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"I've won the bid in the name of the Sihai Chamber of Commerce. As long as you have money, you can participate."

"But I have to say something upfront. If you want to participate in the subcontract, you have to start at least two hundred miles."

"And if you want to contract a longer section, then based on the 200-mile basis, every 60 miles will be a unit."

When they heard Wei Wu talk about two hundred miles, all the members of the Chamber of Commerce present were stunned.

With such a long distance, how much money would it cost to complete the road? It was a bit difficult.

Seeing the expressions on these people's faces, Wei Wu guessed what they were thinking, so he started to explain.

"This isn't a hurdle for me, but for your own benefit. Two hundred miles is the fastest way to recoup your investment."

After Wei Wu finished speaking, the members of the Chamber of Commerce looked at each other, and then one of them stood up.

"My Lord, we are not worried about the revenue, but we are worried that we can't afford to build the road!"

He had guessed that someone would say this, so as soon as the person finished speaking, Wei Wu took over the conversation.

"I've already calculated the cost. Including materials and labor, it will cost approximately 25,000 taels of silver."

"With your wealth, you can basically come up with this amount of money. Besides, you must have made a lot of money from cement during this period!"

These people are the ones who participated in the science and technology exhibition. If they can participate in the science and technology exhibition, their net worth must be quite high.

It is not difficult to come up with 25,000 taels of silver, not to mention that Wei Wu calculated it based on his own cost.

You have to know that these people all have their own cement workshops, and the cost of using cement is much lower than Wei Wu.

As for how the 25,000 taels of silver came from, it is actually very simple.

According to Wei Wu's calculations, including labor and materials, the cost of building one square meter of cement road is about eighty coins.

So the cost of building one kilometer is eighty taels of silver. Of course, this is the modern three-dimensional length.

To put it in perspective, one hundred kilometers in modern times is equal to two hundred miles in ancient times, so the total cost is eight thousand taels of silver.

But this is just the length. Wei Wu envisioned the width of the cement road to be three meters, and eight thousand two times three is twenty-four thousand.

But don't forget that this was Wei Wu's own calculation. In fact, the cement costs of these merchants are lower than his.

Even so, Wei Wudu even mentioned an extra budget of one thousand taels to prevent unexpected events from happening.

While Wei Wu was speaking, the businessmen were actually calculating the approximate cost in their minds.

In the end, they concluded that Wei Wu was right, and the number they calculated was even much less than what Wei Wu said.

The reason is simple: labor costs are shockingly low in this era.

The daily wages of ordinary people in the Ming Dynasty were about twenty-five to thirty cents, which was less than one or two taels of silver a month.

Even if they hired two hundred people to build the road, they would only have to pay less than two hundred taels of silver in wages per month.

Even if the construction period is as long as one year, it will only cost two thousand four hundred taels of silver.

But the road built by two hundred people during this year is definitely worth the money paid.

Most of the people in this era are honest people who have been digging in the soil all their lives. They have good physical strength, work steadily and efficiently.

After coming to a conclusion in their minds, they became somewhat interested in this matter.

So not long after Wei Wu finished speaking, someone couldn't help but stand up.

Interestingly, the person who stood up was Xiong Hualin.

Among the businessmen who had previously joined the Sihai Chamber of Commerce, Xiong Hualin had the most cement workshops.

From this point, we can see that this person is quite decisive in doing business, at least more decisive than others.