Huaxia attaches the most importance to the inheritance of writing, and based on the different carriers, the status is also very different. The so-called paper longevity of 1,000 years and silk longevity of 800, people believe that only the words engraved on the stone can break through the limit of 800 or 1,000 years and be passed down for tens of millions of years. Therefore, once the inscription remains, it is a major local event. Being able to leave his name on the inscription so that his descendants can still see it thousands of years later is a family ceremony.

The story recorded on this tablet is the contribution made by the people of Huating County, Songjiang Prefecture to this new road. If it is just a simple road construction, of course, it is not qualified to carve it into a stone monument - where is the road not built in the four towns and eight miles? Do you need to engrave a monument? It's too pretentious! So there is a lot of text in the inscription that explains the difference of this road, and explains in great detail the construction process and the expected effect.

Suzhou businessmen are still quite interested in these processes, and the road conditions are better than those in Suzhou, which can be seen by anyone. After they read through it, someone said: "It really took a lot of thought, but I didn't expect a small road to be so exquisite." ”

Another humanitarian: "Looking at this kind of construction method, the cost of materials is acceptable, but the labor is probably extremely high." "It is precisely because the labor cost of this era is so low that it can almost be ignored, so once there is an expense, it gives people the illusion that it is expensive.

"Indeed, from quarrying, transporting, crushing stone, entering kilns, grinding...... In the middle, we count logging and charcoal burning...... This whole set costs manpower and I don't know how much. "Businessmen look at the problem from the perspective of cost estimation, which has nothing to do with ability, but is a kind of professional thinking, and the more small businessmen are, the more sensitive they are to this aspect.

Xia Benyu read through the whole text, gently touched the carving on the top of the stone tablet, and said: "Do you still remember the Huai'an flood the year before last, and many victims were displaced to Tang Xing?" Everyone was stunned. immediately remembered the turmoil, and many people were still tired and spent a lot.

"At that time, it was said that the Xu family was compassionate, and I am afraid that it really collected a lot of manpower." Xia Benyu suddenly sighed: "Even people regard it as a kind of commercial goods, buy cheaply and sell high, Xu Jinglian can get to where he is today, it is not a shadow work." ”

The crowd was silent. From this point of view, Xu Yuanzuo is really a typical example of spending little money to do big things. Anyone could have imagined it. At that time, the victims were willing to work hard when they had a bite to eat, and was there a cheaper labor force than this?

"These are all repaired by the Xu family." Some people pointed to the name left on the stone tablet, there was no Yunjian Group at that time, and the names left were still "Renshoutang", "Xu's Cloth Shop", "Yunjian Guangjihui" and so on. Everyone in this circle is unclear: all of them are the Xu family's industry.

Everyone sighed, to be able to do such a good deed with the power of a surname, it can really be written into the Fang Zhi. They don't know that Xu Yuanzuo is the kind of person who sells his reputation? Or rather. Is he the kind of person who is willing to spend a lot of money to make a name for himself? Of course not!

This section of the road was indeed built with the support of the Xu family's industry, but further along, it was built by other powerful people in Huating who were ashamed of others and followed the investment donation. There are also inscriptions, but few people will stop to read them on the way, so it gives people the illusion that the Xu family built the entire road. In fact, Xu Yuanzuo also recovered a lot of investment in the previous section of the road through the project profits collected by the construction company.

For a while, the rice is fragrant. Xia Benyu and the others returned to the store and asked the entourage to fetch water and wash their hands and faces. Start lunch.

"Are we going to hurry?" After a meal, someone asked.

"Naturally, I have to rush to the inn in front of me before dark."

"Hehe, it's true, people greet us from afar, I'm embarrassed not to go."

Jokes aside. But everyone knows that staying in an inn outside the home is too easy and comfortable. Since Suzhou also has a franchise store with an inn, although the housing prices are high, it is an eye-opener, and many people no longer worry about going out. There are also many more tourists in the scenic spots within two days of the surrounding area.

Because of his own experience, Xia Benyu is a die-hard supporter of Xu's industry - just for Xu Yuanzuo's name, even if an inn is rotten into a pigsty, he can pick out the benefits, not to mention who can find fault with an inn now? Not long ago, an inn also issued a bounty, but anyone who can point out the lack of an inn will be given a one-night room fee, two places will be given two nights, and so on. But there are very few real winners, and the inn has thought too much about it.

Early the next morning, rain fell from the sky. Saying that it is not big or small, it belongs to the extent that you can hurry, but it is best not to rush. The merchants were in a hurry, and of course they had to keep going. After turning into the main road, I found that the words on the stone tablet yesterday were not false, although the ground was wet, there was no stagnant water, and there was no splashed sludge.

After a day of speeding like this, I arrived at the head office of an inn in the evening. This head office is not the one that opened in Tanghang City, but a newly opened flagship store in Xincheng, and the original one in the city was made into a franchise store for others. The so-called flagship store is naturally based on all stores as ships, and the one who takes this room as the order, regardless of the facilities, room size, and service attitude, is the top.

"Hey, are we in a hurry? In the past, when I came to Tangxing, it was always dark. Someone wondered.

"This is Tanghang New Town, there is no city wall." A visitor explained: "Ladies and gentlemen, please see, the streets here are all drawn like a chessboard, and they are all hard roads. It is said that it took a lot of river to level out such a large territory, and I am afraid that it is more than ten miles long. ”

Everyone was stunned: "The ten-mile long street is really terrifying." ”

As everyone was talking, they saw two people riding tall mules in front of them, with long robes and crowns, and saluted and said, "Are you Mr. Xia Meiyi and his party from Suzhou?" ”

Xia Benyu hurriedly came out, first looking at the robes and clothes, like a first-class shopkeeper with status, but in terms of age, it is very different. He thought of Liao Haixing's age of Gu Shuisheng, forced them to be the shopkeeper, and replied: "It's Xia, I don't know what the two masters have to say." ”

One of the two who was a little old stepped forward and saluted again, and said bluntly: "Below is the manager of the flagship store of Tanghang of an inn, and this is the commissioner of the Commerce Department of Yunjian Group, who is here to greet you." ”

Xia Benyu was flattered and said, "How dare you do this." ”

The commercial commissioner stepped forward and said with a smile: "Mei Yigong is a distinguished guest of my Yunjian Group, and he is registered on the record, as long as there is a place in my Yunjian industry, I will treat you like this." ”

The store manager also smiled: "If it weren't for Your Excellency staying in front of you, I wouldn't know that the honorable driver had come, and I hope Your Excellency will forgive me." ”

Xia Benyu felt the hot gaze behind him, his vanity was most satisfied, and the whole person seemed to float up.

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*(To be continued.) )