In late February, there was a sudden recital of the Imperial History of the Inspectorate, saying: "...... It is not easy to live in Beijing, and the draft is particularly difficult. Medium-sized families, throwing away two gold per month, large households, and nobles often pay hundreds of gold. Based on this calculation, it is strange that there are millions of people in Beijing, and the monthly cost of 300,000 silver is strange...... Please ask the saint to suspend the settlement of the arrears of the household department......"

The saint was shocked! So he asked Ji Qunchen, but he got nothing. The sage then ordered King Zhongyong to take charge of water affairs, and set up a new water affairs department in the inner government to relieve the hardship of millions of people in Beijing.

The next day, gossip spread, saying that King Zhongyong had Jinling Xiucai's advice, and there was a way to relieve it.

What's the idea? didn't say anything specific, so rumors spread.

Some say that the Ma River is diverted into Beijing, some say that the Inner Government forcibly buys wells in various places, some say that the ice is mined in winter and stored for the summer to be sold cheaply, and even more that the Inner Government has newly purchased 1,000 four-wheeled carriages to transport water from western Beijing to Beijing day and night. The list goes on and on.

The gossip is flying all over the market, but in fact, the Beijing magnates have already received conclusive news that the water affairs department of the inner government wants to open a new water company to use a new method of sinking wells to obtain water for millions of people.

The various waterways in the capital are either dependent on the powerful, or they were originally controlled by the powerful, so they naturally know the huge benefits. Regardless of the side, just relying on a bitter well to monopolize the two alleys, not to mention the daily income, it is also a lot of annual income.

Now looking at the meaning of the saint and the inner house, it is clear that the income of the waterway is red, and I want to take this waterway into my pocket.

So there was a lot of heated discussions, and some officials wrote that the household department was empty, and asked the saint to allocate internal funds to run the water affairs department. The saint stayed in the middle and did not send it.

The next day, the king of Zhongyong wrote a letter, saying: The household department and the internal treasury are empty, please gather funds to run water affairs. The saint is called good.

"Meow~"

Dragging the gun and jumping on his lap, Li Weijian put down this morning's newspaper and reached out to the cat's back. Qingwen chased in with a feather duster and said with a smile: "Fourth master, this cat has a lot of skills, so I caught a mouse out of nowhere and ate it." ”

"Huh~" Li Weijian drove the cat away in disgust, pointed to the ignorant cat and said, "Go back and give it a good bath, so as not to suffer from fleas." ”

Qingwen responded, held the cat in her arms rarely, caressed it for a while, and said, "Fourth master, do you want to go out later?" ”

Li Weijian smiled and said: "There are still errands, it's not good to hide at home all the time." By the way, how much silver is left in the box? ”

Qingwen is familiar with it, and she will count it carefully every day, and she opened her mouth and said: "There are still seventy-three taels and four coins left, and there are three hanging copper coins." ”

"Not much." Li Weijian frowned.

Qingwen said: "Some time ago, the fourth master spent eighty taels. ”

"Hmm." Li Weijian replied and didn't say anything more.

In the article he put forward, he listed in detail the methods of running water affairs, which is nothing more than pulling the new to fight the old, and pulling one faction to fight another. The waterway is in the hands of the old nobles, and the civil officials and the new nobles naturally look at it. Pull for a while, and then the imperial court will release the method of gathering capital and shares, and the resistance to this implementation will naturally be much smaller.

And this share is not casually placed, each noble share is fixed, and if you want more shares, you can only buy it from the Inner Government, Shuntian Mansion and even Li Weijian at a high price.

Jingshi gathers talents from all over the world, all of them are human spirits, and no one is more stupid than anyone, but I am afraid that someone has already seen through this inner doorway. However, one does not know how to dig a new well, and the other is not as powerful as the inner house.

I'm afraid that many people will know that they can't stop it, and they want to hitchhike with the water company as soon as possible.

Waterway, with this share of the stock, it is really a good deal to sit on the ground and collect gold, and the world is the first-class!

Li Weijian went out to the firearms test range of the Ministry of Industry outside the city to measure the data in the past few days, and the rest of the light was simple, just waiting for the imperial court to build momentum. Now that the general trend is gradually changing, it is time for him to show his face.

After the end of this day, Li Weijian Shi Ran took Wu Haiping to the outside of the city, and returned after only two hours.

The carriage and horses had just arrived at the entrance of the vegetable market, and a guard with a knife blocked the way.

"In the car, is Li Xiucai in person? In the guards of the palace of Xia Zhongshun, Zhou Changshi invited Li Xiucai for a while, and then he was in front of Liuquanju. ”

There are three bedrooms and eight floors in the Beijing Division, and the three residences are said to be Liuquanju, Sanheju, and Xianluju. These three restaurants were the places where the powerful lingered in the Ming Dynasty, and this is especially true in Dashun. The eighth floor is different, it is opened one after another after the founding of Dashun, of which Lu cuisine is the majority, and only three operate Hunan cuisine, Sichuan cuisine, and Huaiyang cuisine.

