On the road from northwest to southeast to Longkou County, Dengzhou, there are six horsemen galloping all the way. Pen % fun % Pavilion www.biquge.info

They are Zhao Yue and Liu Tong, the Wen brothers, and the two young generals of Carved Dragon and Embroidered Tiger.

Rushing to Longkou County in such a hurry is that Cangzhao's coal mine in Longkou has a major incident, and it is currently under heavy siege, and the main city of the mine is in danger of being destroyed at any time.

Since the establishment of the Goryeo Peninsula, the Cangzhao Group began to evacuate the Great Song Dynasty, closing down and abandoning all the mines set up in various inland parts of the Great Song Dynasty, and removing all personnel and equipment.

These mines are not traditional minerals such as iron ore, copper ore, gold and silver minerals, which are officially prohibited from private mining, and are all used by the Song people who do not know their value and use, such as rare earth graphite. The mined minerals are not refined in the Great Song Dynasty, but are only preliminarily screened and refined to remove wastes such as stones for effective transportation, and when the raw materials are transferred to overseas for smelting.

In the eyes of the local Song people, including the government, these minerals are just useless mud and stones, which are used to pave the land and fertilize the fields, and are not rare to use for building cities and paving roads. What are these minerals worth expending?

For things that can make profits, corrupt officials and corrupt officials are naturally very interested and enthusiastic, under the banner of safeguarding the interests of the imperial court minerals, etc., they have secretly consulted and studied the use of these minerals, but these Great Song Dynasty craftsmen who only know some traditional mineral knowledge can see what they can study?

Naturally, nothing will be achieved by messing around.

Naturally, the corrupt officials did not give up, not only for profit, but also to spy on the secret of Cangzhao's use of minerals for profit, and to try to use bribery and other means to deceive the people in the mine to find out the truth.

But the average person in the mine doesn't know anything about it.

They just work hard to get money in a similar way to traditional mining and preliminary screening methods, and they can't say anything useful if they want to sell it.

Besides, why sell the mine's secrets?

If you want to join a mine, even if it's just a front-line worker, you don't have to have two arms or some mining skills to join.

The Cangzhao family is different from other families.

A family that can be approved and recognized after layers of review is not just a relationship between employment and employment. As long as you don't violate the bottom line of Cangzhao's principles, simply put, don't betray and work hard, Cangzhao will treat your family and even your entire family as a member of Cangzhao, not only give the usual maintenance and care, so that your family will not be exploited by the government and not bullied and blackmailed by the ruffians, but also manage you for a lifetime, work fairly, do not abuse you and bully you, work well, children will get free care and education and work outlets, and if you are sick, you will get collective help and treatment, and it will no longer be your family to resist all kinds of difficulties and disasters encountered in life. Even if there is no life here, it is useless, other employers usually dissolve and dismiss it, and Cangzhao will transfer your family or even your family, support your family for nothing, and then rearrange other things that are suitable for your family.........

For ordinary people, this kind of treatment means stability, dignity, worry-free, happiness, and it also means the long-term future of the family. It is far from being comparable to the benefits of selling Cangzhao and suddenly getting a large amount of money.

People at the lower levels of society pay more attention to stability and security. Talents with deep roots will always want to soar and climb to a higher level.

In today's turbulent and sinister social environment of the Great Song Dynasty, ordinary people who have no roots and no support get rich overnight, which is not a blessing, but usually means that disaster is coming, and it is difficult to have a life to enjoy it safely. Just staring at a ruffian bully can ruin your family.

Modern ordinary people suddenly won a huge jackpot, and they had to move secretly to hide their traces for fear of being targeted by the gangsters, let alone in the rotten Great Song Dynasty.

As the group most directly affected by the pressure of social change, Shengdou Xiaomin has a more sober and realistic understanding of survival.

Those who can be selected as Cangzhao workers, under the intentional education and brainwashing of Cangzhao managers, know how they should stand in line, understand that maintaining Cangzhao is to protect themselves, and can control their hearts. Of course, it is inevitable that there will be a few selfish goods who are willing to sell Cangzhao for money and get rid of the squandering life of their dreams, but they don't know anything, they can't sell it, and the end is miserable.

As for the very few mine managers who know the secrets of the minerals, they must be high-quality diehards cultivated by the Cangzhao family, and even if they have ideas, they dare not betray them at all. They know more about Cangzhao's strength in management. The surveillance network is mysteriously vast and seems to be everywhere. It's hard to know who's staring at you. Any person in the mines under the mass movement is a volunteer spy. As soon as you have the idea of betrayal, I am afraid that before you really put it into action, you will most likely become the prey of the trap. The evaporation of the world is light, and it is inevitable that the entire family will be affected.

