"Hugh is going to lose the face of our Lei family, this is the first thing we do for the officials, the kindness of the officials, you have to know what you eat and wear!"

As soon as people get older, they will inevitably nag, and Lei Wangcheng is like this. He held a vernier caliper and taught his two sons a stern lesson, Lei Zhensheng Lei Zhenzhou responded, and Jiang Quan, who was next to him, was somewhat embarrassed.

He was indeed a little worried, on the ship he had discussed the construction skills with the Lei family father and son, at least in terms of building houses, the skills of the Lei family father and son were far superior to him. Fortunately, he has been following Yu Guozhen for a long time, and even the ruler is set by him, and in some fine work, there is still a gap between the father and son of the Lei family and him.

"It's coming, it's coming, here's coming!"

Seeing the wooden raft floating down from the upstream, Qi Niu shouted, his voice was loud, like thunder, and it shook everyone's ears.

"It's only been such a day, and there are so many planks!"

Seeing the high wooden planks piled up on the wooden row, the Lei brothers were stunned, and next to him, Jiang Youzhong squeezed his eyes at Lei Dafa: "I said, the saw of the little official is very powerful, even the layman can also see the board!" ”

The simple gantry crane on the small wharf has also been installed long ago, and it is not a waste of effort to get the wooden planks from the wooden rafts, and the board trucks pull a car of wooden planks from the simple driveway to the shed that is only 100 meters away from the wharf. This section of the sand lane was built by the teenagers after spending half a day of hard work, and it is a temporary sidewalk, so it is not very smooth.

"The rulers in everyone's hands are ordinary, remember, don't use your own ruler, if anyone dares to use their own ruler, immediately drive out of the ranks of the masters, and change to become an apprentice, which is a salary of one or two silver per month!"

Jiang Quan's voice was small at first, but gradually it became louder. Yu Guozhen recruited more than 100 craftsmen in Nanjing, of which more than 10 were carpenters, plus the two brothers of the Lei family and Lei Faxuan, who was already 16 years old and could act as helpers, a total of 20 people. These people Yu Guozhen were all handed over to Jiang Quan to manage, and he stayed in Xiang'an for two years, watching the teenagers go from being stupid and not understanding anything to now being able to manage everyone to work, and Jiang Quan's growth is not small.

Those carpenters laughed and said, the two months on the ship were not in vain, in this long process, whether it was sailing or resting on the shore, Jiang Quan was their leader, and their food and wages were all distributed by Jiang Quan. Therefore, everyone now calls Jiang Quan, and they are all "Jiang Stewards", and their attitude is also very respectful.

In the hands of these craftsmen, holes are carved out and grooves are cut, and for each piece they finish, the craftsmen write numbers on it with ink pens. Each craftsman is responsible for one of them, so he quickly becomes proficient, and whoever is fast and who is slow only needs to look at the amount of material accumulated in front of him. Jiang Quan was in charge of the overall acceptance, and from time to time he took his ruler to measure and measure.

It was only half an hour later, and he said to Jiang Youzhong, who was staying on the sidelines, "Go and report to the officials, the first room is all done." ”

Jiang Youzhong ran over quickly, and after a while, a team of young guards came over with a smile on the cart, and they dragged the planks and logs away according to Jiang Youzhong's instructions.

This time, the destination was the open space cleared yesterday, and it was also a simple road paved with sand, which was a little muddy, but the young guards had the strength, and each of them had two cars, one pulling and four pushing, a total of six board trucks, and dragged the timber to the clearing.

Seeing these transported timbers, Lei Wangcheng muttered: "Can this really be done?" ”

He is a master of construction, and he has never helped many families build houses in his life, but this kind of building a house is also rare.

When the house is divided into sections, each part is standardized, the length of the rafters, the length of the beams, and even the width, length and thickness of the wall panels are all unified. On top of each piece, the number is marked, and the rest of the thing is to put it together according to the design drawings and numbers.

In the past, it took two or three days to build a wooden house, with several craftsmen and a group of workers. But Yu Guozhen gave an order, and everyone first buried the foot of the stake in the ground, sprinkled the lime that had been prepared to repel insects, and then put together the pillar of the foundation beam, and then inserted the planks into the groove piece by piece on the foundation beam, and glued it with a wooden wedge in the middle. After half an hour, the frame of the house was completed, and as long as the grass was covered with grass, the house was ready for habitation.

"Unexpectedly...... There is such a wonderful method! Lei Wangcheng circled the room ten times. It wasn't until the teenagers brought in the second batch of materials and began to build a second room, then a third, and a fourth next to the wooden house, faster and faster, completing the framework of the house, from the initial half an hour for nearly an hour, to almost half an hour later, he finally returned to Yu Guozhen's side, and his face was full of horror.

"What does Leon think?"

"Since then, there has been no more craftsman in the world." Lei Wangcheng sighed.

