Chapter 469
Black Dragon Castle
Chapter 469 Black Dragon Castle
early morning.
Wei Shanjun and Wu Huaiyu, the two medicine kings, both have panda eyes, but they are both very energetic.
Ma Zhou handed him a steamed pancake,
Asked curiously, "What did you do last night to look like this?"
"Talk about medicine."
"Medicine? Not medical skills?"
"Medicine," Wu Huaiyu simply said that he plans to set up medicine in the county, and promote the imperial court to set up an official pharmacy such as the Huimin Pharmacy Bureau. In addition, he plans to gather famous doctors from all over the world, compile the Compendium of Materia Medica in the Tang Dynasty, and even select literate people from the countryside to regularly go to prefectural and county medical schools and Huimin Pharmacy Bureau to train and learn medical knowledge, and then let them become barefoot doctors in the countryside.
Ma Zhou opened his mouth wide and forgot to close it.
"Is this what you talked about all night?"
"Ah."
"It's amazing, you can talk about so many amazing things when you just met,"
"We have sparked!"
Ma Zhou was amazed, but still reminded Huaiyu, "The things you want to do are indeed good things that benefit the country and the people, especially the people, but they are very costly. Now the imperial treasury is empty and the money is the most scarce."
"Money is not a problem. It's just a temporary lack of money. But the Tang Dynasty has already ruled the world, and the Eastern Turks can be wiped out soon. When the four directions come to court, the Tang Dynasty will be stable inside and outside.
"For many things, we have to plan in advance, take one step and see three steps or even five steps."
Ma Zhou admired him very much, "There is still a big gap between me and you. I can only execute, but I don't have such a vision."
"Actually, brother-in-law, you are very capable. Otherwise, His Majesty would not have used you so much. I think brother-in-law, you have a bit of Du Keming's demeanor, and your future achievements may not be inferior to him."
Du Keming is the nephew of Monk Du Shun, the right servant She Du Ruhui who is recuperating at home now.
That person's ability is recognized by the world, especially in the decisive handling of government affairs.
Ma Zhou shook his head, "I'm far away from Du Gong."
"Brother-in-law is still young, you are only in your twenties."
After breakfast, Wu Huaiyu wanted to continue walking side by side with Lao Wei, chatting while walking, but Fan Xuanfu personally came and pulled him into the carriage.
As soon as I got in the car, I looked around and checked carefully.
"Ma'am, this is it?"
"You slept with that old man last night, just talking about medicine?"
"Then what else can I do?"
"There are so many beautiful concubines at home, you don't want to accompany any of them, but you sleep with a Taoist priest for one night, how can I not be careless?"
"Hahaha!"
Huaiyu laughed, "My husband has never had that kind of love, you know."
"It's really just talking about medicine. That person is a famous high Taoist. The world respects him as the king of medicine. What do you think of people?"
"The monks are not all noble people. Didn't Fa Yafalin in Chang'an City used to be famous eminent monks, but their behavior is dissolute, which one is noble?"
As Fan Xuanfu said that, he actually began to pull Huaiyu's clothes in the carriage, saying that he wanted to check it.
Like a wolf like a tiger.
Like a wolf like a tiger.
In the end, she was allowed to get her way. What she said about inspection was clearly an insatiable goal. It didn't count if she had seen it, but she had to inspect it herself.
Although Wu Huaiyu was quite sleepy after chatting all night last night, but his blood is too strong to withstand such a provocation.
The official road from Jingyang to Sanyuan is uneven, with many potholes, and the wheels wobble as they pass by.
However, Wu Huaiyu and Fan Xuanfu, the two carriages, were particularly bumpy.
Jian Yi was also well-informed, and immediately realized that something was wrong, and immediately let the sword girls spread out back and forth, protecting the carriage in the middle, and pulling a long distance away from the other carriages.
In broad daylight, on the main road, in the carriage, how could things get out of hand? It would be too embarrassing to spread the word.
Jian Yi said softly outside the carriage at the right time, "Master and lady, please rest assured, we have separated the carriage from the team long ago,"
Fan Xuanfu's face immediately turned red, and while tidying up hastily, he did not forget to pinch Huaiyu.
Wu Huaiyu felt so wronged.
You were the one who set the fire, and now it's me.
