Chapter 58: Building the Water Transportation System
ith fear."Master, you must make a decision quickly. Those commoners have blocked the accounting room and are all demanding to be paid.""Humph! Let them wait!" Liu Youcai said coldly, "Want to do work...Soon, they all climbed over the hill and started going downhill.
However, when we reached the foot of the mountain, we did not see the river.
When everyone was deeply disappointed, Yang Lin still didn't give up.
Because the cost of water transport is extremely low, if there really is a river nearby, the problem of transporting coal can be completely solved!
Jiangxia County is mountainous and watery, with waterways often running between mountains.
Therefore, Yang Lin believed that the source of that river must not be too far upstream!
Behind this mountain lies a desolate expanse, devoid of villages or roads. The ground is covered in weeds and barren wasteland, resembling an uninhabited region.
The surroundings were desolate and frightening, yet Yang Lin fell in love with the place at first sight.
Surrounded by mountains and water, great achievements await!
After walking for a few hundred meters, I finally heard the sound of rushing water.
Soon, they saw the river.
"Oh, there's actually a river" Liao Hongying couldn't help but be surprised.
"Yes, that's great!" Yang Lin was also overjoyed.
Although this river is only about thirty or forty meters wide, the current is strong. It seems that the riverbed isn't shallow, so transporting goods in small boats would be completely feasible.
Zhong Tao, however, said: "This way, the expenses won't be small! From the mountain to here, it's almost more than a mile, there's no road. If we want to transport coal, we have to build a road, and also buy boats and hire boatmen... All for that coal Is it worth it"
Everyone nodded in agreement.
They all think that it's not worth paying such a high price to dig up those dark, murky stones!
Yang Lin, however, just smiled.
"Believe me, it's all worth it!"
But Brother Zhong is right, building roads, buying ships, hiring sailors, and building warehouses will all take a lot of people. We'll have to hire even more people later on.
Everyone was stunned.
Does he really want to do that
As everyone knows, Yang Lin only has tofu as his money-making business, but now the village is going to cut down trees, mine stones, and build houses!
Besides, roads need to be repaired, boats bought, and warehouses built!
He doesn't even have enough money to afford all this!
Not to mention outsiders, even Li Yuhua was worried.
What Yang Lin is doing won't make him any money, he's just transporting coal back. What use is that
What he didn't know was that Yang Lin had high hopes for these coals!
First comes steelmaking, without coal it is absolutely impossible to succeed.
Secondly, the last time I tried making cement, it failed mainly because the temperature was not high enough.
Now that coal is available, it can be used to refine coke during the cement production process. The coke can then be used to smelt steel.
Even later, you can even melt glass!
These can all be money-making businesses.
Yang Lin, accompanied by people, planned the details of road construction and warehouse building. After everything was ready, he returned home.
On the way back, Li Yuyao said worriedly, "Building roads and warehouses will cost a lot of money. Now we have so many people to support. At this rate of spending, I'm afraid even more than 3,000 taels of silver won't be enough!"
She had silently calculated in her mind that Yang Lin was taking on more and more tasks, expanding his business, but his income remained limited to selling "medicine" and the earnings from the tofu workshop.
If you keep spending like this, and run out of three thousand taels of silver, then your income will not cover your expenses!
Yang Lin smiled and said, "Silver is meant to be spent. As the saying goes, money is a bastard, spend it and then earn more! If you don't spend money, how can you make money"
Li Yuxiang glared at Yang Lin.
She had never heard such a common saying!
"There's one thing I still don't understand. Why did you have to divide up all those fields What was wrong with keeping them as they were" asked Li Yuyáo. Two thousand mu of land is worth at least four or five thousand taels of silver!
Yang Lin actually gave them all points!
In this way, the silver exchanged for it would probably be less than a thousand ounces.
Moreover, the villagers had no money at all and ended up working to pay off their debts. In the end, they didn't even receive a penny for themselves!
Such extravagant behavior, even she who had been an emperor, found it unbelievable.
Yang Lin wryly smiled and said, "Has Madam ever thought about why Liu, the landowner, would give us these fields"
Li Yuxiang opened her mouth: "You said that he was helpless and had to do this for self-preservation."
"That's right, but that's just one point. The most important thing is that it will be very difficult for anyone to work for his family in the future!"
Li Yuxi nodded.
She also understood this. Yang Lin's wages were high, and if he didn't work for the Liu family, he could still support his own family. So who would go to the Liu family to work
"So these fields belonged to the Liu family, and have become a hot potato. He couldn't hold onto them, nor could he bear to let them go, so he tossed this hot potato to us."
"But my lady, even a hot potato thrown into our hands would be burning!"
"Oh" Li Yuxiang asked in puzzlement, "Why"
"Because our foundation is still too shallow! And farming, this tiring and unprofitable work, doesn't yield high returns."
"Madam, have you ever thought about what would happen if we kept those lands and raised the wages of all the laborers, both long-term and short-term, to five coins a day"
Before Li Yuyao could answer, Yang Lin shook his head first and said, "The result is just that, after a year of tossing and turning, the money earned is not as much as selling a few days of medicinal water!"
"The investment and return are disproportionate. We're not short on a few hundred taels of silver now, so why would we take on those unnecessary risks"
On the contrary, by dividing up the land, I effectively eliminated the risk of the unknown.
And most importantly, I really don't want to be the host!
In today's world, land is a person's life.
To make money by relying on land is to exploit the poor and oppress the people.
Although Yang Lin likes money, he would never earn such dishonest money!
Pursue technological innovation, invention and creation to earn the money of the rich and the wealth of the world. Isn't that appealing
Li Yuxiang thought deeply.
She also felt Yang Lin made sense, but just felt that Yang Lin's thinking was different from other people...
In the evening, everyone returned to Gaoshantun village.
As soon as Yang Lin stepped back home, he saw all the women in the house looking at him with strange expressions.
"What's wrong"
Yang Lin looked at everyone strangely.
Si Mei jokingly said, "Come in quickly, the young lady has been waiting for you impatiently."
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Girl
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Yang Lin stared blankly at the crowd.
The honest older sister quickly explained: "It's Liu Di's daughter, Liu Qiao Yun. She came this afternoon and said she had something to do with you, insisting on staying until you arrived."
Liu Qiao Yun
Yang Lin's heart skipped a beat.
Immediately, I recalled the events between Yang Lin and Liu Qiao Yun back then.
Last year, Liu Qiuyun was forced into marriage by her father and jumped into a river to commit suicide. She was luckily saved by Yang Lin who happened to be passing by. They then developed feelings for each other.
This feeling of attraction hadn't even had a chance to spark before Liu Youcai snuffed it out!
For this, Liu Youcai deliberately suppressed Yang Lin, not allowing others to lend Yang Lin food. In the end, that thin-skinned Yang Lin starved and starved, only then did he starve out the current Yang Lin...ed two fingers and shouted to the crowd, word by word: "The second thing, raise! Wages!""Starting next month, everyone who has been working for me up until today will have their daily wage increased b...