Chapter 6: I want to meet Minister Chi

The heavy snow flew for a day and a night, and by the time Fang Mingyuan and them came out of the mountain at noon the next day, the sky began to brighten. Fang Mingyuan pulled Wang Dongqi and Mao-Erzhu to Cheng Niangzi's shop.

"You don't have to cut down those fruit trees, so that all the people in your village can pick them when the fruit is ripe." Fang Mingyuan was still drinking the fruit wine sent by Cheng Niangzi, and said to the two of them in a low voice. In the past two days, the business of Cheng Niangzi's shop has also been very good, not counting Fang Mingyuan's orders in the past few days, the 3,000 yuan that Chen Zhong sent through Wang Dongqi and Mao-Erzhu have also been used by the villagers to improve their lives, so there are really a lot of people in this shop. Cheng Niangzi and they naturally knew that this was the blessing of Fang Mingyuan, and the amount of wine and food was at least three points larger.

"Take it all off?" -Mao-Er's hands trembled, and he almost spilled all the wine in the cup. There are thousands of fruit trees on this mountain near Guozigou Village, if you pick all these fruits, how much will it be? Tons of it! More importantly, what do you do with these fruits? There is no market in the county at all, and the taste of the fruit itself is not good, no one likes to eat it, and even if it is picked back to make wine, there are too many wines, so it is not used so much.

"Comrade Fang means ......" Wang Dongqi's eyes immediately lit up. Fang Mingyuan obviously won't be full and have nothing to do, let them pick those fruits, there will definitely be a follow-up.

"Pick all these fruits and make this fruit wine, as long as it can reach the level in my hands, I will send people to buy it in large quantities." Although Fang Mingyuan said it lightly, what fell into the ears of Wang Dongqi and Mao-Er Gong was no less than a thunderclap!

"Comrade Fang, what you said is true?" - Mao-Erqi will not only tremble in the hands, but also tremble in the voice. In this Guozigou Village, apart from this field, there is no more production that can be handled, but just relying on the field, there are hundreds of people in this village, and it is not easy to make a fortune. As village cadres, they are very troubled by this, seeing that other villages in the county are getting rich one by one, but they have always ranked last, can this be balanced?

It's not that they haven't thought about running a few village-run enterprises, but if they want to run a village-run enterprise, they also have to have funds, and this broken road in front of the village is to produce goods, and it is not easy to ship them out. However, these wild fruit trees around them produce tons of wild fruits every year, and if they can be sold for money if they make fruit wine, then this is a business without capital, as long as they are sold, they will make money.

"We can sign a formal contract and make a deposit. But there is one thing, if the resulting fruit wine is not up to my standards in terms of taste and hygiene, then I don't want it. Fang Mingyuan said casually. The Fangjia restaurant in the capital is also about to open, this white wine, red wine, fruit wine are easy to do, but now there are only various drinks for the children to drink, this fruit wine is purely diluted juice, sweet and sour, just suitable for the children's taste, and it can be regarded as helping the villagers of this fruit ditch. If the sales are good, it can be supplied to other restaurants. When people accepted it, Fang Mingyuan thought about setting up a juice production enterprise in this Chi County, this thing has no high-tech content, it is mainly a combination of flavors.

Chixian is a large county for the production of various fruits, and the annual output is amazing, just enough to supply the needs of the capital. Fang Mingyuan knew that in the future, fruit juice drinks, tea drinks, and carbonated drinks would be divided into three parts. And the demand in the international market is also quite strong. Although Fang Mingyuan didn't expect to take it as his main business and rely on it to make a lot of money, it could be of other uses!

"Okay, I can trust Comrade Fang. In the fall, when the fruit is ripe, I will let them pick the fruit and make wine! Quality Guaranteed! Wang Dongqi glared at Mao-Erji, and hurriedly took over the words. I secretly scolded in my heart that Mao and Erzhu have no eyesight, this comrade is obviously a nobleman, and he lost more than 4,000 yuan in a few days in the village, and this mountain of fruits can't be sold for 4,000 yuan in previous years, so it's worth it for someone to lie to you? Now that the New Year is not over, there are still many months before the wild fruits are ripe, so what can you do if you promise to come down first? And this wild fruit wine, it is not a difficult thing, this fruit ditch village, although it can't be said that every family will be, but there are three or five out of ten, but this taste is slightly different from home.