But this experience is still very novel and exciting.
"My lady was extraordinarily powerful just now, and she almost couldn't let her husband down."
"You said that."
Wu Huaiyu said a few naughty jokes, was really sleepy, and fell asleep in the carriage, leaving Fan Xuanfu sitting beside him, feeling regretful and happy at the same time.
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Dragon Bridge Fort, Wu family.
After the Turkic siege of the broken fort in the autumn of the ninth year of Wude, Longqiao Fort did not decline because of this. On the contrary, it has become more prosperous in just two years.
Not only has the wooden bridge of Longqiao been replaced by a stone bridge, but also many new cave dwellings have been built on both sides of the bridge, and even many houses have been newly built on both sides of the river.
Longqiaobao has now become the township center of Qinghe Township, with a new post station and a school. There is also a market here, not only every two days, but also many permanent shops.
The Wu Family's Manor of the Wu Family, commonly known as the Wu Family Fort by the common people, is even more magnificent.
Wu Huaiyu was also amazed when he saw this manor built on the plain on the north bank of the Qinghe River. Although it was designed by him, it was the first time he saw it after it was completed.
He found that it was much larger than what he designed, and the details were changed a lot.
Originally, he designed a Wushiwubao in the style of Hakka tulou, with the emphasis on defense and safety, but now it has been changed into a group of tulou in the shape of five rings like a mosquito coil.
This is Wujiabao, and the villagers also call it Black Dragon Fort, because next to it is the Qinghe Dragon Bridge and under the Black Dragon Pool.
"This!"
"It's pretty, isn't it?"
"Is this too big?"
"This is the geomantic treasure of our Wu family. The place where our family rose, of course we have to build it bigger."
Wu's Manor consists of one large, four small and five circular buildings.
In the middle of the main round building, there are five rings, the big ring is surrounded by small rings, and the rings are surrounded by each other.
The building is made of rammed earth. The loess is mixed with fine sand, lime and even glutinous rice. It is compacted layer by layer. The outer wall is seven feet thick. There are four floors in each circle. The first and second floors do not have windows.
On the fifth ring of the main building, there are many rooms, the larger the outer ring, the more rooms there are, mainly the servants of Wu's Manor live.
In the middle of the fifth ring, there is also a square courtyard, which is the ancestral hall of the Wu family.
Yellow rammed earth walls, gray tile roofs.
With a height of more than ten meters, there are no windows on the first and second floors, which makes the earth building extremely defensive.
Especially at the four corners of the main building, there is a slightly smaller round earth building guarding each.
Wu Huaiyu felt that the repair was too big. There would be hundreds of rooms in total, and it would be no problem to accommodate thousands of people. The manor housekeeper rushed over.
I am proud to introduce this majestic Wujiabao to Wu Huaiyu.
"The two rings in the middle of the main building are equivalent to the inner courtyard. The two-sided sloping tile roof is adopted, and the wooden frame is a mixed type of piercing buckets and lifting beams. The layout of the building is based on the Eight Diagrams of the Book of Changes designed by Xianggong himself. It is divided into eight parts by blue brick firewalls.
Each hexagram closes the door to form a courtyard, and opens the door to connect the whole building.There are two halls and 44 rooms on each floor, a total of [-] rooms.
Each area on the ground floor is surrounded by the inner ring patio to form a courtyard..."
It was only then that Wu Huaiyu discovered that the two innermost rings of the main building were the Wu's Manor he had originally designed. These two concentric circular earthen buildings occupy an area of ten mu, which is quite large.
As a result, Fan Xuanfu and the others changed it again and again, and finally added three rings outside the two-ringed earth building in a concentric circle, and then added a concentric building with two rings at each of the four corners.
In the end, such a large group of earthen buildings covering an area of tens of mu was formed.
Walking in this earth building, I feel very small, and even feel very safe.
Wu Huaiyu's Xuanyangfang house in Chang'an covers an area of more than 100 mu, which is much larger than this, but the layout there is relatively scattered, the garden occupies more area, and the yard is relatively scattered, but here it is closely linked and the space is relatively compact.
In particular, the wall is very high, more than ten meters high on the fourth floor, and there are no windows on the first and second floors.
