Jin Yu just arrived in Beijing, only in the household department to receive an idle position, and now under the instigation of Jintong, under the instigation of Jintong, he led the hard work of rebuilding West Street.

Zhang Xianzhong, the head of the household department, was so busy with the earthquake relief that he wished to come to a few more people like Jinyu, with noble status and money in hand, to help him share the pressure. The household department is now short of manpower, so he only randomly allocated four miscellaneous servants to Jinyu, and Jinyu didn't care about anything, but only told Zhang Xianzhong that he would definitely rebuild West Street neatly.

Zhang Xianzhong did not deduct the silver in the piece of relief, and the 600,000 taels of silver donated by the four kings and thirteen candidates for the first time were a lot for Jinyu to receive and use.

Zhang Xianzhong came from a humble background, and he relied on his own ability and hard work to climb step by step from an eighth-grade petty official to his current position, and his eyesight is not bad. He pondered that 600,000 yuan to rebuild West Street, eighty percent was not enough, and it was estimated that Jinyu would have to pay out of his own pocket to supplement it, so as to sell a good reputation and gain a foothold in Shangjing, so he gave the money very generously.

Although Zhang Xianzhong only sent four people, Jin Yu didn't mind. Jintong sent Mr. Gongsun, the Wu'an brothers and twenty family members to assist him. Besides, the Jingbei Hou Mansion is down, and there are still some foundations left after his father and three brothers fought with their lives. When he entered Beijing this time, he also brought more than 100 loyal guards, and there were enough people.

The original West Street was extremely chaotic, and the shacks were all built haphazardly, which was described in modern language as illegal buildings.

Mr. Gongsun first asked the household clerk to quickly clear the household registration of West Street, and check it one by one, if there are good people who hold the serious title deed of West Street, when the time comes, West Street can be rebuilt, and the old title deed can be exchanged for a house of the same size. With such a reckoning, less than one-tenth of the houses on West Street are truly ownerless, and the chaos can be seen.

Next, Mr. Gongsun asked dozens of his subordinates to send a message that all able-bodied men and women on West Street could temporarily work for Anjifang, and then convert them into houses and three meals a day according to their wages, so the temporary shacks built by Anjifang were overcrowded every day.

Jin Yu had already instructed people to fill ten bags of rice in coarse sacks, each bag containing one stone of rice, and those who came to sign up should carry the rice around West Street according to their own ability. Then, according to the strength of each person, more than 400 of the strongest were selected to help transport materials and sand and stones, and tamp the ground of West Street.

The Ministry of Industry sent 20 Ziren to help, and Jin Yu recruited dozens of craftsmen who knew how to build houses from the people, but in ten days, the entire West Street began to be built vigorously.

All the people of West Street who helped, three meals a day were provided by Anjifang, and they were full. Every day, the salary is calculated in addition, and a certain amount of bamboo chips is collected to make up a certain amount of bamboo chips, and when the house on West Street is built, the house can be changed according to the number.

The people of West Street can see with their own eyes, and the bricks and tiles that are transported are all real bricks, tiles and wood! In other words, when these brick houses are built, they will all be able to live in them. They never dreamed that they would be able to live in such a good house one day.

Suddenly, the whole West Street boiled, everyone obeyed the arrangement of Jin Yu and others, divided into 16 groups, registered the roster, and the Ziren and folk craftsmen sent by the Ministry of Industry took the lead in guiding and began to build houses vigorously.

Every day before sunset, it is inspected by each group of Zi people, and if it is not qualified, it will be pushed down, regardless of wages, and the qualified ones will be issued according to their workload. In this way, for only three days, no one has the heart to be lazy, and everyone is working hard.

There are also those who are lazy and lazy, or spread rumors everywhere, or wait for opportunities to steal materials. Gongsun Wuji had already taken precautions, and in order to prevent theft, several teams of people took turns patrolling every night. Those thieves were caught, first put on 30 pounds of heavy shackles, and then sent to the yamen for punishment after being put in shackles for three days. In this way, no one dares to fish in troubled waters anymore.

