Datang Nongsheng

Chapter 289 The Plan of Weinan New City

The content of the early dynasty has something to do with Sun Xiangfu, but it has nothing to do with it.

First of all, Li Shimin announced that the morning would be canceled in the next few days until the Spring Festival, and that he would go to visit some impoverished villages around Chang'an. Sun Xiangfu thought he could sleep in for a few days, but who knew, Li Shimin ordered him to accompany him.

Afterwards, Changsun Wuji reported to Li Shimin about the free cabinet shop, and the progress was very gratifying. At the beginning of next spring at the most, the "money shop" run by the imperial court will start operating.

Later, Wei Zheng made suggestions to Li Shimin on the reform of Yushitai. In the end, Li Shimin decided to transfer personnel from the three departments of the Ministry of Punishment, Dali Temple, and Yushitai to form a new department, the Procuratorate. The department under Yushitai has a dedicated official at the level of Yushi Zhongcheng to manage it. Its functions are only to receive complaints and investigate cases, and it is dedicated to investigating cases brought against officials by the people.

This department does not have the same power as Jin Yiwei in the later Ming Dynasty. They are neither in charge of prisons nor in charge of trials. They only provide investigation evidence for various cases. All court officials need to cooperate with their investigations and inquiries. If there is a bad situation If they contradict the investigation, they report to Yushitai, which will only affect the reputation of officials. How to deal with it depends on the emperor and the yamen in charge of prisons. small hole.

As for the detailed rules of the citizenship system proposed by Xiao Yu, it will be finalized after a long discussion.

The things they discussed were first proposed by Sun Xiangfu, but they were just raised. Sun Xiangfu is not a political master in later generations, and he only knows one of these things, and does not know the other. Point them out to them. It is up to Li Shimin and the courtiers to decide how to fit the current actual situation and how to set it up.

Therefore, this morning, apart from Li Shimin's hand-picked escort, he came out and sang a promise, but he didn't say a word, which disappointed some ministers.

Also, the court did not leave until around noon, those who should stay will naturally stay, and those who should leave will not stay in the imperial city to blow the cold wind. After a while, Sun Xiangfu and others gathered in Li Shimin's imperial study up.

They are all old acquaintances, except for Yu Chigong who took advantage of Cheng Yaojin's absence and bullied his second son Cheng Chuliang by relying on the old and selling the old, the others seemed to be very harmonious. Disharmony today is not good!Because it's about interests.

Li Shimin never got tired of eating mutton hot pot. If Sun Xiangfu can be the master of the inner palace, he must replace it with fish head hot pot. Let's wait for Li Shimin's northern tour!At that time, I will feed him mutton every day, and I don't think he will get tired of eating it.

Everyone was half full after eating and drinking, and Sun Xiangfu began to explain this round of investment plans to everyone.

"First of all, His Majesty took out the entire Weinan County land as a shareholding, accounting for 50.00% of the original shares. We have no objection to this point!"

"50.00% one, that's [-]% one, right! Why is this number? Can't it be [-]% directly?" Li Shimin was the first to raise a question. Changsun Wuji, Qin Qiong and others also made a sense of reason. The appearance followed and nodded.

Sun Xiangfu heard the words, but he said helplessly, "Your Majesty, 50.00% is already a lot. It just means that you are the largest shareholder and have the absolute say in any project in Weinan. If it is about actual value, Do you think the land in Weinan County is very valuable?"

Li Shimin was not happy to say that the land in a county was worthless, and retorted again, "The entire county of Weinan has more than 100 million mu of land, so why is it worthless?"

Hearing this, Sun Xiangfu nodded and said, "I'll take it as more than 100 million mu of mature land! The market price is only 300 to 100 million yuan, and this round of investment, Guangchen's family, is more than [-] million yuan, plus several other The family’s money, do you think these lands are really worth more than the money we invested in?”

Li Shimin was dumbfounded. The harmonious picture that was promised was shattered from the very beginning of the project discussion. When each company reported the amount of investment in this round of projects, Li Shimin was bitter, and it was so irritating. His ministers are actually richer than the emperor, and there are not just one or two, how embarrassing is this for him!
"Then, now, I will make the final statistics. Yi Gong's family contributed 30 guan, Lu Gong's family contributed 30 guan, Pei's son-in-law's family contributed 30 guan, E's family contributed 50 guan, Lu's family contributed 30 guan, General Dugu's family contributed 50 guan, Mr. Zhao’s family invested 50 guan, and my family and Xingfu Village collectively contributed 150 million guan, a total of 420 million guan. Among them, every [-] guan will account for [-]% of the shares. As for the remaining [-]%, I mean, let it go Go to the market place, Your Majesty, you understand."

Sun Xiangfu only needs to give Li Shimin a bad look, and he will know that the value of the 70% of the shares is definitely not only [-] yuan. If it is auctioned like the land in Shanyang, it will cost several times the money of five surnames and seven families. Neither is a problem.

"Zhengming, this is all our family's possessions, and they are all used to build a city? How big is this city!" Changsun Wuji heard the total number of 420 million, and the corners of his mouth twitched a little.

