Chapter 114 Business in Beijing City
Deng Zhen thought for a moment and said: "You are late. The most profitable business in Beijing was the construction business. But now the construction project in Beijing is almost completed, and only the government offices, palaces, military camps and other places are left. These are The palace must not be given to private individuals. I don’t know how many of these construction companies will die. However, I also heard rumors that there are two places to make money."
That’s not to say that construction isn’t profitable anymore.
But Deng Zhen didn't want Li Jinglong to enter this industry.
How can construction not make money?
To put it bluntly, in He Xi's opinion, Ming Dynasty has almost no infrastructure. The official road is just a dirt road, which is fine on weekdays. Once it rains, it turns into a quagmire, not even the cinder road invented by Howe. At least the cinder road has little impact in the rain.
Not to mention anything else, just paving cinder roads on all official roads in the world is a very big project.
It can't be accomplished without tens of millions taels.
Not to mention the infrastructure such as railways, docks, canals, and water conservancy projects that He Xi wants.
There is simply no way this can be done.
Deng Zhen knew some of these contents and some did not. For example, I don’t know about railways or anything like that. But Deng Zhen knew about the construction of water conservancy in Hebei.
Deng Zhen knew that He Xi was very resistant to using military labor.
Deng Zhen doesn’t know why?
In fact, He Xi did not think that the army could not be used to build projects, but now He Xi felt that the army should distinguish between combat soldiers and auxiliary soldiers. The Dixiang army in the Song Dynasty was mostly used for labor, which was okay.
But what is the health center near Beijing?
It is the general reserve team of the northern defense line.
Once there is an emergency, for example, a certain area suffers a major defeat, the Beijing District Health Center must make up for it to prevent the situation from deteriorating further. To put it bluntly, it is to turn the tide.
Such an army is not subject to daily training, so it is just a matter of hard work, and they are also asked to do hard labor.
Some are indiscriminate.
The situation in Tianjin today is too urgent.
For example, if the rivers in Tianjin are not dredged, if there is a heavy rain in Hebei in the future, the river water will flow back, which is too urgent. He Xi only allowed it as a last resort. He would rather allocate some people from the army to do this specifically, just like the railway soldiers, to form a river defense army or a canal army.
But He Xi understood that the military was too complicated. Moreover, the situation in the military has a great impact.
Once something went wrong, it would affect the whole body. He Xi could not predict the consequences, so he did not dare to easily promote reforms in the military.
He Xi also communicated with Shen Guogong Deng Zhen, and he intended to treat water conservancy projects in the same way as Beijing's urban construction projects.
The reason for this is that water conservancy projects have always been the hardest hit area for corruption and are also heavy tasks that people avoid. The stone man's single eye incited the world to rebel against the Yellow River. The Yuan Dynasty lost the world because of the Yellow River management project. This experience Lessons must be learned.
Although He Xi also understands that if water conservancy projects are handed over to private parties, there will be no corruption, right?
impossible.
But at least it won't be so blatant, and it has several advantages.
That is, people do not need to work for free, because once they work for free, it is outrageous for officials to exploit the people. Basically, in later generations, people will die in many projects. This is especially true in this day and age, but the problem is that if you die in hard labor, you are still dead. The government suppresses the situation, and the people get nothing. Among folk tales, there are too many stories of those who served in hard labor and never returned. Even the soul cannot return home.
If the package is given to other people, at least the dead person will have to pay compensation. From direct oppression of the people by the government to indirect oppression. Of course, He Xi could guess with just his toes that there must be government helping these big companies oppress the people. But this comes at a cost.
These companies also have to weigh which cost is greater: using political resources to bring peace, or feeding corrupt officials and providing pensions to workers.
Not to mention, if something goes wrong, the government will not hesitate to blame these companies, and even if these companies have backing, they are still weak in front of the entire Ming government system. At that time, the entire company will be fined, and the backend may even be implicated.
Not to mention, among organizations that are profit-centered business organizations and administration-centered organizations that don’t even have much concept of cost, it’s a matter of who saves more and is more efficient.
Deng Zhen is optimistic about this piece of land. Therefore, he didn't want Li Jinglong to come over and grab food.
After all, Deng Zhen could see clearly that such a project might look like a court tender, but it would consume the most government resources. As the Duke of Shen, Deng Zhen has no opponent in this area as long as the other Dukes do not give up.
And Li Jinglong is just another prince.
Li Jinglong immediately said: "Oh, but I don't know about those two profitable businesses."
Deng Zhen said: "First, it is the land in Beijing. Consort He is going to sell the land in Beijing to private individuals and let them build houses. Now you also know the price of houses in Nanjing. And now in Beijing, In Nanjing in the future, whether you collect rent or sell it, you will definitely make a profit."
Li Jinglong is not too cold about this business.
Yes, the price of houses in Nanjing is not low. After all, living in the capital is not easy, and it has been like this since ancient times. But the prices in Nanjing City are not that high?
There are two reasons. First, Nanjing has a small population from outside the city.
The price of housing is essentially a relationship between supply and demand. Thanks to Zhu Yuanzhang's efforts, the city of Nanjing desperately expanded and introduced countless foreign craftsmen through administrative orders. But the problem is that at this time, the only outsiders are officials.
The total number of officials in the Ming Dynasty was only over 10,000, plus their entourage, wives and children. Moreover, these officials do not change very frequently. Overall, the foreign population is not large.
Second, Nanjing is actually very big.
Nanjing City has five walls, and even the fifth wall was not filled until the Ming Dynasty. This also proves one thing. In the non-industrial era, cities are not production units, but consumption units. There is a limit to the expansion scale of cities with such consumption units.
Suzhou is based on handicrafts, so the scale of Suzhou City is larger than that of Nanjing City.
Li Jinglong has no doubts about Beijing’s positioning.
It is the hub city and political center of the Ming Dynasty in the north. It is indispensable for external control of the Northeast, Goryeo, Japan, Monan, and Mobei regions. But Li Jinglong still lacks judgment on how far Beijing's housing prices will rise in the future.
Because no one has ever seen how industrialized cities will push up housing prices.
Therefore, in Li Jinglong's view, doing business in housing prices is just a small business. In addition, the Beijing city designated by He Xi is actually not small. In terms of size, it is larger than the historical Beijing city. Starting from scratch is not as good as before the construction of Nanjing City, there was still a Jiqing City.
If you ask him to increase the price, how much can it increase?
Li Jinglong said: "What is the other business?"