The gate between each ring alone is seven inches thick, and there is even an iron plate on the outside for reinforcement. There is a one-foot-square bolt buried in the inner wall of the door. Once the gate is closed, the bolt falls.
Even if another [-] Turkic cavalry came to surround Wujiabao, they would have nothing to do with this large earthen building. The watchtower sighed and dared to attack by force. The outer wall was more than seven feet thick and the wall was more than ten meters high. There were no windows on the lower two floors.
Unless it is really necessary to fight hard and call in craftsmen and equipment, but this is after all in Gyeonggi, what the Wu family needs is to be able to protect it for a while, as long as they are not directly attacked, and if they hold on for a few days, reinforcements will come.
With the current defense of the Wu family, there are wells, granaries, firewood houses, and courtyards in the building. It is no problem to guard for ten and a half months, and it is completely possible to wait for the reinforcements to come.
Compared with some small military fortresses, they are even stronger.
However, this building is too defensive and not as comfortable as that kind of courtyard. It is enough for more people to build more courtyards with three entrances and four entrances, or a few more courtyards.
Under the eaves of the inner corridors on the third and fourth floors, exquisite garden-style wooden backrest railings are also designed, and there are many green and potted plants.
The whole manor really feels like a military fortress, but there are all kinds of living facilities, such as wells, patios, warehouses, bathrooms, toilets, and even pigpens, sheeppens, chicken coops, dog cages, cowsheds, stables, etc. In case of enemy attack, some of the livestock can be brought back to the outer ring of the main building, and some of them can be placed on the outer fourth floor.
The four sub-buildings mainly house servants, hired workers, store supplies, tools, etc.
The fifth ring of the main building, the outer third ring is also mainly for servants to live in, and the inner second ring is the inner courtyard, where the master and his family live.
The innermost courtyard is not only the ancestor worship, but also the main hall, a place for receiving guests and banquets, and also the master's study.
Inside turned a layer, are not bad.
People live on the third or fourth floors. Although they live on high floors, they are better ventilated and less humid, so they have to climb up and down and go up more stairs.
The third and fourth floors have windows that open inside and outside. Although the windows are designed to be relatively small to the outside, and are designed like an arrow hole with a small outside and a big inside, the lighting and ventilation effects are still good.
In general, this Wujiabao was really beyond Huaiyu's expectations. It originally occupied an area of ten acres, but it turned out to be dozens of acres in size.
He thought he had spent a lot of money and exceeded the budget by a lot, but Fan Xuanfu took out the ledger and said that such a large building was repaired so quickly, but it didn't cost much.
The main reason is that after the Turkic invasion, many people here suffered from military disasters and then suffered from famine. At this time, the Wu family hired people to work and build buildings. No matter men, women, old or young, they would get two meals for the work, and then give work points according to how young men and women were, and how much they contributed, and the work points were exchanged for money and food.
In Taiping years, building such a building would have cost a lot of money, and it might be difficult to find labor, but after the disaster, the people would all be starving. At this time, they would be satisfied with work and food, and would not care if the wages were less.
It attracted a large number of nearby villagers, with a large number of people and great strength. The excavation, sieving, steaming and ramming of the earth were all very fast. The most important labor cost was basically no expense.
Other landlords and powerful landlords took advantage of the war and famine to lend usury and borrow usurious grain, but the Wu family took money from their neighbors to build a house. In the end, the house was built quickly, and the Wu family also gained an excellent reputation.
"Such a large building can't be used up. I think we can take out one or two auxiliary buildings and use them as residences, shops, and workshops. We can use them for our own use or rent them out. I think Longqiaobao is also very prosperous now."
"We will arrange according to my husband's orders immediately." The butler responded immediately.
"Sir, the wheat has matured and the weather is good. Will we officially harvest the wheat tomorrow?"
"Well, don't delay the opening of the sickle tomorrow." Wu Huaiyu specifically confessed, "Are there enough people?"
"That's enough. Our Wu family has a good reputation in Sanyuan. Many villagers are willing to come and help harvest wheat. In addition, many wheat customers from Longyou, Shuofang, have also come. Last year, the wheat customers who harvested wheat for our family came to our house first, and then went to other houses after harvesting our family. We all know that our master is generous. The wages are high, and the food is good. I remember it."
