Master Zhou picked up the wine glass and said, "Master He, let's drink first, and then we will continue to discuss after drinking this glass of wine." ”

"Okay, no hurry. Let's discuss it slowly. Come on! He Zhiyuan also raised his glass and said.

After drinking the wine in the cup and putting down the wine glass, Lord Zhou ate a few bites of food. Then he said to He Zhiyuan: "Master He, this official has an idea here. It is to exchange the coal mining rights of Blackstone Mountain for the cement road from Luoquanzhuang to the cross road, what do you think? ”

The so-called mining rights do not mean that after obtaining the mining rights, the coal under the Black Rock Mountain is all their own, and they can be mined as they want. It refers to the right to use the land above, and generally only needs a few hundred taels for the mining right of a coal kiln, at most more than a thousand taels of silver, and when mining coal, the tax must be paid as usual.

In Zhou's understanding, He Zhiyuan can dig more than a dozen coal kilns at most, and even if he can dig them out, he can't sell them. The mining rights of a dozen coal kilns are worth 20,000 taels of silver at most, and the cost of building a cement road of more than 100 miles is several times that of him. In this way, the Yizhou government has made a lot of money.

When He Zhiyuan heard this, he was so happy that he almost jumped up. The coal reserves in this mountain are immeasurable, and building a cement road of more than 100 miles in exchange for the coal mining rights of Heishi Mountain is a lucrative business. But he can't be too happy now, so as not to be seen by Lord Zhou. So He Zhiyuan was very embarrassed and said: "Lord Zhou, you are really shrewd, it costs at least 100,000 taels of silver to build this cement road, and how much silver is it for this mining right?" ”

Lord Zhou smiled as if this bargain had been earned, and persuaded him: "He Gongzi can't settle accounts like this, in the future, He Gongzi will be the biggest coal boss in Blackstone Mountain, and after this road is repaired, isn't it you who will benefit the most?" ”

He Zhiyuan pretended to think for a moment, and reluctantly said: "Lord Zhou's proposal is not unreasonable, but I also ask Lord Zhou to give some convenience." ”

When Lord Zhou heard that He Zhiyuan basically agreed to his proposal, he couldn't help but be overjoyed, if this matter was promoted, it would be another political achievement for him. He couldn't hide his joy and asked: "What kind of convenience does Gongzi He need to provide, even if it is proposed, as long as the official can do it, I will try my best to cooperate." ”

He Zhiyuan said: "Now this road, less than two zhang wide, two big cars when it is too difficult, this time the road should be widened to at least three zhang to five zhang, which occupies more land still needs to be requisitioned by the government." Second, a large amount of cement is needed to build cement roads, and the cost of transporting cement from Juzhou is too high, so it is necessary to open several local cement workshops to produce cement. ”

After listening to what He Zhiyuan said, Lord Zhou thought in his heart that the government has a lot of official land in its hands, so it is not difficult to requisition land, and it is a big deal to exchange it for official land. He couldn't get it right to open a cement workshop, and if he needed money from the government, he didn't want to agree, after all, the state's finances were not rich. He didn't want to dig out the money.

Thinking of this, he asked He Zhiyuan: "Who will pay for the principal of opening a cement workshop?" ”

"The formula of cement is in my hands, if the government intends to contribute the principal, I am willing to use the formula to buy shares, and the profits will be divided into four or six percent, I will take forty percent, and the government will take sixty percent. If Mr. Zhou doesn't want to worry about this, he can also find it

The businesses in the state are combined, and I account for 40% of the four things. He Zhiyuan replied.

When Mr. Zhou heard that he could let the merchant take shares, he was relieved. As long as he is not allowed to give money, it is easy to say, so he said: "The government is to manage the people on behalf of the court, and it cannot do business and make profits with the people." He Gongzi should still find a merchant to join forces, but our Yizhou Yamen can help matchmaking. ”

After the matter was discussed, everyone began to drink and eat. After a full meal and wine, Lord Zhou left with everyone satisfied.

After they left, He Zhiyuan took Yan Jihai to look around in the house. Then gathered the servants together, and when the servants and maids and old mothers arrived, He Zhiyuan counted that there were seven people in total. I thought that this Boss Luo was still very extravagant, and so many people were used in one outer house. I've never been so extravagant. Then he asked one of the older servants, "What's your name?" Who is the leader here? ”

The servant immediately bowed and replied, "If you go back to the owner's house, the villain's name is Wang Jianlei." It's the coachman here, the original housekeeper has long packed up his things and run, and now there is no leader. ”

He Zhiyuan saw that the man's face was quite honest, and said: "Then you are the housekeeper here, and when I am not there in the future, you will be responsible for taking care of this courtyard." ”

When the coachman named Wang Jianlei heard that he was being the housekeeper here, he thought he had heard it wrong. Standing on the ground stunned and did not react, fortunately the person next to him reminded him, and hurriedly knelt down and kowtowed to thank him to express his loyalty.

After giving them a lecture and asking them for their identities and names, He Zhiyuan gave Wang Jianlei two hundred taels of silver as the daily expenses of the house. Then he left here with the guards, although it was more comfortable to live here, but there were many things going on in the coal mine, so it was more convenient for him to live there.

