The convoy drove in Jinyang City, and Li Qi sat in the carriage, looking at the shops on both sides of the street, and his mind was full of thinking about how to raise money and food.

Since Li Keyong became the master of Hedong, Jinyang City has basically not been affected by war since the end of the Tang Dynasty, and it is already the most prosperous city in northern China. Under the operation of the Li family father and son for decades, there are relatively many wealthy households in Jinyang City, which can be regarded as a first-class rich land.

But walking on the street, Li Qi didn't feel much wealth. The pedestrians on the street, those who are neatly dressed are only a very few, and the vast majority of the people are ragged, yellow-skinned, wearing patches and patches on their bodies, and their faces are obviously vegetable.

Most of the powerful and wealthy families in Jinyang lived in the area around the Xicheng Imperial Palace, and the Dongcheng was equivalent to a shantytown in later generations.

In later generations, "shantytowns" referred to places where the houses were old and the per capita living area was small, but in the slums of Jinyang Dongcheng, those shantytowns really lived in simple thatched huts that leaked on all sides.

It is hard for Li Qi to imagine how people can survive the cold winter living in this kind of grass hut with reeds as walls.

The buildings on both sides of the street look very dilapidated, and many of the houses are not covered with green bricks, but directly have loess walls, and the surface is full of potholes, large and small.

The old society of all evils!

Walking on such a street, Li Qi's heart was very disappointed, he couldn't see how many business opportunities could be in such a city. In such an era when food is not covered and clothes are not covered, where do people have spare money to buy other goods?! Now Li Qi is very nostalgic for the times when he used to complain because of the pressure of life.

The kind of life that as long as you are willing to endure hardship, you don't have to worry about starvation.

Although my heart is full of disappointment, I still have to live my life.

The Jin Palace, which covers an area of more than 100 acres, includes a main hall and two side halls, plus the east and west side courtyards and the backyard as a residential area, which is equivalent to a small imperial city. There are more than 20 houses in the backyard alone. Because the personnel of the Jin Palace, they all moved to the Luoyang Palace, and only some old family members stayed in the palace, which seemed very cold.

Isn't it a waste to live in such a big place by yourself?

Li Qi felt that if he sold the palace, he should be able to raise a lot of funds, but this was just a matter of thinking.

Jin Wangfu, even if you want to sell it, someone has to dare to buy it!

It's just that although there is not much food left in the house, there is still a lot of family property.

Li Keyong, Li Cunmiao father and son have been operating Hedong for decades, but there are a lot of mansions and fields around Jinyang, which can be said to be the largest landlord in Jinyang, and this house and land can also be exchanged for money and grain......

A eunuch wearing a black veil and a five-grade red robe stood in front of Li Qi.

The official system of the five dynasties continued the Tang Dynasty, and it was the Inner Servant Province that was in charge of the affairs of the inner court, which was run by eunuchs. However, since the relocation of the capital to Luoyang, the Inner Servant Province moved to Luoyang, and now the chief in charge of the affairs of the Jinyang Imperial Palace and the Jin Palaces is Zhang Shu, the young eunuch of the Inner Servant Province. He is the righteous son of Zhang Chengye, the original Hedong supervisor, and he is very valued by Li Cunmiao, so he stayed in the northern capital and was responsible for managing the Jinyang Palace and the Jin Palace.

"Manager Zhang, how many mansions and imperial villages are there in the name of the Jin Palace, and how many fields are there?" Li Qi sat on the soft couch, looked at Zhang Shu with a respectful expression in front of him and asked. The official name of the other party, before the Sui Dynasty, was called Shao Changqiu.

"Back to the prince, in addition to the palace, there are twelve mansions in the Jin Palace, which are prepared by His Majesty for the princes, and Emperor Wu also left five mansions, which were not rewarded. Other estates have been given to kings and horses, and to many sons, ministers, etc. There are 17 imperial villages around Jinyang, with more than 52,360 hectares of fields, in addition, there are several royal mountain forests and pastures. Zhang Shu seemed to know everything about the property of the palace, so he blurted out directly.

"Well, how much can this Jinyang mansion be worth?" As soon as Li Qi opened his mouth, Zhang Shu was stunned, and his mouth was half open, and it took a long time to react.

"Prince, this ancestral family business can't be sold easily!"

"This recruitment requires a lot of money and food, and the Taiyuan treasury can't support it at all, so it can only use the property of the inner government. Otherwise, if Li Siyuan led the troops to fight, would the family property of Nuoda be cheaper than those rebel generals? ! Li Qi said, "Now is not the time to keep your business. ”

"The houses in the city are of different sizes and locations, but most of them are near the palace, and their value is relatively high. The big mansion can be worth about five million dollars, and the small one can be sold for about one million, and in the end, it is worth about 40,000 yuan. Zhang Shu thought for a moment and replied.

"It's only worth 30,000 or 40,000?!" Li Qi was obviously a little disappointed when he heard this, it seems that this royal family is not very rich. "How much is the Grange worth?"

"The best fertile land is worth about 450 wen per mu, and the inferior dry land can only be sold for 200 wen per mu, plus the real estate in the manor, etc., each manor is worth about 6,000 yuan."

Li Qi thought about it in his heart, that is to say, in addition to the Jin Palace, Li Keyong and Li Cunmiao, father and son, the family business saved in the Jinyang area was only more than 100,000 yuan, which was obviously a failure. As the saying goes, a year of Qing Governor's Mansion, 100,000 snowflakes of silver, this father and son two generations have been running Hedong for more than 40 years, and it is roughly the same as the wealth made by people who have been mayors for a year, and it cannot but be said that they lack business acumen and economic means.

Wouldn't you have issued more invoices?!

Is it really impossible to sell Jinyang Palace?

Ahem, just kidding......

Li Qi took the map of Jinyang City and began to draw a red circle on it.

There are a total of seventeen houses, and only five houses facing the street are retained, which are ready to be used as the façade of the shops in the future, and the rest are ordered to Zhang Shu to find someone to sell them all.

Waiting for Zhang Shu to leave, Li Qi sat in the study and thought about it, picked up a pen and wrote a rescue letter, called Li Huan, and asked him to send someone to deliver the letter to Wang De, the envoy of the Yiwu Army.

In that year, Zhang Wenli of the Chengde Army rebelled in Zhenzhou (Zhengding), and the Yiwu Army of Dingzhou made Wang Chuzhi secretly Khitan, intending to support Zhenzhou. His righteous son Wang De took the opportunity to incite his subordinates, imprisoned Wang Chuzhi, and established himself as the queen. Li Cunmiao thought that Wang De would help him, so he appointed Wang De as the envoy of the Yiwu Army, and agreed to Wang De's request to marry his daughter to the prince Jiqi.

The marriage that Li Cunqiao made under the city of Dingzhou back then now gave Li Qi an extra foreign aid.

Wang De can be regarded as his father-in-law, and it is impossible to sit idly by and watch without help. Moreover, Li Siyuan looked down on Wang De, a traitor, and the relationship between the two was very bad, and it was impossible for Wang De to turn his back on Li Qi and go to Li Siyuan. It's just that the Yiwu Army itself is a small military town, and its military and financial resources are limited, and the support it can provide will not be too large.

Grasshoppers are small, but they are also meat......