Women are strong as mothers, and the same is true for men.
The area of the Su Mansion in Su Zhuang is only three acres, and it is built according to the shape of a residential house. It has a large front yard, and the back yard is divided into east and west yards. The area is not large.
Although Su Zhuang is quite comfortable to live in, it is somewhat unsuitable for Su Ce's current status.
In the past two years, Su Ce checked his accounts and found a balance of more than 30,000 yuan by relying on Baiguo Niang.
Li Chang went to Nanshan to look at land. He went there for five days and rode horses with four nursing homes for five days. He selected two pieces of land. Su Ce did not go to see them in person, so Li Chang drew two pictures.
The first picture is a hillside, with a land of three thousand acres extending down the slope.
The second picture shows a small mountain stretching from Nanshan. The Piao River makes a bend here, enclosing over a thousand acres of land. It is more than 40 miles away from Chang'an City.
The purpose of building this village is just to leave a way out for the family. Undoubtedly, the second piece of land is more in line with Su Ce's ideas. The barren hills and the wasteland at the foot of the mountain total 1,500 acres. The price of the mountainous land is ten thousand dollars, and the wasteland is dry land.
The price is 20 guan, and the total price is 26,000 guan.
Su Ce would probably not be able to afford the reclaimed dry land.
Although the amount is large, the money still has to be paid. Things that are related to one's wealth and life cannot be careless. Entering this big dyeing house in Chang'an will require hundreds of years of planning.
"This is the land, go and hand it over to Wannian County Government." Su Ce finished instructing Li Chang.
Li Chang did not leave in a hurry, but said hesitantly: "Uncle, should our family buy a courtyard in Chang'an City?"
The change in identity also caused Li Chang to change his name.
Su Ce thought for a moment and didn't answer.
Li Chang continued: "You are also a count. You don't have a mansion in Chang'an City, so you always feel that something is missing."
This reminded Su Ce that in fact, for the Su family, living in a small courtyard was not bad, but when he thought about his current status, he felt that what Li Chang said seemed to make sense.
Su Ce pondered for a moment and said: "Well, you just happen to drop by Chang'an City to see if there are any abandoned houses. If the area is suitable and the location is suitable, buy it before the end of the year. Follow the new village at the foot of Nanshan and build it together.
Well, when Dudu can walk next year, our family will move to Chang'an City."
"Okay, uncle." Li Changying agreed to this matter. The rise and fall of the Su family was closely related to him. In the past, he only followed the enemy in the army and was injured and left disabled. Being able to live in Chang'an, for
For him, it was a change of fate? And who brought all this? He knew it very well in his heart.
Li Chang went out, called three or five guards, mounted his horse, and ran towards Chang'an City.
Li Chang's words just now made Su Ce think a lot. Now he is no longer living a small life in his own small family. There are not just a few people who are dependent on the Su family to make a living, but hundreds or thousands of people.
Ruling a big country is like cooking a small dish. As the head of a family, Su Ce understands that besides the expectations of his family, there are many more people on him. Therefore, Su Ce understands that he is like a dragon lurking in the abyss at the moment.
If there is a war, then you should first run your own Su family well,
The Su family now has two inputs, one is the land rent, which has been reduced to the point where it cannot be reduced, and the other is Baiguo Niang. The price of Baiguo Niang has recently increased again.
Now in Chang'an City, a bottle of Baiguo Nong costs forty or fifty guan, and the Su family has also taken advantage of the situation and the price has increased to five guan per catty. Things are rare and valuable. The Su family is rich today, and Baiguo Nong is this
The progress is indispensable.
As for the output of Baiguo Brewing, Li Chang remembered what Su Ce said: rare things are more valuable, and the supply is still two thousand kilograms per month.
The Su family is very good to their farmers. Only when they have money can they not care about the tenant rent.
But Su Ce also knew that the days of spending money were still to come. Taking the one hundred food villas as an example, when he went to Zhechong Mansion in a few years, Su Ce would not be reluctant to spend money on his own food villas.
Armor, horizontal swords, strong bows... must be equipped for these food towns.
Speaking of this, Su Ce remembered that he didn't even have a good horse spear.
But just because it’s not available now doesn’t mean it won’t be available in the future. It’s just that the production of Ma Shan is really time-consuming and costly.
The reason why Su Ce went to the Duke of Qi's Mansion before was to see Ma Chang. Although he didn't see Ma Chang, Su Ce was really keen on this weapon.
Especially this time, as the prince personally went on an expedition, seeing Jiang Lan and Xiang Mao each holding a horse spear, Su Ce also borrowed it for a while to play with. The iron spear that Su Ce was using was incomparable to the horse spear.
Every year, part of the horses produced by the supervisors were given to the military generals as heavy rewards by Emperor Zhao Yumin. If there were any leftovers that were not rewarded, some would be picked out and sold to the noble generals at a high price, and the rest would be kept.
The royal generals of the ancestral land.
The horse tree is not like the wooden pole used in the step tree. Instead, it is made of the main trunk of the best tough wood, peeled into uniform thickness and glued together.
Among the tough woods, the best one is eucalyptus for making bows, followed by mulberry, oak, rattan, and the worst one is bamboo.
Soak the strips in oil repeatedly until they no longer deform or crack, and then the first step is completed. This process takes nearly a year. After one year, the strips are taken out and air-dried in a cool place for several months.
Then use the best glue and paint to glue it into a thick one, eight feet long, and wrap the hemp rope around the outer layer. When the hemp rope is dry, apply raw lacquer and wrap it in Gebu.
