"This thing has appeared when building the road from Chang'an to Luoyang, to put it bluntly, it was invented by Xiao, this time I just improved it, everyone, don't forget the secrecy I said" Xiao Zheng sounded the alarm again.

With the presence of concrete, the road slowly moves forward under the nose of the human eye, and the blue-gray pavement is extremely hard, not to mention, smoother than a mirror. When passing through some villages and towns, some curious people squatted down to look at this thing very carefully, and many people couldn't understand how the mud-like thing that was the day before turned into stone when they woke up from sleep.

Standing on the repaired pavement, looking at a few children rolling and playing not far away, Pei Mingli asked Xiao Zheng: "The lower officials don't understand, why don't adults bid like they buy grain, and why don't you let the rich businessmen here buy shares, but let me Datang Bank do it?" ”

Xiao Zheng said with a smile: "First, these businessmen are far less powerful than those grain merchants, and they can't be allowed to compete anymore. And the cement has just come out, and they won't offer it. As for the second question you asked, it's not that I don't want these rich businessmen to take shares, but that the person above will definitely be red-eyed when he sees the money we make from charging from Chang'an to Luoyang, and besides, we also have money this time, if I do this again, I'm worried that the person will be anxious when he sees too much money being made by others, and I Datang is also short of money now, extremely short of money."

"Your Excellency!" Pei Mingli said with a smile.

With the new concrete materials and the guidance of the old workers who came from Chang'an, the speed of road construction was obviously much faster. As for the lack of cement, send someone to find a suitable place with clay and limestone to burn in a kiln.

To Xiao Zheng's surprise, these craftsmen who guided the kiln did not rest on their laurels, but adjusted the formula at any time on the basis of the original, and now the finished product is not much worse than that of later generations from the perspective of Xiao Zheng's later generations, the only difference is the production equipment and output.

These businessmen from the Construction Chamber of Commerce were also very happy, they thought they could make some money by selling bricks and stones, but they didn't expect that this Lord Xiao didn't know where to get the cement. The bricks and stones did not make much money, but they made a lot of money on the kiln cement, and for a time the merchants led by Zeng Zhaoyi called and followed the God of Wealth.

He never doubted his ability and scale to operate bricks and stones, but he didn't expect that people didn't purchase these things in large quantities, and it was useless to unite several merchants to raise prices, and Yang Guang didn't reduce the price when he bought his things, but Xiao Zheng didn't buy it.

This thing can't be sold is garbage, but there is no way, he secretly went to the repaired road to take a look, the material used to build the road is a thing he has never seen before, and privately understands that it is the general manager of Jiangnan Province, Lord Xiao, who personally invented something called concrete.

Although the root of the tooth of hatred in my heart is itchy, there is nothing I can do.

Watching other people's families make money, they can't even see the oiliness, so a few accomplices don't do it. Seeing that a few of his younger brothers who came out with him kept complaining, Gong Dajun was also upset for a while, and if he really couldn't do it, he had to sell it at the original price, but the small family is to build a courtyard wall, who can buy so many materials.

"Shopkeeper Gong, why don't we go to Lord Xiao and admit our mistakes, no, let's join the construction chamber of commerce, I don't think Lord Xiao will be angry with me, right?" One of the shopkeepers said.

"Don't go! I want to go to your own house, I, Gong, am also the boss in this industry, and I can't afford to lose that person if I say it."

"I also went to see the thing called concrete, and the sand and stones in it were all gone, but I really didn't know what it was," said a man in a brocade robe.

"How could you know?! What was invented by that person, Lord Xiao, is now that we have stones in our hands, no one asks at all, and we are short on hand, alas."

"If only we had cement, looking at the road built so strong, some big families want to buy it, but people don't sell it! It is said that it is not enough to build roads, how can it be sold, I heard that the thing is also burned from the kiln, but I don't know how to burn it, if we can burn it, we will sell it" The person on the side sighed.

"You think beautifully, can you steal it?"

"Then we'll steal!" Gong Dajun gritted his teeth and said.

"Shopkeeper Gong, be cautious! Xiao Zheng, who is in charge of Jiangnan, is a close minister of the Son of Heaven, and when he went to Chang'an, he heard many times that he was extremely intelligent, and even the Turks were very afraid of him.

"Who said I was going to fight him, now that there are so many people burning the kiln, I still don't believe that these people are all tight-lipped, besides, why are we going?" Gong Dajun said with a smile.......

Xiao Zheng didn't know how to discuss these people, but at this time he was wandering around with a group of people on the road to repair.

"After this road is repaired, we will collect money by section, you will collect money for one mile when you walk one mile, pay for one mile when you walk one mile, pay for one hundred miles, only collect goods and not pedestrians, and build a few more branch roads in the future to connect all the wharves and ferries by the river," Xiao Zheng said while riding five flowers.

"My lord's suggestion, thank you for reminding me, why didn't the lower official think of this, the lower official will do it as soon as he goes back," Yan Lide said happily.

In addition to the road construction site is busy, the large swamp outside Yangzhou City is crowded, two or three months, two through the money and a Jiao skin under the stimulation, Yangzhou City around the adjacent swamp crocodile can no longer be seen, now want to catch Jiao to go to the depths of the lake, the near has long been caught by a fine light, even a crocodile egg can not be seen.

If there is no crocodile to threaten life, it will be easy to do, Xiao Zheng suddenly issued a notice, as long as the farmers who are idle have nothing to do, they will follow the government to open the river and repair the embankment, 500 wen a month.

If you don't want to ask for money, you can make 100,000 acres of land after dredging the river this time, and farmers in Yangzhou can come to farm. The government only pays grain according to 30 taxes and one tax, and the contract right will not change for 30 years, and the salary will be offset by the contract fee, as long as you want, anyone can come. but

The direct refusal of more than 300 acres of land at home is given priority to some poor peasants and landless peasant households. After the displaced people in the lake come out, they can also contract land for farming, and the government will register them on the spot.

When the news came out, the people of the prefectures and counties under the jurisdiction of Yangzhou were shaken, and some poor farmers came to sign up for the job, and the applicants were like a cloud for a while. Among them, there were also some bold tenant farmers and homeless people who secretly ran over to apply, and Xiao Zheng should not be able to see them and arrange work for these people.

After Ye Tianlin returned from Chang'an, he became a medical officer, leading a group of gentlemen to patrol back and forth on the construction sites of road and water conservancy every now and then to treat people, and by the way taught these people how to prevent and control schistosomiasis.

These farmers were greatly moved to see that there were still people to treat their injuries while working, and no one was lazy while they were working, but they worked hard under the command of the foreman.