The next day, after Ge Siyu arrived at the Yamen to answer the call, he brought the bamboo craftsman Zhao Zui Gui'er from the city to the mouth of Jinchuan River.
Zhao Zuigui'er is not much younger than Ge Fu. His shaggy beard is already frosty white. His clothes are ragged. There is a sour smell all over his body. He hasn't taken a bath for who knows how many days. If Ge Siyu hadn't used the horse in person.
The car took him here, and when others met him on the roadside, they would just think of him as a homeless man or a beggar.
Zhao Zui Gui'er was submissive in front of others, and his tongue was still tied when he spoke. When he saw the soldiers with swords, he just wanted to hide aside. He didn't have the spirit of a great craftsman. When Ge Fu came over by boat from Prison Island,
He became a little bolder and asked: "Mr. Ge, you want to drink with me, why did you ask Mr. Shu Lingshi to drag me to this ghost place?"
It is extremely difficult for a craftsman family to leave the family. You are born into a craftsman family and remain a craftsman family all your life. Zhao Zui Gui'er is an old widower. When he gets old, he has no strength to work. He doesn't drink and doesn't look like a great craftsman. His life is miserable.
If it weren't for the help of the Ge family, he might have died on the street long ago.
Ge Fu also knew that Zhao Zui Gui'er's bearish behavior made people doubt his ability, so he only said to Lin Fu: "You give him wine, only 50% drunk, and then see what he is capable of..."
Lin Fu had people prepare a banquet at the mouth of the river. He didn't mind that Zhao Zuigui'er was full of filth, so he invited him to sit down with Ge Fu, Ge Siyu, and Zhao Shuhan. Zhao Zuigui'er was timid by nature. When he first started drinking, he still
Judging from the expression on Ge Fu's face, after three glasses of wine, he seemed like a different person and had the courage to interrupt.
"We can't let him drink anymore. If he drinks more, he will get into trouble!" Ge Fu said. Lin Fu listened to Ge Fu and asked Liu Yue'er to remove the wine glass from Zhao Zui Gui'er's table, and talked about what he wanted to do during the dinner.
Ten acres of land are to be allocated to build a bamboo hall on the river mouth side.
Lin Fu wanted to build an academy imitating Xixi Academy at the mouth of Jinchuan River to promote miscellaneous learning and craftsmanship. However, Jiyun Society was short of money and could not spare much money to build a magnificent palace and pavilion, and the thatched house was too shabby.
. He saw that the old man Ge Fu ordered ten people to build a bamboo house for himself on Prison Island in just three days, so he thought about building a bamboo hall at the mouth of the river for teaching. There is a large bamboo forest in the northwest corner of Prison Island.
The materials and labor are free. Building a bamboo hall here can save me money.
Zhao Zuigui'er is timid by nature. It is precisely because he was born as a lowly craftsman that he was often beaten and scolded by the servants for no reason. The more he wakes up, the deeper his fear of others is and his speech is not tactful. With the help of being half drunk, he can
It truly shows the style of a famous craftsman.
Lin Fu said that he wanted to build a bamboo hall. Although Zhao Zui Gui'er was timid, when he got off the carriage, he saw the terrain around the mouth of the river. At this time, he was a little drunk and pushed the dishes away on the table to free up a piece.
He dipped his fingers into the soup, and while drawing the figures, he told Lin Fu how to build the bright hall, wing rooms, and elegant houses in the bamboo hall, how to lay it out appropriately and elegantly, and how many hands to cut bamboo, how many hands to make bamboo items, and how many hands to build them.
He explained it in such detail that even a layman would know it well. Later, he also suggested that Lin Fu build a small bamboo pier on the river beach for berthing of small boats, and cut bamboos to make steps to attract visitors to the bamboo hall on the shore...
The more brilliant Zhao Zui Gui'er's words were, the more sad Lin Fu became. Celebrities in the world were full of moral articles, but real masters and craftsmen didn't even have the courage to speak normally in front of others when they were sober. Now it was finalized with Ge Fu, here is Zhutang.
