181. Osaka Reconstruction
The cherry blossoms are indeed beautiful, especially in this basically unpolluted world. The green tile cherry blossoms and the small bridges and flowing water are very artistic. Wenshen and the three girls walked along the riverside avenue and enjoyed them while walking.
"My husband, this place is so beautiful! I like it so much!" Cecilia Cheung looked a little excited, and she walked back and forth between the cherry blossom trees, looking up at the cherry blossoms all over the trees from time to time.
Wen Shen smiled, "The cherry blossoms can't bloom for long, they will be wet in a few days. We will live here in the next few days."
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The next morning, Ichiro Sato and Gongyun Tao visited the Dao Courtyard one after another.
Tao Gongyun asked with a silly smile: "The national teacher had a rest yesterday, okay!"
Wenshen glanced at him lightly, "Not bad! The courtyard is full of all kinds of facilities, it seems that you have put a lot of effort into it."
"This is all right!" Tao Gongyun seemed very happy. "National Master, there are many people planning to buy land in the city now. Should I buy some?"
Wen Shen nodded and said, "This is what it should be!" As he said, he spread out the planning map of Osaka Castle and set aside 500 acres of land in the east, south and west. "These three pieces of land are for sale! Other lands are not for sale for the time being, but they can be rented!"
Sato Ichiro frowned and said, "What is the rental method for other land?"
Wen Shen thought for a while and said, "Pay 70 years of rent in one lump sum!"
When the two heard this, they were delighted and thought to themselves, "Seventy years are OK, it should be easier to sell." Thinking of this, Tao Gongyun asked: "Teacher, what should I do after the expiration of the seventy years? Will it be forced to demolish it?"
"This is not necessarily the case, generally not. Just pay the rent again at that time." Wenshen smiled and then said, "I will leave the matter of selling and renting land to you. I will reward you to varying degrees based on your sales."
"Thank you, the national teacher!" The two of them thought they had made a fortune this time.
The total land for roads in the outer city was only about 10,000 mu, of which 3,000 mu were spare land, and the other 7,000 mu were sold out soon, with sales equivalent to more than 4,500 taels of silver. The metal currency in Japan was basically plundered.
When he put the metals in front of Wenshen, he felt a big head and sighed inwardly: "Little Japanese is really crazy!"
"Sir, are you satisfied with this?" Sato Ichiro smiled.
"Well, you did a good job!" Wen Shen thought for a while and then said, "In view of your performance, I will reward you with one million yuan, and you will be worth 500,000 yuan per person!"
"Thank you, the National Master!" Sato Ichiro and Tao Gongyun shouted at the same time.
"I have lived here for a few days and found that there are still some infrastructure in the city that must be strengthened as soon as possible. Especially the laying of tap water. Although tap water has been supplied in the inner city, there is not yet in the outer city. I hope that tap water can be available in all places in Osaka Castle this year."
"The national teacher has nothing to do with building tap water, but it requires a large amount of steel pipes that must be purchased from Yizhou, so it costs a lot." Tao Gongyun thought for a moment and said, "If the whole city is laid, it will take about 1,000 tons of various steel pipes, plus the wages are about one million yuan."
Wen Shen waved his hand, "I will set aside five million for the construction costs, and you two will keep them together. This batch of costs is mainly used to build tap water, roads, drainage pipes and feces and waste. Just like Yizhou City, it must also have some here."
The two of them were delighted and said, "Enough!"
"Very good! Although Osaka Castle is a free port, there are still some fees for water, cleaning fees, and garbage disposal fees."
Sato Ichiro's eyes lit up and he laughed: "It's still thoughtful that the National Master is!"
Looking at the hundreds of boxes containing gold and silver in the yard, Wenshen asked: "Why are there so many people buying land in Osaka Castle?"
"There are many reasons, and there are three main reasons. One is without taxes, the second is clean and safe, and the third is there are many opportunities to make money! Now many Japanese nobles buy a land here and plan to live here for a long time." Sato Ichiro thought for a while and said.
