I deleted that section last night because it was so scummy. At that time, I was in a daze and was extremely deprived of energy. I reluctantly wrote it. I read it today and it was so scummy that I decided to delete it.
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Liu De's carriage rumbled through the streets of Chang'an, with fifty Northern Army guards closely guarding him. The Han family's black dragon flag fluttered in the wind, and countless people looked sideways along the way.
As we got further and further away from the royal palace, the prosperity began to fade, and workers in ragged clothes, pulling oxcarts and even pushing wheelbarrows began to appear on the road.
Seeing these poor people, Liu De knew that his destination was not far away.
After traveling for more than two miles, the carriage stopped at a street intersection.
"Your Highness, Pingxin City has arrived!" the coachman reminded Liu Dedao.
Liu De stood up, got off the carriage, and looked up at the building in front of him.
The Han Dynasty inherited the Qin system. Not only were most of the laws revised on the basis of the Qin law, but even the layout and management of the city were not much different from those in the Qin Dynasty.
The Han Dynasty records: There are one hundred and sixty villages in Chang'an. The houses are well proportioned and the doors and alleys are straight.
This shows that the urban construction of Chang'an City is planned and not blindly built indiscriminately.
What appeared in front of Liu De was a somewhat deserted trading market. Many shops were not even open. Occasionally, a few passers-by dressed as civilians could be seen coming out of some shops carrying various kinds of knitted products, large and small.
"Your Highness, this is Pingxin City, also known as Liushi. Most of the people here are merchants selling wicker fabrics and brooms..." The coachman knew a lot, and he lowered his head and introduced Liu De.
"Oh!" Liu De nodded, looked at the other three talismans in his hand, and asked: "Then do you know what Zhishi, Huaishi, and Changling City do? What do most of the merchants there do?
Competent?"
"The direct market is a vegetable market. Most of the fishermen and butchers on the Weishui River are in the direct market. Huaishi is famous for its pawn shops. Changling City is not very familiar to slaves outside the city. I heard that it does not open often. It only opens on the first and fifteenth day of every month.
..." The coachman replied respectfully, and then he thought for a while and reminded: "Of the four cities that Your Highness asked about, two are in the west, only the direct city is in the east, and the other mayor's tomb is outside the city, which is not very important.
famous!"
"Got it!" Liu De nodded.
Although he had known that Chao Cuo had no good intentions, Liu De couldn't help but feel a little angry after hearing this.
Even though Liu De was just a prince who was born in a deep palace and had the skills of a woman.
But I still know some common sense.
There are nine cities in Chang'an, six in the west and three in the east. The west market seems to be more numerous, but in fact its influence is not high at all, and the flow of people is usually limited.
Even the imperial court executed prisoners in the East Market and never went to the West Market because the flow of people in the West Market was too small.
Just after listening to the driver's introduction, Liu De knew that Chao Cuo was deliberately disgusting him.
Pingxin City is a gathering place for the hand-knitting industry, and you can tell at a glance that there is nothing to do with it.
Changling City is outside the city and is still a market place. It only opened on the 15th day of the Lunar New Year. It would be weird if they could make money!
Needless to say, Huaishi. Since ancient times, the pawn industry has been pronounced as pawn and as loan shark, and the loan shark businessmen in the Han Dynasty were more and more fierce. Liu De remembered that after the Wu-Chu Rebellion began in his previous life, Zhou Yafu led the army to quell the rebellion. Because the military expenditure was not enough, he only
I was able to find a loan shark businessman in Chang'an and borrow three thousand gold at a high interest rate...
Even the imperial court dared to lend money!
In the end, the principal and interest were successfully recovered!
Just from this fact, you can imagine how tough the backends of those loan shark businessmen are!
Nine times out of ten, the people standing behind are the princes and nobles from all over the country.
Liu De didn't even doubt that as long as he dared to touch the group of loan sharks in Huaishi, he would be drowned by a flood of attacks the next day.
As for the only major market that was lost, it was a direct market.
Chao Cuo didn't have any good intentions.
Nazhi Market is a vegetable market, where the fishermen on the Wei River and the butchers of Chang'an have their jobs.
The people who run these two businesses earn almost nothing but hard-earned money. Maybe it’s hard work wherever they do business haha.
It is conceivable that if Liu De decides to enter the direct market, then the fishermen and butchers who have lost their hard-earned money will definitely have no fun with Liu De. Moreover, even if the marrow and bones are sucked out of Ku Haha, then
I can't get much money out of it.
Don't think that the prince doesn't need money.
Don’t think that the prince doesn’t need money!
Don’t think that the emperor doesn’t need money!
Liu De, who had experience in his previous life, would naturally not naively think that if he raised his voice, countless people would bring their own dry food and work for him without any complaints - that was just a naive idea.
Since we live in this real world.
Firewood, rice, oil, salt, soy sauce, vinegar, tea, that doesn’t cost any money?
In his previous life, when Liu De was the king of Hejian, the annual palace expenses were often more than tens of millions of dollars.
Nowadays, in Chang'an, where every inch of land is precious, if you want to challenge the throne of the crown prince, you cannot do without money.
Not to mention anything else, when you go out to do things, you have to recruit people, and when you recruit people, you have to pay salaries. During the holidays, you have to give red envelopes. If the people below do things well, you have to reward them.
Without money, no matter how extravagant your boast is, no one will follow you.
this is the truth!
And where does the money come from?
When Liu De's cheap father became the crown prince, 30% of the expenses in the palace were reimbursed by the court and 70% were raised by himself.
Back then, all the shops, handicraft workshops, and loan sharks in Chang'an City who had a certain scale would hand over a certain amount of 'gifts' on time.
The biggest reason why Chao Cuo has climbed to his current position is not because he has a deep relationship with his cheap dad, but because he understands economics and can manage money. When he was the prince's family minister, he took care of the whole wife inside and out.
The finances are neatly organized, so that the cheap dad doesn't have to worry about making money, and he can jump out from time to time to give a memorial to increase his sense of presence.
But the key point is that Liu De is not the prince yet.
If he is not a prince, he does not have the status or the confidence to ask for money from powerful businessmen in Chang'an. Even if someone comes to offer money, he would not dare to ask for it.
Therefore, if Liu De wants to do something, his financial resources can only be the territory he manages.
Maybe Cheap Dad will give you a start-up capital, but it won't be more than a hundred gold at most...
In these days, if you recruit a few literate scholars to do clerical and other chores, you will have to pay them at least 2,000 yuan in salary and fifty or sixty stones of corn every year, and you will also have to give them cloth, and give them a piece of meat during the holidays.
Just give him a budget of at least 10,000 yuan a year.
Liu De now has four cities under his command. Even if according to the minimum configuration, each city recruits ten scribes to be responsible for sorting out various documents and planning various plans, that would cost 400,000 yuan that year.
The salary of these basic copywriting staff alone is enough to empty Liu De's poor pocket.
Not to mention those high-level intellectuals and big guys.
If Meng Nien's salary in the drama is not more than 100 gold, he will definitely go home and continue his promising job of collecting protection money.
Therefore, Chao Cuo left these four cities to Liu De, which was clearly to make Liu De suffer.
Liu De is 100% sure that if he doesn't make some changes, these four cities will not bring him any economic benefits at all - Chao Cuo was the prince's family minister back then, and now he is the internal history, he must be right
I know the business district of Chang'an City very well.
