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There are many such scenes in the market, and the county government of the two counties in the city alone has accepted hundreds of such disputes within a day.Seriously, when some people were sent to the government office, they had already been beaten to death by the angry people.

When Li Tong learned about these situations in the Imperial City Political Hall, he was overjoyed for a while.There has been no shortage of bar fines in this industry since ancient times, but without keyboards, network cables and other tools for committing crimes, the industry is undoubtedly much more risky, and it is really life-threatening.

Although the 500 million yuan subsidy will not be distributed evenly to everyone in Chang'an City.But this does not affect people's endless discussion about it. Taking a step back, the 500 million coins are always invested in the big pond of Chang'an City, and people in it can always benefit from it.

At the same time, the first batch of firms that received subsidies were also newly released, and Guyi Club was impressively listed, and it was at the top of the list, receiving a full subsidy of 30 yuan.

Li Tong only came out to sit in the government office on the first day, and the follow-up work was in charge of the shogunate staff, and Pingyang Gong Wu Youyi served as the deputy supervisor to distribute money in the government office.

After all, Wu Youyi paid for the capital of Feiqian, and Wu Youyi has a bit of a talent for increasing revenue and reducing expenditure. As long as the supervision is proper and he is prevented from stealing, it is still worth using.

If the agency wants to obtain subsidies, it also has certain regulations.The size of the agency itself is one aspect. The chief executives of each trade agency have to draw up a proposal, explaining where the funds for these subsidies will be used. Social Supervision Department's planning for development.

As the largest society in central Beijing, the Guyi Society received a huge subsidy of 30 yuan, not only because of its close relationship with King Yong, but also made real contributions.

One of the most important contents is that the Guyisha will assist the shogunate in the next month to form a township armed force of up to 1 people around Gyeonggi to guard the border and prevent bandits.

This is the first step in incorporating the armed forces of the Guyishe with warriors as the core, and it is also the beginning of Li Tong's formation of a direct army.The army he brought from the capital of the gods more or less has traces of other forces. Except for the relatively pure Qianqi, the cohesion of other teams is far from enough.

Next, the shogunate will invest its troops to counterattack the internal bandits' Mo Chuai, and it is impossible for the imperial court to send new troops to help. Of course, Li Tong must organize new armed forces.

In addition, the shogunate issued another task through the Social Supervision Office, which is to repair Zhengbaiqu, the most important water conservancy system in Junguan.If you want to achieve results this year and increase the irrigated area, you must at least use more than 5 people for labor.

These guests in Chang'an City can dispatch about 2 people, and the counties and counties outside Beijing can also share part of the tasks.For the remaining vacancies, Li Tong will coordinate through the Social Supervision Office.A company with a large number of followers like Guyishe is naturally the key target.

From this point of view, the purpose of coordinating these offices in Chang'an City is to make up for the shortcomings of the shogunate's lack of foundation for ruling in Guanzhong.The shogunate had just arrived in Chang'an, and it hadn't had time to build a series of ruling structures from top to bottom, and even the number of officials was greatly insufficient.

Li Tong was unwilling to allow the nobles of Guanlong to infiltrate his shogunate too deeply, and these newly-emerging organizations were of course the choice.

The organizational structure of the agency itself is relatively loose, far inferior to that of the powerful and large manor owners in the Wei and Jin Dynasties in their control over resources and population, so it can be cited with confidence.

In addition to the old clothes club, other agencies have also received subsidies of varying amounts.Similar to one of the foot power clubs, it can provide the shogunate with land transportation capacity from Chang'an to Wonju.

Of course, this foot club is not a small club temporarily formed for the purpose of meeting King Yong, but an agency formed by several large business groups. The head of the club is Zhang Keji, who is known as the Pony King of Longyou , can provide more than 6000 feet and nearly [-] pack horses.

This alone can greatly reduce the preparation period for the shogunate to send troops.

Although the participation of the people's forces will make it impossible to keep a lot of military information secret, but this time it is a domestic battle, and Li Tong does not intend to start a full-scale war with the Turks right now. If he can directly startle and silently sip, Guanzhong can get more rest and recuperation Space, that's the best result.From this point of view, the blessing of Xue Huaiyi is not without meaning.

