In just a few days, the shops under construction or completed in the first district of the south were sold out, and the merchants seemed to have some hot brains, and they had the strength to buy four or five sets of shops and houses, but they also gritted their teeth and got two sets of houses without the slightest hesitation.

The Song family is naturally unbelievable for the behavior of the merchants, and a lot of silver is in the account so that Dai Suer and Ye Fanggu, who are in charge of finance, are happy to close their mouths, and the previous two million taels of silver are spent like water, and after half a year, they finally began to return to their capital, but after all of them were sold out, the two women couldn't laugh when they calculated the general account.

The actual design and construction of 220 shops and 80 residential houses in the south district are quite different from the figures reported by Song Nan in the court, and Song Nan did not deliberately underreport some numbers to evade taxes, the actual reason is that in the development process, I don't know whether it is a measurement mistake or an inaccurate design, which has produced a lot of errors, and there are a lot of vacant land, and Song Nan is unwilling to idle them, so he makes use of them.

220 shops, with an average price of 8,000 taels of silver, worth 1,700,000 taels; Eighty houses, with an average price of 4,000 taels, worth 320,000 taels of silver, and sold for a total price of about 2.1 million taels.

One night in early February, the Song family stewards held a plenary meeting in the Song Mansion Hall before the start of the construction of the South Second District, and Ye Fanggu and Dai Suer first announced the revenue and expenditure results of the South First District, and everyone was a little dumbfounded.

"After working for more than half a year, it turns out that we don't make money or lose money, how can we do this business? Two million taels of silver is deposited in the zài silver village for a few months, and there are tens of thousands of taels of interest, hey. Lu Qingli muttered a little deflated.

Everyone in the Song Mansion felt the same way, Song Nan shook his head with a smile and said, "Do you have such a reckoning account?" This is only the first phase of the project, and the large expenses we have invested in the purchase of land, the treatment of silt and pollution in the market, the purchase of private residential land, and the employment of craftsmen and men are all included in it, and these are all costs to be diluted; The 100 mules we bought, the 100 carts and tools we bought can be used in the back, don't you understand this account? ”

Dai Su'er raised her forehead and said: "Oh, this is, patronizing the eyes, so we still make money." ”

Song Nan crossed Erlang's legs and said: "It's not just a profit, it's good to make a big profit, it seems that the silver hasn't come in much, but I estimated that the project in the South District 1 has 500,000 taels, which is not much, but it basically meets my requirements." ”

Everyone was dumbfounded, and immediately smiled, in half a year, the income of 500,000 taels of silver, if you didn't experience it personally, it would be unimaginable; At the beginning, no one had extravagant hopes for this, and no one would believe that the development of so-called real estate sales would make a lot of money, but the facts were in front of them, and people couldn't help but believe Song Nan's vision.

There are many rich people in the people, and the cost of more than three million taels in Song Nan's hands is not much, and the marquis of the capital will come to a few random houses and take out this amount lightly, but having money is one thing, and the direction of investment is another, before Song Nan tossed, who would dare to spend money to do this?

"I really didn't expect it to be so hot all of a sudden, after the Shangyuan Dynasty, businessmen from various state capitals rushed to buy, but unfortunately we only have so many shops and houses, and many people are disappointed." Zhu Fengtong, who was in charge of contacting the businessman, said with some regret.

"One of today's deliberations is this matter, in view of the fact that the current shape is very good, I will take advantage of this momentum to start construction of the South 2nd District and the South 3rd District at the same time, our progress is too slow, half a year to develop a district, and the white paper mill will be fully developed, will it take a few years? What do you think? ”

Wan Dabao said: "It's not difficult to speed up the progress, I can buy more tools here and hire more craftsmen to solve the problem, I don't know how the agreement between Ah Hu and the people is signed." ”

Tong Ahu said: "Most of the people in the second and third districts have signed the agreement, and I will do my best to complete the signing and let them vacate the land." It's just that the question of how to resettle these people is very troublesome. After all, there are many merchants in the first district in the south, and the number of people is only a few thousand people who can still be resettled; If the second and third districts start construction together, what will happen to the resettlement of these tens of thousands of people? ”

Song Nan nodded and said: "This is a big deal, if so many people don't have a place to place, it will be a mess, and if something happens, they will give people a handle; In this way, Dabao, when you hire people, you can consider hiring idle manpower from the white paper mill, so that they can work to earn money to calm their minds, so that the shed on the construction site can solve the housing problem of some people. For the rest of the people, I have two options for them to choose, one is that we will immediately build a simple house in the wasteland north of the central district to settle them, the conditions will definitely not be too good, each family is afraid that they can only be crowded into a shack, but we can subsidize two taels of silver a month for each family to settle their hearts; The second is to directly subsidize three taels of silver per family, so that they can live in a guest house in the city or find a house to rent outside, anyway, there is only one year, let them decide for themselves. ”

Tong Ahu said: "I guess they are definitely willing to take two taels of silver to squeeze the shack, after all, these two taels of silver are earned for nothing." However, I am afraid that it will not be possible to build simple dwellings on the wasteland north of the central district, and tens of thousands of people need to build thousands of simple shacks to resettle, covering a huge area; And those wastelands are barren forests and barren graves, and the forests are easy to cut down, but the graveyards are the most troublesome, and they cannot be excavated lightly, which will cause public outrage. ”

