Jia Yujing of Red Mansion

Chapter 212 The Big Killer

Jia Qiong finally got rid of the enthusiastic ministers. When he returned to the office, he asked someone to find the bank director.

Banking is a tool launched by Jia Qiong to attract money, and it is also the second pillar industry of Freemasonry after real estate development.

Although it cannot generate huge profits in a short period of time like real estate, it can provide massive financial support for future big plans.

This department is very important and must be run by someone Jia Qiong absolutely trusts in the future.

But now he lacks talents, especially financial talents.

Therefore, Wei Ting, who had just returned from escorting grain from Jiangnan, was temporarily in charge of the central bank.

When Wei Ting came to the office, Jia Qiong extended her hand for him to sit down and asked: "Brother Wei, what is the feedback of the ministers on the banking business?"

Wei Ting replied: "Now it seems that everyone is still more cautious.

Most people want to withdraw their money, but only a few choose to keep it in our banks. "

Jia Qiong nodded when he heard this and said: "After all, it is a new thing, and everyone needs an adaptation process. We don't have to worry, we can take our time.

And most people are afraid that others will know how much money they have, so they ask the guys to explain to them that they can open an account anonymously, and someone will come to deposit money in a few days. "

Wei Ting nodded and said: "There is no charge for depositing money here, which is indeed more attractive than other banks.

However, there is a cost to store and manage these coins. If the amount is large, it will be a big expense. "

Jia Qiong nodded and said: "After a while, everyone will get used to depositing money in our bank, build trust, and then slowly advance the subsequent plans.

There will certainly be considerable resistance to the subsequent plans, and it will not be too late to advance them when the time is right. "

As word spread about the Freemason's dividend meeting, the originally heated land grabbing operation between Da'anfang and Changlefang came to an abrupt end.

Many people save with the intention of making a lot of money, but in the end they find that it is a big pitfall.

But they dug this hole themselves. After all, no one forced them to buy land at a high price. These people also had troubles that they couldn't tell.

Although a few million taels of silver is not a big deal to so many wealthy businessmen.

However, what businessmen value most is profit, and losing money is the most unacceptable thing for them.

Just when these people were very angry, the Freemasons issued a timely announcement.

The announcement means that Freemasonry can undertake housing construction projects in two cities.

It only costs 100 taels of silver to build a standard residential house, including labor and materials.

You can also design your own house, and they will be responsible for the construction and the fees will be calculated separately.

Jia Qiong's actions can be said to be very benevolent. Although he made these people jump into the pit, he also put a rope to pull them up.

After all, 100 taels of silver is already very cheap to build a standard residential house. If they build it themselves, they may not be able to build it with three times the money.

These lands are generally bought for 700 taels per mu, plus the 300 taels for building a house, which is the cost of 1000 taels per mu.

Add a little more price and slowly start selling out. Although the cycle will be longer, you won't lose money.

And Jia Qiong can also earn nearly 200 million taels of silver through this business.

In fact, Jia Qiong could spend a few months and slowly take back these two commercial lands at low prices, but that would narrow the road.

The energy of these wealthy businessmen cannot be underestimated, and there are countless officials who are connected with them.

It can also be seen from this incident of resisting the Mutual Aid Division's control of transfer rights that if all these people were offended, Jia Qiong might not be able to bear it.

In addition, Jia Qiong is counting on these people to buy his mansion in Qinglongfang. They are the richest people in Dachu.The average person can afford a luxury house worth several hundred thousand taels of silver only by relying on these wealthy businessmen.

So Jia Qiong's move was actually to repair the relationship with these people.

Even if you can't be friends, try not to become enemies.

After giving some instructions to Wei Ting, Jia Qiong went to the cement production base outside the city in the afternoon.

Now the old city reconstruction project of Qinglongfang has been put on the agenda, and the demolition of old houses is about to begin.

Jia Qiong positions Qinglongfang as the top luxury residential area in Chang'an, and every house will be worth a lot of money.

Qinglongfang has a superior geographical location and good natural conditions, which are necessary conditions for it to become a luxury residential area.

However, these factors alone are not enough to ensure that the luxury houses built by the Freemasons will be successfully sold.

Therefore, in order to make those rich people willing to pay.

Jia Qiong also invited top masters in garden design such as Shan Ziye and Gu Liuchuan to design each house independently.

In addition to these, he is also preparing to launch an eye-catching super killer - glass windows.

Glass was a very common thing in later generations, but in today's market in Dachu, glass products are very expensive.

In the original work, Jia Zhen once ordered Jia Rong to come to Rongguo Mansion to borrow a glass kang screen from Wang Xifeng, so that he could treat guests to show off.

When Jia Mu celebrated her [-]th birthday, General Wu Wei of Guangdong Province sent a large glass screen as a congratulatory gift from thousands of miles away.

From these two things, it is not difficult to see how valuable glass is in this era.

So if glass can be successfully produced, this will be a big source of wealth.

And if the luxury houses in Qinglongfang all use glass as their windows.

In this era, what a shocking thing it would be.

For this alone, we are not afraid that those wealthy businessmen will not buy it.

Modern people all know that glass is made by melting sand at high temperatures, and it is even simpler than making cement.

However, it is very difficult to make transparent and colorless glass.

The glass products circulating in the market today can actually only be called colored glaze.

It is because the temperature during firing is not enough to make the glass completely transparent.

Therefore, Jia Qiong recruited several porcelain masters from various places and asked them to conduct special experiments and make improvements on the basis of special porcelain-firing kilns, hoping to produce qualified transparent glass.

Jia Qiong takes this matter very seriously, so he comes to inspect the progress every now and then.

This time the craftsmen raised a new problem, that is, they needed better quality coal to increase the furnace temperature.

Although there are coal mines in the Guanzhong area, the coal produced is of average quality.

The best quality coal can only be found in Henan and Shanxi.

So Jia Qiong ordered Feng Ziying and Liu Xianglian, who were temporarily free, to take a trip to Henan to see where there were high-quality coal mines.

He didn't expect that this inadvertent order would lead to a big incident.

(End of this chapter)