peasant girl allure

Chapter 125 Dowry
"The mountains and rivers in my dynasty are more than one hundred and eight thousand miles away, and the official roads in the entire country have been built into concrete roads, and the money in the treasury can't support it." Shangguan Xuanyi frowned tightly thinking of the emptiness of the treasury.

Xiao'er thought for a while and said, "If the entire country's official roads are built into cement roads, the project will be huge. It can't be done in a short while. It does require a lot of money to build roads. But Lu Tong Cai Tong, this Roads must be built."

It is not a simple matter to build the official roads of the whole country into concrete roads, and it consumes a lot of manpower, material and financial resources.

Although there is one policy in this era that does not exist in modern times, that is to draw strong men to labor labor during the slack season every year.

Paving roads, building bridges, dredging water conservancy, these tasks are mandatory here, and they are done for free. Even if wages are paid, it is very little, just food.

However, it is not the same thing to build roads only by performing hard labor. After all, one month of hard labor is only performed in a year.

"Although every year during the slack season, you can recruit strong men, but only one month can't accomplish anything. I think you can try to maintain roads." Xiao'er recalled the modern road and bridge tolls.

"Raise the road with the road? What kind of raising method?" Shangguan Xuanyi looked at Xiao'er, motioning for her to continue talking.

"Don't you need money to build a road? But after the road is built, the people walk the road themselves. The imperial court can pay the money for this road first. After the road is repaired, it will set up roads at the exit and entrance of the road. Go to the checkpoint and build a toll booth. All vehicles and horses who want to go this way have to pay the toll, and the people who walk can be free. The recovered money should be returned to the treasury.”

After hearing this, Shangguan Xuanyi and Di Zhaowei's eyes lit up.

"A notice was posted before the road was built, telling the people that if the road is completed, they will have to pay if they want to go. However, the people who have worked hard to build the road can walk the road for free for the rest of their lives. Those who pay more than 20 taels of silver can also go for life. It is free. I think many people should take the initiative to repair it. After all, many people are at home during the slack season. This can also save a lot of labor! And if someone pays 20 taels, 20 taels is enough to repair a long distance.”

"This is a good idea. In this way, as long as the road is built, it can earn money. After a long time, road construction will not only save money from the national treasury, but also increase the revenue of the national treasury." Di Zhaowei praised.

"Only charging for carriages and horses, but not for walking people, then the people's burden will not be increased. People with carriages and horses will not be short of that little toll! Carriage and horses will be charged, and goods will be charged separately!" Shangguan Xuanyi He also nodded in agreement, and then he thought of something and continued: "Girl Xiaoer, the dividends from the cement workshop will not be given to you."

"My family doesn't want to share the cement." The words of the two fell at the same time.

After hearing this, Shangguan Xuanyi was even more satisfied with this girl's transparency, but he would not take advantage of her in vain, many things in this world are more useful than money.

Xiao'er smiled and continued, "Let's contribute our share to the road of official road construction! Dad, what do you think?"

For cement, she just contributed a prescription. Unlike others, she designs something every month.She also felt that she was taking advantage of the dividend.And she also believed that Shangguan Xuanyi would not take advantage of her in vain!

"This is doing things for the folks, of course there is no problem!" Shen Chengyao hurriedly stated that building roads and bridges are all good deeds. He is always willing to help others, and now he has the ability to do bigger things, and he will not refuse!
Shangguan Xuanyi planned to completely control the cement business until the main official roads in various places were built.

In this way, he will have a way to let some wealthy households spit out some money to build roads!
"Father, let's pay money to pave all the roads in the village into concrete roads, and then build two drying fields for the people in the village to use!"

"The ground made of cement sand has many small potholes. It is easy to hide sand and not easy to sweep away. How about a sun-drying field?" Although Di Zhaowei has never been in contact with it, he also thought of the shortcomings.

"Add water directly to this cement to make cement oil, and then use a special shovel to spread it on the surface of cement sand and gravel, or directly sprinkle it on the surface of cement sand that has just been paved, and then smooth it with a shovel, so that the surface It can be very smooth.”

"Can it still be like this? It really is so cold!"

Cement and reinforced concrete play an important role in the construction industry, because with it, tall buildings rise on the ground, and with it, many bridges that seem impossible to build quietly span the major rivers, bringing people's lives How much convenience it brings is not what a good thing is!
Xiaoer thinks of modern ceramic floor tiles, decorative tiles and mosaics on the exterior walls of houses.She had to tell Di Zhaowei the characteristics of those things, and see if his master could research them.

If it can be done, then the building in the town will definitely be eye-catching!

Paving roads and building houses, Xiao'er's family was extremely busy.

Foreman Liang had never been so busy before, so busy that he hardly had much time to prepare for his own marriage.

But Xu Wenhui has suffered too much, he wants to give her more dignity, so that people will no longer look down on her!

Therefore, the betrothal gift he gave Xu Wenhui was much higher than that of ordinary farmers!
Ordinary families would only give two or three taels of gift money, and the farmers with rich family backgrounds would give five taels of gift money, but he gave ten taels of gift money.

Jewelry, generally speaking, it is very decent to have a gold hairpin and a gold ring. Most people will only give a silver ring, and some silver hairpins do not have any silver hairpins!

Foreman Liang prepared two sets of gold noodles, two sets of silver noodles, two pairs of gold bracelets and two pairs of silver bracelets!
Other cakes, seafood, three animals, fish, coconut, wine, Sijing fruit, fruit, four-color sugar, tea, sesame, tie box, bucket two meters, incense gun bracelet gold, everything is complete, nothing falls, weight Perfect!

Many people prepare these, just for the sake of meaning, take the meaning of it!

But some people will also give a full ten to show that the man's family attaches great importance to this marriage and is very satisfied!
The past two years have been difficult. No one who married a daughter in the village has ever received such a heavy betrothal gift!
Foreman Liang's dowry can be imagined, it was like a thunder on the ground, blasting several villages!
It caused all kinds of envy and jealousy, and sour words!

And the villagers have a new understanding of Foreman Liang's family background!
Many villagers secretly regret that they didn't tell her their daughter when they built the house with him!
Everyone said that Xu Wenhui had fallen into the nest of blessings!A second marriage can be so decent!It's better to marry once than to marry once!
Usually after a Dading, the wedding is only two or three months later, but after three months, Foreman Liang has to go to Fucheng to build roads, so he can only go ahead of schedule!

Xu Wenhui's family is small, and the Liu family has recognized her as a sister, and has prepared a lot of dowry for her, and copied the gift in return, so Xu Wenhui put all the dowry in Xiao'er's house.

Mrs. Liu would not want her, but some people don't think so!
(End of this chapter)