Li Feibai didn't care, and continued: "That's why I bought Tianxiang Building but didn't open the door to do business, I was waiting for it to be demolished and rebuilt." My ambition is not a small Tianxiang Building, if you want to build a tall one, to build a large restaurant integrating catering and accommodation. The restaurant I built is not a two-story restaurant, but a five- or six-story restaurant. The building material used is not lime used today, but cement. You just wait and see, when my restaurant is completed, it will definitely subvert people's imagination, and then the bricks produced by the brick cellar will be in short supply. ”

Tang Zilan was skeptical and said, "What is cement?" ”

Li Feibai said: "The so-called cement, at least it is lime, and at worst, it is a god that is hundreds of times stronger than lime." Lime can only build walls, cement can also build walls, and can also pave roads and bridges. Do you know why you just said that it costs tens of thousands of taels to build a mountain road, and I said that it only takes more than 10,000 taels? ”

Tang Zilan shook her head.

Li Feibai said: "Because of the road you said, the materials used are polished stones, and the money is spent on this, not to mention tens of thousands of taels, hundreds of thousands of taels are possible." And when I said to build roads, I only need to add cement and river sand and stones to stir it, smooth it on the ground, and cool it for a few days. The cement is self-produced, and the river sand and gravel are worthless, so the silver required will be lowered in one fell swoop. ”

Tang Zilan presented a picture in her mind, mixing white lime with sand and gravel, smoothing it on the smooth road surface, and after a few days of cooling. When it rained heavily, the car door was pressed, and the road immediately fell apart, and it was miserable.

She said, "Is this a strong road?" ”

Li Feibai said: "Sturdy! Twenty pounds of sledgehammer can smash the stone to pieces, and smash it on the cement pavement, which can only smash a white mark. However, the formula of how to burn cement is very difficult, and the main needs are bluestone and cement, as well as burning fuel refined coal. It just so happened that these things were available in Xiapan Village, so I built the factory there. As for road construction, it is important to transport things out, but more importantly, I want to experiment with the formula of firing cement. The best way to test whether cement can really be strong is to build roads. ”

Tang Zilan listened to Li Feibai's words with a few new terms, and it was the first time she had heard them, but it was not difficult to understand, and she could understand the meaning after thinking about it. She has long been surprised by the new terms that pop up in Li Feibai's mouth from time to time, and now she is not surprised, but she is most concerned about whether cement can be made or not. "What you said is true?" Is cement really so powerful? ”

Li Feibai said: "It's not powerful, you'll know when the time comes." ”

Tang Zilan said: "Can you really burn it out?" ”

Li Feibai said: "It can definitely be burned!" ”

Tang Zilan was full of confidence when she heard Li Feibai's answer, and she believed that Li Feibai could burn cement, and said with a smile: "You have done three kinds of business in Xiapan Village, and the stone carving factory was done before me, so I won't say anything." Brick and tile factory and cement factory, we are one and a half! I admit that I lost money, and I made money equally. ”

Li Feibai has always been a mouthful of spit and a nail, and his words have not counted. What's more, Tang Zilan can trust him and come out with so much money to cooperate with him, he is very grateful, and he reserved Tang Zilan's shares before the factory was built, how can he say the word "no". Said: "The brick and tile factory and the cement factory, to make money should be next year, because the bricks and cement produced in advance have to be used by ourselves, and how can we make money if we don't sell them." However, you are not optimistic, and you think that the coal cellars and iron smelting plants that must be paid will not be able to make money in a few days! ”

When he said this, he raised his eyes to look at Tang Zilan, only to see that Tang Zilan's face was flushed, and he looked like his soul was flying out of the sky, and he didn't know what he was thinking, anyway, he didn't listen to him at all. He was bored all of a sudden, so he shut up, stood aside and waited quietly for Tang Zilan to come back to his senses, and said secretly in his heart: "I don't know what I'm thinking, I think so distractedly." Just now I complained about my loser, but at this time, I didn't care how I made the coal cellar iron smelting turn the loss into a win. ”

If he knew what Tang Zilan was thinking, he was afraid that he couldn't help but laugh and scold: "I didn't even blink an eye when I took out 300,000 taels of silver from you, and I thought you were a heroine who regarded money as dung." I really didn't see that you were a super invincible little money fan. ”

Tang Zilan heard Li Feibai say that the road built with cement was so strong, and her greed suddenly rose. She is not like Li Feibai, she only thinks about using cement to build roads, she thinks about using cement to build city walls.

The city wall of the Ming Dynasty, are inside for the rammer, the outside is the blue brick, by the rain and wind, will always collapse, regardless of the big city or small county, the annual cost of repair, less than hundreds of thousands of taels, more than tens of thousands of taels. Moreover, these walls are not very strong, and they will be damaged by artillery bombardment and throwing stones.

If the cement pavement can't be smashed with a sledgehammer to make a white mark, then the cement city wall will definitely leave only a white mark when it is bombarded with stones. Such a good material for repairing the city, who doesn't use it?

How many prefectures, states, and counties in the world, if the city walls of each prefecture, every state and every county are repaired with cement, and a city wall earns 10,000 taels, it is a business of tens of millions of taels, not to mention that a city wall earns more than 10,000 taels, such a big business is beyond the reach of her father.

She smiled proudly, and came back to her senses to see Li Feibai staring at her, and she was embarrassed for a while. Thinking about the appearance of almost drooling just now, it is really not good-looking, it is too embarrassing to be seen by Li Feibaiquan!

Tang Zilan coughed lightly, slightly concealed her embarrassment, and said, "Let's go up!" ”

Li Feibai nodded in agreement and said, "You go to the yamen to pull the silver, or the yamen comes here to deposit the silver, Zhao Xuefei and Lord Zhao have sent the coal cellar and the sales contract of the iron smelting station." ”

Tang Zilan said: "It's sent!" ”

Li Feibai said: "That's good, save me from going to the county office tomorrow." Then he said, "Tomorrow you call a few men and come with me to Kejing Township for a run." ”

Since Tang Zilan understands that cement is a big deal, she doesn't care that the coal cellar and iron smelting are a money-losing business, and said with a smile: "What are you doing?" Go and give money to the craftsmen? Do you need to hire a few big cars to carry tens of thousands of taels of silver? ”

Li Feibai said: "Why are you carrying silver?" I'm going to let them save money, what are you going to do with the money? Just grab some storage notes. ”

Tang Zilan smiled and didn't say anything. The two of them walked out of the cellar one after the other, and Li Feibai immediately saw the old beggar sitting in front of the stone bench, and his spirit couldn't help but be shocked, and said: "Your old man is here, I thought you wouldn't come?" ”

The old beggar smiled and said, "It's really hard to find you!" If it weren't for the corner of the wall still leaning on the signboard of Li Ji's stone carving shop, I would have walked around the county seat and left. ”

Li Feibai saw that Hou Yanmin was lukewarm to the old beggar, so he knew that Hou Yanmin didn't know the identity of the old beggar, so he stretched out his hand to pull Hou Yanmin and wanted to introduce the two to each other.

Hou Yanmin stretched out his hand and said coldly, "What are you doing?" Do I know you well? Pulling and pulling in front of the public, what kind of system. ”