Datang Lingnan King

Chapter 79
Of course, Feng Daiwen knew nothing about what happened in Chang'an. After the mutual market ended, Feng Daiwen lived a busy and orderly life, practicing martial arts in the morning, training soldiers in the morning, instructing various workshops in the afternoon, and speaking for Li Chunfeng in the evening. In Feng Daiwen's later generations, he has read countless novels since he was a child. There were so many novels in the countryside in the early 90s, so I read one of the Gods List and one of Water Margin countless times. When I was a little older, I watched TV several times. Do you remember? are difficult.

Every night at Feng Daiwen's house is the busiest time. Zhang Gongjin, Ma Zhou, Xu Jingzong, Qingyun and others, Xi Junmai and others filled a hall, and Yaya sat next to Feng Daiwen and handed tea. The guards were like They surrounded the crowd twice like defending a national treasure.Feng Daiwen never told more about the one-hour story every day, otherwise this group of people who have never heard such a classic story would have listened to it for several days and nights with him.

Yan Lide also came to Shuofang. Feng Daiwen took Yan Lide to re-plan Shuofang, and built a new city at the south gate and north gate. A city wall was built outside the north gate to surround the market as the outer city of Shuofang. Commercial areas, residential areas, and small villas built near the river. It is a courtyard with small buildings. The city’s water supply and sewage are re-planned. The scale is very large. It is estimated that it will take a year to complete the new city, and the old city will be renovated. Yan Lide was also very excited, this was the first time he presided over the construction of such a large-scale city, and he took the initiative to ask Ying to supervise the construction.

"General, someone from Lingnan is here to see you." A personal guard came over and reported.

"Please!" Feng Daiwen said hastily when he heard someone from his hometown.

"I've seen Lord Hou." Not long after, the personal guard brought in a group of more than 10 people, all of whom were dressed as farmers, and saluted Feng Daiwen.

"Old man, hurry up and give up the courtesy." Feng Daiwen hurriedly stepped forward to help the old man.

"Please take a seat, the sun is approaching the climax, everyone eat first, and talk about things after dinner." Feng Daiwen didn't ask why the people came, after all, they were all from Lingnan, and it was very pleasant to see the fellow villagers.

"Hehe, thank you, Lord Hou. The old lady took care of the villagers of the old village when she was alive, and the Duke of the country often sent people to send supplies to help us, so that the villagers of the old village can live in peace and stability in the past few decades. This is the old man. A letter from Lord Hou to Lord Hou." The old man said with a smile, and took out a letter from his bosom after speaking.

"No matter what, let's talk about it after dinner." Feng Daiwen took the letter and didn't rush to open it, but insisted on arranging for everyone to have dinner first.

"Okay, okay, this old man will live up to Lord Hou's kindness," the old man looked at Feng Daiwen with a smile and said with a smile.

Feng Daiwen arranged for the cook in Fuzhong to cook a sumptuous lunch and dined with everyone.

"Master Hou is laughing at you!" I have never eaten such a sumptuous meal, so I am very embarrassed. The old man said to Feng Daiwen embarrassedly when he saw his people eating in a mess.

"It's okay, it means that everyone is not here, let me let the outsiders go." Feng Daiwen said with a gentle smile.

"Okay, it's good that one is not an outsider. The old man's village has been greatly favored by the Feng family for several generations. The old man Tai'an has met Lord Hou." Said the old man, he stood up and saluted Feng Daiwen solemnly.

"Old man, who is this?" Feng Daiwen hurriedly helped the old man up. When he finished eating just now, he saw other people were still eating, so he took the time to read Feng An's letter, which only said that the old man and his party could be trusted.

"Hehe, Lord Hou and others are from Taijia Village in Lingnan. The ancestor Taishan studied under Master Luban. Because of the war, he moved to Lingnan during the Spring and Autumn Period. Although he didn't learn much from Master Luban, this carpentry work is not an old man boasting. There are not many people in the world who can beat us." The old man, Tai'an, introduced the background of himself and others.

