【Chapter 443】New Changes in Weizhen Fort

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In fact, the move to the White Army in Ningxia City was definitely a big deal for the White Army. This is no longer Xu Xingxia’s personal personal matter. Xu Xingxia’s every move now involves the entire White Army. Just like the royal family, the royal family is selfless. All the members of the Standing Committee of the Council took this matter as a business matter. They were determined to do this matter properly. Liu Guangliang and Chen Denglong even rushed to Ningxia City to see the place early in the morning.

When the Xu family arrives in Ningxia City, they must find a suitable place to live. As the chairman's family, they must not live in ordinary houses, right? This is not Xu Xingxia's nobleness and vain love, purely out of prestige. You can't live worse than your subordinates, as this will make your subordinates feel uneasy. Everyone works hard and work with their heads. Why? Isn't it that you can live a good life with your family?

Of course, it is too conspicuous to live in the Prince Qing Mansion. However, the original Governor's Office was good. Except for the scale of the Prince Qing Mansion, it was almost the same as that of the Prince Qing Mansion, and other aspects were similar, including pavilions, buildings, rockery, waterfronts, and pavilions. The Xu family could just move into the original Governor's Office. The scale of the Governor's Office was just enough to live in the Xu family, so it would not be too empty. As for the Qing Mansion, it should be used to temporarily receive distinguished guests from all parties, which is equivalent to the Honglu Temple of the imperial court. If necessary, it would be regarded as a free private park and would be fine if you go there often.

Lin Xiaoniang was obviously very happy, a little shy, a little shy, a little yearning, and a little eager to try. She said shyly: "At that time, I will definitely accompany my mother to go shopping and buy a lot of fun things."

Xu Xingxia smiled and said nothing.

These women know that shopping... are they really that easy to visit on the street?

Lin Xiaoniang suddenly remembered something and said apologetically: "Official, the wine should be chilled, I'll bring it to you right away."

After saying that, he hurriedly stood up and left slowly.

If you want to tell what Xu Xingxia gained from his private gains this time, he probably got a lot of good wines. The Qingwang Mansion originally had a large number of vineyards, and most of the grapes produced were used for winemaking. The Qingwang Mansion's winemaking process will naturally not be very bad. Every time he brews wine, some fine products will come out. These fine products are collected by Qingwang and specially sent to other powerful people or for major festivals. Many of them are tributes sent to the Forbidden City, and the prices are very expensive.

In order to prepare for unexpected needs, there are naturally many fine products stored in the wine cellar of Prince Qing’s Mansion. Over time, Prince Qing’s Mansion has stored a lot of excellent wines. When Prince Qing fled, he was seized by the white army before he could take them away. Xu Xingxia was not polite and sent them all. He also got the best one himself, about 120 bottles. The years are said to be very old, and the shortest storage year is more than ten years.

Xu Fuqing doesn't like wine and thinks it tastes weird. He wants to drink white wine. Others in the Xu family can't get used to it. However, Xu Xingxia can drink a few glasses. Unexpectedly, Lin Xiaoniang can drink it too. This is probably the only common language they have discovered so far. Of course, Tessna also likes to drink it. But at present, she is not a formal member of the Xu family. Xu Xingxia has not officially brought her home, so Xu Fuqing and Wang don't ask.

vaguely, Xu Xingxia felt that if Lin Xiaoniang was the daughter of a accountant, she seemed not to have enough wine! It should be noted that at that time, wine was still very precious, and only the powerful could afford it. Ordinary wealthy families rarely had the opportunity to come into contact with it. How could Lin Xiaoniang... However, there have been many things recently, and Xu Xingxia's nerves are relatively large and not so sensitive. Although she felt it was a bit strange, she didn't think much about it.

After a while, Lin Xiaoniang came with iced wine. She was indeed skillful and prepared everything. After the White Army controlled the Qing Prince's Mansion, she found a lot of precious items from it, such as various precious blue and white porcelains, as well as various porcelain made of thin porcelain, as well as luminous cups for drinking wine. These things were also distributed by Xu Xingxia, and he also got a portion of them himself. After a while, she and Xu Xingxia held the luminous cups and drank silently in the pavilion. The breeze blew, and neither of them spoke.

