After explaining to Zhuo Bang, everything became smoother.

First, Zhuo Bang issued a decree, informing all the townspeople that all the houses in the town would be transformed into cement houses. Those who had already spent money before would be given a partial subsidy. After the completion, the entire town would begin to open to the outside world, to welcome visitors from outside. The visitors who came in were received by the townspeople on their own initiative – but people were not allowed to deceive the visitors. Once found, they would be fined, and the amount was not small. They were directly required to hand over the money for the free cement to the government. If the circumstances were serious, the residence would be taken back and deported.

This was simply a way for the townspeople to make money and get rich for free. Even if Zhuo Bang said later that they would have to pay taxes on their future income, they would not care about it. There was no free money. If they really made a lot of money, would they still care about the 10% tax?

Especially after knowing that cement was invented by Jiang Zhou and that he proposed this tourist and civilized town, they were even more grateful and swarmed to Jiang Zhou’s hot pot restaurant and barbecue restaurant to try to bring him some business.

The renovation plan was in full swing.

Most of their places were originally self-occupied houses. Most of them picked a place and started building after buying the land title. They did not deliberately pursue beauty and neatness. However, if they wanted to build a tourist town, they couldn’t continue to be so scattered. They needed to be regulated.

Centered on Jiang Zhou’s hot pot restaurant, all the houses in this area were expected to be renovated into first-floor houses. The houses would all have gray tiles and white walls. The most powerful painter was hired to deliberately make the walls and eaves, the ground of the town was also filled with cement, which could be said to be a completely new scene.

On the other side of Jiang Zhou’s restaurant, it was not completely organized like this. The area was closer to the small river. The coastline was water-colored and was not suitable for cement construction. Therefore, after consideration, the characteristics of the original water town were retained, with bluestone roads. Those thatched and straw houses had been rebuilt and filled with walls unique to the water town.

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When everyone was delighted with the renovation of their house, Jiang Zhou did something else – he quietly bought an inn.

He now had enough money, and he was very comfortable when choosing a place. He could choose a place that suits his heart without being constrained by money.

This inn was bought by Jiang Zhou before Zhuo Bang issued the decree. It was no coincidence that Zhuo Bang’s decree was issued just right after he bought it. However, the owner of the inn did not regret it.

He said: ” It’s not necessarily whether it can make money. My small inn has been open for so long and I haven’t made much money. As for the future? It will take almost a year to build the tourist town. I’m afraid that I won’t be able to wait until then and I will go bankrupt.”

Since some people were willing to take risks, there were naturally others who were not. This was his personal choice. Jiang Zhou couldn’t say anything, no matter how much he tried to persuade him, it would be the same.

He put the matter behind him and started to renovate the inn.

The outside was no different from the surrounding houses. One advantage of the inn he bought was that it was close to the water. If people walked a little further out, they could see the thin river. It was also the widest place with the most beautiful scenery.

The location of this place was good and the price was not cheap, but Jiang Zhou bought it anyway.

He still asked Liu Erlang to decorate it for him.

But this time the decoration was different from the previous ones – according to Liu Erlang, all the buildings Jiang Zhou built were different from other people’s houses. Every time they repaired his place, there would be a sense of wonder before their eyes. It felt so bright, could the house still be repaired like this?

Jiang Zhou’s idea for this place was because this area was far away from other houses, it didn’t have to be as orderly as the others and could be free to build.

The design drawing Jiang Zhou gave Liu Erlang was divided into two parts. One part was on the shore. There was originally a very tall and old tall green tree in the yard of this inn. The towering tree grew upward. It blocked the sunlight in the yard, and the house was made of wood, which was prone to moisture. The inside of the inn looked very dark. The wood was prone to mold when it got damp, and it didn’t look very clean. This was also the reason for the decline of this inn.

The first reaction of people who came to live here must be a clean and tidy inn. But this inn was not up to par, so it must not have many customers.

Jiang Zhou thought for a while and doubled the size of the entire inn. The entire tree was included in the scope of the inn. The new inn was built directly according to the growth trend of the tree – it was said to be repaired, but this inn needed to be renovated. There were too many places, which was equivalent to reconstruction.

The whole tree was included in the scope of the inn, but the problem of not being exposed to sunlight was still not solved. Jiang Zhou changed the original structure of the house, which was all wood. The surroundings were still wood, but they were all replaced by wood that was not easy to decay and get damp: fir wood, and the roof was replaced with glass – after repeated trials, he finally produced some, all of which were used in this inn.

The cost was too high, and no matter how rich he was, he couldn’t afford to tinkering with this, so he didn’t consider to make business of it, and only made some for himself and the few extra pieces were given to the emperor along with the glass prescription.