In the next few days, Xu Shiming experienced what it means to be high-intensity and fast-paced.

However, Li Congyi struck while the iron was hot, and with the six or seven initial backbones of Xuanzhou's construction, he urged several villages to take advantage of the slack season in the first month to renovate water conservancy, especially along the Jianhe River, where Kengkou Village is located, and designed three major dams. The three dams were not used to store water, but to raise the water level, and in conjunction with the construction of several arterial canals, to divert water from the river for miles.

Among the above-mentioned projects, the main road canal supporting the first dam has the largest workload and the most difficulty. The canal was meant to divert water from the river into a depression formed by a large hill and several low slopes stretching out from its feet, with only a few small ditches for drainage; Occasionally, there is a mountain spring water, and it is carefully cared for by the villagers, forming one or two paddy fields. After the completion of this trunk road canal, the entire mountain valley will be turned into terraced fields, which can add hundreds of acres of paddy fields to Kengkou Village at once.

In the morning, Li Congyi led everyone to a morning meeting to review and summarize the work of the previous day, arrange and deploy today's tasks, and discuss solutions. During the day, he went to several construction sites, discussed the details of the plan with the old and capable people in the village, and assigned specific work tasks.

In the evening, Li Congyi also pulled Xu Shiming to discuss the preparations for the establishment of the company in Xuanzhou Construction, that is, Xu Heguang and Zhou Shihui were arrested and held a meeting to discuss together.

If it weren't for Li Congyi's promise of 15 yuan a month to the backbone of Xuanzhou Construction, these people would only be afraid that Li Congyi would be scolded as Li Peel. Even Gu Dazhuang and the others did not escape. In the morning, Li Congyi got up in the morning to exercise, and in addition to the guards on duty, other people were also required to exercise; Driven by the independent cultivation of the two brothers Zhou Yuanying and Zhou Yuanxiong, Li Congyi added more exercise to the guards. Then, Li Congyi also took the time to train the guards to practice queues and standing postures, requiring them to practice for an hour (2 hours) every morning and afternoon, and be sure to form muscle memory. Not only that, Li Congyi also made Luo Zhengwen a teacher, taught the guards to read, and then inspected the literacy every day, gave the excellent ones extra meals, and punished the unqualified ones for running circles, and tortured a group of big bosses so that they no longer had the heart to gather people to gamble, but just memorized big characters every night.

However, in view of the fact that the work in the past few days mainly revolves around Kengkou Village, and it is obviously more reasonable for the Xuanzhou Construction Office to set up Kengkou Village, Li Congyi also followed everyone's advice and moved to Kengkou Xu's house to live.

This night, Li Congyi announced that the meeting was dismissed, and Xu Shiming wanted to rush back to the room to write another letter to urge Zheng Deshui, but he was stopped by Xu Heguang when he walked out of the door.

"Virtuous nephew, my uncle has something I want to discuss with you. Lord Guogong temporarily lives in the pit, I think the bed is still made by the two boys of the Zhou family, how do you say that the two boys know how to wait for people? The body of the prince of the country is golden, but he works day and night for us and other small villages and clans, how can we be so ashamed to accept it? ”

Xu Shiming is also a human spirit, and snorted coldly, "How noble is the status of the national prince?" If you can't be the right person, you are a personal maid, and you are afraid that it will also be a maid for a lifetime. ”

Xu Heguang said, "It's the maid of the Guogong, and it is also the maid of the Guogong Mansion." ”

Xu Shiming was silent for a moment, and then said, "That little girl of your family can't do it, she's black and thin." ”

Xu Heguang smiled, "Isn't your little niece still grown?" Then he said, "The youngest daughter-in-law of Zhang Tongguang's family is Xu Le'an's sister, you know?" ”

Xu Shiming's eyes lit up: "This little widow can, I heard that it is still finished?" It should be dedicated to the national prince. ”

When Xu Heguang heard this, he said, "Then I'll go to Zhang Tongguang tonight, and I'll make arrangements tomorrow." As for Zhang Tongguangtong's disagreement, Xu Heguang didn't take it to heart, and borrowed a hundred of his courage to see that he dared to disagree.

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Xu Shiming estimated that Zheng Deshui should have arrived, but he didn't, so he couldn't help but be a little worried. But he didn't know that when the messenger arrived in Chizhou and found Zheng Deshui's house, Zheng Deshui went to a friend's house, and he didn't explain where he went to his family. When the messenger found Zheng Deshui, he stayed in Chizhou for two days before setting off and hurried to Xuancheng and returned.

