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The clerk then took out a small stack of tissues and an exquisite little wooden box.

Wanqi Zixi's eyes were instantly attracted by the wooden box.

The surface of the wooden box is hollowed out and carved with patterns, giving it an antique feel.

Wanqi Zixi couldn't refuse such an exquisite item, and after a while his eyes turned back to the stack of tissues the clerk had just taken out.

The paper called napkin paper is softer than the toilet paper Wanqi Zixi has touched.

Cheng Yu turned around and looked at Wanqi Zixi. Wanqi Zixi and the Mohist disciples around him were all very attracted by this paper towel.

In the end, several people joined together and bought not only toilet paper but also napkins.

By putting the folded paper towels into the wooden box, you can take them out of the box one by one, which greatly facilitates everyone.

Such a box of tissues will be much more expensive than toilet paper.

The people in the Mohist School are not short of money, so they can naturally afford it.

Since paper towels are consumables and are used up quickly, Wanqi Zixi simply bought a few boxes of paper and stockpiled them within the base, but that is another story for later.

The few shops on the street don't sell many goods, but they are all commodities used in daily life.

In just one day, Mu Qing made a lot of money.

With a lot of funds returned, Mu Qing began to consider building roads and city walls in Anping.

The connection between Anping main city and the counties is not close, except that merchants from Huang County would come to Anping to do business and bring news from Huang County.

In the other four counties, Mu Qing simply sent troops to take control of the county government offices and placed a few officials inside.

According to the descriptions of these officials, landlords in various counties gradually became dissatisfied with Mu Qing's policies.

Mu Qing doesn't care about the thoughts of these landlords, but if they hinder the development of Anping, Mu Qing will never let them go.

The reason for the weak connection is simple.

The world had not yet entered the steam age. There were no cars, let alone bicycles.

It would take a long time for a letter to reach Anping from Shengjing even if it was sent by horse at full speed, not to mention the lack of suitable transportation and the extremely poor road conditions.

Even for horses, there is a difference between walking on a rocky road and on an ordinary sandy road.

If you go out and travel from one county to another, even if it is within the same city, you have to carry enough dry food and travel for several days just to walk.

If any emergency occurred in other counties, Mu Qing would not know the situation until two or three days later.

This will weaken Mu Qing's control over the counties.

Once the textile machine is fully manufactured, we can try to start making a batch of bicycles.

Mountain bikes, in particular, should have a large market among landlords and the wealthy.

However, the prerequisite for making bicycles is to have a good official road.

Otherwise, given the current level of official roads, no matter how durable a bicycle is, it would be difficult to ride back and forth between several counties.

It is well said that if you want to get rich, you must first build roads.

Whether Mu Qing wants to develop Anping's economy or strengthen the ties between the counties and Anping.

Roads must be built.

Mu Qing thought for a moment and wrote down a road construction plan in Anping Prefecture in just a few strokes.

Is there any material for building roads that is comparable to cement? We can't afford to build asphalt roads or blacktop roads if we can't find oil.

The cement road could be repaired.

Cement can be made from limestone and volcanic ash. There are no volcanoes in Anping, so volcanic ash is difficult to find. Clay can be used instead.

Another type of material is iron ore.

Limestone and iron ore can be found in Anping, and because of the Liulichang and steel mills, both are ready-made materials.

Clay was widely used in ancient times. Pottery and porcelain were both made of clay. Clay was distributed in various counties in Anping, so there was no need to worry about finding suitable clay.

To produce cement, it is necessary to add an appropriate amount of coal powder, about 8.5%-11%, to the ground raw materials, and then put them into the kiln for calcination at a high temperature of thousands of degrees.

The raw material is a mixture of limestone, iron ore and iron powder ground in proportion.

The high-temperature calcination time is at least 1400C, and the temperature for iron smelting is 1500C. With coal mine temperature, this is not a problem.

Finally, the raw materials need to be crushed.

The product after calcination is clinker, to which gypsum is added and ground into fine powder.

The grinding step can be done solely by relying on the eldest brother's spiritual power. The subsequent grinding procedures will increase, and when the technology tree is higher, you can build a hammer crusher to replace manpower.

As for the ratio of cement raw materials, it depends on the actual situation.

配比大概为石灰石67-75%，粘土10-15%，铁矿0.5-1.5%，还有煤8.5-11%。

These ratios still need to be tried one by one through some control experiments.

The theory is feasible and practice begins.

Zhuge Huaian and Mo Xuzhi both have the talent to be prime ministers, but their talents are not up to the threshold of the position, so Mu Qing threw all the affairs to them.

The excuse is to train the two's abilities.

Zhuge Huaian waved his feather fan twice while taking over Anping's affairs, while Mo Xuzhi started to work steadily.

"It is my great fortune to have two great talents to share my worries."

Mu Qing smiled soothingly.

Zhuge Huaian also lost his temper.

Mu Qing never treats talented people unfairly.

Mu Qing, who likes weapons, asked the Mo family to customize suitable weapons.

As someone who likes all kinds of books, Mu Qing began to collect them and copied down any articles written by famous people that he could remember.

The monthly salary is the salary of an official, and Mu Qing's salary is much higher than the prescribed salary of the government office.

The only thing is that the working hours are a bit long.

However, with such generous remuneration, it is reasonable to work longer hours.

cough cough.

Mu Qing placed the raw material ratio of cement in front of Master Xu. Master Xu, as one of the wise men of the farming family, was fascinated by chemistry. It must be said that this combination was a little weird.

But Mr. Xu is worthy of being Mr. Xu. For several months, he started learning from chemical symbols and has now finished the content of high school chemistry twice.

He held the cement mix in his hand. He had done several hybrid rice experiments and other crop experiments and was no stranger to control experiments.

Achieve experimental objectives by controlling experimental variables.

Mu Qing listed quite a few variables, and Master Xu led his farming disciples to conduct experiments one by one.

The raw material ratio data provided by Mu Qing are basically sufficient to make cement. The current experiments are mainly due to differences in the environment and limestone composition.

With Shen Moyan around, it took less than three days to figure out the right mix for cement production.

Master Xu was very rigorous in conducting experiments, but due to his old age and poor eyesight, some experimental steps had to be carried out with the help of his farming disciples.