When I returned to the coal mine, as soon as I entered the house, the shopkeeper Sun came over and said, "Boss, not long after you left this morning, the owner of the kiln came to me, and heard that we were going to buy the abandoned coal kiln, and they all said that they would not give us money in vain, so as to express the gratitude of the owner for getting rid of the bandits." ”

He Zhiyuan waved his hand and said: "That's not good, we can't take advantage of others in vain, you go and tell them that business is business." Love is love, I have written down the affection of the kiln owners. ”

After the shopkeeper Sun nodded in agreement, he continued: "There are also some shopkeepers and bosses of the manpower tooth shop who also came to me and asked if we still recruit miners in the mine?" They can recruit people for us, and they also say that the brokerage fee is fair, and it will definitely not be like the previous Boss Luo. ”

He Zhiyuan snorted coldly and said, "Forgive them and don't dare!" You go back to them, don't recruit miners for the time being, and wait for a while. ”

There are four or five Li Ya Shops in Luo Quanzhuang, among which Luo Juncai's Tooth Shop is the largest one, and he almost monopolizes seventy percent of Luo Quanzhuang's human resources market, squeezing the others to the point of almost collapse. Now that Boss Luo has been eliminated, these companies will immediately start competing for this market. They all understood that the He family would be the most powerful in the future, so they immediately found Shopkeeper Sun and began to discuss cooperation.

In the next few days, He Zhiyuan first signed a contract with Zhou Daren on the exchange of coal mining rights and cement road construction in Heishishan

Later, he bought all the abandoned coal kilns in Blackstone Mountain.

Then he began to reward the officers and soldiers for this operation, and this time the bandits were suppressed, and not a single soldier was killed or wounded. It can be said that it is a big win! He Zhiyuan took out three thousand taels of silver as a reward, the soldiers were rewarded with five taels each, the general flag was fifty taels per person, Wei Zhou's small flag was used as a scout this time, and the credit was the greatest, each soldier was rewarded with twenty taels, and Wei Zhou was rewarded with fifty taels as the general flag. This time, the captain Detian and the deputy captain Ma Wu, who led the team to suppress the bandits, were each rewarded with 100 taels.

The rest of the silver was given to the miners as a bonus, so that each miner received two taels of silver, which was a huge sum of money for them. The rewarded miners worked harder, doubling their output.

Seeing He Zhiyuan's actions, other coal kiln owners directly doubled their output, and they also followed suit, increasing the wages of miners, improving their food, and increasing their output to varying degrees. However, the coal kiln owners did not lose money, and they made more money than before. After all, after Boss Luo was arrested and the bandits were suppressed, the coal kiln owners saved a lot of management fees and land fees.

With the help of the Yizhou Inspection Division, it took three days to bring the grain back. In the end, He Zhiyuan didn't let Zhou Dabai help, He Zhiyuan took out another 500 stone of grain, filled more than a dozen carts, and asked the soldiers of the Inspection Department to pull them back.

Subsequently, He Zhiyuan took out another two thousand taels of silver and gave it to Lord Zhou, although he hated this mediocre Zhizhou, but after all, he would have to deal with each other often in the future, and it would be better to have a good relationship.

Lord Zhou was surprised to receive this money, because at the beginning his attitude and Zheng Zhutou's fear of death and timidity, made his face gloomy. And He Zhiyuan had already released his words, saying that these battles were used by him to send troops for him, so Lord Zhou has been embarrassed to speak. Now He Zhiyuan actually took the initiative to send it, so happy that the wrinkles on his face were stretched, and his beard was also raised high. Lian again and again said to He Zhiyuan: "In the future, if you can use his place, even if you open your mouth, the officials and officials from top to bottom of the Yizhou government will fully cooperate with Yunyun." ”

As for how to deal with the silver received by Lord Zhou, it was his business, He Zhiyuan said in his heart, he didn't dare to swallow it alone, otherwise he would not be able to write his twists and turns, to say that he had won a big battle, and wiped out more than 600 bandits in Heishizhai, and he didn't get the silver for a day, and those people in the court could believe it. Maybe the credit will end up in prison, and it is not known.

After all these things were dealt with and things on the coal mine were straightened out, it was already the end of November, and He Zhiyuan had been in Yizhou for more than half a month, so he informed Xu Detian to prepare his baggage, everyone packed up, and returned to the camp the next day.

In order to ensure the safety of the coal mine, He Zhiyuan decided to temporarily leave a small flag of Wei Zhou and garrison it here as a security guard, while he returned home with the army.

When this army came, for the sake of secrecy and unnecessary trouble, everyone dressed up as ordinary people who went out to find work, and they were sneaky, and when they left, there was no need for this at all. Everyone put on uniform household clothes, carried guns, wrapped ammunition bags around their waists, lined up in a four-way column, and some soldiers also rode high-headed horses, pulling more than a dozen carts of baggage, and set off from Luoquanzhuang to Hejia Town, Juzhou.

(End of chapter)

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