Li Shimin

Chapter 849

Similarly, Li Xuan, who was far away in Lijiazhuang, took a few blueprints and explained to Li Shimin, Fang Xuanling and others.

"It's like the two dormitory buildings in the backyard of my village. They can be built to be six stories high, so that 24 families can live on the land where only one family can live in it!"

"Furthermore, after the construction of this building is completed, all the streets and workshops in Chang'an City will be very tidy and clean, and it will be very convenient to manage!"

Fang Xuanling followed with a joyful face.

Li Shimin was a little worried: "But how much does it cost to build this kind of cement building? Even if I don't make any money on these houses and sell them at the original price to the common people, how much can the common people afford?"

"This……"

Fang Xuanling and Du Ruhui also thought of this incident, and their faces were solemn.

Li Xuan asked: "Your Majesty, how much does a small courtyard with two houses in Chang'an cost now?"

Li Shimin looked at Fang Xuanling who was on the side.

"Returning to Your Majesty, His Royal Highness King Jin, a one-acre house in Chang'an City can be sold for more than 160 yuan! As for the small house with two houses mentioned by King Jin Wang, it should be a third of the land, and it must be bought for more than 40 yuan. Down!"

"If that's the case, then it will be counted as 45 pennies!"

Li Xuan said: "Your Majesty, on one mu of land, at least two small buildings can be built, that is, houses that four households can live in! If it is six stories high, that is 24 households!"

"In this way, the 24 people only need to share the 160 yuan of money equally, and the family only needs to pay [-] yuan for the land. As for the materials and money for the construction of the house, plus the money for the craftsmen, the family only needs [-] yuan. !"

"Fifteen strings?"

Hearing this, Li Shimin, Fang Xuanling and others couldn't help being surprised.

"Xuanba, in this way, don't the people in Chang'an City only need 22 yuan to buy a concrete house? It's half cheaper than their previous small courtyard?"

"Your Majesty, you may need 25 guan, or you may only need [-] guan!"

Li Xuan said, "Moreover, the house they got with so much money may even be bigger than the house they bought before!"

"Enough to live in!"

Li Shimin nodded in satisfaction, and quickly asked again: "Xuanba, you just calculated that it wasn't 22 guan, how can some prices be low and some prices be high?"

"Your Majesty, each floor of a six-story concrete house is one foot high. If you want to go up to the six-story house, you need to climb a five-foot-high staircase. Moreover, this kind of concrete house is usually not built inside. Indoor room.

If the common people want to enter the ceremony, they have to go downstairs to enter the ceremony.In addition, the water that the common people drink also needs to be carried from the first floor to the sixth floor.

Therefore, this kind of building is the most convenient for ordinary people living on the first floor, but the higher the building, the more inconvenient it is.

Naturally, the price of the first floor has to be higher than the price of the house above! "

Li Xuan explained.

"I see!"

Li Shimin, Fang Xuanling and others nodded in understanding.

In this era, common people drew water directly from the moat or dug wells.

Every day, water is drawn from the well or from the moat.

If you live on the sixth floor, it's really inconvenient.

"However, a cement house only costs [-] guan, which is enough to make many ordinary people scramble to buy it first!"

As he said that, Du Ruhui who was on the side suddenly looked at Li Shimin.

"Your Majesty, since it is so cheap, I implore Your Majesty to build more sets. Among the hundreds of officials, there are still many officials in Chang'an City, and they have no houses to live in!"

Fang Xuanling and Changsun Wuji's eyes lit up, and they both looked at Li Shimin fervently.

"Your Majesty, what Du Xiang said is very true. Now that the housing prices in Chang'an City of Tang Dynasty have skyrocketed, many of the officials who have been transferred and promoted back cannot afford houses in Chang'an City.

In fact, many officials from humble backgrounds, even if they worked in Chang'an City for three years, could not buy a house, and had been renting other people's houses to live in! "

"My Tang Dynasty official can't afford a house?"

Li Shimin couldn't help being surprised.

"Your Majesty, this matter is absolutely true, I will never dare to deceive Your Majesty!"

Fang Xuanling, Changsun Wuji and the others said hastily.

"Your Majesty, you can think about how much money you can give to those officials every month after removing the money that those officials have to support their families!"

Li Xuan said calmly.

Although he didn't go out of his way to find out the salaries of those officials, but according to the prices in Chang'an City, Li Xuan was sure that there were indeed some officials in the Tang Dynasty who couldn't afford it when they were working in Chang'an, and rented other people's houses.

