Hearing Yang Yuanzhao's thoughts, Liu Shu couldn't help but smile dumbly, and said: "Do you think you are still alone, I have already arranged the personnel for you, 4 maidservants and 8 long-term attendants, the groom and the porter are also ready-made, and now there are more than a dozen people in this house." ”

More than a dozen people, Yang Yuanzhao thought of it, this is not the new century he is in, this is the late Qing Dynasty, the end of feudal society, selling people and slaves, or a legal phenomenon, the big family often has hundreds of thousands of slaves, Baotou is prosperous, it is merchants and chambers of commerce, ordinary people are still living a relatively hard life, a little catastrophic, there are many people who sell their children and daughters, even in ordinary years, in order to let their children find a better way out, send them to the big households with good character and reputation, they also abound.

The Liu family is a big family, Liu Shu is a person, his reputation in Baotou has always been very good, and there are many slaves, and it is no problem for him to come out with some, so many people, that is, one or two hundred silver dollars, the house has been collected, and he doesn't care about these people.

smiled bitterly and glanced at the room, before it was just a glimpse of it, but now, it is looking at his own house in general, Liu Shu is very attentive, he thinks of everything he can think of, this big mansion, in Baotou, plus furniture, to buy it, it takes a lot of thought.

Yang Yuanzhao nodded, looked around, and said, "Liu Shu, can you help me find someone to decorate." ”

"Decoration?" Liu Shu was stunned for a moment, and then said, "Why is it not enough, then I will call the people from the Treasure Shop to come and buy some treasures for you." ”

Yang Yuanzhao smiled bitterly for a while, and said: "Of course not, I'm just not satisfied with the functionality, just find a few masons!" ”

This is just now, Yang Yuanzhao came up with the idea, came to this era, it has been more than two months, Chinese hurried and tired, so he did not think about the matter of settling down the home, now, with the mansion sent by Liu Shu, then he must be arranged.

"That's it!" Liu Shu looked around, he didn't find anything that was not very good, thinking about it, Yang Yuanzhao came back from abroad, and when he came back, he would have some Western-style ideas in his heart, perhaps similar to Western-style decoration.

Liu Shu is really right about this, Yang Yuanzhao really wants the decoration of the foreign style, of course, the most important thing is to go through water and electricity, and it is more about referring to the things of later generations.

Among the things brought from the future, a small part is mechanical things, but more, it is daily necessities, refrigerators, air conditioners, these, there are, this time out, copy a lot of drawings, there is a generator of this era, the sound is a little louder, or direct current, but under the AC and DC converter, direct current can also be converted into alternating current, wire connection, put the power generation room far away from the mansion, after getting the sound insulation, safe and assured.

Electricity, is a new energy, a new power, the revolution of electricity, for the country before World War II, is really a huge, many countries, all the way after the First World War, only to complete this revolution, and the real development and change of electricity, but after World War II, but in this era, there is already the storage of electricity, the revolution of electricity, is changing the lives of thousands of households.

Yang Yuanzhao carefully recalled some things from the later generations, as well as the things brought from the later generations, many times, he still communicated with the mason, don't think about it, but there is no way to achieve it.

Liu Shu's movements were very fast, and early the next morning, he brought 3 masons, who all looked honest, Liu Shu pointed to them and introduced: "This is Master Zhou, Master Wang and Master Li, the three are the best masons in our entire Baotou, you come and sue them." ”

Yang Yuanzhao slept in the mansion last night, and the porter's groom and maid were also in place, tired after a day's work, drank again, and fell asleep deeply, sleepless all night, but when he got up in the morning, he walked around the whole house and thought of something.

Baotou lack of water, this era, bathing is also a not easy thing, the simplest iron bucket, put on the roof of the method, because this is a courtyard, very inconvenient, then you can only choose the stove, in the hometown, there is a kind of stove, in the stove, will put an iron gall in it, and the water pipe, in this way, with the help of the furnace residual heat, you can heat water, whether it is winter or summer, there is hot water, he was brought to this era, did not bring a water heater over, this is probably the best idea.

