Chapter 412 If you want to get rich, build roads first
Just as Yang Zhengshan and Lin Zhan were talking, a snowball as big as a fist suddenly flew towards Yang Zhengshan.

Yang Zhengshan instinctively raised his hand to block the snowball, but as soon as his hand was slightly raised, he stopped and let the snowball hit his head.

Lin Zhan was slightly startled when he saw this, "Master!"

Yang Zhengshan looked at Yang Chengxian with a stern face. At this time, Yang Chengxian was looking at Yang Zhengshan helplessly, with anxiety in his eyes.

"grandfather!"

Yang Zhengshan looked at him and said, "You monkey, you are becoming more and more rude. Just wait and see how I will deal with you!"

After saying that, Yang Zhengshan picked up a ball of snow from the ground and threw it at Yang Chengxian.

The soft snowball exploded on Yang Chengxian's head. Yang Chengxian was stunned at first, but then he reacted, "Ah, Grandpa is coming, run!"

Following his shout, a group of little guys started running around giggling.

Yang Zhengshan threw snowballs at them from time to time, and they also fought back at Yang Zhengshan.

For a moment, Yang Zhengshan's joining made the already lively scene even more lively.

Yang Zhengshan caught Yang Chengyou and said, "You are the most naughty boy!"

As he said that, he threw Yang Chengyou directly into the snow pile next to him. Yang Chengyou was not afraid at all. Instead, he kicked up a handful of snow and soaked Yang Zhengshan's arms with it.

The dragon gave birth to nine sons, each of which is different.

The third generation of the Yang family is large in number, and each has different personalities and temperaments.

Yang Chengye is mature and steady, Yang Chengmao is smart and studious, Yang Wanqing is well-behaved and polite, Yang Chengxian is lively and active, Yang Chengzhang is the most noisy, Yang Chengyou is the most mischievous, and there is also Yang Wanting, the little chatterbox who never has a moment of peace.

Of course, there are also some well-behaved ones, like Wang Mingzhe. This kid has been quiet since he was young and likes to sleep the most, and he is still the same now.

There is also the little girl Jiang Miao, who is well-behaved and lovely, and is deeply loved by Yang Zhengshan.

With so many children, the Yang family is usually very lively, especially when Yang Chengxian, Yang Chengzhang and Yang Chengyou get together. They climb up the roof to tear off tiles, climb trees to take bird eggs, and catch fish in the pond. They often make the house a mess and give the servants a headache.

And the source of all this is Yang Zhengshan.

Yang Zhengshan is not a well-behaved person. He also doesn't like to make a group of children become rigid. Sometimes he will play with a group of children, which causes these little guys to become noisy and no one can stop them.

Of course, no matter how noisy they are, they still have to practice when it is time to practice, and go to school obediently when it is time to study.

Because cultivation and the school were not under the jurisdiction of Yang Zhengshan, cultivation was handled by Yang Mingcheng. Yang Mingcheng took cultivation most seriously and was also the most strict with his nephews and nieces.

The Yang family hired many teachers in the school, including old masters who taught Confucianism and maids who taught etiquette. Both the old masters and maids would not let the little ones play around.

However, today is the first day of the Lunar New Year, and the teachers and nannies in the school are on holiday, so these little guys were let out to play, having fun and having fun.

Lin Zhan looked at Yang Zhengshan playing with a group of children and couldn't help but smile faintly.

Inside the main hall, Yu Qingyi glanced toward the yard and saw Yang Zhengshan playing with the children. She shook her head angrily and helplessly.

"This old guy is always so unruly!"

"Haha, Dad has always loved his children, so mother should just ignore him!" The chubby Wang stood behind Yu Qingyi and said with a smile.

"How can I control him?" Yu Qingyi said.

Li smiled and said, "We all know that Dad listens to Mom the most!"

"That's not true. Mother listens to father the most." Liang said with a sweet smile.

After she finished speaking, several people couldn't help but giggle.

Zheng still maintained her ladylike manners and smiled with her hand covering her mouth.

"You guys, you even make fun of me! You really don't know the rules!"

Although he said this, Yu Qingyi also laughed.

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The festive atmosphere of the New Year continued until after the Lantern Festival. The various government offices in Chongshan Pass resumed operations, and Yang Zhengshan also fell into a busy state.

New year, new start.

Chongshan Town is in a state of disrepair and there are too many things that need to be handled by the General's Office.

In the lobby of the general's mansion, Yang Zhengshan gathered together the left and right clerks of various departments.

