"Ancestral hall? Merlin is a bit confused. There are many architectural fantasies among the senators. Some want to build the Soviet Palace, some want to build the Congress Hall, and some want to build their own holiday villas, manors, castles, museums, palaces.
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But no one wants to build an ancestral temple. [No pop-up novel website] The elders are not interested in this symbol of patriarchal society. Some of the elders may want to be "gods", but just being an "ancestor" is not attractive to everyone.
"Well, what's the use of the ancestral hall?"
Zhao Yingong said with a very solemn expression: "Of course they are dedicated to my ancestors of the Song Dynasty."
"I understand." Merlin understood that Zhao Yingong was preparing to confirm his identity as a descendant of the Zhao Song clan.
He originally planned to build this ancestral hall to worship the "ancestors" by the West Lake, but it was not realized because of land prices and the Foreign Intelligence Service's disapproval of such a ostentatious event.
I don’t know much about ancient architecture, so the ancestral hall must be built according to the ancient form, otherwise it will not look solemn and there will be a problem of exceeding the regulations. Local craftsmen must be used to build Phoenix Villa. Don’t report it to you. "Merlin was a little worried.
Zhao Yingong said: "I have asked someone to draw the design. Don't worry, it will definitely not exceed the limit. I asked people from the History Research Office of the Grand Library and Master Wang to take a look at it."
Merlin agreed, he was just building houses anyway. However, he immediately put forward a countercondition: He asked Zhao Yingong to come forward and keep Zhou Dongtian for a while, and then set off after he finished handling the matters at hand. He wanted to go to Nanjing with Zhou Dongtian.
"We've all arrived in the south of the Yangtze River. It would be a pity not to go to Nanjing. I must go and see how Nanjing is like a dragon crouching and a tiger standing on tiptoe. It's like..."
Zhao Yingong certainly knew what Hua was thinking, and smiled implicitly: "I will definitely convince Lou Zhou."
Zhou Dongtian turned out to be all-powerful in taking Mei Lin to Nanjing. Hangzhou was also very comfortable. He could stay for a few more days, eat, sleep, and do some internal political review work. The population of Hangzhou Station has increased a lot, and in addition to children, many slaves have come. These people must be properly reviewed and evaluated secretly.
Without the other party's knowledge, it was obviously not possible to put on an interrogation posture, otherwise the news about the presence of several strange people in Zhao's house would spread widely. The inspection team checked in in the name of Zhao Yingong's friends, and could not act beyond the scope of friends. Zhou Dongtian has been trained in body language. He can tell general clues by just saying a few words casually and observing the other person's expressions and movements.
As an "advisor" to the General Administration of Political Security, he has contacted and observed every slave, especially to see if they have any special behavior: a spy will inevitably reveal distinctive clues as long as he starts his activities. .
A few days later, he confirmed that there were no spies among the indigenous personnel recruited for the entire Hangzhou station. As for the reliability of indigenous personnel, it cannot be judged in a short time. However, except for the bearers who have a little charlatanism, most of the servants are loyal and honest people. It is easier to form a common chain of interests with Hangzhou Station. As for how far their reliability can develop in the future, it still depends on Zhao Yingong's own ability to win over.
But loyalty must first form a community of interests. Zhou Dongtian believes that no matter how strong a person's take-down ability is, he can never become the "queen" or "mastermind" of the Zerg. Regardless of whether it is real interests or illusory interests, loyalty must still be based on common interests.
Zhao Yingong's main method is to start with children. In addition to orphans taken in from the streets and markets, he also organized all the children of slaves.
These children ranged from five or six to thirteen or fourteen years old. Zhao Yingong asked Sun Wangcai to give all the slaves' children pocket money and send them to a private school in the abandoned garden. He also planned to have all the children stay in a centralized place after the Phoenix Villa was completed. Live a complete collective life: eat, live, study and work together, and thoroughly educate the students on culture and outlook on life.
It is not easy to change adults, but children are blank slates, and Zhao Yingong has control over how to draw them. Start by controlling the children's minds, and their parents will not be able to escape.
Their parents, who were slaves, were basically uneducated and could not have any influence on their children. They would only shed tears at the behavior of their masters.
About half of the slaves Zhao Yingong took in were those with children. He preferred the whole family to single slaves. People with children have greater survival pressure and greater worries. Once these people have a safe and stable environment, they won't have many other ideas. A little favor can make them give up. And children are the most effective hostages for most people.
