"Give more examples. Even if you repeatedly tell the soldiers that the Dragon Guards are their home, it will be difficult to impress them. In a large army tent, Su Chengyu was telling the guidance envoys about the ideological work methods of the troops, "but some simple examples would have a good effect, for example, when Song Quan of the first company was sick, the team fed him, and Feng Shishi of the twelfth company had broken the roof beams at home, and the platoon deputy personally helped him repair it." ”

Of course, these are all required in the Officer's Handbook. There are also similar officers who have to eat at the same table with the non-commissioned officers, and serve the same meal in the same pot. The pay must be paid to each soldier by the officer's own hands. There are many specific terms for the soldiers to pick the military supplies first, and the remaining officers to use them.

"Also, we need to set more examples. The power of example is infinite......" Su Chengyu was saying when he saw Song Yingxing appear outside the tent with a red face.

He instructed the envoys to discuss it on their own, and then walked out of the tent, only to see Mr. Song and his nephew each carrying a basket of things waiting at the door.

"Your Highness, the student is fortunate to have the method, and it should have been burned into this 'cement'." Song Yingxing opened the lid of the basket after giving the salute, and it was indeed filled with dark gray powder, "Please also ask Your Highness to inspect it." ”

The previous batches were not ideal, but Su Chengyu felt that the basket of cement in front of him looked reliable. He hurriedly asked his soldiers to fetch water, mix it with cement, and build a piece on the back wall of his camp.

Listening to Song Yingxing narrating the trial production process on the side, he learned that Song Yingxing found that the limestone and clay were not mixed evenly, so he added water to the raw materials and mixed them well before burning, and finally made the cement in this basket.

Su Chengyu was stunned for a moment, and suddenly remembered a term: wet mixing process. It was used in metal smelting in later generations, but with the popularization of advanced mixing equipment, this energy-intensive process was eliminated.

But in the era of pure manual mixing, this "backward" process can solve big problems.

This Song Yingxing is really a genius, and I don't know how he came up with the method of "wet stirring". Su Chengyu nodded secretly in his heart, this time he was in charge of the trial production of cement, which saved him a lot of energy.

After a few days, the cement on the camp wall was dried up, Su Chengyu found an iron rod and smashed it hard, and the cement block did not move like a stubborn stone.

This cement is considered to be a successful trial production! He sent someone to inform Song Yingxing to start firing a large amount of cement. He immediately went to the iron field and taught Chan face-to-face.

There are too few business talents in his hands, and after thinking about it, the promotion of cement can only be done by her.

Fuyue Lou is one of the most famous restaurants in Ganzhou. Whether it is an official or a gentry, anyone who wants to invite guests to dinner with dignity is indispensable to set up a banquet here. The location of the private room has to be booked even a month in advance.

Recently, Fuyuelou opened a branch in the west of the city, and the scale is even larger than the total number.

The opening was auspicious, and celebrities from all walks of life in Ganzhou came to cheer.

Before everyone walked into the store, they saw the elegant decoration of the store, the tasteful utensils and furnishings, the well-dressed guys, and the whole restaurant was full of luxurious and restrained charm.

In the end, it is a century-old famous store, and this environment is enough to stand out from a number of competitors.

Someone soon discovered something even more peculiar - the steps outside the store, along with the entire floor of Fuyue Tower, seemed to be made of a single stone!

Someone who did a good thing really squatted on the ground to carefully inspect and knock, and soon was surprised: "The texture is hard, there are no seams, but I don't know what kind of stone it is." ”

When everyone heard this, they forgot to eat their meals for a while, and they studied the ground under their feet. There are even people who lack virtue and pick up a knife and stab the ground a few times, and the tip of the knife collapses.

In the end, everyone came to the unanimous conclusion that the flat ground was a whole rock!

The news spread quickly, and the fact that the Fuyue Building branch used a huge rock as the foundation of the building suddenly became the hottest topic at the moment.

In the afternoon of the same day, someone got new news that the ground of Fuyue Tower was not actually a rock, but something called "fairy stone powder". This thing is usually in powder form, and it can be plasticized at will by adding water, and it is as hard as a stone after drying.

Suddenly, celebrities, wealthy businessmen, and officials in the entire Ganzhou Prefecture, who wanted to build a new house or renovate an old house, all asked everywhere where to buy this kind of "fairy stone powder". The flat, solid ground of Fuyue Tower is too impressive.

Soon, a shop called "Su Ji Sho" in the south of the city began to sell fairy stone powder, but after people ran there, they got the answer that it had already been sold out, and it would take three days for new goods to arrive.

Immediately someone shouted: "I booked two thousand catties!" ”

The others immediately reacted, "I'll set 5,000 catties!" ”

"I'll set four thousand pounds!"

"I want to ......"

The shouts rang out, and those who didn't know thought that there was a fight outside Su Ji Firm.

"One thousand catties of fairy stone powder and five taels of silver." Qiao Qian stood behind the counter and said unhurriedly, "Pay half of the money in advance for the reservation." ”

"So expensive!" Someone couldn't help but gasp when they heard the price. According to the news of Fuyue Building, it takes 2,000 catties of fairy stone powder to pave the ground three zhang square, which means that it costs dozens of taels to repair a house just to pave the ground.

