The ancestor of the apocalypse is so cool after being reborn!

Chapter 216 The Capital
The yamen servants seemed to know what they were thinking, "Don't think that the empress is earning a lot of money from this. In fact, the empress has already made clear arrangements for the money before the money is in her pocket. Silver is used to build the infrastructure of the capital, build cement roads everywhere, build canals outside the city to irrigate the fields, and the wages of laborers everywhere, all of which rely on silver to open the way.

Since the empress and the prince recovered the Gyeonggi area, the empress and the prince paid real wages for all the projects that required labor labor. They never asked everyone to work and pay for labor, but paid wages according to the market price. A piece of silver subsidizes the family. "

After hearing what he said, the Li family brothers asked in surprise, "You mean that there is no forced labor in Gyeonggi?"

The yamen servant rolled his eyes in his heart, but he still said patiently: "There is labor, but in the process of labor, the empress and the prince changed the way to increase the income of the laborers, so that the laborers who live in hardship have a share of income to take home. Subsidize the family."

The Li family brothers understood what was going on, they still had to serve hard labor, but the government would pay them.

"If you say it like this, then every time you go to labor, everyone won't fight to come to labor?"

The yamen servant chuckled, and pointed to the empty street, "If you want to squeeze your head out, you have to see if someone can snatch it from them!"

The Li family brothers glanced at the street, well, there were not many people walking around the whole street except for the laborers who paved the road, and occasionally saw people walking around, most of them were government servants or soldiers, not many real people.

Then the question arises, "The streets are empty, and there should not be many people who come to the capital to do business, so why did you see someone delivering goods into the city at the gate of the city just now?"

After hearing what he said, the yamen servant finally couldn't help laughing, "Haha, brother, you are so funny. There are not many people in the city, but we are not human, and the soldiers of the Gyeonggi Daying Camp are not human. Since Someone, no matter what their status is, don’t they always lack something?”

The faces of the Li family brothers were embarrassing, and now they also realized that the question they asked was stupid!
The yamen servants didn't care about their faces, there were few strangers talking in the city, this would catch a group of people returning home, so they shouldn't chat more.

He smiled mysteriously, leaned into Li Houping's ear, and asked in a mysterious whisper: "Do you know what the capital lacks the most?"

The Li family used to make a fortune in business, so they are not well-known in the capital, at least the family has enough food and drink.

Seeing the yamen servant acting mysteriously at this moment, the brothers of the Li family looked at each other, what a business opportunity!
Then, they looked at the yamen servants in unison.

Li Houping suppressed the eagerness in his heart to cooperate with him, seemed very interested, and asked in a low voice, "What do you lack the most?"

The yamen servant chuckled: "Let me tell you, what the capital lacks the most is women!"

"Woman?" Li Houping didn't react for a moment.

The yamen servant nodded, and added: "Well, a woman who can get under the bed together!"

Everyone is a man, and when it comes to women, they all cry!
They are soldiers who have been with the empress to Gyeonggi since Lingnan. When they first left Lingnan, they left their families in Lingnan temporarily.He thought that it would not be long before he settled down in Jiankang before sending someone back to pick up his family.

It's just that no one thought that after leaving Lingnan, the empress did not go to Jiankang as expected, but diverted to Gyeonggi.

Entering Gyeonggi, driving away the Beidi soldiers and horses, regaining the Gyeonggi area, and then went deep into the grassland twice, and then went to the current Nanzheng to suppress the rebellion.

This delay is a few months. When the counter-insurgency is successful, they don't know that it will be a year of the monkey. Poor them, they haven't touched a woman for half a year, and they are uncomfortable!

Hearing this, the Li family brothers couldn't laugh or cry. When he asked what was most lacking just now, they thought it was the most scarce supplies. Are they excited about the business opportunities in front of them?
Well now, let them get excited for nothing!
There was a coughing sound in the carriage, and the Li family brothers remembered the physical condition of the old man in the carriage.

Li Houping thanked the yamen servant: "Thank you brother for telling the truth. My father is sick and weak, and there is no delay. We must clean up the house as soon as possible and settle him down first. We will not delay. Next time I have time, I will treat you, brother." You drink together."

The yamen servant also heard the coughing of the carriage, the smile on his face disappeared, and he said seriously: "Don't delay, brother, go quickly, there are clerks on duty in the yamen."

"Thank you, let's meet again next time!" Li Houping clasped his fists.

"See you next time, go quickly, don't delay!" Yamen servant waved.

When they arrived at the yamen, the Li family brothers met several men who came out of the yamen.

The man walking in front, Li Houping recognized, was the steward of the caravan walking in front of them at the gate of the city.

