I was a prince in ancient times

"However, the imperial court is still too slow in building cement roads. It takes two or three years to build the road from Yicheng to the imperial capital, not the whole country. If you want to implement long-distance horse travel, the waiting time It's too long."

As soon as the words came out, the businessman couldn't stand it anymore. The court was unwilling to sell cement to them, and the prince kept hinting that they took too long to build the road. Isn't this just fooling them into spending money to build the road.

As for the long-distance car dealership, it sounds very tempting, but it is so easy to do. It takes a lot of time to repair the road, and then set up a long-distance car dealership. Where does the car come from, where does the horse come from? ?

The prince spoke lightly, how many horses would be needed for such a long journey?

The imperial court didn't have many horses, could it be that the merchants had to pay for the horses and carts themselves?

Calculated in this way, with such a large investment, the skin of their merchants has been peeled off layer by layer. Don't get any benefits in the end, but lose the family business instead.

There was a care in his heart, and Xie Anlan couldn't bear to listen to Xie Anlan's words.

Taking a deep breath, he bowed his hands to Xie Anlan and said apologetically, "My lord, I suddenly remembered that there are still chores in the caravan that I have to deal with, so I will leave without disturbing my lord's elegance."

Jiang Canzheng listened enthusiastically, and when he saw that this person was about to leave, he comforted him, "Jiang Yun, I think the long-distance carriage that the lord said is very interesting, if you don't listen to it, it's the same for those chores in the caravan that will be dealt with later. .”

Jiang Yun glanced back at Jiang Shen's chubby round face, thinking he was so naive.

Throughout the ages, there have been a few who have benefited from doing business with the imperial court, not to mention that the king of Chen is just talking nonsense.

Unfortunately, he still can't hear it.

Sure enough, it's good to have a big family and a big business, don't care about the two small money, you can squander it as you like.

Thinking of the more than 30 horses raised by Jiang Can's family, Jiang Yun felt a strong jealousy in his chest, but he didn't dare to show it too obviously, he smiled and waved his hands and said, "No, no, it's really urgent in the caravan. I'm afraid I can't handle it well, and if the servants mess up, I won't disturb Brother Jiang and the prince's interest."

Jiang Shen's small eyes, which were so crowded by the fat that he could hardly see them clearly, blinked slightly, thought for a while and said, "Okay then."

Jiang Yun smiled warmly at him, turned around and changed his expression.

These idiots, wait until they are penniless by the prince.

Xie Anlan didn't have any troubles on Jiang Yun's departure, he just glanced at him and stopped paying attention.

"My lord, brother Jiang's family is in the water production business, so there must be some urgent matter." Jiang Yun left, Jiang Can smiled a little embarrassedly, and explained.

"My lord also knows that my family is in the fresh food business. I'm very interested in what my lord said about the long-distance horse trip that can shorten transportation time and reduce travel costs. Could you please tell me more about it?"

Jiang Shen's interest is not just talk, he is really interested.

The biggest business of their family is fresh food. They have a lot of orchards on hand, and they have fruits all year round. In addition, their family has horses, so they can go to farther places to buy fruits.

Usually they use ice cubes to keep fresh, and the transportation cost is very huge.

If the transportation time can be shortened, their transportation cost can be greatly reduced, which is also their original intention of strongly wanting to buy cement.

Cement cannot be bought now, but the new business of the prince coincides with his ideas, so I really want to continue to listen.

Xie Anlan nodded, and continued, "The function of the long-distance carriage is not only to carry people and goods to shorten the time limit, but also to allow you to conduct business across the country and even neighboring countries without leaving your home."

Immediately afterwards, Xie Anlan said again, "Like your fresh food business, if you use a lot of ice in summer, you won't need your ice when we set up a long-distance car dealership. The dealership will have a special The transportation in the fresh freezer is frozen all the way from the departure to the destination, and there is no need to change the ice at a post station like now, which is time-consuming and laborious.”

Ginger Ginseng was overwhelmed when he heard that there is a special fresh freezer.

In fact, the cost of their fruit is really not much, but it is expensive because of the transportation cost and the fresh ice cubes.

The prince solved these two problems at once, wouldn't it be more convenient for them to do business in the future.

Every year, you don't have to worry about watching the fruit go bad while hanging on the fruit tree due to transportation problems.

No matter how you look at it, this horse trip can be done.