"In a few days, we will come back, and then we will officially sign the contract!" Fang Mingyuan drank all the fruit wine in the cup.

After noon, Fang Mingyuan and his entourage left Guozigou Village and returned to the capital, and brought a few barrels of Cheng Niangzi's fruit wine as drinks on the road. They took a detour from the road leading from the forest farm to the outside world, and it was almost evening before they returned to the capital.

Fang Mingyuan did not live with his aunt and uncle in the capital, but only bought two adjacent two-bedroom apartments within the second ring road through the Su family, one for Wei Xingguo and Chen Zhong to live in, and the other for himself.

After an afternoon of traveling, the three of them were quite tired, and after supper, they went back to their houses to rest, and the night was peaceful.

Early the next morning, Wei Xingguo drove Fang Mingyuan to Su's house.

At this time, Su Huandong, who had not long finished breakfast, was sitting on the sofa in the study, casually flipping through the information in his hand. ** Year after year, under his leadership, the Ministry of Railways has achieved more brilliant results. 1,368 kilometers of new railways were built, all of which were electrified. More than 5,300 kilometers of old railways have been renovated, and the transformation of railways to speed up the railway has been carried out for the third time. The average speed of trains nationwide has increased from less than 50 kilometers per hour to 90 kilometers per hour, passenger trains have increased to 100 kilometers per hour, and some trains can run to more than 120 kilometers per hour. Su Huandong is considering whether to run the "Xifa Chaozhi" intercity train that Fang Mingyuan said this year.

The door of the study was quietly pushed open, and Fang Mingyuan crept in, suddenly reaching out from behind to blindfold Su Huandong.

"Yingxue, are you kidding grandpa again?" Su Huandong smiled and said, "Why can't you change to a new one every time you play this hand?" "Su Yingxue, the second daughter of Su Huandong's second son, is sixteen years old this year, is in the second year of high school in the city's No. 2 Middle School, and is also a top student in the class, and is the most favored among Su Huandong's grandchildren in the capital.

"Happy New Year! Grandpa Su, you guessed wrong! Fang Mingyuan let go of his hand and said with a smile, "I can't even tell my hand from Sister Su's hand!" It shouldn't be! ”

"Mingyuan, why did you come back early? Come on, come on, sit here. Su Huandong was pleasantly surprised. This little guy, in November last year, finally listened to his own words and transferred to the capital to study, due to the return of the educated youth to the city, his hukou has been changed to the capital hukou, with Su Huandong pulling the strings, which school in the capital he can't enter? But this kid chose a district key middle school. In his words, it is close to home and has little control. Su Huandong said him twice, and seeing that his attitude was extremely resolute, he no longer insisted. Anyway, with this kid's current family property, as long as he doesn't lose his heart, it is enough for him to use it for a lifetime.

And Su Huandong also understands in his heart that Fang Mingyuan is very likely to be unaccustomed to the cramming education in the current school, and he doesn't like the kind of nerd who buries his head in reading, but he doesn't know Weishenme, he has never promised the Guo family to go to Hong Kong to study. Fortunately, with the strength of the key middle school in Beijing District, as long as he studies hard, it is not surprising that he will be admitted to a key university completely on his own ability.

"Grandpa Su, I came back early, in fact, I have something to ask for." Fang Mingyuan put his hands behind his back and sat next to Su Huandong.

