Chapter 121

When Chen Zilong and his entourage arrived in Zhenhai City, the personnel were diverted for the first time. Those who belong to the experts are assigned to the high-end main residential community of experts located in the south of the city near the Agricultural Research Institute.

As for those boys, they can buy or rent according to their wishes.

"Name!"

"Joe's."

"Excuse me, you are renting a house, first buying a house!"

"What's the difference between renting and buying?"

"If you rent, Zhenhai City has a monthly rent of ten taels of silver, twenty taels of silver, thirty taels of silver, fifty taels of silver, and a monthly rent of one hundred taels of silver."

"One hundred taels a month? Why don't you grab it? ”

"If it's too expensive, we also have cheap houses here, there are more than a dozen inns in the west of the city, where the upper room only costs a hundred dollars a day, more than two taels of silver a month, if it's too expensive, you can live in an ordinary room, fifty dollars a day, and cheaper, share with other people, only need fifteen dollars a day, and only four dollars a month!"

"Then what if you buy it!"

"The most expensive single courtyard is three thousand six hundred taels, three thousand taels of silver for the first class, one thousand taels of silver for the first class again, one thousand taels of silver for the second class, and one thousand taels of silver for the second class, and the cheapest one only needs three hundred taels of silver, three main and two compartments, five rooms, together with the land, freehold property!"

"So expensive!"

"Then let's rent a house, cheap!"

"Who do you look down on, is Miss Ben the one who can't afford to pay?"

"Buy a set of fifteen hundred taels of silver!"

"You ask the young lady's name!"

"Do what?"

"Get a deed!"

"Qiao Biluo!"

The person in charge directly wrote Qiao Biluo's name on the deed, stamped it with a big seal, and directly ripped off the sub-page of the deed, even if the deed was completed, the sub-page could be kept for archiving.

"Next. Do you want to buy or rent? ”

The staff put the floor plan directly on the table, and Maldina took two maidservants, two servants, and an old mother, a total of five people were responsible for her travel, eating, drinking, and Lazar.

If you rent a house, it's not a big problem. But she came to Liaoning for a purpose, if she rented a house, it didn't seem to be very cost-effective, but if she bought it......

Five people don't need a big house either.

Considering that she had two carriages, that there must be stables in the house, and that there was also a place to park the carriages, Maldina bought a house worth fifteen hundred taels of silver.

After completing the deed, a middle-aged man took Martina and his party to the new house.

The servants of Maldina crouched down on the street, and with the dagger they carried, they lightly tapped on the pavement: "The materials used in the streets here are the same as those on the docks!" ”

As he spoke, he simply lay on the ground and repeatedly knocked the ground with a dagger, almost licking what it tasted like.

"Rock solid!"

Xu Changshun said: "This ground is harder than rocks!" ”

"Is it a rock?"

"It's not!"

"I've never seen a rock like this before!"

In later generations, it is very good to see well-preserved centuries-old ancient buildings, but in the West, such architectural complexes, and even such cities, are not uncommon, thanks to the stone buildings that are prevalent in the West, such buildings, if they do not suffer special changes, can generally be preserved for hundreds of years.

In ancient times, traditional architecture, in fact, is a wooden building, if you want to build faster, you can put together all parts of the building like building blocks, a three-zhang high wooden attic, just a few days to build.

Such a building has a very bad drawback. That is, it is very afraid of fire, and in Chinese history books, there is often a word "burned to the ground!" ”

For example: in the fifth year of Yongjia (311), Liu Cong, the son of Liu Yuan, sent Shi Le, Wang Mi, Liu Yao and others to lead an army to attack Jin, annihilated the main force of the Jin army in the battle of Ningping City, killed Wang Yan, the chief lieutenant of Jin, and all the princes, broke Luoyang, captured Emperor Huai of Jin, and killed more than 100,000 princes and people. Burn Luoyang to the ground!

In the eighth year of Yonghe (the third year of Yongxing of Ran Wei, 352), on April 25, Murong Jun sent Murong Jun to lead the people to besiege Yecheng. The Wei army defended the city for 100 days, and on the sixth day of August of the same year, Yecheng was breached, and more than 200,000 Wei soldiers and civilians were slaughtered, and Yecheng was burned to the ground.