Li Congyi had already arranged for the messenger to bring two horses, so the two of them were also fast on the road and arrived at the mouth of the pit. Li Congyi did not wait for Zheng Deshui to rest, so he took him to several reservoir site sites to inspect.

Zheng Deshui immediately added some improvements to the original plan, and everyone praised it. When it comes to the method of dam construction, it is clearly organized, and Li Congyi has to sigh that the method of water control has been passed down since ancient times, and it has indeed benefited from such some folk powers, and the skills of Fang Bao have been passed on. It is a pity that the successive rulers did not know the goods, and these talents who really helped the people were defiled as petty skills. It was Fan Ruoshui, and it was also because the Yangtze River pontoon bridge helped the Song Dynasty to conquer the Southern Tang Dynasty, so that Zhao Kuangyin appreciated it.

Li Congyi immediately appointed Zheng Deshui as the deputy general manager of Xuanzhou Construction, specializing in engineering construction. Although Zheng Deshui didn't understand what the position of the deputy general manager was, he saw that everyone was envious, and he also understood that this was reused. Regardless of being in the wild, he immediately thanked Li Congyi with a big gift.

With experts in charge, everything is beneficial. Zheng Deshui carefully measured the elevation, adjusted the height of the two pivot sluices corresponding to the first barrage of the Jianhe River in Kengkou Village, and squeezed out more than ten acres of paddy fields from the mountain depression.

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In this way, Li Congyi has been in this mountain for ten days, and everything is generally planned.

The first thing is that Xuanzhou Construction Co., Ltd. is basically settled. The registered capital is 100,000 taels, divided into 100,000 shares, Jiang Guogong has 80,000 shares, the Xu family in Kengkou has 10,000 shares, and Xuanzhou Mansion and Xuancheng County have 5,000 shares each. Jiang Guogong Li Congyi is the chairman, and Hou Hongye and Xu Heguang are the directors. The general manager of the company is Xu Shiming, the deputy general manager is Zheng Deshui, and Li Congyi sent Luo Zhengwen's younger brother Luo Zhengwu as the head of the financial department. The Jianhe Project Department was also set up, and Zheng Deshui, deputy general manager, concurrently served as the director of the project department.

The second thing is the start of the construction of the reservoir. Li Congyi believed that the opening ceremony of Xuanzhou Construction had to be held in Xuancheng, so he only held the opening ceremony of the Jianhe Project Department at Kengkou, and also held a groundbreaking ceremony at the site selection of the first-level reservoir in Shuiyantou Village. There are many guests, but there is weight, in addition to Jiang Guogong, in fact, there are only Xu Jianzhang, the secretary of Xuanzhou Mansion, and Hou Hongye, the magistrate of Xuancheng.

Li Congyi also insisted on not using volunteers for the construction of this reservoir, preferring to spend more money to recruit workers. On the surface, the reason is to make everyone more motivated to work and speed up the process of reservoir construction. The actual reason, Li Congyi also made it clear to Xu and Zheng that he hoped to establish a stable construction team through recruitment, especially requiring Zheng Deshui to pay attention to cultivating a backbone grassroots management team in each section.

The third thing is to sign two cooperation agreements.

The first is to sign a limestone purchase agreement with Zhou. Before there was no cement, lime with yellow mud water was a very good substitute. Zhou's original lime kiln, a green brick kiln, in order to expand production, this time Zhou's also imitated Xuanzhou construction, the establishment of Zhou's brick and stone limited liability company, the capital of 5,000 taels. It is said that Zhou Shihui originally wanted to invest in Xuanzhou Construction, but Li Congyi suggested that Zhou's principal is limited, and Xuanzhou Construction may expand the capital scale in the future, as a small shareholder is of little significance, it is better to focus on Xuanzhou Construction and be an upstream enterprise. Zhou Shihui wanted to send shares to Li Congyi, of course Li Congyi didn't need to be greedy for this money, and immediately let Xuanzhou Construction take a stake in Zhou's Masonry Co., Ltd., accounting for 20% of the shares, and sent Luo Zhengwu to be a shareholder director, and Xu Heyuan didn't know what considerations, he also entered a thousand taels and became the deputy general manager of Zhou's Masonry Co., Ltd.

