"For merchants from other places, whether they are familiar with the local area or not, they need to find the source of goods as soon as possible or a buyer who can sell a large amount of goods. They need to shop around. For users who buy and sell goods,
Said that they also need to shop around and have a fixed trading place. The function of the market is to bring all the buyers and sellers together to form a scale advantage. Anyone who needs it can get it as soon as possible.
I will think of going to the market instead of having to wait for a market for five days to buy and sell. And when the same type of goods are concentrated in one place, the prices are relatively fair and transparent. Whose goods are of good quality, who
The quality of our goods is poor, who sells it more expensively, who sells it more cheaply, etc., etc., everyone will know it clearly just by walking around the market."
His idea of concentrating scale advantages in later generations is naturally far ahead of the state of retail investors at this time. The reason is actually very obvious. As soon as he said it, Ruban and others immediately understood and nodded in agreement.
"Junhou, why don't you put it in Bodao County?" Yan Meiting asked.
"The space in Bodao County is limited." Zhou Xing said casually. In fact, he was unwilling to put this kind of business that might make a lot of money at the feet of others. Such a good thing must naturally be built on his own land.
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"But if thieves come and this open area is not covered, the damage will be huge." Yan Meiting continued to raise his concerns.
"This is indeed a problem." Zhou Xing pondered for a while and said: "The market must be surrounded by a stone wall, which can at least stop the horses from jumping. Build a stone castle next to the market so that people can hide when a large number of thieves attack.
Enter the stone fort. As for the property, you can store it in the stone fort on weekdays, set up a written record, and have a dedicated person take charge of the management. The property can be brought in and out only based on the written record."
"You can also build a few high-rise early warning buildings in the distance," Jian Lan said after hearing this. "As long as people and property can be protected in time, there is no problem with Junhou's plan."
"What do the merchants in the market say?" Yan Meiting was obviously very interested in this and asked again.
"Invite investment." Zhou Xing once again said a word that no one else had heard of but could understand the meaning immediately, "The road surface of the market and the buildings on it were all funded by the market party. But the merchants settled inside were not
Bidding is required. Whoever likes which location and shop will get it with the highest bid. The market will be divided into zones during planning, including tea area, spices area, porcelain area, jade area, silk brocade area, etc., where businesses of the same type are concentrated.
Within their respective planned areas.”
As Zhou Xing spoke, he drew on the white paper with charcoal, his heart getting more and more excited.
Real estate, this is real estate. I didn’t expect that after traveling through time, I would actually start to engage in real estate. Based on his experience in that world, first concentrate resources and then drive the flow of people. Although this world can’t afford commercial housing or anything like that.
, but as long as there is a flow of people, money will flow. As a landlord, I only need to sit on the ground and collect money.
With money, your school can run better and cultivate more talents. In turn, your fiefdom and even Bodao will be more prosperous.
Then with these people and money, I will expand this business nationwide.
Thinking of this, he suddenly thought of Shi Zhong in Shangluo, and his heart sank. With Shi Zhong's title, background, and wealth, especially if he couldn't protect himself, how could he do it?
Yan Meiting obviously doesn't think so. He has been in Bodao for many years and is familiar with everything in Bodao. He knows exactly how many merchants come and go in Bodao every year and how much water there is. It's just that his family originally
He was poor. Although he had been a boss for so many years and had accumulated some wealth, he had never been able to find a good business for his family.
Doing business in the world not only requires people to be versatile and have a way to deal with any kind of people they meet, but it is also a business with a head on their shoulders. Not to mention that there will inevitably be some strongmen along the way, that is, the Ancient Tea Horse Road
, since ancient times, many places have been extremely dangerous. If you are not careful, you will fall into the abyss and lose your body.
After he listened to what Zhou Xing said about the blueprint of this market, he excitedly discovered that this was a hugely profitable business, and it was right at his doorstep, without having to travel thousands of miles of difficult and dangerous roads. With his vision and shrewdness, he immediately
It can be judged that once this market is established, it will attract all the merchants coming and going in a short period of time. "Junhou, can I let my family open a shop here in the future?" Yan Meiting said this.
