Since Zhao Lei was repaired by Shengming, many officials saw at a glance the benefits of building cement roads and the hidden interests, many officials found Zhao Mansion, and asked about the cement road, but Zhao Lei shirked all of them, because Zhao Lei had received the consent of the official Zhao Zhen and was ready to eat alone. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info\。 qВ5、c0m\\

Outside the reception hall in the front hall of Zhao's mansion, Tian Lan watched Zhao Lei send away a wave of visiting officials, and took advantage of his free time to grab Zhao Lei and ask curiously: "Official!" Isn't the cement road free of the labor of the people, and it does not require a lot of manpower! Is there a lot of interest in it? ”

"There are two main aspects of the interests of building cement roads that are peeped at by the court officials, the first is the grain of those workers, originally the grain of those workers was taken from the Privy Council, and now they are transferred to the State-owned Assets Supervision and Administration Yuan, the grain is naturally issued by the State-owned Assets Supervision and Administration Yuan, the State-owned Assets Supervision and Administration Council is not comparable to the Privy Council, there are a large number of grain and grass allocated every year, and the food and salaries of more than 10,000 workers who build the road are bought from the market with real money and silver from the State-owned Assets Supervision and Administration Council, and the rations of more than 10,000 people are consumed by tens of thousands of stones per month, which is not a small amount.

The second benefit of the construction of cement roads is the raw materials and additives for the manufacture of cement, mainly lime and river sand, and some other things, which cannot be provided by the imperial court, but can only be purchased from the people, although these raw materials are not valuable, but they are in great demand.

Most of the expenses for the construction of cement roads are expenses in these two aspects, and the official can become a supplier of these two aspects, and he has definitely dug up a gold mine, so so many people have come to the family in the past few days, all for the supply. Zhao Lei sat on the bench and carefully explained to Tian Lan with a teacup.

"How much money can I make?" Tian Lan was confused for a while, still unable to understand the meaning of interests, and asked Zhao Lei in a daze.

Faced with no business sense Tsuchida Lan. Zhao Lei could only helplessly explain more carefully: "Let's take the Guobian Road that has just been repaired!" The fifteen-mile-long cement road costs forty-five thousand taels of silver, and if the Zhao Mansion can supply all the materials for this road, it can earn almost nine thousand taels, one-fifth of the benefits! How could those officials sit idly by and watch these interests be divided among others! ”

After listening to Zhao Lei's words, Tian Lan immediately counted with his green jade fingers: "Fifteen miles of cement road costs forty-five thousand taels, one mile is equal to three thousand taels, ten miles and thirty thousand, one hundred miles and three million, and ten thousand miles is thirty million taels!" Oh, my God! If the Great Song Dynasty built all the official roads in the territory into cement roads, it would cost at least hundreds of millions of taels of silver and one-fifth of the benefits, that would be hundreds of millions of silver! My dear. Can we supply those raw materials? At this time, Tian Lan's beautiful eyes had already turned into the shape of Qian Mo, flashing with golden light, and he looked at Zhao Lei with surprise and longing and asked.

"Lose the money, don't dream." Zhao Lei laughed and said after touching Tian Lan's still white and smooth pretty face.

"Why! If others can provide for us, why can't we? Hundreds of millions of silver! Can't let them fly. Tian Lan looked at Zhao Lei angrily and asked unevenly.

"I'm afraid we won't be able to earn hundreds of millions of silver in this life, with the current ability of the imperial court, if we want to build all the official roads of the Great Song Dynasty into cement roads, at least a hundred years, it is estimated that we will not live that long, even if we can live for a hundred years, you look at the interests of nine thousand taels of silver now. There are already countless officials eyeing the interests of hundreds of millions of silver. Can we eat it in Zhao Mansion! Zhao Lei looked at Tian Lan, who was about to be carried away by money, and said with a smile.

