indianbanksassociation Chapter 257 The world's first industrialized city begins to take shape
Chapter 257 The world's first industrialized city begins to take shape
Chapter 257 The world's first industrialized city begins to take shape
Not only Emperor Zhao Shen, but even Xiao Qi was confused by Yu Yunwen's words.
The other ministers in the hall were even more taken aback by Yu Yunwen's act of throwing money into the water with the emperor and Xiao Qi, but they didn't say anything.
There's no way to say, it can't be said that Yu Yunwen's investment in money is stupid!
Both the emperor and the king of Zhenbei invested money, and they both invested a lot of money. In this way, the emperor would not cause too much trouble, but the possibility of the king of Zhenbei beating someone on the spot is still very high.
The early court ended hastily in such a strange atmosphere. Emperor Zhao Shen asked Xiao Qi and Yu Yunwen, who had invested money, to go back to the harem with him to discuss the matter of investing money.
Zhao Shen led the two to the side hall of the imperial palace, Xiao Qi and Yu Yunwen walked behind.
Xiao Qi deliberately pulled Yu Yunwen back, and then asked Yu Yunwen in a low voice:
"I said Master Yu, as far as I know, you have only saved this ten thousand taels of silver for most of your life, right?
I'm all in now. Are you really willing to accompany Xiao and throw your life's hard work into the water? "
Yu Yunwen glanced sideways at Xiao Qi, and suddenly said with a smile:
"Originally, my old man just thought you were a cunning boy, and never traded at a loss. After hearing what you said just now, all the worries I had before were gone. This time, I will definitely make a fortune with the officials and you!"
Xiao Qi touched his nose in embarrassment: "You saw it just now, I sincerely gave up [-]% of the shares to let everyone make a fortune together, but they gave up without appreciation!"
Now Yu Yunwen is more convinced that Xiao Qi has already made up his mind about this new city investment plan, and he is also convinced that this shareholding is a good deal that can make a profit without losing money.
He asked in a low voice: "The King of Zhenbei is so confident, but he has a plan in advance?"
Xiao Qi shook his head and sighed: "Your Majesty was joking, how could Xiao even count on these idlers and not allow the use of the treasury's money, this idea was only thought of by them killing the treasury."
Zhao Shen, who was walking in front, faintly heard what the two said, and turned back and said, "The king of Zhenbei will tell me about your thoughts in a while. If so much money is lost, I will really feel so bad. of!"
Xiao Qi hurriedly said: "Don't worry, father, my son's method will never pay, and will make a lot of money."
After saying that, he sneered: "It's a pity that they stopped me from letting my son tell me. If they heard this, they would definitely rush to invest the [-]% in the shares, and they would even give them another [-]% if they find it too small!"
During the conversation, the three came to the side hall. After Zhao Shen sat down, he called Yu Yunwen and Xiao Qi to sit down as well, and asked Xiao Qi to explain his new city construction plan in detail.
Xiao Qi told Zhao Shen in detail the tricks that he learned in his previous life to engage in real estate development and make a lot of money.
After hearing this, Zhao Shen and Yu Yunwen immediately felt that they could make money. Yu Yunwen hesitated and said:
"The king of Zhenbei will indeed make money by doing this, but in the past, the land in the city was owned by Song Dynasty, so it will be sold directly, I am afraid that someone will say three to four!"
Xiao Qi said disapprovingly: "These lands were bought with the money we raised, and we built them into houses for sale. What can they say? When I make money, some people will definitely be jealous, but I gave them a chance and they But don’t, who’s to blame!”
Zhao Shen nodded after hearing this: "Well, they really gave up on this matter themselves. They want to make money without taking the risk of losing money. How can there be such a good thing!"
Yu Yunwen thought about just now in the court hall, when Xiao Qi asked those ministers to participate in the shares, they all had expressions of fear like snakes and scorpions, and sighed, thinking: It's been so long, why haven't these guys understood that Xiao Qi never It is useless not to get up early!
Next, Xiao Qi roughly talked to his father-in-law, Zhao Shen, about the main items for making money.
It is nothing more than dividing the new city into several areas. Except for the Dasong Machinery Manufacturing Factory and the New Textile Factory, two large factories covering a very large area will not be used to make money.
Other parts of the new city were divided according to Xiao Qi's previous plan. Among them, the wealthy area was divided into a large area, which was built into a large building complex.