After Lin Xiaoniang took three glasses of wine, her face turned redder and could be called beautiful. Maybe it was a little hot, and some sweat beads on her body came out. She kept slapping her chest with her hands, and her movements seemed like an immature little girl. In Xu Xingxia's impression, she was like this every time she ate chili peppers. When she was so spicy that she kept waving her hands and sucking the air conditioner, but in fact she had no effect at all.

However, her mind was still very clear and there was no sign of confusion. The more she drank, the brighter she looked, but Xu Xingxia felt a little hot and she felt a little drunk. His alcohol capacity was actually not good, and he had never exercised in his previous life. Fortunately, it was wine. If it was white wine, it would have been put down to the ground. In a daze, he suddenly heard Lin Xiaoniang ask softly: "Official, are you going to Yulin City?"

Xu Xingxia held the wine glass and said casually: "Yes."

Lin Xiaoniang said, "After going to Yulin City, will you go to Xi'an Prefecture?"

Xu Xingxia said with a drunken eyes and a little strange: "What are you asking for?"

Lin Xiaoniang gently removed the wine glass from his hand, obviously not giving him any more drinks. Her face was flushed and she said in a daze: "I have a relative in Xi'an Prefecture..."

Xu Xingxia tilted her head and thought for a while, but she didn't know what she was thinking. Her eyes seemed to be stagnant. After a while, she said, "Relative? Why haven't you heard of it before?"

Lin Xiaoniang said shyly: "It turns out that our family has a bad relationship with them... Now... my mother said I want to pass the door..."

She hesitantly explained that it was Wang who asked her to find a relative. At that time, whether it was marrying a wife or taking a concubine, as long as there were formal procedures, the woman's side had to be a few relatives present to behave like this. Otherwise, the woman's status would be easily ignored in the future. The more relatives there are, the better. Think about it, you don't even have relatives, and even if you are bullied by your husband's family, no one will stand up for you! After Lin Xiaoniang said this, Xu Xingxia understood.

But Lin Xiaoniang did not have any relatives in her previous home. The only relatives she could remember now were a distant relative in Xi'an Prefecture. In fact, she only knew the address of this distant relative and had never seen anyone. She even didn't know whether the other party still existed. Maybe she hadn't seen him for so many years, and someone had moved away, or something unexpected happened. However, the only relatives she could think of now were their family.

Xu Xingxia casually said, "Are you going to bring them a letter?"

Lin Xiaoniang nodded a little shyly. Xu Xingxia asked this, which was equivalent to agreeing to send a letter to her relatives. In other words, he was willing to accept her relatives. This was also a disguised acceptance of her. If he agreed, her status in the Xu family would not be shaken. She was naturally shy and happy. In a vaguely, she was still a little scared and a little expectant. Various different expressions were intertwined, and she looked more and more cute.

Xu Xingxia said readily: "Give me the letter, I'll send someone to help you deliver it!"

Lin Xiaoniang hurriedly turned around. After a while, she brought a letter back. The letter was not banned, and it was obviously something that Xu Xingxia had read. Xu Xingxia didn't read it either, so she put it in her arms. If she wanted to send the letter to Xi'an Prefecture, it would probably be troubled by Wang Qinian again. Apart from him, it was really hard for others to find a way to enter Xi'an Prefecture!

After the two drank wine, the cool breeze blew for a while, Xu Xingxia was about to go out. The wine quickly passed and he gradually woke up. Lin Xiaoniang sent him to the door before returning. Xu Xingxia took a few steps, turned around and looked quietly, and found that Lin Xiaoniang and Niu Niu were having a good time again. In the eyes of several little girls, she was the gentle and friendly elder sister, who gradually became more important than his brother.

I have to say that she is indeed an indispensable member of this family. Alas, he has been home a little lately, so that Niu Niu and the others have turned their attention to Lin Xiaoniang. Suddenly, they remembered that people in later generations are in love. If Lin Xiaoniang had such a skill, it might be easy to succeed! Of course, people in later generations are too complicated, and Lin Xiaoniang has to pay much higher costs.

