Chapter 46 King Yu buys land
After more than half a month of hot sales, Yirantang has brought Zhu Zaijing more than 10,000 taels of silver income. When the money appeared in the palace's accountant, Zhu Zaijing Zai Jing's smile almost reached the corners of his mouth.
The people in the capital are really too enthusiastic and wealthy.
Now even major restaurants have begun to snap up Yirantang's Yirantang as a restaurant sign to attract customers. This shows that Yirantang has become a popular product in a short period of time.
"My lord, you are so powerful, I am so impressed by you!"
Meng Chong never dreamed that one day there would be more than ten thousand taels of income in the palace's books, and this number was gradually increasing as the days went by.
"Your Majesty has so much money, our palace will not be able to spend all the money in the future."
Meng Chong said to Zhu Zaijing excitedly.
When Zhu Zaijing, who was looking at the account book, heard what Meng Chong said, a look of disdain suddenly appeared on his face, and he hummed: "Look at your potential? What does this little money mean? You didn't see it? Don’t you have a decent manor under my name?”
Meng Chong was stunned when he heard this, “Why does the prince want to buy land?”
Zhu Zaijing said: "The purpose of buying land is definitely to expand more production capacity and more varieties. Although our small workshop in the Wangfu alone can temporarily meet the needs of some high-end customers, high-end customers are not stupid and have fresh energy. Once it’s over, we haven’t introduced new products in time, how long do you think our Yiran Candy can be popular?”
Zhu Zaijing’s theory made Meng Chong confused. Come on, isn’t Yirantang a mature product?
Obviously Meng Chong lacks awareness of product serialization and the importance of product iteration.
If a good product wants to have fresh vitality all the time, it must be constantly changing.
For example, as Zhu Zaijing knew, Coca-Cola, the beverage king of later generations, the taste of Coca-Cola is not static. There will be corresponding fine-tuning every once in a while, and even the packaging and advertising slogans will continue to change. .
This change will also make people subconsciously feel that Coca-Cola is a fashionable and energetic product, and will not cause aesthetic fatigue due to the passage of time.
That’s why their product lines will become more and more abundant, and sales will become higher and higher.
Therefore, Zhu Zaijing will never let Yirantang remain unchanged. He will invest more manpower and material resources to iterate and expand Yirantang products, as well as fine-tune and change product packaging.
It will last for a long time and people of all ages will have a sense of freshness in it.
"Look for a large, secluded open space near the capital. I want to build a large-scale production center near the capital! Let them see what standardization and process production are."
Zhu Zaijing's plan was to give the people of Ming Dynasty a little shock.
Accurately, it was a little shocking to the people of the capital.
Having a large area of labor force for manual workshop production has long been a trend in the Jiangnan region, especially in Wuxi, Suzhou and other places where various production models are booming.
This phenomenon was also described by later generations as the "germination of capitalism" for a period of time. However, with the development of later generations' ideologies, this statement was gradually abandoned.
But this does not prevent Ming Dynasty from already experiencing a trend of quasi-industrialization.
Because one of the most significant features of industrialization is the large-scale and streamlined production of standard parts products.
Although there are such workshops in the capital now, they are still a bit rough compared to the large workshops in Jiangnan that often employ hundreds or thousands of people.
Although the capital is now the best place in the Ming Dynasty, its food and clothing depend on the nourishment of Jiangnan.
The Ming Dynasty could actually "turn a blind eye" to such a serious problem for three hundred years, and never thought about actively developing industrial upgrading centered on the capital. Is it because the capital is too far to the north that all forces must be concentrated on defending the nomads in the north, so that industrial planning and progress are neglected?
But this doesn’t seem to be the case in Zhu Zaijing’s opinion.
Since the Yongle period, the capital has been one of the two capitals of the Ming Dynasty, and it has also had a great population gathering effect.
Although there are no careful statistics on the current permanent population of the capital, there are at least 700,000 to 800,000 people.
If you add the population of the dozen or so counties under the jurisdiction of Shuntian Prefecture, the population of the capital can easily reach between one million and hundreds of thousands.
What kind of industry does such a huge population want to build but cannot be built?
After all, the basis of industrial development is population. It is simply a waste of resources to waste so many people standing still!
You must know that the capital's food supply has never been self-sufficient. It relies on grain transported from the canal connecting the north and south.
So Zhu Zaijing was wondering what the hell these more than one million people were doing?
It may be said that they are all farming, but in fact most of the food supply to the capital comes from Jiangnan.
Let’s say they work hard, but there are not many large-scale projects in the capital to support them. The only projects that can be said to be big projects are the repair of the Great Wall in the north of the capital and the construction of the imperial tombs.
And this doesn't look like a huge project that can use more than one million people.
So Zhu Zaijing really wanted to understand how the capital could support so many people.
Maybe this is also an unsolved mystery in history.
After receiving Zhu Zaijing's instructions, Meng Chong asked again: "Your Majesty, how much land are we going to buy?"
Zhu Zaijing said proudly: "Buy as much land as you can, and finally It’s better to connect them in pieces, not one piece at a time.”
Meng Chong couldn't help but take a breath when he heard Zhu Zaijing say this. Buy as much as you can, how much is this?
Land prices in the Ming Dynasty also had great regional differences. For example, in the Jiangnan area where there were many people and little land, when land prices were high, one acre of land could be sold for about thirty taels.
In other places, due to various reasons, land prices may fluctuate around ten taels.
So if Zhu Zaijing really wants to buy a large amount of land near the capital, he may have to be mentally prepared for a price of twelve to twelve or three taels.
After all, what Zhu Zaijing wants to buy is a large piece of land, and the price of a large piece of land cannot be judged by a single land price.
It's easy for people to sit back and raise prices, so even Zhu Zaijing has to be prepared to be ripped off.
Otherwise, even if he is the biological son of Emperor Jiajing, even if he is the Prince of Ming Dynasty, he will not be able to buy land at a low price for no reason.
Because those who can sell large tracts of land must also be wealthy and powerful households in Beijing. They hope to buy and annex land bit by bit to promote the prosperity of ordinary people. How can they buy it in the Year of the Monkey and the Moon of the Horse?
And no matter how much the price is for buying land owned by ordinary people, it still doesn’t look good.
In the eyes of the people of the world, this may be annexing and appropriating people's land.
Therefore, the land that Zhu Zaijing can buy now is only the land of those wealthy families in Beijing, so that these wealthy families can happily earn Zhu Zaijing tens of thousands of taels of silver.
(End of this chapter)