In the following days, all the affairs of Zhang Zhai were carried out step by step. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info

Batches of alkali were smelted out of the saline-alkali land and sent to Zhang's house to make caustic soda.

Batches of soap are made and left to dry in a dry and ventilated place.

Batches of arm-thick candles were made and placed in the ice cellar to condense.

Batches of white porcelain that had been secretly hidden before were secretly sold to Hu merchants from the Western Regions, who came from afar, and let them be ecstatic to be transported back to the Western Regions countries to sell.

Liang Yi spent nearly three million dollars to buy the house in front and back, turned around and delivered the title deed to Zhang Wang, and then moved away in just three days.

Zhang Zhai presented 100 candles to Emperor Liu Hongjin, asked the emperor to approve his idea of converting the vicinity of Zhang's house into a commercial street, and at the same time asked Sikong Mansion to borrow several craftsmen who specialized in construction.

Emperor Liu Hong was full of praise after using the candle sent by Zhang Wang, and after getting the contract letter given to him by Zhang Wang's 20% net profit, he was even more happy, and with a stroke of the pen, he agreed to Zhang Wang's request, and recruited a hundred skilled craftsmen specializing in construction in Sikong Mansion for him to use.

With the permit and craftsmen, Zhang Wang did not directly start building the library pavilion, but sent all the requisitioned craftsmen to the mountains and let them burn Qin bricks and Han tiles on a large scale.

The library pavilion was his first image project in the world, and he planned to build it entirely with bricks and tiles. A few years later in history, there was a heart-wrenching Luoyang fire, and Zhang forgot not to want his hard work to be destroyed in a few years.

Zhang's house occupies a very large area, and the first house is only two or three acres in size, Zhang Forget thought about it for a few days, and decided to expand the foundation to ten acres, and demolished the second house, and at the same time used the large area of land vacated by the demolition of Liang Yi's house.

As for the style of the library pavilion, Zhang Wang searched his memory and finally decided to build it according to the style of the Tianyi Pavilion in the Ming Dynasty.

The Tianyi Pavilion of the Ming Dynasty was one of the twelve great library pavilions in ancient times. The name of Tianyi Pavilion is taken from the saying of "Tianyi Pavilion" in Han Zhengxie's "Notes on the Book of Changes", because fire is the biggest disaster of the library, and "Tianyi Pavilion" can overcome fire with water.

The book pavilion is a hard hilltop heavy building type, with six rooms in width and depth, and there are corridors before and after to communicate with each other. There is a "Tianyi Pool" in front of the building, which leads water into the pool and stores water to prevent fire.

Because most of the understanding of Tianyi Pavilion comes from online pictures and data introductions, Zhang Forget spent a long time designing and perfecting the construction composition of Tianyi Pavilion.

When Zhang Hong heard that Zhang Wang was going to build a library for scholars to read for free, he was very moved and took the initiative to give advice to Zhang Wang, helping him design and improve the construction drawings together.

It's a pity that he has a good heart, he doesn't know much about architecture, and there are not many places where he can really be busy.

In order to pull him into the water, Zhang Wang wrote part of the Qing Dynasty's book "Engineering Practices".

"Engineering Practice" includes 17 professional contents such as civil engineering and shingles, building material lifting, oil painting and pasting, and 27 typical architectural design examples, which simply opened Zhang Hong's eyes and gave him a sense of alpine admiration for Zhang Wang's erudition.

In the past, he admired Zhang Wang's talent and personality, and after this incident, he admired Zhang Wang's five bodies, and never talked about going to Waihuang County to worship Puyang as a teacher.

The prodigy Yang Xiu was lonely and bored in the Taiwei Mansion, and went to Zhang's house to see it once, he wanted to see if this guy who had invested his life pocket money was reliable.

As a result, when he arrived at Zhang's house, he never left, and was left by Zhang Wangqiang to work as a coolie for copying books.

Yang Xiu had a distressed look on his face, but he was actually quite happy in his heart. Compared with all the interesting things that happened in Zhang's house, the life in Taiwei's Mansion was extremely boring and depressing, and it was simply not a place for people to stay.

All aspects of things were carried out together, and Zhang Wangli immediately felt the shortage of talents. He was busy with injuries alone, and most people didn't have detailed and specific arrangements, so they didn't know how to do things spontaneously.

Seeing this, Zhang Hong, as a guest, volunteered to take on the duties of the housekeeper of the Zhang Mansion. His talent is more than enough to govern a county, how can he be trapped by these few trivial things in Zhang Zhai.

In just more than ten days, everything in Zhang's house was taken care of by him in an orderly manner.

At the same time, the 80 million copper coins that Zhang Forget frantically raised funds in exchange for were also flowing out like flowing water.

Everyone saw it in their eyes and was anxious in their hearts, but Zhang forgot not to take it seriously, and led a group of people to study how to better build the project all day long.

By the time enough bricks had been fired and the three-metre-deep foundation had been laid, it was early October.

One hundred skilled craftsmen recruited from Sikong Mansion began the construction of the copycat version of Tianyi Pavilion in accordance with the instructions of Zhang Wang, the foreman of the big contract and the on-site command of engineer Zhang Hong.

Zhang Forget took this opportunity to instill a lot of knowledge in engineering and construction in Yang Xiu, and in the name of applying what he had learned, he asked him to take on the responsibility of scheduling and supervision.

Yang Xiu has always been accustomed to studying, and the first time he came into contact with practice, he was so excited. While studying the book "Engineering Practice" written by Zhang Wang, he meticulously performed his duties on the spot.

