Lord, he is not a man [infrastructure]

"Crack, click, click."

The shuttles on hundreds of looms moved rapidly, and the whole loom room was buzzing.

Women of different ages sit behind the looms, stepping on the looms with their feet and hands, with skillful movements.

There are dozens of weaving rooms like this in the weaving workshop. During the busy period, the looms in each room can keep ringing from morning to night. If there is no light at night, the lord does not approve of everyone working with candles , the big guy can't wait to work at night-the more you work, the more you earn.Even during the busy farming season, there are at least ten weaving houses that will maintain a certain amount of cloth supply.

Coming out of the weaving workshop, the spinning workshop is on the left and the dyeing workshop is on the right. The dyeing workshop used to be the garment workshop.

The four workshops are collectively called textile factories.

And the huge textile factory occupies only one-tenth of the Bailuling light industry production area.

There are also leather factories, furniture factories, paint factories, and paper factories near the textile factory.

Food-related processing plants are on the other side of the light industrial zone, separated from other polluting factories.

The ceramic factories, lime factories, cement factories, brick and tile factories, stone factories and other more polluting factories have all been moved to the gray stone wasteland on the other side of the Huishi mountain, which is a certain distance from the light industrial area.

The scale of these factories varies from small to large. There are many workshops under each large factory, and some workshops only have one or two people working in them.

Although some workshops have few people, the products they make are extremely popular or very important, and can bring a lot of wealth to Bailuling.

The off-duty bell rang, and workers from various workshops came out of the workshop one after another. Many people talked and laughed all the way, very happy.

"Yanglan, why are you leaving in such a hurry? Didn't I tell you to wait for me?" A girl with big braids chased after the girl in front.

Yanglan had no choice but to slow down and smile: "I have something to do at home, let me go back early."

"Well, I still want you to accompany me to the food street to buy something, then you go back first, I'll find someone else to accompany me." The braided girl waved her hand, and ran to find other girls without hesitation.

Yang Lan pursed her lips and quickened her pace.

She was not very popular among the female workers, only the braided girl got along well with her, and everyone else thought she was too arrogant.

Yang Lan didn't want to work in the textile factory at all, but her mother insisted on letting her come, and said that if she learned a craft, she would not need to rely on a man, and she could support herself.

Yang Lan scoffed at her mother's words. Her father is the director of the planning department of the Ministry of Water Conservancy Engineering. He is a senior management who can meet the lord. How many people fawn on her father?

Also because of her father's status, many people came to her house to ask her to marry her, but Yang Lan really looked down on those mud legs.

She has gone to school, met the lord, and was rewarded by the lord.Her father is a senior executive of the White Hart Collar who is highly valued by the lord. How can ordinary people be worthy of her?

Yang Lan never told anyone, only mentioned to her parents that she wanted to marry the lord.

In the past, her family status was not enough, so she didn't even dare to think about it.

But her father's status has been improved, she is no longer an ordinary illiterate civilian girl, and the lord has not married a wife until now, why can't she fight for it?

Maybe the lord likes her like that.

By the way, the lord likes self-reliant and capable women, just like Bai Mingzhu and Tang Shu.

Originally named A Shu, Tang Shu was an orphan without father or mother. He worked as a slave girl in the lord's mansion, and was later valued by the lord as a cook.Hearing that the lord liked her very much, he gave her a new name, and was lucky enough to have the same surname as the lord!How many people are jealous of this wild girl.

Yanglan gritted her teeth when she thought of Bai Mingzhu. That woman was two years younger than her, but she had already become the lord's right-hand man. Heard that she was in charge of the territory's finances with the housekeeper. Many people said that Bai Mingzhu was the most likely to become the lord's wife.

If it weren't for the example of Bai Mingzhu, she would not have listened to her mother and came to the textile factory to be a hard-working textile worker.

But the textile factory never saw the lord, no matter how well she did, the lord didn't know.And she wasn't one of the best performers.

