After dressing as a widow

"This is a big project." The little official said

"After the road is repaired, it will be much more convenient for people, vehicles and horses, and it will be twice as effective for transporting things." Lin Zhen paused and said, "There is a saying in my hometown that if you want to get rich, you must build roads first. It is not bad to leave the state. Things, furs, medicinal materials, and nuts are all of good quality, but it’s just because it’s too difficult to transport them out, which hinders everyone’s way to get rich.”

"When the road is repaired, not only the common people can take things out to sell, but also the merchants can come in and collect things. There will be a lot of business when they come and go."

The little official just thinks that everywhere he walks in the future will be a cement road, which is too beautiful.

He smiled and said, "If there is Boss Lin, I'm looking forward to it. If this goes on, it's not that we in Lizhou envy other places in the future, it's that other places envy us in Lizhou."

"The days are still long, and the matter is just beginning, and there is still a lot to do." The cement road is the best signpost, and the originally slow grain transportation team suddenly speeded up.

Lin Zhen and the others quickly entered the state capital.

While in Kyoto, one of the two papers written by Gu Lin went straight to the gate of the palace via the post station. The eunuch who specialized in receiving papers from local officials inspected them carefully and found no dangerous objects that could threaten the emperor. According to the rules, , Carried to the emperor's main hall where government affairs were handled.

The emperor reviewed the paper on the third day after it arrived. Since he was satisfied with the content of the paper handed in by Gu Lin during the autumn harvest, the emperor was quite patient with this paper.

But after looking at it, he persisted in the vermilion pen without pain or itching, and made an annotation on it.

Looting at the Lizhou border is nothing new, it happens seven or eight times a year, and people have gotten used to it for more than ten or twenty years.

Even Gu Lin, a new official who just took over from Lizhou, will be frightened, and it is not surprising that he has been in office for a few more years.

As long as Gu Lin maintains the situation in Lizhou as it is now, the Holy One will be satisfied.

The inner eunuch quickly put the already-reviewed paper aside, and stepped aside.

The emperor picked up the next booklet, his brows furrowed, and he threw the booklet on the ground with a "snap": "It's all worry-free, you join me today, and I will join you tomorrow, so don't kill one of them." Don't even want to give up!"

"Call Prince Rong and Prince Xuan!"

When he got angry, the eunuch who had been serving him inside and out knelt down on the ground, and the eunuch who had been serving him for many years gave the people below a look, telling them to call Prince Rong and Prince Xuan immediately, and then served the emperor a cup of hot water. Tea.

Facing the inner eunuch who has served him for many years, today's son Qin Zhong frowned: "Isn't that trouble in the middle of the year not enough? All of them were smart and well-behaved before, why they only grow old but not brains, and learn from women. Insidious means."

The inner supervisor looked at the nose with his eyes and the heart with his nose, and said in a soft voice: "The emperor calms down."

"How do I calm down?"

When Prince Rong and Prince Xuan arrived, they were reprimanded by Qin Zhong before entering the main hall: "Kneel down."

The two princes who were calling for the wind and rain outside, knelt outside the main hall with their robes lifted, and the eyes and ears hidden in the palace quickly sent the news to several places.

The unfavorable eleventh prince Qin Ziwen left the palace to build a mansion after he was 15 years old, but he was not granted the title of prince, but only had the title of constant king and worked in the household department.

In the eyes of everyone, he was not a contender for that position at all, since his mother and concubine died and the Wei family broke up with him, he lost this qualification.

Now the hottest ones are Prince Rong, Prince Xuan, and Prince Xian. The princes below are either hugging the thighs of these three, or it is clear that no one will block their way or step into this muddy water.

Only their father, who was considered wise in his early years and became more eccentric and irritable after being ill twice, still wanted to use the word "brother, friend, respectful" on them.

ridiculous.

As a good father, he probably forgot how he got his throne.

No, he shouldn't have forgotten it, it's just that he is afraid of their young and strong sons as he gets older, afraid that one day it will be staged...

Because of bringing the evidence back from Syria, causing a bloodbath in the court, Qin Ziwen was ordered by Qin Zhong to recuperate in the palace in the name of recuperating his injuries. .

So Qin Ziwen has been at home for half a year, raising fish or planting flowers every day, and occasionally playing chess with a few dudes.

The person who served him came in and whispered in his ear: "My lord, Prince Rong and Prince Xuan were punished by the emperor to kneel at the entrance of the main hall."

No need to ask the reason, Qin Ziwen knew it. It was not a day or two that these two powerful contenders for the throne disliked each other, but now the emperor didn't want to see them, and they should bear the penalty of kneeling.

The waiter said again: "There is a letter from Lizhou, please read it, my lord."

Hearing that it was a letter from Lizhou, Qin Ziwen straightened his body, took the letter, and saw the contents after soaking it in a special potion.

"Che Luo Kingdom..."

