Chapter Eighty-Four: Eight Thousand Acres of Generous Strokes
If you have money, what should you do?
Buying a car, buying a house, buying a beautiful maid? Just such a thought, of course, is useless. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info and Zhang Chao's house is also under construction now, a big country villa with five into fifteen.
The car was also bought, and Daddy's yellow fat horse, a high-grade war horse, should at least be at the level of Land Rover in the future. Zhang Chao himself also has two horses, one is an eight-year-old horse, which is not expensive, at most it is equivalent to a Volkswagen. But the one Cheng Biting Jin gave him was a three-year-old war horse, so it had to be a Porsche. Now the old horse has been demoted by Zhang Chao to pull the cart, and it is no longer used for riding.
There are chariots and horses in the house, as well as slaves and maids. Oh, the beautiful maid is not, the eldest girl and the second girl can only be regarded as two stunted firewood girls, when they arrived at Zhang's house, the food and accommodation were not bad during this time, and the face was already obviously a little ruddy, it is estimated that if this continues, you can gain some weight.
But the congenital foundation is a little insufficient, and the two girls are at most passing, and they have nothing to do with beauties. The Persian maid that Zhang Chao saw last time in the West Market was very beautiful, but it cost hundreds of times to open her mouth, even if it is Zhang Chao now, it is still a bit expensive to spend a few hundred times to buy a maid.
It's still in the entrepreneurial stage, and you can't just enjoy the splurge.
Zhang Chao felt that he should still take root in the land, whether it was selling noodles and making catering, or making alkali and soap, these could only be regarded as side businesses, and the main and deputy could not be confused.
In this day and age, identity is very important.
The identity of the landlord is obviously ten million times stronger than the identity of the businessman, so even if there is not much harvest on the land, Zhang Chao must stick to this identity.
However, the Zhang family can now have more than 500 acres of land, thanks to the help of several princes, otherwise they would not have been able to share so much land. It is now the early Tang Dynasty, although the land is much cheaper, but most of the people can still live, who would be willing to sell the land? And if you want to sell it, a lot of land is divided by the imperial court, and you can't sell it if you want to.
Zhang Chao wants to develop in agriculture, but he can't buy land, but it is a big limitation.
It's better to be in the middle and late stages of the dynasty, at that time it was generally impossible to suppress the merger, as long as you have money, you can merge as you want. But now, Zhang Chao wants to buy land from the villagers of Zhangjiagou, which is basically a pipe dream.
Life is a bit hard and tiring, as long as you continue to live, you will not sell land.
In the early days of the new dynasty, there was an advantage for the people that in the event of a famine or something, the imperial court would always send some food relief, or at least exempt the affected areas from taxes.
Just now, Zhang Chao looked at the big valley to the west of Zhangjiagou, and suddenly thought that this is also a large piece of land. Although it is mainly a barren slope, there is basically no value in cultivating grain, and the valley is a large water ditch.
But Zhang Chao feels that this valley is still very valuable, and the key is to see how to use it.
If you reclaim it and want to grow millet and wheat, it is not realistic and cost-effective. But what if you plant something else, like some fruits, some medicinal herbs, etc.?
For example, can you engage in breeding, fence up to raise pigs or chickens and ducks?
When you have money, you can also dam the bathing ditch below and build a waterwheel mill, an iron mill and the like. Of course, you can also raise fish, you can also grow lotus roots, and maybe you can also make some paddy fields by the ditch and plant rice or something. At the very least, get a few vegetable gardens and plant some spinach or something, spinach is quite expensive these days.
Zhang Chao felt that the barren ditch and barren slope had a lot to do.
But there is also a point, in order to develop, it is estimated that a lot of money will have to be invested in it. Fortunately, Zhang Chao is not short of money now, catering and engineering can bring a lot of cash, and alkali and soap making are even more profitable, even if it is not as good as catering, but it can make a lot of money.
If you buy a barren ditch, you can also take your time at the beginning, plant trees and raise chickens first, etc., these upfront costs are not high, and you can also have some benefits.
The more he thought about it, Zhang Chaoyue felt that it should be early. If you wait for someone else to do it, then you won't have a chance.
Zhang Chao turned around and left, first found Muramasa, and asked about the ownership of the barren ditch.
"It's just a barren ditch, and four or five Zhuangzi on the edge of the north and south ditches all occupy a piece, but they are all barren ditches and barren slopes, and they are useless."
The ditch between the north and south plateaus is very long, stretching for dozens of miles. However, Zhang Chao is now interested in the section of Zhangjiagou, that is, the section of Whale Ditch in later generations, which is about ten miles long.
This period of summer is a long ditch, and in the winter the water dries up, only intermittent puddles. The mountains on both sides are actually earthy, not real mountains, just the slopes of the two hills.
Zhang Chao thought that if a dam was built here in the future, then this place would become a big reservoir.
"If I want to buy this ten-mile-long barren ditch near our Zhangjiagou, do you think I can do it?"
"Buy this ten-mile barren ditch, what do you buy it for?"
"Plant trees, plant fruit trees." Zhang Chao replied.
Mura Zheng was stunned, looked at Zhang Chao seriously, and found that he was not joking, and shook his head, "Why do you want to buy this barren slope to plant trees, if you want to plant it, you can just plant it, it's all barren slopes and barren ditches, why do you have to pay for it." ”
"I want to buy this ten-mile section of the ditch and slope together."
