Chapter 53: Moving Out
Cai Dacheng smiled and said, "Don't underestimate yourself, you are slapping me in the face now, dare he be polite?" Ryoko and the others were stunned and hurriedly asked what was going on.
Cai Dacheng told them how big his official position was, how useful his name was, etc., and also reminded them:
"This name post represents identity and status, with the grade of my first product, take my name post to do things, it is estimated that no one dares not to give face! Of course, you can do a lot of bad things with a famous post, so you can keep it for me, but don't let others take advantage of it! ”
He also listed how several families were originally flourishing and why they went downhill in just a few generations.
Only then did everyone feel how big Cai Dacheng's official position was!
They all said that they would definitely abide by the law and not cause trouble to Cai Dacheng. At the same time, it will also restrain future generations to be loyal and filial, diligent and thrifty, and not to commit stolen goods. This will set out a code of conduct in detail in the genealogy to prevent future generations from ignorance and harming others and themselves.
The busyness of the day is fleeting.
The next morning, at the end of the hour, Chen Xianling came to the door in person, and brought an old gentleman with a fairy wind bone.
According to the introduction of Chen County, this person's surname is Tian, he is in his early sixties, and his family lives in the next county. has unique insight in feng shui, even in Qingzhou, he can also be ranked.
Although there are people who are better than him, the road is too far and Cai Dacheng's needs are too tight! Even this person also happened to meet, otherwise he would have to find it in the county, and the level of those people is more than a cut off.
There is a merchant in the county who spent a lot of money to ask Mr. Tian to look at feng shui, because his family has not been doing well for two consecutive years, either the business has been robbed or the villain is often talking with others. And at the beginning of last month, the head of the family almost had an accident, so he invited Mr. Tian to come over yesterday.
Mrs. Chen Xianling happened to have some contact with the merchant's wife, and Mrs. Chen suggested that the other party invite a feng shui master. So as soon as he learned that the Cai family was looking for someone, he was busy negotiating with the merchant to give way to the grandfather's house first, and then he was brought by Chen County's order.
Cai Dacheng also admitted his feelings, and after greeting and resting for half an hour, everyone got up and asked Mr. Tian to look at the house.
"There is a backer in the back, a case mountain in front, a green dragon on the left, a white tiger on the right, and the house here is wonderful!" Mr. Tian nodded frequently,
"It's just that the water source is still a little insufficient, the whole house only has a gentle spring on the east mountain and a small pond in the school, and the water flow on the east mountain may be cut off in case of a drought year."
After some communication, the stone mountain in front of the house couldn't be moved, it was actually the town house!
Cai Dacheng was a little dumbfounded, he also asked people to find workers!
Mr. Tian went around the whole building again, and finally came to the conclusion that this house is a little small, but it is actually very suitable for an ancestral house. But the school must be moved out, and if there is too much yang, it will be reversed.
The original sports field can be built as a pond to solve the problem of less water sources, and how to build a pond and the specific location are mentioned.
Old Man Song, Steward Chen and others followed behind and recorded them one by one.
This ancestral house is there, but what about the ancestral hall?
Mr. Tian walked around the village several times, and finally settled on the location of the fifth uncle, the eldest uncle's family, the third grandfather's family, and the four families in front of them together suitable for the ancestral shrine.
How to build and what to avoid were all said one by one, and said that under the condition that the general direction he specified remained unchanged, the construction of the ancestral hall would not be affected even if it changed slightly.
Since there are seven families involved, Cai Dacheng asked the old gentleman to take a look at the village again, where it is suitable to build a house and where it cannot be built.
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I tossed around the village for a day, and asked Mr. Tian to stay first, and then go to Zhuangzi tomorrow to have a look.
Mr. Tian readily agreed, and Chen County's order was also timely and did not leave.
After confirming that the mountain could not be opened, Old Man Song had asked Liangzi to inform several village chiefs that the time for the workers to start work was to be determined.
The next day, after everyone had breakfast, they went to Zhuangzi again.
This Zhuangzi, it turned out that the Qin family also found feng shui when they built the house. Although it is built in a unique place, there is no big pickiness in terms of direction or feng shui.
Mr. Tian didn't make any adjustments after reading it, it is still good as a home here, and it is called the mountains and rivers.
Since the school is definitely going to move out, it will be rebuilt at a location.
After reading it all, it took more than half a day.
The next day, Cai Dacheng held a banquet to entertain Mr. Tian in person, and finally asked Chen County to send him back to the county.
Of course, the feng shui master's fee was not less, and he took out 1,000 taels to the old man, and finally received 200 taels of silver. It's a lot of money, but it's a lot less than that merchant.
After that, the men of the Cai family gathered again and were at Cai Dacheng's house, after all, his family was the most relaxed.
Cai Dacheng: "Natural feng shui please, then we will also do what the old gentleman said."
The first few families of the fifth uncle, I'll talk about it.
The third grandfather, the uncle, and the fifth uncle also happened to take the opportunity to rebuild a house, and now the house is really old. ”
Cai Dacheng saw that they were all listening to him, so he continued:
"That's what I think, I want to buy or replace all of Hecun as a place for our people to live, and build new houses in a unified manner.