"Do you buy it or not? Don't buy and give way! ”

Ganzhou is a rich land in the south of the Yangtze River, and it has its own shouting of money.

"Buy! Of course buy. Three thousand pounds! Not to be outdone, the person who shouted noble before took out more than ten taels of silver.

Fairy stone powder paving soon became the fashion of Ganzhou Mansion. Especially the people who do business are the most flocking, the shop is paved with fairy stone powder, and the people who come to talk about the transaction know at a glance that the store is strong and can be assured of trading.

For a time, the shops of all sizes in Ganzhou Mansion were all opening the ground and redecorating.

The shopkeeper of Fuyue Building looked at the tide of customers in the new store, and he couldn't keep his mouth shut. Half a month ago, someone gave him two truckloads of fairy stone powder, saying that it was particularly good for paving the ground, and that if there was a problem, he would pay twice the cost of reconstruction.

He took the risk to give it a try, but he didn't expect the new store to cause a sensation in the entire Ganzhou Mansion, and recently a large number of customers came to see the "whole stone" floor, of course, they would have a meal by the way, and the customer flow was three times more than his old store!

After the diners left Fuyue Building, they all sent people to Su Ji to buy fairy stone powder.

Su Ji is the store that Chan Yi has put down, which is located in the middle of nowhere, and it didn't cost a lot of money.

The fairy stone powder is naturally the freshly made cement. Su Chengyu knew the importance of commercial packaging, and asked Hong Si to help him change the name of cement.

The bookkeeper who had just been hired by Su Kee Firm counted the silver until his hands cramped. If it weren't for the owner's insistence on only pre-selling for one month, he estimated that the goods would be sold out in half a year.

The cement kiln in Longnan can produce nearly 100,000 catties of cement every three days, and sells a total of 5,000 taels of silver every month, and the cost is only 300 taels, most of which is transported from Longnan along the river to Ganzhou.

Su Chengyu got the news that Ganzhou had sent back the hot sales of fairy stone powder, but he was not surprised at all. At the end of the Ming Dynasty, the merchants were extremely wealthy, and extravagance prevailed, and something new would soon become popular.

He took Song Yingxing to Foshan and bought two iron-making furnaces in this iron-making center of the Ming Dynasty.

Song Yingxing was responsible for leading people to transform the iron-making furnace into a calcining furnace, and in less than ten days, the first batch of cement was fired in the two blast furnaces.

Later, Chanyi also came to Foshan and re-copied the set of business promotion plans that Su Chengyu taught her. Like Ganzhou, Foshan soon set off a craze for fairy stone powder.

Soon after, in the liveliest part of Ganzhou, Foshan, and even Shaozhou, a concrete building stood out in the middle of the street, standing out among the surrounding wooden buildings.

The three cement buildings are all of the same shape, and the gate has a gold plaque engraved with three big characters: God of Wealth Temple.

Although it took a lot of cement to build these three temples of Caishen, since they were completed, they have become a major landscape in their respective cities, and incense burns endlessly every day.

Some people even came from hundreds of miles away to burn incense in order to see the wonders of the "stone temple in the city".

Soon it became popular among wealthy households to build walls with fairy stone powder, which is said to be able to get the fairy spirit of the god of wealth. Of course, there are also many people who take a fancy to the strong and fire-resistant characteristics of the fairy stone powder wall.

Foshan and Longnan now produce 400,000 catties of cement every three days, but they are still in short supply. The monthly net profit is nearly 20,000 taels.

There are too few people available now, and it is impossible for Song Yingxing to keep working on cement kilns, otherwise Su Chengyu really wants to build ten or eight cement kilns in various places at once.

We can only wait for skilled craftsmen to be trained later, and then let them be in charge of the expansion.

Su Chengyu roughly calculated, and the current income of the iron yard plus cement has reached more than 40,000 taels per month. It will only take about two months to pay off all the money for the purchase of armaments. For the time being, there is no big problem with military spending.

In the future, the scale of the Longwei Army will be expanded, and only a few more cement kilns will be needed to solve the problem. It can even be exported to Southeast Asia and European countries, and the sales volume must be astronomical.

Of course, Su Chengyu knows very well that the monopoly operation of cement cannot continue forever.

He did not intend to monopolize this kind of infrastructure raw materials for a long time, as long as he could maintain the monopoly for a few years, it was enough to provide him with economic support to defeat the Qing army.

Soon after, when Song Yingxing learned that the proceeds from the cement yards he presided over were all the military expenses of the Long Wei Army, he couldn't help but sigh with emotion.

He lived for most of his life, and the generals of the Ming army he saw would basically only reach out to the court to ask for military salaries. When the court has no money, most of them will end up with soldiers fleeing and the army disintegrating.

Some "well-organized" officers connived at the soldiers to plunder the people, no different from robbers. The army did not disperse, but everywhere it went, the people did not make a living, and the place was rotten.

The best case is like Yang Tinglin, who used his influence to raise money from the gentry and pay them. However, fundraising is not a long-term solution.

Only this king of Chenzhou, who has unbridled means, does not rely on the imperial court or charity funds, but independently feeds the entire army and is at ease.

He looked at the north from afar, and had a strong premonition in his heart, with His Royal Highness the King of Chenzhou and his Dragon Guard, this time the Ming Dynasty will definitely prosper!