Datang Nongsheng

Chapter 306 Advancement of Guanzhong Project

Even with such a huge salary increase, the New Deal almost failed to be implemented. This shows the difficulty of the reform. The officials have mastered the resources of the land and land, and the income they get is far more than what they appear on the surface. There is enough money, and they have made some corresponding compromises. After all, Li Shimin has the biggest fist now, and no one can object to what he said must be done.

Therefore, since then, the land in Guanzhong of Datang has basically become self-cultivated farmers. Those who have more private land at home can only spend money and hire labor to plant them like Xingfu Village. According to Sun Xiangfu, It is best to withdraw part of the cultivated land, build more lake areas, plant more trees and afforestation, and keep the water system in Guanzhong and the upper reaches of Guanzhong rich and not lost.

The income of imperial officials is fully linked to their duties and grades. If you want to be richer and have more status, you have to find a way to get promoted instead of using your official status to annex land and exploit farmers. Now, even if you have more land, you may not be able to earn money, because there are not so many people to help you cultivate it.

The liquidation was issued by the decree in February and lasted until the end of April, and the citizenship system was fully implemented in the Guanzhong area after the liquidation and restructuring. After that, there are still two tasks to be completed, and Li Shimin can get up and tour the north The first is the start of the new rural construction plan, and the second is the start of Weinan New City.

The construction of the new countryside was entrusted to Li Shimin, the eldest grandson Wuji, to implement it. He was originally the Minister of the Household Department, and now he is in charge of the Datang Bank. , he was finally willing to spend money.

In order to start a model project, Changsun Wuji specially went to Xingfu Village and invited Sun Dali to be his assistant. Not at all sloppy.

The first is the requirements for brick and tile houses. After the new village is built, it should be located as close as possible to the main road and cement road. There must be a grain drying field, and every few households must have a press well.

As for the houses with brick and tile structure, they basically refer to the structure of the self-built houses on the road from Xiaoheji to Xingfu Village. In fact, Sun Xiangfu was the original designer of that kind of house, because it is impossible for all the people to build something like Xingfu Village. The courtyard-style house where the original residents lived.

Therefore, there is a main room in the middle, and a simple brick house with two rooms on the left and right sides has become the first choice of Changsun Wuji. There will be a small room for farm tools behind the main room. In the backyard, you can build one or two according to your needs. The room, together with the kitchen, the woodshed, and the barn and latrine left behind, form a yard.

Changsun Wuji called this kind of house a brick-and-tile structure dwelling. This kind of dwelling is simple to build and convenient to live in. Open the door of the main room, and there is a big square table and long benches. The owner of the main house on the left lives, and the one on the right can For married children, the room in the backyard can be used as a living room for children or as a guest room. All rooms are equipped with ondols. In the backyard, you can add carbon to the ondols in each room.

Not only the walls will be painted with cement and lime, but the ground will also be covered with flat bricks, cement on the surface, and thick green tiles on the roof, so that the house will not look hot even in the summer when the sun is exposed to the sun. The main room leads to the backyard. As soon as the door was opened, the air circulated instantly. Unlike the mud shacks where most people lived, there was no smell of mud in this kind of house.

With all the materials in place, the first model house was completed in less than ten days under the construction of more than 100 skilled craftsmen in Xingfu Village. Then, the cost calculation came out. The cost of a residential building is about fifteen guan, which is much more expensive than building a house like this in Shanyang.

However, for this price, Li Shimin and Changsun Wuji are very satisfied. If Shiwuguan can settle the house, then, with a maximum of five Guan's furniture money, a self-cultivating farmer in Guanzhong can live a very good life. Life, finally, he slapped his thigh and decided to build to that standard.

All the people who moved to the new house, in addition to dispatching manpower to help during the construction of the house, only need to pay ten guanqian to the bank within two years to get the house deed, and the other five guanqian is subsidized by the imperial court. .If the loan cannot be repaid by the due date, the bank will start to calculate interest.

Moreover, all orphan families and military households are free of charge. Of course, some people with more money in their families can add money to build two-entry or three-entry residential houses.Second-class citizens can only build a house three times at most, otherwise it will be considered a violation of the system.

Because three-entry mansions generally have at least dozens of rooms and can accommodate hundreds of people, Li Shimin restricted the size of civilian houses in order to force these people to separate their families and prevent the emergence of local aristocrats.If those who can't live in the house separate and go to the government to register their household registration, then the folk houses and Yongye land allocated to them by the government may not be with the old house.

After the new countryside is built, it will learn from Shanyang and give each household a house number, and this address will be marked on the new citizen household registration booklet in the future. This has the advantage of making it possible to send letters and objects.

In the past, things like communication were only available to big families and officials living in the city, but if the new countryside is fully built, these ordinary farmers can also enjoy such services.

Changsun Wuji's task this year is to complete the construction of new countryside for all the villages in Chang'an, Wannian, and Lantian counties. In fact, there are less than a hundred villages. Mr. Wan Qingzhuang, as long as the problems of demolition and site selection and planning are properly handled, it is not difficult at all to complete the task.

