As the new finance minister of Youzhou Province, Elder Muan was not in the Finance Mansion at this moment. Therefore, it was the deputy finance minister who held the highest position in the Finance Mansion and two ministers who came to receive Zhang Tie.
The deputy finance minister was the deputy of the finance minister, which was also assumed by a deacon of Huaiyuan Palace. The finance minister was the chief officer of each department under the jurisdiction of the Finance Minister's Mansion of Youzhou Province.
In a magnificent parlor of the Land Affairs Mansion, Zhang Tie was drinking tea leisurely and talking with the deputy land affairs minister and the two ministers. The others were trotting and busy. Only after a few minutes, a land register official had walked in with a pile of documents and put them in front of Zhang Tie.
The deputy director waved his hand to let the official leave. After that, he started to introduce those documents to Zhang Tie.
"Elder Mushen, this is the general title deed of those lands that you've purchased. With this general title deed, when you want to divide and sell those lands in the future, you'll have to sign the title deed to be legal. This is the transaction document approved by the Land Office of Youzhou Province; this is the receipt of your purchase; this is the map of that land that has just been drawn by the Land Office …"
With the introduction of the deputy finance minister, Zhang Tie picked up those documents one after another. The title deed was similar to the silver engraving paper; however, it was more tenacious than the silver engraving paper. The title deed was marked with complicated colorful secret patterns and watermarks. Those secret patterns would change their colors from different angles. When Zhang Tie touched those patterns, he found clear three-dimensional lines. This should be a very advanced anti-counterfeiting printing method. The title deed indicated the location and area of the land. The corresponding documents and the serial number of the map were stamped with a bright red. It was the seal of the Agriculture Department of Youzhou Province.
The names of Zhang Tie and his elder brother Zhang Yang were written in the column of owners of the land deed. Because it was Zhang Tie who paid for the land, Zhang Yang's elder brother only wanted to leave Zhang Tie's name in the column of "all the people". Later on, under Zhang Tie's insistence, he added Zhang Yang's name to the column of "all the people".
This bit of land was really nothing to the two brothers. It was a joint title deed. It symbolized the family business that the two brothers shared.
The entire piece of land covered 257970 square miles. In the beginning, Zhang Tie thought that he could buy a round number, such as 250,000 square miles. Later on, Zhang Tie knew that it was easy to sell the land in plain areas in Taixia Country by a round number; however, the land in mountainous areas was much easier to be sold. When the land was sold on a large scale, the boundaries of the land were divided according to the specific characteristics of the mountains, rivers, and topography within the boundaries, such as a certain river, a certain mountain. This was also the reason why the demarcation line was very easy to identify within a relatively obvious terrain mark. The size of the land could only be determined through specific measurements. It was as much as it was, and it was difficult to take a whole number.
The map attached to the title deed was a thick book. It was more than 40 pages long.
The figure on the receipt was 110927100, which meant over 110 million gold coins in total. According to the preferential policy of the Land Resources Mansion, Zhang Tie could enjoy a 5% discount. However, Zhang Tie thought that this kind of thing might be gossiped by others. The more Huaiyuan Palace ruled Youzhou Province, the more attention he should pay to this kind of thing; otherwise, it might arouse the feeling that Huaiyuan Palace was in charge of Youzhou Province. Therefore, now that he had paid over 100 million gold coins, he didn't care about the discount of millions of gold coins at all. Compared to the reputation of Huaiyuan Palace, such a small discount was nothing. For the sake of the overall situation, Zhang Tie didn't care about the small profit.
At this moment, when he looked at the figure on the receipt and recalled how meticulous he was, Zhang Tie felt that he was too naive. 'If others want to attack you, they could even fabricate a reason. It's useless no matter how meticulous you are.'
As the dean of the Provincial Court of Youzhou Province, only those guys on the wanted list were qualified to arouse his attention. If it was something important, it should at least arouse a great shock in one prefecture. As a knight, did he always pay attention to trivial things or bury himself in official documents? 'There are not so many knights in Taixia Country. ' Even if he really did that, Zhang Tie was sure that he would be accused by the memorial to impeach him. However, by then, the reason would not be "spending all day with his beautiful wives and concubines neglecting public affairs"; instead, it would be "not knowing the priorities" and "being busy with trivial affairs as the dean of the provincial court of a province, no matter how big or small it was". 'Seeing the leaves but not Mt. Tai ',' I have no experience at all. I only know the pattern of the county ',' In such a chaotic world, demons are rising all over the country while fierce and ambitious villains are stirring up troubles', I'm still the dean of the Provincial Court of Youzhou Province, which is also a great misfortune in the world. '
At the sight of the figure "110927100", Zhang Tie felt that the zeros in the figure were like grinning mouths that were mocking him. Zhang Tie ran his spiritual energy and got a figure "5546355". 'F * ck, over 5.5 million gold coins are my salary for over 2 years. Even if I buy steamed buns and feed them to dogs, many dogs would still wag their tails at the sight of me. However, if I show my sincerity to others, those b * stards would still want to ruin my family.'