Wooden construction is an Achilles' heel, and if it accidentally causes a fire, or is burned by the enemy, the consequences can be quite devastating. When Cheng Shijie was building Zhenhai City, he considered that the war would destroy everything, and a fire could turn the hard work of tens of thousands of people and hundreds of thousands of people into nothing, in order to preserve the buildings and facilities of the Ming Dynasty's research on agriculture and leave some inspiration for future generations. The cement and steel buildings that have just been developed are adopted, from the roads, to the city walls, from the streets, to the shops, which are completely different from the traditional Ming-style buildings.

After nearly half an hour, or two quarters of an hour, the carriage of the Mardina drove on the smooth concrete road, and the middle-aged man led the Mardina group to a large dock-like complex to hand over the doorman.

The middle-aged man looked at the carriage lane: "Miss Xu Si, you can live here with peace of mind, this is a high-end community belonging to Zhenhai City, there are guards patrolling every day, and the people you don't want to see will definitely not disturb you!" ”

The housekeeper's mother-in-law stepped forward and said, "This is too biased, isn't it?" ”

"It's just ahead!"

At this time, the door opened, and there was a person who looked like a housekeeper standing at the door, and he bowed down and said: "Welcome to the proprietor to move to a new home, contemptible Han Shun, for your temporary housekeeper, if you need anything, please command." ”

The housekeeper looked at the big mansion in front of her and was a little surprised: "Is this the new house of our Xu family?" ”

"Exactly!"

"It covers an area of five acres, with three front and rear entrances, a total of eight master rooms, twelve servants' rooms, three living rooms, two dining rooms, two kitchens, two public toilets, eight private toilets, stables and four carriage garages, seven utility rooms, and a total of

Han Shun then introduced: "Fifty-seven houses, with a small garden in the backyard, two study rooms, and one ...... There are bedding in the bedroom, brand new, sewn from pure cotton, if you are not used to it, we can change it immediately! ”

In all fairness, Maldina is not very old, but she is a well-informed girl. As early as the age of nine, she was baptized and became a Catholic.

Under the influence of Xu Guangqi, Miss Xu Si is very favored, she has been to distant Guangzhou, and has also been to big cities such as Suzhou, Hangzhou, Yangzhou, and Nanjing.

However, when Maldina came to Zhenhai City, she was really shocked. It's a very new city and a very clean city.

The stinking drainage ditches that can be seen everywhere are gone, replaced by rows of underground pipes, and a manhole cover can be seen every twenty or thirty steps, needless to say, the scene of sewage cross-flow no longer exists, and the whole city is very neat and clean, even cleaner than the world-famous Suzhou and Hangzhou.

"Why is it so clean?"

Maldina looked at her temporary butler, Han Shun, and said, "There is no filth on the road!" ”

Han Shun said with a smile: "This was originally Maqiao Town, and it was also dirty and messy at the beginning, a lot of garbage was piled up into a mountain, and the handsome man formulated a management policy, who littered would be fined, at the beginning everyone was not used to it, or littering, and was punished a few times before it was changed, and now, everyone likes this neat and clean environment, no need to supervise, who dares to litter again will definitely be scolded by everyone without shame." ”

"Our house has an excellent location, 500 steps away is the commercial street, you will not feel the noise of the market, and it is very convenient to buy daily necessities!"

Han Shun continued: "These shops are all newly opened, selling rice, selling oil and salt, selling vinegar, and selling cloth, these businessmen's noses are too smart, and they immediately smelled business opportunities, rented a store in Zhenhai City and started doing business." If it weren't for the fact that the marshal insisted that they pay taxes, and many merchants were angry, there would definitely be more shops in the city. ”

Maldina was surprised: "He still has to collect commercial taxes?" ”

"Yes, our handsome man said that it is natural for business to pay taxes, and if you want to do business in southern Liaoning, you will honestly pay taxes to him, fifteen taxes and one, and those who don't pay will automatically and consciously get out!"

