In ancient times, if the rich wanted to gain a good reputation, there were only a few ways to build roads, build bridges, and give porridge, but in the Han Kingdom, the latter two ways no longer worked. Pen, fun, and www.biquge.info

Building a small bridge doesn't have much impact, and building a bridge doesn't have that technology, and soup kitchens are of no use at all, because the people of the Han Kingdom can eat enough.

Now, however, the rich have found a way to gain a good reputation, and that is to build roads.

In ancient times, road construction was just to smooth the dirt road, or better to pave a layer of small stones, and most of the roads did not have names, how could the rich people who built the roads get fame?

Now it's different, as long as the rich donate money to build the road, the name of the road has been given before the repair, and when the road is completed, a stone tablet will be erected at both ends of the road, which will be engraved with the name of the road, and will also be engraved with the time of the road, etc., everyone who passes by this road will notice the name of the road engraved on the stone tablet erected by the road, and from the name you can know who built the road, or for whom.

Building roads can make the rich get a good reputation, just look at Gao Deli and have money to prosper, so the rich people rushed to build roads, and the most wanted to taste the benefits was the Lushan County Government, and the rich people in Lushan County went to the Lushan County Government to ask about donations to repair the road, which made the Lushan County Government overjoyed.

It's just that the next thing makes the Lushan County Government a little distressed.

Are there many rich people in Lushan County?

Many!

Basically, there will be a few rich people in every town in Lushan County, and there are many rich people in the county seat of Lushan County, and those rich people who have done a lot of evil in the past are either dead or punished to do coolies, and the rest of the rich people are relatively good, and most of them are willing to spend money to buy a reputation.

For the rich, no matter how much money is just a number, it is far less important than fame, especially for businessmen, if a person's reputation is not very good, then other businessmen do not like to do business with him, so the rich are particularly concerned about their reputation, spending money to build roads is just a small thing, and there is no money to make more.

It's just that there are only nine towns in Lushan County, and there are only seven roads from the town to the county seat, of which three have already been booked by Qian Xingye, and only four are left for other rich people to choose.

In desperation, some wealthy people have no choice but to build secondary roads.

Roads are also graded in primary and secondary grades.

The first class is the road between cities, the second class is the road between cities, the third class is the road between counties, the fourth class is the road between counties, the fifth class is the road between towns, the sixth class is the road between towns, and the seventh class is the road between villages.

The first third-class roads are built by the state, and the last fourth-class private individuals can donate money to build them.

In fact, even if the first third-class highway is handed over to private people to build, there are few private individuals in the Han Kingdom who can afford to build it, after all, the road is too long, even the cost of building a third-class highway is many times higher than the cost of building a fourth-class highway, and the requirements for building various grades of roads are different, the first-class highway is of course the best, and the seventh-class highway is the second.

Since the fourth-class highway cannot be grabbed, some rich people who feel that their financial resources are slightly inferior will choose the fifth-class highway, if they choose it late, there is not even a fifth-class highway, so they can only choose the sixth-class highway and the seventh-class highway.

This is not what the rich want, after all, the lower the grade of the road, the fewer pedestrians, the less reputation the road has, and in the end the rich do not get much reputation, but in the end there is better than nothing, even if it is only the worst seventh-class highway.

Similar to Lushan County, other counties and cities in the Han Kingdom have started a storm of donating money to build roads, and the rich people are scrambling to donate money to build roads, which makes governments at all levels happy.

In fact, no matter where they are, people have a kind of comparison heart, and the same is true for the rich.

Some rich people in various places started to donate money to build roads, so that these rich people gained fame, and the rich people in the same area looked at it, donating money to build roads to earn fame, how could a good thing be for you to occupy, this is not good, I also want to donate money to build roads, and build one more than you, but you can't be compared.

So, this rich man donated money to build a highway named after himself, that rich man donated money to build two roads named after his parents, and even a rich man built several roads, even named after his grandparents, but the latter built a sixth or even seventh class road, otherwise he would not have been able to spend so much money to build a better road.

In this way, the rich compare, the last four levels of roads in each region are rushed by the rich people to donate money to build, for the sake of comparison, but also for their own reputation, they don't want to hear "others donate money to build roads, why don't you donate money to build roads" like this, if others build roads, he does not build roads, but his reputation will be reduced, for the sake of fame, even if there is no money in his hands for the time being, he must grit his teeth and raise a sum of money to build a road.

In two years, the Han Kingdom planned to build 22,000 kilometers of highways to connect the various cities in the Han Kingdom by road.

From the beginning of the road construction, the cement and other materials needed to build the road need to be transported from Yuanhe City, and the construction of the road was very slow at the beginning, after all, the production capacity of the cement plant in Yuanhe City was somewhat insufficient.

After the cement factories were built in various parts of the Han Kingdom, the speed of road construction was greatly accelerated, and by August 85, six-sevenths of the plan had been completed, and the remaining one-seventh would be completed by the end of the year.

Compared with the 22,000 kilometers of the first three roads, the length of the second four roads throughout the entire territory of the Han Kingdom is much longer than the 22,000 kilometers, but in the end, the Han Kingdom only paid the naming rights of the last four roads to complete the construction of the last four roads, which is really an unexpected surprise.

Not only were the local governments shocked, but even the Minister of Communications Duan Rongxuan was shocked, why suddenly the rich people were enchanted, and there was nowhere to spend money to repair roads, of course, Duan Rongxuan most wanted the rich people to donate money to build roads, after all, this was within the scope of his duties, and he wished that the whole country would build roads.

On the other hand, Yan Xueyi was also stunned when he got the news that this rich man was crazy about donating money to build roads, you must know that this is just an idea that suddenly popped up in Yan Xueyi's mind, why are rich people rushing to donate money to build roads?

In fact, the rich people have seen one thing from the past two years, that is, the Han Kingdom has a very high possibility of overthrowing the Manchu Qing Dynasty and unifying the whole country, so that they do not need to be afraid of the Manchu Qing coming back to liquidate them, and they can rest assured and boldly donate money to build roads to gain fame.