Thinking of something, his heart moved, he walked up and clasped his hands and asked: "Brother, you just came out of the yamen, but are you here to buy a shop?"

The steward looked at him, not knowing why: "You are."

"My surname is Li, my name is Houping, and I'm from the capital. I just returned to the capital today, but I found that my original home is no longer my own, so I came to the Yamen to ask." Then, Li Houping looked at the contract in the steward's hand: "You guys Is the procedure already done?"

The other stewards lost interest after hearing his question. They greeted the steward at the front and left first.

The steward watched the other stewards leave before looking at the person in front of him, bowing his hands in return: "Well, we're done, are you coming to the Yamen to rent or buy?"

Li Houping smiled: "I want to buy it, but I don't know what's inside?"

"If you want to buy back the previous real estate, the price will be % less than the original price. If you want to rent, you can pay the rent at the market price, and the contract is signed once a year."

"hiss!"

Li Houping took a deep breath, "So expensive?"

The steward snorted coldly, "That's not true. Our main shop used to be on Zhengda Street, with two floors above and below. It is spacious and the location is good. In the past, the asking price in the capital was 2 taels, and people would snatch it up. With a single mouth, I asked for 2 taels for me to buy it back. You must know that the asking price was 6000 taels in the bustling capital, but now you look at this desolate street. When the silver comes from the wind?"

Li Houping smacked his lips, "The asking price is so expensive, it's really hard to make people live, so you are now."

The steward folded the contract in his hand and put it in his inner pocket, "It's rented, if you don't have money to redeem the shop, you can only rent it!"

As for whether to buy or not, I will let the owner decide after I go back.

Li Houping said goodbye to the steward, and went into the room where the clerk of the yamen worked.

"You are the fourth to come here today, tell me what business you want to do?"

Li Houping didn't expect that the clerk would take the initiative to speak. He was stunned for a moment, and put the land deed that he had prepared in front of the clerk: "This is my house in the capital. We want to live in tonight. Do we need any procedures?"

Hearing the words, the scribe felt emotional, the effect of the crown prince's personal conquest was immediate, and he had only set out for a few days, and today he received four common people who came to go through the formalities.

With emotion, the clerk also explained the new policy to him in time, which was similar to the yamen slaves he met on the road.

The central idea is that if you want to return to the original house, you must buy it again.

Li Houping resisted the unwillingness in his heart, and asked with a smile: "Then, how much does my house have to pay to get the title deed again?"

The clerk glanced at the location of his house, and made some calculations: "The location of your house is on Chunyu Street, Nancheng District. It is close to the main street. The location is good. The price is 600 taels. You only need to pay 60 taels to re-apply." A new title deed."

"How much?" Li Houping, who was about to bleed profusely, raised his head in shock.

The clerk frowned and looked at him: "Why are you so excited? The 60 taels is the fee for our government to keep it for you. Do you think we want too much? Do you know how the soldiers took back the capital from Beidi? Is it? You worked hard to get it back, and charging you 60 taels for storage is not much!"

If the soldiers hadn't recaptured the capital from Beidi, there wouldn't be a single hair of their property left, and Beidi people were all cheap!
Seeing that the clerk misunderstood him, Li Houping waved his hands hastily: "No, no, no, I don't think I charged too much, I was just a little shocked. I met a few men when I came in just now, and I heard from them that they would have to pay 60% of the house price if they want to re-apply the land deed." , you have to be taels, I thought I heard it wrong, so I am so excited."

The clerk found it funny when he heard this, "You think too much, our empress and His Royal Highness will not bully the people, you are ordinary people, and you only need to charge % of the housekeeping fee. And those who just left are from aristocratic families Steward, of course, has to charge a high replacement fee."

The aristocratic family will not be lenient when oppressing the tenants. They want to get back the property in Gyeonggi, and the government will certainly not be lenient when charging repurchase fees.

In fact, how could Xia Jing really collect money from poor people, she just collected money in proportion to her assets.

For example, if Xia Jing accepts money from aristocratic families, tyrants and tyrants, she will be merciless and accept as much as she should.

A century-old family, with hundreds of years of accumulation, its wealth may be richer than the national treasury.

To gather wool, you have to catch sheep with dense and long wool!

Li Houping understood in seconds, and quietly stuffed back the banknote that was about to be drawn out.

Today is really thrilling, the heart is weak, I really can't stand it.

The initial dissatisfaction with the empress has almost dissipated now.

After obtaining the title deed again, Li Houping's family returned to their original yard.

After resting for one night, the next day, the house was taken care of by a woman. The old man's condition did not improve or worsen. The man in the family was worried, so he went out with the prescription prescribed by the old man.

When they got to the street, the brothers dispersed and started looking for medicine shops, but they were doomed to be disappointed in the current capital because there were no medicine shops on the street.

