Chapter 303: Huge Money

The final result of the auction shocked Jiang Yan. It was not just because through this form that Dongping could reduce the impact of the most expensive urban construction costs on the national economy to almost no, and even from the sales of land in Gondor, the country could even make a small profit from it. More so, it was because Jiang Yan realized that the courage to invest such a large amount of money was behind Yunzhou and Dongping. If there was no trust in Yunzhou Jingluo Mansion, Ye Tao and the Dongping court, there would be no aristocratic family, and the merchant group would spend a lot of money to hand over millions of silver to Yunzhou Jingluo Mansion. Without confidence in Dongping's future, no one dared to invest such a large amount in urban construction.

Jiang Yan was even more amazed that during the construction of Gondor City, Yunzhou Jinglifu actually allowed everyone to give opinions on the expenses of various projects, and even requested audits. Ye Tao did not hesitate to the deep stakeholders of the Ye Tao Workshop, the entire Gondor, Yunzhou and even Dongping. However, due to everyone's trust in Ye Tao and his entire Ye Tao's entire system, no one has any opinions on the construction team of Ye Tao's workshop will be responsible for important work and obtain huge construction orders. When Ye Tao sincerely asked everyone to give more opinions on the Ye Tao's workshop at the after-hours reception, although everyone felt that Ye Tao's sincerity and ease, they just shrugged and had no reaction.

"Mr. Jiang, you have gained a lot this time." In a corner of the reception, several people from Chunnan gathered together, while Song Xiangjun softly praised Jiang Yan.

Jiang Yan responded and smiled forcibly and said, "Princess, you can't compare to you. After all, things happened suddenly, but they are not as prepared as you."

Song Xiangjun smiled and said, "Where? I am just representing everyone. There are many outstanding talents in each family and ethnic group who have done a lot of preparations. I went to Yunzhou for on-site inspection twice."

Jiang Yan did not intend to accuse the Chunnan family headed by the Song family of the Song family of excessive intimacy with Dongping and Yunzhou, because that was exactly the situation he wanted to see. When the power and interests of Chunnan and Dongping became increasingly deeply entangled, the more Dongping would be concerned about Chunnan in the future. But Jiang Yan only hoped that this kind of bonding of interests would not go out of shape. The risks hidden behind them naturally also include, when those big clans felt that the interests of the downward Dongping exceeded those of continuing to support Chunnan, the problems that arise would be great when the two countries fought in the future. Now there are so many military positions controlled by the major families that make people shudder when they think about it.

Jiang Yan was not very sensitive to numbers, so he turned to a note around him and asked, "How much money did the Yunzhou Jingliufu raise in total today?"

I was prepared for the first time and bowed and replied, "The total is 35.56 million taels."

This figure made everyone gasp. More than 30 million taels of silver are almost the total annual tax revenue of Dongping, which is several million taels more than Chunnan’s annual tax revenue. In other words, in just a few hours, Ye Tao held a huge financial resource that could cope with the annual expenditure of a big country. Although he believed that Ye Tao would definitely use it for special purposes... In fact, it was mainly because he believed that Dongping had never saved military expenditures. Moreover, Dongping now has sufficient financial resources and does not need to embezzle this huge amount of money, but what this money can do will still make people feel frightened.

"More than 30 million...but this is just an auction. In addition, when I looked back in Ningyuan, I was afraid that there would be 70 million taels of silver? What kind of thing can Gondor do?" Jiang Yan couldn't help but sigh.

"No," said Ma Yufeng, who was standing next to him, "this time, all the land that could be sold at high prices were released. In Ningyuan's auction, it was mainly residential and commercial areas with medium land prices. It was probably difficult to raise 20 million taels. Adding up two times will add up to 55 million taels of silver." Ma Yufeng was originally going to attend the auction as an assistant to Song Xiangjun. But he did not feel any dissatisfied with being occupied by Jiang Yan. Letting Jiang Yan owe him a little favor is very worthwhile for Ma Yufeng, who is interested in showing his skills in the officialdom. At least, it is much better than giving ideas around Song Xiangjun.

Jiang Yan's frown did not stretch out, and he asked again: "How much does it cost to build Gondor City? Can you use these 50 million taels of silver?"

Ma Yufeng did not speak up, and he could be recommended to Song Xiangjun as an assistant. At least he still had some understanding of the city and construction. No one could understand how much it would cost to build a huge city from scratch, which was completely beyond the common sense of anyone in this time and space. In the past, most cities developed step by step from villages and towns, and encountered large-scale expansion and renovation, especially such important cities with regional political, military and economic center functions, usually the country

All families have to live a tight life, and most of the projects will last for quite a while. Often there is a huge gap between the initial design and the final result, and often the later - when the main part of the city and the most important part are completed, the main and the people in power can't stand the huge expenses, and the last part is hasty, or they can repair it when they have enough money in the future. And those kings who are willing to build projects seem to always appear in front of everyone as negative examples of harming the country and the people.

