Husband and Father Youwei

Chapter 52 Buying Land

On the day before getting married, when Tu Lin delivered charcoal to the Zhou family for the last time, he told Steward Wang that he was going to marry Ruan Tang. After a few days of marriage, the charcoal will not be delivered again until six days later.

Marriage is a major event in life, and it is only natural that Tu Lin asked for it. Steward Wang understands this very well, and has no objections. Although there is not much silver carbon accumulated in Zuo Zhou's family, it is no problem to support it for ten days and a half months. Yes, so Tu Lin readily agreed.

It's just that although the marriage lasted for several days, on the first day after the marriage, the two of them didn't do anything, and spent a day together in a very leisurely way. Went to the county seat.

They took a stroll around the county town, visited the silver houses, jewelry shops and pawnshops in the county town one by one, and finally sold five gold necklaces, three pairs of gold bracelets and eight gold rings, and got nearly 100 taels of silver. .

Compared with the whole box of jewelry, the gold and silver jewelry sold was really nothing, not even one percent, but Fengyang County is not too big a county, and Tu Lin has always been cautious, If he takes out too many jewelry and sells them off at once, he will definitely attract the attention of others and cause trouble for himself. The 100 taels of silver are enough for them to use, and the remaining jewelry can be put aside temporarily, don’t worry sold off.

When they returned to the village from the county seat, the two returned home, but soon came out of the house again, carrying a jug of wine, a piece of meat and a bag of pastries in their hands, and then went to the house of the village chief Sun Jinlai .

Although there is now a box of jewelry and more than ten tons of rice and noodles, it can be said that there will be no worries about food and drink for the rest of their lives, but Tu Lin and Ruan Tang are not the kind of lazy people who will sit and eat. There is also a one-winter charcoal transaction contract signed with the Zhou family, which cannot be terminated without reason, so the charcoal must continue to be burned.

Although charcoal is highly seasonal, the demand is greatest and the sales are best in winter, but it does not mean that there is no business at other times.

In this world where there is no natural gas and coal has not yet been popularized, besides being used for heating and cooking, charcoal is also a very important smelting material because of its advantages of being flammable, resistant to burning, and easy to store and transport. Therefore, Tu Lin not only wants to continue burning charcoal, but also plans to expand the scale of charcoal burning, turning charcoal into a long-term livelihood that can be done all year round.

In addition to the existing silver charcoal, he also needs to add ordinary black charcoal, pine charcoal, bamboo charcoal and other types of charcoal, but this requires more charcoal kilns, and the backyard at home is obviously not enough, so Tu Lin So he planned to buy the wasteland near his home and use it to build a new and larger charcoal workshop.

As for the fields, wasteland, mountains, and hilltops in Zhuxi Village and its vicinity, if you want to buy or sell, you need the permission and assistance of the village chief Sun Jinlai, so he and Ruan Tang came to the village chief's house.

Sun Jinlai also knew about Tu Lin and the others burning charcoal. Now he heard that Tu Lin planned to buy land and build a charcoal workshop, and he couldn't help being very happy.This is not because he can actually get any benefits, but because after talking about buying the land, Tu Lin also said that whether it is to build a charcoal workshop or start burning charcoal after the charcoal workshop is completed, it is not just him and Ruan Tang and the others could do it, so they planned to ask someone to help in the village, of course, it was the paid one.

As the head of a village, Sun Jinlai very much hopes that the people in the village can earn more money and live a better life, so he naturally approves of Tu Lin's plan with 1 and [-] votes. Build it and bring benefits to the villagers.That's why Tu Lin finished speaking. He didn't delay for a moment, and immediately took Tu Lin and Ruan Tang out of the house, and went to the land that Tu Lin and the others were optimistic about.

The land chosen by Tu Lin and Ruan Tang to build the charcoal workshop is no longer near their home, but in a piece of land half a mile away from home to the east. It is a wasteland of gravel and weeds, and it covers as much as three acres.The size of the area surprised Sun Jinlai who knew that Tu Lin was going to build a big workshop, even though he had already made some preparations.

Tu Lin also saw Sun Jinlai's surprise, not to mention that Sun Jinlai was here, even when Ruan Tang was brought here by him for the first time, he was quite surprised when he heard that he planned to buy three acres of land to build a workshop. But after hearing Tu Lin's explanation, he quickly accepted it.

Compared with the current small charcoal kiln in the Tu family that can burn a kiln in a day and night, but can only burn more than a hundred catties of silver charcoal at a time, what Tu Lin will build this time can burn hundreds of catties or even silver charcoal at one time. It is a large charcoal kiln with thousands of catties of charcoal, and there is more than one, which requires a huge space, plus the area for secondary processing of silver charcoal, the area for making firewood, and the warehouse for storing semi-finished firewood and finished charcoal, etc. All counted, three acres of land would be enough.

He told Sun Jin what he had explained to Ruan Tang at the beginning, but Sun Jin couldn't help but be speechless when he heard it. He just felt that Tu Lin was really amazing, and that he would make such a big scene without making a sound, which made him look down upon it. , but I couldn't help but feel worried about Tu Lin. After all, there was a lot of investment in the early stage to build this charcoal workshop.

Sun Jinlai was worried that Tu Lin hadn't thought about it, but if he was afraid of doing anything, he might as well not do it, and besides, there was a box of jewelry in the space on the left and right, even if he lost money, he would not be afraid What.

Seeing that Tu Lin persisted, and Ruan Tang didn't say anything, as if he had made up his mind with Tu Lin's united front, Sun Jinlai didn't say anything more.

