The official seemed to know what they were thinking, "Don't think that the queen mother has made a lot of money from this, in fact, before the silver has been put into her pocket, the mother has already arranged it clearly, the soldiers' salaries, the pension of the fallen soldiers, the infrastructure of the capital, the cement roads everywhere, the canals that irrigate the fields outside the city, and the wages of the laborers everywhere, all rely on silver to open the way."

Since Niangniang and the prince recovered the Gyeonggi area, Niangniang and the prince have been paid real wages for all projects that require hard labor, and have never allowed everyone to work and pay for labor, but have been paid at market prices, so that everyone has a piece of silver to subsidize the family. ”

When the Li brothers heard his words, they asked in surprise, "Are you saying that there is no labor in Gyeonggi now?" ”

The official rolled his eyes in his heart, but he still said patiently: "There is labor, but in the process of servitude, the mother and the prince changed the law to increase the income of the laborers, so that the laborers who are living in poverty have an income to take home to subsidize the family." ”

The Li brothers somewhat understood what was going on, that is, they still had to serve the labor, but the government would pay them.

"If that's what you say, then every time you do your service, you can't fight to come to it?"

The official chuckled lightly and pointed to the empty street, "Everyone has to see if someone is robbing them if they want to squeeze their heads!" ”

The Li brothers glanced at the street, well, there are few people walking around the whole street except for the workers who pave the road, and occasionally I see people walking, most of them are officials or soldiers, and there are few real people.

Then the question is, "The streets are empty, and few people should buy them when they come to the capital to do business, so why did I just see someone at the city gate transporting goods to the city?" ”

After hearing his words, the official finally couldn't help laughing, "Haha., I said brother, you are really funny, there are not many people in the city, but we are not people, and the soldiers of the Gyeonggi battalion are not people. ”

The Li family brothers looked pale and sneered, and at this moment they also realized that the question they asked was stupid!

The officials didn't care about their faces, there were really few strangers to talk to in the city, which would catch a group of people returning home, so they didn't have to talk more.

He smiled mysteriously, leaned into Li Houping's ear, and asked mysteriously, "Do you know what the capital lacks the most now?" ”

The Li family used to make a fortune in business, and they were not famous in the capital, at least there was no shortage of food and drink at home.

The brothers of the Li family saw that the servants were mysterious at this time, and the brothers looked at each other, business opportunities!

Then, they all looked at the officials.

Li Houping pressed the eagerness in his heart to cooperate with him, seemed to be very interested, and asked in a low voice: "What is most lacking?" ”

The official smiled: "Let me tell you, what the capital lacks most now is women!" ”

"Women?" Li Houping didn't react for a while.

The servant nodded, and added, "Well, a woman who can drill under the covers together!" ”

Everyone is a man, and when it comes to women, it's all tears!

They were soldiers who had been coming to Gyeonggi with the queen since Lingnan, and when they first left Lingnan, they left their families in Lingnan temporarily. Thinking that it won't be long before I settle down in Jiankang, I will send someone back to pick up my family.

It's just that no one thought that out of Lingnan, the queen mother did not go to Jiankang as expected, but transferred to Gyeonggi.

Entered Gyeonggi, drove the soldiers and horses of Beidi, recovered the Gyeonggi region, and later went deep into the grasslands twice, and then went to the south to quell the rebellion.

This delay is a few months, and when the counterinsurgency is successful, they don't know that they will be in the Year of the Monkey, poor them, they haven't touched a woman for half a year, and they are uncomfortable!

When the Li brothers heard this, they suddenly couldn't laugh or cry, just now when he asked what was most lacking, they thought it was the most scarce materials, and the business opportunities in front of them could not be excited?

Well, now let them get excited in vain!

There was a coughing sound in the carriage, and the Li brothers remembered the physical condition of the old man in the carriage.

Li Houping thanked the servant: "Thank you, brother, for telling me the truth, my father is sick and weak, and I can't delay, I have to clean up the house as soon as possible, and settle him down first, so we won't delay, next time I have time, brother, I will have a treat, and I invite you to drink together." ”

The official also heard the coughing sound of the carriage, and the smile on his face was closed, and he said, "Don't delay, brother, go quickly, there is a scribe on duty in the yamen." ”

"Thank you, see you next time!" Li Houping clenched his fists.

"See you next time, go, don't delay!" The official waved.

When they arrived at the yamen, the Li brothers met several men who came out of the yamen.

The man who walked in front, Li Houping recognized, was the steward of the caravan who entered the city gate and walked in front of them.

Thinking of something, his heart moved, and he walked up and asked, "Brother, you have just come out of the yamen, but you have come to buy a shop?" ”

The steward looked at him, unsure, "You are."

