The snow spirit channel currently under construction in Changle County is already very famous because of the popularity of the story book "Snow Spirit Beast".

Du Gou was not mentioned in the book, but everyone who should know about Chang'an City now knows it. This canal was built by Du Gou, although Luo Yong is indispensable to support it from behind.

Most people in Chang'an also know that Du Gou has now become a disciple of Luo Yong.

Many gentry families in Chang'an City expressed difficulty in accepting his approach. After all, Du Gou was born in an aristocratic family. Although Na Luo Yong is talented, he is not a person with high moral character and high knowledge. Why should he take him as his teacher?

People in this era value background, knowledge, and virtue, which far exceed their talents.

Luo Yong has talents and the sage summoned him to become an official, and he used all the things and talents to use them.

Since he has used his talents, he has brought benefits to the court and the people. Then he will give him official positions and wealth, which is reasonable.

But Du Ruhui's eldest son actually wanted to respect him as his teacher, which in many people's eyes is very unreasonable.

"This time Luo Yong returned from Longxi, I think it must be much more glorious than before."

On this day, several men were having a banquet at a restaurant in Qujiangchi. The pavilions and towers were sparkling, and the autumn wind blew on their faces, which was very comfortable and leisurely, with elegant style. During the meal, someone mentioned Luo Yong's matter.

"Of course, the coffin board is no longer the same as it was a few years ago." Someone answered.

"I know that the Bai family has always had a good relationship with Luo Yong. The Zheng family in Xingyang received news from him last time and bought the iron ore in advance to get benefits. Now they have a very clear attitude. It is obviously a person from their side. I didn't expect that the Gu family has made a statement now." A man said.

Earlier, the Gu family suddenly jumped out to study for the Imperial College. They were very active and they formed a bond with several officials from the Imperial College.

If the Gu family simply doesn't like the behavior of those people who are studying in the Imperial College, they come forward to meddle in this idiot business, so they must not believe it.

At this critical moment, Luo Yong was about to return to Beijing, and the Gu family was clearly showing goodwill.

After all, Hou Lin and Luo Yong were both from Lishi County, and they had lived in the same yard earlier. Hou Lin's nephew Qiao Junlin and Luo Yong were very good. A few years ago, Luo Yong was driven to Changle County as the county magistrate, so Qiao Junlin went with him.

"Tsk, it's probably because Zheng's family has gained benefits."

"That's a big benefit."

"Do you guys don't know what the purpose of your family is?"

"My brother asked my nephew yesterday that he was familiar with Na Luoyong when he was studying in the Imperial Academy earlier."

"But they are familiar with each other?"

"My nephew replied, "What's the matter with the coffin board?"

"Ha ha ha ha!"

"The kid knows what it is."

"Now, not only the Zheng family of Bai, but also the Luo family has a close relationship with the family in Hedong in recent years. The big and small businesses are even more in line with their Luo family siblings. There are also many family wives in Chang'an City who have invested money in the sister's food shop."

"But don't underestimate those women, they take their money more important than their eyes."

"The coffin board is really a bit amazing now."

"I can't treat him as the country boy in the past."

"It's just a few years..."

"I was in the ninth year of Zhenguan. I first heard about Luo Yong's deeds in Lishi County. Now it is the nineteenth year of Zhenguan. Calculate the time, it has been ten years since the past ten years."

"A few years ago, when he went to Changle County to take office, it was about autumn, but it was the thirteenth year of Zhenguan?"

"It's not that I left Beijing in the autumn of the 12th year of Zhenguan and arrived in Changle County in the first month of the 13th year."

"So, he's been there for nearly seven years?"

“That’s right.”

Speaking of this, everyone was silent.

With Luo Yong's talent that he showed in Chang'an City back then, such a young talent, who, if he had a better background, would not stay in the border area of ​​Changle County for seven years.

"Seven years..."

“It’s time to come back.”

The men of Chang'an City were quite emotional when they talked about Luo Yong's trip to Longxi for seven years.

Luo Yong himself didn't think anything was wrong. When he was first brought out of Chang'an City, he was indeed a little angry. It would be great if he stayed in Changle County with peace of mind. He has lived a happy life over the years.

On the contrary, Chen Jiao felt that he was wronged. He should have applied for transfer two years earlier, but because of Luo Yong, he had been here for so long.

Chen Jiao wanted to leave early in the morning. As soon as the news from Chang'an City came, he couldn't wait to ask his family and servants to start packing their bags. When Ding Minbai and Mao arrived in Jinchang City, he was in a hurry to hand over the work, and then he swayed his sleeves and left first, without waiting for Luo Yong.

The handover work was done in a sloppy manner, and Ding Min was the first time he became a governor, and he was very worried. Fortunately, the fiscal deficit in Guazhou is not very serious, and there are not many empty households.

When he first took office, Luo Yong showed a supportive attitude towards him. The local merchants and wealthy families now seem to be convinced by him, the new governor. After all, he made great contributions to building roads in Longyou Road, so the locals would definitely miss him.

In Changle County, Bai Yimao, the new county magistrate, came to take office, so it was naturally time for Luo Yong to step down.

Luo Yong and Bai Yimao were familiar with each other. In the past, Bai Yimao also went to Xipo Village and learned arithmetic with Luo Yong. The Bai Luo families have also been very close in recent years. In this case, the handover between them was naturally done very carefully.

"...The canned and sauce-making workshops are managed by the Gongfu, and they earn a lot every year. With this money income, all expenditures can come from."

