Chapter 220 The Evil Capitalist Zhang Caoshuai! (Here he comes, five thousand big chapters~)

Of course I do.

Whoever is unwilling is the biggest fool in the world.

Today's cement is a well-known good product in Guangzhou.

Su Bohui and others were previously willing to undertake the construction of main roads and drainage channels in Guangzhou, investing about 200,000 yuan.

Originally they planned to use stone slabs to pave the ground, but after Lu Yining found them and asked them to visit a cement road of more than 100 meters, Mo Yunxin immediately made the decision: use cement for everything!

Therefore, the main roads in Guangzhou are now made of cement roads. The cement roads are extremely smooth and look very good-looking. They have become the new favorite of Guangzhou people.

Nowadays, when well-connected people in Guangzhou build houses, they have to find someone to buy dozens of bags of cement to build their houses into solid cement houses. It can be said that cement has become a very popular new construction material.

Moreover, this influence will become more and more spread as the merchants come to Guangzhou. Now many maritime merchants passing through Guangzhou, whether they are merchants from the Song Dynasty or foreign merchants, want to take some cement with them.

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The cement seller tried to dissuade me by saying that the humidity at sea was too high. If I had to go far out to sea, I was afraid that everything would be hardened by then. But they refused to listen and insisted on taking it away. He said that even if it was hardened, it would let people know that there really is cement like this.

If something exists, you can take it back and let them see how hard it is.

Therefore, cement is now famous far and wide, but until now, cement is only available for sale in Guangzhou, and it is all controlled by Lin'an Commercial Bank.

Now Zhang Heng wants to produce it as a flagship product in Guangzhou. Everyone here can open a factory to manufacture it. This is wealth that has been delivered to your door. There is no reason to refuse.

Zhang Heng looked at everyone's excited expressions and said with a smile: "The cement is shared by everyone to accumulate capital for everyone. After making money, you still have to invest in heavy industry to develop Guangzhou into a heavy industry base."

Su Bohui and others nodded repeatedly.

Zhang Heng looked at everyone as if they were obeying his advice, but he knew in his heart that these people looked obedient, but they didn't understand what to do.

Forget it, just use them as tools.

As for how to plan the distribution and development of Guangzhou's heavy industry, you still have to do it yourself!

Not wanting to bite off more than he could chew, Zhang Heng did not roll out all the projects, but only identified a few projects that could quickly accumulate wealth.

The first is to build a number of technologically advanced steel mills. Of course, this advanced technology is naturally Zhang Heng's half-full level of physics and chemistry, but even if it is taken over from something that future generations will only have a partial understanding of, it is still something that transcends the times.

The second step is to establish a number of mines, including coal, iron ore and other mines. The existing mines are to expand production. With the rise of Guangnan East Road, the demand for various minerals will show an exponential increase.

level requirements, so you need to prepare for a rainy day.

The third is to establish a number of chemical fertilizer factories. Compared with others, as long as chemical fertilizers can be produced, they are almost the hard currency of this era. The Song Dynasty was still an agricultural society, so what else can be done to close the door on chemical fertilizers that can increase crop production?

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Of course, Zhang Heng cannot make too complicated fertilizers, but some potassium and phosphate fertilizers can be made in a simple way. As long as you find a mine, dig out the ore, crush it, and then simply fix it, you can use it. In fact, it doesn't

It’s difficult to calculate.

Finally, there is the cement factory, and, oh, there is also a supporting brick-burning factory.

As mentioned above, these are not used to lay the foundation for heavy industry, but to raise funds, so the selected projects are all projects that can raise a large amount of funds in a short period of time.

Moreover, the heavy industry of this era is not the same as the heavy industry of later generations.

No steam engines, no chemical industry, no electricity, no oil...

This is the Song Dynasty version of heavy industry.

It's a bit nondescript, but people on the road don't care about that. What they want is to start walking first, and don't worry about anything else. Let's talk about it after we start walking.

