Chapter 559: Paving the road with asphalt

Yang Jie heard about the asphalt paving method, and felt that it did not exceed his own experience. It was a very primitive paving method. Yang Jie didn't intend to say anything. Any technological progress requires long-term accumulation and it is impossible to get it in one piece. It is not a good idea to pull out seedlings to grow.

"Well, it's right. I heard Li Yanyi say that this oil residue is really a good thing. It's extremely wonderful to use for paving the road. Lao Zhang, do it well and try every means to repair the road. I will never be stingy with the rewards, do you know?" Yang Jing gave some rewards. As for the reward, if the results are achieved, Yang Jing will really not be stingy, nor do you need to be stingy. Once the asphalt road is successful, he will definitely build the road on a large scale. The cost of building the road is not a little bit. So does this craftsman who invented paving the road with asphalt need to lose his money? Is he less of his official position? It's just a matter of one sentence to give a hundred households of the Jinyiwei, and the Jinyiweiwei, for these craftsmen, are already a great official.

"Go back to the emperor, the people will follow the order and must repair the road for the emperor." Old Zhang's head began to dance with his eyebrows flushed, his face flushed. He couldn't stop his good luck even when he came! Then he saw the emperor, and the emperor valued himself like this. It was really time for him to move forward.

"I can say that I am right in front of me. If I am satisfied, I will naturally not be stingy. But if I have not been repaired, that is another matter. I attach great importance to road construction. Look at the road over there, which is also something I have asked me to repair. Every day, I ask people to crush it with a carriage filled with heavy goods and water it all the time. The result is this. If the road built is still the same, I will not have any reward..." Yang Jie smiled again, giving sweet dates, and did not forget to give a bridle.

"Don't worry, the grass-roots people understand that they will not disappoint His Majesty..." Old Zhang looked at the bad road there nervously. Although it was very bad, there were still big carriages running on it, and eunuchs pouring water on it. That bad road is really unusual. Old Zhang is very confident about using oil residue to build roads. After all, he has verified it in Shaanxi.

"Okay!..., Da Pang, Zhang Chun, I attach great importance to this road. Old Zhang should try to make it convenient and support him as much as possible. Do you understand?" Yang Jingai said to Wang Chengen and Zhang Chun with a smile.

"I obey the order!" the two of them agreed.

After explaining the matter, Yang Jie saw the scene of building asphalt roads. To be honest, it was much more important than the scenes I saw in the village back then. At least it was very powerful. The dozens of pots in this row were not something that ordinary people could do.

Because the Sanhedi Road was repaired early and there were stones ready, so now it is enough to lay asphalt on it, which is a great acceleration of the road construction progress.

Looking at a piece of asphalt road that already has a very good appearance, and smelling the unique taste of asphalt, Yang Jing really couldn't bear to leave. How could industrialization leave the road? If you want to be rich, build the road first, this is a sentence that every Chinese remembers.

Looking at the emperor who was reluctant to leave for a long time, Wang Chengen was in a dilemma. The smoke was really big. There seemed to be a few smokes and dust on the emperor's forehead. Because the fire was too big and the smoke was too big, the emperor stood close again. The smoke smog over the emperor from time to time. Wang Chengen looked at it and felt really distressed. He wanted to persuade him for a long time, but seeing the emperor thinking deeply, Wang Chengen was afraid of interrupting the emperor's thoughts and did not dare to disturb him. After hesitating for a while, Wang Chengen decided to find something to interrupt the emperor's thinking. It was necessary to divert the emperor's attention. The smoke was burning and burning to the eyebrows.

"Your Majesty, the ash burned from Sanhedi soil has been repaired. Now it has been filled with a lot of water. The water has never dried up and seems to have no leakage. It is really a magical one. Your Majesty wants to go and see it." Wang Chengen was worried that nothing could interrupt the emperor's attention. When he looked around, he saw the pool that the emperor had made before. So he immediately used this to interrupt the emperor's thoughts. He really couldn't let the emperor stand here.

