Although Wang Buxing has been shouting to develop the economy and make the treasury thicker.

However, due to various factors, the pace of economic development has not been fast.

So far, it has only done to encourage those who have some family backgrounds to collect some goods from the people, and then remove the cost and add some prices to carry out centralized sales.

In the past, this model was only available to some nobles, and only they could play it.

One is to have capital, and the other is to have power.

But now the Han Kingdom has been released.

Governments everywhere have given guidance prices in response.

And now this system has not been perfected, and there are still many loopholes.

For example, if you go into the city to sell, you must accept the guide price, and this price is the average price of the government's understanding, plus 20% of the labor cost, plus 20% of the profit.

That is to say, the price of a commodity in the people is ten yuan, so in the city, it can only be sold for fourteen yuan at most.

In order to make the traders accept this price, the Han Kingdom even stipulated that the fifteen tax one was temporarily changed to the fifteen tax one on net profit.

If this net profit is not easy to control, it will simply be cut across the board.

It's still the ten-dollar commodity, and after counting the cost, his net profit is two dollars.

And there are policies at the top, and there are countermeasures at the bottom, and this kind of thing is not lacking at any time.

Soon, a shrewd person discovered a loophole, why don't I just go into the city?

I still sell it for fourteen cents so that I don't have to pay taxes.

The court did not stipulate that private buying and selling were not allowed, and besides, how could there be people who always went to the city to buy things?

The current model is basically to exchange things in the village, and if there is nothing in the village, go to the next village to exchange.

Therefore, in the past two years, the commercial tax of the Han Kingdom has not increased, but has decreased a lot.

This is also the reason why Zhang Cang keeps scratching his head.

The people returned to the council hall.

In the hall, there is already a shelf about three meters long and wide.

The shelves are temporary, with a few legs underneath and a thin layer of slabs on top.

This was built by the Ministry of Industry itself for the convenience of drawing.

There was a yellowed piece of paper on it, but because the quality was not very good, it could not be moved often.

So I thought of such a way to fix it directly on it and draw it.

Therefore, Wang was not hungry to see, and the Ministry of Industry simply moved the entire table over.

And after entering the council hall, Wang Bu was hungry and regretted it a little.

The place is not big, and if you put such a table, the place will be even smaller, so it is better to take someone directly to the Ministry of Industry to see it, and it can save people tossing back and forth.

"Your Majesty, the new plan as a whole has increased by four times compared to the current Luoyang, and the minister plans to discuss the placement of the forbidden army camp with General Zhang after the internal refinement, and then he can do other things." Wang Ling pointed to the drawings and said.

It was also the first time that everyone had seen this unfinished drawing.

It's easy to understand, and there isn't that much professional data or anything.

The whole picture is very clear.

The above is a list of the length and width of the expansion, which is basically expanded according to the existing city one by one around the existing city.

Because the south side is the Luo River, there is no way to build, so there are only five areas, and the place due north is directly written with the word Beigong.

"How many people can it hold?" Wang Buxing asked directly, just looking at the drawings, he couldn't see the size.

And now Luoyang City, 50,000 forbidden troops can't fit it.

The camp of the forbidden army is in the north of the city, in addition to the 5,000 people who are stationed in the palace, the 5,000 people who are rotated are in the east of the city, and there are 10,000 people stationed and patrolling in the city......

"At least 200,000 people!" Wang Ling said directly.

The city, which can accommodate 200,000 people, is definitely a super city in this era.

The kind that you don't have to think about, the only one who can surpass it is the former Xianyang, but Xianyang is almost this number, and there are more than 100,000 nobles from the six countries.

Wang Buxing nodded, the city of 200,000 people is enough for the time being.

Although the city of Chang'an was once able to accommodate millions of people, Chang'an was not built in a day.

For the industrial and commercial area in the west of the city, to be honest, Wang Buxing feels that it is a bit unrealistic now.

It was mainly such a large area, and it seemed that he hadn't figured out what it was for except for the hydraulic forging machine.

"With such a large area, has the Ministry of Industry figured out how to use it?" Wang Bu was hungry and pointed to the west of the city and asked.

"The workshop must be used on the other side, and according to the current trend, a part of the area is to be set aside, but the problem is that the city is built here, and the channel we dug earlier is useless. In addition, the farm tool workshop should occupy a place, which is close to the iron workshop and can be easily transported, and the others have not been thought of for the time being. Wang Ling said.

"What about the Ministry of Commerce?" Wang Bu was not hungry and then asked.

For the time being, Xiao He is still the secretary of the Ministry of Commerce, and Wang Buxing had asked him how to develop before, and gave some ideas.

So he said: "The Ministry of Commerce can build a large trading area here, and in the future, traders from other places can come here to conduct centralized trading." ”

Wang Buxing continued to nod, but with just a few uses, such a large place was obviously inexhaustible.

And Wang Bu is not hungry and begins to feel that it is unrealistic and wasteful to build an entire industrial zone now.

So he said: "In addition to these in the west of the city, the forbidden army barracks are placed in the middle of the planned housing living area, the official office trading area and the industrial zone in the west of the city, and they are isolated, and the goods at the east gate are guarded by the forbidden army, and the personnel at the north gate enter and exit. In addition to this, another school building will be built. ”

Wang Buxing directly took a stick and drew a corner on it, the iron workshop and the agricultural workshop were in a corner near the west, the forbidden army barracks protected them at a ninety degree right angle, and further east, there was the trading area, and the north side was the living area, the official office, the school house, etc.

In this way, the entire Xicheng City has become an industrial city, and with the entry of the craftsmen's families, the popularity here will slowly accumulate, and in general, it will not make people feel empty.

And the facilities that should be there are also available, and the living area is not only the living area, but also the necessary commercial area, which is enough to meet all your needs without leaving the city.

While guarding the west of the city, the forbidden army also shouldered the responsibility of protecting the security of the two large workshops and preventing the leakage of secrets.

Immediately afterwards, Wang Buxing set his sights on the east of the city again.

After thinking about it, he said: "The east of the city is dominated by civilians, in addition to the official offices and school buildings, a large commercial area will be established, and all kinds of goods can be sold in it at that time, and the people don't need to run around to buy them, they can buy them all by going around here." ”

"Your Majesty, this ......" Xiao He frowned tightly, and then asked, "What are you selling?" ”

What to sell?

This is a very real problem.

Today's business, the model is simple.

Nothing more than salt, grain, livestock, slaves, and cloth were sold, and these were the main ones, and the rest were scattered, or rather self-sufficient.

And what Xiao He doesn't understand the most is that the current purchasing power is not so strong.

Although this winter will allow some people to accumulate some family funds, relying on these is far from supporting a market.

Again, there is a very critical issue.

So many people have entered the city, which means that they have basically lost the ability to farm, so what are they doing here?

Everything needs to be bought, and where do they get the money?

Of course, Wang Buyu thought of the question that Xiao He thought of.

So he said: "How many people in the world are dreaming of getting rich? My so-called civilian, is he really a civilian? How long can ordinary people who have lost their arable land live in this Luoyang City? So in the end, most of the people who can come here are businessmen, or wealthy families from all over the world, even if they move here, their families still have output, which can support their consumption here, and the purchasing power of these people is no problem, besides, don't look at the fact that there is nothing to sell now, but there will be one in the future......"

"In the future?" Xiao He was still a little puzzled.

"Yes, that is, in the future, goods from all over the Han Dynasty can be transported, even the goods of the northern grasslands, and the goods of those countries in the west, are all possible......"