A Good Landlord in the Tang Dynasty: Emperor Yuan Cong

Chapter 433
"You really have the art of turning stone into gold, why did it spread to the outside world?"

Yongxingfang.

Huaiyi has left Beijing to take office, and Wu Huaiyu often comes here to sit and sit. Lao Wu is now completely retired at home, doing nothing all day long, and has followed the path of the old patriarch Samurai Leng, taking concubines and having children for the continued prosperity of the Wu family.

In my free time I tend the vegetable garden.

"It's not turning stone into gold, it's water smelting copper."

Lao Wu slapped his thigh straight, "Can you really turn iron into copper?"

"Ah."

"How can this kind of secret technique be passed on to the outside world? Copper is ten times more expensive than iron. You actually spread this kind of secret technique to the outside world. Wouldn't it be good to keep it as an inheritance?"

Lao Wu has always been a stingy money fanatic. In the past, he was a dignified military officer in the Imperial Army. His family raised sheep and he was not willing to kill the people who ate them. He even saved most of the eggs laid by the chickens and sold them.

This ability to soak iron into copper, the son actually gave it away like this.

"Father, Your Majesty has also granted me a hundred households as Zhenfeng Shiyi, and I have also been promoted from the second rank to the loose rank."

"That's not worth it."

Wu Huaiyu smiled slightly.

This kind of secret method can indeed be said to be Wu Huaiyu's exclusive master now. Although it was known as early as the Qin and Han Dynasties, there is no more detailed refining method.

Of course, it’s useless to have a method for this thing, unless you secretly get a little at home, otherwise you can’t keep it secret.

After all, iron materials are used in copper smelting, and iron materials are important national strategic materials. If you buy a little more, you have to register for the record, and ordinary people can't buy a lot.

And if you smelt the copper material and sell it, this thing must be registered, and you must have a legal source, otherwise who knows if your copper was sold for money.

In any case, it is not easy to operate with this secret method.

If you want to openly smelt copper by water, buy iron to smelt copper, or open iron mines to smelt iron and then smelt copper, this secret cannot be kept secret, and the imperial court will not allow this amazing secret method to be mastered privately.

Wu Huaiyu's status cannot even keep this kind of secret technique.

Either it is rotten in the stomach, and if you want to use it, the risk is too great.

It's better to take it out directly.

"Aye, we didn't sacrifice for nothing,"

In addition to rewarding Wu Huaiyu with Zhenshiyi and Sanjie, the emperor also gave Wu Huaiyu a license. The Wu family obtained permission to mine various minerals in Shaozhou, and even obtained the qualification to build a copper mine in Danquan, Censhui, Shaozhou.

Warriors can go there to legally mine gold, silver, copper, iron, lead, coal and other minerals, and can also smelt and process them. Anyway, they can pay the class according to the law. For the mined copper and iron, they must first pay 5.00% of the mining class, and then sell it for 20.00% Give it to the imperial court, and the rest are free to buy and sell in the market.

If you continue to smelt and process, you have to pay another tax.

The Wu family mines iron ore, and after paying the lessons and buying it, they can also go to Censhui Danquan to build their own gallstone copper factory for processing and leaching. The ones that are sold can be sold to the market or to the government.

This license was granted by the emperor himself in the Golden Palace.

very precious.

With this thing, the Wu family can officially enter the mining industry in Shaozhou. All they need to do is recruit craftsmen, explore minerals, then hire miners, purchase equipment, etc., and start mining and smelting.

This is an industry that requires a lot of investment, but if it is managed properly, the profits will be very considerable.

Especially now that the samurai family also has the production license of Danquan, using iron to smelt copper, the profit is considerable, even if it is limited to buy iron materials directly on the market, but the iron materials mined and smelted by themselves will be handed over 5.00% of the iron tax, and sold to the court for 20.00 %, there is still 70.00% five left, which can be used to smelt copper.

Lao Wu always felt that he was at a disadvantage.

But I never thought that this kind of god-level secret technique is too powerful, so after sharing it with the court, I can still get an admission ticket, otherwise you can't use this secret technique, so it's not the same as not having it.

"I'm going to bring more friends to Shaozhou to open mines together. Our Wu family, even Hongnong Yang's family, my adoptive father's Duke Qi's mansion, Uncle Cheng's family, my husband's family, Qiu's family, etc."

Lao Wu frowned when he heard this, and smacked his lips in reluctance.

"Can't we do it ourselves? At most, your uncle, third uncle and fourth uncle are enough."

"Aye, this mining industry is quite special, it requires a lot of investment, and the risks are quite high. Let's recruit more friends to join us, so as to share the risks and expand the scale."

The most important thing is to have these strong friends to partner with, so that when encountering various problems in the future, there will be multiple helpers.

Furthermore, the investment in mining and smelting is indeed large. The key is not only a large investment of funds, but also a lot of people, especially the management with strong capabilities.

What's more, this kind of behavior of sharing benefits with allies is also a kind of profit sharing, which can naturally be rewarded in other ways.

Lao Wu's thoughts are still stuck in the status of a small officer, and he is always reluctant to share the benefits.

