After breakfast, the group walked on the snow while Hu muttered that he was not full. They followed Gu Yi to the Ishihara construction site and the Qingwa Factory Mine for several days of inspection, and then finalized the various details involved in the "clothing, food, housing, transportation" plan negotiated yesterday.

After taking Feng Ning around, he took him to take a look at the various factories and mines beside the Qingwaying, as well as the various workshops such as "oil, salt, sauce, vinegar, sugar, tea, wine, iron" hidden in the valley by Gu Yi. After having an intuitive concept, Gu Yi led them back to the Sun Palace.

The fragrant flower and fruit tea and a plate of snacks, everyone sat together again.

"For example, what the merchant owner saw, these are the projects I can take out at present. 'Clothing, food, housing, transportation, and four aspects, 'Clothing, and food will all form a series of group industries. 'Housing can be divided into two parts, one is building materials and the other is building team; and..."

Gu Yi paused for a moment and frowned: "Before I had a new means of transportation, this project could not be launched for the time being, but it could be carried out for a certain amount of infrastructure construction first. For example, road construction merchants who are the owners of road construction have a lot of trouble with the road conditions in various places, right? If every city, fort, village, village, dock, and gathering is built, like ours, Qingshi City, and think about it, how convenient will transportation be in Jieshi?"

A glimmer of light flashed in Feng Ning's eyes. Gu Yi said this, a person who has been in business for many years, naturally knew about this.

丨Zhongrong County丨Because of the existence of a large number of high mountain flowing water, the water network is very developed, and the water network is almost all over the entire area. You can reach the places you want from any river. The bulk goods of the commercial banks under the name of Fengning are basically transported through boats and boats.

But after all, rivers cannot completely replace roads. Most of the time it takes to transport materials from one Rongbao to another by land is even longer than it takes to transport materials from one Shicheng to another by water. The large amount of transportation time delayed on land undoubtedly seriously hinders the circulation of materials.

Not to mention the roads in the wilderness, even in the town, there are only some stone slabs symbolically on the road. When it comes to rainy seasons, the whole town becomes a large mud pond. Once the carriages and horses used for transportation are trapped, the entire convoy has to stop and find ways to get the carriages and horses out, which is a big delay.

If all roads can be paved into cement horse roads like the Blue Stone City, the convenience of land transportation will be greatly improved by many times

But……

Seeing that Feng Ning frowned and thought, Gu Yi seemed to be stumped by something, he smiled and said, "Is the merchant owner worried about the money and food for laying the cement horse road?"

"yes"

Jun Ning nodded: "Although the cement horse road is good, if you want to pass through counties, prefectures, cities, and forts, even if the business under my name has little wealth, it may be a drop in the bucket and cannot bear it at all. Just building a place will not help the business. This..."

Gu Yi sweated for a while, was Feng Ning trying to build the entire Zhongrong County road on his own?

Shaking his head laughed and said with a laughing smile: "Why do you need to invest in the construction of counties and governments? On the contrary, we not only don't need to invest, but we also have to make a big profit."

Feng Ning and others looked at Gu Yi in confusion. Not only did they not have to pay, but they also made a big profit?

"After this cement horse road is repaired, we are not the only ones who can use it. It is impossible for us to pay for the road construction, right?"

Gu Yi explained: "Once the horse road is well built, it will be a good thing for the counties, governments, cities and forts? Whether it is for the circulation of resources between towns, commercial development, or military forces mobilization, the transportation of supplies. The merchant owner can completely sell our cement as a commodity to the princes, governments, cities and forts in charge of counties, governments, cities and forts, so that they can pay for the food to build the horse road."

Everyone, including Si Xiaonuo, stared at Gu Yi with strange eyes, and the words "indiscriminate businessman" were almost written on his face. This was a typical method of changing concepts. Although it was right, building a horse road was indeed beneficial to the business and military of the counties and governments, but the one who made the most profit was undoubtedly a merchant like Feng Ning.

But Gu Yi now asked Yan Ning not only to spend a penny, but also to ask others to spend money to buy cement to build a horse road for him to use. What is this a profiteer?

Although Feng Ning was born in the Nanwan Shang clan, people in the Great Wilderness are extremely honest and credible. Even merchants follow the law of making promises and will never be like the merchants in the original world of Gu Yi, who do business with less weight and inferiority as good ones.

