Chapter 1166: Chang'an in Midwinter (Part 1)
In the south, there are only cold winds and cold rains. Occasionally, when snow seeds fall, there is heavy snow in the sky north of the Qinling Mountains. Although there is no question that there are thousands of birds flying in the mountains and thousands of paths, the number of people who are still moving outside has decreased significantly.
However, unlike the rural areas where you are in Maodong, Chang'an City is still very lively.
The snow falls every day, but it is cleaned every day.
The government issued a special order that the snow in front of each household must be cleaned to ensure the smooth roads and the safety of the houses.
The Chang'an City renovation project under the leadership of Wang Mingyi is underway in this season.
For others, the middle of winter is a leisure time, but for his transformation project, it is a good time to rush to work. Because at this time, a large number of rural young and strong people flocked to the city to find a job, causing the price of labor to drop sharply. Many teams who were originally working in other places stopped working due to weather reasons. After returning to the city, the bosses were unwilling to support these masters for free and get free money, so they naturally had to rush to take on the project.
Although the big ones cannot be made, it is all right to take care of them, but it is OK to take some sporadic projects from the big boss. No matter how small the legs of a mosquito is, it is still meat, and at least it can maintain a balance of income and expenditure.
Xu Xiang's head buzzed because Wang Mingyi and Guo Fengxiao had a big fight in front of him. If it weren't for him pulling him, the two of them would have taken off their clothes and rolled up their sleeves to get on.
After more than half a year, the initial bonus period has passed. When it was first done, not many people reacted, which allowed Wang Mingyi to buy these street-facing houses at an extremely low price and sell them at a high price, which could make a lot of money from them.
However, Wang Mingyi spent a long time to raise the first phase of the 100 singles and eight houses in Chang'an and used all the strength of the eighteen and two tigers, and only included the eighteen best houses in the scope of transformation.
And when the matter began, it naturally could no longer be hidden. When the second phase of the project began, the prices of such houses had soared. This made Wang Mingyi's era of huge profits come to an end.
In order to maintain a certain profit, Wang Mingyi could only reduce the cost in the next work. It can be imagined that the more you go, the higher the price of these houses will be, because the first batch of houses that have been renovated have begun to create a lot of value. After seeing these, how can those who own such houses not understand how to make a profit from it?
In this era, Wang Mingyi has already experienced the difficulty of demolition.
It was not that his subordinates did not use some means of being unable to get on the table, but Wu Jinzhen, the newly appointed Supervisory Committee, was not a vegetarian. The most shameful thing about this high-ranking official from a poor family was that the government bullied ordinary people and asked him to catch one, which was to punish one more severely, which made Wang Mingyi suffer so much that he could only admit defeat.
There is no reason to talk about people like Wu Jin, and there is no human favor.
Wherever you went, and before you could speak, the thick book of the law was placed before you, and the supervision regulations that were not much thinner were placed beside you. No matter how many, he would immediately choke back into his stomach.
Several demolition officers under Wang Mingyi's command have lost their official positions and have aggrievedly done some fragmented work under Wang Mingyi's hands.
These people are pretty good, and some of them were put into their pockets during this process. They are still squatting in the prison. It is very likely that Wu Jin will be scrambled to the northeast to reclaim the land.
Guo Fengxiao's subordinates of the Ministry of Works have many engineering teams. To be honest, the technical strength of these teams is nothing to say. They usually undertake large-scale projects, roads and water conservancy are all under the responsibility of the Ministry of Works. From time to time, are the projects outside stopped? Guo Fengxiao naturally didn't want to let these people stay and do nothing. So he wanted to get a share of these transformations in the city, which was to give some benefits to the Ministry of Works.
However, during these bidding processes, all the engineering teams of the Ministry of Works lost without exception. All the people who beat them were civilian engineering teams.
They are cheap.
This made Guo Fengxiao very embarrassed.
In Wang Mingyi's opinion, since the price of your engineering team in the Ministry of Works cannot be reduced, there is naturally nothing to say. Guo Fengxiao believes that these engineering teams in the private sector will inevitably cut corners and deduct workers' income. This will not only cause engineering risks but also cause potential dissatisfaction among the people, saying that Wang Mingyi is short-sighted.
As the chairman of the Economic Development Committee, Xu Xiang finally persuaded his two generals to stop the war. After their respective qilinoline left, Xu Xiang felt aching in his head. Before he could finish a glass of water, a big man came again, and he had to go out to greet him in person.
