The big man has a living father

Chapter 88 Help Me Make Coins
A group of people started communicating in groups of two or three.

To be honest, what Huo Hai said does have some substance, but not much.

In fact, many things in the whole process are very profitable, but Huo Hai will not tell them.

When it comes to making money, you need to figure it out on your own.

Huo Hai couldn't hear what the group was discussing privately, after all, they had a separate dining system and the tables were too far apart.

But Huo Hai knew exactly what they were discussing without having to listen.

Soon, Liu Sheng, as a representative, asked Huo Hai: "Master Huo, is there any typical example of the concrete road you mentioned? Can I see it? Can you calculate how much it will cost?"

Huo Hai didn't say much, and immediately started to calculate: "Look, this width is one meter. This is the distance unit I'm about to re-establish. This width is one meter. Remember it."

"We have to build a concrete road, and there are six tasks to do. Roadbed cleaning, roadbed compaction, gravel padding, concrete pouring, road ridge anti-skid, and side formwork."

"If we build one kilometer, that is, a distance of one thousand meters, the road width is 20 meters, the thickness of the gravel is 0.1 meter, that is, one tenth of a meter, and the thickness of the concrete is 0.2 meters."

"That would require clearing 6,000 cubic meters of roadbed."

"A cubic meter is a meter in length, width and height. Do you understand?"

The only people who could come here were those who had no one else at home, and the others were all smart people. Although these concepts were very new, they could understand Huo Hai as he calculated and gestured.

They may not be able to imagine the scale of 6,000 cubic meters, but it is easy to calculate the wages with the number. After all, they know how long it takes a person to dig one cubic meter of soil.

If the soil is all loose, it would take an average, skilled person about a quarter of an hour to dig such a large piece of soil.

Of course, this does not mean that a person can dig four cubic meters in one hour. Digging only one cubic meter and digging all the time are two different things.

Xiao Guang, who has a fast computing speed and a relatively advanced CPU, already knows how much it will cost to build this kilometer of road.

If you are stingy, it will cost 24,000 coins. If you follow the current inflated labor prices, it will cost around 70,000 coins.

Huo Hai: "Road compaction is rammed earth, and the area is about the same. You can calculate it yourself."

"Crushed stone is 0.1 meter. You should be able to calculate the price. Let me tell you about the concrete. If the quantity is less, the price of one cubic meter will be at least five hundred yuan. If it is more, the price should be less. You will have to ask the cement and pebbles and sand sellers for the exact amount."

Liu Guang pinched his chin and said, "Master Huo, don't you sell cement? Don't Lei Lin sell pebbles and sand?"

Huo Hai: "I don't sell cement. It's my follower Luo Jian who sells cement. It's just that the money belongs to me after the sale."

Before and after Maoling, four retainers followed Huo Hai, Huangfu Hua and Xiang Xu were left to do things, while the other two were sent out.

One of the two people manages the building materials factory and the other manages the porcelain factory.

The person who manages the building materials factory is called Luo Jian. That's right, it was because his name was Jian that he was assigned this lucrative job.

The person who managed the porcelain factory was called Fan Aqi. He thought his name was not nice, so he asked Huo Hai to give him a name that sounded more cultured. Since he managed a porcelain factory, he was named Fan Bei.

However, they may not be the right people to manage these two places. The reason why they were put in these two positions is that Huo Hai knew that these two positions could make money, so he threw them there to test them.

Xiao Guang interrupted: "If we calculate according to the price you estimated, Lord Huo, this road will cost 1,774,500 coins. Lord Huo, may I ask, according to our plan, how many kilometers do we need to build this road? What if it goes around Chang'an City?"

Huo Hai: "Your original plan was about seven kilometers, around Chang'an City, twenty-eight kilometers."

Xiao Guang probably inherited the brain and logistical ability of his ancestor Xiao He, and he calculated the answer in his head in an instant: "Forty-nine million six hundred and eighty-six thousand big coins!"

Other places are easy to deal with, but this place is where the real big money is made.

Xiao Guang: "The so-called anti-skid road pattern should be to prevent the cement from forming a too smooth surface. I have already tested it. As for the side formwork, it should be to use wooden boards to block the edges to prevent the concrete from flowing away before it solidifies, right?"

"Then I have calculated the cost of this road. If there is no discount, it will cost at least 100 million yuan."

Cao Xiang was very curious: "Old Xiao, if your majesty is interested in building this road and conscripting corvée laborers to do it, how many people would it take? How long would it take?"

