Because every time he goes to a house, he will receive warm hospitality, and at the same time, there will always be people like the concubine of the family showing up to pay a loving New Year's greetings to the master's family! Then the head of the family would say solemnly: "This is Wu Ninghou. He is the general manager of our family. There is no need to avoid taboos!"
So the target of these charming girls' New Year greetings will naturally turn to Liu Haojia. So it took a long time to deal with these people. Of course, he may have disappointed many pretty girls!
In the following days, Liu Haojia rested in the capital until the end of the holiday before returning to Tianjin. As soon as he returned home, Zhang Zhi came to see him. Liu Haojia knew what he was here for, so he let him in.
As soon as Zhang Zhi entered the door, he saluted Liu Haojia and said, "I wish you all the best in the new year!"
Liu Haojia smiled and said, "Don't say any more polite words. My ears have become calluses after listening to them for a few days! Tell me, what do you want from me?"
Zhang Zhi held up the scroll in his arms and said, "The plan for the salt farm has been made!"
After Liu Haojia finished the scroll, he looked at Zhang Zhi's face carefully, and then said: "Look at your face, you are pale, without any blood, and your eyes are very swollen. Needless to say, you stayed up all night, right? You haven't even celebrated the New Year, right?"
Zhang Zhi bowed and said, "This is my first time doing such a big thing, so I have to put some effort into it!"
After speaking, he said eagerly: "Please take a closer look at the work of the servant. For this salt field, the slave asked many old salt workers and many local fishermen before deciding on this plan."
Liu Haojia nodded and opened the scroll. When he didn't see anything else, he praised it and said, "Zhang Zhi, you are really good at drawing with fine brushwork!"
Liu Haojia said this because this scroll is not so much a design drawing of a salt farm as it is a realistic landscape painting!
The perspective of the scroll is from the direction of the sea and from high altitude. There are already layers of salt fields and various houses on the scroll! Just by looking at the appearance of the house, you can tell that it contains residences, warehouses, and offices!
In particular, there are many people working in this painting, and there are also clerks running around holding documents! Liu Haojia even saw that he was also in Zhang Zhi's painting! It was clearly like he was patrolling with someone!
Liu Haojia looked at the little man representing himself carefully and said, "Zhang Zhi, is this person you?"
Zhang Zhi looked up and saw the villain Liu Haojia was pointing at. While this little man was pointing everywhere with his fingers, he was also talking to Liu Haojia in the painting. Judging by his clothes, it’s not him! So he smiled sheepishly and said, "Let the Marquis laugh!"
Liu Haojia shook his head and said, "Your painting skills have surpassed so many people!"
However, Liu Haojia did not continue to discuss this issue. Instead, he began to carefully inquire about the purpose and size of various places on the picture. Then Zhang Zhi told him that there were a lot of words and numbers marked on the end of the scroll, which contained the height, width, and width of the salt fields, as well as the size of the houses.
Under Zhang Zhi's guidance, Liu Haojia quickly compared the things drawn on the picture one by one. And there are various construction costs at the end of the drawings. Even the time and height of the tides are clearly marked!
And judging from the handwriting, at least six people were involved in the statistics and planning of the figures. It can be seen that among Zhang Zhi's group of people, there is indeed a hidden dragon and a crouching tiger! This made Liu Haojia covet the eunuchs in the study room even more!
In his opinion, instead of letting these people who come out of the inner study serve tea and water, it is better to come to his place to form a team to do things for him. This can be considered as making the best use of people!
After the two people understood it, Liu Haojia rolled up the scroll and returned it to Zhang Zhi, saying, "Now you can make preparations! If you need money, go directly to Liansheng Bank to withdraw it, but you have to keep a good account for inquiries."
Zhang Zhi was overjoyed when he heard this, knowing that this job was a sure thing! When the salt field produces salt in the future, I will be the number one contributor! However, he still said: "I just don't know when the Marquis wants to start work?"
Liu Haojia said: "You make up your own mind about this matter! There is just one thing you need to pay attention to, that is, our cement is not easy to use in winter, so we can only use it when the weather is warm. You have to make your calculations based on this." Construction period."
Zhang Zhi said: "That slave appears
Now I want to receive a sum of money to recruit civilian workers to start the initial infrastructure construction. "
Liu Haojia said: "Yes, and I can also give you a group of people to make your work easier and more labor-saving!"
The person Liu Haojia was talking about was the new unit he just established this year, the Engineer Corps! Engineers and soldiers were assigned to the heavy baggage troops. These engineers are not responsible for transporting anything, but are responsible for a series of tasks such as opening roads through mountains, building bridges over water, and building camps. The construction of the salt field this time was just for them to practice their skills!
Their biggest role is not in building and digging foundations, but in using gunpowder to carry out large-scale blasting! Although the terrain along the coast of Tianjin is relatively flat, there are also many rocks and reefs. With these engineers here, the construction period can be improved a lot! Moreover, they are most familiar with the use of cement and can help Zhang Zhi grasp the construction schedule.
After listening to Liu Haojia explain the role of completion soldiers, Zhang Zhi was overjoyed and expressed his gratitude to Liu Haojia repeatedly. He knew that with the help of these engineers, the construction speed would be maximized! Especially when facing those rocks, there is no need to use a chisel, just chisel it open and just explode it! The exploded stone becomes the best raw material after processing!
As the Spring Festival passed, Tianjin began to gradually return to its previous appearance. Farm when it’s time to farm, work when it’s time to work, and talk about business when it’s time to do business. In addition to arranging people to survey and further improve the drawings, Chisel is waiting for the spring to bloom.
Spring is a good season when flowers are blooming, especially for those scholars and officials! They can wear gorgeous clothes, take beautiful prostitutes everywhere for an outing, and leave poems and poems for people to appreciate, and then receive a lot of praise!
But in the eyes of the common people, the warmth of spring and the blooming of flowers have another name. It’s just that he doesn’t pick up the slack! At this time, they had just planted the food and saw the hope of a year breaking through the ground! But at this time, the food reserves at home were about to be exhausted, and the seedlings looked green but could not see the golden maturity stage. This was the reason for the lack of harvest!
This time of year is a carnival time for landowners, and a large number of farmers will borrow money from them. When the grain is harvested in a few months, it will also be time for them to harvest the farmers. However, there are also many farmers who simply leave the old and the weak at home to take care of the fields, while the young and strong go out to escape the famine, so as to reduce the burden on their families. If you are lucky, you can bring some copper coins home, but if you are unlucky, it is not uncommon for you to lose your life!
