When Li Shimin was selling cowpox and the infrastructure of Guanzhong was becoming more and more perfect, Sun Xiangfu was also paying close attention to the infrastructure construction of Shanyang.

In fact, since the spring ploughing, the infrastructure construction of Shanyang City has not stopped, although most of the area has not been built, but the most urgent need of the building is basically completed.

This is a large city built entirely on the grassland, although its scale cannot be compared with Luoyang, Chang'an, but it is already the largest fortified city in the borderland. After the whole city was planned by Sun Xiangfu, the convenience and rationality ranked first, and the commerciality was also very high, except for less than one-eighth of the place in the north that was divided into political and military areas by Sun Xiangfu, the rest of the places were all divided into commercial, entertainment, and residential areas, the streets here are very wide, all are cement roads, and the drainage and fecal ditches hidden in the ground are dug underground, and on the ground, even if there are many construction sites under construction, they also appear to be very clean.

From the very beginning, Sun Xiangfu was not allowed to build houses at will in the city, because the county government has strict audit standards for the land and the quality of the houses. There must be a heating kang and a coal stove that meets safety standards, and a kettle! There must be a drainage and excrement device connected to the underground waterway! Anyway, there are all kinds of things, but the common people will follow the standards he set.

Only by building a house according to the standards he set, can the people who live in the house be convenient, clean and clean, and ensure that when the heavy snow falls in winter, the house will not be buried because the snow collapses the house, and will not be frozen to death because the warmth is not guaranteed.

Of course, if you can't afford to build such a brick house, it doesn't matter, Yamen can find someone to lend you money, as long as you take your household registration in Shanyang City to Yamen, Yamen's cooperative merchants can provide you with a set of houses that have been built, the price is according to the area, ranging from 30 to 100 yuan, within three years, there is no need to repay the interest, after three years, according to the size and the amount of arrears, a certain percentage of the annual interest will be charged, the longer the time, the larger the amount, the higher the interest.

This is also Sun Xiangfu's first business in Shanyang, which is operated by the merchant tenants in his house and the yamen, and the advantage of this is that the yamen only supports a few officials who manage household registration, so that more than 20,000 households in the city can have comfortable houses to settle down as soon as possible, and can be put into production and construction work with peace of mind.

Zhou Chun, a businessman named Zhou Chun, who specialized in helping him take care of real estate, obtained more than 70 percent of the city's land at market price, and the more than 20,000 houses he invested in and built were actually his least profitable business.

"Owner, our construction team currently has 8,000 people, and in June it has completed 30,000 houses, enough for the people of the whole city to live, only a small part of them have been sold in full, about 20,000 are interest-free loans, there are about 7,000 vacant houses, and the cost of more than 70,000 houses has not been recovered."

The windfall profits of real estate are amazing in any period, especially in the case of this kind of collusion between officials and businessmen, Zhou Chun only needs to recover the payment of a few thousand more houses, and the cost will be completely recovered, and the remaining 20,000 houses and the 7,000 houses that have not been sold are all pure profits.

Of course, it may take many years to recover the part of the investment and the profits earned, and it is impossible to support his engineering team of up to 8,000 people without making much money in this piece every year.

"Well, doing people's houses, mainly to solve the problem of people's housing, early profit is secondary, our profit point is in the shops, the west of the city commercial street, along the Sanggan River entertainment venues are built, how is it?" In Shanyang City, in the Shanyang County Mansion with a new plaque, Sun Xiangfu nodded while writing on the main kang.

As a senior magistrate of Datang, he has to gradually disconnect from specific business operations, and what he thinks about is always the future development.

If you want people to come to you, first of all, you must have good goods, a good trading environment, good entertainment venues, and the industrial technology system of Happy Village to support you.

