After getting on the train, Guo Jia traveled very fast. When he came to his senses, he found that the train had entered Jidu. When the train stopped and he got off the train, he couldn't help but sigh: "It's more than 60 miles away.
It actually only takes an hour, this train is really a magic weapon! Thunder God has done something incredible again."
After leaving the train station, what Guo Jia saw was a densely populated street. The roads were full of bullock carts, horse-drawn carriages, and human-operated carts, independent carts, etc. They were separated to the left and right, and there was a constant flow. Although there were many in number, they would not
They influence each other, and there are people walking on both sides of the avenue. These people are glowing and walking on the avenue with great vigor. This is what people in the prosperous age should look like.
There are many high-rise buildings on both sides of the road, which surprised Guo Jia. When he studied in Luoyang City, there were only two or three-story wooden buildings in Luoyang City at most. But when he looked over now, most of the streets were filled with wooden buildings.
A four-story brick and stone building. In the distance, he could see a taller building standing in the sky, like a giant!
"How come the houses in Jidu are built so high?" Guo Jia couldn't help but asked in surprise.
For Xu Wei, after more than ten years of hard work, regardless of the level of technology, just talking about these buildings and infrastructure, Jidu finally looked like a third- and fourth-tier city in the 1980s. But for people of this era,
Jidu is full of high-rise buildings, which do not look like the human world.
One by one, the people of the imperial capital looked at Guo Jia's country bumpkin appearance and laughed: "This must be my first time in Jidu. I have never seen such a tall building before!"
Guo Jia replied: "This seems to be built by some chamber of commerce, but it is too difficult to build it so high, so you don't worry about violating taboos?"
Because he saw the four characters "Wang's Chamber of Commerce" written on this tall building.
There were too many restrictions in the feudal era. Building tall buildings could not exceed the height of the palace. Although Lei Gong did not build a palace, he still had a place to live. Such a high-rise building obviously exceeded the place where Lei Gong lived. The merchants of Daqian did not worry about the government looking for them.
trouble?
The people of the imperial capital laughed and said: "What taboos are committed? We in power don't care about it at all. If you have money, you can build it higher. We in power have said that any house cannot be built higher than the highest place of the palace. It's all those officials."
I can’t eat enough and I’m looking for something to do!
They have the energy to manage the people doing these things, but they don’t have the energy to keep the people fed. No wonder the Han Dynasty will perish. Our government said that building higher buildings can save area and make it easier for everyone to live!"
"The mansions of the Han Dynasty's dignitaries have been built as huge as residential areas. They don't violate taboos anymore, but how much land resources do they occupy per household? If they occupy more, ordinary people like us will occupy less, so we don't care about you in power.
No matter how high the building is, it cannot occupy too much area, especially like the officials of the Han Dynasty, where one mansion occupies the area of a community. They are comfortable this way, but the common people have no place to live."
Daqian businessmen just listened to what Xu Wei said. They didn't care about your taboos or how high they wanted to build the building. Instead, they tried to limit the land area of a mansion. They were afraid that they would become what the ruler said, where one family occupies the land.
People the size of a residential area!
The communities built by the Daqian government were initially three-story houses. Later, as technology advanced, bamboo reinforced concrete was used to build high-rise buildings, and communities with four- and five-story houses began to appear. Most of these houses were used to house Daqian residents. officials.
Ordinary people naturally learn from the methods of officials. After making money, they find ways to rebuild their houses. Building three or four floors of a house that originally only had one family is equivalent to an increase of three or four times in value of the house. It’s also a big deal to rent out!
However, the wealthy class in Daqian did not dare to imitate the wealthy people in Luoyang City who built mansions covering a whole community, and began to build their own houses taller. Later, big businessmen discovered that high-rise buildings could be the best advertisements for their shops, and Jidu ranked first. A high-rise building can be seen by millions of people throughout Jidu. This is not much better than advertising.
So the number of high-rise buildings in Jidu began to increase. The Zhen Chamber of Commerce built a 10-story building, and the Wang Chamber of Commerce built an 11-story building, and then made a big door sign and hung it up so that all the people in Jidu could see it!
