At the beginning of September in the third year of Qingyuan, the weather in Yanjing has gradually begun to cool, especially in the morning and evening, the chill in the evening breeze has gradually made people unconsciously begin to add clothes to their bodies, and the sun falling towards the West Mountain seems to be much faster than usual, almost in the blink of an eye, the sunset hanging on the top of the mountain will disappear silently.

Liu Keshi and Ye Qing rode in the same carriage, compared to Ye Qing's calmer expression, Liu Keshi, who was swaying in the carriage, was extremely excited.

Seeing that winter is coming, and if you want to transport the black stone from Wuzhou, there is naturally no suffering, but because of the long distance, so that when the black stone is transported from Wuzhou to Yanjing, its price will also rise a lot.

And in the past two days, Ye Qing took him and everyone around, and after wandering around Dagu Mountain for two days, he easily found a black stone that was no less than Wuzhou, and it was everything.

So this is naturally a great piece of good news for Liu Keshi, who is actually the prefect of Yanjing, and can easily help him solve many problems from money.

Yelu Chucai, who went to Dagu Mountain with them, but did not choose to ride in the same carriage with them, could only sit on horseback and face the cold wind and rush in the direction of Yanjing City at this moment.

It's not that he's not afraid of the cold, but because he once again disdains to be in the company of the treacherous and cunning Ye Qing, and even less to ride in the same carriage with such a despicable villain.

There is a black stone in Dagu Mountain, Yelu Chucai dared to pat his chest and bet, Ye Qing definitely knew that there was a black stone here, but back then, he chose Wuzhou, which was hundreds of miles away, to take the black stone for the Jin people, and now that he has become the master in Yanjing, he chose this Dagu Mountain dozens of miles away from Yanjing to take coal!

Yelu Chucai was full of dissatisfaction but didn't know how to vent it, he was even sure now that when Ye Qing first sent an envoy to the Jin Kingdom, he had actually thought in his heart that he would capture Yanjing one day!

Otherwise, how could he let the Jin people go near and far to get coal, instead of choosing Otani Mountain to get coal? It just doesn't make sense!

The sullen Yelu Chucai rode a horse, and from time to time he heard hearty laughter from the carriage next to him, and he would unconsciously snort coldly to express his dissatisfaction with Ye Qing.

Ye Qing also poked his head out of the carriage at the right time, and looked at Yelu Chucai, who was sitting on horseback despite the cold wind: "You really don't plan to sit in the car to warm up?" ”

"This official disdains to ride in the same carriage with some treacherous villains." Yelu Chucai replied proudly.

"Okay, I originally wanted to leave the black stone matter of Mount Otani to you to take care of, since you are not interested, then it will be ......." Ye Qing didn't care at all about Yelu Chucai's evaluation of his treacherous villain.

"The official is disdainful, but he didn't say that he didn't want to take care of this matter!" Yelu Chucai turned his head to look at Ye Qing in the carriage, his expression was still cold and disdainful, and said: "But after that, if you leave it to me to take care of this matter, then you can't interfere in this matter anymore, everything needs to be decided by me." ”

"Tell me, then, what are you going to do next?" Ye Qing asked with interest, but Liu Keshi in the carriage smiled and said nothing, if this little matter was handed over to him, it would be really overkill.

So in his opinion, it is naturally best to hand over Yelu Chucai, after all, this black stone is a thing that ordinary people need, and if the Song court uses Yelu Chucai's identity as a subordinate to narrow the distance between the Song court and the people, it will naturally be better.

And Yelu Chucai sat on the horseback and talked for a long time, thinking that this time his thoughts were enough to be thoughtful, which could not only meet the benefits that this black stone brought to Ye Qing, but also allow the people to get real benefits.

So when he looked at Ye Qing with confidence, Ye Qing sighed helplessly: "I'm still young, if I have this little ability, I dare."

The big package can only show that you Yelu Chucai really have to be renamed Yelu stupid. ”

"Why? Where is this official not thoughtful? Yelu Chucai was stunned for a moment, and he didn't care about Ye Qing calling him Yelu stupid again, so he hurriedly slowed down again and asked.

