To put it bluntly, the idea of a joint venture in Kuizhou can only be thought about first, but it cannot be done.

This is because Huang Jie, the current project of repairing the official road from Kuizhou to Padang, can only be regarded as a side game, and he still needs to see the results to figure out whether it will work or not.

After all, when he started "Huangguang Road", he had the support of his uncle behind him, and there was no doubt and pressure from the high-level of Huangzhou.

Therefore, the construction of Kuizhou can only be regarded as having a name first, and then slowly preparing for construction, but it is not in a hurry.

After the banquet, Huang Jie also hurriedly returned to his residence, and asked Fushou Yanmo to wait, and laid out the palace paper to write on it.

This time, Huang Jie's sparseness, the article is also direct, that is, "Begging for self-financing to repair the official road from Kuizhou to Badong County", sprinkled with more than 1,500 words, mainly talking about what he saw and heard along the way from Badong all the way to Wushan County and the Yanguan Road survey, including "five miles of road, bends over twenty", "rutted road from one, wrong car can not be avoided", "flood destruction, obstruction of difficult travel", in addition, the people along the way live in hardship, far less than the people along the official road in Huangzhou, Xiazhou and even Jiangling to make a living, the main reason is, of course, that "the road is obstructive, and the businessmen are less traveling", so since he, the official road envoy, has walked here, seeing such a situation, how can he do nothing.

happened to be fortunate enough to make friends with thirteen good businessmen in Kuizhou, and learned that Huang Jie intended to plan for the people in Kuizhou, so he voluntarily offered money and materials to repair the road, but Huang Jie was worried that "it was not in line with the law of the imperial court", so he borrowed 10,000 yuan and 2,000 stone of grain from Wushan County in the name of the official envoy, and borrowed 20,000 yuan and 3,000 stone of grain from the concubine's maiden family of Kuizhou. Recruit servants along the route to repair the road.

Among them, he did not forget to use more than 200 words as good words for the servants, and also mentioned that although the servants were poor and regarded as outsiders by the local government, the servants were actually tenacious and diligent, hard-working, and had a good inheritance in repairing and building roads. This time Huang Jie wanted to build a road, and the servants were also "moved by the news, and came with their own grain and grass, and were willing to drive them", so they asked Zhao Guanjia to allow him to use this self-raising method to start the construction of the official road from Kuizhou to Badong.

This article is only 1,500 words, Huang Jie wrote it all night, and only asked someone to send it to Wushan County early the next morning. Invited Wu Xian to correct the axe. Wu Xian took this article and read it for half an hour, so he didn't change a word on the joint name, and then directly used the fastest 400 miles of the county post to expedite it, and sent it directly to Kuizhou, Chengdu and Tokyo Bianliang in triplicate.

Huang Jie then sent letters to Guizhou and Xiazhou, detailing the matter, but in giving Tang Fu, the governor of Guizhou, and Lu Xun, the general judge, he particularly emphasized why this road was only built to Badong and not to Guizhou, this is because the cases of Cao Zhisi and Fan Zhisi have not yet had a final result. And the road was only built the year before returning to the state, so it is better to wait and see first.

Three days after that. Servants from all over the country still came one after another, and finally the number reached 6,000 people and a full 36 families, and in line with the idea that there is porridge for everyone to drink and meat for everyone to eat, the 12 sections of the road project were also newly subcontracted, and two or three villages with a large number of people were contracted to make a section. Three or four or four or five families in a small number of villages are involved in a section, but the amount of labor invested by each family has also been negotiated, and the strong labor invested in each project section does not exceed 2,000.

After that, it took another five days, Huang Jie personally led the elders, parents and craftsmen to carry out the drill training of the road repair and widening project in front of Wushan County.

The widening of the official road is regulated at 3 zhang 2 feet (9.6 meters). Dig three feet under the roadbed, lay a large piece of gravel one foot high at the bottom as the base, and then fill one and a half feet of covering soil tamping, and then lay a three-inch thick inch diameter gravel tamping level, and the top layer is laid with three inches of loess stirred and steamed triple soil tamped. A one-foot-wide drainage ditch was dug at the shoulder of the road, trees were planted, and a rest station was set up every five miles, a post station was set up every fifteen miles, and a service area was set up for thirty miles.

In addition, to build this road located on the edge of the Three Gorges, it is also necessary to consider the stones under the roadbed, and the treatment method is also simple, first of all, there is a ready-made iron wedge method available, that is, first use an iron drill to dig a shallow crack on the large mountain stone, and then use a hammer to drive the iron wedge into it at certain intervals, and use two rows of horizontal and vertical iron wedges to crack the stone into stones.

Then there is the ablation method, for large pieces of buried rocks, directly on the stone to set up a fire to burn, when the stone is burned hot, directly pour cold water on it, the stone will be naturally broken, and then the iron wedge method can be completely broken. It's just that this method is a bit time-consuming and labor-intensive, so Huang Jie directly requisitioned all the blacksmiths and ironsmiths in Wushan County, and negotiated 3,000 catties of iron from Wushan County to build 36 firebox cars.

The shape of the firebox car is also like a board car for pulling goods, but there is an iron box and a wooden box on the car, the iron box is the combustion chamber, and the front of the car is cast with iron to have a two-foot long, one-foot bottom mouth three-inch diameter of the cylindrical nozzle. The wooden box is a bellows, with four upper and lower four on both sides, eight wind chambers, which also adopts the principle of an inverted flame furnace, burning charcoal, firewood and charcoal in the combustion chamber, and then pushing the firebox car in front of the mountain stone that needs to be broken, and the fire nozzle is aimed at the mountain stone, pushing the bellows to blast and burn, which can quickly heat the mountain stone and then cool and crush.

After testing, it was learned that a buried stone with a diameter of about five feet needs to be burned on a fire for at least an hour to reach the temperature required for cooling and crushing, while it does not take a quarter of an hour to spray with a firebox car, and it is also flexible and mobile, saving fuel.

In addition, a few days earlier, the servants who were sent out to explore the materials used in Sanhe soil also came with news that suitable clay mines and white ash mines were found in various places, and several open-pit coal mines were also found.

After that, it was more than ten days of various preparations and preparations, and in the early morning of the eighth day of the eighth month of August, I saw three post guards carrying post flags rushing to the city, directly entering the city and handing over a cowhide letterhead to Wushan County Ling Wuxian, and opened it to see that it was actually two handwritten instructions from the officials, one was to Wu Xian, asking him to fully assist Huang Jie in acting, and the money and grain in the central government of Wushan County were "subject to his dispatch and expenditure". One is to Huang Jie, sprinkled more than 200 words, the core is that the naturalized servants are large, and they need to be cautious, as for using the servants to repair the road, it is also a good thing, just rest assured and bold to do it, Wushan County has been instructed to fully support, in addition, 30,000 yuan of grain and 2 million yuan will be transferred from Kuizhou to the road repair project.

Getting the official decree can be regarded as a reassuring pill, but looking at the two million yuan mentioned above to attract Huang Jie, he is not happy, although the money is still of some value at the moment, but there is no place to spend it. And the amount is so huge, I can't say what kind of trouble it will cause. (To be continued.) )