After hearing An Sizheng's report, Jiajing asked calmly, without even opening his eyes: "You handed over the project to Tanji Construction. Didn't Xiao Feng say anything?"
An Sizheng replied cautiously: "Master Xiao said that since Long live this matter has been ordered to be handled by Dao Lu Division, it is inconvenient for him to interfere."
Jiajing recalled: "Huang Ban, I remember that day, I said that I would leave it to the Daolu Department to assist in handling it, but I didn't say that I would not let him take care of it?"
Huang Jin also recalled: "Long Live remembers it right, that's what he said. Maybe Xiao Feng misunderstood."
An imperceptible smile appeared on Jiajing's lips: "Not necessarily."
Tan Xinren returned to Tanji Construction happily, and everyone in the construction team was also very excited. After all, big projects mean big profits, and if the owner has big profits, he will naturally get a share of the following, which is called meat fat soup.
Also fat.
Tan Xinren handed the engineering standard book to the captain of Tanji Construction, who was also the shopkeeper, and asked him to organize the purchase of materials. He had already received half of the money from the Daolu Department and gave it all to the captain. The captain handed Tan Xinren
I read the engineering standards document I got back carefully and frowned at one of the items.
There are dozens of materials used in such a large project, so in the materials column, there are a lot of densely written words in small letters. They are all commonplaces. In the jargon of the construction team, they are all nonsense. But one of them reads "
"Sanhetu", after this item, various ingredients are indicated as usual.
The captain pointed to a pile of ingredients at the back for Tan Xinren to see: "Master, look at this one!"
Tan Xinren took a look and said, "It's nothing. Sanhe soil requires the use of Dongling soil, Nanshan ash, and canal sand. This is all a lie. Projects in the capital usually say this. You just use something from other places.
He can't find out either."
The captain pointed to the back: "There is one more thing, boss, white soup. Mix it with pure white soup. This white soup is quite expensive."
Tan Xinren frowned. The words "pure white soup stirred" were among a lot of small characters. It was not easy to see and it was not noticeable. The main ingredients of Sanhe soil are soil, slaked lime and sand in a certain proportion.
When mixed, it is called Sanhe soil. But this is the basic Sanhe soil, which is also very strong and is enough for residential use.
If it is for military purposes, such as building a fortress, it is often necessary to add a certain proportion of white soup, that is, glutinous rice soup. After solidification, the Sanhe soil with white soup is not less strong than the cement of later generations. In later generations, people have discovered white soup Sanhe soil that has been used for thousands of years.
If you hit the city wall with a hammer, sparks will appear!
Pure white soup refers to rice soup with a very high glutinous rice content, rather than the clear soup with little water content.
Tan Xinren thought for a while: "Although the white soup is expensive, this project will only cost an extra two thousand taels of silver at most. We will still make a lot of money! Don't worry and prepare!"
The Tanji construction team drove into the open space with great vigor. To build a house, the foundation must be leveled first and then laid. This part of the work actually accounted for a small half of the entire project. In those days, there were no large-scale machinery to level the land.
Laying a solid foundation is entirely done manually, so the efficiency can be imagined.
Fortunately, Tanji Construction Team has a great cause and has now taken on a big project. Because it has to meet the construction deadline, it deliberately recruits more workers. However, there are not so many workers available in a hurry. The team leader went to Tan Xinren to find a way, and Tan Xinren came up with a plan.
Hui: "Add more money and poach people from other construction teams!"
The captain hesitated a little: "This is not good, it will make colleagues poke their backs. Besides, if we give more money to the newcomers, will the old people pay more? If not, the old people will definitely not do it. The newbies will leave after finishing this urgent job.
The old man is our long-term support."
Tan Xinren calculated in his mind, gritted his teeth and took out another thousand taels of profit: "Add it, add it all, the profit is enough anyway! After you finish this job, you can just reduce it back!"
In the next few days, workers from various construction teams in the capital were poached by high salaries. The bosses of those construction teams dared to be angry but dared not speak out. They gathered together to drink and secretly curse Tan Xinren, disrupting the market.