"Where, it's just a simple house, built temporarily, and we can rely on it for a while. If the newcomers come, they have to rely on such simple houses for temporary resettlement, as well as those recruited laborers, and they can't be allowed to sleep in the open. Yu Guozhen smiled: "Besides, the real craftsman is not doing this kind of work. ”

Lei Wangcheng laughed with him, but felt in his heart that in this way, he was afraid that the carpenter in the countryside would have one less source of livelihood.

"What do you think is the inadequacy of this bungalow?"

"The little old man thinks it's good, the little official is really ......"

"Needless to say, Rayon thinks, if I only need praise, why bother to invite an honest man like Rayon? When he was in Nanjing, there were people who could speak well. Yu Guozhen was a little unhappy.

Lei Wangcheng is old after all, and his words are vague and vague, which is really unpleasant. It's no wonder that he is the old man who has been tossing around in the world for a long time, but Yu Guozhen really doesn't have much time to spend on this kind of entanglement of tongues.

"Uh...... Since it was ordered by the official, the little old man said it. Lei Wangcheng looked at his face and no longer hidden: "There are three places, and I also ask the officials to take ideas." ”

"Oh?"

"First, these woods are too wet, and they are not obvious now, and if they pass a cold or summer, they will inevitably be twisted off, and at that time, the wedges that are so neatly spliced will come out of the cracks."

"Second, such a whole row of wooden houses, with no partition in the middle, and connected in one place, is very easy to break if the water is gone."

"Third, I have heard that there is a strong wind on the shore of the southern sea, and this wooden house is built here...... I'm afraid of the wind. ”

Yu Guozhen showed a smile on his face, the more problems Lei Wangcheng found, the happier he was, which proved that this old craftsman did have strength and was worthy of being born in a construction family.

Speaking of this, Lei Wangcheng raised his finger again: "Ah, the little old man almost forgot, there is one more thing, that is, this place is hot and humid, there will be many insects and ants, if the wooden house does not do a good job of ant prevention, when the termites come, this wooden house is very easy to decay." ”

"What you said is very true, this is the first batch for us to temporarily resettle, as long as it can last for half a year, the southern wind is mostly from the southeast, we are built in the northwest foot of Huangniuling, the wind will be smaller, and I let people dig deep and lay the foot, which is also the reason. As for walking water and termites, I can only be vigilant in peace, and I have no other way for the time being. ”

Speaking of this, Yu Guozhen laughed again: "This is also the reason why I have repeatedly emphasized discipline along the way, if you don't develop good habits, fire is inevitable." ”

Lei Wangcheng said with a smile: "Yes, yes, what the official said is very true." ”

In his heart, he had some secret slander, and the rules emphasized by the officials, that is, the "discipline surname" he said, were so meticulous that even the big and small solutions had to be fixed. In the past, craftsmen ate and drank how to solve the problem, but now it is not possible, and if you want to solve it, you must go to the place of reincarnation of grains, and it is generally placed a little far away from the place where people live.

"When the kiln is out, it will be easy to do, and then we will build a strong and sturdy house, and strive to complete this matter within half a year." Yu Guozhen said again.

There were 10 simple wooden houses built that day, and this wooden house is actually somewhat similar to a stilt house, with wooden planks nailed to beams half a meter above the ground, which is clean and refreshing, and is not afraid of snakes and scorpions crawling in. In addition, by laying a mat on a wooden plank, you can sleep for people, and the bed can be temporarily saved.

"This is our new house?" Xiaolian has a strong body, so the long-distance travel has little effect on her, she was busy organizing the women to cook and wash, and she didn't come back until the beginning of the night, when she saw those wooden houses, she suddenly became happy, and pulled Yu Guozhen and asked.

"Exactly, Xiaolian, which one you like, then we will live in whichever one." Yu Guozhen is also in a good mood, and today he is doing very well, as the first day of the official start of construction, it is really a good sign.

"Naturally, it's the one in the middle!" Xiaolian said without hesitation.

She is Yu Guozhen's personal maid, and it is a matter of course to serve her master to sleep, and since she arrived at Yu's house, she has been by Yu Guozhen's side, even if she comes to Qinzhou to open up such a difficult journey, she is also willing. Yu Guozhen looked at her face, which had become slightly purple because of the sea breeze and sunshine, and a faint tenderness rose in his heart, and he reached out to hold her palm: "That's it!" ”

Ten rooms, more than 200 people wanted to live, obviously impossible, so the old and young, the sick and the sick were arranged to be crowded first, and the rest continued to rest in the improvised hut covered with mosquito nets.

No one had an opinion on this arrangement, and everyone was quite happy. The row of houses built today gave them hope, and there were ten of them, so that as everyone became more and more proficient, it would not be long before everyone could live in such a house.

As they expected, the number of simple wooden houses completed on the second day increased to thirty, and by the third day, another twenty simple wooden houses were built, so that in this new Zhuangzi, there were six rows of 60 simple wooden houses. Not only that, but on the third day, thirty rooms were actually completed, and another ten rooms were set up in the kiln for those people to rest and use.

When these houses were built, they officially settled here.

(To be continued)