The complexity of things is indescribable, even if Song Nan has the experience of later generations, everyone in the Song family is trying to understand Song Nan's thoughts and try their best to do things well, everyone is still tired and exhausted.

Song Nan also understood that these were unavoidable, although Uncle Zhong was diligent, but after all, he was old and had not seen much of the world, and the position of the housekeeper of the Song Mansion had already made him powerless; As for the ladies in the back house, although they are all smart and clever, they are not talents in this area, Ye Fanggu and Dai Suer can help take charge of the incoming and outgoing accounts, and Lu Qingli is only a symbolic agent to manage the general affairs by herself, in fact, there is no good idea; Therefore, these things still fell on Song Nan in every detail.

Song Nan can't spend too much time on his own private affairs, and the ordinary brothers of Jinyiwei can only occasionally use the name of official business to strengthen their momentum, but they must not be recognized as fake public affairs, Song Nan is very clear in his heart at this point. The lack of relevant talent has become the biggest problem.

However, after the chaos of the first ten days, everyone gradually touched some doorways, and things gradually became a little smoother, although it could not be called Ruyi at all, but Song Nan was already very satisfied.

The biggest discovery is the servant foreman Ah Hu in the house, although this kid is only sixteen years old, but his appearance is sophisticated and mature, when he lured and killed Fang Datong, Ah Hu's cousin who was only twelve years old was very good, and afterwards Song Nan wanted to send him to study, but this kid was not reading material at all, and after reading for a year, he was reluctant to go to the library, and came to Song Nan's side to beg to be a follower. Song Nan hated that iron could not become steel, but after all, although his parents came to the capital from Ulzhou to take refuge, Song Nan also took care of him like a brother, so he stayed by his side and became a personal servant, replacing Li Daniu in the vacancy after the official position.

In the past two years, Ah Hu assisted Uncle Zhong to take care of the Song Mansion in an orderly manner, and now he is the chief foreman of the servants in the house, this time he was transferred out by Song Nan to do things, and his appearance is remarkable, and he took more than a dozen servants to run around the streets inside and outside the city all day long against the scorching heat, recruiting craftsmen and handymen, purchasing sand, gravel and earthwork, and contacting the carriage and horse to coordinate manpower.

The Song family unanimously gave great praise to Ah Hu's appearance, and Song Nan decided to promote Ah Hu to the manager of the real estate company, so that he could give full play to his talents. At the same time, Song Nan temporarily called Wan Dabao, the steward of the Song family manor in Wanjiazhuang, to help in the house.

As a result, by the beginning of September, Song Nan had basically built a family team that could operate effectively. With Lu Qingli as the first generation, he is in charge of affairs, and Ye Fanggu Dai Suer is in charge of account access, Ah Hu is responsible for procurement and logistics affairs, and Wan Dabao is responsible for managing construction craftsmen, handymen, and other affairs.

In the more than 20 days from mid-August to early September, a lot of things were completed, the construction of the papermaking workshop outside the city was completed, the workshop owners fulfilled the agreement to move out of the city, and after the papermaking workshop was suspended, the deodorization work in the workshop was announced.

At a high wage of five dollars a day, thousands of people were temporarily hired to excavate and drain the ditches in the ponds; A strange thing happened in this, I thought that the residents would happily welcome the dredging and deodorization operation, but on the first day of construction, there were people who obstructed the construction, saying that the workshop did not need to be cleaned up, and they did not feel any discomfort.

The Song family employs thousands of people and hundreds of ox carts, which is thousands of taels of silver a day, which is not affordable; Song Nan didn't want to talk to these madmen about anything, so he directly ordered Li Daniu to ride over with Jinyi Weiti and arrest more than a dozen guys, so that the project could continue.

In more than ten days, the already foul-smelling white paper workshop is even more stinking day by day, the Chinese want to vomit, the smell of stinky mud garbage excavated spreads to Xuanbei and Xuannan two squares, if it is not the northeast wind, I am afraid it will affect the whole city.

Truckloads of sludge and garbage are sent out of the city through You'anmen, and are dumped in the mountain col ten miles away, and for more than ten days, the people who enter and exit You'anmen are almost extinct, and no one wants to enter and exit from this city gate; The soldiers guarding the city at You'anmen covered their noses and scolded their mothers, some of them were not allowed to enter and exit these vehicles, but they were reprimanded by the officers, Song Nan had already made arrangements, and the sealed silver had already been sent to the houses of these officers.

After more than ten days, the cleaning and dredging work came to an end, although it could not completely eradicate the century-old psoriasis, but it was obvious that the stench in the air gradually dissipated; After all the stinky water in the rivers and ponds has flowed away, the clear water is left from the upstream reservoir to fill it, and the world seems to change all at once. That night, Ye Fanggu Dai Su'er reported the accounts of the dredging, and Song Nan understood why the soldiers and horses of the five cities did not do anything after collecting money.

The white paper mill is the gathering place of the papermaking workshop since the Mengyuan period, the sewage sludge produced is accumulated like a mountain, the Song government has hired thousands of manpower in the past ten days, hundreds of ox carts to clean up the transfer, just clean up the main river pond and the garbage heap near the left side of the main street, it cost nearly 30,000 taels of silver, it is incredible. The annual amount of money allocated by the Imperial Court to clean up the garbage of the Five Cities Terracotta Division is less than 1,000 taels, and in the face of this stubborn disease, of course it will choose to ignore it.

