I was a prince in ancient times

The milky white is mixed with many translucent large grains of sand, and the shell-like fracture looks quite nice.

This is not the common quartz sand in modern times.

It can be used for a series of purposes such as burning glass, casting, ceramics, construction and so on.

Every time Xie Anlan thought of a word, her breathing became chaotic.

Making any one of these things is a shocking treasure, and its value is immeasurable.

Sure enough, he still suffered from the first crossing.

In order not to make a mistake, Xie Anlan put aside her annoyance, walked up to Chai Jin, picked up a handful of sand and took a closer look, and after confirming that there was nothing wrong, she was satisfied.

"You mean that there are almost a thousand acres of this kind of sand in the wasteland I rented?"

"Yes." Chai Jin could not understand what the prince was thinking, so he replied somewhat apprehensively.

Xie Anlan raised her eyebrows, that means there are quartz stone mines.

I wanted to rent a random place to grow things, but I didn't expect such a surprise.

It really complied with his words, there must be a road before the car reaches the mountain, and a road can be built if there is no road.

"Let's go, let's take a look?" Xie Anlan turned around and smiled at Lu Chengjie.

"Your Highness has discovered something." Lu Chengjiao was not stupid, seeing what Xie Anlan said, he thought about it.

"Go and see." Speaking of it, Xie Anlan hadn't been out of the city for a long time, at most he just wandered around in the city, and if he went out today, he could take a look at how his wasteland was being reclaimed.

"Prince...Princess..." Chai Jin listened to the conversation between the couple and couldn't figure out whether the prince should punish him or not.

After all, this good land has thousands of acres of land that cannot be cultivated since he came here. When the prince is angry, he can drink a pot of water if he is punished for any crime.

Xie Anlan and Lu Chengjiao looked at each other and smiled. Needless to say, they could understand the meaning in each other's eyes.

"You have made great achievements in finding the dark river. Why would the prince punish you? Not only did he not punish you, but he also rewarded you with a hundred taels of silver. Do you have any objections?" Lu Chengjia asked with a smile.

Chai Jin didn't turn his head around for a moment and froze on the spot, but it was Feng Shu who kicked him, "Hurry up and thank the prince and concubine."

"Thank you, my lord and my concubine." After hearing this, Chai Jin understood that the lord would not punish him, bowed his head to the ground in ecstasy, and thanked loudly.

Not long after, Lu Chuyi rewarded him with a hundred taels of silver from the warehouse.

When he got the real money, Chai Jin was overjoyed.

Xie Anlan didn't care about him, and took Lu Chengjiao and the others out of the city with the guards.

Five thousand mu doesn't sound like much, but it's huge when you walk it up, equivalent to half the city of Yi.

This is also the reason why Xie Anlan didn't buy the land, but chose to lease the land.

He, a prince, bought such a large piece of land at the border, even if it was a wasteland, it was too suspicious.

The land lease is different. The land still belongs to the official uniform. Although it has been leased for 100 years, the official uniform has the right to take it back at any time.

At most, he would be scolded indifferently, and the money would be too much to burn, but it would not have any substantial impact on him.

The carriage passed slowly among the many refugees, and when the window was lifted, people could see people everywhere on the wasteland, or they were holding their own homemade tools, or they were carrying tools brought by their own family, and they were struggling to reclaim the barren land with.

Seeing a group of them passing by, they all buried their heads low and moved away silently, for fear that one of them would accidentally bump into a nobleman and lose his life.

Xie Anlan was observing the expressions of these refugees. Seeing that most of them were sallow and haggard, but their complexion was good and their hands were strong, they couldn't help but nodded, "Brother Huang is really right to choose Fengzhi County to come to Yicheng. gone."

With such a capable magistrate, he also saved a lot of effort.

Lu Chengjiao looked at Xie Anlan strangely, but he didn't say anything after all.

Feng Shuchong had worked as a county magistrate in the Lingnan area for ten years before. During the ten years, he worked diligently to run the poor county in Lingnan where he took office. Although not everyone can have enough food, at least no one will starve to death.

Compared with when he just went, it can be described as a world-shaking change.

It is said that when he left, almost all the people sent him off.

Originally, he was supposed to be the magistrate this time, but because Yicheng was defending and lacked a county magistrate, he was sent here.

Of course, this is only one of them, and the second is mainly because of Xie Anlan.

After all, Xie Anlan was not a law-abiding master in the capital. Although he restrained himself and did not cause trouble these days, His Majesty was also worried that if he had a brain twitch again that day, he would do something irreversible, so Specially send Feng Shuchong, a prudent person, to watch over him, and help him clean up the mess by the way.

After walking for a while, Xie Anlan saw the residences for those refugees.

It's just a thatched hut made of some wood and hay mixed with yellow mud. Although it is simple, it is no problem to shelter from wind and rain.

Of course, these were not what Xie Anlan was satisfied with. What Xie Anlan was also satisfied with was that he saw many women cleaning beside these thatched huts. After cleaning, they even sprinkled some water mixed with lime powder.

There was a pungent lime smell in the air.

Xie Anlan couldn't help covering her nose, but there was no disgust on her face.

Squinting his eyes, he suddenly remembered that Feng Shuchong had served in Lingnan for ten years.

He can manage Yicheng with so many refugees in an orderly manner. It makes no sense for him to be mediocre in Lingnan. He won't be still in the position of magistrate for ten years.

Turning my mind, thinking of myself, I had already guessed a lot in my heart, shook my head, and didn't say anything.

