The news that Yanjing City is going to build a tram has spread far and wide, and this foreign thing has appeared more than ten years ago. In the first nine years, the Qing government axe introduced the number of trams from the German Siemens company, and planned to build a few tram tracks from Majiapu outside Yongding Gate to Chongwenmen, but it caught up with the Gengzi National Revolution before it was completed and opened to traffic. When the Boxers saw this kind of foreign thing, they were immediately filled with righteous indignation, "picking up railroads, pulling electric poles, and going to overturn fire steamers in the sea" was originally their ideal, but they couldn't go to the rough sea to turn over the devil's steamer, and it was not easy to dismantle a few tram roads in Yanjing City and smash a few foreign devil's tortoise shells.

Since then, trams have become popular in China's major cities, but they have disappeared in Beijing. The common people of Yanjing live at the feet of the Son of Heaven, and they have a natural unruly, but there is not even a tram in the huge Beijing Division's Shoushan District, which is indeed a little chilling. I heard that Yanjing City was going to build a tram track, and the people were looking forward to it, and they all wanted to see what this turtle shell looked like.

However, they were soon disappointed, the planned tram was not built in the city of Sijiu, but in the northwest direction outside the city, in the direction of Shunyi and Huairou, and what surprised them even more was that outside the city it was said that the most luxurious cinema, theater garden, racetrack, dog ring, and football field would be built. Merchants from Shanxi, Anhui, Zhejiang, and Shanghai rushed up, holding dozens of silver tickets and carrying baskets of cash to buy land from the common people in the suburbs of Beijing.

The people of Yanjing City are well-informed, and they know that the form is not good at a glance, and if the outside of the city is really going to be built so beautifully, then it is strange that the rich families in the city do not move away! Merchants in the capital have also joined the ranks of rushing to buy land on the outskirts of Beijing, and the price of wasteland that no one cares about has skyrocketed, and in the past, ten yuan and eight yuan could buy one acre of low-grade dry land with the name of "He", but in less than two months, the price has been tumbling to hundreds of silver dollars a mu, and recently there is no market, and those mud legs have also learned well, and they will not sell it for any amount of money.

The people in the suburbs of Beijing were overjoyed, and they never dreamed that the barren hillside land and saline-alkali land that used to be barren have now become fragrant and sweet, and the price of the low-grade dry land with a yield of less than 100 catties per mu is more than that of the high-grade paddy fields with the "Tian" brand with a yield of 400 catties per mu.

A small number of the merchants who rushed to buy land planned to buy and sell here after the new city was built, and most of them were waiting for the price to be sold, waiting for Chai Dongliang's central government to replace the barren land with industrial stocks and land bonds, as was the case in Anhui, Jiangxi, and Mukden.

The businessman's information is the most well-informed, the landlords of Wuhu and Jiujiang at the beginning, with the land in their hands in exchange for industrial stocks, each made a fortune, this time Yanjing City moved to make such a big move, the political axe naturally also had to expropriate the land. These people held the land deeds that they had bought with a large sum of cash, and they dreamed of making a fortune, and when they fell asleep, the corners of their mouths flowed.

There was laughter and joy in Zhongnanhai Huairen Hall, and Chai Dongliang, Wu Jintang, and Yu Qiaqing were eating happily.

Chai Dongliang took out a piece of mutton from the hot pot and kept admiring: "The mutton outside this mouthful is really good, there is no smell at all, Brother Ade, Brother Yinfu, you two eat more!" ”

Yu Qiaqing gave a thumbs up and exclaimed: "The president is really wise, he released the news more than two months in advance, the price of land in the suburbs of Beijing is rising, and the land we bought for fifty yuan a mu is now worth two hundred yuan a mu!" ”

Chai Dongliang smiled: "What is this? How much is an acre of land in the Shanghai Concession? ”

Yu Qiaqing said with a smile: "That can't be compared, the land in the French Concession is now about 150,000 per mu, and the Public Concession is even more expensive, 180,000 acres." ”

The land price in the Shanghai Concession is so high that it can no longer be described as sky-high, it is simply the price on Mars! More than 100,000 silver dollars per acre of land, so much money can be placed in inland provinces, and the land of the whole village can be bought!

