Songjiang City is a city that is completely different from the big city in the traditional feudal dynasty era, and also from many small and medium-sized cities in the contemporary era.
In traditional feudal dynasties, even in Youzhou City or Jinling City, which had a population of hundreds of thousands in the past, the dignitaries often lived concentratedly in the core areas of the city.
In the contemporary Chu Empire, the upper class in many small and medium-sized cities are also concentrated in the core areas of the city.
But in the big cities of the Chu Empire, the situation was reversed.
The core area of the city that used to be very popular with the upper class has been gradually abandoned by the upper class in the past ten years.
The upper class gradually moved to the suburbs, and gradually developed from sporadic luxury estates in the suburbs into high-end and upper-class communities in the suburbs.
These high-end suburban communities often have better scenery, better infrastructure such as education and transportation, and better public security than urban areas.
As the upper class gradually moved to the suburbs, some high-income groups, such as Chief Wang, also began to move from the city to the suburbs. They could not afford suburban mansions like manors, but they could afford single-family houses in some ordinary communities in the suburbs. There is still no problem in the hospital.
Nowadays, even if their income is less, middle-income groups with a monthly income of around 20 to 30 yuan have gradually chosen to settle in suburban communities. Some real estate development companies have developed some mid-range suburban communities specifically for these mid-range customers. Although Most of them are also single-family courtyards, but they are smaller in size and less spaced between each other.
The reason for this situation is that Songjiang City, a super city, develops extremely fast and its population grows extremely fast, which eventually leads to the entire urban area of the city becoming crowded and the environment and air becoming extremely bad.
Of course, this is also indispensable without the support of developed public transportation!
There are not a large number of roads in good condition connecting the city and the suburbs. This rich man lives in the suburbs. Even if he has a private carriage, he cannot easily travel between the city and the suburbs.
Even if some ordinary middle- and high-income groups do not have private carriages, they also need a large number of public carriages traveling between suburbs and cities to complete their daily commuting.
In addition, there is another situation worth mentioning, that is, many upper-class groups who live in the suburbs. In addition to having houses in the suburbs, they often also own a very good luxury apartment in the city.
This is because even if there is a horse-drawn carriage for commuting, the speed of the horse-drawn carriage is limited, and these upper-class people are unlikely to frequently travel between their homes and the city. Therefore, most of them will buy a property in a suitable place in the city as a temporary residence in the city. at.
This is also the reason why a large number of upper-class people and middle- and high-income groups in Songjiang City have moved out one after another, but the housing prices in the urban areas they despised are still strong... For the rich, although their families do not live in the urban area, You can’t live without a house in an urban area…
The urban development of Songjiang City is special, but it is not unique... In fact, several other industrial megacities have similar situations.
For example, Tianjin in the north, Guangzhou in the south, and Hantian, the capital city. In these big cities, their urban populations are also very large, basically reaching more than one million.
They also face the same problems as Songjiang, such as traffic congestion and poor natural environment.
Even some medium and large cities with a population of hundreds of thousands but mainly industry are also facing the same problem.
Among these big cities with a population of hundreds of thousands, Jinling City is the only exception... Jinling City also has an urban population of more than 300,000. Well, this value is only limited to the urban population of Jinling City, not the entire Yingtian Mansion. The population of Yingtian Mansion is actually almost four million...
The total population of a prefecture and the urban population of the local prefecture are two different concepts and cannot be confused.
When you talk about Yingtianfu, it is a comprehensive super jurisdiction integrating politics, culture, finance, industry, education, and military... The capital directly under the empire is naturally very important.
But Yingtian Mansion is very big... The entire jurisdiction includes Yingtian Mansion, Chuzhou, Taiping Mansion, and Hezhou in the pre-Ming Dynasty. Although its jurisdiction area is smaller than Jiangnan Province, it is not much less.
This is said to be a government, but in fact it is a small province... and it is much stronger economically than most provinces in the empire.
However, as the core of Yingtian Mansion, Jinling City has a very low industrial output value and a small population. The urban population is only over 400,000.
