Lin Gao Qiming

Chapter 40 Farewell to Daming

"Amsterdam... No, Guangzhou, I will come back." Xiao Zishan stood in the courtyard, looking at the first floor of Lingnan on the hillside under the blue sky in the distance, an ancient building with double eaves and roof of red sandstone—oh, no ancient building.He smiled unconsciously, "It's a modern building."

This green brick pavement, white walls and black tiles, is full of Lingnan style residences.Xiao Zishan remembered that in the 21st century, this place should be Huifu Road.A street of cheap and high-quality restaurants, many of which have been operating for decades.He has been there and eaten the "Yinji" rice rolls, "Chengji" porridge noodles... This place in this time and space is quite a barren place.Although residential buildings can be seen, there are still abandoned gardens and even farmland and vegetable fields, miscellaneous forests and small ponds can be seen everywhere.

Xiao Zishan has been very familiar with such scenes since he was a child. The southern city he lived in when he was a child is very similar to this place.In traditional cities in China, there are farmland and wasteland within the city.In some places, in the 60s and 70s, there were still rural villages in the city-in the urban areas, there were large tracts of farmland and cottages, and even production teams.

Here has been selected as the stronghold of the future crossing regime in Guangzhou.The place on Haopan Street is only used as a crossing trade point now, and it will be a backup stronghold in the future.

The new house cost a lot of money, but Sun Chang found the place——Xiao Zishan now likes this young man more and more, he handles things neatly, and is good at understanding the thoughts of the traversers.

I found this house, but the terrain is higher than the surrounding area, the area is very irregular, surrounded by water on both sides, the owner who built the house first built a small house, and used the remaining open space to build a garden.Now it has been resold several times, and the garden has been abandoned into a wasteland full of rubble and thorns. Only a pool of clear water, half a rockery, a few big trees and a pavilion that has not completely fallen down in the garden reveal a trace of this place. The scenery of the past.

Among the several houses that Sun Chang found, this one is the most dilapidated, and the price is also cheap - almost all the houses and courtyards have to be rebuilt.But it is lonely and quiet everywhere, and the area is large, so there is a lot of room for expansion.Decided to buy it now.

The reconstruction plan of the whole house is completely completed by the architects and designers among the traversers.The design idea is: without destroying the overall Ming Dynasty appearance of the mansion, modernize the interior to meet the needs of travelers who will use it as their base in Guangzhou in the future.

In the Executive Committee's future use of the Guangzhou stronghold, the site will serve as a center for trade, intelligence and communications across the coast of Guangdong.

The architect retained the structural appearance of the original residence, and only did a comprehensive renovation and reinforcement. This part will serve as a place to interact with local people.

The abandoned garden set aside a part close to the house as a garden for restoration.The other areas are all planned as various modern facilities, including planned offices, dormitories, monitoring rooms, telegraph rooms, warehouses, and vaults.Of course, these houses will have the appearance of a traditional courtyard building.The internal facilities and structure will fully follow the principles of modern architecture to maximize the use of space.

The need to arrange various technical defense facilities and communication equipment in the stronghold involves the issue of electricity consumption.It is obviously not feasible to use wind power to generate electricity in the city, not to mention the limited wind power, the tall and large shelf is too conspicuous.The efficiency of solar power generation is also too low.Although the executive committee couldn't find a way to safely and securely send the generator into the Guangzhou base for a while, it still planned to build an underground generator room with soundproof facilities-to be prepared for any danger.

There are water wells in the park and in the house, and they are generally qualified after testing. Please ask the local well diggers to do a deep dig, and then they can be used as domestic water. Drinking water has to be purified with well water.

Although there has been no electricity or running water in this Guangzhou base for quite a long time, during the construction, all places that need to add equipment and lay lines in the future will be pre-drilled.

In terms of defense, the original small rivers and ponds on both sides of the northwest were dredged, and the revetments were repaired.The walls of the courtyards that had already collapsed had been increased to a height of 6 meters, and the walls of the backyards of the big families here were even as high as 8-9 meters.And plant climbing vine roses on the wall-the dense spikes can also play a certain anti-theft effect.

But all of this is only left on the designer's computer at the moment, and the current funds are not abundant, so it is not appropriate to invest too much in a project that is not urgently needed.The energy of the wormhole is about to disappear. In order to save the last energy, the travel trade will stop after this time. The travelers who have been active in the time and space of Ming Dynasty for several months will all withdraw to this time and space until the arrival of the final travel operation.

Therefore, only a small part of this grand construction plan has been implemented at this time. Sun Chang invited the masons and plasterers to repair the house and the walls on all sides.Seeing the workers busy transporting bricks and mixing mud, Xiao Zishan became a little nostalgic for this place, and he didn't know how long it would take before he could return here again.

After the formal crossing, they are no longer harmless Australian businessmen who bring novelty goods here to make money, but a unique political force with the intention of rebellion.As a member of the executive committee, it is unlikely that he will be sent to Guangzhou City under the enemy's influence.I don't know how long it will take for the flag of the traversers to fly on the first building in Lingnan?

Just as he was thinking, he saw Wen Desi came in from the outside with a happy face.For the past week, Xiao Zishan has been supervising the work in the new house, and Mr. Wen and Mr. Wang are in charge of the cross-trade business.

"Zishan, are you still supervising the work?"

