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The shopkeeper Yan leaned down, put his hand on the copper basin and flipped it, his brows furrowed and loosened: "How much does it cost?"

Chen Sanniang sank, sat up straight, looked at the two people in front of her, and said in a serious voice: "A battalion is raising 5,000 people, and 5,000 people need to be raised in three counties a year." Three million silver taels. The mountains in Qingzhou are all Hunan troops, with 20 battalions and 100,000 soldiers. It costs 60 million taels of silver to raise soldiers a year, and this is not the time for war. ”

"Sixty million taels of silver a year?" Qing Ling whispered when she heard it, it's not the time of the war, such an expense!" ”

"Not really. Chen Sanniang nodded: "At that time, it was said that the master suddenly wanted to open a money village and burned the foundation of the golden boudoir and the Manchun Building." Thinking about it at this time, it was prescient. ”

"But Qian Zhuang, hey, ......" Qing Ling frowned when she heard this: "Qian Zhuang burned money in a row for the first two years. In the past few years, I have begun to return to my capital, and at the beginning of it, it will be a million profits a year, how can I afford to raise that army?"

Qingling said, a little self-reproachful. Did she live up to her master's expectations? What her master expected, she didn't do.

"Yes, the money village must really be opened and full of Nanshang in order to support military spending. Sanniang said and frowned, this silver money is too big. Even if they uncover the bottom of all the money villages, cloth houses and green buildings, they will be able to maintain the Southern Army for a year if they die. Or smash the pot and sell iron.

But as long as the master didn't give an order, how could they dare to squeeze all the Qianzhuang Buzhuang Qinglou dry? What will they do in the future?

Qing Ling sighed heavily, her face full of sadness: "How do you get this silver?"

There was silence in the room, and no one spoke for the time being.

Shopkeeper Yan, who had not spoken, sat up straight, he looked at Qingling, his eyes fell on Chen Sanniang, and his voice was deep: "There is one thing I didn't tell you." ”

"What's the matter?" Chen Sanniang asked as she looked at the shopkeeper Yan.

Qingling also turned her head to look at Shopkeeper Yan.

Shopkeeper Yan took a heavy breath and spit it out again.

"Before the master left, he gave me the jade seal of the He family. Saying that, the shopkeeper Yan looked at Chen Sanniang.

Chen Sanniang nodded: "There is such a thing, shopkeeper, what do you mean?"

"The master asked me to check the He family's accounts every half a month, and now, I know all the channels and operations of the He family's shops, even the places where they are going to start next, and the origin of the black money. It's just that for many years, the master has not given orders and has not dared to act rashly. Shopkeeper Yan said, looking at the snow outside the house.

"What does the shopkeeper mean, what family's money is used?" asked Qingling on the side. Using the He family's money is one way. But if you don't discuss it well, it's too risky.

Shopkeeper Yan shook his head, and then turned his head to look at Chen Sanniang and Qingling: "At the end of last year, the He family, it seems, discovered a mine in Qingzhou. ”

"Qingzhou?!" Chen Sanniang and Qingling both noticed Qingzhou in the mouth of the shopkeeper Yan, after all, this is a place to raise soldiers, so they have to be sensitive.

Shopkeeper Yan nodded: "It's Qingzhou where Bei Liang is." ”

"What mine?" shopkeeper, you can make it clear. Chen Sanniang looked at the shopkeeper Yan, and her face became more and more serious.

"In the middle of last year, the He family began to send people to Qingzhou to investigate the terrain, and I didn't pay attention to it at first. Later, I found that the He family's account, every time I went to Qingzhou, there would be a lot less. At that time, I just thought that they had gone to Qingzhou to invest and were going to do business. But because it involves Qingzhou, I have to be concerned. So when the He family went out of the city and entered Qingzhou, they followed. Saying that, the shopkeeper Yan paused. looked at Chen Sanniang and said:

"It turned out that I just found out that the He family went to Qingzhou to prospect. After exploring for half a year, at the end of this year, that is, not long before the end of the year, I found a gold mine. Shopkeeper Yan said back, his voice unconsciously lightened.

"Gold mines?" Qingling stood up from her stool in shock. His eyes stared at the shopkeeper Yan, with incredulity.

Chen Sanniang's face changed suddenly when she heard this, and she looked at the shopkeeper Yan and didn't speak.

"It's a gold mine, and then I sent someone into the mountains to investigate. Shopkeeper Yan said to Chen Sanniang and Qingling with a serious face: "Because the master only asked me to keep an eye on the He family, I never ordered or acted. I have never told you about it. "The three of them are all directly under Zhuo Yijia's management, so there is no need to report to anyone.

Chen Sanniang also knew the reason and nodded: "It's just that now that the master is not here, only we can deal with this matter." ”

Qingling came back to her senses, still shocked in her heart, but she began to keep up with Sanniang's train of thought.

She sat down and looked at Sanniang: "If there is a gold mine, then it will be too easy for us to raise the Southern Protector Army." ”

Chen Sanniang nodded: "One more army to protect the south can afford it." Saying that, Chen Sanniang looked at the shopkeeper Yan:

"So now, has the He family started to develop the mine?"

Shopkeeper Yan shook his head: "No, if you want to develop a mine, the first thing is to buy a mountain." They have not yet taken money to buy mountains. ”

Chen Sanniang slapped the table softly: "Great, then we will buy that mountain first." ”

The area around Qingzhou is mountainous, with mountains one after another, and it is sparsely populated. If it was in the name of the shopkeeper Yan, he bought the mountain from the official family at a large price, saying that it was to plant mountains and forests or make wood. It's too easy.

Another point is that Qingzhou Mountain is full of their generals, and digging the mountain must be extremely careful to check the mountain, how can it be impossible to find the Southern Army?

No matter how you think about this, you can't let the He family know about it.

"But if we buy the mountain first, and the He family finds out, what if we don't do it?" Qingling said, her brows furrowed.

Chen Sanniang listened to Qingling's words and muttered for a moment: "I'm not afraid that they won't do it, I'm afraid that they will sue." ”

This mine is a state according to the law. If the officials knew about it, they would have given them the only way to do it. Those who are contaminated have to go to jail.

"The He family, in fact, planned to steal the gold mine from the beginning. Shopkeeper Yan raised his head as he said and looked at the two people in front of him: "So the news about the mine in Qingzhou has not revealed the slightest rumor." If we occupy the mountain, and the He family does not do it and wants to sue the officials, then we will let them compromise. So that they did not dare to sue the official's house. ”

"How to compromise?" Chen Sanniang said with a serious face, only the shopkeeper Yan knew the most about the affairs of the He family.

A businessman like the He family is still the richest man in Nanshang, and he is destined to be a litter of treacherous people

"They dare to privately swallow a large gold mine at will, it is a red gold mine! Think about how bold they are?" The shopkeeper Yan said, his neck stretched forward, and his expression was very serious: "They have several coal mines in southern Shaanxi, and they are private. ”

Chen Sanniang's eyes narrowed when she heard this, this He family's courage is not ordinary. No wonder he was the richest man in Nanshang, and he really thought that he was just doing business in those cloth and timber money houses, and he had embezzled the country's mines.