"Well, enough people are enough. As the saying goes, whether it is the neighbors who come to help harvest the wheat, or the wheat guests from other places, harvesting wheat is hard work under the poisonous sun, and we cannot treat everyone badly.
Kill pigs and sheep, stew big bone soup tomorrow, stew meat in a big pot, there must be enough oil and water, and everyone must have strength."
"Didn't our Zhuangzi grow some cold melons this year? We also picked some and put them in the river for a while. When we deliver meals, we will bring some melons to everyone."
Steward Qian said with a smile, "My husband is really generous."
When harvesting wheat, there is an unwritten rule, no matter if it is your own servants, day laborers or wheat guests, you must provide meat.
But ordinary small landlords are not so generous. If you get some pigs and sheep into the water, what kind of heart, liver and lungs, at most you can get a pig's head, some mutton heads with little meat, and stew them in a pot, even if they are meat.
The landlord who is more generous will add some good meat.
Like the Wu family, it is rare to directly slaughter pigs and sheep and stew them in a big pot so that everyone can eat a few large pieces of meat, broth and steamed cakes.
Because of this, the Wu family has a very good reputation in the past two years. When the wheat harvest is busy, the nearby villagers are willing to come to work.
Not to mention that the wages are more than others, just these few good meals are worth coming here.
Wu Huaiyu picked up a pen and personally drew up tomorrow's menu, stewed mutton, braised pork, stewed pork ribs with kelp, stewed pig's feet with soybeans, fried long beans, scrambled eggs with tomatoes, onion and pepper, and winter melon soup.
If the housekeeper hadn't kept reminding him enough, he planned to write two more.
The staple food is millet porridge and yellow buns with millet noodles.
"Slaughter the pigs and sheep before dawn, and let everyone have a breakfast before going to work in the morning,"
Breakfast doesn’t need to be too big, but it has to be full, just noodles with rotten meat.
The housekeeper said that Xianggong is too kind. Many other landlords don’t have this meal in the morning. They don’t send the steamed cakes to the field until noon.
"The other family is another family. Our Wu family can't treat everyone badly. It's very hard to harvest wheat at this time."
(End of this chapter)
early morning.
Wei Shanjun and Wu Huaiyu, the two medicine kings, both have panda eyes, but they are both very energetic.
Ma Zhou handed him a steamed pancake,
Asked curiously, "What did you do last night to look like this?"
"Talk about medicine."
"Medicine? Not medical skills?"
"Medicine," Wu Huaiyu simply said that he plans to set up medicine in the county, and promote the imperial court to set up an official pharmacy such as the Huimin Pharmacy Bureau. In addition, he plans to gather famous doctors from all over the world, compile the Compendium of Materia Medica in the Tang Dynasty, and even select literate people from the countryside to regularly go to prefectural and county medical schools and Huimin Pharmacy Bureau to train and learn medical knowledge, and then let them become barefoot doctors in the countryside.
Ma Zhou opened his mouth wide and forgot to close it.
"Is this what you talked about all night?"
"Ah."
"It's amazing, you can talk about so many amazing things when you just met,"
"We have sparked!"
Ma Zhou was amazed, but still reminded Huaiyu, "The things you want to do are indeed good things that benefit the country and the people, especially the people, but they are very costly. Now the imperial treasury is empty and the money is the most scarce."
"Money is not a problem. It's just a temporary lack of money. But the Tang Dynasty has already ruled the world, and the Eastern Turks can be wiped out soon. When the four directions come to court, the Tang Dynasty will be stable inside and outside.
"For many things, we have to plan in advance, take one step and see three steps or even five steps."
Ma Zhou admired him very much, "There is still a big gap between me and you. I can only execute, but I don't have such a vision."
"Actually, brother-in-law, you are very capable. Otherwise, His Majesty would not have used you so much. I think brother-in-law, you have a bit of Du Keming's demeanor, and your future achievements may not be inferior to him."
Du Keming is the nephew of Monk Du Shun, the right servant She Du Ruhui who is recuperating at home now.
That person's ability is recognized by the world, especially in the decisive handling of government affairs.
Ma Zhou shook his head, "I'm far away from Du Gong."
"Brother-in-law is still young, you are only in your twenties."
