The Emperor of Red Mansions: Many Children, Many Blessings, Opening Draft

"Secondly, the shops on both sides of the street must be designed to be large and spacious, and also built in accordance with the appearance of pavilions and towers.

The residential houses and mansions in the commercial city must also be planned and built in a unified manner.

No matter how big or small the streets are, they must not be crowded, messy and disorderly."

"In addition, all main roads must have pavilions and towers.

Each street and arch bridge must be designed to be able to hang lanterns."

"And the main roads along the river must also be specially built with pulleys and levers for people to wash clothes and prevent fires."

Li Chenghan nodded, and then directly stated his idea of ​​building Ye Weiyang.

Listening to Li Chenghan's arrangements, all the civil and military officials were dumbfounded.

Build a huge commercial city and build such a long highway.

And this commercial city must be built on the river waters.

What a huge project this will be!

The most important thing is that the commercial city will reduce the commercial tax by 10%, and the shops built in the commercial city will be larger and have to look like pavilions and towers.

Just thinking about it, they can imagine how prosperous this commercial city Ye Weiyang will be in the future.

I am afraid that this commercial city is likely to surpass Shenjing City and become the largest city in Da Wu.

"Your Majesty, the construction of Ye Weiyang, including the Chidao, is so huge that it is unimaginable.

Now that Da Wu has huge expenses, the government's finances are already overwhelmed.

I hope Your Majesty can withdraw the order and take it slowly."

Lin Ruhai couldn't stand it anymore, and hurriedly stepped out to persuade Li Chenghan.

"Yes, Your Majesty! Such a huge project may not be completed in more than ten or twenty years.

The money and grain consumed are also inestimable. I hope Your Majesty can think twice before acting!

The Minister of Works also hurriedly stepped out to persuade Li Chenghan.

"You must learn to be flexible and adaptable. How can you be so stubborn!"

"There are so many merchants in Dawu. Isn't it enough to contract most of the projects to merchants to build?

The amount of work is huge. If there are more people working, won't it be faster?

If a merchant is responsible for a certain section of the project, let alone ten or twenty years, it may take two or three years.

And if the project undertaken by the merchant is not done well, the court can still investigate.

If there is no money, the court can issue national debt!

If this project costs a certain amount of money, it will be distributed over several years. The amount of silver in national debt will be distributed each year, and the amount of interest will be paid to the people who buy the national debt over several years. ”

“When Ye Weiyang and the Chidao are built, all those who use the Chidao to transport large quantities of bulk goods will be charged a toll according to a standard.

All shops and houses in Ye Weiyang will belong to the court.

When the time comes, part of the rent and toll collected from renting out will be used to repay the national debt with the court's appropriation, and a small part will be used to maintain the repairs and expenses of the Chidao and Ye Weiyang. ”

“After the national debt is repaid,The annual income of Yeweiyang and Chidao, minus the maintenance costs, is all added to the court's treasury!

How come there is no money available?"

Li Chenghan said to the ministers who were complaining in a bad mood.

Lin Ruhai was silent after hearing Li Chenghan's words.

Although he felt that the pressure on his shoulders was extremely huge, it was undeniable that the emperor's method was very good.

In addition to the taxes brought to the court by the prosperity of Yeweiyang, Lin Ruhai felt that the construction of Yeweiyang was not a bad thing.

It's just that the pressure on the court in the early stage will be greater.

But this is the first time I have heard of national debt. It seems that the emperor is borrowing money from the people and then paying them interest. .

Although it was the first time he heard about it, Lin Ruhai felt that he understood the reason.

However, the specific matters of this matter still needed to be consulted with the emperor and discussed by the managers of the Ministry of Revenue.

The Minister of Works thought about it and felt that if there was no financial problem, it would not be impossible to subcontract the work to merchants.

As the emperor said, even if the court recruited more people, it would be impossible to build such a magnificent city and the highway that stretched from Luoyang, Shenjing City, Liaodong City, Chang'an, and Jiayuguan. It will take more than ten or twenty years to complete.

Because the court itself has too many things to do, the financial allocation alone is an astronomical figure.

If the project is subcontracted to those merchants, a big problem can be divided into countless small problems, so that the merchants can do it in batches.

In this way, not only can the work they are assigned be completed in one or two years, but even the financial pressure on the court in the early stage will not be too great. (To read the exciting novel, go to Fulu Novel Network!)

After all, it is impossible for the merchants to take all the project funds before the project is completed. Give it to the merchants.

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Even if there are problems with the work done by merchants in the future, the court can hold them accountable one by one.

Where there are problems, the court can rebuild them again without spending money.

From this point of view, the project of Ye Weiyang and Chidao is not that big!

Other ministers in the court whispered about the pros and cons of this matter.

Many officials felt that the pros outweighed the cons and it was feasible.

"Your Majesty, I think it is not good to use the name Ye Weiyang. The bedroom of Princess Changle is Weiyang Palace.

And if the commercial city is named after Ye Weiyang, wouldn't it have to interact with the pearl in the palm of my Great Wu."

Su Zhi frowned and stepped out of the line and bowed to Li Chenghan and refuted.

"This is wrong! ”

“Ye Weiyang is not only a commercial city, it will become the most prosperous city in my Great Wu in the future.

It will also become the most dazzling pearl in my Great Wu. ”

“So Ye Weiyang represents prosperity, beauty and wealth, and it is also a real city that never sleeps, not what you said, that makes business and my princess linked together. ”

Li Chenghan shook his head and said toSu Zhi explained.

After hearing what Li Chenghan said, Su Zhi thought about it and felt that it made sense, so he stopped talking.

At first, he thought Ye Weiyang was not good, because his extremely noble little great-granddaughter had something to do with business, so that business would lower the grade and status of his little great-granddaughter.

But Li Chenghan's explanation convinced him.

Prosperous, beautiful, prosperous, a shining pearl of Da Wu!

It seems that this is not impossible.

"Zhao Youde!"

Seeing that Su Zhi had no objection, Li Chenghan shouted at Zhao Youde again.

"I am here!"

Zhao Youde immediately stepped out and bowed to Li Chenghan when he heard the words.

"Since we have started trade with the Zuoxian King's tribe, our Great Wu should not favor one over the other.

You can lead a team to visit the Youxian King's tribe, the Western Qiang tribes, and the countries in the Western Regions to discuss trade matters."

"The trade conditions can be the same as those of the Zuoxian King's tribe."

Li Chenghan ordered Zhao Youde.

Now the Great Wu is reorganizing its army, and he is not going to send troops abroad in the short term. []

Since we are not going to send troops, it is better to do business with foreign enemies to increase the economy and income of the Great Wu and stimulate a wave of population growth. .