The site of the bidding meeting.

The crowd was full of voices, and the scene was so lively.

The tender for the four urban districts was divided into four sections.

The other three cities are proceeding smoothly, but the Northeast City was quickly closed after it opened, and all the previously received bids were returned.

After a short time, a notice was posted in front of the door.

"This Qi Hou's appearance is inevitably too ugly, right?" After seeing the notice, someone immediately questioned.

"That's it, such a big Northeast City, he actually wants to swallow it alone?"

"The court said that it should be open, fair and transparent, in my opinion, it's nothing more than that!" Someone sarcastically said.

If Han Guang is also involved, then Tian Dan and Han Guang will divide the Northeast City, and they will have nothing to say.

But now Han Guang is not involved, but Tian Dan has swallowed the Northeast City alone.

How could they not be resentful?

What is that place in Northeast City?

That's where they have access to at the moment, where they're at the top of their game.

Since the imperial court announced that the Northeast City might be opened, these people have become excited.

"Big brother, what should we do now? Do you want to continue to vote? A man who was left behind looked at his brother with some hesitation.

"Let me think about it......" Yin Qiao frowned tightly.

The sudden change caught him a little off guard.

Originally, he took a fancy to the Northeast City, where the people living were all high-ranking officials and high-ranking officials of the imperial court.

In addition to the size of the place, you can choose to customize it.

And on the way to customize, there is a need for communication, so he pulled a group of honest farmers to do this.

Do a good job, work hard, and make the employer satisfied, so as to bring the relationship between the two parties closer.

To put it bluntly, he will definitely make money, but he doesn't plan to make too much, what he invests in is connections.

It was also the only opportunity he had access to those high-ranking officials.

Although people may not be able to look up to him.

But now, the imperial court suddenly gave the entire Northeast City to Tian Dan, which made him very uncomfortable.

Can it be the same to take the job from the hands of the imperial court and the same as from the hands of Tian Dan?

"That's not right......" Yin Qiao suddenly remembered something, and then looked at the little brother beside him and asked, "I remember that the imperial court didn't seem to say that it would be open, right?" ”

The little brother thought for a while, and then nodded violently: "I didn't say it, it's all spread outside." ”

"Cast!" Yin Qiao suddenly decided.

He also figured it out, and the court didn't mention it at all.

And although Tian Dan is not the imperial court, he is also the Marquis of Qi, in terms of level, Tian Dan is now the first marquis of the Han Dynasty.

Isn't Tian Dan a dignitary?

And since Tian Dan was able to take the entire Northeast City, it means that he has opened up the relationship above.

If I can keep up with Tian Dan's pace, will there be no work to do in the future?

Will you have no money to earn?

Perhaps, this time I can make some money myself.

……

On the other hand, Xiao He, who was personally responsible for the bidding, fulfilled Tian Dan's wishes.

The Northeast City tender was temporarily closed and reopened after changes were made.

And this time, the court is no longer involved, and Tian Dan himself is responsible for who to choose and who not to choose.

Anyway, after drawing a line in the imperial court, the final price can only be lower than this price, and how much you can earn depends on Tian Dan's own ability.

"Is anyone bidding?" Tian Dan asked nervously.

It has been half an hour since the market opened, and there are a lot of people outside the Northeast City Gate Market, but Tian Dan has not received a single bid, which makes him a little anxious.

If you don't subcontract it out in the end, you'll be blind.

"There is one, but ......" the subordinate shook his head helplessly.

"Say!" Tian Dan asked anxiously, it is always a good thing for someone to bid.

"The bidder's name is Yin Qiao, there are 100 people under him, all of them are farmers, and the most luxurious ones have built rammed earth houses, and helped local heroes build courtyard walls, the price is not high, but they don't have much money, and they may not be able to pay the ......," said the next man, he only read the bid once and threw it aside.

What bid do you have no money for?

If Qi Hou had enough money and food, wouldn't it be good to find someone to do it himself?

What are you looking for?

And now the situation is a little embarrassing, the rich are watching and scolding outside, and the bidders are some people who have no strength.

"If you can't afford it, you will be recruited to help us do things, and Ben Hou is also short of people now!" Tian Dan said directly.

"Brother, we may have played a little too big this time......" Tian Rong looked at his brother and suddenly spoke.

Originally, I thought there was no problem, but now it seems that the problem is bigger.