After listening to the common man's introduction, Guo Jia didn't know whether the high-rise buildings built in this way were good or bad, but he knew that the prices of the buildings built in this way must be extremely high. They were all made of masonry structures. This was seen in Luoyang City. There are not many such houses. It can be seen from this that the wealth of the people in Jidu must far exceed that of the people in Luoyang City, otherwise they would not have the financial resources to build houses with masonry structures!
Then Guo Jia found a Yunlai Inn to stay.
The waiter led Guo Jia to a luxurious room and said: "Objectively, this small room is a bathroom. Our inn has hot and cold water. You can put the water in this bathtub and adjust the water temperature yourself. You can also call it Xiaode Come help, and this ceramic toilet is a convenient place, and this cheat can flush water!"
After saying that, the waiter calmed down a bit, and sure enough, a stream of water appeared!
"Why is the bathroom connected to the latrine?" Guo Jia asked!
This room looked extremely luxurious to him. The walls were covered with tiles. Even the bathroom and latrine were made of porcelain. The doors and windows were also made of transparent glass. All of them exuded an aura of luxury. Even a big man ten years ago It would be difficult for even the top noble families to build such a luxurious room.
But the bathroom and the latrine were difficult for Guo Jia to accept. It was as disgusting as eating half a fly at a prince's banquet!
But the waiter said confidently: "This is a room designed by our administration. The layout is very meaningful. In this way, the guest does not need to leave the room when he gets up in the middle of the night, and there is no smell when using this toilet. The guest can wash it You can also take a rest directly after taking a shower, and it can all be done in one room, which is extremely convenient, especially in the winter when you don’t have to go out in pajamas!”
This chapter is not over yet, please click on the next page to continue reading! When Guo Jia heard that this was announced by Lei Bu, he did not refute it and was even thinking about the deeper meaning. However, this was actually just the place Xu Wei placed him in to live in modern times. In this world of transportation, he himself didn’t understand why he had such a layout! But who gave Xu Wei a high status, so this layout became popular in Daqian!
The waiter spoke very carefully. He saw that it was Guo Jia's first time in Jidu, and he had to explain all the facilities in this house before he left!
At this time, Guo Jia could only lie on the bed and didn't know what to say, because the level of luxury in this inn exceeded Guo Jia's imagination. The tiled walls and floors made it look like a house made of jade and a transparent glass factory. , and crystal clear crystal chandeliers, all of which look so luxurious, but only cost 200 yuan a day. Obviously this is not a high-end inn. He originally lived in a much more expensive inn in Luoyang City, but But it doesn’t have a good living environment here.
Now he could only helplessly shake his head and smile bitterly: "Daqian is developing so fast that I can hardly understand it anymore!"
The next day, Guo Jia found the waiter and asked: "I want to know some information about Dagan Cargo, but I don't know where to go?"
The waiter said: "Guest, you should be able to get the information you want by going to the stock exchange!"
So Guo Jia summoned a carriage: "Go to the stock exchange in Jidu!"
The driver immediately said: "Okay!"
After saying that, let Guo Jia get in the car!
After Guo Jia came up, he found that the coachman was missing a leg and asked: "Brother, what's wrong with this leg?"
The coachman smiled and said: "When I joined the army and followed the old man in power, I fought against the princes in the Central Plains. This leg was broken when I attacked Dingtao City. Later, it became infected and was sawed off."
Guo Jia was stunned. This was really fate. Maybe the two of them had met in Dingtao before!
But Guo Jia immediately said: "Brother, you can be considered a hero of Daqian!"
The coachman smiled and said: "I am not a hero, I am just an unlucky soldier, but the government has not treated me badly. This leg has been exchanged for this carriage and a house in Jidu. Now I go to Jidu every month You can earn thousands of dollars a month by recruiting customers, marry a wife and have children, and your life will be much better than before!"
Guo Jia nodded and said: "If you can have real estate in Ji, brother, your leg is worth it!"
This treatment is much better than that of Dahan. In Dahan, when a soldier dies, he is really dead. There is definitely a pension, but it is not much, and this small amount of pension cannot reach the hands of the soldier's family.
The coachman smiled and said, "I think so too. Back then, the world was in chaos and a lot of people died. Who would care about the lives of ordinary people like us? We were the only ones in power. I have been with the right person in my life!"
Then the coachman asked: "Guest, what are you doing here?"
