Exchanges of gifts and gifts are a long tradition of the Chinese nation, which reflects the intimate feelings between people of the Chinese nation and is full of strong human feelings. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 ｉｎｆｏ

However, it is precisely because of the excessive emphasis on courtesy and exchange and the connection of feelings that this excellent traditional culture has been used by some people with ulterior motives, thus making it a hotbed of corruption.

Countless subordinates openly or secretly bribed leaders under the banner of courtesy, and colleagues had to interact with each other in order to prevent being isolated, thus exhausting their financial resources.

In later generations, many poor people, because of the great pressure of exchange of gifts, had to sell their family food in exchange for a pitiful gift money, and even starved of food.

The excellent historical tradition has gradually become a heavy burden on the people, and I don't know how the great sage of Confucius, who has been lying for 2,000 years, will feel when he knows it.

But once all this is formed, it cannot be reversed, no individual has the power to reverse, and Ang Lee is naturally no exception, so there is only the development of following the trend.

This is in line with the famous saying, life is a strong hug, if you are powerless to resist, then close your eyes and enjoy it! Yes, enjoy!

On Chinese New Year's Eve, there was a heavy snowfall, which shrouded the entire city of Chang'an in a fairy tale world, and the following days were sunny, and the gentle sunshine melted the snow little by little, except for some remaining snow on the shady side, most of the snow melted.

Li An's ministry officer is a lieutenant general of the Right Dragon Martial Army, and he has a specific job, but the imperial court thought that Li An had worked hard to calm down the land, and specially gave Li An a month's vacation, and he only had something to do on the first day of February.

And in these days when there is nothing to do, of course Ang Li will not be idle, the delicate ****** Yan Ruyu has already married home, and the hard work of making babies must not stop.

In addition, after the year, dozens of craftsmen have gone to the city to look for work, and Ang Lee continues to hire them, in addition to building rocking chairs, Ang Lee thought of several practical tools, and asked several skilled craftsmen to develop them.

However, with the gradual increase of products, there are some things that cannot be put down at home, which is not a small problem, in addition, Ang Lee has many plans, and the small space of the mansion is obviously not satisfied.

"Ah Lang, the mansion seems too crowded, and you can't continue to build rocking chairs in the mansion, or you really can't put it down."

Zhao Liu looked at the wood and various materials in the yard, and felt very troubled, there were other woods and sundries everywhere, and the mansion looked very messy and not up to grade.

Of course, Ang Lee has long been aware of this problem, but the housing prices in the capital are too expensive, so you can't buy another set!

"Ah Lang, fifteen miles outside the city, isn't there your thousand acres of land? Why not move this wood into there? This way the mansion can be much cleaner. ”

Zhao Liu said.

Li An was stunned: "There are thousands of acres of land for me outside the city?" Yes, yes, it seems that His Majesty rewarded me, but if you don't remind me, I forgot. ”

"Ah Lang, then let's build a manor outside the city as soon as possible, and then we can build these furniture outside the city, and there is no need to pile up all over the yard."

Zhao Liu suggested.

Li An nodded and said, "Good idea, prepare the horse, you accompany me to the outside of the city to have a look." ”

"Yes, Aaron."

Zhao Liu took two horses, rode with Li An to the south gate, and went straight to the thousand acres of land he owned.

"Ah Lang, this piece is your land, I have checked it all."

Zhao Liu knew Li An's land many times better than Li An himself, which made Li An quite surprised.

"Where is the boundary?"

Zhao Liudao: "Ah Lang, please see, the river in the south is the southernmost end, and the position we are in now is the northernmost point, and the east and west ends are bounded by the uplifted hills on both sides, this piece of land is about 1,000 acres, but only the two hundred acres in the far south are fertile land, and the terrain in the north is higher, and it is inconvenient to get water, and the crops will naturally not grow well, and there are too many trees near the hills on both sides, which is not conducive to the growth of crops." ”

Li An doesn't care what the conditions are here, as long as there are 1,000 acres of land, it is enough, anyway, Li An doesn't need too much land, just enough.

