Li Mu was not idle here either, he found Li Tai. Despite his young age, Li Tai was a man determined to compile topography, and his understanding of the geography of the Tang Dynasty was as good as any old scholar who dropped his book bag.
If you want to make cement, you need several necessary conditions. The first prerequisite is a large amount of limestone mine. The second prerequisite is clay. The third prerequisite is a coal mine. Otherwise, how much wood does it take to calcine limestone with wood?
The cost is too high. And the cost of transporting coal is too high. In the era without trains, it was definitely not feasible.
Until the end of the Qing Dynasty, when the railway was not successfully built, China's cement industry was still in its infancy and had no scale at all.
Another difficulty in finding this place is that the traffic here must be decent. Li Mu vaguely remembered that in the era before he traveled through time, there was a very large cement factory somewhere in the Northeast, but now the Northeast is still barren.
Land, where cement is produced, even if it is produced, who will use it?
When Li Mu explained all the conditions, he thought it would be a difficult thing to handle, but he didn't expect that Li Tai gave him the answer very quickly.
Lantian County!
There is such a place near Chang'an.
There is a saying that the moon in the sea sheds tears, and the warm sun in Lantian creates smoke. When Li Mu heard the name Lantian, he thought of Li Shangyin's poem, but when he thought that Li Shangyin would be born hundreds of years later, he held back his chants.
After having a son, he became much more careful about plagiarizing poems and poems. He thought it would be better to leave something for future generations.
Lantian County is located at the northern foot of the Qinling Mountains and the southeastern part of the Guanzhong Plain. The most famous thing about Lantian is naturally jade. According to the Zhou Dynasty, "the beauty of jade is blue", so the county is named Lantian. The jade seal and jade passed down by Qin Shihuang are the Lantian water.
Made of beryl.
This is the deepest impression of Lantian in people's minds. Other minerals in Lantian are not well-known in comparison.
But among the information collected by Li Tai, in addition to jade in Lantian, the most common sample Li Mu showed him was limestone. This kind of white, huge, hard stone is very easy to identify. In Lanqiao, Wang
It is everywhere in Chuan, Bayuan and other townships. In Dazhai Township, kaolin is spread all over. Although the output of coal mines is not high, it is more than enough compared with the initial usage. When the output of Lantian County is reached
When it is not used enough, firstly, the roads will be badly repaired, and secondly, the huge value brought by cement will definitely be widely recognized. By that time, the entire industry will not need to worry about Li Muzai, and people will naturally do it.
opened up.
Lantian County is very close to Chang'an City. Even according to the standards of Xiuchidao, one hundred thousand guan is definitely more than enough. Li Mu has not made much money this year, but just the income Feng Qiuhuang brought him,
It's more than 100,000 guan. What's more, he also has a wife who is as rich as anyone in the country, and an old lady who is so rich that she doesn't know how many treasuries there are. A mere 100,000 guan is not a problem at all.
After a simple calculation, Li Mu drafted a charter. Under Datang Jianye, a joint-stock subsidiary was established, called Datang No. 1 Cement Plant, and its location was set in Lantian County. The first batch of 200,000 shares were issued.
, each share is consistent, the subscription period is ten days, shareholders only want to have the right to dividends, but not the right to make decisions. There is not a word of other news.
But with such overbearing conditions, as soon as the news was released, all 200,000 shares were snatched up in less than three days. No one asked Li Mu what he wanted to do, but everyone knew that if the snatching was slow, no money would be made.
There is an additional clause in the 200,000 subscription agreements for the original shares, that is, the voting rights of all original shareholders belong to Li Mu alone. Only when more than 60% of the shareholders request to withdraw their voting rights, the voting rights will be
will be redistributed. However, among the two hundred thousand shares, Mrs. Lu subscribed for 30% through various agents, and Wang Ou himself subscribed for 15%. In other words, one daughter-in-law and one mother-in-law subscribed.
It accounts for 45%. It is simply impossible for more than 60% to veto Li Mu.
200,000 shares were issued, a few pieces of paper, an intention, and without even knowing what the subsidiary did. Within three days, Li Mu received 200,000 yuan in cash. After counting clearly,
The next day, he announced that he would hire a construction team from Datang Jianye to build a highway to Lantian County within two months starting on the 16th of the first lunar month.
Everyone was in an uproar. They didn't know the reason why Li Mu chose Lantian County. In their opinion, Lantian County had nothing of value except jade. As for jade, although Lantian County has a good reputation, its output is not
High. Variegated jade is not valuable at all, and valuable and good jade cannot be found in ten or eight years. Otherwise, the people of Lantian County would not be worse off than the people in surrounding counties.
However, the prospectus agreement has clearly stated that the voting rights have been authorized to Li Mu. Li Mu has exclusive 100% voting rights, and even if a shareholders' meeting is convened, his decision-making cannot be interfered with.
Half of the 200,000 guan was spent like this. Immediately afterwards, Li Mu announced another decision. He would spend 50,000 guan to build two factories and factories in Lanqiao and Dazhai Townships of Lantian County.
The warehouse needs to employ a large number of local people. As long as they are young and strong laborers, they will be paid twice the local wages. The key point is to provide food, as long as it is not wasted, you can eat it as you like.
This news is not much of a surprise to the people of Chang'an and Luoyang, because Li Mu has done this in Chang'an and Luoyang before, and combined, the wages in Chang'an and Luoyang are still higher than those in Lantian County. But for Lantian
For the people in the county, this is like pie in the sky, and happiness comes too suddenly.
The most important thing for a family is young labor. Now the young labor not only has someone to take care of the food, but also has money to earn. For them, this is equivalent to reducing their burden and increasing their income. In the past, they could not have enough to eat.
Families can now even eat meat with conditions.
The recruitment notice was posted, saying that the recruitment would start after the Lantern Festival. However, some people were already eager to try, and for fear of being left behind, they rushed to Dazhai Township and Lanqiao early to wait. They stayed with relatives and friends, prepared enough dry food, and waited.
Recruiters came over. There were even those who were impatient and lively, who came to Chang'an from Lantian and stayed at the entrance of the industrial department, even if they were willing to eat and sleep in the open air.
Seeing this situation, Li Mu couldn't wait until after the Lantern Festival, so he sent people to Lantian first. The people who were also guarding the entrance of the industrial department were settled here. By the way, they asked about some more information about Lantian.