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"Hey, Dad!"
After a while, Wang Siming hung up the call with Guo Dong and called his old man, Lao Wang, nicknamed "Nothing" in the world: "I accepted a job to build a house."
On the other end of the phone, Lao Wang, who was far away in the capital, was slightly startled, and then realized: "Is it that Guo Dong again?"
Although Wang Siming took over the construction part of the family, it was only part of it, and he never did anything related to the group. He only built various manors, villas, etc. for Guo Dong.
"Um."
Listening to the tone of his son's voice on the phone, Lao Wang was confused: "What's wrong?"
"The house is a bit big."
A bit big?
Lao Wang chuckled: "How big can it be? Build another lion forest?"
Listening to his father's disapproval on the phone, Wang Siming rolled his eyes. If he built another lion forest, it would be repaired, and if it was such a 'small odd job', he wouldn't have to call Lao Wang.
That's right, although Shizi Lin said that he was the biggest business he had ever taken over, compared to the 'big job' that just followed, it could only be regarded as a small odd job.
However, in order to prevent his father from being frightened to death, Wang Siming thought about it and gave a tactful reminder: "Work the same way as Yu Wenkai and Yao Guangxiao."
Yu Wenkai?
Yao Guangxiao?
When he heard these two names, Lao Wang was confused at first - who the hell are they talking to?
But then he reacted.
After all, he started his career in architecture, and the commercial plazas owned by the group are famous throughout the country, so Lao Wang quickly figured out who these two people were.
Yu Wenkai, minister of the Ministry of Industry in the Sui Dynasty.
Yao Guangxiao, the famous black prime minister of the Yongle Dynasty and the main planner of Zhu Di's Jingnan Campaign.
But these are not important. What is important is that the former was the designer and builder of Daxing City in the Sui Dynasty and Chang'an City in the Tang Dynasty. The latter was the planner and builder of Beiping, especially the Forbidden City.
In other words, these two people are the most famous people who built the imperial city!
"Speak clearly!"
After Lao Wang was confused for a moment, he shouted and asked.
Hearing the tone of his old man's voice, Wang Siming knew that the old man had roughly understood and had a rough mental estimate, so he said it without any worries.
"That guy Guo Dong is the emperor of Xue State who caused a lot of commotion in Nanyang. He just called me and asked me to build him a new capital city to officially ascend the throne as emperor."
Wang Siming took one breath and introduced the whole story in the simplest terms. Then he paused and let his old man absorb and digest this series of explosive news. Then he threw another bomb: "A building that is at least four times the size of Chang'an City in the Tang Dynasty, and the entire area is
The new capital of Xue State is 15,000 square kilometers, which is about the same size as the entire capital city!"
...C!
Lao Wang, who had gone through great storms in his thirties, once reached the position of the richest man, and became famous with the nickname "Nothing", could not help but utter a classic Chinese curse at this time.
"Is he crazy?"
Lao Wang couldn't help but cursed.
"Not only is he not crazy, but he is not prepared to give us project funds."
Wang Siming added silently.
"What?"
Lao Wang's eyes widened and he was about to scold his mother when Wang Siming stopped him with one sentence: "He gave me the title of county prince..."
"...There are fiefs, private fields, salaries, settlements, privileges, and private armies. Although it is not hereditary, it is a county official whose title is reduced in three generations."
County official?
Lao Wang fell into silence, and this silence caused Wang Siming to misunderstand: "Of course you, he also said that if you have to ask for money, he can also give you 100 billion worth of gold."
"One hundred billion?"
Lao Wang was a little confused.
For such a big new capital city, the end result is 100 billion?
Are you kidding me?
"He contracted the materials and provided millions of workers...well, his original words were millions of prisoners of war. We only need to come up with designs, plans, technical backbones, supervise the construction, and mobilize enough engineering equipment.
, the wages of ordinary workers and.”
Wang Siming quickly added.
"That's pretty much it."
Lao Wang nodded, if this is the case, one hundred billion is not too small.
"Has he said what kind of capital he is going to build?"
Lao Wang calculated it and realized that this deal was not impossible.
Even if you are not optimistic about Xue Guo's future, the gold worth 100 billion is not bad.
After all, after excluding the two major costs of materials and labor, there is no land cost, and there is no need for any procedures, public relations, whole house and other non-construction costs. There is almost no cost. Just a few technical personnel and overall planning and construction supervision.
, which is almost equivalent to management fees and pure profit.
"As he said, he planned to build three Tang Chang'an cities to form a pinzi, facing south and north, and build a palace in the depression of the pinzi at the southern end. These parts are all imitation of ancient city buildings, and the pinzi at the northern end protrudes one on the left and one on the right.
