Wanjia's Zhuangzi in Macheng itself occupies a large area, plus the continuous exchange of surrounding land in the past few months, and Wan Nianqing's rent and lease of land in the name of Wanjia are all counted, almost more than 8,000 acres.

It's just that he also knew that it would be self-defeating to give Huang Dalang 8,000 mu of land in one go, so he just made up 2,000 mu according to the scale of more than 1,900 mu that was added as discussed before!

These days, the left-behind people of Wanjia in Zhuangzi have not been idle, but according to Huang Dalang's explanation, they have built simple houses, that is, four pillars support the thatched roof, and three and a half sides are surrounded by mats.

Because the geographical location of Zhuangzi is on the fork of the official road, the group made a detour back and forth in order to hide their whereabouts, and arrived at Zhuangzi when it was almost dark.

Who knew that when he saw the scene, he was also taken aback, and saw that there were hundreds of wooden houses built in accordance with Huang Dalang's requirements on four or five hundred acres of fields. Even at this time, more than 100 people were busy building three wooden houses at the same time, two of which were already covered with straw and one was being erected.

Huang Dalang got out of the car and took a closer look, and first found that the mats surrounded by this wooden house were all double-layer mats, and there was a creative extra layer of thick linen soaked in fish glue in the middle, which could play a role in keeping warm from the cold. Then the pillars are at least six inches in diameter pine or cypress, and all are painted with raw lacquer, the main beams and friezes are also good wood, it is too dark to see whether it is also painted, but look at the house is all made of mortise and tenon, even if the thatched hut is afraid that it can be used for several years.

Then I looked at the layout of the house, and found that there were three kinds of regulations, namely a small room with a width of three zhang and a length of four zhang, a middle room with a width of four zhang and a length of six zhang, and a large room with a width of six zhang and a length of nine zhang.

Huang Dalang casually jumped on the roof of a thatched house to look around, and found that it was centered on the original brick and concrete structure of Wanjia's courtyard, and these wooden houses were built in a nine-palace pattern.

"Good boy! This is where it will be used to make canned meat in the future? Wouldn't it be a waste to build so many wooden houses and use them to raise pigs? Uncle Sun Qi looked at the pergola in the car, and was also taken aback by this scale, but I am afraid that many small villages and towns and settlements do not have such a large scene.

Huang Dalang turned over and came down from the roof, and then carefully checked the spacing of the wooden house, and found that the average spacing of the hut was only one zhang, the middle room was one zhang and five, and the big house was more than two zhang, but he was barely satisfied.

Just when Huang Dalang was still checking, a person who seemed to be in charge hurriedly led a few people to run over, and when he saw Huang Dalang, he said happily: "Uncle! But my uncle is here! The old servant has been looking forward to his uncle's coming! ”

Huang Dalang took a look, but he also saw that the person was Wan Lu, the new steward of the Wan family, and when he went to marry Wan Chunnu, Huang Dalang did not lack a reward, so this steward naturally recognized Huang Dalang.

Seeing Wanlu coming over, Huang Dalang also exchanged a few words with him, and then asked, "Not bad!" How many houses have been built now? ”

Wan Lu took out a portable account book, but reported directly: "Today, a total of 36 large houses, 108 middle houses, and 209 huts have been built. ”

Huang Dalang was secretly surprised in his heart, but he continued to ask quietly: "What is the cost?" ”

After Wan Lu opened the account book and counted a few items, he quickly replied: "Now that the average calculation, the cost of the cottage is only 80 yuan, the middle house is 320 yuan, and the big house is 850 yuan. ”

When everyone heard this, they all secretly calculated in their hearts, and they couldn't help but be surprised.

Huang Dalang was naturally shocked by Wan Jia's generosity, not counting the others, the money invested in building these hundreds of wooden houses alone was as much as 80,000 yuan. According to Huang Dalang's original intention, that is, let Wan Nianqing rely on the original Zhuangzi to build a dozen houses at will to house the children who moved here in the early stage to raise piglets together, and then slowly radiate outward and expand.

However, he did tell Wan Nianqing about the long-term plan of this Zhuangzi, which was to build it into a one-stop industrial city that would produce at least 1,000 pigs and 100,000 cans of pork products every month.

But he really didn't expect that Wan Nianqing would make such a big deal and make the scale so big at once.

Na Wanlu didn't know that Huang Dalang was frightened, and he was busy pointing to the east and said: "Uncle, on the fifth day of the first month of last month, the potters invited from Hangzhou also found several pieces of pottery land on the edge of the water, according to what he said, once a large kiln is built, if there are enough manpower, 100,000 clay pots can be fired every month in two years." ”

Huang Dalang, who was already taken aback, naturally wouldn't be taken aback anymore, so he patiently listened to Wanlu slowly introduce the things here.

Nowadays, there are 125 pigs (sows) in Wanjia Zhuangzi, five male pigs, 320 piglets, and about 2,100 stone of grain in stock, of which ninety percent is corn produced locally this year and last year, and a small part is wheat and rice. However, in the southeast of Huangpi and Macheng in Huangzhou, a large number of paddy fields have been reclaimed for the cultivation of southern rice.

In addition, Wanjia also let people pave four major roads and twelve small roads according to the entire pattern, which realized the future transportation concept of Huangdalang Industrial City in advance.

And Wanlu also emphasized that these dirt roads were laid by local villagers on their own initiative without spending a penny.

Just as Wan Lu was talking, he saw two middle-aged men wearing middle shirts (formal underwear) running over, one foot high and one foot low, seeing that both of them were forty or fifty years old, but the sleeves and trouser legs were pulled high, the hair bun on his head was also indiscriminately hairpinned with branches, his face was short and messy, and his hands were full of mud and oil.

Wan Lu saw it and hurriedly introduced: "Uncle, come and visit, these three masters, the fourth master, and the bamboo." ”

Huang Dalang, who had already made up his mind not to be surprised, couldn't help but be taken aback again, but he didn't expect that these two people were actually Wan Niansong and Wan Nianzhu, the brothers of his father-in-law Wan Nianqing, and immediately hurriedly bowed to the juniors to meet the elders.

Wan Niansong greeted him with a smile, helped Huang Dalang up and said with a smile: "Let the old man take a look, how is the new aunt of our family?" ”

As he spoke, he slapped his hand a few times, but he didn't see any flaws, so he laughed: "Okay! The body is not weak, and I heard the eighth child say that he is still a reading seed, so good! ”

Wan Nianzhu also came up to look at Huang Dalang a few times, and said pertinently: "Hmm! Look at the face, he is a sincere person! ”

Huang Dalang was a little embarrassed when he said this, he was indeed honest, and it was not enough to be honest with outsiders.

After a few words of greeting, Huang Dalang did not forget to introduce Sun Li and the four elders of the Sun family to the second elder of the Wan family, and then Wan Niansong took Huang Dalang's hand and led the way to Zhuangzi.

Listening to his introduction along the way, it turned out that these wooden houses in front of him were personally supervised by his brother, counting more than 500 craftsmen, several groups of people have been sent home for the New Year in the past few days, and the remaining more than 100 people are servants of the Wanjia family, and the wooden houses will be built before Chinese New Year's Eve.