Datang romantic little landlord

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Cheng Yaojin even jumped off his horse and stomped on the road a few times.

"Zhiniang thief, Ziyou is really willing to give up, this mirage mud is actually used to pave the road? Good guy, this road is strong enough, no matter how hard the road is rammed, it is not as good as this mirage. mud."

Yuchi Jingde, Qin Qiong and other generals were also shocked by the road as smooth as a whole stone slab, and some even pulled out the knives from their waists and swung them to chop the road.

Duan Lun, Minister of the Ministry of Industry, even carefully inspected the cement road under his feet, and then turned around to call for a carriage, let the carriage drive onto the track, and galloped back and forth several times.

After a series of tests were completed, he turned his head and praised Li Er: "Your Majesty, the mirage road of Uncle Hu County is incredible. The road surface is flat, and it is extremely fast to run a carriage. I just tried it, and the official way In comparison, the speed of the carriage can be increased by almost [-]%, and it is very stable. Not only does it save more horsepower, but the carriage can also pull more goods, which is amazing."

Li Er nodded: "Back when Ziyou said that the mirage mud could be used to pave roads, I didn't think so, but I didn't expect the road paved with mirage mud to be so unimaginable. It was beyond my expectation. Duan Qing , The output of mirage mud needs to be increased as soon as possible.”

Duan Lun repeatedly smiled bitterly: "Your Majesty, I naturally know the benefits of mirage mud, but the lime production is limited. I have ordered people to mine the limestone as much as possible and burn the lime. The main reason is that the limestone mine is remote and transportation is inconvenient."

Upon hearing the news, Li Wangyou hurried over to greet Li Er and the others, just in time to hear Duan Lun's words, and couldn't help being taken aback.

In his memory, Huaxia was an important producer of lime mines, and there were lime mines in almost every province and city.Especially now that the Guanzhong Road is located, the later Shaanxi Province has the largest limestone reserves in the country, close to 50 billion tons.

Duan Lun actually said that the limestone mines are located in a remote area and transportation is inconvenient?

Are those lime mines still undiscovered?

This is interesting, Li Wangyou rubbed his chin, and felt that he seemed to be able to operate from it, and it seemed to be another good business.

Not to mention the big mines far away, he doesn't have enough manpower and machinery to mine them, but in Hu County, Li Wangyou remembers that there are lime mines.

Because the lime mining enterprises in Huxian County did not pay attention to environmental protection at that time, they were mining like crazy.At one time, there were nearly a thousand mining enterprises and thousands of lime kilns.After more than ten years of vicious mining, the pollution caused by the production of these enterprises has made the surrounding people suffer.

After the TV interview was broadcast on TV, it aroused great social repercussions.Li Wangyou also remembered the existence of these lime mines in Hu County after watching that news program.

But now is not the time to talk about it, let's talk about it after finding someone to explore the mine and confirm the location of the lime mine.

After Li Wangyou remembered this matter in his heart, he greeted Li Er and the others, and introduced to them various situations of this cement road.

"Ziyou, I heard that you spent [-] guan to build this road? Do you know what the people in Hu County call this road?"

Li Wangyou smiled and said: "Hey, my nephew knows the way to prodigal. My nephew thinks it's good. It's a good thing to build a road and prodigal. If Yang Mingfu, Cui Mingfu and Lu Mingfu are willing, my nephew is even willing to do it himself." I don’t know what Uncle thinks if you spend your money to build the road from Hu County to Chang’an City into such a muddy road.”

What he said moved Li Er's face. It was only twenty miles from Huxian County to Dingzhou Village, and only Dingzhou Village and the villages and towns along the road benefited.

But it would be very valuable to renovate the Bashili Road from Huxian County to Chang'an City.

As the southern gate of Chang'an, Hu County is an important place connecting Yizhou.Moreover, due to the high housing prices and high prices in Chang'an City, many merchants set up their workshops in Hu County, and there were countless horse-drawn carriage caravans coming and going between Hu County and Chang'an City every day.

In fact, after seeing the cement road built by Li Wangyou, Li Er had already pondered in his heart how spectacular it would be if such a road could be rolled out throughout the Tang Dynasty.

But [-] yuan to build a [-]-mile road, such an expensive price, directly dissuaded Li Er from building the road.

How many official paths are there in the whole Tang Dynasty?If everything is built at this price, it is estimated that Datang will become the first dynasty to "bankrupt" because of road construction, right?

