Tibet

During this time, Li Ye has been meeting with officials, officials from Guanzhong and Guannai Dao states, as well as heads of famous families, etc.

Liu Yan was also very busy. He, Yan Quanming, and Li Chenzhou led more than a thousand soldiers to run around Chang'an. Their main task was to clear assets and verify assets.

To determine how much inventory there is, Chang'an and Longyou are just the opposite. Longyou has a lot of money, grain and light goods. Light goods mainly refer to cloth, silk and satin, etc., which are easy to cash.

Chang'an's inventory is short of money and food, and there is very little cloth, but Chang'an has a lot of heavy goods, such as stone, wood, iron ingots, copper ingots, carts, as well as various old weapons, old armor, gongs and drums, tents, etc., etc. Supplies piled up like mountains.

All materials that could be transported were transported away, and even the large amounts of money recovered were transported away, which could be melted down to make new money.

But Liu Yan's top priority is not various materials, but assets, especially the official residence in Chang'an. With so many officials from Longyou moving here, they must have a place to live.

In the past few days, Liu Yan has been running around Chang'an, checking every unused official residence and government office.

In the morning, Li Ye met with Qizhou governor Cheng Changyin and Changshi Wang Zhu. Cheng Changyin was an old friend of Li Ye. Historically, he and his wife, Princess Guangning, were forced to divorce, but with Li Ye's help, his life trajectory also changed. After a few years as a general of the left guard, he abandoned military service and became a civil servant. He was appointed governor of Ning and was promoted to governor of Qizhou last year.

Cheng Changyin's father Cheng Ruoshui and uncle Li Ruobing both went to Luoyang. Cheng Changyin's wife did not go to Luoyang, but lived with her husband in Qizhou.

"There has been a shortage of food in Guanzhong for a long time. It started in the Sui Dynasty. The main reason is that the land has been turned into the manor of the powerful. How many large and small manors are there in Guanzhong? There used to be some self-cultivated farmers, but now there are fewer and fewer self-cultivated farmers in Guanzhong, and the grain turned over The tax is negligible. In addition, Chang'an has too many people and hundreds of thousands of troops to support. There is not enough food to eat. Before Tianbao, the largest food allocation area was not Jiangnan, but Hebei. After the Anshi Rebellion, Hebei's food was cut off, and Jiangnan Food is always blocked by the separatist warlords, before it was Liu Zhan and now it is Li Xilie, and the food from the grain-producing areas has never been transported to Chang'an."

"What will Qizhou do if there is a shortage of food?" Li Ye asked again.

"We usually buy grain in Bashu in advance, but the skyrocketing price of grain last year was due to large sums of money being distributed, not due to lack of food."

Li Ye asked some more questions and reassured them a few words before Cheng Changyin and Chang Shi Wang Zhu stood up to leave.

Coming to report one's duties to oneself is an attitude of showing allegiance. For example, the governor of Hua, Wei Qingxuan, did not come to Chang'an, but abandoned his official position and went to Luoyang. The governor of Tongzhou and Sima of Shangzhou also resigned and left. These are all attitudes. Of course, Li Ye did not force himself, he came from freedom.

At this time, Liu Yan walked into the official room with sweat on his face, "It's too hot today and the sun is poisonous. I really can't stand it!"

Li Ye quickly asked him to sit down and served a large bowl of herbal tea. Liu Yan drank the herbal tea in one breath and felt better.

He handed an inventory to Li Ye, "This is the official residence situation that I have just sorted out. It is divided into four parts. The first part is allocated to officials. Almost all of these officials are in Luoyang. The second part is currently vacant." The third part of the allocated official residences is more than 300 official residences, which are for low-level officials to live in. Almost all of them are one-acre courtyards, all of which are empty and can be allocated directly. The fourth part is the vacant official residences outside the city, including The garden house in Qujiang Pond."

Li Ye looked at the inventory and asked, "Are these idle official residences enough?"

