After eating and drinking, I also walked around the market. The market was only a hundred steps away, and there were some scattered vendors selling things.
Zhang San is going to go back and plan carefully to build this free market into the largest trade market in the Tang Dynasty.
After returning home, Zhang San ran to the study, found paper and pen, and began to seriously think about it.
The younger sister followed Xiaoyu to the commune. After Zhang San came back, the younger sister became lively.
"Zhang Fu, go find Ergou and ask him to come over." Zhang San shouted towards the door.
"Okay, Sir." Zhang Fu responded in the yard and ran to find Zhang Ergou.
"Sir, are you looking for me?" Not long after, Zhang Ergou came to the study and asked when he saw Zhang San still writing and drawing there.
"Here you go, Ergou, have you been busy lately?" Zhang San asked while drawing the drawings.
"It's not busy. Now our construction team can be renamed the emergency team. We will go wherever there is a shortage of people. Since the houses in our village have been renovated, we have no work." Zhang Ergou complained.
"If there is no work to do, wouldn't you, the captain, find some work? There are so many people in the Tang Dynasty, and if our village doesn't build houses, you won't go to other villages to ask!"
"My lord, you think this is a village just like ours. It would be nice to have a shelter from the wind and rain. Who has the spare money to build a house?"
Zhang San didn't know how to answer this for a moment, "Okay, you still don't know how to find a job. Ordinary people don't have money to build a house. There are landlords and gentry, but you don't know how to find them."
"Sir, there are not many landlords and gentry. Besides, that house doesn't need to be renovated or rebuilt!"
"Forget it, I won't bother you with this anymore. Now your construction team is alive." Zhang San put down his quill and said to Zhang Ergou.
"Really? What kind of job?" Zhang Ergou's eyes lit up immediately after hearing this.
When I came here, I saw Zhang San writing and drawing. It seemed that my lordship was planning something again.
"You know about the market outside our village, I'm going to re-plan it."
"I know! How to plan? It's not a big place there?" Zhang Ergou thought that a big job was coming, but when he heard that it was a market, he was immediately discouraged.
No matter how the market is planned, it is nothing more than setting up a few sheds to protect it from wind and rain. Some time ago, my little sister asked him to put up a few simple tents there.
"It's not big now, but it will be big once you plan it. Remember, everything depends on human effort. Take a look at this drawing first, and I'll explain it to you."
Zhang Ergou took a dozen drawings and looked at them one by one. The more he looked at them, the more confused he became. "Sir, is this a market? It feels like building a town."
"It's almost the same, but it's not a town. I call this a market."
"Market? What do you mean?"
"There are so many problems. You won't know it once it's solved. Now I tell you, you don't understand it. Just do what I say."
"Yes! Sir, where should we start first?" Zhang Ergou asked again.
"You first build two rows of houses in this open space. The houses don't need to be too big, but they must be regular. Then build a greenhouse here and a large warehouse here. The roads are paved with gravel..."
Zhang San divided this market into five areas, namely: living area, agricultural product area, commercial block, logistics distribution area and leisure and entertainment area.
"Sir, we don't have many people here. Who can we build such a big building for?" Zhang Ergou asked abruptly after hearing Zhang San's plan for the market.
"I don't think it's possible. Just do what you do. Build the agricultural products area and logistics distribution area in the early stage, and do the rest later."
"Okay, okay, I'll call the brothers together and start building." Zhang Ergou chuckled and ran away with the drawings.
"With the influence of the industrial park, the rise of business is inevitable." Zhang San smiled proudly and walked out of the study humming a tune.
"Hua'er, what are you doing?" Zhang San walked to the back garden and saw Xie Hua'er sitting in the pavilion in a daze, and couldn't help but ask.
"No...nothing to do. I'm bored. Just sit here." Xie Hua'er's face turned red. She was actually thinking about her crazy actions that night.
Seeing Zhang San suddenly at this moment made Xie Huaer panic.
"Are you okay? Why is your face so red? Don't you have a fever?" Zhang San walked to Xie Hua'er, stretched out his hand and touched Xie Hua'er's forehead, and then touched his own forehead.
"No fever!"
Having skin-to-skin contact with Zhang San again made Xie Huaer's face turn even redder, and even the roots of her ears felt hot.
"I don't have a fever to begin with, I'm leaving first." Xie Hua'er didn't know how to face Zhang San, so she ran away quickly after saying that.
"Haha! That's weird." Zhang San shook his head and smiled.
When nothing happened, Zhang San asked Zhang Fu to drive a carriage to Xuande to see Sun Simiao. At the same time, he asked Sun Simiao to go to the house again to finalize the marriage of the two.
When Zhang San arrived at Xuande Temple, he saw Sun Simiao coming back from outside carrying herbs.
"Master, are you going into the mountains to collect medicine?" Zhang San helped Sun Simiao take the bamboo basket and asked.
"There are not many herbs in the Taoist temple, so I went to the Qinling Mountains. You were awarded the title of Marquis yesterday. I didn't go to congratulate you. I'm sorry." Sun Simiao wiped the sweat from his forehead and said to Zhang San.
"You're so polite, my dear. Yesterday, my little sister said that you went to Wugong to treat people's illnesses. Logically speaking, I should have come to visit you two days earlier. Unfortunately, there were a lot of things to do when I came back. I drank too much yesterday, so I can only come today.
Visiting a real person."
"You are now the youngest marquis in the Tang Dynasty, so you must be busy with official duties. I am relieved that you are coming back this time. Your marriage to the girl from Fangfu can also be put on the agenda."
"Haha, this matter still requires a real person to make a hard trip. I made a mistake before, which delayed the wedding date, causing the house to follow me and be ridiculed by others."
"I wasn't in the Taoist temple when something happened to you. I didn't know until I came back on the seventh day of the lunar month to attend your wedding. Young people are prone to impulsive tempers. It's good to come back safely. In the future, when you get married and start a business, you have to be careful in your actions." Sun Simiao warned.
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"Okay, Master, I've written it all down." Zhang San replied.
"Tomorrow I have something to do. I will go to my husband's house early the day after tomorrow to make arrangements for your marriage. When I heard that you were coming back, I have chosen a date, September 26th and October 8th. Then I will meet my husband.
It’ll be good once it’s finalized.”
Zhang San was very moved when he heard this, "Thank you so much, Master."
"I have watched you and my little sister grow up. I am very happy to see you get married and start a business. Your parents are alive in heaven. Knowing that you have such a great future now, they will also be happy for you."
"Thanks to the help of real people at that time, otherwise my little sister and I would have suffered so much!"
Zhang San also learned from his younger sister that Sun Simiao was kind to Zhang San's family.
Especially when my mother was sick, without Sun Simiao's help, I don't know how much suffering my mother would have suffered. Unfortunately, she could not be saved in the end.