Huang Shun grinned, and that smile was as bright as it was.

Jiang An also smiled brightly: "Brother Huang, you have made a fortune." ”

"TOEFL, TOEFL, it's just by taking advantage of the son's east wind, and the little housekeepers take care of it." About because of the dozens of taels of silver wrapped around his waist, Huang Shun's waist straightened a lot when he spoke: "I heard that the housekeeper has a happy event, is it decided, if it is, the villain has to have a gift." ”

The smile on Jiang'an's face suddenly turned into a bitter gourd, and he couldn't wait to shout "Luo Jiuhe, Tian Boguang".

These two big mouths can make his affairs known to the whole world.

"Brother Huang, you are a capable person, it has only been less than half a month, and you have sent 30,000 catties of coal, and the little officials are very impressed with you." Jiang Shore changed the topic: "However, now that you have made a lot of money, you are not interested in small money, why don't you recruit more people?" ”

"It's a villain who doesn't make any effort, it's really the folk custom of Qinzhou, and the weather is hot now...... By the way, didn't you recruit more than 100 Dong people to help, I heard what the Luo team was saying in the kiln, and this is all the credit of the housekeeper. ”

The shore face was green, and the topic turned back to this guy.

Yu Guozhen gave him an order to recruit Dong helpers, the Dong people were more difficult to manage than the Han people in Qinzhou, and they were born with the surname of Aoao, and they were unwilling to serve the Han people. With Huang Hao's permission, the door for the Dong people to come out and serve was opened, but it really made them willing to work, and it took some thought to put some thought into it.

While the two were talking, they suddenly saw several boats going up the river from the south, and Huang Shun looked at it: "What is this ship?" ”

He is a native of Qinzhou, so he naturally recognizes that the boat is a local style, but there were few boats in the Yuhong River before, and the boat passed directly over Changdun Island, and no one in the Inspection Department stopped him, which made him a little curious.

"Those who came from Qinzhou City brought us limestone." Will be the shore road.

"Huh?"

Although Huang Shun's main business is coal, he also sent a lot of limestone and clay to the kiln, and when he heard Jiang'an's words, he suddenly had a sense of crisis: "This...... Didn't Yu Gongzi say that he wanted the villain to send limestone? ”

"But the little official didn't say that as long as you come to deliver it." Jiang An laughed and said: "Brother Huang, you are good at doing things, and your money is indispensable!" ”

Huang Shun silently grabbed his waist, there were dozens of taels of silver, after earning these dozens of taels of silver, his mind was originally a little lively, and he felt that he was very important to Xinxiang, maybe he could raise the price or something, but at this time, that confidence turned into a strong sense of crisis.

"The flag on the ship is the flag of Guo Weiqi, who is sentenced by Qinzhou, and even he has to make it convenient for my son-in-law. Lao Huang, you really have to work harder, if Guo Tong knows that you can get such a big profit from selling coal, hehe......"

"Yu, Yu Gongzi will definitely take care of me, isn't it, will he be the housekeeper?"

"Take care of you or not, see if you do things beautifully, what our son lacks most now, you know, is the lack of labor. The whole of Xinxiang is full of barren mountains and wastelands, and Gongzi needs a lot of labor to open it up - by the way, don't you still have some contact with the Guangzhou Mansion, you can go to the Guangzhou Mansion to do some work and recruit people to come and serve. ”

"Yes, yes!" Huang Shun understood that whether he could develop and whether he could be stable after development was completely dependent on Yu Guozhen, thinking of this, he suddenly had an idea.

"This Yu Gongzi is not only big, but the family in his hand is so brave, he even has dozens of fire guns, such thick thighs, if you don't hug it tightly, you will definitely regret it in the end!" Huang Shun knew in his heart: "As long as a little leakage between his fingers, I can eat and wear!" ”

"I'm ...... Hey, it's coming to the boat again, could it be that there are other people working for Yu Gongzi? Huang Shun was about to go directly to Guangzhou, but when he saw another boat coming upstream, he couldn't help asking.

"This is our own boat, we bought it a few days ago, so we can't always use wooden rafts." Glancing at the shore, his face suddenly showed excitement: "It seems to be done, haha, it's going to be a big fight again!" ”

"What has become of the butler?"

"If you don't hurry to leave, look at it, here, you have also made a great contribution." As he spoke, he ran towards the pier.

From Xinxiangzhai to the wharf, there is a distance of about two miles, which was originally a wasteland, but now it has been completely burned out. A simple sand road connects the two, but this one was originally narrow. These days, the most important thing that the Dong people from the mountains do is to scoop up pebbles and coarse sand in the water, pull them with ox carts, and pave them according to the original simple sand road.

After the paving, the stone is pulled by oxen and the stone is milled, and the sand is repeatedly carried back and forth. Anyway, there are few others in Qinzhou, only there are more cattle, and the price of cattle is much cheaper than that in Wuwei.