"Something?" Su Huandong looked at him amusedly, "What do you ask me to do?" Let's talk first, it is incumbent on grandpa to benefit the country and the people, but it depends on whether you take advantage of it or not. Is it causing trouble again outside? "This kid is not a fuel-efficient lamp, he caused a lot of trouble in school last semester, if it weren't for Su Huandong's background, I'm afraid this punishment would have been carried on his back. However, causing trouble is causing trouble, skipping class is skipping class, and Fang Mingyuan's final exam results are still within the top ten in the grade. In particular, Chinese, mathematics and English ranked first in his grade, and it was politics and history that held him back. In fact, this is mainly because Fang Mingyuan is not interested in politics and history at all. Having experienced the bombardment of Internet news in his previous life, he naturally disagrees with this kind of bookish dogma.

"I just returned to the capital yesterday, what else can I do?" Fang Mingyuan's little face immediately pulled down, "Grandpa Su is so looking forward to me making trouble everywhere?" ”

Su Huandong put down the information in his hand, took off his glasses, reached out and patted his head, and said with a smile: "It's not that I expect you to cause trouble, but I don't want you to follow the rules." You who cause trouble from time to time are more in line with the characteristics of your age. I'm a grandfather, and I'm also a little useful. Look at the naughty eggs of your eldest and second uncle's family, they are much older than you, which one is worry-free? Say, what's the matter? ”

"This time is a great thing, for the benefit of the country and the people!" Fang Mingyuan excitedly put a package hidden behind him in front of Su Huandong.

"Huh?" Su Huandong looked at it in surprise, "What is it?" ”

"Won't you open it and take a look?" Fang Mingyuan was naughty and authentic.

Su Huandong checked it with his hand, it was not light, it had to weigh five or six pounds. This couldn't help but be even more strange in his heart, he knew that Fang Mingyuan was not lying about this kind of thing. Slowly it opened, revealing a yellow and white stone inside.

"This is ......" Su Huandong put on his glasses, looked left and right, but was very surprised in his heart, could it be that this is a piece of dog's head gold? Doghead gold is a naturally produced, impure in texture, large in grain and irregular in shape. It is usually composed of natural gold, quartz, and other mineral aggregates. Some people call it dog head gold because of its resemblance to a dog's head. Some people call it horseshoe gold because of its resemblance to a horse's hoof; However, most of them commonly refer to this natural nugget as dog's head gold.

This thing is scarcely distributed on shijie and is not easy to obtain, but due to the high value of gold, it is regarded as a treasure among treasures. It's just that finding the dog's head gold often has a certain amount of chance - sexuality, and once the dog's head gold is found, it often causes a social sensation. According to statistics, less than 10,000 pieces of dog's head gold larger than 10 kilograms have been found on shijie so far. Australia is the most popular, accounting for 80% of the total amount of doghead gold. The largest of them, weighing more than 200 kilograms, is also produced in Australia. In the history of human gold mining, China is also one of the countries where the discovery of dog's head gold is common.

And more importantly, where doghead gold is generally found, there must be gold mines around it. Su Huandong knew that in the middle of the 19th century, a carpenter picked up a piece of dog's head gold on the side of the road on the West Coast of the United States, and the matter spread, and people flocked here to dig for gold everywhere, forming a gold search fever. After 50 years of gold rushing, a new San Francisco city emerged. A caravan in Australia was overturned by rocks while traveling, and when he got out of the car to check that it was a huge dog's head gold, he later found a gold mine nearby. Therefore, if you find the dog's head gold, you can not only get a considerable fortune, but also have a good chance of finding a gold mine! As a result, it has become a symbol of human blessings.

"Doghead gold?" Su Huandong was a little uncertain. Where did he get this thing from Fang Mingyuan?

Fang Mingyuan stretched out his thumb and said, "Grandpa really has good eyesight, this is a natural piece of dog's head gold!" ”

"Where did you find that?" Su Huandong's breathing couldn't help but pause for a moment. Although gold has withdrawn from the circulation field in today's social trade, this also marks what level of trade. In the bulk trade between countries, there are also many people who pay in gold. The discovery of a new gold mine is of great significance for the enhancement of the country's gold reserves!

"Jibei Chixian!" Fang Mingyuan laughed - groaned - groaned - authentic.

"How did you get there?" Su Huandong naturally knew about Chixian County in northern Hebei, and he couldn't help but feel even more strange in his heart.