As for the future, of course we still need to establish an independent and comprehensive military logistics system, but this cannot be accomplished in a short period of time.Borrowing relatively mature business routes can avoid the constraints imposed by the powerful local nobles in Guanlong.

The huge sum of 500 million yuan subsidized this time does not flow directly to the market, but mainly for production, logistics and warehousing.

As the original political center of Chang'an City, when the administrative structure was complete, the government's hundred divisions controlled a large number of slave households and artisan households, which could process and produce various materials.At the same time, Baishi also has supporting offices and warehouses for storing materials.

But right now, a large amount of these resources are idle, and only a small part of them can be mobilized by the shogunate in a short period of time.So this time, through the form of subsidies, these idle capitals are distributed to the people.

For example, after receiving the corresponding subsidies, the social supervision bureaus in the eastern and western cities quickly organized an auction of idle warehouses, allowing these idle warehouses to flow into the market, either directly for sale or for lease.

If it is just a direct sale, the merchants may not have such enthusiasm. After all, Chang'an Xinjing is in chaos, King Yong has not established for a long time, and no one knows what the future policy of Chang'an will be.If you spend money to buy the idle official warehouse, turn around and transfer it away to King Yong, and the official warehouse is taken back by his successor, and even the goods are directly confiscated, then you really want to cry without tears.

But now, since the shogunate has subsidies and does not need them to pay for it themselves, their attitude has naturally become more positive.

Once people gather, the atmosphere will become heated, and those official warehouses do have good geographical locations. Merchants are chasing profits, and it is difficult for anyone to hold back. Once the competition starts, the price will naturally rise. Subsidies may not be enough.

Therefore, the subsidies issued to some commercial agencies were sent back soon after they were sent out, and there was even a high overflow.Don't worry about what it's like to think about it afterwards, but it was really cool when you bought it at that time!

Chapter 0560 Chang'an Zhushui, travel is not smooth

In the past period of time, there were more than 2000 firms that reported to the Social Supervision Administration.Of course, this data is not accurate, and most of them are improvisational, filling up numbers and the like.

After all, the entire Chang'an City now has a population of less than 30, and it is only in the embryonic and development stage of the bank at the moment. The actual situation is of course impossible to be so prosperous.

The various agencies reported by the Social Supervision Administration can be roughly divided into five categories.The first category is the mutual aid associations of the villagers, among which the Guyi Club is the most typical.

But in fact, there are other voluntary societies in Chang'an City, such as Fanshang Fubing and various class service personnel. They live far away from their hometowns and live in Chang'an City. Diseases and disasters are inevitable. Therefore, they organized and worked together to treat diseases and even collect funerals. It is just that the scale is not as large as that of the old clothes club.

The second category is all kinds of technical associations, among which the typical ones are associations of craftsmen in weaving, gold and silverware, ceramics, bricks and tiles.This type of guild focuses on the inheritance of craftsmanship and exists widely in various handicraft industries.

The third category is all kinds of business groups, especially some merchants who deal in foreign goods and imported products. They are the type of people who are most keen to form associations and reduce risks. The product flow is complicated and the capital is strong.

The fourth category is religious associations, such as the more famous Tibetan Nestorians, Zoroastrians, and so on.Different schools of Buddhism worship different gods and Buddhas, and they all form their own associations.People in the countryside worship certain obscene sacrifices that do not belong to formal etiquette, and they also fall into this category.

The fifth category is the association of recreational nature, where a group of like-minded people get together to recite poems and have fun through poetry, music and music.The art club formed by Yang Li and Master Mo in contact with Ping Kang Ji is of this type.

As a newly established government agency, the Social Supervision Administration will find it difficult to control all types of firms in a short period of time.Apart from the fact that the Guyi Club received special attention due to its large number of people and its relationship with King Yong, the focus in the early stage was mainly on the second and third types of agencies.

In today's Chang'an city, quite a few of the artisans and slave households originally controlled by the Baisi government have moved to Luoyang, the divine capital, and the rest have been out of effective management for many years, and it is difficult to reorganize in a short time.

And if the government came forward to organize the recovery, the relevant departments of Shendu City could not be bypassed.For example, most of the household registration information of some artisan households is stored in Shendu, and the Chang'an shogunate has to negotiate with the imperial court to obtain relevant information.