In short, Yanglan doesn't want to work in the textile factory anymore, and her father seems to be busy with her marriage, saying that he will probably marry her to a nobleman...

Yang Lan blushed, and got on the carriage to Sanshu City at the intersection.

Now it is very convenient to go from Sanshu City to Bailuling. It is a straight concrete avenue. It only takes two hours to get there by car, and it is even faster on horseback.

His father told her last night that she would rush to Sanshu City after get off work today, as if he wanted to introduce someone to her.

Three Tree City has also changed a lot now. It has been transformed into a commercial area. Bailuling sells a lot of goods here. The gate of the city is never closed during the day, and no entry fee is charged. It is very lively every day.

There are also opera theaters, repertory theaters, acrobatic theaters and arenas here. Not only foreigners like to come to play, but the leaders of Bailu and Sanshu will also bring their families here for entertainment.

"Father, I'm here."

Yang Lan found the hotel her father mentioned, and told Xiao Er her father's name, and Xiao Er took her outside a room.

"Hehe, my daughter is here. Lan Lan, come in quickly." Yang Shiwu rang in the room with a flattering tone.

Yang Lan met the person her father wanted to introduce to her.

Yang Shiwu introduced to his daughter with some pride: "Lan Lan, this is Young Master Ma from Luma City, the nephew of the first-class earl."

The good-looking young man nodded slightly to Yanglan, and said to Yanglan with the arrogance of a typical noble: "I will soon become a baron, and maybe I will have a territory."

Yang Lan didn't know how to respond, so she just smiled subtly.

The young man seemed to be very satisfied with Yang Lan's appearance, and a man who looked like a housekeeper beside him stepped forward and said, "Our young master plans to marry a young lady who is not only worthy of her status, but also able to read and write. The young master and Director Yang met by chance last time, and I was very concerned when I heard that Director Yang has a beautiful lady who can read and write."

Yang Lan blushed.

The steward said to Yangshiwu, "Why don't you let the young people have a chat?"

Yang Shiwu hurriedly nodded: "Yes, let the young people talk by themselves. Lan Lan, take Master Ma out for a walk."

Yangshiwu and the butler stayed in the room to continue talking about things. The butler treated Yangshiwu with respect and praised him from time to time, making Yangshiwu smile all over his face.

Yang Lan is also very satisfied with that young master Ma.

This young master looks different from those muddy legs of Bailuling. Not only is he good-looking and temperamental, but most importantly, he is rich and generous.

She only took her for a walk on the street, and Young Master Ma gave her a copper bracelet that was said to only be worn by nobles, and bought her two beautiful dresses in a clothing store.

Yanglan no longer expects to marry the lord Tang Bo, but this Young Master Ma from Luma City can still be considered.

Seeing Yang Lan's shy appearance as a little girl, Master Ma hid the disdainful smile at the corner of his mouth.

It's just a dream for a country girl to want Xiao to be his wife!

What kind of bullshit sheep director, this position was made up by Bai Luling himself, and Luma City doesn't recognize it.

If it weren't for the fact that Bailuling has produced more and more things in the past two years, and last year it launched such a terrible product as paper, Luma City would not have specially sent him here to secretly investigate the situation of Bailuling.

Although Luma City also sent a tax officer, the lord of the White Hart Collar seems to be quite cunning, and the tax officer did not find anything through open and secret investigations.

The Grand Duke thought that those tax officials were either bribed or caught by Bailuling, so he secretly sent someone over to investigate again.

Another thing is that the Lord of the Three Trees, Gu Ding, the Grand Duke seems to be very interested in him, and asked him to inquire and collect more information about him.

It seems that some people have rumored that Lord Sanshu has mastered some kind of secret method of youthfulness, but it is not known whether it is true or not.

When the Yang family met Mr. Ma from Luma City, Gu Ding and Tang Bo were also chatting about Mr. Ma.

"See who they are in contact with, and write it down." Gu Ding told Piglet.

Piglet nodded and backed away.

