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201. Gentleman magnanimous

Regarding this road construction, Luo Yong originally planned to adopt the same method they had in various villages in Shizhou before.

But when they really got here and showed their identity to explain their purpose, many local families sent money, silk and food to them. Then Luo Yong took advantage of the situation and changed his plan and used the money, silk and food to pay wages to the people who came to work here.

In this way, the big family is responsible for paying money and the people are responsible for doing their work. Luo Yong and others only need to play the role of an organization and provide some technical support.

Luo Yong divided the personnel he brought into several teams. Each team chose a separate place to build a cement workshop. He was responsible for the construction of a section of the road. Whoever completed his task first, go ahead first, go to the location that had been planned and determined in front, start the construction of another section of the road, and move forward alternately, and the efficiency is relatively high.

It took Luo Yong almost a month to finally complete the first section of his responsibility.

Because it takes a lot of effort to build a temporary cement workshop, such as large stone mills used to crush cement, it is even more heavy and difficult to carry, so the distance between each of their cement workshops is not too close.

However, for the first section of the road, many of them are pieced together or even made temporarily. They also took a lot of effort to prepare tools.

When building a second and third temporary cement workshop in the future, they can bring everything they can with them. If they really can't take it away, they will find a way to find a way when they arrive at a new place. In this way, the speed will be slightly improved.

The local people in Suizhou are very enthusiastic about road construction. At this point, Luo Yong is responsible. At the most, there are three or four hundred people. Some of these people work in cement workshops and some are responsible for paving cement roads. At the fastest speed, they paved nearly three miles in a day.

Their paving work is actually to lay another layer of cement on the original road. As long as the cement is in place, there is sufficient manpower and the weather is clear, it will be relatively quick to operate.

When leaving the first temporary cement workshop, Luo Yong took dozens of skilled workers away from the local area.

The group of them pushed the cart and drove the donkey cart. Walking on the cement road they built, every step they stepped on, they couldn't help but feel a little proud in their hearts. This is the cement road they worked together to build. It was flat and spacious, like a bond, connecting the villages and towns along the way.

When they walked out of the cement road they built themselves, there were roads built by several other teams in front of them. Whenever they went there, Luo Yong would go over to say hello to them.

If you encounter some places where supplies are scarce, Luo Yong will leave them some cloth, money and food from his team.

"All you have enough, and you should keep more yourself." A disciple saw that Luo Yong was commanding his men and almost all had to emptie the money and food in the convoy, so he repeatedly dissuaded.

"Your master, can I still be hungry?" Luo Yong smiled and said, "If you can't use up all the flowers, you can bring them up later."

Luo Yong was naturally unable to get hungry, and no one could starve him. On the evening of that day, they went to a village east of Suizhou Prefecture. The villagers heard that it was Li Shi Luo Sanlang who came, not only took them to sleep in the village, but also prepared a sumptuous banquet.

The big steamed chicken and the big roasted lamb were not very particular about cooking methods, and Luo Yong ate quite a lot. The villagers were very happy to see that he ate too much.

On the spot, a gentry took out money and silk from his home and gave it to him. Luo Yonggong bowed his hand and took out a small notebook from his arms. He remembered clearly every note that since someone donated it, he would always need to erect a merit monument after the road near the village was repaired.

On the second day, their group arrived at a temporary cement workshop nearby. Luo Yong left the money he had just obtained there. Several pieces of data from his small book also asked the disciples here to copy a copy as it was.

Let’s talk about the previous one, the team that was stuffed with a lot of money and grain by Luo Yong. After two days of busyness, they encountered another team that was pulled from behind. The team was like Luo Yong, leaving them with a lot of food.

A few days later, another team came over behind them, leaving them with a pile of food and supplies...

After a few times, the people from this temporary cement workshop finally got a little reminiscent: "Do you think these people are too lazy to move things?"

"Will the team that fell to the end in the future become the final move?"

"It's okay. After we finish this road, we will go to the front of the team next place. There are so many teams taking turns, and we don't have to move things every time." The captain of the team comforted everyone.

Everyone thought it was true, so they stopped worrying. Anyway, when they had repaired it, many places ahead had cement roads built. Just move it. It wouldn't be too hard to get a few more carts to push it.

About seven or eight days later, the group finally completed the section of the road they were responsible for. They happily moved the pile of things, pushed the cart and headed to the temporary cement workshop in front of them, waiting to get there and give up the pick. As a result...

"Where are people?" These people were stunned when they looked at an empty cement workshop.

