjiang City... The roads are wide and smooth, and asphalt and cement roads have spread all over the main roads in the city.

At the same time, a huge sum of money was invested in the construction of a perfect underground drainage system!
The most important thing is... a lot of financial and material resources are invested in the maintenance of urban sanitation every year!

And the use of coal has also been strictly limited.

What... You can't let Luo Zhixue, who lives in the core of the city, smell the smell of horse urine and charcoal, right?

Jinling City is a rather special city...

But the Great Chu Empire has only one Jinling City... because there is only one emperor, and there is only one political center. Only this place does not need to follow the basic economic development rules... because Jinling City does not need to develop the economy!
In other places, the basic economic development rules are basically followed, which also brings a series of traffic, environmental and other problems.

In the end, these problems have led to all aspects of people's livelihood, and the most obvious one is housing prices.

In a big city like Songjiang City, many residential areas in the urban area are basically three or four storey residential buildings facing the street. Although the prices of these residential buildings are high compared to the housing prices in other cities, they are In fact, the people living in these places are basically all migrant workers.

A lot of buildings that look quite grand...they are often single apartments or small-sized apartments, and the people who live there are low- and middle-income people.

On the contrary, in some suburban communities close to the urban area, the price of community houses in these places is higher...and the cost of living is actually higher.

As for the outer suburbs... It can be regarded as two extremes. On the one hand, the outer suburbs are far away from the city, and there are often a large number of local farmers, as well as a lot of farmland, fruit and vegetable gardens, etc.; These high-end communities have complete infrastructure, good security and beautiful environment.

Regardless of whether it is the outer suburbs or the inner suburbs, the housing prices in these places are far higher than those of ordinary residential houses in the urban area.

And the communities in the suburbs are Sun Xu's target...well, or the target that Ms. Meng took him to see.

The two of them went out early in the morning. This time, the two of them didn't take a public carriage or a rented carriage. Instead, they rented a two-horse four-wheeled carriage from a nearby car rental company and hired a driver.

Today's itinerary needs to go to various communities in the suburbs to look at houses, which takes a long time and has a long journey, and there are women traveling with me, so it is not suitable to take a public carriage.

As for the rental carriage, it is fine, but this kind of rental carriage that is double charged by time and mileage is expensive to accompany for a day... It is better to rent a carriage and hire a driver.

In the carriage, Sun Xu and Ms. Meng sat next to each other. After the two of them went to the fireworks together during the Chinese New Year, their relationship quickly warmed up... Although these two people did not do anything too out of the ordinary due to traditional etiquette, but Ordinary skin-to-skin contact is nothing in daily life, and occasionally you can do some more private things...

After all, these are two single dogs struggling alone in a big city, and there are no relatives and friends in Songjiang City. In an environment surrounded by strangers, the contact between young men and women is often bolder and more direct.

This is also an important reason why the relationship between the two has heated up rapidly in the past few months.

If this is changed to a smaller place, then it is unlikely.

This is also an important feature of the contemporary social development of the Great Chu Empire, that is, young people in big cities are more open than those in small cities and rural areas... The reason is simple: no relatives and friends are in charge, let alone gossip.

Although the two of them sat next to each other, it seemed ambiguous, but in fact, Sun Xu and Ms. Meng were used to this... They have gnawed their mouths many times, and they have touched everything that should be touched and should not be touched. Just sitting closer will not make the two feel any strange at all.

Now Sun Xu and Miss Meng are all focusing on the outside world.

As the carriage swayed gently all the way out of the center of Xicheng District, they found that they saw a different scenery than usual.

First of all, there are no large and dense residential buildings... let alone large factories emitting black smoke.

The field of vision suddenly widened, and the most important thing was that the air became better.

In the urban area, you can smell the smell of charcoal in the air all day long, as well as the looming smell of horse urine!

But not so in the suburbs!

At the same time, although the air in the suburbs is better and the view is wider, it does not mean that the surrounding areas are barren, and the roads have turned into dirt roads with potholes.

In fact, this road is still a concrete road. Although there are not many horse-drawn carriages on the road, they are not too few. The type of horse-drawn carriages is just different from those in the city.

Most of the carriages in the city are actually freight vehicles, and there are also a large number of public carriages and rental carriages.

On this concrete road in the suburbs, the proportion of private carriages is very high. Apart from the private carriages, the rest are some relatively large public carriages that specialize between the urban area and the suburbs. These public carriages often use four or three horses. .

Cargo carriages, which are very common in urban areas, are rare on this road.

On both sides of the road, there are no densely packed residential buildings or factories. There are basically some specially planted green trees and even flowers and plants on both sides, and some low residential buildings can be seen in the distance.

And these low-rise residential buildings are also one after another according to the community. There will be walls around the community, and there will be guard boxes for security personnel at the gate to check.

These are the suburban residential communities that have appeared one after another in the last ten years and developed extremely rapidly.

These residential communities are also the goals of Sun Xu and Ms. Meng's trip!

The carriage continued on, and about two quarters of an hour after leaving the city, their carriage left the cement-paved suburban main road and turned into a spacious road, which was still an asphalt road.

After walking several hundred meters along the asphalt road, they arrived at a small town.

At the intersection outside the small town, there is a huge boulder with a letter: "Qinglin Village"

This is obviously a small town in front of it. Although it is not large in scale, it can be regarded as a small town in a serious manner, but it is written 'village' outside the city.