Tian Lan only understood at this time, and the interests in the officialdom are not easy to divide! The business plan in the road construction is very fat, but the profit of hundreds of millions of silver, compared with the countless officials of the Great Song Dynasty, is still more monks and less porridge, not enough to distribute! If you want to completely monopolize these interests, Zhao Fu does not have the ability to do so.

It can't be completely occupied, but it's okay to occupy a part, and there are several big expenses for road construction. Lime is not to think about it, Bianjing is located in the plain, lime is pulled from all over the mountainous areas, Zhao Fu has no channels to get this kind of thing. River sand can be considered, but this kind of thing requires too much manpower, and the Zhao Mansion simply can't provide that much manpower. Besides, there are no suitable people in the mansion to do this kind of thing, so the only thing that the Zhao Mansion can participate in is the supply of food.

Thinking of this, Tian Lan smiled and asked Zhao Lei: "Official! Why don't we buy some farmland? ”

"Field! Lan'er, why did you suddenly think of buying a field, the fertile land around Bianjing is all owned by the owner, and it is not so easy to buy a field! Zhao Lei looked at Tian Lan's smiling face, and suddenly understood that she was making an idea of supplying grain to the State-owned Assets Supervision and Administration Institute, but thinking that the fields near Bianjing had been divided up by the imperial court officials, it was not so easy to buy the fields.

"Official! Didn't you say two days ago that if the cement road works well, the government will order the construction of a cement road from Bianjing to Luoyang? Tian Lan suddenly asked Zhao Lei about repairing the road and said.

"Not bad! The official family will entrust the matter of road repair to the State-owned Assets Supervision and Administration Institute, the State-owned Assets Supervision and Administration Institute has the income from the sale of coal, enough to support the monthly cost of road repair, the construction of a cement road from Bianjing to Luoyang, is the first cement road I discussed with the government, why do you suddenly remember to ask this! Zhao Lei looked at Tian Lan dumbly and said.

"Buy a field! After the cement road is repaired, Bianjing to Luoyang traffic is a lot more convenient, four hundred miles away, the cement road can take the big carriage, but one day can reach Luoyang, when the cement road through the county fields will definitely rise, while the news has not come out now, we will buy the cheap land along the official road first. Tian Lan pulled Zhao Lei

Said with a flickering light.

"It's not yet, my Lan'er has actually become a small wealth fan." Zhao Lei hugged Tian Lan dotingly and said teasingly.

"If you don't know how expensive firewood, rice, oil, and salt are! Zhao Mansion now has a population of several hundred, and it costs money for food, drink, housing and transportation every month! Although the income of the officials is not low, and the pharmacy and folding fan shop make a lot of money, but we do not have a grange, we have to buy food and clothing, and the cost is very large, if we can buy some cheap fields now, whether we can sell them at a high price after the cement road is repaired, or keep them for rent, it is a profitable business! Tian Lanjiao said to Zhao Lei with a smile.

Hearing Tian Lan's words, Zhao Lei was slightly stunned, and then pondered.

Tian Lan's words gave Zhao Lei a big surprise, once the cement road from Bianjing to Luoyang is repaired, it will not only be a matter of convenient transportation. Now the waterway transportation network of the Great Song Dynasty extends in all directions, but the traffic in 6 places is very backward, a large number of commodity circulation usually rely on water transport ships to transport, and once the cement road is repaired, the smooth road surface can support the driving of the four-wheeled carriage, and the transportation capacity of the traffic in 6 places will be greatly increased, the business exchanges from Bianjing to Luoyang will be accelerated, and more businessmen will choose to transport to Luoyang, and then the cement road from Bianjing to Luoyang will be built through the states and counties, which are bound to be more prosperous. The price of land in these states and counties, whether it is agricultural land or commercial land, will rise, and if he does not take the opportunity to buy land and make a profit, Zhao Lei feels sorry for himself.

"Buy! A must buy! Zhao Lei suddenly stood up and said, startling Tian Lan next to him.