Zhang Chaoqi is relatively long-term, since he wants to buy it, he will buy all this paragraph. You can't just buy the east slope and not the west slope, otherwise if you want to build the dam, others may not agree, and it is more difficult for you to store water and raise fish.
"You have to ask Lizheng about this, and he can give you an answer to this matter. It just so happened that Li Zheng also returned to the village today, so he was talking to your father over there. ”
"Xie Cunzheng is right, I'll go to Lizheng."
In front of Zhang's new cellar, after listening to Zhang Chao's thoughts, Li Zheng also muttered for a while.
"Do you really want to buy it, buy it and plant a tree?"
"Well, planting cherry trees, this thing is now sold in Chang'an City, I don't think it will be a loss to plant and sell it. In addition, you can raise some chickens on the slope and ducks in the ditch. Taking it to Chang'an to sell it should also be an input. ”
"Saburo's brain is alive, and he can always think of these things that others can't think of and dare not think of. We didn't think about making steamed buns to sell before, but Saburo thought of it, and it was still selling so hot. Hey, we're old, if you really want to buy it, I'll go back to the county government and ask you about it. Basically, there will be no problem, barren slope, if you are willing to take some money to deal with the yamen, you will definitely be able to do it. ”
Zhang Chao nodded, it's just a wasteland and a barren slope.
"Li Zhengye, I think so, if you want to buy it, you can simply buy all the ten-mile section near us, even the ditch and the two slopes, it is best to have a contract in the county government and save a file."
"This is more troublesome, and it will also implicate several other Zhuangzi." Rizheng frowned.
"I am willing to pay a sum of money to the county government, as well as to our village and several other villages. There is only one requirement, a buyout, a contract is signed, and the county government files it. ”
Zhang Chao didn't want to save a few dollars now, and then wait for him to develop this slope, and then everyone would be red-eyed and repeated. Such a thing, not nothing, but definitely there, so it is best to spend a little more money now.
"It's easiest to be willing to spend money, but it's okay to spend nothing." Rizheng said. Although Li Zheng is nominally a li chief, but in fact, there is no chief official at the township level in the Tang Dynasty, and the five Li Zheng take turns to be in charge, so he is actually the township chief here, and the other Zhuangzi are of course also under his control.
"Let's spend money, Master Li, how much do you think it will cost to buy this ten-mile ditch slope?"
The price is different.
There are paddy fields and dry fields, and dry fields have ridges, ditches, slopes, and the like.
Even the same type of land, there are also barren, fat and thin, and the price is also different. Even in addition to fat and thin, whether the transportation is convenient and whether it is convenient to get water are also factors that affect the price.
For example, those good land that lives on the waterside are worth thousands of gold, and a hundred acres are worth thousands of gold, which is very expensive.
In addition, whether the land is broken or not also affects the price, if the land is contiguous, then the price is naturally high. If the land is fragmented, it will affect the price.
Of course, there is also competition that affects the price, if there are many people who want to buy a piece of land, the price will naturally rise, and if no one cares, the price will naturally fall.
The ten-mile ditch slope that Zhang Chao wanted to buy is not small, ten miles long from north to south, and about two miles wide from east to west, which is about five million square meters, which is equivalent to 7,500 acres, because one mu in the Tang Dynasty is slightly smaller than one city mu in later generations, about 0.87 acres, so that this land is about 8,620 acres.
At the price of paddy fields, Zhang Chao will definitely not be able to afford it, and it is impossible to be worth this price.
"If you want to buy all the ten miles of ditch slopes, you have to ask the villages to sign the deed and the yamen to archive it, which will cost a lot of money."
"How much?"
"Add it together, and you have to pay a thousand dollars." Rizheng thought for a moment.
Zhang Chao breathed a sigh of relief in his heart, buying tens of thousands of acres of land, only about one million dollars, calculated that one acre of land is only worth a hundred dollars, which is still very cost-effective.
This is not a contract, but a permanent purchase, and in the future, the more than 7,000 acres of ditch slope can completely belong to Zhang Chao, and he can use it however he wants, and no one else has the right to interfere.
"Can you really buy a thousand kans?" Zhang Chao asked.
Li Zheng was startled, "Do you really want to spend a thousand yuan to buy this ten-mile barren ditch?" ”
"As long as the government can sell it, I will buy it."
"Ten miles to buy?"
"Buy them all."
Isn't it just a thousand yuan, Zhang Chao feels that his current income from catering and other businesses can fully support Zhang Chao to buy the 7,500 acres of land.
Anyway, if the money is earned, it has to be spent, and he can't really dig a cellar and bury it when he makes money.
"Li Zhengye, you will help you talk about this matter, I can accept it if it is less than a thousand. There is only one requirement, 1,000 yuan in installments, it will be paid in a year, and the money will be paid in quarterly installments, and after the contract is completed, I can pay 200 yuan first, and then the rest will be paid every three months, and 200 yuan will be paid at a time. As for how the county and the villages will divide the money, I don't care. As long as the villages are willing to sign the contract, then I am willing to pay. ”
"As long as it's less than a thousand." Zhang Chao said very magnificently, a thousand yuan, in his mouth it seems to be only a thousand yuan.