Since sending off Mrs. Liu and his party, Wan Lei has begun to flex his muscles in building projects. The first project is to build the city wall. The rammed earth walls around Beiping City will collapse when it rains. This kind of rubbish project really cannot bring safety to people.
For this reason, four thousand newly returned prisoners were gathered on the construction site. Some worked as brick burners, some worked as cement burners, and some worked as masonry workers, striving to use bricks in half a year.
The wall surrounded the earthen wall.
In this city wall reinforcement project, the most important thing is not bricks or steel bars, but cement. The production process of cement is generally divided into two grinding and one burning. The materials are very common, such as limestone, clay, iron powder, etc. These raw materials are processed according to certain
After grinding it into a certain proportion, it is calcined in a cement kiln to become clinker. Then the clinker, gypsum, and mixed materials are mixed and ground in a certain proportion to become cement.
The calcining process is not difficult. In fact, the most difficult thing is the two grinding processes. In the era when there were no crushers, if the donkey-pulled stone grinding method was used to grind slowly, the production capacity would be low and the cost would be high.
As you can imagine. Fortunately, Chixin patted his head and figured out how to use a water mill instead of a donkey-pulled mill.
Therefore, Wan Lei ordered people to build a dam on the Gaoliang River to store water, increase the momentum of the water flow, and installed several water mills on the dam. With these powerful water mills, it was possible to mass-produce cement, and the construction site was able to
start.
In fact, water shortage has always been a problem in Shuntianfu area, especially in Beiping City. There are four types of water in Beiping city: first, drinking water for residents, mainly relying on well water; second, water for palaces and gardens, which are diverted from mountain springs in the western suburbs through water canals.
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, because the water comes from the west, it is called Jinshui; the third is water for the city, which is also supplied by spring water from the western suburbs; the fourth is water for the canal, which is the Tonghui River that carries grain from Dadu to Tongzhou. Due to the large terrain difference
, setting up locks along the river to allow ships to pass through them requires a large amount of water.
Among the four, the water supply in the canal is the most difficult to solve. In order to bring food and materials from the south of the Yangtze River directly to the capital city, Guo Shoujing, a water conservancy expert in the Yuan Dynasty, used many springs in the north and west of Beijing to collect water in the Gaoliang River, and then poured it into the canal through Houhaizi.
Therefore, many water conservancy projects were built in the upper reaches of the Gaoliang River. Wan Lei only sent people to make slight modifications to the original dams to make dams. Although they are not as convenient as the big rivers in the south, they are still usable.
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In addition, cement production will not only be used to build walls, but will also be used to lay roads in Beiping City to improve the living environment of the people, so it is even more necessary to increase production. Of course, Wan Lei will not ask Sui Yang
As long as the emperor is close to you, you can do as many things as you have with the money. This has always been his rule.
As expected, Mrs. Liu did not deceive Wan Lei. Just a few days after she left, a Shanxi caravan came to Peiping from Shanxi. This caravan sold a large amount of wheat and shipped back a large amount of salt. At the same time, it also communicated with Yan from Peiping.
The merchants reached an agreement and used their descendants to smuggle various items such as kerosene, candles, ironware, etc., and paid in silver. In this way, Shuntian Mansion also had "foreign trade" income, and money was no longer just going out.
With the money, Wan Lei will certainly not let it sit on the ground gathering dust. The cement production plant was established by Yan Shang with funds raised. Wan Lei does not charge royalties. He only agrees that the cement plant will be publicly owned in the first year and all the cement produced will be used for public use. Chapter 1
Privatization will be carried out in the second year, and half of the cement produced will be used for public use and half will be sold privately. Every year, the amount of public cement requisitioned will be reduced by 10%, and it will be fully privatized after five years.
All members of the Yan Chamber of Commerce are happy to accept this plan. After all, the cement factory is a new industry. All they have to do is to inject capital, and they will be able to make a profit in one year, and they will have a large factory with complete equipment in six years. This kind of
Who wouldn’t be happy to sit back and enjoy the good things that come to pass?
As for the question of whether the cement plant can really bring benefits to people, they are not worried at all. In their impression, Mr. Wan can do anything, and he can handle a project as big as an iron smelting plant.
, let alone a small cement factory?
Zhao Hongru also followed him out to inspect the brick factory and cement factory. Seeing that these two major projects were being carried out in an orderly manner, he said on the way back: "Xiannie, we have now produced more than 10,000 kilograms of salt and made more than 6,000 mouths.
Iron pots, at this production rate, as long as there are no mistakes, Bei Yuan's quota can be completed in half a month, but there is still a big gap in the cloth."
As Tie Xuan's master, Zhao Hongru was not only rich, but also in charge of the money and food accounts of Shuntian Mansion. After listening to his report, Wan Lei said: "Don't worry about this, there will be a batch of cloth in at most ten days."
Go north to Peiping."
"Shuntian Prefecture currently has 170,000 taels of official silver. Although it is enough to pay for cloth, I am afraid there will be a shortage of military expenses." Zhao Hongru frowned. In fact, as the money and grain master, he is also the largest grain merchant in Beiping City, with a monopoly
Shuntian Prefecture's administrative income mainly comes from the sale of grain. There is no other way to make money. Financial shortage will happen sooner or later.
"There is no need to pay in silver. This time the other party has requested iron weapons. I will discuss this matter with Mr. Tie and let the iron smelting factory produce a batch of weapons." Wan Lei whispered, these weapons were requested by Mrs. Liu.
In fact, this old woman is really not simple. The reason why she cooperated with Wan Lei was because Shuntian Prefecture had an ironworks. After all, rebellion must have weapons. Otherwise, use wooden sticks to fight the court? This is also necessary.
Only if she can win the fight. So, she ordered a large number of weapons from Wan Lei.
As for how to smuggle weapons south, this is Mrs. Liu's own business, and Wan Lei doesn't want to ask. Anyway, Shuntian Mansion has been on the court's blacklist. In Wan Lei's opinion, as long as it can bring benefits to Shuntian Mansion, smuggling salt and iron