After breakfast, Wu Huaiyu wanted to continue walking side by side with Lao Wei, chatting while walking, but Fan Xuanfu personally came and pulled him into the carriage.
As soon as I got in the car, I looked around and checked carefully.
"Ma'am, this is it?"
"You slept with that old man last night, just talking about medicine?"
"Then what else can I do?"
"There are so many beautiful concubines at home, you don't want to accompany any of them, but you sleep with a Taoist priest for one night, how can I not be careless?"
"Hahaha!"
Huaiyu laughed, "My husband has never had that kind of love, you know."
"It's really just talking about medicine. That person is a famous high Taoist. The world respects him as the king of medicine. What do you think of people?"
"The monks are not all noble people. Didn't Fa Yafalin in Chang'an City used to be famous eminent monks, but their behavior is dissolute, which one is noble?"
As Fan Xuanfu said that, he actually began to pull Huaiyu's clothes in the carriage, saying that he wanted to check it.
Like a wolf like a tiger.
Like a wolf like a tiger.
In the end, she was allowed to get her way. What she said about inspection was clearly an insatiable goal. It didn't count if she had seen it, but she had to inspect it herself.
Although Wu Huaiyu was quite sleepy after chatting all night last night, but his blood is too strong to withstand such a provocation.
The official road from Jingyang to Sanyuan is uneven, with many potholes, and the wheels wobble as they pass by.
However, Wu Huaiyu and Fan Xuanfu, the two carriages, were particularly bumpy.
Jian Yi was also well-informed, and immediately realized that something was wrong, and immediately let the sword girls spread out back and forth, protecting the carriage in the middle, and pulling a long distance away from the other carriages.
In broad daylight, on the main road, in the carriage, how could things get out of hand? It would be too embarrassing to spread the word.
Jian Yi said softly outside the carriage at the right time, "Master and lady, please rest assured, we have separated the carriage from the team long ago,"
Fan Xuanfu's face immediately turned red, and while tidying up hastily, he did not forget to pinch Huaiyu.
Wu Huaiyu felt so wronged.
You were the one who set the fire, and now it's me.
But this experience is still very novel and exciting.
"My lady was extraordinarily powerful just now, and she almost couldn't let her husband down."
"You said that."
Wu Huaiyu said a few naughty jokes, was really sleepy, and fell asleep in the carriage, leaving Fan Xuanfu sitting beside him, feeling regretful and happy at the same time.
·····
Dragon Bridge Fort, Wu family.
After the Turkic siege of the broken fort in the autumn of the ninth year of Wude, Longqiao Fort did not decline because of this. On the contrary, it has become more prosperous in just two years.
Not only has the wooden bridge of Longqiao been replaced by a stone bridge, but also many new cave dwellings have been built on both sides of the bridge, and even many houses have been newly built on both sides of the river.
Longqiaobao has now become the township center of Qinghe Township, with a new post station and a school. There is also a market here, not only every two days, but also many permanent shops.
The Wu Family's Manor of the Wu Family, commonly known as the Wu Family Fort by the common people, is even more magnificent.
Wu Huaiyu was also amazed when he saw this manor built on the plain on the north bank of the Qinghe River. Although it was designed by him, it was the first time he saw it after it was completed.
He found that it was much larger than what he designed, and the details were changed a lot.
Originally, he designed a Wushiwubao in the style of Hakka tulou, with the emphasis on defense and safety, but now it has been changed into a group of tulou in the shape of five rings like a mosquito coil.
This is Wujiabao, and the villagers also call it Black Dragon Fort, because next to it is the Qinghe Dragon Bridge and under the Black Dragon Pool.
"This!"
"It's pretty, isn't it?"
"Is this too big?"
"This is the geomantic treasure of our Wu family. The place where our family rose, of course we have to build it bigger."
Wu's Manor consists of one large, four small and five circular buildings.
In the middle of the main round building, there are five rings, the big ring is surrounded by small rings, and the rings are surrounded by each other.
The building is made of rammed earth. The loess is mixed with fine sand, lime and even glutinous rice. It is compacted layer by layer. The outer wall is seven feet thick. There are four floors in each circle. The first and second floors do not have windows.
On the fifth ring of the main building, there are many rooms, the larger the outer ring, the more rooms there are, mainly the servants of Wu's Manor live.
