Chinese dining table

Chapter 85

Naturally, it wasn't the water coming out of Yunchu, but the water coming out of the eleven wells they dug.

In winter, the groundwater level in Chang'an City is the lowest. Although digging wells at this time is more difficult than digging wells in spring, summer and autumn, as long as the wells have water, there is no need to worry about the wells drying up.

"Water is sweet water!" Liu Sancai held a handful of wet mud and sand and brought it to Yunchu's mouth, asking him to taste it.

Yun Chu quickly laughed and cursed: "You can taste it yourself, don't let me taste it."

Liu Sancai threw away the mud with a smile, pointed to the wells behind him and said, "All eleven wells have water, now we only need to connect these eleven wells, and we can open the canals."

"What are you going to do next?"

"Build bricks on the well wall, spread washed river sand and pebbles, hehehe..." Liu Sancai smiled like a pug, his eyes were full of flattery, and he could not see his pride as a Tang person at all.

"Then finish it quickly, and I will send you the money for the second phase of the project."

Liu Sancai nodded frantically, and howled at the other well diggers. Suddenly, the people standing at the mouth of the well dragging the muddy water became even crazier.

On the third day, a stream of filthy well water slowly flowed out of a mud hole, rushed down a two-foot-wide canal made of stone flakes and amalgam, and gathered in the frozen area of ​​Da Ci'en Temple. In the lotus pond, when the water level slowly rises on the ice surface, the clear water will overflow from the other end of the lotus pond, flow into the guiding channel, and gushes out from the mouth of the animal head hanging on the wall of the Da Ci'en Temple.

Immediately, the spring water rushed down the dug canal, and after flowing around most of Jinchangfang, it entered the underground canal, and finally entered Chang'an's pit and canal system along the underground canal, and finally, together with the filth, Flowing into the rolling Weishui.

Chang'an is very cold in winter, however, the well water coming out of the ground has a little warmth, exposed to the cold winter, there is even a curl of white air coming out.

Suddenly, there was an extra stream of water in Jinchangfang. Even Master Xuanzang, who usually ignores world affairs, walked along the gurgling water accompanied by the Zhike monk.

"With an extra stream of water, there will be a little more agility, a little more purity, and a little less worldly trouble."

The Zhike monk immediately clasped his hands together and said, "Amitabha, the monthly allocation of Jinchangfang will definitely be distributed as scheduled."

Xuanzang said with a smile: "In one month, Jinchang Square has become more angry and less resentful. The money was originally dedicated to the Buddha, and now the Buddha will return it to the world's living beings. It is the right time."

The Zhike monk had a smile on his face. Although he was very dissatisfied with the monthly donations from the Da Ci'en Temple to the poor ghosts around him, but Master Xuanzang said so, he could only keep his mouth shut and continue to compliment Master Xuanzang for his great ideas.

Master Xuanzang is no longer the little monk who traveled west alone to learn Buddhist scriptures. He is now the head of the famous ten virtues in the Tang Dynasty. It is also said that Xuanzang is the incarnation of Shariputra, the head of the ten disciples of Sakyamuni.

Wisdom is fierce and sharp, and can solve all doubts, known as wisdom first.

He is actually the incarnation of walking power in Buddhism, not to mention three hundred guan per month, even if it is [-] guan, [-] guan, Zhike monk will find it for him to use even if his head is on the ground.

Yunchu saw Xuanzang from afar, and Xuanzang also saw Yunchu from afar.

Neither cared much about each other.

Yunchu felt that he was standing guard for Venerable Master Xuanzang when he was traveling, and he was suspected of flattery when meeting him, and Venerable Xuanzang also thought that it was not a good time to meet Yunchu at this moment, and it would be better not to meet each other.

However, there must be a purpose for the leader to travel, otherwise a leader like Xuanzang would not easily come out to see a newly built canal. Now that he has come out, it already contains a strong sense of caring for Yunchu.

Surrounded by a group of great monks known as the Fifty Virtues, Master Xuanzang looked at a canal. He left the east gate of Daci'en Temple, and the news that he was going back to the north gate soon reacted.

Among them, the fastest responder was County Magistrate Lu of Wannian County. However, he did not come here in person, but sent his grandson Cao to send three thousand dans of yellow rice, millet, and his one-year salary of eighty guan. Three hundred catties of salt, fifty catties of spices, and forty bolts of silk cloth.

Immediately, the Fanyang Lu family in Beijing sent someone to send another [-] yuan, saying that it was to fund the construction of the gate of Jinchangfang.

Even Cheng Yaojin's wife, Mrs. Lu, sent a butler to deliver a lot of precious jewelry in a very low-key manner, hoping that Yunchu could exchange it for money and use it for the construction of the gate of Jinchangfang.

After sending away the butler of Cheng Yaojin's family and negotiating to sell the jewelry only to a gold shop called Deshenglong in exchange for money, Yunchu welcomed Li Ji's wife again. Come the butler.

The two housekeepers also sent a lot of jewelry, and it is said that the wife of the head of the house personally pulled it off from the head when she heard that Jinchangfang was going to change the door.

Of course, these jewelry had to be sold, and they could only be sold to that damned Desheng Longjin store, leaving no room for Yunchu to do anything else.

Moreover, just after the housekeepers of these two families left, a chubby-headed and big-eared treasurer of Deshenglong's gold store came to visit Yunchu.

It only took a quarter of an hour for Yunchu to receive the jewelry from the ladies and deliver it to the shopkeeper Deshenglong.

