Li Feibai said: "You must get 12,000 taels!" ”

Liu Yangming was stunned, and Ma Kun was also stunned.

People in the world only hate themselves for spending more money, and how can they hate for spending less money. Li Feibai: What does this mean? Obviously two or three thousand taels can do a good thing, why do you have to spend twelve thousand taels?

Li Feibai saw the doubts of the two, raised the bowl and touched the two, and the three of them drank it all.

Then he said, "Why do I need to spend twelve thousand taels?" First, building roads is a chore, and giving people one or two pieces of silver, to say no, at least two taels of silver. Second, it is very dangerous to build roads in the mountains, and death and injury are inevitable. If you die, and everyone is gone, you can't compensate people for one or two hundred taels? If you are injured, you may not be able to do manual work in this life, you are all farmers, and if you work hard to eat, it is equivalent to ruining the livelihood of others, you must not lose some money, so that people have a dependence for the rest of their lives? ”

He pointed at Liu Yangming, and then said: "I want to build the road, but I don't know the people who build the road, so I ordered Liu Lichang's general." Liu Lichang agreed without saying a word, and he worked hard and took many risks, you let the family not make any money, you can't say it! Perhaps, this time people have built the road for me in the sake of face, and next time I want to repair the road, are you embarrassed to find someone? So, it's necessary to earn a little, do you say it's Liu Lichang? ”

Liu Yangming choked unconsciously. I've never seen people from above come down, I want this and that, I just hate that I can't use you up, how have I seen people above think about people below so much. He gave a thumbs up and said, "Master Li is really benevolent and righteous!" ”

Li Feibai waved his hand and said: "What kind of benevolence and righteousness, just do things according to your conscience!" Also, the forced servants can't do it in vain. Even if it is their duty to go to build roads, they must also give one or two odds, and as for the remaining one or two, they can go into the inner tent. In this way, there will be money to pay off the debt! ”

Liu Yangming didn't expect that in the end, Li Feibai would fall on the matter of arrears in the inner room, and he was even more moved, and said: "Lord Li is really thoughtful, I don't know when this road will be repaired." ”

Li Feibai said: "You hire someone to level the road first, and in January, I will send the silver of the month." However, we have to say it first, and if the road is repaired to my satisfaction, everything is easy to say. If you dare to deal with it and build a tofu scum road, don't blame me for being ruthless and ruthless. ”

Liu Yangming's heart sank, and he said: "As long as Master Li supplies paving stones in time, I will definitely repair the road to your satisfaction." ”

Li Feibai said: "I can't promise the stone, I will use another way to build the road." ”

Liu Yangming said: "What way? ”

Li Feibai smiled: "You'll know then!" ”

The three of them drank for a while, and Liu Yangming got up to accuse and went to the thatched house.

Ma Kun endured it for a long time, but finally he couldn't hold back, and took this opportunity to say: "In order to transport the stone lion out of Xiapan Village, a special road is built, is it worth it?" ”

Li Feibai said: "It's worth it!" He smiled and said, "If you want to get rich, build roads first." Have fewer children, more trees! ”

Ma Kun listened to this inexplicable sentence and fell into deep thought. Spend a huge amount of money to build a road for Xiapan Village, and a fool will know that it is not worth it, why would Li Feibai say that it is worth it? How did he know that Li Feibai had to spend a huge amount of money to build a road for Xiapan Village, and he had other plans.

If it is just to transport the carved stone lion outside the city and spend a huge amount of money to build a road in Xiapan Village, it is definitely not worth it! Li Feibai wouldn't do that! Therefore, to build roads, it is necessary to transport two things that are more important than stone lions.

The village is surrounded by mountains and rocks, including two bluestone mountains and a heavily weathered clay mountain, in addition to a mountain made of almost black jade-like stones.

