"Transform Xiaopei?" Zhen Yu said with a blank look.

"Yes, transform Xiaopei." Liu Lan looked at Zhen Yu and said: "The current Xiaopei, no, it can be said that it is the entire Han Dynasty, not only Xiaopei, but also other counties or cities, the layout is extremely unreasonable, some roads are narrow, some roads are numerous and overlapping, and the houses are disorganized, even the wealthy families are also the same." ”

"But it's the same."

Zhen Yu nodded and said: "Especially the market is mostly in the center of the city (central market), which is also troublesome for the merchants, and even because the population of the town is increasing, for the convenience of some merchants even set up a paving outside the city, although the city level outside the city is also lively (the Chengwaiji introduced above), but there is no jurisdiction of the government, but it has become a place to hide dirt and dirt, and in this troubled world, if there is a military disaster, I am afraid it will ......"

"What Berning said is exact, so I deliberately transformed Xiaopei." Liu Lan sipped tea with his hands and drew a circle in the center of the low machine: "This is the government office, since it is a transformation, let's start with the main road." ”

Liu Lan's later generations have a small study of "Emperor: Rise of the Dragon", and the construction of the city can be said in a sentence without exaggeration: absolutely magnificent, and the roads he built are all emperor's roads.

In addition, a main road in the city where Liu Lan lived in later generations was extremely narrow because it was not planned decades ago, and it was even more difficult to expand at this time, and the result was that the main road with the most dense flow of people was as narrow as it was decades ago.

On the contrary, few people pay attention to the roads, although they are built very wide. But it is not a main road, and it is sparsely crowded. This creates a striking contrast with these examples. Naturally, he was very careful about widening the main road.

"First of all, it is the main road, with Xiaopei Mansion as the center, extending to the southeast, northwest, and west city gates." As he spoke, he saw that he had drawn a vertical pole in the east, east, west, and north, and then said, "This is the gate of the city." Then he took the four city gates as the fulcrum and extended on the dot of the palace, and said: "I am going to set the road leading from the government to the four city gates as ten horses wide. The streets are arranged in a north-south and east-west direction, and they are vertical, straight, upright, and wide and open-minded, and within these north-south vertical streets, each square is a residential area. At the same time, I am going to abolish the central city and establish four cities in the four squares of the city gate in the south, east, west, and north, and call them 'the four cities of the south, east, west, and west,' so that the roads will not only be smooth. The urgency of the market can also be easily solved, of course, there are also problems such as the city's appearance and drainage, and drainage ditches can be built along the street and straight green trees such as locust elm can be planted. ”

Zhen Yu's eyes lit up, and he nodded frequently: "The construction of the Simen Market is also convenient for merchants, but it is inevitable that the ban on the central market will not be very convenient for the people, right?" ”

"Has Berning forgotten the hawkers?" Liu Lan said with a smile: "The market has changed from the original central market to two markets outside the city to four, and at the same time, more hawkers will inevitably appear in the industry and commerce, and they will inevitably deliver the daily necessities needed by the people to the door, and if the number of hawkers is large, the price of goods will naturally not be much more expensive than in the market, but it is too expensive." Some families who are not wealthy naturally go to the market to buy them, so Berning's concern is not a big problem. ”

After Liu Lan finished speaking with a smile, he pointed to the four markets and said, "First of all, I plan to open taverns and inns and other commodities in the four cities, and at the same time allow the sale of any daily necessities. Such as grain vendors, vegetable vendors, fruit vendors. And then set the salt market in it. But that's not all, other than that. I want to divide the goods of the four cities into categories, such as wine, gold and silver in the east market. Leather and other things are integrated and only allowed to be sold here, while in the North Market, we can sell the poultry and beasts such as the Cattle and Horse Market, the Chicken and Duck Market, and the South Market is the Yarn Market and the Book Market, where not only books and pens and inkstones but also agricultural textiles such as ramie, tea, and rouge gouache are sold, while in the West Market, we can ask for goods produced by handicrafts such as bronze, pottery, lacquerware, porcelain, ironware, and jade to be sold here. ”

Zhen Yu exclaimed in surprise and said excitedly: "Deran, how did you think of it, it's too convenient to do this." ”

Play the game to know. Although Liu Lan thought so in his heart, he couldn't say it, and said with a smile: "In addition, the workshop can also be opened next to the Simen Municipal Level and set up four workshop areas, so that each workshop can also be dumped nearby." ”

Zhen Yu said with a smile: "I didn't expect Deran's planning to be so meticulous. ”

Liu Lan continued disapprenosingly: "The next step is the construction of the city. As he spoke, he took another big circle with the government as the center, including the original center set, and said, "We can set this place as the center and build a square." ”

"Square?" Zhen Yu was surprised by the strange words that popped out of Liu Lan's mouth from time to time, and hurriedly said: "What is this square? ”

"This square can be used as a place for people to gather, play, and rest."

"I see."

