Chen Facai was the cousin of Chen Qin, the chief bookkeeper of Lingquan County, and he wanted to make a fortune.
When he was a child, his family was not well off, so his family gave him the name Chen Facai.
He didn't find the name unpleasant, but it suited his pursuit.
But this time Chen Qin greeted him and asked him to repair this section of the road, because it is a road for all people to accumulate good deeds.
Chen Facai thought about it and realized that Chidao Construction had only two options.
If we want to say that road construction is the best, now besides Zhaojiazhuang, there is only Lujiazhuang.
Zhaojiazhuang is so high-end that the Chen family, a small family, has never had any contact with it.
Chen Facai thought about it and finally decided to find the Lu family.
After all, the Lu family has been inherited for thousands of years, and building roads and bridges is not a problem.
Not only the houses and bridges in Lingquan County were built by the Lu family, but also many houses and bridges in Chengdu were built by the Lu family.
Lu Gao is a famous craftsman in Lingquan County and is said to be a descendant of Lu Ban.
He is already sixty years old, his hair is almost half white, but he is in good spirits. He is the owner and clan leader of the Lu Family Village.
Lujiazhuang is not very big, but it is not small either. There are two to three hundred people, and the total land is about a thousand acres.
They are all craftsmen and are familiar with the work of masonry.
Now Lingquan County is forcing people to make donations for good deeds. Not only has the wealth of almost everyone in the village been wiped out, but their livelihoods have also been fatally affected.
Because the people had no money and no one to hire them, they had no choice but to go home and do farm work.
Chen Facai is about fifty, his hair is a little whiter, his skin is darker, but his body is extremely strong.
Now he picked up a few pieces of meat, a few pieces of cloth, and brought two servants to Lujiazhuang.
Seeing Chen Facai's servants carrying meat made the people in Lujiazhuang feel very strange.
He inquired all the way and went directly to the home of the patriarch Lu Gao.
Several children looked at the pieces of meat and salivated unknowingly.
They carry bamboo baskets on their backs, and the grass inside the baskets is used to feed the pigs.
Now that the pigs have been castrated through Zhao Ping's method, they no longer have the fishy smell of the past.
Coupled with the popularity of famous dishes such as braised pork and braised pork, pig farming has become a way out in Jintang County, Lingquan County.
Before Xinzhi County came, Lujiazhuang ate meat about twice a decade.
But after the new magistrate came, his family's home was completely plundered with just one word of good deeds.
It’s good to be able to eat enough now, so why eat meat?
A four or five-year-old child named Lu Shilang followed Chen Facai's servant and shouted happily: "There is meat to eat, there is meat to eat."
"Others have meat to eat, not you." The five or six-year-old boy named Lu Jiumuro beside him hurriedly reminded him while drooling.
Lu Shilang shook his head, looking at the pork, and said: "The patriarch Zu Weng is very good. As long as they have it, he will ask the whole family to eat it together."
"Go ahead and have your sweet dream. If you want to eat meat, I hope the patriarch will invite the entire Zhuangzi to eat meat." Lu Jiumang didn't believe it at all.
Even so, he still looked at the clan leader to treat him.
Lu Erlang was drooling and asked, "Don't you want to?"
"I haven't eaten meat for half a month. Who wouldn't want to? But you can eat meat if you want to." Lu Jiumang wiped his saliva and said rationally.
When Chen Facai came to the home of the patriarch Lu Gao, not only was it not a four-entry courtyard, but it was just an ordinary two-entry courtyard, without the feeling of a big family.
The clan leader is like this, and most of the other people in Lujiazhuang live in the same courtyard.
Chen Facai couldn't help but feel a little disappointed. He suddenly felt disappointed about his visit to the Lu family and was not optimistic about the trip.
Lu Gao didn't seem to notice, and personally made him a cup of Zui Chunfeng tea.
Seeing that there was no maid serving tea, Chen Facai's face became even more ugly.
Lu Gao himself was not dressed as a member of the army, but in short clothes and brown cloth, and looked like an out-and-out untouchable.
Whether this person was a clan leader or a farmer made Chen Facai feel that he was in the wrong place.
Could it be that the Lu family had a false reputation and the legend was false?
Thinking of this, he suddenly frowned.
Facing the guests, Lu Gao bowed his hands and explained: "The Mohist tradition has been passed down for thousands of years and values frugality and non-pleasure as virtues. Shopkeeper Chen was disappointed."
"It turns out that Patriarch Lu is a descendant of the Mo family. I'm disrespectful, disrespectful, and I'm disrespectful." After hearing Lu Gao's explanation, Chen Facai bowed deeply and hurriedly expressed his humility.
The Mohists advocated respecting the virtuous, being frugal in use, and not enjoying happiness. As a patriarch, Chen Facai suddenly realized that he had no living quarters and no maids, and now he was finally able to figure it out.
