From a freeloader to a world leader

Chapter 319 Emperor Yuanfeng also wants to go to Hengzhou

This time, the Datong Cup Dragon Boat Race was hosted by the Datong Chamber of Commerce, and it was the leading business giant in the entire Hengzhou City.

Naturally, I had no choice but to participate.

In addition, Sun Shan and others also invited a number of veterans to guide and select contestants from the Chamber of Commerce.

The entire Datong Chamber of Commerce attached great importance to this event. Not only did they offer a reward of 1000 taels of silver to the first place winner, but they also added an additional 2000 taels of prize money internally.

In addition, participating employees are paid employees.

That is to say, during the three-month dragon boat race, 60 young men selected from tens of thousands of employees will all be paid.

Moreover, if the performance is excellent, they will be given priority to participate in future dragon boat races, and it will be recorded in their personal files as one of the bases for promotion and reuse.

This caused the entire Datong Chamber of Commerce to boil over.

I rely on!

Not only can we get a salary, but each person can also receive a bounty of several dozen taels, and we can also be promoted and reused in the future. The hard work of these few months is totally worth it.

What's more, being selected from tens of thousands of people is itself a recognition of one's personal abilities.

As for other families and counties, when they heard that the first place would receive a reward of 1000 taels of silver, the second place would receive 500 taels, and the third place would receive 200 taels of silver, they all signed up enthusiastically.

Not to mention that there is no such huge reward, even being able to show up in front of the government and the Datong Chamber of Commerce is very worthwhile.

After the three-day registration period ended, hundreds of teams participated in the competition.

According to each dragon boat, a maximum of 10 people will take part, but at least substitutes will be prepared. Add in the to logistical support staff for each team, and it will be a grand event with tens of thousands of people competing on the same field.

Moreover, this was the case when the Datong Chamber of Commerce and Hengzhou Yamen intentionally controlled the scope and number of people.

Otherwise, even people from Chuzhou would come to ask if they could sign up to participate.

Zhang Pingan and Yang Yuanqing attach more importance to this competition than the singing contest.

Because they can form teams themselves to participate.

In order to form a team of superb level, Yang Yuanqing even publicly extended an invitation to the royal family at the establishment meeting of the Royal Yang Family Trust Fund shortly afterwards.

I hope that all the dragon descendants will send out their most capable players to win the Datong Cup Dragon Boat Race.

At the meeting, Emperor Yuanfeng publicly stated that he would select 10 masters from the palace and put them under the full responsibility of Prince Heng Yang Yuanqing.

Moreover, he joked that if it is convenient, he might go to watch the game in person.

This caused a sensation in the entire royal family and the court.

Since Emperor Yuanfeng said so, it means he really has this idea.

As for whether it will succeed or not, it depends on the game between the royal family and the court.

After all, the emperor had not been in or out of the Forbidden City for more than ten years.

This was due, firstly, to restrictions imposed by high-ranking officials of the imperial court, and secondly, the royal treasury was becoming increasingly empty and unable to support the huge expenses of travel.

As for the imperial court, whose treasury is almost enough to buy sports cars, it is responsible for the emperor's travel plans.

There is no door at all.

They wished that the emperor and all the royal family members were locked up in their own little world.

But now, with the royal trust fund and Hengzhou as the source of golden eggs, Emperor Yuanfeng's trip seemed to have hope.

At the royal clan meeting, Yang Yuanqing, who had been successfully elected as one of the ten elders, of course fully supported Emperor Yuanfeng's trip to Hengzhou.

He immediately stated that he was willing to negotiate with the Hengzhou government to bear half of the expenses of Emperor Yuanfeng's travel.

Then, with the support of Prince Fuzongcheng Yang Yongwang, the royal family approved the Royal Trust Fund to pay the other half of the expenses for Emperor Yuanfeng's trip to Hengzhou.

After all, as the representative of the royal family, Emperor Yuanfeng's every move also concerns the reputation of the entire royal family.

As the representative of all royal family members, Emperor Yuanfeng's ability to leave the Forbidden City and walk around also represents the Yang family's control and attention to the world.

