Chapter 326 Treat Them as Your Own People

Bai Dayong glanced at the notebook and looked up and said, "I remember your house is 500 square meters, right? Adding another floor would cost a lot of money."

Zhou Yang nodded and smiled embarrassedly: "There are many people in my family, so I have to give as much as I should."

He has witnessed the decisions made by Taohua Village step by step since the time of Qingzhou Crayfish.

It can be said that many things and events indicate that the decision made by Taohua Village was very correct.

There is a snack in the Baijiabao shop, which is dried crayfish. Two taels cost one tael of silver.

A small piece of dried meat is actually more expensive than beef and mutton.

But when he learned the source of the crayfish jerky, Zhou Yang was even more shocked.

It turned out to be the nasty insects that were rampant in Qingzhou.

Even bugs can make Baijiabao money, so what else is there to question?

This is also the reason why Zhou Yang always tries his best to cooperate with Taohua Village's instructions, because it will definitely be an advantage.

Bai Dayong: "It's an additional layer, right?"

Zhou Yang: "Yes, the second floor becomes the third floor. I will go home and pay the money in a moment."

He is the chief of Shangcun. He added another layer so that the villagers could see the effect and it would also be convenient for everyone to make a choice later.

"Row."

In addition to Zhou Yang, there are seven families in Shangcun who have added new buildings. All of them have elderly husbands and mothers who are still alive and have not separated, and they also have many brothers and sisters.

Yang Xianglian originally wanted to add to the roof, but then she counted the money she had. Her sister-in-law and brother-in-law were going to school, and they might need money for other things later, so she planned to save some money next year before adding to the roof.

The population in the lower village is larger than that in the upper village. When cleaning up the battlefield, the people from the lower village were the fastest and most aggressive, and naturally they had more money.

Therefore, there are more than a dozen households in Xiacun who have built three-story buildings.

"I have a big family."

"They say the higher you stand, the farther you can see. Give it a try and see what it feels like."

"When the time comes to add a new roof, we'll have to clean it up, so it's better to build it all at once now."

"Before I came out, my family lived halfway up the mountain. I'm used to living higher up."

"I've heard that some families let their daughters live in high-rise buildings. My family is lucky. With Taohua Village, we moved here to live, so we can also live in a high-rise building to experience it."

Although they talked about some reasons at once, they couldn't maintain the proud expressions on their faces.

How can I not be proud? This house cost several hundred taels to build, which is considered an honor to the family. Besides, with such a house, how can the children in the family not be able to find a good family to marry? !

Some people also said directly: "I believe in the young master. Since the young master has come up with such a design, I will definitely make it."

"Yes, only when you know how to spend can you earn!"

This news came from Taohua Village.

However, this is actually a pretext used by capital to harvest leeks.

The prerequisite for knowing how to spend is to know how to earn, especially to be able to earn a lot. Otherwise, if you know how to spend but cannot earn, the good days will only be short-lived.

However, Bai Tao only broke these words into pieces and spoke them to the people in Taohua Village; outsiders naturally had no way of knowing them.

Since they were building their houses, people from the upper and lower villages naturally participated actively.

Even if they don't have any skills and know nothing about this, it would be good for them to work as laborers, move bricks, carry cement, etc.

Then, they were surprised to find that the mortar used for building walls did not contain glutinous rice paste. It can even be said that many of the materials and construction methods used in the houses built in Taohua Village were unheard of and unseen by them.

Everyone was even more shocked to see steel bars as thick as fingers laid on their roof.

You have to know that in ancient times, iron ore was an important strategic material, and most of it was in the hands of the imperial court. Even if some of it fell into the hands of powerful people, not many pieces of iron would flow into the hands of the people.

Most blacksmiths have a family business and ancestral craft that has been passed down from generation to generation. This profession mainly uses iron as raw material to make and process various agricultural production tools and daily necessities.

The number of iron blocks that can be applied for for folk tools each month is very limited, and ordinary people have to wait three to five months if they want to order a tool.

In this situation, I saw that my family actually used steel bars to cover a large roof.

This is just the first layer of roofing. The same method is used for the second layer. Those who add on to the third floor will naturally also need to use three layers of steel bars.

That’s not all. Places like balconies and load-bearing walls are all reinforced with steel bars, and they are No. 2 thick steel bars.

Everyone was dumbfounded. If they had thought that building a house with several hundred taels of silver was too expensive before, now they immediately felt that they had gotten a great deal, and a big deal at that.

How much iron ore is needed to produce so much steel?

They are just ordinary country farmers, how could they have such merits?

Taohua Village was able to provide them with so many steel bars to build houses, they really treated them as their own people.

The people in the upper and lower villages were excited and happy, and were glad that Taohua Village had the Baiyu Army on its side, otherwise, how could they use steel bars on their houses so blatantly?

So much so that later, when it comes to material costs, people often agree without hesitation.

Does wood cost money?
Then spend it. How much is the wood worth? We only use a few cubic meters. Can it be more valuable than the steel bars used by Taohua Village?
Do sinks and bathtubs cost money?

Yes, I'm not sure what the bathtub looks like, but it won't be bad.

Does laying pipes cost money?
Oh, then lay it out. Since it is going to be used, there must be a reason for it.

Do you want to lay flooring on the ground?

People were a little confused about this.

They are wearing shoes, why do they need to lay the floor?

"As for the floor, I suggest you lay it. Think about it, you spent hundreds of taels to build a house, but if the floor is left bare, the house will be covered with dust when you walk in and out. How can you live there?"

"There are many benefits to laying flooring, but it depends on your personal wishes. If you really don't want to, we won't force you."

After hearing what Bai Dayong said, someone asked, "Do the newly built houses in your village also have floors?"

"Of course we did. We not only paved the floor at home, but also in the yard. It looks so beautiful after paving. Our aunt likes cleanliness..."

"Let me tell you, the floors have different colors and patterns, different sizes, and different prices..."

After Bai Dayong's brief explanation and looking at the flooring catalog, and hearing that floor tiles were paved in front of every household and on the village roads in Taohua Village, both the upper and lower villages agreed.

Pave where it needs to be paved.

However, some people choose cheaper packages, while others choose their favorite patterns, so the prices are naturally different.

So, by the time the house was built, each family had spent more than one or two hundred taels of silver on materials.

But no one has any objection. As long as you see the tall house, you can think of the layers of steel bars.

Everyone felt indescribable satisfaction and happiness in their hearts.

　I used to be a picky eater, but I've gotten much better in the past two years. However, being a picky eater for so many years has its effects, so I'm trying to correct it now.

　　(End of this chapter)