The land preparation work for Phoenix Mountain Villa was quickly completed. Sun Wangcai and Cai Shi bought more than 2,000 acres of land in Phoenix Mountain: the price was not high. Most of the land is barren mountainous land, and the land beside the mountains and rivers is sandy and sometimes in danger of waterlogging. Regardless of whether it is official land or land, it is of little value. It cost less than five hundred taels of silver to buy the entire land and get the deed done. Zhao Yingong hired a wooden cabinet. The so-called wooden cabinet is an ancient construction company that specializes in undertaking construction projects. The head of the wooden cabinet is a Dongyang carpenter. He didn't understand the architectural drawings that Merlin brought out: it wasn't that the ancients didn't have architectural drawings, but that craftsmen who built houses rarely used them.
Moreover, the buildings designed by Merlin were considered "illegal" in their opinion. When building a house, the carpenter followed the "Building Method". The structure of various types of houses, their dimensions, their appearance... almost all have certain routines. The carpenter read Mei Lin's paper for a long time before he said: " It’s not difficult to build a house, but it’s weird to have a house built like this. Are all houses built like this in Guangli?”
Merlin himself felt that the house he designed was still in the "ancient architectural style", but the structure and space management of the house were designed according to modern architectural principles. Unexpectedly, the other party found it strange. If this were the case, wouldn't the bastion-style building be even more bizarre?
He said cautiously: "This is how we build houses in Sanshui. I heard that some styles were introduced from overseas."
"What an eye-opener." The carpenter muttered while watching, "Guest! I advise you to follow the French style. I'm afraid others will laugh at you if you build a house like this..."
There was a small argument on this issue. The carpenter felt that building such a unique "Guangli style" house would make people laugh. Of course, Meilin had to stick to his own architectural philosophy. After all, the house in the villa must serve practical purposes and cannot accommodate the so-called "French style". The buildings of the Ming and Qing Dynasties are certainly beautiful and tasteful, but they are very poor in terms of comfort and space utilization.
Of course he must adhere to the direction of advanced construction technology when he comes to this time and space.
In the end, it was built according to Meilin's drawings... The construction project of Phoenix Villa is not small in scale, and it is a big deal for wooden cabinets. No matter how persistent the old carpenter is in "Building French Style", he will never struggle with money.
What puzzled the old carpenter the most was the underground ditches and water supply system on the design. Of course he didn't know about this. Many small towns and even villages in the south of the Yangtze River had complete and reliable drainage systems, but he had never seen such a "luxury" design. "of. According to his idea, since it is just a villa, there is no need for complicated drainage at all. It is enough to set up a slate ditch for drainage in the courtyard of the mansion. There is no need to dig such a large ditch that can almost allow a person to walk in it. As for water supply, digging a few wells in the villa's courtyard is enough. There are several mountain springs on the foundation. After dredging, a well circle is built to form a ready-made well. The water quality is good and the water is sufficient.
Why bother building such complex drainage ditches and water storage ponds on the hillside?
Bricks, tiles and lime were supplied by local kilns, and wood was shipped from Dongyang, Quzhou and other places. Fenghuang Mountain is full of ruins, which also provide a considerable amount of building materials. Especially stone.
While cleaning up the broken bricks and tiles, a large number of tiles and glazed tiles from the Song Dynasty were found. Zhao Yingong's caretakers gathered all the materials and piled them up. He planned to use these materials to build the Zhao Song royal ancestral hall. Of course, those that were obviously illegal could not be used and had to be kept first.
The progress of the project is not fast. The gap between Meilin's architectural concepts and methods and this time and space is too big.
It takes a lot of time to communicate with the people at Muqi every day. The purchase and delivery of building materials is very slow.
Seeing that it has been two weeks since work started, there is still no sign of the horoscope. Merlin had become accustomed to Lingao's efficiency and felt very unhappy with the slow pace of the place. Worried that he would be delayed for too long on the project, Zhou Dongtian couldn't wait to abandon himself and set off. "I will definitely bring my own engineering team to work in the future. The natives can only be laborers." Meilin came down from the construction site every day. They all complain, "They always think what we do is too weird. They also keep telling me that it's a waste of money. Some people just think I'm a fool!"
Zhao Yingong comforted him: "This is the generation gap of the times. Wasn't it the same thing when you brought naturalized migrant workers to build a house?"
Apart from these, generally speaking, the layout of Phoenix Villa designed by Mei Lin is still traditional. The main residential building of the villa is located at the foothills of Fenghuang Mountain, facing Tesswan Bay and backed by Wansong Ridge. The villa itself is built in the style of a rural fortress common in this time and space, and has a certain degree of defense.
The villa itself is surrounded by walls and the building covers an area of 8 acres, with multiple courtyards distributed around it. Including Hangzhou Station headquarters, Zhao Yingong's residence, Hangzhou Station Guest House, residential settlements of Hangzhou Station staff, slaves, schools, dormitories, warehouses, etc.
A number of acres of construction reserve land are circled outside the residence, which will be used to build quarantine camps, factories and several residential areas to house workers on farms and factories. They are some distance away from the villas, but are connected by roads and share a drainage and water supply system. @.