Chai Dongliang smiled: "The land on the outskirts of Shanghai is only a dozen yuan per acre, and the concession is more than 100,000 acres, and the price difference is 10,000 times!" The suburbs of Beijing are now only 200 yuan per acre, which is still too cheap! ”

Yu Qiaqing smiled and said, "How big is the suburbs of Beijing!" In the small land of the Shanghai Concession, the largest landlord is the British Sassoon brothers, and their two brothers have a wealth of more than 100 million, but they only have more than 40 acres of land! In the suburbs of Beijing, a small landlord has at least 100 acres of land, and the big landlords are all hanging thousands of hectares of cards, you can't compare the Shanghai Concession with the suburbs of Beijing! ”

Chai Dongliang sandwiched another piece of fat mutton, dipped it in the bowl, sucked it and put it into his mouth: "This Donglai Shun's soy sauce is really amazing, only a layer of oil on the soybean sauce is used, it is fragrant and fresh??? What Brother Ade said makes sense, the suburbs of Beijing really can't be compared with the concession, but have you ever thought about it, why can the land in the concession be sold for more than 100,000 acres? Isn't it that the concession has the legal protection of foreigners and the protection of foreign soldiers, and it is relatively safe inside! In addition, the public facilities in the concession are good, running water, electric lights, trams, transportation, and sanitation are all done well, so Chinese want to live in the concession! To put it bluntly, the price of land in the concession is not pushed up by foreigners, but by wealthy people in China, right? ”

The usual words made Yu Qiaqing suddenly shudder, and he hurriedly stood up and said, "President, Yu is ashamed!" ”

Chai Dongliang smiled and soothed: "Brother Ade doesn't have to be like this, in fact, I don't think you are at fault at all when you do business in the concession!" What kind of holy oracles did the Qing court preach for many years, and what they said was better than what they sang, but the merchants would rather spend a lot of money to rent houses in the concession to do business, rather than be subject to the control of the Qing officials in the Chinese realm? Why is that? It's not that the words of the imperial court are like farts, whoever dares to believe it is unlucky! ”

Yu Qiaqing wiped the cold sweat on his forehead: "The president said it thoroughly!" ”

Chai Dongliang gave him a cuttlefish boy with chopsticks and handed it to Yu Qiaqing's plate: "Eat this, you Ningbo people should like this bite??? Brother Ade, I have seen through the past few years in Anhui and Jiangxi, no matter how fanciful the political axe is, the common people seem to understand nothing and are very easy to fool, in fact, no one is stupid! Whoever is good to him and who is good to him, his heart is longing??? This time, I just want to release the news in advance, so that the people in the suburbs of Beijing can make a fortune, and through this matter, let everyone know that it will be beneficial to follow us and believe in us??? The people in the suburbs of Beijing have made a fortune, which is also a signal to the three million people in Yanjing City, so that they can build confidence in the new political axe, and let them know that we are different from the Qing court! ”

Yu Qiaqing and Wu Jintang nodded yes again and again. After a while, Wu Jintang asked, "President, we collected 10,000 acres of land for you, will we continue to collect it?" ”

Chai Dongliang shook his head and said: "Enough, this 10,000 acres is enough to build a public entertainment venue, you two build a large entertainment company, first attract people to come over, I will give you the gaming license of the racetrack and dog ring, but you have to pay 30% of all income as a tax, and pay another 10 million silver dollars as a fifteen-year license fee??? As long as the new city has popularity, the construction of the new city will be easy to do! ”

Yu Qiaqing was overjoyed, the gambling industry said to make money, fifteen years of franchise to earn hundreds of millions of dollars is a small thing, he asked with a smile: "What about the land in the hands of merchants and people in the suburbs of Beijing?" ”

Chai Dongliang said confidently: "Let them hand over the land in exchange for the shares of the business park and the entertainment company, and you take out 20% of the shares from the entertainment company, and compensate whoever occupies the land with equity!" ”

Yu Qiaqing was unwilling: "Twenty percent? Where is this piece of land worth 20% of the shares? ”

Chai Dongliang smiled faintly and said: "Since Brother Ade feels that he is at a loss, then forget it, you don't have to pay the 10 million license fee???

Without waiting for Chai Dongliang's words to land, Wu Jintang glared at Yu Qiaqing, and hurriedly shouted: "Don't, don't, the president is angry, we are willing to come out, we are willing to come out!" If Brother Ade is unwilling to intervene, my Wu family will undertake it alone! ”

Yu Qiaqing was afraid that Chai Dongliang would change his mind in anger, so he hurriedly stood up and said: "Everything is done according to what the president said, I will send a telegram to Shanghai and ask them to prepare cash!" ”

Chai Dongliang smiled and said, "That's good, it's decided!" The two of you have been in the same boat with me for many years, and I will naturally think of you first when it is good! But you can't let you all take advantage of this benefit, and you don't want to think about it, if the cheap are monopolized by merchants, can the local people not hate you? If the people around you are poor and have no food and clothing, but you have a sea of gold and silver, it is strange if nothing happens! These two percent of the shares are at least two or three million silver dollars a year, and three of these dollars are given to the peasants who have occupied the land, and the family shares a few hundred yuan a year, and they are all small rich people! The remaining seventy percent will be used to build primary and secondary schools, hospitals, public toilets, and public baths for the local area, and you can also name the school after you, so that all the people in the suburbs of Beijing can generally benefit??? The gambling industry comes to make money quickly, but it is really not the right way, there will definitely be people who will go bankrupt for this in the future, you take out some money to do good deeds is also to eliminate the sin, it is considered to accumulate yin virtue for future generations, and the local people of the province hate you, do you say? ”

Businessmen chase eleven profits, where to care what to accumulate virtue or not! Yu Qiaqing and Wu Jintang secretly said in their hearts that Chai Dongliang was pedantic, but their faces were still happy.

