Infrastructure masters in the red building

Jia Fang thought about it for a long time, but he still couldn't figure out why—Hengwu Garden had already been built, but the scroll refused to admit it.

But Jia Fang is not a person who likes to dig into the horns of the dead. When he encounters a dead end, the way he often adopts is to withdraw, combine the surrounding situation, and think carefully about the way out.

The same is true now.

Jia Fang recalled how he completed the two projects of Daoxiang Village and Xiaoxiang Pavilion.In Daoxiang Village, he discovered the "shrinking ground whip", and then discovered Taoyuan Village, which is rich in rice; in Xiaoxiang Pavilion, he discovered the universal bookshelf, and got the books he needed urgently from the bookshelf.

This proves that the degree of completion of the project is closely related to the actual functions of these "golden finger" buildings.

But the question is: in Hengwu Garden, he also found the plant species he needed, and used flower beds that can speed up cultivation, so that these functional buildings can work?

The idea is right, but the details may not be complete.

Jia Fang thought again: The function of Hengwu Garden is a large botanical garden.The function of the botanical garden is to study, introduce, domesticate and preserve various plant species.

At present, Hengwu Garden does preserve many rare plant species, but he has never thought about introducing any plants to Hengwu Garden, even the most common ones.

As soon as Jia Fang thought of this, he immediately got up and looked for Shuangwen: "Where did you keep the booklet last time?"

He was looking for the "List of Key Research Plants in Hengwuyuan", hoping to verify one of his conjectures.

Shuangwen let out an "ah", went into the main room of Hengwuyuan, rummaged through the shelf, found it and handed it to Jia Fang.

Jia Fang didn't care about thanking Shuangwen, quickly flipped through it from beginning to end, and said, "Shuangwen, I'm going to Daoxiang Village, you help me cover!"

He confirmed his conjecture, and hurried to Daoxiang Village immediately.

Shuangwen knew that Jia Fang had a secret in Daoxiang Village, but she didn't know what "covering" meant, so she could only guess roughly, and she got used to Jia Fang's strange words.

Fortunately, Jia Fang didn't go there for a long time. When he came back, he held a few plants with small yellow flowers in his hands, and carefully came to Hengwu Garden. He found a small open space under the exquisite rock, and put the A few small flowers were planted in this clearing.

Shuangwen asked curiously: "In such a cold day, where did the third master find the flowers?"

Jia Fang replied casually: "The weather in Taoyuan Village is warmer."

Shuangwen: ...?Taoyuan Village?It turns out that there is really a hidden cave in Daoxiang Village?

She had promised Jia Fang that she would keep everything in the Grand View Garden secret, and now she just kept it in her heart.

Jia Fang was completely unaware of what he said, and carefully sprinkled the soil on the roots of the plants, compacted it lightly, and then exhaled, "I don't know if this will work."

At this time, his hands were covered with dirt, so he hurried to Hengwuyuan, took some water from the water storage tank, cleaned his hands, dried them carefully, and then came back to get the "Catalogue", and at the same time secretly prayed in his heart: this yellow flower Artemisia can be regarded as a species that has been studied a lot, and it is very, very important to the health of the people in the south. Is it qualified to be included in the catalog of the Hengwuyuan Botanical Garden?

Jia Fang flipped through the list slowly. The species in the list were sorted alphabetically by Latin botanical names, so he was very depressed: he didn't know what the scientific name of Artemisia annua was, so he didn't know where this species would appear. Location.In case the scientific name of this plant starts with "Z", shouldn't he have turned to the last page earlier?

Unexpectedly, he was very lucky. Just after turning two pages, he came across a brand new plant species, a green wormwood with small yellow flowers. The botanical name was clearly marked next to the picture - "Artemisia annua, A... ..." It turned out to be "A" at the beginning.

So far, Jia Fang has fully confirmed that this page is definitely new, and he had never seen it when he flipped through the book earlier.

The "Catalogue" in his hand is probably the same as the "Bibliography" that Shui Xian took away from the Xiaoxiang Pavilion, and it can be updated automatically.As long as he adds new important plant species to the Hengwu Garden, this "Catalogue" will also add them.

