Chapter 43: Commercial Street
As the cabinet chief minister took the lead in donating money, others also began to donate with thousands or hundreds of taels of land.
After hearing them, Zhu Youjian said to Wang Chengen on the side: "Have you remembered them all?"
Wang Chengen immediately replied, "I remember everything. Including the 10,000 taels of eunuch Wei, the total is 33,450 taels."
"Okay, everyone is indeed loyal ministers of the Ming Dynasty. I will use this money to help the victims.
However, the construction of the Jingying station still requires credit. However, there are many places to use money in the Ming Dynasty, and I cannot guarantee that I will have money to pay off my debts in the next year.
In this way, I will use the imperial village as collateral. If the treasury cannot be replaced by the imperial village, I will use the imperial village land to repay it. In this way, President Liao, are you satisfied?" Zhu Youjian asked with a smile.
Liao Zidong felt his mind still buzzing at this time, although he had met Zhu Youjian last night, accompanied by Xiao Sheng, chairman of the Huangxia Construction Chamber of Commerce, and discussed the details of today's incident.
But at this time, facing these first-rank officials, all the civil and military officials in the court were just scholars, he still felt a little unreal.
After finally coming back to his senses, he looked at the emperor who was not angry and powerful on the throne, and it was difficult to regard him and the young young man who called him brothers last night as one person.
"Satisfied, Your Majesty is wise!" Liao Zidong said quickly.
So this matter became a foregone conclusion.
The emperor's debt was quickly spread. This incident did damage the majesty of the court. However, when he heard that the emperor wanted to use the treasury silver to provide relief to the victims, he was not allowed to pay credit to merchants, and even took out his own land as collateral in the end, the direction of public opinion naturally changed.
Everyone started talking about the emperor's wiseness.
At the same time, Liao Zidong, a man who made the emperor owe him 800,000 taels, was also well-known to everyone in the capital.
A few days later, Liao Zidong held a party in the largest restaurant in the capital and invited famous businessmen from all walks of life to gather together.
Everyone sat around a square object covered by a huge silk cloth. They wanted to see it, but were stopped by the guards guarding around them, so they could only wait for the owner to come out.
Usually, Liao Zidong wears simple dark clothes to facilitate his use of some tools to enter and exit the construction site.
But today he is wearing silk and satin, all of which are the best silk, wearing jade and fan, and his rich spirit makes people sigh.
When they saw him coming out, everyone stood up from their seats and bowed to show off.
Although he is just a scholar, everyone still has some respect for the people who can make the emperor owe to debt.
After that court meeting, Liao Zidong became much more peaceful when facing these giants and merchants.
"Everyone please sit down." Liao Zidong said with a smile.
After saying that, he sat down on the platform first, and everyone sat down.
Liao Zidong continued, "You are all people who make money every day, so I won't waste everyone's time. I'll call everyone here today to make a fortune with you."
Everyone was stunned by this.
Most of the merchants in the Ming Dynasty were landlords, and the retained thinking was still the kind of selfish idea that they only entered but did not leave.
Few people can think of making money with everyone.
"I believe everyone already knows that our Huangxia Construction Chamber of Commerce has undertaken the construction of the Yongwei Camp of the Ming Empire, and this is the place where everyone can make money." Liao Zidong paused and began to whisper.
Among them, Wang Linchi, the boss of Yuntan Bushang, said, "President Liao, don't keep it a secret, just say it!"
"Haha, it seems that everyone is very anxious to make money. It is very simple. The Yongwei Battalion's garrison is not only a place for soldiers to train, but also their living areas. In other words, the homes of tens of thousands of people will be placed there in the future, and the soldiers of the Yongwei Battalion, together with their wives and children, will live there.
This is a wealth that can be seen.”
Liao Zidong paused habitually again, looked at Wang Linchi, and asked, "Does Manager Wang think this is a considerable wealth?"
Wang Linchi frowned and said, "What kind of wealth will a group of ruined military households have?"
"No, they are not destitute military households, they are officers and soldiers of the Ming Dynasty. According to the news I have received, the monthly salary of these soldiers from the brave guard camp is 2 taels, and the court supervises to ensure that everyone can receive the full salary. Not to mention those officers, they will only be more!" Liao Zidong said loudly.
As soon as these words came out, everyone started to talk.
Two taels of silver are a lot of money. Ordinary families spend a year only two taels of silver.
These military households can get two taels of silver in a month, so I believe they will definitely be more generous in spending money.
The low-level merchants in the Ming Dynasty did not make much money, and the net profit of a year could reach hundreds of taels of silver, which was already very good.
And the market for these tens of thousands of people is enough to form a huge temptation for them.
Before Liao Zidong finished speaking, he continued to speak: "I plan to build four commercial streets in the Yongweiying military residential area, and introduce restaurants, clinics, cloth shops, tea shops, tramways and other shops involving food, clothing, housing, transportation and entertainment. This is the real-life sand table of our project planning, you can take a look."
As his words fell, the red silk cloth in the middle was slowly pulled away, and then everyone looked there in shock, looking full of disbelief.
I saw a huge square glazed piece of glass appearing under the red silk cloth. The glazed cover was completely transparent.
Among them, small houses are lined up one after another, four streets are highlighted, and there are also specially marked academies and clinics.
"This is really a priceless treasure!" one of the merchants sighed.
Liao Zidong came closer and coughed lightly and said, "This high-quality glazing is not the key. Let's look at the layout here. It is our Huangxia Construction Chamber of Commerce's plan for the construction of the Beijing Camp garrison this time.
There is no doubt that even if it is just a breakfast and snack bar on these four streets, you can make a fortune."
These words won everyone's unanimous agreement, but at this time Liao Zidong said: "But the scale of the four streets is limited, so it is not guaranteed that all merchants can join in. In order to allow everyone to compete fairly, the shops on these four streets will be split and auctioned.
Everyone has a fancy to which store and quotes by themselves. In the end, we will hand over its future use rights to you based on the highest quotation for each store.
This is information about the base price of each shop, that is, the starting price. We will build three specifications of shops, divided into three modes: large, medium and small, including 80 large shops, 80 medium shops, and 3200 small shops. The base price is 200 taels, 30 taels and 10 taels of silver. You can choose and buy them according to your own wishes.
The auction will be held tomorrow, and everyone is welcome to go to the appointment again."
Chapter completed!