Taiwei Yang Ci didn't want him to entangle with Zhang Forget too much, so he sent someone to take him back to his house, but he refused without hesitation. Zhang Wang's shy face asked to go to the Taiwei Mansion to meet Yang Ci, but the officials of the Taiwei Mansion refused without hesitation.

Zhang Forget was secretly annoyed, and became vigilant about Taiwei Yang. Since he entered Luoyang, Taiwei Yang Ci has not summoned him once, if it weren't for his great prejudice, he would definitely not be so unkind.

Thinking of his unclear identity, and thinking of the servant sent by Emperor Liu Hong to Shu County to announce the decree, Zhang Forget shuddered, and realized for the first time that he might take the matter of unknown origin too lightly.

If you don't have a reasonable and legal identity as a scholar, will all this you have now be a castle in the air, and it will collapse with a gentle push?

After thinking about it, Zhang Wangfu went back to the study and wrote a letter, sending someone to call in Han Wu, a blacksmith recruited by Huayin County.

Han Wu was sweating and making caustic soda, and when he heard the call, he hurriedly entered Zhang Wang's study.

Zhang forgot to look at him a few times, and felt that this honest and simple man had never done anything to disappoint him, and should be trustworthy, so he asked, "Do you know how to read?" ”

Han Wu scratched her head embarrassedly: "I can write my name, and I learned it to sign and receive monthly money." ”

Zhang Forget was relieved and handed him the letter: "You ride a double horse to Chengdu, Shu County, day and night, find a person named Zhang Ren, and teach him this letter." ”

Han Wu took the letter written on Cai Hou paper, hesitated, and asked, "If I go out to deliver a letter, I can't work, will the monthly money be paid?" ”

Zhang Forget was amused by him, and said with a smile: "You go to the account to collect the travel fee, and I will give you double the monthly money when you come back." ”

Han Wule was so happy that his mouth was grinning to the back of his head, and he said yes and ran out.

He went to find Chun Yuyi, received the food, clothing and travel expenses needed on the road, led two horses and went out.

Zhang Wang walked around and found that people performed their duties, everything was in order, and he was not needed at all, so he took beans and planned to go over the wall to Liu Tao's house as a guest.

Douzi asked him curiously, "What did you send Han Wu out for?" ”

Zhang Forget smiled: "I sent him to Shu County to help me pass a letter." ”

Douzi asked, "Why did you let him ride a horse?" ”

Zhang Forget said as a matter of course: "Of course, it is for him to arrive in Shu County as soon as possible, if he can arrive before the emperor's chamberlain, it will be the most perfect." ”

Douzi stopped and frowned, "But, he's a blacksmith, why can he ride a horse?" ”

Zhang was stunned for a moment and asked, "Is there anything wrong with a blacksmith who can ride a horse?" ”

"Of course not."

Douzi's brows furrowed even tighter: "A horse pulling a cart costs seven or eight thousand, and the price of a horse for riding is at least doubled, how can a craftsman with a low status and little money be able to afford a horse?" Don't forget, before coming to Luoyang, he was so poor that he couldn't even marry a daughter-in-law. ”

Zhang Forget listened to Douzi's analysis, and his heart suddenly tightened. These domestic servants and maids recruited by himself were all screened by the housekeepers of the Huayin Yang family and put into the mansion one by one, and so was Han Wu, could it be that he was a spy placed by the Huayin Yang family beside him?

Thinking of this, Zhang Forget couldn't relax anymore, and went directly to the courtyard wall of Liu Tao's house, and shouted Yan's name loudly.

Guo Yan heard Zhang Wang's shout, asked Liu Tao for instructions, and turned over from the other end of the courtyard wall.

Seeing Zhang Wang's unswerving face, Guo Yan asked, "Xiao Langjun, is this a difficult thing?" ”

Zhang Forget did not shy away from telling him about Han Wu, hoping that he could help and chase back Han Wu who had already gone out.

Seeing that he trusted him so much, Guo Yan couldn't help but be inexplicably moved, agreed, turned over and went back to Liu's house to get the horses.

Han Wu walked out of Zhang's house, came to Shangdongmen Street, looked around, and went straight to Taiwei's Mansion.

The porter of the Taiwei Mansion saw that he was dressed as a domestic servant, and did not let him enter the door, nor did he report him.

In desperation, Han Wu took out a token from his sleeve.

The porter took a closer look at the token and invited him in.

Taiwei Yang Ci met Han Wu in the study, and after reading the letter he handed over, he suddenly became angry and kicked over the long case in front of him.

The tea and pen and ink on the long case were spilled on the ground, and Han Wu didn't dare to breathe, kneeling on the ground without saying a word.

Yang Ci snorted and gasped for a long time, and then asked, "Where are the hundred Taiping Sect disciples now?" ”

Han Wu replied: "Fifty people have returned to the Taiping Sect, Xiao Langjun...... Zhang forgot to ask them to buy a hundred ploughing cattle, calculate the days, and it was time to come back. The other fifty people, under the leadership of Zhang Man, guarded Zhang's house day and night to prevent Zhang Wang's way of making money from leaking out. ”

Yang Ci pondered for a moment and ordered: "You continue to deliver the letter, as if you have never been to the Taiwei Mansion and have never seen me." If there is any other command, I will arrange for someone to come to you. ”

Han Wu agreed, bowed and retreated.

He led the horse out of the Taiwei Mansion and headed in the direction of the west gate of Luoyang.

The chivalrous man Guo Yan stood behind him and looked at the sign of the Taiwei Mansion, his face was full of gloom.