"Then how do you vote for this long-distance horse trip, my lord?" Jiang Can and the others were a little moved after making eye contact.

Of course, it was not without consideration that they could choose Xie Anlan so quickly.

They stayed in Yicheng for a while, and heard a lot about the King Chen, such as buying brown sugar, throwing money to buy land, making cement, saddles, etc. A series of things seem to be interesting, but they are real. The benefit of the country and the people.

Moreover, if King Chen really wants to cheat merchants like them, there is a way, and they don't have to beat around the bush like this, and they will be fooled obediently.

Therefore, I don't quite believe that King Chen would go to great lengths to come up with such an attractive business to defraud them of money.

Xie Anlan smiled, "There is no need to invest money, as long as the road can be repaired earlier, only when the road is cleared can the Ma Xing be established."

"We donate money to build roads." Since the prince said that the cement will not be sold to the outside world, they can only donate money to the court.

They don't reject this kind of thing. In the past, merchants like them donated money to build roads in the village.

However, it is obviously unrealistic to build the road with only a few of them businessmen.

"Let's go back and talk to other businessmen." They gritted their teeth, thinking in their hearts that they could persuade those businessmen to donate money to build the road.

They were able to accept Wang Ye's long-distance car dealership so quickly because they saw the benefits of this concrete road for their business.

But others are not sure. Some merchants don’t rush their goods, and they are not afraid of spoilage. Anyway, the road will need to be repaired sooner or later. It may be impossible to ask them to donate money.

"No hurry." Xie Anlan's lips curved slightly, and said again, "You are so sincere, it's not easy for me to ask you to pay for nothing."

Holding his hands together, he changed his posture leaning on a carriage, and thought for a while, "Well, whoever funded the construction of this road, you will share [-]% of the tolls on the road every year, and the long-distance horse-traveling will also implement a joint-stock system. amount to participate in the shares.”

"Participation?"

Jiang Shen and the others were at a loss when they heard this word.

"Well, I'm going to take out [-]% of the shares of the long-distance bus company and divide them into tens of millions of shares. Everyone who contributes to road repairs can get a certain share of shares according to the amount of investment." Xie Anlan simply explained.

A few people are still at a loss, even if the long-distance car dealership spreads all over the country, how much money can they earn in a year?

Divided into tens of millions of shares, just relying on the little money earned by carrying people to pull goods, one person can only get a few copper coins a year.

Only the [-]% toll fee for that year gave them some comfort.

They can pay back their capital even after ten or eight years, so they don't lose money by investing in road construction, and maybe they can make money later.

Building roads in this way not only improves their reputation, but also facilitates their own business and makes money, killing three birds with one stone.

Xie Anlan saw that several people didn't take Ma Xing's shares seriously, and her phoenix eyes raised slightly, "You know about icing sugar and cement."

Several people nodded.

"Later, I will put the cement and icing business in this long-distance car dealership, and everyone who holds shares in the dealership will enjoy dividends from the benefits generated."

The eyes of several people suddenly widened, their heads froze, and they felt that they couldn't do arithmetic.

These businessmen haven't come into contact with how profitable cement is, but they don't think they will lose money. They really know that icing sugar is very valuable.

They had heard in Yicheng before that the prince sold five hundred catties of icing sugar...

No, it should be said that it is snow sugar that is better than icing sugar, earning 8 taels of silver!

"Your lord is talking about snow sugar?" Jiang Shen asked with a dazed head.

Xie Anlan nodded.

Jiang Shen swallowed his saliva, and asked again, "How much snow sugar does the prince have?"

Xie Anlan rubbed her chin and estimated, "There are still tens of thousands of catties every year."

In addition to the brown sugar made from red vegetables that can be filtered into white sugar, the brown sugar made from sucrose can also be filtered into white sugar.

Many areas in the south rely on sugar cane for their livelihoods, so brown sugar is not scarce, and even tens of thousands of catties of white sugar will not disrupt the market.

When Jiang Shen heard the tens of thousands of catties, his legs went limp in an instant, and he had the tendency to fall to the ground. Fortunately, the people around him helped him in time, otherwise he would have to make a fool of himself.

However, his tonnage also made it difficult for the few people who supported him.

Just five hundred catties of snow sugar was sold for 8 taels of silver, so how much is the tens of thousands of catties of snow sugar!

Besides, he heard the tone of the prince, tens of thousands of catties is still a conservative value.

