Eighth year of Chongzhen

Chapter 676
In order to meet the many talents that may be brought back by visiting missions in the future, the Imperial College is undergoing a major renovation. In the northern part of the park, new buildings are being erected one after another, and everything is in accordance with the drawings given by the Ministry of Industry and Construction. It is under construction in an orderly manner.

In charge of this construction task is a construction team formed by Zhou Kui, Tian Hongyu, Yuan Yerang, Zhang Guoji and other relatives of the state.

This construction team has been established for three years, and its size has increased from more than [-] people at the beginning to more than [-] people now. The construction team has almost recruited all the skilled craftsmen who build houses in the Gyeonggi area, and this construction team has also become The first professional construction team in Ming Dynasty.

In order to make a name for themselves, Tian Hongyu and others even gave their construction team a famous name: Jinkun Construction Team, which means the beautiful universe and also secretly flatters the emperor.

Before the construction of the Ming Dynasty, such as the construction of various palaces in the Forbidden City, etc., professionals from the Ministry of Industry surveyed the topography and landforms and issued construction drawings, and then the Ministry of Industry recruited craftsmen and young and strong laborers to start construction. The builders then returned to their hometowns.

No matter in terms of treatment, professionalism, construction progress, or tacit understanding during construction, this kind of improvised construction team generally has chaotic management, a lot of waste of various building materials, disorderly progress of the project, and corruption of officials. And so many questions.

At the beginning of the establishment of this construction team by the relatives of the state, Zhu Youjian once specifically introduced to several people the various advantages of setting up a professional construction team. It will become a trend, and they are required to establish and develop this construction team on the premise of properly solving the worries of recruiting craftsmen and young laborers.

Although the construction team was jointly funded by four people, in fact Zhou Kui and Zhang Guoji only contributed money to invest in the shares, and they seldom intervened in everything after the establishment of the construction team. Tian Hongyu and Yuan Yerang were responsible for the daily management. Lord's.

These two of course did not contradict Zhu Youjian's words.

When recruiting craftsmen and young and strong laborers, the locals of the capital are also the main ones, and none of the recruits is a farmer. This avoids the problem of delaying farm work due to construction to the greatest extent.

After spending more than a year building a batch of mansions for officials moving north from Nanjing, Tian Hongyu and Yuan Yerang found Zhou Kui and Zhang Guoji, and handed over the accounts to the two for inspection. The idea of ​​expanding the size of the construction team informed the two.

Because the two of them discovered that building this thing is a very profitable business. According to the professional construction mode mentioned by the emperor, various costs have been reduced a lot, and the construction efficiency has also been greatly improved.

Based on their observations over the past year, it took at least five months to build a house with the previous construction team method, but it only took them more than two months to build a house of the same size , and the construction speed is fully doubled compared to that.

As the tacit understanding between craftsmen and young labor continues to increase, Tian and Yuan believe that there is still room for improvement in construction speed under the premise of ensuring quality.

After Zhou Kui and Zhang Guojichan read the account details, they knew that construction was so profitable. They immediately agreed not to pay dividends for the time being. Professional construction team, get more profits.

Zhou Kui and Zhang Guoji are not stupid.

They also know that since the emperor greatly increased the salaries of officials, military supervisors, and craftsmen, many of these people who suddenly lived in a very comfortable life chose to build new houses or renovate old houses.

This is a habit that many Chinese people want to develop. There is gold to stick to the face.

In fact, according to the tradition for thousands of years, when the common people's houses are repaired and built, it is the host family who invites the neighbors to come to help, as long as the host family is responsible for the food.

But these craftsmen, who have become rich, are not willing to stop working on a piece-by-piece basis every day, and the neighbors are also in the same industry, and they are all waiting to renovate their own houses. Who has the time to come and help with this?
Ever since, the shortage of construction personnel has become the new normal in the capital construction market in the past few years.

After Tian Hongyu and Yuan Yerang saw the opportunity, they divided the construction team into several teams, and several craftsmen and a dozen young and strong laborers went to pick up the work and start working.

Due to the sudden explosive growth of the construction market, the construction craftsmen in the entire capital are obviously not enough. Many people who want to renovate and build houses have no choice but to wait until they see their neighbors' houses are nearing completion. It's good to make a reservation.

Some officials with certain rights directly revealed their identities and forcibly ordered the construction team to enter their houses and start construction immediately after completion.

Don't underestimate the small project of tens of two or hundreds of taels in this family, it can add up to a big sum.

From the second half of the 11th year of Chongzhen to the same month of the 15th year of Chongzhen, Zhou Kui and others were taken aback by the amount of profit during the year of accounting: the removal of the wages of craftsmen, the purchase of various equipment, building materials, etc. The annual net profit of Jinkun Construction Team has reached as much as 4 taels, and each of them can get nearly [-] taels of silver.

This amount of money is not a small amount, it has already exceeded the sum of their four shops and other industries, and the number of people who have made an appointment and waited in line for the construction team to settle in is temporarily uncountable, and there is still a large amount of money waiting for them to earn Woolen cloth.

After the four of them got together for a brief discussion, they quickly reached an agreement: the profit will not be distributed for the time being, and all the 15 taels of silver will be invested in it to further expand the scale of the construction team and recruit more people. The remaining money will be used to purchase various items. Materials to ensure the adequacy of working capital.

Just after the Jinkun Construction Team's business was in a mess, several similar construction teams were established one after another, and quickly invested in the upsurge of building houses in the capital.

Regardless of whether these new construction teams have any background or backing, Zhu Youjian immediately ordered someone to warn Tian Hongyu after hearing the news, to compete with them in a healthy manner by relying on the quality and speed of construction, and not to rely on the help of the palace. Prestige suppresses others.

The money in the construction market is endless.

Only by adopting a flexible and diverse model to take on more projects can greater profits be obtained, and the presence of competitors will make the company more aggressive and allow consumers to get more benefits and discounts.

However, no matter how you say it, these few are his old father-in-law, and they can't turn their elbows outward.

After warning everyone, after a while, Zhu Youjian still handed over a big order to the Jinkun construction team: Guozijian expansion and new construction project.

This is a big project with a budget of 120 million taels.

The main body is several experimental halls and venues, and more than a dozen classrooms and office spaces for teachers and students.

In addition, there are some additional facilities, such as canteens, kitchens, bathrooms, public toilets and other public facilities, and some small garden-style houses were built for the use of European talents brought back by Fang Yizhi and the others.

The model of the new park of Guozijian was determined by Zhu Youjian with reference to the opinions put forward by his own graduate university campus in later generations, drawn by the Department of Construction and Repair of the Ministry of Industry, and then revised by Zhu Youjian repeatedly.

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