"This is the northernmost side, here to build an area of 50 acres of courtyard, in the city tired of living, you can come here to live for a while, and then south to build an area of 100 acres of factory, after the timber will be put there, craftsmen also work there, the southernmost two hundred acres of fertile land, all changed into vegetable greenhouses, to form a large-scale planting, in addition, along the river to the north to dig a ditch, water with a water wheel to divert water, will be a little north of the 300 acres of land, also transformed into fertile land, so that we have 500 acres of fertile land, The rest of the land will be idle for the time being! ”

Ang Lee said the most basic plan in one breath.

"Ah Lang, your plan is too much, it may not be completed in a short time, in addition, five hundred acres of land needs many people to cultivate, and the existing servants in the mansion are only afraid that there are not enough, whether you want to hire tenant farmers or increase the number of servants."

Zhao Liu asked.

Li An thought for a moment and said, "Put aside the courtyard for the time being, build a hundred-acre factory first, dig a ditch, and transport the timber from the mansion here as soon as possible." ”

"Yes, Ah Lang, we will prepare when we go back, let those craftsmen stop working first, and rush here to start work."

"Okay, let's go back to the city immediately,"

Li An looked at his own thousand acres of land, and was very happy in his heart, some of these lands, the future life will be better, and many things can be carried out here, as for the lack of personnel, just buy more servants, recruit more craftsmen, and it will be easy to solve the problem.

The reason why Li An is in a hurry to develop 500 acres of vegetable greenhouses is because many vegetables in the backyard of the mansion have sprouted and grown, but these vegetables need a lot of space to grow better, for example, cucumber seedlings with three leaves, if they are crowded together and do not have good light, they will definitely not grow well, or even unable to grow. Only by putting a large area of land outside the city can it get better growth and greatly increase the output, and with the output, more nobles in Chang'an City can eat fresh vegetables in winter, and Li An can also get a lot of income in the process, killing two birds with one stone.

After Li An and Zhao Liu returned to the mansion, they asked Zhao Liu to organize a large number of plasterers to rush to fifty miles outside the city, and began to build a wall with an area of 100 acres, and built some simple houses and workshops inside the wall.

The simple houses were used for the artisans, while the spacious sheds were dedicated to stacking the wood and products to prevent them from getting wet and deforming when it rained.

In order to complete the project as soon as possible, Zhao Liu in addition to recruiting plasterers in the city, but also recruited some people who had nothing to do outside the city, after all, now that spring plowing has not begun, the people have nothing to do at home, and it is also a good choice to find a job to do and earn a little money.

In one morning, Zhao Liu recruited more than 300 plasterers and ordinary people, and immediately began to work.

The scale of the wall with an area of 100 acres is not small, but fortunately, there are many people, so it can be completed in one day, and as for the building inside the wall, it will take two or three days to gradually complete.

At the same time as building the factory, Zhao Liu also assigned 50 people to dig ditches to divert water from the southern river to the land to the north to facilitate irrigation.

Since it was a very good sunny day for several days, and the temperature was above freezing, the surface land had thawed, and it was not difficult to dig up, and the deeper soil did not have much water, and it was not tiring to dig, so fifty people quickly dug a ditch two steps wide and drew the water from the river.

However, due to the slightly higher terrain, the water source is one zhang deep from the surface land, and it is still not too convenient to take it, so it is necessary to carry the river water up bucket by bucket and then irrigate.

Three days later, the 100-acre processing plant was completed, and all the craftsmen of Ang Lee's mansion went to this large-scale factory, which was large enough to do their work, with tools and materials such as wood.

In addition, the preparation of the vegetable greenhouse is almost carried out, on the 500 acres of land, a dense low fence has been built, and countless bamboo poles are stacked on the ground.

"Ah Lang, why are you here in person?"

Seeing Li An coming to inspect, Zhao Liu hurriedly greeted him.

"Zhao Liu, well done, the processing plants have been put into operation, this is very good, the five hundred greenhouses are also very good, it should be completed in a few days, remember to recruit more servants, five hundred acres of land requires a lot of manpower."

Ang Lee said.