Otherwise, as time goes on, officials and ordinary people all over the world will really regard the royal family as clay Buddhas.

Now, with the Royal Trust Fund, this is easier to do.

This was the first time that the royal Yang family experienced the benefits of a family trust fund.

Therefore, they were quite enthusiastic in the subsequent investment and stock subscription.

Emperor Yuanfeng borrowed part of the method of Sun's trust fund and distributed the benefits in two mixed ways.

The first is to receive the dividends that they deserve according to the original rules and regulations of the Zongrenfu, based on their respective identities.

But this is definitely not a lot. After all, the entire royal family needs to nourish hundreds of thousands of people.

The second is investment.

Emperor Yuanfeng took out half of the shares of the royal trust fund and held a public auction.

Basically, it is the same as the Datong Chamber of Commerce auction, but the auction starts with 10 small lots.

In the end, a total of more than 400 million taels of silver were auctioned off as future investment funds for the royal trust fund.

After all, with the development of Datong Chamber of Commerce, more and more money is needed to participate in the subsequent development.

Just for the smelting bureau that will be established in March, 100 taels of silver will be required to buy % of the silver that will be needed.

Emperor Yuanfeng was overjoyed at the more than 400 million taels of silver that suddenly came out of the royal family.

He sent Prince Cheng and Jet Li to buy 40 small shares of Datong Chamber of Commerce for only 200 taels, which more than doubled at the auction.

Now, it has nearly doubled.

He really didn't expect that those relatives who usually complained about their own misery would actually bid a high price of 10 taels of silver for just 10 small shares of Datong.

This made Emperor Yuanfeng, who had been suffering from insufficient funds since he ascended the throne, feel deeply moved.

It seems that the royal family members are not short of money, but they just haven't found a suitable way to dig the silver out of their pockets.

This made Emperor Yuanfeng even more curious about Sun Shan and Hengzhou.

What kind of person and what kind of environment could he be able to create a huge fortune valued at 1 million taels of silver out of nothing?

In addition, his daughter Kewei, who had stayed in Hengzhou for three or four months, gathered the information from Wang Dana and others, and basically reported the changes in Hengzhou to him in detail every three to five days.

This made Emperor Yuanfeng feel as if he was far away, yet he seemed to be looking up at a brand new city that was sprouting and growing day by day.

Today a new road is started somewhere, and tomorrow a new school is built somewhere else.

When Emperor Yuanfeng was fine, he discovered this when he and Empress Qian Ruyu were summarizing the matter.

In the three or four months after her daughter Yang Kewei went to Hengzhou, Hengzhou had actually started construction of more than ten roads and built more than twenty schools.

As for the planned Hengzhou Bridge, construction had already started in full swing several days before the Lantern Festival, with construction starting simultaneously at three locations on both sides of the Xiangjiang River and in the center of Jiangxin Island.

In addition, about 2000 commercial housing units built by Datong Chamber of Commerce have been delivered, as well as more than 50 villas. However, due to the need to accommodate singing competitions and dragon boat races, only more than 1000 public rental housing units have been delivered for the time being.

All this made Emperor Yuanfeng, who had not left the Forbidden City for more than ten years, feel that his brain was not enough.

How much manpower and material resources would it take to build so many projects in such a short time?

In fact, it was not just Emperor Yuanfeng who was curious.

All the imperial families and interested people are paying attention to the development of Hengzhou, and some have even sent their most capable people to participate in Hengzhou's wealth-creation movement.

According to statistics from various aspects compiled by the Wang family, after the full construction started in February, the population of Hengzhou City has basically approached the 40 mark.

Because many new migrant workers had no place to live in Hengzhou City, they began to build their own huts along the four city entrances.

Some people simply started various businesses outside the city along the roads leading into the city.

Moreover, because there are no fees outside the city and the prices are relatively low, it attracts a large number of low-income people in the city to live outside the city.

This is mainly because Hengzhou City has cancelled the head fee for entering the city and people can travel freely.

In addition, the travel time will be extended from the original five hours to eight hours.

I heard that, based on the suggestions of Sun Shan and Datong Chamber of Commerce, it is possible to be open 24 hours a day, all year round.