Crossing the famine, I am a poor fish, and my descendants have to work hard

Lord Wu then led everyone to divide the land for building houses.

As per the specifications, the land for building houses is divided according to the population.

Each person can get 1 mu of land, which is 66.7 square meters.

That's a lot. The more people in the family, the more they get.

Of course, you can buy more if it’s not enough.

The land for building houses was sold at 1 tael of silver per mu, which was not expensive.

Lord Wu said that this was because they had fled here, otherwise according to the land prices in other villages outside the capital, they would have to pay at least 3 taels of silver.

Zhao Yuanzhen calculated in her mind how much land her family could get. With seven people in her family, she could only get 466.9 square meters. It was enough to build a house, but Zhao Yuanzhen wanted to build a large yard and a large vegetable garden. This land was definitely not enough.

I have to buy some more. Let's buy 15 acres. That way I can get it all at once.

The villagers also wanted to have a vegetable garden. The land allocated according to the population was definitely not enough. Now it was discounted. They all bought some. But none of them was as generous as Zhao Yuanzhen. They all bought one or two acres.

Then everyone began to plan the layout of the village and divide the residential land for each family.

When planning the village, Zhao Yuanzhen gave the village chief some suggestions. The main road and the secondary road should be wider. The main road should accommodate at least 4 carriages, and the secondary road should accommodate at least 2 carriages.

You can also build the village in a tic-tac-toe pattern. Build the ancestral hall, school, and square in the middle of the village. You can also dig several wells, one at the beginning, end, and middle of the village.

Everyone thought it made sense. Cui Zaosi was also surprised that this woman had a very visionary plan.

Then, according to the four columns, the main road is in the middle of the two columns. The tic-tac-toe diagram of the first column is 13 and the two households are left blank in the middle column on the south side for the construction of public facilities.

Then everyone started drawing lots. Zhao Yuanzhen drew a spot closer to the middle, and she wanted to move to a spot closer to the side, as her family had more land to plan and she also liked a quieter spot.

Who wants to change?

Wu Erping was complaining about Zhang Qingshan's bad luck, grabbing a position on the east side, when she saw that idiot Zhao Yuanzhen wanted to change.

I quickly ran over and grabbed the note.

"Let me switch. I'll switch with you. I'm in the first row on the east side. This is for you."

As he said this, he threw his note to Zhao Yuanzhen.

Zhao Yuanzhen picked up the note and found that it was indeed the first row on the east side. She was satisfied.

Wu Erping was even more satisfied.

Then the land was divided according to the order of drawing lots.

In order to keep the overall layout of the village nice, all are the same length, and the size is determined by the width.

So when we arrived at Zhao Yuanzhen's house, we found that it was quite good that Zhao Yuanzhen's house was located on the edge. Otherwise, with such a large piece of land, her family could occupy an entire street.

After the land was divided, Cui Zaosi began to help Zhao Yuanzhen plan the construction of the house.

The other villagers knew that this was from the Capital Construction Bureau and that they were building houses for the emperor, so they stayed to watch and learn.

Zhao Yuanzhen told Cui Zaosi about her thoughts.

她家的宅基地是66.7X8+15x666.7=平。大概就是一个长50米，宽212米的样子。

The village chief also allocated some land to Zhang Qingyan, so there are 8 people in her family.

She wanted to build a courtyard-like structure, with a yard in the front for entertainment and leisure, and a house in the middle. The large yard at the back would be used for growing vegetables and raising chickens, ducks, cattle, sheep, and horses. The dry toilet would also be placed behind the house.

A row of houses was built in the middle of the front yard, with a total of five houses, each 12 meters apart. The main house had five rooms, and the other four houses had four rooms each.

Each house is surrounded by a small wall with a fence, just like a separate small yard.

This way, there is no need to divide the family, and each son has his own private space.

The house is slightly tilted to the east, and she plans to plant a large area of ​​fruit trees on the west side.

