Nowadays, tea is a commodity in foreign export trade. According to the memorial report seen by Liu Jun, the amount of tea produced and sold by the imperial court this year is quite astonishing, reaching more than 100 million kilograms. Among them, domestic sales are more than 50 million kilograms and exports are more than 40 million kilograms.

There are many types of tea in Dahan and the prices are also different, but the export price is roughly 40 silver dollars per pound of tea, which is 40 cents per kilogram, which is more than ten times that of salt.

The price of salt is three yuan per leu, and the imperial court levies two yuan, with a tax rate of up to 67%, while the tea tax is leuched at 20%, and eight yuan of silver dollars are leuched for one leuch of tea exported.

This year, the sales of the imperial court's salt reached more than 30 million dan, and the salt tax revenue was more than 60 million silver dollars.

This year, the imperial court exported more than 400,000 dan of tea, and the exported tea tax alone was as high as more than 3 million yuan. The price of domestic tea sales was slightly lower, but it was also a large amount of tax, reaching more than one million silver dollars. The tea tax this year reached more than five million silver dollars. This tea tax was much higher than that in the Ming Dynasty. In the Ming Dynasty, the tea tax was low for one pound and one pound for ten pounds. However, in the Ming Dynasty, even the tea tax could not be collected for one pound for one pound. The tea tax revenue of the imperial court was pitifully low for a year and could not be collected at all.

The Han people consumed more than 50 million kilograms of tea this year. On average, each person consumed about one or two taels of tea every year. This number is not big, and the tea market is still very huge.

Thirty-month per pound of salt, thirty-month per pound of oil, soy, vinegar, and twenty-month per pound of rice.

Another important commodity sugar, the price of white sugar is mostly eight yuan per tumble, and one pound costs eighty cents per pound.

But the most expensive one is tea, but there are many types of tea, and there are all kinds of prices. The expensive ones cost hundreds of millions of dollars per pound, but the cheapest ones also include 20 to 30 to 30 to pounds of broken tea.

Liu Jun calculated carefully that if a family of eight in the capital would have to be at least fifty silver dollars a year. However, as long as this family had two laborers, their income per year would be hundreds of yuan, based on the current income of at least four to five yuan a month in the capital.

But if it is an official, a soldier, a teacher, the income will be higher.

By this calculation, the people's consumption expenditure has increased, but their income has been higher. In fact, they have paid a lot of taxes to the court when they consume, and they do not need to bear many additional burdens. Overall, the people's living standards have improved a lot.

The Han Dynasty became stronger and the people really enjoyed the dividends. The prosperity of industry and commerce has stimulated domestic demand and also allowed a large amount of surplus labor to have the opportunity to make money.

Liu Jun had seen this result in the ministers' memorial report, but he had experienced it personally, which was another matter. In the morning, Liu Jun was in a very good mood.

In history, the Spanish left the **** and found gold and silver in America. Every year, a ship of gold and silver were transported back, which made many countries envious. However, the gold and silver dug back by the Spanish were all benefits monopolized by the royal family and nobles, and ordinary Spanish people did not get any benefits.

After the royal family and nobles became rich, they were extremely extravagant and spent a lot of money.

They purchased various goods from European countries, ships of silver were transported to the East, purchased silk, porcelain, tea, sugar, etc. from the Eastern Empire, and purchased a large amount of raw materials, grain, etc. from Britain and France.

They thought they could buy everything with money, but the result was that Spain had severe inflation and the lives of ordinary people became more and more difficult. The Spanish did not use this money but developed their own economy and upgraded their own industrial technology.

The result was that they dug gold and silver in the Americas. Then they shipped to Europe and the East, transporting silver to various countries, providing countless employment opportunities to various countries, and raising blood for their development.

When the American gold and silver production declined, the Spanish finally came. They suddenly realized that they were no longer poor and only money left. They now had neither money nor anything else.

However, European countries grew bigger and bigger under the feeding of the Spanish.

In the end, the arrogant and arrogant Spanish fell.

Liu Jun felt that this was a painful lesson, and the Han Dynasty must learn from it. Whether it is war or trade, the country must benefit the country and allow the people to share the dividends. Only in this way can the people be rich and the country be strong.

In the past two years, the Han Dynasty fought south and north, conquered Mongolia. At the same time, the Jurchens swallowed Japan and North Korea, and obtained a large amount of land and countless populations and wealth. However, Liu Jun did not enjoy squandering with this money, nor did he build a palace, but used the money to quickly upgrade the Han Dynasty's industrial system, coal, steel, military manufacturing, shipbuilding, and continuously strengthening transportation.

