"Do you think our territory can be built like this?" Zheng Hongxian asked. .

In the eyes of these women, the construction of Hanjing was a miracle, a miracle that they couldn't understand. Without a penny from the imperial court, such a huge new capital was built within three years. It was not even smaller than Chang'an City, but it was larger than Chang'an. It is said that the palaces were bigger than each, taller than each, and gorgeous than each.

The court did not spend money and made a lot of money.

But Li Ji and other builders did not lose money, but made money.

Li Chao smiled.

This model of Hanjing cannot be copied casually. Where is Hanjing? The capital of the Tang Dynasty.

The royal palace of the Tang Dynasty, as well as the hundreds of imperial courts, as well as so many nobles and bureaucrats, their families, as well as so many merchants, soldiers and families, etc., focused on this. The court moved the capital to Hanjing, and Hanjing could easily have a population of more than 500,000.

What does population mean?

It means consumption and demand, especially the population in Beijing, are all high-quality people and high-consumption groups. It can be said that the richest people in the entire Tang Dynasty are here.

It is precisely because of this that Li Chao can build so many shops, so many workshops, and so many residences because there is a demand. Cities with a population of hundreds of thousands are very few in this era, even the whole world.

The food and drink expenses of hundreds of thousands of people basically rely on external supply, or even local production, manufacturing and processing.

Li Ji's territory does not meet such conditions now.

Why do you want to go to Li Ji to buy a shop and a house? There is nothing there.

Even though 20,000 to 30,000 people were collected in the early stage, these people were not crowded in the castles, they were more scattered in the forts and pastures throughout the territory.

Even if the Li family territory castle engages in border trade, the scale of the transaction is not that large now, and most of these merchants are liquid. They come to trade and leave after the transaction.

After all, Li Ji's territory is now small in population and insufficient in consumption power. It is impossible for him to have huge consumption potential of hundreds of thousands of people like Hanjing.

Even if Li Chao built a shop in the territory, he could not buy a price. If he built a house, there would not be many people living there.

The territory castle in a remote area on the border and the capital in the center of the Tang Dynasty are completely different. Simple copying is impossible.

The construction of the Li family in the territory is indeed at a loss, and it depends entirely on the blood supply of the Li family. In a few years, the territory has no profit.

After recruiting people from the Central Plains to immigrate, the cost of resettlement and travel expenses was huge. The Li family was paying a lot of money, and the money was not lost. Otherwise, why would others go to the place where you don’t poop, and they would just go to immigrate to the court.

The Li family had to come up with a better immigration policy than the imperial court in order to recruit people.

The call of the man is just the beginning.

Li Ji had to pay for them to build a farming fort first, and borrow seeds, plough croaking tools, oxen, etc.

We also have to build a promised school for them and give their children free teaching.

In addition, the Li family also had to build castles and roads, which were all big heads.

It was like a bottomless pit, money kept flowing in, and it couldn't even hear a sound.

But the Li family now has fourteen territories, all of which need to be built.

Even if you just build a small village first, construction will be started. Otherwise, there will be a risk of the territory being taken back.

From outsiders, the Li family has many titles, many territories, and is full of glory, but in fact Li Chao is quite helpless. So many territories are scattered across the world, which greatly increases the expenses of the Li family in building their territory.

The Li family has money, but the construction of territory also makes the Li family a little hard.

Within ten years, these territories may always be a burden to the Li family.

However, if you can persist, the benefits will be huge in the long run.

Looking at the group of children, Li Chao felt very happy.

It is not easy to achieve this step. All he is thinking about now is how to ensure that all this survives.

Although children and grandchildren have their own blessings, in fact, there are a few people who can really let everything go without regard. Especially when Li Chao thought of these heroes in the early Tang Dynasty, there were not many good results and he became more and more eager to manage his territory.

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With so many heroes, almost all their descendants were involved in the case of rebellion.

Could it be that their children and grandchildren have a backbone?

Of course not, it was just because of the political environment in the early Tang Dynasty.

However, with so many territories at home, Li Chao was already thinking about choosing a few good places and focusing on building and operating. For example, Liuqiu Island, which cost the Li family 12 million to complete the purchase.

The geographical environment here is good, and in the southeastern sea, it is far away from the political center of the Tang Dynasty and the storm center. The focus should be on development here and there should be no external impact.

There is also the territory in southern Liaoning, the territory in Jiaozhou, and the territory in Taixihai.

These three territories are Dalian in later generations, one is Cam Ran Bay Port in later generations, and the other is Singapore.

These three places are excellent harbors. Li Chao selected these three territories and was interested in the superior location of these three places after the inevitable rise of navigation trade in the future.

It can be said that Li Chao is starting sailing trade bit by bit and has been preparing for a large sailing in recent years. The sailing ships brought out by Li Chao and the shipyard of Li Ji are also training shipbuilders to strengthen the shipbuilding industry, and Nanyang Trading Company is the pioneer of navigation trade.

In the future, navigation trade will surely flourish, and by then these three territories and treasure islands will form a chain.

From Bohai Bay to the East China Sea and then to the South China Sea.

With the help of maritime trade, these territories, especially those in the South China Sea, even if the Central Plains are in turmoil in the future, these places can become the last safe haven for the Li family far away from Middle-earth.

If a person has no future intentions, he will have immediate worries.

Li Chao has always been very supportive of Li Shimin. He also believes that when Li Shimin was in power, as long as he did not rebel, Li Shimin would not be able to touch him. After all, Li Chao was the emperor's biggest supporter, and it is difficult to guarantee that the next generation or the next generation.

Li Chao has retreated from the court, but his influence will not diminish.

The path he is now walking is to hope that the feudal princes of the Tang Dynasty will be able to establish a constitutional monarchy in the future. But this idea is a bit too far away now, and it is not easy to limit the monarchy. Li Chao doesn't know how possible it is.

If he fails in the future, I hope the Li family will have a way out.

If Li Shimin knew Li Chao's idea, he would probably have just taken the blade to kill him.
Chapter completed!