Chapter 257 Solutions to Solve Land Annexes

"Although that is the case, it is undeniable that building workshops can make huge profits. However, when everyone opens workshops, wouldn't the fields be wasted?" Speaking of this, Li Jiancheng said in a serious tone: "My Tang Dynasty is based on agriculture. Isn't it putting the cart before the horse?"

"Of course it makes money to run a workshop, but not everyone can build this workshop!" Chen Ying pointed to the chimney outside and smiled, "It's that steel workshop as an example. Everyone knows that this workshop can produce more than 10 million kilograms of steel annually. Although steel is less than 200 kilograms of high price, it can still be sold for more than 40 kilograms. Excluding the ore raw materials and labor costs, and deducting the taxes to be paid, you can still earn 200,000 kilograms. However, in addition to land costs, workshop factories, construction of blast furnaces, laying roads, building gantry cranes, etc., all the costs are calculated, which is no less than 100,000 kilograms. Your Highness, you can calculate how many families in the world can afford to spend 100,000 kilograms at one go?"

If the price of Kaiyuan Tongbao is exchanged with the RMB in later generations, 100,000 guan is equivalent to 4.275 billion. Of course, building a workshop cannot be directly produced. After all, it still requires the support of working capital. In this way, a steel workshop costs about 500 million. Even if there are 30 million US dollars in later generations, there are about 7.90,000 households in China. However, in the Tang Dynasty, this ratio is even lower.

Li Jiancheng understood this.

Compared with this era, the right to set up workshops is actually in the hands of the great clans and clans. They have money, some people and rights, and can use their natural connections and resources at any time to open some resource development workshops to ensure that they can make a fortune.

Li Jiancheng pondered: "Even if you do this, the rich will always be rich, and the poor will always be poor. What is the difference between it?"

"The difference is naturally bigger!" Chen Ying pointed to Qinglin and said, "In this place in Qinglin, all the fertile land is only 5,000 acres. Such land can support up to 500 households!"

Li Jiancheng nodded.

In this era, agricultural output is extremely low. The key is that farmers do not have the funds to study scientific farming methods. In addition, most farmers do not have the money to buy phosphate fertilizer, bone grafting meal, and raising various livestock to make organic fertilizer. Usually, in the case of a bumper harvest, farmers need 60 acres of land to support a family of five, and the remaining forty land is used to improve their lives and bear taxes.

Chen Ying continued: "However, now there are more than 10,000 households living in Qinglin, and there are also a large number of migrant workers. They come to do short-term work! They rely on work to make money to subsidize their household income and improve their living environment. His Royal Highness can go and investigate randomly. Anyone who has worked in Qinglin for more than two years will have almost built new houses!"

Li Jiancheng nodded to Wei Ting beside him, and Wei Ting slowly withdrew.

Chen Ying was naturally not afraid of Wei Ting going to investigate. When the farmers in the Tang Dynasty owned their own homesteads, the cost of building a small courtyard with five main rooms and two wing rooms was about 30 cents. This is the price of asking a helper to buy materials. The key is that the people are very simple now. If the neighbors build a new house, they will come to help spontaneously, and only the owner needs to manage the meals. In this way, the cost will be further reduced. You can build such a house for about ten cents of money.

The key is that with the increase in the number of workshops in Qinglin, the labor prices here are increasing. It used to be a dozen or so dollars a day to hire a middle-aged laborer. Now, the tiring work is not enough for thirty or fifty dollars, and there is no one to find. Chen Ying once conducted a survey. Even the craftsmen in Qinglin, even the most technical jobs, can earn a month or two years, enough for them to build their own new houses.

Chen Ying continued to explain to Li Jiancheng: "Your Highness, you also know that once the famine is in the past, ordinary people have no savings. If they want to survive, the only way to survive is to sell land and children. Therefore, in this case, the aristocratic clans can merge a large amount of land at extremely low prices. However, with the establishment of workshops, these workshops require craftsmen. In the non-busy season, farmers can make money by making money. Only every household has more than ten tons of money in deposits, and they have the capital to bear natural disasters. Even if farmers have no land, they can use work to support the family and live, so that they will not be raised by people with ulterior motives during the natural disasters and respond in groups!"

Chen Ying was very touched in later generations (actually, Lao Cheng felt that he had flooded his hometown this year. When the water was deepest, it exceeded the horizon by one meter. The fifteen acres of land at Lao Cheng's family not only did not see a grain of grain, but instead entered the land turning, fertilizers and seed pesticides cost several thousand. Almost all the autumn grains in a county have no harvest. Now farmers have money in their hands, they can only think that they are unlucky and are still regressing. If the farmer does not have spare money in his hands, the disaster of no harvest is very scary.

Li Jiancheng nodded.