Thinking of this, he nodded, sat on the table, took the tea leaves, and started drinking tea.
Seeing Chen Facai finally drinking tea quietly, Lu Gao had a smile on his face.
After hearing Chen Facai's intention, he cupped the teacup in his hand and said, "Shopkeeper Chen, drink your tea slowly. We need to discuss this matter with the tribe."
"Of course, of course, this matter should be discussed with the tribe." Chen Facai also put down the tea cup and responded while returning the gift.
Although Chen Facai spoke politely, he couldn't help feeling uneasy.
In his opinion, it is best for the clan leader to directly make the decision on this matter. If this is not possible, he can also discuss it with the elders.
After all, the more people there are, the more mouths they have, and the more they want to talk, the more difficult things will be.
As long as you are a human being, you have your own ideas, and everyone has your own ideas.
The more ideas there are, the harder it is to unify.
So as the saying goes, if there are too many boatmen, the ship will be destroyed.
But this was the rule of Lujiazhuang, and he had no choice.
He came in a hurry, wanting to cut through the knot quickly, but he didn't expect that he was like a patient in an emergency encountering a slow doctor.
Chen Facai could only suppress his unhappiness and cover it up by drinking tea.
Dang, dang, the gong in the village owner’s house rang.
Lu Gao's grandson, Luneng, beat the gong and shouted at the top of his voice: "Everyone villagers, listen, the patriarch has something to discuss with you."
The clan leader rarely convenes every household unless there is an emergency.
Now that the clan leader is summoning all the families, is there any urgent matter about to happen?
An hour later, there were more than fifty men sitting in the Lu family meeting hall, all of whom were over forty.
There are ten Eight Immortals tables here for each family to sit in. Of course, one Eight Immortals table can seat eight people.
But there is obviously room at the Eight Immortals table, because there are only about fifty people here.
They are the heads of every household and can represent the family at the meeting.
The patriarch and elders are different. Each of them has a chair and a table.
The patriarch, Lu Dong, sat in the middle, flanked by several elders.
Not only that, there is also an outsider who is not from the Lu family. People with sharp eyes have recognized that it is Chen Facai who came to see the clan leader.
"Everyone, Shopkeeper Chen of the Chen family is now giving the Lu family a way out. If you have any ideas, you might as well put them forward here." Lu Gao looked excited. After looking at Chen Facai, he glanced at the Lu family present. Said in a deep voice.
The heads of the Lu family looked at each other with confusion on their faces. What was the way out? The patriarch looked excited.
Lu Gao knew that his words had already attracted the attention of his clan members, and then he said in a deep voice: "Shopkeeper Chen is a member of the Chen family in this county. The Chen family wants to build a five-mile long Chidao, and they need masons from the Lu family."
When everyone in the house heard this, they almost wanted to shout with joy. Sure enough, the clan leader had an idea.
You know, the people of the Lu family have been out of work for a month.
Then these people of the Lu family became worried again. After all, Chidao was different from the previous road. How to build this road?
Many people looked at the man in the middle of the Eight Immortals table to see what he had in mind.
"Thank you, patriarch, and thank you to shopkeeper Chen." The man named Lu Qi, who was about fifty, bowed his hands to Lu Gao and Chen Facai and asked, "I dare to ask how to build this Chi Road?"
Lu Qi spoke his true feelings on behalf of the Lu family, and everyone looked at Chen Facai to see how he would respond.
"The road is separated by willow trees in the middle, and there are stone avenues of one foot on both sides." Chen Facai also bowed his hand and spoke out the ideas he had already considered.
Lu Qi glanced at each other and saw other people nodding.
He hurriedly bowed his hands and replied happily: "Thank you very much, Shopkeeper Chen. We have no objection."
"Do you have any opinions?" Lu Gao saw Lu Qi expressing his opinions and wanted to ask other rooms for their thoughts.
The Lu family is not like other families. They discuss matters with each other and the patriarch summarizes them.
If there is still a dispute between the houses, the clan leader will discuss it with the elders, and finally the clan leader will make a conclusion.
All the houses shook their heads. Now every house is waiting for the rice to be cooked. Where there are opinions, it is obviously unanimous.
Chen Facai and Lu Gao looked at each other and nodded.
Lu Gao also felt very happy. After all, it gave the family a way out in difficult times.
"Then we decided to build Chidao." He glanced at everyone and finally announced, "Today there is meat, and each family and house will share it together."
Chen Facai wants to deal with many clans, and they usually discuss it with the elders of the clan. But in Lujiazhuang, he opened his eyes. The patriarch actually summoned the heads of every household to discuss.
Fortunately, no one in the Lu family objected and passed on the spot, which made him relieved.
Guangdu County, Chengdu, Xie family.
There is a courtyard with eight entrances here, which is the residence of the patriarch Xie Fangbo.