Seeing that Gu Ding was becoming more and more like a lord, Tang Bo smiled and took a sip of plain water. He has not yet found tea or similar substitutes, and the fruit wine that other nobles like to drink-they regard this as a daily drink, he I don't like it very much, so I have been drinking plain water.

Under his influence, Gu Ding usually only drank plain boiled water.

"After a long time, they all jumped out." Gu Ding snorted coldly, his calf still dangling on the chair.

It's a pity that after five years, he still hasn't grown up!

"It's still not cleaned up last time." Tang Bo said lazily.

Gu Ding immediately realized when was the last time he was referring to.

That was five years ago, when Gu Ding returned to Sanshu City in secret, it turned out that Sanshu City was actually occupied by three major foreign forces.

The other party didn't occupy it explicitly, but they brazenly bought houses and shops in Sanshu City, and even forcibly occupied the largest inn, gambling house and brothel in Sanshu City.

Among them, the largest force claimed to be from Luma City, and it was said that it was a force formed by the followers of a countess' brother.

No one dared to underestimate the leader of this faction because he was just a follower, because anyone who knew knew that such a large faction would not have developed without the support of nobles, and the lords everywhere were not vegetarians.

Generally speaking, the leader's entourage is just a leader's name, and the master behind them is the real master of this force.And most of the profit of this organization also went to the hands of these masters.

The other two forces are from Sita County and Three Towers County, and it is said that the relationship behind them is related to the princess.

Three Tree City is located in Three Tower County, and its princess has always been covetous about the geographical location of Three Tree City, but because the previous ancient family members were not easy to mess with, even though he was greedy, he couldn't take it by force.

This time, Gu Hui, who was in his prime, suddenly passed away from a serious illness. The person in charge was only an 11-year-old child who was said to be stunted. Some people who were interested in Sanshu City were moved.

The princess of Santana wanted to take this opportunity to take the Sanshu collar into his hands.

The Princess of Four Towers wanted to press a nail in Three Towers County. It would be the best if a stronghold could be established in the traffic artery of Three Tree City, which would greatly facilitate the business exchanges of Four Towers County.

What is the most famous business in Four Towers County?It's the slave trade.

Although the lords of other territories also like to buy slaves, they are very disgusted with slave traders entering their territory.

Because the vast majority of slave traders are robbers, they are not only merchants, but also slave hunting teams.In order to make money, these people do everything they can, and they don't care about the rule that rabbits don't eat grass beside their nests. Wherever they go, a large number of people will disappear.

In the past, Gu Hui did not welcome slave traders to enter the Three Trees Territory.He allowed slave traders to bring slaves to Three Trees City for sale, but he never allowed them to buy a house and set up a fixed base there.Moreover, Gu Hui kept an eye on the slave traders very closely. It was okay when he came in, and he would definitely check their team when they left to prevent them from taking the three tree collars with them.

But Gu Hui died, and the slave traders in Sita County thought their chance had come.

During the summer trading period, people from these forces all ran to Three Tree City like hyenas smelling of carrion.

When they found out that the owner of the three tree collar was not at home, they laughed like crazy.

The remaining stewards can't deal with them at all. Most of the people in charge of law and order are bought by people from the three major forces, and in turn help outsiders.

The people from the three major forces had a fight among themselves first, and the forces from Luma City had the upper hand, and even assumed the attitude of the master, calling people from various forces in the brothel to re-divide the interests of Three Tree City.

Can Gu Ding not be angry when he finds out?

Gu Ding endured, and complained when Tang Bo came back.

Tang Bo came up with an idea. He and Gu Ding took the mountain hunters who were good at weaving illusions, and pretended to be the forces of Luma City to attack the slave owners of Sita County, and then pretended to be the slave owners of Sita County. The leader of the Lord's force was kidnapped, and all the people sent by Santata County were wiped out.

Then, Tang Bo used the illusion of mountain hunting to pretend to be the leader of the Three Towers County forces, and secretly went to tell the slave owners of Four Towers County that Luma City had long been greedy for their wealth, and it was not the people from Three Towers who attacked them, but the Green Macheng forces.

