"It should. However, if you want to buy a house, you can take a look at my old house. ”

Li Qiao said.

If there is no accident, this new house is now the place where he and Tao Zhu retire, this house is big enough, even if someone from Sanliu Village comes, it can live.

Therefore, if the dealer is interested, he doesn't mind transferring the four-entry house to Zhuang Wen.

"Okay, brother, I've written it down."

Zhuang Wen's eyes immediately lit up.

The house is good, there is a warm house, suitable for the elderly to live.

If his father comes, it will be more comfortable to live in a conservatory in winter.

Seeing this, Xu Ying on the side sighed faintly.

Brother Hua wanted to live closer to Tao Zhu, so he had been looking at the house in the east of the city, and as a result, the saint directly rewarded Li Qiao with a house.

In this area, you can't take it with silver alone.

What's more, the painting brother doesn't have so much silver.

As for his Xu family's silver, he will never use it, otherwise, his family will definitely have to stand up and make trouble with his brother.

Meng Yue on the side buried his head in eating skewers silently, and definitely did not participate in this topic, lest everyone persuade him.

He was not interested in buying a house.

If it were possible, he would prefer to rent a room in Brother Li's house, Brother Li's house and the Seven Princes' Mansion are on the same street, envy!

After the lively housewarming banquet, Li Qiao's life continued as usual, and after moving to the east of the city, his commuting distance was greatly shortened, and he could stay at home for a while more every day.

The two cross-courtyards on the east side were the traditional four-entry courtyards, and he found craftsmen to come and tear down all the houses to prepare for reconstruction.

This time, he must quietly get the cement out, and he has to ask the Seven Princes for a commendation decree to come back.

When Li Qiao's family rumbled and demolished the courtyard, Sheng Hong issued several holy decrees one after another, this time several positions were vacated in the ministry, as well as several positions originally occupied by the Peng family, and he rearranged the manpower.

The two attendants of the Hanlin Academy, as well as Lord Duan and Master Li, who were in the same room as Li Qiao before, were transferred to the Ministry of Officials.

Xin Zhi occupied one of the vacated positions in the Hanlin Academy, and he was edited from the original Zhengqipin Hanlin Academy to a bachelor from the fifth grade.

Xin Zhi was very happy, and set up a banquet in Baiwei Building, inviting a group of people to celebrate.

Previously, his grandfather was disgusted by the Emperor Taishang because of the eldest prince's broken leg, so that he had an empty title, and no one in the family was an official.

Now he has not only become an official, but also promoted in just over three years!

Bachelor of Waiting, this is a good position, and the next promotion is just around the corner!

Liang Han, who was in the same class as Li Qiao and Xin Zhi, also became a bachelor from Wupin.

In addition, Sheng Hong also transferred a director of the 12th Department from the Ministry of Households.

As a result, the household department vacated a position in charge of the office.

In this position, Xu Ying went up.

Lang Zhong, the director of the 12th Department of the Household Department, holds real power and is a five-rank official, and Xu Ying's original rice and silver department member Wailang is also a five-grade official, Xu Ying is a flat tone.

But the unpopular small department of the rice and silver department cannot be compared with the twelve departments of the household department, each of the twelve departments of the household department holds the finance, land, household registration and other powers of a province, and Xu Ying is promoted this time.

The most obvious evidence of this is that his fortune has risen.

Dasheng is based on the real power in the hands of each official, although they are all five-grade officials, but the Langzhong of the 12th Department of the Household Department is higher than the Wai Lang of the Rice and Silver Division.

This is a happy event, Xu Ying is very happy, set up a banquet at home, and invite friends to celebrate together.

What made him even happier was that Brother Hua was pregnant.

After being married for so long, Shen Hua is finally pregnant, and now he can block his family's mouth.

There was joy around him, so Li Qiao set up a banquet at home again, because Xin Zhi and Xu Ying both felt that they were promoted because of his joy, and both of them still wanted to get involved again, so he could only set up the banquet again.

Meng Yue and Zhuang Wen were also present.

Although the two of them were not promoted, they were not unhappy, Zhuang Wen had always looked at this matter very lightly, and Meng Yue was afraid that it would be too far away from the Seventh Prince to be promoted to other departments.

However, they were sincerely happy for Xu Ying and Xin Zhi.

It's good to be promoted, continue to be promoted!

"It will definitely not be easy to be promoted next time, the princes have been very calm recently, and the officials are also calm."

Xin Zhi took a sip of rice wine to take away the spicy taste in his mouth, and couldn't help but talk about the situation in the DPRK and China.

"There is such a problem in the saint, and several princes do not accept it, and my family is also pondering, but they have no clue."

"No, I also pondered it, only silver can solve this matter, but the silver in the treasury can't support this huge consumption, let alone a few princes."

Meng Yue also nodded.

The Seventh Prince is fighting for the throne for the eldest prince, and he naturally takes this matter to heart, but there is no solution to this matter.