Iron gall is very easy to do, casually form drawings in the all-in-one machine, make zuò out of the good, in the case of ready-made steel, it is not difficult to do this, as for cement and bricks, they are also ready-made, when visiting Qixin, in addition to copying his trap equipment, Yang Yuanzhao also copied all kinds of cement, as for bricks, it has already been copied, Yang Yuanzhao directly began to copy, all of them are made of red bricks.

When Liu Shu came in with a few masters, he saw a few buckets of cement and a stack of red bricks in a corner of the large courtyard.

"What is this?" Master Zhou walked to the front of the cement bucket, identified it, and said with some surprise: "This is cement!" ”

Cement, the three are all masons, and they are also familiar with building materials, cement is rare in Taiyuan, let alone Baotou, but they also know that the houses made of cement are extremely strong, and they may not be able to smash them open with a hammer.

"Get some lime and fine sand, mix it with cement, and then you can build the wall, I need to build it like this!" Yang Yuanzhao took a tree branch and made a gesture on the ground, roughly, explaining the stove and water pipes clearly.

The three masons looked at Yang Yuanzhao in surprise, they completed a series of designs in this way, and they didn't understand, but Yang Yuanzhao drew a drawing, simple, almost one-to-one physical drawings, and a certain amount of dù above, so that they could understand how to make zuò.

The stove and the kitchen are only one aspect, of course Yang Yuanzhao will not just manage himself, he made a total of 3 stoves, the water pipes lead to different directions, divided into male servants and maids and him, more than a dozen people, three stoves, cooking is also faster, by the way, Yang Yuanzhao also completed a small heating pipe, specially made zuò a small stove, can boil water, to heat the room, he doesn't know how cold the winter of this era is, but in his previous life, he came to the north, there is no heating, just the words of the earthen kang, He won't be able to stand it.

The kitchen and toilet are the most important places, and they are also the places that have been changed the most, when the crossing was crossed, the main things that came over were in the living room, and the flush toilet could not be solved, with the help of some tiles and bricks, the squatting urinal was made, and a biogas tank could be dug out at the back, and with the help of water power, the manure could be washed down.

These are the simplest arrangements, the masons of this era, each of them is experienced, some of them, even proficient in carpentry, these look at the doors and windows carved with beautiful patterns, you can know, Yang Yuanzhao's these, although there is a lot of modern knowledge, but for the mason, it is just the simplest, three big workers, and dozens of small workers, began to use cement and red bricks, to build three stoves, stainless steel zuò water tank, connected to the water pipe, buried in the stove, The surrounding area is filled with refractory materials and refractory bricks, so that the fire of the stove can only spread inside the stove, and not through the outside.

Among them, the stove is also in the middle of the system, there is also a problem, Yang Yuanzhao in the stove halfway to the time, only to suddenly wake up, this era, there is no honeycomb coal, honeycomb coal seems to be invented in the Republic of China period, what is specific, need to find someone to specialize, but now to use.

As a last resort, Yang Yuanzhao discussed with Master Zhou and made two different combustion chambers, one is the common in later generations, the straight-through cylindrical shape of honeycomb coal, and the other is suitable for this era, using ordinary peat as fuel.

The renovation of the kitchen and toilet was basically completed, it only took 3 days, when the cement was dry, it was ready to use, when a few pieces of ignited charcoal were mixed with coal and peat, and while the stove was blazing, a meal was cooked, and there was hot water in the hot water pipe.

Looking at the hot water, the three masters couldn't help but be amazed, hot water, has always been only when it is burned, I didn't expect, with the help of waste heat will automatically have, they all know that the secret should be on those water pipes and water bladders, but no one said a word, in this era, the price of ordinary iron farmers is extremely high, refined stainless steel water bladders, plus water-resistant water pipes, this price, is not what the people of Shengdou can afford.

In the compound, the day has changed, after the kitchen and toilet are completed, Yang Yuanzhao is a lot more convenient, and then, he set his sights on the house itself.