Chapter 122 Comparison only hurts

Chapter 121

When Chen Zilong and his party arrived in Zhenhai City, the personnel were divided for the first time. Those experts were assigned to the expert's high-end main residence community in the south of the city near the Agricultural Research Institute.

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

"Name!"

"Qiao's."

"Excuse me, if you want to rent a house, buy a house first!"

“What’s the difference between renting and buying?”

"For rent, the monthly rent in Zhenhai City is 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."

"The monthly rent is one hundred taels? Why don't you go 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. A room there only costs one hundred yuan a day, which is more than two taels of silver a month. If it's still too expensive, you can stay in an ordinary room.

Fifty cents, and there are cheaper ones. Sharing with others only costs fifteen cents a day, and only four cents a month!"

"What if I buy it?"

"The most expensive independent courtyard is 3,600 taels of silver, the next first class is 3,000 taels of silver, the next first class is 1,500 taels of silver, the next first class is 1,000 taels of silver, the cheapest one only costs 300 taels of silver.

Three masters and two bedrooms, five rooms, together with the land, freehold!"

“So expensive!”

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

"Who are you looking down on? Is this lady someone who can't afford to pay?"

"Buy a set of one thousand five hundred taels of silver!"

"Ask the lady for her maiden name!"

"do what?"

"Apply the house deed!"

"Qiao Biluo!"

The person in charge directly writes Qiao Biluo's name on the house deed, stamps it with a big seal, and directly pulls off the side page of the house deed. Even if the house deed is processed, the side page can be kept for archiving.

"Next person. Should I buy or rent?"

The staff put the floor plan directly on the table. Martina took two maids, two servants, and an old woman, a total of five people to take care of her food, drink, and toilet.

If she rents a house, it won't be a big problem. But she came to Liaonan for a purpose. If she rents a house, it doesn't seem to be cost-effective, but if she buys...

Five people don't need a big house.

Martina considered that she had two carriages, and the house must have stables and a place to park the carriages, so she bought a house worth one thousand five hundred taels of silver.

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

The servant who followed Martina squatted on the street and gently tapped the road with the dagger he carried: "The materials used in the streets here are the same as those on the dock!"

As he said that, he simply lay down on the ground and tapped the ground repeatedly with a dagger, barely licking the taste.

"Solid as a rock!"

Xu Changshun said: "This ground is harder than rock!"

"Is it a rock?"

"no!"

"I've never seen rocks like this!"

In later generations, it is easy to see well-preserved ancient building complexes with a history of hundreds of years. However, in the West, such building complexes and even such cities are not uncommon. This is due to the ubiquitous stone buildings in the West. Such buildings,

Unless special accidents occur, they can generally be preserved for hundreds of years.

In ancient times, traditional buildings were actually wooden buildings. If you wanted to build it faster, you could assemble the various parts of the building like building blocks. A three-foot-high wooden attic could be built in just a few days.

Completed.

This kind of building has a very bad shortcoming. It is that it is very afraid of fire. In Chinese history books, the word "burned to a white ground" often appears!

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. In the battle of Ningping City, they annihilated the main force of the Jin army and killed the Jin Taiwei Wang Yan and other princes. , conquered Luoyang, captured Emperor Huai of Jin, killed more than 100,000 princes, officials, and people. Burned Luoyang to the ground!

In the eighth year of Yonghe (the third year of Yongxing in Ran Wei, 352 years), on April 25th, Murong Jun sent Murong Ping to lead his troops to besiege Yecheng. The Wei army defended the city for a hundred days, and by the sixth day of August in the same year, Yecheng was breached and more than 20 people were defeated. Tens of thousands of Wei soldiers and civilians were slaughtered, and the city of Ye was burned to the ground.

Wooden buildings are a fatal weakness. Once a fire is accidentally caused or burned by the enemy, the consequences will be quite disastrous. When Cheng Shijie built Zhenhai City, he considered that war would destroy everything, and a single fire could destroy everything. The hard work of hundreds of thousands of people was reduced to nothing. In order to preserve the buildings and facilities used to study agriculture in the Ming Dynasty and leave some inspiration to future generations, the newly developed cement and steel buildings were adopted, from roads to city walls to streets. , to the store, it is completely different from the traditional Ming-style architecture.

Mardina's carriage drove on the flat cement road for nearly half an hour, or two quarters of an hour. The middle-aged man led Mardina and his party to a huge fort-style building complex and met with the doorman. Make handover.

The middle-aged man looked at the carriage drive: "Miss Xu Si, you can live here with peace of mind. This is a high-end community in Zhenhai City. There are guards patrolling every day. People you don't want to see will never disturb you. you!"

The housekeeper stepped forward and said, "Isn't this too biased?"

“It’s just ahead!”

At this time, the door opened, and a man who looked like a butler stood at the door. He bowed and said: "Welcome the proprietor to move to his new home. I, Han Shun, will be your temporary butler. If you need anything, please give me your instructions."

The housekeeper looked at the big house 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 and has three front and three entrances. There are eight master rooms, twelve servant rooms, three living rooms, two dining rooms, two kitchens, two public toilets, eight private toilets, stables and four A carriage garage and seven utility rooms, totaling the entire courtyard,

Han Shun then introduced: "Fifty-seven houses, with a small garden in the backyard, two studies, one... bedrooms all have bedding, brand new, made of pure cotton. If the nobles are not used to it, We can switch it right away!”