He stepped forward and measured the wasteland that Tu Lin had chosen by the number of steps. Tu Lin and Ruan Tang followed behind him, placing stones on his footsteps at intervals.After Sun Jin came to measure the three acres of land, Tu Lin and Ruan Tang also circled the land with stones, so that people could tell at a glance that this was the land that had been selected.

After the land was fenced off, the three of them went to the county government office in Tu Lin's mule cart.This wasteland is not privately owned, but belongs to the imperial court, and if Tu Lin wants to obtain it in a legitimate way, he has to go to the county government to apply for a land deed, and of course he has to give money.

It was not the first time for Tu Lin and the others to come to the county government office. The government servants led them directly to the householder in charge of managing the county's money, grain and land inventory. The village chief Sun Jin came as a guarantee, and paid one or two or five dollars per mu. The three acres of wasteland included a total of four taels of silver for the purchase of the land, and five taels of silver for the benefits. After a total of five taels of silver, the household officials happily wrote the land deed for Tu Lin.

After the seal of the county government was affixed, Tu Lin took the land deed into his hands, and the three acres of wasteland officially belonged to him, and the next step was to start building a charcoal workshop.

The weather is getting colder now. Although it is close to the county seat, odd jobs are hard to find, so there are many young and strong men in the village who are idle.

When the news that Tu Lin and Ruan Tang were going to build a charcoal workshop came from Sun Jinlai, the village head, and that Tu Lin and the others would collect firewood from the village in the future, they all wished that the charcoal workshop would be built immediately so that they could sell firewood to make money .

So, before Tu Lin and the others officially started recruiting workers in the village, many came to the village to offer help, but they didn't want wages.It's just that Tu Lin and Ruan Tang couldn't afford not to pay wages, so they set a daily price of [-] cents according to the market in the county, and besides that, a lunch was included.

The people who came to help the workers at the beginning of this lunch didn't pay much attention to it, but a meal can fill their stomachs. I didn't think how good it would be, but I didn't want to surprise them on the first day of work, because lunch What was brought to them was a big bucket of white rice and a big pot of roasted pork with taro, and there was more pork and less taro, which made them really full.

And not only that, in the days that followed, there was a lot of meat every day, but sometimes it was chicken, sometimes fish, and sometimes rabbit meat, so that other people in the village could not arrive because they got the news late or for other reasons. The helpers of the Tu family were envious and annoyed at the same time, but they were astonished at the Tu Lin family, thinking that the Tu Lin family really had some kind of wealth, and they were so generous.

In fact, Tu Lin and Ruan Tang didn't mean to do this, but now his own home is full of white rice every day, and the meals are meaty. They are all from the same village, and they can't eat well by themselves, so they cook them for others.In addition, people eat well, so they will work harder, and there are only a few meals of meat left and right, so it is not unaffordable.

The charcoal workshop can be completed in a day or two, and the silver charcoal at Zhou's side can't be broken, so two days later, when the wedding leave is over, Tu Lin stays at home and continues to use the charcoal kiln in his backyard to burn charcoal, while the workshop Everything over there was handed over to Ruan Tang.

Although there is no help from Ruan Tang, the space is now open, and the chopped firewood can be directly loaded into the space and brought down the mountain, which is much more convenient than using mules to carry it, and there is no delay compared to the past.

Three days later, Ruan Tang and his staff were working in full swing at the workshop, while Tu Lin came to Zhou's house again as scheduled with a cart of hundreds of catties of charcoal. At the same time, he also expanded the scale of his charcoal burning, Steward Wang was also told about the establishment of a charcoal workshop.

Steward Wang couldn't help being very happy when he heard about this, but it wasn't just for Tu Lin.Although there is Tu Lin's supply at the moment, the silver charcoal in the mansion is enough, but in more than a month it will be the New Year's Eve, when most of the children of Zhou's family who are left outside will return to their hometowns to worship their ancestors, and the silver charcoal I'm afraid it will have to be doubled several times to use it, but Tu Linna's silver charcoal is obviously not enough.

So he continued to keep in touch with shopkeeper Song of the charcoal shop, but he didn't want to be taken advantage of by shopkeeper Song, so he circled around and looked for other ways, not wanting that Tu Lin would come back after his wedding and bring him with him. The news came, to Wang Steward, it was no less than sending him a pillow when he was dozing off, and Dang even wanted to sign a new contract with Tu Lin to fix the charcoal for the new kiln.

Tu Lin didn't want silver charcoal to be in short supply in Steward Wang's place, but he and Steward Wang have always cooperated happily. If Steward Wang needs it, needless to say, he must be close to Steward Wang first, so Immediately responded.

It’s just that the charcoal workshop will take a few days to complete. In addition, although the new charcoal kiln is large and burns a lot of charcoal in one kiln, it will take a longer time, no more than the small charcoal kiln in the backyard of Tu Lin’s house. A kiln of charcoal can be produced in less than a day and night.So when the first kiln charcoal of the new kiln was fired, it was more than half a month later.

When the charcoal comes out of the kiln, it is just ordinary black charcoal. To make silver charcoal requires another process, which will take some time.When the silver charcoal was finished and loaded on a mule cart to deliver to Zhou's house, another two days passed.There were more than a thousand catties of silver charcoal, and the mule cart couldn't fit it in one trip. In the end, it took two rounds to send it to Zhou's house.After the weighing, Steward Wang put together the whole thing and paid 18 taels of silver to Tu Lin on the spot.