Chapter 381 The Cost of Road Construction by the Court
"Do you know anyone at the Ministry of Internal Affairs?"
Gao Shaoyi asked Wang Laosi on the way out of the city.
"Our family has an old relationship. Is there something wrong with the Duke? It should be no problem. They are all greedy for money."
Wang Laosi didn't know why Gao Shaoyi asked about the Ministry of Internal Affairs. Gao Shaoyi repeated what he had just said to see if there was any way for us to stay here. Although it was against the regulations, but then again, these days
Regulations are made by people, and Gao Shaoyi now has the right to make regulations.
"It shouldn't be a big deal, but we have a sum of money. When the time comes, we can find another person to take the name, and then find him a house, so we don't have to move."
Wang Laosi is quite familiar with these dirty things in the capital. As long as you can afford the money, then these things are not a problem. Otherwise, if you look at the Guojiu Mansion, everyone will know where it is.
It has gone beyond the regulations, but who dares to say anything more?
Gao Shaoyi nodded and asked Wang Laosi to find a reliable person to handle it.
After exiting the street in front of their home, the motorcade headed towards Xicheng Gate. Who knew that there would be a traffic jam in the capital early in the morning because there were too many people leaving the city.
The number of cars in the capital is also increasing. Of course, most of them were purchased by Gao Shaoyi. Having mastered the channels for trade with foreigners, Gao Shaoyi will definitely make this money. Everyone knows that the most profitable people nowadays are compradors.
To be honest, Gao Shaoyi hates this class very much, because this class has set up trade barriers at home and abroad. It eats what is here and what is there, but Gao Shaoyi cannot eradicate this class. If this is the case, then I
He became the biggest comprador.
"There are really more and more cars in Beijing."
Wang Laosi saw that the front and back were blocked. It turned out that these civil servants and generals were either sitting in sedan chairs or riding horses. How could they block the city gate?
"After the industrial zone is established, we will put a car factory here. By then, the price of cars will continue to drop. I estimate that the number of cars in the capital will increase several times."
Gao Shaoyi looked at the streets outside and estimated that the entire capital would be undergoing extensive repairs by then.
Wang Laosi happily agreed beside him. In fact, the technical level of this automobile manufacturing plant is not high, because it is the first automobile manufacturing plant in the entire Daqian Dynasty. Most of the parts are purchased from foreign countries. To put it bluntly,
That is, a car assembly plant.
But even so, this is the first automobile manufacturing plant in the entire Daqian Empire.
After waiting for about half an hour, the city gate finally became loose. It was mainly because people outside the city wanted to come in and people inside the city also wanted to go out. As a result, they parked their cars at the city gate. Gao Shaoyi asked someone to
I went over to direct it, and now it's open. It seems like the traffic lights need to be brought in early.
After leaving the city gate, the cars of each family started to run fast, and they were all trying their best to show everyone that their cars were the fastest.
"Safety first, don't try to show your ability, just drive to the place honestly. Can the fastest one go ten minutes faster than the slowest one?"
Gao Shaoyi saw that our convoy was also going to speed up, so he quickly asked his men to stop. There was not even a cement road outside. If you run too fast on such a road, if there is a pothole that you cannot see, this
Cars in this era were not that strong, so we didn’t want to throw our breakfast out.
"The roads around the capital are too backward and cannot be compared with those in Haicheng. After the cement plant in Haicheng was put into operation, we have already started to build the fifth road."
After Wang Laosi came back from Haicheng, he was also very dissatisfied with the traffic in the capital.
"Hasn't the Ministry of Industry Yamen already made a plan? Hasn't anyone implemented it yet?"
Gao Shaoyi remembered that when he went to the grassland, the people in the Yamen of the Ministry of Industry had already put this matter on the agenda, but unfortunately the situation has become like this again.
"Don't mention this matter. Various plans have been made long ago, and some demolition projects have even started. But the problem is that the court cannot come up with the money."
Speaking of this matter, Wang Laosi started laughing. After his explanation, Gao Shaoyi understood what was going on. The roads built in this era are basically cement roads with two cars side by side.
The current cost of building a road is about 20,000 silver coins per kilometer. Of course, this is the price of buying cement. If you produce it yourself, the cost can be reduced by at least 70%. Unfortunately, the imperial court does not have its own cement factory.
According to the imperial court's plan, the surrounding roads are about 160 kilometers in total, and the imperial court needs to spend 3.2 million silver coins.
"Three million and two million silver coins is not a lot. Even if some additional clauses are added, it will only be four million silver coins at most. This matter has been raging for two years. Isn't it possible that the court can't come up with something in two years?
Four million silver coins?”
Gao Shaoyi said a little strangely that he had known about the financial difficulties of the imperial court before. The day the emperor talked to him about money, Gao Shaoyi knew that this matter was true, but he never thought that the imperial court's financial difficulties would be to this extent.
"No matter how difficult our court's finances are, we can still get four million silver coins, but you have to think about how many corrupt officials there are. Four million silver coins is a normal price. If it is left to our town,
According to Lu Jun, the price of the cement we produce ourselves and our own workers is probably less than 1 million silver coins, but the people from the Ministry of Industry Yamen quoted 11 million silver coins."
After hearing this number, Gao Shaoyi finally understood why it couldn't be repaired. It turned out that those people wanted to make a fortune from it, and this was just a preliminary quotation. If it really started, the people in the middle would reach out more.
Based on some previous experiences of the imperial court, the final total price may even exceed 20 million silver coins.
Renovating the roads around the capital costs a quarter of the treasury. How can this be done? No wonder the emperor is unwilling to start the construction. If the emperor orders the construction to start, next year's finances may be even more difficult.
"These guys really have their way."
Gao Shaoyi looked at the officials of the Daqian Empire outside speechlessly. These people probably didn't know how to do anything other than making money. If everyone relied on them, how could the Daqian Empire not be destroyed?