A large row of side rooms was built on the left, which were used as kitchens, dining rooms, warehouses, or to accommodate relatives, friends, or servants.

Every house people live in is designed with a kang (earth bed) for sleeping. It is cold in winter and it is more comfortable to sleep on it.

The fire dragon also needs to be built. The fire dragon is a bit like modern heater, but not as advanced as modern one.

The remaining details can be discussed in detail during construction.

Cui Zao Si drew up a rough plan according to her instructions, and then improved it on this basis, adding drainage, landscaping, entertainment facilities in the front yard, etc.

Zhao Yuanzhen was very satisfied after reading it.

Just build it according to this.

Everyone thinks that Zhao Yuanzhen’s idea of ​​building a small courtyard in the big courtyard is a good one.

Now we have some money, many sons and grandchildren, and many young people who are not married. It is not convenient to live together all the time. This way, we can separate the houses and build a fence, so that we can live together with the elders at home and have privacy. It is very good.

Young people, in particular, like it very much.

Decided to build accordingly.

The next step is to calculate the materials needed.

The house is calculated first, and the outer wall is not calculated first.

Cui Zaosi gave the calculation results. Zhao Yuanzhen didn't quite understand it, so she just bought according to what he said.

Then he asked where to buy it?

Cui Zao Si said he could take them there and it would be cheaper. Everyone thanked him.

They have just arrived in Beijing and are unfamiliar with the place, so it would be great to have someone to recommend them.

So everyone started to calculate how much materials they would need to build their own houses, and prepared to go shopping together.

The village first cultivated 1200 mu of land. The village chief decided to give 2 mu of land to each person according to the population, and the rest belonged to the villagers. Anyone who wanted it could come and buy it. One mu of land cost 3 taels of silver.

Three taels of silver for such good land is really not expensive.

Everyone agreed. When they were in Yanshan before, their village was also like this, and at that time each person had one acre of land.

Finally, each family sent out one person to follow Cui Zaosi and the registered Lord Wu back to buy materials.

Lord Wu asked the village chief to take the household registration of each household tomorrow and go to Shuntian Prefecture to register and change the household registration. Only after changing the household registration can they be considered as people of the capital.

Zhao Yuanzhen took the opportunity to tell Lord Wu that Zhang Qingyan's household registration had been lost. Lord Wu said that it could be reissued and that he could just ask the village chief to issue a certificate tomorrow to get it reissued.

Zhao Yuanzhen also gave Lord Wu 20 taels of silver.

It is not easy to get a household registration in the capital nowadays.

They followed Cui Zaosi to buy building materials.

Cui Zaosi said that he would bring 100 craftsmen to build the house tomorrow, and they might have to prepare meals.

Zhao Yuanzhen said this is what should be done.

She took Qian Xiaohui and Zhang Xinbai with her to go shopping.

Everyone followed Lord Wu into the city without being stopped. After entering the city, Lord Wu left.

It was almost 5 o'clock, and everyone was afraid that the shop would close, so they went to the brick and tile shop to order bricks and tiles.

Because Cui Zaosi led them there, everyone was warmly received by the store owner.

Not only did they give us a discount, they also said they would start delivering it soon. Because they needed a large quantity, they couldn't deliver it all at once, and it would probably take another day.

Everyone built houses in the order in which they drew lots, and the materials were delivered in this order, but because Zhao Yuanzhen's family came from the Construction Company, the materials were delivered to Zhao Yuanzhen's family first.

Zhao Yuanzhen agreed, so that people could start working tomorrow. The weather was cold, so the sooner the construction was completed, the sooner they could move in.

Because Zhao Yuanzhen's house was built entirely of bricks, and there were so many of them, the ground had to be paved with bricks. Some beautiful decorative tiles were also used on the outside. In addition, Zhao Yuanzhen wanted glazed tiles.

After all the calculations, the materials cost almost 100 taels of silver.

Other houses basically use bricks on the front and tiles on the roof, and some even use earth bricks instead of blue bricks. It is much cheaper, and only costs a few taels of silver.