The six brothers of the Lu family were the first to gather bamboo chips, they are people from Jiangnan, they were originally engaged in the dart business, Jiangnan is rich, and they are also considered to have a small fortune. Eight years ago, he was robbed by a mountain bandit because of a mistake, although he later helped the government to exterminate the mountain bandits, but nearly half of the goods were lost, and a lot of silver was lost. He lost his reputation again, and gradually his business could not be done.

Lu's father was injured when he was helping to suppress the bandits, and when he watched the sunset at home, he was depressed, and the old injury recurred and died.

The six brothers of the Lu family have been practicing martial arts since childhood, they all have a big appetite, and they don't know how to operate, but their family fell into decline after a few years. The brothers couldn't, so they carried their old mother on their backs and brought their families to Shangjing to ask for work.

The small dilapidated house where their brothers lived was in the center of the collapse, everything in the house was crushed, and the old mother and Lu's daughter-in-law were at home, and when they dug it out, it was already cold!

When the land was moved, the brothers and Lu's second daughter-in-law were all working outside, leaving only Lu's eldest daughter-in-law to take care of her seriously ill mother, or the consequences would be even more unimaginable.

When Jinyu recruited people to move materials, they were the first to sign up. Several brothers have practiced martial arts since childhood, and their strength can carry the tripod, one person carries a sack of rice on each shoulder, and puts a bag on it horizontally, and the feet are like flying. The six brothers went back and forth like a relay race, and they didn't even sweat much, and the weak man who carried a bag of rice hadn't come back yet.

Seeing their divine powers, Jin Yu arranged for them to help first. They work hard, don't be lazy, and take the initiative to do any heavy work, and one person can top two or three people. The overseer was quite fair, and the six brothers together could get at least ten bamboo chips every day, and by the time the houses on West Street were completed, they had already put together hundreds of bamboo chips.

Lu Da discussed with a few younger brothers: "At the moment, we have 137 bamboo chips, I greeted Master Wu last night, and followed the patrol to see, near the west gate, the house is small, and it takes almost three rooms to top one on the east side." I'm wondering if we're going to change the big room, what do you think? ”

In order to prevent theft on West Street, all the people were not allowed to move around at will from the beginning of the year, and they had to stay in the shacks arranged by Anjifang, and violators were punished.

Lu Si: "Big brother, is it really possible for the imperial court to give us the house for nothing?" Yesterday, Jia Tu also laughed at our brothers for being stupid and contributing to the court in vain. ”

Lu is six years young, but he is the most active in his heart: "Fourth brother, that Jia Tu is so lazy to eat, and he followed Liu Daoscar to make trouble on the day of the earth movement!" If that guy hadn't run fast, he would have been caught by the official errand! Do you believe what this scoundrel says? Besides, we have the bamboo chips, and we will know the truth if we go to change it tomorrow? ”

"Don't divert the topic, we originally planned to change the two huts first, and then the second brother, you take them to continue to work for Anjifang to change bamboo chips, and the sixth brother and I will go to buy some daily necessities. But looking at it this way, it is better to directly change to a large room first. I looked at the big room, and there were eight rooms in it, enough for a few of us brothers. ”

"Big brother, I said that I would get together 300 bamboo chips, and when the time comes, we will have one room for each person, and the third brother and a few of them will not have to worry about marrying wives and having children. Why did you change your mind again? "Lu Er has a daughter-in-law, and his daughter-in-law has always complained that she has been dragged back by a few younger brothers, so she naturally wants to live alone.

After some discussion, most of the brothers shouted for a big house, Lu Er thought that their brothers had strength, and it was not impossible to change to a small house after changing to a big house, so he no longer objected.

Early the next morning, Lu Da went to Jinyu with two dark circles under his eyes (he was cranky last night, and he almost didn't sleep all night) with 120 bamboo chips.