In the middle of the fifth ring, there is also a square courtyard, which is the ancestral hall of the Wu family.
Yellow rammed earth walls, gray tile roofs.
With a height of more than ten meters, there are no windows on the first and second floors, which makes the earth building extremely defensive.
Especially at the four corners of the main building, there is a slightly smaller round earth building guarding each.
Wu Huaiyu felt that the repair was too big. There would be hundreds of rooms in total, and it would be no problem to accommodate thousands of people. The manor housekeeper rushed over.
I am proud to introduce this majestic Wujiabao to Wu Huaiyu.
"The two rings in the middle of the main building are equivalent to the inner courtyard. The two-sided sloping tile roof is adopted, and the wooden frame is a mixed type of piercing buckets and lifting beams. The layout of the building is based on the Eight Diagrams of the Book of Changes designed by Xianggong himself. It is divided into eight parts by blue brick firewalls.
Each hexagram closes the door to form a courtyard, and opens the door to connect the whole building.There are two halls and 44 rooms on each floor, a total of [-] rooms.
Each area on the ground floor is surrounded by the inner ring patio to form a courtyard..."
It was only then that Wu Huaiyu discovered that the two innermost rings of the main building were the Wu's Manor he had originally designed. These two concentric circular earthen buildings occupy an area of ten mu, which is quite large.
As a result, Fan Xuanfu and the others changed it again and again, and finally added three rings outside the two-ringed earth building in a concentric circle, and then added a concentric building with two rings at each of the four corners.
In the end, such a large group of earthen buildings covering an area of tens of mu was formed.
Walking in this earth building, I feel very small, and even feel very safe.
Wu Huaiyu's Xuanyangfang house in Chang'an covers an area of more than 100 mu, which is much larger than this, but the layout there is relatively scattered, the garden occupies more area, and the yard is relatively scattered, but here it is closely linked and the space is relatively compact.
In particular, the wall is very high, more than ten meters high on the fourth floor, and there are no windows on the first and second floors.
The gate between each ring alone is seven inches thick, and there is even an iron plate on the outside for reinforcement. There is a one-foot-square bolt buried in the inner wall of the door. Once the gate is closed, the bolt falls.
Even if another [-] Turkic cavalry came to surround Wujiabao, they would have nothing to do with this large earthen building. The watchtower sighed and dared to attack by force. The outer wall was more than seven feet thick and the wall was more than ten meters high. There were no windows on the lower two floors.
Unless it is really necessary to fight hard and call in craftsmen and equipment, but this is after all in Gyeonggi, what the Wu family needs is to be able to protect it for a while, as long as they are not directly attacked, and if they hold on for a few days, reinforcements will come.
With the current defense of the Wu family, there are wells, granaries, firewood houses, and courtyards in the building. It is no problem to guard for ten and a half months, and it is completely possible to wait for the reinforcements to come.
Compared with some small military fortresses, they are even stronger.
However, this building is too defensive and not as comfortable as that kind of courtyard. It is enough for more people to build more courtyards with three entrances and four entrances, or a few more courtyards.
Under the eaves of the inner corridors on the third and fourth floors, exquisite garden-style wooden backrest railings are also designed, and there are many green and potted plants.
The whole manor really feels like a military fortress, but there are all kinds of living facilities, such as wells, patios, warehouses, bathrooms, toilets, and even pigpens, sheeppens, chicken coops, dog cages, cowsheds, stables, etc. In case of enemy attack, some of the livestock can be brought back to the outer ring of the main building, and some of them can be placed on the outer fourth floor.
The four sub-buildings mainly house servants, hired workers, store supplies, tools, etc.
The fifth ring of the main building, the outer third ring is also mainly for servants to live in, and the inner second ring is the inner courtyard, where the master and his family live.
The innermost courtyard is not only the ancestor worship, but also the main hall, a place for receiving guests and banquets, and also the master's study.
Inside turned a layer, are not bad.
People live on the third or fourth floors. Although they live on high floors, they are better ventilated and less humid, so they have to climb up and down and go up more stairs.
The third and fourth floors have windows that open inside and outside. Although the windows are designed to be relatively small to the outside, and are designed like an arrow hole with a small outside and a big inside, the lighting and ventilation effects are still good.