Song Nan nodded and said: "I have to do trouble, sooner or later I have to move the grave out of the city, so let's start this matter tomorrow; You can ask the Taoist priest to find a feng shui treasure place for burial in the barren mountains outside the city, and at the same time issue a notice for the tomb owner to move the tomb out of the city for burial. Those who voluntarily relocate the old grave will receive a subsidy of two taels of silver, and those who are unwilling to relocate should make it clear to them that the cemetery and forest land are all official land of the imperial court, and now they have been bought by me, and they are my private property, and if they do not relocate, we have the right to forcibly move the grave, so that they can understand in their hearts. ”

Tong Ahu nodded and said, "Okay." ”

Dai Su'er said softly: "Husband, the matter of moving the grave is not trivial, if you don't do it, it will make a storm in the city, Ah Hu, your attitude must be good, you must reason with the people and not be brutal, otherwise you will be caught as a handle." ”

Ah Hu said: "I know, I will be careful." ”

Zhu Fengtong frowned and said: "Song Nan, there is something I have to remind you, it is okay for the second and third districts to start construction at the same time, but the areas of these two areas are much larger than those of the first district; Especially in the third southern district, which is the planned place to move back to the private house, after the completion can only be used for the resettlement of the people, more than 800 small houses must be completed to let the original residents of Baizhifang live back, according to the demolition agreement, it is not a tael of silver can be recovered; In this case, we will not be able to return at least one million taels of silver, which will directly affect the follow-up development, have you thought about this question? ”

Song Nan nodded and said: "I understand what you mean, if we want to speed up the progress, we can only start construction at the same time, and there is indeed some trouble in terms of funds." But what you just said reminds me that I have an idea here, and you can hear what you think. ”

Zhu Fengtong said with a smile: "It's an idea in the blink of your eyes, let's hear it." ”

Song Nan smiled and said: "The houses of the three districts must be built as much as possible, we promise to let them move back to live in a year, the agreement in the first district of the south has passed for half a year, and if the construction is not started, it will not be able to catch up with the one-year period, which will cause them to be dissatisfied and lose our reputation, so we must do our best." ”

"What about the silver? Why don't I ask my brother to take some more money and come in and buy shares, my brother should agree by now. The little county lord said with a round belly.

Song Nan waved his hand and said, "No need to do this, let your brother sell the manor?" That's the old man's family business; That's what I think about the issue of funds, didn't Miss Feng Tong say just now, many businessmen came to negotiate but were disappointed because we didn't have existing houses and shops, Miss Feng Tong can talk to them about one thing. ”

"What's the matter?" Zhu Fengtong said incomprehensibly.

Song Nan smiled and said: "Ask them to pay in advance, pay half of the house payment, it is equivalent to a deposit, after the shop house comes out, they can hand over the other half to settle in directly, but it is only a few months." ”

Everyone was stunned and speechless, isn't this taking other people's money for a few months in vain? It's up to him to think of such things.

"This ...... Can someone else want to? People pay for money but can't see the shop or house, will they be willing to take this risk? Zhu Fengtong smashed his red lips, a little disapproving.

"The initiative is in our hands, why wouldn't they? You have to understand the psychology of these people. Song Nan ignored the surprise of everyone in front of him.

"Do you know why the shops and houses in the South 2nd District sold out so quickly?" Song Nan shook his legs twice and asked.

"Needless to say, the imperial court policy has solved the worries, and of course the businessmen are willing to do business in the capital, or buy real estate to naturalize in the capital." Zhu Fengtong said.

"This is just one of the reasons, these businessmen are very shrewd, if the purpose is only to do business or naturalization, they don't have to rush to buy; Like President Zhao of the Hui Merchants Gang, who bought me six shops and two houses in one go, and the Zhejiang businessman who was the chairman of the businessmen who bought four shops and four houses, don't you see the reason? ”

"What is the reason?" Everyone was confused.

"It's very simple, they understand that the price of the property in the white paper mill will definitely rise, and the price will rise very high, they see this, so they hoard the shop in advance, and wait for the price to soar and then change hands to make a lot of money; A shop is currently worth 8,000 taels, and if you don't have 15,000 taels in a year, you won't be able to buy it, and it will be a lot of money as soon as it changes hands. If it weren't for the fact that the money in the capital didn't lend them money, they would probably prefer to borrow money to buy a few more. ”

"Huh?" Everyone took a breath of cool air, it turned out that there was such a reason in it, it was reasonable to think about it carefully, now the supply of shops and houses is in short supply, not only the white paper mill, the ordinary houses in other shops are also rising, many people come to the capital to buy a house, the price will naturally go up, the whole Ming rich people are like carp across the river, but the land and real estate in the capital are limited, and it is not surprising that things are scarce and expensive.

"In this case, we simply don't sell, just wait for the price to rise, what do we do to make them cheap." Tong Ahu came back and asked the question that everyone wanted to ask.