Li Shimin

Chapter 222 How can you guarantee it?This king can't even guarantee it!

"Xuanba, where did you catch this iron-eating beast? It's so naive. I'll send someone to find one someday, and keep it in the palace. It's a cute creature!"

Li Shimin asked quickly.

"Your Majesty's words are very reasonable. I, Old Cheng, have to bring two of them back as companions for my precious daughter!" Cheng Zhijie couldn't help grinning, full of anticipation!

"Your Majesty, Su Guogong, this beast is in winter, and it is so hungry that it ran into the glass shed guarded by Cheng Laosi and the others, looking for food to eat. I saw that it was young, and I couldn't bear to starve to death, so I took it with me. Go home and be raised as a family of animals!"

Li Xuan explained.

"It was delivered to the door by myself!"

Hearing this, Li Shimin, Cheng Zhijie and others couldn't help but look envious.

After a long while, Li Shimin breathed a sigh of relief, looked at Li Xuan again, and said, "Xuanba, you just used cement, what's your good idea?"

"Return to Your Majesty, although cement is not like salt and iron, it is related to the foundation of the country!"

Li Xuan said: "However, cement is related to all roads and buildings in the Tang Dynasty, and its importance is no less important than that of salt and iron!"

"What does Xuanba mean?"

Li Shimin was dumbfounded by Li Xuan's words.

It's not important for a while, but it's equally important for a while.

"Your Majesty, salt and steel can be used directly after production, and no one dares to cheat on their quality. However, there are many opportunities to cut corners and materials when building roads and houses with cement!" Li Xuan said again.

"What kind of good strategy does Xuan Ba ​​have?"

Li Shimin's expression froze, and he asked quickly.

On the side, Changsun Wuji, Fang Xuanling and others also looked at Li Xuan quickly, this King Jin, who is famous for his supernatural power, always has some strange ideas.

"Your Majesty, the production of cement can be handed over to the general supervisor for production, but the construction of roads and houses cannot be handed over to the general supervisor!" Li Xuan said.

"His Royal Highness Jin Wang, the general will be the supervisor and will not do such things as stealing, rape, trickery, and corruption!"

Gongsun Nian's expression became anxious, and he said hastily.

"Can you guarantee it?"

Li Xuan asked with a light smile.

"Back to the King of Jin, the lower officials will make sure with their heads!" Gongsun Nian said with a firm face.

"Anthracene?"

Li Xuan couldn't help but sneered, with disdain on his face, "You're just a little prisoner, how can you guarantee it? Even this king can't guarantee it!"

"Do you know how big the interest in cement is?"

"This?"

Gongsun Nian was taken aback, thought for a moment, and said proudly: "Your Highness, I can earn 5 million yuan in a year with cement!"

5 million?

Both Li Shimin and Cheng Zhijie couldn't help but look surprised, so many?

"Hey……"

Li Xuan was dumbfounded, looked at Gongsun Nian in astonishment, and said, "General prisoner, you are so ignorant! Do you know how cement is fired? All you need is some limestone, clay, and stones to be ground into powder, and then mixed with iron The remaining slag is fired together and becomes cement!"

"It's so fired?"

Immediately, Gongsun Nian, Li Shimin and the others were all astonished.

Limestone, clay, and stones are all worthless things, and the mountains are full of them, and you can get as much as you want.

"So, cement is worthless at all?" Li Shimin asked hastily.

"Exactly!" Li Xuan nodded.

"However, cement has huge benefits. Once roads and bridges are built, or even houses are built, it will involve the entire territory of Datang. If it is fully utilized, just cement can generate tens of millions of money for Datang!"

"Wan Wanguan?"

Li Shimin, Changsun Wuji and others couldn't help but take a deep breath.

However, after thinking about it for a while, his face was full of doubts.

"May I ask His Highness King Jin, just using cement to build roads and bridges is a matter of benefiting the people and not making money. How can you make tens of millions of dollars a year by only relying on cement to build houses?" Fang Xuanling asked.

"Your Majesty and all of you are wrong. Concrete road construction does not make money, and building houses does not make money either!"

Li Xuan said: "Actually, the most profitable place is to use cement to build roads to make money!"

"Ok?"

Li Shimin, Fang Xuanling and others couldn't help but be puzzled.

"Xuanba, how do roads make money? Is it possible to collect tolls?"

"Exactly!"

Li Xuan nodded slightly.

Li Shimin was shocked and shook his head again and again, "Isn't this a bandit?"

"Your Majesty, the imperial court hires artisans and workers for free to build roads. It also consumes cement and builds them for free. Why can't they collect tolls?" Li Xuan sneered.

"This road was built for me, and this mountain was opened for me. If you want to pass by, why not charge a reasonable toll?

Moreover, after a long period of time, the roads built with cement will be damaged by wind and rain, and the soil will subside.Are these all money?

Could it be that the imperial court spent tens of millions of money, but allowed those merchant convoys to walk on it for free? "

"His Royal Highness, on some important roads, checkpoints are generally set up, and business taxes will be collected!"

Fang Xuanling said hastily.

"Not enough!" Li Xuan shook his head lightly.

"Using cement to build roads is far from being comparable to ordinary roads!
Ordinary roads, once it rains and snows, will be muddy, not only difficult for convoys to walk, but also for people to walk.

However, the concrete road is straight and flat, never slippery when it rains, and there will be no mud.Therefore, even if it rains, pedestrians can drive.Moreover, it is not bumpy, and the speed of walking on it must be [-]% faster than that of ordinary official roads.

This is a great thing for all merchants in the world, which is enough to increase the profits of all merchants by [-] to [-]%.Moreover, on the cement road, post stations and inns can be set along the way.This is also a profitable business. "

"Even in snowy weather, the cement road is flat and you can walk on snow. Merchants all over the world will be willing to pay to walk on this kind of road.

You can't help but feel that those merchants will lose money if they pay.However, what the world's merchants earn is the cost of traveling from one city to another. The shorter the time they travel, the more they earn.

The shortened time they walk on the concrete road has already earned the toll, and it will only be more or less! "

Li Xuan breathed a sigh of relief and continued: "Moreover, the most important thing is that as long as all the pipelines in Datang are built on concrete roads, it will definitely save time and effort compared to dirt roads for the army to travel and transport the luggage.

Therefore, card fees should be set up in the cities where the cement leads! "

"build!"

Li Shimin shouted directly, with a firm face.

Li Xuan nodded at Li Shimin, and continued: "How much steel and cement are needed to build so many roads, bridges, and houses? Can you count as a prison?"

"Moreover, they are all built in various parts of the Tang Dynasty. How many craftsmen and hard labor are needed? Can the general supervisor supervise them? Every city in the Tang Dynasty has aristocratic families. If those aristocratic families want to build houses with Steel bars, can you guarantee that the officials and people who will be the prison can reject those aristocratic families?

If there is a quality problem with the cement and the house, someone cuts corners, collapses, and kills people, who will be responsible for this kind of responsibility? ..."

After Li Xuan's series of questioning, the general supervisor Gongsun Nian's forehead was covered with beads of sweat.

The aristocratic family is terrifying, and an official like him who came from a poor family has learned a lot.

Not to mention, is he still facing the world's aristocratic families?

He is a small general prisoner, and he is powerless to resist!

(End of this chapter)