"Yongxingfang is one of the pilot markets in Yongzhou this time. Cross Street in Fangli will transform a number of shops facing the street. If Aye is free, you can participate."

"How to participate?"

"You can buy a house facing the street. You can buy some. If you can't buy a house, then after the renovation is completed, you can rent a shop first. It will be good to run it yourself or rent it out. It's very cost-effective."

Setting up shops in the square is like building a commercial pedestrian street in the community. Some people think it disturbs the people, but some people think it is worth a try.

Designate some squares as a pilot project, first build shops facing the street on the cross main street in the square, and most of them will still be shops in the front and houses in the back, that is, a row of streets on the street will be converted into shops, and the rest will remain unchanged.

However, there are also many restrictions on the types of shops, mainly for people's daily life, pharmacies, medical centers, vegetable stores and grocery stores.

Those processing workshops are not allowed to enter the workshop for the time being, and others such as livestock slaves are definitely not in the East and West City and the newly built South City.

The three cities are mainly classified operations and large-scale wholesale.

The convenience of life is the main focus of the square.

For the selected pilot squares, the renovation of street-facing shops is in the center of the square, and most of them are ordinary people’s residences here. After all, the homes of powerful and high-ranking officials basically live on the periphery of the square, so that they can open their doors on the street.

For residential reformers, there will not be too many collection issues.

Because I won’t talk too much with you, the next announcement, your frontage to the street will be remodeled, Yongzhou has a unified plan, and there are requirements for what to change.

You can sell this piece of land to Yongzhou, or you can choose to cooperate with Yongzhou to renovate, or you can renovate according to your own requirements. The benefits of different plans are different, but the only thing in common is that there is no right to refuse, nor the right to exorbitant prices.

This is a bit more domineering.

But it doesn’t work otherwise, take a step back, and a demolition and renovation may get stuck there and cannot be moved. At that time, one agrees and the other does not, he will have to bargain, he will ask for the price, so don’t do anything.

According to the actual situation, the Yongzhou Yamen made a unified compensation standard, or a cooperative sharing plan, and the Ministry of Civil Affairs will be responsible for supervision.

Right now it’s just a pilot project, and it’s hard to say what the market’s prospects will be in the future. Generally speaking, Chang’an residents are quite satisfied with Yongzhou’s expropriation and demolition methods. Many people directly choose to sell their land for money, or It is to move directly to the land provided by other workshops for resettlement, and then pay compensation.

Not many people have a clear understanding of the future prospects of this city, so now there are opportunities to buy land, as well as shops, and the prices are not high.

It is undoubtedly a very cost-effective investment whether it is bought for business or rented out in the future.

Wu Huaiyu originally thought that he would encounter a lot of obstruction and opposition, but now everything is going very smoothly, so he has to lament the simplicity of the people of the Tang Dynasty.

It is impossible for nail households.

Morning morning.

Hearing a sad news, Dr. Zuo Guanglu, the second grade doctor, and the former governor of Luozhou, Qu Tutong, was known as the six-hundred-thousand family member who was known for his integrity as early as the Sui Dynasty. The real hero Jiang Guogong died of illness in Chang'an.

He was 72 years old.

Wu Huaiyu had just painted his portrait a few days ago, and he was also ordered to see a doctor. At that time, his health was almost dying.

"Give Jiang Guogong the post of the right servant of Shangshu, posthumously titled Zhong! Let his eldest son Qu Tushou not surrender to attack Jiang Guogong's title."

Qu Tutong went through the three dynasties of the Northern Zhou, Sui, and Tang Dynasties. After returning to the Tang Dynasty, he has been assisting Li Shimin. He is loyal and guards Luoyang for Li Shimin for a long time, and manages the Kanto base camp.

Qu Tutong was strict in the Sui Dynasty, and he was a loyal minister of the Tang Dynasty, but he was single-minded.

Li Shimin was very sad to lose such a loyal and capable minister, and ordered to stop the court for three days.

Qu Tutong's death was full of mourning and glory.

Ci Banjian advocates Yubao.

Wu Huaiyu also went to express condolences.

Still busy every day.

It is mainly on the side of the Ministry of Civil Affairs, each branch of the road is newly established, it is necessary to select excellent and capable officials, to establish rules and regulations, and to allocate funds...

After working there, I have to go to Yongzhou Yamen again.

Nanshi has already opened, but construction is still going on, and construction of several pilot markets in Fangzhong has also started.

Recently, the crime rate in the capital has remained high. In order to improve the law and order in the capital, Yongzhou, together with the Ministry of Criminal Justice, Yushitai, Dali Temple and Six Gates, and the left and right Wuhou guards, launched a round of joint law enforcement operations against Chang'an.

Check the local household registration population, check and register those who come to Beijing, issue temporary residence permits and identity cards, and strictly check the places.

To track down those who have criminal records, or those who are unidentified, there are copper rails for the prosecution box in front of the Yamen of Yongzhou, at the gates of the cities, at the gates of the squares, and in the three cities in the east, west and south. Anonymous whistleblowing.

