章 34: Rebuilding Wen Wu City (2)
"Good morning! Boss Zhang!"
"Good morning! Brother Wu Ji!"
"Good morning! Big brother Zhang!"
"Marry me! Master Senior Ninth!"
It's been two days after the bandit's attack. After the announcement was made public by the people from the City Lord's Management, the whole Wen Wu City is ongoing major changes in their mind and also slowly in their profession. With the participation of the Apprentice Hall in the rebuilding works, the majority of the residents from the North Gate volunteered to help in their works.
And for a person like Zhang Wu Ji, being stingy towards people that volunteered to help wasn't even exist in his dictionary, where he provides not only meal and accommodation to the people, he even paid them based on how many days of work they complete.
It was a fair and Square deal, where for cultivators, they will receive one Qi Sensing Pills for every day of their works, similar to the members of the Apprentice Hall. As for the normal residents without cultivation, they were paid with 1,000 Gold Coins each, but due to the safety issue at this moment, their payment will directly enter the Wen Wu City Resident's Bank.
With a slip of payment with their name for every day of work, the possibility of missing a payment is gone from the way he conducts his business. As the time pass for two days, his name becomes even more well known, with almost 90% of the residents and officials in the city recognized this young and talented individual.
Meanwhile, Zhang Wu Ji is still busy with his research to find a new and cost-effective source to be used as the material to construct buildings. He considered the use of Coal Silica, or also known as black mica in his world as the main source to construct a stone building, but after considering the option, a part of him feel like choosing for the Clay Brick as the main construction material instead.
Left with both side winning his heart, Zhang Wu Ji were left with two options, and between the two options, it was clear that the Coal Silica win the majority for now, because skillful clay worker and transportation to process the clay into bricks is not that much compared to miners.
At this moment, the Manpower in the mines is three times more than the overall workers in the Apprentice Hall.
But after a while of considerations, Zhang Wu Ji's opinion finalized. Coal Mica is a product that was great if it was used as an insulator, but their durability in facing the passage of time is still questionable. As for clay, their texture is firmer because the bond within the material is stronger than the Coal Mica.
Since he wasn't prepared to be making glasses like the microwave doors, oven screen, and boiler glass, then why should he aim to process such a high-quality Coal Mica for? And for the Clay products, he will face a shortage of materials, which might delay his rebuilding works. Which is why, he considered the option to produce a more durable material, with good insulation quality.
It wasn't a surprise to the public, but still, to be bringing a whole new product once more, Zhang Wu Ji is proud of himself. The feeling of able to use all his knowledge he got from reading the books in his previous life finally can be used efficiently in this world.
In his previous world, the mica was used a the main ingredient in cosmetics such as foundation powder. But the public did neglect its potential in constructions, whereby adding the ground mica into the compound will increase their resistance to cracking. With such a new formula to produce the Clay Bricks, Zhang Wu Ji ordered the people to start producing the Raw Clay-Silicate Bricks.
Their procedure is simple. By assigning a group of mixed to evenly mix the clay and Ground Coal Silica together, their adjust the clay-mix into the desired consistency before they were pressed by the residents that possess the strength of at least a 1st Stage of Inner Qi Fighter. With a sufficient arm strength, they can press the clay-mix properly into the desired shape, before they were placed on a piece of wood to be sun-dried.
For Zhang Wu Ji's brick, they'll have to make them into a dried before fired processed bricks. Through this double method, he can assure the quality of the product will be at the top grade of them. Although learning and physically handling the creation of the product is difficult, he can easily score the top results because he got the assistance from the Upgrade System.
Soon, the first batch of his Clay-Silicate Bricks was created.
Masonry Brick
-Usage: easily arrange and durable. The Masonry Brick comes with amazing airflow and insulation during hot summer and cold winter. Building built or layered with the Masonry Bricks are resistant to cracks and rain, making it the best material to be used for proper construction buildings.
-Durability: 5/5
-Special: When the Masonry Brick is layered in a perfect bond, increase their total bricks durability by tenfold.
"Seriously? That's your effect?" Zhang Wu Ji eyelid is unable to close because of the shocking Special ability granted to the Masonry Bricks. What's more, each one of the bricks carried the same usage, durability, and special, which means if he built a house using 1,000 of the bricks, their defending is equal to 5,000 Durability multiply by tenfold. That's an equivalent of 50,000 durabilities.
"With a house of 50,000 Durability, how easily can they be destroyed? I created a treasure, a treasure!" Zhang Wu Ji raises from where he was, while still being impressed by his amazing blueprint to create this random but unexpectedly amazing Masonry Brick.
With this product, he can easily build over a thousand houses with amazing durability, and based on the barren land where he stands now, a proper blueprint of a properly built city can be constructed! But before he does so, first of all, he must obtain the approval from the Elder Representative before he can proceed with the restructuring plan.
