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Chapter 638 Aimee Zhu: Lantian is really rich

But today the old Zuo family's hard life is over, he can finally leave Tongguan, this unlucky place, the world is so big, and when he leaves Tongguan, Zuo Liangyu has tens of thousands of elites, how can he not be a master.

"Father, finally, we can finally leave here."

Zuo Menggeng's eyes were filled with tears. From a major general who was fearless, to a young man who trembled when he saw the soldiers and horses in Lantian, do you know what he went through?

"It was a past that I dare not look back on, it was so terribly miserable, thinking about it made him want to cry.

Zuo Liangyu said with emotion: "Your Majesty is a good person, we must remember His Majesty's goodness, it's too bad, I'm so happy, I really want to have a drink."

"Father, I will accompany you."

Zuo Menggeng was quite touched, but Zuo Liangyu stared at him and said: "Accompany me with a hammer, that's what I said, it's really delicious, hurry up and gather troops, and leave Tongguan, this ghostly place first, leave here, let's Drink wherever you want."

"Well, Dad, I want to drink in Yihonglou."

"Every day I know that drinking flower wine is useless, I will accompany you."

Aimee Zhu sat in the car, and before entering Tongguan, Zuo Liangyu's army on the other side set off. Seeing the billowing smoke and dust rushing towards Zuo Liangyu on the battlefield in Luoyang, Aimee Zhu felt a little emotional. The emperor still had some loyal ministers, such as this Zuo Liangyu is a man with a family and country in his heart, otherwise how could he rush to the battlefield in such a hurry?
Only Eunuch Cao, who knew something, narrowed his eyes and sighed.

Lantian is already a tiger and a wolf, and the officers of the Ming Dynasty can't avoid it.

Aunt Zhu was quickly taken to Tongguan, and the gate of Tongguan was opened. At this time, besides her, the princess, there were many merchants pulling goods, waiting in line for inspection by the city guards. If there were no prohibited items, they would all be issued. There is no phenomenon of maliciously eating and taking cards. This is not a little bit different from soldiers in other cities who do not give money or let go.

It seems that the military discipline of the soldiers here in Lantian is very strict.

Aimee Zhu was thinking, when the carts arrived at the door, Li Deshu went up to negotiate with the gatekeeper, and the gatekeeper said: "Except for Princess Chajia, everyone else will unload their knives. Controlling knives is prohibited in Lantian territory, and knives can be stored in the Tongguan warehouse. A receipt will be issued, and when you leave Tongguan, you will receive the weapon with the receipt."

This is Lantian's ban on knives. Heroes use martial arts to violate the ban. Thousands of caravans travel to and from Lantian every day. If knives are not banned, there will be countless people wandering around with swords in every market, restaurant, and even villages in Lantian. , if there is a dispute at that time, it will definitely be a bloody incident.

This is contrary to Lantian's rule of law requirements, so Lantian issued a ban on knives early in the morning. Knife refers to all kinds of weapons. The unified name of the document issued by the county is the control of knives.

The ban on knives says: Folks are not allowed to possess lethal knives privately, such as machetes, waist knives, ring-shou knives, Miao knives, Burmese knives, Xiuchun knives, long knives, short knives, longque big-ring knives, etc. Knives are prohibited.

Merchants from other places must also abide by the regulations, otherwise they are not allowed to enter Lantian. As for the peace outside Lantian, merchants need weapons for self-defense, so it doesn’t matter. You can come back and put your weapon on before you leave. When you leave Lantian, you are using a knife to slash and kill people, and no one cares.

But it is absolutely not allowed in Lantian, this is the ban on knives in Lantian!
What the gatekeeper said made Jin Yiwei behind him very reluctant. They have stayed in the capital for a long time, and they think they are superior. When they arrive in Lantian, they cannot use their privileges. No, this is definitely not in line with their ideas. They want to use privileges. They are going to bring swords into the city.

As a result, when the gatekeeper waved his hand and saw more than 100 flintlock guns pointing to their foreheads, this group of Jinyi guards were scared. You don't talk about martial arts, didn't you agree that you only use knives?

The gatekeeper came to Jin Yiwei who was leading the trouble, took his knife away, and said, "The storage fee is ten yuan a day."

"Ah, didn't you say a word just now?"

"Others are ordinary knives, but yours is an Xiuchun knife, so it will cost more to maintain."

With a wave of his hand after speaking, all Jin Yiwei were disarmed. Li Deshu glanced at the old eunuch Cao Huachun, who was always indifferent and silent, and guessed that this was probably Cao Huachun's intentional probing, and wanted to know where Lantian's bottom line was.