Jin Yu is generally in the middle of the house to go to the household to order a mao, the beginning of the West Street, until the middle of the house to return home. Lu Da had fifteen buckets in his heart, seven up and eight down and waiting for Jinyu.

As soon as the news came out that someone was going to change the house, Anjifang temporarily went over there and gathered around to see the excitement. Coincidentally, yesterday a batch of timber was piled up outside the city from the Nanshan camp, and early in the morning, Jin Yu took people to count and transport them back to West Street, but the people were not there.

The more Lu Da waited, the more anxious he became, and the onlookers whispered.

Na Jia Tu fanned the flames without wind and waves: "Tut-tut! deceived our ordinary people to work hard, and now the people who come to change houses are gone! Black heart and liver! ”

"Jia Tu, shut up! The officials and old men are well fed every day, and there is meat to eat every day, so the big guys will be content! Some people refuted.

But there were also a few people who echoed Jia Tu and said cool words, and the more Lu Da listened, the more panicked he became, and his head was full of sweat.

Li Liu was furious when he heard this, and came out to scold the street: "What kind of person is Lord Jin, how can he deceive you?" He rolled up his sleeves murderously: "Just now, who didn't have long eyes was spraying feces!" Come out and show you! Just as he was arguing with the people, a half-grown child ran over and shouted, "Lord Nishiki is here!" Pulling several truckloads of wood! ”

"Look, look, Lord Jin is heartbroken for you, you come to chew the root of your tongue! Don't run, I'll see which one it is! When the time comes, I won't change your house, and I won't eat the relief food! A few sowing discord hurriedly ran away.

In the midst of the chaos, Jin Yu led the soldiers of the Nanshan battalion to pull more than a dozen carts of wood over. Li Liu hurriedly called a few people to run over to help, and Lu Da also followed behind and took the initiative to help.

Jin Yu smiled and said to Lu Da: "I just thought, your family must be the first to come to change, sure enough, you come in with me." ”

Lu Da nodded and asked Jin Yu to say goodbye, and then shook his hand to offer 120 bamboo chips, Jin Yu took it and asked Li Liu to count it, the bamboo chips in order to prevent those ruffians and hooligans from cheating, there are hidden marks, Li Liu carefully inspected them one by one. Lu Da rubbed his hands nervously, and Jin Yu patted him on the shoulder with a smile: "Which house do you like?" ”

Lu Da smiled embarrassedly: "Lord Jin, I said hello to Master Wu last night, and I went to see it secretly, and I want to change to a big room on the east side near the Thanksgiving Pavilion first." ”

"You're smart!" Jin Yu took the deed that had been prepared a long time ago and asked Lu Da to sign and pledge it.

Lu Da is sincere: "Lord Jin, you can't just write my name!" Our brother said that I would live in this house with the fifth and sixth brothers, and we would sign the names of the three of us. ”

Jin Yu sent someone to invite Lu Wu and Lu Liu, and the three brothers happily signed and signed the pledge. When the onlookers saw this, they scattered to their homes to report the news.

Jin Yu had a very good impression of the brothers, and knew that their old mother, Lu Da's wife, had all died in the ground movement, and he was even more sympathetic. Seeing that there was no one around, he quietly stuffed a 20 taels of silver ticket to Lu Da, he didn't dare to give more, 20 silver to buy some simple furniture or something, almost just right. "That house has nothing, you have this money, you can buy something with some subsidies."

Lu Da was useless, so he just excused himself: "Lord Jin, it's good that the villain has a shelter from the wind and rain, this house is good enough, big and new, I really don't dare to take any more money from adults." ”

Jin Yu smiled and said to Lu Da: "Take it quickly!" If you push it around like this, it's not good to be seen. ”

Lu Da hid the silver ticket, knelt down with Lu Wulu and Lu Liusan, and slammed his head three times: "Lord Jin, your great kindness, our six brothers remember it in our hearts." ”

Seeing that the Lu family really changed the house, and there was a deed registered by the household department, the people of West Street were even more enthusiastic, and they were busy every day, and in less than two months, the entire West Street took on a new look.