Empress: Your Majesty, please respect yourself, I don't want to be promoted

Chapter 237 Putting into production and building a factory
As long as it's something Lu Chen strongly recommends, the efficiency is surprisingly fast.

The next day when they went to court, the routine worship ceremony had just ended when Lu Chen came out of the crowd and raised his voice:

"Your Majesty, the research and development of a new building material has been completed. After discussion and verification by the Tiangong Department, it is officially named [cement]. It is in powder form before use and can be bagged, stored and transported. When used, sand and gravel are added and mixed in a certain proportion. , add water, stir, and then pour it into the mold. After it solidifies, it will be as hard as stone. If hard objects such as iron bars can be added to it to act as muscles and bones, its strength can be further improved..."

The report on the new building materials was naturally given to the courtiers. After all, the empress knew about it yesterday.

However, even so, the empress still listened very carefully, as if she was afraid of letting go of any details.

As Lu Chen told the story, all the courtiers showed shock.

New building materials...cement?
That's it?

So fast?Wasn’t it just a few days after the project was established?

And... add water, stir, pour into the mold, and shape it into any shape of stone without polishing?
Is there really such a magical thing in this world?

In shock, some of the courtiers who reacted quickly looked at Wu Yue, who was not far from Lu Chen.

Damn it, the Ministry of Household Affairs allocated funds to the Tiangong Department, and it only happened in the past two days. If the results are produced so quickly, isn’t it equivalent to the Ministry of Household spending 10 taels of silver to come up with new materials, this optical and auditory effect? Do you know that it must be an artifact that can significantly save project costs?
The Tiangong Division had come up with new building materials in just a few days. If Wu Yue, the Minister of Household Affairs, had hesitated for a moment during the previous court meeting, wouldn't he have to watch the empress earn this huge wealth? In the bag?

Now that the property rights belong to the Ministry of Housing and Urban-Rural Development, how much construction costs will be saved in the future?Or even produce more and sell them directly. Wouldn't this add an additional financial source to the court?
At this thought, they couldn't help but think about how rich her internal wealth would be if Wu Yue had given up investing in the research and development of new building materials a few days ago, and the patent for mud and stone had returned to the empress, and she had the two major financial resources of coal and mud. ?
Although the advent of new building materials, namely cement, will inevitably greatly reduce the imperial court's annual expenditure on the Ministry of Industry, the lack of a financial source is still very fatal to the Ministry of Household Affairs.

Facts have proved that Wu Yue's decision to go against all opinions and devote all his energy to the research and development of new building materials was right.

He caused Hu Bu to lose a lot of money due to coal mining, but by betting on mud and rocks, he gained Hu Bu an unimaginable amount of wealth.

It is even possible that the national treasury will not be in deficit this year!
Wu Shangshu, you are so wise!
This day's engineering department is really amazing!
Of course, it would have been better if Wu Yue had not cried out for poverty when Lu Chen proposed the establishment of the Tiangong Division Yamen, but had agreed to Lu Chen's proposal and incorporated the Tiangong Division into the system of three pavilions, six departments and nine temples, instead of like Now, all I can do is watch the empress put money in sacks.

The separation of internal and external, and the separation of the treasury and internal funds have always been insisted on by the civil servants. Now, the empress' wallet is getting bigger and bigger, but the treasury is getting emptier and emptier. There was already a deficit during the reign of the late emperor, and the Demon Queen has been in power for a long time. The deficit has continued to expand over the years and has reached a point where it is difficult to fill it.

After the emperor and the court shared the pot, almost no minister would have the idea of ​​​​investing money in the house unless the emperor was willing, because it was tantamount to admitting his own incompetence.

Wu Yue had obviously thought of this, and the joy he just showed gradually revealed a sense of regret and remorse.

Lu Chen continued: "The production process of mud and stone is not difficult, but it requires a large amount of coal. Your Majesty, please immediately invest in the construction of a coal plant and a cement plant, and purchase them from the fiefdom of Taihe County at a price of fifty yuan per stone. Carboniferous.”

As soon as these words came out, a large number of courtiers turned their heads and looked at the beautiful figure at the front of the array of military attachés who rarely attended court meetings.