'It's useless to be careful! '
The deputy director was observing Zhang Tie's expression carefully. When he saw Zhang Tie gazing at the receipt with a slightly complex look, he slightly coughed twice and comforted Zhang Tie meticulously, "Don't worry, Elder Mushen. Although you've paid a lot of money for this land, when Youzhou Province develops into a middle province, the value of this land will be much higher than this figure. Additionally, all the underground mineral resources in this land have not been explored. If you find a big mineral resource, you will make back your investment. Based on the information of the Ministry of Agriculture, Youzhou Province is not a barren province. Various rare mineral resources have been discovered in Youzhou Province. Many major clans in Taixia Country often make such large-scale investments in lower provinces. Many of them have made great achievements. As more and more people populate Taixia Country, after a few years, this land will become more and more valuable. Our offsprings will have something to rely on. "
Zhang Tie smiled as he felt a bit better. He threw a glance at the deputy director. 'I've not imagined that this deputy director is good at comforting people. '
Zhang Tie told the deputy director to put away these documents for him, "Are there any other clans buying a lot of land in Youzhou Province besides me these days?"
"These two months, the Ministry of Agriculture has received many files from many major clans in Tongzhou Province, Qiongzhou Province, Yanzhou Province, Huizhou Province and Chaozhou Province in Northeast Military Region. These clans all bought land in Youzhou Province, which ranged from hundreds of square miles to tens of thousands of square miles. Some were invested by clans; some were invested by those major clans; some of their branches and branches were preparing to settle in Youzhou Province! Oh, Zhu Dabiao, the grandson of the provincial governor of Yanzhou Province. He also bought a piece of land in Youzhou Province, which covers over 300,000 square miles. He bought the largest piece of land the day before yesterday. He has already paid the money through the bank. After the New Year, the Land Office will send someone to survey and map his land and set a boundary marker. "
After hearing the deputy director's words, Zhang Tie realized that the promotion of Youzhou Province to a lower province could arouse a desire to enclose land in Youzhou Province. However, the name of the grandson of the provincial governor of Yanzhou Province is really... really... unique...
Zhang Tie smacked his lips...
"The land in lower provinces is the cheapest in Taixia Country; especially the lower provinces that have just been promoted. According to the regulations of Taixia Country, after buying land and building a city here, they would be able to serve as the mayor or mayor and become an official of Taixia Country. In Taixia Country, many major clans would have their juniors become officials in this way in order to seek a good background! If they bought land in the wild province, even if they built a city there, they could only enclose the land; instead, they could not have their juniors become officials. Taixia Country is also using such a policy to guide the private major clans' capital to enter lower provinces so as to promote the development of lower provinces. "The deputy director explained.
"Right!" Zhang Tie nodded as he stroked his chin by hand, "I want to buy another piece of land. Do you have a map of Youzhou Province? I will choose a piece of land. I will make a record today!"
The deputy director became stunned as he had not imagined that Zhang Tie wanted to buy land. 'How rich is Elder Mushen?'
However, after being stunned for a second, he had recovered his composure as he hurriedly threw a glance to a deputy director to fetch a map of Youzhou Province for Zhang Tie to take a look.
Only after drinking two mouthfuls of tea water, the deputy director had come back with a map. He directly spread it on a huge square table in the room and let Zhang Tie take a look at it.
On the map, Zhang Tie could see the overall picture of Youzhou Province.
On the map, Youzhou Province was like a fat eggplant. It was longer from east to west, which was about 20,000 miles long; from north to south, which was only about 10,000 miles long. It was connected with Liaozhou Province in the north, the other provinces in the northeast military region in the south and west. It was close to the ocean in the east. The total area of Youzhou Province seemed to be about 300 million square miles.
The terrain of Youzhou Province was mainly composed of mountains and plains. However, the distribution of mountains and plains was irregular. All the owned lands were marked with blue areas on the map while the unowned lands were marked with green areas. The blue areas were mainly concentrated in the prefectures of Youzhou Province while the green areas were all over Youzhou Province, which accounted for over 95% of the total area of Youzhou Province.