The war drove the military manufacturing industry, and the military industry brought a large number of orders to the upstream. At the same time, the prosperity of trade also made industry and commerce prosperous, and a large amount of infrastructure construction also drove the prosperity of the upstream of manufacturing industry, raw materials, etc.

The number of new jobs has given many Han people more opportunities to make money. The consumption of these Han people with increased income has naturally increased, which has driven domestic demand and stimulated the production and processing industry.

The court also collected taxes after taxation in these links.

This is a perfect virtuous cycle.

Under this situation, war has become a huge engine of economic development. The current economy of Dahan even has the flavor of war economy.

War, trade, and construction, these three carriages were driving the Han Empire all the way.

At noon, I had a meal of Lina's specialty made by her at the No. 1 German hotel in Daqianmen. During the meal, Lina proposed to open a few more new stores.

"The construction of the outer east city is about to begin. Shuntian Mansion has started several construction projects. At present, Shuntian Mansion has held several auctions, and several pieces of land have been auctioned off. Now several builders are rushing to start projects. Among them, the commercial street project of Shunfa Engineering Company has started to attract investment. I think that location is good and I want to buy a shop and open a new store."

In October this year, Liu Jun was still in Japan, and Shuntian Prefect Liu Jian held another grand world martial arts competition. This martial arts competition was actually the model of the sports meeting mentioned by Liu Jun and Liu Jian. It organized many competition events. First, the selection competitions of each province were selected to select outstanding people from all events in the province, and then the province was used as a delegation to finally gather in the capital to participate in the world martial arts competition.

There are more than 100 events in horse racing, running, fencing, swimming, javelin, discus, shot put, wrestling, etc. There are more than 100 events in total. One, two or three are set up in each event, gold, silver and bronze medals are set up, and corresponding bonuses are also provided. At the same time, the delegations of each province also compete for the total medal and the total gold medal list.

As the emperor's brother, Liu Jianfeng successfully held the martial arts competition after holding the economic benefits brought by such a grand event. He attracted countless businesses and people to Beijing, and even led to the capital's career.

The martial arts competition that lasted for half a month attracted cheers from the people. It also greatly promoted the business of the capital, and directly and indirectly made a big profit in Shuntian Prefecture.

With money in hand, Liu Jian became more and more unwilling to be lonely.

As soon as Liu Jun came back, he submitted a project. Liu Jian planned to restart the construction plan of Beijing's outer city. He planned to build Dongwaicheng first. The project was divided into three stages, each stage lasting one year, and the construction of Dongwaicheng was completed in three years.

Liu Jun was not very supportive of Liu Jian's plan at the beginning.

Because Liu Jun does not think that the more people in the city, the better. The capital now has more than one million people and is indeed a little saturated, but the best solution is not to continue to build the outer city. Liu Jun believes that the best way should be to build a number of satellite cities around Beijing.

Satellite city was the earliest concept proposed by the British in later generations, referring to a town with both employment positions and relatively complete residential and public facilities on the periphery of some metropolis. It is a town with relatively independent construction or expansion in traffic police in large cities or outskirts outside the suburbs of large cities, to disperse the population and industry of central cities.

This kind of town that surrounds the central city like a meteorological satellite, is therefore called a satellite city.

In later generations, cities with a population of one million were only the size of some prefecture-level cities, and those metropolitan cities were already super-popular cities with a population of more than tens of millions.

However, in this era, cities with a population of one million were quite terrifying. There were not many in the world in the mid-17th century. In countries such as Britain and the Netherlands, there were already cities with a population of 20,000 or 30,000 people. They were all big cities with a population of 100,000.

The pressure brought by too many people is extremely great.

Historically, the great epidemic in the capital in the late Ming Dynasty caused more than 100,000 deaths.

The excessive population is not only under great pressure on health care, etc. At the same time, the pressure on education and employment is also great, and the supply of materials is also under great pressure, as well as transportation and other conditions.

Earlier, the imperial court moved a large number of poor people from the capital, established many workshops in Tongzhou, Changping and other places, and moved these poor people to these capitals. The imperial court transformed those shantytowns, and the population pressure in the capital was somewhat alleviated.

But in the next two years, the population of the capital increased again. A large number of officials, their families, as well as many newly established schools and students.

In addition, the prosperity of business in the capital also increased significantly.

Liu Jun also plans to build a number of satellite towns within a hundred miles of the capital, each with a population of 40,000 to 50,000 people. If ten towns are built, they can accommodate 500,000 people.