The second is to sign a unified purchase agreement with Xu's shop for daily necessities, mainly because Zheng Deshui intends to start construction at a staggered pace in the three reservoirs of Shuiyantou, Menkeng and Heshangzhai, and strive to complete all the projects and store water in 3 months, so it is expected to recruit more than 1,000 people, and Li Congyi requires three meals a day in breakfast, lunch and dinner, and determines the food standard. Under the production model of the contemporary small-scale peasant economy, the purchase of scattered commodities such as vegetables, eggs, pork, chickens and ducks must rely on the commercial landlord of Xu's shops to obtain a relatively large amount of stable supply.

The fourth thing is that Li Congyi has an unexpected gain. When Li Congyi first arrived at the door pit, he used the paper carried by the genuine Jiang Guogong to relieve his hands, but after arriving at the pit, probably because Li Congyi was more paper-consuming, the inventory was consumed relatively quickly, so Luo Zhengwen had to arrange for someone to go to Fucheng to pick it up. But Li Congyi also felt that the paper was too good and the cost was too high, so he kept his thoughts. As a result, one day, when he saw a cart of yellow paper for burning incense from Xu's shop, Li Congyi immediately slapped his thigh: What the master needs is this kind of paper, soft and low-cost. After chatting with Xu Leshui, the nephew of Xu Heguang who was in charge of transporting the goods, he found that this young man was very clever and able to do things, and he understood the toilet paper needs he described, and took the initiative to ask for help, saying that he could serve the Lord Guogong and go to Jing County to find a master to build a factory specializing in the production of toilet paper. Li Congyi was happy and gave a thousand taels of venture capital, and the young man also went to the road, went home to say hello to his wife and children, and explained the situation to Xu Heguang, the shopkeeper of Xu's shop, and set off for Jing County on the same day.

After these few things were done, the construction of the reservoir had begun, and Li Congyi also knew that the wife and children of the Zhengpai Jiang Guogong were far away in Jinling, and they were not afraid of gangs, so they wanted to return to Xuancheng.

After a few lively ceremonies in the morning, Li Congyi pulled a group of leading figures to have lunch together, and gathered a large table of more than a dozen people. Under the influence of Li Congyi, everyone was also used to eating with Li Congyi, but Xu Jianzhang, the sergeant, who joined the army, and Hou Hongye, the boss of Xuancheng County, were not adaptable.

Li Congyi talked about a lot of suggestions on raising pigs and composting, and replanting rice and wheat, Xu Jianzhang sat there, but he only felt ridiculous, a young prince who didn't do farming, but he was teaching a group of old farmers to do things.

However, what shocked him even more was that several Li Zheng asked for details seriously, as if they felt that what Jiang Guogong said was very reasonable. And Li Congyi said that the paddy fields that have just been reclaimed this year can be used with grass fertilizer first (that is, cutting grass and burying it in the paddy fields for fertilizer), and several Li Zheng suddenly had an expression of "why didn't I think it was so simple", and then patted Li Congyi's sycophants, which made Xu Jianzhang feel like he was in a dream.

When Xu Jianzhang asked how to recover the cost after the reservoir was built, Hou Hongye explained on behalf of Li Congyi the construction and operation agreement between Xuanzhou Construction and Xuancheng County, which is mainly that during the 20-year operation right period, based on last year, the county and the company will share the incremental part of the land tax of the villages involved in the reservoir with 55%. If, after a few years, the county feels that the company has taken too much, it can exercise the right to buy back and take back the franchise at a reasonable price. Otherwise, the county can renew the franchise one more time, up to a maximum of 30 years. What's even better is that with this agreement, Xuanzhou Construction will help the county government to settle and collect the land tax in the future.

"Not only that, but the reservoir can also be contracted to raise fish and ducks, so that the daily care of the reservoir can be done by fish farmers on a part-time basis. The reservoir will also be equipped with the construction of waterwheels, rice cooking, and collect some small money. Xu Shiming added.

Xu Jianzhang was secretly frightened after hearing this. After the construction of the reservoir in Xuanzhou, it will take the opportunity to re-clear the acres of land. However, the fact that the reservoir has added so many paddy fields to the villages and ethnic groups has greatly reduced the resistance. Then this year's summer and autumn taxes will definitely have a big increase. And if the usual maintenance of the reservoir can achieve the same income and cost, then this business is really profitable, and it can be done for up to 30 years! But the government doesn't seem to have lost a lot, and it has gained a lot. This is exactly the win-win pattern that Jiang Guogong said!