This yard is really cheap for Yang Jing, don't want it, but in fact, when Mike Ale bought this yard, he was still slaughtered If it is really calculated according to the price at that time, even if this set of yards has a good place and a large area, the actual price is about 300,000 yuan, and this set of yards still belongs to the public.
However, Yang Jing specifically told Mike Ale at that time, that is, no matter how much money this yard is, it must be taken down.
As soon as people look at a Kaizi, can this knife be sharpened quickly?
But for Yang Jing, let alone 500,000 US dollars, even if it is 1 million or 2 million US dollars, Yang Jing will not hesitate to let Mike Ale buy it.
Because Yang Jing knows very well what this courtyard represents in the original time and space, you can't buy this courtyard even if you have money!
The most important thing is that Yang Jing wants to buy this yard as soon as possible, and then after a thorough transformation, this yard can also be used as a temporary warehouse in the next 30 years.
At least whether it was Pete Wu or later Xue Renfa, the old objects they acquired for themselves all needed this set of yards to preserve.
This set of courtyards occupies a very important position in Yang Jing's big plan.
When Yang Jing stood in front of this large courtyard, which had been completely rebuilt, he couldn't help but feel a little excited in his heart.
Fortunately, this is Yanjing, and there are many foreigners, otherwise Yang Jing would be able to attract the attention of many people just by standing motionless here. knocked on the door, and soon there was footsteps inside, and when the door opened, an old man in his fifties and almost sixty years old appeared in front of Yang Jing.
"Ha, hello oil looking for a pot?"
The old man was obviously hired to come to see the door, and he was smashed open by a foreigner early in the morning, this old man was obviously a little dazed, and he almost didn't squirt out Yang Jing happily when he said a mixture of English and Chinese.
"Hello uncle, I'm looking for Mr.
Wu."
Yang Jing saw that the old man even said "oil looking for pot" (meaning "who are you looking for"), he simply did not speak English, but directly said his origin in Mandarin.
"Yo!
Do you speak Mandarin?
As soon as the old man heard Yang Jing's Mandarin speak fluently, his old face immediately burst into joy.
"Wait a minute, I'll go in and greet Mr.
Wu for you."
The old man welcomed Yang Jing in very politely and said very politely.
Yang Jing's appearance changed by the "disguise" skill has played a big role, and in this era, crooked nuts are still very popular in China.
"Thank you, uncle!"
Yang Jing smiled and said a kind word.
"Hey!
You're welcome, you're welcome!
You are too polite" The old man happily turned around and continued to be polite, and walked briskly inside, and after a while, a man in his thirties followed the old man.
As soon as the man saw Yang Jing's appearance, he asked a little hesitantly, "Are you?"
"I'm Michael Lynch, you must be Pete Wu, right?
Mr.
Mike Ale should have informed you that I was coming to Yanjing to find you, right?
” As soon as he heard Yang Jing report his home, this Pete Wu suddenly became extremely respectful.
Of course, he knows that his boss Mike Ale is working for the Michael Lynch in front of him, and this is the ultimate big boss.
Both of them spoke Chinese, and the old man on the side was also taken aback.
This foreigner who smashed the door early in the morning turned out to be the big boss!
Pete Wu welcomed Yang Jing in very respectfully, and the other three foreigners also hurriedly walked out of their respective houses after hearing that the big boss was coming, and met the mysterious big boss.
Along the way, Yang Jing was also very satisfied when he saw this newly built yard.
This set of courtyards as a whole retains the architectural style of Yanjing's traditional courtyard houses, the main house, the east and west wings, the inverted seat room, the back cover room, the ear room, the podium room a lot, the hanging flower door, the eaves corridor and the verandah coexist, the four courtyards in front of the main house are all paved with flat stone floors, but in the four corners of the courtyard, there are four small gardens each, which are planted with begonias, magnolias, peonies, peonies and other flowers and plants, as well as a few not too big pomegranate trees and persimmon trees, and there is a huge locust tree in the middle of the yard.
"Boss, this locust tree was just transplanted this spring, this locust tree is said to be more than 200 years old, I looked very good at that time, and the price was right, so I asked the workers to transplant it."
Pete Wu saw that the boss was very satisfied with the big locust tree, so he explained in a low voice on the side.
Yang Jing smiled and nodded.
Of course he was satisfied, such a large old locust tree planted in this yard played a finishing role.
In particular, this locust tree is not only old, but also quite beautiful, although it is winter and there are no leaves on the tree, Yang Jing can also see that once it is spring and summer, the huge crown of this old locust tree is enough to cover the entire yard.
After standing in the courtyard for a while, Yang Jing walked into the main room, and as soon as he entered the door, a hot air rushed towards him.
"There's heating in the house?"
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Yang Jing asked.
"That's right, when we rebuilt this yard last year, we followed Mr.