These satellite cities were established to move all kinds of workshops in the capital to the satellite city. The workers and their families also moved to the satellite city, and even the schools in the capital to the outside of the Beijing city.

However, Liu Jian was more inclined to expand the capital and repair the outer city planned during the Jiajing period. At that time, only one Nancheng was built, but there was no plan yet. After the founding of the Han Dynasty, the outer city was renovated and transformed the slum-like outer city into the most prosperous urban area in the capital today.

During this transformation process, Shuntian Mansion, which presided over the transformation, has invested a lot, but the returns are higher.

Now Liu Jian is planning to build three outer cities in the east, west and north in ten years. The first phase will be built in three years, and the east outer city will be divided into three phases, one phase will be one year.

Liu Jian has hired many craftsmen, done a lot of research, and finally made a complete plan for Dongwaicheng.

Liu Jian's plan was very good. He did not build it with a slap in his head. Instead, he fully considered the positioning of Dongwaicheng, and then made a comprehensive plan around this positioning.

His construction plan is also very good, divided into three phases.

Shuntian Mansion is responsible for planning, but not development. He is very clever in applying the concept of urban management very well, and plans to Shuntian Mansion to only plan and then attract investment.

Shuntian Mansion held a bidding meeting to allow merchants who were willing to undertake the development to take over. Shuntian Mansion divided the first phase of the project into many small projects, and then bid, and the project was packaged with the land.

For example, the project where Lina wanted to buy a shop is a commercial street, which was planned by Shuntian Mansion. Shuntian Mansion used this commercial street as a project bidding. In the end, the developer who won the bid had to pay Shuntian Mansion a large sum of land money. After obtaining the land, he had to build a commercial street and street shops and real estate within the specified time according to the plan made by Shuntian Mansion.

As long as they complete the development according to regulations, it is up to them to decide whether to rent or sell the built shops.

In order to encourage these developers to bid for development, Liu Jian also told the developers about an idea he heard from Liu Jun.

That is to sell the property in advance to collect money.

When the project bid was obtained, we started to build a commercial street, but immediately started to make renderings, real-life sand tables in the future, and then started selling.

The house has not started to be built yet, but it has already started to sell money. If it were the past, it would never be imagined. But now that the business of the Han Dynasty is so prosperous, this kind of thing can be accepted by everyone.

Especially the development project in Dongwaicheng, as soon as the news came out, I don’t know how many people’s attention was attracted. The great success of the development and renovation of Nanwaicheng is in front of me. Now, the shops in Nanwaicheng, especially the shops on East and West Streets and Qianmen Streets, are truly prosperous shops, and they are hard to find. Many shops have been rolling around in the past two years.

Many businessmen regret not buying a few sets, otherwise they would have been able to enjoy them for several generations just by renting them out.

Now that Nancheng has such an opportunity, of course we have to fight for it.

Seeing that the Dongwaicheng plan was so popular, Liu Jun finally compromised and readjusted some plans with Shuntian Prefecture. For example, in the future, Dongwaicheng will be specially designated as a school district, Jingshi University, Beiguozijian University, Jingshi Normal University and other universities, as well as the student teachers of up to tens of thousands of people, will be moved to Dongwaicheng in the future.

Finally, Liu Jun decided that the East Outer District of the Beijing Railway was officially launched, and the satellite city plan also began to prepare. The first batch of satellite cities was built first, and it was planned to move all the workshops and factories in the capital to the satellite city.

After receiving the emperor's approval, Liu Jian immediately began to implement his Dongwaicheng plan.

The project is progressing very quickly and the bidding is launched.

The developers who successfully bid for the bid also started construction immediately. For example, the commercial street developer who wanted to buy a shop had just started construction there, and the renderings had been released here and the store was sold and rented.

"Now you can book a shop by paying 20% ​​of the deposit in advance. If you can pay the full amount, there will be a great discount." Lina has already gone to the developer's exhibition hall and liked the future renderings very much, especially the sand table, which depicts the commercial street that is still a wasteland now.

"How long will it take to hand over the shop?" Liu Jun asked.

"I can get the store keys in ten months and I can go to the store to decorate it." Lina said. "I just worry about whether it is reliable or not."

"You can sign a detailed contract with them, agree on the date of delivery and the consequences of the breach of contract. As for the rest, you don't have to worry. This matter is dominated by Shuntian Mansion. There is a court behind it. The developers dare not do anything and cannot cheat you. In fact, if you really want to buy it, it is better to buy a few more shops. In the future, Dongwaicheng will be built. These shops will definitely appreciate in value, whether they are used for use, rented or sold, they are very worth it."
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