While he was scolding, someone suddenly said: "Everyone is having a great time drinking and eating, why don't you say hello to me?"
When everyone saw it, it turned out to be Zhang Tianci. Originally, everyone had remained neutral, but now that Tan Xinren had acted like this, they were emotionally biased towards Zhang Tianci, so they quickly said hello and came over to sit down.
Zhang Tianci was also very generous and waved his hand: "I've taken the liberty to join you. I'm the one who bought the wine for today! I'm a grain merchant and have just entered the construction industry. I hope all the seniors can give me some advice!"
These construction team bosses secretly thought, people are more deadly than others. Zhang Tianci didn’t have many contacts before. He only knew that he was in the grain merchant industry and Tan Xinren didn’t deal with him. Now it seems that he is a good person, at least better than him.
Tan Xinren is so much better!
After three rounds of drinking, everyone became familiar with each other and called each other brothers. Naturally, the main topic was to scold Tan Xinren. A boss slapped the table and said: "According to this method, we will not be able to survive in the future. As a chamber of commerce, he
Chairman, it is shameless to take the lead in breaking market rules!"
Zhang Tianci immediately said: "Yes, he has monopolized all the major construction work in the capital. We all have grass growing in the cracks of the stones. What he is doing now is simply cutting the grass and eradicating the roots!"
Another boss said sadly: "Boss Zhang, it's okay for you. Everyone knows why your construction team was established. It's just that the industry is in chaos, but you still have the food bank to support you, and you are still well clothed and well fed. We are finished."
, all my wealth is in the construction team, there will be no work in the future, and the wages are high, I can only hang myself and wipe my neck."
Seeing that the time had come, Zhang Tianci immediately slapped the table: "Grandma, others are afraid of him talking about new benevolence, but I am not afraid. Everyone, I have something to say. If you can listen to it, then just listen. If you can't, I don't care either.
Let’s talk.”
Everyone listened to him for a while, as an old man, and sometimes as a younger brother. They all felt that this person was really good-natured, and they all asked in unison: "You can just say it, but is there any reason not to listen?"
Zhang Tianci said: "It would be fine if his project goes smoothly. If something goes wrong in the middle, he will have to repeat his old tricks and put on a smile so that everyone can help collect resources and tide over the difficulties. I think that everyone must not help.
Even if he pays a high price, we must not let him recover for temporary gain. Otherwise, we will not be able to survive in the future!"
Everyone had drunk enough, and their emotions were at an extremely high level. They all shouted: "Of course it is! Do we still need to save him and let him continue to bully us?"
Zhang Tianci looked around: "Everyone is saying this now, I'm afraid that when the time comes, interests are at hand, and they are afraid of talking about Xinren's power, so they will do something unmanly."
At this time, everyone's male hormones were already in full swing. In addition, they had been bullied for many years, which aroused old hatreds. They cursed together: "If there are such people who do not believe in their words, everyone should attack them together!"
"Okay!" Zhang Tianci slapped his thigh, "Shop, bring a pen and paper! This eldest brother is old and virtuous, so I ask you to write a document. If anyone betrays his trust and joins forces with Tan Xinren, all property will be confiscated.
, share it with everyone! What do you think?"
The atmosphere has reached this point, who can say no? Even if there were one or two hesitants, after much deliberation, they all gritted their teeth and signed. Unconsciously, a counter-talk alliance for the construction industry was established, and Zhang Tianci became a natural candidate.
He became the leader of the anti-talk alliance.
For no other reason, although Zhang Tianci’s thighs are not thicker than everyone else’s, they can’t stop others from hugging him!
At this time, Xiao Feng, who had thick legs, was practicing martial arts at home. He walked slowly in the yard, sometimes stopping, sometimes sitting down. He silently felt the internal force in his body from the hard training days.
That feeling is like a seedling newly drilled out of the soil. It seems fragile, but as long as you irrigate it diligently, it will slowly grow up and one day it will grow into a towering tree.