Dry it layer by layer and wrap it layer by layer until you cut it with a knife and the stem makes a metallic sound but does not break. This is considered qualified.
Then remove the head and tail, and shorten it to about six feet. A fine steel head is installed in the front, and a red copper head is installed in the back. The fine steel used can make dozens of gun heads.
Afterwards, constant adjustments were made, and the qualified standard was to hang a hemp rope two feet from the end of the branch, so that the entire eight-foot-long horse could be suspended in mid-air like a scale beam without falling at either end.
In this way, when a general is riding a horse, he can keep the tip of the pole forward without exerting any effort. The horse pole made in this way is light, tough and strong.
The general can hold it directly and use the power to charge, or he can use it to fight in close combat.
It took at least three years, manpower, material resources and time were indispensable. Ten pieces were made, but only three or four of them were qualified.
Regarding Ma Shan, Su Ce also heard a story told by Jiang Lan. There was a cavalry leader who was a fallen general in the Anxi Protectorate. When he was annihilating the bandits, his men were raided and nine of his men died.
Three, except for myself, the remaining six people all ran out with their buttocks naked.
According to the military law of Daqian, seeing that he was about to be beheaded when he returned, he gritted his teeth and pawned his ancestral horse to a black-clad Daqin merchant, and exchanged it for twenty-five sets of plate armor, lances, knight swords, and three
Ten Tocharian horses covered with iron plate mail, and a dozen Tocharian knights and prisoners of war.
With his subordinates and prisoners of war, he went to chase the more than thirty thieves, and finally snatched back the weapons and equipment. At this time, he wanted to go back and redeem his horse, but found that the black-clothed Daqin merchant had stopped doing business. He ran westward and disappeared.
I chased them for two days but failed to catch them. Later, my subordinates leaked the news and the Shangguan discovered the matter. Da Qianlu, Mo Dao and Ma Shan were prohibited from leaving the country.
This unlucky guy was beheaded for selling the horse.
The cost of one horse-stem can be exchanged for more than twenty sets of black-clad Qin aristocratic equipment including war horses on the trade routes of the Western Regions. This shows how expensive the horse-stem is.
A set of black-clothed Daqin's plate armor represents decades of income for a small county of ten thousand people. The equipment of Western knights is extremely expensive, so knights need at least one county's fiefdom to supply it exclusively.
Including a team of craftsmen dedicated to mending the plate armor on this knight.
There are also teams dedicated to horse training, knight auxiliaries, and so on.
In the northern grassland, Su Ce saw plate armor from a distance. It was the armor worn by the Russian nobles. There was no place from the beginning to the home that was not covered by armor.
Of course, the half-body armor and plate armor of the Ross Guards are not the same thing. They just have a piece of integrally formed iron armor tied to the chest.
The process of making a horse branch is complex, time-consuming, and the yield is extremely low, making it impossible to install.
The horses in Jiang Lan and Xiang Mao's hands were gifts from Emperor Zhao Yumin.
For Su Ce, there are two ways to get a horse. One is to hire a master to raise it yourself and wait for three or four years. The other is to "buy" one from the master, but there is a saying It is said that money cannot buy it.
The families of generals and veteran nobles have such masters, but they are still a little inferior to the generals who serve as supervisors.
In Daqian, the masters of the general family are the most sophisticated, followed by the masters of the Xungui family, and the masters of the Jiangmen family are the worst. But even the masters of the general family have been sold for three thousand guanyi on the black market. Bundle.
As for private weapon shops, because Ma Shan and Mo Dao are very expensive to build and cannot afford it, no one knows this craft.
As early as the end of last year, Li Chang went to queue up the supervisor to Su Ce. Of course, not everyone can buy it. Only those with a rank of five are eligible to "buy" the supervisor.
Thousand taels of gold, that is, ten thousand taels of silver, ten thousand guan, and ten million coins. You can buy a mansion covering an area of more than 300 acres in Chang'an City.
If unique classics are the lifeblood of literati, then Ma Shu is the heirloom of noble generals.
Li Chang spent much more time in Chang'an than Su Ce when it came to buying a family property. He knew it through his eyes and ears, and now he knew much more than Su Ce did. Moreover, Su's father also knew the importance.
Li Chang traveled for more than two months for a handful of horses. He spent thousands of dollars just to treat guests to dinner. He also gave away more than 300 bottles of the Baiguo craft beer that was not taken out. You must know that this bottle Baiguo Craft Brew was only brought out by the Su family when they were welcoming guests to the nobles.
Although Su Ce went on an expedition and was not in Chang'an, Su's father used the name of the old soldier and Baiguo Brewing to clear the way, which helped Su Ce find some good allies among the nobles.
Otherwise, according to Su Ce's temperament, he would not be able to think of these things. However, it will take time until the end of the year for the horse to be in Su Ce's hands.
Humanity and sophistication are all knowledge. This city of Chang'an is a big dye house where various forces are mixed together. No one can say that anyone is innocent.
Less than ten days after Su Ce returned home, he finally figured out all the big and small things. Su's father could start a business with a few acres of land. Su Ce had neglected his father in the past. After all, for men, the achievements of their fathers are the most important thing.
I have long been accustomed to it and didn't realize it. It was only when I grew up that I finally realized how great my parents were.
Now Su Ce feels that if it weren't for Su's father's management of the family in the past two years, he really wouldn't be able to support the family by himself.
Buying a property and passing it on to a family is much more complicated than fighting a war, and Su Ce still has a lot to learn.