Chapter Seventy-Nine: Mo Dao Jinchang Canal is shallow
Naturally, it was not Yunchu that came out of the water, but the eleven wells they dug came out of the water.
In winter, the groundwater level in Chang'an City is the lowest, and digging wells at this time is more difficult to dig than digging wells in spring, summer and autumn, but as long as the well comes out, there is no need to worry about the well drying up.
"Water is sweet water!" Liu Sancai grabbed a handful of wet mud and gravel in his hand and sent it to Yun Chu's mouth to ask him to taste it.
Yun Chu quickly flashed a smile and scolded: "It's good that you have tasted it yourself, don't let me taste it." ”
Liu Sancai threw away the mud with a smile, pointed to the wells behind him and said: "The eleven wells are all out of water, and now we only need to connect these eleven wells, and we can open the canal." ”
"What's going to happen next?"
"Laying bricks on the wall of the well, paving washed river sand and pebbles, hehehehe......" Liu Sancai smiled like a pug, his eyes were full of flattery, and he couldn't see his pride as a Tang man at all.
"Then finish it quickly, and I will send you the money for the second phase of the project."
Liu Sancai nodded frantically, and howled at the other well diggers, and suddenly, the people standing at the mouth of the well dragging muddy water became even more crazy.
On the third day, a stream of foul water from a mud hole flowed slowly down a two-foot-wide canal made of stone flakes and three-fold clay into the frozen lotus pond of the Great Mercy and Grace Temple, and when the water level slowly rose on the ice surface, the clear water overflowed from the other end of the lotus pond, flowed into the guide channel, and gushed out from the mouth of the beast's head hanging on the wall of the Great Mercy Grace Temple.
Immediately, this spring water rushed down the dug canal, flowed around most of the Jinchang Fang, and then entered the culvert, and finally entered the pit system of Chang'an along the culvert, and finally flowed into the boiling Wei water with the filth.
Chang'an is bitterly cold in winter, however, the well water that comes out of the ground is exposed to the cold winter with a little warmth, and there is even a curling white gas coming out.
Jinchangfang suddenly had an extra stream of water, even Master Xuanzang, who usually ignored the world, walked along the murmuring water accompanied by the monk of Zhike.
"With more water, there is a little more agility, a little more purity, and a little less worldly trouble."
The monk immediately clasped his hands together and said: "Amitabha, the monthly allocation of Jinchangfang will definitely be distributed as scheduled." ”
Xuanzang said with a smile: "In a month's time, Jinchangfang is a little more angry, less resentful, these money was originally offered to the Buddha, and now the Buddha will return it to the living beings in the world, it is the right time." ”
The face of the monk was full of smiles, although he was very dissatisfied with the monthly money given by the Great Ci'en Temple to the poor ghosts around him, but when Master Xuanzang said, he could only keep his mouth shut and constantly compliment Master Xuanzang's high opinion.
Master Xuanzang is no longer the little monk who traveled west alone to learn scriptures, he is now the head of the famous ten virtues of the Tang Dynasty, and there is a legend that Xuanzang is the incarnation of Sariputta, the head of the ten disciples of Shakya.
Wisdom is sharp, can solve doubts, known as wisdom first.
He is actually the embodiment of walking power in Buddhism, Mo said that there are only 300 guan per month, even if it is 3,000 guan, 30,000 guan, even if the monk arches his head, he will find it for him to use.
Yun Chu saw Xuanzang from a distance, and Xuanzang also saw Yun Chu from a distance.
None of them cared much about each other.
Yun Chu felt that he was now standing guard for Master Xuanzang's travel, and it was flattering to meet, and Master Xuanzang also thought that it was not a good time to see Yun Chu at this moment, so it was better not to meet.
However, the leader must have a purpose in traveling, otherwise a leader of Xuanzang's level will not easily run out to see a newly repaired canal, since it has come out, it already contains a strong meaning of caring for Yunchu.
Master Xuanzang looked at a canal surrounded by a group of great monks who claimed to be fifty virtues, and went out of the east gate of the Great Ci'en Temple, and the news of returning from the north gate quickly reacted.
Among them, the fastest response was the Lu County Order of Wannian County, however, he did not come in person, but sent Sun Hu Cao to send 3,000 quintals of yellow rice, millet, and his year's worth of Yulu, 80 guan of money, 300 catties of salt, 50 catties of spices, and 40 horses of silk cloth.
Immediately, Fan Yang Lu, who was in Beijing, sent someone to send 100,000 yuan, saying that he wanted to fund the construction of the gate in Jinchangfang.
Even Cheng Biting Jin's wife, Lu Shi, sent a housekeeper to send a lot of precious jewelry in a very low-key manner, hoping that Yun Chu could be exchanged for money and used to build the gate of Jinchangfang.
After sending away the housekeeper of Cheng Biting Jin's family, and negotiating to sell the jewelry only to a gold shop called Deshenglong for money, Yunchu ushered in Li Ji's wife and the housekeeper sent by Wei Chi Jingde's wife, who did not go out all the year round.
These two housekeepers also sent a lot of jewelry, which is said to be plucked from the head of the house by the lady of the house when she heard that Jinchangfang was going to change the door.
Of course, these jewels had to be sold, and they could only be sold to that damn Desheng Longjin store, without giving Yun Chu any room for other operations.
Moreover, just after the housekeepers of these two houses left, a goldsmith with a fat head and big ears came to visit Yun Chu.
Yun Chu only had a short quarter of an hour from getting the jewelry of several ladies to sending it to the hands of the shopkeeper of Deshenglong.