This road is worth repairing!

"My lord, we will donate money to build roads after we go back!" Jiang Shen said proudly.

"No hurry." Xie Anlan twitched the corners of her mouth, still looking neither salty nor bland.

How can there be no rush, the dividends of tens of thousands of catties of snow sugar, even if there is only one-thousandth of a share a year, it is not a loss to divide hundreds of thousands of taels of silver, plus there are benefits from cement and so on.

The little money invested in this road construction is nothing at all, so this road must be repaired!

After Jiang Shen and the others left, Lu Chengjie glanced at Xie Anlan, "Is Your Highness really going to share the profits from sugar and cement?"

"Yeah." Xie Anlan responded, fearing that he would be distressed by money, and then comforted him, "There is no money in the world that can be earned, so much money, in fact, we can't spend it all in our hands, so it's better to use this money as a Take out the bait and let all the money in the world turn around."

Lu Chengjie lowered his head and peeled the lychees for Xie Anlan, his long eyelashes drooping, "I don't feel sorry for money, but I think His Highness's idea is very novel. His Highness seems to be sharing the profits and suffering a loss, but in fact it doesn't seem to be It's not like this."

Only when merchants donate money to the court to build roads can the court have the money to buy cement from His Highness to build roads. Otherwise, how much cement can be sold with the little money from the court.

His Highness seemed to be losing money, but in fact, His Highness just talked about it, the cement was sold, the road was repaired, the car dealership was successfully established, and finally the money was earned.

"Smart." Xie Anlan praised, lowered her head and took the shelled lychee in Lu Chengjiao's hand.

She raised her head slightly, her eyes met each other, her lips met naturally, and the crystal clear lychee on her lips naturally fell into Lu Chengjie's mouth.

"Your Highness, don't you want to eat?" Lu Chengjiao asked, biting the lychee in his lips, letting the sweet juice burst in his mouth.

Xie Anlan's phoenix eyes were raised, with an air of flair, "Others say that eating lychees like this is sweet, but I don't know if it's true or not. Help me try."

Lu Chengjie chewed for a while, felt the unique sweetness of lychees between his lips and teeth, licked the corners of his lips, and smiled slightly, "It's quite sweet."

"Then feed me." Seeing him licking the corner of his lips, Xie Anlan felt a little numb in his heart, and wanted to taste the lychee.

Hearing this, Lu Chengjie lowered his head and went to get the lychees in the basket again.

Just as he stretched out his hand, Xie Anlan had already bent over in front of him, lowered her head and held his lips, brushed the tip of her tongue over the soft lips, and swallowed all the sweetness stained on them.

After a long kiss, Xie Anlan stood up, licked the corners of her lips like Lu Chengji, and said, "This lychee is really sweet."

Lu Chengjie, "..."

After Jiang Shen and the others left from Xie Anlan's place, everyone's faces were a little excited.

Jiang Yun, who left early, saw that they all came back excitedly, and asked out of caution, "My lord, he agreed to sell you cement."

Several people shook their heads, "No."

Jiang Yun was puzzled, "Then why are you smiling so happily?"

Jiang Shen smiled and explained, "Because we plan to donate money to build roads!"

Jiang Yun was terrified, "My lord really forced you to donate money."

"No." Jiang Shen and the others shook their heads in unison, "We donated voluntarily."

The prince never mentioned asking them to pay from the beginning to the end, but gave them a lot of money instead.

It can be said that this road construction not only does not lose money, but also makes a lot of money.

The resentment in my heart for not buying the cement is gone, but I still thank the prince in my heart.

Jiang Yun saw the smiles of Jiang Shen and the others as if he had seen a ghost. He had never seen someone who was cheated of money and still smiled so happily.

Could it be that he was fooled by King Chen?

"Jiang Yun, would you like to donate money to build roads too? The prince is very nice..." Jiang Can knew that Jiang Yun's family's aquatic business had not done very well in the past few years, so he intentionally brought him along to make a fortune.

What's more, if more than one person builds the road, it is also more strength.

"No, no, there are still some business matters in my family that have not been dealt with properly, so let's not get involved." Seeing that they were cheated by someone, Jiang Yun wanted to help King Chen pull him into the water, his face was as constipated , said a few words, oiled the soles of his feet, and slipped away completely.

