In mid-March, Xingchen Ling once again made a big move, making it known to everyone. In the past, Xingchen Ling was also very famous, and under the coverage of Xingchen Monthly, the civilians in the city knew that there was such a place, and there was a young grand duke named Jiang Xingchen. But now, even the civilians of small territories and small villages know about the Star Territory.

The money-making plan was successfully launched, and the pressure on Jiang Xingchen's side was also greater, not only to train craftsmen, but also to need a lot of labor to lay the light rail.

Jiang Xingchen once thought that during the construction, let the major forces find laborers by themselves. But then I thought about it, forget it, if that's the case, people will definitely lower the price when signing a specific contract. Also, if something goes wrong in the future, it's not easy to distinguish the responsibility.

Therefore, Jiang Xingchen recruited people throughout the empire, especially small villages. There are a large number of idle villagers there. Now there are ploughing cattle and carts for farming, and a lot of labor has been liberated.

"What is the Star Collar?" For the villagers who rarely go out of the village, they didn't know the Star Collar at first. A lot of people don't even know the words. Hearing literate people read out the contents of the leaflets, they all asked questions.

"Star Domain! Star Territory is a territory of the Empire, very, very rich...... Now they are going to gather a large number of laborers, and this list is written about recruitment?" The villagers didn't know, they knew it was paper, expensive paper. Even if you have already written, there are still a lot of blank spaces on it.

"What do you mean by labor?" the villagers asked again.

"Labor means to work for others. You work for people, and they give you money!", the literate man explained.

"Get to work. Give money...... "The villagers don't know anything else, but they know the money." That's what you can do. After hearing this, their eyes lit up: "How much can I give?"

"It says to eat and live. Forty citrine coins a month!"

"How much?" A group of villagers' eyes were about to pop out, forty citrine coins, they couldn't earn so much in a year. This is a year when there are new high-quality seeds, and there are no droughts and no floods.

"Forty citrine coins a month, oh my God! That's too much!"

"Don't worry about eating and living, not all the forty citrine coins have fallen!"

"You know a lot of words, don't lie to us, do you believe this?" asked the literate villager.

"I don't think there's such a good thing!"

"Hmph!" the literate man was upset, shook the leaflet in his hand and asked, "Do you know what this is?"

"I don't recognize it!" the villagers shook their heads.

"It's called paper. Now there are eight citrine coins sold in the city! If it had been two months ago, two citrine coins would not have been bought...... People use this thing to send out, and you say that people are rich...... I don't believe you can go back and ask the baron's family, they don't necessarily have such things!" said the literate man disdainfully.

"Actually, I don't want to tell you, how good it is for me to go by myself! How many people want to go to Xingchen to work, it is said that everyone has meat in their food......"

"There's meat!" Many villagers are about to come down, and they can't eat a meal of meat all year round.

"I'll go, I'll go, I'll go......" Many people rushed to their feet.

"the fart. It's all gone, whoever plants it in the dealer, it's almost spring ploughing!" Someone immediately objected.

"The baron has oxen and carts. I don't need so many people at all, my mother-in-law and son can do it! Forty citrine coins a year, and I still have meat to eat. Fools don't go!"

"Hmph!" the literate man spoke again: "This time, more than 100,000 people are needed to recruit workers for Xingchen, but the list has been sent to the whole country. I don't know how many people are going! If you can't get there, hehe. Then you will lose the cost of the journey!"

"Huh?" the villagers were dumbfounded......

This can be seen in small villages all over the country. Xingchen Ling made great efforts this time, and the leaflets almost covered more than 70% of the villages in the country. The cost alone cost half a million citrine coins.

The lord of the village is very supportive of the recruitment of the Star Leader, and now that the spring ploughing does not need so much labor, it is better to go to the Star Leader to work than to let these people have nothing to do at home.

In late March, the day after the leaflets were distributed, a large number of villagers left their homes and went all the way to Xingchenling. I have to say that people are gambling, although they know that there is a danger of not being selected, but the attraction of dropping forty citrine coins a month is too great, and of course, you can eat meat.

And this time, most of the people who went to Xingchenling to participate in the recruitment were villagers from the village. The number of civilians in the city was much lower. Now that the major territories are under construction, there are a large number of jobs waiting for them, and forty citrine coins a month is a lot, but it is not worth running so far......

Just when the star collar made a big deal again. In the palace of the Qiankun Empire, the emperor asked the second prince sternly: "Is this light rail road really so good?"

"Hmm!" The second prince nodded and said: "I have analyzed, the imperial capital's demand for materials is quite huge, if the imperial capital is regarded as the end point of material gathering, and four light rail roads are scattered around, the efficiency will be improved a lot, and merchants will rush to use it, and they will definitely make a lot of money!"

"What about Jiang Xingchen's railway plan?" the Emperor asked.