Zhang Wu Ji went straight to the Apprentice Hall building to obtain the approval to proceed with his ideas, but without an obstacle, the elder representative replied him saying that the City Lord has given his consent that any idea that comes from Zhang Wu Ji will be approved without hesitation.
If one were given the right and he did not use it, then what can he be described as?
Of course, it will be a fool. Using the right he was entitled, Zhang Wu Ji started his grand project of transforming the Wen Wu City's northern side, by building the houses each using the same way as how the people from his world did. By arranging the houses together, he followed the diagrams learned from the Bagua to arrange eight houses together in a row, before an open road separates them.
At one line of the houses, there will be a total of eight rows, where it end up as 64 houses for 64 families in a horizontal line. Inside of the houses, he paid an attention in two parts, namely their Living Room, Dining Room, Study Room, and Bedroom as the first of the four Phases, and Garden, Backyard, Main Entrance, and Back Entrance as the second of the Four Phases.
The first represents the Spring, Summer, Autumn, and Winter, while the second represents the North, South, East, and west. This design followed the arrangement of the Bagua, which was taken as a calculation that represents good luck, fortune, Wealth, and Health.
And on the second line of the houses, he designed them to be a more spacious and well-designed Courtyard, suitable to reside by larger families. Each row will have four houses, added up to a total of 32 courtyards that were far more than enough than what it should normally be.
Following this way of constructions, the third line is where the main street, built for the business and markets is located. He followed the way how the building looks from his previous world and places them side by side with each another. In total, there were 16 shops, split into two rows of eight shops each.
With the same way, he constructs another two lines of the courtyards and houses on a different side, to complete the temporary construction project of the building plan before the workers came into the location and begin to build according to his requirements. Because the construction does have some relation with the plants, the herbalist helps out in the arrangement of the plants and trees, to make the houses seem to move livable.
Time passed very quickly, and without himself noticing, another twelve days have passed.
The total of 208 buildings is reaching their completion very soon. With the Initially 10 members in the Construction Department, their members increased into 50 about ten days ago. Now, their number of people helping in the manufacturing of the Masonry Brick increased, and given the fact most of the cultivators among the residents are satisfied with what they were doing, thus the production not only remain stable, in fact, their numbers increases because more cultivators started to come from the West, South, and Eastside on order for an employment.
with the increase of production of building materials and workers, the work estimated to be complete in another three more days. With this overall project is completed, Zhang Wu Ji's attention can slowly move to create more basic homes, which he selected to create similar model houses like apartments in his life, but the technologies at this moment are only more suitable to creates a building like the old Chinese communities houses named Tulou.
The Tulou building is similar to 4 to 5 floors high building, carrying the sight of a round shaped building with their own communities area within their own courtyard. It was a building created for the masses to lived, where once single Tulou can supports over fifty families in the smallest, and over 200 in some bigger Tulous.
And this Tulous will be his final project to rebuild the north side of the Wen Wu City. Through the six lines of houses, courtyards and shops, Zhang Wu Ji will become the main section for the north side constructions, with eight more tulous built in the arrangement of the North, Northwest, Northeast, South, Southwest, South East, and finally east and west.
As long the land has been marked by Zhang Wu Ji after his calculation, the construction can soon begin. The manpower in the Wen Wu City is truly humongous, and seeing so many untouched lands just because the city's official wasn't capable enough to develop them, Zhang Wu Ji have no choice but to spoon feed them with some of the buildings, method of constructions, and also help the city by providing them with one additional product to be exported.
"Master Senior Ninth! We finished the judgment o the bandits. After all agreement from the judges and officials, they decided to imprison the bandits for 25 years before they were dispatched to the County side to help in constructing the roads and explore the natural forest all over the Seven Star County."
"At the same time, we found this three cultivating and martial art manuals in the possession of the three siblings. Because the judges claim that the belongings of the bandits shall be handled by the city lord's management, he ends up issuing all the item worth monetary value to be distributed back to the families affected by the bandits attack, while this three manuals shall belong to Master Senior Ninth." the representative from the City Lord Management came to inform him about their verdict and handover three manual into his hand.
The three respective Art is;
[Perfected Three-Wave Sword Art]
[Orchid Assassination Art]
[Ten Petals Orchid Cultivation Manual]
"Thank you, representative. It wasn't proper to not return a gift for the person that come especially for such an insignificant reason, so please accept this little appreciation gesture." Zhang Wu Ji happily accepted the three manuals, but at the same time, exchange them with a Complete Taixia Qi Pill and a Yin Essence Pill.
Receiving the appreciation gift from the youth, the representative mood was cheered up to a whole new level. As a mere cultivation of a 5th Stage Inner Qi Fighter, the Complete Taixia Qi Pill was a treasure that almost every Inner Qi Fighter Stage cultivators covets them, but it was too much of a rare commodity for them to easily purchase in the market.