Liu Yan shook his head, "It's enough if you don't consider military generals, but if you consider military generals, it's much worse."

"How many vacant garden houses are there?"

"There are sixteen more."

Li Ye thought for a while and asked: "Can any of these official residences that have been allocated be recovered? For example, the official residences that have been occupied excessively, and those that are no longer qualified, let's see how much can be recovered?"

"Reporting to Your Highness, the imperial court has very strict management of official residences. Basically, there will be no over-occupancy. Logically speaking, if these officials have new official residences in Luoyang, the official residences in Chang'an should be given up. Especially for middle-level officials, humble positions can be A batch was recovered, but there was still a gap. I thought of another way. I could buy a house on the market and use it as an official residence. I heard that after the capital was moved, house prices in Chang'an plummeted and houses were being sold everywhere. It's a little better now, but the price is still the same. With only half of what it was before the capital was moved, I can take the opportunity to buy a batch of houses of three to five acres."

"How much does a five-acre house cost now?" Li Ye asked.

"The houses in Wannian County are more expensive, costing about 10,000 guan each. Before, they cost at least 30,000 guan. The houses in Chang'an County are cheap, ranging from 5,000 to 8,000 guan. Some houses in the southwest can even be bought for 2,000 guan. .”

"Yonglefang?"

"Yes! A five-acre house in Yonglefang costs 2,000 guan, and a one-acre yard can be purchased for 300 guan."

Li Ye laughed dumbly and said: "Back then, half an acre of my yard was sold for three hundred guan, but now it has dropped by half."

"So the current real estate market is very bad, and we can take advantage of this opportunity to buy a batch of properties and solve the problem of official residences."

Li Ye nodded, "Go ahead and get it!"

Liu Yan thought for a while and then said: "In addition, I have another suggestion."

"What advice?"

"Because there are still not enough houses for low-level officials, but I found that Zhaoxingfang and Da'anfang are basically wastelands with no one living in them."

"No way!"

Li Ye smiled and said: "Those two buildings are filled with all kinds of ghosts and monsters. It's very chaotic. Didn't you notice it?"

Liu Yan shook his head: "I didn't meet anyone in my humble position. I specifically asked the Chang'an County Lieutenant, and the County Lieutenant confirmed to me that there is indeed no one."

"what happened?"

Li Ye was very surprised. He had been to those two buildings, and they were full of people of unknown origins.

"The county lieutenant told the humble official that the two squares were originally used to house the hungry people who fled to Chang'an, but last year a large amount of money was issued, and the hungry people living inside and outside the squares could not afford it, and they fled to Longyou one after another. The court took this opportunity to The remaining people all rushed to the Han Dynasty Chang'an City. It was originally planned to move the Taixue, Guozixue, Four Schools and other schools there, but it happened to be the time to move the capital, so the plan was shelved."

"Sima wants to use these two squares?"

Liu Yan smiled and nodded, "We don't have enough houses for low-level officials, and we don't have enough warehouses. I want to use these two squares to build warehouses, build a residential area for craftsmen, build a residential area for low-level officials, and build a Salesian hospital, which is perfect for Chang'an." It’s an opportunity for people to make money.”

Li Ye sighed slightly, "I'm worried that those ghosts and ghosts will take the opportunity to come back!"

"Don't worry, Your Highness, they will not come back."

"Why?"

Liu Yan said with a smile: "The Hou County Lieutenant told me that some people originally came back, but since His Highness announced the cancellation of the curfew and the gates and city gates were opened all night, the people who came back actually moved away again, and they would be harassed all the time if they lived there." If the government inspects them, then they might as well live outside the city, it's cheaper and safer. Anyway, the city gate is not closed all night, so they can go in and out of the city gate at night.

And not only them, many people living in the city have also begun to move out of the city. The rent outside the city is half cheaper, and you can save dozens of dollars a year. Anyway, it is very convenient outside the city, so why do you still live there? Inside the city. "

Li Ye nodded happily, "It seems that the decision to cancel the curfew is completely correct!"