In general, this Wujiabao was really beyond Huaiyu's expectations. It originally occupied an area of ten acres, but it turned out to be dozens of acres in size.
He thought he had spent a lot of money and exceeded the budget by a lot, but Fan Xuanfu took out the ledger and said that such a large building was repaired so quickly, but it didn't cost much.
The main reason is that after the Turkic invasion, many people here suffered from military disasters and then suffered from famine. At this time, the Wu family hired people to work and build buildings. No matter men, women, old or young, they would get two meals for the work, and then give work points according to how young men and women were, and how much they contributed, and the work points were exchanged for money and food.
In Taiping years, building such a building would have cost a lot of money, and it might be difficult to find labor, but after the disaster, the people would all be starving. At this time, they would be satisfied with work and food, and would not care if the wages were less.
It attracted a large number of nearby villagers, with a large number of people and great strength. The excavation, sieving, steaming and ramming of the earth were all very fast. The most important labor cost was basically no expense.
Other landlords and powerful landlords took advantage of the war and famine to lend usury and borrow usurious grain, but the Wu family took money from their neighbors to build a house. In the end, the house was built quickly, and the Wu family also gained an excellent reputation.
"Such a large building can't be used up. I think we can take out one or two auxiliary buildings and use them as residences, shops, and workshops. We can use them for our own use or rent them out. I think Longqiaobao is also very prosperous now."
"We will arrange according to my husband's orders immediately." The butler responded immediately.
"Sir, the wheat has matured and the weather is good. Will we officially harvest the wheat tomorrow?"
"Well, don't delay the opening of the sickle tomorrow." Wu Huaiyu specifically confessed, "Are there enough people?"
"That's enough. Our Wu family has a good reputation in Sanyuan. Many villagers are willing to come and help harvest wheat. In addition, many wheat customers from Longyou, Shuofang, have also come. Last year, the wheat customers who harvested wheat for our family came to our house first, and then went to other houses after harvesting our family. We all know that our master is generous. The wages are high, and the food is good. I remember it."
"Well, enough people are enough. As the saying goes, whether it is the neighbors who come to help harvest the wheat, or the wheat guests from other places, harvesting wheat is hard work under the poisonous sun, and we cannot treat everyone badly.
Kill pigs and sheep, stew big bone soup tomorrow, stew meat in a big pot, there must be enough oil and water, and everyone must have strength."
"Didn't our Zhuangzi grow some cold melons this year? We also picked some and put them in the river for a while. When we deliver meals, we will bring some melons to everyone."
Steward Qian said with a smile, "My husband is really generous."
When harvesting wheat, there is an unwritten rule, no matter if it is your own servants, day laborers or wheat guests, you must provide meat.
But ordinary small landlords are not so generous. If you get some pigs and sheep into the water, what kind of heart, liver and lungs, at most you can get a pig's head, some mutton heads with little meat, and stew them in a pot, even if they are meat.
The landlord who is more generous will add some good meat.
Like the Wu family, it is rare to directly slaughter pigs and sheep and stew them in a big pot so that everyone can eat a few large pieces of meat, broth and steamed cakes.
Because of this, the Wu family has a very good reputation in the past two years. When the wheat harvest is busy, the nearby villagers are willing to come to work.
Not to mention that the wages are more than others, just these few good meals are worth coming here.
Wu Huaiyu picked up a pen and personally drew up tomorrow's menu, stewed mutton, braised pork, stewed pork ribs with kelp, stewed pig's feet with soybeans, fried long beans, scrambled eggs with tomatoes, onion and pepper, and winter melon soup.
If the housekeeper hadn't kept reminding him enough, he planned to write two more.
The staple food is millet porridge and yellow buns with millet noodles.
"Slaughter the pigs and sheep before dawn, and let everyone have a breakfast before going to work in the morning,"
Breakfast doesn’t need to be too big, but it has to be full, just noodles with rotten meat.
The housekeeper said that Xianggong is too kind. Many other landlords don’t have this meal in the morning. They don’t send the steamed cakes to the field until noon.
"The other family is another family. Our Wu family can't treat everyone badly. It's very hard to harvest wheat at this time."
(End of this chapter)