In this era, the cost of building a decent house is very high.
In a farming family, a husband and wife live frugally, plus a whole family and relatives to support them. It usually takes more than ten or twenty years to save money before they choose to build a house.
The assets here mostly refer to food and raw materials for building original houses.
The beams and other wood will be cut in advance more than ten years, or seven or eight years in advance, dried and stored in the shade.
The stones used for building foundations are usually prepared three or four years in advance, or five or six years in advance.
During their free time during the busy farming season, family members would, like ants, transport stones back from outside little by little and pile them on their property, waiting to be used for building houses in a few years.
In this process, even children as young as five or six may have to contribute.
For a farmer's family, building a house is like saving money. It is a matter of careful calculation, little by little, and careful calculation.
Building a house is a more important matter for any farm family than marrying a wife for one's own children.
Of course, the difficulty of building a house is only relative.
For Huang An, the cost of building ten houses in Feng'an City is not as high as the cost of building a two-story building in a fourth- or fifth-tier small city in his hometown.
In Feng'an City, or in the entire Ming Dynasty, the cost of materials accounted for 70 to 80 percent of the construction process of the houses where farmers lived.
Except for the craftsmen who may have to be hired, the labor costs for hard work are free.
Artificial people are neighbors and relatives.
Or if the family has a large population, the whole family will start working together, taking their time and repairing slowly.
It takes three or two years to build a house.
Or neighbors and relatives can help for free, and they only need to take care of one meal.
Most of the raw materials are free.
Stones, wood, etc. can be pulled back from the outside, and these are free of charge.
In Feng'an City, which is surrounded by mountains on three sides and shaded by green trees, wood used for beams is easy to obtain.
Stones are all over the mountain.
Although landowners and aristocratic families are greedy, in their eyes, stones and wood are worthless.
So they don't think about controlling stone and wood.
At least that's the case in Feng'an City.
Farmers build houses as long as they are not blatant and publicized.
Wood and stone, the two largest and most important raw materials for building a house, can be solved.
Moreover, in fact, most of the houses built by farmers are earthen houses.
Use special adobe bricks instead of stones.
There is no need to spend money on soil, as it can be obtained locally.
However, the style of house that Huang An and the others chose was not an earthen house, but a solid house built of stone and wood.
For Huang An, only by building a stone house can he be satisfied.
Comparatively speaking, stone houses are far superior to earth houses in terms of safety, durability and sanitary conditions.
Anyway, it won't cost much more money.
Huang An didn't care about this little money at all.
These measures are all aimed at gaining public support.
Help him lay a solid foundation in the base area.
Can he save this little money?
Obviously impossible.
There are five engineering teams with fifteen thousand people, basically all of them are busy outside the city.
But the influence of so many people on the streets and people in Feng'an City is not small at all.
In my hometown, a slightly larger construction site can often drive business prosperity in at least two or three nearby streets.
But here in Feng'an City, it is even more obvious.
Huang An and the others did not care about accommodation for the young and strong laborers recruited from the city.
These people don't go home at noon, but after dinner in the evening, they will go into groups and walk around the city.
The entire Feng'an City is very lively now.
Although they rarely buy goods along the street, the spiritual outlook of the people is also an important indicator of whether a city is prosperous and harmonious.
Just the vegetables, meat, and even firewood needed by the 15,000-person engineering team increased the daily income of at least 3,000 small vendors in the city.
Strictly speaking, being a farmer is not a fixed profession.
In fact, there are other occupational characteristics of a farmer, such as a vegetable vendor, a carpenter, a coolie, a farmer, etc.
The industry in which these farmers worked part-time quickly prospered with the deliberate help of the engineering team managed by Huang An.
The money that originally belonged to the Li family is continuously flowing into the pockets of the people through this method.
Especially at night, when the moon is bright, there should not be too many people enjoying the cool air along both sides of the street.
Feng'an City often implemented curfews when the previous city lord was there.
But since Zhao Yan took office, he has never been concerned about curfews.
The important purpose of the curfew is to prevent petty thieves and evildoers from committing crimes at night.
But now, the security team led by warriors patrols around the city 24 hours a day.
How can an ordinary little thief escape the fierce eyes of a warrior?
Moreover, the people in Feng'an City are not the night owls back home.
In the hot summer, people here usually go home to sleep at the latest, before nine o'clock in the evening.
And besides thieves and refugees, who else can wander around on the road in the middle of the night?
Is that a sure thing to catch?
Those who commit petty theft cannot withstand the interrogation of warriors.
If it is a thief who has committed an offense, it is easy to just lock him up.
The interrogation was completed the next day, recorded in a book, and then sent to a farm outside the city to be sent to the engineering team for labor reform.
You can also get multiple labors for free, right?
If they are refugees, they will be handed over directly to Meng Yun of the Zhao Family Martial Arts School and Zhao Le, the second daughter of the Zhao Family, who will settle the refugees.
It can be said that since the official start of the engineering team's mission, the entire Feng'an City has not experienced huge chaos as some people had expected.
On the contrary, in a very short period of time, the security and other conditions in the city have been significantly improved.
This chapter is not over yet, please click on the next page to continue reading! The petty theft disappeared directly.
Even trivial quarrels between young couples and neighbors have become much less common in a very short period of time.
Poor and humble couples suffer from everything. Similarly, couples, neighbors, or family members who are idle and unable to make money will vent their emotions through quarrels.
Situations like this have become much less common after the engineering team officially started operations.
This situation shocked Luo Feiyao, who had been "researching" all over the city.
Huang An's series of actions seemed to be unreasonable, but it was only after she experienced them that she discovered part of the mystery.
This alone frightened her enough.
Facts speak louder than words.
All the conjectures in my mind are not as shocking as seeing them with my own eyes.
The results shown to her in Feng'an City were the most convincing.
Huang An is so terrifying. She has never heard of such ability.
After all, he comes from a top family, has extraordinary knowledge and a good state of mind.
She learned from the experience and decided to go to the grassroots level to take a good look and learn from it.
Just the appearance of an engineering team will make the security in the city better, not worse.
This fact made her completely confused.
She really couldn't understand.
Isn’t controlling people’s travels, speech, etc. the best way to maintain law and order?
How come Wanqingzhuang goes out and enters the city every day, and people gather on both sides of the street in the evening? Why is it that the public security in the city has not become chaotic, but has become better?
She really can’t understand!
Obviously, Luo Feiyao suffered the loss of being uneducated.
If, like Huang An, she had read some books, she would be able to maintain order and improve the employment rate, which is the best way to maintain stability.
There is a close connection between the quality of public security and the level of employment rate!