These high-quality managers are more knowledgeable and future-oriented.

The Cangzhao Empire will inevitably be the rightful ruler in the near future, and it will definitely dominate the world, so powerful that it is inconceivable for the old knowledgeable. No one can stop this.

As a middle- and high-level talent with new knowledge and new qualities and dreams of the empire, he has a bright future, and who would choose to betray such a stupid thing for the sake of a little money and small profit in front of him. They are not short of money, and they only work hard to compete for performance, hoping to become the heroes of the founding of the country, climb to higher management positions and show greater ambition and talent.

Cangzhao's mining in various parts of the Great Song Dynasty is not a prohibited industry, and the corrupt officials and corrupt officials are so red that they have no legitimate reason to suppress and prohibit, and they cannot know the secrets of minerals, but this does not delay the local government from colluding with local tyrants and even gangsters and robbers to make things difficult in various ways, threaten extortion, and extort in disguise.

Now, as Zhao Gonglian fell out of favor in the emperor's heart, the greedy and ill-intentioned people saw the trend or received some instructions from above, and became more and more bold and arrogant.

Some Qing officials who had a good reputation for serving the country with loyalty to the monarch also wrote to accuse Cangzhao of only using the minerals of the Great Song Dynasty for their own benefit and not putting the interests of the country in the first place, pointing out that Cangzhao should take the initiative to dedicate the secret recipe of how to use these minerals to the imperial court, so that the country can benefit from it and solve all kinds of difficulties faced by the country, so as to live up to Cangzhao's reputation of loyalty, patriotism, benevolence and benevolence. There are even Qing officials who wrote a letter to Zhao Gonglian, kindly pointing out that they should quickly dedicate all kinds of secret recipes that can obtain great benefits to the imperial court, which not only expresses and proves Cangzhao's loyalty and patriotism, but also helps to magnify Cangzhao's fame and glory, and can also avoid Cangzhao's potential crisis, which is a wise way to ensure the long-term prosperity of the family.

This is actually intimidation and coercion in disguise.

I am afraid that only these Qing officials who wrote or wrote letters and those who conspired with Qing officials know about it.

A good person is not necessarily a good officer. A good official is not necessarily a good person. Since ancient times, it is not uncommon for Qing officials to forcibly seize private interests from the perspective of patriotism and serving the country, and indirectly benefit from it, and get promoted to get rich and have a good reputation. As for the bureaucrats who put on the skin of a clean official and cheated people for the benefit of themselves and their relatives, there are countless of them.

In short, Cangzhao's wealth and intelligence have made the Qing officials with the bottom line of human conscience and more shameless bastard bastard bureaucrats all look unpleasant, and they have endured uncomfortable jealousy and red eyes for so many years, and now Cangzhao has finally begun to lose power, and they finally can't help but reach out to Cangzhao together.

The survival of minerals in various places has become increasingly difficult, and in many places, it is difficult to ensure normal daily production and transportation.

Under the bad situation of the overall suppression of the Great Song Dynasty Qunchen, with the progress of the overall strategic layout of Cangzhao, Zhao Yue and his brothers discussed it and simply withdrew and let the locals play blindly.

The Qing officials, corrupt officials, and bullies from all over the country finally succeeded in squeezing out Cangzhao, and they couldn't wait to scrape the mine and get people to learn to mine.

They were very proud, thinking that they controlled the mineral materials that Cangzhao needed, and they couldn't use them themselves, but they could force Cangzhao to buy them at a high price, and even forced Cangzhao to hand over the secret recipe for everyone to share. This means that the financial resources are rolling in, and they can also be exchanged for promotions. There are so many implicit benefits.

are all secretly having fun.

Who knows, as soon as Cangzhao withdrew, there was no longer half a person to pay attention to these mines and minerals. It is not at all the greedy, shameless and Qing officials' fantasy that Cangzhao is competing to force them to lower the price and make concessions before buying. Cangzhao did not hand over the secret recipe, and ignored the Qing officials' continued to write to suggest that the emperor put pressure on Cangzhao or kindly write euphemistic advice.

Later generations know that controlling the source of resources controls the market.

But monopolies can also control resources and control the market. Whether it is a clean official or a corrupt official, the bullies don't understand it very well.

Cangzhao related enterprises use the resources accumulated at hand, and temporarily reduce production and research consumption, and no longer purchase from Dasong for a few years. This blinded the calculators.

The minerals that have been mined at a great cost are piled up more and more, but they are useless, and they have become garbage that no one wants for nothing.

In addition to scolding Cangzhao for being too tough, bold, and too pitiful, these people can only cry and drive people out of the mine without tears. No matter whether it is a clean official or a corrupt official, he will not be paid.