My heart was pounding nervously.
"Master Yan is interested, so naturally I welcome him with both hands." Zhou Xing put aside his other thoughts and laughed and said, "Not only all of you here, but even your relatives and friends, as long as you are interested in settling in, Gao will be happy to ask for it."
Seeing Yan Meiting leaving happily, Ru Ban smiled and said: "The Lord has made such a big move when he first arrived, which is really an eye-opener for you. However, you have never been interested in buying and selling.
I am particularly interested in what Junhou said about building a school. I wonder if Junhou can tell you some of your plans for the school?"
"This is how I think about the school." Zhou Xing pondered for a moment and then said: "The school I want to build is different from Hongdu College in Shangluo. Hongdu College is dedicated to serving monks, and I plan to
But the school is open to everyone. Whether they are monks or civilians, they can enter the school to receive education and learn corresponding knowledge."
"Could it be that the emperor wants to imitate the practice of Confucius?" Ru Ban asked with obvious excitement.
"Education without distinction? Yes, that's what it means. Education without distinction!"
"Husband," at night, a spacious bedroom on the second floor was brightly lit. Under this fiery red candlelight, Wang Tianyun's originally beautiful face looked even more delicate. But now, on top of this delicate face
With a hint of worry. "Is what you said during the day true?"
"Of course it's true," Zhou Xing had been busy all day and felt a little tired. Now that he was alone in a room with his beautiful lady, the normal desire of a man naturally arose in his heart. He leaned over and said with a smile on his face:
"Madam, it's time for us to rest."
"Go," Wang Tianyun watched him approach him and hit him with his hand, and said angrily: "Husband, have you ever calculated how much it costs to build a school? How much does it cost to build a medical center? As for the collection you are talking about?
I agree with the trade market. We can earn back the money we spend in the future. But if you build a school to hire teachers or a medical center to hire doctors, you have to pay for it. If you do this, what will you and I eat and drink in the future?
What? What do so many servants in the mansion eat and drink?"
"Tsk, I really haven't thought about what you said." Zhou Xing said with a relaxed expression.
Seeing his relaxed look, Wang Tianyun was even more angry. She counted one by one with her fingers: "How many square stones are needed for a school? How much does each square stone cost? I asked Guo Gui carefully today, you
Guess how much cubic stone our Marquis Mansion spent in total? More than 160 cubic meters. Although the stone here is much cheaper than that in Shangluo, one square meter costs 80 copper baht. How much is 160 cubic meters?
A copper baht? You do the math."
"Sixty-eight forty-eight, one eight equals eight, the total is twelve thousand eight copper bahts, which is less than thirteen gold bahts (one gold baht is worth one hundred silver baht, one silver baht is worth ten copper baht)."
Wang Tianyun was stunned when she heard this. She didn't expect Zhou Xing to calculate so quickly. She only came up with the number after doing a few calculations today. "This is just stone." She emphasized in a louder voice, "There is also wood.
What about the tiles? Do you need to carve and polish them? That's it, labor has been saved for you. Those subjects under our name who come to work are in vain, Guo Gui just takes care of the food. But all this also requires
It’s included in the days they gave us to serve.”
"Is there such a good thing?" Zhou Xing was really surprised when he heard this. He had never thought that there was such a thing as working for free.
"Oh, my great prince." Wang Tianyun couldn't help but smile bitterly when she saw his look, "Since the imperial court has sealed four hundred of your households, then these four hundred households are the people in your name. Of course, the list of Guo Guo
Gui has already shown me that although there are 400 households with names and surnames in the registered quota, there are actually only 357 households with a total of 4,561 children, including those under the age of 12.
You have 718 children. After you received the enfeoffment, these more than 4,000 people will only pay taxes and serve you. When they work for you, they serve, and naturally we don’t have to pay any more."
"That's right." Zhou Xing was not blind to what was going on outside the window. He understood the following tricks very well. He clapped his hands and said, "It is precisely because they are already our subjects that we have to build a school."
