On the third day of junior high school, it snowed lightly.

Wu Haogu, who had just squinted for a short time in the early morning (in Han Zhongyan's Prime Minister's Mansion), was attending a banquet in Qionglin Yuan to entertain the envoys of the Goryeo Kingdom, Wang Fang and Wu Yanchong.

According to the original order, after entertaining the envoys of the Liao State on the first day of the Lunar New Year, the second day of the Lunar New Year should be a banquet to entertain the envoys of the Western Xia, and the third day of the Lunar New Year is the three kingdoms of Goryeo, Dali, and Annan. However, in recent years, the status of the Goryeo State in the diplomacy of the Northern Song Dynasty has become increasingly prominent, and it is now under the same position as the Liao State in charge of the North House of the Privy Council.

This year, the date of the banquet for the envoys of the Goryeo State was even advanced to the second day of the Lunar New Year, and the banquet was held separately, and the treatment was the same as that of the Liao envoys.

This seems to regard Goryeo as a powerful power that can sit on an equal footing with the Liao State and the Great Song Kingdom.

In addition, before today's banquet began, the Goryeo delegation received 1,000 volumes of the Taiping Imperial Review.

Therefore, Wang Fang and Wu Yanchong are in a very good mood today - the attitude of the Great Song Dynasty seems to show their support for the Goryeo Kingdom!

Now just wait for the sick Yelu Hongji to die, and the Goryeo Kingdom will be able to take all the daughters of Haoladian for their own use.

With these Nüzhi tribes, the Kingdom of Goryeo will have a lot of capable cavalry, and the next step will be to subdue the Nüzhi Changbai Mountain and Yalu River Tribes...... The next step is to take the hometown of Goguryeo!

Such a grand ideal is, of course, a state secret of Wang's Goryeo. No one will mention it at today's state dinner.

But Wu Yanpet still took advantage of the strength of the wine fairy and said some ambiguous words. What is the "Songli Alliance", what is the "Three Kingdoms", "what is Goryeo in the east, Daliao in the north, and Da Song in the south".

In Wuhaogu, it sounds like it's all dream talk and drunken talk. Although the military strength of the Goryeo Kingdom is a little stronger than the current Great Song Dynasty, the future belongs to the Jurchens and Mongols......

However, the Holy Monarch Song Huizong took it a little seriously, after the banquet, he was walking in the snow with Wu Haogu (Song Huizong was very interested, but Wu Haogu was sleepy and cold, it was really miserable), and talked about the possibility of Lianli controlling Liao in the future.

"Your Majesty, the military strength of a country cannot be judged by population and taxes, but by how many truly capable elites the country can maintain. With the wealth and prosperity of our Great Song Dynasty now, the soldiers who can fight are no more than the more than 50,000 effective soldiers of the Western Army.

The Liao State had 100,000 palace points and tens of thousands of tribal elites, and the Han army had less than 20,000 elite soldiers, a total of 150,000 or 60,000.

As for the Goryeo Daughter's Naosho Division, there were about 10,000 to 20,000 brave barbarians born in the Linhae Snow Plain...... The actual combat power is probably not under the elite of the Western Army! ”

Wu Haogu naturally wanted to instill some powerful words about female straight to Song Huizong, oh, and he didn't say too strong about female straight. In fact, 20,000 female elites were enough to beat the Liao State's hundreds of thousands of palace troops and tribal armies, and the Western Army of the Great Song Dynasty was not an opponent at all.

"Is a woman as powerful?" Zhao Ji was still a little unconvinced.

When you go to the Five Nations Department to see the snow, you will know how powerful people are! Then you won't be so excited to enjoy the snow!

Wu Haogu thought so in his heart, but said patiently: "Your Majesty, as the saying goes, what you see is believing.

Your Majesty wants to know the strength of Nuzhi and Goryeo, so it is best to send someone to watch the battle. ”

"Spectating?" Zhao Ji turned his head to look at Wu Haogu and asked with a smile, "Da Lang, do you want to go?" ”

"No, no, no," Wu Haogu hurriedly shook his head and said, "The minister is a businessman and doesn't understand military strategy...... His Majesty should send an envoy who is proficient in military strategy to Goryeo to witness the battle between the two armies, and it is better to send an artist to paint spy paintings. ”

"You're right."

Song Huizong nodded slightly, "Who will you send?" ”

"Zhang Shuye and Tong Guan are both proficient in military strategy, and Wen Linlang Chen Youwen is a good spy painter, and he happened to be sent to Goryeo."

"I heard that Chen Youwen had a holiday with you?" Zhao Ji stopped at this time, looked at Wu Haogu and asked. "You recommend him to go to Goryeo now, shouldn't it be a personal vendetta?"

Wu Haogu smiled and arched his hand: "Your Majesty Shengming, the minister just wants Chen Youwen to suffer a little, but Chen Youwen is indeed capable of being a spy painter." ”

"Haha." Zhao Ji smiled proudly, he knew that he was Shengming, and Wu Haogu's scheming was not enough at all.

