Infrastructure masters in the red building

After dinner, Jia Fang appeared in front of Jia Daishan's foreign study in Rongguo Mansion.

As soon as Jia Daishan went out, Jia Zheng naturally used his father's study outside.The outer study room was dark at night, only Jia Daishan's outer study room had a dozen bright candles at one point - and only Jia Zheng who "studied hard" had this kind of treatment in the mansion.

After Jia Zheng finished reading the book, he made up a seven-character quatrain and read it to the maidservant with red sleeves, but the maid only smiled and praised it.This made Jia Zheng more or less unwilling.

Coincidentally, Jia Fang came here at this time, and Jia Zheng was very happy: "Third brother, you finally came to ask brother for advice! Which sage's book did you read?"

Jia Fang laughed, thinking that he might have come to the wrong place—it might be better to ask Jia Amnesty for this kind of question.

But with the mentality of giving it a try, he still asked Jia Zheng for advice: "Second brother, I would like to ask, which dynasty and generation the road tax came from, and what is going on now."

Jia Zheng: ...?

That's not his forte.

But Jia Zheng still had the ability to memorize extensive knowledge, and when he saw that Jia Fang had managed to get him here, he nodded and said, "I seemed to have read a book in Dad's study the other day, which mentioned this. "Speaking of Jia Zheng, he buried his head in the shelf and searched for it.

Jia put his hands down and waited. Jia Zheng searched for a long time without any results. He was somewhat bored waiting, so he casually visited the furnishings in Jia Daishan's study.

Suddenly, his eyes were attracted by a map hanging on the wall.

That's right, since Jia put it in this world, he hasn't seen the map of this place with his own eyes.The center of the map looks like a big city, which should be the capital.And on the map, there is a small red dot in the south, which is marked——

Could this be... Taoyuan Village?

Jia Zheng rummaged through the shelf for a long time, took out a notebook from the shelf, found what he had read before, and looked up a few more pages before answering Jia Fang's question.

"The road tax is also called the operation tax. It existed in the previous dynasty, and this dynasty follows the old system of the previous dynasty. When goods enter the state capitals, they are collected by the tax cards of each state capital according to the value of the goods. The tax rate ranges from [-]% to [-]%, and is determined by each state itself. "

Jia Fang was still staring at the map, pointing to the little red dot and asked his elder brother: "Second brother, how many states do we need to pass through from here to the capital?"

The map in front of Jia Fang is roughly similar to the maps of later generations. The Yellow River, Yangtze River, Huai River, three mountains and five mountains are all there, and the coastline is similar to his impression.The capital marked on the map is located in the east of the Central Plains, not too far from the east coast.

Jia Zheng moved over muttering: "You are so young, if you don't read some sage's writings, why ask them?"

But he still reluctantly counted for Jia Zheng: "Taiping Prefecture, Nanning Prefecture, Yongqing Prefecture..." After counting for a long time, Jia Zheng himself was dizzy and reported the number at will: "Less say there are ten states. !"

Jia Fang's eyes widened in surprise: "Every time you pass through a state, you have to pay [-]% of the operating tax?"

Jia Zheng nodded: "Yes! The maximum tax is [-]%, what's the matter?"

Jia Fang shook his head: "It's nothing." But he was still surprised: the cost of cargo transportation in this time and space is so high?According to ten states, each state pays [-]% of the road tax, and the cost of the goods is doubled along the way.So long-distance transportation is not at all an advantage.

No wonder there was a severe drought in the north, and no one thought about transporting rice from the south.It may lose money before it is shipped halfway.

Jia Fang sighed with emotion, but Jia Zheng had a stern face and said, "Third brother, don't keep these mundane affairs in mind, and read more sage books when you have time..."

Before Jia Zheng finished speaking, Jia Fang agreed, "That's natural. But, second brother, insight into the world is knowledge, and understanding of human relationships is writing. Younger brother is busy with errands these days, so I have some understanding."

When Jia Zheng heard this, he said, "Eh? This couplet is really good. My second brother has really benefited a lot recently. My brother wants to write down this couplet and stick it in his study as encouragement."

Jia Fang didn't expect that he had unintentionally copied Cao Gong's homework again, so he didn't dare to say anything, so he hurriedly withdrew and returned to his small courtyard.

If there is a real food shortage after the drought in the north, there is so much food stored in Taoyuan Village... it is obviously not feasible to use "normal" methods to transport it to the north.He may need to consider "extraordinary measures".

The next morning, Jia Fang presided over the repair project in the Grand View Garden as usual.At present, the restoration project of Daoxiang Village itself has been basically completed, and the craftsmen are cleaning up the water system in the Grand View Garden according to Jia Fang's requirements.

