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Regarding the road construction this time, Luo Yong originally planned to adopt the same method as they did in various villages in Shizhou.

But when they actually arrived here and showed their identities to explain their intentions, many local big families sent money, silk and food, and then Luo Yong took advantage of the opportunity to change his plan and use the money, silk and food to come to them for work. The living people are paid to cook food.

In this way, the big families are responsible for the money, and the people are responsible for the effort. Luo Yong and others only need to play the role of an organization and provide some technical support.

Luo Yong divided the personnel he brought into several teams. Each team chose a place to build a cement workshop and was responsible for the construction of a section of road. Whoever completes his task first will go to the front. The plan has been determined in the front It is a good location to start the construction of another section of the road, so that the efficiency is relatively high.

It took Luo Yong almost a month before he finally completed the first section of the road he was responsible for.

Because it takes a lot of effort to build a temporary cement workshop, things like large stone mills for crushing cement are heavy and difficult to carry, so the distance between each of their cement workshops will not be too close.

However, for the first section of the road, many of them, such as mud and stone mills, were patchwork or even made temporarily. They also spent a lot of effort on the preparation of tools.

When the second and third temporary cement workshops are built in the future, they can take everything they can bring with them. If they really can’t take it away, they will find a way to do it when they get to a new place. In this way, the speed will be slightly increased. Some.

The local people in Suizhou are very enthusiastic about road construction. As far as Luo Yong is responsible, there are three to 400 workers at most. Some of these people work in cement workshops, and some are responsible for paving cement roads. The fastest At that time, nearly three miles of road were paved in one day.

Their road paving work is actually laying another layer of cement on the original road foundation. As long as the cement is in place, the manpower is sufficient, and the weather is sunny, the actual operation is relatively fast.

When leaving the first temporary cement workshop, Luo Yong took dozens of skilled workers with him from the local area.

A group of them pushed the cart and drove the donkey cart, and walked on the concrete road they repaired. Every step they stepped on, they couldn't help feeling a little proud in their hearts. This is the cement road they worked together to build. A link connects the villages and towns along the way.

When they walked out of the concrete road they built themselves, there were roads built by other teams in front of them. Everywhere Luo Yong went to say hello to them.

If there are some places where supplies are scarce, Luo Yong will leave some cloth, silk, money and food for them from his own team.

"Enough is enough, you have to keep some more for yourself." Seeing that Luo Yong commanded the group of people under him, they almost emptied the money and food in the convoy, so they tried to dissuade them.

"Your master, I can still go hungry." Luo Yong said with a smile: "If you can't run out of these flowers, you can bring them later."

Naturally, Luo Yong can't go hungry, and no one can starve him when he's hungry. On the evening of that day, they went to a village in the east of the Suizhou prefecture. He stayed overnight and prepared a sumptuous banquet.

The big steamed chicken and the big roasted lamb are not very particular about the cooking techniques. Luo Yong did not eat less. The villagers were very happy to see that he ate a lot.

On the spot, a squire took out money and silk from his home as a gift, and Luo took it with his hand arched, and then took out a small notebook from his bosom, with a clear note, since someone donated it, after the road near the village is repaired , It is always necessary to set up a monument of merit.

On the second day, the group of them walked to a temporary cement workshop nearby, and Luo Yong left the money he just got there, and the few pieces of data in his small book also made the disciples here Made a copy.

Let’s talk about the team before that, Luo Yong forced a lot of money, silk and food. After two days of busy work, they met another team who came from behind. some food.

A few days later, another team came from behind and left them a pile of food and supplies...

Again and again, after a few times, the people in the temporary cement workshop finally came to their senses: "Do you think they are too lazy to move things by themselves?"

"Wouldn't the last team in the future be the last ones to move the goods?"

"It's okay. After we finish repairing this section of the road, the next place will be at the front of the team. There are so many teams taking turns, and we don't have to move things every time." The captain of the team comforted everyone.

Everyone thought it was true, so they stopped entangled. Anyway, after they have repaired this side, many places in front of them will also have cement roads. Let’s move it, get a few more carts and push it. Not too hard.

About seven or eight days later, the pedestrians finally finished repairing the section of road they were in charge of. They happily carried the pile of things, pushed the cart and went to the temporary cement workshop in front of them, and waited to get there. In the future, I will be very picky, but in the end...

"Where are people?" Looking at an empty cement workshop, these people were dumbfounded.

"I left early yesterday morning." The local fellow told them.

"quack!"

"Know...know..."