"Ah Lang, let one person be responsible for ten acres, fifty people are enough, if you are too busy, you can temporarily recruit people, in this way, you can save expenses to the greatest extent, however, the terrain to the north is too high, after digging a ditch, it is still very inconvenient to get water, which is a big problem."

Zhao Liu pointed out the big problem of irrigation.

Li An looked at it, the ditch was dug beautifully, but the water source was difficult to take, so there was little point in digging the ditch, but how could this stump Li An.

"It's not a big deal, let's go, let's go find the old craftsman."

In fact, Li An had long thought about the problems he would encounter after digging a ditch, so he had already thought of a countermeasure, and this countermeasure had to be completed by the old craftsman.

The so-called countermeasure is to use waterwheels to transport water from low-lying places to higher places, which is not only labor-saving, but also has a larger amount of water, which can greatly save manpower and achieve higher efficiency.

Ang Lee handed over the drawings of the waterwheel to the old craftsman, and the old craftsman seemed to say at a glance that he could make it, which made Ang Lee feel a lot more relieved.

In addition, it is not enough to have a waterwheel, the entire irrigation system must be very complete, that is, to dig a dense network of small ditches on the 500 acres of land, so that the water transported by the waterwheel can flow to the land that needs to be irrigated.

The terrain is step-shaped, the water source transported by the waterwheel first meets the water demand of the highest place, and after the water is watered at the highest place, an opening is made, so that the water source flows downstream, flows to the next horizontal ditch, and then continues to irrigate, in this way, the use of the waterwheel and the small ditch can realize the irrigation of all fields, and will greatly save manpower.

In addition to the waterwheel, ditch and criss-cross small ditch, but also on the ditch and the small ditch to erect a simple bridge, so that 500 acres of land can be connected together, more convenient for people to walk in it, more can meet the free passage of small vehicles, greatly improve the efficiency of transportation.

Since 500 acres of land were cultivated here, it was natural that there would be permanent manpower, and in order to facilitate the servants to work in the fields, their temporary dwellings were built in the northernmost center of the fields, so that it was more convenient to take care of these fields.

In addition, in the north of this temporary dwelling, the kitchen, the gongfang and the agricultural warehouse were built here, and the craftsmen of the factory had to run here if they wanted to eat, and of course, there was a gongfang inside the factory, so there was no need to travel so far to go to the toilet.

Putting kitchens together is also to save resources, after all, two managers are needed in two places, which will increase the cost a lot and is not conducive to unified monitoring and management.

"Zhao Liu, when the vegetable greenhouse is built, immediately organize craftsmen to build wooden fences along the three borders of east, west and north, and idle people are forbidden to enter.

Ang Lee felt that since it was his own land, he had to demarcate the boundary to prevent outsiders from intruding.

Of course, this kind of boundary can only prevent the gentleman, if the villain wants to enter, it can't be stopped, even if it is the palace compound, the assassin can also break in.

Everything went smoothly and in a few days, two brand new waterwheels were built and installed in the dug trenches. Most of the vegetable greenhouses have been built, and the wooden fence on the periphery has been gradually completed, completely enveloping Ang's land.

"Ah Lang, the waterwheel is ready, you can try it."

Li An nodded, and asked a few strong men to stand on the waterwheel and step on it hard.

The waterwheel was built so well that a few laborers easily turned the waterwheel around, and as the waterwheel moved, streams of water were transported up the small ditch at high and flowed down the ditch to the east and west.

"Okay, the waterwheel has been built very successfully, you continue to step on it, and irrigate all the 500 acres of land."

Ang Lee happily ordered and strode away.

Once all of this is complete, the next step is to build a higher-spec annex.

Although the mansion in the city is already very comfortable, and the area is enough for Li An to live, it seems a bit redundant to build a high-standard courtyard outside the city, however, Li An does not feel that it is too much, one more house has one more place to stay, in this way, changing places to live back and forth can also be a good way to adjust the mood and make people feel more happy.

After returning to the mansion, Ang Lee went to the vegetable greenhouse in the large backyard and decided to start transplanting in the evening to allow the roots of the plants to absorb enough water before they were exposed to the sun the next day, so as to increase the survival rate. (To be continued.) )