Tang Bo then used [Call to come] to summon the leader of the Lvma City force to kill him, and threw the body into the business group of the slave owners in Sita County.

The three forces fought fiercely.

When the three parties were defeated, Gu Ding "borrowed" a large number of manpower from Tang Bo, and drove out the remaining troops of the three parties, including other guys who came to fight Qiufeng, out of the Sanshu collar.

In this way, Gu Ding regained his prestige in Sanshuling, and gradually changed Sanshucheng into a business district, and moved the people of Sanshuling to the new residential area between Sanshuling and Bailuling.

After five years, these people came again.

"I'm afraid they're here this time not only to check on our White Hart collar, but they may also be checking on you," Tang Bo reminded.

"You mean they are worried that I still have the ability of a god-favored person?" Gu Ding snorted coldly.

Tang Bo: "It's not impossible. When you were four years old, your mother's elder brother gouged out your third eye and threw you from the castle, but failed to kill you, and made you grow up healthy and healthy to take over the throne." , and the fact that Gu Hui was beaten into a coma is quite bizarre, so it's not surprising that he would think too much about it."

Tang Bo also said helplessly and amusedly: "What's more, you haven't grown up for so many years. Do you know that there are already legends outside that you have mastered the secret of youthfulness?"

Gu Ding curled his lips: "You might as well say that some people don't want to hand over the Sanshu collar to me at all. They came here just to seize my power and territory."

"No matter what their purpose is, we can't let them know for the time being that we have the ability to fight against Luma City. We have to think about how to do it. I'm afraid we can't just use the illusion this time." Tang Bo said, thinking Already have an idea.

Gu Ding said angrily: "Why are you holding back like this? We can obviously beat them to death!"

After Gu Ding finished speaking, he looked at Tang Bo with bright eyes: "When are we going to destroy the Luma City and snatch the entire Luma Principality over?"

Tang Bo drank water: "What's the rush? You have to eat at one bite, and you have to walk step by step. Accumulate food widely and become king slowly. What we have to do is to nibble away, not start a war with people when we come up."

Gu Ding said anxiously: "But our development can no longer be hidden. You see, people from Luma City have been attracted here again. This is just a test, and there will definitely be more people coming later. Maybe the Duke of Luma can forcibly take it back White Hart Collar and Three Tree Collar."

"He will never do this before he understands our strength."

"But isn't what we are most worried about now is that he finds out our strength?"

Tang Bo smiled slightly, stretched his waist, and said, "It's not that we're not moving, but we need a chance. The Luma Principality is about to fall into chaos."

A question mark appeared on Gu Ding's face.

Tang Bo pointed to the east.

Gu Ding suddenly said: "You mean the Principality of Lanji? Is there going to be a call?"

"It's not that there is going to fight over there, it is that the Duke of Luma is greedy for the land of the Principality of Lanji and wants to fight there. The Duke of Luma has also been accumulating strength over the years. He has wanted to annex the Principality of Lanji for a long time. I heard that he married The daughter of the Principality of Lanji is dead, so he will not let go of such a good reason to start the war, if he does not move, we will push it again when the time comes, and when he declares the war, it will be our chance."

Tang Bo stood up: "Okay, Yanren is waiting for me to inspect the canal. You and Shanhun remember to arrange the city defenses well, we will use them soon."

"Yan Ren again?" Gu Ding jumped off the chair and pouted, "You and Yan Ren get along really well, now everyone knows that he is your confidant."

Tang Bo didn't know whether to laugh or cry, and patted the child's head: "What are you jealous of? Do your job well, be good."

Gu Ding wanted to bite someone.

I don't know if it's because he never grows up, everyone treats him like a child, even Tang Bo is no exception.

But he really doesn't want Tang Bo to treat him like a child all the time, he is already 17 years old this year!