"Shangsun Shangshu, the cost of building our city in Guanzhong is incomparable to that in Shanyang. Over there, there is free coal to burn bricks, tiles and cement, but here, we have to buy everything, and the price may be even higher. Buy, and the labor cost is not small. If several 10 people are recruited to build it, the monthly salary will be hundreds of thousands. Therefore, even if it is to build a county-level city, the cost of infrastructure construction Possibly up to 200 million.

But in Weinan, we are not just building a city for people to live in. We have to build all the workshops of related industries, and we also need to set aside the initial start-up funds for these industries. Among other things, Weinan depends on the Yellow River Just to build a large-scale berthing dock and configure merchant ships that can radiate the national freight volume requires a million dollars to start. If you want to get all these projects up quickly, let alone this little money, plus 200 million dollars, you will be able to Not much less. "

After Sun Xiangfu finished speaking, Hou Junji continued, "Why do you have to spend so much on wages? As long as His Majesty makes an order to recruit civilian husbands among the people, wouldn't you be able to save millions?"

Hearing this, everyone nodded their heads. In ancient times, when the imperial court had any major projects, it was necessary to collect corvees. Not to mention the wages, the common people even had to bring their own food.

But Sun Xiangfu shook his head and said, "Your Majesty can't be Yang Guang."

As soon as this remark came out, everyone fell silent again. Li Shimin nodded a little bit and said in agreement, "It is clear that this remark is justified. The reason why our roads in Guanzhong can be built so smoothly is because the imperial court paid wages and grain. For construction, we can only use wages to recruit workers from the people, and we cannot abuse the power of the people."

Seeing what Li Shimin said, Hou Junji immediately changed his tone and said, "The minister is not thinking carefully, but building a city requires a lot of craftsmen, wood, iron and other materials. If you use money to purchase it all, it will inevitably be a burden. The price of goods in the market is high, should we slowly mobilize from other places first, and start construction after the materials are almost prepared?"

At this point, Hou Junji got to the point, and Sun Xiangfu nodded in agreement, "Naturally, we need to raise funds, but we have to use some means. To tell you the truth, last night, I asked Daoist Yuan to spread the news. "

"Spread the news? What's the plan?"

Following Li Shimin's question, everyone looked at Sun Xiangfu.

"Lu Gong knows what is needed to build the city, and the family with a huge property knows it too. Last night, I led Yuan Daochang to look at my family's treasury. I asked him to spread the news that my family has a huge amount of money and plans to invest in building a city in Weinan." Go out, come to think of it, there will be rumors in the market today, Your Majesty thinks, what will happen to those family members who know the news?"

Li Shimin basically didn't need to think about it, and replied, "I will hoard and raise the price of the materials needed to build the city for profit."

Sun Xiangfu nodded and smiled, "That's right, this is a tactic they used to make money, but we can use this to trick them. Your Majesty should have not forgotten about Hongzhou's purchase of grain!"

When Sun Xiangfu mentioned this crop, it immediately awakened everyone's memory. At that time, Wang Hao provoked the tribal rebellion in the south of Lingnan and hoarded a large amount of food in Hongzhou, Quanzhou and other surrounding areas of Lingnan. However, because Sun Xiangfu saw through the plan, Zhang Gongjin The others used grain to hit the market in the area where they hoarded grain, and pushed the price to an ultra-low level. In the end, the imperial court bought millions of shi of grain at a low price.

"You mean, let them receive the news in advance and hoard a large amount of building materials, but we act like we don't buy them and force them to sell at a lower price?" Changsun Wuji was the first to react.

Sun Xiangfu nodded and said, "That's the reason. Therefore, in the next period of time, we will take the money as soon as possible and go to the surrounding markets to buy some building materials. Moreover, for the scale of Weinan Industrial New City, we will go overseas Forget it, it’s best to let them think that we are going to build the entire Weinan County territory into a super big city, so that they will send excessive building materials over, no, it’s just for us to bargain.”

The family has a think tank, and the industry is huge and complete.It is impossible for them not to want to get a share of such a large project, especially those who may not be able to be shareholders of Xincheng. In a flash, he even thought of the follow-up method.

For example, procurement is all done by bidding, and they are asked to quote by themselves. Moreover, round after round, little by little, one type of bidding will lead them into vicious competition. When everyone hoards too many things, they will all want to sell , then, one can imagine the price at which Sun Xiangfu finally bought those building materials.

Of course, how much profit is made is secondary. The main thing is that with their help in raising building materials, the construction speed of the new city will definitely be accelerated. If it is completed a year earlier, it will start to make profits a year earlier. The gap in interest is huge. of.

Finally, Sun Xiangfu explained what kind of sovereignty the shareholders have over the industry in Weinan New City. Although the city was built by several shareholders, it still belongs to the imperial court. Taxation and civil affairs are still managed by the imperial court and owned by the shareholders The income mainly comes from real estate and subsequent investment projects. It may take three to five years or even longer from the start of construction to the return of profits. This requires everyone to prepare in advance.

(End of this chapter)