Chapter 107 Princess Anqing arrives

Princess Anqing took He Yuansi off the boat from the dock, Princess Anqing looked at everything in front of her, and had the same feeling as being at Nanjing Jubaomen Wharf.

Although there are more and more people in Beijing, the Beijing Nanhu Wharf has been transformed into a cargo wharf, without him, it takes a certain amount of time to load and unload, and the width of the canal is limited, even if the Beijing Canal Wharf is widened, it is not much wider. Ships stay at the dock for a long time, which will affect the efficiency of transportation.

It's not the same when you get to Nanhu Wharf. South Lake is a lake with a lot of piers. Can be unloaded calmly.

And the canal terminal became a passenger terminal.

From the South Lake Wharf, the Canal Wharf to the South Gate of Beijing, this area is now the most prosperous area in the whole of Beijing, even much more prosperous than the city of Beijing.

There is no other reason, that is, because the construction in the city is planned, and shantytowns are not allowed to be built at will, but many places outside the city cannot be so strict. The entire city of Beijing has increased by hundreds of thousands of people in a few months, and there must be no place for people to live.

Even if some dwellings were built in the city temporarily, it would not be enough to meet the demand.

As a result, He Xi could only turn a blind eye to the shanties outside the city.

In He Xi's opinion, these shanties are a sign of chaos, but in the eyes of Princess Anqing, they are very novel.

Densely packed houses, as well as all kinds of vendors, but it is a situation that Princess Anqing did not see, the degree of prosperity is naturally not as good as the banks of the Qinhuai River, but the degree of liveliness is better. Princess Anqing knows that a few years ago, this place was still a white land, but now it has become like this.

It makes Princess Anqing feel incredible.

Princess Anqing knows that after the Industrial Revolution, human beings have created more material wealth in hundreds of years than the sum of thousands of years in human history. Her previous concept of this sentence was still in the literal sense, but now she suddenly understood.

Nanjing City is also an emerging city, which was built by Zhu Yuanzhang with a lot of manpower and material resources.

Almost the entire Ming Dynasty's skilled craftsmen have migrated to Nanjing, and the Ming Dynasty's civil and military officials, and the noble clan are all in Nanjing, so that there is the prosperity of Nanjing today. But what does Beijing have? Almost nothing.

In this way, He Xi turned his hands, and in just a few years, he had the scale he has today.

This made Princess Anqing incomprehensible for a while, and after a deep understanding, she immediately felt a burst of sadness. Princess Anqing's sorrow could not be understood by He Yuansi beside him, and he asked curiously, "Is this Beijing City?" Is my father here? ”

Princess Anqing said, "Yes." You'll be able to see your dad right away. ”

Princess Anqing entered Beijing City under the protection of the guards, but as soon as she entered Beijing City, the prosperous scene of Beijing City was punctured.

The city of Beijing is empty, it looks like there are no people, only a large area of open space, except for the horizontal and vertical, chessboard-like road on the open space, which makes people look strange.

The roads in the city of Beijing are divided into three classes.

The first is the main road, which is paved with bluestone and cement.

To tell the truth, He Xi actually wants pure cement, but first, the quality of cement in this era is not good, although Liaodong has been improving, but it proves that if the cement is paved on the road, it will crack in a few years and need to be repaired.

For He Xi, this frequency is actually acceptable.

After all, what will municipal engineering look like in later generations? Aren't they all repaired every year? Isn't cement not easy to use in later generations?

He Xi is too lazy to care, whether it is for the sake of the employed population or something else. In later generations, it is no longer a resource-scarce society, and naturally there is a new set of ways to play. It's just that the officials of this era don't agree with He Xi's plan.

Qin Shi Huang cultivated the Qin Straight Road, hundreds of years later, no, thousands of years later, it can still be used. It's hard to accept that it's only going to last a few years. So the main road is combined with stone and cement, and cement is mainly used for caulking and leveling. As the main body of the stone, it is possible to repair it every year in the future.

As for the second-class streets, they are directly paved with bricks.

