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344 Uncle, can I borrow money?
Li Er was right. In fact, as early as three days ago, Li Wangyou proposed to build a large polo field so that tens of thousands of people in Chang'an could watch polo matches, and he was tempted.
After returning to the palace, Li Er recruited officials from the Ministry of Industry and asked how much it would cost to build such a polo field according to Li Wangyou's idea.
But in the end, the cost roughly calculated by the officials of the Ministry of Industry surprised him.
First of all, the land needs to be requisitioned to install Li Wangyou's plan. Only those lifangs in the south of the city have enough area for such a large polo field.
Moreover, to build such a huge polo field, the area of one Lifang is not enough, at least two Lifangs need to be merged together.
The officials of the Ministry of Industry took the map of Chang'an City and circled Li Er to the two Lifangs next to the Anhua Gate of Waiguo City, Zhaoxingfang and Da'anfang.
Zhaoxing Square is 661 meters long, Daan Square is 955 meters long, and Jingyaomen Street, which is 1700 meters wide in the middle of the two squares, has a total length of more than 477 meters. The two squares are [-] meters wide from north to south. court.
Moreover, these two squares are close to the outer city wall, and the combination of the two will not affect the traffic on Jingyaomen Street, which is very convenient.
The cost of building houses in Datang is not high, but the land area in Chang'an City is quite high.
As the saying goes, "the price of land is the same as that of gold", even though Zhaoxingfang and Da'anfang are located at the South Gate of Chang'an, which are the cheapest places in Chang'an City, they are still expensive.
Historically, as a censor, Ma Zhou couldn't afford to buy a house in Chang'an City, because the house was priced at 200 million yuan.
Two million yuan means more than 200 guan and more than 2000 taels of gold.
The house that Ma Zhou wants to buy only occupies one-thirtieth of the area of a Lifang.
In the end, with a swipe of the pen, Li Er asked Yousi Yamen to help Ma Zhou pay for the house, so that Ma Zhou had his own house.
Although the land price in the south of Chang'an City is much cheaper than the area where officials live in the north of the city.However, after a rough estimate by officials from the Ministry of Industry, 6000 to 1 copper coins were needed to acquire all the land in Zhaoxingfang and Daanfang, which is more than [-] million copper coins and more than [-] taels of gold.
And that's just the price of the land.
According to Li Wangyou's idea, a large amount of soil needs to be piled up on both sides of the polo field to form a high stand.
A simple elementary school math problem, a rectangle with a length of 500 meters and a width of 400 meters has a circumference of 800 meters.In the eyes of Tang people, a ten-meter-high mound of soil was piled up. The amount of work was astonishing.
Officials from the Ministry of Industry calculated the cost and estimated that it would cost no less than 5000 million yuan, which is another huge expense.
In addition to other auxiliary settings, all kinds of things were added together, and the officials of the Ministry of Industry reported to Li Er a number that made his teeth hurt.
2000 million coins, 2 taels of gold!
In fact, of course Li Er could get the money out, but today that old hooligan Cheng Yaojin gambled, excluding the compensation, he won more than 4 taels of gold from all the officials and nobles in Chang'an City.
Of the more than 4 taels of gold, Li Er will take half of it, Cheng Yaojin will take [-]%, and Li Wangyou will take [-]%.
The gold taken by Li Er alone is enough to build this unprecedented polo field in Tang Dynasty.
But Li Er couldn't bear it.
With so much gold, how much do you have to buy if you want to buy horses in the Western Regions?He didn't think it was worthwhile to build a polo field for the entertainment of the people.
"Ziyou, to build the polo field you mentioned, at least 2 taels of gold is needed. Such a large amount of money will make the national treasury stretched. If you don't believe me, you can ask Mr. Fang, Mr. Du and Mr. Wei." Li Ershou A stall means that he has no money.
Anyone else would probably believe Li Er's prevarication words.
But Li Wangyou knew that half of the money Cheng Yaojin won would be given to Li Er, this guy is really stingy!
Li Wangyou deliberately pouted in the direction of Cheng Yaojin, saying that he knew about the distribution of the spoils: "Your Majesty, think of a way."
Li Er ignored his hint at all, pretended he didn't see it, and didn't let go: "Ziyou, I'm also a clever woman who can't cook without rice, there is really nothing I can do."
Paralyzed, this product belongs to Pixiu, it can only go in and out.
Li Er is playing a scoundrel like this, Li Wangyou has nothing to do with him.Does this guy not understand the reason why he must invest in order to produce output?
Three days ago, in a flash of his brain, he came up with the idea of building a polo field.But in the past few days, Li Wangyou thought about this matter carefully, and felt that there was a lot to be done.
Tickets to the polo field, on-site advertisements, and attached peripheral shops are all money.
And for a long time in the future, there will be no second polo field of this size in Chang'an City. Are you afraid that it will not be profitable?
Datang is so lacking in entertainment, polo is popular but rare, are you afraid that the stadium will not be full for every game?
Seeing that Li Er was unwilling to pay, Li Wangyou rolled his eyes, leaned close to Li Er and asked in a low voice, "Uncle, can my nephew ask you if I can borrow money?"
"Borrowing money? How much do you want to borrow? I don't have 2 taels of gold to lend you." Li Er heard this and looked at Li Wangyou very vigilantly.
Li Wangyou chuckled: "Not much, just borrow 1 taels of gold."
"no!"
"Uncle, how about I pay you the interest of the company's money?"
"No, I have no money."
"You really don't want to borrow it?"
"No loan."
Li Wangyou shook his head pretending to be regretful: "It's fine if you don't borrow it, my nephew will ask the officials to see if I can borrow 1 taels of gold. By the way, I can chat with them by the way. Lu Guogong set up a bet on the manor."
"Come back, you bastard, be careful I'll slap you! That's enough, when Duke Lu receives the gold, let him give you 1 taels, don't talk nonsense!"
As soon as Li Er heard his words, he became anxious. The majestic emperor of the Tang Dynasty, together with the founding of the country, set up a bet to defraud hundreds of officials of gold. If the news spread, would Li Er lose his face?
"Hey, Uncle, don't worry, my nephew has the strictest mouth." Li Wangyou hurriedly patted his chest to reassure.
"Get off, get off, don't let me see you again today! You bastard, I'm so mad!" Li Er turned his head and left after speaking, not wanting to say a word to Li Wangyou again.
Empress Changsun and Concubine Yang covered their mouths and laughed lightly, and left with Li Er.
After Li Er left, Li Wangyou was very proud, and he was not at all unhappy when the dandies asked him to treat him to Pingkangfang.
Thanks to this group of lovely dandies, he was forced to watch a polo match in the Beiya Forbidden Army barracks.
In the end, watching a game of polo, not only did his title rise to one level, but he also earned a giant polo field in Chang'an City with nothing but white wolves.
Of course, what satisfied him the most was the horse "Zhao Yebai". Li Wangyou couldn't put it down, and he was extremely grateful to Zhang Liang, the boy who gave money.
Good man, Datang needs such a good man!
But as the saying goes, handsome is only three seconds.Li Wangyou's complacent mood didn't last too long...
345 Golden Ten Thousand Taels
The moral standards of the officials and nobles of the Tang Dynasty are still on the average line.