Yang He asked Minister Yang to be like a military affairs hall, and there was also a planning office under the hall to count and budget a year's acres of land, reclamation, harvesting, and manpower expenses, and his household affairs hall also had a heavy task, and this year he had to repair farms, livestock farms, fertilizer factories, and pesticide factories. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info

The development of Zhuangzi cannot all rely on plunder, but also needs to farm by itself and form the ability to operate itself, which is the real move to consolidate the foundation and cultivate the yuan.

After all, he Yang He is not a rogue.

Finally, there is the Public Works Hall, which is also a key department of Xin'anzhuang.

"At present, there is only one public building office under the public works hall, which is far from enough, and four more planning offices, camp offices, water conservancy offices, and transportation offices will be added first."

Yang He looked at Zhang Chugong and said: "The camp is in charge of the construction of various civil engineering projects such as city walls, warehouse kilns, barracks, altar temples, and government offices. Water conservancy institute, construction of various water conservancy canals. Traffic station, construction of various types of roads and bridges ......"

Yang He pondered for a while, together with the Zhang Zhugong brothers, there are only sixteen craftsmen in the village, and there are only five blacksmiths, one bricklayer, two carpenters, two part-time gunpowder makers, and the remaining six potters and billet masters.

The construction of water conservancy bridges is not an ordinary technical work, or to build a brick kiln, there must be professional craftsmen.

Compared with the skilled workers in later generations, it was too difficult to find skilled workers in this era.

Fortunately, according to statistics, there are also fifteen households of carpenters, stonemasons, bricklayers, plasterers, and three households of blacksmiths in Suining.

These craftsmen can be recruited, but large projects cannot be carried out, and some ditches, brick kilns, and lime kilns can still be built.

As for mining and iron smelting and hydraulic stamping, there is no smelting workshop, so forget it for the time being.

"Therefore, the Public Works Hall also needs to recruit manpower, a total of 500 road workers, water conservancy teams, and battalion construction teams."

Yang He looked at Zhang Chugong and said solemnly.

This area has a population of nearly 10,000 people, and there are 2,300 young and strong people, but after the Xiangyong, the ploughing team, and the public works hall have recruited a total of 1,500 people, there are not many young and strong people left.

These young and strong people are included in the lineage, which means that this area of villages is firmly controlled by Xin'anzhuang.

At present, the situation faced by the public works hall is not complicated, after all, there is no major civil engineering construction, but it is on the road that Yang He has high hopes for......

The road conditions in this era are very poor, that is, Tongjing Avenue, the sunny day is also flying sand covering the sky, the throat is confused, the loose soil road is repeatedly tossed and turned by thousands of wheels, potholes, bumps and tilts, enough to make people's muscles and bones soft.

The rainy days are even worse, when it rains, the mud is okay, usually the road is gone, and the road surface becomes a river.

In fact, at this time, there is also a "stacked road" technology, that is, the low-lying area uses a high roadbed, and even the soft soil area uses straw to pave the bottom of the road, but after all, there are few.

In general, there are no roadbeds or drainage ditches, and for thousands of years, roads have often been lower than the sides of the road, even several meters lower.

You can imagine what this kind of road surface will look like when it rains.

If you want to be rich, don't talk about the slogan of building roads first, spring is coming soon, think about the roads you will walk on in the future, and if you step on it, the mud will even reach the waist of people's thighs, Yang He will shudder.

Basic traffic walking is still required, so Yang He plans to repair and harden the roads from Xin'anzhuang to Xin'anji and from Xin'anzhuang to Jiaoshanzhuang.

"How much does it cost to build a bluestone slab avenue now, as well as ordinary rammed earth roads and gravel roads?"

Yang He questioned everyone in the room.

Minister Yang and the others looked at each other, to be honest, they had never cared about this issue, and they would also have to learn these civil affairs matters in the future, Zhang Zhugong showed a look of shame, which he was not aware of.

Qi Youxin coughed and said softly: "Xianggong, the villain knows a little bit about it." ”

He said: "If you build a rammed earth road, the main thing is to take soil, and you need old soil, and this kind of sandy loam soil is not good. Generally speaking, the old soil is one zhang wide, one foot high is one side, counting four jobs, the soil is close to each industrial silver three points, the nearest one is two points, and the soil is far away is four points. Of course, there are also lime, mud and water, and sand costs. Now the price of snail shell ash is about five cents per stone, and each large worker needs one penny and five cents of silver, and the small worker needs eight cents of silver......"

