Chapter 88: This Thing Is Hard to Find
When LΓΌ Bu arrived in Jinyang, Zhang Yang, the assassin of Bingzhou, was resettled in Jinyang who had migrated from Jinyang, and in addition to the refugees who fled on their own, the security of Jinyang, Hanoi and other counties in Bingzhou was a bit worrying.
Zhang Yang didn't care about the beginning, he was only busy, and when he saw Lu Bu's army returning, he poured his stomach full of bitter water in front of Lu Bu, and said: "Fengxian, although our merger is still smooth and self-sufficient, but it is only barely able to feed and wear. β
At this time, it was already the late autumn season, and the weather in Bingzhou had turned cold, Lu Bu was roasting charcoal, listening to Zhang Yang's chatter, he was also a little depressed, he just wanted to get people from Yizhou, but now it has obviously exceeded the previous estimate, and the resettlement of refugees is really a headache, no wonder Yuan Shao saw the influx of displaced people into Bingzhou but didn't care, and it was difficult for him to afford it.
Then he asked Yang Xiudao: "Is it feasible to buy grain from other states and counties?" β
Yang Xiu smiled bitterly: "Food is a strategic material, and the princes are willing to sell it easily?" In addition, the princes went their own way, the coins were difficult to use, and there were homeless people and thieves running rampant, and the trade route could not be smooth, so it was really impossible to make the trip. β
Lu Bu also smiled bitterly, even if someone is willing to sell grain, he doesn't have so much money to use, mainly because Lu Bu has recently expanded his armaments, almost all the infantry are equipped with light armor and longbows, and there are two big sellers of money in the camp and heavy cavalry, so the finances of the state are not as rich as originally thought.
At this time, when the matter came to an end, I knew what a happy thing it was to have a deposit, but unfortunately I didn't.
I couldn't help but ask Zhang Yang: "What special products do we have in the state, if we can pick them up and sell them, or we can fill the financial gap." β
Zhang Yang smiled bitterly: "You are also from Bingzhou, why did you come to ask me, our land in Bingzhou is not as fertile as Yizhou, Yanzhou, Xuzhou and other places, and the mountains are not as numerous as Youzhou and Yizhou, and there is no fish, shrimp and seafood in Yangzhou and Jiaozhou, and jade and jade in Liangzhou. β
Lu Bu thought helplessly: It's not that stones can't be sold for money, it's just that the houses in this era are all civil structures, and there is little demand for stones.
Use a pestle to mix the burned charcoal in the furnace, add new carbon, a little chilly, and say: "Why don't you use coal for heating, this charcoal is really a little lacking." β
Zhang Yang asked suspiciously, "What is coal?" β
Only then did Lu Bu realize that he had made a mistake, and in this era, coal is called graphite, or black gold stone.
Then he changed his words: "It's the graphite commonly used in my house." β
Zhang Yang couldn't cry and laughed, and said: "Fengxian, you really don't know that firewood, rice, oil and salt are expensive, graphite is the essence of the mountain, the essence of heaven and earth, it is extremely difficult to harvest, and it is exclusively for the royal use, how can we have the leisure to use this valuable thing?" β
Lu Bu was shocked, thinking that this later coal mining province was actually short of coal? Isn't that a big joke!
After thinking about it carefully, I couldn't help but smile, this is really the endless road. The coal reserves in this state are in the forefront of the world, and there are widely distributed open-pit coal yards, but now coal is not widely used, and ordinary people do not know the value.
Without further ado, LΓΌ Bu immediately ordered Zhang Yang to gather the refugees who had been transferred to Bingzhou, and announced the formation of the Blackstone Army to collect graphite ore for him.
There is no age limit to join the Blackstone Army, as long as you are a healthy adult, Lu Bu told Zhang Yang the approximate location of several open-pit coal mines that he would later know, and asked him to order someone to take samples to explore. For example, the largest mineral deposit in Shuofang, which became famous in the world, and there are also many large-scale open-pit coal mines in Hedong, Jinyang, Shangdang, Hanoi and other places, which are easier to mine and do not need to make a big move.
Hearing that the Blackstone army had enough to eat three meals a day and a salary for the army, a group of refugees rushed to join, and in a few days, they recruited 200,000 people.
When recruiting the Blackstone Army, Lu Bu was not idle, ordered people to supervise the manufacture of countless hammers, chisels, pry axes, chariots and horses, and personally led a group of sappers to the outskirts of Jinyang to explore.
Finally, the emperor lived up to his wishes, and after running around for more than a month, he finally found the coal mine in the mountains of Luliang County in the southern suburbs of Jinyang.
The coal mine is buried three feet deep underground, and if Lu Bu did not know its approximate location and had the cave of the pangolin as a guide, it would have been even more difficult to find these deposits.
