Upon hearing this, Mrs. Qin Cheng couldn't help frowning: "Why, the county magistrate dislikes our mother and daughter for getting in the way and plans to kick us out?"
Lin Quqi's face turned pale and he quickly explained: "Madam scared Lin. The entire Beixi County was supported by Brother Qin. It can even be said that the entire Beixi County is in Brother Qin's pocket."
"To be honest, when I was the county magistrate of Beixi County, I was quite unwilling. I just felt that I had missed my official career and it was difficult to realize my ambition. But who would have thought that Beixi County would develop to the point where it is today, even if it is no longer Modestly, Beixi County is already the first county in Liang Dynasty."
"Coupled with the special geographical location and political environment here, it can be said that the words of this small county magistrate carry more weight than most state officials."
"Thanks to Brother Qin for your love."
Qin Cheng was just teasing. After all, she knew in her heart that Lin Quqi was Qin Feng's confidant. He was loyal to the Qin family and Beixi County.
However, seeing Lin Quqi react so fiercely, Qin Cheng suddenly found it interesting.
Lin Quqi was afraid of being misunderstood, so he continued to explain: "Madam is not only Brother Qin's mother, but also the mother of the entire Beixi County. If it weren't for Madam's teachings, how would Brother Qin have achieved what he has today?"
"The reason why I asked my wife to move out of the county government office is because the county government office is too simple and my wife doesn't know about it. Now many people in the city are complaining."
Complain?
Hearing this word, Qin Cheng could not help but frown slightly. After all, the stability of Beixi County was as important as Mount Tai. If anything went wrong, she would not be able to explain it to Qin Feng.
Lin Quqi sighed: "There is a popular saying that the wife is worth a thousand pieces of gold, and the husband is the minister of the Ministry of War and concurrently the Taiwei. In the past, he was named the First Grade Imperial Lady."
"In addition, Madam has raised a genius like Brother Qin. How high is this status?"
"Today, I am resigned to the county government, which is really annoying."
It turned out that this was the case. Qin Cheng couldn't help but breathed a sigh of relief and chuckled: "It's not as serious as you said."
Shen Qingci on the side added with a smile: "Mother, Magistrate Lin is definitely not exaggerating. You rarely go out on weekdays, so you don't know the voices in the public."
"Now many people in the city are threatening to build a courtyard for you. Hahaha, if County Magistrate Lin hadn't been worried about wasting people and money and suppressed the matter several times, it would have been built long ago."
Realizing that this was not Lin Quqi's compliment, but a real voice among the people, Qin Cheng felt moved and relieved.
But moving out from the county government is a bit difficult.
Qin Cheng said earnestly: "Building a courtyard will cost at least several thousand taels of silver. The sudden expenditure of such a large amount of money may endanger the county government's finances."
"Besides, I live quite comfortably in the county government office, so I don't need to move out."
Upon hearing this, Lin Quqi couldn't help crying or laughing.
Several thousand taels of silver?
You know, Beixi County’s current annual tax revenue has exceeded one million! And most of the funds have been deposited into the county government finance.
It can be said that Lin Quqi can now mobilize more funds than some officials from the Ministry of Household Affairs.
Thousands of taels of silver, thrown into the water, would not even make waves.
However... Lin Quqi still admired Qin Cheng's frugality from the bottom of his heart.
If it were anyone else, with a son who is famous all over the world, his head would have been raised to the sky. How could someone like Qin Cheng not change his original intention?
After Lin Quqi repeatedly begged, the Qin Cheng family finally agreed to move out of the county government office, but they gave repeated orders not to carry out any large-scale construction and to find a ready-made yard in the city.
Although Beixi County has been expanded repeatedly, due to the increasing number of people, every inch of land in the inner city is extremely valuable. It is absolutely impossible to set aside a large area of land to build a palace for the Qin Cheng family, which will occupy precious land resources.
Lin Quqi agreed wholeheartedly and sent Qin Cheng back to the backyard first. Then he took Xu Mo and went straight to the warehouse and ordered the master bookkeeper to dig out the city's land planning directory.
This land planning catalog was drawn up by Qin Feng himself when he stayed in Beixi County.
Record all the land in the city, set aside a portion of fixed commercial land resources, and one-third of public resources.
The remaining land will be distributed to the public in accordance with the "market economy".
In other words, anyone can buy land in the inner city as long as they pay enough.
However, according to the current economic scale of Beixi County, it can really be described as "an inch of land is valuable". Some foreign merchants have to purchase a foothold in order to enter Beixi County.
The idle land that has not yet been built has been sold for ten taels of silver per square foot.
If foreign merchants want to enter the city, they have to spend tens of thousands of taels of silver just to buy land.
Although at first, this method of land speculation was criticized by Lin Quqi, who felt that this move deliberately raised the threshold for merchants and would definitely hinder economic development.
The results turned out to be exactly the opposite.
The higher threshold means that foreign merchants will pay more attention to the development of Beixi County, and these lands themselves are fixed assets. Even if the merchants withdraw from Beixi County, they can resell the land and get back a lot of money.
The purchase and sale of land alone has filtered out many low-quality businessmen who fish in troubled waters in Beixi County, leaving only those high-quality businessmen, which has kept the business atmosphere in Beixi County in a virtuous cycle.
Lin Quqi flipped through the land planning catalog over and over again.
Not even Lin Quqi has the right to dispose of those public lands. They need to report to Qin Feng before they can decide on their use. In Qin Feng's words, this is the strategic reserve land of Beixi County. Unless the sky falls, who will use it? Don't even think about touching it.
Lin Quqi had no choice but to turn his attention to commercial land.
"One foot of commercial land in the inner city costs ten taels of silver. This fundamentally eliminates the problem of extravagance and waste and the construction of large-scale mansions."
"Although the land in the second city costs only one tael of silver per foot square, the second city is mainly used for residential and military purposes after all. How can it be possible for my wife to move to the second city?"
Now Beixi County has initially completed the expansion, which is divided into four floors.
The inner city located in the center is the original site of Beixi County and is now the core area of Beixi County. It integrates politics, military, people's livelihood, and commerce.
The large-scale Tianji Camp has begun to gradually move from the inner city, where land is tight, to the second city.
The second city has only two main purposes. Most of the people live in the second city, and the main army is also stationed here.
The outer two floors are barbicans, which are specially used to resist enemy attacks.
It is precisely because Beixi County is so impregnable that businessmen from all over the country come here in droves, because they know that as long as they do business in Beixi County, they will have peace of mind.
Of course, another key point to attract businessmen is the word trade.