The shopkeeper of Deshenglong spread out each piece of jewelry to look at it carefully, and praised each piece of jewelry as priceless.
After the praise, he left Yun Chu a withdrawal voucher of 500,000 yuan, and Yun Chu could take this voucher and take 500,000 yuan from Desheng Longjin Store at any time.
"Everything else in Jinchangfang is easy to say, that is, the people here are in tatters, which is unsightly, and when the time comes, they are worried that they will be seen by the saints."
When sending the shopkeeper of Deshenglong out, Yun Chu complained in a low voice.
The shopkeeper looked at Yun Chu with a smile and was silent.
Yun Chu said again: "A certain family saw that the clothes worn by Deshenglong's guys were excellent, I don't know if the old shopkeeper can also donate some to the people of Jinchangfang, so that the people can praise Deshenglong in real time as a good businessman who cares about the people's welfare." ”
When the old shopkeeper heard this, he pondered for a moment and said: "If the three characters of Deshenglong can be embroidered with silk thread on the clothes, what does the chief think?" ”
Yun Chu nodded and said, "It's better to take the golden thread!" ”
The old shopkeeper shook his head and said: "It is not easy to press the gold thread, just silky yellow!" ”
"I wonder what the old shopkeeper thinks of the number of 10,000 pieces?"
The old shopkeeper looked at Yun Chu with cannibalistic eyes and said: "All of you in Jinchangfang can't wait for more than 5,600, and the old man thinks that 6,000 pieces is already counted!" ”
Yun Chu sighed and said: "The world always only looks at the immediate interests, but they don't know that the immediate interests are just a small road, you know, complaining is full of stomach to prevent intestinal breakage, the scenery should be long-sighted, Mo Dao Jinchang Canal is shallow, and watching fish is better than the Peach Blossom River!" ”
The old shopkeeper looked at the canal on the side of the road, which was no more than two feet deep, and then looked at Yunchu's face that was gradually turning white, and said: "Okay, for the sake of the big fish in your canal, the old man is required to recognize it all." ”
Yun Chu was overjoyed, and said again and again: "Why don't you ask the old shopkeeper to use my Jinchangfang woman to make these 6,000 clothes?" ”
"How about twenty dollars for each garment?"
"Even though the cloth cannot be made of silk, how about you also use sixty bundles of linen to weave linen?"
"Old shopkeeper, you ......"
Liu Yi, who was hiding behind and shivering, jumped into the carriage as if he saw the old shopkeeper running away, and then walked out from behind and said: "Captain, we are not short of money and food, and we even have a lot of money." ”
Yun Chu, who was originally smiling, sank his face at this time, and he felt that this matter should not be over yet.
"Captain, don't scare me, isn't it a good thing to have more money?"
Yun Chu said lightly: "More money is naturally a good thing, but if there are more people, it is not a good thing." ”
Liu Yi saw that Yun Chu left worriedly, but he didn't continue to show his fear, he was just a square now, supported by the chief, as long as he was honest, no disaster would befall him.
In the evening, after the curfew drumming stopped, every family member in Jinchangfang came to the front yard of the Yun family and listened to the chief talk.
When Yun Chu proposed that each family should contribute a strong laborer, he would start preparing for the construction of the workshop from tomorrow, with a daily wage of ten yuan, two catties of yellow rice, or millet.
The remaining laborers, the old, the weak, the young, and the young, will start to sort out the construction waste that Jinchangfang made a few days ago tomorrow, and also put these garbage into the seepage pit left before, and strive to use these garbage to completely fill the stinky seepage pit.
Then build a thatched house on the vacant land, and give five dollars a day, a pound of yellow rice or millet.
From tomorrow, once a woman who can make clothes receives the linen cloth from Deshenglong's gold store, she will begin to sew clothes according to Deshenglong's requirements, first from her own family, and then to those who have no women at home.
For each person who makes a good garment, he is given five money, plus one pound of sorghum.
After the clothes are ready, they will receive linen from the workshop to make underwear and shoes, and the salary is also five per capitation, plus one pound of sorghum.
Yun Chu has formulated the charter, and the rest of the matter is the matter of Fang Zheng Liu Yi, the distribution of the people will be assigned by him, according to the military regulations formulated during the previous imperial court guarding Chang'an, according to the formation of the army, the team, the hundred-person team, the thousand-person team, and then one by one to break down the tasks, the responsibility to the people, although there is an extra management fee, Yun Chu still immediately admitted, the money will be converted into rice and distributed to the person in charge of management when the time comes.
That is, after watching the scene of Liu Yi's assignment of tasks, Yun Chu looked at the tall walls of Chang'an City, and then understood that Chang'an City does not have the characteristics of a commercial city at all, it is a real military fortress.
There is a Guo wall outside the city, behind the Guo wall is the city wall, behind the city wall is a military fortress that is decomposed into one hundred and eight small fortresses, that is, the fang, the end of the fang wall is the imperial city, and the imperial city is the palace city inside.
Even the people in the city are divided according to the military style on weekdays, and once a thief attacks the city, they can organize an army in a moment and participate in the defense of the city.
The fang market is a wonderful design to isolate the spies and chaos of the city, this kind of design like a ship drainage warehouse, even if a few fang markets are infiltrated by thieves, as long as these few fang markets are surrounded, the city can not be chaotic.
Unfortunately, such a well-designed city rarely has a large army attacking the scene, and most of them abandoned the city before the enemy arrived.
Such a number is as many as six times in the history of the Tang Dynasty.
With the fall of Chang'an six times, the Tang Dynasty, a huge empire with great might, finally fell into the dust created by the Hu people.