Li Deshu didn't speak, just looked at each other with Cao Huachun, followed by both of them in silence.

Except for Princess Chajia, the rest of the Jinyiwei were all disarmed, and they followed a group of people into Tongguan.

As soon as she entered Tongguan, the princess discovered that the world inside the pass was completely different from that outside the pass. When she entered the pass, what she saw was a ten-meter-wide road. The road was flat and paved with cement.

The biggest problem with the concrete floor is that it is easy to crack, but this is okay. The main reason for the cracking is the sun exposure and the pressure from the car. Friends who live in the countryside should know that the big muck truck, weighing dozens of tons, runs a few laps on the cement road. , The cement road is finished, and there will be cracks.

But at the end of the Ming Dynasty, this problem was not a big problem, because there were no such big muck trucks at the end of the Ming Dynasty. They were generally small carriages. A carriage weighed one or two tons more, and it was only a few hundred catties less. Road damage is not that great.

As for asphalt, the School of Geology of the Lantian Research Institute is doing research. At present, a pure natural asphalt ore has been discovered, but the output is too scarce, and there is no way to use it on a large scale. The asphalt is artificially extracted.

This involves petroleum. Asphalt is extracted from petroleum, and it can be regarded as a companion to petroleum. Therefore, if you want to refine asphalt on a large scale, you must first refine petroleum on a large scale. Currently, Lantian does not have the corresponding Refining process.

Moreover, there is no large-scale oil storage in Lantian, and the refining of oil has not been put on the agenda at all. After all, oil can be used, and it is basically a modern society.

So the asphalt road, this can only be thought about, even Lantian does not have such strength, but the cement road can be realized, and the cement factory occupies an important position in Lantian.

At present, there are [-] large-scale cement factories in Lantian, which have solved the employment problem of more than [-] people. More than [-] people, that is, more than [-] families. This can be regarded as one of the pillar industries in Lantian.

The current suppliers of the cement plant include the newly constructed water conservancy project in Lantian, as well as the construction of some military projects.

Moreover, the Lantian real estate project has been docked, the renovation of old cities, and the construction of new countryside have all stimulated the development of the cement industry.

The construction of this cement official road is actually of great significance. At the beginning, in order to solve the employment problem and improve the people's livelihood in Lantian as soon as possible, Lantian built factories on a large scale. Thirteen cement factories were directly built. Nearly tens of thousands of people directly solved the employment problem of 10,000+ households. At that time, this project was very huge.

Guo Bao of the Political Department personally took the initiative, but later, due to too many cement factories, and the real estate industry in Lantian had not exploded completely at that time, the reconstruction of old villages and the reconstruction of the old city had not been approved. The cement cannot be sold.

If you can’t sell it, you have to press the goods, and if you press the goods, the working capital of the factory will not be able to turn over. If the capital chain is broken, the result will be that the entire cement plant will close down, thousands of workers will be laid off, and the lives of the people will be in dire straits. .

At this critical moment, Li Chaosheng swiped his pen. If he wants to get rich, he must first build roads. We need to build a cement road, commonly known as a national road, that connects all the official roads in Shaanxi.

So began the vigorous construction plan of National Highway No. 001.

This plan stipulates that the national highway starts from Tongguan, leads to Tongqianguan in Nantong, reaches Hequ in the north, and Huating County in the west. The total length is nearly 680 kilometers, and it is a huge project that consumes [-] million taels of silver. In four years and three months, the entire cement plant in Lantian was revitalized directly, and the cement plant was successfully passed through the most sluggish period of time.

I have to say that if Li Chaosheng hadn’t been under pressure and Guo Bao had personally taken charge during that period, the cement industry in Lantian would have been abolished, and the 10,000+ employees would have been unemployed.

Now that the national highway has been repaired, the cement factory has been combined with the old city renovation plan and the old village renovation plan, and the water conservancy project is also developing rapidly. What is even more gratifying is that the cement channel has been opened up, going up to the capital and down to major cities across the country. , The distribution of cement is in full swing. The cement factory and its workers are no longer a burden on Lantian.

And now the cement plant has become a profitable project for Lantian. Last year alone, the profit was nearly 300 million. Moreover, as Lantian's sales network grows bigger and bigger, the amount of cement used in the future will increase.