The people of Xiapan Village only know that the black jade stone mountain is a treasure, and they can use it to make money by carving stones, and the other bluestone mountains and clay mountains are useless and worthless in their eyes. Li Feibai knew that the Black Jade Mountain was a treasure, and the Bluestone Mountain and the Clay Mountain were even more treasures.

Clay was of little use in the eyes of Xiapan Village, but in Li Feibai's eyes, it could come in handy. First of all, it can be fired into bricks, and secondly, it can be mixed with bluestone, that is, limestone, to make cement.

It is said that Li Feibai could not know how cement is made, but it is so coincidental. Before he crossed, he once went into the mountains to play, and saw a small cement factory with his own family, so he went to walk around it when he was idle.

When the old man saw that he was young, he smoked the cigarette he had handed him, and let him visit. After turning around, he understood that this was a small factory that made fake cement. Because the process is not up to par, just grind the limestone, and then dry and grind the sticky, mix the two materials, put them in the furnace and burn them, and then pretend to be Dachang cement to be sold out.

Because it does not meet the national standard and is pretending to be a big brand of cement, the cement produced by this small factory is defined as fake cement. But after all, it is cement, which is hundreds of times stronger than the lime commonly used in Damingtong.

If nothing else, how much cement does it take to build a house and build a road?

If there was only clay and bluestone, Li Feibai would not think about building a brick factory and a cement factory in Xiapan Village, which is beautiful, and there is a natural coal cave in the mountains not far from Xiapan Village. It is unknown how much coal there is, but it is still enough to support the brick factory and cement stone.

With masonry and cement, the bricks and cement made have to be shipped out. How can these things be transported out without building roads? Therefore, the road must be repaired.

Liu Yangming returned from the thatched house, and the three of them drank another bowl of wine.

Li Feibai patted Liu Yangming's shoulder, and said with a little drunkenness: "Brother Liu, when building roads, remember that this is not a one-shot deal, we must take a long-term view and sum up more experience, so that we can build roads better and faster in the future." You must know that what you are building is not the road from Xiapan Village to Wangwu Township, but the road of the entire Ming Dynasty that you will build in the future! ”

Liu Yangming and Ma Kun looked at each other and smiled, both feeling that Li Feibai had drunk too much. If you don't drink too much, how can you say that you are building the entire Ming Road. The two of them pondered whether it was time to end the meal, when a big man broke in, looked around, frowned, and muttered: "This restaurant is too small, not enough to sit!" ”

He grabbed Li Feibai in two steps, threw a small piece of silver on the table, about two or two heavy, and shouted: "My master wants to eat, you take the silver and hurry up to make a seat." ”

Li Fei was full of white wine and food, and he was about to leave, but it can be seen that the people who came were arrogant and very unhappy. took out a piece of silver from his arms, threw it on the table, and said, "Take the silver and leave quickly, don't disturb your family to eat!" ”

At this time, a few more big men came in, and they immediately surrounded the table of Li Feibai and the others. These people are obviously different from the big man who came in before, although they didn't speak, their eyes were murderous, making people look at each other, and they couldn't help but tremble, and quickly avoided their gaze, not daring to look directly at them!

One of the several big men came in and said, "Old Sun, what's the situation?" ”

The one who came first replied: "These guys who have no eyes, I kindly let them avoid them, and give them two taels of silver as compensation." But they kindly treated it as a donkey's liver and lungs, and gave me three taels of silver, so that we could change to another family to eat. Damn, looking at the whole broken street, how can there be any other house except this broken restaurant, if there is another one, who will come to this. I think I will tie up the three of them and lock them in the backyard house first, and then release them when the old man has finished eating. Lest you collide with the master, or try to assassinate, it is not your responsibility that you and I can afford. ”

The big man who spoke couldn't help frowning, and said in his heart: "The old man has already explained, this time it is a micro-service, and he will not let his whereabouts be revealed." How did this old grandson do it, didn't he reveal all his identities in this way? What a fool who doesn't do enough and loses. He arched his hand at Li Feibai and said, "Please make it convenient!" ”