"...Oh..." Yang Jie woke up when he heard Wang Chengen's call. In fact, he was calculating in his heart how much asphalt would be needed to build an asphalt road from Beijing to Tongzhou. Yang Jie had seen it. He remembered vaguely that twenty tons could be built in the countryside for about two kilometers. Then, forty tons of asphalt, there were twelve tons, which should be able to build two miles. Forty miles, it would take 240 tons. That is to say, like today

Twenty vehicles of asphalt need to be transported twenty times, and the asphalt road from Beijing to Tongzhou can be paved. [It seems that yes, suppose a twenty-kilometer road, six meters wide, is a total of 120,000 square meters. If a three-centimeter asphalt road is paved, it is 3,600 cubic paving material. The paving material is asphalt plus sand and gravel. According to the ratio of 5%, there should be 180 tons of asphalt. There should be 240 tons in the book, and there should be a considerable margin. Please correct me. For a long time...]

Yang Jing calculated for a while and felt that this would be much more cost-effective than paving stone roads. No matter what, it would not cost 20 million silver coins, nor was it comparable to cement roads. Today's cement is at most a kind of earth cement. When used to build roads, it would definitely build a tofu project. After all, it would be more cost-effective asphalt roads.

Once the road to Tongzhou is completed, it is also a demonstration project. Once you know that the asphalt road is good, there will be no problem in building asphalt roads in other places. If you want to be rich, building roads first will definitely become the slogan shouted by the entire Ming Empire.

The road from Beijing to Tongzhou has great special features. Even if you use stone slabs to build the road, even if you spend millions of silver coins, no one will say anything, because the road from Tongzhou to Beijing is really important and is related to the lifeblood of the capital. There is no need to worry about investing too much on this road, which will lead to long-lasting ministers. After all, everyone has to eat, right?

After Yang Jing calculated for a while, he had already thought about it. It seemed that the road construction project needed to be put on the agenda immediately. More transport vehicles had to be sent to Shaanxi to pull oil residue. In other words, the oil production must be increased as soon as possible, and it will be a large-scale increase.

In other words, the price of lamp oil needs to be reduced again. Lamp oil has almost become a by-product of oil. If it can be reduced to five cents, it will never drop to eight cents...

Although Yang Jing has woken up from deep thoughts, his thoughts are still on the issues of oil industry, roads, costs, and these.

Seeing Wang Chengen looking at him expectantly, Yang Jie also followed Wang Chengen's kindness and looked at a pool not far away. Yang Jie had noticed it before and walked over. The cement pool he had built had been repaired. Although the cement mark was not very good, it was thickly applied. The craftsman's craftsmanship was good. The pool he built seemed to have a very good effect. The water waves on the pool were rippling, and Yang Jie looked so kind.

"The ash burned from this three-dimensional soil seems to be impermeable!" Yang Jie said in a little surprise.

"Your Majesty, this is really a magical one. Who would have thought that there was such a magical thing in the world that could surround water like a stone trough. It would be incredible! If I hadn't seen it with my own eyes, I wouldn't believe it. People could still make stones." Wang Chengen explained this pool in exaggerated words. The news of this pool was not just built and repaired. It had been rumored that Wang Chengen wanted to use this pool to attract the emperor's attention.

"Well, I really didn't expect that there was such a wonderful use. I just wanted to use him to repair the ditch, but it actually built a pool without leaking water. Is this solid? If it is solid, then using this to repair the ditch can be managed for many years!..." Yang Jing exclaimed.

"Your Majesty, this is so strong, almost like a stone. I have tried it. It is no worse than a pool chiseled by a stone, or even stronger than a stone trough. If a place is broken, at least it can be repaired with that gray, but the stone trough will not work..." Wang Chengen explained with a smile. Once this pool is repaired, it will become a legend and cause a lot of sensation. Now, it is no longer news.

"Well, since it is strong, then try to ask people to use that dust to build a house. Is it solid? If it can be built for several floors, it would be even better! After repairing, the inside and outside will be covered with this dust. Wouldn't you be afraid of rain? You will also apply it to the ground..." Yang Jing said casually.

"I obey the order!" Wang Chengen agreed happily. The ash burned from this three-mix soil is several times stronger than lime and can be waterproof. It is no longer a secret. It is easy to understand that the emperor wants to use him to build a house, because the cracks of the bricks were used as adhesives. Now that there is such better ash, I naturally have to use this kind of house. I wonder what it would be like if I use this kind of ash. Wang Chengen also looked forward to building a house. Not to mention anything else, at least if the brick wall can be built in the future, wouldn't it be more solid? How could the emperor not care?

