On the canal, dozens of boats carried Li Wei to Yangzhou again.

By his side, there are loyal guards such as Wu Yong and Lu Tang, as well as the old generals of Yangzhou who are grateful to him.

In addition to these generals, he once again transferred some officials from the Ministry of Industry, including Jiang Shouqing, and some craftsmen who were familiar with cement.

The officials of the Ministry of Industry who were brought before were killed by the Japanese Invaders, only Jiang Quan and the other three survived, and these sacrificial officials and the court will pay for them, and Li Wei also took out some money to compensate himself, after all, these people were brought by themselves, and they were killed because of their own reasons.

And the dozen or so sacrificial guards, too.

Knowing that Li Wei had returned, Tian Qing and the others waited at the ferry early in the morning.

Now most of the officials in Yangzhou have been taken to the capital to be beheaded because of their involvement with Zhang Chengyou, and the remaining people have a first-hand experience of Li Wei's power, and their attitude is not only respectful, but also deeply afraid.

After the initial training of the guards, the military ranks were strictly organized, and they began to show their elite posture, supporting him to enter Yangzhou City.

There was no obstacle to the construction of the city this time, and Li Wei began to do it drastically.

In the temporarily requisitioned office lobby, Li Wei sat in front of the desk, with the drawings made by Jiang Quan and others on it, and a group of officials stood on the side waiting for his orders.

"The city wall is heightened, and it is increased to five zhang!"

Li Wei pointed to the drawings on the table and said proudly.

He is the king of Guangling, and this Yangzhou New City naturally can no longer be dealt with as simply as before, and must be built as a benchmark!

Jiang Quan, who was taking a pen to record, trembled when he heard this, because of Li Wei's salary for Ding Gong, the cost had risen to 100,000 yuan before, and now Li Wei actually wanted to add it!

"No adults! Your Majesty's palace is less than five zhang high, if we do this, it will be arrogance! Jiang Shouqing hurriedly persuaded.

"Yes, my lord, this can't be messed around!" Jiang Quan also spoke.

Li Wei frowned immediately when he heard this, these feudal rules are really annoying, and they are tied to everything.

"Then let's go four." Li Wei said reluctantly.

Jiang Shouqing glanced at Jiang Quan, Jiang Quan hurriedly calculated that it would cost at least 20,000 guan to increase this zhang, but it was not too much compared to the cost of 100,000 guan.

Thinking of this, Jiang Quan nodded lightly and recorded the matter.

However, this was just the beginning, Li Wei followed and said: "In addition, the city wall also needs to be widened, I am going to place cannons on it, it is too narrow." ”

Jiang Quan was stunned, and hurriedly did some mental arithmetic, and added another one or two thousand.

"Also, all these gates must be added to the urn city."

Jiang Quan's scalp was numb, and he counted it again.

"And ......"

"My lord, is it okay? Xia Guan thinks this is already very good! ”

Jiang Quan's hand instigated and interrupted, aren't you building a palace, as for such luxury?

After Li Wei's instructions, the cost has reached more than 150,000 yuan that makes his heart beat, so much money is enough to build a big city, the land east of Yangzhou is only 5,000 acres, the scale of a county town, the investment is really too much!

"Where is this going, don't worry about money, we can still make money when our city is built!"

Li Wei waved his hand and said confidently.

"Still making money?"

Jiang Quan, Jiang Shouqing and the others looked at each other, not knowing what whimsical ideas their young Shangshu had again.

Li Wei glanced at them, didn't sell it, and directly told them about the pre-sale of the land.

All the officials were shocked when they heard this method.

In fact, when the imperial court built a city, it was not necessary to buy a piece of land, but only to compensate for the destruction of the city wall, which was usually enough for a few hundred guan.

However, Li Wei bought all the 5,000 acres of land with a wave of his hand, and then engaged in a pre-sale, buying low and selling high, directly recovering the cost of building the city.

This method has never been done before, which is equivalent to the government first expropriating all the land and houses on both sides of the road before building the road, and then the road is repaired, the price of the land and houses has increased, and then it is sold to cover the cost of road construction.

In fact, this method is very reasonable, but neither the government of later generations nor the current imperial court has ever thought of doing this, but has transferred the interests of the imperial court to some businessmen and individuals, and has not made up taxes, and I don't know whether the ministers in the court are really stupid or pretending to be stupid, or think that the emperor and the common people are stupid.

"Can this be? Can this really work? Jiang Quan asked with some surprise, he is not a fool, although this bend is a bit big, it is not difficult to understand.

If Li Wei's method can really work, then the imperial court will no longer have to spend money to build a city in the future, and even if it is directly pre-sold like Li Wei, it can still make money before the city is built!

"Of course!"

Li Wei said confidently that this method has been verified by countless real estate projects in later generations, and he only used it to modify it slightly.

"When will the adults start...... What is it called, oh pre-sale! Jiang Shouqing also asked a little excitedly, they are all pragmatic officials, and they naturally fully support this kind of good method.