"If it's just a black stone business, then you're underestimating this king." Ye Qing sold Guan Zi and said, "Come to my mansion tomorrow and show you how many benefits can be derived from this black stone." ”

After finishing speaking, Ye Qing lowered the curtain and ignored Yelu Chucai, who looked a little dazed and thoughtful.

Yelu Chucai obviously couldn't figure out what else Ye Qing could do to make this simple black stone derive more benefits, in his opinion, the black stone is the black stone, even if you change it, he can't become white, right?

As Ye Qing returned to the mansion, Jia Shi and Xu Han had already unloaded all the black stones that were pulled back from Dagu Mountain today into the Ye Mansion from the backyard.

Now not only Yelu Chucai is curious, but even Xu Han, Jia She, and Liu Keshi are curious about what Ye Qing can transform this black stone into.

Even the sound of a group of people discussing around the black stone attracted the curiosity of Ye Luyue, the only hostess of the mansion.

Although Ye Luyue didn't know what Ye Qing was pulling these black stones to the backyard for, she could already vaguely guess that this must be related to several things that Ye Qing had asked the blacksmith to build in the past few days.

After all, Ye Qing, who is now the king of Yan, is also a profiteer who is unprofitable and cannot afford to be early, and in the past few days, he has been running out of the house from time to time to sit in the blacksmith shop for most of the day, and then he brought back a few things that he didn't know what to use at all, and today he got the black stone, so there is almost no need to guess, Ye Luyue knows that these few things that Ye Qing is drumming up are all for today's business.

Ye Qing's idea is very simple, the iron furnace has already been drummed up by him, and this move is because Wan Yan Jing went to Jiangnan that time, and Ye Qing asked Wan Yan Jing to bring it back to Yanjing as a gift.

Therefore, the iron furnace is not a new thing now, but it is not used much in Yanjing now, but because of this, the honeycomb coal that Ye Qing wants to imitate is obviously useless before.

And now that he has made up his mind to take coal from Dagu Mountain, the first thing that Ye Qing naturally thinks of is that when Yanjing reigned in the Jin Kingdom, the new things that had not yet appeared were naturally the best.

Originally, he planned to explain his doubts to Yelu Chucai tomorrow, but he couldn't bear the curiosity that Liu Keshi and several others couldn't suppress, so King Yan had no choice but to reluctantly let Xu Han take out the "treasure" he had built in the past few days.

How noble the identity of King Yan is, it is naturally impossible to demonstrate it to everyone in person, so in the crowd of onlookers, Ye Qing did not choose Yelu Chucai, but Xu Han and Jia She, according to every step he prompted, to make this honeycomb coal.

Ye Qing, who was standing on the side and commanding, beckoned to Yelu Chucai, who was staring at Xu Han and Jia She, and then said lightly: "The strategy you said along the way is not feasible at all in my opinion. ”

"Why?" Yelu Chucai frowned and asked: "Wuzhou is how to govern the black stone, no matter how big or small the black stone kiln is, it is held in the hands of the government, so that the interests of the government can be ......." ”

"Then do you know how many small kilns the people of Wuzhou secretly opened without concealing from the government?" Ye Qing asked lightly.

Obviously, Ye Qing didn't know anything about the situation in Wuzhou.

"How can there be a perfect way in the world? As long as it doesn't affect the big picture...... What's more, those small kilns are just a fraction of ....... Yelu Chucai said a little casually.

"Yes, but the so-called thousand-mile embankment collapsed in the anthill, Wuzhou is like this, and what about Yanjing?" Ye Qing commanded Xu Hanshao to mix yellow mud while continuing to Yelu Chucai: "Although when Yan Jing left, he took away most of the nobles and clan officials of the golden family, but there are still many nobles and nobles in Yanjing City, and they are now in Yanjing and even the surrounding areas

's influence, but it's not weaker than ours, the new government. So since there are people in Wuzhou who open it privately, won't the people of Yanjing, especially those remnants of the Jin Kingdom, open it privately? ”

"Strict precautions, as long as ...... are found." Yelu Chucai frowned and said.

