Time is like water,
Ten days passed in a blink of an eye.
Although it has only been a dozen days since the construction of Changlan Cement Road officially started, the mileage of construction of Changlan Cement Road has shocked countless people.
On the official road outside Chunming Gate in Chang'an City alone, more than 20 miles of cement road were built in this short period of time, plus more than 10 miles of road on the Lantian side.
Nearly half of the construction progress of this long blue cement road with a total mileage of 110 miles has been completed.
Such a feat is unprecedented throughout history. In addition, many people in Chang'an City, after personally experiencing the flatness and solidity of cement roads, spread the word in Chang'an City about the magic of cement roads.
For a time, the popularity of Changlan Cement Road even surpassed the gossip about the legitimate son of Changsun Mansion, and became the hottest topic in the Qinlou Chu Pavilion in Chang'an City.
Therefore, more and more people and dignitaries went out of the city to watch the construction of cement roads.
According to the news sent back by Deputy Director Ma Zhou and the Zishu team, many people gather at the cement road construction site in Chang'an City every day.
Among them were officials from the six ministries of the imperial court, as well as noble sons and daughters, and of course the majority were common people in Chang'an City.
Three days ago, Ma Zhou wrote a special letter saying that recently many young people from Chang'an County, Jingyang County and Weinan County came to the construction site to apply for jobs.
However, because there were so many people applying, Ma Zhou did not dare to make a decision easily, so he wrote a letter specifically asking Qin Ming for his opinion.
After Qin Ming read the letter, he thought for a while and then wrote back saying that as long as Ma Zhou and Li Tai could command them, they could recruit as many people as they wanted.
He also mentioned something vague in the letter, telling them not to worry that these people would lose their jobs after Changlan Road was built, because Datang would only build more and more cement roads in the future.
The people need more people to master the skills of building cement roads.
Qin Ming asked the two of them to just let it go!
Don’t be afraid of spending money!
Three days ago, Qin Ming recalled Li Chun, the commander-in-chief, and asked him to come back and take over his position.
And the deputy directors Li Tai and Ma Zhou were officially appointed as the commander-in-chief and deputy commander-in-chief of the Chang'an Section Cement Road!
There are two reasons why Qin Minghui made this decision. One is that he has more important matters to deal with. The other is that in the past ten days, under the guidance of Li Chun's words and deeds, King Li Tai of Yue and Deputy Director Ma Zhou It has grown rapidly and is now fully capable of taking charge of its own business.
What's more, more than half of the dozens of subordinate officials of the Road and Bridge Department are in Chang'an, helping the two of them manage a team of several thousand people.
In this way, the two "contractors" became even more handy. In just three days, they managed a team of several thousand people in an orderly manner, no less than the commander-in-chief Li Chun.
Qin Ming seemed to be a hands-off shopkeeper, but in fact he never had a day off.
Because from the day the cement road thing was put down, ministers from the DPRK and China came to visit the Qin Mansion one after another.
In fact, as early as the third day after Li Er left, ministers who smelled the smell of money began to run to the Qin Mansion.
They came to visit the Qin Mansion for two reasons. One was to ask Qin Ming about contracting cement roads, and the other was to purchase some four-wheel transport vehicles from the Qin Mansion.
There are still many smart people in the world, especially when it comes to making money, and many of these people are from well-off families.
There are many property owners and accountants in the family. Any one of them has the strength to contract one or even several long blue cement roads and other official roads.
And they are very optimistic about the long-term business of contracting cement roads.
However, in their calculations, the construction of such a hundred-mile-long cement road will definitely be difficult and likely to take a long time.
In addition, cement roads are a new thing after all, and they don’t know the specific process of building cement roads.
It happened that Qin Ming contracted the Changlan Cement Road, so these smart people planned to wait and see for a while, firstly to see how difficult it was to build the cement road, and secondly to secretly calculate the cost of building the cement road.
As a result, as soon as the construction of the Changlan Cement Road started, these people really saw the construction process and speed of the cement road, and after asking the house accountant to recalculate the labor costs and time, all of them immediately became unable to sit still.
So they took a car to the Qin Mansion, and each of them patted their chests and said that they wanted to contribute to the court, and begged Qin Ming to give them the right to contract cement roads.
Qin Ming all shied away from this on the grounds that there were too many things to do to build the Changlan cement road, and promised that after the construction of the Changlan cement road was completed, the Road and Bridge Department would sell the contracting rights for the cement road.
The officials had nothing to do about this, because there were already Yushitai officials at the court meeting, who had impeached Qin Ming with His Majesty, but were severely scolded by His Majesty.
At this point, the officials who came to the Qin Mansion turned their attention to the four-wheel transport vehicle.
From the first day they saw the four-wheeled transport vehicle at the construction site, they have been coveting this kind of four-wheeled carriage that can carry a large amount of cargo.
After all, who doesn’t have some property these days?
The essence of making money is to send goods with high local production and low prices to other places with low production, sell them at high prices, and earn the price difference.
The circulation lines of goods are the source of wealth for these families.
So anyone who is smart can see the importance of the four-wheeled carriage.
And their idea is very simple, they just want to buy a four-wheeled carriage to take home, dismantle it, and let the craftsmen at home imitate it.
These people all understand the truth. As a person who has seen the busy traffic of later generations, Qin Ming naturally understands the importance of four-wheeled carriages more clearly.
What's more, he also knows in his heart that in terms of intelligence and imitation ability, no one can compare with the hard-working Chinese people.
Of course, even though he knew that the four-wheeled carriage would be copied after it was sold, Qin Ming never thought of hiding it and not selling it.
After all, the current four-wheeled carriage seems to Qin Ming to be too simple. It is just two frames put together.
In fact, it does not have much technical content. After the first four-wheel transport vehicle was produced, Qin Ming had already arranged for the research institute to start researching steelmaking and bearings.
Researching new things naturally requires a lot of money, so Qin Ming agreed to all those who came to the house to buy transport vehicles.
Of course, the price of each four-wheeled transport vehicle is also ridiculously high, with a fixed price of 500 yuan for a four-wheeled transport vehicle.
And in order to prevent the first batch of people who bought four-wheel transport vehicles from competing with him for business, Qin Ming set all delivery dates for one month later.
Those officials who came from wealthy noble families were well aware of Qin Ming's plans.
Secretly learning other people's manufacturing technology was a tacit agreement between both parties, so these people didn't bother much about the price. They all signed the contract and paid the technology transfer fee!
After these officials returned, the news of the Qin Mansion's sale of four-wheel transport vehicles quickly spread among the major merchants in Chang'an City.
So in addition to officials, a wave of businessmen came to visit the Qin Mansion.
Because there were so many people who came to order four-wheel transport vehicles, Qin Ming had to send someone to call Uncle Niu from the greenhouse to deal with these merchants.
As a result, in just three days, the Qin Mansion pre-sold more than 200 four-wheel transport vehicles, and the delivery date was scheduled to be two months later.
No one expected that before the construction of the Changlan cement road was completed, Qin Ming had already recovered the cost of road construction by pre-selling four-wheel transport vehicles!
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