After considering it, Ma Yufeng said, "This is really not clear. But when Yuhang Dongcheng was expanded, the wharf and water gate were built, and part of the Shanghai embankment took six years, and the final cost was 24.4 million taels. This Gondor seems to be much larger than the two Yuhang Dongcheng, and these 50 million taels... are probably about the same."

Jiang Yan didn't say anything. He knew that the situation was too different. The most expensive project in Yuhang Dongcheng was to reclaim the sea with a large amount of stone to make the wharf port area. Moreover, when Yuhang Dongcheng was expanded, no one could understand how many big families built from it. But although Gondor had a hierarchical fortress that everyone found difficult to build along the mountain and had a sorting project for the entire cliff top, he thought that Ye Tao had always been familiar with technical problems. The projects that Ye Tao had handled in more than ten years ranged from the smallest Zhanyuan to the later Tiecheng, Shufengcheng, etc., including the construction of tower buildings that no one could solve so far. However, no one doubted that Ye's workshop had any private fraud.

Needless to say, the construction team sent to Yuhang at Ye's workshop to help Yuhang grout and consolidate the foundation of the bell tower. Although they turned a blind eye to the guys from the Chunnan Construction Bank who worked in the bell tower project, they would never tolerate things such as cutting corners and reporting directly to the Minister of Works of Chunnan through the head of the construction team. When the project was completed, they provided a detailed account without anyone asking for it, which was consumed in detail in a large amount of small transactions of purchasing materials.

The thirty-three taels of silver that were lost are included. It can be imagined that under the example of the construction team of Ye's Construction Bank, which is both perfect in construction quality, speed and account purity, under Ye Tao's consistent policy of intolerance of corruption and fraud, how much money can the project in Gondor City save... Perhaps, things need not be said to be so complicated. Ye Tao, who is so rich that he doesn't know how to spend money, will not be corrupt, and if he wants to be corrupt under Tan Weixin's nose, no businessman in the world dares to take such a risk.

"Mr. Jiang," Song Xiangjun saw that Jiang Yan was more worried the more he thought about it, and quickly interrupted his thoughts, "After you met with Lord Dongping this time, everything was over?"

"I'm just here to talk, and no one can tell what happened next." Jiang Yan smiled. As a strategist, he has done it very well. Once these strategies are proposed, no matter whether the other party agrees or not, the ideas in his mind will be different. And Tan Xiaopei is obviously a more interesting and courageous person than expected. Although he doesn't know Tan Xiaopei's true thoughts, at least on the surface, he has achieved fruitful results this time. After that, he will arrange for Tan Weizai to go to Chunnan again, and this cannot be solved in a short time.

"Then, if Mr. Jiang has time, he might as well go to Yunzhou once. If Mr. Jiang is interested and tells him about it, they will naturally make thoughtful arrangements. Even if he goes to Yunzhou by himself, it is very convenient now. You should know that Yunzhou is in fact, rather than thinking about it here, it is better to travel in person. Is Mr. Jiang's errand? " Song Xiangjun asked softly.

"This..." Jiang Yan was a little moved. It was better to meet than to be famous, which was something he knew well. During these days he stayed in Danyang, he deeply felt the difference between Dongping and Chunnan. It was not only the size of military appearance, military strength, national strength, etc. that showed in Danyang, but also the temperament of Dongping that was very different from Chunnan.

Here, more than once, he was interrupted by the roaring roars from the same private room in the restaurant, or hindered his conversation with some people. Then he realized that those next door who were very ungraceful about business or other things, and who said cooperation, confrontation, alliance and interests were often the first and second leaders of each company. This alone was completely different from Chunnan. In Chunnan, everyone also had various problems, various interests entanglements, but they were often hidden under the water, and no one was willing to come up with the platform, let alone the heads of the families of various families personally involved. If these things were placed on the platform, something extraordinary would often happen.

After all, Chunnan's mission has been in Danyang for quite some time. They also led Jiang Yan to Danyang with an inspection mentality and met all kinds of people, from the ministers, ministers, ministers, and some middle-level officers of the imperial guards, to shopkeepers and managers in various businesses, and even the accountants, auditors and economists in the two accounting firms that have just emerged in recent years but are respected. The more they come into contact with these people, the more Jiang Yan is right.

The entire system created by Tan Weixin is interested. Often everyone sees Ye Tao promoting the establishment and development of the Blood Qi Army, building cities one by one, and using his incomparable creativity to make miracles appear on the entire Dongping land. But Jiang Yan can see that behind all of these, the grand economic, political and governance system promoted by Tan Weixin, the Dongping family and the ministers and major families jointly implement, understand, and increase understanding in implementation...
Chapter completed!