"Yes. However, if you want to buy a house, you can take a look at my old house."
Li Qiao said.
If nothing unexpected happens, this new house is where he and Tao Zhu will retire. The house is big enough to accommodate even people from Sanliu Village.
Therefore, if the banker is interested, he would not mind transferring the four-in house to Zhuang Wen.
"Okay, brother, I'll take note of what you said."
Zhuang Wen's eyes lit up immediately.
The house is nice, has a greenhouse, and is suitable for the elderly.
If his father comes, living in a greenhouse in the winter will be more comfortable.
Seeing this, Xu Ying sighed quietly.
Brother Hua wanted to live closer to Tao Zhu, so he kept looking at houses in the east of the city. As a result, the Holy Emperor directly rewarded Li Qiao with a house.
It's impossible to get this location with just money.
What's more, Brother Hua doesn't have that much money.
As for his Xu family's money, he will never use it. Otherwise, his family will definitely have to stand up and make trouble with Hua Ge again.
Meng Yue, who was on the side, was immersed in eating skewers in silence, and would definitely not participate in this topic, lest anyone persuade him.
He has no interest in buying a house.
If possible, he would even rent a room at Brother Li's house. Brother Li's house is on the same street as the Seventh Prince's Mansion. I'm envious!
After the lively housewarming party, Li Qiao's life continued as usual. After moving to the east of the city, his commuting distance was greatly shortened and he could stay at home more every day.
The two spans to the east are traditional four-entry courtyards. He hired craftsmen to knock down all the houses and prepare for reconstruction.
This time, he must secretly get out the cement, and he must get an imperial edict of appreciation from the Seventh Prince.
When Li Qiao's family was demolishing the courtyard, Sheng Hong issued several more imperial edicts. This time, several positions in the official department were vacated, as well as several positions previously occupied by the Peng family. He rearranged the manpower.
Two bachelor's degree students from the Hanlin Academy, as well as Mr. Duan and Mr. Li, who were roommates with Li Qiao before, were transferred to the Ministry of Civil Affairs.
Xin Zhi occupied one of the vacated positions in the Hanlin Academy, and was transformed from a seventh-rank Hanlin Academy editor into a fifth-rank bachelor's degree scholar.
Xin Zhi was very happy. He held a banquet in Baiwei Building and invited a group of people to celebrate.
Previously, his grandfather was rejected by the Supreme Emperor because the eldest prince broke his leg, so that he had no title and no one in the family was an official.
Now he is not only an official, he has also been promoted in just over three years!
From being a fifth-grade bachelor, this is a good position. The next promotion is just around the corner!
Gu Lianghan, who was ranked second in the same class as Li Qiao and Xin Zhi, also became a bachelor's degree student of the fifth rank.
In addition, Sheng Hong also transferred a doctor from the Ministry of Household Affairs who was in charge of the Twelve Ministries.
As a result, the position of a doctor in charge was vacated in the Ministry of Household Affairs.
In this position, Xu Ying took the top position.
The head doctor of the Twelve Departments of the Household Department held real power and was a fifth-rank official. Xu Ying's original bank officer, Wailang, was also a fifth-rank official. Xu Ying was in a neutral position.
However, a small and unpopular department such as the Fanyin Department is incomparable to the Twelve Departments of the Ministry of Household Affairs. Each of the Twelve Departments of the Ministry of Household Affairs controls the finance, land, household registration, etc. of a province. Xu Ying was promoted this time.
The most obvious evidence is that his salary has increased.
Dasheng determines the salary according to the real power in each official's hands. Although they are all fifth-rank officials, the salary of the doctor in the 12th Department of Household Affairs is higher than that of the wailang, the official of the Bank of China.
This was a happy event. Xu Ying was very happy. She held a banquet at home and invited her friends to celebrate together.
What made him even more happy was that Brother Hua was pregnant.
After being married for so long, Shen Hua finally got pregnant. Now he could shut his family's mouth.
There was a lot of joy around him, so Li Qiao held another banquet at home. Because both Xin Zhi and Xu Ying felt that they were promoted because of his happiness, and both of them wanted to be blessed again, he had no choice but to hold another banquet.
Meng Yue and Zhuang Wen were also present.
Although the two of them were not promoted, they were not unhappy. Zhuang Wen always took the matter very lightly, while Meng Yue was afraid that being promoted to another department would be too far away from the Seventh Prince.
However, they were sincerely happy for Xu Ying and Xin Zhi.
Great promotion, keep getting promoted!
"It will definitely not be easy to get promoted next time. The princes have been very calm recently, and so have all the officials."
Xin Zhi took a sip of rice wine to take away the spicy taste in his mouth, and couldn't help but talk about the situation between North Korea and China.
"The Holy Father has presented such a difficult problem, and several princes have refused to accept it. My family members are also thinking about it, but they have no clue."
"No, I've also thought about it. Only money can solve this matter, but the money in the treasury can't support this huge consumption, let alone the princes."
Meng Yue also nodded.