Moreover, cement is a constructive material. After the successful construction of cement national road 001, it directly improved the transportation capacity of Lantian. Although the previous mud road could not be said to be difficult, the cement road definitely helped Lantian to a new level, especially the bad one. The weather and the transportation on the cement road have brought great advantages to Lantian.

According to the financial statement reported by the transportation department, after the cement road was completed, the transportation capacity of the entire Lantian increased by 40.00%, and the annual income for Lantian was about [-] million yuan.

But the only troublesome thing is the maintenance of cement roads. After all, cement is not as good as asphalt roads. Asphalt is still a very important strategic material. Unfortunately, Lantian can't make it now.

But even so, this straight, clean, and spacious concrete road deeply shocked Auntie Zhu, who had never seen the world. At this time, she blinked and blinked at the road in front of her. , Out of the Forbidden City is a dirt road, but Lantian built this official road in Tongguan, which is comparable to the palace corridor, how much does it cost?
Auntie Zhu looked at the road under her feet, and at this time Li Deshu happened to be beside the carriage, Auntie Zhu opened the sedan chair curtain to look at Li Deshu and said, "Li..."

"Oh, princess, just call me Li Deshu."

"Oh, Li Deshu, how long is your official career? It won't be spread directly from Tongguan to Lantian."

Auntie Zhu couldn't help asking, after hearing this, Li Deshu smiled and said, "No."

"Oh."

Aimee Zhu breathed a sigh of relief, and she also felt that Lantian could not be so prosperous, and that an official road could be built so long, but Li Deshu continued: "It is only a short distance to Lantian, and this road starts from Tongguan to the whole Lantian. It spread everywhere, reaching Tongqian Pass at the southernmost point.”

"Copper coin gate?"

Auntie Zhu was puzzled, and Li Deshu said: "Oh, after passing the Tongqian Pass, you will be in Hubei."

"so far."

Aunt Zhu was slightly surprised, at this time Li Deshu said: "The northernmost point is the Hequ, and beyond the Great Wall."

"This……"

Auntie Zhu didn't know how to organize her words anymore, but Li Deshu said: "Go west to Huating County, and go outside to Gansu. It can be said that this road runs through the entire Lantian."

As Li Deshu said, Auntie Zhu's mouth could be filled with an egg, and Auntie Zhu said for a long time, "It's so big, how much does it cost?"

"Money? Back and forth, about seven or eight million."

"Seven eight million?!"

Auntie Zhu's eyes widened, and she closed the car curtain immediately, feeling extremely shocked. She still remembered that her father asked for donations from officials for a mere 50 taels of silver, but in the end only got back 5 taels of silver.

He still remembered that his father, in order to raise 80 taels of military pay in Liaodong, asked his father-in-law to sell one of his favorite jade unicorns, a Hetian seed material handed down from the Taizu period, but this treasure was said to only be sold for 20 taels. When I arrived, the anxious father couldn't sleep for several nights.

She still remembers that in order to raise military pay, her mother and concubine took out her favorite and most precious wedding jewelry and gave it to the prince and father, and only sold it for 5 taels of silver.

In order to raise military pay, she remembered that the whole palace was not allowed to eat meat, and she and her younger brothers hadn't seen the smell of meat for several months.

She still remembered that in order to raise military pay, her father's dragon robe was not willing to replace it with a new one, so she had to patch it up. An emperor's dragon robe was patched. This country is really extremely difficult.

But if you look at Lantian again, they spent seven or eight million taels of silver to build an insignificant road. If the money is given to the father, what a big problem the father can solve.

Why are my younger brothers and sisters so hungry that they cry every day? They are princes and grandchildren, and they are His Majesty's princesses. Prince, why is this so.

Aimee Zhu thought with a firm gaze, she must help her father win over Li Chaosheng, as long as Lan Tian is willing to help her father, her father's life will be much easier.

Auntie Zhu thought about opening the curtain, looked at Li Deshu who was riding a horse, and said, "Li Deshu, are we going to Lantian to meet Li Chaosheng now?"

"Oh, no, the county lord is very busy recently, and I'm afraid I won't be able to find time to see the princess. The order I received is to place the princess in Xi'an Mansion first, and then come to see the princess after the county lord has been busy for a while."

Li Deshu said slowly, after hearing this, Auntie Zhu said angrily: "I am a dignified princess of a country, is it true that Lantian County Lord is not willing to see you?"

Li Deshu said with a smile: "Princess, don't be angry, the princess is naturally honorable, but in the opinion of our county lord, the honor of the princess is not as important as the safety of the millions of people in Lantian, so your highness, you should wait."

(End of this chapter)