This time the time was extremely tight, and the key point was that it was already mid-January. Chunxiao took Shijiu to the county government, paid the money and completed the formalities, and then they went their separate ways.
As she said yesterday, she went to the iron shop first. When she was handling the formalities at the county government, she asked whether she needed to provide the control documents for the iron tools. It turned out that they were indeed required, so she got the documents from the county government. The tools were exactly the same as those in Fengyue County.
The chief clerk asked the clerk to check for her and found that there were 12 iron shops in Su County and told her their approximate locations.
So she placed orders one by one in the morning and paid silver. There were one or two shops whose prices were a little high, so she bargained for a while and settled on the price. All shops required delivery in 20 days. For a while, all the iron shops in the city were making farm tools for her.
The tools have been settled, and the next thing is to build the village. This time the two places are in one place. The warehouse is the top priority. There is another important thing. It is not easy to dig a well in the mountains. I don’t know if it can be dug. If it cannot be dug, I can only dig at the foot of the mountain, which is also troublesome. I can only build a few water reservoirs on it when the time comes.
She returned to the inn and wrote a recruitment notice, looking to recruit six bricklaying teams. Two of them arrived in the afternoon. Through recommendations from acquaintances, she soon found all six bricklaying teams. Another one arrived in the evening. Chunxiao simply found them all and asked them to go to Fangjia Village in Leixi Town to see the construction site by themselves the next day.
Nineteen did not come back today, so he must have stayed in the village. Chunxiao ran around all day and was very tired. She did not care about the cold weather and asked her child for hot water and took a hot bath.
As a result, she started to have a stuffy nose when she went out the next day. Thinking that the cold couldn't be serious and that the masonry team wouldn't come so early, she went to the pharmacy to ask the doctor to boil a prescription of cold medicine for her to drink.
It was so bitter early in the morning that she could hardly taste it. Why was this ancient medicine so bitter?
When she arrived at Fangjia Village, she saw many people on the hillside in the distance. She drove the carriage closer. With so many people around, she didn't know where Nineteen was. Fortunately, after she searched for a while, Nineteen found her and waved at her, "Boss."
The workers all looked at her.
"You come down first."
Nineteen came down quickly. Chunxiao took out the architectural blueprints of the manor and said, "Can you hire two or three people to look after this area? Seven masonry teams will be arriving soon. Give them these blueprints. The living courtyard will remain the same as your previous one, but a row of five warehouses of similar size will be added to the back of the main courtyard. The main courtyard and the two workers' courtyards should not be too far apart. Half the distance will be enough. When the time comes, you can draw the dimensions with the masons and they should know how big it should be. How many people have you recruited from the village? Can you find more people to build the houses?"
Nineteen also felt a lot of pressure and was short of people everywhere.
"Yesterday, almost everyone in the two villages who could do the work came up. Now there are more than 300 people working on the mountain. If we want to build a house, we'll probably have to recruit from these people."
"Go ahead and give it a few cents to the wages. These 300 people can complete the work quickly. I estimate it will be done in about 10 days." She looked at yesterday's progress.
"If it's difficult to draw, why not ask the village head for help? Ask him to find a few reliable people to take charge, or even just let them take care of their own people. You need to stay down and watch the craftsmen build the house. Although it's outsourced, the work must be up to standard. It's not a good time to haggle over the price."
"Then I'll go find the village head right away. I stayed at the headman's house in Fangjia Village yesterday, and the carriage is also at their house." Nineteen smiled and said, "Master, please keep an eye on me for a while. I'll be back soon."
Chunxiao went up the slope. The lowest part had been completely cleared and was filled with woodcutters. Many villagers didn't dare to speak when they saw her and just nodded to her.
Chunxiao saw many young girls and boys who were not very old but worked very fast. When they hired them as long-term workers, they could relax the age requirement appropriately.
Not long after, Nineteen came with the head of the village. He handed the piece of land to the head of Fangjia Village, and then drove his carriage to Wangjia Village to find the head of the village.
Chunxiao greets the village head.
"I heard from Nineteen that Master Yan, you are the owner of this land. There is no need to be polite to me. I hope you will take good care of me in the future."
"You're too polite, Li Zheng. We're just looking out for each other."
The village head climbed halfway up the hill, found a few people, and said a few words to them. Those people ran away and soon brought back forty or fifty people. "Third Master, all the men our village needs are here."
The village head looked at those people and said, "You will follow the manager from yesterday. We need to repair the house downstairs. Go and help. The boss said that he will give you an extra 5 wen per day. You must work hard and don't bring shame to our Fangjia Village. Do you understand?"
"Don't worry, Master San." The men were very happy. They could earn an extra five cents a day by building a house. It was the best thing ever, so they were naturally willing to do it.
As they were talking, there was a sudden commotion ahead, followed by the woman's surprised scream.
"Hurry over and see what's going on?"
The people in the distance waved their hands when they saw them passing by, "It's okay, it's okay, they saw a wild rabbit and are chasing it."
The village head looked at Chunxiao sheepishly and said, "I'm so sorry, women are like that, making a fuss out of nothing."
Chun Xiao smiled and said, "Village Head, it's okay. You forgot that I am also a woman."
The young men nearby couldn't help laughing. The village head just laughed and told everyone to go back to work, saying they could leave when they were called.
Seeing that someone had been assigned to take care of the work, Chunxiao went to the field below. Many ox carts had already arrived, and several bricklaying teams had also arrived.
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