Qi Youxin said: "If you use bluestone slabs to pave the road, the price will vary from south to south and north of the Yangtze River." I heard that there are many stones in the mountains in the south of the Yangtze River, and each zhang quarries three coins of silver, and if the villain's Bozhou land, because of the lack of mountain stones, each zhang of stone strips will cost five coins and nine cents of silver. If there is a river along the way, to erect a stone bridge, it is necessary to use a medium stone bar and a large stone bar, the middle stone bar is worth seven dollars of silver per zhang, and the price of a large stone bar is nine dollars of silver per zhang. ”

He said: "There is also a gravel paving road, this villain is not very clear, but at that time, the east gate of Bozhou was changed, the road was one zhang and two feet wide, a total of one hundred and sixty-seven zhang and three feet long, and 53,000 pieces of gravel were used, and the price per 10,000 taels of silver was four taels. Pave the road with gravel, and also pave the bottom with rammed earth, add snail shell ash, and the size of the muddy water and food silver. ”

He finally said: "There are also bricks to pave the road, better than bluestone slabs, but very expensive, the price of each brick is about five cents of silver, at that time Bozhou repaired the city, the city wall is one zhang wide, with two hundred and sixty bricks, the silver consumption is 13 taels. A total of more than 200 and 400 zhang of horse roads were repaired, and 62,400 bricks were used, and 3,120 taels of silver were counted. ”

Everyone in the room was amazed when they heard it, and they all looked at Qi Youxin with admiration, and sure enough, the person who had been the chief was different.

Yang He also smiled and nodded, after the New Year, Qi Youxin's temperament and image have changed, one less slippery and two more stable.

Sure enough, it was right to put him in the council hall.

He took out a pencil and calculated on a board, first of all, the brick road was eliminated, the road was three meters wide and six hundred meters long, and the brick material cost was more than 3,000 taels, where did he get so much silver? Although this kind of road looks better than the cement road and bluestone pavement.

The rammed earth road still looks cheap, more than 30 centimeters thick, three square meters are only four cents of silver, the soil cost of a mile road is less than seven taels of silver, plus lime, mud and sand, workers eat and drink and take the fee, repair a mile of road, will not exceed 30 taels of silver.

It's also the cheapest road in this era.

It's just that this kind of pavement needs to be maintained from time to time, and the official roads used to be rammed earth roads, what has become of them now?

Moreover, when it rains on this kind of road, it will inevitably have potholes and mud after a long time, and Yang He hates all dirt roads.

Put it on for now.

The gravel road is also OK, at least Yang He knows, after the West entered the middle of the eighteenth century, the basic use of gravel to build the road surface, at the beginning of the nineteenth century, the Englishman Mark Dang created a successful water crushed stone pavement, called the Mark Dang pavement, formed the standard of European countries.

Then it was introduced to China, and at the beginning of the twentieth century, the pavement was built with mud and gravel, which had certain characteristics, and on this basis, it was developed into a graded pavement.

This kind of gravel road is also made of rammed earth with stones, but instead of the previous method of paving large stones with a flat bottom on the soil foundation and then laying dense gravel on top of them, the road is compacted with a whole layer of similar size gravel paving.

A principle of interlocking edges and corners.

It's just that this kind of road has high requirements for the size of gravel particles, and the top layer, or even the size of each gravel, cannot exceed three centimeters.

Without the stone crushing equipment, Yang River found it quite difficult, and had to use the mud gravel pavement created in China in the early 20th century.

The top layer uses clay, lime, and fine sand as the binder material.

In terms of materials, the road is one foot and two feet wide, that is, four meters, which is basically enough, and in terms of gravel, because Yanghe is ready to use roadbeds, drainage ditches, and arch structures with high middle and low on both sides, the gravel materials used will be more.

One mile down, the gravel material to be used may be tens of thousands more, but in general, to build a mile of gravel road, sixty or seventy taels of silver can be taken down.

Of course, this kind of road also needs to be maintained from time to time, but it is much better than a rammed earth road.

Yang He also decided that either no roads should be built, or at least gravel roads.

According to the number of stages, the gravel road with a width of four meters and a roadbed, drainage ditch, and arch can be regarded as a secondary road.

Finally, there is the bluestone avenue.

