"Seriously!"

Xu Mao, who was holding a cigarette pouch and pot, looked at the son in front of him with wide eyes.

"How can this be fake?"

Shi Yiwen smiled, looking at this kiln owner who was wearing coarse cloth clothes and was slightly cleaner than ordinary coal blacks.

"I'll pay 1,500 taels to buy your kiln, and then if you want, you can stay in the kiln as a steward, and the month's salary will be calculated separately, what do you think?"

Hurriedly put down the cigarette pouch in his hand, Xu Mao looked a little excited, and even kept rubbing his hands and said.

"Cheng, Cheng, only, as long as the son does not regret it......"

Liu Yu on the side was dumbfounded, what is Childe doing here?

Buy a coal kiln, make no mistake.

Didn't this man just say? If you open a coal kiln, you don't make money at all.

"Childe ......"

Just when Liu Yu wanted to speak, he heard Gongzi say again.

"What's there to regret about this, well, there are also several kilns in the vicinity, and I will buy them together, and you can help me check the price, including the abandoned kiln in front."

"Abandoned kilns? What did Childe buy those places for? ”

"It's useful to buy it."

Shi Yiwen smiled, and then said to Liu Yu.

"Liu Yu, you can also help with this matter, you can handle this matter together."

"Childe, do you really want to buy a coal kiln?"

Liu Yu looked at Gongzi in surprise.

"Yes,"

With that, Shi Yiwen stood up, and then looked at the small mountain river not far away, the flow of the river seemed to be quite large, if a dam was built here, and then a water turbine was installed, and the water turbine was used to drive the pumping...... Will it be permeable again?

Just as Xu Mao said, mining does not make money, and when more than a dozen small kilns in the vicinity learned that someone was willing to buy their coal kiln at a "high price", they all immediately agreed to sell the kiln, and even specifically asked to write the words "must make a contract, and will not regret it" on the note.

In this regard, Shi Yiwen even thought happily in his heart.

"I'm still afraid that when the time comes, you will regret it."

After staying in the coal kiln for two days, spending less than 30,000 taels of silver to acquire 39 coal kilns and 67 abandoned kilns in Mentougou, Shi Yiwen left Mentougou, and when he left, in addition to Liu Yu, he also brought 20 coal blacks, all of which were strong and strong without exception, and they were all voluntarily sold to the Shi family.

It was also under their escort that Shi Yiwen was relieved to go out of the door.

"Huh......"

The group of people who came down from the mountain road, as soon as they arrived at the foot of the mountain, caused the merchants sitting on the roadside tea stalls to frown slightly, but the strange look on their faces disappeared in a flash, and then the man dropped a few pennies and left in a hurry.

Li Feng, Fang Hu and the others, who were guarding the young master, did not notice that person, and as for Shi Yiwen, who was thinking about things, they also did not pay attention.

Mentougou is only more than fifty miles away from the capital, and when he returned home in the afternoon, there were twenty strong men living in the house, which was really surprising, and when he learned that the young master was in distress on the road, Zhao Si immediately shouted.

"Young master, I just said I have to follow you, you said no, it's okay now, fortunately there are Brother Li here, otherwise...... Hey, if the young master goes out again in the future, I will definitely order someone to follow the young master. ”

People are smart people, Zhao Siming cares about the young master on the surface, but in fact, he reminds Li Feng and others that he is Zhuang Ding's Ding Tou. For his little thoughts, Shi Yiwen didn't know, so he said with a smile.

"Eat a trench and grow wise, I'll pay attention next time, Zhao Si, you arrange one for the big guy to sleep there."

Then he said to Li Feng.

"Li Feng, in the future, you will be the people of my Shifu, and I will naturally not treat everyone badly."

"Thank you, young master."

After arranging these family members, Shi Yiwen walked towards the study, and when he saw Xiao Lian and Kou Yun's nervous appearance, he smiled and ordered casually.

"Little mercy, go pour a pot of tea."

Entering the study, Shi Yiwen asked Wu Cai before he sat down.

"Who do you think it is?"

"Childe, it's true that Zhao Mingchuan hates Childe, but if he says that he will chase him here, and he will not hesitate to hire a murderer, he is really likely to do this, and it is normal to say it, but the problem is ...... Could it be him? ”

Wu Cai had received Shi Yiwen's letter before, and naturally knew the cause and effect of the incident.

"Then who else could it be?"

"Childe, counting it, there are only two people who may attack Childe, one is Zhao Mingchuan, and the other is ......"

"Song family!"

Pursing his lips, Shi Yiwen sneered.

"People don't hurt the tiger, the tiger is harmful to people's hearts, this Song family!"

Shaking his head, Shi Yiwen's brows were tightly locked, how to deal with the Song family next?

"The letter was sent to Nanjing?"

"If you send it, you can get to the place in five days at most."

Looking at the thoughtful son, Wu Cai asked.

"What's next for Childe?"

"Run a coal mine."

Shi Yiwen directly diverted the topic and did not continue to talk about this issue.

Seeing that Gongzi diverted the topic, Wu Cai, who knew that Gongzi must have an idea in his heart, asked,

"Are you sure you want to run a coal mine?"

"Yes,"

Shi Yiwen nodded and said.

"I have been to see the Mentougou Coal Mine, which is rich in anthracite white coal, excellent quality, and is very close to the capital, only more than 50 miles, from the distribution of abandoned kilns in the Mentougou area, Xu Mao's mine is on the main vein. As long as the problems of pumping water and ventilation are solved, this coal mine will be a large mine of gold in the daily well. ”

Although he doesn't know much about coal mining, Shi Yiwen believes that even if he takes out a few books on coal mining from the library, and then borrows from the pumping and ventilation technologies of European coal mines in the early 19th century, he can build a large mine with an annual output of more than 100,000 or 200,000 tons.

What other industry in the world is more lucrative than coal mining?

"But, Childe, it's not easy to open a mine."

Looking at the interested son, Wu Cai tried to persuade him.

"Nothing is difficult, I have been to those coal mines, and their mining methods are very backward, and they all drive from the outcrops along the coal seams into the inclined pits. The depth is not more than a few tens of zhang, the drainage is at most by the bamboo manpower cylinder, the coal mining relies on hand planing, the back of the transport relies on the person to pick, the efficiency is extremely low, I think, as long as the appropriate improvement of the coal mining process, increase some coal mining equipment, this coal mine must have a great deal. ”

Thinking of some books such as "Coal Mining Methods and Coal Mining Techniques" that he had seen in the library, Shi Yiwen smiled.

"Besides, when the time comes, the gunpowder produced by the pharmaceutical factory will also be useful, and even together with the ......"

Looking at Wu Cai with a smile, Shi Yiwen's eyebrows raised slightly.

"The excess production of the ironworks and the ironworks can also come in handy."