"My surname is Li, my name is Houping, a native of Beijing, I just returned to the capital today, but I found that my original home was no longer my own home, so I came to Yamen to ask." As he spoke, Li Houping looked at the contract in the steward's hand: "You have already completed the formalities?" ”

The other stewards lost interest when they heard his question, and they greeted the steward at the front and went first.

The steward saw the other stewards leave, only then did he look at the person in front of him and return the salute: "Well, we have done it, are you coming to the yamen to rent or buy?" ”

Li Houping smiled: "I want to buy it, but I don't know what's going on inside?" ”

"If you want to buy back the previous property, the price is less than the original price, if you want to rent, you can pay rent at the market price, and the contract is signed once a year."

"Shhh

Li Houping gasped, "So expensive? ”

The steward snorted coldly, "That's not it, our master's shop was originally on the main street, two floors up and down, both spacious and good, the price used to be 20,000 taels in the capital, and there were people who grabbed the head." Now these officials have a small mouth, and they shouted for 16,000 taels for me to buy back, you must know that the original price of 20,000 taels was a prosperous capital, and now you look at this depressed street, they have a black conscience and even have to pay 16,000 taels, really when the silver is blown by the wind? ”

Li Houping smacked his lips, "The asking price is so expensive, it's really not a good way to live, then you are now."

The steward folded the contract in his hand and put it in his inner pocket, "Rent, if you don't have money to redeem the shop, you can only rent it!" ”

As for whether to buy it or not, let the owner decide after returning home.

Li Houping and the steward said goodbye and entered the room where the yamen scribe worked.

"You're the fourth one to come in here today, so what do you want to do?"

Li Houping didn't expect the scribe to take the initiative to speak, he was stunned for a moment, and put the title deed prepared earlier in front of the scribe: "This is my family's house in the capital, we want to live in it tonight, do we need any procedures?" ”

When the scribe heard this, he sighed in his heart that the effect of the prince's personal expedition was immediate, and it was only a few days since he went on the expedition, and today he received four people who came to go through the formalities.

Sighing and sighing, the scribe also explained the new policy to him in a timely manner, which was similar to the meaning of the officials he met on the road.

The central idea is that if you want to live in your original house, you have to buy it again.

Li Houping endured the unwillingness in his heart, and asked with a smile: "Then may I ask, how much does my house have to pay to get the title deed again?" ”

The scribe glanced at the location of his house and dialed up the abacus: "The location of your house is on Chunyu Street in Nancheng District, because it is close to the main street, the location is good, the value is six hundred taels, you only need to pay sixty taels to re-open a new title deed." ”

"How much?" Prepared in his heart, Li Houping, who was about to bleed heavily, raised his head in shock.

The scribe looked at him with a frown: "Why are you so excited?" These sixty taels are the cost of our government to keep it for you, do you think we need more? Do you know how the soldiers snatched back the capital from Beidi? I fought hard to come back, and I didn't charge you 60 taels for storage! ”

If it weren't for the soldiers to recapture the capital from Beidi, there would not be a single single piece of their real estate left, and all the Beidi people would be cheaper!

Li Houping saw that the scribe had misunderstood him, and waved his hand busily: "No, no, no, I didn't suspect that I had charged too much, I was just shocked, I met a few men when I came in just now, and I heard them say that they thought of re-applying for a land deed and had to pay eighty percent of the house price, and you want sixty taels I thought I heard it wrong, so I was so excited." ”

The scribe felt amused when he heard it, "You think too much, our Queen Mother and His Royal Highness the Crown Prince will not oppress the people, you are ordinary people, and only one percent of the storage fee for housing will be charged." And the few who just went out were the stewards of the family, and of course they had to charge a high replacement fee. ”

The big families will not be soft when they oppress tenants, and if they want to get back the property in Gyeonggi, the government will certainly not be soft when it collects a replacement fee.

In fact, how could Xia Jing really collect money from poor people, she just collected it proportionally according to the amount of assets.

For example, the big family, the wealthy rape the gentry, Xia Jing collects their money, she will be merciless, and she will collect as much as she wants.

A century-old family, hundreds of years of accumulation, its wealth may be richer than the treasury.

Wool picking, don't you have to catch the wool that grows dense and long!

Li Houping understood in seconds, and quietly stuffed back the silver ticket that was about to be taken out.

Today is really thrilling, my heart is a little weaker, and I really can't stand it.

The initial dissatisfaction with the queen mother has almost dissipated at this time.

After getting the title deed again, Li Houping's family returned to their original yard.