Xiao Guangmiao gave the answer: "It will probably take 100,000 people and one month."

"If we spend money to hire people, it would take 20,000 people a month."

Everyone looked at Xiao Guang. Wei Kang was puzzled: "Why is there such a big difference between conscripting corvée and hiring people?"

Xiao Guang: "Because they don't get food to eat during corvée labor, and they have to bring their own food, which makes them weak. And even if they are whipped, it's impossible to make them really work hard."

"If it's about making money, and paying them according to the amount of work they do, then they can eat and drink their fill and still make a lot of money doing their work."

"My algorithm still uses the new steel tools produced by Lord Huo's steel factory by default. If iron tools were used, the speed would be more than doubled. Fortunately, the new tools are much stronger than the previous ones."

Huo Hai shook his head. Although Xiao Guang was very capable and had a family background in martial arts, and his calculations were accurate, he might not be right.

Because such a large project is prone to accidents, such as road subsidence, and purchased tools will also wear out, so the final cost will be at least 20% to 30% higher.

However, these 20% to 30% are not a big deal for the twenty or so people here.

The group of people started calculating again, and soon they reached a rough consensus.

“This can be done!”

Huo Hai also roughly heard what they were discussing.

They were discussing how much it would cost to build houses after the road was repaired, as well as the subsequent allocation of street sections.

However, if they want to start construction, they need to buy the land outside the East Gate and the South Gate.

Even Huo Haihai heard them discussing that after the highway was completed, they would write a letter to the court requesting that the Beichi Road be turned into a cement and dirt road.

As a result, when the construction of the Beichi Road began, the drivers had to use their own road instead.

This is really awesome.

Third-rate capital takes action after the document comes down, second-rate capital has already taken action when the document comes down, and first-rate capital has already started to act before the document comes down. Top-rate capital acts first and then creates the document, right?
These old guys really learned a lot.

But will Liu Che let them take all the advantage? Maybe by that time, it will be time to start collecting taxes.

Everything has been invested and everything is about to start. If they start collecting taxes at this time, you can decide whether you want to do it or not. If you don’t want to do it, then forget it. It is equivalent to helping Changan build a road and then withdrawing early, without the need to share the profits.

Moreover, in order to avoid further losses, the purchased land will not be used to build houses but will have to be sold.

Selling land? You have to pay taxes when selling land!
Cry? I have to cry... I don’t want to pay taxes!
You feel like crying but have no tears, and you feel like you are not making much money, but you grit your teeth and continue to work? You pay taxes when you build a house, you pay taxes when you run a business, and you pay taxes when you rent a house.

Of course, Huo Hai knows that paying taxes is better than not paying taxes. If this group of people can really become big capitalists in one step during this wave of development, then it will become an oligarchic economy, which will make it impossible for them to succeed.

Big capital must be suppressed and small capital must be promoted madly, except for myself, Huo Hai.

Huo Hai watched them discuss and didn't say much. They discussed their own things while Huo Hai ate his own food.

Huo Hai really hated the separate dining system at this moment. If everyone were sitting at an eight-person table, Huo Hai could have eaten all of their meals himself.

They kept discussing and had forgotten the original purpose of inviting Huo Hai. Huo Hai was full and said, "Everyone, you guys take your time chatting. I'll be leaving first?"

Xiao Guanglei Lin and others immediately said: "Master Huo is running around for the people, business is important, business is important, go slowly!"

Liu Guang and Liu Sheng also bowed and said, "Master Huo, please take care. Let's see you off first."

Everyone saw Huo Hai off and left.

Although Huo Hai came in Cao Xiang's car, Xiang Xu still followed behind in an empty car and waited outside the door.

I originally thought I had to wait until the end of the banquet, but I didn't expect to see Huo Hai come out early. Xiang Xu hurriedly got out of the car and put down the stool.

Huo Hai stepped on a stool to get into the carriage. Xiang Xu put away the stool and sat in the driver's seat, pulling the reins: "Sir, are you going home?"

Huo Hai looked around and said, "Let's go for a walk in the county. It's rare for me to come out once, so it's best to go to crowded places to prove that I have also inspected it."

Xiang Xu immediately drove the carriage out of the alley.

Entering the alley, Xiang Xu was a little surprised: "Hey, have these roads been rebuilt? Why are so many people repairing their houses?"

Huo Hai: "Not surprising, they changed the front of the house to do business."

"The road repair is to make it easier for drivers to travel. If drivers feel that this road is easier to travel, they will often use it in the future, and more people will naturally come here as time goes by."

