Chapter 269 This Year Will Definitely Be a Big Fortune
"Second Uncle! Second Uncle Yang, Third Uncle Wang!" Su Ying dismounted.
"Aying, why are you here? It's so dusty here!" Su Laoer ran over while waving his hands, not letting Su Ying and the others get close.
He brushed off the dust on his body and came over, "Master Fu, Master Hu!"
"What are you doing? The sky is full of smoke and dust!" Hu Erlang was curious. Burning lime is not that exaggerated.
"We..." Su Laoer looked at his niece, wondering how much Su Ying had revealed.
"My second uncle and his colleagues are trying to develop a new type of material - cement. Once it is successfully developed, it can be used for building walls, repairing roads, etc. It will be more solid and stronger than the mortar roads in the village." Su Ying explained.
"Miss Su means that this will be used for the construction of roads in Lingnan Road in the future?" Fu Zhong immediately understood.
"Yes! This cement can be used not only for road construction and house building, but also for city walls and military fortresses. With steel bars as the backbone, it's indestructible and unbreakable!"
"Is it so magical?" Fu Zhong and Hu Erlang exclaimed.
Even Su Laoer who was standing by was stunned. He just wanted to use it to build roads, but he didn't expect it to be so useful.
"Of course, it's just that the iron production of my Tang Dynasty is too low. It can't even meet the needs of military and civilian use. How can we bear to use it to make the walls of military fortresses?" Su Ying felt deeply regretful.
History develops bit by bit, not by earth-shaking changes overnight.
Fu Zhong's heart was pounding. This was something very important to the Tang Dynasty, besides food. "Mr. Su, how is the progress?"
"Well, I burned two batches of mortar and am still trying to mix it with the iron slag." When Su Laoer talked about this, he became lively and energetic.
His face, covered in dust, was beaming with joy, which was quite funny.
The iron ore slag sent by Governor Lu was ground into fine powder with a stone mill and mixed with plaster made by burning limestone and clay in a certain proportion.
It is indeed much more sticky than the mortar used for village roads. I am still comparing the effects of using various proportions.
We came to an open space and lined up with numbers. There were concrete blocks made of bamboo reinforcements, which were dried in the sun and then smashed with hammers.
Fu Zhong was thinking hard, trying to find out the ingredients and proportions of the materials.
"Well, we are still in the trial production stage, so it is inconvenient to inform you for the time being!" Su Ying said.
"Once the trial is completed, it will be reported and promoted in Lingnan Road through the county government and the provincial government. If Mr. Fu is interested, would you please invest in it?"
"Okay! I'll buy in now!" Fu Zhong said immediately, "How much is it? I'll send the money over tomorrow!"
"Well, Mr. Fu, let's not talk about money for now. We are currently short of iron ore slag. The governor gave us some, but it's not much, so we have to save it.
"Can the Fu family get it? Or maybe invest in it with iron ore slag?" Su Ying suggested.
Iron ore slag comes from the government's iron smelting plant. There are not many iron mines in Wuxian and Wuzhou, so iron ore slag is difficult to get.
In the future, when the trial-produced iron slag is used to build roads, cement plants will usually be built nearby, which requires coordinating with local authorities on iron ore slag, which is a difficult problem.
"Iron ore slag instead of cash investment? Okay, I'll be responsible for smoothing this link!" Fu Zhong didn't expect there would be such a good thing.
For Su Ying and others, the hard-to-find iron ore slag was unwanted waste piled up into mountains in the General Works and Iron Smelting Plant.
That’s great! Turning waste into treasure! Killing two birds with one stone!
There was a lot of dust at the lime kiln. Soon my body, head, and face were covered with dust, and even my mouth felt sandy and dry.
Su Ying then remembered that she had forgotten to make masks, hats and other protective masks for her second uncle and the others.
I kept this in mind and went back to get some gauze to make a mask, otherwise I would get silicosis if I was exposed to dust for a long time and inhaled it into my lungs.
This was in ancient times, and there were no medical conditions for lung lavage. Too much dust accumulated in the lungs, and they slowly became hard as stone. People gradually became unable to breathe on their own and suffocated to death. It was very painful.
After bidding farewell to her second uncle, Su Ying took Fu Zhong and Hu Erlang to Jinfeng Village.
A section of the road has been compacted, with bamboo strips soaked in tung oil used as reinforcement on top. It will be paved as soon as the cement is ready. If it cannot be produced, mortar will be used for laying.
"The road is paved the same way as in your Huanggou Village!" Fu Zhong looked at the similar scene.
There are bamboo pipes for water supply along the way, and drainage ditches on the shoulders of the road, which are of the same width and can accommodate two carriages running side by side.
"They were all designed and planned by my second uncle!" Su Ying paved the way for her second uncle.
From now on, the construction of Lingnan Road and the cooperation with the Fudong family in cement production will be the responsibility of my second uncle.
"I didn't realize your second uncle is quite good at building roads!" Fu Zhong praised.
"My second uncle is honest and kind, not good at speaking. He has been in charge of the Ministry of Industry for many years and has been doing this." Su Ying smiled, "He didn't get any promotion, but he didn't get any when he was implicated!"
Fu Zhong laughed awkwardly. This happened a lot, so it wasn't surprising.
Halfway through the journey, they met villagers like Yang Dalang who were tamping the earth. When they saw Fu Zhong, Hu Erlang and others, they greeted them warmly. This is the God of Wealth of Huanggou Village!
After walking another seven or eight miles, we saw Ah Hei and his group of Li people coming over from the village to build a house. They rammed earth in the front and laid bamboo ribs in the back.
Seeing Su Ying and her group, Ah Hei gave a few instructions to the man beside him. The man hurried to the village and Ah Hei went forward to greet him.
"Old men from Aying Village! Mr. Fu and Mr. Hu Erlang!" The Slang man showed a simple smile and welcomed them sincerely!
With the help of villagers from Huanggou Village, the rocks blocking the way were blasted and leveled, and construction began at both ends simultaneously. It would be completed in a few days, and everyone was very happy.
After the closure, all that remains is to wait for the new mortar cement to be poured, which is said to be stronger and more durable than the mortar road in Huanggou Village.
I thought it would take three to five years, but I didn’t expect that the village roads between the two villages would be built in less than a year, and they were better than the official roads outside!
As we approached Jinfengzhai, we saw dense sugarcane fields and half-human-high sugarcane swaying in the wind, creating a pleasing scene.
"So much?" Hu Erlang had seen the Li people's sugarcane fields before, a large and messy area.
It is not like the ones now, which are neatly arranged in an orderly manner, with appropriate density, and growing vigorously.
"They planted crops in all the vacant corners and standardized the planting, so naturally they grew better than before!" Su Ying said.
After walking through the vast sugarcane fields and entering the village, you will see the large and lush paddy fields surrounded by the sugarcane fields.
"Welcome, welcome!" Ade came forward with several old people from the village.
After Fu Dongjia and Hu Erlang left for a few months, Ade saw that the sugarcane was growing better and better, and there was a bumper harvest this year. He looked forward to the appearance of these two gods of wealth every day.
There is no problem selling brown sugar, but Ade is not at ease because he didn't reach an agreement with Fuzhong and others.
Since they have helped me, are my important customers and benefactors, I will naturally give them priority.
"Brother Ade, you will definitely make a fortune this year!" Fu Zhong bowed and congratulated him.
"No, no! It's all thanks to the help of Mr. Fu and Mr. Hu!" Ade said politely.
Hearing that Aying from Huanggou Village had arrived, some children ran over and followed Su Ying, staring at her eagerly, wanting to get close but being timid and not daring to get close.
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