But Sun Xu didn't have too many surprises, let alone here, even many places in the urban area still bear the name of the village... Because in the local administrative area of ​​the Great Chu Empire, provinces - prefectures - counties/districts - In the five levels of town-village, the village is the most basic administrative area.

The administrative division of Songjiang City is not complicated. It is mainly Shanghai County in the central city, Beicheng District in the north of Suzhou Creek, Nancheng District in the south, and Xicheng District in the west. The entire city is divided into one county and three districts... the entire Songjiang Prefecture except Outside the urban area, there are several other counties such as Huating and Qingpu.

And under these counties, there will be towns and villages, such as Xicheng District, there are eight towns under each town, and each town has many villages under it.

Obviously, this Qinglin Village is one of them.

Ms. Meng said: "When the shopkeeper of our store bought a house before, he was looking for someone here!"

"Listen to her, here in Qinglin there is a large-scale real estate agency in Xicheng District that specializes in suburban housing, called Qinglin Real Estate Agency!"

Dental... This is not a dental business, but an intermediary service.

There are many problems in the traditional dental industry, such as bullying the market, fraudulent deception, profiteering, etc. After the establishment of the empire, the traditional dental industry was once severely cracked down on, but there is a demand for such intermediary services in the market, so in the future it will be Conduct normative guidance.

Later, after various commercial organizations were perfected, some intermediary services were replaced by various exchanges, such as stock exchanges, futures exchanges, etc. At the same time, traditional intermediary services were subject to mandatory legal regulations, and modern commercial organizations Structure of various tooth rows.

The most typical one is the real estate dental firm.

In addition, there are labor dental firms engaged in human intermediary services, etc...

After hearing this, Sun Xu nodded slightly: "We don't know the place where we live, so it's better to go to a real estate dentist!"

It is such a big deal to buy a house, not to mention that finding a house and negotiating the price is very troublesome, and this kind of large transaction, if there is no professional real estate agency in the middle of the guarantee transaction, and you go directly to the owner, Sun Xu is also afraid that there will be various problems in the transaction. Problems, such as problems with the property rights of the house, the buyer ran away with the deposit, and so on.

The real estate dental office not only provides transaction information, the real estate dental office in the Great Chu Empire also has a more important function, which is to ensure the smooth progress of transactions between the two parties and the safety of funds.

For example, before a house transaction, they will ensure that the property rights of the house are clear and the transaction can be carried out smoothly. At the same time, they will ensure that the customer can really get the money out, instead of clamoring to buy a house, but actually do not have half a copper coin in their pockets. Glove White Wolf.

Of course, there are also situations where some real estate dental firms run away with their own money, but these are very few.

In fact, it is not easy to be a real estate agent in the Great Chu Empire. You need a minimum junior high school education, and you need to study professionally, and pass the special government examination to obtain the corresponding qualification certificate.

If it is a professional dental practice, it will be more complicated. It is necessary to apply for a number of special qualification certificates to be able to open a real estate dental practice.

Out of vigilance against the many misdeeds of the early Ya people, the Great Chu Empire set a rather high threshold and formulated stricter management norms.

And these have raised the threshold of the industry, but correspondingly, the fees have also been raised... Correspondingly, the income of real estate professionals is generally high.

The real estate people in the Great Chu Empire generally had a good income, and they were considered a typical middle-income group.

If it is a star real estate agent with a big reputation and strong business ability, they can often handle some luxury houses or even large-scale commercial real estate transactions. The income of these people is even higher, and the annual income can even reach thousands or even thousands of yuan.

Sun Xu wanted to buy a house, and he was buying a house in an unfamiliar place, so he would not be stupid to find a house and trade it by himself, but went directly to Qinglin Village and found the Qinglin Real Estate Dental Shop here.

When Sun Xu's carriage stopped at the entrance of their company, there was a young doorman in professional attire and black gloves who quickly stepped forward and opened the door.

At the same time, he bowed slightly and said, "Qinglin Real Estate welcomes distinguished guests!"

Sun Xu, who was wearing a formal business attire, nodded slightly in the carriage, then got out of the carriage, then extended his hand to Miss Meng, and helped her get out of the carriage.

As soon as I got out of the car, I saw another well-dressed middle-aged man and a [-]-year-old female staff member who also wore formal attire came up to the gate of the dental clinic.

After entering it, Sun Xu found that many staff members were busy inside. After arriving in the reception room, Sun Xu didn't talk nonsense with them, and directly said that he came to find a house.

Hearing that it was a clear customer, the middle-aged man smiled even more. He asked his female staff to accompany Ms. Meng and introduce him, while he himself introduced it to Sun Xu.

After a brief introduction and some simple requests from Sun Xu, the middle-aged man showed Sun Xu a lot of information, and introduced three of the houses in particular.

To be honest, Sun Xu felt a little dizzy... After all, he is not familiar with this place. He has never even heard of many local terms. Who knows where the location is good and the location is bad.

Even the other party took out a map for him to look at, but Sun Xu couldn't see why... It just depends on the area, how can you tell what the specific situation is.

The middle-aged man Yaren in front of him obviously saw a little bit of confusion in Sun Xu... Immediately, he took the initiative to say: "If you have time, honorable guest, I will take you to see it? I'm just talking about it. I haven't seen it before." You can’t count them, after all, you have to see the house to know if it’s good or not!”

Sun Xu came out to look at the house today, so naturally he wouldn't refuse: "Go, go and have a look!"

(End of this chapter)