Since he got Gujiazhuang, County Magistrate Li has become a little inflated. He is preparing to spend a lot of money to renovate the county town!

This can be a big deal! The dilapidated city wall was built by the Zhao family a hundred years ago. The Jin Dynasty advocated horseback combat and was naturally not very enthusiastic about the construction of the city. This led to the damage to the city walls, chaos in the city, and the streets were crowded. In the words of Li Zhixian County, if a fire was lost, half of the street could be burned!

Apart from fire prevention, there is nothing to do with floods. Five years ago, the flood flooded half of the county town. Because the previous drainage facilities were disrepaired, the officials of Dajin only focused on superficial articles. Anyway, they would leave after a few years of doing enough benefits, so they naturally refused to spend a lot of effort to do the thankless thing.

Originally, there were less than 800 residents in the city, but now there are more than 3,000. The old drainage facilities are naturally unbearable. In addition, there is no one to manage them. As of now, the main street is beautiful and dirty, with sewage and feces everywhere. Mice ranging from two feet long fight all day long, and they dare to stare at the cat when they see it!

If this continues, there is no guarantee that there will be no plague. County Magistrate Li can clearly remember that in a hundred years, a Black Death will kill more than 20 million lives, more than 20 million people! By the way, there are not many 20 million europa, right?

No, whether for yourself or for the people, the city must be renovated, and it must be changed in a major way!

Such major events naturally need to be reported to the prefecture. The superiors are very worried about losing cities and land. When they heard that Pei County could transform the county without reaching out to the superiors, and they also had to expand the city defense, they naturally enjoyed seeing it. Anyway, they didn't want them to be rich and powerful. After the construction was completed, they could still share some credit. Why not do it?

The approval document was issued quickly, instructing the whole county to obey the orders of the magistrates. This year's labor service will no longer be used for the prefectures and cities. Just work hard under your rule and do it too much!

With the instructions, it is easy to handle. In addition to asking Lao Zhang to summon the tragic service in the west, Zhao Hu also issued a death order to the He family, the north of the city, and the east of the city. It is necessary to summon people to the county within three days. Of course, the difference this time is that the county manages food!

The county is in charge of food! This is a remarkable thing. After the autumn harvest, the wheat that should be planted has been planted. One of the people is preparing to go out to get some food so that they can keep the grain stored and survive the cold winter. This time, they don’t have to bring food to serve. First, they will solve the biggest stomach in the family, and second, they can save more food. They will come over if they are beaten to pieces!

The four people were greeting people, and the county was not idle either. County Magistrate Li went out with a lot of money, and all brick kilns, stone kilns, carpenter shops, and bamboo and wood shops received massive orders!

This made the shopkeepers sweat so anxious that they all went to plunder the city walls. The construction period was so urgent, where could they find someone for a while?

Fortunately, County Magistrate Li has many ideas: "Don't you have brothers? You all call me here, it's not that you don't have money to make money!"

As a result, with the mobilization of these people, the surrounding iron bamboo, wood and stonemasons rushed over one after another. In addition to tools and other materials, they came here together. They knew that Pei County was going to build a city, so they naturally turned a blind eye and let it go.

The main street was to be slashed, and the business of those merchants was naturally affected. However, the county magistrate was also very smart. He first started with the wall on the prefect's mansion, slashed the wall, and retreated four or five feet away, and even demolished several small courtyards that affected the road. No one said anything anymore. They wanted to see if the storefront that the county magistrate said looked like he was praising. It would be too late to move after the result came out!

New processes and new materials are naturally inseparable from the Shen family's personnel. When the wall on the north side was pushed down and a large ditch more than one person was dug out underground, they came and brought bags of ash and unlucky cement. The magistrate said that this was the volcanic ash bought from some island in Nanyang by merchants in the south!

Everyone in the volcano didn’t know what it was, but the magic of this volcanic ash was eye-opening!

A row of round wooden shelves were erected to the north of the construction site. The middle of the shelves was still empty, so a bamboo circle was installed. The serving people followed the command and mixed the volcanic ash, sand and stones of similar size with water. Then poured them into the wooden mold and stirred them with iron rods at most!

The onlookers were immediately angry, and they were fooling around. This is? Just this mud-like cylinder can be used to lay the sewer? If you do this, your grandchildren can slash your coffin board!

With excitement from the crowd, everyone rushed to the county government to ask for an explanation, but Master Zhang said lightly: I will check it out in a few days and I will send them away!

The people's eyes were sharp. Their shop had no time to look at them these days, just to see what was strange about this cement tube. Finally, when the circles of their eyes were dark, Min Zhuang began to tear down the wooden shelves!

What a good guy, the shopkeeper and the accountant were all surrounded. When he saw the dusty cement tube, he sighed at the same time: It’s not good-looking!

Someone suddenly shouted: "This stone, no, the gray tube is a whole!"

I looked closely and saw that it wasn’t it. The top and bottom were smooth and neat, just like the whole carved of stone! It’s amazing, if this thing is used to build a wall, wouldn’t it be a whole stone house? Since I’m not afraid of water, it’s even more insect-proof and fire-proof!

Some people didn't believe it, so they went forward and touched and knocked, but the result was no different from the stone. When a young man with a green head went back to get a sledgehammer, he was finally stopped. The price of this cement pipe is not low, and if he breaks it, he can be arrested and sent to jail!

With the result, the masses will naturally praise it. When the people are strong and the installation is installed, they will make great efforts and serve tea. This is a major event that benefits their descendants and cannot be careless at all!

The cement pipe incident finally alarmed the Seminary merchants who had no profit and could not get up early. These people's eyes were very poisonous. They immediately found Master Zhang to ask. When Master Zhang received a gift and introduced the dynasty to them, they suddenly realized that their feelings were this rising star. By the way, Wang Dashang has been incredible recently. He first spent a lot of money to buy, and later launched a series of fine products from Southeast Asia, such as soaps, perfumes, and the small mirror that can see nose hair. Not only did he quickly recover his money, but he also had to queue up for gifts!

During this period, no one was jealous, but the robbers who pretended to be water bandits and mountain bandits were sent to fight dogs. The silent enemy was the most terrifying. Don’t look at Wang Dashang smiling all day long, but there was no one who looked down on him!

This time the dynasty did not hide it, and tell everyone the truth: "By the way, this volcanic ash is not worth a penny. The fire-ridden islands in Java are all this stuff. The difficulty lies in transportation. You all think that the sea is far away and there is no trace of water. It is naturally expensive to transport it here. It costs one tael of silver to be enough for a load!"

Everyone even said they couldn't afford it. In the blink of an eye, they walked all the way, but they were very happy. This guy said everything about his source and thought we were afraid of being far away? Bullshit, which caravan does not have a caravan? Which ships back from Southeast Asia can fill up except for some spices and other light and precious things? Instead of putting big stones on the basin, it is better to transport the ash from the volcano, kill two birds with one stone and kill two birds with one stone!

After getting the cement source, Magistrate Li was happy to be quiet. This thing was time-consuming and labor-intensive, and he didn't want to make money for it. Since they wanted to be lucky, they should go and transport it themselves. By the way, if they really bought it back to strengthen the city defense, the big sweat in the north would have to jump again, right?
Chapter completed!