The seventh prince was vying for the throne for the eldest prince, so he naturally took this matter to heart, but there was no solution to the matter.
But the seventh prince was not in a hurry at all. He continued to review cases as usual and did not pay attention to this problem at all.
worry!
Li Qiao blinked when he heard this. After work yesterday, he and Tao Zhu visited the Seventh Prince with puffs and other small desserts.
The Seventh Prince was indeed having a headache about this matter. Apart from money, the Seventh Prince could not think of any other solution.
However, if it comes to financial resources, the seventh prince has a chance of winning, because the eldest prince has a lot of property in his hands. Just from a gambling house, he can make a fortune a day.
The other three princes do not have this advantage.
Therefore, the seventh prince was not anxious at all, and even quoted Li Qiao's famous saying. If the matter cannot be solved satisfactorily, then whoever has more money can build an extra road, then whoever has more money will be the winner.
Since victory is certain, all we need to do is wait and see what the other three princes will do.
Now that Sheng Hong has laid out the conditions for competing for the crown prince's position, can the remaining three princes endure it?
The seventh prince's words were indeed reasonable, so Li Qiao could only act like he had a headache at this time, and shared his worries with his friends.
But after his friends left, he immediately went to Dongkuaoyuan with Tao Zhu.
Although the seventh prince's strategy was to stand still, he still pounded out the cement first just in case.
He can do without cement, a big killer, but he cannot live without it.
At this time, Dongkuaoyuan has lost its original appearance. The craftsmen are working very slowly and have transported all the dismantled wood, bricks, tiles, etc., and now the two yards are empty.
Tao Zhu held Li Qiao's hand and walked along the wall, slowly talking about the layout of the courtyard.
"Where should we grow vegetables? East or west? Now Xiao Rui is clamoring to grow vegetables every day, and I want to grow them too."
"Let's go to the east. We live in the east. It's convenient."
Li Qiao said directly.
This house is too big. The five courtyards together are three thousand meters wide in the horizontal direction. If you live in the east courtyard but have the vegetable field in the west courtyard, it would be too inconvenient.
"Okay, it's up to you."
Tao Zhu imagined the scene of planting vegetables and flowers in his yard, and a smile appeared on his face. This is how he lives his life.
The previous house with four entrances was good, but the yard was covered with bluestone slabs. If you wanted to grow vegetables and flowers, you could only plant them in flower pots, which was too frustrating.
As a boy who grew up in the countryside, he never imagined that it would be so difficult to grow vegetables one day.
Fortunately, I have a new house.
All kinds of building materials will be delivered tomorrow. Planting flowers and vegetables at home is just around the corner~
Li Qiao is also full of expectations for tomorrow. Building materials are already on the market. Will cement be far behind?
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Chapter 177 The Sixth Prince’s Idea Cement
Limited by the technical conditions of this time and space, what Li Qiao wants to do is very simple soil and cement.
He knows two methods of earth cement. One requires the use of quicklime, gypsum, clay, slag and other raw materials, and the method is more complicated.
There is another method that is relatively simple and only requires the use of plant ash and sand.
In the past, Li Qiao took the opportunity of building a greenhouse to show interest in brick-making, pottery-making and other crafts. He also mixed some construction waste intentionally or unintentionally, but he never dared to make real cement.
At present, his family is knocking down all the houses and rebuilding them, and the preparations he made before are coming in handy.
After getting off work, he ran across the courtyard to the east, touching here and asking questions there. No one would suspect that he had other purposes.
However, after much thought, he still felt that the first approach was more dangerous because the process was too complicated and could not be pretended to be intentional.
When he was in Sanliu Village, he could still make up things, but now he was under Shenghong's eyelids. Countless people were staring at him. It was really difficult to pretend that he had accidentally made cement.
Therefore, he planned to use plant ash to explore the path first.
It is very easy to make cement from plant ash. In these days when there is no electricity or natural gas, every household burns fire for cooking, and every household has plant ash.
Soak the plant ash in water, stir, and settle. Then pour away the water on the surface. Then roll the remaining plant mortar into balls by hand, squeeze out the water, and dry in the sun.
After drying, the most important step comes: throwing it into the fire.
During this process, you must use the highest fire possible to burn it. After burning, put the plant ash balls into the water, break up the balls, and then pour in the sand, then the soil cement is ready.
The hardness of this kind of soil cement is not as good as real cement, but in this time and space, it can be used.
What's more, what's more coincidental is that when Li Qiao was about to tinker with plant ash cement, Li Xiaorui tinkered with plant ash first.
Li Xiaorui is four years old. A little boy of this age can run and jump and is full of curiosity about the world.
After raising chickens, he raised geese.
After moving, his chickens, no, the chickens that had turned into big chickens, and the geese all moved to the new house.
When I was in the old house, the place was not very spacious. The chickens and geese were kept in cages, and they were only given a fixed amount of time to let them out every day.
After moving to the new house, the place was extremely spacious, and Li Xiaorui wanted his chickens and geese to move freely.