Jia Fang read down slowly, and saw that Artemisia annua clearly stated on the page: Contains volatile oil, can extract artemisinin, can be used as antimalarial drug, and can be used as antiblood drug.He couldn't help but be delighted—this is the meaning of compiling the "Plant List".If people in the world have the opportunity to look it up in the future, they will be able to find that this ordinary and unobtrusive grass has such huge medicinal value.

Maintain this botanical garden well, update this booklet well, maybe we can compile a "Compendium of Materia Medica" in the future?

Jia Fang put away the booklet, and went back to check his scroll.

"Wow--"

Jia Fang was very happy, and Shuangwen couldn't help but look at it together: "Sure enough..."

I saw that on the scroll, the Linglong mountain rock in front of Hengwu Garden has now been dyed a light blue color. This color is quite subtle, and it vividly depicts the blue-gray surface of the lake stone, which is very vivid.And the rocks are covered with lush green leaves, with dots of bright red dotted in the middle, which should be the fruits of the color of coral beans.

Behind the rocks, a corner of the main building of Hengwu Garden is exposed.

Jia Fang breathed a sigh of relief and thought: It is finally finished.

But wait... Jia Fang suddenly thought: what about the new hint?

In the previous two times, after the construction was completed, it turned into color on the scroll, and at the same time, a new building appeared in ink color, which was his next goal.

But this time there was another moth. He completed the main building of Hengwu Garden, but the next project that needed to be built/restored did not appear.

Jia Fang really wanted to wave the scroll: Is there something wrong?

Shuangwen was more careful than him, and he was much more familiar with the graphics of Hengwuyuan on the scroll.She immediately noticed the difference, pointed to the picture, and said, "Look, Third Master, there is an extra bridge here."

Jia Fang took a closer look, only to find that there was really an extra bridge on the scroll, and it was painted in black, but because of the layout of the picture, this bridge was only a shallow one exposed on the side of the Linglong rock in Hengwu Garden, so it was not easy be noticed.If Shuangwen hadn't been careful, he would have missed it.

"Zhudai Zhulan Banqiao!" Jia Fang suddenly remembered that such a bridge was indeed mentioned in the original book, and the location of the bridge was indeed near Hengwuyuan.

This folded slab bridge is a flat bridge with no curvature on the bridge deck. "Folding belt" refers to the twists and turns of the bridge deck, with three folds, five folds, seven folds and nine folds, but they are generally collectively referred to as "nine bend bridges", which is an important part of ancient Chinese gardening.The left and right zigzag bridges can extend the moving line of the garden landscape, expand the vision of the people in the garden, and add a sense of rhythm to the landscape in the garden.

Both Jia Fang and Shuangwen are familiar with this folding bridge, but because Jia Fang has read the original work, he knows that the railings on this bridge are vermilion.

And Shuangwen had to react to understand: "It is true, green willows and red bridges, this combination is good-looking."

Therefore, the next step to build this "Zhedai Zhulan Banqiao" plan has been finalized.

Jia Fang said: "It just so happens that the project is not too big, and it doesn't take much time. It just so happens that these craftsmen and small workers will finish the work before the year, and each will receive a big red envelope to go home for the New Year."

Shuangwen laughed immediately: "Third Master has thought carefully."

Jia Fang said again: "This bridge is simple and simple, but it is not simple or simple. Can you do it?"

Shuangwen was much more confident than when she first came, and she immediately covered her mouth with a light smile and said, "I've drawn a picture, so why don't the third master not read it?"

Jia Fang is delicate and cautious by nature. He has seen every picture of Hengwu Garden in Shuangwen's paintings, and circled the ones that need to be changed for her to change.Shuangwen also benefited a lot from this.So when she said this, Jia Fang also laughed—since he has won the title of chief designer of the Grand View Garden, he naturally has to check his works one by one.

For a while, the work arrangement of the Grand View Garden was decided in this way.Shuangwen went to draw sketches by himself, and assigned tasks with the craftsmen the next day, and everyone started to prepare first.