"Thank you, Master Senior Ninth. Thank you! If there is nothing else this representative can do, he will excuse himself from bothering the Master Senior no longer." the representative politely excuses himself from continue to bother Zhang Wu Ji with his pointless chatters. The twelve days staying inside of the Wen Wu City allows everyone to know, see, and witness the character and personality this [Master Senior Ninth] carries wherever he goes.
He was a person that detests Evil, promotes Righteousness, and Supports the poor and will not yield to the rich. Carrying such a feature written in his face, Zhang Wu Ji's name spreads not only to the surrounding of Wen Wu City, it even went past the Seven Star Sect and spreading through the six villages until it reaches the Li Jiang Town.
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"Master! Master! There is news about our third young master in the Seven Star Sect!" Zhang Da Zui quickly entered the Zhang's Manor and shared the news with the others in the house, especially to their Master Zhang Qing Feng. At this moment, their house is no longer the small combination of two courtyards with a little more space, but it was expanded into a size of a six courtyard wide Manor.
Currently, the Zhang Family within the Li Jiang Town were the strongest families in the top eight households, and even the Guans is invited to become their neighbors, sharing a third of their buildings under the agreements of business purposes. But this cooperation generates hates from the other six families, especially from the Li's and the Chen's.
This caused the situation in the Li Jiang Town is not as peaceful as before, but with the wealth they amassed from the excellent business with the nearby villages and towns, the Zhang Family grow even bigger, with over a thousand members in their house when the number is combined with the Guans.
A family with a thousand members strength is quite difficult to handle, especially most of their members are loyal to the Family. Although among them were hired, their position within the family is not low, thus reducing the possibilities of them rebel against the family. What's more, if the Zhang's can easily pay for the member's requested salary, it means that the Zhang Family financial situation is strong.
But it wasn't the same to the others, because one's wealth cannot be measured by just combining together.
"Tell me, quickly! What is the new about our Wu Ji?" Zhang Qing Feng drops all the matter bothering him and turned to Zhang Da Zui and rushes him to quickly speaks everything out. Like how a father reacts, it was an anticipation each time when the news related to his youngest child came back.
"Yes! Yes!"
"Our third young master is super amazing! He was taken as the ninth direct disciple of the headmaster, and now carrying the name [Master Senior Ninth] inside and outside of the Seven Star Sect. From what they shared, Young Master Wu Ji participates in many of the sect's reformation, and not only changed the way the Blacksmithing Department in the sect refines their weapon, our young master Wu Ji also engrossed himself in the field of Pill Concoction and Martial Arts!"
"Recently, the Wen Wu City is under the attack from those bandits lead by Lan Shan Clan, and our young master with his eight senior brother and sisters came into the battlefield to sweep the bandits and captures nine hundreds of them, including their three bandit leaders! Three Bandits Leader from their third generations!"
"Now, young master's name was spread across the whole Seven Star County, and sooner or later, everyone says that he will carry the title [Top Disciples of Seven Star Sect] at the end of this year, replacing his eldest senior brother." Zhang Da Zui finishes his stories in one long shot and having difficulties to breathe as he ends his stories.
"That useless brat! How can he become this mature when he was wrecking the whole Li Jiang Town when he was slightly younger than now? Did a trip to the woods earlier this year get rid the uselessness in him? DId he turn over into a new leaf now, and started to contributes to the society?" Zhang Qing Feng mind is in a complete confusion.
As a father, how can he not realized that these changes were too sudden for him to accept? If the youngest were this mature, to begin with, will he be carried home in a stretcher because he spends three days three nights inside the Deity Pavilion, suffering vitality losses because of rigorous sex?
Will he burn and damage the stalls and half of the Botanist Hall because the young lady of Guans did not agree to his engagement? Will he be mature enough to not wreck his future in the studies in the Scholar Pavilion? This was all impossible, but it did happen!
"I wonder what actually happened to my Wu Ji... I hope it was the doing of the gods, seeing how much I pray to them because my child's relationship amongst sibling is not good enough." Zhang Qing Feng went to the ancestor's Altar and prayed to them before turning to the heaven and Earth Altars.
"The Zhang's next generation is all grown up well. Looks like the time for our Outer Zhang's House to return to our Ancestor's Land are soon to happen." Zhang Qing Feng holds a plaque on both hands as he bowed to the ancestors.
On the small piece of identification plaque, a few rows of words are written on both of the sides.
Third Royal Prince of Eastern Imperial Kingdom, 11th Generation.
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Zhang San Feng, hereby announce his will,
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Unless the day his great-grandson and daughters are amongst the biggest family in the south, The Zhang San Feng's bloodline,
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Will not return to the Eastern Imperial Capital!
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Signed: 10th Generation Eastern Imperial Emperor, Zhang Yu.
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