In the city of Nanjing, every household is decorated with lanterns and festoons.
The custom of pasting Spring Festival couplets with red paper has already existed, and the big families also put on new lanterns, and the pavements and stalls on both sides of the street are full of New Year's goods.
Since Qin Liangyu was going to visit Nanjing, Xu Nianzu let her see enough. Put the salute in the reception residence, and take it to the street for a walk without eating, and go to the restaurant directly when you are hungry.
Ma Wannian is already in his twenties, and the farthest place he has been to is Zhongzhou City.
After he came to Nanjing, he couldn't close his eyes or close his mouth from ear to ear. Everywhere is shocking and novel, as if entering another world.
Walking near the Confucius Temple, Qin Liangyu suddenly said in surprise: "Hey, isn't this Wei Guogong's mansion? Why did you tear down all the walls?"
Xu Nianzu explained: "Most of the officials in Nanjing have no houses to live in, and they are temporarily placed in some noble gardens. Wei Guogong's mansion is quite large, and half of it is set aside for the construction of official buildings. After the completion of the construction, officials can move in for free. If you are transferred to another place or take up an official position, you will have to take the house back."
"What about the other half?" Qin Liangyu asked.
Xu Nianzu said: "There is no difference between the good and the bad in the Great Harmony. Although domestic slaves are free, many of them do not have a house to live in. They will inevitably be bullied and dare not resist when they are insulted and beaten. The other half of the house, If it is repaired and rented out to poor people for thirty years, the house will automatically be regarded as the property of the tenant.¡±
Qin Liangyu has nothing to say, because the predecessor of Wei Guogong's mansion is Zhu Yuanzhang's Wu Wangfu!
If Zhu Yuanzhang knew that his Wu Wang Mansion was converted into a low-rent house for the poor, he would feel relieved.
"Can I go in and have a look?" Qin Liangyu asked.
"Madam Qin, please." Xu Nianzu smiled.
Xu Nianzu introduced as he walked: "After the wall is demolished, the area around the wall will be converted into street-facing shops and sold to merchants."
Qin Liangyu nodded and walked through the construction site, walked inside and said with a smile: "Many trees and gardens are still preserved."
Xu Nianzu said: "The governor has an order, unless it hinders the construction of houses, the gardens can be preserved, and they can't be all bare houses."
"Hey, are these good houses demolished too?" Qin Liangyu was puzzled.
Xu Nianzu explained: "Most of the original houses were one-story houses, which could not accommodate many people. If they were demolished and converted into four-story brick houses, they could accommodate a lot of people and save land as much as possible. Even the pavements facing the street were built with three-story buildings. , it can be used as a pavement, and it can also be used for living.¡±
For houses with four floors and below, as long as the soil is not loose, there is no need to dig too deep for the foundation.
It will not work if there are more than four floors. The foundation must be solid and the wall construction must be more particular.
The sewer pipes have not been installed for the time being, and toilets and chamber pots are used for defecating and urinating. Every morning someone comes to collect the dung, which can be sold for money when transported to the countryside.
There is no special kitchen, so the earthen stove can only be repaired in the small courtyard in front of the building.
The number of earthen stoves is definitely not enough, and you have to queue up when cooking, which is very similar to the Tongzilou in the early days of New China.
Let the developers slowly improve these daily facilities, and they will automatically develop and improve when there is demand.
You heard it right, it is the developer!
In the Ming Dynasty, there were merchants who specialized in construction. Even the moat embankment in Beijing began to be contracted to private merchants in the middle of the Ming Dynasty.
A major case once occurred, the Beijing moat embankment repair project was subcontracted out layer by layer. At the end of the subcontracting, the profit was already extremely low, and the merchants could only cut corners, causing a large river embankment to collapse, so the emperor chopped off a bunch of heads.
Zhao Han suddenly wanted to build dormitories for officials and the poor, mainly because of the high unemployment rate in Nanjing.
Those homeless who could not find a job used to either work as gangsters or beg along the streets for a living. You can't just throw it all away for mining, right? Nor can they immigrate to the north all at once.
Every time immigration is carried out, the proportion is set, the number of rural immigrants and the number of urban immigrants, and the urban immigrants can learn to farm.
If the proportion of urban immigrants is too high, they will definitely be caught blind when opening up wasteland and farming.
Therefore, merchants were allowed to set up construction companies, and they were contracted to develop shops and houses, which could recruit many unemployed vagrants as handymen, and relieve the housing shortage of officials and the poor.
The builders made money, and the building materials dealers also made money, which even stimulated the production of cement.
The government seems to be losing money, but it can earn some back by selling land for shops, and it can earn some back by collecting taxes and rents.
As long as developers don't let developers go empty-handed and don't play real estate as a capital game, real estate is also an industry that benefits the country and the people.
After summing up experience in Nanjing, this model will be extended to other big cities.sp; Ma Wannian put away his smile and turned a little more serious. Suddenly he was puzzled and said: "I forgot to ask during the day today. In the huge city of Nanjing, there are no soldiers on the walls and gates. The cities we pass along the way are also, but there are no guards. It's Zhang Xianzhong, isn't he afraid of the eight thieves' secret operations across the river to seize the city?"
Qin Liangyu laughed and said: "There are soldiers at the gates of each city, otherwise who will close the gates at night. I have asked about this matter. Take Jiangling as an example, there are twenty soldiers at the gates of each city, and most of them are at the gates. Inside the city tower. These sergeants are all over 35 years old and retired from the army. The guards and police officers in the city are either retired veterans or hired farmers and soldiers."
"This is not enough people." Ma Wannian said.
"Zhang Xianzhong dare not cross the river," Qin Liangyu shook his head. "The eight thieves have been fighting for territory, and they haven't even built a serious navy. Even if he can sneak attack and occupy Jiangling, what's the use? Jiang's team became a lone army instead. Although the Yangtze River cannot be defended everywhere, the eight thieves will definitely be noticed when they cross the river in a big way, and they will not be able to go back. There are countless peasants and soldiers in the villages and towns. When all counties gather together, they can cross the river with the eight thieves And the army of Datong can take the opportunity to fight to the other side and occupy Zhang Xianzhong's big city along the river!"
Ma Wannian asked suspiciously, "Can Datong peasants and soldiers stop the thieves?"
Qin Liangyu said slowly: "The peasant soldiers in Datong are the same as the white-armed soldiers. They are half peasants and half-soldiers. The training time is longer than that of the white-armed soldiers. I heard that there are millions of farmers in Datong."
"A million peasants and soldiers?" Ma Wannian was dumbfounded.
Qin Liangyu nodded and said: "The more spies the eight thieves send out, the less he dares to cross the river to attack the city."