Chapter 114: Business in the City of Beijing

It's just that Deng Zhen thought for a moment and said: "You're late, the most profitable thing in Beijing before was to build a business." It's just that now the construction project of Beijing City is almost completed, and only the official office, the imperial palace, the military camp and other places remain. These places must not be given to private people. I don't know how many people are going to die. However, I also heard the rumors that there are two places to make money. ”

It's not that construction isn't profitable.

It's that Deng Zhen doesn't want Li Jinglong to enter this business.

How is it possible not to make money from construction?

To put it mildly, in He Xi's view, there is almost no infrastructure in the Ming Dynasty. The official road is nothing more than a dirt road, which is fine on weekdays, but once it rains, it becomes a quagmire, and it is not even a cinder road that was invented at night. The least cinder road in the rain has little impact.

Not to mention anything else, just paving cinder roads all the official roads in the world is a very big project.

It can't be done without tens of millions of taels.

Not to mention, He Xi wants railways, docks, canals, water conservancy projects and other infrastructure.

There's no end to it.

Deng Zhen knows some of these contents, and some don't know. For example, I don't know what kind of railway or something. But Deng Zhen knows about the construction of water conservancy in Hebei.

Deng Zhen knew that He Xi was very resistant to using military labor.

Deng Zhen doesn't know why?

In fact, it's just that He Xi doesn't think that the army can't be used to build projects, and now He Xi feels that the army should clearly distinguish between soldiers and auxiliaries, and the Song Dynasty Dixiang Army was doing labor most of the time, which is nothing.

But what is the health center near Beijing?

is the general reserve of the Northern Defense.

In the event of an emergency, such as a major defeat in a certain region, the Beijing District Health Center must make up for it to prevent the situation from deteriorating further.

Such an army is not in daily training, and it is okay to be strong, and let them do hard labor.

There are some that don't make a difference.

And today the situation in Tianjin is too urgent.

For example, if the river in Tianjin is not dredged well, if it rains heavily in Hebei in the future, the river water will definitely be backfilled, which is too urgent. He Xi had to allow it. He would rather allocate a part of the army alone to do this, just like the railroad soldiers, to set up a river defense army, or a Cao army.

It's just that He Xi understands that the army is too complicated. And the situation in the army has too much impact.

Once something happens, it will affect the whole body, and He Xi can't predict the consequences, so he doesn't dare to easily promote reform in the army.

He Xi also talked to Shen Guogong Deng Zhen through the tone, and he intended to treat the water conservancy project in the same way as the Beijing urban construction project.

The reason why this is so is because the water conservancy project has always been a hard-hit area of corruption, and it is also a heavy service that the people can't avoid, Mo Daoshiren has one eye and provoked the Yellow River to rebel all over the world, and the Yuan Dynasty lost the world because of the Yellow River control project.

Although He Xi also understands that if the water conservancy project is handed over to a private person, there will be no corruption?

No way.

But at least it won't be so blatant, and there are several benefits.

That is, the people do not have to work without compensation, because once they work without compensation, the oppression of the people by the officials is outrageous. Basically, in the future generations, many projects will also die. In this day and age, it is even more so, but the problem is that to die in labor is to die. The government is pressing, and the people can't get anything. Among the folk tales, there are too many stories of servitude that are gone forever. Even the soul cannot return to his homeland.

And if it is contracted to other people, at least the dead will be compensated. From the direct oppression of the people by the government, it has become indirect. Of course, He Xi could think with his toes that there must be an official government that helped these big companies oppress the people. But this comes at a cost.

These companies also have to weigh which of the three things is more costly, whether it is to use political resources to settle the matter, or to feed corrupt officials and give workers pensions.

Not to mention, if something really happens, the government will not hesitate to push it on these companies, and even if these companies have a backstage, they are weak in front of the entire Ming government system. At that time, it will face the possibility of confiscation of the entire company and even implication in the background.

Not to mention, between profit-oriented business organizations and administration-centric organizations, which don't even have much of the concept of cost, there is a question of who is more economical and more effective.

Deng Zhen is optimistic about this piece of land. Therefore, he didn't want Li Jinglong to come over to grab food.

After all, Deng Zhen can understand that such a project seems to be a tender for the imperial court, but it eats the most government resources. Deng Zhen is Shen Guogong, in this area, as long as the other Guogong does not end up, Deng Zhen has no opponent.

And Li Jinglong is just the other princes.

Li Jinglong immediately said: "Oh, but I don't know about those two money-making businesses. ”

Deng Zhen said: "First, it is the land in the city of Beijing. He is ready to sell the land in Beijing to private individuals and let them build houses, and you know what the price of houses in Nanjing is now. And the current Beijing is the future Nanjing, whether it is to collect rent or sell it, it will definitely make money. ”

Li Jinglong is not too interested in this business.

Yes, the price of houses in Nanjing is not low, after all, it is not easy to live in Beijing, and it has been like this since ancient times. But the price of Nanjing City is not so high?

There are two reasons for this, first, the small number of immigrants in Nanjing.

Under the efforts of Zhu Yuanzhang, Nanjing City desperately expanded, and introduced countless foreign craftsmen with administrative orders. But the problem is that by this time, the foreign population is only officials.

There are only more than 10,000 officials in the Ming Dynasty, plus an entourage, and a small wife. And these officials will not change very often, and on the whole, there are not many outsiders.

Second, the city of Nanjing is actually very large.

There are five city walls in Nanjing, and the fifth city wall is known to be filled in the Ming Dynasty. This also verifies that in the non-industrial era, cities are not production units, but consumption units, and the scale of expansion of such consumption units is limited.

Suzhou is based on handicrafts, so the scale of Suzhou City is larger than that of Nanjing.

Li Jinglong has no doubts about the positioning of Beijing.

It is the hub city and political center of the Ming Dynasty in the north, and it is indispensable to control the northeast, Goryeo, Japan, Monan, and Mobei regions. However, Li Jinglong still lacks judgment on how high Beijing's housing prices will rise in the future.

Because, no one has seen how industrialized cities will push up housing prices.

Therefore, in Li Jinglong's view, doing business in housing prices is just a small business, and in addition, the Beijing City circled by He Xi is actually not small, in terms of specifications, it is larger than the historical Beijing City, and it is even more from scratch, not as good as before the construction of Nanjing City, there is also a Jiqing City.

Let him raise the price, how much can it rise?

Li Jinglong said: "What about the other business? ”