Su Bohui and others may not understand Zhang Heng's plan, but they know they want to make money.

Zhang Heng asked Lu Yining to let go of the cement factory's cooperation, and Su Bohui and others immediately swarmed in.

But they did know that cooperation would benefit both sides. Not only did they unite Guangdong businessmen, they even brought in Zhang Mazi and other Fujian businessmen to set up a trading company called Southern Building Materials Group.

This firm's main business is cement, bricks and steel bars.

After Zhang Heng explained these things, he didn't care much because Lu Yining would take care of them, but Lu Yining still reported the progress to him afterwards.

Su Bohui and others were very ambitious. After preparing to establish Southern Building Materials, they immediately set an ambitious development plan, just like the expansion of Lin'an Commercial Bank in those days. They planned to expand in Bianjing, Hangzhou Jingzhaofu, Chengdu, Jiangling

Cement factories were built in Fuzhou, Quanzhou, and from south to north, covering the entire Song Dynasty!

Zhang Heng has nothing to worry about. Cement is a big killer when it comes out. It can kill people indiscriminately.

As long as they can build local relationships, they won't lose money anyway.

As for whether he can manage local relations, Zhang Heng is even more relieved, because the Central Bank and Lin'an Commercial Bank also hold shares in this commercial bank. With the influence of the Central Bank and Lin'an Commercial Bank, not many people dare to mess with it.

Although Zhang Heng was not directly involved in various affairs and tried to control the size of the stalls he spread out, he was involved in building city walls, building government offices, repairing roads and drainage channels in the city, building land around embankments, and now heavy industry.

Still coming in droves.

Zhang Heng was so busy that he couldn't even touch the ground. He even ignored the footsteps of the eighth year of Qingli. When he raised his head during the interval, he realized that it turned out that the seventh year of Qingli had come to an end.

Originally, as the new year was approaching, the state and county government offices were supposed to hang seals and prepare for the New Year. However, it was impossible for so many projects to be stopped all at once.

Zhang Heng summoned all the magistrates and counties, discussed it, and decided not to interrupt the development of the city. The work was suspended for nearly a month. The losses were too great, so it was decided that all the county and county offices in Guangzhou would not be closed this year.

This decision made the officials who had been busy for more than half a year howl in agony. During this half year, Zhang Heng held a whip and drove them like a donkey whipping and grinding. They gritted their teeth, thinking that they could take a break during the New Year.

, but as soon as the news came out, they could no longer suppress the aggrieved feelings in their hearts, and they complained for a while.

But Zhang Heng knew how to squeeze. He then announced that 50,000 guan would be used as year-end bonuses from the remaining funds from the diwei land reclamation project to officials and subordinates at all levels. The highest one could get 200 guan, and the lowest one could get 200 guan.

Thirty guans are obtained, and as for the laborers who continue to work this month, they are paid three times the wages.

In fact, the final expenditure was only about 100,000 yuan more, but the trend immediately changed, from complaints to a chorus of praise for Zhang Caoshuai as a great master.

However, scattered complaints still exist.

On New Year's Eve, Judge Xi Wenyan stayed at Zhang Heng's house and refused to leave.

"Captain Cao, if you don't give me someone, I won't be able to do this job. If you don't give me someone, I'll have to live here with you, and I won't be able to go back to my home anyway!"

Zhang Heng was a little helpless and carefully looked at Zeng Youwei's face.

But Zeng Youwei had a kind face and greeted Xi Wenyan: "President Xi, in that case, let's have a New Year's Eve dinner together. Come on, hurry up and sit down. I've also prepared famous wines brought from Bianjing tonight.

It’s delicious.”

Being greeted like this by Zeng Youwei, Xi Wenyan felt a little embarrassed. He stood up and said, "No, no, it's the official's presumption. I'll leave now."

He turned to leave, but was stopped by Zhang Heng. Zhang Heng said with a smile: "Sit down, it just so happens that our husband and wife don't have many friends here, so we were quite lonely during the New Year's Eve dinner. It just so happened that we two

People have a drink.”

