Liu Zheng chuckled: "Things that strengthen my house and city walls!"
Liu Zheng was relatively familiar with slag cement in his previous life. In addition to traditional Portland cement, slag cement also occupies a very important position. In a narrow sense, slag cement is a finely ground mixture of gypsum, cement clinker and blast furnace slag.
mixture.
This slag contains a large amount of cement components. The main process is to mix liquid slag from the reduction process and steelmaking process, such as blast furnace slag and converter slag, and add lime, clay when necessary...
Of course, the specific process still needs to be explored slowly! But Liu Zheng is very confident. The lime workshop and steelmaking workshop of Shen Gongfang have become more and more sophisticated in technology. Liu Zheng believes that as long as he tries a few more times, this cement will be
It can really be done!
Everyone heard Liu Zheng speak confidently and did not doubt him.
Qingyang Shuo smiled and said: "If there is such a strong thing, then Loulan will probably regret it!"
Everyone laughed.
The reason why Loulan is willing to sign a desert ownership agreement with Liu Zheng is because they feel that no one has been able to manage the desert for thousands of years. If they Loulan people can't do it, can Liu Zheng do it? As everyone knows, Liu Zheng can manage the desert in a short time
You can build stations and inns along the road, and if you have sufficient funds, you can even consider paving the road...The next step is to plant trees.
But when he thought of this, Liu Zheng asked about Yinzhou's accounts during his absence in the past few months.
As soon as these words came out, Liu Dahao's face fell.
"Son, we don't have any treasury money anymore!"
Bang!
Liu Zheng just stood up and almost fell to the ground, his face collapsed: "Are you poor again?"
Liu Dahao grimaced: "My son, you can't blame me for this. This Silver Beach City is really too expensive! It's simply a bottomless pit!"
Liu Zheng looked at Qingyang Shuo, who also nodded.
This left Liu Zheng speechless.
He started a stall as big as his, but still couldn't make ends meet? Next, everyone sat down to calculate an account, which made Liu Zheng's heart tremble.
Recruitment is an ongoing issue in Yinzhou.
So far, the number of soldiers who can be taken out to fight has reached 50,000, and there are still 30,000 militiamen. Although Yinzhou has a garrison system, what about the weapons and equipment these soldiers need? Even if they can be made by themselves, but
Isn’t iron ore money?
Raising troops costs money, which is currently a large part of Yinzhou's expenditure.
But so far, Yinzhou's military expenditure can be equal to the income from refined salt.
Then what?
The construction of Silver Beach City took out all the profits from brewing, perfume, and soap, and it was not enough! Liu Zheng looked at the accounts and found that Baiyajun had already paid five batches of refined salt in silver, but it was only delivered here.
Three batches...
In other words, Silver Beach City is still in deficit!
Liu Zheng shook his head and smiled bitterly: "Well, it seems that we can only save money temporarily. The next batch of refined salt must be transported to Loulan first, and all the silver there must be transported back..."
When everyone heard that Loulan still had nearly ten million taels of silver, they all became excited. Liu Dahao even jumped up: "My son is just trying to live up to his expectations. Dad, I can eat meat again!"
Liu Zheng rolled his eyes. Suddenly he remembered something and quickly called Liang Erfu over.
"What's the matter, sir?"
Liu Zheng took out a handful of red things from his package. Everyone looked at each other and asked what it was.