"Fortunately, there is enough food, and we have not starved to death here this year." Li Guixin has relatives, "But because the weather is really cold, several older refugees froze to death, and many elderly people in the village who are over the age of ten are frozen to death." ”

After listening to Li Gui's words, Jia Baoyu said that he understood very much.

Needless to say, people will freeze to death in such poor conditions now, and even in the 21st century, it is not uncommon for the elderly to freeze to death in the countryside in winter.

Li Gui grew up in Heitu Village since he was a child, and he had enough of the hardships of the countryside, so he finally followed his mother into the city and became Jia Baoyu's long-term follower, who knew that he was driven out of Rongguo Mansion because of some trivial things.

But fortunately, his life was saved, and when he returned to Black Earth Village, he found that this was really not a place for people to stay.

Not only is there a lack of salt and oil, traffic is blocked, and it is often in danger.

Mountain bandits and refugees often come to fight the autumn breeze, and if it weren't for the unity of the people in their village, I am afraid they would be like many villages in the south.

Jia Baoyu sighed, at this time, the Great Zhou Dynasty was in the Xiaoice River period, natural disasters continued, and non-human beings could change.

Strangely enough, the Xiaoice period ended in 1644.

In other words, in three years' time, this harsh environment of freezing to death in winter, persistently low temperatures, and little rain and snow will be improved.

I have to say that the time and place are favorable, and all three are indispensable.

Jia Baoyu asked again: "Since there is no house, why don't you let these refugees live in the factory, I remember that there is a factory plan on the drawings." ”

Li Gui said: "How can it be done! The factory belongs to the second master, how can those mud legs live in such a good house! If I dirty the second master's place, I will be responsible for my death! ”

Listening to Li Gui's words, Jia Baoyu patted his head, in this evil feudal society, the common people will not be taken into account by the rulers.

Zhao Yun on the side frowned slightly, and seemed to have an opinion on Li Gui's words.

Li Fugui followed behind everyone, smoking a dry cigarette, silently listening to a few people talking, but never spoke, just like the ordinary people living in this land for thousands of years, never spoke, and no one listened to him.

The closer he got to the factory, the faster Jia Baoyu's heart beats, not knowing whether it was the fear of the darkness or the excitement of seeing his secret base.

The white lantern only had a dim candlelight, but fortunately there was a half-hidden full moon in the sky, otherwise in this dark field, a few people would have been destined to get lost.

"Here we are." Li Gui, who was leading the way in front, suddenly stopped.

Jia Baoyu, who was following closely, almost didn't stop the car and crashed into it, because it was too dark, and Jia Baoyu couldn't see anything in front of him clearly.

Li Gui held the lantern high, and through the dim light, Jia Baoyu could see a tall brick wall clearly.

It is said that it is a brick wall, but in fact, it is an adobe brick fired from loess rammed mud, and not far from the brick wall, there are several brick kilns like tombs.

"There are a few brick-burning artisans among the refugees, and they have been recruited to meet your requirements." Li Gui didn't know what Jia Baoyu was going to do, but Jia Baoyu's factory drawings had many requirements, one of which was that the quality of the project must be excellent.

"Second master, the foundation of the wall is made of bluestone, and after polishing, it is glutinous rice juice mixed with clay and glued." Li Gui introduced the construction of the brick wall with some pain, "Just firing a brick will cost ten cents." ”

Jia Baoyu touched the cold and hard brick wall with his hand, and nodded with satisfaction, "Go and take a look inside the factory." ”

The factory covers an area of more than 100 acres, about the size of 400 basketball courts and 10 football fields.

In the north of the factory, there is a row of factory frames, which are called frames, that is, there are columns and girders, but there is no capping.

Li Gui explained: "The capping needs tiles and wood, the wood is easy to get, and the back mountains are full of forests, our family's, but the tiles are difficult to do, and you need to spend money to buy them in the county." ”

Tiles are an important part of the house, and the craftsmanship required is more complex and elaborate than that of adobe bricks, and there are no such craftsmen among the refugees.

When Jia Baoyu entered the village, he observed that in Heitu Village, except for the roof of the village chief Li Fugui's house, which had tiles, the roofs of the other villagers were made of straw and reed stalks mixed with yellow mud, which was very simple.

Jia Baoyu looked at the house where he could see the moon, covered his forehead and said, "The silver I gave you looks like this?" ”

Li Gui explained: "Second master, it's all here, don't believe it, ask Brother Yun, this wall not only uses adobe bricks, but also uses river sand, lime and glutinous rice pulp, and according to your requirements, the wall is three meters high, and the cost of this foot is one or two silver!" ”

Seeing the white silver turn into a dusty courtyard wall, Li Gui couldn't help but feel heartache.

Jia Baoyu is a layman in terms of architecture, but he was also shocked to hear that a foot of city wall would cost one or two pieces of silver.

The ruler of ancient times is different from the ruler of later generations, in ancient times, one ruler was equal to about 24 centimeters, so one meter was equal to about 4 feet.

Looking at the half-built courtyard wall, it must be at least a thousand meters, and the silver alone will cost 4,000 taels, not counting the consumption of buying food, Jia Baoyu gave Jia Yun 800 taels of silver in the early stage, and added 5,000 taels of silver in the follow-up, which is only a small half, and even the factory building is open-air.

If you want to build the entire factory, I'm afraid that you can't complete it without two or three thousand taels of silver.

Jia Baoyu calculated in his heart that the bookstore's daily net profit was about 2,000 taels of silver, but this part of the silver could not be taken out, and a part of the silver had to be kept for backup.

In addition, he just lent Wang Xifeng 10,000 taels of silver a few days ago, and Jia Baoyu didn't have much silver in his hand, so he only brought 5,000 taels with him this time.

I thought it was enough, but who knew that I was dumbfounded when I got to the place.

Seeing that Jia Baoyu didn't speak, Li Gui thought he was angry, and hurriedly said: "Actually, you don't need to spend so much silver, as long as you don't feed those refugees, the standard of the walls and roofs is not so high......

Jia Baoyu interrupted Li Gui and said: "You don't need to think about the money, I will find a way, the project has to continue to be done, and the courtyard wall can not be built first, only the factory building is capped here."

In addition, see if there are literate refugees, pick them out, I am useful. ”

Li Gui said with a bitter face: "Second master, it's so late, and it's inconvenient to talk about this black light." ”

Jia Baoyu said as a matter of course: "Nonsense, of course it's tomorrow, you think I'm an evil capitalist, go back to sleep!" ”

The four of them followed the path from which they came, and returned to the village without danger.

Li Gui asked his daughter-in-law to serve Jia Baoyu to wash, and also washed his feet intimately.

Li Gui's daughter-in-law is in her early twenties, and she looks okay, but her skin is a little dark.

When he was in Rongguo Mansion, Jia Baoyu had also seen it, but there were too many good-looking maids in the mansion, and he didn't notice that there was such a person at all.

While Jia Baoyu was washing his feet, Zhao Yun walked in with a door panel, used two long benches as the foot of the bed, and then spread the door panel, looking at the posture, he was planning to sleep in this house.

Jia Baoyu said: "It's freezing here, and there is no earth dragon, sleeping here will freeze you again." ”

Zhao Yun shook his head and said, "What is Yun afraid of being frozen, the safety of the lord is the first priority!" ”