Chapter 331: Chang'an's New Favorite
Qin Ze felt that he was hiding Jiaojiao in the Golden House, he was a joke at the beginning, but now he really did it. It's just that the real gold house was not built, but Su Yi lived in a fiefdom.
The mansion in the fiefdom was to be completely overhauled, and Qin Ze didn't plan to move it until he came up with a good construction plan.
In the Chang'an Mansion, it is much easier to repair.
The mansion was next to Cheng's mansion, only separated by a wall, and Cheng Lao Demon even generously gave Qin Ze the mansion where Qin Ze lived before.
The previous owner of the Chang'an Mansion was Pei Lian, who was the prime minister of the Tang Dynasty, but now he is unlucky and has been sent back to Jingzhou by His Majesty. As for this mansion, it is naturally owned by Qin Ze.
When Gaozu was in power, he had a lot of love for Pei Lian, so this Pei Mansion was also extremely luxurious.
The entire mansion covers an area of dozens of acres, and it is a regular seven-entry courtyard. This is already the highest mansion specification in Datang, and as for the higher Bajin Mansion, only the prince can enjoy it. And the highest Jiujin courtyard can only be enjoyed by Li Er alone.
The palace has a south gate and an east gate, the south gate is the main gate, and the east gate is the side gate. The south gate is level with the main gate of Chengfu, while the east gate is on the other side of the street.
Both doors are wooden, vermilion lacquered, iron leaf trim, gold nails densely covered, Pixiu title ring, not only richly decorated, but also solid and firm.
Above the gatehouse is also the eaves volley, the iron horse knife bell, elegant and solemn.
In front of the main entrance, long bluestone steps are made, and stone lions stand on both sides. On the cornice, a gilt plaque reads: "Jingyang Hou Mansion." ”
The word is given by His Majesty himself, hanging above the door of the mansion, which also highlights Qin Ze's identity.
In the middle of the house gate, a shadow wall runs through the east and west, more than three zhang long, and the brick and stone structure. It is carved with a picture of a "fairy child playing with a crane", which means auspicious blessing Nari.
The whole Jingyang Hou Mansion is mostly a cloister type building, divided by east and west, and a total of seven courtyards. There are hundreds of rooms large and small, but Qin Ze is also a big head.
And he also saw the Buddha Hall in the fifth entrance of the courtyard, which enshrined Shakyamuni and the Buddha with a thousand hands and a thousand eyes.
When Pei Lin left, he didn't have time to take these away, and when Qin Ze pushed the door open, the incense inside had already stopped, and Zhong Pan on top of the Buddha case was also covered with a layer of incense ash.
Next to the Buddha hall is the ancestral shrine of the Pei family, but the tablets placed on it have been emptied. Only the long-dried immortal lamp remains, still telling the extravagance of the past here.
When he saw this Buddhist hall, Qin Ze still couldn't help laughing. The reason why Pei Lin was demoted out of Chang'an was because of the evil words of the monk Yayi. It seems that in the end, it was his own Buddhism that ruined his life.
The Buddha statues are all plated with gold clothes, and they look very valuable. However, Qin Ze didn't dare to sell this thing, and after thinking about it, he directly asked Zhou Cheng and them to move it and donate it to Wuxian Temple.
Originally, Qin Ze wanted to directly demolish the Buddhist hall, but after thinking about it, although he had no relatives and no reason here, he still needed an ancestral shrine after all. So I stayed.
The sixth entrance of the mansion is the real inner house. There are seven upper rooms and five east and west wings. The main house is double and rolling, carved beams and painted buildings, magnificent.
In the courtyard, the cloister is diffuse, and the eaves are staggered, which is extremely magnificent. The beams and eaves are also carved with various decorations, such as birds, fish, flowers, landscapes, figures, etc., all of which are exquisitely carved, all of which are smart and well-behaved, lifelike.
Doors and windows, partitions, and screens of different shapes are scattered, elegant and comfortable. The red felt floor in the house is brightly painted on the wall.
In the center of the hall are several rows of iron pear wooden shelves, and you can vaguely think of how many rare treasures were placed on them at that time. It's just that now the building is empty, and everything that can be removed from the entire mansion has been confiscated. It's just that this huge wooden frame is still here, telling the noise of the past.
What surprised Qin Ze the most was that there were actually two gardens in this mansion. There is a garden full of fruit trees and flowers, and even though it is winter, you can still imagine what it would be like when the flowers are in full bloom.
Another garden is a rockery pavilion, which has dug out a huge inner lake, and built a winding corridor on the surface of the lake, leading to the pavilion in the center of the lake. The lake is covered with snow, but it is very wide.
Just walking around the mansion took Qin Ze two hours. At the end, he returned to the main hall again, and Qin Ze stroked the doorrail and sighed secretly.
This place must have been a big family of hundreds of people before, but now it is not prosperous because of Pei Lone.
Pei Lian's biggest shortcoming is that he doesn't know it. At the beginning, Li Er let the degraded official return to Jingzhou, which was already open to him.
But he still didn't know how to restrain himself, if it was Qin Ze's expectation, it was good. Soon the report of Pei Lin leading his servants to break the Jingzhou Mountains and Qiang will be sent back to Chang'an. He is forcing Li Er to reuse, and this also means that he has driven himself to a dead end.
It is impossible for Li Er to let him return to the court, a generation of rivers and mountains to replace the old, and he doesn't understand such a simple truth, so it's no wonder that he lost his life.
As Qin Ze thought, Pei Lin died of illness on the way back to Beijing. As for what kind of disease he suffered, it is not for ordinary people to know.