Qin Ziwen frowned. In this letter, it actually said that the Che Luo Kingdom had already had the ambition to invade Dayu, and judging from various signs, it was not too far before they took action. In three to five years, seven or eight years, there must be one war.

Looking at Qin Ziwen's frown, the waiter said: "My lord, is there any bad news?"

He is a person Qin Ziwen trusts very much, so he handed the letter to him, and after reading it once, he said: "This...is it unlikely?"

"Da Yu has been at odds with us for a year or two. It is really difficult to convince other people with just one robbery."

Qin Ziwen actually knew that the person who served him was right, but Gu Lin gave him an unusual feeling, and he didn't think Gu Lin would joke about such a thing.

He pointed to the weapon that Gu Lin described above, which is very suitable for horse warfare, "No matter what, this matter should be paid attention to, and the news should also be passed on to those sergeants we hide in Lizhou, so that they can prepare."

Seeing the muddy water in the imperial court, the people below naturally have a lot of means to save their lives. On the surface, everyone has only the pitifully small number of troops that princes and princes can equip, but secretly...

Qin Ziwen wouldn't believe it if the huge amount of silver taken from the salt road in Xuzhou hadn't been used to raise soldiers.

It was not easy for him to come, and he didn't dare to show signs of it. Hiding in Lizhou was the best place he could think of at this stage.

With Gu Lin covering it, most people would not notice that place.

Many people soon knew about Lin Zhen's return to the state capital. Lin's gouache workshop, soap workshop, scented soap workshop, cream workshop, pig farm, slaughterhouse, and the managers of shops on Changping Street, as well as the factory workers of the cement factory Chief, all come to the state government office to report recent events.

These people were all selected by Lin Zhen, with good talents and temperaments, and they would report to him directly if they had something to do on weekdays, and then Lin Zhen would order Niu Da to coordinate.

Lin Zhen sat in the first seat, looked at the couple who had husbands and men, and said: "It's cold now, and it's difficult to dig limestone for the cement plant. Let's put it aside for now, but it will be slightly hotter next year, and the cement plant will recruit twice as many workers." The workers, like the gouache factory, are divided into day shifts and night shifts, and work in two shifts to produce more cement as soon as possible."

The man in charge of the cement plant was a man in his forties who used to do business in the state capital, but because he was cheated by his friends, his family was almost ruined.

When he first came into Lin Zhen's sight, he was digging limestone among the workers recruited by Lin Zhen. Lin Zhen found that the workers below believed in him, and his team's work was always the fastest and best. .

After observing for a period of time and letting the government officials investigate his details, Lin Zhen directly appointed him as the director of the cement factory. He lived up to Lin Zhen's trust and managed the cement factory very well.

After hearing that Lin Zhen said that he would recruit workers again and increase production, he was very happy.

After the cement is used in the state capital, the effect can be seen by anyone with long eyes. Many businessmen who come to the state capital to do business are very interested, and they almost block him.

As long as their cement factory is willing to sell, they will definitely make a lot of money every day.

"Boss, in this way, the amount of cement produced will be large, and the workers who pave the road will not be able to consume it all. Do you want to sell some?"

Lin Zhen shook his head: "This opening will not be opened for the time being, our Lin's firm is still mainly engaged in the business of rouge and gouache."

The role of cement is not small. It is not comparable to the current materials used in construction. Lin Zhen doesn't know where those merchants will sell the cement. Some tricks that Lin Zhen didn't think of made him want to vomit blood.

After talking to the director of the cement factory, Lin Zhen turned to the gouache workshop, the soap workshop, the scented soap workshop and the cream workshop: "You guys can start posting recruitment notices after you get back from the workshops, and tell the workers too, the workshops We will be recruiting again, and this time the recruiting is no longer limited to women and men between the ages of 15 and 40, but also those over 50, even those who are not sick or in pain.”

"Boss, Mrs. Fu Lang who is over 50 years old should work more slowly, is it not hindering?"

"New farming policies will be implemented everywhere next year. Let's recruit people and recruit people. We can't delay the farming next year. The big guys have not only money in their hands, but also food is the last word."

"Understood, let's go back and start working on this matter."

Lin Zhen looked at the pig farm and the slaughterhouse again: "It's cold in winter, so be careful not to let the pigs get sick. There are now thousands of pigs in the pig farm. Once they get sick, it is easy to form a large number of sick pigs. It’s very troublesome to treat.”

"And you must strictly control the slaughterhouse. Don't mix abnormal pork with good meat, and immediately bury it deep."

"Continue to make canned and jerky, and the shipments are directly counted to me."

"Yes."

As for the shop, there are two people in charge now, one is Chunniang, the other is Xiaoxi, Chunniang's makeup skills have reached the stage of perfection, Xiaoxi is in charge of the front, and many people can't catch up with her courage and eloquence. superior.

After discussing the matter, Lin Zhen said to them: "Stay here for a meal, it's rare for us to get together."

These stewards happily agreed, and they were all very happy to be close to Lin Zhen.