On the basis of rammed earth and gravel, pave large stone strips and stone slabs, there are quite a lot of bluestone slabs in the south of the Yangtze River, avenues, hundreds of years down, these bluestone slabs are still strong, especially the years, the baptism of rain, each slate grinds bright like a mirror, it is tempting.

However, paving with bluestone slabs, the price is not cheap, especially in the north of the river, there are few mountains, it is difficult to mine and beat stones, and each zhang of stone is at least five dollars and nine cents of silver.

The road surface is four meters wide and one mile long, and the material cost of the bluestone slab is almost 100 taels.

There are other seven, seven, eight, eight, clay, lime, fine sand, gravel, the laborers' food, drink and wages, in the flat land is fine, if you want to open the bridge and open the mountain, etc., to build a mile of evergreen stone avenue, at least more than 150 taels of silver.

Yang He budgeted to build a bluestone road one mile long and four meters wide, and two hundred taels of silver.

For this kind of graded road, the Yanghe River is designated as a first-class highway.

Putting down the pencil, Yang He sighed, he planned to build a first-class road from Xin'anzhuang to Xin'anji, and from Xin'anzhuang to Jiaoshanzhuang, but according to the budget, it would cost at least six thousand taels of silver.

No wonder the pace of life in ancient times was extremely slow, and it couldn't change a trace for hundreds of years, and six thousand taels of silver couldn't be taken out in a single county in Suining.

There is simply no budget for this.

In this era, the construction of bridges and roads is to mobilize the gentry to donate, but in fact, how much silver do ordinary gentry have? Their savings are calculated on the basis of a hundred years, and they have been snatched from generation to generation, and the family wealth that can accumulate 1,000 taels is very good.

Therefore, the good people who built bridges and roads in this era were lucky to be erected temples and monuments, and unlucky to be slandered and invited to buy people's hearts.

It is true that in this era, building bridges and repairing roads can gain too many people's hearts.

Yang He actually thought about building a cement road, but just thinking about it, cement is insignificant in later generations, and this era is afraid that it is extremely precious.

According to Yanghe's knowledge, the cement predator in the late Qing Dynasty, Qixin Ash Company, invested 1 million silver dollars when the factory opened, had 4,000 workers, and had a large number of advanced equipment, such as rotary kilns, raw meal mills, cement mills, etc., with a daily output of only about 700 barrels, 340 catties per barrel, and more than 100 tons a day.

The price is a barrel of silver four taels, which is cheap, and when it is expensive, a barrel of silver is seven taels and two dollars.

According to the most basic rural cement road in later generations, three or four meters wide and one kilometer long, not to mention the sand and gravel, the amount of cement alone will not be less than 400 tons.

Not to mention whether Yang He has this technology to produce cement, whether he has the ability to supply, even if he has this production capacity, according to the cheapest price of Qixin Ash Company, a ton of cement is twenty-four taels of silver, and he will spend 9,600 taels of silver to build a kilometer of road, and the cement materials alone will cost 9,600 taels of silver.

So even if he produces some cement in the future, he won't use it for paving.

……

"That's it, just build a bluestone avenue, from Xin'anzhuang to Xin'anji, and there is a road from Xin'anzhuang to Jiaoshanzhuang."

Yang He said to Zhang Chugong: "You have a planning office under the public affairs hall, first recruit people, and then count the cost of building the road and the labor and food, and then report it, if there is no problem, let the household affairs hall allocate funds and allocate food." Start repairing in time, be sure to Seiko. ”

Zhang Zhugong responded excitedly, and everyone in the room also showed excitement and excitement.

When Yang Xianggong inquired earlier, they had a hunch that Yang Xianggong planned to build the road.

Sure enough, it is still a bluestone slab avenue that no one can dream of.

Building roads, for this era, can be described as a big thing, many people look forward to it all their lives, for a while the house is like a pot of porridge, it is Minister Yang, Han Daxia, Chen Qiuao and others who are in charge of order, are surprised and discuss with the surrounding people.

Yang Chunliang, the director of the Gongtun Office, was even more tearful: "Repair the road, or the bluestone road, I think the old man is in Bozhou, and the surrounding official roads have not been repaired for hundreds of years. ”

Luo Xianjue smiled and said something to Yang Qian, and Hu Yiyi said happily to Zhang Chuxun: "Zhuangzi is getting better and better." ”

Zhang Chuxun nodded vigorously, and the second brother next to him, Zhang Chujing, grinned widely, smiling so much that he couldn't see his teeth.

