Chapter 1780： untitled

Chapter 1780: Cement Board Road

The lack of firewood fuel also led to a new situation-Marin's honeycomb coal sold very well in the Netherlands. After all, honeycomb coal is convenient and inexpensive. As it happens, firewood is more expensive in the Netherlands, so it is better to buy Marin's honeycomb coal.

But there was also a situation that made Marin cry and laugh-some clever Dutch fishermen actually used the honeycomb stove and honeycomb coal bought from Marin to cook their own salt on the beach. Then, use the boiled salt to pickle the salted fish ...

Not to mention, this trick is really good! Honeycomb coal stove is relatively high efficiency and low cost. Although the pan used for the honeycomb stove is not large, there is little salt cooked. However, the cost of holding it is much cheaper than buying salt! Even, the cost is less than one-third of the market price.

Therefore, Marin now finds that in the coastal areas of the Netherlands, salt can no longer be sold. After the clever fishermen on the seashore bought the roads and honeycomb coal, and boiled the salt in their own homes, the whole family could be moisturized.

In desperation, Marin had to control the sales of cellular coal in the coastal areas of the Netherlands in order to suppress the local private salt cooking industry. However, the business was ultimately affected. Controlling the sale of honeycomb coal is not without results, at least, limiting the wave of local fishermen selling low-priced salt to the inland.

Originally, there was sufficient supply of honeycomb coal, and many Dutch coastal fishermen simply did not go out to fish, and directly used the honeycomb stove to cook salt at home every day. Then, at a price lower than the salt price on the market, secretly selling private salt to inland areas, affecting the sale of Marin salt.

Marin is also decisive. In addition to the limited supply of briquette, he also brought the prince Philip of the Netherlands to the chariot. He divided the profit of selling salt in the Netherlands to Prince Philip and made him the general agent of selling salt in the Netherlands.

With the stimulus of profits, Prince Philip, who had no reason to do so, directly used his power to directly prohibit the sale of private salt. Once discovered, the whole family copied it, and the method was very harsh!

With this greedy guy as a thug, the salt business in the Netherlands quickly stabilized. However, those coastal fishermen secretly boiled their own salt, and then marinated the fish they caught, it would be impossible to control. As long as people do n’t sell salt, they cannot be held guilty. After all, this is not the unreasonable Manchu dynasty, the nobles want to find fault, but also find a decent reason. As long as the fishermen do not sell salt to outsiders, Prince Philip can do nothing about them.

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In fact, although Prince Philip was weak and indifferent, his mind was still very clever, and he was very talented in finding money.

For example, after communicating with him, Marin suggested that he use the name of "safety and health" to crack down on the sale of private salt. The goods did exactly the same, and they did a great job. Since then, he has introduced a "license system" for salt trading in the Netherlands. However, no permits were issued. Because of the salt trade in the Netherlands, he served as Malin ’s general agent and monopolized the local salt trade, allowing only a few powerful aristocrats from the Netherlands to blend in. Then, a group of unconscionable nobles gathered around to discuss how to search the people ...

As for the promotion of **** collection and centralized treatment in cities in the Netherlands, Prince Philip also actively participated. Without him, the fine for urinating and defecating everywhere is also the interest that this greedy and insignificant prince has always pursued.

As for the treatment of the collected manure, all those who rely on the seaside and cities with rivers leading to the sea, the manure is finally packaged to Marin's Blackwater Company. Those with inconvenient traffic are buried directly outside the city, just like garbage disposal in later generations.

However, thanks to the good relationship with the Habsburg family, Marin still got the priority of cooperation in the manure disposal of these Dutch cities.

For large coastal cities such as Ghent, Bruges, Amsterdam and Antwerp, manure from these cities is naturally transported out of the sea and sold to Marin for storage and production.

Prince Philip was too lazy to accumulate and manufacture soil nitrate, and directly entrusted to Marin. However, he also made a request to buy saltpetre from Marin, and Marin naturally agreed.

For those cities in the Netherlands that do not rely on the sea and the river, Marin has no solution but proposes a solution-he intends to help build roads and help build roads to the sea and rivers connecting the sea. Then, in the future After the transportation is convenient, Marin can still get the right to collect feces in the Netherlands. After all, the population of the Netherlands is millions, and the proportion of urban population is relatively high. If you win the contract here, the benefits are still many.

And to help the Netherlands build roads, Marin began to consider directly helping to build cement roads. However, when Marin helped the Habsburgs to build fortifications in the Swiss region, they claimed that it was very rare. I'll go to help repair the cement road later, and tell the other party "I lied to you" without making it clear?