This is because the industrial center of Yingtianfu is not in Jinling City, but in Dangtu in the west, Chuzhou in the north... Even Lishui in the south has an industrial output value that exceeds that of Jinling City.
Today, in the thirty-sixth year of Chengshun, Jinling City is a very pure political, financial, cultural, educational, and military center city. Its population is mainly composed of imperial dignitaries, bureaucrats and their families, students from various universities, and Guardsmen. Military personnel, employees in the financial industry and cultural industry, and personnel in other types of tertiary industries, such as various commerce, service industries, etc.
Only there are no factories and workers... Because except for a few special factories, such as the Jinling Arsenal, there are no factories at all in the city.
When you are in Jinling City, you cannot see the dense towering chimneys and smoke pillars like other industrial cities with hundreds of thousands of people.
At the same time, as the capital of the empire, Jinling City naturally has no shortage of funds for urban infrastructure... Although it has no industry of its own, it does not mean that its local fiscal revenue is small. After all, it is still the financial center of the empire. Finance also has to pay taxes, right?
At the same time, as the capital of the empire, even if the local fiscal revenue is not very good, it can still get money from other places. The central government will give Jinling City a large amount of special financial subsidies every year to build various local infrastructure.
Therefore, the level of infrastructure in Jinling City is quite high, even surpassing that of Songjiang City... The roads are wide and smooth, and asphalt roads and cement roads have spread all over the main roads in the city.
At the same time, a huge amount of money was invested in building a complete underground drainage channel system!
The most important thing is... a lot of financial and material resources are invested every year to maintain urban sanitation!
There are also relatively strict restrictions on the use of coal.
Well...you can't let Luo Zhixue, who lives in the core of the city, smell the smell of horse urine and coal.
Jinling City is a quite special city...
But there is only one Jinling City in the Chu Empire... Because there is only one emperor and only one political center. Only this place does not need to follow basic economic development rules... Because Jinling City does not need to develop the economy!
In other places, basic economic development rules are basically followed, which also brings about a series of traffic, environmental and other problems.
In the end, these problems have led to all aspects of people's livelihood, among which the most obvious one is housing prices.
In a big city like Songjiang City, many residential areas in the city are basically three- or four-story street-facing residential buildings. Although the prices of these residential buildings are also very high compared to those in other cities, they In fact, the people living in these places are basically all migrant workers.
Many of the buildings that look quite impressive... often contain single apartments or small apartments, and are inhabited by low- and middle-income people.
On the contrary, there are some suburban communities close to the city. The prices of community houses in these places are higher... and the cost of living is actually higher.
As for the outer suburbs... they are two extremes. On the one hand, the outer suburbs are far away from the city. There are often a large number of local farmers, as well as many farmlands, vegetable and fruit gardens, etc.; but at the same time, there are also areas specially developed to provide living accommodation for the upper class. High-end luxury communities with complete infrastructure, good public security and beautiful environment.
Regardless of whether it is the outer suburbs or the inner suburbs, the housing prices in these places are far higher than those of ordinary residential houses in the city.
And the communities in the suburbs were Sun Xu's goal...well, or rather the goal that Miss Meng took him to see.
The two of them went out early in the morning. This time they did not take a public carriage or a taxi. Instead, they rented a two-horse four-wheel carriage from a nearby car rental agency and hired a coachman.
Today's trip requires going to various suburban communities to view properties, which takes a long time and the distance is long. Moreover, there are ladies traveling with us, so it is not suitable to take a public carriage.
As for the taxi, it is possible, but this kind of taxi, which is billed by both time and mileage, is expensive to accompany you for a day... It is better to rent a car and hire a coachman.
In the carriage, Sun Xu and Miss Meng sat next to each other. After the two went to watch the fireworks together during the Chinese New Year, their relationship quickly heated up... Although due to traditional etiquette, the two of them did not do anything too outrageous, but Ordinary skin-to-skin contact is nothing in daily life. Occasionally, we can do some more private things...