Han Shun sighed a little helplessly and said, "Da Shuai is angry that there are many merchants, otherwise there will be more merchants here." ”

Maldina nodded and said, "I rarely collect business taxes, and he not only collects them, but also pays fifteen taxes and one one, who wants to do business in his territory?" ”

"There are still people who are willing to do it, and they are not willing to pay taxes, but later they found out that if someone comes to the door to extort money, the people from the city management will immediately rush over to get people, and their business will not be affected in any way, and everyone will be willing to pay, because they are extorted and extorted every month and lose much more money than they should pay taxes."

"A businessman will not buy and sell at a loss."

After Chen Zilong and his party arrived in Dianzhenhai City, they were quickly assigned to their residences, and these experts were not a separate courtyard, but an independent pavilion.

Five rooms with three floors, one floor and two floors with a total of twelve rooms, the downstairs is the living room, kitchen, guest rooms, upstairs is three bedrooms and a study, considering that some specialists have many families, the third floor can also be inhabited, a total of six rooms.

This kind of loft is built in the style of later villas, and the decoration is also white.

When Cheng Shijie planned Zhenhai City, he not only reserved spacious streets, enough squares and green spaces, but also had very high requirements for buildings. In particular, the underground sewers are so wide that you can even run horse-drawn carriages inside.

Not only the city center, but also the two sides of the city's main roads, the high-end residential areas from the city center to the Agricultural Research Institute, and even the vicinity of the Agricultural Research Institute, are all cement pavement.

In particular, the center of Zhenhai City, is the agricultural square that covers an area of about 300 acres, this square sits north to south, listed as five statues, respectively, Shennong's, followed by Pan Shengzhi (a famous agronomist in the Western Han Dynasty), he compiled the "Book of Pan Sheng", written in the Western Han Dynasty, is the earliest agricultural book monograph in China. It has been more than 2,000 years.

Then there is Jia Sixian, an expert in agriculture during the Wei, Jin, Southern and Northern Dynasties, and the author of the comprehensive agricultural book "Qi Min Yaoshu". The book was written in 533~544 A.D., and it has been more than 1,500 years.

The book systematically summarizes the knowledge of agricultural science and technology in the Yellow River Basin of China since the Qin and Han dynasties, and its material layout provides a basis for later agricultural works. It is composed of chapters on farming, grains, vegetables, fruit trees, trees, livestock, brewing, seasoning, conditioning, and foreign products, and is the earliest and most complete large-scale agricultural encyclopedia in China.

Chen Yang: In 1149 AD, Chen Yang's Book of Agriculture in the Southern Song Dynasty summarized in detail the rich experience of farmers in southern China in planting rice, silkworm raising, mulberry planting, cattle raising and other production techniques, and pointed out that through reasonable fertilization and soil improvement, the soil can be constantly renewed and strong.

Wang Zhen: The word Boshan, a native of Dongping in the Yuan Dynasty. Ancient Chinese agronomist, agricultural mechanic, Taoist scholar. In the fourth year of Yuan Chengzong Dade, he wrote "Wang Zhennongshu", and at the end of the book, he also wrote "Movable Type Printing Calligraphy", describing his wooden movable type printing technique.

The last one is Xu Guangqi......

These statues are multiplied by three according to the normal proportions of the human body, and Maldina saw this statue of Xu Guangqi. I lost my mind for a moment, because the statue was so similar.

When Martina looked at this, Chen Zilong was also stunned.

At that time, he looked at Song Yingxing beside him and said, "I didn't expect it, this Cheng Zhengyu is really a caring person!" ”

"Flattery, smugglers!"

Song Yingxing was faintly displeased, building a living hall, or an ancestral hall, and worshipping ancestors was originally a tradition of more than 2,000 years, but this tradition was broken by Wei Zhongxian.

Chen Zilong shook his head and said, "No, Chang Gung, how long do you think it will take for this stone statue to be carved?" ”

Song Yingxing was slightly stunned: "This ......"

