Chapter 429: The City That Never Sleeps

The gross profit of the Ming Dynasty goods bought to the Wa Kingdom is not doubled, and the goods brought by Huang Han with a cost price of more than 500,000 taels of silver can be sold for more than 1 million taels of silver.

After deducting the 600,000,000 taels of silver spent on buying copper ingots, polished rice, and other goods, you can still bring back 400,000 taels of silver.

The actual balance was far more than these hundreds of thousands of taels of silver, because the looted goods included cotton cloth, raw silk, silk, tea and other goods that could be sold to the Wa Kingdom, and Huang Han asked Huang Yong and Shen Xianyi to sell them to the Tokugawa family in Edo Bay.

Precious metals worth hundreds of thousands of taels of silver were also seized from pirate ships and pirates' lairs, so the trip to the Wa Kingdom was a complete success.

The cost price was more than 600,000 taels of silver, and the goods such as polished rice, copper ingots, and lead were worth more than 1.3 million taels in Daming.

The goods brought back from the pirate ship and the Nine Ghost Warehouse were also worth 400,000 taels of silver, and the precious metals, antique calligraphy and paintings, etc., plus the profits, reached 1 million taels of silver.

Putting aside the costs, minus the remuneration and bounties given to the sailors, and the pensions for the fallen and disabled soldiers, the estimated profit on this trip was close to two million taels, and this did not count the value of the dozens of warships and armed merchant ships that had been looted.

After the autumn harvest, the food crisis will not exist, and the grain in the system will not be less than 1 million stones, and it is estimated that there should be more than 500,000 stone of surplus grain after ensuring the needs of the people in the system.

Huang Han was able to collect and store 1 million stone of grain, which means that the farmers, tun people, and military households in the system should also have so much grain in their hands, after all, the grain output is divided equally between Huang Han, a large landowner, and peasant households.

Counting the population brought in from Shandong this year, the "Red Banner Army" system is less than 100,000 households and 500,000 people, and even the old and the young have an average of two stone of surplus grain, so it is estimated that the surplus of grain will not be less than 500,000 stone.

Zheng Xiu'e and Chu Chu don't know when their husbands will come home, they have been busy and busy recently.

Because the vast majority of the three- and four-storey group buildings built by purchasing land between Chongwenmenwai Street and Guangqumennei Street in Jingshi have been capped.

The Huangjia Grand Theater, which can accommodate 800 people to drink and watch the play, has entered the stage of interior decoration, and the theater that fully considers the sound insulation and sound transmission effects can ensure that the audience in the venue can hear the singing and lines of Youling on the stage.

The investment industry did not enter the inner city of the Beijing Division, not only because of the high land price in the inner city, but also because there were many restrictions on the proximity to the imperial city.

Originally, Guangqumen Inner Street was relatively depressed, and there were a lot of wasteland and vacant land, but now it was bought by the Huang family and circled nearly two square kilometers of construction to drive the prosperity of this area.

Huang Han actually borrowed the model of Wanda Plaza in the later generations, and believed that the city center of the outer city would be here after the project was completed.

A large fully enclosed area, like a city within a city, it has tourism, commerce, business, and residential functions, and when it is put into use, it will be built into a city that never sleeps.

The most eye-catching thing is definitely the supply of tap water, the perfect water supply and drainage system, the criss-crossing artificial river will better prevent the fire of the camp, there will be no dirt floor here, and the roads are all paved with special green bricks that are similar to the city bricks.

It will also have some of the best public facilities in the world today, with at least a dozen public toilets managed by special personnel to keep them odorless and flushed.

The Huanghan investment project is not afraid of the many jobs that are needed, resulting in high operating costs.

There were too many displaced people at the end of the Ming Dynasty, and it was because they couldn't get a job and couldn't get the hope of surviving that they would take risks.

In the case of a water supply project under the conditions of reluctance, the water tower is replenished, and in the absence of electricity and pumps, to maintain the operation of the water supply system, it is necessary to pull the water wheel to carry the water bullock and labor.

At the beginning of the year, when Zheng Xiu'e and Chu Chu made their investment, they received strong support from Sifang Express, which is also located near Guangqumen.

The Sleepless City project is close to Chongwenmen, and Sifang Express is close to Guangqumen, and a commercial street will be built at the junction of the two companies, because this is not the main road, but private territory, and no cars and horses are allowed in the future.

So as not to be hit by horses by pedestrians shopping, and to prevent horse manure, horse urine, and donkey feces from smelling on the street.

In order for the project to run smoothly, Huang Sifang even diverted the client's advance payment to invest, and the budget may have to be doubled due to the addition of the commercial street project.

As soon as Huang Han returned home, he saw Zheng Xiu'e's letter, and knew that Jingshi's investment was going well, but he was now facing the crisis of running out of funds, and asked for at least 100,000 taels of silver to be invested once the silver that ran to the sea was returned.

In order not to affect the construction period, Zheng Xiu'e and Chu Chu have already borrowed money in Beijing.

The mother of Zheng Xiu'e, the old lady of the Zheng family, is really happy, the married daughter was allowed by her husband to show her head, she can run to her mother's house as she wants, and she can use hundreds of thousands of taels of silver on hand.

In order to support her busy daughter, the old lady hollowed out all the old books of the Zheng family.

Chu Chu's group of sisters, such as Begonia, Little Peach, Qianli Xue, etc., all trusted Huang Han, and invested all the money they kept for the elderly in the Sleepless City project, and even the bustard took out the coffin book to participate in the shares.

Huang Han has long announced the management measures, the Sleepless City project operates in line with the principle of who invests and who benefits, and can widely absorb social funds, but there may be no successful cases, so the responders chat.

On the contrary, those sisters in the entertainment industry are familiar with Chu Chu and are optimistic about the Sleepless City project, and they are scrambling to invest later, but most of them only have a few hundred miles of silver, and very few have three or four thousand taels of silver like Begonia.

Zheng Xiu'e's mother's family took out the money not at all because she was optimistic that the project would make money, but because the old lady spared no effort to help her daughter.

Huang Han has never been worried about the profitability of the city that never sleeps, and the capital of the last days should be a deformed prosperity of "tight in front and tight in the rear".

In order to avoid the scourge of the rogues, too many landlords and tyrants and squires came to the capital to take refuge with the wealth accumulated by several generations or even dozens of generations.

Jingshi's entertainment industry and catering industry will be unprecedentedly prosperous.

It was really boring to ask a woman to worry about the silver, so Huang Han immediately called the Sifang Express to escort 200,000 taels of silver into Beijing, and informed Huang Sifang to pay close attention to the movements of all parties, and that he should come to the capital in late July to face the saint.

It seems that the city that never sleeps project is too big, too avant-garde, and the city within the city is too innovative, which may be criticized by too many ministers of Qingliu, and you have to think about it!