The production was supervised by Zhao Zuigui'er. It's not that Zhao Zuigui'er was sober after he was drunk, but that he really didn't have the courage to show his talents in front of others when he was sober. Lin Jingzhong was usually very busy, and Lin Fu asked him to appoint an honest and obedient person.
The clerk also asked Ge Fu to designate a craftsman who could respect Zhao Zuigui'er to assist Zhao Zuigui'er in supervising the construction of the bamboo hall, and asked Lin Jingzhong and others to pay special attention to respecting Zhao Zuigui'er in their words and deeds.
On the prison island, Ge Fu built his own bamboo house and his son Ge Siyu began to write the "Supplementary Commentary on the General Sutra". This was actually a much more arduous project than the writing of "The Prison Book".
Graham didn't know much about literacy, but he was an excellent painter. He was responsible for accurately drawing the large and detailed drawings of palaces, buildings, bridges and various components according to memory.
Mr. Graham had a lot of experience in his life. Even in his old age, his memory was no weaker than that of a young man. He was also a generalist craftsman who was perfect at all kinds of craftsmanship. He even meticulously painted all the components of the big spinning wheel for Prison Island.
, some memories were not very accurate, so he thought about making the components out of wood to prove it. Although it took time, manpower and money, Lin Fu felt more and more that he had picked up a treasure.
During the chat, he learned that Elder Ge Fu had a life experience as a master craftsman in the Ordnance Bureau of the Ministry of Industry in Jiangning. Lin Fu could only temporarily suppress the urge to ask Elder Ge Fu to draw the pattern of the three-bow bed crossbow and even make the components.
Ge Siyu sorted out many of the Jiangning Ministry of Industry's rules and regulations related to construction work, and the regulations involved various algorithms and measurement data for construction work.
In addition to Cao Ziang's son Cao Wenlong, Lin Fu also selected three literate young people from the children of the refugees who were recruited to work as assistants to Ge Fu and his son in the bamboo house on Prison Island. The young man who asked Lin Fu to take him in in front of the Chaotian Posthouse was also among them.
Just being literate is not enough to serve as assistants to the Grahams and Sons. The Grahams first need to teach them some basic construction knowledge, which can be regarded as four young apprentices.
In the days that followed, Lin Fu never mentioned the tragedy of the refugees, as if he had forgotten the incident, and began to prepare for Zhao Shuhan to give lectures after the initial completion of the Zhutang, and the Jiyun Society was also carrying out construction work at the mouth of the river.
On the Jiyunshe side, before the spring floods come and the river water rises, a deep channel must be dug under the river where the warehouse wharf is located for large ships to sail in and berth directly to the river; because this section of the river is very long.
High, the vertical drop from the river beach is nearly 11 to 20 feet. Even if the Wanshi ship includes the mainmast, it will only be 11 to 12 feet high when it emerges from the water. From the end of the river, you have to drive down a stone ladder to reach the moored river.
For ship docking, platforms of different heights must be opened according to water level changes in different periods.
Ge Fu, Ge Siyu and his son made great changes and optimizations to the previous excavation and construction plans based on their experience. However, according to the estimated project volume, Jiyunshe is very optimistic that they can build a berth before the rainy season.
When he went to Chaotianyi to recruit refugees to work, although Moling County only allowed 100 people to bring their families to settle in Moling County, Lin Fu had a careful thought. When selecting people, he chose mostly refugees whose brothers or father and son were both in their prime. Refugees
After the tragedy, the casualties plus the people sent to the city to take care of the injured, almost thirty households were severely affected. Among the remaining seventy households, there were still more than 180 men in their prime; those in their prime
Women who are refugees are forced to make a living, and there is no question of whether they can show their faces. The actual labor force available in Jiyunshe is as many as 300 people. The remaining more than 100 old, weak, children and children can also be used to do some light work.
Jiyunshe here pays half a laborer per liter and half a meter, so the refugees naturally accept it happily.
