sinovels Chapter 47
Chapter 47
Several long and wide moats sparkle, and people entering the city line up to walk across the suspension bridge. The blue moat is like a giant dragon winding to the distance. Standing soldiers with distinctive armor, a sense of majesty is subdued, which makes people full of awe.
As expected of the capital of a country, the soldiers guarding the gate stand up straighter than other places.Entering the gate, you can see the green stone pavement, the wide street with people coming and going, and there are almost no adobe houses in the shops on both sides, all of them are blue brick houses or two or three storey buildings.Lin Zimo thought, this is probably a face-saving project!Show people the glamorous place, so that anyone who enters the capital can see its prosperity.
The advantage of following Ouyang's family's motorcade around is that many big state capitals have his family's house.It is said that the mansion in the capital was bought by the old man Ouyang during his tenure.The convoy walked slowly through several streets, and stopped in a wide alley that looked like a rich man's residence.
Lin Zimo was helped out of the car by Xiao Yan, and looked up, although the house was already half old, it did not damage its majesty at all.The tall three-story gatehouse, the bright vermilion lacquered gate, staring at the bowl-sized golden door nails, and two stone lions squatting on both sides of the gate, are more than twice as magnificent as the Ouyang Mansion in the county seat.
The steward of the team came over and said with a smile: "Mr. Lin, how are you? Are you majestic?" Lin Zimo turned his head and smiled and said, "Steward Ouyang, why is the old house at home not as good as this?" Ouyang's big stewards are usually home Give birth to a son, follow the master's surname.Steward Ouyang said with a smile: "The house here was bestowed on the old man by the current emperor, no matter what, it will not violate the rules. If the old house at home is built like this again, someone will sue the old man."
Lin Zimo was arranged in the guest courtyard in front, a house with three main rooms, left and right wing rooms, plus sitting upside down, a typical small courtyard.After all, it was not his own home, so Lin Zimo went out to look at the house with Steward Ouyang the next day.As early as last year, the Lin family had asked Ouyang's family to keep an eye on them in the capital, so Steward Ouyang had three better houses in his hands.
After a long bumpy ride in the car, he listened to Steward Ouyang's advice and settled on a five-entry mansion in a wealthy area in Xinkaili Hutong.The house is also divided into places. For example, where Ouyang’s house is located, most of them are relatively high-ranking officials or wealthy businessmen. The place Lin Zimo decided on is mostly middle-level officials and rich people. Divide.
The price of the house is 1 taels of silver, which shows that the prices in the capital are expensive.But Lin Zimo is not surprised at all, the capital of the country?It has been like this from ancient times to the present. It is not easy to live in the capital. My family has plenty of money in recent years. People are the first to fight.
The man who accompanied the transfer nodded and said, "I don't know if you can buy someone? It just so happens that Uncle Chang Ping committed a crime, and the servants in the family have just been auctioned off." Lin Zimo took a breath: "An uncle, even his family members Can't you keep it?" I've only seen this kind of thing on TV before, and I was really shocked to hear the real thing so suddenly.
Steward Ouyang sighed: "Being an official is not easy. If you have lived in the capital for a long time, you will know that the family members of officials who committed crimes are auctioned off almost every year."
"Alas! Alas! Alas!" Sighed three times, being an official is really a high-risk industry. In modern times, when officials commit crimes, one person does it alone, and the family will never be involved. This place is good. If you come or not, you will be sold. Is it a good thing for Dad to get this official position?
After all, the servants still have to buy it. After the few people in the family come over, they will definitely not be able to allocate it.Another one, I am used to being in the capital, these servants should understand the customs and customs here, and it will also help my mother's management in the future.
Lin Zimo went to the human flesh market and saw that it was horrible. Just like on TV, a group of several people were strung together with ropes and stood on a high platform waiting for people to buy.With a stuffed nose and a pungent smell, Lin Zimo picked a man in his 30s. Looking at Lao Cheng, he was said to be the housekeeper of the former master's house. In the future, use it to see it.
Seeing the trafficker untie the rope that bound him, the steward came over and knelt down and kowtowed: "Thank you, my lord, for your appreciation." Lin Zimo nodded, people from the aristocratic families in the capital are more talkative.Waved his hand: "Get up and talk, as long as you work hard in the future, I won't treat you badly. Look around, most of these people are from your original mansion, right? In the past, pick out ten or eight families, even your family It's the same." The housekeeper knelt down in tears on the spot: "This old servant thanked the young master for his great kindness, and repaid the young master like a cow or a horse. This old slave knows which family is honest and committed, so I will pick it."
Lin Zimo nodded. He is a pure idiot when it comes to picking people. He has no knowledge in this area, but he firmly believes in a truth. These servants are also raised by their parents. At this time, they are also afraid of separation. It's something they can't help.If their family can be reunited at this time, they will definitely gain gratitude, and knowing gratitude will gain loyalty.There is another point, the whole family is working in the mansion, so there will be worries for the future. Once there is temptation from the outside, he will pay more attention to the family, and the chance of doing bad things will of course drop a lot.
After a while, the steward brought a large group of people, old and young, to kneel down to Lin Zimo together: "Master, these are almost all responsible people." Pointing to a neater woman, he said: " This is a member of the old servant’s family who has been serving in the inner courtyard and knows the etiquette of the inner courtyard.” Lin Zimo looked at it and nodded: “I hope you will be loyal to the Lord in the future, and I won’t say anything else. If you don’t pass the test, sell it right away.” There’s no way, there are many people with mixed hearts, and they don’t show kindness and power at the same time. They can’t restrain these Beijing oil kids, and they will be played by them.
