Liu Guo saw that Han Jiang's wine bowl was empty, and added the scalded wine to Han Jiang, but he didn't speak, he was waiting for Han Jiang to continue.

Han Jiang thought for a while: "I really don't know where it is, I've heard of a place called Shilu, where it is an open-pit mining area, the quality of iron ore is very good, it seems that the best can reach sixty percent taste." I don't know if there are other mining areas in Qiongya, but the iron ore in Qiongya has more than 6 billion stones. ”

"Wonderful." Liu Guoxin said that although Han Jiang didn't know too many specific things, he would definitely be able to find the name Shilu.

Suddenly, Han Jiang slapped his thigh: "I remember, I went to Qiongya many years ago to play, there is a Baomei Ridge where the scenery is excellent, the name of Shilu is that I heard that copper was found on the surface, but the color of malachite." Another theory is that Shiroku sounds like a dead end. The location is in the northwest of the island, a bit far from the sea. ”

That's a lot narrower.

Liu Guo believed that it would be difficult to send people to search a quarter of the island.

But for the sake of iron ore, and copper can be found on the surface, there must be copper, gold, silver, iron and other ores in that place.

It's interesting.

Liu Guokou said: "Lord, Qiongya has always been a place of exile, and the lord has the elegance to play, so interested. Qiongya was assigned to the territory of the Great Song Dynasty hundreds of years ago, and only the north of the island was really inhabited, and it was only a hundred years ago that it was officially announced that the South China Sea Islands south of Qiongya were under the rule of Wan'an Prefecture. ”

Han Jiang didn't know this.

Liu Guo continued: "There is a pacification department on the island, which has always been in charge of the small place in the northeast of Qiongya Island, and then Danzhou, Wan'an, and Yazhou. A few years ago, it was changed again, Changhua Army, Wan'an Army, and Zhuya Army. ”

"Changhua!" Han Jiang suddenly interjected, and Liu Guo was stunned for a moment.

I only heard Han Jiang say: "Shilu is in Changhua. ”

"It's easy to do, the Changhua army can't find Shilu in a month, and General Bai will beat him, and he won't dare to sit for a month, so he has to crawl and sleep. The total strength of the three armies of Qiongya is not more than 10,000, and the poor ones don't even have pants, most of them are locals who form an army, and most of the officers are from the locals of the east and west roads of Quang Nam. General Bai's words worked. ”

Liu Guo said again: "Although it is said that Song Law is strictly forbidden for slaves. But Jiaozhi and Cham inevitably have some wicked people, let them become commoners, even if they are untouchables, the attached Jiaozhi and Cham commoners are also unwilling, and it is a good choice to be assigned to Shilu mining, so that there are manpower. However, we also need good blacksmiths. ”

Han Jiang felt that Liu Guo had something to say, so he didn't speak, waiting for Liu Guo to continue.

Liu Guo really has something to say, he just wants to lure Shuzhou out.

Liu Guo continued: "We now have a blacksmith who will inevitably affect the original output, and the apprentice who has not been a master naturally cannot become a master casually, and there is a small suggestion under the door." ”

came, Han Jiang had a feeling that Liu Guo had gone around in such a big circle, and now he was on the topic.

Sure enough, Liu Guo said: "Shuzhou, 200,000 yuan of cast iron money per year. 10,000 catties (1,000 pieces) require 100,000 catties of iron, and Shuzhou is also responsible for making extremely thin pieces of iron used in bile copper, with at least 200,000 catties of iron consumed every year. Shuzhou is beating five million catties of iron for the imperial court every year, which is not counting the use of the people. ”

Han Jiang smiled.

Liu Guo also laughed.

Han Jiang shouted at this time: "Qian Kuan." ”

Qian Kuan, who was sitting behind the boat, put down the barbecue in his hand and trotted over, and Han Jiang instructed: "Ask, what is Xu Jie doing?" ”

"I've been staring at it for a long time, and he went to gamble again, but in the meantime he has quietly been to two places, and we are sending someone to investigate secretly."

Han Jiang ordered: "Keep an eye on." ”

"Yes."

Qian Kuan retreated, and Liu Guo asked, "Lord, are you suspicious?" ”

Han Jiang nodded: "It's indeed a suspicion, think about the people Li Xing knew before, why no one came to the door to take the initiative to find me, he was the first." Does Li Xing have no friends? There are a few friends with wine and meat, and there will be friends with foxes and dogs. But no one has taken the initiative to come to me, it's been a year, Xu Jie came suddenly, how can I not doubt it. ”

Liu Guo: "Reasonable." Who is this Xu Jie? ”

Han Jiang replied: "His third uncle is the prefect of Taizhou, and he has been my father's hardcore cronies for a long time, and he is a cadre, and he belongs to Cui Wei's family. His fourth uncle was Xu Kan, the pacification envoy of Huainan West Road. ”

"There are ghosts." Liu Guo also didn't believe that Xu Jie suddenly approached Han Jiang for no reason.

Even if the Han family is terrible, some people are hiding and some people are afraid.

But Xu Jie's third uncle has long been a doorman of the Han Mansion, so Xu Jie should have come to Han Jiang to catch up with the old days, if you say three months, five months, this is normal, but if it drags on for a year, this thing will feel weird.

Liu Guo asked: "By the way, why didn't any of Li Xing's former friends come to the lord?" ”

"I know there, of course, it's possible that my father has warned these people, or some other reason, I'll go back and inquire, but I don't want to ask, because seeing these people annoys me."

Liu Guo didn't answer, he believed that Han Jiang would be able to handle this matter by himself.

Liu Guo asked again: "The lord, Shuzhou?" ”

Han Jiang responded: "Let me think about it." ”

Shuzhou.

It's kind of weird.

Early the next morning.

Before dawn, Han Jiang was standing in the courtyard of Han Yanxuan's study. After Han Yanxuan heard this, he even saved washing, put on a coat and went to the study.

"Something important?" In Han Yanxuan's opinion, Han Jiang would definitely not get up so early if he was fine, in Han Jiang's dictionary, getting up early is dawn, and then getting up.

Han Jiang didn't go around in circles, and asked directly: "Daddy, how much do you say the Taizhou prefect knows?" ”

Han Yanxuan motioned to Han Jiang to go to the small furnace to boil water and make a cup of tea for the father and son. He was not in a hurry, sat down and waited for a while before saying: "He knows about the coinage, what you want to ask must be how much Xu Jie knows, or what his family told him to do something." ”

"Yes, that's what I wanted to ask. Also, Daddy, why didn't any of Li Xing's former friends come to me? ”

Han Yanxuan smiled coldly and only said two words: "Avoid trouble." ”

"Avoiding trouble?"

Han Jiang doesn't understand.

Han Yanxuan explained: "None of the powerful people dare to say how many life and death friends there are, and among the powerful, friendship is in power. If you gain power, there will be friendship, and if you lose power, there will be none. Some people who help each other in life and death, even if they are in the bureau, they will be implicated if they don't make a move, Zhang family, do you say that our family should make a desperate move, does the Wu family have a desperate shot? ”

The Zhang family, who is talking about Zhang Shuo, was once put down by Wang Xilu and was the same as Han Cheng, and he married the daughters of the Wu family.

Han Yanxuan continued: "It's not that the favor is too thin, but that the court is too terrible. If one is not careful, the family may be ruined, and no one dares to come forward for the sake of the life of a large family. Zhen'an Hou Mansion is such a big thing, lest he run slowly, and dare to get close and set himself on fire. ”