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The new cellar of the Zhang family was quickly cut. The fifteen caves had already been dug out and the interior was started to be trimmed. After the shape was repaired, the dust would be scraped and pulp would be brushed. According to the progress of the project, the construction will definitely be completed before the end of the year.

Zhang Chaoxian was fine, and he squatted on the construction site for several days, pointing fingers at the engineering team and adding some modification opinions from time to time, which made the construction team go around.

In particular, Zhang Chao required that wells be dug in Xinyaoyuan, and well trucks and barrel trucks must be installed, and water towers must be built. A kitchen, toilet, bathroom must be built, a set of tap water, and a sewer must be built. A large septic tank must be dug behind the toilet.

Warm kangs must be built in each house, and even the main hall must be installed in the floor kangs.

In short, after hearing Zhang Chao's request, the responsible zither head frowned again and again. But Zhang Chao always said the same thing, "I'm not afraid of spending money, just do as he asks, and don't think about saving money and doing it well."

Jiao Jiangtou has called Zhang Chao a prodigal son more than once, and spent money indiscriminately.

But since the boss said that the siege maker did not save money for Zhang Chao. Anyway, they were collecting money by nature, with more projects, more days, and more wages.

Zhang Chao asked for it with the attitude of being as comfortable as possible. In the future, this place will be his own home, so of course he must be as comfortable as possible.

"Master Zhao, the floor of the house is covered with floor tiles, and a green brick is needed to grind the brick joints. In the yard, bricks should also be laid. There is no need to grind, but they have to be laid flat. There are also more trees, jujube, pear, pomegranate, and two grape racks. Outside the yard, there are ten steps to the wall, plant a row of walnut trees, and then plant some Xin trees. Plant some mulberry trees behind the house, and plant some willow trees on the front slope."

The more the cellar maker heard, the more shocked he was. Is it to build a cellar or build a palace?

"Twenty steps outside the yard, there will be another archway, and the gate of the yard must be built, so it must be taller." My father is now a nobleman who has been granted the title. Although the man in the county has a false title of 300 households, it is not a real title, but the founding man in Ningmin County is a real hereditary aristocratic title.

After the archway on the front road in front of the courtyard was built, the seven big characters "The Founding Baron of Ningmin County" were written on it. The two big characters "The Zhang Mansion" were written on the gate of the courtyard.

Since you are a noble, you must have the aristocratic temperament and style.

Moreover, I have been used to living a modern civilized life and have suffered a little in this era. There is no way to do it when there is no conditions. But if you have conditions, not to mention telephone, wifi, at least you have to have this toilet and bathroom, and you have to have tap water, and you should also have hot water for 24 hours.

Zhang Chao doesn't like the dust everywhere in the yard all day long, so he lays some floor tiles and paints the walls, so there is nothing wrong with it.

This is not called a prodigal family, it is just a pursuit of a better life. Zhang Chao does not steal or rob, so why don’t he be allowed to live a better life if he has money? No pursuit at all, so what’s the difference between it and salted fish?

After digging a well in the yard, there is no need to work hard to get water from the village entrance. Especially when it rains and snows, it is much more convenient. However, Zhang Chao felt that he was rich, so he simply went to tap water directly, drilled a well truck, built a water storage pool, then set up a barrel truck, set up a water tower, and then paved the waterway with a bamboo tube, and the whole family had tap water.

Originally, Zhang Chao planned to build a swimming pool in the yard. Anyway, the yard is so big, it looks like a primary school yard, so I can dig a swimming pool and build it. The private swimming pool and a yard with a swimming pool were used to be standard for luxury houses.

However, as soon as this design was proposed, my father ruthlessly rejected it.

"Digging a pool in the yard to take a bath is like a thing. And it can't be washed in winter, so just go to the bathtub down the slope to wash in summer."

Anyway, my dad can't get it.

In the end, Zhang Chao had to change the large swimming pool a little and turned into a water storage pool. The well truck took water out of the well, first stored the water in the pool, and then the barrel truck then sent the water to the water tower. With such a relay, the tap water system will be available. Because it is used by the family, the well truck and the barrel truck need not be too large. It is designed to be used directly with two people.

You can also pull it with a mule and a horse.

Anyway, the family doesn’t use much water. When you get on the bus for a while every morning, it will be enough to store the water tower, so that you can use tap water easily and conveniently throughout the day.

Because it is well water pumped, even disinfection is not needed. Anyway, drinking water will be specially required to boil.

Zhang Chao has devoted a lot of effort to this new house.

"The stonemason will be invited to carve a pair of stone lions at the gate!"

The Zhang family is now a noble family. Although they are the lowest nobles, they are also nobles. They are not qualified to stand in front of the door, but the stone lion in front of the door is fully qualified.

Lao Jiangtou suggested that two stone piers should be placed on both sides below the door tower of the Zhang family, and a stone drum should be erected on each stone piers. These two stone drums are closer to the door tower, which means they are together with the door stall on the door tower.

The two characters Zhang Mansion are above, and two characters can be added below, to merit. This means that the Zhang family is a noble who has established meritorious families. The position of the two characters Zhang Merit is the door stall, and the stone drum is equivalent to the household pair, which implies that it is a match for the family. The higher the official position of the Lord, the bigger the stone drum, the stone lion.

Zhang Chao likes this style, and is low-key and flamboyant.

Originally, Zhang Chao wanted to paint the indoor lime with big white, but people here use yellow mud to paint the wall. The white is obviously not suitable for painting the wall in everyone's eyes. Besides, lime is not that easy to work with, so Zhang Chao is fine.

"Sanlang, I have your letter."