The water system in the Grand View Garden was originally drawn from under the wall at the north corner of Ningguo Mansion, and now there is no need to draw it again.However, according to Jia Fang's design, the Grand View Garden also needs a relatively wide water surface as a landscape.Now craftsmen are dredging the river and building river banks according to Jia Fang's requirements.

All of these are just preparatory work, and Jia Xin knew it well: According to the idea of ​​building a traditional Chinese garden, a small lake should be built in the garden, and cruise ships should be able to walk on the lake.

In addition, a concealed drainage system needs to be built in the Grand View Garden to discharge all domestic sewage in the garden.Therefore, the craftsmen have begun to dig drainage ditches according to Jia Fang's plan.

As for the sewage discharge terminals of various toilets, Jia Fang is already impatient to build another dry toilet—he plans to directly build a biogas digester.However, there are a series of technical difficulties to be overcome in the construction of biogas digesters, and it will take some time to realize this goal.

After Jia Fang arranged the tasks for the day, he handed over all the supervisor's work to Zhao Cheng and asked him to keep an eye on it.Jia Fang himself went to Daoxiang Village to "review the book"—in fact, he came to Taoyuan Village through Fei Changfang's ground whip.

As soon as he came to Taoyuan Village, he first received bad news: Lai Da, who was locked in the woodshed last night, broke free from the rope at night and escaped from the woodshed.Depending on the situation, it is estimated that he will flee to the next town first, and then go all the way back to Beijing on the post road.

The old village chief blamed himself for this, and apologized to Jia Fang repeatedly.

But Jia Fang didn't care about this, he knew that Lai Da would definitely return to Beijing, because Nanny Lai was still Mrs. Shi's confidant, and Lai Da's foundation was also in Rongguo Mansion.It is estimated that now Lai Da is thinking about going back to Beijing before him, and after seeing Jia Daishan, he will make a clever sophistry so as to escape the guilt.

Of course, when Lai Da returns to Rongguo Mansion, he will find that the third master Jia Fang has never been out of Beijing.As for how frightened Lai Dahui was, Jia Fang didn't have time to pay attention to it.He has roughly figured out how to deal with this Diao Nu.

After talking about Lai Da, the old village head accompanied Jia Fang to check around the village.

He followed the old village chief to a small hill, where the terrain was higher and he could overlook the whole village.Holding the booklet in his hand, Jia Fang found the part of the land registration.I saw that this part of the booklet was very similar to the Fish Scale Book. The shape of each acre of land was drawn one by one, and then registered in detail on the drawing, recording which household was responsible for planting each field in the village.

While listening to the old man's explanation, Jia Fang compared the booklet in his hand with the real scene in front of him.

He suddenly discovered something, and pointed to a river that passed between the village and the fields and asked, "Has this river existed all along?"

The old village head nodded, seemingly a little confused: "Yes——"

Jia Fang asked strangely because he found that the river in Taoyuan Village looked exactly the same as the river he had repaired in the Grand View Garden from a distance. There was a bend here, and there was a bend to the north...

The only difference is that Jia Fang just ordered the workers to widen the water system in the Grand View Garden.

As soon as he thought of this, he saw dozens of villagers, holding various tools in their hands, coming to the bank of the river, shouting and starting to work on the bank of the river.

Jia Fang hurriedly asked, "What is this for?"

The old village head replied naturally: "Broaden the river bank!"

Jia Fang was stunned for a moment before asking, "Why do you want to widen the river bank all of a sudden?"

The old village head asked back: "Isn't that what you said yesterday?"

Jia Fang was even more surprised: "I said?"

"Yes! Didn't you say yesterday that since the mountain road is not suitable for communication with the outside world, why not consider the waterway?" The old village head explained to Jia Fang, "Everyone sums it up, the river in the village now has a lot of water. , but the river course is not straight, and the river beach is too shallow, and the raft will turn around when walking. We plan to take advantage of the dry season to repair this section, and then build a pier, so that we can sail with the upstream and downstream villages and towns Are you in contact?"

Jia Fangyi recalled that yesterday he seemed to have said something about considering the waterway.

Unexpectedly, the villagers really did this today?

Is this a coincidence?

Jia Fang quickly asked, "What's the name of this river?"

The old village head replied: "It's called Qingfang River."

And the water system that Jia Fang is currently breaking ground in the Grand View Garden is called "Qinfang" after Cao Gongshu's name.

Jia Fang had a vague premonition: the Grand View Garden and the Taoyuan Village in front of him seemed to be two corresponding worlds.There is Daoxiang Village in the Grand View Garden, and here is Taoyuan Village, a large grain producer; there is a Qinfang River in the Grand View Garden, and there is a Qingfang River here;

The most incredible correspondence is: he built the Qinfang River in the Grand View Garden, and the villagers of Taoyuan Village also built the Qingfang River here?

Jia Fang: These two worlds...why do they seem to be in a mirror image relationship!