But the Seventh Prince was not in a hurry at all, and tried the case as usual on weekdays, and he didn't care about this problem at all.

Worry about!

Li Qiao blinked when he heard this, after work yesterday, he and Tao Zhu went to visit the Seven Princes with puffs and other small desserts.

The Seventh Prince is indeed having a headache about this, and apart from the silver, the Seven Princes can't think of any other way.

However, if it is a financial struggle, the Seven Princes have a chance of winning, because the eldest prince has a lot of properties in his hands, and just a gambling house is a daily income.

The other three princes did not have this advantage.

Therefore, the Seven Princes were not anxious at all, and also moved out of Li Qiao's famous sentence, if this matter cannot be satisfactorily resolved, then whoever has more money can build an extra road, then whoever is the victor.

Since you are sure to win, you only need to see the other three princes make moves.

Now that Sheng Hong has put out the conditions for competing for the crown prince, can the remaining three princes bear it?

The Seventh Prince's words are really reasonable, and it is because Li Qiao can only make a headache at this time, and follow a few friends to worry together.

But when a few friends left, he immediately went to the East Cross Courtyard with Tao Zhu.

Although the strategy of the Seven Princes was to hold their troops still, just in case, he still pounded out the cement first.

He can do without cement, but he can't do without.

At this time, the East Cross Courtyard did not have its original appearance, and the craftsmen worked very sloppily, and had already transported all the wood, bricks, and tiles that had been removed, and now the two courtyards were empty.

Tao Zhu took Li Qiao's hand, walked along the root of the wall, and slowly talked about the layout of this cross-courtyard.

"Where do we grow vegetables? East or West? Now Xiao Rui is shouting every day to grow vegetables, and I want to plant too. ”

"Let's be in the east, let's live in the east, convenient."

Li Qiao said directly.

This house is too big, five courtyards together, three thousand meters wide horizontally, if you live in the east courtyard, but the vegetable field is in the west courtyard, it is too inconvenient.

"Okay, listen to you."

Tao Zhu imagined the scene of planting vegetables and flowers in his yard, and a smile appeared on his face, this is how to live.

The four-entry house before was fine, but the yard was covered with bluestone slabs, and if you want to plant vegetables and flowers, you can only plant them in flower pots, which is too embarrassing.

As a little brother who grew up in the countryside, he never thought that it would be so difficult to grow vegetables one day.

Luckily, there is a new house.

Tomorrow, all kinds of building materials will be sent over, and planting flowers and vegetables at home will be just around the corner~

Li Qiao is also full of expectations for tomorrow, and the building materials are all in, so will the cement be far away?

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Chapter 177: The Idea of the Six Princes Cement

Limited by the technical conditions of this time and space, what Li Qiao wants to do is very simple soil cement.

He knows that there are two methods of soil cement, one requires the use of quicklime, gypsum, clay, slag and other raw materials, and the method is more complicated.

There is also a simpler method that only requires the use of plant ash and sand.

Previously, Li Qiao took the opportunity to build a greenhouse to make an interest in brick burning, pottery and other processes, and also intentionally or unintentionally mixed some construction waste, but never dared to make real cement.

Now, his family is tearing down all the houses and rebuilding them, and his previous foreshadowing comes in handy.

After work, he ran across the courtyard to the east, touching here and asking there, and no one would suspect that he had other purposes.

However, after thinking about it, he still felt that the first approach was more dangerous, because the process was too complicated to pretend to be intentional.

When he was in Sanliu Village, he could still make up blindly, but now he is under Sheng Hong's eyelids, and countless people are staring at him, trying to pretend that he made cement unintentionally, which is really too difficult.

Therefore, he planned to explore the path with plant ash first.

It's very simple to make cement from plant ash, there is no electricity or natural gas these days, every household is cooking on fire, and every household has plant ash.

Soak the plant ash in water, stir and precipitate, and then pour out the water on the surface, and then group the remaining plant and wood mortar into balls by hand, squeeze out the water, and dry.

After drying, the most important step comes: throw it into the fire and burn it.

In this process, it is necessary to burn with the largest fire possible, and after burning, the grass and wood ash balls are thrown into the water, the balls are scattered, and then poured into the sand, so that the soil and cement are ready.

The hardness of this kind of soil cement is not as hard as real cement, but in this time and space, it can be used.

Moreover, what is even more coincidental is that when Li Qiao was about to pound the grass and wood ash cement, Li Xiaorui first pounded the plant ash.

Li Xiaorui is four years old, a young boy of this age, can run and jump, and is full of curiosity about the world.

After raising chickens, he raised geese.

After moving, the chickens he raised, no, the chickens and geese that had become big chickens all moved to the new house.

When I was in the old house, the place was not very spacious, and the chickens and geese were kept in cages, and only a fixed time was given for the wind every day.

After moving to the new house, the place is very spacious, and Li Xiaorui wants to let his chickens and geese move freely.