Chastity Layman 2

Chapter 269 Chang'an North City
Pingkang Square.

The most lively place in Chang'an recently is Pingkangfang. Not to mention other things, the housing prices have more than doubled. Originally, there were only a dozen households of dignitaries and high-ranking officials in the workshop, and hundreds of households of ordinary people, but recently many dignitaries have sent housekeepers here. While buying a house.

not for sale?

markup.

Still not selling?

Increase the price.

Although the people in Chang'an of the Tang Dynasty are no better than the ordinary people in the countryside who have never seen the world, but if they see the world again, they are still the people in the head of Guizhou. Originally, a house is only a hundred years old, and some of the broken ones are even that piece of land. Worth the money.In fact, most of this land is the home garden allocated to them by the previous court, and they didn't spend any money.

It's just that the world is stable now, the population of this capital is increasing, and the land is also valuable, and because Pingkangfang now lives with top officials such as Qin Lang and Li Jing, and the examination room of the Gongyuan is built in Pingkangfang, a large number of scholars Ju people lived here after they came to Beijing. Some people with good conditions were unwilling to live in the living hall built by the imperial court, and rented private houses directly in the workshop, which naturally led to a rise in housing prices and rents.

And Pingkangfang was originally a gathering place for prostitutes, and it has always been a place where dandies and young men like to come. There are at least tens of thousands of candidates.

However, for the convenience of his family's living, Qin Lang specially asked the emperor to test the market in Pingkangfang. After getting the emperor's permission, Pingkangfang is now not only a red-light district, but also a night market.

Started a street of catering and leisure.

Restaurants, teahouses, restaurants, inns, even chess halls, wrestling shops, etc. have all opened up.

Furthermore, there are also supporting food markets, clothing and jewelry shops, and stalls have been set up to allow some cooked food such as sesame seed cakes to be sold on the street.

In this way, it would be a ghost if Pingkangfang is not lively.

The flow of people has increased greatly, and it has become the only pilot district in Chang'an. There are street shops, mobile stalls, etc. in the residential area, and there are street lights at night, which are as bright as day. There is still some distance from the residential area in the fang, so it won't disturb the people too much, but after all, it is the only fang in Chang'an that has market shops or even a night market in the fang.

Other workshops are strictly prohibited from doing business. In the past, the people of Chang'an could only go to the eastern and western cities for business transactions. Now there are such lively places in the workshop in front of their homes. Naturally, the land price of this workshop has skyrocketed.

Qin Lang had expected these changes once the pilot program was implemented.

So I asked the transshipment department to make a plan, not only to build a few commercial streets in Sanli of the prostitute area, to carry out renovation and upgrading, to attract investment, but also to the residential area of ​​Pingkangfang, especially the original residential area of ​​ordinary people. Demolition and renovation.

Qin Lang intends to imitate the urban management philosophy of later generations, and turn Pingkangfang into a commercial district, selling land, renting shops, collecting business taxes and earning money.

To dismantle the people in the workshops, build houses for them in some empty workshops in the south of the city, exchange small houses for larger ones, and provide extra cash subsidies. For many people in the workshops, this is of course a good thing.

They haven't seen the kind of demolition in later generations, so they haven't run into a stubborn household. Anyway, they still moved in Chang'an City, but they just moved from the edge of the East City to the south of the city, but they can change to a new house and a big house. Qian Bu, who would refuse such a good thing.

Qin Lang has demolished residential houses here, and has already designed and planned a commercial street, shops in front and workshops in the back, and a high-end residential area on the other side.

This kind of gameplay has never been played before.

The imperial court allotted housing land to the people of Chang’an, and then built their own houses. If you had money, you could build a mansion.

The workshop is not lively.

But now Qin Lang wants to turn Pingkangfang into a Chang'an commercial center, focusing on catering, entertainment and leisure.

The prostitute district and the tribute courtyard, these are the two core magic weapons.

These days, where the brothels are concentrated, of course it is a gold-selling cave where the philandering and gold lovers are drunk, and the location of the Gongyuan must be the place where scholars and candidates gather. From ancient times to the present, brothels and juzi are perfect matches.

These days, candidates who can take the imperial examination, whether they are library students or rural tributes, are all from good family conditions. No matter how poor the scholars are, they must at least be from small landlords. Otherwise, they cannot afford to study, let alone come to participate. The imperial examination, so this group of foreign officials, tyrants, gentry, and children of landlords are high-consumption groups.

During the period in Beijing, the consumption of renting a house, shopping, eating and so on is astonishing.

Just think about how lively the banks of the Qinhuai River in Nanjing were during the Ming Dynasty.

The renovation is going smoothly and the progress is fast. After all, there won’t be any hard-pressed households in the demolition these days, and there won’t be so many forced demolitions. Besides, there won’t be any high-rise buildings at this time, and building houses and shops is also very simple. .

Qin Lang himself immediately settled in the property under his command. He directly bought a street and opened stores such as Guogong Liquor, Guogong Sugar, Guogong Grain, etc., as well as restaurants, tea shops, inns, etc., as well as roast duck restaurants, Fish farms, stewed meat shops, etc., and the rest of the shops are for lease.

