Chapter 641: Finale (Part 1)
The 21st year of Chengxi.
Red Deer City.
Xie Yingmian stood on the top floor of Wangyue Tower.
Wangyue Tower is the tallest building in Chilu City. It has seventeen floors and a total height of about sixty meters.
The buildings of the Dayu Dynasty generally used wooden structures, and except for temples and pagodas, there were few buildings with more than seven floors.
The reason is simple.
Without reinforced concrete, it is difficult to achieve super-high-rise buildings relying solely on wooden structures.
After Xie Yingmian and Yu Lingye came to Chilu, they spent nearly twenty years to build the first super high-rise building - Wangyue Tower, using concrete and steel structures.
Wangyue Tower is a landscape building.
You can eat, shop, enjoy the scenery and stay overnight.
It is a commercial center integrating food, drink, entertainment and fun.
Accommodation is mainly concentrated above the tenth floor.
The higher you go, the more expensive it is.
The seventeenth floor is the most expensive, with the cheapest room costing thirty taels of silver per night.
For rich people, this little money is nothing.
Many wealthy people come to Chilu specifically to experience the feeling of walking in the air, as if "you can pick the stars with your hands from a dangerous building a hundred feet high."
Some people even bring their entire family to stay here on a monthly basis.
The reservation for the room on the seventeenth floor is booked for three years from now.
In order to facilitate going up and down the stairs, a manpower ladder designed by Yan Qing was installed in Wangyue Building.
All tourists who come here are full of praise for Wangyue Tower.
Moon-Watching Tower has also become an iconic attraction that must be visited when visiting Chilu.
It is the time when the lights begin to come on.
Looking down from the seventeenth floor, Xie Yingmian could see rows of street lights throughout Chilu City and people coming and going on the streets.
She sighed deeply: "When I first came to Chilu, there was only one asphalt road here."
"Everywhere else is just a bumpy yellow mud road. When it rains, the roads are so muddy that horse hooves and cars get stuck in them."
"At that time, there was construction going on everywhere. It was a mess and dusty. If you stood outside, you would be covered in dust in less than a quarter of an hour."
Xie Yingmian smiled and said, "The fiefdom is poor and sparsely populated, so there's a serious shortage of manpower. Many construction sites require the two of us to personally oversee them. We feel like we've been dug out of the ground every day."
"Just like that, the messy red deer has become what it is now."
"Time flies by so fast."
Yu Lingye and Xie Yingmian stood side by side.
He also had unspeakable emotions in his heart.
I still remember that year, there was continuous rain in the fiefdom, the fertile fields were flooded, and the people in the fiefdom had to pay taxes even though they could not get enough food.
He was at a loss.
They even decided to spend all their money to buy food and distribute it to the people in the fiefdom to help them through the difficult times.
Just when the fiefdom was in the most difficult time, Xie Yingmian told him how to detoxify cassava.
There is a lot of cassava in the fiefdom, and cassava is everywhere.
With the method of detoxifying cassava, it becomes a natural granary, a huge granary.
It only took a few days to go from being at a dead end to solving the problem.
From then on, cassava gradually became one of the main industries of the fiefdom.
In these twenty-one years,
He watched tall buildings rise from the ground.
Looking at the asphalt roads running through Chilu,
Watching the dilapidated thatched house transformed into a spacious and bright residential building,
Watching the parks, schools, and hospitals being built one after another...
Watching the people in the fiefdom go from starving to having enough food and clothing, from being numb and dry to having satisfied smiles on their faces...
He thanked himself countless times for his decision to transfer the fiefdom to Xie Yingmian's name.
Only Xie Yingmian could transform the impoverished fiefdom into a big city comparable to Shangjing in such a short period of time.
To be precise,
Today, Chilu is more prosperous than Shangjing.
Back then, after Xie Yingmian took over Chilu, he adhered to the principle of "If you want to get rich, build roads first", and the first thing he did was to build roads.
The roads in Chilu are all paved with asphalt, which is very smooth and not afraid of rain or sun.
The official roads and main roads in Chilu are all asphalt roads.
Now that the road has been repaired, business transactions will become much more convenient.
As transportation capacity is strengthened, production capacity is also expanding.
As production capacity expands, more manpower is needed, which means more employment opportunities.
If everyone has a job and can earn enough money to support their family, life will become more promising and people will work harder.
The better the factory business is, the more people it attracts, the larger the population is, the greater the demand is, and a virtuous circle is formed.
The second thing Xie Yingmian did was to recruit talents.
It not only attracts top talents like Ji Yunshu, Yan Qing, and Tu Bufan, but also attracts people with special skills.
Detailed incentive policies for talent settlement have also been formulated.