Therefore, it is not possible to help cement roads in the Netherlands. However, it is possible to help repair a cement road ...

What is "cement road"? In fact, the cement is first cast into a rectangular cement board similar to stone. Then, it was transported to the Netherlands area to be used to pave the road.

After pouring cement into cement slab, it is similar to stone slab, and the paved road is also similar to stone slab road. However, the cost of cement board can be much lower than that of stone board. After all, grinding irregular stones into rectangular slabs is very labor-intensive.

It is very simple to cast cement into a rectangular cement board, as long as the cement is mixed with sand and stone, and then poured into a mold, and then compacted, and after drying, it becomes a cement board.

This kind of material is used to pave the road, and the effect obtained is no less than that of the stone road. After all, this year, there are no more than a dozen tons of trucks exposed to the surface, and it will not expose the slightly insufficient strength of the cement board. Carriage or something, with a maximum load of a few tons, will not crush the cement road.

In fact, the standard Roman avenue is made of rectangular stones mixed with gravel. This kind of road, as long as the drainage design is done on both sides, can fully withstand all kinds of complex weather such as wind, rain and snow. Its role is similar to that of the flagstone road.

The flagstone road was the highest road in ancient times. Generally, only the inside of a big city and important military and postal roads would lay such a high-grade road.

It should be said that whether in ancient Rome or in ancient China, the flagstone road is probably the highest grade road. The important roads in those big cities are basically stone roads, and the worst is also the stone road. Because only this kind of road is not afraid of muddy rainy days.

But the cost of flagstone roads is too high, so unless some big cities and many small towns, the streets are mainly stone roads. After all, it's easy to find crushed stones, and grinding the stones into slabs is too expensive. Unless, using the power of the empire level, can only be extravagant enough to paved the road with slate.

The roads paved with stone slabs are often the most important official avenues of the empire, and they are also important arterial roads of great military value. For example, the standard main road in the Roman Boulevard is often paved with stone slabs and at any time.

But Europe in the Middle Ages was much poorer than the Roman Empire, and it was hard to paved stone roads. Therefore, the roads in many cities are mostly paved with gravel or cobblestones found everywhere. The effect is worse than the stone road, but it is much stronger than the general road. The most important thing is that the cost of stone road and cobblestone road is low ...

You need to know that if you cut the stone out of the mountains and send out the stonemason to grind it into a flat slab suitable for paving, and then transport it to the construction area, the ghost knows how much it costs. Therefore, unless it is absolutely necessary, the general countries are not very willing to repair stone roads.

But the cement slab road that Marin worked on, on the premise that there is no damage by heavy trucks, the effect is completely comparable to the stone slab road. However, the cost is not only several times lower? After all, pouring cement into square cement slabs is more difficult than grinding stones into square slabs.

Marin intends to help the Netherlands build several cement slab roads to show the advantages of cement slab roads to European countries. Then, sell the cement board to other countries. Selling at a price lower than the flagstone will surely attract a lot of big business. After all, in this backward era, the demand for roads is very huge ~ www.novelhall.com ~ After all, everyone in the later generations of China knows that "if you want to get rich, build the road first". Ancient people were not so smart, but they could understand this.

I really don't understand, Marin can also take advantage of the opportunity to help build roads in the Netherlands, and show countries the advantages of roads built with cement slabs. When the time comes, are you afraid of no orders?

Moreover, selling cement boards, Marin is not worried about leaks. Others don't understand the principle of cement. When the time comes, Marin said it is a special kind of stone. At that time, the asking price will be lower than that of ordinary slate.

In fact, the junior high school in later generations Marin, the campus is covered with square cement board. This kind of pavement, although there is no complete cement pavement leveling, the vehicle is not so smooth on it. However, it is much stronger than the road of this era.

Moreover, the construction of cement board road is very simple. As long as the square cement slabs are poured in the production base, and then transported directly to the construction site where the foundation has been laid and pressed, it will be laid directly, which is more convenient than repairing the cement road. After all, the construction of cement roads will not be completed until the road surface is dry, and it will take many days to pass. Unless, it is the kind of special cement that is used to repair roads and fast dry hard. Otherwise, ordinary Portland cement will take many days to pass.

The cement board road is relatively simple. After paving the cement board, you can walk with it for a day or two, which is very convenient. Marin feels that if he does a good job, he can get huge profits by selling cement slabs used for paving roads in the future ...