Nowadays, tea is a bulk commodity in foreign export trade, according to the report that Liu Jun saw, the amount of tea produced and sold by the imperial court this year is quite amazing, reaching more than 100 million catties. Among them, more than 50 million catties are sold domestically and more than 40 million catties are exported.

There are many kinds of Dahan tea, and the price varies, but the export price is roughly 40 silver dollars per load of tea, or 400 yuan per catty, which is more than 10 times that of salt.

The price of salt was levied at two yuan for every three quintals of salt, and the tax rate was as high as 67 percent, while the tea tax was levied at 20 percent, and eight silver dollars for each quintal of exported tea.

This year, the sales volume of imperial salt reached more than 30 million quintals, and the salt tax revenue was more than 60 million silver dollars.

This year, the imperial court exported more than 400,000 quintals of tea, and the tea tax on exports alone was more than 3 million yuan, and the price of tea sold in China was slightly lower, but it was also a large tax, reaching more than 1 million silver dollars, and this year's tea tax reached more than 5 million silver dollars for tea alone. This tea tax is much higher than in the Ming Dynasty. In the Ming Dynasty, the tea tax was low and one catty and ten pennies when it was high, but in the Ming Dynasty, even the tea tax of one catty and one penny could not be collected, and the tea tax income of the imperial court was low for a year, and the tax could not be collected at all.

The people of Dahan have consumed more than 50 million catties of tea this year, and on average, almost one or two per person consumes tea a year, which is not a big number, and the tea market is still very huge.

Thirty wen a pound of salt, thirty wen a pound of oil, sauce, vinegar, and twenty wen a pound of rice.

Another important commodity, sugar, is mostly sold for eight yuan per load, and one pound costs eighty yuan.

But the most expensive is tea, but there are many types of tea, all kinds of prices, expensive a pound is a few hundred wen, but the cheap one also has twenty or thirty wen a pound of broken tea.

Liu Jun calculated carefully, if there is a family of eight in Jingshi, the annual living expenses will be at least fifty silver dollars. But the family only needs to have two laborers. So with the current income of at least four to five yuan a month in Jingshili, they also have an income of hundreds of yuan a year.

And if it is a public office such as an official, or a soldier, or a teacher, their income is even higher.

In this way, the people's consumption expenditure has increased, but their income is higher, and when they consume, they have actually paid a lot of taxes to the imperial court, and they do not need to bear many additional burdens, and on the whole, the people's living standards have improved a lot.

The Great Han is strong. The people have indeed enjoyed the dividends. The prosperity of industry and commerce has stimulated domestic demand, and also given a large number of surplus laborers the opportunity to make money.

Liu Jun had already seen this result in the ministers' reports, but it was another thing to experience it himself. In the morning, Liu Jun was in a very good mood.

Historically, the Spaniards had good luck and discovered gold and silver in the Americas. Every year, a shipload of gold and silver is shipped back, and I don't know how many countries have envied it. However, the gold and silver dug up by the Spaniards were all monopolized by the royal family and nobles, and the ordinary Spanish people did not get any benefits.

After the royal family and nobles had money. Extravagant, a lot of money.

They bought all kinds of goods from various European countries, and shiploads of silver were shipped to the East to buy silk, porcelain, tea, sugar, and so on from the Eastern Empire. Purchased a large amount of raw materials, grain, etc. from Britain, France and other countries.

They thought that money could buy everything, but it turned out that Spain was suffering from severe inflation, and the lives of ordinary people became more and more difficult. The Spaniards did not take the money but developed their own economy. They didn't upgrade their own industrial technology.

As a result, they mined gold and silver in the Americas, and then shipped them to Europe and the East by ship, delivering silver to various countries, providing countless jobs for each country, and making blood for their development.

When the gold and silver production of the Americas fell, the problem of the Spaniards finally came, and they suddenly found that they were no longer poor but only money, they were now without money and everything else.

And the countries of Europe, under the feeding of the Spaniards, grew bigger and bigger.

Eventually, the arrogant Spaniards fell.

Liu Jun felt that this was a painful lesson, and the Han must take it as a warning. Whether it is war or trade, it is necessary to benefit the country and share the dividends of the people. Only in this way can the people be rich and the country strong.

In the past two years, the Han Dynasty conquered Mongolia and Jurchen while annexing Japan and Korea, gaining a large amount of land and countless people and wealth. However, Liu Jun did not take the money to enjoy the squandering, nor did he build the palace, but used the money to quickly upgrade the industrial system of the Han Dynasty, coal and steel, military manufacturing, shipbuilding, and constantly strengthen transportation.

