Chapter 16 Leading the Trend in Yanling County
"Ding Dong, you need to accumulate 200 popularity points next time."
Two hundred people! That’s too difficult.
Therefore, as soon as Tang Wen landed, he asked Bu Feng to select more people to be stationed in Yanling County.
One is to gather information, and the other is to accommodate refugees and disaster victims fleeing from the war.
This was the first spy agency Tang Wen established in the alien world. When Zhan Dongwen asked him what name to give it, Tang Wen blurted out, "War Fox."
Hehe, because the movie Wolf Warrior is so famous.
Bu Feng was the first leader of the War Fox Group, and he only had five or six subordinates.
This time, the 8,000 taels of gold were sold for 96 million. Tang Wen used 40 million to buy back 200,000 taels of silver ingots, and the remaining 56 million was used to purchase supplies.
400 tons are cement, steel bars, special warfare training equipment, etc.
At this time, Sun Ping came to report that a large number of stones were found not far from the back mountain.
The stone was covered with weeds and trees, and it must have been the stone left behind when those people stole the Tang family's silver mine.
These stones are all hard granite. After being crushed with a crusher, they can be used to mix cement, which solves the big problem of raw materials for dam construction.
The last time Li Quan went to Yanling County to exchange silver for gold, it seemed that he was targeted. Therefore, after this exchange, Tang Wen’s plan to exchange gold for silver and make a profit from the price difference had to be put on hold for the time being .
Moreover, as the amount increases, we have to guard against being targeted by special departments of the Great East Republic.
In ten days, Tang Wen and Qiao Xiao and his team chose a place and started installing special warfare training equipment.
For example, sand pits, fire walls, puddles, muddy swamps, bushes, plum blossom piles, shooting ranges, drill wires... swings...
Of course, these are all facilities that do not require electric start, otherwise, there is no way to do it.
Ge Ziyun was assigned to lead people to widen and tidy up the roads on the island.
There were stone crushers and sand crushers working overtime, and more than a dozen flatbed carts were used to transport the materials, and a medium-sized excavator and a road roller were also used.
With the help of two hundred laborers, the road was leveled and widened to about eight or nine meters. With the ditches on both sides nearly ten meters wide, the road was almost as good as the county roads in China decades ago.
In that era, most county roads were only five or six meters wide and were paved with gravel.
If cars can run, why can’t horse-drawn carriages run?
After having their fill, the disaster victims of the Great Chu State worked much faster and with greater strength than the handymen in modern society who ate meat and fish every day and had a few glasses of white wine to wash down their meals at night.
In addition, gravel roads do not require much technical skills, so the progress was not slow. About four to five hundred meters were paved in one day.
At this rate, it will take a month to build a stone bridge by the sea.
If you want to be rich, you must build roads first, and this road must be completed.
Otherwise, the large quantities of agricultural products and other products produced on the island will not be able to be shipped out in the future.
In a blink of an eye, a month passed, the road was repaired, and the construction of the Wolong Lake Dam was about to begin, which required a large amount of cement and steel bars.
More than 30,000 taels were spent on purchasing horses, mules, elixirs, etc.
However, Tang Wen didn't make a penny in nearly two months. He was living off his savings and would not be able to withstand the hardship even if he had a mountain of gold and silver.
However, Tang Wen only managed to recruit about 50 people in this month, which is still far from the goal of 200 popularity points when the 'Landlord System' was reopened.
Tang Wen was also a little anxious.
As soon as I returned to the base, Gu Hanyan came over and said, "Master, I have recovered now and can serve you."
"You must be unwilling in your heart?" Tang Wen looked at her and said.
“Whether you are willing or not, you have to do it. I am not a person who does not keep his promises.
Since she was sold to the Tang family, she became a slave of the Tang family.
Master, there is no need to worry about anything. I will do my duty as a servant.
I will never embarrass the master and lose my duty." Gu Hanyan said with a cold expression.
"Okay, I'll ask someone to divide the tent into three rooms. You, Junru and I will each have one room." Tang Wen nodded.
"Yeah." Gu Hanyan responded softly.
Downstairs, Tang Wen called a carpenter and divided the tent into three rooms using fireproof boards.
Sleeping in the middle is called "hugging on both sides". Of course, it's just a fantasy.
In the afternoon, Li Quan returned from Yanling County and brought back two hundred taels of gold.
"Master, this is from Miss Li Chuner of Piaoxianglou. She said she has received all three batches of goods given by you. She asked if you have any more. If you do, ask me to send it over immediately." Li Quan took out a letter and handed it over.
Tang Wen took out the letter and read it, and found that it was a bill.
