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This Roche Machinery Workshop is going to start the autumn recruitment, saying that it will only recruit 300 people, and it is likely to be overstaffed in the end.

Since the notice was posted, people have come to inquire every day, many of them are merchants from other places, and even porters and the like.

Many people now know that they can get in touch with the most advanced new textile machine technology in Luoche Machine Workshop, and they can earn a lot of money in the future. Even if it is for themselves, they want to send their daughters there.

In the past two years, the relationship between Hedong Road and the Central Plains has been very close. First, the earliest cement road was paved, and then the earliest logistics express appeared, and then many needle workshops were established.

Between various parts of Hedong and Chang'an City, pedestrians and goods exchange frequently. Many people who rarely go out at first follow their relatives, friends or acquainted merchants to the Chang'an area to make a living.

Luo Yong once delivered a threshing machine in Hedong Road, and it has benefited so far. The people in Hedong have never said anything bad about Luo Yong, and they have always trusted them.

This time Luo's Machine Workshop said it would recruit people, many people from Hedong didn't even think about it, so they said they would go home to pick up their daughters. People go together.

Looking at the situation, Luo Yong knew that [-] quotas would not be enough this time, and adding another [-] might not be enough.

After much deliberation, Luo Yong had to borrow again. He borrowed a lot of money from Aunt Siniang, and bought a batch of refined iron from Hedong merchants, and put them in Gongxue and Luo's Machine Workshop to process them separately, and asked them to make them into steel bars.

This incident was reported to the emperor, and the old emperor called Luo Yong to ask him what he wanted to do this time.

Luo Yong said that Luo's Machine Workshop is preparing for autumn recruits, and many elders in Hedong want to send their daughters. Three hundred names are definitely not enough. His Luo's Machine Workshop is only so big, and the neighbors have no intention of selling houses, so he has no choice. We had no choice but to build the house higher, and build a few more two-story and three-story high-rise buildings, which can accommodate as many people as possible.

The old emperor heard about it, nodded his head, and said without saying anything, "Recently, the price of iron in Chang'an is quite expensive."

When it came to the price of iron, Luo Yong also felt sympathetic: "It's really expensive."

When building the railway from Chang'an to Luoyang last time, because the Zheng family in Xingyang had accumulated a lot of iron in advance, the court negotiated the price with their family members, and there was already savings in the treasury, so the railway was built. It did not affect the iron price in the market too much.

This time, for the construction of the railway from Luoyang to the east, a lot of refined iron was bought directly from merchants. This has caused the iron price on the market to rise steadily, especially recently.

Originally, I thought today's conversation would be over here, but I didn't expect the old emperor to say to him at this time: "I heard that there are many rivers and canals along this railway track, and now I plan to build a fine iron bridge."

Luo Yong didn't think much at the time, just echoed a few words casually, and then saw that the old emperor didn't seem to have anything to say, so he left.

After leaving the palace, just as he was going down the steps, there was a ding in his head, and he suddenly became enlightened. The old emperor gave him a gossip in advance!

At the beginning of the Tang Dynasty, the climate was still very humid at this time. From Luoyang to the east, there were many forests, swamps, rivers and canals.

For example, in the area between Juye County, Yuncheng County, and Liangshan County in Shandong Province in later generations, there was a huge water lake, which was called Juye Lake or Daye Lake at that time.

This time when the imperial court built a railway to the east of Luoyang, it was originally said that it would be built to Onozawa. Onozawa can pass through the canal. After pedestrians and goods arrive here via the rails, they can transfer to waterways and go to the north and south via the Grand Canal.

However, many officials from Jiangnan and major families strongly oppose it. If they want to transfer from Onozawa to the waterway, what convenience does it have for them in the Jiangnan area? Their ultimate goal is to let Luoyang's railway track go directly to Jiangnan. These people refused to pay.

After several deliberations, the final plan was that the section from Luoyang to Bianzhou would remain unchanged, and the railway track to the east of Bianzhou would not go along the Baiqu to Dayozawa in the northeast, but go southeast and build all the way to Xuzhou.

Xuzhou is much farther away from Bianzhou than Onozawa, and Xuzhou now belongs to Henan Road. From Henan Road to Jiangnan Road, there is a Huainan Road in the middle, but fortunately, Xuzhou is also on the edge of the canal. And it is quite close to the states in the south of the Yangtze River, which can be regarded as the result of a compromise between the two parties.

He also said that the climate was humid at this time, and there were many lakes in the Central Plains. According to their original plan, if they encountered small ditches and canals, they would build bridges on them;

In the future, every time the carriages on this railway track arrive at these ferries, they will get off the railway tracks, and the horses, carts, and passengers' goods will be transported by large ships to the opposite ferry, and then they will get on the railway tracks and continue on their way.

Although this method can work, it is very troublesome. Earlier, there was a man of insight, Donna Luo Sanlang, who had someone build a fine iron bridge on the next door between Dunhuang and Gaochang, across The Grand Canyon is several feet away, and the canyon is deep and dangerous. They only spent more than a month to repair the bridge. This bridge is very famous in Hexi.

However, most of the people in charge of this road construction are stable and mature people who don't believe that there is any convenience in this world.