"By the way, since this kind of gray is better than lime, then when building roads, remember to use this kind of gray instead of lime to see if there is a major change in the road of Sanhe soil..." Yang Jie looked at the sparse Sanhe soil road not far away and said, this was the original intention.

"I obey the order, so I will follow the order." Wang Chengen agreed.

"...By the way, the oil residue road that is laid now is covered with three-fold soil. You might as well try it with this ash. Maybe it will be different." Yang Jie said again.

"I obey the order!" Wang Chengen agreed again.

Yang Jing breathed a sigh of relief. The road construction matter was basically at the level of road construction in the 1970s and 1980s. Judging from the current one-ton car that weighs at most, the problem should not be big.

After a while, Fu Mingde and Xiao Shunzi also arrived. They had originally gone to the Qianqing Palace, but they heard that the emperor had gone outside and ran over again.

"I bow to Your Majesty!" Fu Mingde and Xiao Shunzi saluted respectfully.

"No need, get up," Yang Jingai said with a smile.

The two of them were also wondering, this scene was really strange, what are they doing? There are so many people, so many big pots burned? It is so terrifying.

"Do you two know what this is for?" Yang Jing asked with a smile. Looking at his two confidants, Yang Jing had the intention to joke.

"Go back to Your Majesty, I guess I'm afraid I'm building a road. I'm just curious about how I could use this thing to build a road. Can this be done?" Fu Mingde came to his senses first. He had seen the road of Sanhe Tu and knew what the emperor had done recently. He saw many people pouring such dark things on the road to Sanhe Tu. He knew that it was probably related to road construction.

"Fu Mingde, your eyes are amazing! Yes, this is road construction. Today I called you here, there is something to tell you about the subsidy for the four-wheeled carriage. I am going to officially start. Once it is started, can the carriages in the carriage yard be built?" Yang Jing said with a smile. The subsidy has not been settled. First, the funds are not raised in place; second, the production capacity of the carriage yard is also limited, so we should give priority to disaster relief rations. We have not had time to build private carriages. Now some of the carriages for disaster relief have been released, and the funds have been in place. We can put this thing floating in the sky on the ground.

"Your Majesty, there is no problem. I promise that I will not miss Your Majesty's major affairs. I will do as much as I want..." Fu Mingde promised confidently.

"Well, can you build 100,000 vehicles a year?" Yang Jie asked suddenly.

"100,000..." Although Fu Mingde was mentally prepared, he was shocked. This number was too many.

"Hahaha... Fu Mingde, come on! You told me just now that you can get as much as you want. If you can't create it then, haha..." Yang Jing laughed and teased Fu Mingde.

Fu Mingde was embarrassed and embarrassed by the emperor. He just went too far.

"...Fu Mingde, this is not something I am talking nonsense, but I need to make a real preparation. Do you understand?" Yang Jing took a little seriousness to show the importance of the matter.

"I understand, I understand, I will definitely not mislead Your Majesty's affairs!" Fu Mingde then realized that the emperor was not joking with him. He said that there were no 100,000, but there were still tens of thousands.

"Well, just understand. I don't want to care too much about how to do it. You can do it yourself. By the way, I will talk about it. You should also know about Sun Yuanhua's affairs in Tianjin. I think that if you want to reduce costs, you should prefabricate a lot of things there, such as the one that turns, and then transport the prefabricated parts to the capital and assemble them into cars in the capital. In this way, the cost and the speed of making cars may be greatly improved. Otherwise, all of them are built in the capital. I am afraid that you will not be too busy and the costs will not be reduced..." Yang Jing mentioned.

"Go back to Your Majesty, I have written it down..." Fu Mingde immediately agreed and prepared to do what the emperor said.

"Okay!" said Yang Jingwei.

Zhu Shun was sweating coldly as he listened to the emperor's words. He wanted to build a carriage of 100,000 yuan. It was really scary. The emperor's appetite was extraordinary.

"Xiao Shunzi!" Yang Jingwei said again.

"I am here." Zhu Shun agreed carefully.

"The subsidy matter is about to begin. Do you know how to get the invoice?" Yang Jing asked with a smile.

