Take the mall to Datang

Yuan Shan prepared food for the people in the shop to eat together, and now the maids from the guest's house started to get busy consciously.

Yunfeng became more serious today, and immediately went to guard the door.

"Yuan Shan, is this the hot pot you mentioned? This hot pot is very strange, but it is very appropriate for you to call it hot pot." Li Shimin said.

Yuan Shan thought about it for a while, and it really is like this. It seems that there was hot pot in the Eastern Han Dynasty. The pot at that time was "copper tripod". They are mainly shabu-shabu, but Yuanshan's is a genuine copper hot pot, which tastes much better, and the open structure of the hot pot is more convenient to use.

"Your Highness King Qin is very knowledgeable, but this is a new type of hot pot, I will definitely think about it next time if I eat it once, and I have also researched a variety of hot pot bases with different flavors, such as three delicacies pot, spicy pot, nourishing pot, etc. If you eat hot pot in winter, the hot pot is definitely the best food in the winter." Yuan Shan said earnestly.

Yuan Shan put the mutton into the hot pot, and said confidently, "His Royal Highness, try it."

Li Shimin picked up his chopsticks and ate without hesitation. After taking a bite, he looked exactly like Li Chengqian from yesterday, eating mutton rolls.

"The mutton in this pot is so fresh. It's delicious with this soup. What are these vegetables?" Li Shimin asked again.

"These are lettuces, which are grown in my family. I also found these by accident in the mountains, so I left the seeds. The yield of such fresh vegetables is amazing. It is most suitable for planting in spring and has a high yield. I don't know how much better the taste is than wild vegetables. , Now the farmers in Wulizhuang are also planting in the yards of their homes, which has solved a lot of food problems." Yuan Shan said.

Li Shimin had eaten this lettuce yesterday, and it still had a unique flavor with the hot pot seasoning. Today, he tried the boiled lettuce and tasted a new taste.

"This kind of vegetable is still available, and I want to take some back to plant." Li Shimin said.

"Basically every family in Wuli Village has planted them this year. There are a lot of seeds. Why don't you send some to the King of Qin? I'll send someone home to pick them up. But the season is over, and we can only plant them in the spring of next year." Yuan Shan said.

"Try other vegetables, they are also delicious, and this Chrysanthemum chrysanthemum is also very good." Yuan Shan recommended again.

Li Shimin had almost finished eating, and suddenly said: "Your cement is quite useful. It is a good material for building cities, but the price is a bit expensive."

Buying cement requires bargaining. Is this the style of the King of Qin? Yuan Shan thought that he would not be so naive, so he automatically made up his mind.

"His Royal Highness, cement has many uses. It is an excellent material for building a city, and mixing sand and bricks can speed up construction. What about the price? To be honest, the production cost of cement is extremely high." Yuan Shan said frankly.

"I heard from Gan'er that you have some opinions on the construction of the Great Wall. Why don't you come and listen." Li Shimin said.

Yuan Shanxin said that the real problem was that he had said so much, but he didn't know what to say, so he said casually: "It's just chatting, it's not a big deal, the Great Wall can't close the border of the entire Tang Dynasty even if it is solid. Let's surround it, even if it can be built, the labor, material and mental effort it takes can't be done in a short time. Besides, Qin Shihuang's tyranny may cause complaints, and if the people lose the support of the people over time, the world will be chaotic. If His Royal Highness Qin can really take care of it For my business, it’s better to use cement to build roads. If you want to get rich, you need to build roads first. When the roads are in good condition, the goods can be delivered together so that people can get real benefits. Besides, to a certain extent, the transportation of materials can also be speeded up. Is not it."

"You have a good idea, but the cost of building roads is also very high." Li Shimin hesitated. After all, his rights are still very limited now, so there are many things to consider, but he thinks the idea of ​​building roads is very good.

"His Royal Highness Qin Wang, in fact, it is very convenient to build a cement road. After the road is compacted, wooden boards of a certain height are placed on both sides, and then cement and sand are poured into the concrete to lay it flat with wooden sticks. It will be maintained for a month. This road can be used in time, and it is much less troublesome than the stone road." Yuan Shan said, he could feel that King Qin was already a little moved, so let's talk about business first.

"For example, it is about 12 kilometers from Chang'an to Puzhou. If a concrete road is built, the cement road with a width of [-] feet ([-] meters) and a height of [-] inches ([-] centimeters) will cost about [-] guan." Yuan Shan said .

"Pfft!" Li Shimin spat out a mouthful of hot pot soup.

Chapter 92 Black Powder and Dynamite

"20 stone cement, not counting the amount of stones used, about 500 million cubic meters. I'm afraid the money will be paid to the laborers. I can't figure it out." Yuan Shan said again .

Looking at Li Shimin who was a little too surprised, Yuan Shan felt amused in his heart. Are you kidding? Didn’t the Tang Dynasty claim that its gdp accounted for 60% of the world’s total? Datang’s annual fiscal revenue was about 3000 million yuan. It’s a trivial matter to spend 12 yuan to build a cement road. .

But it's a pity, this is the eighth year of Wude, and His Royal Highness Qin Wang still can't be the master, so Yuan Shan's flickering will obviously not succeed.

"This matter still needs to be discussed with the imperial court before it can be decided, but your cement is very effective. This king really wants to buy some to strengthen the defense of Puzhou city." Li Shimin said.