'Didn't you accuse me of being greedy for wealth and land? This father will show you how greedy I am. F * ck, I don't believe that you could bite this father's butt. ' 'The Laws of Taixia Country doesn't prohibit officials from buying land. Additionally, the more land I buy, the deeper the foundation of Huaiyuan Palace would be in Youzhou Province. '
He bought land for the benefit of the Gobbling Party. As for Zhang Tie, although he couldn't do anything to the Gobbling Party, it didn't mean that he wouldn't launch a counterattack.
The attitude of Commander Cheng and some big figures in Xuanyuan Hill reassured Zhang Tie, 'Although the Gobbling Party is powerful, some people don't care about it. As long as I don't do something out of line and expose my secret to the Gobbling Party, I don't need to worry about anything.'
This time, he bought a piece of land to vent his anger. Therefore, it didn't matter where he bought the land. What mattered was that the piece of land should be large, the bigger, the better.
"Where's the cheapest land in Youzhou Province which is even cheaper than this piece of land that I bought?" Zhang Tie asked the deputy agriculture minister straightforwardly.
"Elder Mushen, this land that you've bought is a wasteland over 200 miles away from the city. It's more mountainous than flat land. According to the grade, it's Class C and Class II land. The cheapest land in Youzhou Province is here. The mountainous land here is only Class D and Class IV land!" The deputy agriculture minister pointed at the green mountainous area which was close to the border of Liaozhou Province in the north of Youzhou Province which was covered with no blue color within thousands of miles, "This is basically a no-man's zone. It's very difficult to build a city here. There's no city within 2,000 miles. It's bordering Liaozhou Province and close to Wild Province. There's a large area of desert in the west. Additionally, most of the mountainous areas in this region are covered with stones and sparse vegetation. Therefore, the land here is the lowest Class D and Class IV land in Taixia Country. Each square kilometer costs only 56 gold coins!"
'56 gold coins? ' After taking a look at the map, Zhang Tie thought about the amount of gold coins that he could use openly. Therefore, he directly patted a gourd-shaped plateau which was about 2 times the size of Yanghe Prefecture and covered over 3 million square miles on the map. After that, he said in an extremely domineering manner, "Right here, I will buy it. I will officially register it today. Prepare for it and complete the formalities as soon as possible!"
When Zhang Tie moved his palm away, the deputy agriculture minister saw two words below Zhang Tie's palm — — Zanggu Plateau.
The area of Zanggu Plateau was only a bit more than 1% of the area of Youzhou Province on the map.
"Elder Mushen, do... do you want to buy this Zanggu Plateau?" The deputy agriculture minister watched Zhang Tie with an amazed look, "There's nothing here. It's too difficult to develop and utilize it. Even if Youzhou Province becomes a Zhongzhou Province or a big province in the future, this land's value would still be very low..."
"It doesn't matter. As long as there's enough land!" Zhang Tie said. Closely after that, he gritted his teeth, "Oh, I want all the reasonable discounts that you could give me. I will not miss even a copper coin! F * ck... "
The deputy agriculture minister didn't even know why Zhang Tie swore at this moment. After all, the memorial that Zhang Taixuan showed to Zhang Tie could be read by less than 10 people across Youzhou Province.
Zhang Tie left the Land Resources Mansion with those documents, leaving a lot of exclamations in the Land Resources Mansion once again.
After leaving the Land Resources Mansion, Zhang Tie came to his territory — — Provincial Court of Youzhou Province with a cold look.
Even though it was the new year, all the other yamens had hung a red lantern; however, the Supreme Court was still as cold as before. On such a cold day, it seemed that no one was allowed to enter it.
In the Provincial Court, Zhang Tie sat on the main seat in the main hall while hundreds of officials of the Provincial Court paid their respects to Zhang Tie for the first time.
After glancing at Zhang Tie stealthily, the officials of the Provincial Court of Youzhou Province felt that Zhang Tie didn't look good and was in a bad mood. Therefore, they dared not even breathe heavily.
After glancing over those officials, Zhang Tie took a sip of tea before putting down the teacup. Only after hearing Zhang Tie's words, all the officials in the Provincial Court of Youzhou Province felt the temperature dropping by 10 degrees at once.
"It's been over 2 months since I came to Youzhou Province. When I walked around Youzhou City this morning, my purse had been stolen..."
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