"Mr. Wen, why did you come here? You have to show up less recently."

"It's okay, I have a powerful bodyguard following me, and I have my magic weapon for protection..."

"Hehe, it's the old three again: spray, jackknife, stab-resistant vest?"

"No, after learning the lesson from last time, I added another simple gas mask." Boss Wen patted his bulging waist.He just went to pay a visit to Gaoju, and made up Yu Eshui's cloudy and misty rhetoric.

"What expression do you hold high?"

"It's hard to say!" Wen Desi thought for a moment, "It looks like he ate a dozen green olives in one go! However, he knew that we would give him all the goods on credit before we left, and he was so moved that he wanted to cry..."

Both of them burst out laughing.

Considering that for a long period of time after traveling in the future, travelers will not be able to produce a large amount of so-called Australian goods as easily as they do now.So after discussion, I still gave Mr. Gao a large amount of goods on credit. I was so touched that I almost shed tears. The goods were worth 20 taels!In fact, for the executive committee, this credit loan is not too risky, and the total amount is only more than 3 RMB.It will not affect the use of funds on this space-time side.

"Then he also paid a lot of money?"

"2000 taels of gold. There are many things that we didn't dare to sell in the past, anyway, this is the last time, sell them and leave." Wen Desi stopped laughing, "These are our last income before crossing. "

"Is it enough?"

"I've done the calculations several times. Not counting the income this time, the current reserve is enough, and I also made a 200 million Fuyu emergency."

"When I arrive, someone will ask for something new."

"If you don't have enough, don't buy it. Everything you need is accounted for. Adding anything else is just icing on the cake. It's not necessary."

"I'm afraid there is something crucial that we didn't think of. We are going to rebuild a complete industrial system. Don't lose the chain at a critical moment." Xiao Zishan is still a pessimist.

"Stop spoiling the fun, let's take care of everything here." Wen Desi said.

Back in the newly repaired house, Sun Chang was waiting inside with a ledger.He's vaguely meant to be in charge now.Entrusting such a large family business to someone who has known him for less than three months, no one would do it in modern times, but at this time and here, the traversers have no choice but to trust.

"Sun Chang, we went back to Australia this time. The next time we come back, it should be next year. You are here to take care of the house and don't cause trouble. If you have any problems, you can discuss it with shopkeeper Sun. If you have any difficulties, you can also ask for advice. Master Gao, I have already told him that he will definitely meet you."

"Yes. Master, please show me, where will the little ones go to meet the master next time?"

"No, we'll send someone to contact you when we're here." Wen Desi took out an aluminum medallion sawn off from his arms, and gave him half of it. Come and order."

"Yes, there is one more thing I would like to ask the master to show me."

"what's up?"

"This house is so vast, I'm the only one, so I'm afraid I won't be able to take care of it. Can you ask the master to buy another family member?"

"No need, after we go back, Gao Qing's family moved here. Brother Gao is studying art with your uncle again, you should teach him more on weekdays, don't grow up like his worthless father.

"All the money in and out of the family is your expense, and Brother Gao is responsible for keeping the accounts. Gao Qing's family has a quota of money and rice, and they are distributed according to regulations. Your monthly silver is two taels, and a month and a half of a meter is half a stone."

"Here."

"Although I tell you not to make trouble, it doesn't mean you stay in the house!"

"?" Sun Chang looked puzzled.

Wen Desi realized that he had slipped his mouth and did not change his words. He continued to admonish with a serious face: "Go around more and ask for news. When we come in the future, we will report back."

"Yes."

"Looking forward to it, we'll be back soon."

On the second day after the travelers left, Gao Qing's family was packing up their belongings and preparing to move to the new house of the Australian master.Guanshi Yan called Gao Qing out at the gate of the house again.

Gao Qing was about to go out when he heard the voice, when his wife shouted:

"Go, go, go, go and show your courtesy! Let's go to the door first, but later Sun Chang quit his job and became a steward. You are good! The door of the advanced door is still a handyman for a long time!"

Gao Qingwo kept silent, implying that she still wanted to go out.

Gao Xian simply cried and started making noises: "I have been unlucky for eight lifetimes after following you, a worthless wretch. You still have some brains. What will the Gao family give us? How will Master Wen treat us? You are good, go Sell ​​them and pay back!"

"Master Wen is always a foreign vassal...in the future..."

"What's wrong with the foreigner? I'm happy to treat us so that we can go to the ends of the earth! You can sell it and stay in Gao's house to be your good slave!"

Their two sons and daughters watched their mother lose their temper without saying a word.Both children have reached a sensible age, and they know that their parents have their own ideas, but emotionally, they both feel that the master from Australia is good, and he speaks kindly. He often gives delicious and fun Australian gadgets on weekdays.My heart is naturally on the mother's side.

Gao Qing lowered his head and did not speak. Taking this opportunity, Gao Xian had already walked out, and said to Guanshi Yan with a big smile on his face: "What a coincidence, our man went to clean up the house over there early in the morning. I'm taking the child to pack things, I'll go over after receiving them, what's the matter with you, I'll ask him to come over and call you back tomorrow?"

Guanshi Yan knew that she was lying, so he didn't dare to do anything to her, so he walked away embarrassingly, cursing inwardly: These group of overseas fan merchants are really fucking addicted to soup!It's only been a few days, and everyone is faithful!

(End of this chapter)