Li Wei thought about it, in the future, real estate will be dug and sold, of course he can do the same.

"In this way, as soon as we start construction, we will start pre-sales!" Li Wei said softly.

"Okay, the lower officials will definitely do their best to recruit and mobilize the force as soon as possible and start construction!" Jiang Shouqing promised.

After understanding this method, he and Jiang Quan's enthusiasm increased greatly, and their faces were full of joy.

After Li Wei's meal, the construction cost of the new city has increased to nearly 20 percent, and after Jiang Quan and Jiang Shouqing listened to his pre-sale method, they did not persuade again, and began to implement it with many officials.

When the people of Yangzhou heard that they were going to serve in the army, they were all bitter at first, but when they heard that they were persuaded to pay back the salary, they were overjoyed, especially the salary was as high as five times, which made them call Li Wei Qingtian!

The people no longer complained, but took the initiative to find the government to sign up, for fear that they would be left behind.

Due to the previous operation of Zhang Cheng Wu Xing and others, most of the Ding servants in Yangzhou fell on the ordinary people, but at this time, the original burden has become a huge welfare, under Li Wei's intentional instructions, this ratio has not changed, and most of the benefits have been given to ordinary people.

Although the other wealthy clans suffered a loss, they didn't dare to squeak, after all, the Yue family and the Gu family were all beheaded, and their backer Zhang Cheng was directly exterminated by the Nine Clans, in this case, they all wished that Li Wei could forget their existence, how dare they come back again.

Under the money offensive, tens of thousands of strong men were quickly in place, and all kinds of masonry materials, as well as cement and various new machinery and equipment prepared by Li Wei were quickly transported to Yangzhou by water and land.

In less than half a month, the officials and craftsmen of the Ministry of Industry led the tens of thousands of people to start working in full swing on the land in the east of Yangzhou.

At the same time, Li Wei also sent people to erect a shed for pre-sale land under the Xianchun Gate in the east of Yangzhou City, where he was attacked.

Because he added the city defense facilities again and again, after the new city was built, it was definitely far from being comparable to ordinary cities, so he also directly set a high price of 150 yuan per mu for the land price, if it went well, the land in the new city could be sold for at least 780,000 yuan.

Of course, he won't sell them all, as long as he recovers the cost first.

After all, with the construction and development of cities, these cities will only become more and more expensive, and he has to learn from others to cover up and sell them!

In the temporary shed, there is a map hanging next to it, which depicts the built East Castle, and around this castle, there is a ring of towering and tall walls, and the city is divided into pieces of land by the streets, which looks clean and neat, and it is very beautiful.

Li Wei sat next to him with confidence, waiting for the people of insight who flocked to buy the land.

However, after waiting for a long time, his land pre-sale office was deserted, and people came and went at the city gate, but his pre-sale office was unattended.

At noon, Li Wei couldn't sit still, and asked Jiang Shouqing next to him, "Have all the notices been posted?" ”

"It's posted, it's posted at all five city gates!"

Jiang Shouqing was also a little anxious, if Li Wei's method didn't work, then the cost of nearly 200,000 guan would be tantamount to a waste, and the imperial court would still have to build a city in the future as before.

"Damn, do you have to let me do something?" Li Wei frowned, he thought that this matter was very simple, after all, buying land now will definitely make money in the future, and there are many businessmen coming and going in Yangzhou, so it should be obvious that he has not learned so many promotional tricks in later generations.

However, the reality is a bit of a slap in the face!

"My lord, we won't be unable to sell this land, will we?" Jiang Shouqing asked with some concern.

"Nope! You don't understand, these lands are bought now, and they can make a lot of money if the price rises in the future, if it weren't for the cost recovery, I wouldn't want to sell it at all! ”

Li Wei waved his hand and said.

In fact, it is easy for the Minghuang Chamber of Commerce to go out with only 200,000 yuan, but this pre-sale model still has to work, otherwise the Chamber of Commerce can take out 200,000 guan to build Yangzhou City, but it can't take out five or six million guan to build the world's city, unless the family is hollowed out, the chamber of commerce does not want it.

But he will definitely not do this kind of killing chickens and eggs, the Chamber of Commerce is still in the development stage, and it will definitely not be able to withdraw a lot of funds at this time.

Jiang Shouqing was silent when he heard this, he was not a businessman, he didn't understand what to make money or not, he only knew that no one cared about these places now, and Li Wei's method was hanging.

Li Wei thought for a while, pointed to the map of the new city and said, "Hang this outside!" ”

"Yes." A handyman hurriedly answered, and hung this beautiful map of the city with two men.

In the passing crowd, some people paused and looked at it curiously when they saw this picture, but in the end they still did not come forward to ask.

Li Wei waited for a moment and lost his patience, and when he saw a businessman pausing and looking at him and about to leave, he immediately raised his hand and shouted, "Don't leave yet, come over for me!" ”

"Huh?" Shang Jia froze in place, his eyes were frightened, and his legs were weak, "Big ...... Spare your life! ”

Li Wei: "......" (end of chapter)