The war drove the military manufacturing industry, and the military industry brought a large number of orders to the upstream. At the same time, the prosperity of trade has also made industry and commerce prosperous, and a large number of infrastructure construction is also driving the prosperity of manufacturing and raw materials.

Countless new jobs have given many Han people more opportunities to make money, and the consumption of these Han people with increased income has naturally increased, which in turn has driven domestic demand and stimulated the production and processing industry.

The imperial court also collected one tax after another in these links.

It's a perfect virtuous cycle.

In today's situation, war has become a huge engine of economic development. The economy of the Han Dynasty today even has some flavor of war economy.

War, trade, and construction, these three carriages are pulling the Han Empire all the way.

At noon, I ate a meal of pork knuckles made by Lina at the No. 1 store of the German restaurant in Daqianmen. During the dinner, Lina proposed to open a few more new stores.

"The construction of the Outer East City is about to begin, Shuntianfu has started several construction projects, at present, Shuntianfu has held several auctions, several pieces of land have been auctioned out, and now several builders are vying to start the project, among which the commercial street project of Shunfa Engineering Company has begun to attract investment, I think the location is good, I want to buy a shop and open a new store."

In October this year, Liu Jun was still in Japan, and Yin Liu Jian of Shuntian Mansion held another grand world martial arts competition. This martial arts competition is actually the model of the sports meeting mentioned by Liu Jun and Liu Jian, and there are many competitions, first the selection competitions of various provinces to select the outstanding people of each project in the province, and then take the province as the delegation, and finally gather Beijing divisions to participate in the world competition.

Horse racing, running, fencing, swimming, javelin, discus, shot put, wrestling, etc., there are more than 100 events in total. Each project has set up one, two, or three people. Gold, silver and bronze medals are set up, and there are corresponding bonuses. At the same time, the provincial delegations also competed together for the overall medal and the overall gold medal table.

As the emperor's brother, Liu Jian made this martial arts competition very successful after paying for the economic sweetness brought by this kind of grand event. It has attracted countless merchants and people to Beijing, and even led to a mastery industry in Beijing.

The martial arts competition, which lasted for half a month, attracted the applause of the people, and also greatly promoted the business of Jingshi, and the direct and indirect income made Shuntianfu make a lot of money.

With money in his hand, Liu Jian became more and more unwilling to be lonely.

Liu Jun came back. He submitted a project. Liu Jian plans to restart the construction of the outer city of Beijing, and he plans to build the East Outer City first, and the project will be divided into three phases, each of which will take one year, and the construction of the East Outer City will be completed after three years.

For Liu Jian's plan, Liu Jun was not very supportive at first.

Because Liu Jun didn't think that the more people in the city, the better, and the Jingshi now has a population of more than one million, which is indeed a little saturated, but the best solution is not to continue to build the outer city. Liu Jun believes that a good solution should be to build a number of satellite cities around Beijing.

Satellite towns are one of the earliest concepts proposed by the British in later generations, referring to the establishment of towns on the periphery of some metropolises that have both jobs, housing and public facilities. It is a relatively independent town built or expanded in order to disperse the population and industry of the central city in the traffic police of a large city or in the suburbs outside it.

This kind of town that surrounds the central city like a meteorological satellite, hence the name satellite city.

In later generations, a city of millions of people. Just the scale of some prefecture-level cities, those metropolises, are already super populous cities with a population of more than 10 million.

In this day and age, though. Cities with a population of one million were quite terrifying, and in the middle of the seventeenth century in the world, there were very few. In countries such as Britain and the Netherlands, a population of 20,000 or 30,000 is already a city, and a population of 100,000 is a big city.

The pressure of an overpopulation is extremely high.

Historically, the epidemic in Beijing at the end of the Ming Dynasty caused the death of more than 100,000 or 200,000 people.

Overpopulation not only puts great pressure on health care, but also on education and employment, and even on the supply of materials, as well as transportation.

Earlier, the imperial court moved a large number of poor people from Jingshi, and established many workshops in Tongzhou and Changping, and moved these poor people to these Gyeonggi areas, and the imperial court transformed those shanty towns, and the population pressure of Jingshi was somewhat relieved.

But in the following two years, the population of Jingshi increased again. A large number of officials and their families, as well as many newly established schools in Beijing, and a large number of students.

In addition, the prosperity of the Kyoshi business also led to a great increase in the number of merchants and workers here.

Liu Jun also plans to build a number of satellite towns within 100 miles of Beijing, with a population of 40,000 or 50,000 in each town, and if 10 towns are built, they can accommodate a population of 500,000.

The purpose of the establishment of these satellite cities is to move all kinds of workshops in Beijing to the satellite cities, and the workers of the workshops and their families will also move to the satellite cities, and even those schools in Beijing will also be moved outside Beijing.

