After harvesting early rice and paying summer grain tax, after nearly a month of busy work, the village gradually returned to its former peace.

And it was soon the end of July.

Most of the houses of Zhao Qi's family have been built, with a large house with three entrances and three exits plus a yard, which divides the house into an inner courtyard and an outer courtyard with the living room as the boundary.

The inner courtyard is where Zhao Qi and his family live. It is not large in size. It has a bedroom, study, guest room, kitchen and dining room. It is a two-story building with wood and stone structure, which is connected together to form a small patio. In the patio, Zhao Qi plans to plant some flowers and plants and plant a grape, then put it on a rocking chair and put it on a swing, so that Baoer and Xiaozhu have a place to play.

The outer courtyard is relatively spacious. In addition to an open space, there are houses where servants live, pigpens, stables, and kitchens on both sides. The houses where servants live are also two-story buildings, but Zhao Qi did not build them according to the layout of the Song Dynasty buildings, but built into the shape of an apartment building in later generations, with six rooms on top, and a bedroom above, with bunk beds installed in the room, four people sleeping in each room, and living rooms below, washing clothes, eating, stacking furniture, food, and vegetables, etc.

The house is located from the vegetable garden of A'an's family to the small pond in front of the cave. It covers an area of ​​about five acres. Most of them are the places where the kiln factory used to take soil and pile up bricks. The underground is full of abandoned bricks and various stones. It is purely a piece of wasteland. Nothing can grow except for the weeds and thorns. Therefore, when Zhao Qi went to discuss the construction of the house with Yang Anping, the village chief, to take up the land, Yang Anping waved his hand and asked him to repair the land as much as he wanted. Anyway, this piece of land was wasteland and no one wanted it.

When A'an was still alive, he might have been arguing, but now A'an has been exiled, and his wife's house and daughter's rice fields have all been returned to Zhao Qi. Therefore, Zhao Qi did not have any psychological burden when he built it, and directly occupied most of the vegetable gardens of A'an's family. Therefore, after the house was repaired, Zhao Qi's new house was almost completely connected with A'an's original house.

The cave will naturally be vacant after the house is repaired, and Zhao Qi did not intend to abandon the cave. Instead, he planned to spend money to repair it and build it into a secret laboratory. Then the walls are built around it and the backyard are connected together, and a small door is opened to facilitate access. As for the small pond, it will also be circled in. At that time, it will be dug and built on the dike, plant some lotus roots and water chestnuts, and plant some fruit trees around to build a pavilion, so that it will look like a small garden.

Chinese garden art emerged in the Song Dynasty, which was the ultimate life enjoyment brought by the prosperity of the people and the elegant life of the scholars and officials.

Therefore, in the Song Dynasty, the construction of gardens has always been the most passionate thing and topic for the scholars and officials and the wealthy class.

During the Northern Song Dynasty, gardens were everywhere inside and outside the city. Even in the prefectures and prefectures, officials and wealthy businessmen were keen on building gardens and creating various parks and private gardens with mountains and rivers.

These gardens can basically be visited in public and private places. Even the royal gardens will be open to all the people during holidays and fixed hours every year, and beggars can enter. When the emperor visited the garden, the people were even crowded with people watching the fun.

During the Southern Song Dynasty, after the capital was established, it further promoted the development of gardens. The entire Hangzhou city was centered on West Lake and was completely a huge open park, and the people in the capital could enjoy a leisurely tour every day.

The development of southern China was caused by the migration of the Southern Song Dynasty's court in the south. Guangzhou, Fuzhou, Wenzhou, Quanzhou, Ningbo, Suzhou, Hangzhou, Huzhou, and the Yangtze River Delta, these prosperous and prosperous coastal urban agglomerations in later generations all flourished since the Song Dynasty.

So when we scold the Song Dynasty, the northerners could curse it bloodily, but the southerners should not scold it, because the south was not yet developed during the Tang Dynasty, and it was only developed by the Song Dynasty. The southerners benefited from it and became extremely wealthy. When the northerners repeatedly ravaged, burned, killed, looted and other countries in Liao, Jin, Mongolia and other countries, the southerners lived so freely, living in private gardens, hugging beautiful wives and concubines, drinking wine, tasting fragrant tea, and walking around brothels. From time to time, they could call friends to take their wives and children to the park to play. They had no idea how to be comfortable when chanting poems and paintings.

