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Chapter 482: King Ruyang was shocked. This Chen Jiusi is too arrogant!

Land is the bottom line. As long as the bottom line is maintained, then the problem will not be too big. In this era, people's demands are not high. As long as they can have food to eat, it is considered a peaceful and prosperous age.

Chen Jie gave them even more. Not only did he provide them with food, he also provided them with good food.

This is why Chen Jie's Huangzhou Prefecture was prosperous.

In this world, when other warlords and the imperial court began to annex even land, Chen Jie directly set a bottom line for the people, that is, the land of Huangzhou Prefecture belonged to the country and was the assets of the people. Whoever touched it would die.

Chen Jie has personally verified this iron rule. No matter whether they are royal relatives or meritorious military generals, anyone who dares to touch the land must die!
It was precisely because of this iron rule that the people in the entire Huangzhou Prefecture were guaranteed to have enough food to eat. On the basis of being able to have enough food to eat, Chen Jie encouraged the people to raise chickens, ducks, pigs, fish, and develop animal husbandry.

We also encourage rural families with special skills to find jobs. For example, those who can do bricklaying work can join government-run construction teams and start urban reconstruction.

This was an urban construction project promoted by Chen Jie. Some of the original dirty and messy areas of Huangzhou Prefecture were demolished and rebuilt, and all of them were built into two-story buildings. Based on these small buildings, the largest commercial sector in Huangzhou Prefecture was developed.

Moreover, Chen Jie also established a Huangzhou People's Square in the center of the commercial world, and built the largest department store in Huangzhou on the square.

For this building, Chen Jie found the best architect in Huangzhou Prefecture to carefully design it. It was said that this architect's ancestors had designed palaces for the royal family of the Song Dynasty, so he had some real skills. After designing the first department store in Huangzhou Prefecture, Chen Jie directly sent him to Huangzhou Prefecture University as a professor and opened another architecture major for him.

At that time, the former Song Dynasty royal designer was extremely excited. After all, writing books and establishing knowledge was something that only Confucian scholars were capable of in the past. He never thought that a craftsman like him could also write books and become a professor at a university.

But when he arrived at Huangzhou University, he realized that this school was amazing. Not only did it teach architecture, but also blacksmiths, carpenters, and doctors could all offer courses here. It could be said that as long as you had skills that far surpassed others, you could come and get good treatment.

It is said that the salary and benefits are the same as those of deputy commanders in the army.

This made the craftsmen who made a living by their skills feel very nervous and terrified. How could they dare to do the same as the officials?

But later they found that the military officers were very kind to them. They even saw the second-in-command of the military of Huangzhou Prefecture, Chen Xiaohu, the deputy commander of the three armies, commander of the White Tiger Army, and cousin of Chen Jiusi, the lord of Huangzhou Prefecture. After seeing them, he politely called them: Old sir, thank you for your hard work!
He is the second-in-command of the military. Everyone in Huangzhou Prefecture has to be polite to him. However, when he looks at them, he is polite. This makes these people feel more strongly about their belonging to Huangzhou Prefecture.

These are all Chen Jie’s reserve talents, let’s get back to the topic.

After Chen Jie's transformation of Huangzhou Prefecture, the entire Huangzhou Prefecture, including the formerly poorest South City, has become the most prosperous place in Huangzhou Prefecture.

Throughout the South City, Chen Jie built nearly five thousand two-story buildings, eliminating all the old and dilapidated buildings. He then resettled the local people and provided them with houses in other areas according to a certain ratio.

Nancheng had completely become a commercial city, and almost all businessmen in the entire south who had received the letter ran to Huangzhou Prefecture to buy a store.

For a time, these shops were hard to come by. The best locations, such as the shops on the five pedestrian streets next to Chen Jie's People's Square and the department store, could be sold for a sky-high price of up to 50,000 taels.

Of course, the rent of these houses can reach nearly ten thousand taels, and the investment can basically be recovered in five or six years.

Of course, the place with the best location is the Huangzhou Prefecture’s first landmark building, the Huangzhou Prefecture’s First Department Store.

The building covers an area of ​​10 square meters, with a total of five floors, including one underground floor. The entire building adopts a reinforced concrete structure. This should be the first reinforced concrete house in Huangzhou Prefecture.