Liu Jian was more inclined to expand the capital division and repair the outer city planned by Jiajing. After the founding of the Han Dynasty, the outer city renovation plan transformed the slum-like outer southern city into the most prosperous urban area in Beijing today.

In this transformation process, although the Shuntianfu who presided over the transformation invested a lot, the return was higher.

Now Liu Jian is ready to use ten years to build the three outer cities in the east, west and north. The first phase will take three years to build the East Outer City, which is divided into three phases, one phase and one year.

Liu Jian has invited many craftsmen, done a lot of research, and finally made a comprehensive plan for the East Outer City.

Liu Jian's plan was very good, he didn't pat his head and say that he would build it, but fully considered the positioning of the East Outer City, and then made a comprehensive plan around this positioning.

His construction plan is also very good, divided into three phases.

The Suncheon government is responsible for planning, but not for development. He is very clever to use the concept of urban management very well, and plans to only plan Shuntianfu and then attract investment.

Suncheonfu held a bidding meeting for businessmen who were willing to undertake the development to take over. The first phase of the project was divided into many small projects, and then tendered, and the project was packaged with the land.

For example, the project where Lina wants to buy a shop is a commercial street, which has been planned by Suncheonfu. Shuntianfu will use this commercial street as a project bidding, and the developer who wins the bid will have to pay a large amount of land money to Shuntianfu, and then after taking the land, it will have to build a commercial street and shops and properties along the street within the specified time according to the planning made by Shuntianfu.

As long as they complete the development according to the regulations, it is up to them to decide whether to rent or sell the built shops.

In order to encourage these developers to bid for development, Liu Jian also told the developers an idea he heard from Liu Jun instead.

That is to sell the property in advance to collect money.

When the bidding for the project was in hand, the construction of the commercial street began, but the renderings, the future reality sand table immediately began, and then the sale began.

The house has not yet been built, but it has begun to sell for money, this kind of thing would never be unimaginable if it was before, but now that Dahan business is so prosperous, this kind of thing can also be accepted by everyone.

Especially the development project in the East Outer City, as soon as the news came out, I don't know how many people attracted attention. The great success of the development and transformation of the South Outer City is in front of us, and now the shops in the South Outer City, especially the shops on the East and West Streets and Qianmen Street, are really prosperous shops, and it is difficult to find a shop at all. Many shops have been rolling in the past two years, and I don't know how many times they have turned.

Many businessmen regret not buying a few sets in the first place, otherwise they would have been able to lie down and enjoy them for generations just by renting them out for rent money.

Now that Nancheng has such an opportunity, of course they all have to fight for it.

Seeing that the East Outer City plan was so popular, Liu Jun finally compromised and readjusted some plans with Shuntianfu, such as the future East Outer City, which will set aside an area as a school district, and various universities such as Jingshi University Hall, Beiguo Zijian University, Jingshi Normal University, etc., as well as as tens of thousands of students and teachers, will move to the East Outer City in the future.

In the end, Liu Jun decided that the project was officially launched in the eastern outer area of Jingshi, and at the same time, the satellite city plan also began to prepare, and the first batch of satellite cities was built first, and it was planned to move those workshops and factories in Jingshi to the satellite city.

After obtaining the emperor's approval, Liu Jian immediately began to implement his plan for the eastern outer city.

The project is progressing very quickly, and the investment is being tendered.

The developers who won the bidding also started construction immediately, such as the commercial street developer who Lina wanted to buy a shop, which had just officially started construction, and the renderings had already been released here, and the shops for rent had begun to be sold.

"Now you can book a shop by paying a deposit of 20% in advance, and if you can pay the full amount, there is a great discount." Lina had already been to the developer's showroom and liked the future renderings, especially the sand table, which depicted the commercial street that was still a wasteland.

"How long will it take to hand over the shop?" Liu Jun asked.

"In ten months, I can get the key to the store, and I can go into the store to decorate." Lina said. "I'm just worried that I don't know if it's reliable."

"You can sign a detailed contract with them, agreeing on the delivery date and the consequences of the default. As for the rest, you don't have to worry, this matter is led by Shuntianfu, and there is a court behind it, and the developers don't dare to come nonsense, and they can't pit you. In fact, if you really want to buy, it is better to buy a few more shops, and in the future, when the East Outer City is built, these shops will definitely appreciate in value, whether they are for their own use, rented or sold, they are very worthwhile. ”

"Then I'll listen to you, and I'll sign a contract with them when I get back." Lina put her arm around Liu Jun and smiled sweetly. (To be continued.) )