Liu Lan smiled slightly and continued: "In this center, we can build places such as the Confucian Temple, the Wu Temple, etc. Next to the two temples, places such as taverns, tea houses, inns and other places can be built, anyway, the center is to be built into an entertainment place for eating, wearing, living and traveling, benefiting the people and facilitating the people. ”

"Then there's the residential area. As I said earlier, these streets, which are divided into streets, will become residential areas. Liu Lan said that the brush brushed the main road in front of the low machine and spent a few lines, and the twelve squares were immediately formed, and the image that appeared in Zhen Yu's eyes in front of him was a picture of the sixteen squares in the city wall with the county guard mansion as the center, the sixteen squares put aside the four markets, and the rest of the squares only opened the east and west two gates, only the east and west main roads, and the four squares of the central square street opened the east and west, north and south four gates, so a bird's-eye view of the cross street, and the several "well" shaped towns were completely completed. Until this moment, Liu Lan, who was admiring his works, looked at Zhen Yu quite complacently and said, "What does Boning say about this new Xiaopei?" ”

"Yes, yes, that is, clear and smooth, if it can really be built like this as Deran said, this Xiaopei County will not be as crowded as before." He paused but was a little worried: "It's just that Deran wants to build such a large-scale civil project, but I don't know where to choose a new site, and there is such a huge siege Deran even if it is widely conscripted." I'm afraid that what it consumes can be built in tens of thousands? ”

Liu Lan shook his head with a smile and looked at him with a deep expression. He said, "I did not build this transformation." ”

"Not Deran?" Zhen Yu looked at him with disbelief and said, "I want to come to such a large-scale construction." If it weren't for Deran, how many people would be able to build it? ”

"It's you, Berning."

"Me?" Zhen Yu pointed to himself and said, a little unexpected, and said in his heart that this Deran really looks up to himself, although the Zhen family has some surplus wealth, but it has not yet reached the level of being rich and rivaling the country, and building such a city can't come up with such a huge amount of money.

"Yes, that's you." Liu Lan looked at Zhen Yu and said, "Xiaopei rebuilt." I will not levy one person as a ding, everything in Berning must be hired in the form of hired workers to build Xiaopei for the people, remember that you must hire Xiaopei people. ”

"This ......" Zhen Yu thought that if he needed to hire a worker, he couldn't help but be a little hesitant: "Such a big project, I'm afraid the cost is unbearable......"

Liu Lan said with a smile: "At that time, the shops and workshops in the four cities of the southeast, the northwest and the northwest will be built, no matter whether Boning rents or sells, I am afraid that this profit alone will ensure that Berning will make a lot of money." ”

Zhen Yu's eyes lit up, for a businessman like him, he naturally understood the rental warehouse in the city. Shophouses, workshops, cattle and mules and horses will bring their own income, which is the sale of one. Of course, you can't just sell it for the price of land.

But at the same time, those who rent houses and build houses and sell houses are often called villains in the market, and the money they earn is also called "crazy money". How can he be embarrassed to earn such stupid money, unless the government comes forward when selling the house. Otherwise, he would never agree: "I wonder if Deran will issue a written charter in the name of the government?" ”

"Of course it will, if no government comes forward. Berning can't make it happen! ”

"Done!"

As long as the government comes forward, what else does he have to worry about, Zhen Yu was playing the abacus in his heart, calculating the pros and cons, but he heard Liu Lan say again: "As for the problem of people's housing, after all, these involve too many factors, so for the time being, let's slow down, and then build another square after the completion of one square, of course, you can't spend money to sell people's housing." ”

Zhen Yulang laughed loudly: "I have understood what Deran said, the benefits of this housing are nothing at all, and the real money-making business is still in the four markets!"

"No, there is also the central square, after all, the central square is so big, and there are few shops, so after you move them, I also want you to promise to give these shopkeepers a shop of the same size as the owner of the house for free at that time to compensate, and Berning will pay them the same amount of money according to the land price."

"What?" Zhen Yu looked at him in disbelief and said, "Not only do you want to give them shops, but also pay them a land money?" ”

"Yes."

Liu Lan nodded and said: "In this way, they are willing to relocate, and Bo Ning has thought about it, there are so many shops in the central set, and this cost will not cost much, but after you build the central square, how many shops can be built without Wenwu Temple, and what should be the benefits?" Berning, how can you have a better vision in this matter than I do? ”

Zhen Yu immediately realized, and smiled awkwardly: "Ashamed, ashamed." ”

"Of course, in order to make it easier for Berning to get started, I will vacate the school yard in the East City and give it to Berning for free, so that Berning can build a new market here, and when the market is built, I can immediately ask the central market and the vendors from outside the city to sell it in the East Market.

After the completion of the project, I will sell the school in the west market to Berning at the market price, and I will also contribute in the name of the government to make Berning build another school in the west market, and the same will be true for the other two cities. ”

"Why didn't Deran build it himself, but ...... it?"