Indescribable envy soon appeared in his eyes.

They used to think that although Gu Simiao was unparalleled in loyalty and strength, she had poor vision and did not know how to plan for herself. She was a willful and prodigal daughter who did not know how to use her extraordinary military exploits to benefit herself. Not only did she abandon Jiangling County Duke Three thousand households were given food in an inferior county like Taihe County, and the most barren Black Mountain in Taihe County was chosen as a fiefdom.

Simply stupid.

but now…

Coal costs fifty yuan per stone, and the coal in the Black Mountains amounts to tens of millions, which is simply inexhaustible.

In other words, even if Gu Simiao does nothing in the future, and does not even need to collect taxes from the food towns, just by selling charcoal, she will be able to get a huge amount of wealth, and even become the richest person in the entire Great Xia besides the royal family. woman!
This luck... is simply invincible!
The empress turned her gaze to Gu Simiao and asked softly:
"Gu Aiqing, what do you think of what Lu Qing said?"

Gu Simiao said without hesitation: "In reply to Your Majesty, the purchase price given by Lu Shangshu is extremely fair, and I have no objection."

"Well."

The empress nodded. "Then the matter has been decided, Wu Aiqing."

Wu Yue immediately jumped out of the crowd.

"Wei Chen is here."

The empress said slowly: "The construction of the cement plant will be left to you."

"Wei Chen obeys."

Wu Yue replied solemnly without any hesitation.

Even if he has no vision, he can see that this cement is definitely a good thing. Cement can play a big role in building bridges, paving roads, building cities, imperial tombs and other projects. As the Minister of the Ministry of Revenue, he actually has no vision. It's bad, it's just limited by the times.

Building a factory and producing this stuff won't make a loss no matter what, it's a sure-profit business, so why should there be any hesitation?
It just requires a lot of manpower and material resources to be invested in the early stage, and the cost can be recovered in one or two months. Even if there is no business, Wu Yue knows that this investment cannot be saved.

As for the coal plant, he didn't even bother to ask.

After all, that thing was purely the private property of the empress, and not a penny would fall into the pocket of the treasury. No matter how courageous he was, he would not dare to stretch his claws into the internal money.

Taking money from internal funds is something that only Lu Chen can do. Anyone else who touches it will die!
Soon, the construction of the factory in Montenegro was finalized.

The pebbles and mudstones launched one after another by the Tiangong Division also officially entered the historical stage of Daxia with the official announcement of the imperial edict. In this decadent era that was about to collapse, it made a strong mark.

Gu Simiao, who had just become the top military attache in the world, also gained the label of being extremely wealthy.

And she is not married yet. Whoever marries her will not only have a beautiful wife and top bodyguard, but also have direct wealth and freedom, and will become a winner in life that everyone envies.

Unfortunately, no one seems to be able to embark on this shortcut to the pinnacle of life.

Except someone.

After Gu Simiao received the order, he suddenly glanced at Lu Chen who was not far away, with a subtle smile flashing in his eyes.

After the court meeting, the next day, officials from the Tiangong Department came to Montenegro with a group of craftsmen.

Coming with them were many officials from the Ministry of Household Affairs.

Among them was Wu Yue, the dignified Minister of Household Affairs.

Officials from the Tiangong Department came here to survey the terrain in order to select a site for building a factory.

Lu Chen was staring at a project that not only no one dared to discount, but also worked hard to get. When he first arrived in Montenegro, he threw himself into the complex project from scratch without any rest.

The people from the Ministry of Revenue came here for the vast amount of charcoal land that had been assigned to Shiyi Bai.

When Gu Simiao was formally enfeoffed, he established a lot of rules. Among them, land was allocated to the people of the city on a per-capita basis. After the survey was completed, almost every household now has dozens of acres of land with countless charcoal buried in it. .

In the past, these lands were worthless because of charcoal, but now, in the eyes of the government, these lands are golden soil that is much more precious than paddy fields.

It is conceivable that after today, how rich these people who were originally moved to live near Montenegro due to various helplessness will be!

(End of this chapter)