In the case of the use of machinery in later generations, a stone statue can be carved in about half a month, and in the Ming Dynasty, due to the adoption of artificial primitive carving technology, it took a long time. Like the stone statue of the Ming Ming Tombs, it took two years to select the stone for two years. That's when we have the power of craftsmen from all over the country, and if it's a private person, I'm afraid it will take as long as five years.

Five years ago, what was Xu Guangqi doing?

When Wei Zhongxian was in power, in order to win the hearts of the people, he planned to appoint Xu Guangqi as the right attendant of the Ministry of Rites and the official position of Zhan Shifu, the assistant of the Hanlin Academy, but Xu Guangqi refused to take office, which caused the dissatisfaction of the eunuch party and was impeached, and the emperor ordered him to "stay idle with the crown".

Xu Guangqi stayed in Shanghai from the third year of the Apocalypse to the first year of Chongzhen, compiling the "Complete Book of Agricultural Administration", that is to say, when Cheng Shijie ordered someone to carve this stone statue, Xu Guangqi had no official position at that time, just an old man who compiled the "Complete Book of Agricultural Administration".

If you need to stammer, do you need to stammer Xu Guangqi?

This is of course a misunderstanding, in fact, these craftsmen carved Xu Guangqi's stone statue, it only took more than two months, that's all, especially the polishing, finishing part, is the use of sandpaper, polishing machine, although it is animal, not very stable, but much faster than manual refinement.

Cheng Shijie is not to appease Xu Guangqi, as one of the four major agricultural experts in ancient China, Xu Guangqi deserves Cheng Shijie's respect.

Gu Shizhang opened a huge shop covering an area of more than 14 acres, that is, nearly 10,000 square meters, in Zhenhai City, specializing in Huizhou specialty rice paper, ink, inkstone, and also providing services such as character framing.

Xie Jinglin opened two special restaurants in the city, which can openly serve all kinds of game such as beef and mutton, silly roe deer, rabbits, etc., and Cheng Shijie also made a lot of wine.

Zhang Chen's Oriental firm also opened a branch in Zhenhai City......

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Jinzhou City, the headquarters of the Haining Army.

In the side hall of the right front hall, an old man in a blue staff suit is sitting upright drinking tea. This old man was about sixty years old, his face was full of wrinkles, his beard was gray, his eyebrows were kind, and he was dressed in fine silk and satin, gorgeous and generous, and this dress was very valuable when it was put overseas.

To his left sat a man in his thirties, quite tall, dressed in white, and looking good, but the speed of his eyes was a little too fast, and he was shrewd everywhere, so it was best to be careful when dealing with him;

A girl of eighteen or nineteen years old is admiring a landscape painting with her hands behind her back. She is wearing a light yellow dress, a little more than one meter seven is quite outstanding, her long hair reaches her waist, her ten fingers are habitually twisted together, and her cobble-egg face is light and light, not amazing, but it is very attractive, and it is the kind that is more beautiful the more she looks, her eyes are bright, her lips are thin and delicate, like cherry petals, and she knows at a glance that she is a master who can speak.

As for Yang Yunniang next to her, she was faintly uneasy, although Cheng Shijie's industry is getting bigger and bigger, and the business is getting better and better, Cheng Shijie has given Yang Yunniang more and more salaries in order to win over Yang Yunniang, and in less than a year, Yang Yunniang's worth is already very high.

She didn't calculate how much money she had, anyway, Cheng Shijie made a kerosene lighter, which was just for the convenience of scouts and the ignition of thunderbolts and artillerymen.

However, sometimes it is so intentional to plant flowers that do not bloom, and unintentionally plant willows and willows into the shade. This lighter produced more than 2,000 before and after, and also brought Yang Yunniang hundreds of taels of silver dividends. But the problem is that when the operator of the Thunderbolt gun who got the finished lighter, Su Huaicai, a soldier of the Fourth Division of the former General Department of the Right Capital Division who had just joined the army for less than three months, actually succeeded in reversing the Thunderbolt-style tap fire according to the principle of the lighter.

Although this tap fire device weighs more than eight pounds, which is very large, it saves the process of lighting the fire rope.