And the resident surnamed him, if he changes to Pan Village or near my Zhuangzi, or near the town, I will negotiate this with the housekeeper.
I'll do this later, I'll arrange for someone to build the school first, and after the school is built, someone will naturally be willing to move out.
After that, let's talk about land exchange and land sales. I don't know if you have anything to say, you can say it together. ”
When everyone heard this, they roughly understood the future pattern of the village, but with so much and such a large amount of work, how could Cai Dacheng's family pay for it? How could they possibly be at peace?
For a while, there were different opinions.
Or Cai Dacheng summed up after adopting everyone's opinions: "Since everyone doesn't want to take advantage of me, that's it."
I lend money to people to build houses, and when I have the ability, I will pay it back, this does not need to be polite to me, you can write an IOU, so you can rest assured, right? ”
Everyone nodded.
"Changing land and houses, and letting the villagers with his surname relocate, this is my obligation to help the clan.
After I made this investment, I was busy with the beginning, and I was not free later. I have to move my family to the capital by mid-November at the latest, and there is no sure time when I will come back.
So we still don't have to fight.
The internal affairs of the clan will be handled by several of you after discussion, and if you can't do it, you can fly a pigeon and pass it to me, and I will deal with it. Of course, although I don't come back, I will send people back every year, and I can tell or write to me about the affairs of the clan. ”
After this meeting, Cai Dacheng first found the four families in front of the fifth uncle to discuss the change of house and land.
In this era, there is no such thing as a nail household, in the final analysis, it is because of power.
You agree to take the money and leave, even if it is very small.
If you don't agree, you may not only be ruined, but you may also lose your life.
Therefore, generally people who have no power will bow their heads and admit the disaster.
But the Cai family is different, they can still make a profit from it.
The people in the village are poor, and nine times out of ten they have eaten the last meal and the next meal, mainly due to two reasons, one is that the family background is thin, and the other is that there is no land.
Now some people say that it is five acres or ten acres, but in the eyes of the county lord, it is not as good as going to the field, because it is a wasteland, and the land has not yet been raised!
In Qingshan Town, the good field is six taels, the middle field is four taels, and the lower field is only two taels, this wasteland is not worth much, and the better ones are worth a few hundred dollars.
So at that time, Zhao Da's family really made a windfall, and everyone envied it!
When Cai Dacheng, the God of Wealth, came to their house again, he couldn't wait to make an offering!
When he heard about the intention, he immediately nodded, afraid that Cai Dacheng would give this opportunity to someone else's family.
The specific compensation was followed by the third son of Old Man Song. The old man sent his son out, one is that he is the most clever among the sons, and the other is also to train him, of course, it is better to get into the eyes of the master!
The four families moved out in less than two days! Although there is no house outside, Cai Dacheng has enough money to build a house and rent a house!
When the other villagers reacted, it was really envy, jealousy and hatred!
Why didn't you take a fancy to their family? even secretly found Old Man Song and asked Cai Dacheng if he wanted to buy their house and land.
Although Old Man Song knew the inside story, of course it was impossible to loosen his mouth directly, so he said to help him ask, and asked them how much land they had and how much they were asking for.
The people in the village didn't know that the entire village was being targeted by Cai Dacheng, and as soon as this person heard Old Man Song's answer, he felt that there was a door!
immediately quoted Cai Dacheng at the price he gave to someone else's house.
Old man Song was silent.
The man thought the asking price was too high, so he squirmed and said, "It's really not good, it's okay to be cheaper." In fact, I think in my heart that even if the Cai family lowers it by half, he agrees!
There is no him, because their land is on the north side of the mountain, which is full of stones, and the field cannot be cultivated in any way. And the house is worse than Zhao's. If it weren't for the Cai family recruiting people to do the work, if it weren't for relying on the mountains, the whole family would have starved to death.
Old man Song hung him for two days before replying, and finally said that Cai Dacheng was compassionate, and seeing that his family really couldn't survive, he decided to buy it.
The family was overjoyed, and left in less than a day with ten taels of silver.
And the village he surnamed the village name in an uproar!
That night, several families united to find Cai Dacheng's family, saying that they also wanted to change land and sell their houses.
In the end, Cai Dacheng sent people to hold a meeting for all the village households who wanted to sell their houses and land, and those who wanted to sell their houses and land would gather here tomorrow to get the silver to handle it, and it would be invalid after expiration.
In less than ten days, except for Zhao's family, all the people in the village surnamed Zhao actually moved away.
Even if Zhao's family doesn't move, it won't affect anything, after all, his family is too marginal.
In fact, it is easy to understand that the purpose of living here at that time was also to escape from the world.
Now the imperial court is thriving, but Hecun is surrounded by mountains on three sides and chaotic forests on one side, and the output of farmland is very limited.
It is definitely not possible to rely on the Cai family's helpers for all home life. In such a big place, can it be built once, twice, three times, and four times?
When their children and grandchildren grow up, they have no money, no house, and no good land, and it is difficult to find a daughter-in-law. It's just a fluke to get married, what else can you do besides eating with more people?
The background is away from home, but it is just forced by life.