For example, an excellent carpenter can settle his family in Chilu and get a three-bedroom house.
The house is an ordinary residential building.
But it has a flush toilet, a shower and a kitchen, and can easily accommodate a family of five or six.
Children can also go to school for free, and family members can arrange various jobs according to their specialties.
These policies attracted a lot of common people and refugees in a short period of time.
The population of the fiefdom also showed explosive growth.
The first five years were the most tiring and busiest time for them.
Starting from the sixth year, many things got on track and the two of them finally had some free time.
But Xie Yingmian was a person who couldn't sit still, so she joined Sui Sui Yanqing's railway research team to study steam locomotives together.
Finally, seven years ago, the Chilu-Shangjing line was officially opened.
It would take at least a month to travel from Chilu to Shangjing by horse carriage.
However, by train, it only takes two and a half days.
There are also many stations along the way, which are all cities with relatively dense populations.
After the opening of the train, it became more convenient to come to Chilu City, and the prosperity of Chilu City reached a new level.
Three years after the Chilu-Shangjing line was opened, railway lines to other major cities were gradually opened.
Except for the Chilu-Shangjing line, which belonged to Xie Yingmian, the other lines were funded by Emperor Chengxi and built by the Chilu railway design team.
By the 21st year of Chengxi, the number of railway lines in the Dayu Dynasty had increased to eight.
These eight railway lines run through the east, south, west and north, greatly increasing transportation convenience.
The journey that originally took several months was shortened to a few days.
Such miracles are breathtaking.
Yu Lingye watched the train approaching the station from afar and asked Xie Yingmian, "In a month, the Shangjing-Linjing line will open. Emperor Chengxi has invited us to take the first train to Linjing. Do you want to go?"
Linjing is the capital of Donglin Kingdom.
Xie Yingmian: "Go."
I have been busy in Chilu for almost the past twenty years, and the occasional trips are always on business.
She hadn't had time to take in the scenery.
It would be nice to take this opportunity to visit Donglin Country.
Yu Lingye: "Then I'll arrange the itinerary."
Xie Yingmian's eyes curved, "Thank you for your hard work, my Secretary Yu."
Yu Lingye: ...
His voice was dim: "Your Secretary Yu worked so hard, is there a reward?"
Xie Yingmian looked at the bustling street scene not far away.
This is the busiest time.
The air was filled with various aromas, which whetted Xie Yingmian's appetite.
She smiled and said, "Of course."
"I'll take you there."
Xie Yingmian put veils on Yu Lingye and herself, and came to the food street in Chilu.
The night market in the food street is crowded with people.
Various food stalls are lined up in rows and rows.
Various smells mixed together, but not unpleasant, full of the flavor of life.
Xie Yingmian bought octopus balls.
She gave Yu Lingye one: "It tastes better when you eat it hot."
Yu Lingye: "Is this the reward you gave me?"
"Don't like it?" Xie Yingmian raised his eyebrows.
Yu Lingye took the opportunity to bite Xie Yingmian's hand: "I like it."
Never mind.
Anyway, he will definitely get the reward he wants tonight.
After eating the octopus balls, Xie Yingmian stopped in front of the cold noodles stall again.
"Give me one, with eggs and ham, but no green onions."
"Okay, a total of eight cents." The stall owner said happily without even looking up.
When the stall owner finished and handed the grilled cold noodles to Xie Yingmian, Xie Yingmian was just lifting the curtain.
The stall owner suddenly realized that the people in front of him were the city lord and his wife.
He was extremely excited and refused to take any money.
Yu Lingye: "Take it, and don't shout."
Compared to the amiable Xie Yingmian, the stall owner was a little afraid of the cold Yu Lingye. He immediately took the money and dared not say another word.
Xie Yingmian hurriedly pulled Yu Lingye away.
She ate wherever she went, and ordered small portions of everything. She shared them with Yu Lingye and didn't feel full at all.
I just ate too many fried, salty and spicy snacks, and I wanted to eat some small cakes or milk tea.
She pulled Yu Lingye to the milk tea stall.
"I want to drink taro balls and grapes. What do you want to drink?" Xie Yingmian asked.
Yu Lingye didn't feel like drinking.
But he is very clear about his position.
Xie Yingmian would never satisfy just one taste.
He wants to be a backup for Xie Yingmian.
"Orange lemon tea." he said.
Xie Yingmian's eyes really lit up: "Let's go, let's go."
As she was walking towards the milk tea stall excitedly, she was suddenly grabbed by Yu Lingye.
"What's wrong?" Xie Yingmian asked.
Yu Lingye lowered his voice: "I saw Yaya."
"Ya Ya is with a man."
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