"Well, it's not just a matter of the water master, how many days can you rest comfortably?" Of course, Chongzhen knew what this shaft wanted to shout just now, but he still pouted his beard and snorted coldly.

As soon as he saw Liu Hongji's hippie smile, Chongzhen felt as uncomfortable as eating mouse feces.

It's like the cabbage that has been cared for for more than ten years by a pig, and the vegetable farmer has to close the door and take a few days off to prevent the pig from being disturbed.

Then the pig who had to eat lazy for five days finished the cabbage, and greeted the vegetable farmer with a smile on his face, no matter how good his temper was, he couldn't stand it.

"Hehe, the emperor, look at what you said, the minister is not just resting these days! What do you see it is? ”

Liu Hong gradually knew that this uncle was uncomfortable and didn't care, so he took out several documents drawn up when he was at home with his wife and children and handed them to Chongzhen.

"Proposal on the expansion of spinning, glass, cement and other workshops", "Proposal on the construction of the official road connecting the north and south of the Ming Dynasty", this is the ......" Chongzhen took it and muttered.

"If you want to get rich, you must first build roads. The emperor, as far as the ministers know, from Beijing to Jiangnan and Fujian, the fastest one takes the waterway, and the fastest one is transferred all the way through the canal, and the fastest one still takes forty days.

And if you take the official road, you don't want to arrive in less than two months, which is a disadvantage for the traffic.

If it is peaceful, it is nothing, once there is a war, the soldiers are fast, and the imperial army will delay the fighters, this is one of them.

Even in the peaceful years, the development of the economy is still inseparable from convenient transportation, and businessmen need transportation to benefit the world, which is the second.

It is because the minister thinks that since there are such sharp weapons as cement and concrete, the top priority of the Ming Dynasty is to build an official road that runs through the north and south, and there is no one before or after! ”

Speaking of this official road, Liu Hongjian has the most right to speak, and the Ming Dynasty has an official road, which is just a slightly spacious dirt road.

In addition, the horse-drawn carriage, an important means of transportation in the Ming Dynasty, does not have a shock absorption system at all, and the ground is completely hard and hard, and the bumpy force is really unbearable for young people.

So much so that from ancient times to the Ming Dynasty, many old ministers who were degraded died on the way to their posts, and one of the main reasons was that they were too tired to travel.

Although he can't spare his hands to go to the Amazon jungle to dump rubber trees, if he can pave the official road with cement, he will not only be much faster but also more comfortable to travel on it.

"Is it all made of cement concrete? How much silver does that cost? Chongzhen naturally knows the benefits of the official road, but he knows the cost of this cement.

In addition to the cost of labor and other costs for building dams and canals last year, cement alone cost nearly one million taels, which was sold to the Ministry of Industry at the cost price of the cement workshop.

And what is proposed in this document is to build a new official road from the capital to the Guangzhou government, oh my God! That's thousands of miles.

The minister estimated that if the quality and quantity are completed, plus labor, materials, etc., at least more than 10 million taels of silver will be required.

But the emperor, you can't just look at the efforts in front of you! Liu Hong gradually knew that Uncle Chongzhen was poor and afraid, and he was not willing to spend much money with money, but he was sure to convince this uncle.

"Although the initial investment in our official road is a bit large, this cement official road is not comparable to the original official road, we can set up checkpoints along the way to collect fees, emmm, that is, road maintenance fees.

As long as the road maintenance fee is paid, we can take our highway regardless of whether he is a civilian or a businessman.

The minister calculated, if a merchant held the road from Guangzhou Mansion on the road, a carriage full of goods would only take about 20 days to reach Beijing, which was more than 10 days faster than Caoyun, and only needed 500 wen for road maintenance. Liu Hongjian gave an example.

Although the volume of Cao Yun is large, it is difficult to improve the speed, but the highway is different, first of all, it is flexible and light, and then it is fast, and what can merchants traffic from Guangzhou, and it is not a rare goods smuggled from overseas?

That's all huge profits, how can it be just a carriage for a long trip? How could the merchants care about the road maintenance fee?

Although the cost of a highway is high, if it is operated properly, this is a treasure road flowing with silver!

"Rong Zhen think about it." Chongzhen's heart is not steady, although the treasury is now full of silver, but it will cost more than 10 million taels to repair the official road, and he will lose money no matter how he calculates this business.

"Hehe, the minister remembers that you still have a lot of silver in your treasury, otherwise we don't need the silver from the treasury, and this errand will be handed over to our Xishan Shanghe?" Liu Hongjian also knew that even if Chongzhen agreed to this matter, it would not be easy for the courtiers to deal with it, so he proposed it with a very chicken thief.

In Liu Hongji's opinion, this road will definitely not lose money, just think about the high-speed tolls in later generations.

Although Daming's mainland business is not very smooth now, he believes that this situation will not last long.

Although the cement workshop is clearly given to the Ministry of Engineering at cost price, if it doesn't make any money, it will be, and he is not a charity, and the cost can continue to be compressed.

And if the official road is built by the private Xishan businessman, the road maintenance fee ...... Hey, hey, hey, it's naturally Xishan Shanghe.

"If it is really necessary, this official matter should be handed over to the cabinet and the Ministry of Industry for discussion, and Cihong will be notified after I am completed." Chongzhen groaned for a moment, and his beard curled.

If this errand is really handed over to the private businessmen, it is estimated that Fan Jingwen of the Ministry of Industry will jump to his feet, and the monopoly of cement and steel has already made the officials of the Ministry of Industry very annoyed.

After all, in the three hundred years of the Ming Dynasty, all the high-tech and sophisticated products came from the Ministry of Industry, which is like a mess now, and the technology is in the hands of individuals, and the sense of existence of the Ministry of Industry has declined rapidly.

"Oh, okay then, but this thing can't be taken off again." Liu Hong gradually had to say stupidly.

It really can't be delayed any longer, the most important thing at the moment is to revitalize the economy of the Ming Dynasty, the drawbacks of the household registration system have led to a pool of stagnant water inside the Ming Dynasty, and this highway running through the north and south is the beginning of everything.

Even if you can't take this errand, it's okay, don't you still have to use Lao Tzu for cement?

As for another proposal written by Liu Hongji, it is to vigorously expand the original industry of Xishan Commercial Cooperation.

For example, the glass produced in the glass workshop, which is obviously of better quality and larger than that of Europa, is now only widespread in the north, and even in the remote south.

It is nothing to earn the silver of your own countrymen, but it is the ability to earn the silver of white ghosts, red ghosts, and.

The addition of the three new shareholders gave Xishan Business a new direction of development and a more experienced person at the helm.

What they urgently need now is commodities, whether it is glass or high-quality yarn, which are very sought-after goods in Jiangnan or Nanyang, but Xishan is just those two small workshops, where is the goods produced enough for the caravan of the three big families to sell.

Chongzhen didn't have any opinion on this proposal, after all, expanding the number of workshops meant that more poor people could be fed, and the money was not paid by him alone.

"These things are handed over to the Duke of Qianguo to take care of, I have more important matters, the Navy Division Soldiers and Soldiers have been recruited according to your requirements, and they are all on standby at the mouth of Dagu, Tianjin.

I heard that several main Fu ships have been launched in the Bao Shipyard, so you should start training as soon as possible, and go south to get rid of Zheng Zhilong in the near future! Every time I think of Zheng Zhilong Chongzhen in Fujian, I feel like a fish in my throat.

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