Lingnan sugar, rock sugar, he has here, Huainan various levels of soybean sauce, he also has here, all kinds of cotton, skin, made of clothes, shoes and hats, ready-to-wear, there are a lot of them, Sun Xiangfu even let the craftsmen study the oranges in Shu, Lingnan lychees, made into cans, dried fruits, sent here, I believe, with the idea he proposed, the craftsmen broke through the sealing technology, it is not difficult to make canned food, after all, now the glazed ceramic workshop, there is a mature technology of firing threaded mouth bottles and cans.

And Shanyang has it here, but there are no other places, Sun Xiangfu planted millions of acres of flower fields in Shanyang, what is the so-called?

Of course, it's to pick flower petals, refine essences, and make perfumes.

Why did Sun Xiangfu dare to lend his house to the people of Shanyang City without zero down payment and interest-free for three years?

Because the people whose household registration was assigned to Shanyang by him have jobs and income.

He is confident that in addition to the daily expenses, the remaining money of these people will be able to pay off the arrears of the house within a year or two.

Of course, perfume is only one of the products, in the south of the city, near the city wall, there are rows of particularly tall factories, here, there are thousands of women who are responsible for picking flowers and refining essences, and not only that, but there are also many derivatives of flowers.

For example, honey is also extremely productive in Shuozhou, where the number of flower fields reaches one million acres.

With honey, you can make a lot of sweet products, and in this regard, it is a matter of food processing plants. Flower cake is a kind of food that can be shelved for several months first developed by the food processing workshop, and its main body is made of flour, with a small amount of sugar and flower essence that can be used, and the taste is no worse than some cake foods in later generations.

There are also large workshops that make high-quality sake, and the annual output will be huge, of course, in this year, when food is relatively tight, the output is not high.

As for leather goods, garment workshops, textile workshops, the scale here is also not small, after all, this is a bitter cold place outside the border, for thick and warm clothes, the demand here is very large, and they are not only made for their own use, but to be sold to the outside world, with Hu Feng style in the majority.

Basically, as long as there are workshops in Happy Village, there are them here, but they are not doing research and development, but mass production, so the number of recruits is huge, and it has already reached the scale of 10,000 people. In the future, the amount of goods produced here will also be huge, at least to meet the needs of millions of people in the northern and steppe tribes.

Moreover, the number of these workers does not count the personnel engaged in the service industry that Sun Xiangfu said need to be used in the shops. Therefore, Sun Xingfu himself has a bit of a labor shortage, and promised to let Wang Xu recruit tenants in Shuozhou, but in fact, he wrote a blank check for him, living in such a clean and safe city, such a comfortable house, with a stable job, and a relatively good income, who would want to follow you to the grassland to plan?

Of course, to ensure that all these outputs and business activities can flow and operate for a long time like living water, Sun Xiangfu's follow-up plan is also needed.

Hearing Sun Xiangfu ask himself, Zhou Chun said with some treasures, "Back to the head of the family, more than 1,200 shops in the size of the commercial street, all of which have been built, in addition to keeping the best shops in each lot for their own use, they have begun to rent from various industries, Taiyuan Wanggongzi's family first rented more than 100 houses, and other families from all over the world, businessmen are now also in contact to negotiate, according to your instructions, the lease is signed every year, the same type of shops must be operated centrally, and the storage area is also left enough, and the livestock trading market is placed in the old county town outside the city. There are also stores that store and feed livestock, and judging from the current situation, most of the shops should have merchants within this year. ”

Shops, is the Sun family's real profitable business, 1,200 shops, the money invested in the construction is only about 100,000 yuan, but if they are all rented out, every year just to collect rent, can recover more than half, it is said that when the time comes, there will be any cleaning fees, water fees, public security management fees, all by him, the owner to find the merchant to collect, the money must be a lot of money.

Of course, Sun Xiangfu's purpose is to introduce several major families into the competition mechanism, and the same type of shops are piled together to do business, which can play a crowd effect, but this is ancient times, there are not so many different brands, when the goods produced by several major families are the same, Sun Xiangfu has to stand aside and watch the play, anyway, Sun Xiangfu has a shop, and it is impossible for the families to compete with him.

