Chapter 299: The Mechanism is Cast
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After a spring rain, the weather gradually warmed.
The construction of Qingzhou’s roads officially began. The cement workshop was working day and night to produce cement, while at the same time, new cement pipe workshops had sprung up in the community.
These workshops bought cement from the cement factory, then used molds to mix sand and cement to produce cement pipes.
Once the underground pipes in Qingzhou were being dug, the merchants who had contracted the pipe construction came daily to purchase these cement pipes, which brought significant profits to the cement workshop’s owners.
Dai Zixing, the owner of the cement workshop, grinned as he accepted fifty taels of silver. He was a local merchant from Qingzhou, and one of the first to join the local merchant guild.
“Zhu Wuliu, I’ll accept this silver,” Dai Zixing said, smiling at Zhu Wuliu.
Zhu Wuliu, the young man from Zhujia Village, had become quite famous in Qingzhou. He had borrowed three thousand taels from the government, contracted ten local roads and underground pipe constructions, showing courage and ambition far beyond that of ordinary villagers.
“Dai Shopkeeper, you’re too polite. I must also thank you for agreeing to extend credit on the pipes before; otherwise, I wouldn’t have had enough silver to complete the project,” Zhu Wuliu said with a big grin.
The villagers, who had come to help Zhu Wuliu with his projects, were also benefiting from the work. Since he contracted the construction of Qingzhou’s roads, he had returned home and quickly hired people from the village.
Each person earned thirty wen a day. For the elderly and young men, this was an excellent opportunity. Thirty wen a day might not seem like much, but in a month, it added up to almost one tael of silver—quite a lucrative deal for the villagers.