Therefore, now this sand road is three zhang wide, Huang Shun feels a little extravagant when he sees it: although the sand and gravel are all picked up in the river and do not need money, but the labor always asks for money, it is said that the wages given by Xinxiang to the Dong people are not settled with copper money, but with cotton cloth and silk, which are all good things.

The road is more than two miles, and it is a sandy road that is easy to walk, but it will be there in a while. Huang Shun was still very strange in his heart, there were good things on these two ships, which made Jiang An so excited, and it didn't take long for him to see Yu Guozhen also arrive at the dock.

Using a wooden pulley gantry crane, loading and unloading is much easier, and the Dong people wearing masks under the command of the young guard of the family hoist hoist drums from the boat to the ox cart before being transported away. Huang Shun had seen this kind of big wooden barrel in the kiln, so what was in the barrel should be the so-called "cement".

After unloading, the shipwrights and Dong people simply waved their hands and rowed the boat upstream. Yu Guozhen pulled Lei Wang Cheng and said: "Lei Weng, your place of use is here, the new construction materials I told you about are finally available now!" ”

"Cement?" Lei Wangcheng looked at the wooden barrel, and couldn't figure out what kind of thing Yu Guozhen said was extremely important and even called epoch-making construction materials, which were both water and mud.

Yu Guozhen had already prepared it, surrounded a small dam with coarse sand, poured cement, added water, and mixed it to form concrete. He personally demonstrated with tools, and for the bricklayers who had scraped the mud, he was really not an expert in those two strokes, so he only looked at it once, and the bricklayers who had been doing odd jobs when they were recruited from Nanjing understood: it was nothing more than using this gray thing to spread a layer on the ground, but it was just to spread it as smooth and smooth as possible.

Cement and pebbles are pressed on board, and the layers are stacked over the pier to the village. Yu Guozhen taught him once, and those bricklayers did it quickly, and in a blink of an eye, they paved the way.

After each paving is about two zhang, Yu Guozhen will have people use a wooden strip to separate the front and back, which is to avoid thermal expansion and cold contraction until the road surface is cracked.

"Petty officials...... Is this thing really as powerful as the petty officials say? ”

"Not yet." Yu Guozhen laughed, what he remembered was only the general formula of the cement, of course, it was not the high-standard cement of later generations, let alone the quick-setting cement, if you want to wait for it to dry out, it will take some time.

However, this was not a problem at all, and in order to create an exemplary effect and make the immigrants, artisans and locals who followed him to Qinzhou more convinced that he had made the right choice, Yu Guozhen mobilized all the forces he could to ensure the paving of the road.

At first, it was covered with wooden planks to prevent rain from washing away or someone accidentally stepping on it, but later when the planks were insufficient, they directly picked plantain leaves and covered them.

Huang Shun was a little regretful, he couldn't stay here until a few days later, when what Yu Gongzi said could be lifted and covered.

But soon Yu Guozhen ran into a problem: there was not enough cement.

His technical reserves in Xiang'an did not include kilns, so the kilns he built at the beginning were all vertical kilns, and the output was originally limited. In addition, the restriction of the three major links in cement production, "two grinding and one burning", will take time under today's technical conditions. His plans had to be slowed down until nine days later, when the road was fully paved.

Strictly speaking, the road is still very rudimentary, and it is not strong, I am afraid that it will need to be repaired in a year or so, or even less, but it doesn't matter, the important thing is that he built his first concrete road!

If you want to get rich, build roads first, it is absolutely reasonable, Yu Guozhen is convinced of this.

"Little official, has this road been successful?"

Even after nine days, Yu Guozhen did not lift the original planks and plantain leaves, so everyone still does not know the true condition of this road. On July 13, when the weather was fine, Yu Guozhen gathered everyone to the dock early in the morning.

Not only the people and teenagers who came with him, but also the locals and Dong people of Qinzhou who helped in the kiln were all summoned here. Most of them didn't know why, although Lei Wangcheng knew, he always felt that something was wrong.

He knew the general composition of cement, nothing more than lime and the like, and used it to build roads, at most, to make the land compact, so he felt a little incomprehensible that Yu Guozhen was so solemn.

"We'll find out in a moment." Yu Guozhen said with a smile.

After the people arrived, with a gesture from Yu Guozhen, Qi Niu led a group of teenagers to move the pressed planks, banana leaves, and gravel away, and a gray road appeared in front of everyone. Everyone was whispering, and after Yu Guozhen stepped on the cement pavement, he jumped a few times in succession, leaving no footprints.

Immediately afterwards, Yu Guozhen ordered the prepared ox cart to catch up with the cement road, and the ox cart pulled a whole load of red bricks, with the order of the driver, although it was not fast, but it seemed to walk on the road very easily. Two miles of road, but it was only a matter of moments, and the ox cart had already transported a cart of bricks to the village.

Yu Guozhen gave another order, Qi Niu pulled a wheelbarrow and began to run on this cement road, as his steps became faster and faster, the three or four hundred catties of goods on the car seemed to not exist, and everyone watched him push the wheelbarrow into the village!

(To be continued)