Chapter 638 Zhu Yuluo: Lantian is really rich

Author: Taofu

Chapter 638 Zhu Yuluo: Lantian is really rich

Today, the hard life of the old Zuo family has come to an end, and he can finally leave the unlucky place of Tongguan. The world is so big, and outside of Tongguan, he, Zuo Liangyu, has tens of thousands of elites, so he is no longer an uncle.

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

Zuo Mengeng had tears in his eyes. He went from a young general who was not afraid of anything, to a young man who trembled all over and was frightened when he saw the soldiers and horses in Lantian. Do you know what he went through?

"That was a past that I didn't dare to look back on. It was so miserable. Thinking about it, he almost wanted to cry.

Zuo Liangyu said with emotion: "Your Majesty is a good person. We must remember His Majesty's kindness. I can't help it. I'm so happy. I really want to have a drink."

"Father, I will accompany you."

Zuo Mengeng was quite touched, but Zuo Liangyu glared and said: "I'll accompany you with a hammer. That's what I said. It's really cool. Hurry up and gather your troops. Get out of this ghost place like Tongguan first. Get out of here. Let's

Drink wherever you want."

"Well, dad, I want to go to Yihonglou for a drink."

"I know that drinking flower wine every day will lead to no future. I will accompany you."

Zhu Ya'ao was sitting in the car. Before they entered Tongguan, Zuo Liangyu's army on the other side started to move out. Seeing Zuo Liangyu's smoke and dust billowing and rushing towards the Luoyang battlefield, Zhu Ya'ao felt a little emotional. Her father still had some loyal ministers, such as these

Zuo Liangyu is a man who cares about his family and country. Otherwise, how could he rush to the battlefield so eagerly?

Only Eunuch Cao, who knew something, narrowed his eyes and sighed.

Lantian has become a tiger and a wolf, and the Ming officers cannot avoid it.

Zhu Yuluo was quickly taken to Tongguan. The gate of Tongguan was opened. At this time, in addition to her princess carriage, there were many merchants carrying goods, lining up to wait for inspection by the city guards. If there were no prohibited items, they would all be issued.

There is no malicious intent on taking cards, which is not the same as other cities where soldiers are not given money or let go.

It seems that soldiers here in Lantian have very strict military discipline.

Zhu Yuyao thought, when the carriage arrived at the door, Li Deshu came forward to negotiate with the gatekeeper. The gatekeeper said: "Except for the princess carriage, everyone else will unload their knives. Knives are prohibited in Lantian. The knives can be stored in the Tongguan warehouse. The warehouse

A receipt will be issued, and when you leave Tongguan, you can use the receipt to receive the weapons."

This is the ban on swords in Lantian. Xia uses force to violate the ban. Caravans and tens of thousands of people come and go in Lantian every day. If the sword is not banned, there will be countless people wandering around with swords in major markets, restaurants, and even villages in Lantian.

, if there is a dispute, there will definitely be a confrontation between swords and guns, which will be a bloody incident.

This is contrary to Lantian's legal requirements, so Lantian issued a knife ban early on. Knives refer to various weapons in general. The documents issued by the county are uniformly titled Controlled Knives.

The ban on knives states: Folks are not allowed to privately possess lethal knives, such as machetes, waist knives, Huanshou knives, Miao knives, Burmese knives, Xiuchun knives, long knives, short knives, Longque Dahuan knives...etc.

Knives are prohibited.

Foreign merchants must also abide by the regulations, otherwise they are not allowed to enter Lam Tin. As for the peace outside Lam Tin, merchants need weapons for self-defense. It doesn't matter. Before entering the city, there will be a tool management office. The storage fee is one penny a day, and you can finish your business.

You can come back and put your weapons before leaving. When you leave Lantian, you can just use a knife to cut and kill people, and no one will care about you.

But it is absolutely not allowed in Lantian. This is the knife ban in Lantian!

The gatekeeper's words made the Jin Yiwei behind him very reluctant. They had stayed in the capital for a long time and thought they were superior to others. When they arrived in Lantian, they could not use their privileges. No, this was definitely not in line with their ideas. They wanted to use their privileges.

They want to bring knives into the city.

As a result, when they saw the gatekeeper waving his hand and holding more than a hundred flintlock rifles to their foreheads, the group of guards in uniform were cowed. You don't follow martial ethics. Didn't you agree that you would only use knives?

The gatekeeper came to the Jin Yiwei who was leading the trouble, confiscated his knife, and then said: "The storage fee is ten coins a day."

"Ah, didn't you say anything just now?"

"Other people have ordinary knives, but this is an embroidered spring knife. It will naturally cost more to maintain."

After saying that, with a wave of his hand, all the royal guards 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 deliberate test, wanting to know where Lantian's bottom line was.

Li Deshu didn't say anything, he just looked at each other and Cao Huachun, and then both of them remained silent.

Except for the princess carriage, the rest of the royal guards were all disarmed, and followed the group 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, she saw a ten-meter-wide road. The road was flat and was paved with cement during construction.

The biggest problem with concrete floors is that they are prone to cracking, but that doesn’t matter. The main reasons for cracking are exposure to the sun and the pressure of trucks. Friends who live in rural areas should know that those big garbage trucks, weighing dozens of tons, have to run several laps on the cement road.

, the cement road will be finished, and cracks will appear.

However, this problem was not a big problem in the late Ming Dynasty, because there were not such big slag trucks in the late Ming Dynasty, and they were usually small carriages. The load of a carriage was one or two tons more, or only a few hundred kilograms less, so cement

Road damage isn't that big.