"Jiang Xingchen said that these are two different things, but he didn't explain it!" the second prince replied decently.

"Could it be that this is just an excessive plan?" the Great Emperor frowned, and said after a moment's silence: "One meter and eight hundred citrine coins, have you calculated how much it will cost?"

"I'll calculate, if we build four light rails, it's about 600 miles, 300,000 meters, and a total of 480 million citrine coins!" said the second prince.

"Four hundred and eighty million!" the emperor pondered for a moment and said, "Okay! You take my edict to find the old marquis, four hundred and eighty million, we will spend it!"

The second prince smiled, bowed, turned his head and ran out.

The Great Emperor got up and said in a low voice: "If the train is really as Jiang Xingchen said, plus these light rail transportation lines and that thousand-mile-long highway, the empire's transportation will be greatly improved......"

At the same time, Moon Shadow, Great Qin, Dali and some territories of the empire have already chosen routes, and they are basically leading to the places where materials gather.

And in the Eight Kingdoms and Xuanyuan Heavenly Sect, several emperors shook their heads in regret. They wanted to stealthily create this kind of railroad track, because they realized that it was too convenient to use to transport military supplies.

However, without a rolling mill, how could they have copied it. I can only comfort myself, it is better if it is not imitated, so that the Qiankun Empire will be troubled with intellectual property rights.

In the end, they can only choose the transportation route and notify the star leader.

Xingchen Ling, Jiang Xingchen has returned, and he is studying the transformation of the carriage in the house. First of all, the carriage had to be four-wheeled, so that the carrying capacity was much higher than that of two-wheeled. In addition, he is trying to work on containers with uniform specifications. This makes transportation more efficient. In addition, this thing will be needed for sea freight in the future.

"Almost, let's go back to SF Express!, but the container needs to wait for the steel mill to come up, and use thin steel plates to make zuò to reduce the burden on the horses as much as possible......"

Jiang Xingchen put down his pen and was thinking about his future work. Mei'er pushed the door and walked in: "Brother, there is news from all over the country, and many people are already on the way." How's your preparation? If the recruited laborers can't leave immediately, our territory won't be able to live!"

"There are already quite a few planned routes delivered. Mr. Duan's process has also been completed, and technical personnel are being trained...... Now it's the Great Chen Kingdom's side left!" Jiang Xingchen said.

"Brother, you really asked Emperor Da Chen for Minggang City! He won't agree, he didn't even pay attention to your first letter...... No, let's go somewhere else!" Mei'er advised.

Jiang Xingchen shook his head with a smile: "No......! It is strategically located not only as a port, but also in the middle of the major powers, and it could not be better for industrial development...... I didn't pursue him before to throw himself into the Eight Kingdoms and expel the Han family, just to use it as a condition now...... Besides, I just want the right to use it for thirty years, and I don't want to rob him!"

Mei'er was speechless, and opened her mouth to ask for the right to use a port city for thirty years, which is not a robbery.

"But brother, Da Chen has not written from him, so he must not agree with your proposal!"

"Hehe, give him some time and he will agree......"

When Jiang Xingchen was full of confidence here, Emperor Da Chen was going crazy!

"Jiang Xingchen, you robber, you deceive people too much!" Emperor Da Chen slapped the letter paper in his hand on the table heavily, and he was so angry that he was panting, and his head was about to smoke.

In fact, he has always wanted to ease relations with Jiang Xingchen and the Qiankun Empire, but last time he stood on the side of the Eight Kingdoms and offended the Qiankun Empire and Jiang Xingchen too hard. Now that the Qiankun Empire is powerful, Jiang Xingchen is also in full swing, he is worried about retaliation, and he lives in fear every day. The more Jiang Xingchen was silent, the more scared he became.

This time, if Jiang Xingchen proposed individual conditions, he would be happy to agree, and it would be best to resolve this grudge.

But he never expected that Jiang Xingchen would ask for the right to use Minggang City for thirty years with one mouth, and the request was too much. Minggang City is very rich, and it is also the number one in Dachen, and it is a port city, how can he be willing to give Minggang City away.

However, when he thought of Jiang Xingchen's methods and the coercion of the Qiankun Empire, he muttered a little, for fear that Jiang Xingchen would be caught with something, and the soldiers of the Qiankun Empire would be overwhelmed.

In this way, he has been swaying from side to side, suffering from gains and losses, unable to pay attention to it, and unable to make up his mind. That's why I didn't give Jiang Xingchen any news.

Now I see the second letter, which says that the service life has risen to fifty years. He was strangely furious and felt greatly humiliated.

"If you don't give it to him, you can't give him Minggang City if you kill him!" Emperor Da Chen was full of anger and blood, temporarily suppressing his fear.

At this moment, a guard ran to the door, knelt down and said, "Your Majesty, urgent letter!" (to be continued......)

PS: The end of the third watch!