"All the officials of the Tang Dynasty are still renting other people's houses? How unfortunate?"

Li Shimin frowned directly, "Do you know how many officials in Chang'an City do not have houses to live in?"

"Reporting to Your Majesty, there should be more than 100 people!"

Changsun Wuji replied directly.

"More than 100?"

Li Shimin's expression froze in disbelief.

"There are only so many officials in Chang'an City, how can there be so many officials renting other people's houses?"

"Your Majesty, these more than 100 officials were all promoted from outside Chang'an. Some of them were directly transferred back to Chang'an. Now, as Chang'an becomes more and more prosperous, all kinds of prices are rising.

These officials themselves were not from aristocratic families, and their families did not have much savings.

Therefore, they can't save money to buy a house, so they can only rent in some big families all the time! "

Changsun Wuji said cautiously.

"absurd!"

Li Shimin got angry and shouted directly: "Build a house, quickly build a cement house!"

"Build two hundred houses directly for me, and my officials are actually in Chang'an City, and they even want to rent other people's houses!"

"Your Majesty is merciful!"

"Thank you, Your Majesty!"

Fang Xuanling, Changsun Wuji and others were all overjoyed.

Li Shimin was invisible in the palace all day long, but they felt distressed when they saw the officials of their own family being bullied by those landlords every day.

With the opening of the fifty houses in Chang'an City, within two days, hundreds of dignitaries and people from aristocratic families went to check them out.

Immediately, within two days, the fifty houses were sold out.

Moreover, it directly replaced the old house of more than 200 mu for the Datang Chamber of Commerce.

"Sanlang, in this way, wouldn't the Tang Chamber of Commerce be able to make a lot of money?"

Cui Mi said curiously about the main building of the Jinwang Bieyuan in Lijiazhuang.

"Yes, the Tang Chamber of Commerce made a lot of money with tears and blood!" Li Xuan said with a strange expression.

He set the price up by [-]%, but he didn't expect those honorable families to buy it directly without even mentioning the price.

……

Weinan County.

Li Chengqian, Wang Xuance, Fang Yizhi, Du Gou, and Changsun Chong jointly built [-] houses from the Datang Bank, and they all started to complete.

The news had just been released, and it took less than half a day.

The aristocratic families and wealthy businessmen and dignitaries in the entire Weinan County came to see the house anxiously.

Come down in a circle.

All the aristocratic families and wealthy businessmen and dignitaries in Weinan County have their mouths wide enough to stuff eggs into.

Suddenly, the patriarch of an aristocratic family remembered the house they were looking at in Chang'an City, and then flew up the stairs and turned around, looking tremblingly at the steward Wang Laowu in front of him.

"Wang Guanshi, dare to ask if this house and the houses in Xuanping Square in Chang'an City...whether...?"

The latter words are too shocking, he is just a small county-level century-old family, so he dare not say more.

"Patriarch Guo, don't panic. They are all cement houses with a size of ten acres. Except one is in Chang'an City, one is in Weinan County, one is built by the craftsmen of the housing construction department in Chang'an City, and the other is built for me and other craftsmen, the rest are similar. !"

In order not to expose the identities of Li Chengqian, Changsun Chong and others, all affairs in Weinan County were handled by a group of stewards from Wang Xuance's family.

However, even though he is only a steward in a small family, his own lord has already been conferred a title, and he is still the disciple of His Royal Highness King Jin, and even a close minister next to His Highness the Crown Prince.

Therefore, when facing the members of the family in Weinan County, he seemed to be very comfortable, and even had a condescending arrogance!

"Of course, there is also a big difference in price!"

Wang Laowu said again.

At this moment, all the dignitaries from aristocratic families in Weinan County also thought of something, and when they looked at the cement house in front of them, they were surprised and happy in their eyes.

Weinan County is only one day away from Chang'an City, and the fifty sets of extravagantly decorated concrete houses newly built in Chang'an City were sold for tens of thousands of yuan. This matter has already spread to all the counties around Chang'an City.

As for Weinan County, which is just beside Cement Avenue, the aristocratic families and dignitaries in Weinan County heard even more rumors, and even some well-connected aristocratic families went to Chang'an City to watch for a while.

It's just that they can only observe the mansions in the courtyard of the cement mansions in Chang'an City. As for some of the main houses, there are already people living in them, so they can't observe them.