To this end, Chen Jie specially approved the military material cement, and asked the Huangzhou Steel Plant to produce the first batch of steel bars.

Of course, the quality of the steel bars is certainly not as good as that of later generations, so this greatly restricts the size of the entire shopping mall. You must know that Wanda Plazas in later generations are large buildings of hundreds of thousands of square meters, while Chen Jie’s department store is only a fraction of the size of Wanda Plaza.

However, this is already a remarkable building in this world. After all, such a large and four-story building is definitely something people of this era have never seen. Some people even call it the tallest building in Huangzhou Prefecture.

Therefore, such a tall building immediately attracted the attention of the entire Huangzhou Prefecture, even Hubei Road, and many surrounding places.

Just when everyone thought that this would become Chen Jie's office, unexpectedly, Chen Jie directly announced to the public that he wanted to rent out the stalls in this building.

This immediately surprised the people. How could this stall be rented out? Chen Jie directly told them that the fourth floor, the top floor, was a restaurant, and all restaurants in Huangzhou Prefecture could rent it out.

On this building, through the glass windows designed by Chen Jie, you can directly see the scenery of the entire Huangzhou Prefecture. There is a sense of pride as if you are standing on the top of the mountain and overlooking all the other mountains. It is definitely the first choice for dignitaries and wealthy businessmen of status.

And don't underestimate the businessmen of this era. As soon as Chen Jie mentioned the tender, the owners of several buildings in Huangzhou Prefecture and even Hubei came directly to rent out their properties.

Even though the rent for a stall is as high as 10,000 taels per year, there is still a shortage of supply.

Because everyone knows now that if you don’t have a stall in the Huangzhoufu Department Store, your store will not be upscale.

Therefore, these restaurants are frantically renting out their spaces, fearing that their restaurants will not be up to standard.

The two floors below are the clothing city, where all the local clothing stores rent stalls. However, people of this era do not know the power of the brand effect.

Therefore, Chen Jie directly set up several ready-made clothing shops, and established three styles of products: high, medium and low-end, which were divided into men's and women's styles.

The high-end style is called the Dominating Men's Clothing, and the advertising slogan is: The men's clothing that the lord of the mansion wears.

The promotional material was produced by the clothing team of Chen Jiusi, the lord of Huangzhou Prefecture. The advertising effect, plus the fact that some people wanted to be close to Chen Jie, made the products sell like crazy.

The women's clothing is divided into two stores, Yunjin Clothing and Wanwan Clothing, with Su Yunjin and Huang Waner as their spokespersons respectively.

For a time, it became the first choice of noble ladies all over the city.

Of course, there are also mid- and low-end products. In fact, Chen Jie did not make mid-range products because that was left for other private clothing factories. As for the low-end products, Chen Jie supported the official shops opened by the Huangzhou Prefecture Yamen, and the brand was Weiminpai.

The price is also very affordable, and the main advertising slogan is: "Let the people of Huangzhou Prefecture afford to wear Weimin brand!"

Of course, this so-called affordable price is definitely more expensive than the clothes on the street. In addition to these, there are shops selling fabrics, and people can also buy fabrics themselves.

In addition to these, there are some other cloth products, such as bed sheets, quilt covers, shoes, etc., all of which have shops in this big shopping mall.

The next floor is the first floor, which is filled with gold and silver jewelry. Various gold and silver shops are located here. As for the bottom floor, which is connected to the pedestrian street, there are some snack shops, selling even melon seeds and candies. They are all small business owners. The shops are small and the rent is low, but the profits are not small.

It can be said that this shopping mall has tens of thousands of customers every day, and the security is also top-notch, with soldiers from Huangzhou Prefecture directly guarding it, and no one dares to cause trouble.

After Chen Jie's efforts, the business in Huangzhou Prefecture flourished.

Chen Jie's personal property was also expanding wildly. After all, as the most precious person in Huangzhou Prefecture, he couldn't let himself suffer. Among the thousands of shops in this commercial street, about two hundred were owned by Chen Jie.

Then there is the largest department store which also belongs to Chen Jie personally, and will be counted as royal property in the future.

In addition to these, there are also minerals, salt fields, and factories in various places. The wealth in Chen Jie's hands is truly rich enough to rival a country.