"Oh, so that's the case. I don't know if the old man came to Shuofang?" Feng Daiwen finally understood and asked.

It turned out that the ancestor of the Tai family was called Taishan, and he was Lu Ban's apprentice. When he started to learn, he was very stupid and his workmanship was relatively poor, so he was kicked out by Lu Ban. Once Lu Ban passed by a place and saw that all the carpentry work in this place was done. It is very exquisite, and when asked who made it, a passer-by replied, "This is exactly what your apprentice Taishan did."

Lu Ban sighed: "I really don't know Taishan with my eyes." So this classic sentence spread.

"Master Guo originally wanted us to go to Chang'an to help Master Hou build the Hou Mansion and Princess Mansion, so that Master Hou could get married next year. When we arrived in Chang'an, the eldest son said that Master Hou is in Shuofang and needs to build Shuofang City. I will come to help you later. Here we come." Tai'an explained.

"Thank you for your high righteousness." Hearing that people rushed from Lingnan thousands of miles to Chang'an, and then from Chang'an to Shuofang, Feng Daiwen couldn't help being moved and admired, he got up and saluted solemnly.

"Master Hou, you are welcome. The people in this old village have been greatly favored by the Feng family. If it weren't for the old lady, at most half of the people in the old village would have survived to this day. I can't repay you. I can do something for Lord Hou." Strength, it’s too late for an old village to be happy.” The old man sighed, and Tai’an’s words also explained the hardships of Lingnan people’s survival, lack of medical care, food shortage, ferocious animals, and poisonous insects are all things that kill people.

"Yes, Lord Hou developed sea salt, taught the people to cultivate intensively, selected high-quality seeds, and brought back three seasons of rice from overseas, so that no one in Lingnan will starve to death in the future. Everyone will remember the great kindness of Lord Hou to Lingnan people. It's in my heart." Another old man named Taimu, who was younger, said: "It also reflects the simplicity of the ancient people, and the good traditions of knowing kindness and repaying each other.

"The elders are over-rewarded, and Wei Guo only did a little trivial thing, and I really dare not take it for granted." Feng Daiwen said modestly:

"Master Hou, you are welcome. Just make arrangements if you have something to do. In fact, the old man and others have dealt with Lord Hou long ago, and they also admire his wonderful ideas," Tai'an said, and the others also nodded.

"Oh, what's going on? Why don't I know?" Feng Daiwen asked suspiciously.

"Haha, Lord Hou, the waterwheel that you built in Lingnan was built by the old man and others, but he didn't come to see you. There are also people from our village who built the ship. There are not many people better than us." Tai'an said with a confident smile, and later Feng Daiwen realized that many key places were built with the help of people from Taijia Village, including the production of Liannu.

"Thank you all, I really appreciate it, Wei Guo didn't know that you have done so much for me, you have come from a long way, you have worked hard all the way, rest for a few days, in a few days I will arrange for you to meet Yan Lide, the master craftsman supervisor I know, he is in charge of the planning and construction of the new urban area, and I just want to build a batch of exquisite houses by the river, and I will trouble you when the time comes, you don’t have to be polite if you need anything, just say it.” Feng Daiwen said happily, he did not expect There are still so many things I don't know.

"That's very good. There is indeed something to trouble Lord Hou. Our village is poor, and we are ashamed to ask for it if we don't have credit. We are short of a lot of tools." Tai'an said embarrassedly.Lingnan is poor, so no one buys any furniture, and no one invites them to build houses. In addition, Lingnan has little iron and good blacksmiths, so after so many years, the entire Taijia Village has no few sets of tools.

"It doesn't matter that this is a trivial matter. If a craftsman wants to do a good job, he must first sharpen his tools. It happens that Shuofang has the latest steel materials, which can make a lot of excellent tools for you." Feng Daiwen readily agreed.

"Thank you, Lord Hou!" Everyone smiled and stood up to express their thanks.After all, there is no craftsman who doesn't like better tools, just like no general doesn't like BMWs and magic soldiers.

(End of this chapter)