Seeing him running fast, Jiang murmured to his companion, "What's wrong with him today, why is he acting weird?"

"I don't know." The other three people didn't know what Jiang Yun was thinking, shook their heads, and went back to their caravan.

They have to rush back to donate money. If the road is repaired by others later, they will have no share.

imperial capital.

Xie Cangming is also worried about the cement.

Xie Anlan's cement was brought back to the imperial capital, and someone tried to pave a section of the official road outside the imperial capital. The wide and smooth road directly shocked the people and merchants of the imperial capital.

The response has been overwhelming.

They can't wait for all the roads in the world to be built with such smooth concrete roads.

At the imperial court, major yamen also wrote letters agreeing to promote cement roads.

Among them, the response from the Ministry of Industry was the strongest.

After the cement was in their hands, in addition to making concrete according to Xie Anlan's mixing method and building roads, they even tried to make prefabricated slabs by themselves.

The prefabricated panels as strong as iron were placed in the Ministry of Industry, which was quite shocking.

"In addition to paving roads with cement, you can also use cement to build bridges. Look at how strong this cement slab is, much stronger than building bridges with stones and clay."

A group of people from the Ministry of Industry gathered together to brainstorm ideas.

"It can also be used to build rivers. In the past few years, in the southern states and counties, the rivers flooded in summer, broke the dams, flooded the surrounding villages and farmers, and sometimes even the county town suffered. Now with this cement, it is better than The stone is solid, so the dam will not burst again."

"Besides, this cement is easy to transport, not as bulky as stone, which takes time and effort. I estimated that if the cement is sufficient, if the Yanhe River is only repaired, tens of thousands of people can repair it within a few months. This was something that would not have been possible five or ten years ago.”

People kept adding to the topic, which also made the Ministry of Industry very lively.

"Yes, this cement is of great benefit to our Ministry of Industry. As soon as the cement is in place, the Ministry of Industry can immediately use it."

Unfortunately……

The court has no money.

As for the concrete road outside the imperial capital, His Majesty paid for the repairs himself.

You can't let His Majesty pay for all the construction in this world.

Seeing this achievement, making a name in history is right in front of them, visible but intangible, the officials of the Ministry of Industry don't mention how aggrieved they feel.

The minister of the Ministry of Industry had quarreled several times with the minister of the Ministry of Households over the matter of cement. If it wasn't for the fact that the Ministry of Households had no money, why would they not be able to realize their ambitions.

However, the Minister of the Household Department was so angry that he ran to the Ministry of War for an argument. It was precisely because their Ministry of War fought and lost battles that they emptied the country's finances. As a result, he is now sorry for His Majesty, civil and military officials and the common people. common people.

Minister of the Ministry of War is a fiery temper, and his tongue is not as slippery as others. After being stabbed by Shangshu of the Ministry of Households, he rolled up his sleeves directly, and the two started fighting.

In the end, it was His Majesty who came forward to pull the two of them apart.

After persuading him, Xie Cangming had a headache and didn't sleep well for several nights because of the money matter.

Since the war, the country's finances have been worsening year after year. Apart from barely maintaining the government and fighting wars, there is almost nothing left.

It's really impossible to want to get rid of the Ministry of Industry now.

But on the other hand, he was a little reconciled, not reconciled to a chance to be an emperor through the ages slipping away from his eyes.

I'm suffocating these days.

Just when he was in a bad mood, several documents sent from various states and counties with bank notes between them completely relieved his knot.

Some businessmen took the initiative to donate money to the court to build roads!

The civil and military officials of the Manchu dynasty were shocked by these documents, and after being shocked, they were all overjoyed.

Especially the officials from the Ministry of Industry, the corners of their mouths were cracked to the root of their ears.

As long as they have money, their construction can be implemented, and they don't care whether the money is donated or allocated by the court.

Xie Cangming was also worried about money, but now he saw the memorial that someone donated money to build roads, and the letterhead that Xie Anlan sent to him urgently, after understanding the cause and effect of the matter, he waved his hand and said yes.

After the edict, people all over the world knew about Jiang Shen and several businessmen donating money to build roads.

Many merchants were quite shocked, and came to ask them why they donated money to the imperial court for road construction for nothing.

Jiang Shen and the others recounted what the prince had said to all the businessmen.

Many of these businessmen are tempted, and many are as stubborn as Jiang Yun.

