Chapter 30: The Board House
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The next day, the carpentry shop in Qingdao also made a big deal, and Yao Fan ordered a large number of planks from them to build a large number of plank houses on his own territory. Wang Shouye, the owner of the carpentry shop, couldn't laugh or cry about this.
According to Yao Fan, the board house does not need a mortise and tenon structure, nor does it need particularly thick wooden boards, as long as a wooden shelf is erected, a half-inch thick board is nailed, and then a yellow mud mixed with straw paste to paste the gaps.
"Yao Dongjia, if this house is only nailed with a few iron nails, it is not reliable! If you want to be reliable, the cost of iron nails can go to the sea. According to what you said, one zhang long and two zhang wide, what is a 20-square-meter house, if you build it, I am afraid that it will cost more than 3ooo nails of all kinds, if you are not particular, 2ooo nails are also required.
Yao Dongjia, at present, a pound of iron nails is sold for two taels and five dollars of silver, but a pound is only less than a hundred, you build a small wooden house, and the iron nails alone will cost more than 3o catties! That's seventy or eighty taels of silver! And you say that it is not in vain that the workers can be put up casually with only rough timber?
I only use the worst pine wood to calculate the money, a wooden house like this, it costs seven taels of silver to buy wood, and two taels of wages to cut into boards. But the price of iron nails is nearly ten times that of the price, which is too expensive. β
Yao Fan stood in the carpentry shop, carrying a newly made vermilion lacquer toilet and looked energetic, he looked at the work of the iron hoop on the toilet, and smiled without looking back: "Boss Wang, you don't have to worry about nails, I have all this covered, you just take care of the wood and the guys, teach my workers to build the board house, you don't have to care about the rest, I will calculate the wood money and wages for you when I go back." β
After that, Yao Fan bought a new toilet, handed it to He Shicheng and turned to leave.
Wang Shouye, the shopkeeper of the carpentry shop, looked at Yao Fan's back, shook his head and sighed: "This Yao Dongjia is really a strange person, the big business seems to be worse than a toilet in his eyes, he is really rich, and I don't know what he wants to build so many wooden houses for......
In the next few days, it was about because I saw the ten beggars grow up overnight, and the new clothes and shoes were greedy, and every day locals came to Yao Fan's house to apply.
In less than a week, Yao Fan's newly recruited people had nearly 100 people, and Yao Fan scattered them in his Taiping Street store pΓΉ and the newly purchased Yang family's mansion.
Yao Fan instructed the young and mature Wang Gui to take charge of this matter: "...... Tell them to get together on time, I come to pick once a day at noon, only choose the young and strong ones to hire them, and then you take someone to arrange for them to take a bath as usual, change into new clothes and shoes, eat rice porridge and steamed buns, and go to build a house outside the village after a few days of recuperation. β
Wang Guiren is a big ghost, and he whispered in his mouth: "The owner is really a bodhisattva, and he is so good to these beggars. Don't you know, these white-flour steamed buns can be eaten casually, ordinary people can't eat them at all! Those farming households, that is, those who are in charge when the farm is busy, can have two cornmeal nests to eat, and they drink coarse grains on weekdays. β
Yao Fan said: "Since these people defected to me, I can't let others be wronged, they will eat whatever I eat." Wang Gui, can I treat you fairly? β
Wang Gui hurriedly raised his voice and said sharply: "The owner should be my own person, Wang Gui can see it!" Our guys are all big and small, and they all eat together in the yard, and the owner also eats with us, and we eat whatever the owner eats. β
Yao Fan said: "If I am the kind of snob who divides the dignity and inferiority, how can I make you eat the same as me?" β
Wang Gui looked at Yao Fan sadly and said: "The owner, you are a bodhisattva, and everyone of us is looking at you for good, and I am talking about your long life every day." But when I saw that you had been deceived, my heart was not happy.
Let's just talk about those incarnations, these people are thinner than monkeys, and they don't have two catties of meat after cutting them all over their bodies, what can they do? But they eat more than pigs every day, so let's say that Li Hainiu, he can eat eight big steamed buns in one meal, a full three or two!! You can also drink three bowls of porridge! Small half bowl of pickles! I'm smaller, I don't give meat for a meal, and he will eat your whole ten sons for a meal!
But you still provide them with three meals a day, my mother, even when the farmer's family is busy with farming, you can't eat like this three times a day? That's white noodles! Thirty big sons a day, I have to eat you a tael of silver a month!
O host! Why don't you count it?
Now you give each of these foodies a tael of silver a month, and the inside and outside add up, a person is two taels of silver a month! I have five of them in the fourth week, and we only have two taels a month. β
Yao Fan smiled: "I understand what you mean, I am also very pleased that you can consider it for me." But the food is not good at the moment, and I want you to eat meat with me in the future. β
Wang Gui looked at Yao Fan as if he had seen a ghost, and said in his heart that the owner was in the middle of evil, but I didn't say that the food was not good! I'm talking about too much food! Am I not talking about human words? The proprietor didn't understand?