No, he must find a way to make himself grow up quickly, he can no longer be so "young".Damn youth is not old, he is obviously immature!

Tang Bo didn't know Gu Ding's determination, he rushed to the canal as soon as he came out of the castle.

Since Sanshu City was transformed into a commercial area, Gu Ding moved the castle out of the city and moved it between Bailuling and Sanshuling.

Gu Ding also asked Tang Bo to live with him on the pretext that building two castles was too wasteful.

Tang Bo thought that a castle could accommodate many people, and felt sorry for Gu Ding who was alone when he returned home. He was too lonely, so he moved to the castle to live with him.

At present, a part of the castle has been converted into an office area, and the management of the two territories know that they will come to the castle to find people when they know about work.

But Tang Bo did not push down the original stone houses of the Tang family.Instead, he kept his appearance, and when necessary, he would return to the stone house, pretending that he still lived there.

Tang Bo sauntered towards the canal on his horse.

Five years have passed since he asked Xiaotian to help him create a salt lake.

His first five-year plan has also been basically completed.

During the period, Goudan issued several tasks to him, and he completed them all. Now his reformer level has almost reached level five.

The red taro collar has been secretly annexed by him, and now it is managed by the Baidou family. The white bean led people to transform it into an agricultural area, planting wheat, soybeans, yellow rice, red taro and other crops on a large scale.

Hongshanling's attitude was ambiguous. He knew that the owner of the red taro collar was missing, but he didn't report it or tell others. He maintained a friendly situation with Tang Bo.

Tang Bo was also willing to give face to the lord of Hongshan, and did not persecute him.

Red taro collar is a salt field in the agricultural area.

The mountain area given to him by Hongshanling is an iron mining area, and the iron smelting department is also there. They are all hidden in caves, so they will not be found easily.

Three Tree City transformed him into a business district and entertainment district, and Bailu led him into a light industrial district.

Although everything is just the beginning, and the problem of insufficient manpower and talents has always existed, but everything is difficult at the beginning, as long as the beginning is started, it will be easy to advance later.

Outsiders can only see the light industry of Bailuling, and their eyes are red with envy and jealousy towards Tang Bo.

In fact, the light industry, which has just started, only accounts for a quarter of Tang Bo's wealth, and the sales of salt, coal and ironware are the largest sources of his wealth.

However, for the latter three, Tang Bo did not openly sell them, especially ironware.

Most of the time, ironware is more like a diplomatic means, so that Tang Bo can get the products he wants from other places.

Even so, most of the ironware sold by Tang Bo are iron pots, iron stoves, shovels and other domestic ironware forged with pig iron, such as steel and alloys. He rarely sells weapons made of copper or copper.

"My lord, you are here!" Yan Ren raised his hand at Tang Boy from a distance.

Tang Bo sped up slightly, and there was a row of managers of the Water Conservancy Engineering Department standing beside Yan Ren.

This is an annual inspection of the water canal that Bailuling will inevitably carry out, and it is also a sequela of the earthquake caused by Xiaotian.

Five years ago, Yanren was worried that the earthquake would crack the canal, so he took the risk and led people to carefully inspect the entire canal and reservoir.

Fortunately, the quality of the canal was acceptable, Bailuling was not at the epicenter, and the magnitude of the earthquake was not particularly large. The surface of the canal and reservoir appeared to be intact.

But Yanren was still worried, because Tang Bo once told him that the embankment made of cement does not mean it will be strong forever.First, they didn't have steel bars at the beginning, so they filled the cement with trees as bars, laid bricks and then plastered the surface with cement.This kind of fortification will still crack under thermal expansion and contraction for a long time, especially if it is soaked in water on a daily basis.Second, the cement at that time was not considered high-quality cement, at least not like now they have five kinds of cement from No. [-] to No. [-]. Each type of cement corresponds to different engineering requirements. No. [-] cement is the best, but at the beginning It is No. [-] cement.