Cheng Shijie transferred Su Huaicai from the Fourth Infantry Division, and then gave Su Huaicai a large amount of information, asking him to study the more powerful and faster firearms.

The accumulation of wealth did not bring Yang Yunniang much sense of security, perhaps only in the dead of night, Yang Yunniang would remember whether it was all worth it.

Originally, Yang Yunniang was also a layman in the management of the bank. She crossed the river by feeling the stones, and Cheng Shijie asked her to do whatever she did, but the problem is that the method provided by Cheng Shijie was originally tried and tested, but it was a little ineffective in the bank.

Especially the one-time password, this thing is simply restricting the development of the bank.

This is also Cheng Shijie's thinking is too simple, like dynamic passwords need huge data support, in the future there are supercomputers and central processing units, which can easily solve this problem, if all the manpower is used, Cheng Shijie's bank, even if all the loans are lent out, will also lose money.

The three subordinates under Yang Yunniang's command proposed a solution to her.

But the problem is that Cheng Shijie is too busy to take care of this problem at all.

Emperor Chongzhen once again urged Cheng Shijie to go to the capital to report on his work, according to the regulations, even when Cheng Shijie had just been promoted to the chief of the Ning Navy, he had to go to the capital to thank him.

It's just that Cheng Shijie doesn't have time.

Now he is dealing with a fatal matter, that is, the group of sons and brothers who came to Zhenhai City caused trouble, they were open-mouthed and insulted the soldiers of the Ning Navy, and the soldiers of the Ning Navy were angry and threw these three open-mouthed Xiucai into the septic tank.

If these Ning Navy soldiers kill these three Xiucai, the matter is still easy to solve, and if the person dies and there is no witness, he can just take two heads to resist it, and then pay some money, it can be solved.

The laws of the Ming Dynasty, when formulated, were biased towards scholars, and the scholars of the Ming Dynasty were not the stinky Lao Jiu during the Yuan Dynasty, how did the title of Lao Jiu come about?

The Yuan Dynasty divided people into ten classes, one official, two officials, three monks, four daos, five doctors, six workers, seven hunters, eight people, nine Confucians, and ten beggars.

The status of a Confucian scholar is only slightly better than that of a beggar.

But the Ming Dynasty was different, for example, when the county official tried a case, he would first beat him with a killing stick, or he would not confess and use the punishment, but Xiucai could not be beaten. Xiucai is a protégé of the Son of Heaven, and he needs to get rid of his fame before he can play ......

Now that the soldiers of the Ning Navy have fought Xiucai, this problem is big.

Now these three talents, plus two or three hundred sons, are making trouble with Cheng Shijie every day.

Cheng Shijie was angry and could only attack towards Zhang Yu: "Look, what are you doing, kill it directly, save more trouble, bury it casually, where do they find someone?" ”

It is not uncommon for large animals to hurt people in southern Liaoning, and now wild boars can eat people.

Zhang Yu said: "The last general will arrest the soldiers who committed the crime......"

"Bastard!"

Cheng Shijie scolded indignantly: "This marshal finally mentioned the morale of the Ning Navy, if you deal with it, in the future, our soldiers of the Ning Navy, as long as they see Xiucai, will bow their heads and be timid......"

This is just like in later generations, some trolls are spraying security guards to enforce the law roughly, security guards (meaning, not real security guards) when encountering emergencies, they will consider whether they will violate the law at the first time, and they will not deal with things as soon as they encounter them, but first consider self-protection, and the injured can only be ordinary people.

"What does that mean the handsome...... Now what? ”

"That's what you're doing!"

Cheng Shijie lowered his voice and said: "The brine points tofu, one thing drops one thing, you go to the labor camp, mention some fierce and vicious ruffians or Jiangyang thieves, and announce to the outside world that the Ninghai Navy labor camp rioted, and some labor prisoners escaped......"

Changyu suddenly realized.

Cheng Shijie doesn't want to rebel directly now, because this will be cheaper to build slaves, so he can only retreat.

There is no harm without contrast.

Where there's contrast, there's harm.

Let them suffer a little first, so that they can know that Ning Haijun is their protector.

(End of chapter)