Lin Fu wanted to continue to hide his strength. In addition to Cao Ziang and some refugees with higher prestige who were selected as foremen, Ge Cunxin and Ge Cunxiong brothers were also mixed among the refugees as ordinary laborers; because of the lack of supplies and personnel on the prison island and the river mouth,
There were frequent visits, so Lin Fu prepared an extra black-topped boat and a paddle boat at the river beach and Prison Island Pier, and then selected Ge Cunxin, Ge Cunxiong and others to serve as boatmen.
Three hundred people worked hard, two hundred people dug the river beach and built stone ladders, and one hundred people transported the sand and gravel to the shore to build mud walls and build houses. After hard work, the rice grains these refugees received every day was barely enough to fill their stomachs.
However, Jiyunshe has allocated 40 acres of land and given each household four quarters of land to build a house. The sand, gravel, river mud and clay needed to build the house are naturally provided free of charge, as well as other bamboo, wood, straw, slaked lime, etc.
Other materials are also provided free of charge by Jiyun Society. What else can the refugees who have come thousands of miles away from home, hungry and cold, ask for anything else? In such a short period of time, it was precisely after the tragedy of the refugees that they had a greater appreciation for Jiyun Society.
A strong sense of dependence.
Many refugee workers go to the river beach to work during the day, and go to the shore at night. They continue to build houses for themselves or for neighbors by using campfires and the faint light of the stars and moon. These people usually rest for two or three hours a day, so high
The intensity of the work is such that three liters of rice a day is not enough for a strong laborer to fill his stomach. No matter how much Lin Fu wants to squeeze the laborers, he must feed them so that they can work. Besides, the loyalty of these refugees is definitely not recruited from the city of Jiangning.
What can be compared with labor is that no matter how much money is spent, a certain amount of extra vegetables, oil and salt will be provided. Fish and meat are the least expensive. Prison Island can provide three to four hundred kilograms of river fish every day.
Naturally, Jiyun Society does not need to spend money on bamboo and straw mats. There are large bamboo forests and jungles on the prison island that need to be opened up for vegetable gardens, and the prisoners are forced to weave straw mats. Even so, they have to rush to build a berth before the rainy season, and the refugees must hurry up.
Even though the labor force was well settled and manpower was still very scarce, Jiyunshe still hired nearly 400 young laborers from the suburbs of Jiangning at the cost of four liters of rice per person per day or fifteen yuan plus a meal.
Watching the houses being built one after another, the stone steps going down one step at a time, and the waterways deepening and widening day by day, it was really exciting, but looking at the daily water account books, it was really hard for Lin Jingzhong to get excited. Now he really felt that
The feeling of spending money like water.
"Nowadays, even if we don't buy a lot of supplies, manpower, food money, and pickaxes, straw bags and other items that need to be replenished every day, it costs thirty or forty taels of silver. Fortunately, the township party worked together to help, and the money lost in the tragedy was
Almost all the pension money and pension money were borrowed from them. Even so, nearly three thousand taels of silver have been used here." Lin Jingzhong carried the thick account book to the Hekou Thatched Cottage to find Lin Fu, and reported the accounts to him sadly.
"If we continue to live like this, we can only survive for another month, and there is no hope of money to buy a boat. The Gu family's new tea will not be launched until early April. If we want to get money from there, it will have to be delayed until at least June. Mengde and I
My uncle has discussed that he can first transfer three thousand taels of silver to us for emergency use, and he will make up for it with the money he gets after the Gu family's new tea is launched. Even so, it is far from enough..."
Lin Fu comes to the river mouth these days to do business even during the day. The prison island is also very close. If anything happens, he can come over by boat in the blink of an eye. His office in the river mouth is only a simple thatched building.
The shed, he called it thatched cottage. The only thing that was more comfortable than Prison Island was that Liu Yue'er was waiting here, and Zhao Shuhan also brought people to visit him from time to time. It was considered a pleasure in life. Lin Fu stretched out his hand from Lin Jingzhong's arms.
Take the account book and look through it.
Liu Yue'er helped Lin Jingzhong make a cup of tea. She stood aside and looked at the account books with her head tilted to the side. Her raven hair was slightly tilted to one side, her face was soft, and she whispered: "What a waste of money! I thought there was a prison island."