Because this person is Xia He, the imperial concubine who appeared in the Tang Dynasty.
What kind of concubines do not interfere in politics? It is not suitable for concubines to show up in the current Tang Dynasty, and it does not exist at all. No one raised this matter without openly. Because whether it is the Queen Liu Ruyan or the Imperial Concubine Xia He, both of them grew up with Li Ze. One of them is in the army and the other is in the financial and taxation system, and who dares to raise this question is undoubtedly against these two systems and offends these two systems. It is conceivable what the outcome will be.
More importantly, both of them still hold positions in the court. It is better to say what Queen Liu Ruyan is responsible for, but nothing more than good deeds such as helping widows, widows, orphans, pensions, disaster relief, and fundraising. In general, it is to help the court win people's hearts. Xia He serves as the chairman of the Financial Development Committee. This Financial Development Committee is a second-level unit of the Economic Development Committee, but the things that are undertaken are not exaggerated, but are related to the next development focus of the entire court's economy.
Xu Xiang strongly supports this work.
Because this work is done well, you can easily make large profits, and these profits are no less than the overseas trade that the court relies heavily on now.
This is the problem of Xia He raising credit currency for several years.
In fact, major banks, including large banks such as Wuwei and Broadcom, have begun to use their respective bills of exchange to solve the problem of bulk currency transactions.
Wuwei was owned by the imperial court, so there was no need to say that Boxing Trading Company and Tongda Trading Company stood behind Boda, and its strength was extremely strong. The semicolons opened by these two major money shops were all over the Tang Dynasty. It was very popular to use large amounts of bills to solve the problem of large amounts of money mobilization between their users.
The two major money houses are now even experiencing each other's bill of exchange.
It is precisely because of these foundations that Xia He believes that the time is almost ripe.
Xu Xiang looked at the sample coins of several paper money that Xia He took out over and over again, and was always a little nervous.
"Wuwei and Tongda have problems with fake bills of exchange. Their bills are extremely complicated. Someone can imitate and fake. Can our banknotes be prevented by such a little bit?" Xu Xiang looked at Xia He and said, "Imperial Concubine, once we decide to issue them, it is not Wuwei. These small-scale bills of exchange can be compared with Tongda. Once fake occurs, the consequences will be unimaginable!"
"Special paper, special ink, and of course, there are some other anti-fabrication techniques." Xia He said: "But it is impossible to completely eliminate fabrication. You can only punish severely, seize one, and punish one more severely. Chairman Xu, a new policy has begun to be implemented, and the problem must exist, but you cannot give up the food because of the choke. What should be done must be done. When the problem arises, we will solve the problem and improve it bit by bit in the process of solving it, just like that."
Xu Xiang nodded. "The imperial concubine said it is, but it is important, and no matter how cautious it is, it is not an exaggeration."
"Of course, I want to try out these banknotes in the army first." Xia He said: "The army has high obedience and has its own circulation channels. In addition, the court's own supply and marketing cooperatives must also be collected and promoted bit by bit. As long as our soldiers are used to using these banknotes, it will be easy. There are so many people who have to retire every year, and after returning to their hometown, they can slowly push them away."
"This is a good idea!" Xu Xiang said: "The scale of the issuance does not need to be too large. If there is really any problem, it will be too late to adjust."
"In addition, the salaries of officials will be paid in new coins," Xia He said. "At the same time, all money houses, whether from the court or the people, must unconditionally exchange gold and silver coins planted for the people at the same price to ensure the credit of the banknotes. Credit is the most important thing. As long as it persists for several years, soon, this convenient carrying banknote will replace the heavy gold, silver and copper coins and become the mainstream in the market. At that time, the circulation of gold, silver and copper coins will be prohibited."
"If everything goes well, the court will usher in a relaxed era in finance!" Xu Xiang laughed and said, "Money, money, you need to use money everywhere, and you are reaching out everywhere. Sometimes you are really worried. Fortunately, your Majesty has not been prepared to fight in big battles in the past two years. There is only one Tubo problem that needs to be solved, otherwise, I will be very worried."
"There is no way. Our Majesty wants everything and wants to do everything well, so it will naturally make the people behind us embarrassed." Xia He smiled and said, "But if there is no problem, what should we do?"
Chapter completed!