This was also what Chen Jie intended. In fact, he did not need so much wealth, but Chen Jie finally decided to make all this wealth his own, or to say, to belong to the City Lord's Mansion now. If he really ruled the world in the future, then this money would belong to the emperor's treasury.

The reason for this is that Chen Jie is ready to increase his personal influence.

In the future, as a reward for meritorious generals or meritorious officials, the country may mainly focus on the aspect of honor, and these rewards will be solved by Chen Jie's private treasury.

In this way, everyone who is rewarded will be grateful for the emperor's grace.

In addition, Chen Jie also controls martial arts resources such as the armory, which are even more important to the world. Therefore, the loyalty of the entire Huangzhou Prefecture to Chen Jie has reached its peak.

It can be said that if Chen Jie stomped his feet, the entire Huangzhou Prefecture would earthquake.

However, Chen Jie's million-dollar betrothal gift still shocked Prince Ruyang. A million-dollar betrothal gift, and one million every year, these assets are almost equivalent to one-seventh of the annual output of Prince Ruyang's Palace.

You have to know that Prince Ruyang is a huge force spanning five routes and eighty-one prefectures in Jiangnan. Such a large force only produces seven or eight million taels of silver a year.

The betrothal gift that Chen Jie has now brought out exceeds one-seventh of the palace's income, and this is done every year. This makes Prince Ruyang feel that he has underestimated Chen Jie.

You know, since Chen Jie can offer such a betrothal gift, it means that the foundation of Huangzhou Prefecture must be much deeper than one million taels per year.

Prince Ruyang believed in the relationship between Chen Jie and Zhao Ya, and also believed that what Chen Jie took out must be part of his continuation, but he absolutely did not believe that Chen Jie had bet all his property, so Huangzhou Prefecture must be much richer than this.

The territory of Huangzhou Prefecture is not very large. It only includes six prefectures: Huangzhou Prefecture, Qianjiang Prefecture, Tianmen Prefecture, Huanggang Prefecture, Xiaogan Prefecture, and Xianning Prefecture.

The area it occupies is, at most, only two-fifths of the entire Hubei Province. Such a small size could generate such huge economic benefits. This was something Prince Ruyang couldn't believe. After all, the annual tax revenue withheld by Prince Ruyang's five routes and eighty-one prefectures was only seven or eight million.

And according to the scale of Chen Jie's move, the profits that can be generated by his six prefectures in Huangzhou alone are probably over tens of millions a year!

In fact, Prince Ruyang still underestimated Huangzhou Prefecture. The total annual revenue of Huangzhou Prefecture was no less than 20 million taels.

And this does not include agricultural taxes, that is, grain. Because Huangzhou Prefecture’s grain is not allowed to be sold outside, the people must pay taxes with grain.

With the grain, Chen Jie stored it all. According to incomplete statistics, the grain in Huangzhou Prefecture was enough to feed the people of the six prefectures under the jurisdiction of Huangzhou Prefecture for five years.

In the core area of ​​Huangzhou City, there is a considerable amount of stored grain.

However, even if Chen Jie had a lot of grain, he would not sell it outside. He would rather use the grain to make wine than sell it. Because the world is at war, grain will be the most precious commodity in the future and must be well preserved. Because when a war really breaks out, gold, silver, and jewelry cannot be eaten as food, but food can really save lives!
The 20 million taels that Chen explained were basically profits brought by business.

As for other interests, such as military plunder, they are not taken into account. Some people would say that how could such a small Huangzhou Prefecture have such terrible potential.

This is what you don't know. What is a mere Huangzhou Prefecture? In fact, Huangzhou Prefecture has monopolized the business of the entire southwest. In other words, Huangzhou Prefecture is now the hub of the entire southwest's commerce.

It is a place where all the merchants from the southwest want to come and take root. There are three important reasons for this. The first is that the Huangzhou Prefecture where Chen Jie is located has clear policies and no corrupt officials who levy heavy taxes. Everything is on paper, which gives merchants a great sense of security.

In addition, Chen Jie's strength, Peng Yingyu's care, and the balance between Chen Jie and Prince Ruyang made Huangzhou Prefecture not as prone to frequent wars as other places.

