In the middle of August, the shops in the southern district of the white paper fang opened one after another, with the protection of the white paper fang chamber of commerce, these foreign merchants were able to get involved in the monopoly industry of the Xunqi family in Beijing, due to the previous monopoly behavior of the Xunqi, the price of goods or services in some industries remained high, and the intervention of foreign merchants brought relatively low prices, and soon after the opening, it became a prosperous state.

Taking advantage of the opportunity of the booming opening of the southern district, the Song government increased publicity, and Zhu Fengtong sent many groups of personnel to other state capitals to attract investment. With the implementation of the policy of buying real estate, the prices of shops and houses in major state capitals have risen and more than doubled, but they still can't stop the desire of the rich to buy shops and houses in the capital and major state capitals.

Today, like the people of later generations, buy houses and land with a so-called psychology of buying up and not buying down, and the more prices soar, the more these people want to buy. Song Nan is well aware of this trend, he is happy to see this situation, there are still a few months to go, the project of the white paper workshop is about to be fully completed, and then Song Nan will instruct the Inner Court Real Estate Department to take measures to stabilize housing prices; There are many ways, but it is not yet time, and you have to wait until you have earned enough money to talk about it.

There was also some discussion in the court about the soaring housing prices, and several officials of the household department jointly put forward a proposal, thinking that the current pattern of soaring housing prices was abnormal, and they were worried that if this development continued, it would lead the wealthy households to hoard shops and houses to raise prices, and the people would be seized of their property and houses, and they would not be able to afford the consequences of real estate at all.

To be honest, the ministers have almost zero experience in these areas, these are new things, and they have never encountered such a crazy real estate market; But there is one thing they are looking at, the beginning of this year set up the household real estate tax room has become one of the busiest departments, only half a year, will get more than 3 million taels of fiscal taxes, according to this development, this year alone real estate tax will occupy two percent of the Ming Dynasty's fiscal revenue.

If nothing else, this year's fiscal and tax revenue of the entire Ming Dynasty will exceed 24 million taels, and compared with last year, the extra 6 million taels is the tax brought by real estate.

As a result, officials are faced with a dilemma about the disastrous consequences of such a skyrocketing property price, and the reluctance to afford to increase the amount of money each year. If this growth continues, the imperial court will soon be able to get rid of its overstretched situation, and several important projects that the imperial court had planned a long time ago will be carried out with money. It is in this state of happiness and anxiety that the officials are suffering.

One morning in mid-September, in response to the increasing discussion on this matter, the court decided to come to an open court meeting to discuss the pros and cons of the matter.

In fact, it was said that it was a court discussion, and most people couldn't give an opinion at all, and after a mess of nonsense, the court discussion became Song Nan's answer to reporters' questions, because the only person in the court who was proficient in this matter was Song Nan, this was a new thing he led, and I am afraid that only he knew what dangers were hidden in it.

Song Nan was very calm, he did not think that these people's behavior was ridiculous, on the contrary, he believed that the feeling of danger was just a reflection of the competence of certain officials, although they did not know what the danger was, they knew that things were not as simple as they appeared. What Song Nan has to do is to stabilize the situation, and after the completion of the sales in the North District after the year, he will make a big move to pour cold water on the overheated real estate market in the Ming Dynasty, so that they can calm down.

"Lord Song, all the adults feel that this shop real estate is so hot, and there are hidden hidden worries in it, what do you think of this, Lord Song." Yang Tinghe became the chief reporter, although he became more and more reluctant to talk to Song Nan, and became more and more disdainful of Song Nan's behavior of making money for private business, but in this matter, he had to seek advice from Song Nan.

Everyone wanted to hear Song Nan, the initiator, give an explanation, but at this moment, Qi Shushu turned their attention.

"Your lordship's worries are not unfounded, but there is no need to worry about them for nothing." Song Nan said lightly: "The price has skyrocketed, that is because of the huge demand, before the people had the need to buy real estate and buy shops in the Dazhou capital to do business, but the imperial court policy restricted their behavior, so that they did not dare to use the silver." Now once it is released, this hot trend is inevitable. For example, if all dynasties were monogamous and did not allow concubines, and suddenly one day men were allowed to have three wives and four concubines, wouldn't it be groom officials everywhere? Hardly surprising. ”

Someone laughed out loud, Song Nan's metaphor is also an image, but what about the emperor of that dynasty who would only allow men to be monogamous? Isn't that dehumanizing?

"According to Lord Song, there is no need to make a fuss about this matter at all? But why did the whole court feel that it was inappropriate? The price of shops and houses has doubled, which is no longer a price that ordinary people can afford. If it continues to rise, won't anyone be able to afford to buy a home and live in a new house in the future? An official asked in a deep voice.

Song Nan said: "The extremes of things must be reversed, any radical behavior hides risks, if the house price doubles, I am not worried." But if it is increased by three or five times or even ten times, it is an inflated price, and no one can buy it, so it is called a price without a market. The current situation is still within the normal range, and the real estate department of the inner court should also pay close attention to the trend, and the imperial court will intervene at a critical time, so there is no need to worry too much. ”

"Lord Song, you keep saying that you don't need to worry, is it because you yourself are also involved? The official has heard that you have made a lot of money from the development of real estate in the white paper mill, and I heard that you will earn millions of taels of silver after the development of the entire white paper mill, so you are talking like this; In fact, you wish that the higher the house price rises, the better, so that you can make a lot of money? ”

He Jian, the head of the household department, finally couldn't help but say what the officials had been trying to say in their hearts, which immediately attracted many people to nod their heads and agree. A large crowd began to whisper and buzz.