This person named Lin Shou by Lin Zimo became the second butler of the mansion, and the position of first butler was of course reserved for Lin Fu who had always been loyal to his family.For the time being, all the affairs in the mansion were handed over to Lin Shou, and Lin Shou also took care of them in an orderly manner, and even bought two Zhuangzi that were auctioned off in Bo's mansion under his suggestion.
Ju Linshou said that the most indispensable thing in the capital is rich people. There are almost no farms to sell near the capital. I bought two Zhuangzi. This is the second day of the auction. There are more than 30 Zhuangzi in this house alone. Those who came later and failed to buy all shook their heads and sighed. The opportunity is not easy!
The newly purchased house has the word "Lin Fu" on the gate. It is probably a new house. The house is sold.Lin Shouzao directed all the servants to lay out all the furniture.
The vermilion gate, the two-story gatehouse, the stone lions on the left and right, the entrance is a super-large screen wall, turn around the blue bricks and gray tiles, carved beams and painted buildings, and maids and servants shuttle through it, which has a simple charm.In addition to the hall and the outer study room, there is also a guest courtyard for guests, and seven or eight small courtyards including the main courtyard and side courtyard at the back.
In the back is a garden with a size of more than ten acres, with rockery, flowing water, small pavilions, and lush evergreen trees surrounding a small lake of four or five acres, which is quite poetic.
After choosing an auspicious day, Lin Zimo moved in.On the small courtyard where I lived, I wrote the word "Moyuan" in a big book, and looked at it for a long time triumphantly. From today on, my brother also has his own small world.
After the arrangement of the family was done, Steward Ouyang took the lead in buying a few stores. After finishing the arrangements, they still had to go elsewhere, so they bid farewell to Lin Zimo and left in a hurry.
After inspecting Wujian's storefronts, three of them are in the downtown area, and two of them are slightly out of the way, and they are all rented out now.Lin Zimo didn't plan to do anything yet, so he didn't take it back, and continued to renew the rent.
As soon as Ouyang's family left, Lin Zimo's eyes were darkened, and he didn't recognize anyone. He wanted to visit Prince Jing, but he was afraid.After all, it's not a very good relationship, that is, their own family has useful technology for the court, otherwise they would not talk to his family.
I inspected the farm I just bought again. It is basically fertile land. It will soon enter February, and it will be time to raise seedlings in a while. Lin Zimo wrote a letter asking Han Qi to go to Linjiazhuang and bring two good farmers here. farmers grow sweet potatoes and other crops.It seems that the vermicelli workshop and wine making workshop will not start until the second half of the year, so Lin Zimo is free for a while.
He was bored and had no appetite to eat. He poked the tofu on the plate, and suddenly his eyes lit up. He forgot an important thing. There is no way to get vegetables out of the greenhouse for the time being, but there is a soilless plant!Well!Soilless planting can’t make Σ(°△°|||)︴He can get a soild planting, although it is a bit troublesome.
Just do what you say, there are a lot of vacant houses in the mansion, a large warehouse is built, more than a dozen carpenters are recruited, and a batch of rectangular wooden boxes that can hold a thin layer of soil are urgently ordered Layer the shelves of this rectangular wooden box.Mix soil and plant ash, spray water, plant cabbage and spinach, stack them on the shelf layer by layer, light two charcoal basins, and the temperature in the room immediately rises.Mung bean sprouts and soybean sprouts don’t need to be so troublesome. They can be soaked in water overnight, then taken out, covered with a damp cloth, and sprayed with water every day.
I also asked a carpenter to make a few wooden watering cans and sprayed water every morning. Three days later, a dense layer of seedlings emerged from the wooden box.All the servants in the mansion cheered. It was so eye-catching to see a piece of green vegetable seedlings at a time when they were green and yellow.Only Xiao Yan and Han Qi, who had already returned, pouted at the shouting people. The third young master of his family is much more capable, what is this?Fuss.
In view of the success of the experiment, Zhuang Zili also acted urgently.Lin Zimo knew that every village had some adobe bricks in reserve for emergencies, so he mobilized all his manpower to build several rows of low houses with three walls, leaving the roof and the south wall empty.As early as two years ago, Lin Zimo thought about it. First of all, there must be no glass. He thought of a material for the greenhouse, which is to use the thinnest cotton cloth and brush it with two layers of tung oil, which can not only transmit light, but also keep heat.When I was in Linjia Village, I saw a neighbor's child with a pad under his body, and after asking, I found out that the people in the village all used this method to keep their children from peeing on the kang.
I was afraid that the limelight at home in the past two years would be too bad, so I didn't try it all the time. Now I just take this opportunity to see if it is successful, it can be mass-produced this winter.Of course, if you succeed, you can't monopolize it. His family doesn't have this ability, and I'm afraid it will be swallowed up by others. Well, let's find Prince Jing to cooperate!Give him money, and he is willing to think about it.
The adobe house was well built, and after two days of work, even the tung oilcloth was propped up with wooden sticks.When the cabbage and spinach in the warehouse at home were ready to eat, the vegetables in the simple greenhouse also came out of the soil densely.It is now the tenth day of February, and the green vegetables have been planted normally, and they will not be eaten until April, and these vegetables can still be sold for two months.
He finally had a reason to visit Prince Jing's mansion. Without a strong backing in the capital, no one would die in minutes.After loading the wooden box containing the vegetables into the car, Lin Zimo took the people to Prince Jing's mansion.