Li Mu was not idle either, so he found Li Tai. Although Li Tai was young, he was a man who was determined to compile the geography of the Tang Dynasty. His understanding of the geography of the Tang Dynasty was not inferior to that of any old scholar who had lost his book bag.

To make cement, you need several necessary conditions. Required conditions 1. Large-scale limestone ore. Required conditions 2. Clay. Required conditions 3. There must be coal mines, otherwise how much wood will be used to calcinate limestone with wood? The cost is too high. The cost of transporting coal mines is too high, which will definitely not work in the era without trains.

Until the end of the Qing Dynasty, when the railway was not successfully built, China's cement industry was still in its infancy and had no scale at all.

If you want to find this place, it is not easy to be able to pass the transportation in this place. Li Mu vaguely remembers that in the era before he traveled through time, there was a huge cement factory in some place in the northeast, but now the northeast is still a barren land. When cement is produced there, who will be used for?

Li Mu thought it would be difficult to do after he explained all the conditions, but he didn't expect Li Tai to give him the answer soon.

Lantian County!

Just near Chang'an, there is such a place.

It is said that the moon is bright in the sea and the pearls are tears, and the sun is warm in the Lantian, jade produces smoke. When Li Mu heard the name Lantian, he remembered Li Shangyin's poem, but when he thought that it took Li Shangyin hundreds of years to be born, he resisted the idea of ​​chanting. After having a son, he was much more cautious in plagiarizing poetry and essays. It would be better to leave something for future generations.

Lantian County is located in the northern foot of the Qinling Mountains and southeast of the Guanzhong Plain. Lantian is the most famous one, naturally, jade. The Zhou Li "the beauty of jade is blue", so the county is named Lantian. Qin Shihuang's jade seal and his family bi were made of Lantian Shuicang jade.

This is the deepest impression of Lantian in people's hearts, and other minerals in Lantian are not well-known in comparison.

However, among the information collected by Li Tai, Lantian is the most common sample that Li Mu showed him - limestone. This white, huge, and hard stone is very easy to identify. It is everywhere in Lanqiao, Wangchuan, Bayuan and other townships. However, in the Dazhai Township, there are kaolin clay. Although the coal mine yield is not high, it is more than enough compared to the initial use. When the output of Lantian County is not enough, the road is well built, and the high value brought by cement will definitely be widely recognized. At that time, Li Mu will not have to worry about the entire industry, so there will naturally be someone to explore.

Lantian County is close to Chang'an City. Even if it is according to the standards of Xiuchidao, it is definitely more than enough to take out a hundred thousand guan. Li Mu has not made much money this year, but the income brought to him by Feng Qiuhuang is more than 100,000 guan. What's more, he has a wife who is rich enough to rival a country and an old lady who is rich enough to match a few treasurys. It is not a problem to just 100,000 guan.

After a brief calculation, Li Mu drafted a charter. Under Datang Jianye, a joint-stock subsidiary was established, called Datang No. 1 Cement Factory, and the location was selected in Lantian County. The first batch of 200,000 shares were issued, each share was always the same, and the subscription period was ten days. The shareholders only wanted to have the right to dividends, but no decision-making rights. There was no other news.

But it was such a domineering condition. Once the news was launched, within three days, 200,000 shares were snatched away. No one asked Li Mu what he was going to do, but everyone knew that if the snatch was slow, the money would not be made.

There is an additional clause in the 200,000 subscription agreement for the original shares, that is, the voting rights of all original shareholders belong to Li Mu alone. Only when more than 60% of the shareholders request to revoke the voting rights will the voting rights be redistributed. However, among these 200,000 shares, Mrs. Lu subscribed 30% through various agents, and Wang Ou subscribed 15% herself, that is, a wife and a mother account for 45%. It is impossible to reject Li Mu more than 60%.

Two hundred thousand shares were issued, a few pieces of paper, and an intention. Even if he didn't know what the subsidiary was doing, within three days, Li Mu received 200,000 yuan in cash. After counting it clearly, the next day, he announced the hiring of the construction team of Datang Jianye, starting from the 16th of the first lunar month, he would build a road to Lantian County within two months.

Everyone was uproaring. They didn't know what the reason why Li Mu chose Lantian County. In their opinion, Lantian County had nothing valuable except jade. Although Lantian County is famous for its reputation, its output is not high. The varied jade is not valuable at all, and valuable jade can not be met in ten or eight years. Otherwise, the people of Lantian County would not live as much as the people of the surrounding county towns.

However, the prospectus agreement clearly stated that the voting rights have been authorized to Li Mu. Li Mu exclusively owned 100% of the voting rights, and even if the shareholders' meeting is held, he will not be able to interfere with his decision.

200,000 guan, half of the money was spent. Then, Li Mu announced another decision, and he would spend 50,000 guan to build two factories and warehouses in Lanqiao and Dazhai Township in Lantian County. It would require a large number of local people to hire. As long as they are young and strong laborers, they would be given twice the reward. The key is to serve food, as long as they are not wasted, they would eat whatever they want.

This news was not much surprising to the people of Chang'an and Luoyang, because Li Mu did this in Chang'an and Luoyang before, and overall, the wages in Chang'an and Luoyang are still higher than those in Lantian County. But for the people of Lantian County, it was like a pie falling from the sky, and happiness came too suddenly.

The most edible thing a family can eat is the young and strong laborers. Nowadays, not only are there people in charge of food, but they also have money to get it. For them, this is equivalent to reducing the burden and increasing their income. In the past, families who were not full of food can even have the conditions to eat meat.

The recruitment notice was posted, saying that it was only after the Spring Festival. However, some people were eager to try it out, afraid that they would fall behind, so they rushed to Dazhai Township and Lanqiao to wait early. They relied on relatives and friends, prepared enough dry food, and were waiting for the recruitment people to come. There were even those who were impatient and active, who came from Lantian to Chang'an, stayed at the entrance of the work department, and were willing to sleep in the open.
Chapter completed!