Li Mu was not idle here, he found Li Tai. Don't look at Li Tai's young age, he is a man who aspires to compile a geographical chronicle, and his understanding of the geography of the Tang Dynasty is not weaker than that of any old pedant who has dropped his book bag.

If you want to make cement, you need several necessary conditions. Prerequisites 1: A large limestone mine. Prerequisites two, clay. The third prerequisite is that there must be a coal mine, otherwise how much wood is used to calcine limestone with wood? The cost is too high. And the cost of transporting coal mines is too great to be feasible in the era when there were no trains.

Until the end of the Qing Dynasty, when the railway was not successfully built, China's cement industry was still in its infancy, and it had not formed a scale at all.

Another thing that is not easy to find this place is that the traffic in this place must be passable. Li Mu vaguely remembered that in the era before he crossed over, there was a huge cement factory somewhere in the Northeast, but now the Northeast is still a barren land, and the cement is produced there, even if the output comes, who will use it?

Li Mu said all the conditions, he thought it would be difficult to do, but he didn't expect Li Tai to give him the answer quickly.

Lantian County!

Just near Chang'an, there is such a place.

There is a way, there are tears in the pearl of the sea and the moon, and the blue field is warm and the jade is smoking. Hearing the name Lantian, Li Mu remembered Li Shangyin's poem, but thinking that Li Shangyin would have to be born after hundreds of years, he couldn't help but chant the thought, after having a son, he was also much more cautious about plagiarizing poetry, so it was better to leave something for future generations.

Lantian County is located at the northern foot of the Qinling Mountains and the southeast of the Guanzhong Plain. Lantian is most famous, naturally, for jade. Zhou Li "the beauty of jade is blue", so the county name Lantian. Qin Shi Huang's heirloom jade seal and clan bi are made of Lantian water blue jade.

This is the deepest impression of Lantian in people's hearts, and other minerals of Lantian are not well-known in comparison.

But in the information collected by Li Tai, in addition to jade, the most in Lantian is the sample that Li Mu showed him - limestone, which is white, huge and hard in appearance, very easy to identify, and is everywhere in Lanqiao, Gongchuan, Bayuan and other townships. In the area of Dazhai Township, it is full of kaolin, although the output of coal mines is not high, but compared with the initial use, it is more than enough. When the output of Lantian County is not enough to use, first, the road is also very poor, and secondly, the huge value brought by cement will definitely be widely recognized, and at that time, the entire industry will not have to worry about Li Mu, and someone will naturally go to open up.

Lantian County is close to Chang'an City, even according to the standard of Xiuchi Road, it must be more than enough to take out 100,000 yuan. Li Mu hasn't made much money this year, but the income that Phoenix Qiuhuang has brought him is more than 100,000 yuan. What's more, he also has a rich wife, and a rich old lady who doesn't know how many treasury they have, and a mere 100,000 yuan is not a problem at all.

After a simple calculation, Li Mu drew up a charter. Under Datang Jianye, a joint-stock subsidiary was established, called Datang No. 1 Cement Plant, and the site was set in Lantian County. The first batch of 200,000 shares will be issued, each share will be consistent, and the subscription period will be 10 days. Not a word about the rest.

But it was such a domineering condition, as soon as the news was launched, in less than three days, 200,000 shares were snatched up. No one asked Li Mu what he was going to do, but they all knew that if he robbed slowly, he wouldn't be able to make money.

In the 200,000 subscription agreements of the original shares, there is an additional clause, that is, the voting rights of all the original shareholders are owned by Li Mu alone. Voting rights will only be redistributed if more than 60% of shareholders request the withdrawal of voting rights. However, among the 200,000 shares, Mrs. Lu subscribed for 30 percent through various agents, and Wang Ou subscribed for 15 percent herself, that is to say, a daughter-in-law and a mother accounted for 45 percent, and it was impossible to veto Li Mu for more than 60 percent.

200,000 shares were issued, a few pieces of paper, an intention, and without even knowing what this subsidiary was doing, within three days, Li Mu received 200,000 yuan in cash. After the calculation was clear, the next day, he announced that he would hire the construction team of Datang Jianye, starting on the 16th of the first month, and build a gallop road to Lantian County within two months.

Everyone was in an uproar, they didn't know what Li Mu's reason for choosing Lantian County was. In their opinion, Lantian County has nothing of value except jade. As for jade, although Lantian County is famous, the output is not high. Variegated jade is not worth anything at all, and valuable good jade will not be touched in ten or eight years. Otherwise, the people of Lantian County will not live as well as the people of the surrounding counties.

However, in the prospectus agreement, it has been clearly stated that the voting rights have been authorized to Li Mu. Li Mu has 100% of the voting rights, and even if a shareholders' meeting is held, it will not interfere with his decision.

200,000 yuan, half of the money was spent. Immediately afterwards, Li Mu announced another decision, he wanted to spend 50,000 yuan to build two factories and warehouses in Lanqiao and Dazhai Township, Lantian County. It is necessary to employ a large number of local people, and as long as they are young and strong laborers, they will be paid twice as much as the local people. The point is that as long as you don't waste food, you can eat it as you like.

This news was not much of a surprise to the people of Chang'an and Luoyang, because Li Mu had done this in Chang'an and Luoyang before, and on the whole, the wages in Chang'an and Luoyang were still more than those in Lantian County. But for the people of Lantian County, this is tantamount to pie falling from the sky, and happiness came too suddenly.

The most food that a family can eat is the young and strong laborers. Now the young and strong laborers not only have someone to take care of the food, but also have money to take it. For them, this is equivalent to reducing the burden and increasing their income. Families who used to have enough to eat can now even afford to eat meat.

The recruitment notice was posted, saying that it was only after the Shangyuan Festival that the recruitment would begin. But there were already people who were eager to try, for fear of falling behind, so they rushed to Dazhai Township and Lanqiao to wait. They went to relatives and friends, prepared enough dry food, and waited for the recruiter to come. There are even those who are impatient and lively, who came to Chang'an from Lantian and stayed at the entrance of the industrial department, and were willing to sleep in the open air.

Seeing this situation, Li Mu couldn't wait until after the Shangyuan Festival, so he sent someone to Lantian first, and the people who were also guarding the entrance of the industrial department were all settled, and by the way, he asked for more news from Lantian from their mouths.