Guo Jiadao: "I heard that Jidu is rich, and the stock exchange is full of gold rivers. I want to find a business to make a fortune!"
The coachman said: "It is easy to make small money in Jidu, but it is difficult to make big money. It was easier before, but now that Jidu has developed for more than ten years, the truly profitable business has long been occupied by the rich. !Stocks are just like gambling, you can’t make any money at all!”
Only after Xu Wei created the stock market and the stock exchange, we experienced a year or two of prosperity, and then entered a period of recession. Many businessmen and people were trapped, but fortunately, the current stock market does not have as many tricks as in later generations. , otherwise many people would go to the rooftop!
This coachman bought the stock when he had a little money, but was taken over by a high position. He couldn't sell it even if he wanted to, and lost a lot of money. He could only hold it for a long time. Fortunately, Xu Wei's stock also paid dividends, so he could buy it every year Receiving a little money can be considered as comforting.
Guo Jia smiled and said, "I'll just take a look!"
The coachman smiled and said: "If you really want to buy stocks, I suggest you buy Jizhou water transportation stocks. Jizhou governor Wang Guojun wants to build a commercial bank that runs through the entire Jizhou canal. It is said that he wants to recruit 10 billion funds for construction!"
Guo Jia didn't expect that Wang Guojun could actually use such a method to do what he wanted to do. He also learned from the newspaper that Lei Gong wanted to relieve the three states in Jiangnan and Daqian's finances were spent on Jiangnan. With no money to support the construction of Jizhou, Wang Guojun actually thought of raising funds by himself!
A small Jizhou alone could recruit 10 billion for such a huge project. Guo Jia recalled that he found that the Han Dynasty's 200-year project to build the Yellow River was comparable to this project. He couldn't help but smile bitterly, secretly thinking that the gap was too big. .
But he wondered: "Can this also make money?"
The Han Dynasty has always lost money doing such projects, so in the past two hundred years, except for the Yellow River, which had to be repaired, the Han Dynasty has never done any major projects.
The coachman smiled and said: "Of course, Governor Wang plans to learn from the practice of Xiliang Road and set up checkpoints on this canal of several hundred miles. Any ship passing this canal will have to pay tolls, and these fees will be used to Dividends are said to be able to be collected continuously for 30 years, and the canal in Jizhou is planned to connect Jidu. Although it is difficult to make a lot of money on such a canal stock, it is better than maintaining a profit in droughts and floods! "
Guo Jia smiled and said: "This is a good idea. Whoever benefits will pay!"
Under the leadership of the coachman, Guo Jia came to a 12-story high-rise building. This high-rise building was made entirely of cement, with ceramic tiles and giant glass on the outside. It looked like a crystal palace! The painting style of this building is just like The other places are completely different. They are extremely luxurious and can be seen even from ten miles away. They are extremely eye-catching.
"It can only be said that it is a legendary stock exchange with a golden river flowing through it!"
It immediately became noisy as soon as you entered. The space inside was huge, even larger than the palace in Luoyang City, and there were people everywhere shouting crazily.
Guo Jia saw the names of Jizhou Glass Factory, Mayi Iron and Steel Factory and other factories on the high platform. These were the first batch of factories to go public. Everyone was familiar with their annual profits and how much they could earn per share. Everyone has figured it out, so these stocks are very stable. If the return rate exceeds 30 times, no one will buy it, because it is not as good as depositing money in a money shop and getting more interest!
What really makes everyone crazy is that Jizhou Water Transport Trading Company, which has no future, is blocking the road to collect money. This canal really costs 10 billion, so it will take more than 300 million every year to barely recover the capital, and if you want to make money every year, you need There are 400 million, 500 million or more profits.
But if the canal is not dug, who knows how much profit there will be. It may be less than 300 million, or it may be 780 million 900 million. It can be said to be a complete gamble!
Many people with a small fortune are willing to take a gamble!
Guo Jia is not interested in these stocks, because even if he earns more than 30%, it will not be of much use to Crab Island.
Instead, he saw something he was interested in on another sign. The goods hung here were all the goods needed by Daqian, such as grain, steel, copper ingots, wood, and any other raw materials. There were buyers who hung them. There are also sellers who list them, and once the price is agreed upon, you can order the goods.