Chapter 237 Someone comes to discuss business

Author: That sour candy

Chapter 237 Someone comes to discuss business

Li Zheng from a Shishan village in the distance came to discuss business. There was a limestone mountain over there, and the villagers processed the big rocks into bluestone slabs.

Fang Lizheng handed each of Chen Fan and Zhang Ci a bluestone slab and placed some scraps in front of them.

"Please rest assured, Mr. and Lord, that the bluestone slabs in our village are of high quality, tight, strong, and durable. It is a blessing for the people to build roads for the village. This bluestone is a good choice for paving roads."

The two of them didn't speak, just looked at the board in their hands.

Fang Lizheng hesitated for a moment and said, "Please rest assured about the price. It's definitely a discount, cheaper than what we usually sell. Except for those stones, there are not many trees or grass growing on the mountain, and the harvest in the field is not high."

The villagers are living a very hard life, so they rely on these bluestone slabs to earn some hard-earned money."

Zhang Ci glanced at him: "How much profit can the villagers get from this bluestone slab?"

Fang Lizheng took a deep breath: "I am mainly responsible for the business. Apart from the wages paid to the villagers, I want to make a little money. The common people cannot afford this bluestone. In the past, those squires used to plunder money and did not pay according to the price.

Sometimes I don’t have much left after paying my wages, and I even have to give money to the villagers to pay for my work. My earnings are not even as good as the villagers’ coolie money, but if I stop doing this work, the villagers will scold me again.”

"Have you always paid your wages in full?" Chen Fan asked him.

"I have always paid. The village gentleman and the young master can go to the village to inquire. If I exploit the villagers, I can live a good life, but I don't do that."

"Tell me the address and I will send someone to check. If I need your bluestone, I will also send someone to find you."

Fang Lizheng left in panic.

"Are there such mountains in Shengping County?" Chen Fan felt that there were far more mountains in Shengping County than in Yuanfeng County.

Zhang Ci told her: "There is also a big mountain to the west of Yuanfeng County, which produces quartz stone, which is a material for making glass."

"I haven't been to the west yet. After I finish my busy life, I want to visit Yuanfeng County."

Zhang Ci smiled: "We can go a little further. Further south is the Yangtze River."

"Down the Yangtze River?"

Zhang Ci smiled and took a sip of tea.

There was also a Li Zheng from Guangyun County who came to sell bluestone slabs. Zhang Ci dismissed him with the same reason.

"Let Qi Jun and Yan Jun go check it out. They have so much time to spare that they have almost become familiar with thousands of villagers."

The first road to be built was the north-south road. Fried loess was mixed with crushed and sifted cinders, spread on the river embankment, and compacted with stone rollers. The gravel road was paved under the river embankment, and the materials were dug from the river.

Stones, as well as stones cleared from various wastelands, were burned and broken into pieces, mixed with mud, laid out, and then compacted.

"Stones are rarely used to pave roads. You have a good idea." Zhang Ci touched Chen Fan's head.

"Stones can be built into walls, and they can also be paved into roads. There are many gravel roads in my hometown, and they are also used on a small scale here. It is normal for me to expand the scope." Chen Fan pinched his hand.

“Why build a road under the river embankment when we can walk on it?”

“It’s easier to collect crops and transport fertilizers. There are also multiple routes to Qijiadu and Liujiabian.”

Both villages live along the river, but the villagers do not go to the river embankment, they do not make a path there, and they see weeds year after month.

Qi Jun and Yan Jun investigated quickly. Fang Li from Shishan Village was really serving the people, but he had been exploited for many years. What the guy from Guangyun County said was false, and Li Zheng himself was a tyrannical man.

Chen Fan laughed angrily: "The atmosphere in Guangyun County is really unified from top to bottom."

"I also asked about the price, and it was relatively affordable. Calculated, it is less troublesome than laying floor tiles. We have to mix the soil and bake the floor tiles ourselves, and we can just ask someone to deliver the bluestone slabs. But if the quantity is huge, it will cost too much.

." Qi Yun said.

Zhang Ci looked at Chen Fan: "Isn't the cost of our floor tiles a bit high?"

"It needs to be fired, and coal is expensive. This is without taking into account the labor costs."

"Usually the bricks used to build walls are not so fine and solid, and the cost is not so high," Yan Qiong said.

Zhang Ci nodded: "The kiln workers said that some brick kilns burn for two days, some brick kilns only burn for one day, and there are even small kilns that burn for half a day."

Think about it, how many people are willing to use coal to burn the bricks sold to ordinary people? They all cut some firewood and want to save some firewood, and the material processing is also different. Zhang Ci tested the Sanhe soil formula, which is harder

high.

"Go to Fang Lizheng and ask them to send a thousand bluestone slabs tomorrow. Wen and Wu will tell them clearly. You can reward Li Zheng with more money as appropriate." Zhang Ci ordered, Qi Yun agreed and went out.

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He looked at Chen Fan with a smile: "How are you going to distribute the bluestone slabs and floor tiles?"

"This is a brain-consuming thing." For such a large area, the required quantity is also very large.

Chen Fan thought for a while: "The front of our yard is paved with bluestones. How about paving bluestones here? This way the style will be more consistent."

"In better counties, the streets are covered with bluestones, such as Yuanfeng County. In poorer counties, like Guangyun County, Shengping County, there are still many loess roads that may not have been opened before."

Chen Fan smiled: "The location of the Xiangjun Mansion should be like a city."

Many scenic spots and ancient towns have bluestone roads. The simple gray and blue brick surfaces, the surrounding green mountains, and the smoke from the roofs are the style that many people like.

There is strength in numbers. Thousands of people paved the river embankments on both sides in one day, and half of the gravel road was paved. When this half was dry, the other half was paved.

"No wonder we have to cut down trees. We need to burn firewood and put them on the road."

"If you don't surround it with wooden boards, wouldn't the mud just run everywhere?"

"There are also carpenters working at the big house. The cut trees have been transported to the house. I don't know what to do."

"What else can be done? Make some nice-looking tables and cabinets. When you become an official, don't you start building a lot of things?"

"The house is already good enough, so what else needs to be done?"

They were talking about the big house in Hetian Village, which was at the far west side of the village and not close to other people.

The next day, Chen Fan and Zhang Ci came to see the newly fired bricks. The kiln workers fired them for sixteen hours and then added water to cool them.

"Many of the bricks we usually use are like this," said a kiln worker named He.

Chen Fan threw a brick: "Although the texture is not as good as the previous batch of green bricks, it still has a certain hardness."

"It's good enough to pave on the ground. It's smooth and smooth, waterproof and non-slip. I've never seen any village with a green brick road in my life." He Kiln Worker thought this was already a first-class village road.

Zhang Ci nodded: "The bricks used by Murakami are fired like this, and the kiln will still be fired for three days. You should arrange the time for work and rest."

The two rode horses to Qiaoshang Village.

"There is no river or bridge here." Chen Fan looked around and saw another village that did not live up to its name.

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I also had to decide on a time and memorize the timeline in the book. I was also confused about which road to lay with which bricks, and I used a pen to calculate how much area and how many bricks were needed, as if I was really decorating and paving the road. Sometimes

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