Qi Youxin and Yan Dezheng next to him exclaimed a few words, he looked at Yang Xianggong at the top, a young man under twenty, but that calmness, that calmness, and the brilliance of wisdom in his eyes were in stark contrast to the excited people below.

His heart shook, did Yang Xianggong feel that this matter was insignificant, or did he not understand the profound meaning of building bridges and paving roads?

He remembered the first time he saw Yang Xianggong in Du Wei, to be honest, he just wanted to have a life to rely on at that time.

But along the way, Yang Xianggong's kind of command, that kind of well-informed, and that kind of both civil and military skills always made Qi Youxin secretly frightened, such a wise figure, how could a small county town be born? It really made Qi Youxin puzzled.

Now Yang Xianggong is leading everyone to quell the surrounding bandits, and they are going to start reclamation, and even build roads, all kinds of people's livelihood operations, do you know what this means?

Yang He stared at the detailed plan on the board, wrote a few data on it, and pondered.

He does not intend to engage in the low-productivity method of dividing the fields into households, but there are people in the surrounding area, and there will be a large number of displaced people who will come to defect in the future, and the population will be resettled, men and women will need to work, and infrastructure construction will be a very good and effective way to promote employment.

He doesn't mind spending some silver, and the flow of silver is a river of wealth, flowing out and flowing in, and the flowing water does not rot.

It's not in circulation, it's just a pile of useless stones.

However, the result is that in the future, under his command, he will either be a soldier or a professional armed worker.

The sewing workshop, the ordnance workshop, the gunpowder workshop, the ploughing team, the river work team, and the road work team are all workers, all of them are militarized management, and I am afraid that even if women are pulled out, they can fight wars, and together with professional soldiers, they will definitely be able to form a super-organized group.

Then defeat all the scattered, backward agrarian organizations.

And now Xin'anzhuang's methods are somewhat similar to the operation of large company groups in later generations, and Yang He also has a feeling that he is the chairman and president.

Perhaps in the future, Xinanzhuang will become an existence similar to the East India Company.

and even become a stronger organization than that.

Not to mention the Ming government, which has now fallen into anarchy, is the slave robbery tribe - the Manchu Qing - is far from being comparable to its own group.

Their ability to mobilize is far from their own.

What will this unity become in the future?

Monopoly capitalism?

Militarist groups?

Yang He was interested.

And when he was pondering, he suddenly heard Qi Youxin say in a trembling voice: "Xianggong saving me is equal to fire and water, so that everyone can have clothes to wear, food to eat, and a house to live in the village, and now they have to build roads to benefit more people, what is Xianggong for?" ”

For a while, there was silence in the house, and all the people looked at Yang He.

All of them have all kinds of things floating in their hearts, the pain when they fled, the desolation along the way, the white bones, thousands of miles of uninhabited, cannibalism.

But now, they live and work in peace and contentment in the village, eat enough every day, sleep in the warm kang every day, and are peaceful and happy.

This kind of life, not to mention the troubled times, is not as good as the prosperous times.

In the prosperous world, can you eat enough every day?

Now Yang Xianggong still has to build roads to benefit more people, not to mention his incredible talents, why is he so compassionate to the world? Boundless love?

Yang He was also stunned by Qi Youxin's question, and he muttered: "Yes, for what ......?"

He did all kinds of things, just to survive in the troubled times, and then subconsciously thought that it was not natural to make the life of the people around him better?

It's just that they are fed, warmly clothed, and have a room to live in.

Isn't it the most basic condition to let the people around you work?

He smiled and looked at Qi Youxin and the people in the house: "Isn't it the most basic livelihood welfare to have enough food, clothing, warmth, and convenient roads for travel?" What's all the fuss? ”

Like nine days of thunder, everyone in the house was stunned, and many people opened their mouths wide, it turned out that in Yang Xianggong's heart, the heavenly days of Xin'anzhuang were just basic livelihood benefits?

Qi Youxin's eyes widened, and he looked at everyone in the room.

He looked around, and saw that Zhang Songtao also looked at himself, and the eyes of both of them were shining.

The two looked at each other, and from each other's eyes, they both read a sentence: "The saint has come to the world." (To be continued.) )