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"What, my lord wants to build a road? Isn't that okay? ”

When Yue Yang told Yue Laifu, who was in charge of industrial production, his thoughts were told to Yue Laifu, Yue Laifu directly voted against without thinking.

"My lord, what do you think, there are more than 30 miles of land from Wulizhai to Yingzhou City, how much cement does it take to build this road? I'm afraid that just building this road can bring down our factory! ”

Today's Yue Laifu was wearing a gray shirt, his body was covered with dust, and his face was also dusty, and he looked like he had just come back from the factory.

"Uncle Laifu, you are serious." Yue Yang shook his head: "Now there are four or five hundred people in our cement factory, and the daily food, salary, and loss of machinery add up to about two hundred taels of silver, even if our cement can't be sold for a while, our Yue family can afford it." ”

"But we don't just have a cement factory, we also have a gunpowder factory, an ordnance factory that makes gunpowder, weapons and armor, and an army of 8,000 troops, and our daily expenses alone cost at least two or three thousand taels of silver, and these factories are currently supported by our income from selling salt. Originally, I was expecting the cement to come out and sell it to relieve the pressure, but if the cement can't be sold, it's just that, you have to post it upside down to build roads and build houses, which is ...... It's so undeserved......"

Yue Laifu's face was about to darken, a few days ago, when Yue Yang proposed to pay the salt tax of 100,000 taels of silver, he was strongly opposed by Yue Laifu, if it weren't for the fact that Yue Yang was his boss, I am afraid he would have scolded his mother on the spot.

"Uh, well, don't get excited, let me think about it." Yue Yang looked at Yue Laifu, who was covered in dust and had lost a lot of weight on his face, and his heart was moved, this old man who had worked for the Yue family for most of his life didn't care if he was right or not, but at least he was really for the good of the Yue family and himself.

After thinking for a while, Yue Yang said, "Uncle Laifu, I know that we have taken a big step in the past six months, and the expenses are the same. But it's all a must. Now in troubled times, whether it is a rogue, or a Jurchen, it is possible to fight at any time, we must have enough strength to protect ourselves, otherwise in this troubled world, it can only be meat in other people's mouths. And military factories, gunpowder factories, smelters, and so on are all guarantees that can make us stronger, you know? ”

After listening to Yue Yang's words, Yue Laifu was silent for a while, and then said with some doubts: "Young Master." The villain doesn't know what the big truth is. But are you saying too much? For example, it is indeed not peaceful to be a rogue today, but my Daming country has lasted for more than two hundred years, could it be that a few rogue bandits and a handful of Jurchens will threaten me Daming country? ”

"Threat?" Yue Yang couldn't help but smile bitterly, Yue Laifu's words may have already represented the attitude of the Ming and the opposition towards the Liukou and Jurchens now. In the eyes of these people, since the Ming Dynasty has been saving zài for more than two hundred years, it is natural that it will continue to save zài. Those rogues and Jurchens are nothing more than ringworm scabies, no big deal.

But these people seem to have forgotten that just over two hundred years ago, Zhu Yuanzhang, the founder of the Ming Empire, also changed from a monk who couldn't even eat enough to become the founder of an empire. And now those rogues they look down on will bury the empire that has lasted for more than two hundred years in more than ten years, and finally cheapen the nomads from Guanwai who have always been despised by them.

Although Yue Yang knew the direction of the story, what could this be? He can't just say to him when he meets people, Da Ming is about to end. The Liukou and the Jurchens are about to fight, so be careful with that.

Since he can't say it, then what he is doing now is very outrageous in the eyes of others, not only did he open a cement factory, but he also wanted to use cement to build roads as if he had a lot of money.

But Yue Yang, as a person who has come over, knows very clearly that the difference between a solid and smooth cement road and a dirt road that is muddy every time it rains can only be described as a world of difference. To put it bluntly, one walks on a smooth and solid road paved with cement, whether on horseback or infantry. The degree of marching is enough to increase by more than two to three times, which is very advantageous for the movement of troops in wartime.

And today's Yingzhou Mansion can be said to be Yueyang's old nest, all his belongings are here, how can he not worry about it.

"Uncle Laifu, you don't have to worry about this, I have my own opinions, in short, I must build this road!" There was an unmistakable firmness in Yue Yang's words. "Not only do I want to build roads, but I also want to build Yuejiazhuang and even Wulizhai into a castle, a fortified castle!"

"Young Master......" Yue Laifu was really frightened by Yue Yang's whimsical thinking, looking at Yue Yang's determined gaze. Yue Laifu knew that he couldn't be persuaded anymore, so he had to sigh and pray that Yue Yang would not squander the silver he had obtained from selling salt.