Zhao Ji asked again: "You want to take over the land of Dutingyi, and you want to come here to make huge profits, right?" Tell me how much money you can make? ”

"1 million to 1.5 million." Wu Haogu replied truthfully, "It takes 2 million to buy the land, thousands to demolish the house and prepare the land, and that piece of land can build at least 380-400 townhouses, which will cost hundreds of thousands, and you can get 400-4.5 million after selling it...... After deducting various taxes and miscellaneous expenses, it can be 1.5 million at best, and millions at worst. ”

"Can you build 380-400 houses?" Zhao Ji frowned, "How crowded is that?" ”

"It's really crowded." Wu Haogu smiled bitterly, "Kaifeng Mansion has always been hard to find, before the minister's career, it was also a rich family, and there was only a small courtyard, and he was crowded together with his father, younger brother, little mother, and an old female envoy...... With such a house, most of the officials in Kaifeng Mansion can't afford to live in it! Even my teacher, Mr. Dongpo, and Mr. Dongpo's younger brother, Su Xianggong, were not able to buy a house in Kaifeng Mansion, let alone others? ”

The ancestor of the Wu Hao Gu family is Wu Zongyuan, a great painter, or a civil official from the sixth grade, how can ordinary officials compare with him? Therefore, he can leave mansions and shops for his children and grandchildren in Kaifeng Fucheng. And when Wu Zongyuan was an official, the housing prices in Kaifeng Mansion were not as expensive as later - Wu Zongyuan was an official in the Zhenzong era, and the prices were low at that time, and the housing prices in Kaifeng Mansion were not as outrageous as later.

Zhao Ji also sighed: "Yes, my ancestor once said in a poem: There is a golden house in the book. But now even the prime minister's family can't buy a residence in Kaifeng Mansion...... The house price in Kaifeng Mansion is indeed too expensive! If only I had a way to bring house prices down. ”

Not to mention, Song Huizong really has a way to reduce housing prices, and it will be 900 years if it falls!

Of course, Wu Haogu couldn't tell Song Huizong the truth, he said: "That's why the ministers plan to build some compact small mansions and sell them to the officials who are not rich in eunuchs, so that they can have their own residence in Kaifeng Mansion." ”

"Oh? Are those townhouses? ”

"There are smaller ones." Wu Haogu said, "Your Majesty, do you remember the three-story building and the four-story republican building next to the Painting Immortal Temple?" ”

"Yes." Zhao Ji was stunned, "But those two houses are very big." ”

"It's big for a family to live in, but if it's split into dozens of suites and lived for dozens of families, it's not big."

"Dozens of households?" Zhao Ji asked, "How to live?" ”

"Of course, there are a few rooms in one household," Wu Haogu explained, "two bedrooms, a small hall, and a kitchen on the back balcony, which is the residence of four or five people in a family." ”

The design of the "tube building" is now more reasonable - the "experimental building" next to the painting immortal temple is still valuable, so that Wu Haogu and Huang Shilang found a lot of problems.

The original design of one staircase and three households was abolished, the stairwell was moved outside the main body of the building, and a shared rear balcony (the first floor is a small courtyard) with stairs and up and down the entire floor was built behind the building, and the rear balcony also served as the location of the passage and kitchen, and the drainage pipes of the building were also built there.

Although the back of the house is ugly, and it is inevitable that some people will build it indiscriminately, it is relatively simple to build, easy to maintain, and the cooking fumes will not drift around, and there is no leakage problem.

"How much does a house like this cost to sell?" Song Huizong asked again.

"If it is built on the land of the Duting Station, it will cost seven or eight thousand."

"It's still very expensive!" Song Huizong shook his head, "Officials who have just entered the government can only afford it in 40 years if they don't eat or drink for a year and don't have 200 yuan." ”

If history hadn't changed, it wouldn't have taken 40 years...... 26 years is enough!

"Therefore, the minister plans to let the officials with a background pay in installments to buy the suites of the building." Wu Haogu said with a smile, "The minister will give them a discount again, 6,000 taels, and it will be paid off in 20 years, and it will be 300 taels a year." If you can make a down payment of 2,000 yuan, it will be 200 yuan a year. ”

"It's still expensive." Zhao Ji said, "But there is always hope." ”

Wu Haogu said: "That's the land of Dutingyi is too expensive, that's the inner city of Kaifeng Mansion!" If you go to the outer city, you can have such a suite at the cheapest price of 2000. ”

"Then let's go to the outer city and build some of these houses, so that my officials can have a house to live in."

Song Huizong still felt sorry for the corrupt officials under him...... In fact, Wu Haogu's tube building was not very easy to sell in the end, but "Shikumen" sold well!

A house of 20,000 or 30,000 yuan is basically bearable for the officials of the Great Song Dynasty - after winning the Jinshi, you can get tens of thousands of dollars if you are caught by the list of sons-in-law, and you will have to be corrupt and take bribes in the future.

"Your Majesty," said Wu Haogu, "it's just that kind of suite in a building, and it can't be sold separately yet......"

"Why?"

"Because this is a house that has been dismantled and sold, the deed and title deed are not easy to establish, and there must be a regulation."

Song Huizong smiled: "That's easy to do, just let Kaifeng Mansion do it."

By the way, someone suggested that letting the shopkeeper steal your business! Will you let it go? ”

Wu Haogu was stunned, as if he had just heard about this, "This...... Can the store house work also take out 2 million at a time? ”

"I didn't ask." Zhao Ji got the report from Liu Ai - he also had a good relationship with Liu Youfang and Liu Ai, and the two of them didn't give Zhao Ji calligraphy, painting and literature to play.

Wu Haogu asked again: "Then the shop house is also willing to build houses for the officials and Jinshi who have no houses to live in Kaifeng Mansion?" ”

Zhao Ji thought about it, but still shook his head, he didn't ask this.

Wu Haogu smiled and said, "Your Majesty, it's better to be like this...... If the store can take out 2 million immediately, then the minister will give them the business. Otherwise, at least half of it has to be given to the minister, otherwise when the shop is completed and the house is sold, I really don't know how much time it will take, and the project of Qionglin Palace will be delayed. ”