"Tsk, what a pity there are no light strips."

Yinreng was still muttering to himself when he came out.

Yinzhen was still in shock and did not hear his complaint.

The floor tiles in the room were all frosted tiles, a bright moon white in color. The furniture was the dark color of the solid wood itself, which contrasted with the snow-white pillows and bedding on the bed, making it look extremely luxurious.

The road in the courtyard is paved with smooth pebbles, and some green plants are planted on both sides of the road. A small warehouse is dug under the west ear room, and there are three rooms in the east wing, one is used as a kitchen, another is used as a firewood room, where honeycomb coal and charcoal are neatly stacked in different areas, and another room is where the cooks and maids live.

There are bunk beds made of pure solid wood inside. Although there are no mattresses, bedding is provided, which looks particularly high-end. The west wing has huge floor-to-ceiling windows on two sides. There are exquisite tea tables, chess boards, a soft couch and two lounge chairs inside.

Now the weather is getting colder and it is time to burn charcoal to keep warm, but Yinzhen just took a walk inside and didn't feel cold at all.

He raised his head to look at the rising sun, and suddenly a sense of urgency arose in his heart.

He also wanted to change his house into this one.

"Second brother, how much did this house cost?"

"The cost is less than one thousand taels."

A smile spread across Yinreng's face.

In order to comply with regulations, the wood used here is all fir, the furniture is mainly made of mahogany and rosewood, and the floor tiles inside are from folk kilns, while tea sets, tableware, vases and the like are from official kilns.

The flower beds in the yard were also carved by a stone carving master, and the stone itself is not of high value.

The most expensive thing here is labor.

The people who renovated this place were all civilians from the outer city. In order to find a way out for the Manchus who had moved out, Yinreng began to recruit some Manchus to work on the site after the house was almost built. The wages were the same as those for the Han people, which were two hundred coins a day.

The construction site provides two meals, one in the morning when you arrive at the site and one around 1:00 p.m. Each person is limited to two steamed buns, a bowl of stewed vegetables, and a bowl of porridge per meal.

Every day from the morning Chenshi to the afternoon Shenshi, that is, 7 am to 3 pm, with one mandatory day off every five days, it is a shift system.

During festivals or the most unbearable hot summers and cold winters, the construction site will have holidays, and everyone will receive holiday gifts and red envelopes before the holidays.

By this calculation, on average each person could get about four taels of silver per month, and one person in the family could be exempted from food rations. This amount of money was difficult for both Han and Manchu people to refuse.

Nowadays, the monthly allowance of an ordinary bannerman is 2 taels of silver. If there are many people in the family, the consumption is also high. In the capital, 2 taels of silver a month can only support three people from starving to death.

If you want to live a better life, you have to work as a servant, a housekeeper, or a handyman in a wealthy family.

At first, these Manchus who came out of the inner city thought they were superior and were unwilling to work on the construction site. However, after learning about the wages of the Han people, they became jealous.

Later, during every festival, the Han Chinese residential areas were always bustling and prosperous, and the food and clothing they had were much better than those of ordinary Manchus.

There were also many poor families among the Manchus, so they gritted their teeth and signed up for the construction site.

As a result, there were two more, and the Manchus in the suburbs of the city also gradually participated in the reconstruction project.

During the Dragon Boat Festival and Mid-Autumn Festival this year, Manchu people in the suburbs of the city will also go out to the Han residential areas to watch the fun.

There were even Manchus who lit a bonfire in the small square and invited their Han colleagues to join their dance party.

There, the boundaries between Manchus and Han people gradually weakened through this form of communication.

Yinreng did not intervene or forcibly conscript Manchus into the construction site.

In his previous life, he had simply cancelled a few Manchu welfare benefits, and was scolded by the Manchu nobles and relatives. Now he decided to respect the fate of the Manchus and not interfere too much, and things were actually developing in the direction he had originally hoped for...

It is no exaggeration to say that the changes in the outer city and suburbs in recent years are worlds apart.

However, Yinreng had no intention of rebuilding the inner city and the imperial city.

He was willing to spend time thinking about the common people, but the aristocracy who were above the common people were not within his consideration.

He is too lazy to do thankless tasks.

"Only one thousand taels?!"

Yinzhen was really surprised.

The area of ​​this small courtyard is less than a quarter of the Beile Mansion, but it is exquisite and elegant in every way. Even a picky person like him cannot find anything bad about the house. He would believe it even if the cost was several times higher.

"Less than a thousand taels. I've calculated carefully. The labor and materials only cost a little over five hundred taels. Even if you add up the land under our feet, it won't cost a thousand taels."

He also got this land from the indigenous people through demolition. The cost of building a small courtyard in the outer city was only about three hundred taels, and he used blue bricks and large tiles. There was no concept of cutting corners in that era.

Yinzhen: "...Unbelievable, I thought it would be at least three thousand taels."

He thought that the west wing with floor-to-ceiling windows would cost several hundred taels.

"If I set the price of this courtyard at five thousand taels, would anyone buy it?"

When Yinreng talked about pricing, his eyes were filled with greed.