Building a house in the countryside, building a house with two floors, a total of ten houses, plus a kitchen and two pigpens, it costs almost 8,000 yuan to burn bricks in a ready-made earthen kiln.

When building a house in the town, you buy bricks from brick factories, and build materials such as sand, gravel, cement, steel bars, etc. from nearby factories. The cost per square meter is cheaper than burning bricks yourself.

The cost of burning bricks by yourself is cheaper than buying them from a brick factory. However, transportation in rural areas is inconvenient, and transporting sand, stones, steel bars, cement and other items can either ask for help or hire a pack horse to transport them.

A piece of bricks in Qianshi Town costs only a few cents, a truck of lime costs more than two hundred yuan, and a truck of cement costs about five hundred yuan.

A car of yellow sand costs twenty or thirty yuan. If an acquaintance works on the battlefield, he can take away a few cars of sand without any money. In the battlefield ten kilometers away from Wufeng Village, there is almost no production cost. If you remove the upper layer from the mountains, you will be covered with sand.

Building a house in the town saves a lot of shipping costs, but the bricks are a little more expensive. The cost per square meter is about forty yuan. If it is built into an ordinary one, the cost per square meter will not be thirty yuan.

My parents had more than 6,000 yuan in hand and borrowed 30,000 yuan from my boss. Even if the cost per square meter was as high as forty, they could still build a house of 900 square meters, with an area of ​​300 square meters per floor, and 36,000 yuan was exactly three floors.

The funds were sufficient, and the speed of building a house was not slow. In less than a month, Chen Yu's new house had been built for two floors. The remaining floor could be completed in at most ten days. It would take two or three months to install both inside and outside the house.

"Xiaoyu, what color of ceramic tiles do you like?" Chen Weiguo suddenly asked during dinner.

"Dad, let's do the house decoration later." Chen Yu said.

"With the shelves now, make the exterior wall tiles first so as not to set up the shelves again." Chen Weiguo said.

"Dad, the exterior wall tiles will not be pasted. Over time, the ceramic tiles pasted outside the wall may fall off. If the passing person is killed or injured, we will still have to pay for it." Chen Yu said.

"That's true. There are too many people coming and going. If the tiles fall down and hit others, it will be a big trouble." Chen Weiguoshen nodded with approval.

"Print paint directly on the outside of the wall. Light yellow paint looks better. Pair it with a little brown stripes. This way, the exterior wall should look good." Chen Yu said.

"Well, I will do as you said." Chen Weiguo nodded in agreement.

The next morning, Chen Yu rushed to the Wang family repair shop.

"Xiao Chen, are you having breakfast?" Wang Zhengxin, who was holding a bowl of fried noodles and was eating whispering, asked at him with a smile.

"Eat." Chen Yu responded and said, "Uncle Wang, I'm in."

"Well, you're busy first." Wang Zhengxin said with a smile.

Walking into the inner room, Chen Yu picked up the tool and quickly removed a TV. He became busy with cleverness.

During lunch, a middle-aged man covered in motor oil walked in from outside and asked in surprise: "Can you repair the machine tool?"

"What's wrong with your machine tool?" Chen Yu asked with his head raised.

"The cut parts have some size problems." The middle-aged man frowned secretly, and when he saw that there was an adult present, he looked calm.

"Where is your machine tool?" Chen Yu asked again.

"You are from Sanyang Machinery Factory, are you?" Wang Zhengxin said thoughtfully.

"Well, I am Li Dazhu, director of the maintenance department of Sanyang Machinery Factory." The middle-aged man nodded.

"Xiao Chen, let's go and have a look." Wang Zhengxin said.

"Yes." Chen Yu nodded.

Following Li Dazhu into Sanyang Machinery Factory, he looked at the machine tool that was having problems, and after thinking about it secretly, Chen Yu felt relieved.

"Xiao Chen, how about it? Can it be repaired?" Wang Zhengxin asked.

"It is possible to repair it. The key is how much is their Sanyang Machinery Factory willing to pay?" Chen Yu said with a smile.

"Repair this machine tool and our factory will give you a thousand yuan." Li Dazhu said.

"Xiao Chen?" Wang Zhengxin asked.

"This machine tool is imported from abroad... I don't want you to have 10,000 or 20,000 yuan, and I guarantee that this machine tool will be repaired for you within a week." Chen Yu said confidently.

"Why don't you go and grab it?" Li Dazhu asked angrily.

"You ask foreigners who stay in the Han Dynasty to repair it. The round-trip air tickets, plus wages and travel expenses, will cost at least 20,000 to 30,000 yuan, right? I only charge 8,000 yuan for a machine tool imported from a foreign country, which is enough." Chen Yu smiled.

"You? How old are you? If you can repair this machine tool, my hammer can knock out an aircraft carrier." Li Dazhu said suspiciously.

"This is a fixture, this is a speed regulation..." Chen Yu pointed to the parts of the machine tool, and calmly introduced the names and uses of each part.

Seeing that the other party knew the imported machine tool in front of him, Li Dazhu was shocked. After calming down, he asked again, "You really have this machine tool well?"

"I just looked at it and I can repair 90% of the machinery and equipment in your factory." Chen Yu said confidently.

"I'll ask our factory director if he wants you to repair it." Li Dazhu said.

Seeing the other party leave, Wang Zhengxin asked, "Xiao Chen, can you really repair this machine tool?"

"Uncle Wang, why am I lying to you?" Chen Yu asked with a smile.

"If foreigners ask for a machine tool to repair it, it really takes 20,000 to 30,000 yuan?" Wang Zhengxin asked half-believingly.

"No matter whether the problem is big or small, even if foreigners tighten a screw, it will cost 20,000 to 30,000 yuan. Travel expenses, air tickets, entertainment expenses, and money required by foreigners, all of which are added up, sometimes more than 20,000 to 30,000 yuan." Chen Yu said.

Wang Zhengxin was shocked. Foreigners would need to use 20,000 to 30,000 yuan to repair a machine tool. In addition to the cost of parts, he only earned about twenty yuan. In short, it was only one thousandth of that of foreigners.

"Twenty or thirty thousand yuan is quite cheap. I heard that some expensive imported equipment can be repaired once by foreigners, and it can be repaired hundreds of thousands or millions. In fact, we can repair a lot of imported equipment ourselves." Chen Yuyu said unsurprisingly.

"No way?" Wang Zhengxin was stunned.

"Why can't it be? Foreigners sell equipment to us and almost always sign a contract. Most contracts require that if the equipment is broken, our people cannot repair it themselves. They must ask foreigners to repair it." Chen Yu said.

The situation of Sky Blue Star is very similar to that of the 1990s on Earth. In this era, many high-tech equipment were imported from foreigners. In order to block the technology, there were many overlord clauses.

"Two, our factory manager agreed. As long as you repair this machine tool, we will give you 8,000 yuan." Li Dazhu walked over quickly. If there was no time for an order, they would not have asked anyone outside to repair it.

"There is no limit on the empty words. Before repairing this machine tool, we will sign a contract first. If you don't give us money after repairing this machine tool, then we will lose a lot?" Chen Yu said indifferently.
Chapter completed!