They were also planning to build it according to Zhao Yuanzhen's layout.

But the main house was built with 3 rooms, and the other son built 3 small rooms.

My sons are also very happy. This is great. They can have their own private space and can be with their wives without any worries.

After buying the building materials, Cui Zao Si left, saying he would come to the store early the next morning.

Zhao Yuanzhen asked him to bring people over for breakfast.

Cui Zaosi agreed with a smile. Deputy General Zhao's sister was very sensible.

Then everyone went to buy rice, grain, vegetables, etc.

Zhao Yuanzhen thought about her family's meals, so she bought two bags of noodles and two bags of rice. This was for everyone to see.

Then they went to buy meat. There was not much meat left in the butcher shop, so Zhao Yuanzhen bought all the pork offal, including the bones and meat.

I also went to buy some seasonal vegetables, such as radishes, cabbages, pumpkins, etc.

I bought two chickens, a basket of eggs, tofu, bean sprouts, and some other vegetables.

Then he went back.

We still have to sleep outdoors tonight.

But they all sleep on the residential land allocated for their own families.

It was dark when Zhao Yuanzhen and his friends got home.

The village chief had already exchanged the banknotes for small change. He quickly distributed the money to each family.

525 taels of silver, 52 households, each household received 10 taels of silver, and the remaining taels were collected by the village.

Now is the time to spend money, and you must not hold on to it.

Everyone happily received the money and returned to their homesteads. Now they had the money to build their houses. The little money that they felt sorry for when they first bought the materials was back.

The brick shop came to deliver bricks and tiles. The follow-up was too dark, so I waited for another delivery tomorrow.

Li Zhijuan and Zhang Qingyan had already prepared dinner at home.

Several people were also hungry, so they started to pack up after eating.

Place the two carriages side by side.

Then they surrounded the carriage with oilcloth, which temporarily served as their room.

Because I have to make breakfast for the craftsmen tomorrow morning. It is not easy to make breakfast for 100 people.

Zhao Yuanzhen thought about it and decided to eat noodles.

Just buy some modern buckwheat noodles from the mall and cook them directly.

Although it is made of buckwheat flour, it also contains a lot of white flour. If it weren't for the fact that eating pure white flour is too conspicuous, she would have wanted to buy the white flour one.

Buckwheat flour and white flour mixed together, just like multi-grain noodles.

Then he handed the meat and bones to Qian Xiaohui and asked her to cook noodles in the morning and stir-fry a big pot of meat sauce.

Make two large pots of cold dishes with cabbage and bean sprouts.

This breakfast will do.

Qian Xiaohui and the others said it was no problem.

I cleaned out the pig offal and large bones tonight.

This pig offal can be stewed in a big pot. All the seasonings are available. You can eat it at noon tomorrow.

This big bone can be used to stew a large pot of cabbage. It tastes good.

I was arranging the ingredients and weighing the food in my mind.

Zhao Yuanzhen didn't bother with it anymore. Anyway, her daughters-in-law knew how to cook, so she didn't need to worry about it. Giving her daughters-in-law recipes was the right choice.

After everyone got ready, they went to practice sword fighting.

Although I am a little tired, I can't delay practicing sword.

After practicing, I quickly took a shower and went to bed.

When Zhao Yuanzhen got up the next day, Qian Xiaohui had already fried the meat sauce and mixed the cold dishes. Water was boiled in two large iron pots.

Just wait for people to arrive and start cooking noodles.

Zhao Yuanzhen suddenly remembered, tableware!

She didn't buy any cutlery.

Then I quickly bought 100 large white bowls at the mall, the most common white bowls, very large, 20 for one point, and more than 100 pairs of bamboo chopsticks.

Qian Xiaohui took it and washed it.

Zhao Yuanzhen put the noodles she bought in a large basin and kept them ready for use at any time.

After a while, the craftsmen arrived.

Many horse-drawn carriages carrying materials also came along.

In an instant, her homestead was bustling with activity.