Right now, the shogunate has neither the time nor the energy to wrangle with the imperial court of the gods. They simply bypass the government and start directly through the agency, which can also achieve the desired effect.

Through some weaving companies held by the Social Supervision Administration, the shogunate has mastered the household registration information of more than 300 weaving households in a very short period of time, and there are two looms used for various types of weaving. More than 600 aircraft.

Textiles such as silk and silk have a part of currency functions. The more than 600 looms can almost be regarded as equivalent money printing machines.If you put your best efforts into it, you can produce considerable wealth every day.

Of course, this amount is not much.It should be noted that in the entire city of God, the government alone has as many as [-] looms, a considerable part of which are government-run weaving farms, and the textiles produced are directly collected for official use.This is only in the area of ​​Heluo. Hebei and Jiangnan also have well-developed textile industries.

Compared with the resources possessed by the central court, the current Chang'an shogunate can be described as shabby, and it is not a size at all.Therefore, the current shogunate wants to control Chang'an and even the entire Guanzhong supplies. If it really wants to completely release it and let the people trade freely, the Luoyang court can trap the Chang'an shogunate just through private business activities.

Of course, the Chang'an shogunate is not without advantages. Although the basic production resources are not as large as the Luoyang court, there is still room for growth in the future.

The shogunate also strengthened the integration of resources through the Social Supervision Office. For bamboo and wood craftsmen's associations, they will subsidize [-] yuan for each loom that can be produced in standard production.The weaving agency will also subsidize [-] yuan for each loom it reports, and [-] yuan if it can provide a weaver.

A loom is both a tax unit and a production unit.Expand tax sources through weaving companies, and increase production tools through carpenter companies.In this way, the shogunate has the conditions to open a large number of government-run weaving farms to increase productivity in a short period of time.

Moreover, Shuzhong, the largest high-end textile production base, is close to Chang'an, and the shogunate will gradually deepen its control over Shuzhong in the future.If Shuzhong is mastered, the wealth production capacity and speed of the shogunate will soar several times.

Located in the west of Chang'an City, the Yong'an Canal runs through the whole city and joins the Cao Canal near the West City. It is one of the most important waterways in Chang'an City. Repair the key projects of water conservancy.

When Li Tong was in Shendu, he had the experience of presiding over the reform of water transportation and reaping a lot of benefits. After coming to Chang'an City, he naturally regarded this as a breakthrough for Chang'an's revival.

Although Chang'an's water resources are not as abundant as Luoyang's, if the limited water resources can be used more rationally, greater benefits can naturally be reaped.

So during this period of time, Li Tong took time to inspect the dredging project of Yong'an Canal every few days.

On this day, he rode his horse to the construction site of Yong'an Canal again. Ma Rendao, the magistrate of Chang'an County who was on the scene supervising the work, hurried into the city from the south of the city to welcome His Royal Highness King Yong after hearing the news.

When Ma Huaisu came to the scene, he saw His Royal Highness Yong standing on the side of the embankment, measuring the depth of the water with a bamboo pole, so he quietly walked into the team of assistants, waiting for His Royal Highness Yong to ask questions.

Li Tong pulled out the bamboo pole from the water, and saw that the bamboo pole was not soaked in water for more than ten feet, and the lower end was covered with a long section of mud, so he couldn't help frowning, then turned his head to see Ma Rendao standing behind him, and beckoned him to come up Qian asked: "When the water is abundant in spring and summer, how deep is the Yong'an Canal?"

Ma Rendao quickly said: "Yong'an Canal comes from Jiaoshui. During the reign of Yonghui, there was a grand occasion when the canal was full of water. Boats could go straight to the west and east of the city from the south of Beijing. But later, Jiaoshui flowed under Fanchuan and led to another canal." , diverting downwards to irrigate Weiqu and Duqu, the water volume is not as abundant as in previous years. Moreover, the springs in the city are bitter, and people near the canals in Beijing often dig side canals for use, but, if there is sufficient water in spring and summer, the water in the canals It can also sail through the platoon..."