But as the saying goes, whatever you are afraid of comes. As soon as Yue Laifu thought of this, Yue Yang immediately asked, "Uncle Laifu, how much silver do we have left?" ”

Yue Laifu's heart skipped a beat, and finally replied with some reluctance: "Young master, this year, we have earned a total of 336,500 taels of silver from selling salt, and we have spent a total of 46,500 taels of silver to build a cement factory, a smelter, a steel mill, and a military factory, as well as paying taxes and giving ...... to the governor."

"Wait......" Yue Yang interrupted Yue Laifu's words, "You just tell me directly, just how much silver is left now!" ”

This time, Yue Laifu replied very simply. "Young master, we still have more than 183,500 taels of silver on our books now!"

"Huh...... That's a lot! Yue Yang was quite happy when he heard this.

"Quite a few?"

Yue Laifu was on the side, but he almost vomited out a mouthful of old blood, and he spent more than 100,000 taels of silver in just a few months, is this still called less? This silver is enough to buy most of the original Yuejiazhuang, and the remaining silver has to be kept to pay the army's military salaries, workers' salaries and all kinds of expenses......

Seeing Yue Laifu's pained look, Yue Yang patted him on the shoulder and said, "Uncle Laifu, you don't have to be afraid, as the saying goes, the old doesn't go and the new doesn't come, don't worry, our silver will be more in the future." By the way, how much refined salt is left in our Zhuangzi now? ”

Yue Laifu replied weakly: "Young master, we don't have much salt left, only about five thousand quintals left." ”

"Five thousand quintals!"

Yue Yang's brows were also secretly furrowed, a load of salt is a hundred catties, and five thousand quintals of salt is fifty thousand catties of salt. It seems to be a lot, and if you can spread it to such a large area as Shanxi, there will not be much left. It is estimated that these salts can only support themselves to sell for about a month, and it seems that they have to go to the modern society to buy them, but the current situation is ...... Alas...... Thinking of this, Yue Yang felt that he was full of tears now!

On the third day of August in 1633 of the lunar calendar, just after the joy of the autumn harvest, a team of more than 100 people came out of Wuli Village, and after two days of trekking, they came to a place called Lu Zikou more than 100 miles away from Wuli Village.

Lüzikou is another name for a mountain range, this mountain range stretches for hundreds of miles, just like a Lü character, so it gets another name of Lüzikou. Although the weather in August is still warm, the coolness of autumn has begun to creep in, and the rain just happened the day before yesterday, so the temperature seems a little low.

The vast majority of this team of more than 100 people are men, some old and some young, and most of them look excited, their eyes full of hope for the future.

Most of these more than 100 people were displaced people recruited by Yueyang, and these people were recruited by Yueyang and assigned to work in the smelter, not only with food and shelter, but also with a salary of 50 catties of grain and 500 wen yuan every month. If this kind of treatment is placed in the future generations, I am afraid that even the beggars on the street will not want to do it, but for people now, it is simply a heavenly day.

After the news of the bumper harvest in Wulizhai came out, it was not Yue Yang who was the happiest, nor the tenants under Yue Yang, but the homeless people recruited by Yueyang. Because for them, Yueyang is their owner, that is, their food and clothing parents, Yueyang has a bumper harvest, so they naturally don't have to worry about themselves and their families going hungry, this is the simplest idea of these people.

If Yueyang wants to exhibit, it is naturally inseparable from steel. Although Yue Yang got two sets of simple steel-making equipment from modern times, what bothered him was the help of iron mines. You must know that if you want to make steel, you can't do without iron ore, so a stable iron ore has become a problem that Yueyang needs to solve urgently.

In Yingzhou Capital, if you talk about iron ore, you have to count the mountain range of Luzikou, where the iron ore is counted in both quantity and quality, so you have to get Luzikou to find the source of ore.

Since Luzikou has rich iron ore resources, there will naturally be no shortage of people mining here, so in Luzikou prospecting, in addition to being careful of the beasts that infest from time to time, the most dangerous thing is another group of absenteeism who live in this mountain all year round.

According to incomplete government statistics, thousands of people live in the mountain range of Luzikou all year round who make a living from mining. These people are divided into dozens of forces, large and small, and they have a fierce temperament, and they draw their swords against each other at the slightest disagreement, and murders are happening from time to time.

Therefore, in this team of more than 100 people, in addition to more than 50 people from the smelter, there are more than 50 guards.

Bai Kai, who was carrying a heavy burden on his back, walked in the team of more than 100 people, looking at the somewhat cold environment around him, and felt a little inexplicably scared.

Bai Kai is the son of Bai Laohan who went to the city to watch the school performance that day, and he is seventeen years old this year, and he can already be regarded as an adult in this era. Originally, Bai Kai wanted to be a soldier after watching the military exercise, but this idea was soon ruthlessly suppressed by Bai Laohan, and finally Bai Laohan pointed out a way for his son, that is, to enter the newly opened smelter as a worker, and Bai Kai, who is more familiar with this area, has become a member of today's team.