Chapter 470 The cement road in southern Liaoning in the new life and new atmosphere, in addition to the width, the construction quality is not even as good as the village-level road in later generations, that is, the cement production of Chongzhen will increase in four years at any time, but the people's need for cement to build houses is not high.This is mainly because the cost of cement can not be reduced, the production of cement requires a lot of human resources, Quanxu in order to develop Liaodong, naturally it is impossible to kill chickens and eggs, all labor costs, restricting the cost of cement.Until the tens of thousands of slaves sent by the Dutch, in this way, free slaves, as long as they take care of food, suddenly reduced the cost of cement, and at the same time, a cement more than 300 years ahead began to appear in southern Liaoning.Because the benefits of cement roads are so obvious, the road surface is smooth and hard, because the road surface is hard, the biggest advantage is that it can be overloaded.Just like a four-wheeled carriage, it can load more than 4,000 catties on the hardened pavement of Sanhe soil, and on this kind of pavement, it can load six or seven thousand catties.No matter how heavy the rain is, it won't be muddy, let alone the carriage, even the bulky Taiping car can run fast on it, and the best thing is that it is almost dozens of not bad, and if it is repaired, there is almost no need to worry about building roads anymore.The most intuitive convenience of cement roads is that the transportation cost has been directly reduced.And a convention was directly broken, just like in the historical records of the goods and colonies: "A hundred miles do not sell wood, thousands of miles do not sell wood." ”This sentence means that after a hundred miles, there is no need to sell firewood, and the transportation cost of goods is greater than the actual value.However, the emergence of this cement road, this transportation cost has been completely subverted, the original quality of the official road, a cart needs two people, a cow or a horse, free transport of ten stone of grain, the current situation is that a cart can transport more than forty stone of grain, originally needed seven or eight people, now need one person.Although a horse was added, there was no need to increase labor, and the speed increased by three or four times, originally a big car walked fifty miles a day, when the road conditions were good, it could barely travel sixty miles, and when the road conditions were bad, it was normal to walk thirty or forty miles a day, or twenty or thirty miles.As a result, the current transportation cost has been reduced to almost ten times, which means that the original transportation volume can be completed with one-third of the original cost.In this case, the Southern Liaoning Council had a very high call for increasing road construction, especially after Quan Xu was appointed by the imperial court as the pacification envoy of Liaodong Economic Strategy, the Southern Liaoning Council immediately promoted the rapid passage of the cement road bill.As for the difficulties of the project, it was also very simple to solve, and the merchants, factory shareholders, and all the people who came from other places contributed money and made a strong contribution.Therefore, in the development outline of Liaodong, a clear plan is made to invest 3.5 million taels of silver to build a cement road project in Liaodong, and the cement road is divided into three scales: Class A, Class B and C Road, and the construction is carried out in sections to prepare for the formation of a highway network covering Liaodong.In the plan, the first-class highway belongs to the strategic highway, the total width is 20 zhang, about 63 meters, of course, this is certainly not the overall width of the road surface, including the middle green belt of one zhang, the left and right sides of the green belt each eight feet, the grass garden on both sides of each one zhang three feet, so that the whole road surface is ten zhang, quite later in the two-way eight lanes, plus two feet on both sides of the sidewalk.Class B highways belong to the road width of two directions and four lanes, of course, horse-drawn carriages in this era are generally narrower than motor vehicles in later generations, and can basically meet the daily traffic.As for the Class C road, it is two-way, two-lane, and there is no intermediate divider, so the road surface is narrower.The main construction is mainly Grade A highways.When the convoy of migrants arrived north of Quang Ninh, the concrete road disappeared and was replaced by a huge construction site.Hundreds of laborers worked for a construction section, leveling the roadbed with hoes, and tamping the road surface, and they were in full swing.Huang Fuchun looked at the coachman curiously and asked, "Is the forced labor in Liaodong so heavy?"
”Huang Fuchun saw that on this construction site, there were not only sixteen or seventeen-year-old teenagers, but also forty or fifty-year-old people, yes, in this era, forty or fifty years old is already considered an old man.The coachman took the gourd and drank the water, and said with a smile: "There is no forced labor in Liaodong, like they work, they all earn money!"
”"Give money?""
yes!"
The coachman said seriously: "Who will work if you don't pay for it?"
If you have the power to do it for a day, you can earn fifty big money, you don't want money, you can ask for food, you people are late, you missed today's spring ploughing, you can only wait for the spring next year, before reclamation, but come to work, even if you have money, then isn't it sitting on a mountain to eat empty?
”"Give so much money?"
