Wu Youzhi outside the palace of Heng'an.

A young man in white brocade clothes stood here, holding a fan in his hand. It was cool weather, and the lightly shaking fan seemed to be about to slap all his worries.

The same woman with a delicate face stood beside him. This person was nothing but Lu Wushuang who wanted to control Su Zhiyuan remotely in her hand. However, there was no other expression on her face at this time, only a look of a silly look at the young master in Jinyi in front of her.

"That boy went to be the county magistrate?"

"Well, it is said that he is quite capable, so I sent Xiaoju to monitor him."

"Yes, the prefect Qin is also my person. There is nothing wrong with having one more person in the officialdom. Now the prince appreciates me very much. If you look forward to the Jiangnan area for me, I may go to the north to join the army soon and will not come back in the short term."

Lu Wushuang seemed a little excited, but also a little disappointed: "You have been promoted, that's great. There are constant wars on the northern border. Or, why don't I go to protect you?"

"Nothing!"

Lu Wushuang's excited expression stagnated.

"I have made so much effort here. If you go too, I will not have anyone who can trust me anymore. Do you want my efforts to be wasted? Besides, I am just a gilding thing to do when I go to the border. I will not take it seriously as a seventh-rank errand like joining the army. When I get to be a first-rank official in the court, it will be considered as a merit."

There is no one in the first-rank official in the court except the prime minister. He is a position below one person and above ten thousand people. Others dare not think about it. Even the six ministers of the ministers are the third-rank official. This young master in Jinyi has too great ambitions.

"So, when will we be together?"

"When I am making achievements, how can I take into account my children's personal relationships? I understand your feelings and dedication to me. If you believe me, I will definitely not let you down."

Perhaps because of the slightest comfort, Lu Wushuang nodded and took on the responsibility. The royal relatives did not allow him to interfere in the affairs of the court. There were enough bloody incidents in the past palace coups, so it was not easy for King Wu Youzhi of Heng'an to arrange a position to join the army for him.

There are hundreds of diners under the prince’s sect, and few of them can be seen, but he is the one who is favored.

Lu Wushuang believed in him and believed that he could wait until the day they were together.

Speaking of the Tang Dynasty, life is actually good. Su Zhiyuan is very convenient to get out to eat every day. It is not that Sequoia is not delicious to cook, but that it feels very comfortable to drink a bowl of coarse grain soy milk or a bowl of hot milk outside.

In fact, Jiangnan is very rich, and Lin'an is just a little worse. After all, there are some small mountains around it, unlike other places where there are plains, with lots of arable land and good transportation.

Maybe the main official road in Lin'an is OK, but the roads in the surrounding villages are very inconvenient. As the saying goes, if you want to be rich, you will first build the road. Su Zhiyuan spent several days to run through several nearby villages and found that the road was really difficult to walk. It was okay to pass by, but in some places, the carriages could not be passed by.

The matter of building a bathhouse was left so far. Anyway, Su Zhiyuan thought about it as soon as he had made an appearance. The county government had limited ability and left it to everyone to do it. If he had to ask for funds from the road construction, maybe no one would take care of it. So when Su Zhiyuan learned about this situation, he decided to run things and make money to transform the living environment here.

In fact, to put it bluntly, Su Zhiyuan still has to do business, and he still has to use his own identity to do business. Otherwise, he would not have been able to build a toll station after the road is built, which may not be appropriate.

But after telling Sequoia and her group of people this idea, they laughed at Su Zhiyuan for thinking too much. After all, he is the county magistrate. If he asked the strong men from each village to come out to build roads for them, would anyone refuse?

Of course no one refused because he dared not.

Su Zhiyuan didn't expect that things were so simple. After asking several yamen runners to send letters to the local geniuses everywhere, they waited to plan their itinerary to supervise their road construction projects.

There is no such thing as building roads in this era. It is just digging roads. The roads are dug, but there are still things that simply press the road surface flat.

There is also a blacksmith shop in Lin'an County. When I learned that the county magistrate asked them to build something, I almost didn't pee. I didn't even dare to think about it if I asked for money. As for the matter, it was even more difficult.

After Su Zhiyuan handed over the drawings he drew like a stone mill, the iron shop was stunned. How could he punch such a thing?

Iron-muggling is also the ancestor of the mold industry. If you have drawings, you can punch it. However, what is as round as a stone mill on Su Zhiyuan’s drawing is so big, how can you punch it?

It’s not that iron smuggling technology cannot be created, but that it has never been such a big thing. After all, even if the iron smelting technology in the past has made long-term progress, the iron production is still very low, and the price of iron tools is not low. Generally, simple things are created to replace wooden tools.

Not to mention the difficulty of creating something like Su Zhiyuan painted, even if it can be made, it will cost a lot of money, but most importantly, they don’t have so much iron.

"Mr. County Master, I don't have so much iron."

The yamen runners around him came out without saying a word: "It's your honor to be arrogant, the master is asking you for your business. I'm also looking for reasons to shirk it. Don't want to do it anymore, right?"

Made, I made me look like a bully and domineering market. Su Zhiyuan enjoyed such a sense of pretending, but he hoped to leave a image of loving the people as much as his son.

"You are just being rude, how do you speak? I'm here to buy things, and you make me feel like I'm here to grab things. Remember to be polite in the future, and we must be well-educated and reasonable people."