After hearing the words, Li Tong frowned, walked south along the embankment, and asked after walking a certain distance: "Recently, it takes a lot of labor to drain silt and repair the canal. According to the magistrate of Ma County, this year the Yong'an Canal can Is the canal full of water?"

After Ma Rendao heard this question, he pondered for a moment before saying: "There is a lot of water in the waters of Chang'an, but there are too many canals in Fanchuan, and the flow of water entering the city is reduced. The water in the canal will be abundant this summer."

Hearing this, Li Tong pondered again.Jiaoshui is the Juhe River, one of the most important waterways in the south of Chang'an City, irrigating a large area of ​​fertile land in the south of Beijing.If it is necessary to restore the capacity of the Yong'an Canal through interception and exchange of water, it will undoubtedly damage the irrigation conditions downstream. Doing so seems to be putting the cart before the horse.

Going down the canal to the Zuojinfang area, Li Tong raised his eyes and saw that a section of the canal embankment had been hollowed out. Because the water level of the canal had dropped, only a section of half-silted ditch extended into the workshop, extending to a garden with high courtyard walls.

"Whose courtyard is that?"

Seeing this scene, Li Tong asked casually again.

"Yes, it's Wei's house, so Prime Minister Wei Siqian belongs to the family of Wei Xianggong."

After carefully identifying Ma Rendao, he replied again.

"How many such branches are there? Where do they lead to?"

Li Tong frowned again and asked.

Ma Rendao, the county magistrate, is fairly competent. He answered the questions quickly, counted more than a dozen branch channels, and explained the flow of each of them clearly, which shows that he has put his heart into it.

After Li Tong finished listening, a sneer appeared on the corner of his mouth.He really didn't want to grab these powerful people, but these people were always so unfortunate that they wanted to bump into him.

Right now, he is very worried because of the waterway problem in Chang'an. As a result, these aristocratic families are doing well, cutting off water outside the city for irrigation, and cutting off water inside the city for drinking.

"There are ditches set up on the Shenheyuan. Spring plowing releases water, and summer transportation intercepts the water! There is also the mouth of the Yong'an Canal, which is divided into water channels, and all of them are blocked. Anyone who dares to dig privately will be charged with a felony!"

After giving these instructions, Li Tong turned his head and told Su Yue: "The aqueduct built on Leyouyuan should be put into use as soon as possible to alleviate the water shortage in the west of the city."

The underground water quality in Chang'an is too poor, and the situation in the west of the city is even worse because of the low-lying terrain. Several canals are important water sources.But the encroachment of resources by the rich and powerful is really reflected in all aspects, even the consumption of water sources is superior to others.

Right now, Li Tong's main task is to raise materials and manpower to deal with the foreign aggression of the Hu bandits, but it is not suitable to continue the large-scale purge at this time.But even so, there is no need to hold back your hands and compromise, and you still have the confidence to adjust and plan Chang'an City according to your own needs.

Whether the Yong'an Canal can be opened to navigation is not only related to the water transportation situation in this section of Chang'an. Its water connects Weishui River and Jiaoshui River, which can connect the entire water transportation around Gyeonggi, thereby greatly reducing the cost of land transportation around Gaoguan'an. with stress.

The saved part of the transportation capacity can be transferred to the counterattack against the Turks and the defense against Tubo.The resurgent Turks were unwilling to miss the opportunity brought about by the turmoil in the Tang Dynasty, and took the initiative to harass the pass.Tubo, whose national power is more powerful than the Turks, certainly will not miss this opportunity.

Turks are still just rogues at the moment, mainly looting.But once Tubo mobilizes troops, it will directly target Anxi and Longyou. If they want to successfully prevent and control it, they need to mobilize a lot of resources.

If some merchants and people cannot be mobilized and utilized, then Li Tong can only enlist the people of the states in the pass to participate in the war, which will undoubtedly cause greater pressure and losses on people's livelihood.

Thinking of this, Li Tong soon came to the Da'an Society in the south of the city. Many people had been waiting here for a long time, mainly wealthy businessmen in the city, just to discuss the issue of the shogunate's secondment of transportation capacity.

Chapter 0561

Da'anfang is located in the west of Huamen in the south of Chang'an City, between Yong'an Canal and Qingming Canal. It is a rare and convenient area in the southwest of Chang'an City.

