Qin Forget was silent, knowing that what Wang Ming said was true, these two counties were completely built according to the standards of the state capital, which was more than ten times larger than the original, and the city walls alone added up to hundreds of miles, not counting other facilities. So far, after several months of construction, Wang Ming's foundation has not been laid, and only less than one-thirtieth of the foundation has been completed.

It's not that Wang Ming is not dedicated, and the foundation is not so easy to play. For a distance of hundreds of miles, how easy is it to dig a foundation that is four or five zhang wide and three zhang deep? Especially in the past few months, it has been a big winter, the ground is frozen like steel, Wang Ming can only boil hot water and pour it on the ground, while the frozen soil is thawing, quickly dig, dig less than half a foot, and have to pour hot water, and so on, until the digging is half a zhang, the land will be soft because of the geothermal sake, so it is good to dig a little. But the cold weather also quickly froze these soft parts immediately, and Wang Ming had to repeat the previous work, and the speed was naturally not much faster.

Now that the weather is warmer, the situation is much better, but the whole project is still a bottomless pit, and it can be said that it will not take more than ten years and tens of millions of taels of silver to be completed.

"Now I can't give you so much money and people, I will grant you 200,000 taels of silver, and then approve you 20,000 young people. The rest is up to you. But in the future, there will be money and people in Akagi, and all the resources will be given priority to meet you, so I will have one condition, before August this year, I want to see the walls of the two counties break ground, is there a problem? ”

Wang Ming pondered, although there is a lot of silver and a lot of people, but for these two such big projects, it is really a drop in the bucket. But he also understands Qin Wang's difficulties, at this juncture, he really can't give him much help, and this is already Qin Wang's favoritism towards him, "According to the general's plan, the two cities are built with huge stones, and I'm worried that there won't be enough stones to provide at that time." Wang Ming glanced at Yang Da and said worriedly.

"Don't worry about this, Yang Da, I will also grant you 100,000 silver and 20,000 Qingzhuang, can you meet the needs of major engineering stones?" Qin Forget looked at Yang Da.

Yang Da was only in charge of the reclamation of the monkey's nest, but later the iron ore was discovered, the construction of the road was also put on the agenda, and Yang Da was also appointed as the director of the iron ore project. The first thing he did after accepting these two projects was to open the road to Chicheng County. In particular, the Monkey Back Ridge was bulldozed by him for more than a month, and dozens of miles of smooth roads were built, which could be used by two carriages to drive side by side, and the rocks and trees along the way turned into pieces of stones and timber.

"There should not be much of a problem, the reason why it was not available before, mainly because the transportation occupied a large number of labor, used to rely on the shoulder to carry the hand, now well, there are thousands of cattle, our transportation speed has increased hundreds of times, not to mention the liberation of 100,000 laborers, between this and the other, I dare not say, provide 10,000 pieces of stone every day, 50,000 pieces of wood is still not a problem." Yang Da roughly calculated and gave Qin Forget a number.

"Ten thousand?

When did you quarry so fast? Qin Forget was slightly surprised, you must know that it turned out that the same person, Yang Da was only able to provide a thousand stones.

"Hehe, this is thanks to Mr. Jin, the method he invented to blow up the mountain with firecrackers is extremely effective, and now we move mountains and build roads not like before, pick up a sledgehammer and smash it, we first use a big firecracker to blow it up, and then pick up a hammer to smash it, it's not a little faster." Yang Da smirked.

"Firecrackers blow up the mountain, what's going on with Jin Xu?" Qin Forget looked at Jin Xu curiously.

"It's also a coincidence, my subordinates have been trying to find the latest steelmaking method to improve the strength of the drill bit, but they have not been able to do it, but then my subordinates saw that there were fireworks and firecrackers for sale in Akagi, and suddenly thought that since explosives can blow up bamboo pipes, can enough explosives blow up stones? In fact, the general, the use of gunpowder today has a history of several decades, and now the cannon used in all armies in the world uses gunpowder, to put it bluntly, it is a big firecracker made of iron, and when it is ignited, the sound is shocking, the smoke of gunpowder is filled, and its sound can be heard dozens of miles away. Jin Xu told eloquently.

"Gunpowder, cannon." Qin Forget felt that he had faintly discovered something, but he couldn't catch it.

Since he can't figure it out for a while, don't think about it for the time being, but he will always keep it in mind, maybe when there will be a flash of inspiration, when the mouth suddenly opens, this has always been his habit of thinking about the problem, "How is it, how is the effect?" Qin Forget asked with interest about the gunpowder.