"I understand what Berning means, if I build, I will naturally draw people to build, but if I look for Berning, Berning is employing the people, since I plan to encourage industry and commerce, then this Xiaopei renovation is the first step for me to make the people of Xiaopei rich!"

"I see."

Zhen Yu nodded and said, "It's just that in this way, the expenses of the Deran Mansion Treasury are only far less." ”

"Haha." Liu Lan smiled: "If there is no benefit, Berning thinks I will do this loss-making transaction?" ”

"Could it be that there is another way to do this?" Zhen Yu asked with a puzzled expression.

"Exactly." Liu Lan smiled mysteriously and said, "I plan to cancel the city entry tax and the poll tax. Looking at Zhen Yu's shocked appearance, Liu Lan didn't plan to continue to sell Guanzi, and said: "I plan to cancel all the living tax, the tax and some other commercial miscellaneous taxes, so as to set up an exchange in the market, collect transaction tax from merchants, and the transaction tax can be temporarily ten taxes one, violent industries, such as wine, silk, Porcelain (tea is not yet popular, only a few people drink it) and so on can be ten taxes three, in addition to inns, taverns, green houses, tea shops, workshops and other shops to levy business tax, collected every month, at the same time in the market hawkers, then pay a monthly land fee, how much the land fee is up to you, the person in charge of the market, want to go. ”

"Me?" Zhen Yu's eyes widened and he looked at Liu Lan, this was too sudden.

"Exactly." Liu Lan smiled strangely and said, "And I will collect fifty percent of the tax on the market every month." ”

"What?" Zhen Yu looked at Liu Lan in shock.

"You don't have to look at me like that."

Liu Lan waved his hand and smiled: "Do big families like Berning still care about these money and goods?" Even the remaining half of the income is a lot of income. Then he said: "After all, the market needs to be inspected by the officials, and the workload has increased, of course, I have to pay more money to the officials, if Berning is unwilling, then I can only manage the market myself." ”

"Yes, yes, how could you not want to!!"

"Okay, since Berning is willing, then we'll start tomorrow."

"That's right." Zhen Yu said with a smile: "I didn't expect De Ran to be so proficient in business affairs, but it was also much beyond Yu's expectations, if it weren't for De Ran being the head of a county, I'm afraid Yu would think that Deran was like me, but a businessman who was full of copper smell." ”

"Haha, I can't compare to Berning." Liu Lan smiled disapprerovingly: "I have also bought weapons and farm tools in Youbeiping, but at best, I am sitting on Jia, and it is absolutely inferior to a big businessman like Boning. ”

"Haha, De Ran is too modest, you are sitting on Jia, I think you are a real businessman! Great businessman! Zhen Yu admired: "It is the vision of Deran, I am afraid that there is no one in this world, cancel the city gate tax, and also cancel other commercial miscellaneous taxes such as housing tax and tax, only with this courage, there are a few people in this world to compare, so that the tax will not only not be sharply reduced, but will also attract businessmen from all over the world, and when these businessmen flock to come, I am afraid that this transaction tax alone can double Deran's tax revenue, and make a lot of money." This time, Zhen Yu was really impressed by Liu Lan, he can have today, and it is not luck as the girl said. For him, his mother has been taught early in the morning, the five baht money in his hand, you only use him, he is the money, placed at home, it is a pile of broken copper and iron, so ah must be able to spend money, in order to make more money, only this is the best choice for business, but today he has seen the best and the best choice, Liu Lan just moved his mouth, not a penny spent, let him make a lot of money, and the most important thing is that the people of Xiaopei have obtained the greatest benefits, they not only have the house for the new, Once you have money in your hands, you must first hoard food, and the money will flow into the hands of large households, and most of the money in the hands of large households will buy real estate in the market, and he can recover the costs in one fell swoop, and the money invested will come back. But the one who can spend the most money is undoubtedly Liu Lan, he will let the people of Xiaopei have no worries about food and clothing, and the key is that he can also fill the treasury by selling the land of the school field, but there can also be four brand new school fields, this benefit comes quickly, it has never been seen for eternity, isn't it the way to make money?

"Don't be too busy talking about that, Berning." Liu Lan put away his smile and said, "I want Boning to move his family to Xiaopei, after all, the current Jizhou ......"

Zhen Yu was stunned, looked at him, and said, "Is it difficult to be morally optimistic about Gongsun Chan this time?" ”

"Hey." Liu Lan sighed and said: "Yuan Shao has worked hard for more than a year, I'm afraid that this time Gongsun Chan will lose more and win less." ”

"Although the situation in Jizhou is delicate, even if I want to withdraw now, the old mother ......," said the last sigh.

"The old lady's affairs are also simple."

"How?"

"Now that Jiang Er is pregnant with Liujia and has no elders, this month naturally needs someone to take care of her, why not use this as an excuse to invite the old lady here?" Seeing Zhen Yu nodding frequently, Liu Lan said again: "And Jizhou's industry in Boning does not need to be sold, just leave a capable person to take care of it." (To be continued.) )