He Medical Center, these people are our assets, and they are the most precious and irreplaceable assets. We must not only protect these people, but also improve the quality of these people."
"What?" Wang Tianyun was confused, "What are assets? What are qualities?"
"Let's use an analogy." Zhou Xing finally got the opportunity to show off his sense of superiority as a future person in front of Wang Tianyun, and he couldn't help but gesture enthusiastically: "It's like our family has a horse. If we want the horse to run farther,
If it is fast, you must give it good nutrition and take good care of it, otherwise it will be thin and weak and cannot run fast or bear heavy objects. This is also the purpose of building schools and medical clinics." Zhou Xing said here.
, suddenly realized that he had become the boss he hated before, and couldn't help but stop abruptly.
But when Wang Tianyun heard what he said, she tilted her head and started thinking. She pondered for a while and then said: "But if you want to build a medical clinic, you can build it. Why do you have to bear half of everyone's medical expenses? Our family's money is not the same."
It was blown by the strong wind."
Zhou Xing would naturally not admit that he said it casually in imitation of the medical insurance system of that world, but if he had to admit it in person that he was talking nonsense at that time, it would definitely not work. Besides, he had just thought of those useless things he had done in the past.
The good boss didn't want to become such a bad person. So he bit the bullet and used the concept of future generations to explain: "Look, you just have long hair and short knowledge. In the end, the money we spent will eventually
It still comes from them. What we eat and drink in the future are not produced by ourselves, right? They are all produced by the hard work of those down there. We must take it from the people and use it for the people.
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"Exactly, that's nonsense." Wang Tianyun didn't accept his words at all, "Doesn't it count as work for me? Farming and paying taxes is a matter of course. You have made such great contributions to the imperial court, so the imperial court named you Bo.
Marquis Daoting, this marquis did not fall from the sky. If some of them can make meritorious deeds and be granted the title of marquis, there is no need to dig in the ground every day. If you have made such a big contribution, you still have no merit with them.
People are the same, this is called unfair. Husband, you are called a woman's kindness."
Wang Tianyun's words made it almost impossible for Zhou Xing to refute, and he couldn't help but feel a little embarrassed. How could he, a great time traveler, not be able to talk to the women in his own house? This is amazing!
"Exploitation, this is naked exploitation." Zhou Xing forcibly established a sense of moral superiority in his own mind to maintain the correctness of his own views. He suppressed his shame and anger and continued to explain in a normal tone.
Said: "I don't care what you say about my benevolence as a woman, what I want is sustainable development, not fishing in the lake. I only firmly believe that the more residents in our kingdom, the more money we can collect
The more tax revenue there will be. The better our country’s economy is, the better our family’s economy will be. This is what I want to achieve.”
"Sustainable development?" When Wang Tianyun heard this unfamiliar word, she tilted her head slightly, squinted her eyes and thought for a moment, and then understood the meaning of this word.
When she saw Zhou Xing's expression, she could naturally feel a hint of shame and anger from her delicate appearance. As a member of a wealthy family like the Jinyang Wang family, she had been taught how to get along with her husband who would become the head of the family since she was a child.
"It's okay to be a little tempered when you should, but you must pay attention to maintaining the dignity of the other person. Men always take face very seriously." This is the idea that her mother has instilled in her since she was a child.
So, she decided to put aside this argument for the time being, even though she had 10,000 disagreements with Zhou Xing's views and actions.
"Okay, sustainable development. I understand. My husband will definitely be a benevolent monarch and wise ruler in the future." Wang Tianyun said playfully, and walked over to help him undress.
"Actually, I understand that my husband wants to win the hearts of the people when he first comes here, and I also support my husband in doing so. We have come all the way from the north and arrived in such a strange place. Although nominally we are the masters and they are the ministers, no one
Support, we can’t do it anyway.”
Wang Tianyun said this, which finally made Zhou Xing feel a lot more comfortable. He had this kind of temper. As soon as Wang Tianyun said a few soft words, he smiled playfully again, "My wife understands me best. With this good wife, I