Ten miles outside the Donghua Gate of the Imperial Palace, southeast of the Purple Mountain, the original wilderness, in the 20th year of Yongle, began to build a large number of buildings.

At the beginning, the royal farm established the first polytechnic in Daming.

At that time, the power of Confucianism was still very large, and it did not dare to call it a university directly, but called it a college.

Subsequently, around the Institute of Technology, the first diplomatic college and the first commercial college of Daming were established, and later, the largest university city in Daming was gradually formed.

With the expansion of Shinrikyo, the Royal Academy created too many miracles, and the thinking of the Ming people was gradually reversed.

Confucianism has become the dregs of backwardness, and the science and technology of Shinrikyo have changed the world and become the mainstream of world development.

The large area from the southern foot of the Purple Mountain to the Temple of Heaven and Earth has become the science and technology center, education center, and academic center of the Ming Dynasty.

A variety of specialized universities have been established repeatedly, and the number of students has increased.

With the development of time, the original 20 square kilometers of land has gradually been unable to accommodate the entire Ming students' desire to study.

In the process of Yingtianfu's deindustrialization, a large number of schools also moved out of Yingtianfu.

However, RMIT has been under the strictest protection, and to this day, it still remains on this land, especially in physics and chemistry, and still does not admit any foreign students.

In this area, every street and every intersection is guarded by soldiers of Yulinwei and Xiaolingwei, which is the best neighborhood in the entire Ming Dynasty.

At this time, Zhou Bei was standing at the entrance of a student living area less than a kilometer away from the Polytechnic University, looking at a three-room, three-story building in front of him.

This block was built just 50 years ago, and the small Jiangnan style buildings with white walls and black tiles built in a unified style have not only not decayed with the passage of time, but have become more ancient because of the precipitation of time.

The store faces east, is the second at the entrance of the street, surrounded by a street of restaurants, a street of scholars, a street of books, and a street of hostels.

The houses here are also all facades and have no backyards. Two rows of houses sit opposite each other, and the stairs of each house are outside, and they are connected in the middle, forming a bustling street market.

Hou Guiqiang said: "To sell stationery, this university campus is the most suitable area. However, most of the houses here belong to the management committee of the university town, which is also a department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs.

Only the original four treasures of the study street in order to attract investment, a number of storefronts were sold. But business is thriving here, every store is a cornucopia, and prices have risen more than tenfold, and there is no market.

I inquired for a long time before I found this shop willing to sell, although the price is high, but according to the price of the university town, it is still a good deal. ”

Zhou Bei was very satisfied with the environment here and asked, "How much does it cost?" ”

"Twenty-three thousand silver coins."

Zhou Bei couldn't help but gasp, a little incredulous. "Twenty-three thousand silver coins?"

Hou Guiqiang nodded and emphasized: "This is Yingtianfu, or the most prosperous university town in Yingtianfu. ”

Xu Gongcheng was afraid that Zhou Bei would think too much, so he explained: "We have inquired everywhere, and it is indeed this price. This shop is not mainly for the distribution of family property by children and grandchildren, and it will not be sold. If you think it's too expensive, we can rent a storefront. ”

Zhou Bei asked: "Then how much does it cost to lease a set of three stores here?" ”

"A small building like this is about a hundred silver coins a month."

Zhou Bei turned his head to look at the street with no end in sight, and sighed: "Just collecting rent, the university town will earn a lot of money in a month!" ”

Both nodded. "There are a total of 1,200 small buildings in the university town, about 3,000 shops, and the monthly rent is more than 100,000 silver coins."

Although the house and title deed are freehold, the price is too high.

You must know that the price of one mu of paddy fields in the south of the Yangtze River does not exceed 20 silver coins, and the price of dry land does not exceed 15 silver coins, and the price of this small building is equivalent to 1,000 mu of paddy fields.

Zhou Bei's home in Dongzhou, which is one square kilometer, was only 6,000 silver coins when he bought it, and now it is only 15,000 silver coins when he sells it on the farm, and he has not sold it yet.

However, according to the monthly rent, the rate of return is 5%, and the return can be paid back in 20 years, which seems to be not high.

It's not the house that's expensive, it's the price of the land here.

The cost of building such a small building is definitely not more than two thousand silver coins, or even only one thousand silver coins.

It's only because of this location that the price is so high.

Zhou Bei pondered for a moment, nodded and said, "Let's go in and have a look." ”

Housing in Yingtianfu is difficult to buy, and various qualifications are required, and each family cannot have more than one house.

The purchase of the store also requires qualifications, but Zhou Bei now has this qualification.

The Zhou family has a thin background, and he, the earl, has no property except for the subdivided housing.

If you want to get married in the future, you must prepare at least one inheritance for your two wives and concubines.

As long as it's worth it, you're not afraid.

When I entered the house, I saw that this was originally a four-treasure shop of the scholars, selling some paintings and calligraphy.

The size of the houses is uniform, with three rooms per house and one hundred and twenty square meters.

The ground floor is a frame structure, except for a few columns that occupy a little area, and there is a toilet of less than three square meters at the rear.

There is a mezzanine less than two meters behind the first floor, which is also used by the owner, and with the addition of a roof and an external faucet, it can be used as a kitchen or warehouse.

The staircase up the stairs is on the outside of the house, facing the street, and many shopkeepers have added an iron gate.

The second floor was designed as a warehouse at the beginning, and the staircase was very wide, which could hold a lot of stock.

The third floor is the bedroom where the shopkeeper lives, with a kitchen, toilet, and four rooms, a living room, enough for more than a dozen people.

After looking around, Zhou Bei felt very satisfied, but he didn't settle down at that time, and went downstairs to the phone booth on the side of the street and dialed Li Ji's home.

Hearing that Zhou Bei wanted to buy a shop in the university town, Li Ji told him that the house price was consistent with what Hou Guiqiang said, and Zhou Bei was relieved.

Leaving the phone booth and returning to the car, he nodded. "You talk to the owner and buy it. If I find out that there are still stores for sale, I will buy another set, and I will come forward when the transaction is made. ”

Hou Guiqiang nodded. "Then I'll talk to the shopkeeper, there are some stocks here, and we may need to buy them too."

Zhou Bei nodded, and saw a car parked on the side of the street, and a middle-aged man with a long beard and a young man with a short beard came out of the car, both of whom were brightly dressed and had an extraordinary bearing.

It's just that they are all regular clothes, and they can't see the identity of the other party.

The middle-aged man walked straight to Zhou Bei, and said, "But Yun Shanbo is in front of you?" ”

Zhou Beichang replied: "It's down, I don't know what to call your honor?" ”

The other party looked at Zhou Bei with a smile and a hint of scrutiny in his eyes. "Ma Yuncheng in the Xianai Xiaoyao Marquis Mansion, I have seen Yun Shanbo."