The silt at the bottom of the river was very deep and it took a long time to dig it. The engineers who were constructing in the cylinder dug it to the bottom, revealing the rock layer under the riverbed at the bottom.

After digging the rock layer, a stonemason made several holes in the rock. Then someone was responsible for weaving the iron bars with iron wire and inserting them into the small holes just made on the rock. After making the iron bars rack, the engineer nailed the wooden board into a hollow cylinder, inserted it into the mud, and went straight to the rock layer at the bottom.

On the shore, the engineers and soldiers were busy. The boats that were downstream were full of gravels. The engineers unloaded the gravels from the boat and loaded them onto small carts. The boats that came downstream from the sea docked on the riverside. The engineers unloaded the bags made of thick paper on the ship and transported them to the shore. Some boats went downstream from the upstream, and the boats were filled with sand.

The engineers and soldiers mixed sand, gravel and gray powder poured out of the paper bag, put it into a large iron bucket placed horizontally, injected water, and then several people stepped on the pedals hard. Under the transmission of mechanical gears, the large iron bucket started to rotate. After a while, the mixture in the large iron bucket was almost stirred and was poured onto a small cart.

The cart transported the mixed cement concrete. When the river arrived, someone lifted the iron barrel from the cart, placed it on the boat, and then sent it to the pile driving point.

The engineers carried a large iron bucket and poured the concrete inside the bucket into the wooden frame.

After these watered cements are dried, they become hard cement piles. The subsequent task is to lay two layers of wooden boards on the cement piles and complete them.

The reason why there are no horizontal cement slabs is that steel in this era was too expensive, and Li Guodong could not use steel bars to make reinforced concrete. As for horizontal cement slabs, steel bars must be used as a skeleton to cast reinforced concrete to withstand weight and prevent the cement slab from breaking and deforming.

Since there is no way to use steel bars to cast cement boards, you only need to lay wooden boards. After a few years, the steelmaking technology will be developed and then replaced with steel bars and cement concrete.

The construction speed of the engineers was very fast. In less than half a year, six berths were built by the river. At high tide, the berths could reach two meters deep, and large ships from the Western Yi could be parked on the berths.

Next, it is the road to the development zone towns. To develop the economy, the road will come first.

The road built is a stone road. Upstream of the river, some engineers were dispatched to the mountain to mine stones. The mined stones were made into stone slabs, and then loaded into ships and transported to the development zone at the mouth of the river. The stones were laid on the ground and built into stone roads.

Just when the Annan Rice Trading Company was in a hurry to build, the Suzhou Branch Building of Jiangnan Donglin Bank was completed. It was a huge six-story building, but such a building took only more than a year to complete. It has to be said to be a miracle in the history of architecture! The reason why the construction speed is so fast is because the building is built with new building materials.

At the entrance of the bank building, there are two magnificent marble columns. From a distance, they looked like marble columns. When they walked up to them, they found that they were actually just a layer of marble wrapped inside. I don’t know what material it was made of. In fact, there are reinforced concrete cement columns inside, which are real steel bars. Because the floor is high, if steel bars are not used but iron bars are replaced, the iron bars will easily break, which will cause the columns to break and the building to collapse.

Moreover, the Donglin gentry in Jiangnan was rich, and it was not impossible to spend some money to build steel bars and columns.

On the plaque outside the bank building, there are four big characters "Jiangnan Silver" written, and there is a line of small characters below, with four words "Suzhou semicolon" written on it. The reason why the two characters Donglin were deleted in the end was that the Donglin Party members did not want to attract the wind. They fooled Emperor Chongzhen to reduce business taxes, and kept saying that they value agriculture and neglect business taxes (in fact, it was to increase agricultural taxes and reduce commercial taxes). The court did not compete with the people for profit (in fact, this people were themselves), and deceived the emperor all day long. As for the Donglin Party protecting merchants and merchants investing in scholars, it was all behind the scenes. If the Donglin Party openly typing the plaque of Donglin Silver, even if Chongzhen is incompetent, news will inevitably come to Chongzhen's ears.

Chongzhen was not a kind person. If he knew about the matter, he would definitely start a massacre. The reason why Emperor Chongzhen was able to allow gentry to collude with merchants and embezzle the wealth of the court was only because he had cut off the factory guards under the deception of civil servants and lost his eyes and ears. But the gentry group could not put the matter on the surface, otherwise Chongzhen would be furious and ordered the restoration of factory guards, and the consequences would be unimaginable. Once Chongzhen was furious and restored the factory guards, Wang Chengen would never be ruthless than Jiu Qiansui.

Today is the opening day. People watching the fun, the gentry invested in Jiangnan, and the gentry who are preparing to come and see and decide whether to deposit the money, came to the door early to wait and wait. People were rushing under the steps, and everyone stretched their necks and waited anxiously for the opening.

This building is the most magnificent and grandest building in Suzhou City. After the construction of the building was completed some time ago, the gate was closed and it is said that it was being renovated. Today is the opening time, and everyone is curious and wants to go in and visit.

With a gong, Li Guodong walked in the front, and behind it was the water too cold. Lu Xiangsheng and other major shareholders walked out of the gate and walked to the edge of the steps.

"Dear fellow villagers, today is the day when the Jiangnan Silver House is opened!" Li Guodong stood on the steps and shouted loudly, "Maybe you don't know the purpose and benefits of the Jiangnan Silver House. Today, as long as the villagers who come in, we have a dedicated person to explain it to you patiently! And you will be invited to visit the Silver House building! You will also visit the vault!"

The ribbon cutting began. Lu Xiangsheng, Li Guodong and Shui Tailiang cut a red cloth, and then Shui Tailiang shouted loudly: "Everyone, now the door is open, you can go in and visit our silver number!"

People rushed to the steps, and the bank bodyguards worked hard to maintain order, so that they did not cause major chaos.

Walking up the twelve-stairs white marble steps, a platform with marble floor above. Walking up the platform, twenty steps ahead is the gate of Jiangnan Silver. Today is the first day of the opening of the ribbon cutting business. The copper door is open, with granite walls on both sides. Walking into the door, the floor is covered with marble floors, and a spacious business hall is placed on the front. There are rows of stone benches for customers to sit on in the hall, and opposite is the business counter.

There was an iron fence on the counter that separated the inside and outside the counter. There were fully armed guards standing in the hall. The guards showed a murderous aura on their faces. In fact, they were all retired Tianxiong soldiers, responsible for the security work of the Suzhou branch of the Jiangnan Bank. If a villain attempted to rob the silver number, the guards would take decisive action.

The height of the hall is very high, reaching two feet high, and there is a half-story corridor around it, which is one foot higher than the ground.

"What a beautiful building!" The gentry and people who visited were sighing.

"From here, go downstairs, and you will be in the vault." A man who looked like a shopkeeper, led two friends and more than a dozen beautiful girls, introduced to the people who came to visit.

After passing through the hall, I walked past a thick iron wooden door and entered the entrance of the vault behind. People lined up and walked down the stairs, and then arrived in front of the vault.

When people saw the open vault of the iron door in front of them, they understood why the Silver Hall was set up on the twelve steps. It turned out that the vault was under the hall. The reason why the basement was not dug was because the groundwater level in Suzhou was too high, so it would be water if it was dug underground. Therefore, the method of raising the twelve steps was adopted, and the twelve steps were raised and three feet underground were dug to form the vault.
Chapter completed!