"Go back to Your Majesty, don't worry, I promise there is no problem. Except for the carriages built in the carriage yard, I will not give invoices, and I guarantee that they will not get a penny..." Zhu Shun said immediately.

Yang Jie thought for a while and said, "You two are people I trust and are all family members. I hope you can implement it well, don't understand my meaning, and don't misunderstand my affairs... Do you understand my meaning?" Yang Jie said some ambiguous words and subsidies. Judging from the experience of later generations, there are too many tricks to play with. There are so many things to make money. Yang Jie does not want to have the situation where his own money goes out and goes into the pockets of the relevant people. Therefore, he said these words in ambiguous way, hoping that these two people will keep a close eye on them.

"I understand! Your Majesty, don't worry, I will not let Your Majesty down." The two of them had a serious expression to assure the emperor that there was no problem. The emperor understood what the emperor meant. The emperor asked everyone to put their hands and feet clean.

"Okay, since you know, I won't say much more. Let's do the subsidy as previously decided. The cheaper the carriage, the more subsidies it will be, and the more expensive it will be, the less subsidies it will be. Do you understand?" Yang Jing added.

"I understand!" the two people replied again. The cheaper the more it means that this may be the car a farmer wants to buy, and it needs to be solid and cheap, or it may be the car that a small vendor wants to buy, and it needs to be solid, cheap, and can transport goods. The cheaper the more subsidies it means to give more benefits to the common people. The expensive car is basically bought by officials and wealthy businessmen. If they have money, they naturally don't need to subsidize them more. They can get several cheap cars with one car. Now the emperor means to try to build more carriages and more people can use carriages.

After talking to Fu Mingde and Zhu Shun for a while, Wang Chengen reported again that the news of Liulizhai was coming and the craftsmen who knew how to be familiar were coming. Sichuan did have such a thing, because it took over the world's salt production, and it was necessary to summarize the situation of salt production in the world. Sichuan happened to be one of the main production areas of salt production in the world. Therefore, the method of salt production in salt wells is not a rare thing. Sichuan has been dug for salt wells for a day or two. It has been found a long time ago. There are many wells of a hundred feet apart, and three hundred feet is not a rare thing. Often, salt wells are opened and a well that can burn fire by themselves to cook salt. It is considered to be one kill. [It should be natural gas, which is indeed very awesome. Ancient people knew that using natural gas was not as uninformed as modern people thought. Natural gas is also considered a branch of the oil industry. Speaking of which, Sichuan salt wells should be the ancestor of the oil industry.]

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After leaving the busy road construction site, Yang Jie returned to the Qianqing Palace with some unsatisfactory intentions. He picked up his pen and wrote a letter to Sun Yuanhua, telling him that the name of this kind of ashes burned by the three-mix soil is called "cement" from today, and it is considered a name given by the imperial court. He immediately applied for a patent, prohibited others from producing it, and had to do exclusive transactions.

This kind of ash-built pool does not leak. It is now trying to build houses and may be used to build cities in the future...

Now a batch of "cement" is urgently needed. It needs to be burned out as soon as possible. It may be used in Liaodong. In addition, Shanghai needs to build a large scale. If this cement can be used as a thing to bond the wall joints, it must be good. If it is applied outside the wall, it can also be waterproof. It is rainy in the south, which is very suitable. Once this thing is released, the demand will be huge and it will definitely be a good deal. The technology and workers are selected by him. The shopkeeper is Liulizhai, and the accounting is Gongli. In addition to building a factory, further research is needed.

After writing for Sun Yuanhua, he wrote for Li Yanyi and his wife, telling them that they were very satisfied with the road construction of such things. They might build a road from Beijing to Tongzhou. It would require at least 400 vehicles of such things to prepare as soon as possible. If it is not enough, reduce the price of lamp oil. If it is not enough, reduce it again. Be sure to prepare these oil residues properly. The oil residue will not be asked for their own money. Each car of oil residue will give them five hundred silver coins to send them to Beijing.

As for the well digging, there are already some insights. There are salt wells in Sichuan that can be dug hundreds of feet underground and used to dig oil. There should be no problem. Experts in this field will soon go to Shaanxi.
Chapter completed!