Yang Sanye is his benefactor, and he also agrees with what Yang Meng said about Qin Ziqi, and after thanking him, this matter is done.

"Lian'er, take the little guy from Ziqi's family and go to Kunming! Remember what I told you. ”

Strike while the iron is hot, now is the right time, send away Lian'er and his party, hand his treasure knife to Sun Boqing, let Qin and Sun and the two of them, take Li Hai back to reorganize the shadow, Yang Meng took Wei Zhiqing, Ram, Ding Taichen and the future housekeeper Yang Fuze, and began to inspect Yiliang.

"Third Master, shall we go to the arsenal first or somewhere else?"

"Let's go somewhere else first! After a general turn, I will go to the arsenal and go to Minghu Academy tomorrow. ”

The itinerary was roughly arranged, Yang Meng rode his own Hequ horse, and walked in front, the bull king is Yang Meng's car to the Tibetan side, riding a bull in this place in Yunnan, it is still a little eye-catching.

"Shall we go to the cotton mill and the weaving mill first? Last time, the arsenal was enclosed, and the remaining pieces of land were used for other purposes. ”

Although the road surface is not wide, the dirt road with rammed earth and gravel paved with river sand is still extremely flat.

"Inform Jiang Shuxian's disciples, it's time to do a survey of the road conditions in the four provinces of Yunnan, Guizhou, Sichuan and Tibet.

Such a dirt road, inform the farms and martial arts everywhere, and organize their own hands to pave, the width of the road surface, the flat land is best to be six or seven zhang wide, and the mountain road should also be three zhang up. You will pass it on.

The survey will focus on train tracks. Didn't we lay some railroad tracks? The foreigner's technician is still there, right? Let them live by other people's standards. A minimal rail network is planned between the four provinces.

These things should be planned slowly, and the choice of path must be reasonable, and the working hours should be shortened as much as possible.

The railway from the Nanxi Valley to Annam is the key in the near future. ”

The Yunnan-Vietnam Railway in the Nanxi River Valley is a place that Yang Meng is very familiar with, and many things in the previous life were transported by this railway, and the railway is still in use after a hundred years. It can definitely stand the test, so Yang Meng set the first railway on the Yunnan-Vietnam border.

"Third master, the land of these four provinces is mostly densely covered with mountains, and it is difficult to build a road of six or seven zhang, and the road of about three zhang is still barely feasible, is it not to reduce the width of the road surface?

During this time, Minghu Academy also increased the cultivation of geographers. The survey of the Nanxi River Valley will be carried out immediately! ”

It's easy to talk and hard to do. The road surface of six or seven zhang is just a number in Yang Meng's mouth, but when it comes to the construction site, the requirements of six or seven zhang are not a problem of doubling the working hours compared with the pavement of three zhang.

The four provinces of Yunnan, Guizhou, Sichuan and Tibet come out of the plateau area, and some places can be paved with six or seven zhang rammed earth roads, but in many places, the roadbed is not six or seven zhang at all, and it is difficult to do it according to Yang Meng's will!

"Be flexible! I didn't bite the bite to death, six or seven zhang of the road, some places do not have this condition, don't do this, the general road I will hand over to you, how to get it below, is your business, now the conditions are not enough, but also try to leave six or seven zhang space, these problems may not be a problem in the future.

On both sides of the road, try to leave three to five zhang of space, and think about it for the future, on top of these open spaces, you can plant some local trees that can be used as sleeper poles.

Quick, that's what I ask of you! ”

Yang Meng also knew that his requirements were a bit excessive, but if he was not excessive, the people below would be excessive, if the width of the road surface could not be guaranteed, he would repair some mountain roads more than one meter wide, and his plan to build the road would be in vain.

"Is the manpower for road construction to be paid for labor or payment?"

Repair roads, just two words, but do things, but to be sad white-headed, four provinces to build roads together, a single labor, is an extremely terrifying number, if you pay, this is also a huge expense.

"Servitude? How can there be so much to say? If you should take care of the food, you should pay the money, no one owes us, who has all kinds of expenses at home, and volunteered? What is this? ”

Only by doing things can you earn money, which is advocated by Yang Meng, pulling the people out of volunteer work, although it is a way to save money, but it is not in line with his own philosophy.

"For such a big project, if you pay for money, the flow of water in various places will be too big."

Millions of millions of silver, road construction can be easily spent, such a large flow of gold and silver, is also a test for the stewards of the Yang family.

"That's easy! Most of the people who come out to build roads are farmers and tenants, and you make some silver stamps, grain stamps, cloth stamps, salt stamps, meat stamps, and livestock stamps, and anyway, if they need something, they have to make stamps and distribute them according to their working hours and according to their own needs.

Those who come out to work, with these bills, go to our shops in various places to exchange things.

These things can also be implemented in the factory, but pay attention to the secret words of the bill, don't let people take advantage of the loopholes, the method of the ticket number in the northwest, you can learn it. ”

What are these things, that is, the predecessor of paper money, is the basis of the bank, this method, can be regarded as a temporary idea!

"The third master is wise, such a method makes the work of the stewards a lot easier."

"Yang Fuze, you also learn a little, Steward Ding will not stay in Yunnan for too long, during this time, you and Mrs. Zhiqing will take care of the affairs of the four provinces, and the burden on your shoulders is not light!"

Ignoring Ding Taichen's sycophants, Yang Meng encouraged Yang Fuze, the future butler who had been silently following Ding Taichen's side.

"Those of Fuze Province will definitely live up to the trust of the third master."

As he spoke, the Yang family's cotton yarn factory and weaving factory in Yiliang arrived. With a scale of nearly 1,000 acres, this factory is not small, but Yang Meng is not very happy.

"There are only two factories here?"