I can save some money by supporting the support..." She left the city that day and threw herself into Lin Fu's arms in front of everyone. Although there was a big misunderstanding and she didn't dare to raise her head in front of others for several days,
Finally, she settled down at the mouth of the river and served Lin Fu wholeheartedly. However, she always remembered her identity as a virtuous little widow. Apart from occasionally looking at each other lovingly with Lin Fu's eyes, she never let him get an inch closer.
Lin Fu raised his head and looked at Liu Yue'er. This girl didn't think it was hard to live in the river mouth and had a simple diet. Instead, she had white and tender skin, plump and round skin, red lips and white teeth, and beautiful eyes. That day, she felt a tenderness in her heart, and she couldn't help it.
After holding her in his arms and letting her struggle, there will be no chance for the beautiful woman to fall into his arms again.
Lin Jingzhong didn't care about the back and forth between Lin Fu and Liu Yue'er. He was still thinking about the account books. He took the account books back and said, "I have support from the Prison Island to save money. Every day, I have to make straw mats, logs, bamboos, and fish."
A steady stream of supplies has come in, and I have saved hundreds of taels of silver here at least in the past month. I keep detailed accounts; but the supplies, equipment, piglets, lambs, etc. that we have been transporting to the island these days
, at least it costs thousands of taels of silver, I also keep the detailed accounts..." Of course Lin Jingzhong also knew that he was providing supplies to Prison Island at this time, and the return that Prison Island would bring to Jiyun Society in the future would far exceed the input at this time, but
The distant water cannot quench the near thirst. He wants to overcome the difficulties at hand, and it is inevitable to speak a little eagerly. The matter of Lin Fu establishing his own business in Jiangning is beyond the clan's reach. Even if the seventh lady is not here, no one wants to offend him at this time.
Gu Wuchen acquiesced to this situation, but he also strictly prohibited Lin Mengde from helping. Lin Mengde had been monopolizing power in Jiangning for some time. He could ignore some of the clan's words, but he couldn't directly invest money here.
"It seems that we still have to find a way to get money," Lin Fu stood up and stretched, "You go ahead and find Master Cao and Master Crow..."
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A full month has passed since Qu Wuyang's only son disappeared. No one was found alive, no body was found, and no one came to blackmail him. The Qu family secretly raised the money to five million through Jiangning Mansion and Moling County, and the black market bonus was
It's worth tens of millions of dollars, and there's not even a clue.
Of course people don’t get lost for no reason, not to mention that there are two experienced guards with Qu Wuyang’s only son. Under the oppressive clouds that shrouded the Qu family’s Sanliu Garden at the end of the month, Qu Wuyang’s temper became extremely strong that day.
A banker who was ordered to send out a night attack on the refugees made a small mistake, so Qu Wuyang broke his legs with a cane. Others begged and begged, so he barely survived. Others knew that Qu Wuyang was finally
I couldn't control my anger and vented my anger on others. Now the servants serving in Sanliu Garden are cautious and anxious, for fear of losing their lives if they make some small mistakes.
Qu Wuyang tried his best to suppress the anger and worries in his heart every day, but after a hard life, he had no one to inherit the family business and carry on the family line in his old age. How could he feel at ease? He knew in his heart that the family coveted this family.
There are many people in the industry, even though Qu Wuming comes to pay his respects every day, but how can Qu Wuyang not know what this cousin is thinking? Qu Wuming has three sons, four daughters, and a grandson.
After the relationship was cut off, what excuse was there for not passing on the family business to Qu Wuming's family? Qu Wuyang even asked his old wife to question his daughter-in-law and the concubines and maids his only son had played with, but this month,
All these women here have become popular one after another, and his biggest hope is to find him. He also hopes that he can still grow new buds on the old tree, so he finds a few good-looking women in the house and works with them several times a day.
Even if the shelf is about to fall apart.
Qu Wuyang had just climbed off a woman that day, and his feet were half weak. He was really unable to do what he wanted. The unsatisfied look on the woman's face made him even more irritable. He slapped the woman and drove him out of the room.
As I sat up in my clothes, I heard the old steward running outside and shouting: "Master, there is news from the young master. Someone just dropped the letter into the yard..."