The treasurer of Deshenglong spread out each piece of jewelry and looked at them carefully, then clicked his tongue in admiration, praising each piece of jewelry as priceless.

After the praise was over, he left Yunchu with a withdrawal voucher of 50 yuan. With this voucher, Yunchu could take 50 yuan from Desheng Longjin Store at any time.

"It's easy to talk about other things in Jinchang Fang, but the clothes of the people here are tattered, which is an eyesore. At that time, they are worried that being seen by a saint will be an eyesore."

Yun Chu complained in a low voice when sending the shopkeeper Deshenglong out.

The shopkeeper looked at Yun Chu with a half-smile and remained silent.

Yun Chu said again: "A certain family saw that the clothes De Shenglong was wearing were very good. I wonder if the old shopkeeper can also donate some to the people of Jinchangfang, so that the people in the neighborhood can immediately praise Deshenglong as a man who cares about the people. Good Merchant who suffers."

Hearing the words, the old shopkeeper pondered for a moment and said, "If the three characters of Deshenglong can be embroidered with silk thread on the clothes, what does the chief think?"

Yun Chu nodded and said, "It's better to use gold thread!"

The old shopkeeper shook his head and said: "It's not easy to suppress the gold thread, but silk yellow is enough!"

"I don't know what the old shopkeeper thinks about the number of [-] pieces?"

The old shopkeeper looked at Yunchu with eyes like cannibalism and said, "Everyone in Jinchangfang can only wait for more than [-] pieces. This old man thinks that [-] pieces is a good deal!"

Yun Chu sighed and said: "People in the world always only look at the immediate interests, but they don't know that the immediate interests are just a small way. You must know that if you are full of complaints, you should not be heartbroken. The long-term scenery should be measured. Mo Dao Jinchang Canal is shallow, watching fish is better than peach blossoms Jiang!"

The old shopkeeper looked at the canal water not more than two feet deep by the side of the road, then looked at Yunchu's face that was gradually turning white, and said, "Okay, for the sake of the big fish in your canal water, the old man who is required to come back is all recognize."

Yun Chu was overjoyed, he clasped his hands repeatedly and said, "Why don't you ask the old shopkeeper to use my lady from Jinchang Fang to make these six thousand pieces of clothes?"

"How about the labor cost for each piece of clothing at twenty qian?"

"Although you can't use silk for the cloth, how about using sixty bundles of linen woven?"

"Old shopkeeper, you..."

Liu Yi, who was hiding behind trembling, saw the old shopkeeper jumping into the carriage as if fleeing, and then came out from behind and said, "Li Chang, we are not short of money and food, and even have a lot of money."

Yun Chu, who was originally smiling, turned his face down at this time, he felt that this matter should not be over yet.

"Lichang, don't scare me, isn't it a good thing to have more money?"

Yun Chu said indifferently: "It is a good thing to have more money, but it is not a good thing to have more people coming."

Liu Yi saw that Yunchu was leaving worriedly, but he didn't continue to show any signs of fear. He was just a square now, supported by the head of the village. As long as he was honest, no disaster would befall him. superior.

In the evening, after the sound of curfew drums stopped, every head of each household in Jinchang Fang came to the front yard of Yun's house to listen to what the head of the village had to say.

When Yunchu proposed that each family should provide a strong labor force, starting tomorrow to prepare for the construction of the square gate, the daily wages are ten yuan, two catties of yellow rice, or millet.

Tomorrow, the remaining labor force, the old, the weak, and the young will start sorting out the construction waste that Jinchangfang produced a few days ago, and put the waste into the seepage pit left before, trying to use this waste to clean up the stinking The seepage pit was completely filled.

Then build a thatched hut on the open land, and pay five yuan a day, a catty of yellow rice or millet.

All women who can make clothes will begin to sew clothes according to Deshenglong's requirements as soon as they receive the linen from Deshenglong's gold store starting tomorrow. people's family.

Every time a person's clothes are made, they will be given five yuan, plus a catty of sorghum.

After the clothes are finished, linen is taken from the workshop to make inner clothes and shoes. The wages are also five per head, plus a catty of sorghum.

Yunchu has formulated the regulations, and the rest is Fangzheng Liuyi's affairs. He will appoint the assignment of Fangmin. According to the military regulations formulated by the imperial court when guarding Chang'an, the formation of troops according to the organizational system, what, hundreds, thousands The human team, then break down the tasks one by one, and the responsibility falls to the individual. Although there will be an extra management fee, Yunchu immediately admits it, and converts the money into rice grain and distributes it to the person in charge of management.

That is to say, after watching the scene of Liu Yi assigning tasks, Yunchu looked at the tall walls of Chang'an City, and then realized that Chang'an City does not have the characteristics of a commercial city at all, it is a real military fortress.

There is a Guoqiang outside the city, behind the Guoqiang is the city wall, behind the city wall is broken down into [-] small military fortresses, that is, the square, the end of the square wall is the imperial city, and inside the imperial city is the palace city.

Even the common people in the city are divided according to the style of military force on weekdays. Once a thief attacks the city, they can form an army in a short time and participate in the defense of the city.

The square city is an excellent design to isolate spies from chaos. This kind of design is like the drainage warehouse of a ship. Even if a few square cities are infiltrated by thieves, as long as these few square cities are surrounded, the city will not be chaotic. .

It's a pity that such a well-designed city rarely sees a large army storming it. Most of them abandon the city and flee before the enemy arrives.

There were as many as six such numbers in the history of the Tang Dynasty.

As Chang'an was captured six times, Datang, this majestic and huge empire finally fell into the dust created by the barbarians.

(End of this chapter)