Jia Fang has his own concerns——

The newly added folded belt Zhulan Banqiao in the Grand View Garden has a relatively simple style and is easy to construct.But this reminded him: Perhaps it is time to consider building a bridge at the other end of the "Shrinking Ground Whip", in Taoyuan Village.

His entire fief in Taoyuanzhai was actually divided into two parts by the Qingfang River.Among them, Taoyuan Village, where the original aborigines lived, and most of the rice fields are on the left bank of Qingfang River.Therefore, the left bank has become the main production and living area of ​​Taoyuan Village.

But after the arrival of the new immigrants from Yujiang, those who were not allocated land began to cultivate new land.They got the reclamation permit from Jia Fang, and part of the wasteland to be opened is located on the right bank of Qingfang River.

When the Qingfang River is big, people try to swim across the river, and when the water is small, they just wade across.But because they are afraid that there will be snails in the water that have not been completely eradicated, people cross the river with trepidation.

Later, people thought of a local method.They found a big tree on both sides of the river, tied a thick rope to the tree, and tied a small boat to the rope.

When they need to cross the river, they sit in this small boat and pull hard on the cable to "pull" themselves to the opposite side.

But this is also a little troublesome: first, there is only this small boat, which can only carry two or three people at a time. If many people need to cross the river at the same time, it will take a long time; Excitedly preparing to cross the river, I saw that the boat was on the other side of the river, so I had to quickly pull the boat over. Just halfway through, someone came from the other side, and when I saw it, I slapped my legs and felt sorry: "I knew you would have been waiting for this moment." Kung fu, pull me over!"

Therefore, Jia Fang thought: Since the development on the other side of the Qingfang River is inevitable in the future, let's build bridge facilities early.

And building a bridge in winter also has the same advantage: Qingfang River has less water at this time, so it is easy to cut a dam upstream and let everyone build downstream.If it is delayed until the turn of spring and summer tomorrow, it will be more troublesome to do it when the water is high.

Therefore, this "construction drawing" scroll reminded him that it was very timely.

The next day, Jia Fang came to Taoyuan Village. He called the chiefs of the five administrative villages for a meeting, and announced his decision at the meeting—to build a bridge over the Qingfang River during the dry season.

As soon as the decision was announced, the five village chiefs all cheered, and the village chiefs of Xinyu, Village [-], Village [-] and Village [-] were especially excited.Some of their villagers reclaim the wasteland on the right bank, and they have already mentioned the inconvenience of crossing the river.But they felt that they were outsiders, and they were too embarrassed to make suggestions to Jia Fang.

Now Jia Fang raised it himself.The village chiefs enthusiastically pledged to donate: "I will give you two taels of silver!"

"I'll offer three thousand circulation coupons!"

"Old Qin is not talented, so he can't provide any money or goods, but he must mobilize the young and strong in the village to obey the dispatch and command of Master Jia. Everyone contributes, and he will never be stingy."

"Then... there are quite a lot of wealthy households in my village, and they are definitely willing to pay, but... Mr. Jia, according to the rules here, can the name of the person who contributes money to build the bridge be listed on the monument of merit?"

Jia Fang was dumbfounded: ...the stele of meritorious deeds?

Feeling for the village chiefs in front of him—in this Taoyuan Village, they are all politicians after all, and the concept of public construction is still: everyone actively subscribes and pledges, has money to contribute money, and has the ability to contribute, and then everyone works together, meritorious monument?

Bridge repairs are public works!It should be spent by the ruling group from public financial funds from sources such as taxes, and then completed by a professional construction team.

"Let me take it easy!" Jia let go of his hand, and asked the five village chiefs to take a moment to think about it.And he himself put his elbows on the back of the chair beside him and began to think.

He kind of understood the saying in history that "since Qin Dynasty, the imperial power does not come down to the county".

"Imperial power does not go down to the county" means that the imperial government orders are only conveyed to the grassroots at the county level, and there are no formal officials below the county level.Therefore, there is a view that the governance structure in ancient China was that “the power of the state does not come down to the county, but the clan under the county, all clans are self-governing, autonomy depends on ethics, and ethics creates squires”①.The grassroots of this time and space are the same as the grassroots of ancient China, relying on clan and ethics to achieve self-government.