Most of the time, merchants in Dahuang look at the integrity and credibility issues when doing business, which is more important than how much money they can make. This can be seen from the way that Feng Ning initially exchanged gold essence from Gu Yi. One hundred is one hundred, one hundred, and you will never deliberately reduce the price because Gu Yi doesn't know the other functions of gold essence.

So Gu Yi's proposal made Yan Ning struggle a lot, but his entangled expression made Gu Yi think that he was doubting the feasibility of this matter, so he then analyzed for him: "Of course, if those city orders are short-sighted and cannot see the benefits of building the horse road, or if they don't make up money and can't take out the money and food for building the horse road, we can also change our way."

Wen Ning listened attentively when he heard this. Although he was a little difficult to accept Gu Yi's proposal, after changing the concept, he recognized what Gu Yi said. After the road was repaired, they were not the only ones who used it themselves.

"If the city order and the fort are unwilling to pay for the food or cannot afford the food, we can build the Madao by asking urban managers for preferential policies. I call this the construction industry."

Gu Yi smiled and said, "Whether it is to exempt urban managers from the commercial taxes of the commercial bank, or to approve the commercial bank a piece of land for the construction of various shops, bustling sections of the roads in our plan, or to promise to purchase various goods from the commercial bank for public funds, or to pay in installments by overpaying loans, it can be exchanged for our commercial bank to undertake the construction of the Madao."

"If it really doesn't work, you can ask the town managers to approve a large number of laborers from the subordinates to assist the merchants in building horse roads. They are always embarrassed to not even pay rations for their own people, right?"

Gu Yi whispered: "The most important thing is that if our business bank undertakes the construction of the horse road, they can't let us suffer a loss, right? Ask them for a policy of collecting hall taxes and setting up a card on the built horse road. Any pedestrians and vehicles that need to use this horse road need to pay the hall tax before they can pass until we take back the investment in the construction of the horse road."

"Of course, we have consumed a lot of money and grain to build horse roads, which will definitely cause the bank's working capital to be stranded. Even if it can be collected through street taxes, it will be a long process. The losses caused by the retention of working capital in this process will also be calculated into the cost."

"Also, the maintenance and repair costs incurred during the use of horse roads must be gradually added to the street tax and collected gradually. This collection process may take several years or even decades..."

Gu Yi smiled and said, "The business owner should estimate the profits in this, right? We can not charge street tax for short-distance walkways for people living near horse roads, but the horses and vehicles on long-distance walkways must be charged, right? For merchants who transport materials, we provide them with such a good road environment, so we don't have to charge more fees? I think it's good to charge street taxes for one horse, one small gold, and one car, two small gold."

Feng Ning was stunned. Just building a road, can it be like this?

The cost of road construction?

In addition to buying materials called "cement" from Qingwa City, which can turn mud into stone, and recruiting rations from the private people to build horse roads, do they have a rough cost?

Don’t look at a horse with a small gold, and a car with only two small gold, and the cost is not high, but you can’t stand the crowds. How many people are there every day between the two cities?

If you calculate the migrant population based on one percent of the total population, a Ring Fort with a population of 500,000 will be collected from 250 to 500 gold in one day, which is 100,000 to 200,000 gold a year.

According to Gu Yi, how many years or even decades of this "travel tax" will be collected, and the compromise will be calculated in ten years. A horse road between two Rongbao and Fort can recover a profit of one to two million gold, but how much is the actual investment cost?

This is still calculated according to the minimum standards

At present, due to the problem of "difficulty in walking", people generally do not travel far without any trouble, which makes it difficult for them to leave home for a hundred miles in their lives. However, once the horse road is opened and the road conditions are improved, the business environment and the number of migrant population will inevitably surge in geometric numbers, and the amount of "dividing tax" in the timely manner will inevitably increase dramatically.

It was Yan Ning himself who thought to himself that spending a little money would make the caravan’s trucks unobstructed, which was really nothing to them.

It's so black

The most important thing is that the most fundamental purpose of building the horse road is to allow the business under the name of Fengning to obtain a good road environment. But he could not spend a penny, but he could also collect "travel tax" for decades. Isn't this borrowing someone else's chicken and laying his own eggs?

Gu Yi's method of tearing down the east and repairing the west walls made Feng Ning, who had to admire him, amazed, but this was not Gu Yi's entire plan.

Gu Yi thought for a while and said, "Of course, the income from the taxation of the department can be recovered slowly after the horse road is built. It will not be of much help to us plan to quickly lay the horse road network in Zhongrong County in a short period of time."
Chapter completed!