The Qing officials were limited in their local financial strength, and if they wanted to pay the full amount of taxes and ensure their political performance, they could not afford to pay such a huge amount of wages, and they did not know where to make up for the huge costs paid for the mining operations, and the bureaucrats did not benefit from the mining and made a fortune to taste the sweetness, but the wages and official expenses first fell into a situation of lack of money to pay, which made the local officials feel worried. This is directly related to the immediate interests of the local bureaucracy as a whole, and more importantly, to everyone's political achievements and career prospects in the eyes of the imperial court.

Salary?

Hey, needless to say, I can't take care of it, the government can only ignore its conscience.

Of course, they are still justified and still feel that they are good officials who love the country and the people.

The national interest is paramount.

When there is a conflict between the interests of the state and the interests of the people, it is natural that the interests of the state must be safeguarded first. The interests of the people had to be compromised and sacrificed. That's as it should be. There's nothing wrong with that.

They also don't think that they have made mistakes in their own decisions.

The harm to the people is that the Cangzhao family is too selfish and unwilling to buy the minerals that the miners have worked so hard to mine (at a high price), and they are also unwilling to hand over the secret recipe for using the minerals, so that all the minerals have become waste. The sins are all the sins of Cangzhao. The wages owed should be fined, and the Zhao family should be compensated and apologized. The emperor should exert pressure and punishment, and he should not always be accustomed to Cangzhao.

These officials refused to even carry the notoriety of the people, and all blamed it on Cangzhao, not guilty of their own behavior as a pit person, and still tried to use imperial power to force Cangzhao to submit to them and bow his head, and constantly wrote books to accuse Cangzhao of being disloyal and disloyal.

Corrupt officials and bullies don't want to pay their wages at all.

They are so heartbroken that they can't help but get rid of the losses from the miners, who don't care if the miners live or die, and don't care what wages you don't pay.

It's already a blessing for you to pat your ass honestly and leave empty-handed. If you dare to make trouble, you won't be killed, just rightly grab it as a free coolie to make money to make up for your losses.

As a result, a large number of mining workers have been harmed, and all concerned have complained. Cangzhao's image among the foolish people was damaged. But the Great Song Dynasty is even more unpopular.

Today, Cangzhao's mining in the Great Song Dynasty is only the Longkou Coal Mine by the sea and a coastal coal mine in Fujian.

However, the mine in Fujian has never been under the name of Cangzhao, and outsiders do not know that it is related to Cangzhao, and now it is controlled by pirates, and the local government does not dare to provoke it.

According to the plan, the Longkou Mine, which was named Cangzhao, was also to be destroyed and closed at the time of this large-scale robbery of the coastal areas by pirates, and there were 40,000 or 50,000 miners at the peak of its prosperity, mainly prisoners of war and slaves from South Asia and other places, and the prisoners of war in the north may leak secrets in the Great Song Dynasty, and all of them are placed overseas as coolies. All the slaves in the mine had their tongues cut out, their faces covered with mine markers, and they were counted as bare-rod miners who toiled until they died.

These South Asian miners and the Song people do not understand the language, they can't read and write, or at least they can't write Chinese characters, they can't write, they can't reveal their secrets, and they survive in Longkou, a completely strange place that is completely different from the familiar hot environment in the south, and they don't feel comfortable surviving, people will instinctively have a sense of fear, and they don't dare to run away at first, and then they are familiar with the local people who are tired and unwilling to survive like this and want to escape. People in the public gate will actively catch and send them back.

To put it bluntly, it's a matter of profit.

The local people who have not yet emigrated have also benefited a lot from the mine, and whether they are grateful or not, they also hope that the mine will continue to be good for their own interests.

The same is true for the local government.

In the past, bureaucrats who dared to attack the mines because of greed or on the instructions of the political enemies of Cangzhao in the middle of the dynasty were unlucky for various reasons. At one time, Longkou County ordered the county to change the chief officials so frequently. In the case that Cangzhao cannot be defeated, it is okay for the local bureaucrat to be hostile to Cangzhao, but he will only suffer first if he calculates that he will harm Cangzhao in the mine.

For the feudal bureaucrats, with the strength of Cangzhao, whoever wants to pull the pigtails, the better officials are also accurate.

Fan Zhongyan, who is known as a saint, can be impeached into a sieve and removed from power in embarrassment, not to mention these rotten bureaucrats at the end of the Northern Song Dynasty who hardly have clean buttocks.

Cooperate with the mine and benefit as much as possible is the first and foremost sensible choice as a local bureaucrat. The conspiracy or anything else will have to be talked about later.

It was not the imperial court or the local government that caused the crisis at Longkou Mine, but a force that suddenly came from the west.