After all, these are two singles struggling alone in a big city. They have few relatives and friends in Songjiang City. In an environment surrounded by strangers, the contact between young men and women is often bolder and more direct.
This is also an important reason why the relationship between the two people has heated up rapidly in the past few months.
If this were moved to a smaller place, it would be impossible.
This is also an important feature of the contemporary social development of the Great Chu Empire, that is, young people in big cities are more open-minded than those in small cities and rural areas... The reason is simple: there are no relatives and friends to control them, and no one gossips.
Although the two of them sit next to each other, it seems very ambiguous, but in fact, Sun Xu and Miss Meng have become accustomed to this... They have chewed this mouth many times, and they have touched everything they should and should not. Just sitting closer will not make the two of them feel any strange at all.
Now Sun Xu and Miss Meng are focusing their attention on the outside.
As the carriage gently rocked out of the center of Xicheng District, they discovered that they saw a different scenery than usual.
First of all, there are no large and dense residential buildings... let alone large, black-smoking factories.
The field of vision suddenly broadened, and the most important thing was that the air became better.
In urban areas, you can smell the smell of coal in the air all day long, as well as the faint smell of horse urine!
But this is not the case in the suburbs!
At the same time, although the air in the suburbs is better and the views are wider, it does not mean that the surroundings are deserted and the roads have turned into potholed dirt roads.
In fact, this road is still a cement road. Although there are not many carriages on the road, they are not too few. The carriage type D is just different from those in the urban area.
Most of the carriages in the city are actually freight vehicles. In addition, there are a large number of public carriages and taxis.
On this cement road in the suburbs, the proportion of private carriages is very high. In addition to private carriages, the rest are larger public carriages that specialize in traveling between the city and the suburbs. These public carriages often use four or three horses. .
Freight carriages, which are very common in urban areas, are rare on this road.
There are no densely packed residential buildings or factories on both sides of the road. There are basically some specially planted green trees and even flowers and plants on both sides. Some low residential buildings can be seen in the distance.
These low-rise residential buildings are also arranged one after another according to the community. There will be walls around the community, and there will be security guards at the gate to check.
These are suburban residential communities that have appeared one after another in the past decade and developed extremely rapidly.
These residential communities are also the goals of Sun Xu and Miss Meng’s trip!
The carriage continued to move forward. About two-quarters of an hour after leaving the city, their carriage left the cement-paved suburban main road and turned into a spacious road, which was still an asphalt road.
After walking several hundred meters along the asphalt road, they arrived at a small town.
At the intersection outside the small town, there is a huge stone with a message on it: "Qinglin Village"
This place is obviously a small town. Although it is not big, it can be regarded as a serious small town, but the word "village" is written outside the city.
But Sun Xu didn't have too many surprises. Let alone here, even in many places in the city, they still have the name of the village... Because in the local administrative region of the Dachu Empire, provinces, prefectures, counties/districts- Among the five levels of town and village, the village is the most basic administrative area.
The administrative divisions within Songjiang City are not complicated. They are mainly Shanghai County in the central city, Beicheng District in the area north of the Suzhou River, Nancheng District in the south, and Xicheng District in the west. The entire city is divided into one county and three districts... The entire Songjiang Prefecture is divided into three districts. Outside the urban area, there are several other counties such as Huating and Qingpu.
These counties and districts also have two levels of towns and villages, such as Xicheng District, which has eight towns, and each town has many villages.
Obviously, this Qinglin Village is one of them.
Miss Meng said: "When the shopkeeper of our store bought a house before, he found someone here!"
"I heard from her that there is a large-scale real estate dental store in Xicheng District in Qinglin that specializes in suburban housing. It's called Qinglin Real Estate Dental Store!"
Dental Clinic... This is not a dental company, but an intermediary service provider.
In the traditional sense, there are many problems in the dental industry, such as bullying, deception, profiteering, etc. After the establishment of the empire, the traditional dental industry was severely cracked down. However, there is still a demand for such intermediary services in the market, so in the future it will be Provide standardized guidance.