The carriage staggered for nearly an hour and a half before reaching the place that Chai Jin said was full of quartz sand.

Sure enough, this place is much more desolate than the places where the refugees opened up wasteland.

There is still a lot of withered grass growing in the fields in front, but there is no withered grass here, and the endless desolation can be said to be barren of grass.

A lot of yellow sand is wrapped around milky white stones, and when the wind blows, a stone tip will be exposed.

Xie Anlan ordered someone to dig out a stone, and it turned out to be quartz stone. After digging down for a few meters, the digging stopped, and the bottom was full of sand and stones.

Xie Anlan pursed her lips, happily took Lu Chengke's hand, and clasped her fingers tightly, "Will my princess help me find some craftsmen who can build kilns?"

"What is your Highness going to do?" Lu Chengke had no objection, but he still couldn't help being curious about what Xie Anlan was going to do with these stones and sand.

"We are going to build a road to the sky." Xie Anlan said proudly.

He had had this idea when he came, when he was sitting in the rickety carriage.

At this time, the road, that is, the official road, is mostly made of stones and soil compacted. It is fine on sunny days and relatively stable, but on rainy days, especially when there are heavy rains, the road is too muddy to see.

With this quartz stone, the road will be built by burning concrete, not only for yourself, but also for businessmen traveling from south to north.

Even marching and fighting can dispatch troops faster than the enemy.

Lu Chengjie pursed his lips. He couldn't think of how to build a road with such a stone, but he was sensible and didn't ask anything. His Highness did it for a reason.

Like a saddle, like sugar.

"Okay, after I go back, I'll find someone to arrange it. Your Highness has other orders." Lu Chengjiao made a plan in his heart and asked again.

"Yes." Xie Anlan thought for a while, and said a bunch of things, "I still need iron ore powder and clay."

"Iron powder?" Lu Chengjia frowned, iron powder is not easy to deal with.

"Then replace it with volcanic ash and lime powder." Xie Anlan turned her head. Iron ore is extremely rare now. Refugees use stones, wood tiles and other materials to make their own tools, because there is little iron and there is no extra. Iron came out to make agricultural tools, so he had to use these instead. It would be extremely difficult for Lu Chengjia to get iron powder, so he changed the materials.

Volcanic ash plus lime powder is the cement material of ancient Rome. Although it is a bit crude, it is enough for this era.

"Okay." Lu Chengjiao carefully wrote down the things Xie Anlan wanted, and they were not expensive. Although it was a bit troublesome, it was not difficult to get them.

With the materials, of course Xie Anlan also wanted to make glass, but unfortunately he only knew that glass could be fired with quartz stone, but he had long forgotten how to do it, so he had to wait until the white sugar made money before thinking of a way.

Who told him to spend all the money he earned to buy seeds.

After returning, Lu Chengjiao moved very quickly, within a few days, he found several kiln builders, and according to Xie Anlan's instructions, he built a high kiln on a piece of wasteland outside the city.

This also caused a lot of refugees around to come to watch, thinking that the prince was going to build a kiln and burn tiles. They were delighted for a while, but finally found out that it was not, and they all returned angrily.

In order to fear that those with malicious intentions among these refugees would find out, Xie Anlan had to build up layers of defense outside the kiln.

Circle a safe range, as long as you pass this safe range, you will be executed.

Now no one dared to run this way, even if they saw it, they would avoid it from a distance, as if there were some ferocious monsters here.

In addition, the craftsmen who built the kiln also signed an agreement with them in order to prevent them from telling what they saw and heard.

If you can't get out of this protection range, you can't go out of this protection range. Even if you see your family, you must be guarded.

Xie Anlan knew very well how much sensation cement would bring to the world once it was born, so she killed all sources of possible leaks in the bud.

It's not that he wants to keep the concrete formula for a lifetime, but the current Yong Dynasty is weak, and the more these things are in his hands, the less the danger of subjugation.

Without the trouble from the refugees, everything was proceeding in an orderly manner, and soon everything Xie Anlan needed was ready.

He tried to make a wall according to the proportion of concrete, and put it in the sun to dry.

"My lord is just grinding stones into powder and making them back into stones. What's so strange about that?" Lu Chuyi looked up at the gray wall that Xie Anlan had made and put it in the sun, and said inexplicably.

This time Chen Gui learned to be smart, and stopped questioning Xie Anlan, "I believe that the prince will not do things for no reason, just wait at ease. You see, what the prince did that time was child's play."

"That's right." Lu Chuyi thought about it. Although the prince always does things with the mentality of playing and spending money, he has never suffered a loss. The things he makes can make a lot of money. This time Such motivating teachers and mobilizing crowds must be no exception.

It's just beginning of spring now, the temperature is still warming up, the weather is still cold, and the concrete is not forming so fast, so Xie Anlan is not in a hurry. After waiting for about three or four days, it is estimated that it is almost dry, so he brought Lu Chengjie and the others. A few to check the results.

The author has something to say: after 12 o'clock...

Everyone is so smart, I guessed it.

——感谢在2020-06-2823:54:30~2020-06-3000:31:36期间为我投出霸王票或灌溉营养液的小天使哦~

Thanks to the little angel who threw the grenade: there is 1 idler;

Thanks to the little angels of the irrigation nutrient solution: 20 bottles of peach sauce; 10 bottles of Baiyi, Fugui, and Yixing Egret; 9 bottles of cold crisp;

Thank you very much for your support, I will continue to work hard!