It's not easy to live in a big city.
Originally, Qingzhou City was only a small county. Even so, it was very difficult for ordinary people to settle down in Qingzhou and buy a small property.
Now, as a large number of people flooded into Qingzhou City in a short period of time, transactions such as land deeds and real estate became more frequent, and the prices also rose.
In comparison, these six-story buildings showed a price advantage.
Not only was the total price cheap, but there were already 15 rooms inside, which could accommodate a relatively large number of people. They could even be split and rented out.
Now, there were a large number of long-term workers, tourists, and businessmen in Qingzhou City. The demand for housing was very strong.
Not long after, the few small buildings that were built were sold out, and Zhu Xi became the first generation of real estate developers in the Darming Dynasty!
Before Zhu Rong, there were also real estate transactions among the people, and some businessmen were happy to make a profit.
However, the most common method was to build a row of houses in a bustling city and rent them to shop owners to use as shops. If business was good, the rent would be a few thousand wen per day. Not only could they quickly recover their costs, but they could also earn a lot of money.
However, there were almost no cases like Zhu Rong's, where he directly sold houses in bulk.
Only during the Song Dynasty did they specially allocate land to build houses and shops on it before selling it to the common people. However, this was in the name of the imperial court.
Ordinary merchants could not get involved. Moreover, it was mainly based on renting. No one only relied on selling houses to make a living.
This was determined by the background of this era. It had always been heavy on agriculture and suppressed commerce. At this time, being a landlord was discriminated against!
Not to mention being a developer.
In addition, being a real estate developer required a lot of money. Buying land, building materials, hiring people, and settling relationships required money.
The operation was extremely difficult. Most importantly, the imperial court did not allow merchants to purchase large amounts of land.
The land and land that merchants could purchase had a quota.
Zhu Rong was naturally different. He was the Seventh Prince, the King of Qi. To put it bluntly, the entire Qingzhou was his territory. Of course, he wouldn't encroach on the properties of the people, but he would build houses on the empty land. The money earned would go into his own pocket.
He didn't even need to pay any taxes to the imperial court. His father still owed him money from the Gaiqi Imperial Residence.
Therefore, not everyone could earn this money.
In the entire Qi Land, only Zhu Rong could do this kind of business.
Of course, in the past, even if they had the qualifications and the financial resources to do it, they might not be able to do real estate business. For example, few other vassal kings had such ideas.
Because this business needed the support of a large influx of people!
Otherwise, the house wouldn't be able to sell at all!
The cost of building a house was not low. If there was no population to support the construction of so many houses, who would sell them to?
How could there be so many rich businessmen who would take advantage of them?! Shops could also be rented out, and rich merchants could use them to do business to earn back their capital. As for houses, even if they forced rich merchants to buy them, who would live in them?
After all, real estate was a large transaction. For ordinary people, it was still a very expensive commodity.
Even for wealthy businessmen, buying a house was a very big deal because it would take up a lot of liquid funds. If it weren't for the fact that a large number of people had entered Qingzhou City in a short period of time and could be expected to continue flowing in, the rental market would be very good, and merchants wouldn't take the risk to buy property here.
As for the real estate business, once it was done, the money was practically free. It flowed into the wallet and could not be stopped.
Zhu Rong's side was getting a lot of money, so he recruited a large number of long-term and short-term workers.
Not only did they recruit the people who built the Qi King Mansion, but they also expanded the team that built the asphalt road!
He was anxious because he knew that many major events would happen in the next few years. He had to plan ahead.
In the 13th year of Hongwu, which was the next year, Zhu Di would lose the battle for the crown prince. He would be kicked to Beiping by Zhu Yuanzhang and start preparing his troops.
Zhu Yuanzhang killed Prime Minister Hu Weiyong's nine families for the crime of 'wrongdoing', abolished the Prime Minister, re-established the six departments, and strengthened the concentration of power.
This year was a dark time for the court. The number of officials killed was rarely seen in history.
This was not what he was most concerned about. He had chosen to stay away from the royal court and had no intention of getting involved in the battle for the crown prince.
Although he had come to the Ming Dynasty and had made some arrangements in the past few years. He had acknowledged a few ministers as his teachers and protected Liu Bowen, but almost none of the ministers in the court sided with him.
Whether it was Liu Bowen, Hu Weiyong, or Xu Da and the others.
No one thought that he had the ability to compete for the position of Crown Prince.
In the court, there were two factions. Crown Prince Zhu Biao and Fourth Prince Zhu Di were on the same side.
And he had angered Long Yan, so he came to Qi Land and left the vassal state ahead of time, completely disappearing from the sight of the ministers.
As for Liu Bowen, he was not sure if he could survive the massacre next year, but now, it did not matter.
Because he could not make use of these ministers, he could only rely on himself.
What he was most worried about was what would happen three years later. In the 15th year of Hongwu, Zhu Yuanzhang would set up the Jinyiwei.
The Embroidered Uniform Guards were the organization that gathered intelligence in the Darming Dynasty. They were engaged in reconnaissance, arrest, interrogation, and other activities.
The position was taken up by the Emperor's trusted general, who was directly responsible to the Emperor.
They could arrest anyone, including the royal family, and conduct a private interrogation!
During the reign of Zhu Yuanzhang, it was not until the 20th year of Hongwu that the emperor realized that the Jinyiwei had too much power and expanded too quickly. They abused their power and relied on their power to be favored. He abolished the Jinyiwei.
Zhu Rong judged that these few years would be a difficult period for him.
This was because he would carry out many big moves in Qi Land, such as building a wide range of official roads.
On one hand, the official road was to improve Great Ming's transportation, speed up the transmission of information, and the flow of merchants, allowing Great Ming to quickly become strong and prosperous. On the other hand, it was also to prepare for a rainy day!
Qi Land was a very special region. To the north was the fief of King Yan Zhu Di, to the west was the fief of King Jin, to the south was a few hundred miles, and one could go straight to Ying Tian Prefecture. To the east was the sea.
After repairing the asphalt road, he could quickly mobilize his troops to deal with the situation in all directions. He could even go all the way south and attack Yingtian Prefecture!
In the next few years, he would also spread his business to all walks of life and quickly gather money.
And all of these actions definitely could not be hidden from the Embroidered Uniform Guards.
Therefore, before the Embroidered Uniform Guards were established, he needed to build his own power, build high walls, store up food, and hide soldiers among the people in case of emergency!
When the Jinyiwei was established, even if he found something and the situation was critical, he would have enough wings to sit on the fishing platform.
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