Song Nan said coldly: "Ladies and gentlemen, I knew you would think so. I would like to remind you that the tax revenue of the imperial court has increased by several million taels of silver in the past few months, and this is a matter that benefits the imperial court; How much profit I personally received from this is another matter, but don't forget what you said when I bought the abandoned wasteland of the White Paper Mill; You laughed at me behind my back for being a fool, and one by one sat and watched me Song Nan make jokes. Now that I've made money, you've changed your face and run around to make irresponsible comments, is that how you behave? ”

He Jian said coldly: "Lord Song, I'm afraid it's inappropriate to talk like this, it is precisely because of the big difference between the front and back, that we will suspect that Lord Song is using loopholes to make money, but do you know that this qiē is not Lord Song's layout?" ”

Song Nan sneered: "Lord He's scheming is deeper than mine, and I also think that it is my layout, if this is the case, my layout is inevitably too big." I still remember that at the beginning, in order to make up the hundreds of thousands of taels of silver to buy the official land of the white paper mill, I went around for debts, and I was at an impasse for a while; At that time, Yang Shoufu and He Shangshu repeatedly urged me to pay the silver to buy those official lands, and they kept urging, and said that if I made an agreement with the imperial court, I would not be terminated Yunyun, it seemed that I had to sell my sons and daughters to buy the abandoned official land of the white paper workshop, why didn't Lord He say that I was the layout? If it's a layout, why is Lord He still forcing me to buy land? At the beginning, I almost gave up the idea of buying land to develop and renovate the white paper mill, if I made money, it had to rely on the help of Yang Shoufu and He Daren, if it was not for the two adults to force it, I might not be able to earn these millions of taels of silver. ”

He Jian's face turned red, and he snorted angrily, this matter was indeed forced by himself to pay money to buy land three times left and right, and he also said a lot of righteous and awe-inspiring words, this time it was exposed by Song Nan, this is his own slap in the face.

Yang Tinghe glared at He Jian, blaming him for pulling himself in, in the eyes of the ministers, isn't he also a person with no vision? I didn't expect this situation to be in the first place.

Zhengde said: "Ladies and gentlemen, the court is talking about the risk of overheating the real estate price and the market, how can it talk about other things?" Song Nan also took the risk at the beginning, why didn't you expect Song Nan to turn the white paper workshop upside down? I remember that after Song Nan bought the land with hundreds of thousands of taels of silver in the account, there were a lot of snickerers among you, and now you are blushing at others, I really don't know what you think. ”

The officials who had laughed at Song Nan were very embarrassed, and at the same time they regretted it, where would they have expected such a situation, the tattered white paper workshop has now become a cornucopia, although this Song Nan is hateful, but his ability is really not small.

"One thing I need to reiterate is that the shops and real estate were not originally developed for ordinary people, but the purpose of our efforts was to allow the wealthy people of the Ming Dynasty to take out the silver stored in the secret room to buy a property and participate in circulation. As long as the silver is circulated, it will bring taxes to the imperial court, which is the original intention. It was for this reason that you agreed to this approach in the first place. Now that the massive increase in tax revenues has proved that this decision is correct, the next thing to do is to regulate and control it. This matter has its own real estate management department of the inner court to make countermeasures, when the imperial court should issue an order to calm down, and under what circumstances it is necessary to cool down this overheated market, there will naturally be a way to deal with it. Song Nan said quietly.

"Can't Lord Song say it in court so that the emperor and all the adults can feel at ease? Why do you want to sell off? It's as if it's your private affair, it's inexplicable. ”

The sound of the urn was easy to identify, it was Xu Guangzuo, the governor of the regiment and battalion.

A group of Hou Ye all stood beside him with staring eyes and looked at Song Nan with fierce eyes, since Jiao Zhengtai and Gao Hu publicly left the Beijing Chamber of Commerce to join Song Nan's White Paper Fang Chamber of Commerce, the Hou Ye people came to see Song Nan every day with this look.

Song Nan said lightly: "No, I have the methods, and I will report to the emperor in private, but these methods must not be disclosed in advance, so as not to make someone take advantage of the loopholes in advance." I don't shy away from anything, just take your grandfather Xu as an example, I know that you have privately purchased seven or eight mansions in Nanxunfang, Mingshifang, Zhengdongfang and other places, I don't want to name what you did suddenly buy so many mansions, but since you are involved, I forgive me for not telling you about the imperial court's policy on this aspect in advance, and I don't want to say more about the reason. ”

Xu Guangzuo was stunned and said coldly: "Song Nan, don't talk nonsense. ”

Song Nan smiled and said, "Do you want me to take evidence?" Unless I don't want to know, how can I escape my eyes? How many people in the court secretly participate in hoarding and speculating on real estate transactions, there is an account in the iron cabinet of my north and south towns, some people are worried about the overheating of real estate, and some people are doing superficial articles, I understand better than anyone else. ”

Half of the officials' faces were as pale as earth, and Song Nan's words seemed to have stripped them of their clothes, making them suddenly feel unconcealed and self-ashamed.