The curtain was opened, and Li Weijian hurriedly bowed his hand to the guard and said, "I'm tired of leading the way." ”

"Well said." The guard gave up his hand and turned to lead the way.

Wu Haiping drove the carriage and followed the guard, and after walking for a while, he arrived in front of a four-story restaurant. The carriage was parked, Li Weijian got out of the car, and saw that there was an ancient willow in front of the building, and there was a well under the willow.

The guard joked: "Li Xiucai doesn't know, this willow spring residence is named after a willow and a well, it is rumored that the former Ming Yan Song once begged for wine from the master's family here, and the master's family exchanged the wine for a pair of words-" He raised his hand and pointed: "Now this plaque is said to have been left by Yan Song." ”

"Taught."

Li Weijian followed the guard to the top floor, the guard stopped and staggered, Li Weijian bypassed the screen and entered the private room, and saw that Shi Zhou'an, the head of the Zhongshun Palace, had already sat here.

Li Weijian smiled and arched his hand: "I've seen Zhou Changshi." ”

Zhou An nodded at Li Weijian with a smile on his face, and said, "The resurrection is so bitter that I am hidden!" If he had known that the resurrection was such a plan, why would the prince spare a few thousand taels of silver? ”

Li Weijian said: "I don't want to hide the history of Zhou Chang, but this Chen has already been presented, if I had said it earlier, I'm afraid it will not be appropriate." ”

Zhou An's smile remained unchanged and said: "This official wonders in his heart, Li Xiucai has dealings with the palace, why don't you dedicate Tiao Chen to the prince?" ”

Li Weijian didn't answer and asked: "The prince may drive Shuntianfu?" With the power of the royal family, I'm afraid it will be difficult to deter the waterway, right? ”

"Haha-" Zhou An raised his head and laughed, and raised his hand to signal: "Don't be polite when you come back to life, sit down quickly." ”

"Thank you, Circumference." Li Weijian sat down with a smile, and immediately a guard stepped forward to serve tea.

Zhou An said: "It's just a naughty word, such a big thing, the prince can't avoid it, where will he take it to his own body?" In the past few days, the prince has received a letter, met the king of Zhongyong, and privately obtained a promise to pay 10,000 taels and 30,000 shares. This water service is a business of sitting on the ground to collect money, and the prince feels that 30,000 yuan is a little less.

However, I heard that those stocks will be sold later, and the one with the highest price will be ...... Resurrection can be seen, how much money is this stock is cost-effective? ”

Li Weijian thought for a while and said, "Why does Changshi ask knowingly? The students in Beijing have millions of people, and they eat horses and chew horses, and they will pay 35 or 60,000 taels of silver every month. The water company lays out, the early cost is high, the water cost is low, and it can be better for a long time. I estimated that it would take about 20 years for the water company to pay for itself. After these twenty years, the interest is all earned in vain. ”

"Twenty years to get back to basics?" Zhou Annahan said: "I have to ask Fusheng, how much does the laying cost of this water company cost?" ”

Li Weijian gestured three fingers.

"Three million taels...... Uh, no-" Zhou An's eyes widened suddenly: "Thirty million taels? He was anxious and said, "Do you have to work with the gods?" How can it be so expensive? ”

Li Weijian smiled and took a sip of tea, and said slowly: "The gods naturally don't move, they can build a water tower, and then lay hundreds of miles with lead-plated water pipes, and build more than a dozen steam engines to lift water. ”

After a pause, he said: "Besides, it is not good for the saint to let out this good deal that has been handed down from generation to generation. In this, there is a filial piety, and I want to know the history of Zhou Chang. ”

Thirty million taels is naturally a boast, and if the Inner Government and the Shuntian Government want to ensure the actual control of the water company, they will naturally leave most of the shares, which are the shares that circulate in the market, and nominally they can sell at most 10 million taels.

But who is Li Weijian? Reluctance to sell, starvation marketing, speculation, follow-up means have been used repeatedly, and the 10 million shares cannot really be sold for 30 million. And this is not a one-shot deal, with stock trading, it's not too much to find a place to open an exchange, right?

Even if stamp duty is not drawn, the operation of the stock price alone is enough to make the inner government make a lot of money.

It is this follow-up series of means that makes Jinshang take a fancy to this policy, and it is even more generous to transfer a hundred percent of the shares to reward his work.

Before the Ming Dynasty, the Americas, Japan, Southeast Asia three places of silver crazy influx, to the present, Japan, Francophone has successively controlled the outflow of silver, now the Dashun Empire is in fact the silver standard, the private collection of silver is at its peak.

Li Weijian only remembered this incident, but he didn't know the specific amount. In fact, three hundred years later, there are research statistics, at this time the Dashun folk silver collection is about 11 to 1340 million taels.

Jingshi is also a place where the wealth of the world gathers, and it may be difficult to raise 30 million taels, but the goal is slightly lowered, and 20 million is definitely easy.

Zhou An heard this and thought secretly.

At this time, the monthly water fee is about 360,000 taels, after the water company is laid, the water price is lowered, and the people's water consumption increases, and the gross income can be maintained at about 200,000? Excluding the cost of labor and equipment maintenance, it is 150,000 taels.