For the construction of the new city, the rammed earth structure is far from satisfying.

And the reason for this is that Wang is not hungry......

What's the point of building a rammed earth city?

Decades later, not to return the rebuild?

Moreover, the construction of rammed earth cities is actually not labor-intensive, frying soil, ramming or something, are the most labor-intensive links.

And the wealth brought back from Xianyang before had already been squandered by Wang Buhang.

Of course, this money was not made up randomly, and most of it was used for armaments and agricultural tool reform.

As an emperor, a qualified king, how can he not want to do everything he can to pull it into his pocket?

Therefore, the first step of the king's request was to build it with bricks.

The brick thing has been around for a long time, and the technology has long been mature.

The reason why it is used less is because the adhesive cannot keep up.

Using soil as a binder, the adhesion is not enough, and it may collapse after being exposed to the wind and sun for several years, and pushing it hard.

At present, the commonly used, and the effect is also good, is clay, plus some hay, and rice milk.

But the cost is too high, so this thing is generally used to build something as strategic as a city wall.

The other is a natural binder, volcanic ash, but the amount is too small to be enough.

So, under the guidance of Wang Buxing, a great invention was born.

Cement!

When Wang was not hungry in later generations, he once helped people carry cement, and also went to the cement factory with the car to carry it.

So I've seen some raw materials, although I don't know the proportion, but is it important?

Wouldn't it be enough to let the craftsman do the research himself?

As a result, the three raw materials of limestone, sandstone, and iron powder were piled up here, and then clay was added, and it was constantly tested and blended.

"Zhang Shangshu, have you calculated this cost?" Wang Bu was hungry and looked at Zhang Cang, who was sweating profusely and still calculating, and couldn't help but feel a little anxious.

Time is money, and after the tender is over, the construction will start immediately.

The location of the brick factory has been selected, and the location of the cement plant has also been selected, but it takes time to build.

It's all money!

Zhang Cang wiped the beads of sweat on his forehead, and secretly scolded this emperor for being really special and not worrying at all.

"Your Majesty, the bricks have been calculated, the salary is ten taels a month, twenty people are needed, two hundred taels a month, the soil does not need money, the charcoal fire burns 10,000 bricks at a time, it takes two hundred taels, one furnace in two days, one furnace can make bricks 150,000 a month, the charcoal fire costs three thousand taels, and forty or fifty pieces need about one or two......" Zhang Cang wiped the beads of sweat on his forehead again, this account is too difficult to calculate, but as a household book, if he doesn't understand, then what are you playing?

That is to say, the king is not hungry and urges too tightly, otherwise he must be able to calculate how many pieces can be made in one or two.

"Then one or twenty dollars!" Wang Bu was hungry and said directly.

said that it was one tael, that is, one and a half taels, and now the price of grain in Dahan is fifteen yuan of grain stone.

That is to say, according to this wage, you can't buy one stone of grain for a month, and a normal labor force needs to consume two and a half stone a month.

The income is not enough to eat, but the advantage is that if you eat, ten taels is a net earning.

At this time, the innovative benefits of agricultural tools are reflected, a family of six can evenly produce a labor force, and when the mule is pushed out in a large area, the labor force will be more.

Although it is not yet possible to support the whole world to adopt this model, it is possible to gather people with excess population in Luoyang to participate in urban construction and make a lot of money.

Of course, food prices have been falling.

In the first year of the Second Dynasty, the price of grain stone was 1,000, and in the first year of the Han Dynasty, the price of external grain stone was 1,002, and even in the Han Kingdom, the price of grain stone was 500.

But in the second year of the Han Dynasty, the valley stone in the Han Kingdom dropped to eighty.

In the third year of the Han Dynasty, grain prices continued to fall.

This is not a price deliberately suppressed by the imperial court, but the entire Han realm is a bumper harvest, plus the imperial court is exempt from taxes, as long as every household is diligent, they can save some surplus grain.

Every household has a surplus of grain, and the price of grain is not an avalanche?

"Where's the cement?" Wang Bu was hungry and continued to ask Zhang Cang.

"Most of them are artificial......" Zhang Cang exhaled deeply, and looked at Wang Bu hungry with resentful eyes, I am not a god operator, and I can calculate all the detailed numbers with a pinch of my fingers.

Then he lowered his head and said: "Ten taels of money per month, ...... of limestone for 100 people a day."