Mike Aller's instructions to lay heating pipes under the floor tiles of the rooms, and then we set up a small coal-fired boiler in the westernmost room of the back hood to heat all the rooms in the yard."
Yang Jing nodded again, this kind of geothermal heating was proposed by him.
In this era, Yanjing's heating collection has not yet appeared, and Yang Jing didn't want to burn a honeycomb coal stove in this yard, so he simply started a heating system by himself.
Yang Jing walked around the other rooms in the main room again, and found that these houses were not inhabited, so he asked, "Why don't you live in the main room?"
” Pete Wu said: "Boss, I am a Chinese, and there are some rules in our motherland that cannot be broken casually, for example, this main house, only an owner like you can live, and those of us who work cannot live in the main house."
The condition of the wing room is also very good anyway, and it was great for us to stay there. ” As Pete Wu said, after the rebuilding of this quadrangle, the decoration inside is luxurious even in 2017.
All the furniture was bought from Europe, and it cost more than a million dollars to buy the furniture alone, and the whole yard and all the houses cost two million dollars just to decorate.
Including the $2 million spent on rebuilding and the $500,000 spent on buying a house, the yard cost nearly $5 million.
That's $5 million in 1981, worth more than $50 million in 2007!
Yang Jing wants to decorate according to the price of later generations, but in this era, the decoration price of 2 million US dollars is already considered the top.
Unless Yang Jing wants to be a nouveau riche and decorate with gold and real money Yang Jing doesn't want to be such a tasteless person.
"Pete, the four of you can live in the main house in the future, you know that I am still relatively proficient in Chinese civilization, and I know that if a house like this is not inhabited for a long time, it will not be popular, so I don't mind if you live in the main house."
Pete Wu nodded and said, "Since the boss agrees that we will live in the main house, then the four of us will live in the main house for a period of time every month." ” "Let's go to the basement."
Pete Wu immediately led the way in front and led Yang Jing towards the easternmost house of the main house.
"Boss, according to Mr.
Ale's instructions, we opened the basement last year when we were rebuilding this quadrangle.
Originally, we wanted to build a two-story basement, but because the water was so bad, we had to abandon the plan to build a second basement and only build a basement.
There are two entrances to the basement, the one in the inverted room is currently closed, and only the one in the main landlord's room is open. ” This Yang Jing understands that this is on the northern edge of Houhai, and the gate is only more than ten meters away from the north shore of Houhai.
However, a basement is estimated to be enough, after all, this is a courtyard with a width of 40 meters and a length of more than 70 meters, even if the area of the basement is only 70 of the area above ground, it is more than 2,000 square meters.
After Pete Wu walked into the east ear room, he flicked a few times on a combination lock on the wall that resembled a safe, and then opened the safe, which contained nothing but a switch button.
"This is the door to the basement, and the password is known only to me and Dwyan, and we must both be present every time we open the basement."
A white man in his forties next to him nodded slightly, and he knew through the introduction of Yang Jing just now that this was one of Mike Ale's henchmen, Dwyanmiller.
After Pete Wu pressed the switch, with a faint sound of an electric motor, the rolling shutter door of the east ear room rolled up, and on the ground on the north side of the room, a large crack suddenly opened in the bottom plate, and then the crack that was enough to be the width of the whole room became bigger and bigger, and a downward slope appeared in front of Yang Jing's eyes.
After all the floor doors were opened, Pete Wu walked in first, and Yang Jing followed, and as soon as he entered, he could hear a "buzzing" sound in the basement, as if some kind of equipment was running.
"Boss, the total area of this basement is 2,275 square meters, the height is 32 meters, the ground, the top and the four walls are made of reinforced concrete walls up to 70 centimeters thick, and there are two layers of waterproofing inside, and the entire top is supported by 32 reinforced concrete columns.
In addition, eight high-power dehumidifiers are installed in the basement, which run 24 hours a day to keep the basement dry.
In the past two years, I have acquired antiques from Yanjing and other regions, and all of them are stored in the basement. ” This basement is large, with a large cement concrete wall in the middle and at each of the four corners connecting the floor and ceiling, as if something is isolated inside.
Seeing Yang Jing looking there, Pete Wu explained: "Because plants need to be planted in the yard, especially the transplanted big locust tree, the area for planting flowers and trees is reserved in advance when the basement is repaired.
Those five areas are the ones that have been set aside. ” The basement doesn't feel damp at all, on the contrary, it has a rather dry feeling, and you can't feel that this is in the basement at all.
This is enough to prove that this huge basement has done a good job of keeping out moisture.
And the old objects that Pete Wu has acquired in the past two years are all placed in a few rooms that are separated from each other near the entrance of the east ear room!
Looking at these old objects, Yang Jing felt that these millions of dollars were really not spent in vain