Chen Ying continued: "There are many benefits of opening workshops. It is a way out for farmers without solving the problem. The key is that during the war, the country will mobilize very quickly. For example, thousands of workshops of all sizes in Qinglin only need one edict, and a mobilization of 30,000 to 40,000 people can be completed in one day. If the armed equipment is delegated, they can form an army within three days. Fast mobilization speed is of course only one aspect, and is there a greater benefit?"

"A greater benefit?" Li Jiancheng felt that his head was not enough.

Chen Ying smiled and said, "This is natural. There are dozens of carriage workshops in Qinglin. It can produce hundreds of carriages with heavy carriages in a month. If necessary, it can rush to work at full speed. It can produce thousands of four-wheeled carriages and thousands of four-wheeled carriages in a month. It can solve the transportation of 30,000 to 40,000 stones of grain and grass at one time..."

It didn't take long, and Wei Ting came back.

Wei Ting said to Li Jiancheng excitedly: "Your Highness, I have already found out that almost every household in Qinglin has built new houses within two years. Even the blacksmith Hu who was thundering at the intersection not only built thirteen houses, but also took a concubine!"

Chen Ying nodded and said, "Don't be sloppy, that guy has a lot of money in his hands. When he sold it to him, he thought it was too much for thirty stakes. If he wanted to sell 500 stakes, no one would be willing to bargain!"

With the rise of workshops in Qinglin, not only did it have the most prosperous workshop group in Chang'an, but the land price was also raised to an extremely high level. It is no exaggeration to say that the land price here almost caught up with the city of Chang'an. Any shop is hundreds or thousands of guan. The location of Wangjiang Tower is close to Jieyu River, which was originally a wasteland, and Chen used the price of 300 guan and bought more than 1,000 acres.

Later, with the rise of business, more and more wealthy merchants here, and the service industry also began to rise. When the owner of Wangjiang Tower found Chen Ying to buy the wasteland of less than 100 acres next to Jieyu River, Chen Ying once bid farewell to 10,000 yuan. But who would have thought that the owner of Wangjiang Tower, Jingzhao Han, made a decision to take it down without saying a word. In the end, the wasteland was taken down by Wangjiang Tower, Hongyan Pavilion, Lianxing Pavilion, Chu Yun Tower, Piaoxiang Pavilion and other 700 Red Buildings, forming a Red Building Street in Qinglin.

This piece of land, which originally cost only 300 guan, increased by 200 times by Chen Ying's hands and sold for more than 60,000 guan.

The shop of Hu Blacksmith actually entered the prosperous area in the Qinglin. Some people even sold thousands of guan, but Hu Blacksmith didn't sell it.

After Wei Ting's investigation, the Qinglinli model refreshed Li Jiancheng's understanding of the economy and everything became very unfamiliar.

Of course, the one who takes the most advantage of the increase in land prices is actually Chen Ying, because he bought more than 57,000 acres of land around Qinglin at a free price, including wasteland and alkaline land. However, the worst of these lands has increased by a hundred times the price.

If it weren't for the crazy development in Qinglin, Chen Ying would have really not had the ability to develop the Western Regions alone.

Li Jiancheng's face turned red and white. After pondering for a long time, he breathed a heavy breath and said slowly: "Although it's a huge profit to start a workshop, there will be losses and profits. It's okay to make a profit, but once you lose money, agriculture will be abandoned. Who can bear this responsibility?"

"Oh..." Chen Ying sighed and chuckled: "Your Highness, you are wrong. In fact, you don't have to blame this risk. In business, you pay attention to your own profits and losses. Whoever starts a workshop, who makes money, whoever makes money, what does it have to do with you? You just need to sell or rent out useless wasteland at extremely high prices. What workshops do they run and how to make money are all their own business. Whether they lose money or make money, the imperial government is only responsible for collecting taxes!"

Speaking of this, Chen Ying's eyes suddenly brightened, splashed everywhere, and introduced to Li Jiancheng with a spirit of spirit: "There are too many benefits of opening a workshop. The construction workshop requires a lot of bricks, stones, wood, and tiles. Someone has to build the workshop. There are wood and logging. Local people with wood have money to make money, and logging workers have money to make money, so the workers in the construction workshop have money to make money, and those who burn bricks and tiles also have money to make money, and the government can collect taxes, so why not do it?"

"There are more and more workshops, and the more tax the government can receive, and there are more people who can work. Once they encounter famine, they have enough confidence to deal with the famine!" Chen Ying drew a huge painting cake in front of Li Jiancheng and smiled and said, "The most important thing is that opening any workshop is more profitable than farming. These aristocratic families and landlords will definitely not spare any effort to annex the land. Even if they are not smart, there is no problem. Only by farming can they make a lot of money. Farmers have gone to work. Who will plant the land they have acquired?"
Chapter completed!