"I left early yesterday morning." The local fellow told them.

"quack!"

"Know...know..."

The sun was shining in the sky, the men on the ground were walking, and the debris in the car were piled up in mountains...

"Senior brother, who did you think this matter started?" asked a man.

"What do you think?" another man replied.

"Our master? No..." A few days ago, when the master smiled and asked someone to move things into their warehouse, what he felt was clearly care and love.

"It's better to get used to this kind of thing." Another man patted his shoulder and said.

"Let's go faster, don't let the guys ahead escape!" someone in the team shouted.

"Ao!" After a while of wailing, the team was moving a few points faster than before.

As for Luo Yong and the others, they had already set up camp next to a village on the east side of Dabin County. The local people knew they were coming early, and had leveled the site for them, and prepared a lot of lime plaster to wait there.

As soon as Luo Yong and others arrived, they could start throwing the clay with mud immediately. The advance team also repaired the earth kiln for cement burning in advance. This location was also decided by the advance team. The teams behind them were responsible for the construction, and they just started working when they arrived.

Now, the news that Li Shi Luo Sanlang is building a road in Guannei Road and is going to build it all the way to Liangzhou City, Longyou Road, has spread all over the place.

People in Guannei and Longyou Road naturally applaud, and people in other places also mainly praise them.

However, people from all over the country also have different opinions on why Luo Sanlang wanted to build this road. For example, people in Lishi County generally believe that Luo Sanlang is trying to bring a living water to their local area. The gentry men and men in Chang'an City generally believe that he is trying to seek fame.

As for what His Majesty the Emperor thinks about this matter, it is really hard to say. At least few people can touch what he is thinking at present. It is impossible for a few people who touch accurately to tell others what they know.

In fact, at the end of this summer, what really made the emperor care about was not the matter of Luo Sanlang building roads, but the emergence of two private colleges in Chang'an City.

There were no private colleges in Chang'an City before, and the only few higher education schools were established by the state. The emergence of such private colleges is not a good thing from the perspective of the supreme ruler.

In this era, the relationship between students and teachers is natural and close. With more and more private colleges like this, some knowledgeable and capable scholars are likely to teach a considerable number of outstanding students. These outstanding students then pass the imperial examination and enter the court. There is a natural and close group between them.

The emperor was not happy to see such groups appearing in the court. If these groups were strong to a certain extent, they could even shake the imperial power. Could it be that what he had to face from now on, in addition to the original clan group, would there be an additional emerging force?

It is absolutely impossible to abolish the imperial examinations, that is, he will give up his food because of choking, unless he wants to watch those aristocratic families grow bigger and eventually control the entire country.

Besides, although the current imperial examination is not of great significance to ordinary people, it is still a hope. Who can tolerate such a little hope being wiped out?

It is also undesirable to directly ban these two private colleges. Because these two colleges do not restrict the enrollment of children of civilian families, they are now very popular among the people...

In fact, whether it is Lishi Luosanlang building roads in Guannei Road or someone establishing academies in Chang'an City, these two things are not considered bad things. Let's look at the problem from which angle.

From a bright perspective, this is a manifestation of the prosperity of the country. Everyone works hard and is responsible. Whether it is road construction or cultural education, they are developing in a positive direction. If they continue to develop according to this trend, the country will inevitably become stronger and stronger.

Looking at the bad point, these people are all so active and gathering popularity for themselves. Will the emperor be squeezed by them in the future and become less and less present?

It is unknown to outsiders that the emperor thinks what he thinks, whether he is more careful or happy to see it happen.

On the afternoon of that day, the emperor summoned an official, the one who was previously responsible for negotiating with Luo Yong and later sent by him to supervise the road construction.

Some well-informed people in Chang'an City speculated that the emperor was going to start paying attention to the actions closest to Shi Luo Sanlang? What actions did he plan to take? Is it a compliment or a knock?

There were many discussions outside the palace wall and whispering. Inside the palace wall, the emperor sat leisurely on the wooden couch, smiling and said to the officials who came to meet:

"I heard that your mansion has been filled with guests recently, and a mapo tofu in your mansion is now famous in Chang'an."

When the official heard this, he suddenly looked furious, thinking that fortunately he did not have the jar of bean paste used for free at that time. Otherwise, he would have followed Tang Jian's footsteps this time.

"Report to Your Majesty, the bean paste used to make the Mapo tofu was bought from Narosaburo for twenty cents." The gentleman was open-minded. Since he bought the jar of bean paste by himself, he was not afraid of the emperor's concern.
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