Anyway, if they were all said by Chai Dongliang, what else can they say? You can only nod your head like a chicken eating rice.

After Chai Dongliang persuaded two glasses of wine, he said slowly: "If Yanjing New City is done well, it can absorb 10 million farmers into the city to make a living in ten to fifteen years, which can be described as immeasurable merit!" In the future, we will build Shanghai, Guangzhou, and Wuhan! Only when a large number of peasants move to the cities can China's problems be solved, otherwise, China's development will be an empty word??? Now in Shaanxi, Henan, Gansu, Rehe and other provinces, the area of opium cultivation almost exceeds that of wheat. If this situation continues for another fifteen years, the appalling famine will break out in an all-round way, and China will no longer be a country! However, the common people have seven or eight people in each family, only three or five acres of land, and the yield per mu is not more than 100 catties. Only by letting the peasants go to the cities to find a way to make a living, by reducing the number of farmers to less than 200 million, and by allowing each peasant household to cultivate at least a few dozen acres of land, will it be possible to completely eradicate the poison of opium in China! ”

Yu Qiaqing nodded and said, "It's not!" In the past, it was the British who imported opium to China, but now it is good, China's opium production has surpassed India's, and a large amount of Chinese tobacco is sold back to Britain??? This is a flip from when Lin Zexu banned smoking! ”

Chai Dong nodded and said: "Brother Ade is right, there are now more than 30 million addicts in China, which is about to catch up with the population of France!" A large amount of opium is cultivated in the local area, and the degree of harm is far greater than that of foreign devil smuggling! However, if opium cultivation is banned immediately, the provinces will be able to collapse the political axe's finances just by relieving the population, so the land reform cannot be delayed, but the more important thing is the urbanization process, otherwise the peasants will not be able to support themselves by farming, and they will secretly grow big tobacco! ”

Wu Jintang was a little worried, he boldly said: "President, have you thought about it, so many peasants have entered the city, the security in the city will inevitably be affected, and the people in the city will also have many contradictions with the villagers, and I am afraid that there will be a lot of trouble in the future." ”

Chai Dongliang said with a smile: "There will definitely be trouble, as long as there are people, there will be no trouble!" After a large number of peasants are concentrated in the cities, the problem of free education will be easy to handle, otherwise, even if the political axe is willing to pay, there must be teachers who are willing to go to the poor countryside to teach. Besides, in many places in the northwest and southwest, the common people have a pitiful amount of arable land, and these people have reclaimed barren mountains to build terraces, cut off rivers for irrigation, engaged in landslides and debris flows to block the rivers, and the sediment accumulation of the Yellow River and the Huai River is flooding year after year. As long as we do a good job in free education, the children of the peasant families who go to the city can have a book to read, and the dolls can study and have a future??? The Chinese are the most honest and diligent people, as long as there is hope, they can endure no matter how hard it is! Children go to school and study, and they can get ahead in the future, which is the greatest hope of parents! If there is hope, the Chinese peasants will live well in the city in a down-to-earth manner. ”

Wu Jintang couldn't help but smack his tongue: "If it is a peaceful and prosperous era, within 20 years, it is common for China to breed two or three hundred million more people, and when there are seven or eight billion people in the country, there are only 200 million in the countryside, then the city will have to accommodate five or six billion people, how many cities will have to fit it?" Besides, can 200 million people farm to feed 800 million people? ”

Chai Dongliang said with a smile: "You guys are too worried, now the yield of wheat per mu is only 300 catties, and the yield of rice is only 500 per mu, and in the future, if the wheat is not beaten by six or seven hundred catties, and the rice is not harvested ** 100 catties, then the year is not good!" Besides, although there are fewer people farming, the land area has not decreased! With tractors and other large agricultural machinery, what is it for a family to plant 100 acres of land? ”

As he spoke, Chai Dongliang's smile stopped, and he said solemnly: "What I'm worried about is not that there are few people who farm the land, but that there are too many people who farm the land!" There are many people and little land, and growing food cannot feed the whole family, and the common people can only live by growing tobacco???? In order to allow the Chinese to live a life of abundant food and clothing, even if we demolish Yanjing City and demolish the presidential palace in Zhongnanhai, I will drive the peasants into the city! ”

(To be continued)