Shuanzi walked over and took out a letter from his arms.

As soon as he saw the familiar letter, Zhang Chao knew that the letter was from Thirteen Niang.

"Tomorrow afternoon, the old place will never end!"

Looking at the beautiful lines of words, Zhang Chao couldn't help but chuckled. Thirteen Niang actually learned how to meet him and even wrote it on the old place wisely.

It has been a few days since I returned from Chang'an.

Zhang Chao didn't know how Zheng Shanguo was doing, but it was hard to urge him to do this, and Zheng Shanguo didn't believe him.

Now that Thirteen Niang wrote to meet, Zhang Chao felt that things had changed, but he just didn't know whether it was bad or good.

It’s still exciting to think about the beauty’s appointment.

"Sunzi, ask the bathroom to burn stones, I want to steam a sauna and take a shower and change my clothes!"

"Sanlang, are you going to Chang'an?"

"Yeah, go to Chang'an."

"But it's already afternoon now. I'm going to Chang'an now, so I can't come back today." Shuanzi kindly reminded.

"What are you afraid of? Bring more money. Let's spend the night in Qinglong Temple and go burning incense."

There are many temples and Taoist temples in Chang'an City, some famous temples, and even one temple occupies a yard. Because it is in Chang'an, the capital, these temples are often full of incense. During the Sui Dynasty, the Buddhas were honored, Taoists and monks lived a good life in the Tang Dynasty.

There are many land and real estate in Chang'an City and many temples in the suburbs. They have no worries about food and drink. They also engage in catering, entertainment and even develop financial businesses.

For example, the temple will provide vegetarian food to those believers who come to burn incense and to worship Buddha, and also provide monks' yards for practice. Of course, they also sell incense and candles, draw lots and unblock them, and they will also lend loans and mortgage them.

There was no pawn shop at the Tang Dynasty, and the closest business was the temple's qualifying warehouse. The qualifying warehouse was a mortgage loan, or it could be said to be the predecessor of the pawn shop. In addition, temples also lend money. In short, temples are quite powerful economies, so you can know it by referring to Shaolin in later generations.

In the early Northern Song Dynasty, the Northern Han Dynasty in Shanxi suffered consecutive defeats and its economy collapsed in an all-round way. It relied on the money of the monks in Mount Wutai to live.

The temples in Mount Wutai actually grasped the economic lifeline of the Northern Han Dynasty. Just think about it and know the power of temples.

Most rich people do not stay in inns, but live directly in big temples. There is no need to worry about black shops in these temples. Moreover, the environment is elegant and the hospitality is good, and it is delicious and has good food and drinks. You can talk to monks about sutras, talk about Zen when you have time, and even sing poems and chess. Those monks, especially some eminent monks, are rare intellectuals in this era.

Living in a temple also has the advantage of not being harassed by yamen or gangsters. Especially in those big temples, ordinary people dare not go to the wild.

Zhang Chao donated a lot of money at Qinglong Temple last time. After living there for a few days, he was quite familiar with many monks in the temple, especially with the monks who were in charge of reception at the front desk.

Therefore, Zhang Chao doesn’t have to worry that it’s already afternoon, let alone that Chang’an will close the city gate at dusk.

Riding on the red war horse given by Changsun Wuji, Zhang Chao took Shuanzi to Chang'an.

Along the way, Zhang Chao felt that the monks in the temple were all landlords, and their lives were better than most people, and many landlords were even less than them.

Usually, those who believe in men and women, especially those noble ladies in the capital donated a lot of money for indulgence and oil. The land in each temple is so scary.

Just like this year's Battle of Central Plains, because Shaolin Temple sent a monk to help, Li Yuan was happy and rewarded Shaolin Temple with a lot of gold and gave 100 hectares of land as the temple's property. One hundred hectares of land was a total of 10,000 acres. Li Shimin then gave 4,000 acres.

The major temples also have many slaves. Although they were named Jingren, they were essentially slaves from the temple. There were also many self-cultivated farmers who took the initiative to join the temple. During the Sui Dynasty, they offered land to the temple for temple property. Then, as tenants of the temple, they still planted their original land, but they no longer paid taxes to the court but rented to the temple, but paid much less rent.

The major temples own a lot of land, clean people, tenants, and they also have a lot of grain reserves. These grains have become important capital for them to lend, especially in the disaster year.

Zhang Chao felt that he should learn more from these bald masters, that they had good business operations. On the one hand, they occupied all the famous mountains and prime areas of famous cities in the world, opened mountains and established temples, collected incense money from men and women, and then occupied a large amount of land in various places, with many slaves and tenants farming for them. They only needed to sit in meditation and preach the scriptures to enjoy the fruits, and they could also do some mortgages and lending business every year, and even operate temples as luxury vacation and leisure hotels.

The bald masters are the real winners in life.

When I rode a horse to the entrance of Qinglong Temple, a familiar monk saw Zhang Chao, a boy with money, and immediately greeted him with a smile.

"Master, is it the last time the yard, I wonder if I still have time?"

"Yes." The monk with a guest smiled like Maitreya Buddha.

"I want to borrow a period of time to practice, I wonder if it's possible?"

The monk was just smiling.

Zhang Chao also smiled and said, "I want to donate 10,000 yuan in incense and oil to the temple."

"Thank you, Mr. Zhang."

"I wonder if I can borrow the monastery last time for use?"

"Of course, the donor will do the best to practice as long as he wants. No one will disturb you. Our temple will also provide you with two vegetarian meals a day."

Zhang Chao nodded. If he had known this, it would be really good that money could make the devil push the mill, and money could make the Buddha laugh.
Chapter completed!