Yao Fan left the depressed Wang Gui and found He Shicheng, who was helping in the kitchen, and asked, "Shicheng, are the craftsmen in the new house done?" β
He Shicheng hurriedly replied: "The owner, the main courtyard has been almost repaired, the mason has replaced the rotten tiles on the roof with new ones, the lack of bricks on the ground has been patched, the walls have also been painted with lime, the painter has repainted the pillars, doors and windows, and the window paper has also been replaced with new ones." γ
The owner, Wang Xin from the porcelain shop selected twelve waist-high water tanks, I have personally examined, are the top of the two inches thick vats, there is no fine lines on it, four taels of silver, I see that the price is also suitable, so I asked the third sister to ask for silver to pay the bill, the water tank has been put into the yard, and I am not afraid of going to the water in the future.
The owner, at the moment, it stands to reason that the house is already inhabitable, but the other yards have not been repaired. β
He Shicheng reported one by one, because Yao Fan did not allow him to call the master or other honorific titles, so He Shicheng could only call Yao Fan's owner. If it is according to He Shicheng's thoughts, he and his friends do not get paid from Zaofan Firm, but are actually Yao Fan's family, and it is natural that they should call Yao Fan a master.
"Then let's move tomorrow." Yao Fan said suddenly.
Yao Fan didn't know how many days he would be able to live in that new mansion, and if he moved there now, he could enjoy the feeling of a mansion in the Qing Dynasty in advance.
"Yes." He Shicheng agreed simply.
He also wanted to move into a new house for a long time, and with the Yao family buying a new carriage and returning the old carriage to He Wannian, there was a person keeping vigil every night in the carriage alley on the edge of the yard, for fear of being stolen, as long as he moved into a big mansion with a livestock yard, these problems would be solved.
Moreover, Yao Fan recruited more and more people to eat white food, and the outer courtyard of the courtyard house on Taiping Street was already full of men, three rooms, each with two simple wooden planks, one shop squeezed five people, and those who could not be placed were sent to Yao Fan's new house
While chatting here, I heard Zhang Baichuan, the shopkeeper of Hengli, come to see Yao Fan, and it turned out that he was informing Yao Fan that the gold he had set had arrived. β
Yao Fan hurriedly ordered a total of ten guys including He Shicheng, Zhou Sisi, and Li Hainiu to follow Zhang Baichuan to Hengli and exchange the 100,000 taels of silver for gold.
Because the reservation had been made before, and the fire consumption was paid in advance, so Hengli arranged the ship and dart board early, and soon transferred gold from Tianjin and Shanghai, I don't know if it was Yao Fan's butterfly wings instigated, the ratio of 16.59 to huΓ n has ceased to exist zΓ i, and Hengli's new price is 16.75.
In the back hall of Hengli, the shopkeeper Zhang Baichuan took the abacus and crackled for a long time, and said to Yao Fan: "Yao Dongjia, after deducting the eight-fold fire consumption this time, the 100,000 taels of silver tickets are exchanged for 378 catties and 11 taels of gold, plus the 36 catties that Hengli owes you last time, a total of 414 catties and 11 taels of gold, and there are a fraction of five coins of silver left......."
Yao Fan waved his hand: "Don't do it, what are you for five dollars, I can't make jokes." β
Zhang Baichuan said with a smile: "The rules of our industry can't be erased. If you don't want it yourself, that's a different matter. β
Yao Fan hurriedly said: "I still have something to do, so I won't talk about it much, how to transport more than four hundred catties of gold is eye-catching, I have to transport it away quickly." β
Zhang Baichuan nodded hurriedly: "This is the best, now that Hengli has so much gold, I can't sleep well, and the eight dart masters and a group of guys hired by the head office don't dare to leave the back hall for a moment." I will give you gold from the treasury now. β
As ten small wooden boxes containing gold were brought out, Yao Fan hurriedly ordered the men to carry them onto the carriage outside, and the weight of more than 200 kilograms was pressed on Yao Fan's new carriage, and the axles were rattled.
Ten men escorted Yao Fan and the carriage and walked straight to Beiling Mountain outside the city. When they arrived at the foot of Beiling Mountain, everyone unloaded these particularly heavy wooden boxes that they didn't know what they contained.
Yao Fan whispered to He Shicheng: "Shicheng, you take them back, I will wait for someone here, it is still the old rule of the last Tianhou Palace, I will come back in ten days, and you will show me home during this time." β
He Shicheng was taken seriously, and he agreed again and again, and left with the rest of the men leading the carriage.
Yao Fan cut his finger to activate the blood sacrifice, and after a burst of white light that fluctuated in time and space, all the wooden boxes containing gold disappeared with Yao Fan.
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On the way back to the city, someone began to whisper, and a newly hired man said, "Hey brother, what did you say the owner had brought so many dead and heavy boxes to this wilderness?" What is the owner going to do when he stays there alone? β
Another beggar hired earlier said: "Hey, you don't have the eyesight to see that the box is so small, one is forty pounds, what else can it be except gold?" The shopkeeper transported the gold here, but he was afraid that he would quietly choose a place and dig a pit and bury it. β
He Shicheng heard a guy talking behind him, so he grabbed the carriage, turned around and carried the horsewhip, pointed at the two guys who had just spoken, and scolded: "Don't talk too much!" The proprietor has his own reasons for what he does, and it has nothing to do with you! β
Li Hainiu has eaten a lot at Yao Fan's place these days, and he is also quite maintained, and shouted: "I heard what Brother Shicheng said!" After returning to the city, whoever wants to chew on this matter again, let's go in with a white knife and come out with a red knife, and tell him to wait! β
When those two guys saw the fierceness of what Li Hainiu said, where did they dare to say more.
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