Huo Xihao spent nearly 30,000 taels of silver to buy houses, shops and streets. Even the housekeepers were alarmed.
He personally held the map and told Huo Xi where to find good fields. He looked at Huo Xi as if he were looking at a pile of shining gold.
So the next day, the official personally directed two land surveyors to follow her to the countryside.
The government carriage also arrived.
This treatment was just like Huo Xi's previous life when she was dragged to see a house, picked up and dropped off by a special car, greeted with greetings, and provided with tea and snacks.
Throughout the ages, selling houses and land has never been easy.
When the local population cannot stimulate the economy, why not take some measures to attract people from other places to come and buy houses? Now that we have already bought houses, how can we not come here often to live there, spend money, or even stay in the end?
At first, Beiping City was just a large military camp, and the capitals of various dynasties never went north. It was not until the Wu Dynasty made Beiping City the capital that the population of Beiping surged. At its peak, the population once reached nearly one million people.
After years of war, the Han people took back their political power, Taizu established his country in the south of the Yangtze River, and Peiping lost its population. In just a few decades, it became desolate. Until now, the population of Peiping City does not exceed 100,000.
Emperor Yongkang wanted to move the capital to Beiping. How would this population develop?
In the future, a large number of people will need to be moved to Peiping.
The Wei Dynasty only lasted two generations and three emperors, so how much money could the national treasury have? We couldn't rely on wealthy businessmen to buy properties here and develop the economy?
Today, Huo Xi enjoyed the VIP treatment. Two guards personally led her around to look at the fields and Zhuangzi.
First, it was hard to reject the warm hospitality, and second, she came here specifically to buy property. Nowadays, land prices are cheap, and the servants are so enthusiastic that they don't count the mountains, slopes, and woodlands for her. Of course, she can only buy them.
In this way, he acquired six more villages and 5,500 acres of land.
The price of the upper fields was sixty-five taels per mu, and the price of the middle and lower fields was lower than that of the Jiangnan fields. In this way, it cost her nearly thirty thousand taels of silver in total.
The seventy-two acres of high-quality farmland cost her only sixty-five cents in the end, which was five cents cheaper than Shopkeeper Shen's previous seventy-two cents per mu.
It seems that you really need to spend a lot of money to get things done.
The two guards were very generous and gave her a lot of extra land. Huo Xi was not stingy either, and each of them gave her a hundred taels of silver notes.
Huo Xi has become very familiar with this kind of work of making connections and giving gifts to stuff people with benefits over the years.
When I went to the Yamen to apply for the red deed, I also gave the clerk and the pawnbroker a purse, which was fifty taels more than the two guards.
When Huo Xi finally left, everyone from the pian to the guards came out to see her off and asked her when she would come back next time. It was so reluctant to leave.
It seems that the government office, from top to bottom, wants to sell more land and make money.
Huo Xi also wants to buy more land, but she doesn't plan to make it too conspicuous. These six villages, because of the benefits, bought three hot spring villages, which are already quite eye-catching. Buying any more is not in line with her usual low-key attitude.
Principle. I have to stop temporarily.
As a result, she has nine villages and sixty hectares of land in Beiping. It's great. She is one step closer to becoming a big landowner with one hundred hectares.
After buying the property, most of the purpose of coming to Peking was fulfilled.
Huo Xi was in a good mood after hearing from Zhu Ji that he had sold a lot of local products purchased along the way, a lot of wine from Huai'an and Cangzhou, and a lot of homespun cloth.
Nowadays, Peiping has a small population, so it is difficult to sell some expensive things.
Things related to people's livelihood still sell well. People always need to eat and clothe themselves, and Guangfeng Shui is also mainly engaged in the business of grain and cloth in Peiping.
One year, all the food left in the village and stored in the store were sent to Peiping. They also collected a lot from various places in the south of the Yangtze River, and nearly 10,000 shi of grain were sent to Peiping in a year.
Nowadays, there are many craftsmen and civilians. In addition to food, cloth is also easy to sell, but linen and homespun cloth are the best-selling ones. They are cheap and wear-resistant and are the most popular among ordinary people.
After walking around the house, I saw everyone there except Ji Chuyi.
"You haven't found his father yet in the first year of junior high school?" After being busy for a few days, I forgot to ask about this kid's search for his father.
"No." Vanilla and Xia He shook their heads.
"If he comes back every day, is he probably lost?"
"Don't worry, girl, he will come back every day, but it's not dark and you won't see him."
Huo Xi sighed: "With dad here, there are still people who love him. If dad is gone, he will be the only one left in the world." Huo Xi can understand that feeling.
"Is there anyone following?"
"Youqing follow him."
"Ah, how old is Youqing? Lao Qiutou and the others are also willing to have Youqing run around outside with him? Aren't they afraid of getting lost?"
"Youqing is familiar with the city and can't lose it. The Qiu family is very relieved."
You can't be careless. Thinking of the child in the first year of junior high school who was eagerly looking forward to his father, Huo Xi was in a daze and shook his head, "Let's go, let's go to the city and see if we can help the first year student think of a solution.
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If that doesn't work at that time, go to the government office and ask the two guards at the household office to see if there are any lists at various construction sites, and they can help you find them.
He took the two maids and Ta Yue out of the house again.
I took a car and walked around, and finally went to the direction of Dongzhimen to see the land I bought.
I stayed in the semi-dilapidated old neighborhood for a long time, thinking about how to transform the place. After staying for a long time, I had some thoughts in my mind. I saw that there were many shanty towns here, so I walked around and took a look.
If I want to transform this abandoned street, I must first move away these shanty townspeople. I don’t know if they are residents of this area or from outside. It’s easy to say that they are outsiders. If they are registered here, I’m afraid there will be some twists and turns.
Walking all the way to Dongzhimen, I heard the noise, and I didn't intend to get close, but I seemed to hear the voices of Chu Yi and You Qing mixed in, so I hurriedly asked Ta Yue to go and see.
After a while, Chu Yi ran over stumbling and crying, with Youqing following closely behind him.
What's going on? Something happened?
"Master, please save my father, please save him, he is dying." After saying this, he raised his neck and cried loudly, with tears and runny nose flowing down his face.
"Have you found your father?"
On the first day of the month, she tugged at the hem of Huo Xi's clothes, crying and shaking her head.
"No. I didn't find my father. But I found a fellow from our village. He secretly told me that my father was taken to do private work by the foreman and was also sick. The foreman refused to treat him and wanted to throw him away. I
I came to the foreman and asked where my father was, but he refused to admit it and refused to tell me where my father was. Wow, wow, wow...Dad!"
Ah, there is still this matter?
"Stop crying, let's go ask him." Huo Xi comforted him and led Tayue and others toward the construction site.
Sure enough, as Chu Yi said, the foreman did not admit it.
He only said that on the first day of the junior high school, his father quit his job and stopped coming to the construction site, and he could not find anyone. When he asked the kind fellow, he also refused to admit it. He only said that he had never said this.
"Hurry up, or if you don't leave, I'm going to kick you out. Because of your making such a fuss, the work has been delayed. If the construction period is delayed, who can afford it?"
As he spoke, he swung his whip violently in the air, making a loud noise.
Huo Xi planned to find another way to take Chu Yi away.
On the first day of the junior high school, he refused to reply. He rushed forward and hugged the foreman's ankles: "Please, tell me where my father is, please."
Three people were riding horses and passed by here. Seeing the commotion, they glanced here.