Kaiping Coal Mine is located in Kaiping, Luanzhou, Kaiping District, Tangshan City, in the old time and space. As early as the Yongle period of the Ming Dynasty, coal mining was carried out here using the soil method.

In June of the fourth year of Guangxu of the Qing Dynasty (1878), Tang Tingshu was appointed by Li Hongzhang to formally establish the "Kaiping Mining Bureau" in Kaiping Town, Tangshan, Zhili, and used the business model of official supervision and commercial office, and raised a total of 1.2 million taels of silver, of which commercial shares accounted for 800,000 taels of silver, which was also the first large-scale new coal mining enterprise run by the official supervision and commercial office after the beginning of the Westernization Movement at the end of the Qing Dynasty.

The Kaiping Coal Mine was fully commissioned in 1881. More than 3,000 people are employed. In 1882, it produced 38,000 tons of coal, and by 1898, the annual output had reached 730,000 tons. Later, the equipment was expanded over the years, the transportation conditions were improved, and the coal tanker was equipped with a special wharf and stack. The coal produced by the bureau was mainly supplied to the steamship China Merchants Bureau and the Tianjin Machinery Bureau, as well as the Beiyang Naval Division, and was also sold in large quantities to the market, making great profits. It owns 6 ships, two factories, a silver mine, and also enjoys a number of equity interests in Yongping Gold Mine, Ash Yard and Railway.

Moreover, driven by the Kaiping Mining Bureau, the accumulation of personnel in the mining area, the surge of houses, and the prosperity of trade, more than ten years of prosperity, a Tangshan town has been piled up out of thin air. By the end of the 19th century, the total assets of the Kaiping Mining Bureau had reached nearly 6 million taels of silver. It is one of the most effective modern industries in the mining industry established during the Westernization Movement.

Although after the death of Tang Tingshu, Zhang Yi, who was originally an attendant in the palace of Prince Alcohol, succeeded him as the general office of the Kaiping Coal Mine, due to Zhang Yi's poor management, blind expansion, excessive capital consumption, and large foreign debts, which led to the infiltration of foreign forces, a company named Merlin Company 61 China Machinery and Mining provided a loan of 200,000 pounds to the Kaiping Mining Bureau, thus becoming a shareholder of the Kaiping Mining Bureau. According to an investigation by Hu Hua, an engineer at the company, the actual asset value of Kaiping Coal Mine, even if it is underestimated, can reach more than 7 million taels of silver, equivalent to more than 1 million pounds. Therefore, the Merlin Company also had the idea of occupying the Kaiping Coal Mine.

And De Xuanlin, who was the director of the Department of Taxation of Tianjin Customs at the time, was eager to make a windfall because of her luxurious life and unable to make ends meet, so all parties hit it off and began to perform a wonderful drama of "white wolf with empty gloves".

After the Eight-Nation Coalition captured Tianjin, they immediately arrested Zhang Yi, then the general office of the Kaiping Coal Mine, in the name of fornicating with the Boxers, and imprisoned him in the British garrison. The next day, De Xuanlin went to visit Zhang Yi and expressed his willingness to excuse him, but he did not have the right identity to help Zhang Yi, if he could have the identity of the general office of the Kaiping Mining Bureau, he could come forward to guarantee Zhang Yi and prove that Zhang Yi did not fornicate with the Boxers. At the same time, it can also prove to the Eight-Nation Coalition that the Kaiping Mining Bureau is a British enterprise invested in China, so that the Mining Bureau can be protected from being occupied by the Eight-Nation Alliance.

Zhang Yi was anxious to get rid of himself, and without thinking about it, he wrote down a note in prison, appointed De Xuanlin as the general manager of the brokerage industry and general affairs of the Kaiping Coal Mining Company, and gave him the right to act cheaply. In order to protect the interests of mineral shareholders, Hu Hua, an American technical consultant and the representative of the British Merlin Company in China, is the same general office as De Xuanlin.