And Ye Qing shook his head and interrupted his words: "It's just a symptom but not a root cause, not to mention that you can see it?" Don't you know how big Mt. Otani is? If you send a whole army over because of this little black stone, wouldn't it be a small loss? ”

"What does King Yan mean?" Liu Keshi, who had been listening for a long time, asked.

Ye Qing, on the other hand, looked at Yeluyue not far away with a little weakness, and then deliberately lowered his voice and said, "It is enough to solve this problem with business supervision." ”

"What do you mean?" Liu Keshi and Yelu Chucai said in unison.

"The government set aside a hill for legal mining of black stone, and then divided it into districts, or sold or leased to merchants for their own mining, and the government only needs to collect taxes according to the system. In this way, if someone else opens a kiln from another place without permission, whose interests do you think will be harmed first? Ye Qing glanced at Ye Luyue vigilantly from time to time.

Seeing Ye Luyue at this time, she was curiously taking the mold from Xu Han's hand, and then stepped on the mold without being dirty and fell into the mixed black stone, and then slowly took it out with some effort and walked to another open space, according to what Xu Han had just done, and slowly pushed out the black stone that was squeezed into more than a dozen holes in the mold from top to bottom.

"Naturally, it's ......." Yelu Chucai looked at Ye Qing in shock, if he didn't understand Ye Qing's intentions now, then he really had to change his name to Yelu Idiot.

At this time, Liu Keshi also suddenly realized, and said: "Yes, the damage is naturally the interests of those merchants who bought or rented, so after they find out, they will naturally obstruct or inform the government to administer justice for them, so that we don't need to contribute manpower or material resources, as long as we regard the mountain as our own?" ”

"Your sister, what do you mean by being your own? Court! Court! Of the imperial court! King Yan's face instantly turned as black as a black stone, and he looked at Liu Keshi, who was unscrupulous, and reprimanded: "Remember, it has to be said to be the imperial court, which imperial court, naturally it is the Lin'an imperial court!" In addition, when selecting merchants, we must not choose those with strong financial resources, we must avoid buying and selling among these merchants, so as to prevent a family from becoming bigger or even occupying the entire mountain, and we must let them form a competitive situation, so that it is beneficial to us. ”

"Oh...... I see, I see. Yelu Chucai suddenly had a hint of ridicule at the corner of his mouth, looking a little nervous, looking at Ye Qing, who was playing happily from time to time, and suddenly asked mysteriously: "The reason why King Yan is like this, is it afraid that Mrs. will also want to profit from it...... ”

Liu Keshi was also awakened by Yelu Chucai's words in an instant, no wonder Ye Qing had been carefully watching out for Yelu Yue not far away when he explained to the two of them, it turned out that he was afraid of ...... Oh, no, I'm afraid that King Yan is afraid of another lady who will come to Yanjing in the near future, right?

Ye Qing glared at the two of them warningly, and then admitted: "Nonsense, if this is not the case, then these mountains will really become their own, what kind of court are you talking about?" ”

Ye Qing was sure that once Yan Chengcheng arrived in Yanjing, after learning about this black stone, he would definitely want to profit from it, and he and Miss Yan could be said to be reunited after a long absence, once people mentioned it, Ye Qing probably didn't even have an excuse to refuse.

And when the time comes, if it is really taken by Yan Chengcheng as its own, then it will really be the court's own.

Of course, Ye Qing now dares to hand over all the black stones to Shang Jia, and naturally he also has his backhand, that is, the mining of other ores must require the help of a rich woman with strong financial resources like Yan Tingcheng.

Otherwise, even if he Ye Qing wanted to recruit troops in Yanjing, and then equip those so-called Lianzhu guns, cupola cannons and other killing weapons, he could only talk on paper and draw cakes to satisfy his hunger.