Qin Zeman is only a dozen people when he is full, and such a large mansion must not be able to live in. In order to ensure the safety of the mansion, Li Er also directly classified Zhou Cheng and others as the guards of the Jingyang Hou Mansion. As for Song Fang and the others, Qin Ze also took them as guards.
With such a large mansion, it is a big project to renovate it all, and it is not necessary anyway. Therefore, Qin Ze only planned to renovate the inner mansion. As for furniture or something, of course, Qin Ze has the final say.
The grimace table made of rosewood in the old mansion was also moved back by Qin Ze.
Eight Immortal Tables, Taishi Chairs, Official Hat Chairs......
Qin Ze made a lot of all kinds of furniture, and Cheng Laoyou, who was Qin Ze's neighbor, also directly sent the craftsmen in his house to Qin Ze with a big wave. There is just one request, that is, everything, to make him an extra copy.
The eldest grandson also found out that Qin Ze was busy, so he specially explained to him and asked him to come back to be the prince's attendant after this year.
After all, the renovation of the mansion is too time-consuming, and even the wedding date with Qin Ze and Wang Yuxi has been delayed again and again. It's just that although he hasn't passed the door yet, Qin Ze handed over all the big and small matters of the Jingyang Marquis Mansion to Wang Yuxi.
During this period, Wang Yuxi also went to meet Su Yi, which was unexpected by Qin Ze. The two of them are like sisters, one sister Yuxi and one sister in plain clothes. But Qin Ze was inexplicable, and even Princess Yicheng on the side did not raise a word of objection from beginning to end.
So, I still can't guess!
There are 1,000 households in Jingyang Hou's food estate, which is a huge number. After His Majesty gave him the title, these thousand households belonged to Qin Ze. All their taxes will be borne by Qin Ze, and of course these taxes still have to be obtained from them.
Not to mention anything else, just the personnel records and tax statistics are not a small project. Qin Ze is another hand-shaken shopkeeper, so this matter is also placed on Wang Yuxi.
In the end, he is still a businessman, and these account books that make Qin Ze seem to have a headache have been sorted out by Wang Yuxi. This ability alone is to make Qin Ze admire.
For a while, Qin Ze said that he had made a lot of money, and simply handed over all the matters of the Jingyang Marquis Mansion to Wang Yuxi.
There's no way, how can you let Qin Ze, a person who has accepted trendy ideas since childhood, manage a fief of thousands of people?
While Qin Ze was busy with these, Wang Fu finally rushed to make the first batch of cotton clothes and quilts. Without saying a word, Qin Ze took these with him and sent them to the palace in a leisurely manner.
In any case, the eldest grandson also accounted for fifty percent of the profits, although this was just to protect Qin Ze from being tongued, but Qin Ze still remembered every account very clearly.
Cotton clothes and quilts are not only several times warmer than wool, but they are also lighter. So even if it is the eldest grandson, after trying it, he is full of praise.
At the moment, he also unceremoniously asked for a hundred stone processed white stacks, and there would be a master craftsman to sew these white stacks. The things of the emperor's family are exquisite, and they must pay attention to identity everywhere.
And for the people, there is not so much attention, as soon as the cotton clothes and quilts appeared in Chang'an, they were immediately robbed.
At the beginning, it was Qin Ze who called the gentlemen in Chang'an City and gave them a banquet, and then each of them sent some cotton clothes and quilts.
So soon, when Cheng Lao Demon crossed Chang'an in cotton clothes, cotton clothes made a name for themselves in Chang'an.
Next is Cheng Huailiang, who swaggered through the market in cotton clothes, and suddenly let the cotton clothes satisfy everyone's appetite.
At this time, Qin Ze also launched cotton clothes and quilts in a timely manner.
Shaopu Cloth Village, which has been silent for more than a year, has completely turned over this time. The front of the small shop is also crowded with people. In the end, it even alarmed Jin Wuwei, provoking Qin Ze to be summoned into the palace by the eldest grandson again, and he was severely criticized.
It was also this summons that Qin Ze began to sell "cotton cloth" directly in an ingenious way. Of course, this cotton cloth does not refer to cotton woven cloth, but is made of two layers of silk sandwiched with cotton to make a semi-finished cotton garment. In this way, these cotton cloths can be sold directly, and it also saves Qin Ze and them a lot of effort.
The popularity of Bai Diezi's business is also beyond everyone's imagination. For those people who have slept in a hard bed all their lives, what a happiness it should be to be able to lie on a soft quilt!
Some people are happy and some people are worried, especially those who still count on the shops that sell furs. So Qin Ze was told to Li Er by a piece of paper.
But Qin Ze was not in a hurry at all, and directly brought the cotton cloth he had just researched into the Buzheng Palace.
Food, clothing, housing and transportation, these four words are the fate that no one can escape from the people all over the world. In the past, the life of the common people was so hard, not to mention the silk of the rich and noble, even the linen cloth could not be worn.
But now it's different, and the production of white stacks is much more than hemp. And it was more comfortable to wear, so when Qin Ze took out the cotton cloth, everyone immediately shut up.
This is Qin Ze's reliance, as long as the ideas in his mind are not exhausted, he can continue to surprise Datang. And this is also the foundation of his life in Chang'an.
Jieli could think of using Bai Diezi on soldiers, and Li Er could naturally think of it too. So he directly appointed Qin Ze as the squire of the Ministry of Works, handed over the matter of Bai Diezi to him, allowed him to plant in his fiefdom, and directly exempted him from taxes for three years.
So Qin Ze happily returned to Shaopu Cloth Village, but what it brought was a further boom in business.
At the beginning, Shaopu Buzhuang was famous in Chang'an because of the rat demon, and now the copper coin hanging at the main gate has long been taken away by Cheng Huailiang. And this time, no one can hide the brilliance of Shaopu Buzhuang.