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Geng Jingzhong, who was visiting, suddenly heard "Boom! There were several loud noises one after another, and the ground shook under his feet. Geng Jingzhong immediately realized that it was the workers who were using gunpowder to open the mine, but how much gunpowder was used! The earth shook!

Geng Jingzhong was still waiting to continue to check, and Wang Shiyu, the chief of staff, and Liu Jiangtou, the director of the mine, came to him under the leadership of several soldiers. Coincidentally, when he suppressed bandits at the beginning of last year, it was he who discovered these two gold mines, and he was the first to garrison them, and now it happened to be his turn to lead the troops. He was instrumental in discovering these two gold mines, and Geng Jingzhong also gave him a few thousand taels of silver as a reward.

"The last general, Wang Shiyu, saw the son, but he didn't know that the son had arrived, and he hoped to forgive his sins!"

"Wang Shenling! Is it your turn to be on duty now? What a coincidence! Liu's head and body bones are fine! Geng Jingzhong said to the two with a smile on his face.

"Wanfu Shizi, the old man's body and bones are like this, as long as you don't do heavy work, it's still okay to go down to the mine to see." Liu Jiaotou was originally the head of this gold mine to watch the gold seedlings, and he looked like he was sixty or seventy years old in his fifties, and he was an honest man. It's just that the bandits are too ferocious, and they can't only survive under the obscenity of the bandits.

Geng Jingzhong looked at Liu Jiang's head and still had that thin bone frame, and there was no change in the past year, so he was heartbroken. Now he has the greatest ability in the mine, and the other skills of looking at Jin Miao are less than half of his, which has to be a process of long-term learning and accumulation. "Liu Jiaotou, I haven't been here for a year, tell me how the situation is here?"

"Hey, okay! First of all, look at the following, there are 5,214 people working in the river, 2,660 people digging in the mines, and 2,733 other stone crushers, transport workers, handymen, cooks, including me, making a total of 10,607 people in our mines. The monthly output is about 260 taels, and last month it was 263 taels. In the future, it will basically be this number every month, only more, not less! Liu Jiaotou's memory is quite good, and he told Geng Jingzhong clearly in 1510.

Geng Jingzhong couldn't help but nod his head when he listened, it seems that the harvest here is really not small, with the current level of mining, this is almost the limit. However, Longyan Gold Mine was known as the largest gold mine in China in later generations, and the gold reserves must be extremely amazing, and it should be able to be mined for many years! "Well, very well, it seems that you are the director of the mine very dutiful! Let's go, show me around! ”

Geng Jingzhong followed Liu and turned his head around the entire mining area, from the mine cave to the gravel yard, from the kitchen to the dormitory, and finally back to the river. This big circle came over, and the stop-and-go was more than ten miles, and the footboards were soft.

"Very good, just do it, do a good job, and I'll give you a big red envelope at the end of the year!" Geng Jingzhong was still very satisfied with the management of the mine, and although he needed money, he did not exploit the miners. Basically, humanized management has been achieved, of course, this is humanized management for this era. The dormitory is clean and tidy, there is a public bathroom for bathing outside, three meals a day are provided dry, there is meat to eat every other three or five days, plus more than two taels of silver coins to feed a large family. In short, more than 10,000 workers here are very satisfied and work very hard. If you want to make more money, you can choose to go to the mine, because the mine is more dangerous, so the silver is half more than on the ground, and you can almost get four silver coins (one or two silver dollars) if you sell more strength. When he was disabled, Geng Jingzhong was never stingy, and the pension payment absolutely made anyone speechless.

In the morning, I only visited the Dingfeng Mountain Gold Mine, and I was really tired of walking. I went home, ready to check out the workshops in the afternoon. When he returned to the mansion, Geng Jingzhong didn't think much about the workshop, and all that kept coming to his mind was the road around Dingfeng Mountain and the starting point town.

Most of the streets and alleys in the starting point town are paved with bluestone slabs, or they are also fired bricks, anyway, the ground is very flat, even if it rains, there will be no masons splashing on the clothes. The same is true of the road leading to Dingfeng Mountain, where a layer of bluestone slabs has been paved for five or six miles, which should have been built after he returned to Fuzhou last year. A road like this will be absolutely croaking, and the carriage will run smoothly.

If the road from the starting point town to Yuegang can also be built, it will be much more convenient for merchants to transport goods and ordinary people to visit relatives and friends in the future, and it will also greatly promote the economic development around the road. Just do it, he didn't eat, so he immediately asked Yang Jian to find the three brothers of the Geng family and ask them to count the length of this road.

"Shizi, are you looking for our brother?" When the Geng brothers received the news, they immediately felt that Geng Jingzhong was in the house.

"There is only one thing that calls you here in such a hurry, I don't know who of you has a little less to do, so take the time to measure the length of the road from the starting point town to the moon port!" Geng Jingzhong pointed to a rough map on the table and said to Geng Dasan.

"What, does the prince want to build roads? I've walked this road many times, it's two hundred miles! If it is repaired, it will not be a small project! Geng Er often runs this road, so he is most familiar with these, and blurted out directly.

"Two hundred miles! That's 100 kilometers, which is really quite long! Geng Jingzhong silently thought about it, if such a road was built into a cement road, it would cost at least a million taels of silver. Even if the mechanized road construction in later generations will cost two or three hundred million. Now this is all by artificiality, a million taels of silver is necessary, if it is converted into the current soft sister coin, it is almost a billion.

"I really want to build a road, and I want to build a three-foot wide concrete road! On the way this time, I saw many times that the carriages of merchants were stuck in mud puddles. Once it rains, the road is muddy, and the traffic is affected by the strictness, and this road must be repaired! I'll leave this matter to you, Geng Er, put down the work at hand and hand it over to others. First of all, I sent someone to measure the exact length of the road, and at the same time, a large amount of cement was fired in the surrounding area, and stone was mined to prepare for the construction of the road. "Since Geng Jingzhong has already decided, let Geng Er start to prepare!

Geng Er didn't feel anything, in his opinion, he would do whatever the prince commanded, but he was just distressed by the cost of building the road. "Shizi, if this road is built, I'm afraid it won't cost more than one million taels of silver, and we have a lot of places to use money, this"

"I've thought about this a long time ago, don't worry, this money is not all from us, maybe we don't have to pay a penny. You just have to do what I tell you to do, and after this road is built, a monument will be erected to commemorate it! ”

Geng Er was excited when he heard this, if the prince wants to build such a solid road, it must be recorded in history, if he can follow and leave a name, it will also be immortal! "I'll do it right away!" Geng Er walked quickly without looking back, leaving only the back of everyone's head. And Geng Da Geng San, who was still here, looked at Geng Jingzhong with blank eyes, hoping that they could do something too, in their impression, once the prince wants to do something, there is nothing that cannot be done.

"Don't look at it, just get busy with your work for the time being, when you build the road, there are things for you to do!" Geng Jingzhong looked at the expressions of the two and smiled slightly.

"Hey, hey! Knowing the son, then let's go back first! With that, he bowed and turned to leave.

Geng Jingzhong also raised a big waist: "Eat!" Starve me to death! ”

(The second chapter of Teacher's Day, time is tight, only 6,000 words are coded today, and I still ask for collections and recommendations!) Appreciate! ）