This is also the brick factory uses steam power, which reduces a lot of processes, greatly improves the production efficiency, and reduces the cost of bricks. Dare to do this, otherwise the cost of bricks is too high to do it at all.

As for the first class again, with cinders.

Again, it did not appear in the planning of Beijing City, which was all streets and alleys, and dirt roads. If your family feels inconvenient to travel, you can find a way to do it yourself, the government doesn't care, at least He Xi hasn't thought about how to take care of it.

Although Princess Anqing is used to seeing the appearance of the imperial court, such large-scale construction is also very rare. It's just that the more she looks at these, the more entangled Princess Anqing is in her heart.

Soon, Princess Anqing came to a temporary yamen, which is also a rare building complex in Beijing, which is He Xi's office station, and many yamen under He Xi are crowded here, which is where He Xi's planned Shuntian Mansion is located.

If He Xi doesn't use it in the future, he will return it to Shuntianfu.

Princess Anqing came, and naturally someone informed He Xi. He Xi went out to greet him and took Princess Anqing into He Xi's residence.

Princess Anqing entered and found that He Xi's residence was just a small courtyard, three main rooms, a study and bedroom, the east wing room was used as a hospitality room, and the west wing room was the archives office.

As for the courtyard outside, it is the place where officials from all over the country are waiting to see He Xi.

Princess Anqing originally had a lot of resentment against He Xi for leaving him in Nanjing and ignoring him, but after seeing He Xi's living environment, she couldn't help but feel distressed and said, "You live here?" The whole family is more spacious than the house. ”

Anqing is telling the truth, there are more than a dozen houses in the entire courtyard, but the problem is that this is not just He Xi's use. There is also He Xi's entourage, and the office staff must be here. It's a little crowded. And Nanjing He Mansion, in essence, is a princess's mansion, although it is not as good as the palace in terms of specifications, but Zhu Yuanzhang loves Princess Anqing, which can be regarded as special treatment for He Xi, and it has not been improved in terms of specifications, but it has been added in area.

Some of the elders of the family live really more spacious than He Xi. For example, although Yang Zhen is not often in Nanjing, there is a courtyard in He Mansion in Nanjing, which is not much smaller than this courtyard.

But He Xi himself thinks that it is actually good.

Compared with the snail dwelling in later generations, occupying a courtyard alone, and the bedroom and study have nearly 100 square meters, what else do you need? It's just that He Xi has more office staff, and when he is busy, there are dozens of people coming and going in this courtyard.

But at night, only those few people were on duty.

He Xi said: "Many places in Beijing have not been built, and houses are tight everywhere, so I don't want to be too extravagant and wasteful. ”

Princess Anqing said: "You don't want to sell the land in Beijing, we must buy a big piece this time, that is, on the edge of the palace, we can't wronged you." ”

He Xi opened his mouth, he sold the land to recover the silver tickets, but he didn't want to collect the silver tickets of his own family. Yang Zhen has been in Beijing during this period of time, as He Xi's staff, participating in the construction of Beijing City. After all, He Xi's identity made it impossible for him to directly explain to the businessmen below.

This is not in line with the principle of identity reciprocity.

And He Xi talked to these businessmen, no matter what they talked about, these businessmen didn't dare not agree, for these businessmen, this is He Xi's oppression. He Xi did it a few times before he understood this truth, and asked Yang Zhen to talk to these people in order to hear the truth.

in order to really negotiate. He Xi communicated with these businessmen in the background.

So Yang Zhen is indispensable.

But Yang Zhen is not in the Northeast, which does not mean that Xuanyang Society will not make money. After all, He Xi and King Yan's influence on the Northeast are no problem, and He Xi is adhering to the attitude of later generations towards professional managers for business managers at home.

In the whole Ming Dynasty, it is the most respectful and relaxed. Plus Yang Zhen as a role model.

Now Yang Zhen is already one of He Xi's staff. Although there is no official position, the status is very different. It also gives the business management personnel of the He family a strong motivation, plus the Xuanyang Society, there are people to take care of above, and the layout below has been completed, and there is not too much difficulty.

Therefore, it makes a lot of money.

But there is a lot of money to be made, compared to whom.