A modern city each.”
Wang Siming recalled Guo Dong's request just now: "Then the southern wall of the palace, which will be the royal palace, was cut along the latitude line from Pattaya, and from this line southward to the seaside, a super large royal garden, a royal hunting garden, and a royal coastal resort were built.
District, Royal Summer Palace Palace Complex.”
"In addition, outside the capital, an antique city with a population of more than 500,000 people must be built in each of the four directions to protect the capital. Within a radius of a hundred miles, ten antique cities with a population of more than 100,000 people must be built as the capital.
Outer suburban counties and towns.”
"Oh~"
Listening to his son's description, Lao Wang couldn't help but click his tongue: "It's really a big project. I think it will be enough for my grandson to take over."
...Wang Siming rolled his eyes, expressing that he didn't understand his old man's invisible urge to get married, and threw back a knife: "There isn't that much time, he only gave me one year."
"What did you say?"
Lao Wang roared.
Crazy!
This time there is no word "bar".
Lao Wang is very sure that that guy Guo Dong is really crazy!
Such a large project consists of a main capital city, four large and medium-sized ancient city pools to protect the city, ten small ancient city pools, and a mess of gardens and villas.
The result is only one year?
It would take labor and capital several years to reform chain commercial plazas in any prefecture-level city. If you add up more than a dozen cities of your size, it only takes one year?
"Can't do it!"
One year?
I can’t do it in ten years!
So Lao Wang directly gave a rejection reply angrily.
"Dad, I want to try it!"
On the other side of the phone, there was no surprise at the old man's reply. After a while, the car model still gave such a reply.
"No matter how much money you have, it is not as good as power, and no matter how much power you have, it is not as good as nobles. Although the county prince is not high, there are also county princes, country princes, princes, and princes, but they are also high-level nobles, and they have
A fiefdom, with a private army, can be regarded as a high-ranking noble of a feudal lord."
Wang Siming's voice was a little low: "We will never be able to achieve any of these things. Even if we can become the richest man in the real sense, not just the richest man on record, we will never be able to achieve it.
"
"But now the opportunity is right in front of me, and I don't want to give up."
Listening to Wang Siming's words, Lao Wang fell into silence.
"I will give you all the people in the construction department and all the construction machinery under the group's name. The rest... you can try it yourself."
After a moment of silence, Lao Wang made this decision with some difficulty.
Wang Siming is right, this is indeed a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity.
Although in ancient times, scholars, farmers, industry and commerce were clearly divided into different classes, and merchants were even considered semi-lowly, this was not allowed and that was prohibited.
When it comes to a critical moment, don't beg yourself, it would be better if you don't just strip yourself to pieces.
But a county magistrate with a fiefdom and a private army, even in the era of war, can separate one side and become a local tyrant or warlord. Not to mention competing for the world, at least he can be self-sufficient and stable.
No problem.
Therefore, although Lao Wang felt that the points were unreliable, he could not deny that he was tempted.
What's more, Wang Siming is his only son, how could he really not care?
It's just that he can't bet the entire Wang family. He can only do his best, within his own abilities, and under the pressure that he can withstand, to give him the greatest support and let his son have a fight.
beat.
If you win, everyone is happy.
If he loses, he can still have a way out here.
"Dad, thank you."
Wang Siming could naturally guess Lao Wang's considerations.
So in the end, thousands of words came together into one sentence of thank you.
Then he hung up the call with Lao Wang. Wang Siming, who had been silent and thoughtful for a long time, took a deep breath and dialed the number of Guo Dong who had just hung up not long ago: "Where are you? I came to talk to you in detail about building the city.
"
On the other side of the phone, just after answering the call, he heard Wang Siming's straightforward words. Guo Dong was slightly startled... This guy is very courageous and decisive!
"Where are you now?"
Guo Dong asked Wang Siming in return.
"Lin'an."
"That's just right. You go to Wushuang Mansion and I'll go back right away."
Although Guo Dong is currently far away in the royal city of Hue in the middle of Jiaozhi, if he wants to return to Wushuang Mansion, he only needs to jump through one space, and he can go back in an instant.
But this time, he planned to go back in a new way.
"Wanda, Pietro, and Stark, Banner, Bruce, Rocket, Scott, Dr. Skin, Ms. Hope..."
Guo Dong looked at the Avengers superheroes who were looking around curiously. He called a few people's names, thought about it, and added a few more people: "Well... there's Pep, little Morgan, Betty,
Groot, come with me."
Then he turned to look at Qingqing aside: "Yayu, let's go see grandma." (To be continued)