"Nothing else is mentioned in Changle County. The wages and benefits of the officials and servants alone are a lot every month. The wages of the servants in Changle County are higher than those elsewhere. If it is not necessary, you should not reduce their wages. Once the wages are reduced, people will be afraid that they will disperse..."

"Apart from those expenses, there will definitely be some surplus. You can save it at that time and expand the city wall to the north. This is the sketch I drew earlier, so you can leave it for reference."

"The construction of the new urban area requires the drainage ditches and pipelines for transporting biogas early in the morning..."

"There are still so many charcoals over there. I sold most of them earlier, but now there are still a lot left..."

"And this liquor workshop..."

"And the income from that wooden track..."

There is still the final finishing work left for the construction of the canal, and Luo Yong did not participate. In the past few days, he took Bai Yimao to walk around Changle County.

After watching it for several days, Bai Yimao was also a little shocked. When others became officials in the local area, most of the things they took over were messes. The only difference was the degree of the bad debt. The one he took over was simply a money-making machine!

Changle County doesn't look big, and it can earn so much money every year and so much income, so I can't spend it all at all. Then you can spend whatever you want. This life is too comfortable, right?

However, Luo Yong said to him: "There are more places to spend money, and you still need to be careful on weekdays."

"Besides building Chengbei New District, what else can I spend money?" Bai Yimao was puzzled. Luo Yong even repaired the canal for him. In his opinion, Changle County was not short of anything.

"Follow me." Luo Yong said to him.

Bai Yimao followed Luo Yong through the street and entered the workshop area. Then they first went to the needle shop.

This needle shop is an industry under Luo Yong's disciples. In recent years, there have been many needle shops in the Central Plains. Central Plains vendors do not come here to buy needles. In addition to operating the local market, this needle shop is mainly sold to merchants in the Western Regions.

"I heard that some needle shops in the Central Plains made very fine needles, and each workshop has its own strengths. The strength of this needle shop in Changle County is that it is fast speed and high production."

Luo Yong said that, he took Bai Yimao to a wire drawing workshop. There were several tall black instruments in the workshop. At this time, these instruments were running, and the iron wires were pulled long and thin between the machine, as if they were very easy.

Behind these instruments, several young and strong men were waving shovels to a place made of iron, similar to the stove. The structure above the stove seemed to be boiling hot water, and white smoke was emitting.

These equipment can operate as long as it is burned, and it does not require human and animal power to drive it. The craftsmen only need to guard and adjust it next to them to ensure the quality of the wire drawing.

"This place is often not allowed to come in because of these equipment, so people don't want to learn it."

"But this batch of wire drawing machines was also made earlier. Later, the new equipment made by Hengzhi and others have improved technology. If you have a lot of money in the future, you will merge these old equipment and rebuild it."

"Why can this carbonite make the equipment run?" Bai Yimao was curious about the working principle of these equipment.

"There is not only wind power in this world. On weekdays, you can see that the pot boils water and steam steams, there is also a kind of force. Let's call it heat. If this heat is used properly, it can also help produce." Luo Yong roughly explained some heat energy to Bai Yimao.

"Apart from this wire drawing machine, is there any other usage?" Bai Yimao felt that not everything he saw in front of him, and Luo Yong seemed to have hidden his ultimate move behind him.

"In addition to this wire drawing machine, there are also needle cutting machines and rough mills. I originally planned to make some hole punches, but unfortunately the accuracy has not been achieved." Luo Yong said, and then took Bai Yimao out of the workshop.

"There is another treasure, I don't want to show it to him."

“What is it?”

This time, Luo Yong took Bai Yimao to the Machine House. There was a not-so-conspicuous room in the backyard of the Machine House. Luo Yong took out the key from himself and opened the door and asked someone to guard the door outside.

Bai Yimao followed Luo Yong in. As soon as he entered the door, he saw a track laying on the ground. Looking around, it turned out that this house, which looked nothing strange from the outside, occupied a whole row of houses, and that track was laid from one end to the other. It was not an ordinary wooden track, but a railway track.

"It's this treasure." Luo Yong patted a car on the rails and said to Bai Yimao:

"Since the heat can make wire drawing machines and other objects, it can naturally drive the vehicle to drive on the tracks. This front of the car can drag several carriages for transporting goods. Unfortunately, the weight is too large and ordinary wooden tracks cannot withstand it, so they need rails."

Bai Yimao was already shocked by what he saw and Luo Yong said at this time.

Yes, heat is not as erratic as wind, nor is it like water, but can only be used along the river. This heat is obtained by burning carbon, so as long as they move the carbon to the car, burn it on the car, and continuously create heat, then this force can be carried with them...

"...Did you hear me say something?" Luo Yong said over there and found that Bai Yimao was distracted.

"Ah?" Bai Yimao looked shocked and confused.

"I said, your family asked you to come to Changle County, so I naturally hope you can make some political achievements. It is not easy for you to take over my position as the magistrate of Changle County. It is not easy for me to make another breakthrough. After thinking about it for a while, only this treasure can help you." Luo Yong said

"Then what should I do?" Bai Yimao's mind was still blank at this time.

"You'd better change the wooden tracks around Changle County to railroad tracks during your tenure, and then promote this kind of fire-burning car in the local area, and call it a train."

"Do you want to lay the rails?" Bai Yimao was surprised: "How much does it cost?"

"Save some money and save more, you should still save it." In order to repay the kindness of the Bai family, Luo Yong was worried this time, and even thought about the place to spend money for him.
Chapter completed!