Because the people in this period are not as difficult to deal with as later generations. Basically, they do what the government says. No one objected to such a good thing as replacing the people with new houses and big houses.

The most difficult thing was the construction of Weinan New City. Before Sun Xiangfu left, he actually gave Li Shimin a lot of suggestions. He meant to hand over the construction of Weinan New City to Ma Zhou.

One is because he has the experience of organizing tens of thousands of people to work, and he took tens of thousands of Turkic captives to build the major reservoirs in Guanzhong.

The second is because he has the most profound research on the Shanyang model, and he can best understand the meaning of the general design drawing left by Sun Xiangfu.

If this blueprint was shown to any official of the imperial court, they would not be able to understand it.

why?

Didn't you say it was easy to build a city?

There are no walls, so what kind of city to build?

However, Ma Zhou could see its way.

A city dominated by industry and commerce is characterized by communication.

The most conspicuous thing in the whole drawing is the wide road. After each road criss-crosses, it will lead to a cement official road that has been built in Guanzhong.

Sun Xiangfu once mentioned in a private letter to Ma Zhou, how can Weinan New City be built with the lowest cost and the fastest speed?

It is to mobilize everyone to build together. The first thing to build a city is not the city wall. After the city wall is built, those building materials may have to detour to and from the construction site. Ma Zhou only needs to build a few main roads first.

These main roads will divide the land of Weinan County into a large piece, a large piece.

Then, in these blocks, directly launch the workshop of the industry we are going to do.

The workshop has been established, the workers come to work, let's live in residential houses!For daily consumption!All kinds of supporting industries, if you want to earn money from these workshops, you have to open your own shop here. At that time, you don’t have to worry about the shortage of workers, insufficient building materials, etc., the industry of people or resources, They will all flow here naturally.

For example, if you build a super-large smelting workshop here, then the Wei family may open a super-large coal workshop next to you, because he wants to do your business!
If you open a large-scale printing workshop here, people who do ink business will naturally come to open an ink pill workshop next to you, because you have a large demand, and he will want to do your business.

If you open a large-scale dyeing workshop here, those who sell all kinds of dyes will also flock here...
Such examples are too numerous to mention. At that time, Ma Zhou's main job will be to keep building houses, selling them, or renting them out to these crowds.

Whatever they want, we will build them. Anyway, they pay for the money. The money we invest ourselves is an introduction. Bigger and stronger reserve funds.

Therefore, after Ma Zhou took over the errand, the first thing he did was not to build city walls or build houses. The first thing he did was to build roads, because the materials for road construction were basically produced by the workers themselves. , Moreover, no news about the purchase of building materials was released to the market. For a while, several big families who hoarded a large amount of building materials panicked and began to ask everywhere what was going on.

Then, the planning map of Weinan New City in Ma Zhou's hands was finally exposed after their various parties inquired. Where is there any county-level city? It is clearly just a few roads and workshops. This is also called a city?
"I know, I know, that kid Sun Zhengming played tricks on all of us, everyone, do you still remember what happened in Hongzhou, Quanzhou, and Tanzhou?"

Lu Wenyuan put away his folding fan fiercely, slapped the table and said.

Since Wang Lin disappeared, he has faintly become the leader of the family in Guanzhong. Today's gathering was also called by him.

"The most hateful thing is that the Wang family actually turned to the emperor. It is said that some of his family's building materials have been purchased. If it is to build a few larger workshops, the building materials we hoarded this time will probably be thrown at Got it."

Zheng Xuancheng didn't know why he said 'again', anyway, the feeling this time was exactly the same as the last few times.

After Zheng Xuancheng finished complaining, Lu Wenyuan looked at Cui Shaoyuan of the Qinghe Cui family and said, "Brother Cui, your family won the shares of Weinan New City, and I and the others contributed a lot. Moreover, the court stated at that time that the reserve of building materials was relatively small." Only a large number of people are eligible for the auction, and now, your family is also a shareholder of the Weinan project, so you have to give an explanation!"

"Isn't this just to inform everyone? The court doesn't dare to break its promise. Naturally, it has a plan to purchase the building materials in our hands. However, the quantity may not be as much as imagined. Moreover, let us bid for them by ourselves. They will choose the low price and good quality to buy. Some time ago, the Wang family sold some building materials to the court because they directly quoted a price that was [-]% lower than the market price."

Hearing this, Lu Wenyuan nodded and said, "So that's the case, this Wang family is really abominable. Since this is the case, each of our families will report the statistics of the building materials in our hands at the market price, [-]% of the price, to the court together. Bar!"

If it was only a [-]% discount, Lu Wenzhong and the others didn't think it was unacceptable. After all, it is normal to ask for price when purchasing in large quantities. However, they didn't know that this was a plan that Sun Xiangfu had set up long ago.

(End of this chapter)