Sun Sanlang looked at the people from the Iron Prison not far away and rushed to the sledgehammer and smashed the railway tracks on the ground. He whispered to the people around him: "Fifth Brother, why do people in the Iron Prison do their jobs? The dozens of cigarettes a day are much less than when they were in the Iron Prison. Are these people crazy?"

Ruan Wu said: "What do you know? I heard that the Iron Supervisor needs to build this road as soon as possible. The people from the Iron Supervisor are not recruiting enough people. Although they are doing the same job, they still have much more money and food from the Iron Supervisor, which is much more than us!"

Sun Sanlang shook his head and sighed: "Oh, I have different lives. I have to do the same job as others, so why do they get more?"

"Is it the same? Those who are the court who send money and food, and we are farming in the countryside. - Talk less and do more work! This season, I will change to a new plow, hoe, sickle, and wait for the money to be used in the next year."

Sun Sanlang stopped talking and worked hard to build soil and push the road with the people around him.

The court agreed to the construction of railway tracks by the Iron Supervisor, but proposed that since the iron in the Iron Supervisor cannot be used up, then do not just build the coal mine, and then extend north to Xiangcheng County. There is a railway built there, and the railway can be connected to the dense water transport network around Kaifeng Prefecture. The Ru River, Cai River, Bian River, and Huai River have good water transport, so there is no need to worry that the iron will not be sold.

As support, Wuzhou, Ru, Xu, Chen, Ying and Cai, who were around the Sansi, sent people to the Iron Supervisor to help build roads. After ordering, the Wuzhou complained, and Liu Zhi, the governor of Caizhou, successively submitted a letter to attack the Iron Supervisor to waste the people and cause money. The Sansi was eager to lower the iron price and urged them one after another, and the people were sent.

There was a lot of manpower dispatched this time, and Deng Baoji, the chief supervisor of Yingzhou, and Liu Yongnian, the chief supervisor of Caizhou, came to assist in order to promote the promotion. Deng Baoji was responsible for the section from Xiangcheng to the road, and Liu Yongnian was responsible for the northward from the railway supervision, and both ends were carried out simultaneously.

Seeing the road construction people busy, Du Zhongxiao said to Liu Yongnian beside him: "This time the road construction has disturbed several states. The court must have completed the spring plowing before the spring plowing. It is really not easy to work in the yamen, and I want to make me feel uneasy."

Liu Yongnian said: "We are ministers and follow the court orders. What's the hard work to do?"

Du Zhongxiao said: "Although that is the case, the road construction hastily been built this time, and the five states recruited men and women, which inevitably harassed the local area. The magistrate Liu kept writing letters a few days ago, saying that repairing this road wasted people's wealth and wasted manpower, and there were quite a lot of complaints."

Liu Yongnian was a subordinate of Liu Zhi. After hearing Du Zhongxiao's words, he stopped talking. Liu Yongnian was the grandson of Liu Mei, the elder brother of Empress Dowager Liu. He was raised in the palace since he was a child and was deeply favored by the emperor. He left the palace at the age of twelve, and his treatment was comparable to that of the royal family. There were even rumors among the people that he was the illegitimate son of the current emperor, and he spoke with a slight slight. His mother was originally sent to the palace and loved by the current emperor Zhao Zhen, but was disgusted by the empress dowager and expelled from the palace and became the wife of the queen mother's nephew Liu Congde. Liu Congde passed away in his twenties and his wife often entered the palace. Who knows if the emperor would be nostalgic for the old love and the two of them rekindled? At that time, it was spread all over the city, and the ministers from the outside court wrote a letter, so she was not allowed to enter the palace.

Today, the emperor has various legends of illegitimate children among the people, and some are very evil. He himself seems to be not afraid of them, never asks them, neither understands them, nor criticizes them. However, for the ministers in the court, there is no secret. The emperor's every move can escape the many eyes and ears in the palace. For Liu Yongnian, his father was still there when he was born, so how could he be the emperor's illegitimate son?

Although he has no blood relationship with the emperor, it is a fact that he has been raised in the palace since childhood. He is similar to his adopted son, but his identity is still very different. Now he is under thirty years old and has become a state chief, and he can never escape wealth and honor in his lifetime.

At this moment, Tao Shiqi brought a few people and saluted with his hands.

Asked the people around him to put down the farm tools they brought, Tao Shiqi handed over a handful of iron to Du Zhongxiao and said, "Official, the farm tools you want to send are ready, please check it out."

Du Zhongxiao took the iron shovel in his hand and looked over and over again. This was made of steel, the same as the farm tool with the iron monitor. It was very light and easy to use, with a sharp front end. There were a few words on it: "Xiangye Railway Memorial".

After seeing it, Du Zhongxiao handed the iron shovel to Liu Yongnian beside him and said to him: "Let's see how it is made?"

Liu Yongnian took the iron shovel in his hand, looked carefully, and nodded repeatedly: "It's really a good thing! It's made with such good steel so exquisitely that it's no less than the weapons in the army. I don't know why this agricultural tool is made? What do these words above mean?"

Du Zhongxiao said: "The civil servants from several states around came to help build roads. How could the Iron Supervisor ask them to help for nothing? In addition to the daily rations and rice supplied by the Iron Supervisor, when the road is built, they will give each person who builds a set of farm tools. A shovel, a hut, a hoe, and a sickle. The above words mean that they came to build roads, and the Iron Supervisor gave them to them for thanks."

"This--" Liu Yongnian held the iron turret and didn't know what to say for a moment. According to the market price, four farm tools in Caizhou will be sold for seven or eight guan, which is a considerable wealth for ordinary farmers. The iron surveillance is so generous, what else can the prefectures and counties come to help?

The above words are a bit inconsistent in this era, and most people don’t want to understand why they write it like this. This is Du Zhongxiao’s imitation of the later generations. After the project is completed, I will give the participants a few souvenirs. This is called having come and going, so it’s easy to get along with. People from the surrounding prefectures and counties come to help with their work, and the iron supervisor gives them a few industrial products. If the same thing happens in the future, no one will complain. A few things are valuable in the local area, but they are nothing to the iron supervisor. The steel produced is still piled up like a mountain.

After seeing several other agricultural tools, Du Zhongxiao said to Liu Yongnian: "Now, you have made some moves. Take the states that you have come to build roads back to the states and let the magistrates take the matter for details. If there is no objection, you will do this."

Liu Yongnian knew that Du Zhongxiao was worried about Liu Zhi's repeated chapters, so he hurriedly called a subordinate and asked him to bring four farm tools back to Caizhou immediately to show Liu Zhi. Liu Zhi was an important official and was not comparable to ordinary magistrates. His opinions were very important. The civilians who came to build roads got the benefits of these farm tools, so he could not say anything.

There is countless steel in the Iron Supervision now, and there is not much cash. This time, I am giving agricultural tools to open up the market for the products. However, the dealers in these five states have to suffer some losses and inexplicably sell much less.

With the help of the civil servants of the five provinces, the road construction time was greatly advanced. Even if it extends twice the distance northward, it can be paved without waiting for spring to reach Xiangcheng. With this convenience, Du Zhongxiao allowed the people from the Iron Supervisor to take out the road, and paved to Fangcheng to the south.

There are now more than 10,000 households in the Iron Supervision Bureau. In fact, only two thousand people smelted iron on the front line, and the others are engaged in other affairs. There are more than 2,000 people digging coal in coal mines, and more than 2,000 people digging in the mountains. Other transportation and infrastructure accounts for the majority. Workers need culture. For these adults, learning is not easy. Most people are eliminated when they are studying and can only do some hard work.
Chapter completed!