"So that's it!" Wen Shen thought for a while and said to Tao Gongyun: "I'm paying one million yuan. You go to Yizhou to invite some masters to open academies so that our overseas Song people can study locally."
When Tao Gongyun heard this, he suddenly felt warm and bowed: "The national master was so impressed that he could think of such a situation!"
Wen Shen smiled and waved his hand, "I will take out another five million to build roads near Osaka Castle, and ask all the roads in my territory to be hardened with cement!"
Seeing that the business came to the door, Sato Ichiro hurriedly said: "Please ensure that the task is completed!"
The economic pull of infrastructure is quite obvious. Over the years, the construction of Osaka Castle has led to more than 30,000 jobs and supported the food problems of 30,000 families. Now that the construction of Osaka Castle is coming to an end, a large number of people have no work to do, but some people are stranded in Osaka Castle and do not leave, which has caused many problems to Ichiro Sato.
Now Wenshen has spent nearly 10 million yuan on infrastructure construction, which is still very attractive to Ichiro Sato and the local people.
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At the gate of Osaka's outer city, an elderly woman was carrying a basket and shouting: "Glutinous rice balls! Two big money for each!"
Suddenly she saw a lot of people gathered at the door, gathering together, not knowing what she was looking at. So she stepped forward and grabbed a man and asked, "What are you looking at?"
The man looked up and down at the woman and said anxiously: "The city lord has started to recruit people to work again. It costs five yuan a month, but you can't do it. Only we men can do it."
"Really!" the woman said in surprise. Although she didn't care about selling meatballs, she ran to the shanty town outside the city, found her own house, and entered the door and shouted: "Dalang! Dalang!"
"Mom, what are you calling!"
A short and strong man was making glutinous rice balls in the house. When he heard someone calling him, he looked out the door and saw that it was his mother.
"Good thing! The city lord recruits workers, five yuan a month! This is really great, a month, May a year, and sixty. As long as you can work for the previous year, you can get married and get married. The woman calculated beautifully.
It turned out that after Fumishi and the Japanese Emperor signed an agreement to merge Osaka Castle, Osaka Castle was no longer under Japanese jurisdiction, and the Japanese government could not come to the city to arrest people. So many slaves, fugitives, landless untouchables and others came to Osaka Castle, and came to seek asylum and found a place to settle down.
This family used to be a slave and secretly fled to Osaka Castle. Because they came late, Osaka Castle had been basically built and no jobs were found. So they pawned all their wealth, bought some rice and made glutinous rice balls for sale. Life was difficult, and the man did not find a wife this year even though he was 25 years old.
After hearing this, the man seemed very excited and said happily: "Mom, then I'll sign up now, I can't be late this time." I remembered that he and a companion signed up last time, but the other person happened to receive his companion and was full. And he could only see his companion happily working.
And this is not the most depressing. Some time ago, my companion actually took out more than 100 yuan to buy a house in the city, and said that he would go to live in the city in the future. When the neighbors in the shantytown learned about it, they introduced their daughter to the man. Now they have wives and houses. But he has nothing himself, so it should be a step too late.
Thinking of this, he hurried out to rush out. Who knew that as soon as he went out, he saw that companion, so he said jealously: "In the mountains, you bought a house in the city, why are you still here?"
The man smiled and said, "I'm a pre-sale house, it will take a while to build it! I have read all their drawings, they are all made of cement bricks, there is toilet and tap water in the room, mine is still on the third floor, and you can see the cherry blossoms in the inner city." The man became more and more excited as he spoke.
"How do you cook on the third floor?" Dalang looked envious and wondered.
The man smiled proudly and said, "We will cook with a coal stove at that time. That thing is a good thing. I don't want it to be so smoky and clean now!"
Dalang enviously said, "I won't tell you anymore. Now the city lord is recruiting people again. I will sign up now. I can buy a house in the city in a year."
After saying that, he turned around and ran towards the city gate.
When the man heard this, he shouted: "I'll go too!"
Chapter completed!