"Where am I thinking about this?" Xu Xingxia shook her head and drove out the distracting thoughts in her mind. A man is a real man, it's important to do it! Leave the length of the family to women to solve! He just needs to take care of the White Army. In the past few months, the White Army has developed too fast, and he has devoted all his energy, but it is not enough!

Outside the Xu family's door, Liu Chuang and several hunting cavalry soldiers were staring at the surroundings with vigilance. In fact, Weizhen Fort is the safest, but everyone living here is aware of the truth and it is impossible for a new face to get in. They were worried that someone was too enthusiastic and came up to surround Xu Xingxia. When they saw Xu Xingxia coming out, they surrounded him.

"Let's go!" Xu Xingxia waved at Liu Chuang and turned over to the horse.

The group came out of the Xu family and walked north along the streets of Weizhen Fort. The current Weizhen Fort has changed a lot. The bumpy cross streets were now covered with concrete and have become very flat. The width has also been greatly expanded, which is as wide as the four lanes of later generations. Such a road, the carriages traveling to and from the horses and wagons can be easily and freely no matter how much they carry. In fact, the carriages traveling to and from the craft workshops are running on this road.

The shops of various colors on both sides of the road have been demolished and rebuilt. Thanks to the help of cement and pulley sets, the buildings of Weizhenbao have undergone great changes. In the past, Weizhenbao was basically one-story thatched huts, dilapidated and old, and there were very few brick and tile houses. Now, the worst building is also a large brick and tile house, spacious and grand. More buildings are already brick-concrete buildings. If you didn’t see it with your own eyes, you would be unable to believe it.

Especially after the three iron blast furnaces were controlled by the white-clothed army, some of the iron tools flowed to the people and some people used them to build houses. At this time, the steel bars, well, to be precise, should be iron rods. Of course, they cannot be as outstanding as those of later generations, and their performance is not as good as those of later generations. However, relatively speaking, it is still very beneficial. At least, the bearing capacity of the iron rod is more important than that of wood. It is still no problem to be used to build three-story buildings.

Before, three-story buildings were almost unimaginable. Even ordinary wealthy families did not have buildings with more than three floors. At that time, the buildings expanded to the plane and rarely developed into the sky. Only special buildings such as temples, Taoist temples, halls, etc. could exceed three floors. However, the materials used in these special buildings were very particular, either wood or stone, and the requirements for construction technology were also very high, and the cost was actually very high.

For ordinary families, such as the Liu Guangliang family, although their income is quite good, the total annual income of the whole family is more than 500 taels of silver. However, in the past, it was impossible to build high-rise buildings. Such a small amount of silver was not enough to see. Fortunately, now there is cement, red bricks, porcelain pieces, concrete, and building brick-concrete houses. A three-story brick-concrete house can afford it.

The cement prefabricated panels that were very popular in later generations were very popular in Weizhenbao. Near Zhenshuobao, there were several factories that produced cement prefabricated panels. Cement, red bricks, prefabricated panels, and three things combined. The speed of building a house was that was a silly swish. One floor could be built in a few days. The tallest building even exceeded five floors. This is the limit that brick walls can withstand, and it is not safe to see if it is high.

In terms of house decoration, a large number of porcelain pieces have also been used. The firing of porcelain pieces is actually the same as porcelain. The key is the emergence of cement, which allows the porcelain pieces to be easily attached to the wall without loosening. With the maturity of technology, the color of porcelain pieces has also changed colorfully. People who are greedy for beauty have begun to use porcelain pieces to decorate their houses in large quantities. In this regard, it is no longer very different from houses in later generations.

The stinky ditches on both sides of Weizhenbao Street have also been re-paved. The original hygiene of Weizhenbao was still very bad. Every household was convenient to show their magical powers across the sea and showed their magical powers. Inevitably, it will cause a mess in Weizhenbao, and the air is always filled with the smell of feces. In the past, everyone's living standards were low and they could not even fill their stomachs, so they naturally would not care. But now, everyone's living standards are high, and they are full and warm and thoughtful, and they have noticed the details of all aspects.
Chapter completed!