"Bianjing to Luoyang cement road, through a total of three prosperous counties, Zhongmu County, Xifu Zhengzhou and Gong County, Gong County has been far away from Bianjing, the field is not to buy. But the store on the road can be plated, Lan'er. You say it's better for us to buy as much land as we want. Zhao Lei looked at Tian Lan and asked excitedly.

"But we don't have much silver?" Tian Lan calculated the silver deposit of the Zhao Mansion, looked at Zhao Lei with some embarrassment and said.

"You don't have to worry about the silver, there has been news from the Xixia side, the first batch of booty has been transported from Yan'an Mansion to Bianjing, a total of 40,000 sheep, 15,000 cattle, and 8,000 high-grade war horses, of which the war horses have been requisitioned by the Privy Council, converted into 400,000 taels of silver, even if the Privy Council does not pay this silver now, we can post it from the State-owned Assets Supervision and Administration Yuan, plus ploughing cattle and sheep and a lot of cowhides and sheepskins. There is no problem with converting 1 million taels of silver, and I can borrow 1 million taels from the State-owned Assets Supervision and Administration Institute as collateral with these things, which is enough to buy land and shops. Zhao Lei remembered the news from Xixia. Explained to Tian Lan.

"One million taels, enough to buy all the fields in Zhongmu, we don't have to do it so desperately!" Tian Lan was taken aback by Zhao Lei's words. asked Zhao Lei in surprise.

"Out of Kaifeng Mansion, all the fields within five miles of the cement road, as long as there is an intention to sell, eat them all, and those front-road shops, all of them must be plated down, Zhongmu, Xifudi land plus the road-facing shops in the three places, one million taels is estimated to be not able to eat!" Zhao Lei looked at Tian Lan and said with a smile.

"This! Wouldn't it be too risky. Tian Lan just wanted to spend tens of thousands of taels of silver to buy some fields, who knew that Zhao Lei would have to take out one million taels to buy fields and shops at once, the huge number made Tian Lan a little dizzy, and she sighed for a while, she felt that it was too risky, and asked Zhao Lei hesitantly.

"Don't forget, we still have 1.5 million taels of gold hidden in the mansion! But a million taels of silver, it's not very risky. Zhao Lei waved his hand to Tian Lan without any care.

"But the officials! The 1.5 million taels of gold are not what the officials are going to do and what kind of bank they are going to open? Tian Lan remembered the pile of gold mountains that could only be seen but not moved, and continued to hesitate and said to Zhao Lei.

The 1.5 million taels of gold that Zhao Lei said was the spoils of war in Luzon a few years ago, and the wealth accumulated by the Luzon royal family for hundreds of years, which was given to Zhao Lei by the official Zhao Zhen. It also made Zhao's gold have no place to exchange for silver and copper coins, so it was hidden by Zhao Lei, and finally came up with an idea to open a bank as a reserve, but Zhao Lei has been out on the road these years, and the bank matter has been put on hold indefinitely, and now it is proposed by Tian Lan, but Zhao Lei has the idea of opening a bank again, you must know that Zhao Lei was most envious in his last life, that is, foreign bankers, and now he can be the first banker in the Song Dynasty and carry out the great cause of printing banknotes, this sense of success is not comparable to ordinary achievements, lying on the bed to print banknotes and then squandering the banknotes, but it is Zhao Lei's dream in his last life.

"The matter of gold will be talked about later, the matter of buying fields and shops, it is so decided, I will ask Houshan to go to Zhongmu, Xifu and Gongxian to take a look first, you and Xinlan will care more about this matter." Zhao Lei made up his mind and resolutely said to Tian Lan.

Looking at Zhao Lei, who had made up his mind, Tian Lan could only agree, and when Zhao Lei called Houshan, Tian Lan had already gone to the backyard to find Bai Xinlan to discuss the matter of buying fields and shops together.

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