Now Qin Lang can buy breakfast directly on the street when he goes out in the morning, instead of making it at home, it is convenient and has many choices.

The Tribute Academy has already taken several exams. Ming, Fa, Ming, Ming, Ming, Ming, Ming, and Mingzi are all tested at the same time. These four subjects are professionals. In fact, they are equivalent to targeted training. Do some professional officials in the yamen.Those who understand the law generally go to the Ministry of Criminal Justice and Dali Temple; There are several yamen in the food bureau.

These subjects are highly specialized and easy to take. Candidates are generally more professional students. For example, candidates who can clearly and clearly calculate are mainly students from the Imperial Academy of Calligraphy and Numeracy.

And Ming medical candidates are mostly doctors from all over the world.

After the four subjects are over, it is the children's test.

Most of the boys from all over the world are accompanied by adults. These are smart and well-qualified children who want to be born early.The Children's Department, which has been suspended for many years, restarted this year, but this time it did not directly pass the exam and was awarded a background, but was divided into Hongwen Hall, Chongxian Hall and Guozijian after admission.

However, this still attracted countless people to take the exam. After the local assessment, there are still more than 3000 boys who entered Beijing this year.

After communicating with the emperor, Qin Lang finally decided to increase the number of people recorded from 300 to 500.

In any case, Chongxian Hall and others are top universities, and it is a good opportunity for these boys to study here. After completing their studies in the future, they will undoubtedly have a bright future. This is equivalent to the opening of Peking University and Tsinghua University. It's the same as the junior class, even if you don't pass the national examination and become a civil servant after you come in, it's not worse than that.

Only the reform of the Ming Jingke caused dissatisfaction among many scholars, especially those famous scholars, especially those from Shandong.The Shandong gentry are most proud of the heirs of Confucian classics.

Each family is proficient in one or two classics, and is the highest authority in the world, so if their children participate in Mingjing, they will have a strong advantage.

But who knew that this time the imperial court announced that the Mingjing Division only took [-], while the Jinshi Division actually took [-].

You must know that Mingfa Mingshu admits 50 students for each of the four subjects.

What's more terrible is that Zhi Gong Ju Qin Lang also announced that in the future, the Department of Economics, like Ming Fa, Ming Jing, Ming Medicine, etc., will open every three years, while Jinshi will open every two years.

A lot of Candidates for Ming Jing want to change their application for Jinshi, but they are not allowed, saying that they can no longer change.

As a result, many sons of famous noble families gathered in Chang'an this year, and they could only compete for [-] places, while the children of the common clan landlords had [-] places for Jinshi.

For the dissatisfaction of these gentry, other people did not have much support.

The nobles of Guanlong started their careers with military merits, advocated martial arts, practiced bows and horses, and took the path of becoming officials with martial arts. Most of the children of these families were born in the family. They enter the Imperial Academy at the age of twelve or thirteen, and when they are older, they are officially named as servants in the third guard. After five or eight years, they will be directly awarded the official post after passing the exam, and officially start their official career. There is no need to take any imperial examinations to make a fuss.

For example, the military upstarts in Shandong, they even disdain the imperial examinations, or they can't participate if they want to participate. Most of these people are from powerful or local rogues. Those who have really studied, let them take the exam, but they can't pass the exam, so they are not interested, and they have to take the road of becoming an official.

That is to say, those Kanto gentry and poor landlords who wanted to take the imperial examination, especially the poor landlords, had no other way to become an official, so naturally they could only rely on the imperial examination.

These days, it is even more difficult for them to join the army and become an official.

As the saying goes, if you are poor and rich in martial arts, if you don't have a good family background, how can you train children who are proficient in bows and horses and strong in body? Even if the soldiers are in the same army and have made the same meritorious service, the final rewards are actually different.

For this scientific examination, Qin Lang only drew the outlines, and didn't worry too much about the others. Anyway, Chu Suiliang, Yu Shinan and other examiners were worried about the specific examination.

Instead, he spent more time on the commercial transformation of Pingkangfang, attracting businessmen and collecting taxes every day, and dealing with money all day long, which was actually quite fulfilling.

At the very beginning of the commercial transformation of a Pingkangfang, the transshipment department made hundreds of thousands of dollars. Even Li Shimin's eyes shone brightly after hearing about this business.

Li Shimin even had the idea of ​​​​moving out the Zhenfusi Yamen and the Imperial Prison to free up land for development and selling money.

"It seems that Pingkangfang is going to grow into Anbei City!" Li Shimin said with a smile, stroking his beautiful beard.

In fact, Qin Lang still likes the urban layout of the Song Dynasty. The urban layout of the Tang Dynasty is too rigid, gloomy and boring. Like being in prison, it is not conducive to the economic development of the city.

It seems unrealistic for Li Shimin to transform Chang'an Sixth Street into a commercial street, so Qin Lang just laughed.

However, he still proposed that each workshop should be allowed to develop some industries and industries in the workshop, concentrate a certain industry for centralized specialization, and also allow some livelihood businesses to operate in the workshop, such as grocery stores, vegetable stores, silk shops, etc. cloth shop these.

(End of this chapter)