Tang Bo was not particularly worried about the firmness of the canal. The Bailuling was originally small, and the canal they built was not very large. In addition, the water flow was limited, there was not a big drop, and the impact force was small. Even if it was used It is No. [-] cement, and it can be used for decades without worry.

Of course, daily inspections and tinkering are still required.

But Yan Ren is an extremely serious person. The more Tang Bo regards him, the more responsible he is, and he will not allow any problems in the projects under his command.

After that, he stipulated that the canals and reservoirs must be inspected four times a year.The four small inspections are conducted every quarter, and the major inspection is conducted by him personally.

Tang Bo did not participate in the past few years, and the full power was handed over to Yan Ren. This year, Tang Bo was dragged to the canal by Yan Ren because he wanted to carry out a transformation of the water flow in the Bailuling area.In Yan Ren's words, field inspections and explanations are easier to understand.

Yan Ren is not only serious about the water canals, but also strict in the management of the three major mines: iron mines, coal mines, and lime mines.

Tang Bo made a detailed mining area management rules based on the management system of the mining area that he saw in his previous life, referring to the characteristics here.

After reading and comprehending, Yan Ren regarded it as a standard, and after slightly modifying it, it was used in the three major mining areas.

However, because of the extremely strict management of the mining area, no large-scale disasters have occurred in the past five years, and no one has even died so far.

There have been several incidents caused by the miners themselves not complying with the regulations.The only time that people were almost killed was when some outsiders wanted to break into the iron mine. After being discovered, they fled and destroyed indiscriminately, which caused part of the mine to collapse. However, the miners were not buried, and it was the secret workers who were buried.

Tang Bo wanted Yan Ren to be more serious and responsible, and he was willing to save face for him, so Yan Ren asked him to come to the canal for inspection, and he came.

Five years later, Bailuling has been developing rapidly, but many problems have been exposed, especially the management.

Corruption, negligence of posts, and vegetarian meals, such problems will always exist.

Tang Bo knew very well that it was a lie that Yan Ren asked him to come to inspect, and it was true that he used his name to put a curse on the management personnel of the water conservancy project.

The water conservancy project of Bailuling is no smaller than that of the iron mine. Yan Ren is not only responsible for the three major mines, but also in charge of the water conservancy project. He gave it to a few people who he thought had learned well and were more serious and responsible.

But five years later, he inspected the satisfactory candidates over and over again, but something went wrong.

Someone leaked the latest water conservancy project plan of Bailuling.

Yanren has basically locked in candidates, but several other managements are not completely innocent.

Yan Ren approached Tang Bo and opened his mouth: "My lord, sheep..."

Tang Bo raised his hand. He knew what Yan Ren was going to say. Yan Ren wanted to tell him that Yang Shiwu, the director of the planning department, was not here today.

Tang Bo knew where Yangshiwu was now, but now that there were so many people, it was inconvenient for him to tell Yan Ren.

Seeing his expression, Yan Ren shut his mouth knowingly.

Don't look at their lord as if he can't wake up all day long, but if someone really thinks that he "didn't wake up", then wait for bad luck!

Five years ago, those people in Sanshu City paid a lot for this.

Yan Ren didn't look at the senior management behind him, he was really angry that these people were so easily infiltrated here.

Ferguson is good enough to them, their pay is so high, and there are various rewards for doing well, Ferguson has even paid respect to them.Which noble will pay respect to craftsmen?

But how did these people give back to the lord?

Yan Ren thought of what Donglin had said to him.

Donglin said that it was because the lord was so kind to the people that he spoiled them.

Now Yan Ren fully recognizes this.

Tang Bo knew what Yan Ren was thinking, and he really wanted to tell Yan Ren: Corruption and bribery does not necessarily mean disloyalty to me, and even some people leak something and only think it is an unimportant trivial matter, and they don’t think they are betraying me.

However, the magic spell that should be cast still needs to be cast, but it is useless to just preach a few words.

Tang Bo is waiting, waiting for someone to make a mistake, so that he can ruthlessly kill the chickens and monkeys.