"What about entertainment venues along the Sangan River?" In this regard, Zhou Chun can only be regarded as a job completed according to Sun Xiangfu's requirements, and it is this entertainment venue that is really difficult to operate.

"We are divided into large, medium and small, each with three buildings for self-operation, according to your requirements, divided into men's sauna and bath halls, women's health spas, song and dance theaters, storytelling teahouses, and restaurants and other industry layout, the rest is three grades of inns, which can accommodate thousands of people. However, the remaining buildings are also very popular, if it weren't for the four major families in Yangzhou to occupy half of them, we would have raised these buildings along the Sanggan River with an annual rent of 100,000 yuan. ”

This is also something that can't be helped, in order to win Yangzhou's soybeans, Changsun Wuji and Wu Shi Tong had to make some compromises with the four masters of Yangzhou, not only gave them the exclusive right to sell salted fish and bean sauce Jiangnan Province, but also gave them half of the Qinglou service industry in Shanyang New Town, Sun Xiangfu has no experience and manpower to operate this kind of place, so this is also a win-win situation, after all, in any place with more money and more money, the demand for this line is great.

"Well, we must strengthen the training of personnel, and we must grasp the scale of operation, and it is best to open next month." Sun Xiangfu stopped writing and explained.

"The small one will definitely give a good account of the stewards of each place, these projects were carried out immediately after the construction of the city wall, and now more than half a year has passed, the construction has already been completed, and a month is enough to open." Zhou Chun assured.

"Alright, you go down first!"

After Zhou Chun bowed, he quickly retreated, and someone immediately came in again.

"Master, the small coal workshop can now produce 500 cars of honeycomb briquettes per day, but the stock has not yet reached the amount you said will supply all the charcoal stoves and kang in the city for a year, and now the weather is getting cooler, and the small one would like to ask you to allocate some Turkic captives to the mine to speed up the excavation and production."

There are no trees in the grassland outside the Guanwai, naturally there is not much firewood for burning, so if you want to live comfortably in this cold weather area, coal is a material that must be guaranteed, there are now more than 20,000 households in the city, most of them like to use honeycomb coal stoves for cooking, boiling kettles, and even burning warm kangs, and the amount of coal used every day is huge.

This is an exclusive monopoly business, so Sun Xiangfu does not allow the price of briquettes to be too high, because the price is high, many families with poor economy will reduce their use, resulting in some situations, the coldest weather in midwinter, where it can be more than ten degrees below zero, one does not pay attention, it is normal for typhoid fever to freeze to death.

In order to reduce costs, Sun Xiangfu had to send some Turkic captives to Li Dakui who only took care of food and did not get paid, and these captives were privately intercepted by Sun Xiangfu from Li Jing!

"There are only so many captives, I will send them all to you, if not, go to other counties to recruit workers! There should be some farmers over there who have nothing to do in winter, who can earn money during the slack time, and there should be someone who can do it, at least we can take care of food and housing, and get a salary. In addition, let Wang Gui of the house go to your side to have a look, and develop some more efficient tools for mining and production, the amount of coal used will only increase in the future, and the number of people I can give you is getting fewer and fewer. ”

"Okay, the small ones are going to recruit workers, with the upper limit of being able to complete the tasks you specify."

After Li Dakui finished saluting, he immediately stepped back quickly, of course, the matter is not over, there is the next one to see soon, as the first Shangdu protector of the Tang Dynasty, and the highest governor of Shuozhou, or the largest owner of Shanyang City, Sun Xiangfu has to deal with a lot of such things every day, he is not like the officials of this period, he likes to deal with it slowly, everything is done vigorously, yes, the amount of information to remember in his mind is huge, and he has to make decisions quickly and accurately, and he is very tired.

"Hey, your kid is finally back, how is it on the grassland?"

Sun Xiangfu looked at the next person who walked in from the door with some surprise.

It was none other than Xi Jun, who rode to Ulanqab with 1,500 and brought Tuli's lair.