After 20 years, if you get a hundred percent of the shares, this is 180,000 taels of silver per year!

At this time, I heard Li Weijian say again: "Moreover, this Beijing division can set up a water company, and it can naturally be set up next to it, and there is more than one place in Beijing that lacks water." ”

Ahh In this way, the laying of water utilities in various cities one after another, isn't the interest rate rolling up?

Zhou An collected his thoughts, the smile on his face became more and more kind, and said: "Resurrection is a good plan!" That being the case, I think the prince will definitely drop his family money to buy shares. Hehe...... Resurrection, how did I hear that the saint rewarded the work of resurrection and divided it with you? ”

"O saint and saint!" Li Weijian threw his hand to the side.

Zhou An smiled and said: "The shares in the hands of the resurrection have the intention of changing hands?" ”

Li Weijian said: "Recently, I don't have enough money, and I still owe money to the pawnshop, so I do have the intention of transferring out." ”

"Okay, then the official doesn't take advantage of you, how about buying your 300,000 shares at the original price?"

Li Weijian didn't hesitate at all, and bowed his head: "Okay." ”

Zhou An hesitated, and said, "Resurrection is so refreshing, so you agreed?" ”

Li Weijian sighed and said: "Don't hide the history of Zhou Chang, the student is here to take the autumn exam in Beijing this time, and he will always have to take a career in the future." Although this money is good, it is too much and it is hot. If the students in the coming day suffer hardship, with today's good karma, they will not ask the prince to rescue them, but only ask the prince to speak up for righteousness...... Not excessive, right? ”

"Haha, good! Resurrection is thought through. Zhou An thought secretly, thinking that Li Weijian in front of him was just a showman, where did he dare to deceive the Zhongshun Palace? So he put his mind at ease and said with a smile: "Resurrection is so refreshing, and the official is not good at being a little family." ”

As he spoke, he gave the guard a look, and the guard placed an ebony box on the table.

Zhou An opened the box, revealing the silver ticket inside, and then slowly pushed it in front of Li Weijian.

"Here are two thousand taels, and if you don't get it now, you will take it and spend it first. There is no urgency to pass the shares, and the water company will be rolled out in the future, what do you think? ”

Li Weijian suddenly said gratefully: "Eh, Zhou Changshi's move really solved the student's urgent need." ”

Zhou An shook his head with a smile and said, "It's just, resurrection, if there is a deal like this water company in the future...... Don't you forget my lord? ”

"Naturally, it must be."

At this moment, Li Weijian suddenly caught a glimpse of a group of people waiting below, and then his complexion changed.

"Huh?" Zhou Changshi leaned sideways and looked down, and saw several young men in fresh clothes and angry horses laughing and walking into the distance. One of them is Jia Rong from Ning Guofu.

Wu Haiping said earlier that Li Weijian had a falling out with Xue Pan, Jia Rong, and Jia Qiang, and was then ambushed by his calculations. Thanks to the great ability of Xiu Ying beside Li Weijian, otherwise she would not be able to eat and walk around.

Zhou An saw Li Weijian's solemn face, nodded and summoned the guard beside him, whispered a few words in his ear, and the guard immediately crossed his hand and left.

Zhou An said: "I heard that Fusheng is not harmonious with the Naning Mansion? ”

Li Weijian smiled and said, "Sort of." Nowadays, students are just poor and unpopular. ”

"Heh, the resurrection is just a tiger falling into Pingyang. The official and the resurrection met twice, and felt extremely friendly. Resurrection might as well stay here for a while, this official has arranged a good show. ”

"Huh?"

Without waiting for Li Weijian to ask, Zhou An had already gotten up: "In this way, the official will take a step first, and stay here to eat some food, this Liuquanju dish is ingenious, and it can be regarded as a must in Beijing." Haha, farewell. ”

"Students send circumference history."

Sending Zhou An's gift out of the private room, Li Weijian sat down suspiciously, tilted his head and looked out of the window, wondering what kind of drama Zhou An had arranged this week.

After a while, I saw Jia Rong and Jia Qiang coming out of a shop, walking towards this side, and suddenly came from all around.

The leader scolded: "The surname Sun, when will you pay back the money when you enter your mother's place?" ”

Jia Rong's face suddenly changed: "You are looking for the wrong person, right?" ”

"Phew, Grandpa Turns into Gray and Knows You. What does this mean, are you going to pay it back today? Come on, call me! ”

"You dare!"

As soon as Jia Rong shouted, he was dragged off the horse by a big man, and a fist the size of a sandbag rained down. Jia Qiang on the side wanted to stop her, but she was beaten with a fist just before she stepped forward.

The four servants and servants who followed saw that the situation was not right, and hurriedly stepped forward to help. But where is the opponent of the green skin? One shot was beaten and rolled all over the ground.

After a while, I suddenly heard someone shouting: "The officials of Shuntian Mansion are here!" ”

A few men didn't say a word, turned around and ran, and ran away without a trace in the blink of an eye.

Jia Rong, who only had old injuries left and new injuries left, cried and snorted: "Bison...... How dare you! Yes...... The arm is broken, quick, call the doctor! ”