To be fair, despite her young age, Martina is a well-informed girl. As early as when she was nine years old, she was baptized and became a believer.

Under the influence of Xu Guangqi, Miss Xu Si, the youngest, was very favored. She had been to the distant Guangzhou, and also to big cities such as Suzhou, Hangzhou, Yangzhou, and Nanjing. The aristocratic lady is completely different.

However, when Martina came to Zhenhai City, he was really shocked. This is a very new city and a very clean city.

The smelly drainage ditches that can be seen everywhere are gone, replaced by rows of underground pipes, and manhole covers can be seen every twenty or thirty steps. Needless to say, the scene of sewage flowing across the city no longer exists, and the whole city is very dirty. Neat and very clean, even cleaner than the world-famous Suzhou and Hangzhou.

"Why is it so clean here?"

Martina looked at his temporary butler Han Shun and said: "There is no dirt on the road!"

Han Shun said with a smile: "This used to be Maqiao Town. It was also dirty and messy at the time. A lot of garbage was piled up in mountains. The commander-in-chief formulated a management policy. Anyone who littered would be fined. At the beginning, everyone

If you are not used to it, you still litter. You have to be severely punished several times before you change. Now, everyone likes this neat and clean environment. There is no need for supervision. Anyone who dares to litter again will definitely be scolded by everyone.

I am ashamed of myself."

"Our house is located in an excellent location. There is a commercial street five hundred steps away. You will not feel the hustle and bustle of the market, and it is very convenient to purchase daily necessities!"

Han Shun continued: "These shops are all newly opened. They sell rice, oil, salt, vinegar, and cloth. These businessmen have such sharp noses that they immediately smelled the business opportunities. In Zhenhai City,

I rented a store and started doing business. If the marshal hadn't insisted on them paying taxes and drove away many merchants in anger, there would definitely be more shops in the city."

Martina said in surprise: "He still wants to collect business taxes?"

"Yes, our commander-in-chief said that merchants should pay taxes. It is a matter of course. If you want to do business in Liaonan, you should pay taxes honestly. If you don't pay, you will get out!"

Han Shun sighed helplessly and said: "The handsome man drove away many merchants because of his anger, otherwise there would be even more merchants here."

Mardina nodded and said: "I rarely collect business tax. He not only wants to collect it, but also pays 15% tax. Who is willing to do business in his territory?"

"There are still people who are willing to do it, and they are not willing to pay the tax, but later they find out that after paying the tax, if someone comes to extort money, the urban management people will come over immediately to get the person, and their business will not be affected in any way. Everyone

So they pay it willingly, because the money they lose every month to extortion is much more than the tax they should pay."

"A businessman will not do business at a loss."

After Chen Zilong and his party arrived at Dianzhenhai City, they were quickly assigned their residences. Surprisingly, these experts were not in separate courtyards, but in independent pavilions.

There are five rooms on three floors, with a total of twelve rooms on the first and two floors. Downstairs is the living room, kitchen, and guest room, and upstairs are three bedrooms and a study room. Considering that some experts have many families, the third floor can also be lived in. There are

Six rooms.

This kind of loft is built according to the villa style of later generations, and the decoration is also mainly white.

When Cheng Shijie planned Zhenhai City, he not only set aside spacious streets, sufficient squares and green spaces, but also set very high architectural requirements. In particular, the underground sewers are so wide that carriages can even run inside.

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

In particular, the center of Zhenhai City is the Agricultural Science Square, which covers an area of ​​more than 300 acres. This square faces from north to south and is listed with five statues, one of which is Shennong, followed by Fan Shengzhi (the famous Agricultural Science of the Western Han Dynasty). Family), "The Book of Pan Sheng" compiled by him was written in the Western Han Dynasty and is the earliest agricultural monograph in my country. It has been in existence for more than 2,000 years.

Then there is Jia Sixie, who was an agricultural expert in the Wei, Jin, Southern and Northern Dynasties. He wrote a comprehensive agricultural book "Essentials of Qi Min". It was written in 533~544 AD, more than 1,500 years ago.

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

Chen Min: In 1149 AD, Chen Min's "Agricultural Book" of the Southern Song Dynasty summarized in detail the rich experience of farmers in southern China in planting rice, raising silkworms, planting mulberries, and raising cattle. He also pointed out that improving soil through rational fertilization can improve soil fertility. Always new and strong.

Wang Zhen: courtesy name Boshan, was a native of Dongping in the Yuan Dynasty. He was an ancient Chinese agriculturist, agricultural mechanist, and Taoist scholar. In the fourth year of Emperor Chengzong's reign in the Yuan Dynasty, he wrote "Wang Zhen Nongshu", and at the end he appended "The Calligraphy of the Movable Type Seal". Describe his wooden movable type printing technique.

The last one is Xu Guangqi...

These statues are based on the normal proportions of the human body multiplied by three. When Martina saw this statue of Xu Guangqi, he was a little distracted for an instant because this statue looked so similar.

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

At that time, he looked at Song Yingxing next to him and said, "I didn't expect that this Cheng Zhenglu is really thoughtful!"
To be continued...