Chapter 694 Almighty King
"I don't want to die so early either." Ma Zhou looked at the willows on both sides of Guangyun Lake on Changle Slope, a little dazed.
"The scenery here is good, don't you set up a separate courtyard here?
Ma Zhou shook his head, "I'm not as extravagant as you." Although he is now a prime minister, Ma Zhou has only been an official for a few years. When he first arrived in Chang'an, he could only live in a hotel. He couldn't afford the shop fee, so Qin Lang appreciated him later, and invited him to be a guest in the Qin Mansion, and then served in the Town Fusi, but the salary was not much.
Relying on salary in Chang'an for a lifetime may not be able to buy a house.
Chang'an is big, and it's not easy to live in.
Later, he was appreciated and promoted by the emperor, so he could only rent a small courtyard in Qin Lang. In the end, the emperor specially rewarded him with money to buy a house, so that he could have a house of his own in Chang'an City. This luck surpassed ninety-nine percent of Chang'an scholars. .
The higher the official rank, the higher the salary, but after all, he has been an official for a short time, and he is not good at managing money. The mansion also hired coachmen, horse servants, cooks, laundry women, etc., and the expenses were also quite a lot. There is also a hobby of buying books, which is very expensive. Often some fellow countrymen from their hometown would come to our door and have to help out a little. The clansmen in the hometown also have to send some money back frequently.
Now in purple robes and jade belts, the Prime Minister Ma Binwang is from the Moonlight Clan. Compared with Qin Lang, who is also the prime minister, who is rich and well-off, Ma Zhou is really far behind.
Changle Slope is another wealthy villa area in the capital. Qin Lang not only has the top villas in Changle Slope, but even more than one. The resort and leisure village he built in Xianyang was very successful, and he has made a lot of money in the past few years. . So on the side of Changle Slope, real estate development was started between Yuchan River and Bahe River, and a large area of land was acquired.
Qin Lang spent some money on these worthless wastelands on riverbanks, and after more than a year of tossing around, came a new major renovation. Not only did he create tens of thousands of acres of rice fields along the river, but he even built rice paddies between these rice fields. Daohuaxiang Resort.
In the fragrance of rice flowers, we can hear the sound of frogs.
Moonlight in the lotus pond, boating on the water.
Just like Qin Lang's family's Qin's Wood Industry, Qin Lang's villas and resorts are very popular because of their innovative business philosophy. Some are for sale, and some are for rent. The elegant, quiet and comfortable enjoyment attracts the aristocratic officials of the capital. .
Especially for some officials who come to Beijing to serve as officials from other places, not everyone has the ability to buy real estate when they first come, so long-term or short-term rental, they have to come and live with a family for a few days, relax and enjoy the elegance. Comfortable without spending too much, of course it is a good choice.
Some aristocratic and wealthy families who are not short of money are delighted by the design here. Anyway, they are not short of money, just buy it. Although it costs more than building it yourself, it is hard to buy happiness with money.
Surrounding the Guangyun Lake, this place has become the busiest place outside Chang'an City. Not only is the industry and commerce flourishing, but it is also a rare popular place, where shopping, entertainment and leisure are integrated, which is equivalent to another Pingkangfang. And it is bigger than Pingkangfang, with more beautiful scenery, and there are not as many restrictions as in the city.
The Qin family built a polo field and a racetrack that are larger than those in Chang'an City. Every ten days off, the polo matches and horse races here can welcome countless spectators, let alone Gambling tickets such as betting tickets will also have a booming business.
Beside Guangyun Lake, many brothels and Chu houses were also built, and there were even many beautifully painted boats and kabukis on the water. Many high-end restaurants and restaurants were also built here, and the business was even better than in Chang'an City.
Chang’an city is still more restrictive after all. Even though the Jingzhao government office presided over by the East Palace is promoting the demolition of the walls and the revitalization of the commercial street and the market, how can there be more freedom in Changlepo?
In the past few years, under the leadership and planning of the Qin family, the Changsun family and other wealthy families, Changlepo has been called Little Chang'an. Tens of thousands of merchants, hundreds of thousands of people, craftsmen and slaves are concentrated in this place.
The aristocratic families also like to build manors and rent villas here, free and unrestrained.
Ma Zhou knew that Qin Lang was the designer of this little Chang'an, he also knew how much power he had to speak in this place, and he knew how much wealth this place brought Qin Lang every day.
But Ma Zhou doesn’t envy these things. For him, when he is poor, I am me, and I don’t hate poverty. When I am rich, I am still me, and I do not worship wealth.
Zhang Xuansu, Shao Zhan of the Eastern Palace, was born in a poor family. He used to be an official in the Sui Dynasty. The emperor asked him what official he was in the previous dynasty, and he said he was a county lieutenant. He also asked the county lieutenant what he was doing, and he said that he was not popular, and he asked what kind of errand he was doing, but Zhang Xuansu couldn't answer, and when the banquet was over, he staggered when he walked.
But Ma Zhou was different. He was also a down-and-out scholar, and he learned books by learning. Although he worked as a foreign official like a state school assistant, he later abandoned his job and went to study. He was whipped by Marquis Wu for breaking the ban, and later served as Qin Lang's guest, but no matter who he faced, Ma Zhou never shy away from these things.
In this regard, Dali Temple Qing Sun Fujia is very similar to Ma Zhou. Dali Temple Qing Sun Fujia was the first number one scholar in the Tang Dynasty, but he had already passed the Jinshi examination and served as an official in the Sui Dynasty. But before becoming an official, he was also an exile official first.