Huang Fuchun was taken aback, although he is a small landlord, when he encounters a busy farm, if the weather is bad, then he has to hire a short-term worker, he basically gives three or five copper plates casually, and when he encounters a bumper harvest, he gives seven or eight dollars, even then, people who want to be short-term workers are still in line.Huang Fuchun now has no money, even if they go to the place, they can't live by borrowing.Finally, Huang Fuchun arrived at the town where they were, and listened to the coachman say that this place was called Guoqiao Town, but in fact the coachman didn't know that this was actually the Fuxing Fort of Yizhou Wei.It fell in the first year of the Apocalypse and was then abandoned.In the third year of Chongzhen, Lu Xiangsheng took the Tianxiong army to recover Yizhou Wei, but the Tianxiong army was small in number and did not reclaim the land in Yizhou Wei.This Guo Qiao was built on the basis of the original Fuxing Fort, which is actually like a small city, but it is mainly military, with wells, granaries, stables, arsenals, school yards, garrisons, etc.But now, it is basically gone, replaced by two small gates, a huge beacon tower.Huang Fuchun and hundreds of other people came to this Guo Qiao Town, Guo Qiao Town, in fact, was the first to arrive here, that is, the people who arrived here more than ten days ago, mainly Guo and Qiao.In order to avoid the clan power being too large, when Liaodong resettled the immigrants, it was deliberately divided, and a person of the same village and clan would not exceed 50 people, and once this number was exceeded, it would be divided into other towns.Huang Fuchun held his identity card, which said that Guo Qiao Town had six guarantees and fifty-three households.Under the leadership of the chief guard, Huang Fuchun, his wife and son came to their new home.This yard is not big, the main room is three rooms, two rooms, two rooms are kitchens, one is a firewood room, the doors and windows are brushed with tung oil, and the roof is also a new layer of new tiles, but looking at the color of the wall, it belongs to some years, this is an old house turned over.The door is newly made of wooden planks, and it still smells of tung oil, and the courtyard wall is a chest-high fence wall, which is typical of anti-gentleman and not villain.Huang Fuchun stretched out his head and saw the yard next door, the yard next door was almost exactly the same as here, a woman picked up soybeans with a dustpan, watched the chief of the body come over, walked to the bamboo fence and greeted the head of the house, two three or four-year-old boys wearing open crotch pants, running blindly with bare buttocks.The chief said with a smile: "Huang Fuchun, Huang Tian's family, this is your new home, these three rows are all our six people, if there is anything, squeak!"
”Huang Fuchun bowed down and said, "Thank you, Master Bao!"
”"Hey, don't hurt me, I'm just like you, I'm a flat-headed commoner, I don't have an official position, and no one is a master!"
The chief waved his hand: "Let's clean up the house first, I'm still busy!"
”After speaking, the chief of security handed a pair of locks and two keys to Huang Fuchun, and then took the others to other houses.Huang Fuchun took the strange-looking lock and pushed open the door of his house.Entering the door, there was a thick case, leaning against the root of the north wall, on which there was a candlestick, a coffee table, four chairs, and nothing else.The house on the left side of the hall is a fire kang.From the west end of the wall to the east end of the wall, several large boxes, all with the color of the log, the workmanship is a little rough, but also with raw edges and flying thorns, there are not many other homes, there are basin racks, buckets, basins, two large cabinets of solid wood, also with solid wood color, but brushed with a layer of tung oil, the taste of tung water is very strong.Because the bedding had already been distributed on the way they came, the bedding was made by human hair, and a couple was a quilt and a mattress, and those with children were given a quilt and a sheet.Huang Fuchun hugged Tian's shoulders excitedly: "We have a home!"
”"There's a home!"
For ordinary Chinese people, home is a very special place, and only when there is a house can there be a home.Huang Hongyuan walked to the other rooms with interest, he came to the kitchen for the first time, the kitchen stove was different from his usual one, here for cooking, you can use fire to go straight to the fire pit, and it is not firewood that burns, but coal.Of course, in the summer, the chimney connecting the fire pit will be blocked, and smoking from another chimney will not interfere with cooking and boiling water.There were two iron pots on the stove, both brand new ones, glowing blue, and in the kitchen there was a water tank, a chopping board, and a rice pot, and there was some grain in them.There are also several stainless steel basins, which contain salt and water, five catties of oil, ten catties of salt, twenty catties of wheat, twenty catties of beans, and some dried kelp.Huang Hongyuan shouted excitedly: "Dad, mother, there is food here!"
”Huang Fuchun ran over excitedly, and Tian blushed and said, "Hong'er is hungry, my mother will cook for you!"
”Huang Hongyuan said: "I'm looking for firewood and going to light the fire!"
”Huang Fuchun looked at the food here, not only was he a little worried, but he couldn't eat a few meals of this food.In fact, Liaodong does not support idlers, and the food is scarce, so these new immigrants are allowed to devote themselves to the work organized by the government, which is called cash-for-work.There is no need for Huang Fuchun to worry, only two hours later, the gong outside sounded, and the chief of the security guard shouted while striking the gong: "Old and young masters, all go to the village entrance for a meeting, there is a good thing!"
”Huang Fuchun soon came to the entrance of the village, and he found that each security chief was organizing his own people, and each security unit was holding a meeting.The voice of the chief of the security guard was raised an octave: "The clothes we wear, the room we live in, the bedding we build, and all the things in your house are all rewarded by the Marquis of Wuwei, without the Marquis of Wuwei and his old man, there will be no way for us people to live!"
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