Chapter 269

At this moment, he naturally felt a kinship with those in the palace who were physically disabled and equally had no relatives in the outer court.

It is not that scholars from the Han Sect are born with an innate love for attaching themselves to eunuchs.

Rather, those wealthy gentry and great clans have actually left the scholars of the Han Sect with only this one path.

Zhu Yuanzhang's brows furrowed tightly.

Staring at Su Qiao outside the Chengtian Sect, he took a deep breath and said

"But with just this little silver, can it truly support so many community schools?"

Jiajing shook his head and sighed, saying

"It cannot support them, but I suspect Su Qiao has already found the Method to break the deadlock."

There is no method in this world to turn stone into gold.

Thinking of this,

Zhu Yuanzhang could not help but become curious.

What Old Zhu was curious about was who Su Qiao intended to make pay for all of this!

……

……

That very night.

Inside the Qianqing Palace.

Zhu Yuanzhang looked at Jiang Huan and asked

"How much silver did that boy Su Qiao earn today?"

Jiang Huan looked at Zhu Yuanzhang and said

"Reporting to Your Majesty, this truly is already unknown in quantity."

According to the intelligence returned by the Embroidered Uniform Guard,

in just one day, Su Qiao sold over a thousand residences.

This was merely the appetizer.

Who knows how much silver Su Qiao can scoop out from the pockets of these common people!

But Jiang Huan could confirm one thing.

That in just one day, Su Qiao had already recovered roughly the silver he previously spent buying land in Jin Ling.

Having said this, Jiang Huan let out a long sigh and said

"Lord Su is indeed a man of grand scale; these residences are also sold at high prices. Just one small courtyard has been forcibly tripled or quadrupled in value."

Hearing this number,

even Old Zhu could not help but be startled.

"Tripled or quadrupled?"

Jiang Huan nodded repeatedly and said

"Yes, before Lord Su demolished Jin Ling, at most a courtyard in the Qianmen Street area could sell for over a hundred guan."

"Now, those residences relying on the city wall can already sell for this price!"

"Moreover, those residences are truly small and stifling, at most squeezing in one family."

"The elderly will probably still have to live in the countryside."

Hearing this,

Zhu Yuanzhang's brows could not help but furrow tightly.

"But for the sake of the children being able to study, there will still be a huge crowd squeezing in, right?"

Old Zhu let out a long sigh.

Among fathers and mothers under heaven, none do not hope their sons will become dragons.

Zhu Yuanzhang hoped from the bottom of his heart that Su Qiao could get this matter done.

Letting all the children under heaven have a good future.

And at the other end, Su Qiao

was also nervously building the foundation of the Baochao Tiju Office.

First, he recruited over a thousand clerks.

Prioritizing accountants.

Relying on the few dozen people from the previous Baochao Tiju Office, they had long been unable to sustain the current situation.

Just these three Usage Warehouses, with people coming and going at the counters every day,

would be enough to exhaust these people until they fell ill.

The Deputy Director looked at the list Su Qiao had drafted and could not help but furrow his brows tightly as he asked

"My lord, why are we recruiting so many hands?"

Su Qiao looked at the crowd before him and smiled, saying

"Lending!"

"Oh, lending, that indeed requires people... lending?"

Sweat immediately beaded on the Deputy Director's forehead.

"My lord, the court lending money, is this not competing with the people for profit?"

"This is an offense punishable by beheading!"

Since ancient times, any court that lent money to the common people,

without exception, all perished at the speed of light.

The earliest was Wang Mang, who forced out a great demon mage, Emperor Guangwu Liu Xiu.

And the one closest to Great Ming, who led the court in lending to the common people, was Wang Anshi.

He has already been lying in the history books as a treacherous minister of Northern Song for over a hundred years.

Hearing the words of the Vice Commissioner.

The entire Viceroy Yamen instantly fell into a dead silence.

Even Su Qiao looked at the Vice Commissioner as if he were an idiot.

"Do I look like someone afraid of having his head chopped off?"

The corner of the Vice Commissioner's mouth twitched slightly.

True.

Since taking office, every single thing this Lord Su has done is enough to warrant the execution of his entire family.

"But my lord, to whom shall we lend our silver?"

Hearing the words of the Vice Commissioner.

Su Qiao slowly pulled out a scroll from behind his back, handed it to the Vice Commissioner, and then smiled, saying.

"Naturally, whoever lacks money, we lend to them!"

"Hahaha."

The Vice Commissioner looked at Su Qiao with a shocked expression and asked.

"My lord, this is...?"

"The quoted prices for houses beneath the Imperial City walls."

The Vice Commissioner glanced at it once and could not help but draw in a sharp breath of cold air.

"No, my lord, this, this is far too expensive, isn't it?!"

Su Qiao snorted coldly.

"Expensive? It should be expensive! We are not selling to the common people; these people have money, so what do they fear about high prices?"

"Besides, though it is expensive, the courtyards are large! They are much larger than the houses from the previous batches, with rooms reserved for servants."

The entire Zhenggeya Sect fell into a dead silence.

Compared to those houses from the previous batches, these are indeed large!

But these people used to live in the residences of Earls, Marquises, and Dukes!

Compared to before, can these even be called large?

The Wei Duke Prefecture cost a total of only twenty thousand Guan.

Now, for twenty thousand Guan, the Wei Duke can only buy a house one-third the size of the former Wei Duke Prefecture!

After Su Qiao's latest announcement regarding these residences was posted.