The second is that Chen Jie carried out land reform and grain reform in Huangzhou Prefecture, which led to a bumper harvest for the people. In addition, Chen Jie opened factories to promote employment, which finally made the entire Huangzhou Prefecture prosperous and the people had spare money.

With spare money, people have spending power. With spending power, the commercial value of Huangzhou Prefecture is very high, and therefore there are more and more businessmen.

Finally, transportation. The waterways around Huangzhou Prefecture were well developed and transportation was convenient. In addition, Chen Jie was willing to spend money to repair the river docks, which greatly improved the convenience of transportation. Therefore, merchants traveling back and forth were willing to stop here and count it as a stop.

In this way, more and more merchants gathered here, forming the prosperity of Huangzhou Prefecture today.

I have to say that compared with Chen Jie's talent in martial arts, Chen Jie's administrative ability and business ability are top-notch, equivalent to Zhang Sanfeng in the business world. He is far ahead.

Prince Ruyang looked at Chen Jie's betrothal gift and said to Chen Jie, "Chen Jiusi, tell me the truth, your Huangzhou Prefecture's annual income has exceeded 10 million, right?"

After saying this, Chen Jie looked at King Ruyang and said, "That's about right."

Chen Jie would not reveal the truth, but even so, Prince Ruyang still said, "If you and Yaya were not so in love, I would have wanted to rob your Huangzhou Prefecture!"

This is the truth. The wealth of Huangzhou Prefecture has made many people jealous.

Because of this scale of wealth, other people can't help but be jealous. For example, in Hubei Road where Chen Jie is, there is a person who is extremely jealous of Chen Jie's assets.

That’s right, it was none other than Xu Shouhui, the emperor of the Tianyuan Empire who was promoted by Peng Yingyu.

He had wanted to get involved in Huangzhou Prefecture more than once, but with Ni Wenjun in charge, he did not dare to do so for the time being. Moreover, after the unremitting efforts of Chen Jie and others, Peng Yingyu had also had a demystifying effect on Xu Shouhui, although he was still protecting Xu Shouhui.

However, Xu Shouhui is no longer indulged as before, so Xu Shouhui is now restricted in what he does.

In addition, Huangzhou Prefecture is now guarded by Ni Wenjun, and there is also a newcomer to the Furnace Realm like Chen Xiaohu. It can be said that Chen Jie's Huangzhou Prefecture is not weak in combat power.

Therefore, although Xu Shouhui and others were jealous, they could do nothing but watch with envy.

After seeing what Ruyang King Chen Jie did, he realized how wealthy Chen Jiusi had become. Wang Baobao on the side was also amazed. One has to know that the annual military expenditure for the Bailu Army of more than 70,000 people is only about 2 million.

In other words, the betrothal gifts from my sister alone are enough to support half of the White Deer Army.

The annual tax of 7 million of Ruyang Palace is arranged as follows: first, it is used to pay for the military expenses of more than 70,000 White Deer Army soldiers, followed by the maintenance expenses of ordinary army soldiers stationed in various places, which is about 3 million a year.

Then there are the local clerks at all levels, who can consume around one million a year.

Adding all the other extras, the royal palace actually only has an annual income of less than one million. It can be said that Zhao Ya's annual income in silver and money exceeds that of the royal palace.

For the first time, Wang Baobao felt what it meant to be wealthy.

Chen Jiusi is really domineering in doing things!
Zhao Ya was also shocked by Chen Jie's one million betrothal gift. She said to Chen Jie, "Jiu Si, this is too much. I can't accept it. You should take it all back."

After hearing this, Chen Jie looked at Zhao Ya and said, "Yaya, you have suffered so much for me. I know in my heart that these silver coins are just material possessions. I have nothing to give you. I can only use these things to express my feelings."

Chen explained, and Zhao Ya heard this and said, "Actually, it's not necessary. It's really not necessary. There are so many people in Huangzhou Prefecture to support. If you give me so much money, what will happen to those people?"

Chen Jie said: "Yaya, don't worry. This money is completely my private property. The operating expenses of Huangzhou Prefecture don't need me."

After hearing what Chen Jie said, King Ruyang said, "Okay, I will take these things."

"Father!"