In fact, this is a double reed carefully directed by the British, with the British military singing red face, and De Xuanlin and Hoover singing white face, the purpose of which is to seize the Kaiping Mining Bureau.

After obtaining Zhang Ji's written note, De Xuanlin negotiated in the name of the general office of the Kaiping Mining Bureau, and under the witness of De Xuanlin's son-in-law Hannagan and British lawyer Emeis, she signed a share transfer agreement with Hu Hua in Tanggu to transfer the Kaiping Mining Bureau to Merlin Company. De Chelin gained a lot from the transaction, not only becoming an adviser to the new company with an annual salary of £1,000, but also receiving 5,000 shares worth £1 each. In this way, De Xuanlin, who was an official of the Qing Dynasty, and Hu Hua, an engineer of the British Merlin Company, won the equity of the Kaiping Coal Mine without a penny.

In the old time and space, after the British got the controlling stake, they immediately sent troops into the mine and took control of the Kaiping Coal Mine, and later although the Qing court negotiated in many ways, and even went to the UK to fight a lawsuit, but although the lawsuit was won, the British refused to return the Kaiping Coal Mine, and the British court prevaricated with "unenforceable", so the Qing court, until the later Republic of China government, still failed to recover the Kaiping Coal Mine. It was not until the founding of the People's Republic of China in 1949 that the Chinese government took back the Kaiping Coal Mine.

The Kaiping Mining Bureau incident had a lot of influence in the international community at that time, not only because the Qing court went to Britain to start an international lawsuit for the first time, but also because another important figure in this incident, Hu Hua, an engineer of the British Merlin Company, was Herbert 61 Clark 61 Hoover, who later became the 31st president of the United States But at that time, Hoover was just a 25-year-old young engineer at the British company Merlin, and Hu Hua was his name in China.

The embezzlement of the Kaiping Mining Bureau was the first pot of gold in Hoover's life, and an ordinary engineer owned a huge fortune in one fell swoop, and since then he has gone step by step to the upper class of the United States, and finally became the president of the United States. However, the embezzlement of the Kaiping Mining Bureau has also become the biggest stain on Hoover's political career, and it is the main basis for political opponents to attack him.

However, in this time and space, the "White Wolf with Empty Gloves" planned by De Xuanlin The action has not yet been completely successful, and he is still an engineer of the British Merlin Company, and in the future of this time and space, Hoover, who does not know whether he can become the president of the United States, has returned to the United Kingdom with the share transfer agreement of the Kaiping Mining Bureau signed by him and De Xuanlin, submitted it to the headquarters of the Merlin Company, and will register a Kaiping Mining Co., Ltd. in the United Kingdom, and undertake all the property rights of the Kaiping Mining Bureau, leaving aside all the relationships, so as to finally complete the equity transfer of the Kaiping Mining Bureau.

Qin Zheng was familiar with the history of this period, so as soon as he heard De Xuanlin's request to see him, he immediately remembered this story, and after the time-travelers learned about this incident, they naturally would not let De Xuanlin and Hoover easily succeed. On the one hand, it is to protect China's assets from foreign encroachment, and on the other hand, the Kaiping coal mine is also an extremely important resource for traversers.

Although at this time, the first industrial revolution with steam engines as the power and coal as the energy has come to an end, and the second industrial revolution with electricity as the power and oil as the energy has begun, but it is a long-term process for new energy to completely replace the old energy, and coal will still be an important energy resource in the next ten years, or even twenty years. In the old time and space, even fifty years later, there are still a large number of coal-burning steamships and steam trains.

Kaiping Coal Mine, which has the potential to produce up to one million tons of coal per year, is still of considerable value to the current Crossing Group, and if it owns Kaiping Coal Mine, it can basically guarantee the coal supply of the Crossing Group in the next two or three years, and can also be used for external sales to obtain economic benefits. Moreover, the Kaiping Coal Mine is only more than 100 kilometers away from Tianjin, and there is also a railway, so the occupation of the Kaiping Coal Mine for its own use soon reached a consensus at the Provisional Executive Committee.