"Then I don't know how much His Royal Highness King Qin wants. His Royal Highness Qin Wang can rest assured that no matter how much you buy, you will be shipped at the wholesale price, 290 Wen per stone." Yuan Shan said.

"Five thousand stones." Li Shimin said.

"According to the price of gold equals 30 taels of gold, this is the wholesale price, but it takes at least [-] days for production to be delivered." Yuanshan said.

"Okay." Li Shimin said.

"Well, His Royal Highness Qin Wang, this shop is a small business, should we leave a deposit, it doesn't need too much 80 taels of gold, and the balance can be paid when the goods are delivered." Yuan Shan said with a smile.

He is really poor now, it will take a lot of manpower and material resources to produce so much cement, and he must dare to produce more before the autumn harvest.

"Yunfeng." Li Shimin called out.

Yunfeng seemed to have prepared it long ago, and revealed five gold ingots from his arms, and placed 50 taels of gold on the table.

"This is the deposit. I will send someone to pick up the goods in 30 days. The meal is very good. I have something to say, so I will leave." After saying that, he got into the carriage and left.

Yuan Shan didn't care, he didn't care, anyway, he got the gold, he didn't know what it would be like next time we saw it, so he thought about it and said: "Lan'er, Qimeng clean up and let's go home."

But he didn't know that when Li Shimin left, all the hundred and ten people in the crowd around the Hepingfang Building Materials Store also left, and soon the streets of Hepingfang became deserted.

On the carriage that just left, Li Shimin seemed to be thinking about the taste of hot pot, but soon calmed down, and said to a Taoist priest in the carriage: "How does Taoist Yuan feel about this son?"

The Daoist is none other than Yuan Tiangang, so I heard him say: "His Royal Highness, there is nothing special about this son, he just has a rich life. In this life, he will have no worries about food and drink, and the blessings are boundless."

"Hahaha, I didn't expect this kid to have a good life, but is it true that he said he has a brain disease?" Li Shimin asked.

"I have observed him secretly. This person does have a brain disease. It doesn't look like he is lying." Yuan Tiangang said.

"It's a pity." Li Shimin said casually, and then ignored Yuan Tiangang and closed his eyes to rest.

At this time, Yuan Tiangang looked indifferent, but his heart was extremely agitated, because he didn't calculate Yuan Shan's fate at all, it was completely blank, he just judged from some characteristics of physiognomy, he was born rich and honored, and his blessings are boundless .

If Yuan Shan knew what Yuan Tiangang said, he would definitely thank him. The feudal society can use this kind of mysterious public opinion to cause family ruin and death at any time.

When he came out of Chang'an, Yuan Shan asked his family to drive the car to the commercial area he bought in Lantian County and walked around. In a few days, except for one road, the vicinity of the commercial area was being repaired. Li Zheng and Ma Li Zheng came to supervise the work every day, but it was hard work.

With this order, Yuanshan is not in a hurry to have a happy business, but he is always thinking about Yanbei. He has been there for more than half a month and there is no news at all. Could it be that he is in trouble.

Back at the manor, Steward Zhou just came back from outside. While organizing the production of cement, he also organized a convoy to haul coal and oil.

However, Tiejiang Lu and Craftsman Yang have not yet made progress. A large amount of iron ore has been used to make large pencil sharpeners, and less than one-third of the progress has been made for the new type of oil distiller.

Now other things are easy to talk about. Let’s talk about making 250 tons of cement first. In terms of the current cement production capacity, it is not bad if it can be completed a few days in advance. The key problem is still the crushed stone.

Not only did it use a lot of manpower, but also the efficiency of piecemeal work was not high, so Yuanshan had to use a big move in order to improve the production progress.

So as soon as he came back, he asked someone to buy saltpeter and sulfur, and charcoal was ready-made. What he had to do was to configure black powder, one of the four great inventions of China. The formula is simple and the raw materials can be bought. These are mostly used in alchemy , It is also quite common in the Tang Dynasty.

On the one hand, he asked the servant to buy it, and on the other hand, Yuan Shan exchanged it for ready-made raw materials directly from the mall, and what the servant bought was nothing more than a trick of the eye, and he was cautious enough to sail for thousands of years.

I bought a very accurate balance scale from the mall, so I started to study its formula in the study. The formula is very simple.

Yuan Shan can be regarded as worthy of himself, and bought a high-end firecracker outfit from the mall in conjunction with black powder. Even if this outfit is blown by a grenade, nothing will happen. He really is very courageous.

However, what he mixes is not ordinary black gunpowder, but the explosives used to blow up mountains. He directly buys trinitrotoluene and other raw materials as raw materials, which are all ready-made, so the danger is much less.

It is very convenient to have the shopping mall in hand, but he doesn't want to make the sound too loud. Fortunately, this is the Tang Dynasty, and even the use of black powder was after the late Tang Dynasty, so he is not worried about being discovered, anyway, he Didn't I also make some black powder, which can be used to make explosives during the Chinese New Year.

In the early morning of the next day, Yuan Shan asked all the servants and householders who came to help them to withdraw from the kiln factory in Houshan.

The 32 soldiers from the hunter training class were all taken to the kiln factory for no reason, and this morning's [-]-meter long-distance run was not carried out. This was the only day they felt relaxed in the first week of training as a devil.

"Squad leader Baolin, what are we going to do here today? Why do you feel that Teacher Yuan's expression is very solemn? Nothing will happen." A soldier said.