After hearing what Prince Ruyang said, Zhao Ya looked at Prince Ruyang. This is too much. How can you accept it so easily? What will you give as a dowry in return?

Zhao Ya knew the character of Prince Ruyang. He was a person who did not want to lose face, so he would definitely give out wealth of equal level, or a dowry far exceeding these things as a return gift.

However, Zhao Ya did not want to accept such a heavy betrothal gift from Chen Jie. Besides being afraid that Chen Jie would be seriously injured, she was also afraid that Prince Ruyang would be seriously injured as a result.

However, King Ruyang took the gift list handed over by Chen Jie and accepted it all.

Chen Jie and Prince Ruyang exchanged a glance, and then Prince Ruyang said to Chen Jie, "Chen Jiusi, I have accepted the betrothal gift. According to the rules, you and Yaya cannot see each other again in the next period of time. You can only see each other on the day of your wedding."

"So I won't keep you in the army. Go back and prepare. The 28th of this month will be your wedding day."

After hearing this, Chen Jie clasped his fists towards Prince Ruyang and said, "Then I will take my leave, Your Majesty."

After saying this, Chen Jie looked at Zhao Ya and said, "Yaya, I will go back to Huangzhou Prefecture to prepare to welcome you."

Zhao Ya looked at Chen Jie and said, "Well, I'll wait for you to pick me up."

The two looked at each other affectionately, and for a moment the tent was filled with an atmosphere of love.

"Cough cough~"

However, just when the two were looking at each other affectionately, they suddenly heard Prince Ruyang cough twice at an inappropriate time and said, "Even though you two are so affectionate, please at least stay away from me."

You don't treat me as a human being, do you?

Prince Ruyang glared at Chen Jiusi fiercely and said, "Before you get married, Yaya doesn't belong to you!"
Chen Jie did not react to the glare from King Ruyang. He immediately looked at Yuan Sanjia and said, "Mr. Yuan, are you going to stay here or come with me?"

Yuan Sanjia said, "Old man, I have other things to do, so I won't follow you anymore."

Chen Jie heard this and said, "Well, on the 28th, please do me a favor and come to Huangzhou Prefecture to have a drink at the wedding."

After hearing this, Yuan Sanjia said, "Hahaha, OK, OK, I'll go back."

After hearing this, Chen Jie immediately clasped his fists and turned to leave, preparing to rush back to Huangzhou Prefecture to prepare for the wedding.

Soon Chen Jie rode alone on horseback and headed straight for Huangzhou Prefecture. The army moved slowly, but Chen Jie estimated that it would take about ten days for a single man to return to Huangzhou Prefecture.

With fifteen days left, Chen Jie can prepare a grand wedding for Zhao Ya.

Chen Jie left. At this time, Zhao Ya looked at King Ruyang and said, "Father, how could you let me accept such a valuable gift? How will you return the favor later?"

Zhao Ya looked at Prince Ruyang worriedly. She was afraid that Prince Ruyang would embezzle military funds to compete with Chen Jie.

After hearing this, Prince Ruyang looked at Zhao Ya and said, "Don't worry, father won't use the military funds, but he will never let Chen Jiusi suppress me. Father promises that you will not be embarrassed when you go to Huangzhou Prefecture."

Zhao Ya looked at King Ruyang and said, "Father, don't be impulsive."

After hearing this, King Ruyang said, "Don't worry, I know what's going on."

At this time, Yuan Sanjia stood up and said, "There is nothing for me to do here, so I'll take my leave."

Yuan Sanjia was about to leave, but at this moment, Prince Ruyang said, "Mr. Yuan, please wait."

Upon hearing this, Yuan Sanjia turned to Prince Ruyang and said, "What do you want to teach me, Your Majesty?"

Prince Ruyang immediately smiled and said, "Mr. Yuan, I don't deserve your advice, but I still have something I want to ask you for help with. Please don't refuse me."

Yuan Sanjia stopped and said, "Your Highness, you must be joking. How can a man like me help you?"

After hearing this, Prince Ruyang looked at Yuan Sanjia without beating around the bush and said, "Sir, you just said that there are two divinations left today. I wonder if you can give me this last one?"

Yuan Sanjia paused and said, "What do you want, Your Majesty?"

King Ruyang said: "Marriage!"

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