Allure of a Country Maiden

"The mountains and rivers in my country are more than 108,000 miles long. The official roads in the entire land are all made of concrete roads. The money in the treasury cannot support it." Shangguan Xuanyi frowned tightly when he thought of the emptiness of the treasury.

Xiaoer thought for a while and said, "If all the official roads in the country are to be built into cement roads, the project will be huge. This cannot be done in a short time. Building roads does require a lot of money. But roads lead to wealth, this Roads must be built.”

Building the entire country's official roads into cement roads is not an easy task, and it consumes a huge amount of manpower, material and financial resources.

Although there is one policy in this era that is not available in modern times, that is, during the slack season every year, young men are selected for labor service.

Paving roads, building bridges, and dredging water conservancy. These tasks are compulsory here and are done for free. Even if they are paid, they are very small. They only care about food.

However, it is not the same thing to just work hard to build roads. After all, you only have to work hard for one month a year.

"Although you can draw young men during the off-season every year, you can't accomplish much in only one month. I think we can try road maintenance." Xiaoer said, thinking of modern road and bridge tolls.

"Maintain roads with roads? What kind of method?" Shangguan Xuanyi looked at Xiaoer and motioned for her to continue.

"Doesn't it cost money to build a road? But after the road is built, the people are walking on it. The court can first give out the money for this road. After the road is built, there will be installations at the exit and entrance of the road. Go to the checkpoint and build a toll station. Cars and horses who want to use this road have to pay, and people walking can do it for free. The money recovered will be returned to the treasury."

After hearing this, Shangguan Xuanyi and Di Zhaowei's eyes lit up.

"Before the road is built, a notice is posted to inform the people that after the road is built, they will have to pay if they want to walk. However, if the people who have contributed to building this road can travel this road for free for the rest of their lives, those who contribute more than twenty taels of silver can also do so. Free for life. I think many people should take the initiative to repair it. After all, many people are idle at home during the slack season. This can also save a lot of labor! And if someone offers twenty taels, twenty taels will be enough to repair a long distance. .”

"This is a good method. In this way, as long as the road is built, you can make money. Over time, building the road will not only save money from the treasury, but also increase the income of the treasury." Di Zhaowei praised.

"We only charge the carriage and horse fees, but not the walking people, so the burden on the people is not increased. Those who have carriages and horses will not be short of that little bit of travel expenses! The carriage and horse fees are charged, and the goods fees are extra!" Shangguan Xuanyi He nodded in agreement, and then he thought of something and continued: "Girl Xiaoer, I won't give you the dividends from the cement workshop."

"My family will no longer receive dividends from Cement." The two of them spoke at the same time.

After Shangguan Xuanyi heard this, he was even more satisfied with the girl's transparency, but he would not take advantage of her in vain. Many things in this world are more useful than money.

Xiaoer smiled and continued: "Let's contribute our share to the construction of the official road! Dad, what do you think?"

She only contributed a recipe for cement. Unlike others, she designed something every month. She also felt that she was taking advantage of the dividends. And she also believed that Shangguan Xuanyi would not take advantage of her in vain!

"This is doing things for the folks, of course there is no problem!" Shen Chengyao hurriedly expressed his position. Building roads and bridges are all good deeds. He is usually very helpful, but now that he has the ability to do bigger things, he will not refuse!

Shangguan Xuanyi planned to keep the cement trade in the hands of the imperial court until the main official roads in various places were built.

In this way, he will have a way to get some wealthy households to cough up some money to build roads!

"Dad, let's provide money to pave all the roads in the village into cement roads, and then build two grain-drying fields for the use of the people in the village!"

"The ground made of cement and sand has many small pits and pits. It is easy to hide sand and difficult to sweep away. How about using it as a drying ground?" Although Di Zhaowei has never been exposed to it, he also thought of the shortcomings.

"This cement is directly added with water to make cement oil, and then it is spread on the surface paved with cement sand and gravel with a special shovel, or it is sprinkled directly on the surface of the newly paved cement sand, and then smoothed with a shovel, so that the surface It becomes very smooth.”

"Can it still be like this? It's really freezing!"

Cement and reinforced concrete play an important role in the construction industry, because with it, tall buildings rise from the ground, and with it, many bridges that seem impossible to build quietly cross major rivers, making people's lives better. How much convenience it brings is not a good thing!

Xiaoer thought of modern ceramic floor tiles, decorative tiles on the exterior walls of houses, and mosaics. She had to tell Di Zhaowei the characteristics of those things and see if his master could study them.

If it can be done, the building in the town will definitely make blind people’s eyes shine!

Paving roads and building houses, Xiaoer's family was very busy.

Foreman Liang has never been so busy. He was so busy that he barely had time to prepare for his own marriage.

But Xu Wenhui has suffered too much, and he wants to give her more dignity so that people will no longer look down on her!

Therefore, the betrothal gift he gave Xu Wenhui was much thicker than that of ordinary villagers!

Most people would only give two or three taels of gift money, and the wealthy villagers would give five taels of gold as a gift, but he gave a gift of ten taels.

For jewelry, generally speaking, a gold hairpin and a gold ring are very decent. Most people will only give a silver ring and a silver hairpin, and some people don’t even have a silver hairpin!

Foreman Liang prepared two sets of gold noodle sets, two sets of silver noodle sets, two pairs of gold bracelets and two pairs of silver bracelets!

Other bedding cakes, seafood, three animals, fish, coconuts, wine, Sijing fruit, fruits, four-color candies, tea, sesame seeds, post boxes, two meters in buckets, incense cannons and gold bracelets, everything is complete, nothing is missing, and the weight is Perfect!

Many people prepare these just for meaning and take their meaning!

But some families will also give you a full ten to show that the groom’s family attaches great importance to the marriage and is very satisfied!

Life has been difficult these past two years. No one in the village has ever received such a heavy betrothal gift for marrying off their daughter!

As you can imagine, Foreman Liang’s betrothal gift was like a thunderclap that exploded across several villages!

It aroused all kinds of envy, jealousy, and sarcastic comments!

And the villagers have a new understanding of Foreman Liang’s family background!

Many villagers secretly regretted not telling her about their daughter when they built a house with him!

Everyone said that Xu Wenhui had fallen into a lucky trap! The second marriage can have such great dignity! Every marriage is better than the last!

Normally, people would make a decision to welcome the bride after two or three months. But after three months, Foreman Liang had to go to Fucheng to build roads, so he had to advance!

Xu Wenhui's family was young, and Mrs. Liu had already recognized her as her sister and had prepared a lot of dowry for her, as well as gifts in return. Xu Wenhui kept all these betrothal gifts at Xiaoer's house.

Mrs. Liu would not want her, but some people would not think so!