Chapter Thirty-Nine: The Luxurious Zhao Mansion
It lasted two months, the Zhao Mansion was finally completed, the green walls and green tiles, the two courtyards at the door, the buildings in the courtyard have a little shadow of the future, the two-story villa building, but the color is all blue and earth, this era is already painted, but I don't know why not a lot of use, even the luxurious palace, in addition to the copper and iron products shining with metallic luster, the rest are also all green bricks and green tiles.
Zhao Qi didn't know when the Red Wall arose, but he knew that it was impossible for such a building to appear in Daqin, so when the craftsmen bent down to hand over the magnificent Zhao Mansion to Zhao Qi, Zhao Qi did not show any dissatisfaction, and even rewarded these people with a lot of money.
Such a construction speed will of course be scolded in later generations, dozens of people took two months to completely decorate a house of less than 20 acres, and it is only a two-story small western-style building, and the construction team is not scolded for spurting blood.
This is unimaginable in Daqin, and it is already a miracle to repair such a style house in two months, especially this kind of multi-storey, which is even more difficult.
Seeing that the main house was not as excited as imagined, the old craftsman was still a little disappointed, while taking Zhao Qi to observe the house, while introducing him: "Little lord, you see, this house decoration style is completely built according to your wishes, the tables and chairs are all new styles made by your carpenter, this chair must also be designed by the little lord, I have heard for a long time that the little lord is very smart, the name moves Xianyang, now it seems that the name is well deserved, this chair old man has tried, it is indeed more comfortable to sit on than the soft couch, although I don't understand why you want the old man to open a hole under the eaves, I think it has a reason for you. ”
The weather in December in Shaanxi is cold and dry, there was a little snow last night, the ground is soft, the soft sunlight can't drive away the cold wind, the lips of the people who blow are chapped, and the thin breeze gets into the arms from the neckline to the cold, Zhao Qi shivered, shrunk his neck, and followed the craftsman leader in this twenty-acre compound with his hands on the sleeves.
Zhao Qi's steps are very brisk, since he escaped the clutches of Meng Fu under the pretext of settling his family business, he is very happy, and even when he returned to Changxing Town, he rode over, and fell on the road because of slipping, but this did not affect Zhao Qi's good mood, and even after seeing the seriously worn horses' hooves, the first thing he did when he arrived in Changxing Town was to draw a pattern of iron palms for Hong Sanbao to take to find a blacksmith.
Zhao Qi is actually not used to this kind of super-large yard, the pace is brisk, and it is impossible to turn the yard the size of two football fields for a while, Zhao Qi now understands the appearance of those local tyrants in later generations, there are rockeries and ponds in the garden, which is unimaginable in later generations, but a small viscount in Daqin can have it, and Zhao Qi has received great satisfaction.
There are also disadvantages to this, Daqin's thatched toilet is not like the toilet of later generations, you can casually put it together with the sleeping place, generally near the cowshed Ma Peng, sometimes the toilet is in a hurry and I don't know if I can get to the place, so I think about it, because the toilet is a magical thing in Daqin, and I don't know who invented it, of course, it is not the toilet with a lid in later generations, but a clay urine jar, needless to say, it will slowly evolve into an enamel in the future.
Zhao Qi is still very satisfied with the reasonable arrangement of the craftsmen, of course, it is impossible to build a villa in the courtyard of two hundred acres, and the villa-style building is arranged by him in the middle, almost five or six hundred square meters, which can be said to be insignificant compared to the area of the compound.
The craftsman divided this super compound into three parts, the front yard, the backyard and the garden, it is of course very difficult to build a garden in a dry climate place like Shaanxi, not only to ensure that the water in the garden is not dry, but also to ensure that the winter does not freeze, which has to let the water continue to flow while injecting water, it is difficult to work, after all, there are no pumping tools in this period, it is difficult to make the water flow circulating.
The waterwheel was only available in the Eastern Han Dynasty, and Zhao Qi knew very well, that is to say, the water that had been flowing was likely to be brought from a river not far away, and sure enough, after asking the head of the craftsman, he did answer like this, but what Zhao Qi didn't expect was the luxury of this artificial river.
According to the old craftsman's introduction, the only thing that can be brought in from this vicinity is a wine with a great sand content, and it is obviously not suitable to let such water flow into the garden, but there is no other better way, so they simply made a five-layer strainer with silk at the water inlet, and only then did they see such a clear river, and after these flowed out of the garden, they did not let it gate back to the river, but diverted it into the farmland behind the Zhuangzi.
Listening to the meaning of the old craftsman, this irrigation project was proposed by the old county order of Yiyi, and a lord from his own jurisdiction naturally wanted to visit, and when he came, it happened to be the construction period of the garden, so he simply came up with his own idea.
Zhao Qi could think of it with his buttocks, and the old man should have not noticed the filter made of silk, otherwise the document of the complaint is now on the prime minister's case, and the big officials never care about these useless things, but the county magistrate, who has lived with the common people for many years, knows the hardships of the people's livelihood, and the most unaccustomed thing is the extravagant style of the aristocracy.
Tens of thousands of square meters of Zhuangzi Zhao Qi visited for a whole hour and a half, do indeed have nothing to say, the front yard has Ma Peng, cowsheds and the like, and the door is opposite the place is a luxury villa, the special building includes the lobby, the main bedroom and kitchen.
This design can be arranged by Zhao Qi, the thinking of the Great Qin people is backward, and they always feel that the place for cooking should be placed in the backyard, and the backyard is where the maids live, and all the nobles who can raise the maids and servants arrange the kitchen in the backyard, only Zhao Qijia arranged the kitchen next to the lobby.
Of course, the cook's residence is still in the backyard, Zhao Qi also opened a kitchen in the backyard, which is specially for the people to cook, Daqin's law is very clear that the servants and the master are divided into two different classes, the master of the house and the servants eat together is resolutely not good, and the queen arranged many servants for the Zhao Mansion, and Zhao Qi naturally can't divide so many places for the servants.
In the final analysis, it is still the drawback of slavery, and Zhao Qiguang cannot completely change this situation with his decades of efforts, so he can only integrate himself into this living environment, natural selection, and survival of the fittest.
Zhao Qi decided that the goal of Xingqin would start with Changxing Town, and he planned to bring the lifestyle of later generations to Changxing Town, first do experiments in this town, and if feasible, after Yingzheng delegated power, he would slowly push these policies to the entire Great Qin.