Now Li Wangyou actually suggested that he pay his own money to renovate the [-]-mile official road from Huxian County to Chang'an City. Of course, Li Er is happy to see it come to fruition.

It took [-] guan for twenty miles, but not [-] guan for eighty miles?

Moreover, the official road from Hu County to Chang'an is not comparable to the small road to Dingzhou Village. Its width is at least twice as wide as the mirage mud road in front of us.

Calculated in this way, I am afraid that just building this [-]-mile-long road will cost no less than one hundred thousand guan, or even more.

Li Wangyou was willing to pay for this money by himself, no matter whether it was Li Er or civil and military officials, there was no one who was unhappy.

Yang Zuan, Cui Zhuo, and Lu Dejing looked at each other, and immediately stood up: "Your Majesty, the ministers will naturally agree. If the uncle of Hu County is willing to pay for the construction of the official road from Hu County to Chang'an, and the matter of enlisting the servants, the ministers can do it." It’s all inclusive, nothing else.”

Li Er nodded slightly, and then looked at Li Wangyou: "Ziyou, have you thought about it? Are you willing to pay for the reconstruction of the official road from Chang'an to Hu County?"

Li Wangyou smiled brighter and brighter: "Uncle, it's natural for my nephew to pay for the construction. But my nephew spent a lot of money to build this official road, so there must be some benefits, right?"

Li Er was slightly stunned: "What benefits do you want?"

"Hey, not too much, not too much, my nephew only needs a hundred coins..."

576 Trouble Come

Li Wangyou's words stunned Li Er and all the officials, thinking that there was something wrong with their ears.

What the hell is a hundred pennies?

What kind of condition is this?

Li Wangyou explained unhurriedly: "Uncle, if my nephew pays for the construction of this official road, the common people will naturally use it at will. But should I pay my nephew some fees for the merchant carriages that come and go? Hehe, a carriage Is it not much for my nephew to charge one hundred Wen?"

What he said made Baiguan and Li Er even more confused.

Many people immediately began to silently calculate in their hearts how much profit Li Wangyou brought up.

Today, there are no less than a thousand horse-drawn carriages going back and forth between Chang'an City and Hu County every day.One hundred Wen for each car is really not much, Li Wangyou and Niu Yong Niu Wu and others had breakfast in Chongren Square that day, and they spent more than 100 Wen.

All the officials thought to themselves, is it too much to pay a hundred dollars for traveling on such a flat mirage road?

A thousand horse-drawn carriages can collect hundreds of copper coins in one day.

More than 3 copper coins can be collected in one year. Even if it takes [-] copper coins to build this road, it will only take more than three years to recover the investment, and then it will be a net profit.

Baiguan silently calculated in his mind, and suddenly found that Li Wangyou wanted to build this road, and the profit in it was too great.

Wang Renyou, Zheng Yuanshou and other big family members looked at each other and stood up to express their objection: "Your Majesty, this is impossible! How can the official way become a private way to charge fees?"

"Huxian Bo's words are wrong. Your Majesty, you can't do it! What's the proper way to change the official way into a private way?"

"Eighty li, you have to collect hundreds of copper coins from merchants. Your Majesty, what is the difference between this and roadblocking? Now there is no charge for this official road!"

"That's right, Your Majesty, how can the Uncle Hu County exploit the people like this?"

The private roads in their mouths refer to privately built roads.In Datang, such things as charging fees for pedestrians on privately built roads have already appeared.

Li Er was a little moved at first, but after being persuaded by Wang Renyou and others, he couldn't help hesitating.

"Ziyou, the travel expenses of a hundred papers seem to be too much."

Li Wangyou had a very reluctant expression: "What about the fifty cents? Can I charge fifty cents?"

Wang Renyou and the others naturally shook their heads: "No, no, fifty renminbi is still too much! The people are so hard-working, and this kind of exploitation is really inappropriate!"

In fact, they didn't care about the specific fee at all. In short, it was impossible for Li Wangyou to repair this road to make money.

Even Wang Renyou, Zheng Yuanshou and others have already wondered in their hearts whether the state and county where their family is located can use this method to build mirage roads and charge fees?This looks like a good deal.

Although the initial investment is large, it can reap rich returns for many years later.

Facing the unanimous objection of Wang Renyou and other aristocratic family heads, Li Wangyou could only shrug his shoulders helplessly: "If that's the case, then forget it. The money in my house was not blown by strong winds, so I can't just throw it away like this. Listen to the sound in the water."