After the establishment of the Tang Dynasty, he came to take the imperial examination again, and became an official again. Step by step, he achieved the posts of serving the censor, the Shaoqing of Dali Temple, and the minister of Dali Temple.
Ma Zhou looked at the paddy fields like green silk, and admired Qin Lang's ability very much. This was originally a low-lying river beach that no one cared about, many of which were even flooded, and some were all gravel. But Lang boldly bought these broken lands.
Then a lot of money was invested and many people were recruited to work. First, the river was cleared and the embankments were reinforced, and then those lands were built into polders and terraced fields. When the field is raised, the waterlogging problem is solved, and the field becomes a fertile field.
Many ponds were also surrounded, and lotus root was planted to raise fish and ducks. A chicken farm, sheep pen, and pig pen were built beside the rice field behind the embankment slope. Fish ponds can store water for flood control during floods, and can also be used to irrigate the fields during droughts, not to mention that the manure of chickens and ducks can also fertilize the fields. Sheep's winter material.
Qin Lang even raised fish in his rice fields. The name of rice flower fish is still famous in Chang'an. These fish are sold at a lot more expensive than ordinary fish.
Although Qin Lang invested a lot of capital, the annual income is also high, and he will be able to pay back the capital within a few years, and he will make a net profit in the future.
"In the past few years, you have turned waste into treasure everywhere, and you have added a lot of fertile land around Chang'an. Now many nobles and wealthy families have followed your example."
Qin Lang just laughed. He didn't mind others imitating him. When he first tried out this ecological breeding and planting model in Sanyuan, the red girl from Li Jing's family stared at him to learn.
Let him go, what are you afraid of.
Qin Lang was engaged in breeding vigorously before, and in the past two years, there have been more breeding inside and outside the customs. Qin Lang now has fewer chicken farms and duck farms. He focused on hatching and raising seedlings. Other families followed suit and set up breeding farms everywhere, and the Qin family began to provide seedlings exclusively.
Turned to study feed and veterinary medicine.
When everyone followed the trend of farming, the Qin family had already turned around, hatching seedlings, feeding veterinary medicine, and processing smoked wax. When some people started to follow suit in hatching and raising seedlings, as well as feed, the Qin family had already achieved scale, with stronger technology, lower cost, and larger scale, seizing a major share of the market.
Others raise pigs, but the Qin family’s pig raising industry has realized the entire industrial chain from seed selection, breeding, breeding, to feed, veterinary medicine, slaughtering, sales, and reprocessing.
There are even brush factories using pig bristles, leather shoe factories and leather lining factories using pigskin.
Bar bristles have uniform roots, moderate hardness, high oiliness, good toughness, heat and humidity resistance, acid resistance, abrasion resistance, and are not easy to bend, coil, or break. It is an excellent material for making various brushes.
Ma Zhou shook his head with a smile, drank the last bit of wine in the glass, and then put down the glass reluctantly, wanting to drink no more. Qin Lang had already asked people to put away all the wine, and he was only allowed to drink this glass.
"Sanlang, do you know that the merchants in Chang'an like to worship the Temple of Heavenly King? Many people even invite your statue of the Heavenly King home alone as an offering?"
Qin Lang pouted, how could he not know.
At the beginning, due to his meritorious service in exterminating locusts and disaster relief, a Temple of Heavenly King was erected in Longyou, called the Heavenly King of Exterminating Locusts, and worshiped instead of the temple of locusts. This incident shocked the emperor. In the end, the emperor also recognized the behavior of the common people, recognized Qin Lang's father and son as the heavenly king, and even included his father and father in the national official sacrifice. It officially replaced the previous locust **** and insect king.
Everywhere, especially in Guanlong and the Central Plains, Tianwang temples are blooming everywhere. After all, everyone has a deep understanding of the horror of locust plagues. It is a minor disaster every three years, and a major disaster every ten years. After presiding over the extermination of locusts and making many measures to control locusts and prevent locust disasters, there have been very few locust disasters that have swept across states and counties since then.
Now locusts have become a delicacy for the people of Tang Dynasty.
Everyone was very grateful to Qin Lang, and built Tianwang temples one after another to suppress the insect king. Of course, later Qin Lang, in the name of the God of Medicine, introduced the method of human pox, so that the pox plague could no longer harm children. In recent years, the human pox method has been upgraded to the vaccinia method, and the pox seed is safer and the success rate of vaccination is higher. Now the pox epidemic can no longer kill children on a large scale. The Tang court established special epidemic prevention stations in various places, and regularly provided free vaccinations for common people and children every year.
Tianwang Temple was worshiped by more people and further built to the south.
The merchants in Chang'an also worshiped Qin Lang as the God of Wealth, and even invited them to their homes. They all said that Qin Lang made money well.
There are also some smart businessmen who painted the portraits of Qin Lang and his father in the Temple of Heavenly Kings and sold them as portraits, saying that Qin Taiwei and his father were the door gods appointed by the emperor. Suppresses evil spirits.
Qin Lang is almost omnipotent. Those who ask for money worship Qin Lang, and those who ask for safety worship Qin Lang. Even now, it is said that some people who are begging for a child no longer go to beg for their son Guanyin, and instead go to the Tianwang Temple to worship the little Qin Tianwang.
"Sanlang, in fact, I really admire you. You can set the country with martial arts, you can stabilize the country with literature, and you have the talents of managing the world and helping the people. If you can use these great talents in the court, it would be better. Do you always have to spend a lot of energy on the small family? With your current wealth, it will be enough for ten lifetimes, why do you always like making money so much?" Ma Zhou was very puzzled.
Qin Lang chuckled, "This is a long story!"
(end of this chapter)