The eight departments of the General's Office all came from the Tenglong Guard's Weisi Yamen, and they were all officials who were familiar with handling miscellaneous affairs of the government office.

With Tenglongwei as his foundation, Yang Zhengshan will no longer be left with no one to use in Chongshan Town.

The first major event of the General's Office at the beginning of the year is to recruit soldiers for the five battalions of the town flag. This matter should be the responsibility of the Military Selection Section and the Military Registration Section.

The second major event was military training, which was the responsibility of the Finance and Grain Department and the Armory Department, and was led by guerrilla generals and camp officers from the five battalions of the town's flag, including Song Dashan and Luo Feiyu.

Yang Zhengshan doesn't need to worry too much about recruiting soldiers and training them. The officials in the general's office and Song Dashan and others are fully capable of doing it.

After all, they have done these things in Tenglongwei, so now they are naturally familiar with them.

So after Yang Zhengshan arranged these two things, he just left them alone.

As for the third thing, it is water conservancy project.

In the main hall, Yang Zhengshan hung the map of Chongshan Town on the screen again.

"Yinghe River originates from Sanfeng Mountain on the west side of Chongshan Town. There are twelve tributaries in the upper reaches of Chongshan Town on the west side of Chongshan Town. The overall flow direction is from west to east, passing through Daning City, Guining City, Jianzhou City, Ningzhou City, Chongshan Pass, Anyuan City, Songzhou City, and entering the sea near Haiwei. It is more than a thousand kilometers long, and ships can basically pass from Jianzhou City to the west!"

"There are four or five places where the river needs to be deepened. If the entire river can be connected, medium-sized ships will be able to go straight into Jianzhou City along the Ying River!"

Yang Zhengshan pointed to the Ying River on the map and described his plan. "This Marquis has decided to open up the Ying River and build docks in Jianzhou City, Ningzhou City, north of Chongshan Pass, north of Anyuan City, and south of Songzhou City."

"Through this river, we can directly send sea vessels deep into Chongshan Town, and transport a large amount of goods from Chongshan Town to Tenglongwei, Liao'an City, Jizhou City, and even Jiangnan. We can also transport goods to Chongshan Town."

"In addition to the river, we have five official roads that need to be repaired. The first one is the east-west official road that runs through the entire Chongshan Town. This official road has always been the lifeline of Chongshan Town. We must ensure the smooth flow of this official road."

"The second route starts from Fuzhou City, passing through Songzhou City and Anyuan City, all the way to Qinghuafu City."

"The third route is the official road that starts from Black Cloud Mountain and connects Chongshan Pass and Jing'an Prefecture."

"The fourth route starts from Guanshan Pass, passes through Xiling City, Daning City, and ends at Huade Prefecture City in western Liaoning."

"The fifth route is from Black Cloud Mountain to Fuzhou City."

"Five official roads, three vertical and two horizontal, plus a waterway, will open up the connection between the various cities in Chongshan Town, and at the same time connect Chongshan Town with Liaodong and Liaoxi."

"Many of these already had official road foundations, but some of them still need us to plan and build them ourselves." As Yang Zhengshan spoke, the faces of the heads of various departments in the hall became solemn.

If building Black Cloud City and developing the North is a grand plan, then the river and official roads that Yang Zhengshan wants to build is an enormous project.

The total length of the five official roads exceeded 5,000 miles. Although most of them had previous foundations, the amount of engineering involved was still despairing.

There are no various construction machinery here, and all the projects have to be completed manually. It involves a 5,000-mile official road, and the manpower and material resources required are simply beyond the ability of the current Chongshan Town to bear.

Yang Zhengshan is a professional in infrastructure construction, but his plan this time is too big.

Compared with what I had experienced in Tenglongwei, it was nothing.

The area of ​​Tenglongwei is less than one percent of Chongshan Town. The total length of the official roads built by Yang Zhengshan in Tenglongwei is less than two hundred miles. Even if other roads are included, it will not exceed five hundred miles.

And what about Chongshan Town?
According to Yang Zhengshan's plan, a 5,000-mile official road and a waterway of more than 1,000 miles should be built.

Such a huge project is a huge undertaking not only in Chongshan Town, but also for the imperial court.

Yang Zhengshan believes in a saying, "If you want to get rich, build roads first."

If the traffic is bad, everything will be at a loss.

Only by building up the transportation network of Chongshan Town can the economy of Chongshan Town achieve leapfrog development.

Otherwise, no matter what Yang Zhengshan did, it would be impossible for Chongshan Town to become a prosperous place.