The sun was shining in the sky, the men were walking on the ground, and the debris on the car was piled up in mountains...

"Brother, who do you think started this matter?" A man asked.

"What do you say?" replied the other man.

"Our master? Can't be..." A few days ago, when the master smiled and asked people to move things into their warehouse, what he felt was obviously care and love.

"Just get used to this kind of thing." Another man patted him on the shoulder and said.

"Let's go faster, don't let those guys in front slip away too!" Someone in the team shouted.

"Aw!" After a while of wailing responses, the team moved a little faster than before.

As for Luo Yong and the others, they had already set up camp next to a village in the east of Dabin County at this time. The local people knew that they were coming, and they had already leveled the site for them, and prepared a lot of lime plaster to wait there.

As soon as Luo Yong and the others arrived, they could start wrestling with mud. The earth kiln for cement was also repaired by the advance team in advance. This site was also set by the advance team. Just get on with it.

Nowadays, the news that Luo Sanlang in Lishi is building roads in Guannei Road and will continue to build Liangzhou City in Longyou Road has spread in many places.

People from Guannei Dao and Longyou Dao naturally clapped their hands and applauded, and people from other places also mostly praised them.

But people from all over the world have different opinions on why Luo Sanlang built this road. For example, people in Lishi County generally think that Luo Sanlang is to lead a stream of running water to their local area, and people in Chang'an City Gentlemen of the gentry still generally think that he is seeking fame.

As for what His Majesty the Emperor thinks about this matter, it's really hard to say, at least few people can figure out what he is thinking, and the few people who are really sure can't casually tell what they know tell someone.

In fact, at the end of the summer of this year, what really concerned the emperor was not Luo Sanlang's road construction, but the emergence of two privately run academies in Chang'an City.

There used to be no private colleges in Chang'an City, and the only few higher education schools were established by the state.The emergence of this kind of private college is not a very good thing from the perspective of the supreme ruler.

In the current era, the relationship between students and teachers is natural and close. As there are more and more such private colleges, some learned and capable Confucians are likely to teach a considerable number of outstanding students. Excellent students then pass the imperial examinations and enter the imperial court. Among them, there is a natural and close group.

The emperor was not at all happy to see such groups appear in the court. If these groups were strong enough, they could even shake the imperial power.Could it be that, apart from the original clan group, what he will have to face from now on will be a new force?

It is absolutely impossible to abolish the imperial examination, that is to give up eating because of choking, unless he wants to watch those aristocratic families become big and eventually control the entire country.

Besides, although the current imperial examinations are not of great practical significance to ordinary people, they are still a hope. Who can bear such a little hope to be extinguished every day.

It is also not advisable to directly ban these two private colleges. Because these two colleges do not restrict the enrollment of children from ordinary families, they are now popular among the people...

In fact, whether Luo Sanlang in Lishi is building roads in Guannei Road, or someone is building an academy in Chang'an City, neither of these things can be called a bad thing.

From a good point of view, this is the manifestation of the prosperity of the country. Everyone is working hard and has a sense of responsibility. Both road construction and culture and education are developing in a positive direction. If this trend continues, the country will inevitably will become stronger and more prosperous.

Looking at it from a bad angle, these people are all so active, and they are all gathering popularity for themselves. Will he, the emperor, be squeezed by them in the future to make him less and less existential.

Exactly what the emperor thinks and thinks, whether he is more prepared in his heart, or is more happy to see his success, outsiders don't know.

In the afternoon of this day, the emperor summoned an official, the one who was in charge of negotiating with Luo Yong before, and was later sent by him to supervise the construction of the road.

Some well-informed people in Chang'an City speculated, is the emperor starting to pay attention to the move closest to Shi Luo Sanlang?What action is he planning to take?Is it a compliment or a knock?

Outside the palace walls, there were many discussions and whispers. Inside the palace walls, the emperor sat leisurely on the wooden couch, smiled and said to the officials who came to see:

"I've heard people say that your house has been full of guests recently, and that a dish of mapo tofu in your house is now famous all over Chang'an."

When the official heard this, his expression froze immediately, and he thought that it was a good thing he didn't have the jar of bean paste that he collected for nothing at that time. If not, he might have followed in Tang Jian's footsteps this time.

"Reporting to Your Majesty, the bean paste used to make the mapo tofu was bought from Na Luo Sanlang at a cost of twenty renminbi." Not afraid of the emperor's intervention.

"Oh." His Majesty the Emperor nodded, and asked again with a smile: "Is the mapo tofu delicious?"