"Amsterdam... no, Guangzhou, I will be back." Xiao Zishan stood in the courtyard, looking at the first Lingnan building on the hillside with the blue sky in the distance, the red sandstone building and the ancient building with heavy eaves and resting roof - Oh, no An ancient building. He smiled unconsciously and said, "It's a modern building."
This residence with blue brick paving, white walls and black tiles is full of Lingnan style. Xiao Zishan remembers that in the 21st century, this should be Huifu Road, a street of cheap and good restaurants, including many famous restaurants that have been in business for decades. He has been there and eaten the "Yinji" rice rolls, "Chengji" porridge and noodles... This place in this time and space is actually a quite deserted place. Although you can see residential buildings, there are still abandoned gardens mixed in. Even farmland, vegetable fields, mixed woods, and small ponds can be seen everywhere.
Xiao Zishan has been very familiar with such scenes since he was a child. The southern city he lived in when he was a child is very similar to here. In traditional Chinese cities, there are farmland and wasteland within the city. In some places, in the 1960s and 1970s, there were still urban villages - In the urban area, there are large areas of farmland and cottages, and there are even production teams.
This place has been selected as the future stronghold of the crossing regime in Guangzhou. The place on Haopan Street is currently only used as a crossing trade point, and will be a backup stronghold in the future.
The new house was paid for by Gao Zhou, but the place was found by Sun Chang. Xiao Zishan now likes this young man more and more. He is neat in doing things and good at understanding the thoughts of time travellers.
When we found this house, the terrain was higher than the surrounding area. The area was very irregular and it was surrounded by water on both sides. The owner who first built the house built a small house and used the remaining open space to build a garden. Nowadays, this place has been transformed several times. The resale, and the garden have been abandoned into a wasteland strewn with rubble and thorns. Only a pool of clear water, half a rockery, a few big trees and a pavilion that has not completely fallen down in the garden reveal a hint of the former scenery here. .
Among the several houses Sun Chang found, this one was the most dilapidated, and the price was also cheap - almost all the houses and courtyards needed to be renovated. However, it was remote and quiet, and the area was large, so there was a lot of room for expansion. He immediately decided to buy it.
The renovation plan of the entire house was completely completed by the architectural designers of the Traveler. The design idea is to modernize the interior without destroying the overall Ming Dynasty appearance of the house to adapt to the future use of the Traveler in Guangzhou. for the needs of the base.
Among the Executive Committee's future uses for the Canton stronghold, the site would serve as a center for trade, intelligence, and communications across the Guangdong coast.
The architect retained the structural appearance of the original residence and only carried out comprehensive renovation and reinforcement. This part will be used as a place to interact with local people.
A part of the abandoned garden close to the house is designated as a garden for restoration. The other areas are all planned for various modern facilities, including planned offices, dormitories, monitoring rooms, telegraph rooms, warehouses, and vaults. Of course, these houses will have a traditional courtyard. The exterior, interior facilities and structure of the building will be in full compliance with modern architectural principles to maximize the use of space.
If the Chuanchuangzong wants to arrange various technical defense facilities and communication equipment in the stronghold, it involves the issue of electricity. It is obviously not feasible to use wind power to generate electricity in the city. Not to mention the limited wind power, the tall and large shelf is too much.
It is conspicuous. The efficiency of solar power generation is also too low. Although the Executive Committee has not been able to find a safe and secure way to send the generator to the Guangzhou stronghold for a while, it is still planning to build an underground generator room with sound insulation facilities -
―Be prepared for danger.
There are wells in the garden and in the house, and they generally pass the test. Local well workers are asked to dig deep once, and then they can be used as domestic water. For drinking water, the well water has to be purified.
Although this Guangzhou base will have no electricity or running water for a long period of time, during the construction, underground trenches will be opened in advance where additional equipment and wiring will be needed in the future.
In terms of defense, the original creeks and ponds on the northwest sides were dredged and the revetments were repaired. The original collapsed courtyard walls were increased to 6 meters in height. The backyard walls of large families here are even as high as 8-9 meters. And in the
Planting climbing roses on the wall - the dense spikes can also have a certain anti-theft effect.
However, all of this only remains on the designer's computer at the moment. The current funds are not abundant, and it is not appropriate to invest too much in a project that is not urgently needed. The energy of the wormhole is about to disappear. In order to save the last energy, the time travel
Trade will stop after this time, and the travelers who have been active in the Ming Dynasty time and space for several months will all withdraw to this time and space until the final time travel operation comes.
Therefore, only a small part of this grand building plan has been implemented at this time. Sun Chang invited plasterers to repair the house and the surrounding walls. Seeing the workers busily transporting bricks and mixing mud, Xiao Zishan felt a little nostalgic for this place.
Now that I'm here, I don't know how long it will take before I can come back here again.
After officially crossing over, they are no longer harmless Australian businessmen who come here to make money with novel goods, but a unique political force intent on rebellion. As a member of the executive committee, it is unlikely that he will be arrested again.
Sent to the city of Guangzhou under the enemy's influence. I wonder how long it will take before the flag of the time traveler can fly on the first floor of Lingnan?
Just as I was thinking about it, I saw Wen Desi coming in from outside with a cheerful face. Xiao Zishan has been supervising the work in the new house in the past week, and Mr. Wen and Gong Wang were responsible for the cross-trading trade.
"Zi Shan, are you still supervising the work?"
"Mr. Wen, why are you here? You have to show up less recently."
