Kaifeng Mansion, Plum Blossom Hall, good news comes frequently.

"The official family...'Bianjing Academy' has sold its first house..."

"The official family...'Bianjing Academy' has sold ten houses..."

"The official family... has fifty sets!"

"One hundred sets!"

In just one hour, Bianjing Academy’s sales exceeded 100.

This means that based on a set of 30,000 guan, the sales volume is 3 million guan in one hour!

It surpasses the entire Song and Liao trade volume!

The entire Kaifeng Mansion was stunned.

The banquet officials around Zhao Xu were even more shocked.

Although the world today has long known that housing prices in Bianjing City are high, and they never worry about selling!

However, no one has ever provided real estate to the market in such large quantities and on such a large scale.

So, when the ‘Bianjing Academy’ project went on sale.

Naturally, almost everyone was shocked by this terrible and horrifying sales figure.

It’s too exaggerated, terrifying, and incredible!

Fan Chunren was even frightened.

"Your Majesty... could this be the officials buying and selling by force?" He couldn't help but become worried.

Because, in people's minds, the officials of the Song Dynasty were specialized in this kind of forced buying and selling.

Zhao Xu smiled and said to Fan Chunren: "A house costs 30,000 yuan..."

"Who dares to buy or sell a house by force to someone who can afford it?"

Fan Chunren was stunned when he heard this, and then he immediately came to his senses.

yes!

Anyone who can afford 30,000 yuan is either rich or noble.

How can a mere Jia Zhongmin figure it out?

Even Cai Jing couldn't figure it out.

What's more, a hundred houses have been sold now.

This means that there are at least dozens of people who can afford 30,000 yuan.

The power composed of these people may not be able to shake even the governor of the capital.

Because no one knows if there are any big shots here.

"I made a mistake..." Fan Chunren lowered his head.

"It's just..." He immediately began to worry about another thing: "So many wealthy families gathered together...what if they..."

Fan Chunren looked at Zhao Xu nervously.

Zhao Xu naturally knew what Fan Chunren was worried about?

Throughout the ages, what Zhao officials have been most worried about is that the people below them will stick together.

Once civil servants and military officials unite together, they may threaten the imperial power.

That's why we have to desperately use power to prevent civil servants and military officials from uniting.

Let them be full of contradictions and hostile to each other.

Therefore, in the political arena of the Song Dynasty, there were so many examples of father-in-law and son-in-law turning against each other.

In the future, there may even be situations where father and son turn against each other.

Many of these examples were originally performed by courtiers for the emperor.

But as I continued to act, it basically became real in the end.

Because this is human nature!

However, Zhao Xu is not worried that Jing'anfang will become a base for plotting rebellion in the future.

This is because the Song Dynasty has been in power for a hundred years and its political power has long been stable.

Civil servants and military officials have all become the wings of Zhao Guan's family.

Under the national policy of co-ruling the world with the scholar-bureaucrats and sharing wealth and honor with the military ministers.

The interests of the entire ruling group are actually highly consistent.

To a certain extent, opposing Zhao Xu is actually opposing scholar-bureaucrats and military ministers.

From this perspective, the Zhao and Song Dynasties were actually a super Leviathan.

The ruling group's interior is already impregnable.

Only external force can break it.

Therefore, Zhao Xu can relax controls and restrictions to a certain extent.

At the same time, those scholar-bureaucrats and military ministers who can afford thirty thousand gu will not buy real estate in Jing'anfang at all.

Why?

Because the houses in Jing'anfang have no appeal to them.

An official who can afford 30,000 guan must be at least a civil servant who is waiting to be appointed or above, or a military minister who is above the distant county level.

Such a person would spend 30,000 yuan to buy a house in Jing'anfang?

joke!

Direct descendants of other families are directly admitted to Kaifeng Mansion.

Some people's children were already scheduled to be part of the Song Dynasty even when they were still in their infancy.

Yinbu is prepared for these people.

People don't even need to go to Kaifeng Prefecture, they just wait to be an official when they grow up, and take the "Locked Hall Examination" which is simpler and easier than Kaifeng Prefecture.

You can easily get a place as a tribute.

Getting a Jinshi exam is as easy as eating and drinking - as long as you don't be too useless, pass the Ministry of Rites exam, and go to the palace exam, your ranking will not be bad.

And those who can't afford 30,000 yuan...

They are all middle and low-level officials, including military ministers, who cannot even afford to rent a house in Bianjing, so they can only rent a house outside the new city, and it takes an hour or two to commute every day.

Therefore, the customers of Jing'anfang have actually been restricted to a limited group from the beginning - wealthy businessmen, local high-profile households, and leaders of illegal gangs from all over the Song Dynasty.

For example, private salt dealers, for example, green forest heroes.

Zhao Xu then smiled and said to Fan Chunren: "Don't you hear that the emperors in the early Han Dynasty were responsible for the system of tombs?"

Fan Chunren was stunned for a moment and then reacted immediately.

In the early Han Dynasty, there was a national policy called the system of mausoleums.

From Emperor Gaozu of the Han Dynasty to Emperor Yuan of the Han Dynasty, all Han emperors consistently began to build their own tombs at the beginning of their accession to the throne.

At the same time, through the construction of mausoleums, the powerful and wealthy households in the world were forced to move to mausoleums.

In this way, we can strengthen the weak base and eliminate local forces to prevent local tyrants from becoming powerful.

Under this policy, in the early Han Dynasty, there was no powerful person in the country who could control the local area, let alone the kind of big landowner who could stretch across the country!

Because every one of these people will be forcibly moved to the Guanzhong Imperial Tomb.

Zhao Xu continued: "My current system adopts its strengths and eliminates its shortcomings."

"Luring them with righteousness, attracting them with education, inspiring them with virtue..."

"There is no compulsion, everything is voluntary..."

"It can be said that it has no disadvantages of the Han Dynasty, but has the advantages of the Han Dynasty!"

"In this way, if things continue like this, the world can be expected to be peaceful!"

Zhao Xu was deceiving Fan Chunren and the officials in front of him now.

The reason is simple - it has been a thousand years since the Western Han Dynasty.

As time has changed, social systems, production methods and productivity have become completely different.

Copying the policies of the Western Han Dynasty mechanically is equivalent to seeking a fish from a tree or a sword from a boat.

If you really want to do that, you might end up in a mess.

Therefore, Zhao Xu is just looking for excuses to cover up what he really wants to do.

However, after the banquet officials heard this, they all became happy and congratulated one after another.

Especially the scholar-bureaucrats like Cheng Yi and Su Che who had ancient ideas in mind, the joy on their faces was beyond words.

But, as time goes by.

Good news from Jing'anfang continues to come.

By noon, Jia Zhongmin came back in person to report his victory: "Your Majesty, I am fortunate to have fulfilled my destiny and all the 225 houses in the first phase of the 'Bianjing Academy' have been sold out... The relevant deeds have also been signed...
To be continued...