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Chapter 137 Kuraji
The center of Xiajing is Miyagi, the harem is to the north of Miyagi, and the center of the entire country is to the south.The main central institutions, including the Third Division, Zhengshitang, Privy Council, etc., were all set up in Miyagi.

In the south of Miyagi, all the way to Ercheng, are the locations of various government offices.The household department is also among them.

As the concentrated location of government agencies across the country, the four main streets in the south of Miyagi are also the places where the most officials of the entire country are concentrated.There are at least 3000 officials, and 10 times the number of officials working here, plus 10 times the number of family members and servants of the officials, the congestion in the south of Ercheng can be imagined.

For officials of the Xia Dynasty who only had slow means of transportation, living in the south of Ercheng not only had the vanity of Manhattan, but also had real convenience and necessity.

Therefore, when Cheng's father chose an ordinary small courtyard with two entrances, the price quoted by the seller was a high price that surprised even Cheng Jinzhou: 4000 taels of silver.

For 24000 taels of silver, the woman bought can fill the room and stack it up to the beam.

High housing prices have never been exclusive to a certain area. If officials want to wake up 30 minutes later, they will have to pay 30 years more salary.

Cheng Jinzhou listened to the big fat businessman's words in surprise, and couldn't help saying: "This thing is up to 1000 square meters, and you want me 24 taels of silver per square meter? And it's a bungalow!"

His last sentence was very wordy.

The bulging businessman didn't understand what Cheng Jinzhou wanted to say, but he still said with a good-tempered smile: "Sir, it only takes a quarter of an hour to walk from here to the Liubu government office. There are Dongxiang Restaurant and Haomei Restaurant nearby. It's just across two streets. Where can I find such a good location? The house is also new. If the boss hadn't been promoted to the north, he would never have sold it."

Speaking of it, the price of one square meter of land in the center of the capital only needs to be two or three mu of land outside, which is not high from a Chinese perspective.Cheng Jinzhou was not short of money, but he hummed dissatisfied twice.

Before his father took office, he had to report to the Ministry of Officials once.Although trying to make arrangements as quickly as possible, the latter still put the time in two months, which is in line with the efficiency level of the government.

Before that, they did need to buy a new mansion.The Cheng family's house in the capital city is suitable for temporary residence, but if it is used as a permanent residence, I don't know what disputes will arise within the family.Classmate Cheng's second uncle, Cheng Yunxiang, was quite enthusiastic, and even wanted to take Cheng's father home to live with him. Of course, that was completely impossible.

Seeing Cheng Jinzhou turn his head away, the big fat businessman took the opportunity to continue selling: "The previous Mr. Li heard the news of his promotion in this house, a place with excellent Fengshui..."

Cheng Yun'an is a good buyer, he only walked around the house twice before responding: "Cheng Xiao, go and pay."

The fat businessman smiled and went to the side to settle accounts. Cheng Jinzhou grabbed his father and asked, "How much money did you bring? Don't spend it all on the house."

"I brought a full 3 taels of silver. I bought a house, and the rest is enough."

"Aren't you going to do it again?" Cheng Jinzhou felt that his cheap father sometimes seemed shrewd, but most of the time, he was able to do what a fool could not.The biggest official in Shaonan is the Cheng family, which cost tens of thousands of taels of silver.The important places in the capital are all important ministers, and they receive even more heavy gold. Thousands of taels of silver are just drizzle.The tradition of a Chinese-style country has always been to support tens of thousands of people with tens of millions of people, and to support a town with prosperity in Kyushu.

Cheng Yun'an rolled up his official uniform, not wanting to talk about such an impure topic with his son, so he said decisively: "6000 taels of silver is enough."

Cheng Jinzhou touched his forehead and said, "You need 2 taels of silver to buy a house. In the capital, what do you want to do with 6000 taels of silver?"

Without any explanation, he took out a box from his pocket, handed it to his father and said, "There are 1 taels of silver in it, you can use it."

Since ancient times, literati are like women, they are masters who spend money recklessly. Cheng Jinzhou has money in his hands, and he dare not give too much to his father, lest he buy a few concubines when he can't spend all the money, and it will be self-defeating up.

Cheng Yun'an didn't refuse either, she looked at Cheng Jinzhou strangely and said, "I know it's easy for an astrologist to want money, but I don't want you to spend your time on it, what does the Cheng family say..."

"It didn't delay my astrology. If you are really worried, you can cancel my time to go to Hongwen Hall."

"No." Father Cheng stuffed the money into his sleeves and said solemnly: "Study and educate people. If you don't study, it will be a waste no matter how strong your star skills are. Where did you get the money? Third Prince?"

When he said his name, he lowered his voice again.

Cheng Jinzhou feels that his cheap dad is indeed a truly educated man. He will never be merciful when accepting money, he will not necessarily do things after accepting it, and he will never recall it after accepting it. This can be called the three-collection doctrine.

For a while, Cheng Jinzhou really felt like an overseas Chinese facing Sun Yat-sen, paying the money in a proper manner, and honestly said: "The king of Yanping County wanted to give me money, but I refused. The money is my business. The one who came here didn’t do it himself, but sent Shi Yan.”

"Study is important." Cheng Yun'an frowned and said again.

Noble families are all doing business, but in different ways.