Later, when various commercial organizations were improved, some intermediary services were replaced by various exchanges, such as stock exchanges, futures exchanges, etc. At the same time, traditional intermediary services were subject to mandatory legal regulations, and modern commercial organizations emerged. Structure of various tooth rows.
The most typical one is undoubtedly the real estate business.
In addition, there are labor agencies engaged in human agency services, etc...
After hearing this, Sun Xu nodded slightly: "We are not familiar with the place, so we might as well go find a real estate dealer!"
Buying a house is such a big deal, not to mention that it is very troublesome to find a house and negotiate the price. Moreover, for such a large transaction, if there is no professional real estate agency to guarantee the transaction, Sun Xu is also afraid of various problems in the transaction if he goes directly to the homeowner. Problems, such as problems with the property rights of the house, the buyer taking the deposit and running away, etc.
The real estate shop not only provides transaction information, but also has a more important function in the Da Chu Empire, which is to ensure the smooth progress of transactions and the safety of funds between both parties.
For example, before a house transaction, they will ensure that the property rights of the house are clear and the transaction can be smooth. At the same time, they will ensure that the customer can really come up with the money, instead of claiming to buy a house but actually not having half a copper in his pocket. Gloves White Wolf.
Of course, there are also cases where some real estate banks take out the money and run away by themselves, but these are very few.
In fact, it is not easy to be a real estate agent in the Chu Empire. It requires a minimum junior high school education, professional study, and passing special government examinations to obtain corresponding qualification certificates.
If it is a professional dental clinic, it is even more complicated. You need to apply for multiple specialized qualification certificates before you can open a real estate dental clinic.
The Dachu Empire was wary of the many misdeeds of the early Ya people, so it set a very high threshold and formulated more stringent management regulations.
All of these have raised the threshold of the industry, but have also raised fees accordingly... and accordingly, the income of real estate professionals has generally been high.
The real estate people in the Dachu Empire generally have very good incomes and are considered a typical middle-income group.
If they are celebrity real estate people with great reputation and strong business capabilities, they can often handle transactions of some luxury homes and even large commercial real estate. The income of these people will be even higher, and their annual income can even reach thousands or even thousands of dollars.
Sun Xu wanted to buy a house, and he was buying a house in a strange place. Naturally, he would not foolishly look for a house by himself and then trade it. Instead, he went directly to Qinglin Village and found the Qinglin Real Estate Dental Shop here.
When Sun Xu's carriage came to a stop at the door of their company, there was a young doorman in business attire and black gloves who quickly stepped forward and opened the door.
At the same time, he bowed slightly and said: "Qinglin Real Estate welcomes distinguished guests!"
Sun Xu, who was wearing a formal business attire, nodded slightly in the carriage and got out of the carriage. Then he extended his hand to Miss Meng and helped her get out of the carriage.
As soon as I got off the bus, I saw another well-dressed middle-aged man and a female staff member in her twenties also wearing a formal dress coming up to the entrance of the dental store.
After entering it, Sun Xu found that there were many staff members busy inside. When he arrived at the reception room, Sun Xu didn't talk nonsense to them. He went straight to the point and said that he was looking for a house.
Hearing that this was a definite customer, the smile on the middle-aged man's face became even brighter. He asked his female staff to accompany Miss Meng and introduce her, while he himself introduced to Sun Xu.
After a brief introduction and listening to some simple requests from Sun Xu, the middle-aged man showed Sun Xu a lot of information and highlighted three houses among them.
To be honest, Sun Xu felt a little dizzy... After all, he was not familiar with this place. He had never even heard of many local terms. Who knew where the location was good or bad.
Even though the other party took out a map for him to look at, Sun Xu couldn't figure out the reason... How could he tell the specific situation just by looking at the area?
The middle-aged man Yaren in front of him obviously saw Sun Xu's confusion... He immediately took the initiative and said: "Your honor, if you have time, I will take you to see it in person? What I said, I haven't seen this before. It’s hard to count, after all, you have to see the house to know if it’s good or bad!”
Sun Xu came out to look at the house today, so naturally he would not refuse: "Let's go and have a look!"
(End of chapter)