The people in the blacksmith shop thought, it sounds so nice, they must be here to grab things. If you come to get some things, how dare we ask for money?

"Is it a matter of money?"

This sentence came to the point, but the people in the blacksmith shop dared not admit it. They shook their heads: "No, no!"

Su Zhiyuan took out a silver note and placed it on the counter next to it.

"How is it, is it enough?"

"Enough enough!"

Fortunately, Su Zhiyuan said that the middle could be hollow, so the blacksmith shop took a look at the inventory of iron blocks in the shop before he dared to build it.

Some iron is iron slag, and many impurities can be made when melted and soft, or they can be turned into iron and cast. It is not difficult to make a mold that can be poured on site and mud. The masters of the blacksmith shop are also veterans. Su Zhiyuan did not keep watching, but turned around and took the people to the first village to arrange for digging roads.

Lin'an has a soft soil and it is not difficult to dig roads. Some villages have to cross rivers, but those without bridges can only use boats, which is very inconvenient. Compared with some villages on the mountain and some villages on the bottom of the valley, the way of building roads is different.

The situation in the first village was not very bad. In the past, I had to climb a hill. It was certainly impossible to dig a straight road. Su Zhiyuan led the strong men from this village to dig a road on the ground along the hill.

The ground was uneven, with weeds and trees. There were a lot of work along the way. Seeing that it was not a few days to dig, Su Zhiyuan drew a three-meter-wide road, so he must take a marking sign. There is no need to say much about the benefits of digging the road. Anyway, they all knew it was a great thing, so the villagers worked very hard. When chatting, Su Zhiyuan also knew what specialties were in their village, and it was not convenient to take out on weekdays. Now he should wait until the road was repaired and he could be pulled out and sold in a carriage.

"Tell the villagers that if you want to be rich, build roads first. You rely on the mountains to eat the mountains and water to eat water. Are there still few treasures in this mountain? This road is easy to walk, and you will inevitably live a better life. Finally, remember that this road is not built by our county magistrate, but by you."

The people below agreed in a hurry and wanted to hand him something over. Su Zhiyuan didn't think about accepting it. The yamen runner was quick-eyed and held it in his hands.

Su Zhiyuan was too lazy to say that after finishing the work here, he had to take a carriage to the next village.

This second village is interesting. It lives opposite a river that is not big or small. I won’t talk about building roads for now, I’m afraid I have to build bridges.

Su Zhiyuan is not an architect, so how can he build a bridge? He feels a little difficult.

In fact, these things about people's livelihood are not a matter of one day or two, but Su Zhiyuan hopes to arrange one thing in a day or two, so that he can free up his hands to do something else. It is like a wealthy investor will not think about making money by himself, but always think about investing in shares and joining to distribute dividends, which saves time and effort.

As the person who monitors Su Zhiyuan, Xiaoju is not responsible for her wherever Su Zhiyuan goes. In addition, she always holds a sword, so others think she is Su Zhiyuan's bodyguard.

At the beginning, the two of them were bickering and fighting, but when they arrived at the location to do business, Su Zhiyuan was busy, leaving her alone to do nothing. While watching Su direct others to work, she gradually felt that Su Zhiyuan was a person who did big things.

In fact, there have been a lot of progress in building bridges in the Tang Dynasty. Whether it is a stone bridge or a wooden bridge, or a shaking bridge built with bamboo floating on the water, they are all development and presentation of bridge culture. Su Zhiyuan's understanding of bridges is not as good as that of the masters of building bridges in this era.

This village is actually a bridge that restricts the traffic in the village. On weekdays, they go around a very far and shallow river to wading water to pull cattle and sheep over, but now it is different. If a bridge that can be easily passed by a carriage, cattle and sheep, then the village will have a lot more communication with the outside world, and it is only a matter of time before wealth can be achieved.

There is always no shortage of stones around the river, because the erosion exposed the stones underground. Large stones are used as bridge columns. Bridges built with mud, stones and wood are the most suitable. They are low-cost and can be used locally.

There are also experts in the village. Su Zhiyuan knew how to do it after saying this, and the second village was arranged.

The remaining villages are basically very convenient for digging roads like the first two types, but there are also a few villages living in the mountains and valleys. Su Zhiyuan really has no choice but to do so.

The world is so big, there are really all kinds of people, and they all like to live anywhere. Su Zhiyuan looked at a flat area without anyone living there, but there were people living in various mountains, ditches, and cliffs. He couldn't help but think of a poem, "The road to Shu is difficult, but it is harder than climbing to the blue sky."

Isn't it? I want to build roads to make other people rich, but you all live in such a remote place, I really have the will but lack the ability. Su Zhiyuan looked at the people in the distant valley and sighed. Maybe the road digging can only end here. After all, even if such a road building project is placed in a modern society with advanced technology, the expenditure is extremely huge, and it can be said that investment and harvest are disproportionate.

After the iron rolling tools of the blacksmith shop were made, the local sages soon pulled out a few cows from the village and pressed the road on the dug road. Although there were no stones to pave the road, the road surface was very flat under the iron milling back and forth of the road, and everything was difficult to start. After opening the head, Su Zhiyuan asked them to deal with it by themselves and return to the county government to deal with the backlog of things.

(To be continued)
Chapter completed!