Jin Xu shook his head, "The effect is not very good, we don't have the secret recipe in our hands, so we can only buy a large number of firecrackers from the firecracker shop at a high price, and then disassemble the firecrackers and take out the gunpowder to use alone." I don't know if it's the problem of the gunpowder itself or our improper operation, when we blow up the mountain, we only see smoke and dust, but often can't blow up the stones, and there is often a dumb fire. ”

Hearing Jin Xu say the source of the gunpowder, Qin Forget was so angry that he almost vomited blood. This guy is really a loser, and firecrackers are definitely a luxury. Although he hadn't seen it, Qin Wangke knew that it was dangerous to make, it was not easy to transport and store, and more importantly, the secret recipe of gunpowder was the secret of the manufacturer, which led to the high price of firecrackers, and one was even worth two pieces of silver.

It is rumored in the world that when Cao Ziwen, the new emperor of Dayan, ascended the throne, an official spent more than 100,000 taels of silver in the capital and set off fireworks and firecrackers with half a burnt of incense, and Cao Ziwen was happy to give the official a three-level promotion, which shows how rare fireworks and firecrackers are. This Jin Xu is good, he directly used such a precious thing to blow up the mountain, and it was not gunpowder, but silver with white flowers. When the road is repaired, how much money will it cost? What's even more annoying is that these two guys actually say that sometimes they are dumb?

Qin Wang gritted his back molars hard, desperately suppressing the urge to beat these two goods to death, "What, how much silver did you spend on this gunpowder?" Qin Forget asked cautiously, for fear that the two of them would say how big the number was

The word made him unacceptable.

"Fortunately, it cost more than 10,000 taels. Didn't we have no money at that time? Yang Da estimated that he bought more than 5,000 firecrackers for two taels of silver, almost 10,000 taels.

"Well, it's fine." Although it is a bit much, Qin Forget can still accept it, these two goods are dead eyes who are dedicated to doing things, and they rarely think so much, he doesn't want to discourage the enthusiasm of the two.

He took a sip of tea, pondering what words could be used to allow them not to blow up the mountain with the too small gunpowder for the time being, but also not to discourage them.

"However, we booked 20,000 firecrackers from that merchant, and the boss saw a large amount, and the original two taels of silver were given to us, but now it has been changed to one tael or eight yuan, a total of 36,000 taels of silver." Qin Wang's tea hadn't been swallowed yet, Yang Da added.

"Poof!" Qin Forget squirted the tea out in one gulp, he couldn't help it anymore, these two goods were really stupid, "36,000 taels to buy 20,000 stuffy fart-like firecrackers, are your brains broken?" Even if you want to use gunpowder, can't you just buy gunpowder? It will also be cheaper, and it will be convenient to transport, you two fools, it's fun to dismantle firecrackers, isn't it? Qin Forget scolded with a slash on his face, Yang Da and the two of them were the old brothers who had been with Qin Forget for the longest time, and the other was his nephew, who was scolded by Qin Forget so much that he was squirting blood, shrugging his head, and not daring to let go of a fart.

The people in the hall looked at the appearance of the two, they wanted to laugh but didn't dare to laugh, these two superlative, down-to-earth and meticulous, but they just lacked a little flexibility, they were really two tendons.

Jin Cheng looked at his son being scolded by Qin Wang, his face was a little unbearable, but he was soon relieved, the four of them were sincerely loyal to Qin Wang, and it was purely normal to be scolded a few words. Second, Qin Wang's ability to scold his son like this also shows that Qin Wang's father and son are his confidants, and thirdly, his son, if he doesn't scold a few words, he still can't get the hang of it.

I have been a businessman all my life, why did I give birth to these three elm bumps.

Thinking of this, Jin Cheng smiled bitterly and shook his head.

Seeing the two of them hanging their heads and drooping their heads, Qin Wang's heart softened, in the end, they were the two most down-to-earth subordinates, although they were a little insufficient, but they were also flawed, and the key was to see how they were used.

"Okay, the thing is decided, I'll give you another 36,000 taels, the husband is in the world, and you can't lose your integrity." Qin Wangxin said softly, "Gunpowder is a good thing, but it is too expensive, we can't afford to use it, no country in the world can afford to use such a mountain and road construction." Let's stop using this, but Jin Xu, now that you know the benefits of gunpowder, you can calm down and study the formula for me, and I will also send someone to get the formula through various means. When we have a more powerful formula in Akagi, let's use it again, and now it really doesn't outweigh the losses. I'll let Mingyuetang pay attention to this. Qin Wangsoft said to Jin Xu.

"Yes, thank you, General!" Jin Xu and Yang Daxi were overjoyed.