Making money with tears and blood

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

"Just like the two dormitory buildings in the backyard of my village, they can be built as high as six stories. In this way, twenty-four families can live in the land that can only accommodate one family!"

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

Fang Xuanling followed with a happy expression.

Li Shimin said with some worry: "But how much money does it cost to build this kind of cement building? Even if I don't make any money on these houses and sell them to the ordinary people at the original price, how many ordinary people can afford them?"

"this……"

Fang Xuanling and Du Ruhui also thought of this incident, with solemn expressions on their faces.

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

Li Shimin looked at Fang Xuanling aside.

"Back to Your Majesty, Your Highness the King of Jin, a one-acre house in Chang'an City can now be sold for more than 160 yuan! As for the two-room house that His Highness the King of Jin mentioned, it should be three-thirds of the land, and it must be more than 40 yuan.

Money can buy it!”

"If so, then it will be calculated as forty-five dollars!"

Li Xuan said: "Your Majesty, on one acre of land, at least two small buildings can be built, which is a house that four families can live in! If it is six stories high, that is twenty-four families!"

"In this way, these twenty-four families only need to share the more than 160 guan of money equally, and each family only needs to pay 7 guan of land money. As for the materials and money for building houses, plus the money of craftsmen, each family only needs 10 guan of land money.

Five guan of money is enough!”

"Fifteen strings?"

Hearing this, Li Shimin, Fang Xuanling and others were all shocked.

"Xuanba, if you put it this way, don't the people of Chang'an City only need twenty-two guan to buy a cement house? It's half the price of their previous small courtyard?"

"Your Majesty, you may need twenty-five strings, or you may only need twenty strings!"

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

“Enough to live in!”

Li Shimin nodded with satisfaction and quickly asked again: "Xuanba, you just didn't calculate twenty-two strings. How come some prices are low and some are high now?"

"Your Majesty, each floor of a six-story cement 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 cement house will not be built inside under normal circumstances.

Indoor wedding room.

If the common people want to enter the palace, they have to go downstairs to enter the palace. 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 most convenient for ordinary people living on the first floor, but the higher it is, the more inconvenient it is.

Naturally, the price of the first floor must be higher than the price of the houses above!"

Li Xuan explained.

"I see!"

Li Shimin, Fang Xuanling and others all nodded with some understanding.

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

Water must be drawn from the well or from the moat every day.

If you live on the sixth floor, it will be really inconvenient.

"However, a cement house only costs 20 yuan, which is enough for many people to rush to buy it!"

As he said that, Du Ruhui suddenly looked at Li Shimin.

"Your Majesty, since it is so cheap, I would like to ask your Majesty to build more houses. Among the hundreds of officials, many officials still have no houses to live in in Chang'an City!"

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

"Your Majesty, what Prime Minister Du said is absolutely true. Nowadays, the housing prices in Chang'an City of our Tang Dynasty have skyrocketed. Many officials who have been transferred and promoted from abroad cannot afford to buy houses in Chang'an City.

In fact, many officials from poor backgrounds, even if they have served in Chang'an City for three years, cannot buy a house and have been renting other people's houses!"

"I, an official of the Tang Dynasty, can't afford a house?"

Li Shimin couldn't help but be surprised.

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

Fang Xuanling, Changsun Wuji and others said quickly.

"Your Majesty, you can think about the monthly salary you give to those officials. After deducting the money they have to support their families, how much money will they have left?"

Li Xuan said quietly.

Although he had not specifically studied the salaries of those officials, based on the prices in Chang'an City, Li Xuan was certain that there were indeed officials in the Tang Dynasty who were renting other people's houses when they were serving in Chang'an.

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

Li Shimin frowned directly, "Do you know how many officials in Chang'an City have no houses to live in now?"

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

Changsun Wuji replied directly.

"More than a hundred?"

Li Shimin's expression froze, in disbelief.

"There are only so many officials in Chang'an City. How could there be so many officials renting other people's houses?"

"Your Majesty, these more than a hundred officials were promoted from outside Chang'an. Some of them were directly transferred back to Chang'an. Now, as Chang'an becomes more and more prosperous, the prices of various commodities are rising.

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

Therefore, they cannot save money to buy a house, so they can only rent in some wealthy families!"

Changsun Wuji said cautiously.

"absurd!"

Li Shimin became angry and shouted directly: "Build houses, build cement houses quickly!"

"Build two hundred houses for me directly, but my officials actually rented other people's houses in Chang'an City!"

"Your Majesty has mercy!"

"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 heartbroken every day when they saw the officials under their own family being bullied by the landlords.

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

Immediately, in less than two days, all fifty houses were sold out.

Moreover, it directly gave the Datang Chamber of Commerce an old house of more than 200 acres in exchange.

"Sanlang, in this case, wouldn't the Datang Chamber of Commerce be able to make a fortune?"

Cui Mi said with curiosity on the main building of Jinwang Villa in Lijiazhuang.

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

He raised the price by 30%, but he didn't expect those noble families to buy it directly without even talking about the price.

…

Weinan County.

Li Chengqian teamed up with Wang Xuance, Fang Yizhi, Du Gou and Changsun Chong to build 30 houses in Datang Qianzhuang, and they all started to be completed.

The news had just been released, less than half a day later.

All the aristocratic families and wealthy businessmen and dignitaries in Weinan County came anxiously to check on the house.

Come down in a circle.

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

Suddenly, the head of an aristocratic family remembered the house they were looking at in Chang'an City, and then he ran upstairs and walked around, trembling all over and looking at the steward Wang Laowu in front of him.

"Manager Wang, would you like to ask if this mansion and the houses in Xuanpingfang in Chang'an City are...are they...?"

What he said later was too shocking. He was just a small county-level century-old family and didn't dare to say more.

"Don't panic, Mr. Guo. They are all ten-acre cement houses. Except for one in Chang'an City, one in Weinan County, one built by the craftsmen of the Housing Construction Department in Chang'an City, and one built by our craftsmen, the rest are almost the same.

!”

In order to prevent the identities of Li Chengqian, Changsun Chong and others from being exposed, all affairs in Weinan County were handled by a group of stewards from Wang Xuance's family.

However, even though he was just a steward in a small aristocratic family, his husband had already been knighted, and he was still a disciple of His Highness the King of Jin, and even a close minister of His Highness the Crown Prince.

Therefore, when facing the people from Weinan County's aristocratic families, he seemed to be very at ease, and even had a condescending arrogance!

“Of course, there is also a big difference in price!”
To be continued...