All in all, I am still very excited. After all, after the road is repaired, not only can I get part of the toll, but I can also pick up some shares in long-distance car dealers for free. Why not do it.

All of a sudden, the road construction documents from all over the Yong Dynasty flew into the imperial capital like snowflakes, and there was a wave of road construction in the whole country.

For this wave, there are people who follow the excitement, and there are also people who watch the excitement.

Among them, businessman Du was the one watching the excitement.

They hold water transportation in their hands, and they don't care about this road transportation at all, but they are also afraid that the rise of this road transportation will have an impact on their water transportation, so they wish that these businessmen who donated money to build roads will stumble hard and lose money. Nothing to lose.

Businessmen like the Yang family and the Lu family who are gradually becoming lonely are ready to seize this opportunity and build roads with the momentum of breaking the boat. As long as there are roads and business development, they will not worry about running out of business.

On the way, Xie Anlan and Lu Chengjia received letter after letter from Xie Cangming urging cement.

"Fortunately, when His Royal Highness left, he had anticipated that the cement would be bought in a big way, and opened two cement kilns urgently. Otherwise, it would definitely be a mess."

Because the weather was neither hot nor cold, Xie Anlan wanted to see more of the great rivers and mountains of the Yong Dynasty, so their journey back to the imperial capital was very slow.

So the imperial capital got busy, and they were still wandering on the road.

A few days ago, Lu Chengke was still able to rest. These days, letters to urge the goods came one after another, and Lu Chengke had to get up in the carriage to deal with business.

Xie Anlan's two newly opened cement kilns have helped a lot, but they can only relieve the pressure of urging goods for a while. Looking at these demand lists, there are more and more goods every day.

In a few days, even if we open ten more kilns, it will not be enough to deliver the goods.

Lu Chengjiao couldn't help feeling a little worried.

"Your Highness, why don't you open a cement factory in the capital as well." Lu Chengke flipped through the pile of orders in front of him, and said to Xie Anlan, who was leaning on the side of the carriage with his eyes closed.

"Okay." Xie Anlan opened his eyes slightly, glanced at the stack of bills in Lu Chengjia's hand, and smiled, "Don't just open one, anyway, we are not short of money recently, so we will open more cement factories A few, don’t stick to the capital, you can open it all over the country.”

As more merchants join in the road construction, Xie Anlan has more money in his hands, and a terrifying number has accumulated up to now.

Originally, Lu Chengjie wanted to sell the government's inventory to build this road, but now this plan has been completely shelved, because the money in his hand is so much that it can't be used up.

"Yeah." Lu Chengjie got Xie Anlan's approval letter and started to prepare.

He was completely busy with the preparations, and the cement business was enough for him to be busy for a while, but he still had to count the businessmen who joined the road construction and calculate the shares for them.

Those thin hands were holding a pen and doing calculations on the carriage from morning to night. Occasionally, the carriage stopped, and if they made a mistake, they had to start over.

Under the beautiful pupils, there is black and blue, and he has to travel and be busy. The whole person has lost a lot of weight. Originally, there was no waist on the stomach, but now he is thinner. The belt can be wound several times.

Xie Anlan felt distressed when he saw it. As soon as the carriage arrived in the capital, he packed up all his office things, and ignored the servants who went up and down the palace to greet him, and carried them directly into his side hall, ordering him to rest.

Lu Chengjiao was lying on the big bed in Xie Anlan's bedroom, staring at the top of the bed in a daze, just now in front of the gate of Prince Chen's mansion, His Highness directly carried him back to the room in front of everyone!

Not all people include servants!

Now His Highness is well-known in the imperial capital. The cement has benefited the people all over the world. The fact that merchants are vying to donate money to build roads is something that the people of the imperial capital love to talk about every day.

Right now, when His Highness returns to Beijing, he will immediately attract the attention of the people of the entire imperial capital. The Prince Chen's Mansion, which was originally sparsely populated, has become completely lively and surrounded by the people.

In this situation.

His Highness directly hugged him and got out of the carriage! ! !

This……

Lu Chengjie secretly pulled the quilt over and covered his head, covering the face that was so hot that he couldn't even look at it.

Needless to say, within a few hours, this matter will definitely spread throughout the entire imperial capital!

Tomorrow, the matter of His Highness taking him out of the carriage and entering the mansion will become another thing that people like to talk about in the imperial capital.

This is how he will meet people in the future!

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