"My Lord, according to this plan, I'm afraid it will take tens of millions of taels of silver to achieve it."

Others did not dare to refute Yang Zhengshan, nor did they dare to express different opinions in front of Yang Zhengshan, but Lu Wenhua dared, not because he was related to Yang Zhengshan, but because he was familiar with Yang Zhengshan's temper, and Yang Zhengshan would not blame him for it.

"That's right, not only a large amount of silver and money is needed, but also a large amount of food!" Yang Zhengshan nodded.

During his five years in Tenglongwei, he spent three million taels of silver.

The salt fields and docks provided a large amount of silver and money for the development of Tenglongwei, which made Tenglongwei a prosperous place.

But now Chongshan Town cannot develop according to the development model of Tenglongwei, because Chongshan Town cannot build salt fields or engage in large-scale maritime trade.

Chongshan Town is different from the petty fighting of Tenglong Guard. The court could tolerate the Tenglong Guard's misbehavior in the past, but now it will not allow Yang Zhengshan to continue to misbehave in Chongshan Town.

"But we don't have that much money and grain right now. Let alone 10 million taels, we don't even have 1 million!"

"And next we have to train our troops and build Black Cloud City."

Lu Wenhua said softly.

Yang Zhengshan smiled and said, "If you don't have money, then find a way to make money!"

After saying that, he clapped his hands, and a middle-aged man who looked to be in his thirties walked in from outside the door.

This man had a simple face and ordinary clothes. He seemed a little reserved after entering the lobby.

"Come, let me introduce you. This is Zhu Dahai, the person in charge of the glass workshop."

Without any trump card, how could Yang Zhengshan be so ambitious as to make such a huge plan?

And his trump card is none other than Tenglongwei's glass workshop.

The glass workshop has been established since Yang Zhengshan planned to make a telescope, and it has been more than four years now.

When he was in Tenglongwei, Yang Zhengshan had never dared to produce glass on a large scale.

Reason?
The main reason was that he was afraid that the profits from Glass would be too great, and Yang Zhengshan estimated that he could not bear it.

But now it’s different. He is the Marquis of Jing’an of Darong, the general of Chongshan Town, and a new upstart in the court.

Perhaps he still cannot resist the covetousness brought about by huge interests, but at least he has some room for mediation and is not completely powerless to resist.

Once glass is mass-produced, the profits can be imagined.

What can glass do?
Tea sets, wine sets, tableware, various utensils, decorations, window glass, etc.

Of course, there are also telescopes, mirrors, and so on.

There is a huge market for every type of glass product.

As long as Yang Zhengshan is willing, he can become the richest man in Dayong by making glass at any time.

The prerequisite is that he can keep the method of making glass.

Yang Zhengshan had no idea of ​​becoming the richest man in Dayong, nor did he care too much about making money.

Therefore, there was no need for him to stick to the method of making glass, nor did he want to monopolize the profits of glass manufacturing.

He just wanted Chongshan Town to be the first to benefit and become wealthy by taking advantage of the popularization of glass.

"The General's Office will establish a new engineering department. The glass workshop will be under the jurisdiction of the engineering department. Li Dahai will be the right officer of the engineering department. Wenhua, you will temporarily serve as the left officer of the engineering department!"

Yang Zhengshan arranged.

Lu Wenhua responded, but hesitantly said: "My Lord, can glass earn tens of millions of taels of silver?"

The existence of the glass workshop is no secret in the Tenglongwei Weisi Yamen, but people don't have much idea about the uses of glass.

Lu Wenhua didn't think glass was something magical.

Only Yang Zhengshan knows how widespread the applications of glass are.

However, Yang Zhengshan did not explain to him, "You will know later, I will be in charge of the glass workshop, and Li Dahai will be in charge of the affairs of the glass workshop, so you don't need to interfere!"

"Yes!" What else could Lu Wenhua say? He could only nod in response.

At this time, Li Dahai was in a state of happy shock.

He was originally just an ordinary blacksmith apprentice, and later joined the glass workshop. Yang Zhengshan thought he was serious about his work and put him in charge of the glass workshop.

There were only a dozen people in the original glass workshop, and now there are only two or three hundred people in the glass workshop.

So Li Dahai always thought of himself as just an ordinary craftsman and never thought that he would become an official one day.

The chief clerk of the general's office is a seventh-rank official position, a real official position with official status and salary.

Of course, Du Shi is not a civil servant. The officials in the General's Office are all military positions, which are definitely not comparable to civil servants.

But for craftsman Li Dahai, this was a great fortune.

(End of this chapter)