Xi Wenyan quickly declined: "No, no, it's because I don't know what's good and what's good. I'll leave now."

Zhang Heng, however, refused to let go: "President Xi Qian, I am not joking. Let's have a drink together and just chat about the difficulties you have encountered. Come on, Youwei, sit down too."

Xi Wenyan had no choice but to sit down unsteadily, but he felt a little restless.

Zhang Heng poured the wine and greeted Xi Wenyan. After a few glasses of wine, Xi Wenyan started talking more.

"...Captain Cao, you are a capable man. Really, you are really a capable man. How did you say that? A capable minister in governing the world. What is Guangnan East Road? It was the most desolate road in the Song Dynasty.

But after you came, it was different, it was really different..."

"...You drove us to work like cattle and horses. You drove Lao Zhan to the north to recruit people. You sent Lao Zhang to supervise the work on the embankment. As for me, who is celebrating the New Year, Huibaoshan Zhang Mazi

That bunch of thugs stayed at my house and refused to leave, insisting that I find workers for them!..."

Lao Zhan was the general judge of Zhang Chongwen and was sent by Zhang Heng to recruit farmers in the north.

Lao Zhang was not Zhang Heng, but Zhang Lingyi, who had joined the army as a recorder and sent Zhang Heng to maintain order on the embankment. There were hundreds of thousands of workers. If order was not maintained well, civil commotion would easily occur.

"...Well, where can we recruit people now? We have only a hundred thousand households on Guangnan East Road, and only have a strong labor force of two hundred thousand. Now there are more than a hundred thousand working on the embankment. Now there is a boatload from the north.

A boatload of people were brought in, but as soon as they arrived at the dock, they were immediately snatched away. How difficult!

Caoshuai, you have to continue to send people to the north to dig people. It is the Chinese New Year now. Although the projects are not stopping, some projects have not been started yet. When the new year is over, there will be cement factories, brick factories, fertilizer factories, etc.

Once construction begins, tens of thousands of people will be needed, and it will be even harder to recruit workers!

Moreover, when the time comes, it will be necessary to divide the fields, do spring plowing, and prepare to build a boat shop and some kind of agricultural products buying and selling business. This also requires a large number of people. Hundreds of thousands of laborers were removed from the embankment and immediately invested in digging fish ponds.

Building ridges and plowing in spring will require more manpower..."

"...Xiaguan is working hard all night now. I really can't sleep. Look at my hair..."

Xi Wenyan picked up the development roots and Zhang Heng took a look. What a good guy. He looked sparse and looked like a programmer.

Zhang Heng understands Xi Wenyan very well. Xi Wenyan's current job is to coordinate these human resources. As a human resource, it is the most difficult to be forced to find people, especially when the local human resources have dried up, the pressure is really great.

Those who work on the project have no one to use in the early stage, so they can only find manpower. If the manpower is not satisfied, they will blame the failure of the project on the manpower - it's not that I don't provide the power, there is no manpower there.

Recruit them all for me, how can I do this project? Why should I risk my life!

Zhang Mazi and others in Huibaoshan went to Xi Wenyan's house to ask for help because the cement plant was about to start construction and there was really no one left, so they had to go to Xi Wenyan's house to find a way.

Regarding Xi Wenyan's complaint, Zhang Heng was not in a hurry and said with a smile: "Don't be anxious, don't be anxious, things will happen one by one. It is the Chinese New Year period now, so there may be fewer people. It will be fine after the Chinese New Year. Finally

This situation will definitely be alleviated by May."

In Zhang Heng's memory, he remembered that the eighth year of Qingli was very unusual. One of the things that happened was a severe drought in Hebei. Nine out of ten people in Hebei died. In order to seek the blessing of the emperor and heaven, Zhao Zhen changed his name to Yuan Huangyou the following year.

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To be continued...