There are not many dwellings in this square, nearly half of which are the pastures of the former Taipu Temple, and there are some mansions belonging to Guanglu Temple and Shaofu Supervisor, which are mainly used to store tribute from other states and food and products from the Huangzhuang outside Beijing.

Now the entire square area has become a large construction site. When the shogunate auctioned off the mansion shop industry, many places were located in this square.The merchants in Chang'an City spent a lot of money to buy these properties that originally belonged to the government. Naturally, they have to renovate and put them into use as soon as possible in order to recover the cost earlier.

Knowing that His Royal Highness King Yong is going to inspect the place today, many newly promoted owners also put aside their work and waited here early.As soon as they learned that His Royal Highness King Yong had approached the square area, everyone came out of the square one after another, spontaneously lined up on both sides of the street, and went to meet King Yong's ceremonial car.

"You don't need to be too polite. You invested a lot of money to buy this mansion, and you have contributed to the revitalization of Chang'an. I was busy with business before and didn't have time to see it in person. Today, I am here to thank you for your generous donation for the people of Chang'an."

Before entering the gate of Jinfang, Li Tong dismounted from his horse, signaled his entourage to stand on both sides, let the merchants walk forward, and said to everyone with a smile.

"Your Highness, you are serious. Although Jiaren and I don't care about classics and Tian Sang, we are also obedient citizens under the rule of the Tang Dynasty. Before that, we received huge subsidies from the Social Supervision Office, and the shogunate vacated the city for the small people to start their businesses. The northern and southern states Such benevolent governance is rare, and we are deeply favored and supported by His Highness, so we should thank Your Highness!"

Hearing what King Yong said, everyone expressed their opinions one after another.

These words are indeed true. Although Chang'an City is large in scale, there are not many important places like Da'an Square, and most of them are in the hands of the government.

For merchants, the problem of stocking is definitely worth paying attention to. The two cities only provide one trading place, and the scale of the shop is extremely limited. Some bulky goods need to find another warehouse for placement.

Previously, merchants were not allowed to open warehouses in the city at will. Once they were discovered, they would lose their money and avoid disasters, or their families would be ruined. Trade and disrupt the market without the supervision of the agency.

Therefore, many merchants do business in the two cities in the city, but they have to place their warehouses in the countryside far away from the city. Not only is there no way to guarantee safety, but transporting goods back and forth is also a huge loss.

Da'an Square is adjacent to Anhua Gate. Even if the two canals in Jiafang are not concerned, there is an avenue just outside the city gate, and you can reach it when you enter the city.If they can own a residence here, it will undoubtedly greatly improve their business efficiency.

Hearing the eager responses from the merchants, Li Tong also smiled slightly.

There are many storage centers in Chang'an City like Da'anfang, the core of which is the Taicang system located near Daming Palace.Taicang is adjacent to the Weishui River and directly connected to the Yellow River waterway. Its convenience and importance are far from comparable to those of Da'anfang.

The imperial court held all these key districts in its hands, naturally to control the development and circulation of private capital.Even if this kind of circulation can bring considerable benefits, it is not worth mentioning in terms of the centralization and mobilization capabilities at that time.

However, the current situation is different. After a long period of development and growth, private capital has become quite prosperous, which is not the same as it was at the beginning of the country.The second is that the treasury is empty, the administration is deserted, and the mobilization ability of the shogunate is far inferior to that of Zhenguan Shengshi.

In the past, I didn't even bother to pick up the money when it was at my feet, and I had to step into the soil with my feet.Now that he is so poor that his eyes are green, he must use all the power he can use.

Li Tong stepped into the workshop, and saw the prototype of a grand building rising from the ground on a land of more than 50 mu in the workshop.Seeing the name "Qingcheng Society Hall" written on the temporary boundary marker, he smiled and asked, "Is the head of Song Society of Qingcheng Brocade Society present?"

"Xiaomin is here, Xiaomin is here!"

Song Bazi struggled to squeeze out of the crowd, walked forward, raised his hands and bowed his knees.

"Don't be too polite."

Li Tong smiled when he saw this, waved to Bazi Song, motioned him to get up and answer, and continued to ask: "Is the head of Song Society renting or buying this land?"