"I don't know how to talk about the Wei and Jin Dynasties in the Han Dynasty." Under the premise of no imperial power interference, self-government was completely achieved through clan ethics, and it became the governance model "Peach Blossom Spring" in the minds of ancient scholar-bureaucrats.

Jia Fang does not want to deny the effectiveness of this kind of governance, but in his view, this traditional concept of clan autonomy has directly led to the fact that the villagers in his Taoyuan village have no concept of the relationship between private property and public expenditure.

In Jia Fang’s view, a society needs to operate well and efficiently, and it needs a powerful governing group, which operates openly and transparently from the public expenditures contributed by all members of society, allowing professionals to operate in a commercialized manner. Complete every necessary link in social life, and use necessary rules to ensure the normal operation of these links.

Only in this way can we avoid the uncertainty caused by running the society completely according to moral requirements, and avoid those who have the right to speak "moral" to use their power to seek rent.

As an engineering student, Jia Fang feels that he has no advantage in the right to speak "morally".

So he is more inclined to establish a set of order that he is more familiar with.

For example, public spending comes from taxes.

He, Jia Fang, will collect taxes sooner or later, although the immigrants in Yujiang have just settled down and are still in the stage of receiving relief from Jia Fang.It is definitely not appropriate to collect taxes now, and it is necessary to collect various taxes and fees in a reasonable form in the future, so that the villagers must know that the taxes they pay are another way to provide services and services for them. convenient.

The design and construction of this bridge may be a breakthrough, allowing the villagers in Taoyuan Village to change their old ideas and gradually become familiar with the operation of the new system.

So how can this be achieved?

He didn't expect that the simple folding bridge on the scroll would bring him so many deep thoughts.Being the lord of a large piece of land is much more difficult than building a large piece of land full of houses.

Jia Fang was frowning in thought, and when he suddenly raised his eyes, he found that the five village chiefs were looking at him in astonishment, and none of them dared to speak out.

"Today's meeting will be held here first. Don't tell the village about donations and labor. In short, I appreciate everyone's kindness, but I will think of another way to organize this matter."

The five village chiefs nodded in unison and praised Jia Fang in unison. He loved the people like a son and did everything by himself. He was like the reborn parents of the villagers.

Jia Fang: Don't... 16-year-old reborn parents, you dare to call me but you dare not recognize me!

But the attitude of the village chiefs made him realize that there is one thing that makes him very comfortable-Jia Fang has no land conflicts that have occurred in the past dynasties of China, and there is no continuous annexation of land here, and all the land is nominally his. .

The only thing he has to do now is actually to lead all the villagers to increase productivity and create wealth continuously, and realize the operation of this small society according to his vision, and Taoyuan Village will become a real "Peach Blossom Spring".

Thinking of this, Jia Fang got up and prepared to leave.The "office" where they had a meeting was relatively close to the Sancun cafeteria, and suddenly there was a commotion in the distance, all of which were women's voices.

"What's going on here?" Jia Fang asked gossipingly.

"It's like this, third master." The village head of the third village explained to Jia Fang with great embarrassment.It turned out that the women of their three villages worked together to open a three-village canteen.The food in the cafeteria is good and the prices are fair, so the business has always been good.

But the better the business, the more money they received, and the women began to mistrust each other.Those who buy don’t trust those who cook, those who cook don’t trust those who collect money, and those who collect money don’t trust those who buy, so they start to quarrel all day long.Now they are clamoring for separate operations, and they are on their own.

Jia Fang couldn't help laughing after hearing what the head of the third village had said, and said, "This is what people often say that we can share adversity but not wealth?"

The village head of the third village immediately blushed, probably because he was ashamed of those women.

"However, the accounts of the canteens in these three villages are not clear, so disputes are easy to arise. This is human nature." Jia Fang felt that the other party had nothing to blush.

"Let me think about this carefully, village chief, you call these women into the office tomorrow, I have something to ask them."

Jia felt relieved: the separation of the canteens in the three villages was a perfect opportunity for him, and it just gave him something to do his best.