"It's okay, I have a powerful escort following me, and I have my magic weapon for protection..."
"Haha, it's the third one again: spray, folding knife, stab-proof vest?"
"No, I learned the lesson from last time and added a simple respirator mask." Mr. Wen patted his bulging waist. He just went to visit Gao Ji, and he made nonsense of Yu Eshui's rhetoric.
Ichiban.
"What expression is held high?"
"It's hard to tell!" Wen Desi thought for a moment, "It looks like he ate a dozen green olives in one breath! However, he knew that we were willing to give him all the goods on credit before leaving, and he was so moved that he wanted to cry..."
Both of them burst out laughing.
Considering that for a long period of time after time travel in the future, time travelers will not be able to take out a large amount of so-called Australian goods as easily as they can now. So after discussion, we gave Master Gao a large amount of goods on credit, which moved Gao Zhi almost to tears.
, this batch of goods is worth 200,000 taels! In fact, for the Executive Committee, there is not much risk in this credit loan, and the total amount of RMB is only more than 30,000 yuan. It will not affect the use of funds here in this time and space.
"Then he also paid a lot of money, right?"
"Two thousand taels of gold. There are also many things that we didn't dare to sell in the past. Anyway, this is the last time. We will leave after selling." Wen Desi stopped laughing, "These are our last income before crossing over.
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"Is it enough?"
"I've done the calculations several times. Excluding this income, the current reserves are enough. I've also set up a 2 million yuan emergency fund."
"At that time, someone asked me for something new."
"If it's not enough, don't buy it. Everything you should have has been accounted for. If you add anything else, it's just the icing on the cake. It's optional."
"I'm afraid there are some key things that we haven't thought of. We have to rebuild a complete industrial system. Don't lose the chain at this critical moment." Xiao Zishan is still a pessimist.
"Forget about spoiling the fun, let's take care of everything here." Wen Desi said.
Returning to the house that had just been repaired, Sun Chang was waiting in the house with a ledger. Now he seemed to be in charge. Entrusting such a large portion of the family property to someone he had known for less than three months would not be a good idea.
In modern times, no one would do that, but here and now, the time travelers have no choice but to trust.
"Sun Chang, we are going back to Australia this time. Next time we come back, it should be next year. You can take good care of the house here and don't cause trouble. If you encounter any problems, please discuss it with shopkeeper Sun. If you have any difficulties, you can also go to seek advice.
Mr. Gao, I have told him that he will definitely see you."
"Yes. Please tell me, sir, where can we go to greet you next time?"
"No, we will send someone to contact you when we get here." Wen Desi took out an aluminum medal cut with a saw from his arms and gave half of it to him. "When the time comes, I will take this as a record. Can you please listen?
Someone comes and gives orders."
"Yes, there is one more thing I would like to ask you, sir."
"What's up?"
"This house is so vast, and I'm the only one who can't take care of it. Can you please buy one or two more family members?"
"No need, after we go back, Gao Qing's family will move here. Gao Di is learning from your uncle again, you should teach him more in daily life, so that he doesn't grow up like his good-for-nothing father.
"All the money coming in and out of the house is your expense, and Gao Di is responsible for keeping the accounts. Gao Qing's family has a fixed amount of money, money, and rice, which is distributed according to the regulations. Your monthly silver is two taels, and the monthly rice and rice are half a stone."
"Here."
"Although I'm telling you not to cause trouble, I'm not telling you to stay in the house!"
"?" Sun Chang looked confused.
Wen Desi realized that he had made a mistake, but did not change his words. He continued to admonish him with a serious face: "Go around more and ask for information. When we come in the future, we will report it back."
"yes."
"Just wait and see, we will be back soon."
The day after the time-travelers left, Gao Qing's family was packing up their belongings and preparing to move to Mr. Australia's new house. Manager Yan called Gao Qing out at the door of the house again.
When Gao Qing heard the voice and was about to go out, his wife shouted:
"Go, go, go, go and show your courtesy again! Let's get in first, but later on Sun Chang resigned from his citizenship and became a steward. It's better for you! If you get in first, you'll still be a handyman after a long time!"
Gao Qing remained silent, meaning he still wanted to go out.
Gao Qian simply cried and started making trouble again: "I have been unlucky for eight lifetimes by following you, a coward. Do you still have any brains? What do the Gao family give us? How do Mr. Wen and the others treat us? You're better off, go.
Sell them and get paid for them!"
"Master Wen is always from outside the vassal...from now on..."
"What's wrong with the foreigners? I'd be happy to follow you to the end of the world if you treat us well! Just sell it and stay in the Gao family to be your good slave!"
Their two children watched their mother lose her temper without saying a word. The two children have reached a sensible age and know that their parents have their own ideas, but emotionally they feel that the man from Australia is nice and speaks kindly.
On weekdays, I often give her delicious and fun Australian gadgets. Naturally, my heart is on my mother’s side.
Gao Qing lowered his head and said nothing. Taking this opportunity, Gao Xian had already walked out and said to Manager Yan with a smile on his face: "What a coincidence, our man went to the house over there to clean up the house early in the morning. The slave family
I'm taking my children to pack things. I'll go over there after I've collected them. What's the matter with you? Can you ask him to come over and give you a reply tomorrow?"
Manager Yan knew that she was lying and did not dare to do anything to her. He had no choice but to walk away, cursing in his heart: These overseas businessmen are really fucking good at telling lies! It has only been a few days, but every one of them has become loyal!