Chapter 389 Spending Money to Repair Roads and Praising Merit
After the banquet, Lin Luoxi did not forget the secret of the sudden appearance of a mountain of gold in her space.
Looking at the roads in my village, the roads leading to Quanshan County, they become muddy and impassable whenever it rains.
Lin Luoxi funded the construction of a smooth, muddy road from the center of Wutong Village, ensuring it wouldn't be slippery or muddy in the rain.
Lin Luoxi's words were unanimously agreed upon by everyone. The villagers felt that this was the road everyone had to take, and they planned to raise funds together to repair the road.
Lin Luoxi felt that the villagers of Wutong Village did not earn their money easily, but it would not be fair to not let them contribute.
In the end, the villagers were persuaded not to contribute money, but simply to contribute their labor...
Lin Luoxi said that when the road in her village was being repaired, everyone worked together.
When the road is completed from the village entrance to Quanshan County, everyone will be paid according to the number of days worked.
Lin Luoxi's actions made the villagers of Wutong Village like her even more.
Building roads for the villagers was a good thing, and Lin Luoxi acted immediately. That same day, she had the villagers level the ground in front of their houses and start laying bricks and stones.
"Yes, looking at it this way, the entire Wutong Village has changed dramatically!"
"Hmm, it has the feel of a reclusive family hiding in the countryside."
After three days, the roads in front of every household in Wutong Village were paved with bricks and stones.
In recent years, the villagers of Wutong Village have all moved into houses with blue bricks and tiles. Now, with the bricks and stones laid out like this, it has the feel of a rural town.
"This is just the beginning..." Lin Luoxi not only wanted to pave the village roads of Wutong Village with bricks and stones.
We also need to plant flowers all around the village, so that the whole village will be beautiful, even more so than the city.
After the roads in Wutong Village were paved, the paving began from the village entrance.
With Lin Luoxi's money in hand, the families in town who made bricks and stones were so happy they could laugh in their sleep. Every day, as soon as they opened their eyes, they were busy delivering bricks and stones.
Lin Luoxi's road construction was so large that it attracted villagers from other villages to come and watch.
The road from Wutong Village to Quanshan County is very long, and it is not practical to rely solely on the villagers of Wutong Village to repair the road.
After all, the villagers of Wutong Village had important things to do, so Lin Luoxi sent out a message that as long as they were not lazy and worked hard, they could go and earn money by repairing roads.
Some cunning villagers thought Lin Luoxi was easy to fool, and after signing up, they started grinding potatoes, but couldn't get any work done in a day.
These people didn't even finish their work for the day before they were chased away by Lin Yi and his team, who were supervising the work.
Over the past few years, Lin Luoxi has carefully trained about a hundred people, and their bandit-like nature has not only not diminished but has actually increased.
Lin Yi simply stood in front of those lazy people and told them they didn't need to work anymore. Those slackers immediately fell silent and slunk away.
Many people dream of a perfect solution: being able to grind potatoes and get paid at the same time.
Little did they know, Lin Ruoxi had already seen through their intentions, which was why she sent Lin Yi and the others to supervise the construction.
After those potato-picking workers were driven away, the hardworking people felt relieved and worked even harder, repairing the road much faster.
This can be seen as a disguised form of making an example of someone to deter others, so that those with ulterior motives will be silenced and forced to work hard for money.
When the road reached Black Rock Town, Lin Luoxi had it extended towards the town, since a large portion of her profitable businesses were located there.
The commotion caused by Lin Luoxi's road repairs still caught the attention of Magistrate Su of Quanshan County.
Seeing Lin Luoxi doing such a good deed for the people, it would be a slap in his face if he didn't make a statement.
After all, he had served as the magistrate of Quanshan County for almost ten years without achieving any political accomplishments.
Now that Lin Luoxi has pulled this stunt, doesn't it just show that he's useless?
Given Lin Luoxi and her background, he wouldn't dare to shoot her.
To protect his reputation, he came up with a plan: fundraising.
The road Lin Luoxi wanted to repair passed through, and in every village with a landlord or wealthy family, Lord Su invited them all together to discuss how much money to raise.
Lin Luoxi had voluntarily paid for the road's construction, but Su's actions greatly displeased the landlords and tycoons.
Lord Su paid the money in person, but behind the scenes he had people make things difficult for the road construction workers.
At first, Lin Yi didn't realize what was happening, but when Su Da brought the donation to Lin Luoxi, Lin Yi immediately understood and explained the road repair situation to Lin Luoxi.
"These people are shameless to the extreme. I didn't ask them to donate. Now that they have donated, they are still reluctantly causing trouble."
Lin Luoxi was no pushover; she immediately dispatched Lin Yi and Lin Yibai, along with about a hundred men, to beat back anyone who tried to cause trouble.
Lin Luoxi has the backing of the War King, the Imperial Uncle, and General Lin. Besides, she is building roads to benefit the people, so she is not afraid of anyone.
Those who came to cause trouble were injured by Lin Yi and his group, and they even wanted to report the incident to the authorities.
When Lord Su heard about this, he ordered the constables to give those troublemakers several more beatings before they finally gave up.
Lin Luoxi investigated and found out about the landlords and tycoons who hired people to obstruct the road construction and cause trouble.
Lin Luoxi didn't hold back either, directly exposing their true colors and reporting it to Lord Su.
With witnesses and physical evidence present, Lord Su dared not act unjustly and directly imprisoned all the landlords and wealthy families who had been accused.
Lin Luoxi's shrewd move finally deterred the other landlords who still wanted to cause trouble.
After six months of work, a main road from Wutong Village to Heiyan Town and Quanshan County was paved with bricks and stones by Lin Luoxi and opened to traffic.
After the road was completed, Lin Luoxi had stones engraved with who donated how much money to build the road erected at the entrance of Wutong Village, the entrance to Heiyan Town, and the entrance to Quanshan County.
Let the people see how much money everyone contributed to this road.
When Lord Su saw that his name was written below Lin Luoxi's name on the stone, and the numbers following it made him feel ashamed.
If he had known that Lin Luoxi was up to this, he would have been furious.
But when he saw the amount of silver after Lin Luoxi's name, he gasped in shock. Three million five hundred thousand taels of gold!
Even if the imperial court allocated funds, it might not be able to spare so much money.
Lin Luoxi's large sum of money was like an elephant compared to an ant compared to his 30,000 taels of silver.
Not only did Lord Su gasp in shock, but the other onlookers also gasped in shock.
However, when they saw the road that Lin Luoxi had built, everyone felt that the road was indeed worth that much money.
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