After a night's rest, the next day, the house was taken care of by a woman, the old man's condition did not improve or deteriorate, the man in the family was not at ease, so he took the old man's prescription before and went out.

When they got to the street, the brothers scattered and began to look for a pharmacy, but now they were doomed to disappointment in the capital, because there was no pharmacy on the street.

Li Houping walked along the street to find the former pharmacy, the shop was empty, there were no so-called medicinal materials, and some were only crooked medicine cabinets, tables, chairs and benches.

searched all the way, and before I knew it, I came to North Street.

On South Street, the busiest location today is the inn location hand-picked by Xia Jing.

The craftsmen were busy laying the foundation, and when they saw its area, they knew that the area of the building was not small.

Looking at the building materials piled on the ground, Li Houping walked over curiously.

The steward at the construction site noticed him, looked at his clothes, and came over and asked, "Hey, you don't look like you're here to do something, why are you walking in?" Don't get too close to them, and beware of them slashing your head with a hoe! ”

Everyone is working hard, and suddenly a person appears, and if you don't pay attention, you're afraid of hurting him.

"Ask for something!" Li Houping threw a dime of broken silver at him, pointed to a pile of gray mud on the ground and asked, "This is cement?" ”

The site manager took the broken silver and checked it, there were about one or two, he was satisfied, and his attitude of speaking eased: "Brother, haven't you seen cement?" ”

Li Houping smiled, "I just entered the city yesterday, I have seen the cement road, but the real cement has not been seen. ”

The site manager waved his hand absently, "It's a serious disturbance, this is what cement looked like at the beginning." ”

As he spoke, he pointed to another pile of reconciled mud: "That's the reconciled cement slurry, the walls are built very firmly with this mud, the paving is very hard, I have been a mason for so many years, this is the best adhesive I have ever seen." ”

Li Houping nodded while listening, and finally asked: "Dare to ask brother, where can I buy this kind of cement?" ”

"Beijing suburb cement factory, just go out at the south city gate, and walk left at the fork in the road for half an hour." The site manager looked at him and asked with a smile, "What?" Do you want to renovate your house or do you want to build one? ”

Can Li Houping say that he wants to open a cement shop and sell cement?

Before he understood the situation clearly, he disdained to say it, "The house has not been inhabited for more than a year, and it needs to be repaired." ”

"Oh, I just came back to repair the house, but then again, your family is really bold enough, none of the wealthy businessmen in the Gyeonggi area dare to move back with their families, why do you dare to come back first?"

The site manager asked this out of pure curiosity and did not mean to belittle the security issues in the Gyeonggi area.

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On this day, Xia Jing came back from outside the city in a carriage, and she found that there were many stalls on both sides of the streets in the city.

"What's going on? How did this become a bazaar? ”

Hongmei scratched her head, she followed Xia Jing all day long, how do you know what is going on?

However, fortunately, Ye Fei rode a horse and walked beside the carriage, and he listened to Xia Jing's question.

He leaned over the car window and explained: "The people who set up stalls here are all villagers from nearby villages, most of them are the people we rescued from the grassland, and some are grassland herdsmen. ”

Xia Jing looked out the window, the clothes on the people's bodies without exception were patches and patches, and the baskets placed beside them were home-grown vegetables, straw sandals, straw hats, bamboo baskets and other practical items.

Occasionally, you can see people selling rabbits or pheasants, but this kind of game meat is usually bought by buyers not long after it is put on the table.

Xia Jing pointed to a low house near the city gate and said: "The houses in this area are dilapidated and low, it is a waste to occupy this excellent position, and then you can arrange for someone to demolish one piece and build a market in this area at that time." ”

Of course, the market should be rebuilt according to Xia Jing's requirements, and the underground drainage facilities and the buildings on the ground must meet her requirements.

Vegetables and fruits, dry goods and groceries, aquatic products, and livestock should be separated by region.

"Niangniang, I'm afraid that the market here will have to wait for a while, your four major inns have just begun to build the foundation, and the manpower in the capital is really too short now."

Ye Fei was helpless, if the soldiers and horses of the Gyeonggi battalion did not go south to quell the rebellion, they could draw some soldiers who had worked as masons in the team to come over to help.

Faced with the lack of population in the Gyeonggi area, Ye Fei sometimes really wanted to impulsively send people to the major cities and towns in the south to buy a group of people to come back, regardless of men, women and children, as long as he was a living person, the Gyeonggi area was in urgent need.

Xia Jing frowned slightly, "It seems that the flow of people is still too slow, where has the cement road outside the city been repaired?" ”

"Fifty miles from the gates." Ye Fei replied honestly.

"Looks like we have to be able to counteract the rebellion!"

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