"I meant the bridges. We have Rock Crushers, sand crushers, hoists, and so on. Those can save us a tremendous amount of labor.
"You calculate bridge construction in terms of manpower and horses, but we're different.
"We can build a bridge for thirty percent of the silver they'd need.
"So even building three bridges would only cost three or four million taels of silver.
"And the Tang family now has several thousand people. We can handle starting them all at once," Tang Wen said.
"But Divine Turtle Island isn't ours," Ge Ziyun said.
"Heh, if it isn't ours, we can make it ours.
"Besides, Divine Turtle Island is uninhabited too. It shouldn't cost much silver to acquire it.
"Luo Yiwu, arrange for people to find out who owns Divine Turtle Island right away," Tang Wen said with a smile.
"Master, are we really going to build them?" Luo Yiwu was dumbfounded.
"Of course! Opportunities like this are rare. Once the tide rises, who knows how many years we'll have to wait again," Tang Wen said.
"All right. Since you've decided, Master, we'll do as you say," Luo Yiwu said helplessly.
"We're worried we won't be able to bite off that much. It would be such a shame if all three bridges ended up only half built," Ge Ziyun said.
"I know what I'm doing. We won't touch anything we can't swallow. I never fight a battle I'm not sure of winning, so rest easy," Tang Wen said.
Over the next two days, Zhan Dongwen assigned people to determine the locations of the bridgeheads, then sent large numbers of workers to level the ground and put up tents.
Meanwhile, Tang Wen traveled back to Yunhai City, but he did not linger there.
Based on that day's gold price, he sold the