"Hmmm! The foreign technician in charge of the preparation said that such a large factory is also a big factory in Europe! ”

Speaking of this, Ding Taichen also came to the spirit, such a big factory was built. The Yang family's foreign cloth and foreign yarn. I was able to produce it myself, too.

"As far as I know, there is no place in Yunnan where cotton is grown in large quantities. Which trade route did the raw materials take? ”

The problem of raw materials is a big problem of industrial production, the cotton textile industry is different from Yunyan, that is, Yunyan, ninety percent of the raw materials are also Yunnan's tea powder and talcum powder, now Yunnan, it seems that there is no business route to support the raw material demand of the two cotton yarn mills and weaving factories covering an area of more than 1,000 acres, which will only increase the cost indefinitely.

"Most of them are from the Pearl River waterway, and a small part are transported from western Yunnan."

Take a look at Yang Meng's attitude. Ding Taichen knew that something bad was going on, such a big factory had already been built for more than half of the time, and if he gave up halfway, hundreds of thousands of taels of silver would be lost.

"No! Since Burma, Vietnam, India and Thailand have cotton planting, then move the factory to western Yunnan, to what extent have these two factories been built? ”

"Sixty percent!"

"That's good! These two factories were converted into cotton textile schools. Half of the machinery and equipment on board was transported to western Yunnan, and the rest was used to teach students from the four provinces.

Cotton textile industry. It is necessary to focus on female workers, and this matter is just for the third lady to do!

Remember, no matter what factory is built in the future, the market demand is the first, the supply of raw materials is the second, and only when these two conditions are met is the time for a factory to be established.

Yili is a good place to grow cotton, and during this time, Du Wenxiu from western Yunnan took people to Yili to expand his influence and bring the best cotton seeds from all countries. Let the old man find Lin Laohu and ask for a few words from him, it is also a good time for us to march into Ili.

Carry some families with a lot of strong labor in the four provinces, move over there, buy off the government and General Ili, and let's slowly encroach on Ili! ”

What can be used, Yang Meng will not let go, Lin Laohu is known as a good name in Yiliang, a few pairs of Lin Laohu's calligraphy and paintings, can knock on the hearts of many Yili people, with a common topic, the speed of integration will be accelerated.

With a shocked face, Yang Meng rode a horse and quickly turned around the newly built factory, a large factory, completely Western-style buildings, hundreds of square meters of simple factory buildings, Western architecture can also be regarded as the architectural art, carried forward to the extreme.

It's not that the skills of the Qing Dynasty are not successful, but they have their own specializations, building gardens and pavilions, but I'm afraid that the West won't be able to catch up with the Qing Dynasty, right?

"The glass factory, something I've urged several times, hasn't it been built yet?"

The dimly lit factory is a big failure, but with just a few large glass windows, this problem is not a problem.

Cotton textile, but it is a fire-resistant industry, explosion, this military term, in the cotton textile industry and other dry and dusty industries, is definitely synonymous with disaster.

Nowadays, oil lamps are mainly used for lighting, which is definitely the biggest unstable factor in the factories of the cotton textile industry.

"It was built a few months ago, and a new batch of glass panels has been installed in the old house, and the effect is much better than the window paper!"

Glass is definitely a rare object, transportation is extremely troublesome, a little careless, there is a pile of residues, a tael of silver into the glass, to the place, sold for a hundred taels, are ordinary things.

"That's good! On the walls of the factory, open the windows, use glass panels, these factories are too dim, those machines and equipment, I also looked at it, let Master Ge study the protective measures, the slightest carelessness will be disabled, which will greatly offset the enthusiasm of women to come out to work.

A transparent factory building is also a necessary condition for reducing these injuries, and this matter is put in the first place in the factory! ”

The dim factory building is easy to injure people, and the second is to slow down the work efficiency.

"Third master, the glass plate is a precious thing, and it is a bit expensive to use it in the factory, is it a bit wasteful?"

Yes! It's just like Yang Sanye, who can use glass plates in the factory, but this thing is really expensive, Ding Taichen also trembled a little when he heard this!

"What a fart! In the future, this thing will be the goods of the rotten streets, and the wine bottles, oil bottles, and other jars and jars used for things, and the cups, bowls, and plates used for eating, can all be made of glass.

Finding some porcelain masters, designing some exquisite containers, and selling them back to the foreign powers is also a way to make money.

The scale of the glass factory is not large enough, so we will continue to expand the scale, the market of the Qing Dynasty, we are the king, according to the style that the people of the Qing Dynasty are willing to use, first build a batch, which is also conducive to the development of foreign affairs!

Taichen, let me ask you, where is this glass gold? Isn't it like we don't? When you have time, you go to the glass factory and see how much it costs. This thing is cheaper than porcelain, and the cost is much smaller! ”

Ding Taichen regards glass as a treasure, which is also understandable, although he also does not understand the manufacturing process of glass, but the glass of later generations is really the color of the rotten street, and this thing cannot be made a treasure!

"Zhilu said! is still the third master is profound! ”

Ding Taichen also has nothing to say, he doesn't need to look at it, he knows that the factory is not built here, and he doesn't need to ask to know that Yili can grow cotton, these things, he Ding Taichen can't learn them in his life!

"The factory should also build some accommodation places, so that Western technicians can teach our people to build buildings, and a household can be completed within a radius of three or five zhang, and our people will also learn these methods of building factories.

Let Minghu Academy open an architecture school to learn Western architectural methods! ”

Yang Meng said, Ding Taichen remembered, in half a day, Ding Taichen's shoulders were pressed with a lot of burdens, and Yang Fuze on the side was also dumbfounded, this thought that he was enough to be the big housekeeper in the third master's mansion, but now at a glance, he is eight or nine streets away! (To be continued......)