Cheng Jinzhou laughed, and he would not explain how he earned the money in a foolish way. He shook his body and said, "Speaking of it later, when my mother arrives in the capital, Sanfang will be considered to have moved to the capital. I want to rent some land. It’s better to rely on land rent to supply what we need.”

Cheng Yun'an's face turned better, and he believed it was true: "Farming and studying heirlooms, Tianshe Weng can do it well. But renting land is not good, and the price difference will not be stable after all, so just buy the land."

"It's too expensive to buy land."

"Then buy it in Shaonan." Cheng Yun'an's thoughts are not surprising.The gentlemen who were officials in Hangzhou back then had to ask their congren to return to their hometown in Shaanxi with silver taels to buy land and build houses, let alone rich families like the Cheng family.

Cheng Jinzhou couldn't plant all the real rice in Shaonan, so he had to say: "I have rented [-] hectares of land from the outer peninsula, just to tell you, if possible, send some people from home to manage it."

Cheng's father said in disbelief, "You rented 15 mu of land? How much is the rent?"

"Don't ask me any more. Find a way to send someone to me first." Cheng Jinzhou said, and slipped away along the wall.

Cheng's father sighed, squeezed the money box in his sleeve, and thought that Cheng Jinzhou was already a serious star warlock, so he stopped insisting.

Cheng Jinzhou returned to his room and wrote another letter to Cao Feng.Field management is a very complex knowledge in the 21st century. In this era, it is the top priority for folk learning. 15 acres of land involves tens of thousands of families, that is, more than a dozen farms, large and small.Although they are all tenants, management is much more difficult than an army of the same number.

Seeing the upcoming spring plowing days, how to choose the [-] hectares of land, how to purchase farm tools and livestock, and how to deal with the tenants on the land must be finalized one by one.

Since ancient times, tenants have resisted rent and landlords have always been repertoire of rent increases. Landlords have been bullied no less than tenants have been bullied.In the era without mechanization, the cultivation of real rice depends on their hoes one by one.

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Cheng Yun'an's start in the capital was very good.

As a 10th-level official, he came from the marginal Cheng family, but he was in and out of the house of the fourth-level and fifth-level officials all day long.In addition to the frequent banquets held by the officials of the third prince's lineage, several ministers who had a good relationship with Warlock Jiang Huangxing also often invited Cheng Yun'an to some dinner parties.

In the absence of any conflict of interest, Cheng Yun'an seemed to feel like a duck to water in the capital, even more smoothly than during his tenure in Shaonan.

And Cheng Jinzhou, without waiting for his father to take office, can enjoy the treatment of the yamen first.Not only did the transaction go smoothly through Shi Yan's subordinates, but when he went to Huangjin County to conduct the transaction today, he was even warmly received by the local warehouse secretary.

The so-called warehouse department is usually responsible for the storage in one place. If it is a warehouse department at the provincial level, the name can be called Changping Division, and the chief can be called Changping Official Affairs.At the state and county level, they can only be called Cangsi.Although it sounds like just a warehouse head, in most places, these officials who have the right to enter and exit the entire area have unimaginable benefits.

For example, the bald warehouse manager Shi Yan met in Hongrizhuang, Shaonan, didn't even have the title of rank nine, so he dared to sell short the warehouse to store grain in one place. There are more tricks.

Cang Si from Huangjin County is a man in his 30s with a dark complexion.It is rare to have a beard on the lips, and a beard under the jaw, the shape is like a stripped down version of Ben.He didn't know where he got the news about Cheng Jinzhou, and when he saw Cheng Jinzhou, he bowed to the bottom and said loudly, "My lord, Astrologist."

Cheng Jinzhou was stunned on the spot.After becoming an astromancer, although all the officials he met were warm and polite to him, there was only one person in front of him who bowed.

Although he felt happy, Cheng Jinzhou still had to pretend to support him and said: "My lord, you are polite, you are polite."

"Humble Cao Lu." Sicang grinned, stood up half-pushed and laughed, "I heard that Mr. Star Warlock has rented a lot of warehouses in Huangjin. Hearing about this, I'm ecstatic..."

Just like the behavior of many civil servants, after this exaggerated tone, there was no tendency to stop.

"Be polite." Cheng Jinzhou finally had to interrupt him: "May I ask Mr. Cao why you are here..."

Cao Lu rolled his black eyes and suddenly said: "Mijiang is the transportation artery of our dynasty, but Huangjin County is a little far away from the capital. Compared with the West Pier and others, the storage capacity is only one-tenth of the other party. Since I took office, , learned from the pain, and came up with a good recipe."

"Oh?"

"Only when more people come to Huangjin Wharf to store goods, can the warehouse increase and the capacity increase. If people want to come to Huangjin to store goods, the cost of storage must be reduced, and only then can they compete for the two wharves in the capital." Cao Cao The words Lu used were straightforward but very logical. He made it clear in two sentences, and then changed his tone: "Last year, a part of the Changning Army was stationed here, and now the opponent has withdrawn, just to free up more than a hundred warehouses. It's quite a waste, and I want to rent them to other people in a humble position, the things of Master Astromancer are so important, why not store them in the warehouse of Chang Ning Army for the time being?"

He talked a lot, and at the end, he said the purpose of today, but it was a gift.

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Other than the number of words: The recent update is unstable, let’s just treat it as an adjustment status, and it’s the Chinese New Year again, and the plot is changing.

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(End of this chapter)