I am Da Song

Chapter 170 Crazy Bidding

In addition to the well-developed water and water transportation, the imperial court will also build five horizontal and seven vertical gravel roads in Nancheng!
This is what makes merchants most excited.

With this kind of stone road, the horse-drawn cart can carry heavier loads.There is no need to consider the load-bearing capacity of muddy roads anymore.Whether it is opening a workshop or opening a store, there are too many aspects to transporting goods.

Without the government's promotion, the merchants are convinced that Nancheng will become the future business center of Tokyo City.

The foundation of the city's commodity economy has been firmly established here.

The discerning businessman has made up his mind to buy a few pieces of land and build a shop at all costs!This is a family business that can be passed down from generation to generation!That's the hen that lays the golden eggs!

This group of people is Zhao Huan's main target for setting up Shaotian New District.

Where there are shops, there will be workshops.Merchants seek profit, compared to traveling thousands of miles to purchase goods from afar.If conditions permit, they will definitely produce nearby.

Obviously, Nancheng met all the conditions for opening a workshop.Be it transportation, manpower or wealth.

As long as the merchants are willing, there will be a series of workshops soon.

But although Zhao Huan's real intention was to develop the city's commercial economy, he had to compromise with reality and try his best to extract a lot of wealth from the hands of scholar-bureaucrats.

Without the investment of literati, the first step of the new urban area, the large-scale construction of infrastructure, could not be carried out.

Therefore, the third column of the announcement, after introducing water transportation and water transportation, is to introduce the elegance, tranquility, cleanliness, and civilization of Nancheng.

For example, a large number of areas in Nancheng will be built into garden scenic spots, with lakes, green plants, flowers, attic pavilions inside.

In short, it allows the scholar-bureaucrats to experience the beauty of the idyllic mountains and forests in the busy and crowded cities.

After all, scholar-bureaucrats only have two hobbies.One is as high as the temple and holds great power.The second place is far away from the mountains and forests, living in seclusion and leisurely.

Usually, the two absolutely cannot coexist, or they will be busy and noisy in the court.Or go somewhere away from fame and become a hermit.

Today, in Nancheng, the imperial court has spent huge sums of money to help the scholar-bureaucrats create a detached environment surrounded by green trees and beautiful water. The Daming Palace of the royal family in the Tang Dynasty is no different!Let the scholar-bureaucrats have both fish and bear's paw!

This hit the hermit plot in the hearts of the scholar-bureaucrats.Countless scholar-bureaucrats who scratched it felt itchy in their hearts. They were distracted. They wished that the construction of Nancheng would start immediately, and the construction would be completed overnight!

Moreover, the government bluntly stated that the area of ​​Nancheng is limited, and there will not be too many residential areas that can be divided.

This point is the same as that of the scholar-bureaucrats, and it further deepens the sense of urgency of the scholar-bureaucrats.

As the privileged class of Song Dynasty, are they short of money?
Do not!What they lack is the elegance that can improve their own style and "cultivate their own sentiments"!

So the Tokyo scholar-bureaucrats used their class privileges one after another-going through the back door!

Before the merchants could find a way out, these scholar-bureaucrats had secretly contacted the Kaifeng government officials.

In just a few days, the price of these lands that have not yet been publicly sold has been raised to 430 yuan per mu.

And this price was known all over the city just yesterday.

This time, it was not the news behind the scenes, but the government issued a notice in a grand manner.

The reason was that Taiwan Adviser and Huangcheng Division suddenly joined forces to investigate the corruption and dereliction of duty of Kaifeng government officials, and more than 230 officials and subordinate staff were executed in one go.

The biggest crime is that they filled their own pockets, embezzled national wealth, and sold the land privately at 430 yuan per mu.

This wave of operations alone caused countless scholar-bureaucrats to go hysterical, beating their chests and feet, and some even vomited blood from anger.

Not only were all their secret transactions voided, but all the money they secretly traded went into the pockets of the officials without exception!

How much wealth is there?
Anyway, the smile on the official's face has not dissipated these days.The eyes of the ministers all over the court were full of kindness, and they were no longer cold and iron-blooded.

The officials who confiscated the house needed to mobilize the army to transport the wealth to the left treasury one by one.For five days in a row, people in Tokyo could see this continuous convoy on the streets.

A large number of idle children and women follow the convoy every day to pick up the lost copper coins, and if they are lucky, they can even pick up broken silver coins.

Now, the people of Tokyo are completely boiling.

The secretly traded land costs more than 400 yuan per mu?Then when it is officially brought to the table, it can't be more than 4000 per mu of land?
The point is, even if it costs more than 4000 per mu, everyone may not have the opportunity to buy it!

Everyone knows that the price of land here will inevitably increase in the future, and now it is selling for one acre for less than one acre!
So angry people in Tokyo once again gathered tens of thousands of people. In front of Fuque Palace, the crowd was furious and asked the government to take out the land for public sale.In order to prevent the scholar-bureaucrats from granting privately, corruption will be wiped out.

Of course, the scholar-bureaucrats were also very angry. How dare a group of untouchables criticize the noble scholar-bureaucrats?
Immediately, someone suggested that the imperial court send troops to suppress these rioters.As a commoner, he dared to talk about state affairs, slander the imperial court, and slander the noble, innocent, and pillars of the country's scholar-bureaucrats!
Is it tolerable, or is it too familiar?

So Zhao Huan firmly supported their proposal!
With a wave of his hand, they were given the heavy responsibility of calming down the storm.

Order the Imperial City Secretary to take them to the front of the palace and monitor them to suppress the people!
Let a group of scholar-bureaucrats who can only move their mouths face the raging public opinion, how can they have the courage to order them arrogantly?At this moment, these high-ranking scholar-bureaucrats finally clearly understood that their privileges and nobility are all supported by the army behind them.

Without the support of the army, they are not even ants in the face of violent public opinion.

So some people lost their composure in fright, and some completely abandoned their integrity.In order to prevent being beaten to death on the spot, he directly changed his position and asked the court to sell the land publicly to appease the turbulent people.

They were hoarse and weeping, as if they were the representatives of petitioning for the people.

After going through waves of hustle and bustle, the imperial court finally announced the first land auction at the end of May.

It is a lakeside residential area named Changxingfang.A total of 9000 mu (roughly equivalent to the area covered by a comprehensive university, the overall area of ​​Tokyo City is more than [-] mu).

The Song Dynasty has detailed regulations on the residences of all classes. For example, ordinary people and common people's homes are not allowed to be decorated with heavy arches, caissons and five-color literary talents.For officials who have served as consuls, there can be fifty rooms; for senior officials and senior officials, forty rooms;

Considering that this is a residential area for wealthy businessmen and scholar-bureaucrats after all, the starting price for the auction is at least two acres.It is divided into four grades of two mu, five mu, ten mu and thirty mu.

Thirty acres can build a particularly luxurious landscape manor.Bai Juyi, a great writer in the Tang Dynasty, lived in the prince's royal garden, with an area of ​​only 47 mu.

These literati are not so rampant that they can build a mansion that is more magnificent than the royal garden under the eyes of the emperor, so [-] mu is the upper limit.

Once the land was auctioned, Kaifeng Mansion was immediately flooded by crowds.

Obviously, the earlier you start this kind of auction, the lower the price will be.The further back, the higher the price will be fired.

Even the children of the royal family couldn't sit still, and they left the auction one after another.Someone even asked Zhao Huan here.

(End of this chapter)