Hearing that Liu Fujun actually handed over the right to distribute grain to himself, Yang Xing suddenly became excited and didn't know why: "Liu Fujun, a small grass people, is afraid of living up to high expectations." ”

"What's so difficult about this, do it well, I have more important things for you to do, and your identity in the future is far more than that." Liu Ping smiled faintly.

If he succeeds in smelting iron in the future, he will not be able to stay here forever, and he will always find a reliable person to manage it.

And these officials in Dongguan County used to belong to the Xuzhou Group, and he couldn't trust any of them.

Instead of transferring another one from Yanzhou, he didn't mind promoting someone from the bottom.

At that time, let his father-in-law make him an official and manage the iron smelting on his behalf.

However, at this time, Yang Xing didn't know what Liu Ping was thinking, knelt on the ground and said sincerely: "The prince of the mansion has a life, and the small one must saddle before and after the horse." ”

Liu Ping smiled and helped him up: "Get up, I will be bothering you at home for a few days." ”

"It's an honor, the humble house is shining," Yang Xing wanted to persuade him to give up his bedroom to Liu Ping, knowing that he was the county guard, and it was not inconvenient to have a female dependent at home.

This is a county parent official with a lot of power.

But he heard Yu Ban persuade beside him: "Young Master Ping, it is better for you to live here than to live in the barracks with the last general." ”

Yu Ban looked at the surrounding environment, it was really not suitable for Liu Ping to live.

Liu Ping yawned and still got into the firewood room: "When you finish the barracks, it's almost dawn, so let's rest." ”

He didn't come here to enjoy it, he had the experience of being a travel friend before, what hardships had he not suffered?

He fell on the grass and fell asleep......

……

When Liu Ping woke up the next day, it was already dawn.

Yang Xing's niece Xiao Wan had already made porridge and rice for him.

Xiao Wan knew that the young man in front of her was a member of the party who held the lives of tens of thousands of people in Dongguan County, and she felt like walking on thin ice all the time.

I'm afraid that if he is angry, he won't be able to eat and walk around.

Liu Ping was very easy-going, and while drinking porridge, he asked with a smile: "Do you remember that there is a mountain full of black stones in the southwest?" ”

Stones with high iron content are mostly black because the surface of the stone is exposed to air for a long time, and the iron element in the stone will be oxidized.

"Yes, there is a mountain ten miles southwest from here, and its name is Black Stone Mountain," Xiao Wan lowered her head and said, "But there is no grass on that mountain, and the little woman has only been there once or twice." ”

In the past few years, Xiao Wan has indeed run all over the surrounding mountains in order to dig wild vegetables.

However, she ran on mountains with lush vegetation, mountains that did not even grow grass, so she was naturally not interested.

"Okay, take me to see it after dinner," Liu Ping was overjoyed, judging from the distance, it was similar to his impression.

With Liu Ping's memory, coupled with Xiao Wan's leadership, it was easy to find the location of the iron mine at that time.

On the mountain peak, Liu Ping took out a natural magnet and couldn't take it off when he sucked it on the stone.

This is already an excellent ore in later generations, and the iron content is estimated to be at least about 30%.

In the era in which he lived, if he owned such a large mine, it was easy to get rich overnight and live a life without shame.

Of course, he can get rich overnight now that he owns this mine, and he also saves the trouble of going through various procedures.

As the guardian of a county, you can pick as much as you want, and no one cares.

However, with the current iron-making process, this kind of stone is no different from waste stone, and it is impossible to smelt one or two irons.

After returning to the courtyard of Yang Xing's house, Liu Ping immediately wrote a letter to Xiahou Yuan of Dongguan County, asking him to allocate a batch of grain in advance.

Previously, he was only a county guard, and Xiahou Yuan temporarily took over the responsibility of the county guard as a guard.

Now that he is the right card, how to distribute the grain is naturally in charge of political affairs.

At the same time, he sent a letter back to Cao Cao, briefly stating his idea of smelting iron here.

The main thing, he is short of money.

If you want to mine by manpower and crush ore, you must recruit a large number of people, and the more the better.

And to make machinery for magnetic separation, these require money.

And he didn't think about keeping money for himself, so he had a poor jingle in his hand, so he could only ask his father-in-law for help.

……

Yanzhou City, in Cao Cao's study.

Cheng Yu knelt down in front of Cao Cao and said with a worried face: "Recently, there have been three more fights for hemp, and the hemp planted in the entire Yanzhou has been swept away.

I am afraid that it will not be easy to collect half of the linen cloth that was expected to be levied, so please make a decision as soon as possible. ”

It was the first time that he had apportioned this kind of labor to peasant women, but he ignored that hemp was simply not enough, and that his plan to use the requisitioned linen as a military salary was about to fail.

Now there has been a lot of trouble among the people everywhere to grab hemp.

Now that he has realized that there was a deviation in the original plan, according to Cheng Yu's idea, according to the pot of rice, since half of the linen cloth can only be collected, it is better to dismiss half of the recruited soldiers.

But for the princes of Cao Cao's side, the army is the foundation of the business, they have all been recruited, and training has begun, how can there be any reason to be dismissed?

"Order Cao Chun, let him lead the soldiers to patrol in all directions, and if there are any more brawlers, they will be severely punished," Cao Cao pondered for a moment, and then said: "When the linen cloth is harvested, the peasants who cannot pay it will be ordered to build a city wall in place of labor." ”

"No!"

"There is also a letter here, written by Ping'er from Dongguan, he wants to smelt iron in Dongguan County, what do you think?"

After receiving Liu Ping's letter, Cao Cao felt inexplicable, there are only forty-nine places in the world that can produce iron, which is clearly recorded in the imperial court documents.

Could it be that Dongguan County was defeated, and it happened that Dongguan County could also produce iron, but the imperial court never knew about it, and it happened that Liu Ping found out?

There are too many coincidences.

However, Cao Cao at this time was not like at the beginning, he only regarded Liu Ping as a little guy who happened to save his father.

Liu Ping has done everything before, which thing has not made the impossible possible?

This guy always seems to be able to surprise people, so although Cao Cao didn't understand, he didn't refuse, but took it out to discuss with Cheng Yu.

Cheng Yu said with a smile: "If you want to say that Dongguan County can make iron, it is indeed unheard of in Xia, but Ping Gongzi is shrewd and capable, he will definitely not do anything that he is not sure of, and as for how to reply, he can't make up his mind in Xia."

Now, Yanzhou's military salary is extremely short, and he needs so much money, so please make the gentleman consider it. ”

Cheng Yu was scared of being slapped in the face, and he didn't dare to make judgments, mainly because Liu Ping was unguardable every time he made meritorious contributions.

Therefore he did not believe it, and he no longer spoke out against it.

Cao Cao stared at Cheng Yu: "You mean, whatever he tosses, do you want money?" ”

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