The style of the buildings here are all new-style two-story buildings, of course the appearance is the two-story cement prefabricated slab designed by Xiao Qi.
The rich area is also divided into three grades, and each yard in the first grade occupies a very large area.
In addition to building several courtyards in accordance with the Song Dynasty custom, each courtyard has a small two-story building, and there are still a lot of places to build gardens and various open spaces, which is convenient for those very wealthy people to build their own gardens.
There are only ten such large mansions covering an extremely large area, and they were selected in several very good locations in the city, and Xiao Qi also specially designed them so that running water would pass through those mansions.
The reason why Xiao Qi had such an idea was because he remembered the Suzhou gardens that people in later generations often referred to. Although it is still called Pingjiang City today, it is certain that the wealthy people here like to build gardens.
Of course, the price of these ten large mansions that can be used to build Suzhou gardens must be expensive, and they will definitely not be sold when they are first built.
This Xiao Qi also explained to Zhao Shen, and told his father-in-law that the sooner these ten mansions are sold, the better, because the land in Xinpingjiang City will become more expensive as the new city is built.
This is a top luxury house that must have the highest growth rate. The person who can buy such a luxury house will not be the richest person in the local state capital, but the richest businessman in the entire Song Dynasty.
The second level is Xiao Qi's planning according to the appearance of the single-family villa area in his previous life. It is a large courtyard covering an area of about five acres, and several small two-story buildings are built inside.
Then there are kitchens, warehouses, and servants' quarters, as well as a large garage, which can park two carriages, and a stable for four or five horses.
Such mansions have independent courtyard walls. Although no running water flows through them, gardens are essential.
In the third category, Xiao Qi originally planned to build a townhouse, but then he thought about it. Rich people in this era definitely don't like to be next to other people's houses.
So several areas were set aside, and a courtyard of two acres was formed in these areas. A two-story building was built in the courtyard in the east, west, north and south, and then surrounded by walls to form an independent small courtyard.
As for the townhouses, Xiao Qi turned them into shops facing the street. They are all next to each other on the street, with a half-acre courtyard behind them. Because they are built of prefabricated panels, the space on the second floor is very spacious.
The businessmen who bought the shops here at a large price can remodel these rooms according to the projects they want to operate.
Whether to divide the second floor into small rooms and open a restaurant with private rooms, or just use the entire spacious place to buy goods, is up to the person who buys it.
Behind these shops are planned small two-story buildings. These two-story small buildings are divided into [-] square meters and sold to the outside world.
Some people say why it is only built with two floors. With reinforced concrete, it is no problem to build three or four floors.
Because Xiao Qi considered the conditions at that time, there was no water supply network at all at this time. Even if a water tower could be erected, there was no machinery such as a water pump, so it was impossible to guarantee water supply to high places.
Public toilets are also a rarity in this era. Xiao Qi planned public toilets at a certain distance in each residential area. Of course, these toilets are dry toilets, and someone needs to pull a dung truck to clean them every day.
Even so, the new Pingjiang City planned by Xiao Qi is also the prototype of an industrialized city that was launched hundreds of years in advance.
Such urban planning will definitely attract a large number of businessmen and skilled craftsmen to settle here.
Of course, Xiao Qi also provided very good treatment to the craftsmen. For example, as long as you are hired by the Dasong Machinery Manufacturing Factory or Textile Factory here, you will have the opportunity to buy a residence in Xinping River City at half price.
If you don’t have that much money in hand, Xiao Qi also introduced installment payment. As long as the craftsman himself has the certificate of hiring his factory, he can sign a repayment period of five to ten years with Chang Shengying, who is in charge of buying the house.
After the signing is completed, you can move into the purchased house first, as long as you pay the required repayment money every month.
Xiao Qi's installment payment method only stunned Zhao Shen and Yu Yunwen. Yu Yunwen looked at Xiao Qi blankly, and said to himself: What is this guy's brain made of?How can you think of any weird ways?
Zhao Shenliu and the two had a meal, and then began to send the money in the treasury of his own palace to Xiao Qi's Zhenbei Palace in batches according to his 50.00% shares.
Yu Yunwen also sent 1 taels of silver to Xiao Qi's home early.