LΓΌ Bu was overjoyed, and on the same day, he led the well-prepared 200,000 Blackstone Army into LΓΌliang Mountain, with Wei Xu as the governor of the Blackstone Army and Wang Ling as the head of the Blackstone Army, and the two were fully responsible for mining matters and were directly responsible to LΓΌ Bu.
After arranging all the matters, Lu Bu led the army back to Anyi.
When the party arrived in Anyi, there was the good news of Wang Ling, the head of the Black Stone Army, and the first batch of graphite sales were gratifying, and the rich businessmen and nobles from all over the country heard that there was a large amount of graphite sold in Jinyang, and the price was less than half of the charcoal, and they rushed to buy it. In half a month, 100,000 yuan of silver and 500,000 stones of grain and grass have been raised, which is more than half a year's revenue from the state.
Lu Bu and the generals were happy but also full of worries, the child was innocent and guilty! Holding such hot wealth in your hands is really difficult to sleep.
After discussing with the generals, according to Sima Lang's suggestion, graphite was designated as the official property of the state, and private mining and sale were strictly prohibited.
The news of Jinyang's graphite production spread far and wide, and the princes of all parties came to be famous, competing to buy and book, and the scene was so enthusiastic that Lu Bu did not expect.
However, the mining progress could not keep up with the demand, manual mining was laborious and laborious, and the princes still had transportation problems when they wanted to buy, so they were rejected by Lu Bu. But this is not difficult to overwhelm the hearts of enthusiastic people. The chariot and horse dealers from all over the world brought their own chariot and horse guards, pouring into Jinyang from all directions, carrying grain, grass and silver money, and coming to exchange for them on their own, in an endless stream.
Lu Bu was overjoyed in his heart: Sure enough, it is the unique resource that makes the most money, relying on the mountains to eat the mountains, I can't imagine that I, Lu Bu, will also get rich overnight!
At this time, the land of the Central Plains was not as stable as that of Bingzhou, Cao Cao quelled the rebellion in Yanzhou, and without stopping, he raised troops to attack Liu Bei again, vowing to avenge the killing of his father. Liu Bei was already prepared at this time, recruited a new army of 100,000, and sat in Xuzhou and the Bohai Sea to deal with Cao Cao, but he did not fall behind for a while.
Yuan Shu and Liu Biao have been fighting in Jiangxia for more than a few months, and the two sides have won and lost each other, and they are fighting to the death.
The little overlord Sun Ce took the opportunity to cross the river with Yuan Shu's soldiers, and with the young general Zhou Yu as the general, he successively defeated Liu Xuan, the assassin of Yangzhou, and Wang Lang, the assassin of Jiangzhou, and occupied the land of Jiangdong.
Luoyang's Ma Chaoxie was self-respecting, and Han Sui, the assassin of Liangzhou, was loyal, and he held on to the danger pass, but he was also safe and sound.
Yuan Shao of Yizhou and Gongsun Zan of Youzhou are respectively dispatching troops, and a big war is ready to start, and it is inevitable.
Those who can get peace in Kyushu in the world are just Lu Bu, who is famous for their bravery, so that everyone does not dare to attack, and Liu Yan of Yizhou, who destroys the plank road and is isolated from the world.
When it came to Layue, Yan Xiuli gave birth to a son for Lu Bu, only because the son was pregnant when he was killed and was born in comfort after the catastrophe, so Lu Bu named him Lu Xing. It is to let him not forget the luck of the rest of his life after the catastrophe, and it is also to remind Lu Bu that he must always remember the previous lessons and not put himself and his family under the dangerous wall.
But it is said that when Lu Xing was born, it was the evening of the seventeenth day of the lunar month, it was the first sunny day after the snow, and the sunset would shine on the scarlet like blood for half a day, even the flowers and trees, and the eaves and shewaes were all dyed red, and the falling snow, which should have been white and flawless, exuded a bewitching scarlet at this time, and the scarlet of heaven and earth were reflected, so that this world was like purgatory on earth.
At the banquet that night, a group of generals and ministers came to congratulate each other, and after the lord had it, the temple would succeed in the future, which was a great joy.
Chen Lin, the director of the Hou Mansion, even said: "When the little prince was born, there was a vision in the sky, red for thousands of miles, and the color was dyed between heaven and earth. β
Lu Bu smiled when he heard this: "I don't want him to charge into battle like me, I hope he can be as wise as all the military advisors, so that he won't fall into confusion." β
Chen Lin shook his head and said: "The talent we are waiting for is just Xiaozhi, and he can only become a domain minister, but the lord can rule the world and command the ministers, and he is the talent of the emperor."
Lu Bu raised his hand to signal him not to continue, and said: "If there is chaos today, only I and the state stay out of the matter, I should take this opportunity to recuperate, I only have one sentence: accumulate grain, slow down the king." β
The eyes of the ministers and generals flashed, and the word "slow" for the king was so appropriate!
