Li Fei looked at his Marquis' mansion almost refreshed after a month of painting and decoration, and felt relieved.

The door plaque was installed, "Jingyang Hou Mansion"!

During this period, Li Fei had known that Jingyang County was located about two hundred miles north of Chang'an City. Since he was named Jingyang Marquis, the 1,400 acres of Yongye Field and 300 households with the same title were located in Jingyang County.

By the way, Emperor Xuanzong of Tang was actually quite interesting. Although he was not as Yang Guifei thought, he was given a title of county lord directly, Jingyang County and Xunyang County are generally higher than 6,000 households, and the total number of households is even hundreds more than Xunyang County. The population of nearly 9,000 households is only more than 1,000 households, which means that he is nominally much more than ordinary county marquis.

The most important thing is that it is close to Chang'an City, and the rewarded land is easy to manage! And the annual tax collection of 300 households is also easy to send!

There are also differences between the marquis and the marquis. Some marquis clearly live in Chang'an City, but the Yongyetian and fiefs that were granted are located in Lingnan, thousands of miles away. The management difficulties are not much different from that!

Of course, being able to get the title of the Marquis is enough to burn incense. Who cares about where Yongyeland and fief are given? After all, Yongyeland is a little useful. The so-called fief is generally not enough for households. In the early years of the Tang Dynasty, the Marquis had a nominal fief of 1,000 households, but it would be good to have a 100 households. Wu Zetian reorganized and reduced one thousand households to three hundred households. The number of nominal households was small, but the actual number of households was generally about two hundred.

The annual tax of 200 households is about 400 stones of grain, and the annual 20 days of corvee labor per household per year, which is equivalent to the value of several hundred taels of silver per year.

In general, relying on the income from Yongyetian and fief, no matter how inferior the marquis is, he can enjoy his life without worries.

"Why have you been this marquis for a month, but you always feel that it is not true? It seems that this marquis is not very awesome!" Li Fei sighed a little. Maybe there are too many marquises in the Tang Dynasty, and there are not as rare as those of the Song, Yuan, Ming and Qing dynasties in later generations.

In fact, Li Fei was wrong. He felt that the marquis seemed to be not noble at all and had no value. That was because he was in Chang'an City, a place with real power and high-ranking officials, royal relatives and nobles. If he went to his Fengxian Jingyang County, let alone the county magistrate, the gentry and powerful people in Jingyang County would have to come to visit him as the marquis.

"Aniu!" Li Fei shouted to Zeng Aniu, who was directing the craftsmen to work.

"Marty, you are here!" Zeng Aniu ran over immediately, and Li Fei came around every few days this month.

The Hou Mansion basically brushed all the painted areas, replaced the decaying wooden strips, replaced the dilapidated window paper with new ones, cleaned all the leaves and debris on the roof, and replaced the cracked tiles with new ones, and the trees, flowers and plants were all rested and standardized, and the stone slabs in the aisle were scrubbed.

"Aniu, you have made great contributions to the Marquis' Mansion being able to be renewed so quickly!" Li Fei praised.

"Mr. Marquis, this is what a young man should do. You are embarrassed to praise him." Zeng Aniu still smiled honestly on the surface, but Li Fei knew very well in his heart that Aniu's heart was actually dark and very smart. He never worried that Aniu would mess up the matter.

Thanks to the past, no matter which Duke was, it was passed down from the era of Emperor Gaozong and Wu Zetian, and it may even be passed down from the founding of the Tang Dynasty. It has at least dozens or hundreds of years of glory. After decades of growth, high-quality trees such as osmanthus trees, plum blossom trees, apricot trees, etc. have grown for decades and hundreds of years, and are large enough to be extremely beautiful after a little rest. The trees are as shade as a forest, and there are stone slabs laid on the walkways. After being rubbed and cleaned, they are spotless and do not get mud.

A drainage system made of bricks and stones, lotus ponds, and waterways.

What surprised Li Fei the most was that there was an underground spring hidden beside a rockery on the east side of the mansion. It was precisely because of this underground spring water source, the waterways and lotus ponds in the mansion were very clear.

It is worthy of being the glorious Duke's Mansion in the Wu Zetian era. It's so surprising! Li Fei sighed again, and at the same time he felt even more proud. He didn't expect such a good place to fall on him in the end.

The only thing that makes Li Fei dissatisfied is the sanitation system, which is a place where excrement is handled in toilets.

Although I have been in the Tang Dynasty for almost half a year and have been numb for toilets and other things, I am still not used to it. After all, the toilet is made of wood. Although it has a lid, it is impossible to cover it so tightly. As long as there is a slight gap, some of the odor will always be leaked. When the wind blows, the smell is really sour, is it there?

I used to be in the Lin family, but the son-in-law of the Lin family was not very independent and was in no mood, so I could just put everything in order and didn't want to change it. Now he finally has his own home and is completely independent, so he wanted to make his home comfortable enough. He wanted to use many modern things that are possible.

For example, modern sanitation systems, from toilet construction to disposal of filth, etc.

"A good sanitation system can make life more comfortable, and it must be made!" Li Fei thought firmly.

The decoration and renovation of the Hou Mansion has basically come to an end. It is best to decide what changes to make immediately, otherwise it will be a lot of trouble when the decoration is completed.

Li Fei is preparing to build some modern toilets in the mansion, a septic tank for treating sewage, etc.

Do it when you think about it. The principle is very simple anyway. As long as you have money, it should not be difficult to make it.

Then I found paper, pen, and painting. The toilet was mainly squatting pits, flushing passages, etc. The septic tank was prepared to be built with the biogas tank as the core, and three corruption and decomposition tanks were built in succession. The last decomposed sewage was almost odorless.

Why do we need to dig three pools? In addition to the cleaner sewage that has been repeatedly transformed, it is because the Marquis’ Mansion is large enough. In any case, some places are digging pools. Moreover, after the pool is covered, it can still raise horses on it, which is not a wasteful place.

The main means of transportation in the Tang Dynasty was horses, and raising horses was a must.

In this way, the septic tank not only makes it convenient to treat human filth, but also can also treat horse filth. At the same time, the first of the three pools of the septic tank is to be built similar to a biogas tank. The biogas produced can also be burned, which saves firewood and reduces smoke, killing multiple birds with one stone.

Li Fei became more and more excited when he painted it. A completed sanitation system came out, and the construction was done.
Chapter completed!