Chapter 298: Unprecedented Initiatives
"How is it, Aying?" Everyone stared at Su Ying and asked anxiously.
"Well, it's almost done! Congratulations to my second uncle! Congratulations to all the uncles! You succeeded!" Su Ying bowed and congratulated everyone present.
"It's done, it's done!" After getting the confirmation, Su Laoer pulled Yang Erlang, Wang Sanlang and a group of people to jump and dance. They finally accomplished something big!
Yang Erlang, Wang Sanlang and others tore off the protective shield, revealing the gray face inside.
His eyes were filled with tears, which were winding and rugged on his face. His expression of crying and laughing was particularly funny and touching.
Having lived a life of debauchery, exiled to this remote corner for twenty years, I thought I was lost forever, but I never expected to achieve such success! How can I not be excited?
When a wild goose passes by, it leaves a shadow; when a person passes by, he leaves a name.
People’s life is not lived in vain. Thousands of years later, when people talk about cement, their names will be mentioned.
After being happy, Su Ying encouraged her uncle again, "Uncle, the hardness and viscosity of cement with this ratio are no problem for building roads and houses.
If you want to build city walls, military fortresses, or bridges, you'll need to adjust the formula. The ingredients we're using now are just basic raw materials, and the formula can be adjusted based on the requirements of the structure."
"Can we add more raw materials?" Su Laoer refreshed his cognition and thought that he only needed to find the best ratio among these raw materials.
"Of course, isn't there glutinous rice in the adhesive? There's nothing wrong with it!" Su Ying smiled.
"The road to Jinfeng Village is almost complete, and we're just waiting for cement. How about mass production? Is there enough iron ore slag? If not, I'll go find Lord Lu!"
"Enough! More than a dozen trucks were delivered in the past two days, and another batch will arrive tomorrow." Su Laoer nodded.
"For mass production, we don't have enough manpower. We need to transfer manpower from there."
"Then I'll go again and ask Uncle Yang to transfer some manpower over so that the work can be completed before the rice harvest!" Su Ying said and turned her horse's head.
Thinking of something, he turned around and said to everyone, "Second Uncle, Second Uncle Yang, Third Uncle Wang, all of you should get ready. After the Jinfeng Village is repaired, you will be sent out.
We will also use cement to build connections between the county government offices, prefectures, and even all official roads within Lingnan Road. We will cooperate with the various prefectures, and you will be in charge and provide technical guidance."
"Really?" everyone asked in surprise.
"Seriously, I've already negotiated with Lord Lu and the Fu family to build it in the prefecture first, and then we'll talk to the Lingnan Dao later. As long as they see the benefits of a cement road, no one will refuse such an official road!"
Su Ying smiled and whipped the horse, which started galloping wildly towards Jinfeng Village again.
When Yang Dalang learned that cement had been developed and that manpower was needed, he discussed with the Li people and decided that each family would send 15 people to support the cement production.
"Uncle Yang!" Su Ying called out to Yang Dalang.
"What's the matter, Su Ying?" Yang Dalang asked.
"The first crop of rice will be harvested next month, and after the road is built, would you consider forming a construction team?" Su Ying asked.
"Construction team? What for? Do other places also want to build cement roads?" Yang Dalang guessed.
"Many people want to build cement roads. Not only in Wu County, but all official roads in the state capital must be converted into cement roads.
We will form an engineering team, divide it into several teams, and go to various counties to build roads. This business involves cooperation from several parties, including our village, the county government, the state government, and the wealthy family.
If nothing unexpected happens, all the prefectures in Lingnan will promote it later!"
"?" Yang Dalang looked at Su Ying in surprise, "Can we really do it?"
It was shocking enough that they got the projects from the county government and the prefecture government, but they even wanted to get the projects from other prefectures in Lingnan Province. How dare they!
"Of course! We have the cement and road construction technology, especially for mountain roads like this. We have built two of them.