You can also go to Yongzhou, Chang'an, and Wannian yamen to beat the drum and report the case, and attack those rogues who bully the market, steal and rob, and do evil in Lifang.

The East and West Tufang in Chang’an was overcrowded at the time. Many rogues and hooligans were sentenced to imprisonment. Trees, rebuilt workshops, transported grain, forged iron and forged in official handicraft workshops, fired kilns and moved bricks,
Anyway, there are some things to do.
He gets up earlier than chickens every day, works more than cows, eats worse than pigs, sleeps later than dogs, and will be whipped if he dares to steal half of his laziness.

These prison sentences are divided into five grades, one year, one and a half years, two years, two and a half years, and three years, and copper atonement is not allowed.

This time, Yongzhou specially ordered some temporary short-term prison sentences for this joint operation, ranging from one month of detention to three months and five months.

Wu Huaiyu stipulated that the prisoners caught in these crackdowns not only had to work in labor reform during the day, but also had to attend an hour of study at night.

To learn loyalty to the emperor and patriotism, and to learn legal ethics, one has to take an exam every ten days, and if one fails, one must be caned, and the sentence may even be increased.

All these prisoners not only cannot pay copper for atonement, but also cannot have their sentence commuted for any reason.

Once it is caught in, it must be reformed before it can go out.

As the imperial capital, Chang'an is still the most benevolent place under the emperor's feet, but the actual situation is that it is also the most populous city in the world, and its crime rate is also the highest in the world.

There was a mixture of officials and slaves, guards of the imperial army, slaves of monks and priests, even eunuchs in the palace, slaves and servants of noble families, a large number of scholars and scholars, merchants from all over the world, and even a large number of Hu merchants and barbarians.

It is really not easy to manage such a capital well.

Wu Huaiyu has no good way to do it, so he can only crack down severely and follow suit with respect.

Originally sentenced to imprisonment, one year's imprisonment, if you can pay [-] catties of copper, you will be exonerated, and you will only need to pay [-] catties of copper for three years' imprisonment.

Twenty catties of copper is only about [-] yuan, which is nothing to many rogues in Chang'an, but this time Wu Huaiyu is forbidden to hand over copper for atonement.

Not only is the sentencing higher than usual, but the prison term must be served honestly, and no coppers can be paid for atonement, nor can it be reduced or exempted in the middle.

This trick is still very intimidating. After all, if you wear shackles to repair ditches and dig ditches to open toilets in Chang'an for a year or two, then you will not have the slightest prestige in the future, and you will not be arrogant in the market.

But now, while Wu Huaiyu refuses to hand over copper for atonement, he stipulates that he must also be fined copper after being sentenced to prison, and an additional [-] catties of copper will be fined for one year's imprisonment.

The copper handed over was a fine, not a ransom.

And the original ransom was doubled.

To do hard labor for free for a year, and to pay more than 6000 yuan, who can I ask for reason?
No money to pay?
That's embarrassing, replacing copper with punishment, serving a day of hard labor, and folding silk three feet, is the same standard as mediocrity.

A piece of silk is 6000 feet, but now a piece of silk is only 30 yuan, more than 1000 yuan to buy more than 400 pieces of silk, fold more than [-] feet, and fold three feet in one day, then you will be sentenced to more than [-] days in prison.

This is equivalent to doubling the prison sentence.

Originally, the crime with a normal sentence of less than one year in prison, this time the crime of severe punishment was increased to one year, and then he was not allowed to pay the copper for atonement, and was fined twice the copper.

Such a severe blow has caused many people to flee from Chang'an every day.

There is even a saying in the city of Chang'an that death is not afraid of King Yama, but life is afraid of Jing Zhaoyin.

Yongzhou used to be called Jingzhao Mansion, so Wu Huaiyu is equivalent to Jingzhaoyin. Now when those criminals hear Wu Huaiyu's name, they will immediately change color.

No one wants to be caught by the Yongzhou Yamen, and then put in chains to do hard labor for two or three years.

You have to peel off your skin if you don't die.

How can I hang out in Chang'an in the future.

For a while, Chang'an East and West Prisoners were overcrowded, and even had to temporarily add a Southern Tutor and two Tutors outside the city.

Many who saw the opportunity fled Beijing one after another, or went to Luoyang, or returned to their hometowns. Anyway, Chang'an couldn't stay longer, and they couldn't stay for a day. If they were late, they would probably be arrested.

The copper rails and Dengwen drums for reporting were too effective. Many people who had been oppressed in the past reported one after another.

Some notorious guys didn't even dare to go back to their hometowns, and fled directly to Zhongnan Mountain to avoid the limelight.

People say that it is better to obey three buckets of green onions than to meet Qu Tutong, but now to Wu Huaiyu, it is better to meet the King of Yama than to see Wu Huaiyu.

"Is there no one who can control Wu Huaiyu?"

"Is there any king's law?"

Those fleeing villains, market rogues, exiles from Chang'an, powerful slaves and villains, soldiers and hooligans all wailed on the way to escape.

(End of this chapter)