"Do you want to hear the truth? Or do you want to hear a lie? Fang Mingyuan blinked.

"How do you tell the truth? What about lies? Su Huandong put the dog's head gold back on the table and looked at Fang Mingyuan with a smile.

Fang Mingyuan laughed twice, "To tell the truth, I saw from a diary that I didn't know where it came from, and the owner of the diary once mentioned that during the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, someone once found dog-headed gold in the mountains of Chixian County. But you don't have to ask me about Japan, first, it's too shabby, and it's not at all out of shape, and I guessed this news. Second, I burned that thing. ”

"That's what you found based on what you wrote in your diary?" Su Huandong looked incredulous, this kid's luck is too good, the things of the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression have been fifty years ago, and the situation there may have changed a long time ago, so you can find the dog's head gold?

"How many of you went?" Su Huandong said in a deep voice.

"Three, me, Brother Chen, Brother Wei." Fang Mingyuan said, "We didn't look for the local guide. ”

Su Huandong nodded slightly, he had seen Chen Zhong and Wei Xingguo, they were honest people, and their skills were not bad. "You are bold enough, do you know that the places where gold is mined everywhere are also the most chaotic-chaotic-place, and there are people who kill people and rob gold everywhere!"

"But there was no one there! We walked around the mountains for four or five days before we found it. "What Fang Mingyuan said is not an exaggeration, that gold mine, before it was discovered in the previous life, no one in the surrounding villages knew about it.

Su Huandong groaned for a moment, and then continued to ask, "What are you going to say about the lie?" ”

"We went there to hunt and take out sightseeing tours. Occasionally found. Fang Mingyuan replied without hesitation.

Su Huandong was silent, he could hear it, this little guy obviously didn't want others to know about the existence of that diary, so he found such a reason. It seems that the diary is not simple. But Fang Mingyuan was already his junior in his eyes, and he didn't want to be harsh on this.

"What are you going to do with this thing?" Su Huandong pointed to the dog-headed Jin Dao on the table in surprise, "Are you here to beg me for it?" "Although a piece of dog's head gold is precious, as the Minister of Railways, he does not think it is very important. And with Fang Mingyuan's net worth, it doesn't seem to be nothing. Besides, as long as Fang Mingyuan doesn't talk about this thing himself, who will know?

"Grandpa Su, we have found a gold mine in the mountains! This piece of dog's head gold is just to bring it back to prove our discovery! ”

Although Fang Mingyuan said it lightly, Su Huandong jumped up from the sofa in shock and blurted out: "You really found a gold mine?" ”

"I found it, although the reserves are not yet certain, but I estimate a lot." Fang Mingyuan nodded and said.

Su Huandong walked around the room a few times to calm his excitement, this is a gold mine, no matter how many reserves there are, it is also a gold mine! Extraordinary minerals.

By the time he sat back on the couch, his face had returned to normal. "Mingyuan, what do you want me to do?"

"Grandpa, the vice minister of the Ministry of Land and Resources is Minister Chi, right? Do you have a good relationship? Fang Mingyuan asked in a low voice. This is what he occasionally heard Su Aijun mention, this Chi Jingyu and Su Huandong were alumni of the university that year, and later alumni of the Central Party School, and the pace of progress between the two was almost the same, but Su Huandong won the appreciation of the top leaders because of the railway speed increase proposal that year, and the speed of progress was naturally one step faster than him. However, he is also the most vocal to take over as the next minister of land and resources. The relationship between the two families has always been good, and they move around frequently.

Su Huandong couldn't help but be happy in his heart, just now he was worried that Fang Mingyuan would make a request to mine gold mines without permission and ask him to help cover up, although Su Huandong loved and admired Fang Mingyuan, but he absolutely couldn't tolerate this kind of thing!

"Mingyuan, what do you mean?" Su Huandong still had to confirm Fang Mingyuan's intentions again.

"I hope to be able to hand over this piece of doghead gold to Minister Chi and ask him to send explorers to Chixian County to determine the reserves of the gold mine!"