Li Houping looked for the old medicine shop along the street, but the shop was empty, and there were no so-called medicinal materials, and there were only crumbling medicine cabinets, tables, chairs and benches.

I searched all the way, and unknowingly came to the North Street.

On South Street, the busiest place right now is the location of the inn hand-picked by Xia Jing.

The craftsmen were busy laying the foundation, and when they saw the area, they knew that the area of ​​the building was not small.

Looking at the building materials piled on the ground, Li Houping walked over curiously.

The supervisor on the construction site noticed him, looked at his clothes, and came over and asked, "Hey, it looks like your clothes don't look like you came here looking for work, why did you come in? Don't get too close to them, be careful when they come here. The hoe has scratched your head!"

Everyone was working hard, and someone suddenly appeared. If you don't pay attention, you are really afraid of hurting him.

"Ask something!" Li Houping threw a piece of broken silver at him, pointed to a pile of gray mud on the ground and asked, "Is this cement?"

The supervisor at the construction site took the broken silver and weighed it, about one or two. He was satisfied, and his attitude eased: "Brother, have you never seen cement?"

Li Houping smiled, "I just entered the city yesterday, and I have seen concrete roads before, but I haven't seen the real concrete yet. I came here to see that you are busy, so I came here to ask. Sorry for the inconvenience!"

The construction site manager waved his hand indifferently, "I said the disturbance was serious, and this is the original appearance of the cement."

Then, he pointed to another pile of reconciled mud: "That is reconciled cement slurry. The wall is very strong with this mud, and the pavement is very hard. I have been a mason for many years, and this is the best I have ever seen." Adhesives used."

Li Houping nodded while listening, and finally asked: "Dare to ask brother, where can I buy this kind of cement?"

"The cement factory in the suburbs of Beijing, just go out at the South City Gate. When you get to the fork in the road, go left for half an hour and you will be there." The site manager looked at him and asked with a smile, "What? Do you want to repair the house or build it?"

Can Li Houping say that he wants to open a cement shop and sell cement exclusively?
He didn't bother to say this before he understood the situation clearly, "There has been no one living in the house for more than a year, and it needs to be repaired."

"Oh, I had to repair the house when I came back, but having said that, your family is really brave enough. None of the rich and powerful families in the Gyeonggi area dared to move back with their families. Why are you so bold and dare to come back first?"

The construction site supervisor asked this out of curiosity, and did not mean to belittle the security issues in the Gyeonggi area.
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On this day, Xia Jing came back from outside the city in a carriage, and she found that there were many stalls on both sides of the streets in the city.

"What's going on here? How did it become a market here?"

Hongmei scratched her head, she followed Xia Jing all day long, how could she know what was going on?

Fortunately, Ye Fei rode beside the carriage, and he listened to Xia Jing's question.

He went to the car window and explained: "The people who set up stalls here are villagers from nearby villages. Most of them are the people we rescued from the grassland, and some are grassland herdsmen. As for why they are placed here at the gate of the city?" , because the population of the capital is small now, and there were not many people in the market in the past, but there are frequent people at the gate of the city, so there are more people buying."

Xia Jing looked out of the window, and the clothes of the people without exception were all patched and patched. The baskets around them contained vegetables grown by themselves, straw sandals and straw hats woven by themselves, and baskets made of bamboo, etc. utility items.

Occasionally, you can see people selling rabbits or pheasants, but game like this is usually bought by buyers not long after it is put on the market.

Xia Jing pointed to a low-rise building near the gate of the city and said, "The houses in this area are dilapidated and low. It would be a waste to occupy this excellent location. Afterwards, you will arrange for people to demolish this area, and then build a collective in this area." city."

Of course, the market must be rebuilt according to Xia Jing's requirements, and the underground drainage facilities and ground buildings must meet her requirements.

Vegetables and fruits area, dry goods area, aquatic product area, and livestock area should be separated by area.

"Your Majesty, I'm afraid the market here will have to wait for a while. Your four major inns have just started to build the foundations. The current manpower in the capital is too short."

Ye Fei was helpless. If the soldiers and horses of the Gyeonggi Camp did not go south to fight the rebellion, they could draw some soldiers who had worked as masons from the team to help.

Faced with the lack of population in the Gyeonggi area, sometimes Ye Fei really wanted to impulsively send people to the major cities and towns in the south to buy a group of people back. No matter men, women, old or young, as long as there is a living person, the Gyeonggi area is in urgent need.

Xia Jing frowned slightly, "It seems that the flow of people is still too slow, where has the concrete road outside the city been repaired?"

"It extends fifty miles from the gate of the city." Ye Fei answered honestly.

"It seems that the counter-insurgency team has to work hard!"

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