Xiao Qi even sent someone to send this matter to the generals at all levels of the Changsheng Battalion, asking them to buy shares with 1 taels of silver.
Of course, the four Lin Zheng, Qin Tu, and their generals who were far away overseas also sent people to notify them.
This matter went very smoothly. If Xiao Qi hadn't calculated the amount of money they needed to pay, the generals of the Changsheng Camp might have collected [-]% or even [-]% of the shares.
These guys had no shortage of money at all, and soon the remaining [-]% of the money was collected.
Xiao Qi also ordered the soldiers of the Changsheng Battalion to escort the silver and a large number of carpenters and masons to the location of Xinpingjiang City, and began to quickly construct the planned roads and underground drainage facilities.
As for the land for building the new city, Xiao Qi sent someone to buy it all with money.
These large numbers of those who have just completed the construction of the Dasong Advanced Technical College are already very proficient in the use of cement. The cement pipes of these underground pipe networks were quickly fabricated and buried.
Roads and drainage pipe networks in urban areas were built very quickly.
It didn't take long for the underground facilities and concrete roads of this planned huge new city to be built.
Because the water supply in this era can only rely on river water and wells, Xiao Qi ordered people to build thousands of public wells in the new city. Because it is a city, for safety, Xiao Qi built all these wells into pressure wells.
Such a water well uses a steel pipe to lead up from the underground water. The top is a steel pipe with a height of one meter above the ground, the front is the water outlet, and the back is a steel pressure handle.
The mouth of the well will be sealed with bluestone slabs, so that there will be no worry about ignorant children running around and falling into the well in this densely populated area.
Now the technology for making steel pipes is very mature, and the rubber ring used as a seal can be produced quickly as long as the size is given.
It doesn't take much depth to drill wells in this Jiangnan area, and water can be produced within a few meters.
However, because there are no wells to supply water to many people, Xiao Qi ordered each well to be drilled more than ten meters deep, so that water of several meters deep can be stored in the wells. Even at the peak of people's use of water, the water in the wells can be guaranteed. It can keep up with the consumption of people in the city.
The money for the construction of the new city has been raised, and Xiao Qi has mobilized a large number of craftsmen to build cement roads in nearby counties.
The construction speed of Pingjiang New City is very fast, and these craftsmen have long been familiar with the properties of cement used in construction.
The construction of the new city is being built at a speed visible to the naked eye.
If the bricks fired by the brick kilns in several nearby state capitals were not available, the construction of Pingjiang New City would be faster.
Fortunately, many mineral deposits have been discovered in many places overseas, among which there are several coal mines that are easy to mine.
The large transport ships of the Song Dynasty continuously transported coal, as well as smelted copper, iron, aluminum, tin and other metals back to the Song Dynasty. Of course, the very precious metals of gold and silver were transported separately by Changshengying. .
Even so, copper and iron are two metals that can be used to make money and weapons, and they are also escorted by Song Dynasty warships during transportation.
As for the use of coal, the people of the Great Song Dynasty are not very used to it, so the coal being transported back is basically used by the Great Song Foundry Bureau.
Those brick kilns that use coal to bake bricks for building houses were also new brick kilns that Xiao Qi later ordered to be built in various parts of the Song Dynasty when he saw more and more coal being transported to the Song Dynasty.
As time passed, Xinping River City had become a bustling large-scale construction site, and the outline of the entire new city had been formed.
Xiao Qi's focus is still on the construction of the Dasong Machinery Manufacturing Factory and the Dasong Textile Factory.
Of these two factories, the Dasong Machinery Manufacturing Factory occupies the largest area. It not only has many workshops for processing and producing equipment, but also has a large number of warehouses to store the produced machine parts.
The area of the textile factory is not small. In addition to a dozen huge textile factories used to house steam-powered looms, dozens of large warehouses have also been built to store raw materials and produced cloth and silk.
In the other two factories, there is still a large area of open space, in order to build a new production plant for any new projects in the future.
In order to improve the quality of the yarn used for weaving in the textile factory, Xiao Qi also asked those senior craftsmen to work day and night to research and develop spinning machines, so that the raw material yarn of the textile factory can be of uniform thickness and better in quality.
The most important thing is the periphery of the two factories. A large number of two-storey buildings were built as the living places for the workers of the two factories, providing living places for the workers of the two emerging factories.
(End of this chapter)