With mature technology, rich experience, and cement in hand, who can compete with us? "Su Ying was sure of success.
"Let me ask everyone, we have been building the road for such a long time, everyone wants to take a break!" Yang Dalang was a little tempted.
However, these days, the weather is getting hotter and everyone is becoming a little irritable.
After the road is built, the rice will be harvested, and then the land will be plowed again and the next season of rice seedling planting will begin.
Even if it's a cow, it shouldn't be so tired.
If everyone hadn't had enough to eat this year, such high-intensity work would have exhausted everyone.
"No rush, Uncle Yang, after harvesting the crops, let's take a break and relax.
We go out to manage things and provide technical guidance, not to do hard labor.
The construction workers are provided by each county, either through corvée or hiring, and the local people solve the problem themselves.
The people we sent out were responsible for project quality, cement firing, etc., but this required a lot of people.
The village has switched to soybean oil extraction and mung bean vermicelli production, which also requires manpower," Su Ying said of the subsequent plans.
"Aying, you are really troublesome!" Yang Dalang laughed.
"In less than a year, you've already dealt with Huanggou Village and Wu County, and now you've set your sights on Lingnan Road before the provincial capital has even begun construction!"
“The mountain roads in Lingnan are difficult and dangerous, and the lack of roads has always restricted Lingnan’s development.
In the future, when the Lingnan Road is opened, more merchants will come and go. Lingnan will no longer be a remote place, nor will it be a wild and desolate place that everyone fears, filled with miasma.
It is a land of wealth comparable to the south of the Yangtze River, and another pearl of the Tang Dynasty."
Su Ying, who came from later generations, knew how rich Lingnan was, but many good things could not be transported out because of the blocked roads.
Once the two-lane cement road is completed, lychees, oranges, etc. from Lingnan Road will be transported to the mainland in a steady stream.
No more "A red-dusted concubine smiled, no one knew it was the lychees coming!"
"If everyone can eat 300 lychees a day, they will be willing to live in Lingnan forever!"
In particular, Dayuling Mountain was built here by General Yu Sheng during the reign of Emperor Wu of Han Dynasty, hence the name Yuling. It is one of the Five Mountains in Nanling Mountains.
Located at the junction of Dayu, Jiangxi and Nanxiong, Guangdong, it is the transportation hub between Lingnan and Lingbei, and has always been the gateway to and from Lingnan.
Dayuling Mountain, which "controls Jiaoguang in the south, resists Hunan and Xiang in the west, is located in the upper reaches of Jiangxi, and is close to Lingnan", was not only an important military pass in ancient times, but also an important channel for the Cantonese people to migrate south.
The road was steep and difficult to travel on, and had not been renovated for a long time, which hindered the trade, culture and other exchanges between Lingnan and the Central Plains.
In the fourth year of Kaiyuan Period in Tang Dynasty, Zhang Jiuling, the Left Censor-in-Chief, supervised the construction of a new road and ordered the planting of plum trees along the road, so it was also called Meiling.
The completion of this road cleared the traffic bottleneck between Lingnan and the Central Plains and strengthened the connection between Lingnan and the Central Plains.
It plays an important role in the political, economic, cultural and social stability of Lingnan.
Su Ying can ignore other roads in Lingnan, but Dayuling must be opened up.
It was not to compete for credit with Zhang Jiuling, the famous prime minister of the Kaiyuan period a hundred years later, but the Dayuling Road was too important. If it was not opened, the grain produced in Lingnan could only be shipped out via Guangzhou Port.
The important role of the Lingnan Dao Grain Special District was weakened, not to mention political and cultural exchanges.
The development of Lingnan will be empty talk, and it will always be separated from the Central Plains by a veil.
Thinking of this, Su Ying decided to write a letter to her father, asking Lord Lu to recommend to the court that Dayuling Mountain be dug through.
I wonder if Lord Lu has the courage to do this? This is an unprecedented move.
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