As for asphalt, the School of Geology of Lantian Research Institute is conducting research. At present, pure natural asphalt deposits have been discovered, but the output is too rare and there is no way to use it on a large scale. Asphalt is extracted artificially.

This involves petroleum. Asphalt is extracted from petroleum and is regarded as a companion of 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 equipment for petroleum.

Refining process.

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

So asphalt roads, this can only be thought of. Even Lantian does not have such strength, but cement roads can be realized. The cement factory occupies an important position in Lamtian.

At present, there are 13 large-scale cement plants in Lantian, which have solved the employment problem of more than 100,000 people. More than 100,000 people, that is, more than 100,000 families. This can be regarded as one of the pillar industries in Lantian.

The current supply units of the cement plant include water conservancy projects under construction in Lantian, as well as the construction of some military projects.

Moreover, it has already been connected with the Lantian real estate project, old city reconstruction, and new rural construction, which have stimulated the development of the cement industry.

The construction of this cement official road is actually of great significance. In order to solve the employment problem and improve people's livelihood in Lantian as soon as possible, Lantian built factories on a large scale. Thirteen cement factories were built directly, and workers in each factory were

Nearly tens of thousands of people were employed, directly solving the employment problem of hundreds of thousands of households. At that time, this project was very huge.

Guo Bao of the Political Department personally took charge of it. However, due to the excessive number of cement plants and the real estate industry in Lantian that had not completely exploded at that time, the old village reconstruction and old city reconstruction plans were not passed. It was the time when there was no work, and the result was Lantian.

of cement cannot be sold.

If you can't sell it, you have to suppress the goods. If the goods are suppressed, the factory's working capital will not be able to turn over. Once the capital chain is broken, the result will be that the entire cement factory will collapse, thousands of workers will be laid off, and the people's lives will be plunged into dire straits.

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At this critical moment, Li Chaosheng said with a stroke of his pen, if you want to get rich, you must build a road first. We need to build a cement highway that connects all official roads in Shaanxi, commonly known as a national highway.

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

This plan stipulates that the national highway starts from Tongguan, leads to Tongqianguan in the south, reaches Hequ in the north, and reaches Huating County in the west. It is a huge project with a total length of nearly 600 kilometers and a cost of 6.8 million taels of silver. This attack is planned to be completed in five years.

It actually took four years and three months to directly revitalize the entire cement plant in Lantian, and successfully let the cement plant survive the most lean period.

I have to say that during that period, if Li Chaosheng had not withstood the pressure and Guo Bao personally took charge, the cement industry in Lantian would have been abandoned and hundreds of thousands of employees would have been unemployed.

Now the national highway has been repaired, the cement factory has been integrated with the old city reconstruction plan and the old village reconstruction plan, and the water conservancy project is also developing rapidly. What is even more gratifying is that the channels for cement have been opened, up to the capital, and down to major cities across the country.

, the cement distribution is in full swing, and the cement factory and workers are no longer a burden to Lantian.

And now the cement factory has become a profitable project of Lantian. Last year alone, it made a profit of nearly 3 million. And as Lantian's sales network expands, the amount of cement used will be even more in the future.

Moreover, cement is a constructive material. After the successful construction of Cement National Highway 001, it directly improved the transportation capacity of Lantian. Although the previous dirt road was not difficult to walk, the cement road definitely helped Lantian to a higher level, especially in the harsh environment.

The weather and transportation on cement roads have brought great advantages to Lantian.

According to the financial statements reported by the transportation department, after the completion of the cement road, the transportation capacity of the entire Lantian increased by 40%, generating approximately more than 2 million yuan in revenue for Lantian every year.

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. It is a pity that Lantian cannot make it now.

But even so, this straight, clean, and spacious cement road deeply shocked Zhu Aona, who had never seen the world. At this time, her little eyes blinked and looked at the road in front of her. She must know that in her opinion, the entire capital city

, there is a dirt road after leaving the Forbidden City, but Lantian built an official road in Tongguan that is comparable to the palace corridor. How much does it cost?

Zhu Ya'a looked at the road under her feet. At this time, Li Deshu happened to be beside the carriage. Zhu Yu'a opened the sedan curtain and looked at Li Deshu and said: "Li..."

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

"Oh, Li Deshu, how long is your official road? It doesn't go directly from Tongguan to Lantian."

Zhu Aona couldn't help but ask. After hearing this, Li Deshu smiled and said, "No."

"oh."

Zhu Ya'ao breathed a sigh of relief. She also felt that Lantian could not be so prosperous and that an official road could be built so long. However, Li Deshu continued: "It is only a short section to Lantian. To be precise, this road starts from Tongguan and goes to various places throughout Lantian.

It spreads everywhere, reaching Tongqian Pass in the south."

"Copper Coin Pass?"

Zhu Aona was puzzled, and Li De wrote: "Oh, after passing the Tongqian Pass, you will reach Hubei."

"so far."

Zhu Yusao was slightly surprised, then Li De wrote: "The farthest north is the bend of the river, and beyond that is beyond the Great Wall."

"this……"

Zhu Yuluo no longer knew how to organize the language, but Li Deshu said: "Going west to Huating County, and beyond is Gansu. It can be said that this road runs through the entire Lantian."

As Li Deshu spoke, Zhu Aona could fit an egg into her mouth. After a while, Zhu Aura said: "How much does it cost for such a big egg?"

"Money? Give or take, about seven to eight million."

"Seven to eight million?!"
To be continued...