But it also makes them envious...

They never expected that in their own county, thirty such cement mansions had already been built!
Moreover, from their point of view, the thirty houses in Weinan County are not inferior to the fifty cement houses in Chang'an City.

However, the furniture and garden landscape of these [-] sets of houses are not as exquisite as those [-] sets of cement houses in Chang'an City!
Thinking about it, the patriarch of an aristocratic family quickly asked, "Dare to ask Steward Wang, how do we sell our [-] sets of concrete houses?"

"Patriarch Tao, for our houses, a house with a size of 2000 mu costs [-] guan; a house with a size of [-] mu costs [-] guan; a house with a size of [-] mu costs [-] guan!"

Wang Laowu said.

The original price was not so high, but after seeing the sales of the fifty houses in Chang'an City, Li Chengqian, Chang Sun Chong and others immediately changed the price!

However, the dignitaries of these aristocratic families in Weinan County did not know.On the contrary, after listening to it, everyone's face was full of joy.

"It's so cheap?"

That's right, it's directly ten times lower than the house price in Chang'an City!
"So, the old man bought a ten-acre house!"

"I also want a ten-acre house..."

……

Inside the county government office of Weinan County.

Li Chengqian, Wang Xuance and others were handling the government affairs of Weinan County while waiting for the letter from the cement house.

"Xuance, I will earn more than 2000 yuan for a ten-acre house, is this a bit..."

Li Chengqian was still a little apprehensive about raising the price of cement houses in Weinan County by a thousand guan again.

"Dalang, don't worry, if Weinan County is dozens of miles closer to Chang'an City, I can raise the price by another thousand..."

"hiss……"

Li Chengqian, Fang Yizhi and the others all looked shocked.

Du Gou said in a low voice: "But I'm waiting for a cement house with a size of ten acres, and the cost is at most eight hundred guan?"

"What do you all think is the cost of the ten-acre cement house in Chang'an City?" Wang Xuance asked with a half-smile.

"This……"

Du Gou, Li Chengqian and others couldn't help being silent.

"No more than three thousand strings!"

Wang Xuance continued.

"So, for a house that is only ten acres in size, wouldn't Aye and his master earn [-] yuan in blood?"

"I earned [-] guan with tears and blood!"

Wang Xuance sighed softly, "But it is agreed that it is a ten-acre cement house, but I can only earn two thousand coins!"

Hearing this, Li Chengqian said subconsciously: "Xuance, should I set the price higher?"

"Dalang, the price we have set is already twice as high as that of an ordinary mansion in Weinan County. It is really inappropriate to raise the price. Otherwise, the house price in Weinan County will be inflated accordingly, and the common people will not be able to afford houses!"

Wang Xuance smiled wryly, and said, "The main reason for me to spend so much time building and selling cement houses is to enable the common people to work and earn money!"

"Extremely!"

Speaking of this, Li Chengqian was overjoyed.

"Nowadays, just by building cement houses, there are 500 craftsmen in Weinan County, and [-] common people are doing coolies. After these [-] sets of cement houses are built, each craftsman can earn three pennies. And for the more than [-] coolies, each of them can make two bucks!"

"With just this money, these ordinary people have already earned back the purchase of sweet potato seedlings, potatoes, and corn seeds."

"Now, there are more than 1 households in Weinan County who have planted one mu of sweet potatoes, one mu of potatoes, and two mu of corn. After the autumn harvest, each of these ten thousand households can collect at least one thousand catties of sweet potatoes, six hundred catties of potatoes and six hundred catties of corn."

"Next year, without my help, at least every household of the [-] households in Weinan County can grow sweet potatoes, potatoes, and corn!"

"If each family reclaims an additional five mu of land, within two years, the people in Weinan County will be rich..."

"Yes, with sweet potatoes, potatoes, and corn, not only the people in Weinan County, but all the people in Tang Dynasty will be rich!"

"..."

"Lang Jun, Lang Jun!"

Just when Li Chengqian, Wang Xuance and others have begun to rejoice in the beautiful life in the future.

A hurried voice came in from outside.

Soon, a familiar figure hurried in from the outside.

Seeing Wang Lao Wu, Li Chengqian, Wang Xuance and others all looked at Wang Lao Wu expectantly!

"Wang Lao Wu, how is the sale of the house going?"

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(End of this chapter)