Therefore, in China, northerners have always seen southerners dissatisfied.

And southerners have always been a little disgusted with northerners.

As for the lives of the people in the Central Plains, they were completely indescribable, both miserable and depressed. They discriminated against them in the south and the north. When the Liao and Jin dynasties were strong, they ran to the north and when the Song Dynasty was stable, they worked as refugees everywhere all year round. Not only were they bullied on both sides, but they also bullied others on both sides. When the Liao and Jin dynasties were strong, they helped the northerners bully the Song Dynasty. When the Song Dynasty was dominant, they bullied the northerners in turn, and their positions were not firm at all.

The Red Coat Army Uprising mentioned above basically had this kind of ending. Of course, this is too superficial and biased, but if we put aside the righteousness of the country and political factors and look at the surface, it is indeed the case.

The leader of the Red Coat Army was Li Quan, the governor of the Baoning Army of the Great Song Dynasty stationed in Qingzhou. When he rebelled against the Song Dynasty, Zhao Kui went to suppress it. Li Quan blamed the Song Dynasty for not giving him food and military pay. Zhao Kui refuted that the court granted him official positions and had military pay and food and grass funding, but Li Quan was not satisfied at all and kept asking for it. Naturally, the court could not agree all of it. But you rebel against the Song Dynasty to capture cities and grab food and grass, and it was completely for personal gain and disregarding the country's justice. This is not treason, what is it? After asking, Li Quan was ashamed and could not answer.

Local tyrants like Li Quan were sandwiched between the north and the south, in order to survive, relying on their own strength to eat both sides. When they saw that the Jin Kingdom was no longer able, they revolted. They quickly grew stronger with the support of the Song Dynasty, but they were not satisfied with the constant demand for military supplies and food. However, when the Song Dynasty refused to agree, they turned against each other and rebelled and quickly surrendered to Mongolia and began to attack the Song Dynasty on a large scale. In fact, except for the Red Coat Army, many uprising troops at the end of the Jin Dynasty were like this. In the Song, Jin and Mongolia, they kept swaying and repeatedly rebelling and surrendering, without any righteousness. They were completely fence-skinned military organizations, both southerners and northerners hated them very much.

Having a villa with a private garden is Zhao Qi's greatest ideal before traveling through time.

However, ideals are full and reality is skinny. His wish is never realized until death.

However, this time traveled through time indestructible. Although there was only a broken cave and two women who depended on each other at the beginning, and their family was so poor that they could lick brans, through his efforts, they finally got rid of the word "poverty" and finally had to own the luxury house with a garden that they had always dreamed of.

Now I have money, houses, and women, and I have picked up a group of little beggars to be servants. The luxurious life of the carriages and slaves in luxury houses has far exceeded his original luxury.

If the Mongolians would not call him, Zhao Qi even wanted to live a peaceful life in this quiet and peaceful harbor village.

I eat, drink and have fun every day, and collect some antiques. I will study famous calligraphy and paintings in the study. I will put on antiques from the Qin, Han, Sui and Tang dynasties at home, and hug a woman in the bedroom to study Bao Puzi and the art of room. When I have interests, I can publish a set of erotic comics, and even go to Yanggong Mountain to fight...

Unfortunately, the Mongolians would not give him such a chance to live and die.

And the Song Dynasty did not seem to be able to continue surviving.

From Wu Qian's prefect of Ezhou this time, he could see that he heard that the court only gave 50,000 ounces of military pay, and no soldiers were transferred to increase defense.

Therefore, Zhao Qi had to put away his lazy thoughts and look further, and strive to accumulate enough financial resources and strength for himself before the collapse of the Song Dynasty, and then find a way to fight against the Mongols.

It doesn’t matter if the Song Dynasty was destroyed, but the Mongols must be driven out of China. This is Zhao Qi’s hope and the bottom line.

No matter how you rule by placing a river or whether you are silly and peaceful, it does not exist.

Either die, live, or die together.

Even though the Song Dynasty was incredible, despised and despised, it carried the roots and souls of the Chinese, carried thousands of years of civilization, and carried a brighter hope and future.
Chapter completed!