Nine cities in Chang'an, His Royal Highness can choose one of them.

After Chao Cuo finished speaking, he looked at Liu Rong with a smile.

If it is replaced by other princes who grew up in the deep palace since childhood, I am afraid that they will not even be able to distinguish which nine cities in Chang'an City are, let alone manage them.

But this is not difficult for Liu Rong.

The "Chang'an Chronicles" records that the nine cities are East City, South City, West City, North City, Liushi City, Zhi City, Jiaomen City, Xiaoli City and Jiaodaoting City.

Except for the four cities in the southeast, northwest and northwest, the remaining five cities are all located outside Chang'an City.

The city is surrounded by a wall, separated from residential areas, and transactions can only be carried out within the city.

The city gate is guarded and opens and closes on time.

In order to make it easier for customers to purchase and for government inspection, the stores are arranged according to the type of products in the city.

In "Mulan Ci", "buy horses in the east market, saddle sheath in the west market, bridle in the south market, and long whip in the north market" is a portrayal of this specialized market.

The topic given by Chao Cuo this time is not only to examine Liu Rong's insight and ability, but also his mind and courage.

The management difficulty of these nine cities is different, and the final results are naturally different.

Liu Rong only thought about it cursoryly, and excluded the five cities outside Chang'an City.

After all, compared with the four cities in the city, the five cities outside the city are not only in popularity, scale and influence.

No matter how good Liu Rong is, at most he is just a middle-class evaluation.

This is not what he wants, and since he does it, he must do his best.

The East Market is home to most of the wealthy merchants in Chang'an City, among which the pawnbroking industry is the most famous.

Since ancient times, the pawnbroking industry has been read as pawn, and pawn writing is usury.

And the usury merchants of the Han Dynasty became more and more vigorous than the other, according to historical records, after the Wu Chu Rebellion began.

Zhou Yafu led the army to quell the rebellion, but because the military expenditure was not enough, he could only borrow 3,000 gold from a loan shark merchant in Chang'an.

Even the imperial court dared to lend!

In the end, he successfully recovered the principal and interest!

Just this one can imagine how hard the backstage of those loan sharks is!

Nine times out of ten, standing behind were the princes and kings of various places and the nobles of Chang'an.

Liu Rong had no doubt that as long as he dared to touch the gang of loan sharks in the East Market, the next day's tidal wave of anger would drown him.

"It's just a bunch of fat sheep in captivity!"

Historically, the Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty was very good at picking wool, and every time he had no money, he walked around here, and every time he could enrich the treasury.

Since Liu Yu did it, then Liu Rong naturally did it.

It's just that time has to be moved back.

There are many foreign merchants and various shops in Xishi, which is the starting point of the Silk Road, and officials and merchants come and go all year round.

I've heard that there are a lot of orchids from Persia, so if you have the chance, you can check them out.

Liu Rong knew how valuable Chinese silk and porcelain were in Western countries.

But if you want to meddle in this business, you need to be strong enough and capital.

At the moment, he does not have this condition.

As for the remaining two cities, the southern city is mainly dominated by handmade products and some small and medium-sized workshops, while the northern market concentrates most of Chang'an's catering and service industries.

Among these four cities, the east and west cities undoubtedly have the most oil and water, followed by the north city, and the south city ranks last.

"Your Highness, have you ever thought about which city to choose?"

Chao Cuo hates Liu Ronggui, but he will not completely deny the other party's talent.

After all, those two letters that are enough to be passed down through the ages are placed there, and blindly belittling the opponent will only lower his IQ.

"If you think about it, you will choose Nanshi."

Liu Rong said confidently.

Chao Cuo couldn't help but show a little surprise on his face, thinking that the other party didn't know the inside story.

"Your Highness can know the nine cities of Chang'an, especially the east and west......"

Halfway through the words, Chao Cuo saw Liu Rong's hand-waving movements, and estimated that the other party had already done some understanding of the general situation of Chang'an City before he came.

But he was still curious how the other party could have made this decision.

Needless to say, the abundance of oil and water in the east and west cities, even if Liu Rong is worried about causing misunderstanding of the forces behind these wealthy businessmen and merchants, he can also choose the second best North City.

Don't think that the prince doesn't need money.

Don't think the prince doesn't need money!

Don't even think that the emperor doesn't need money!

Chao Cuo has served as the prince's family commander, and he naturally knows how important money is for a prince who is aspiring to the crown prince's position.

The biggest reason why Chao Cuo was able to climb to his current position was not because he had a deep relationship with his cheap father.

It's because he understands economics and knows how to manage money.

When he was the prince's family order, he sorted out the finances of the entire prince's mansion inside and out, so that the original prince Liu Qi did not have to worry about getting money.

Does Liu Rong need money?

Of course, yes.

In these years, there is nothing that does not cost money if you want to do things.

Recruit a literate scholar to do chores such as paperwork.

Every year, I have to pay people 2,000 yuan and fifty or sixty stone corn, as well as cloth.

A piece of meat is distributed during the New Year's holidays, and when it is converted together, he will be paid at least about 10,000 yuan this year.

According to the minimum standard, each city recruited twenty scribes to be responsible for sorting out various documents, which was an expenditure of 200,000 yuan a year.

One gold in the Han family is about 10,000 yuan, which is equivalent to Liu Rong's annual expenditure of twenty gold.

This is still the most basic staff, if you change it to other high-level intellectuals, as well as people with special talents, you don't have a few dozen gold, and others won't dump you.

The blank paper in the palace has not even been made yet, and even if it does, it will be difficult to achieve large-scale production in the short term.

Therefore, Liu Rong is really short of money now.

Many people may wonder why Liu Rong chose such a poorest place with the most no oil and water since he was so short of money.

But as long as Liu Rong says a noun, everyone should understand.

High-tech Development Zone.

Anyone with a modicum of common sense will know how much this place has contributed to the modernization of a big city.

In Liu Rong's eyes, Nanshi is a high-tech development zone of the Han Dynasty.

Although in terms of scale and top technology, it may not be comparable to Shaofu.

But Shaofu is not Liu Rong's own garden, and Shaofuqing, as one of the Nine Qings, doesn't care about him as a prince at all.

In the southern market, there are small traders and small and medium-sized workshop owners.

Liu Rong does not have to worry about interference and obstruction from the elite and the waiting class.

He can follow his own ideas as he pleases to realize the grand blueprint in his heart.

However, there was one thing he had to plan for.

Guanzhong has had the style of a ranger since ancient times.

Among the rangers, the categories are complex, and the noble ones see that the road is uneven, draw their swords to help, promise a thousand gold, survive and die.

The bad ones or call friends to attract the class, swagger through the market, or arbitrarily make country songs, and dominate one side.

Throughout the two Han Dynasty, there are no poor rangers who have left their names in the annals of history.

There is the big brother of the ranger Guo Xie in the distance, and the drama Meng in the East is close to the Eastern Heroes.

(End of chapter)