He also heard the name of the "fine iron bridge", and said that the whole bridge must be made of fine iron. The budget for this road construction is already tight, so how can it be so extravagant.

That Lishi Luosanlang is indeed able to make money, and he has always been a bit out of tune. He dares to do all kinds of things. Maybe he can really do something like casting a bridge with refined iron, but it definitely won't work here.

Earlier, when the overpass was being built at the Roche Machinery Workshop, many officials from the court and the central government also went to see it.

After looking at it, it is very clear, oh, so this fine iron bridge looks like this, and it didn't use a lot of fine iron.

So many people spread the news to the front line of road construction, telling them that this fine iron bridge is really convenient and the cost is not too much.

Immediately afterwards, those aristocratic families, merchants, merchants and wealthy households in Huainan Road, Jiangnan Road, and Henan Road also began to protest, saying that there are many rivers and canals in the south. There is no convenience at all, it is better to just take a boat all the way, in short, there is a consensus, unanimously demanding the construction of the fine iron bridge.

The few officials in charge of this road construction are not very stubborn, and they are also dedicated to repairing this railway.

After learning the news, several officials had recently boarded the rail carriage and were about to arrive at Chang'an City.

Others didn't get the news at this time, but the emperor already knew about it. It happened that Xun Luo Yong came to ask questions today, so he reminded him by the way.

If you want the horse to run, you have to feed the horse. The old emperor knew this truth well.

Luo Yong hurried to the engineering school, and Xun Houlin and others explained the matter.

Hou Lin can be regarded as an old bird in the officialdom. When he heard about this, there was nothing he didn't understand. Those officials who built roads wanted to build a refined iron bridge. The whole Chang'an city would do this. Students of Engineering and Roche Machine Workshop.

It is expected that those officials will not directly contact Luo Yong's disciples, let alone consider Luo's Machine Workshop, so the most likely thing is to borrow people from Engineering School.

At this time, Luo Yong obviously wanted to promote his Luo's machine workshop and seek a way out for the women in the machine workshop, so what should we do?

"How many engineering students and one female student?" Hou Lin asked.

"Seven male students and three female students form a group of ten. At that time, Hengzhi and others will also go to Henan Road to lead each group to build a bridge. If there are those who perform well, they can start from some elementary school If not, you can still learn from the gentlemen." Luo Yong had already thought about these things on the way here.

Building bridges is not a small matter, and it cannot be handed over to some students who are not good at studies. It would rather take more time than take risks.

After that, there is the selection of candidates. Road and bridge and machinery manufacturing are originally two different directions. Students on the engineering side often have their own emphasis. This time, the selection of candidates depends more or less on the students' own wishes.

Of course, not everyone can go if they want to. One depends on their usual performance, and the other depends on their performance when they were building that overpass last time.

Hengzhi and Hou Lin first roughly selected a few students who performed well and were more suitable for development in the field of road and bridge, asked their own opinions, and then made a rough list.

Some students were well-informed, and they also heard the wind at this time. They heard that they were going to Henan Road to build a bridge for the railway track that was being laid. Everyone was very excited.

He also said that the female students from Luo's Machine Workshop would also go, and these vigorous young men became even more excited.

"I'm very happy, dare to touch those female students and try to see if the county magistrate Luo will not peel your skin."

"Who said you're going to touch them?"

"I didn't say it."

"We didn't say anything, you just think more."

"Tsk tsk..."

"Be careful that County Magistrate Luo peels your skin."

Apart from being happy, there were also some different voices. For example, one student thought that the female students from Roche Machine Workshop had taken up their engineering quota.

As a result, other students made fun of him: "Aren't you stupid in studying, and you still think that you are the birth of Luo County Magistrate, and the girls in Luo's Machine Workshop are all adopted?"

"Hahaha! How do you look at it, those women in Luo's Machinery Workshop are the real birth of County Magistrate Luo."

"After all, it is the Luo family's own machine workshop."

"If Luo County Magistrate gets promoted in the future, he will resign if he thinks the position of doctor of engineering is cumbersome."

"How much do you think this doctor of engineering is?"

"It's hard to say that those of us in the engineering school will take advantage of their Luo's Machine Workshop in the future."

"If the quota is taken, don't say anything."

"It's important to have a good relationship."

"I might be able to introduce a job to you in the future."

"Hahaha, exactly!"

Most of the engineering students are around 20 or [-] years old, and some are in their [-]s. A considerable number of them have already married families. They have to shoulder the burden of supporting their families at a young age.

This time, most of the students were very happy to hear that they were going to go out to build bridges. After all, not all students can have a good development in mechanical manufacturing. For them, road and bridge construction is another way out. This way out It also looks like a lot of money.

In a few days, those officials who were in charge of supervising the construction of the railway track returned to Chang'an City, and after reporting to the court, they saw the saint again, and came to Gongxue early the next morning.

As soon as these people entered the engineering school, they saw that the engineering students were all very happy, and they kept smiling at them, thinking that these students were giggling.

But I don't know, the engineering side got the news in advance. At this time, the upper and lower floors have been arranged, and they are waiting for them to take people to repair the bridge. For those impatient students, they have even packed their bags for going out.