The Xie family was originally in Weizhou, Sichuan, but after Zhao Ping captured Chengdu, they moved from Weizhou to Guangdu County, Chengdu Prefecture.
Where is Guangdu County? It was the capital of the ancient Shu Kingdom and the center of the "Land of Abundance".
Guangdu County is the closest to Chengdu and is known as the "Three Capitals" together with Chengdu and Xindu of the ancient Shu Kingdom.
Guangdu is extremely wealthy because of its "richness of salt wells and fishing fields", as well as its "iron mines and good rice fields," which are "rich in fertility."
After all, there is a wild land not far from Weizhou. It is nowhere as comfortable as Chengdu, the land of abundance.
What's more important is that at that time, some parts of Chengdu were deserted, and abandoned farmland was everywhere.
Under Zhao Ping's suggestion, Chengdu issued many favorable policies in order to attract people from other places, attracting people including the Xie family to relocate.
There are more than a hundred people in the entire Xie family, and they have undergone a vigorous and complete relocation.
Sure enough, it was different when someone in the imperial court was an official. Under Su Hanqing's direct intervention, each of the Xie family was allocated ten acres of prime land.
Not only that, they also received special discounts from Su Hanqing, purchasing several hundred acres of prime farmland in Guangdu County at a very low price.
The amount of fertile land they allocated and purchased was quite large, adding up to more than a thousand acres.
Since then, Guangdu County has had an additional farming and studying family, the Xie family.
Good things happened one after another, and the Xie family was so proud that they actually took over a twenty-mile stretch of Chidao, which was four times as much as the Chen family.
Building roads and bridges is not only a matter of accumulating good deeds, but also a source of wealth.
The current patriarch of the Xie family is Uncle Xie Fang, who is the eldest brother of Uncle Xie Fang, the prime minister at that time.
He was only fifty-seven years old, and his hair was slightly gray.
He was thick-boned and tall.
Obviously he doesn't have that slender figure at all, but because he is more familiar with reading, his face is still gentle and elegant.
He summoned his clan members, took a glance at it and said, "Everyone, if it is repaired, it will be a good deed that will be remembered for eternity. But if it is not repaired, it will be infamy for eternity."
Everyone present was shocked. It was like a blessing in disguise. Is this a good thing or a bad thing?
"Indeed, Chi Dao is the road for all peoples. Repairing it is a matter of accumulating good deeds. Failure to repair it is a matter of great evil." Xie Fangji, the deputy patriarch, emphasized.
Their Xie family has thousands of acres of fertile land, and there is someone in the court who is not the prime minister.
But this is not enough. To become a thousand-year-old family, it must have a good reputation.
What is most prestigious is, of course, the accumulation of good deeds.
Now, this Wanmin Road, is the best time to become famous.
Xie Fangbai was also a member of the Xie family in Li County, a clan member of Uncle Xie Fang, the prime minister at that time. He was arranged to be the shopkeeper of this establishment.
Hearing the conversation between the two clan leaders and the deputy clan leader, he suddenly felt an extremely heavy weight on his shoulders.
After Xie Fangbo finished speaking, he stared at Xie Fangbai and asked, "Zixi (Xie Fangbai's nickname), how did you arrange it?"
"I'm telling the clan leader that in order to cultivate the Chi Dao, I will study the History of Qin specially for this purpose." Xie Fangbai said while opening an ancient book.
Xie Fangbo and Xie Fangji looked at each other and nodded.
Uncle Xie Fang stroked his beard and said happily: "If we talk about Chidao, it is the one built by Qin Shihuang. What is Zhao Ping's Chidao?"
"What the eldest brother said is absolutely true. When Qin Shihuang built Chi Dao, Zhao Ping was not yet in his mother's womb. Of course, Qin Shi Huang's Chi Dao should be the standard." Xie Fangji nodded, obviously looking down on Zhao Ping as well.
Seeing that the deputy patriarch agreed with his opinion, Xie Fangbo couldn't help but feel happy.
He sipped the tea gently, raised his eyes and asked, "Zixi, how did Qin Shihuang build Chidao?"
Xie Fangbai opened the ancient book, flipped through it, and read:
"According to the "History of Qin", the Chi Road is six feet wide. The flat areas are even wider, even fifty paces (fifteen feet). Trees are planted three feet apart on the Chi Road, and metal cones are used to ram the road on both sides. It is thick, and the middle part of the road is filled with red sandstone soil for the emperor's patrol carriage, and there are tracks made of wood on it, and they have been treated with anti-corrosion."
"What, Qin Shihuang's galloping road is so wide, fifty paces wide?" Hearing this, Xie Fangbo and Xie Fangji turned pale and were stunned. The tea cups in their hands fell to the ground with a bang, and the tea splashed on their hems. Not noticed.