The people in the white paper workshop woke up one night, and suddenly realized the changes in the surrounding environment, with a faint fragrance of osmanthus in the air, which was wafting from the osmanthus tree in the forest in the north of the fang, which was completely covered by the stench before, and only now can I ask; The river pond in front of the door has become so clear that many people have never seen such a clear river around their homes in their lives; At first, they complained and cursed Song Hou Ye for being troublesome, and the ignorant people who made the market miserable, suddenly felt as if they were wrong to blame others.

In the evening, Song Nan came back from the yamen and came to inspect the results, he and Lu Qingli walked slowly on the potholed and uneven streets cleaned by the white paper workshop, looking at the situation on both sides of the main street, and put down a big stone in their hearts; Although the houses in front of us were still dilapidated and the residents were still in rags, the laughter of children playing in the pond between the houses could be faintly heard, indicating that the desilting and deodorization of the place had been successful.

"Tomorrow, I ordered the Xuanbei Fang Xuannan Fang's Tiqi to start patrolling the workshop normally, maintain the status quo, and in another ten days, sporadically mobilize people to clean up, the smell of the market is basically gone, and this is no longer a desperate place for others."

"Yes, it's really the sins of these paper workshops, in fact, it seems that this place is quite good now." Lu Qingli took Song Nan's arm and looked at Song Nan with admiration.

Song Nan smiled: "Then you still need to say?" This is also a square in the capital, and every inch of land within the city walls is expensive, which is not something to be said casually. Speaking of which, I have to thank these sources of stench, otherwise how could the imperial court let me buy a large amount of land? They took me for a fool, but they were short-sighted. ”

Lu Qingli laughed and said: "My brother Song is a fool, is there still a smart person in the world?" However, after so many years of governance by everyone here, it is a treasure, and no one wants to take a look. ”

Song Nan nodded and said: "The papermaking workshop is the source of the most polluted water source and the stench, but no one has thought of moving out of the city in the past hundred years, which is also a strange thing; In fact, people are like this, the more dirty the place, the more the people will break the jar and fall, and the garbage, feces and urine will be littered and dumped, and the smell will be added to the smell, and the vicious circle will be. I can guarantee that once you get used to this clean environment, the people here will also know how to maintain it, after all, no one wants to live in a manure pit, right? ”

Lu Qingli retched and said: "Don't say it, I'm almost sick to death, after the first day I came here, I haven't eaten several meals, I don't understand, why some people still say that they can't smell the smell, and that we are doing it too much." ”

Song Nan said with a smile: "There is a saying: If you enter the abalone, you won't smell it for a long time." People who have lived in it for a long time may not be able to smell it, and when we come to clean it up, they think we are making a big fuss. Not to mention these, things are progressing quite well, tomorrow our project in the South 1 District will start, before the snow falls, the planning of the South 1 District will be completed, the time is a little tight. ”

Lu Qingli said: "It seems unlikely, Wan Dabao consulted the craftsmen, and they all said that the time is too tight, there is a main street in the planning of the first district in the south, there are more than 100 shops along the street, and dozens of houses behind the street, how can it be completed in such a short time?" It also involves dozens of private houses of local people, and several of them are reluctant to sell their land to us, which is a big problem. ”

Song Na bit her lower lip and said: "I can't wait, let Ah Hu recruit more craftsmen, and soon after the autumn harvest is over, the people will also be idle, and they will be very willing to earn some extra money in the farming season; As for those families who are unwilling to sell their homestead to us, they will put out the conditions, give them a time limit, and clearly tell them that any condition that exceeds the specified time will be invalid; I don't believe that we offer such high prices and conditions, they will not be tempted? It's just that he wants to take advantage of the opportunity to extort more money. ”

Lu Qingli said: "If they just don't want to, then what should they do?" ”

Song Nan said: "It's very simple, the land around them is mine, and if they don't sell it, they are not allowed to pass through my land, and build a wall to trap their house and let them fly out with wings." As soon as I step on my ground, I will ask them to pay to pass by. ”

Lu Qingli sneered: "This is too shameless, isn't this a robber driven by me?" ”

Song Nan glared and said: "You can't be too reasonable to deal with Diao Min sometimes, my Song family's conditions are already very rich, the price of buying their land is not low, and they also promised to give them a new house of the same size to move back to live, they are not satisfied, isn't this self-inflicted?" ”

Lu Qingli said with a smile: "That's right, the sisters in the house said that every family in your family gave them a house to live in, wouldn't you die of a loss, didn't you sell these houses to make money?" ”

Song Nan smiled: "How many times have you said it, you still don't understand." What is planning? How wasteful is the space occupied by a messy house? After planning, it was built in a flat and neat manner, and at least twice as many buildings were built. The houses for the people to move back will be concentrated in the third district in the south in the future, and they are all ordinary houses, what is the value? The land that is close to the surrounding area and a few main streets is valuable, and the lake to the north can be built into a private mansion, which is a mansion, and these are the places to make a lot of money. ”

Lu Qingli blinked her eyes and didn't understand for a long time, Song Nan pinched her face and scolded: "Elm head." ”