The first two times when De Xuanlin came to find the traversers, the traversers were looking for another important party in the incident of embezzling the Kaiping Mining Bureau, and Zhang Yi, the general office of the Kaiping Coal Mine, was immediately appointed as the general office of the Kaiping Coal Mine, and it turned out that after De Xuanlin and Hu Yu signed the share transfer agreement of the Kaiping Mining Bureau, they immediately notified the British army and released Zhang Yi, and De Xuanlin also needed Zhang Yi at this time, because in the share transfer agreement of the Kaiping Mining Bureau, there was only the signature of De Xuanlin and Hoover, and there was no signature of Zhang Yi, so the direct signature of Zhang Yi was required on the transfer of all property rights of Kaiping Mining Co., Ltd. and Kaiping Mining Bureau。

So De Xuanlin used the excuse that Zhang Yi's case was not over yet, and put Zhang Yi under house arrest in Tianjin. After a long time, Zhang Yi also found that something was wrong, and came to find De Xuanlin theory, but at this time De Xuanlin was not polite, and directly told Zhang Yi that the share transfer agreement of Kaiping Mining Bureau had been signed, and the British army had also entered Kaiping Coal Mine, everything could not be changed, once this matter was revealed, Zhang Yi himself was definitely inseparable, so it was better for everyone to hide this matter together, and in the future, it was only said that it was to protect the mine, so that the Kaiping Coal Mine would be placed under the protection of the British flag, and the Sino-British joint operation would be implemented, and Chinese and foreign employees would enjoy equal rights, all the rules and taxes had not changed, and the mining area would also hang the flags of China and Britain, etc。 At the same time, Zhang Yi Kaiping Mining Co., Ltd. was also promised personal benefits for life as the superintendent of the Ministry of China.

Zhang Yi was worried about pursuing his responsibility in the future, and second, he couldn't resist the threats and temptations of De Xuanlin and the British, so he also acquiesced half-pushed, and now he only waited for Hoover to return from England and officially take over the Kaiping Coal Mine on behalf of Kaiping Mining Co., Ltd.

As a result, after some searching, the traverser found Zhang Yi and arrested him, so Qin Zheng confidently met De Xuanlin, of course, even if Zhang Yi was not caught, the traversers would not give up the Kaiping Coal Mine, and at that time, it would be a big deal to forcibly occupy it by force, anyway, in this era, whoever has the big fist will be justified. The traversers are all people who are accustomed to seeing hegemonism in the old time and space, so they will not be so stupid that they must pay attention to procedural justice in everything, and in the case of the Kaiping Coal Mine, the British perfectly demonstrated to the traversers what is called power is truth. In the past few days, De Xuanlin's attention has been on the customs, and she didn't notice that Zhang Yi was arrested, and she stupidly came to the traverser to protest that they had set up the Tianjin Customs.

Hearing Qin Zheng mention the Kaiping Coal Mine, De Xuanlin's face suddenly turned pale, because this matter was only carried out confidentially, and only five or six people knew about it in total, although the embezzlement of the Kaiping Coal Mine brought huge benefits to De Xuanlin, but this is not a glorious thing after all, not to mention that as an official of the Qing court, he was secretly embezzling the assets of the Qing court, once this matter was revealed, De Xuanlin would be completely discredited in China, and even Li Hongzhang could not protect him. Of course, if Li Hongzhang knew what De Xuanlin did, I am afraid he would not protect him, naturally the fewer people who know, the better. It's just how did this group of overseas Chinese know about this!

Qin Zheng sneered and said: "Mr. De Xuanlin, you are the director of the Tianjin Customs and Excise Department, and an important official of the Great Qing Dynasty, but you have colluded with others to embezzle the state-owned assets of the Great Qing Dynasty, is your behavior respecting the legal system of the Great Qing Empire, is this considered a serious damage to the sovereignty and dignity of the Great Qing Empire, is this considered a serious act of treason?" What qualifications do you have to serve as the director of the Department of Taxation of Tianjin Customs? ”