Everyone drank until late at night, Lu Bu was drunk and hazy, and went to the backyard to see the wife who had worked hard to give birth, and saw that she was tired and pale.
Lu Bu couldn't bear to be disturbed, so he left on his own. Passing by the wing, I saw two figures whispering in the same place of the courtyard.
One woman was dressed in a very familiar shirt and could only see her back, while the other was a man wearing a guard armor, and the two were whispering to each other.
After turning around and walking a few steps, his face suddenly turned as calm as ice, because he remembered that the clothes on the woman's body were Cai Yan's clothes.
Was she willing to make peace with the guards?
Thinking of this, I felt even more ashamed and indignant, and without glancing at the distance, I strode away.
After Lu Bu left, the conversation between the two in the courtyard came from afar.
I only heard the guard say: "Xiaolan, you are so good-looking today." β
Xiaolan is Cai Yan's maid, and now she has reached the age of talking about marriage, it is the girl Sichun, who has had a lot of contact with the guards of this Hou Mansion recently, but she feels that he has a good character and is a good match who can be entrusted for life.
Xiaolan listened to her sweetheart's praise, and she was also overjoyed, and said proudly: "That's natural, you see the clothes I am wearing today were given to me by Miss, and I am reluctant to wear them on weekdays." β
The guard suddenly said with a gloomy expression: "But I have achieved nothing so far, and I can't make you happy." β
Xiaolan said: "As long as you follow the prince, you will definitely be able to soar, I believe you." β
The guard said: "But you will leave Anyi and go back to Luoyang after the year, what should I do if you leave?" β
Xiaolan was also a little excited, and said depressedly: "Regardless of it, the boat will naturally go straight to the bridge, and it has its own countermeasures at that time." β
The two of them talked for a long time before they dispersed.
Lu Bu returned to the front house, thinking about what he met halfway, and most of the wine was gone, and he was inexplicably ashamed and angry in his heart, and he couldn't fall asleep.
When I turned around, I took two jars of spirits, and I felt bitter in my mouth, and in my anger, I smashed to the ground, and the spirits were poured all over the ground, and the smell of wine was tangy!
Wei Yue was guarding the door, feeling uneasy, he was still talking and laughing during the banquet just now, this is not what kind of wind was pumped on the way, but suddenly the wind and clouds were turbulent, and he made such a movement in the middle of the night!
Lu Bu made the inside of his house a miasma, and he really couldn't tolerate himself, so he also dissipated most of his anger and walked away.
When Wei Yue saw Lu Bu leaving, he hurriedly called the miscellaneous servants to clean up, and secretly complained: It seems that tonight is another sleepless night.
Lu Bu went out of the front house, thinking that his wife in the backyard was cultivating, but he had no place to go for a while, and he walked forward in a daze in this cold night, and he actually sent the ghost to the courtyard of the wing.
Cai Yan was living in it, Lu Bu walked to the door, and tried to push the door open several times, but in the end he couldn't do it, and he was disheartened, so he turned around and left.
At this time, the door suddenly opened, and Cai Yan was reflected in Lu Bu's eyes, at this time, Cai Yan had already taken off his makeup, his long hair was naturally draped, and he was only wearing pajamas.
Cai Yan was also stunned for a moment when he saw Lu Bu, and said, "How did the general come here at this time?" β
Seeing that the cold wind was cold, she was only wearing thin pajamas, and she was already a little shivering at this time, so she hurriedly jumped in and closed the door before she said with a calm face: "I'll see if you're happy now." β
Cai Yan saw him staring at himself, only to find that he was only wearing pajamas, which was really unseemly, and hurriedly said: "General, it is also deep, it is really inappropriate for you and me to be alone in the same room with men and widows, please leave quickly." β
Lu Buyin smiled, stepped in front of Cai Yan, and said, "Yes, I see that you can't bear to be lonely now, and you are a little hungry and can't choose to eat." β
Saying that, he stretched out his hand to stroke Cai Yan's cheek, Cai Yan trembled, took a few steps back and said, "How can the general talk nonsense, please respect yourself." β
Seeing her pretending, Lu Bu became more and more angry in his heart, and sneered: "The monk can touch it, why can't I touch it?" β
Cai Yan didn't know the meaning of his words, but felt that he intended to insult, and said angrily: "The general insulted me so lightly, and I still regarded you as a hero in the world, and I was blind in the past." β
Lu Bu sneered in his heart, a hero of the world? I've never been! Shame smiled: "That's the best, today I'll let you remember who I am?" β
As he spoke, he took Cai Yan into his arms and kissed him heavily, Cai Yan felt that his whole body was tight, his eyes were dark, and he forgot to resist for a while, and when he reacted, he was already in it. Hurriedly struggled, trying to push him away and escape from Lu Bu's arms.
But where is Lu Bu's divine power that she can compete with? I only felt that my body was surrounded by iron cables, and I couldn't move for half a minute, and under the shame, only two tears slipped down.
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