After Song Bazi got up, he didn't care about the dust stained on the brocade robe, and quickly said: "It's a purchase. The land here is worth tens of thousands of yuan. The common people and the community together buy it out. One is for your own convenience. The second is to donate floating money to help the shogunate."

Ten thousand coins is 1000 million yuan, which is definitely not a small sum.Like Li Tong's investment in subsidies for the revival of Chang'an Baiye, it is only 500 million yuan.Song Bazi donated a huge sum of millions of dollars, and the family business was directly short-lived by nearly half.

Chang'an is now a long and empty square, and the land price is even lower than that of the Zhenguan period.For example, Ma Zhou, the prime minister during the Zhenguan period, bought a mansion in Longqingfang City, spending only a few thousand dollars, and Longqingfang was already one of the few top-notch houses in Chang’an, and it was directly converted into Xingqing Palace during the Tang Xuanzong period.

As for some relatively ordinary houses, the land price is even cheaper.Even Bai Juyi in the middle Tang Dynasty had a poem "Don't envy the eight houses in Shengping Yuan, think about how much it costs to buy", his good friend Yuan Zhen lived in Shengpingfang, because he was too shy to live with his neighbors.

Bai Juyi lived in Xinchangfang in Chang'an, and there is another poem saying, "First sell ten acres of gardens in Nanfang, and secondly sell five acres of fields in Dongguo. Then sell your residence as well, as if you got two to three thousand yuan." The hectares of fertile farmland, together with the square houses and courtyards, only earned two to three thousand coins in total. This was already all the wealth that Bai Juyi had accumulated in Chang'an for many years in his career.

In the middle Tang Dynasty where Bai Juyi lived, the commodity economy developed further, and the purchasing power of money was greatly reduced.There is no doubt that the five hundred acres of fertile land is the bulk.

The piece of land Song Bazi bought covers an area of ​​about 20 mu, which is equivalent to 20 yuan for one mu of land.The scale of Chang'an City Square District is much larger than that of Luoyang, and the area of ​​Da'an Square is a thousand acres.According to this price, the land in Daanfang alone is worth [-] yuan.

Of course, buying and selling can’t be counted in this way, the land price will definitely be multiplied several times, and 20 yuan in other squares can already buy a ten-acre mansion with a courtyard and halls.But if it is expensive, the whole of Chang'an is only more than a hundred squares. In conversion, more than 2000 million yuan can buy Chang'an City?

The key to the value depends on how each is measured.According to the attitude of merchants scrambling to buy it before, at least in their opinion, the land in Da'anfang is worth the price.

"The capital of the Shu merchants is really strong. First, they gave up millions of dollars, and now they can buy a large piece of land. But it seems that the chief executive of Song Dynasty does not plan to build a mansion here?"

Li Tong asked again with great interest, he saw that the land purchased by other families was rarely so large, and the scale of the warehouse had already been built, but Song Bazi, Qingcheng Jinshe, was special.

"However, if it can help the shogunate to prosper, how dare you be stingy with your private wealth. As for the land purchase money this time, most of it is donated by members of the commune. I would also like to thank Your Highness for your words of appreciation. Your Highness praised me for being a villager, and I will also donate to the commune." Only people who donate money will be willing to trust their money to buy properties.”

Song Bazi said quickly after hearing the words, and by the way, he held a handful of King Yong again, and then said: "As for the purchase of this land, I plan to build a guest house for people from the middle of Sichuan to come to Beijing to rent a house. People leave their hometowns. Sorry, although Chang'an is a good place for Wang Zhi's prosperity, there is inevitably a lack of nostalgia. I hope that this can be used to comfort the nostalgia, so that my villagers can live in Chang'an in peace and bow their heads for Wang Zhi!"

Li Tong has already learned about Song Bazi's flattering skills, and after hearing the words, he just smiled and said: "In the future, Shenheyuan in the south of Beijing will build a dam to intercept the river, and the Yong'an Canal will be full and open to navigation soon, and Da'an Square will be able to connect directly to the waters of Chang'an. Song Society First of all, this piece of land will be sitting on the ground to attract money, and it will not be used for business turnover, which is a pity."