You should know that the roads between the neighborhoods are not specially built and solid roads like the highways.

These roads are typical examples of the saying "when more people walk on them, they become a road."

First there was a lili, then there was the next lili, and then there was a road between the two lili.

After walking on it for more than a hundred years, it has become a road.

In the past, the land was uneven, the soil was soft in some places and hard in others, and not many people cared about it.

Now everyone realizes that if you want to get rich, you must first build roads, so many people have started to think about roads.

In the ordinary neighborhoods where people had little capital and no money, they provided labor, and each family sent out a laborer to build the road themselves.

The small nobles and businessmen who bought houses in the neighborhood paid for the road repair. They also bought the best materials, such as gravel, stones and slabs, to repair the roads on their side.

No matter which type of road it is, there is no problem of not being able to connect, because the purpose of building roads is to make it convenient for others to pass, so that we can make money from passers-by, so the road joints are smoother than Dove.

It was also inspired by them that the wealthy and nobles in Chang'an City thought of building roads.

To be honest, building a road without cement, which needs to be 20 meters wide and go around the city, would cost more than just cement.

As road construction becomes more difficult, more manpower is required.

When more manpower is needed, it is useless to pay money. After all, there are only so many people in Chang'an, and people cannot be created out of thin air.

So if it were in the past, the emperor would have to issue an order to conscript labor.

The solution that Huo Hai has provided them now is a concrete road, which is convenient and easy to operate. After the operation, the road surface will harden and there will be no problems. There is no need for rework and it does not require too much manpower, which makes it simpler.

As the car was moving, Xiang Xu whispered, "Sir, do those nobles also want to build roads?"

Huo Hai: "Did you guess it? Why are you asking this?"

Xiang Xu chuckled, "My lord, you usually give me a lot of rewards. I was thinking about buying a house in Chang'an County. But now they are going to build a road and they will definitely build new houses. And they will probably use cement and bricks to build them. This cement and brick house is better than the one we live in now, so I am a little hesitant."

Huo Hai: "You mean to ask if we can buy a house in Chang'an County now?"

Xiang Xu drove the carriage around a black flag area and continued forward: "Hehe."

Huo Hai: "House prices in Chang'an County haven't even started to rise yet."

Next, more and more projects were started, more and more people were working on them, and they had money in their hands.

If you ask why there was no money in the market before, it is because there was no man-made currency in the market at that time.

Now Liu Che is frantically buying land north of the Wei River. Where does the money come from? It's not newly built.

Once this money flows into the market, it will soon flow into large projects and into the hands of workers.

Moreover, the great nobles and some local tyrants may start to invest their own coins in this wave.

Soon the amount of money circulating in Chang'an will increase tenfold or even a hundredfold.

There is more money, but there are only so many houses near the real palace of Chang'an City, and the prices of these houses will explode.

It's not because the houses are valuable, but because the land is valuable.

Huo Hai: "If you think the house here is not good, why don't you buy a piece of land, buy bricks and cement and build a new house yourself?"

Xiang Xu laughed slyly: "I can't live here myself."

Huo Hai: "You just want to know whether the house price will increase so you can make money, right?"

Xiang Xu smiled but said nothing.

Huo Hai whispered: "Please buy some for me, as much as you can."

If nothing unexpected happens, the prices will skyrocket, and until the Wei River changes its course, most of the houses will be bought by the nobles.

Ordinary people? Ordinary people would of course take their money and buy a piece of land farther away to rebuild their houses, and the new place would of course be further north.

Huo Hai certainly wanted to make some money. By selling the land before the Wei River was diverted, and then widening the south bank, he would have money to develop a new city.

Private coinage?

You have to know that coin making also has costs. Even if you secretly hold copper mines, it will cost a lot to make coins. What's more, the coal used for making coins is produced by Huo Hai. Even if the people who make coins for them make money, they have to spend the money on Huo Hai.

For every penny made, 0.2 pennies belonged to Huo Hai.

However, each coin they made could only be used once, but Huo Hai could use it over and over again countless times.

As long as they understand the economic laws, they will privately mint coins for Huo Hai.

Of course, they also had to guard against being caught by Emperor Wu of Han. Although Liu Che would get more money from their coins, he must have felt that he would make more money if he used the coins 100% himself.

Just as he was thinking about it, the carriage suddenly slowed down. Xiang Xu said, "Sir, there is a burly man blocking the way of Doctor Yi Shuo."

(End of this chapter)