I was immediately shocked. I didn't expect that the mirrors, lipsticks and perfumes would disappear so quickly. They were all gone in more than two months.
At that time, the three batches of goods were all inferior products, and the cost for Tang Wen was only about 200,000 yuan. The two hundred taels of gold ingot could be sold for more than 2 million yuan if it were transported back to the Great East Republic.
Ten times the profit, even more lucrative than drug trafficking.
"Master, you don't know that there has been a trend of Yanling Jun recently." Li Quan said with a smile.
"What wind?" Tang Wen asked.
"Mirror style, perfume style, all the famous young ladies and ladies go out with it.
If she didn't have any perfume on her body, she would take out a small round mirror from time to time to comb her hair and pose.
Then you will be looked down upon and regarded as an inferior person.
So, for a while, the whole city was full of small mirrors.
However, now that they are out of stock, many people have taken the opportunity to resell the mirror lipsticks, and the price has doubled in an instant," said Li Quan.
"Is there such a thing?" Tang Wen was a little dumbfounded.
"It's absolutely true. I saw with my own eyes several wives and daughters of officials showing off their small round mirrors." Li Quan said.
"That's great, Li Quan, you should immediately take people to escort a batch over to Li Chuner, and sell it according to the old rules." Tang Wen said.
"Now the price of mirror perfume has increased, but we still keep the same price. Aren't we at a disadvantage?" Li Quan asked with concern.
"It's okay. Business needs to be long-term, so you have to make some money for others. We won't suffer any loss if we sell at a low profit but high volume." Tang Wen brought Li Quan into the warehouse and gave him all the remaining goods.
Of course, it’s not that Tang Wen doesn’t want to raise the price, he has to consider the affordability of the women in Yanling City.
The first batch of people who bought mirror lipsticks were all rich people, and this batch of goods is probably for women from middle-class families.
This group of people can barely afford to eat, and they have to scrape together an ounce or two of gold from all over, which is not easy.
If the price goes up, they won't be able to afford it, and the products will become unsalable, which will be detrimental to sales development.
After all, Yanling City is just a county town, and Tang Wen’s eyes are on the provincial capital, Jiangzhou.
There were even more rich ladies and wives of officials there. The next day, the first step of construction of the Wolong Lake Dam project began.
There is a Chaotian Peak in the center of Koh Samui, which is more than one thousand meters high.
The entire Chaotian Peak extends outward, twenty to thirty miles long from east to west. Tang Wen is not sure how much it covers from north to south. All the fresh water on the island flows down from Chaotian Peak.
The water flowing into Wolong Lake first flows down in the form of multiple waterfalls upstream, leaving a deep pool below, and then forms a stream that flows straight into Wolong Lake.
The stream is not big. It is only ten meters wide near Chaotian Peak and only about thirty-four meters wide near the entrance of Wolong Lake.
To build a dam, you first have to intercept the stream, divert it to another place using huge pipes, and drain the lake before construction can begin.
Tang Wen had thought of this first. A month ago, he had selected a relatively flat site five , and built a huge water storage tank with concrete.
In addition, several more were built downstream every mile, all the way to the camp.
At that time, Zhan Dongwen and his gang thought that the master was fooling around and didn't know why so much cement was spent on it. Today, Tang Wen let them know.
"Dongwen, we had to go to the bottom of the lake to fetch water before. Don't you think it's tiring?" Tang Wen asked with a smile while standing in front of the water tank.
“Of course I’m tired, and now there are more and more people and horses, and they all need water.
I also have to do laundry and vegetables, and will expand in the future.
I'm afraid we'll need at least ten people a day just to carry water." Zhan Dongwen nodded.
"I'm afraid a dozen or so may not be enough. If the population of our camp increases to two or three thousand, and there are a hundred livestock, how much water will we need in a day for food, accommodation, and washing? We will need dozens of people to carry water." Ge Ziyun said.
"That's right. A few thousand is nothing. What if the population is 10,000, 120,000 or 130,000?" Tang Wen said with a smile.
"Then we can't use it at all. I understand. So, master, you have to build a dam. In the future, when the water level rises, we will have to drink the water from Wolong Lake." Zhan Dongwen thought about it.
"Haha, no, no, no, Wolong Lake has other uses. To solve the problem of drinking water and using water, we will have to rely on it from now on." Tang Wen pointed to the huge cement pool.
"Could it be that the master wants to divert the stream water into the pond and then connect it to the camp with pipes?" Ge Ziyun was much smarter.
"Yes! And, you see, our pools are in the shape of stairs, going down to the camp, there are several of them." Tang Wen said .
"Isn't this a waste? Just connect it directly from the pool to the camp." Zhang Kui asked.
