"Oh? What's his name? Liu Wei asked.

"His name is Niu Jin, and his nickname is Niu Er." Li Goudan hurriedly replied.

Niu Jin? Liu Wei looked surprised, isn't this the famous second-tier military general of Cao Wei? The level should be the same as Zang Ba, Li Tong, Zhu Ling and others, but I didn't expect to be a child now.

After the Battle of Chibi, Cao Wei's 800,000-strong army was wiped out. Niu Jin made his first appearance as a subordinate of the first-line resistance to the south-line town of Nanjun Taishou and the general Cao Ren of Zhengnan. Cao Ren can be said to be the most well-guarded military general under Cao Wei. Blocked Tao Qian, blocked Zhang Xiu, broke Yuan Shao, blocked Zhou Yu, and blocked Guan Yu.

Later, Niu Jin, as Sima Yi's subordinate, repelled the Shu general Ma Dai, and also participated in the pacification of Gongsun Yuan. As a general, Niu Jin often takes the lead and is a pioneer general who charges ahead.

"Okay, I'll take him." Liu Wei nodded, such a fierce general may not be a Huaxiong if he is well cultivated.

Liu Wei looked at the bracelet and hairpin on his hand, and felt that something was wrong, he picked up the hairpin and said: "This hairpin is a little black, and the style is not the style of the Han family, and there is an earthy smell on it, I'm afraid it is something underground." ”

As soon as these words came out, the nearby guards immediately looked at the old beggar vigilantly, and "Huainanzi" said that the criminal law of the Han Dynasty stipulated that "those who steal will be punished, and those who send graves will be punished!" ”

If an old beggar digs someone else's grave, he will be severely punished by the law! Sending a tomb is definitely a terrifying word in ancient times, and people who die and can't go into the ground for peace in ancient times is considered to be an excessive punishment than Ling Chi.

But there will be a but, the Han Dynasty was also an ancient feudal dynasty, and it was a basic criterion for the people not to raise the officials and not to hold the officials accountable. As long as the people don't report it, as long as they don't do bad things in front of the officials or have bad effects and consequences, they are generally regarded as not seeing it.

And digging the tomb of the previous dynasty can not be punished heavily, and the pre-Qin war has long broken everything to pieces, and those princes and princes have long been crushed to the dust, as long as the old beggars don't say it, or say, there is no intellectuals who read poetry and books to study here, who knows whose tomb was dug. The only dynasty that will delve into it to the end is long since it died, and it is called "Qin"!

And these laws only severely punish ordinary people, and they are not for the aristocracy.

For example, Liu Qu, the king of Guangchuan in the Western Han Dynasty, had a penchant for openly stealing and digging graves. "Xijing Miscellaneous Records" said that Liu went to excavate ancient tombs "innumerable", "all domestic tombs were excavated", and there were hundreds of strange people. These may be the early prototypes of the earliest tomb robbery organizations "Touching Gold Captain" and "Mountain Moving Force".

The old beggar smiled bitterly and said: "Your Highness Qiqi, these are the tombs of a former Qin concubine dug by the old beggar from forty miles south of Luoyang City, and this thing came from the tomb." ”

When Niu Jin saw the old beggar confess his guilt, tears fell from his eyes. He knelt and hugged the feet of the guards who wanted to step forward and begged Liu Bian: "Your Highness, these things were discovered by me, if you want to punish me, if you want to punish me, without the old man Zixu, we will not survive the winter......"

Liu Wei didn't reply to Niu Jin, and asked the old beggar curiously with a hairpin: "Then how do you know that there is a tomb there?" ”

Now that he has recognized it, the old beggar doesn't matter, and replied in 1510: "The old man has been a Taoist priest in the mountains for a few years and has learned a few feng shui exploration techniques, but I didn't expect a group of robbers to run to me and occupy the Taoist temple and occupy the mountain as the king. The old man had no choice, so he went to Luoyang with nowhere to go. ”

"Prospecting?" Liu Wei was quite interested: "Then can you explore the mine?"

In ancient times, there were absolutely very few people who could explore, and they were firmly in the hands of those families who controlled the big mines, and they were tightly guarded to prevent outsiders from knowing their existence.

The only way to find such people is to find the wild "chemists" of the monks and the mountain monks, who have learned the prospecting knowledge while searching for those rare elements and metals.

The old beggar Zixu shook his head: "If His Highness wants me to explore gold, silver, copper and iron, there is no way for the old man to do it, if he is old and can explore these, he will have made a fortune long ago."

"I am not short of gold and silver." Liu Wei smiled: "Can you explore the Shini mine?"

Shini, which is now called coal mines, has actually begun to advance by leaps and bounds in the use of coal mines in the Han Dynasty.

"Historical Records: The Family of Foreign Relatives" records that in the year of Emperor Wen of the Han Dynasty, that is, in 180 BC, the younger brother of the Empress Dowager Dou "Dou Guangguo...... for his master to go into the mountains to make charcoal". "Into the mountains for charcoal" is to go into the mountains to mine coal. At that time, there was also a "bank collapse" (collapse) accident, and "more than 100 people under the shore" were "crushed and killed", indicating that the scale of coal mining at that time was very large.

Iron smelting, fire heating. It is the main use of Shini mine, but these woods can also be done, and in ancient times, firewood was burned into coal and then sold, which was more convenient.

The first sentence of Bai Juyi's "Charcoal Seller" wrote, "Selling charcoal, cutting and burning charcoal in the southern mountains." ”

Therefore, although coal is widely used, it is not well valued.

"Stone's Mine?" The old beggar nodded: "It's not difficult to find this kind of mine, when the old man and his brothers were refining pills before, they often looked for Shi Ni to make fuel, and there are a lot of Shi Nirvana on some mountains."

The old beggar Zixu's statement coincides with Liu Bian's memory, in Liu Bian's memory, Shaanxi is the identity of the country's top coal reserves, of course, Shanxi, which produced countless "coal bosses" nouveau riche, is now Bingzhou, Liu Bianke has not forgotten it at all.

Although Liu Wei knew that there was a mine in Shanxi, but he didn't remember the specific location, he couldn't go to Shanxi and make a hole to see if there was any coal when he saw a mountain, right? Wang Wu Taihang can beat Liu Wei to death from exhaustion, and he can't find a few coal mines.

Bingzhou is a province very close to Guanzhong, where the terrain is condescending to control Hebei to the east and to the south to threaten Guanzhong. This is the place where Li Tang achieved the foundation of the emperor, and this must be the key place that Liu Wei must occupy after controlling Guanzhong.

The use of coal in the Han Dynasty, which is now in the midst of the Xiaoice period, is bound to soar, and the use of coal is bound to light up an important technology.

Steel!

This harder material is an essential ingredient for technology to take off.

The Han Dynasty was not without steel, but it was pitiful, and those weapons and armor mixed with steel became divine weapons.

This is not the fault of the Han Dynasty, the underground productivity has led to the Han barbarians living in the south, and it is already remarkable that there can be a bronze farm tool in the south, and the more miserable peasants still use stone or wood.

"Then you follow me, and the tomb robbery is about to be done." Liu Wei smiled: "If the old man wants to, he can continue to live with these beggars."

"Oh, long live Your Highness!" Hearing such a perfect ending, all the beggars cheered happily.

"Thank you, thank you, Your Highness!" Zixu was also very excited, and such a useless old man as himself was also taken in by His Royal Highness Liu Wei.

In Zixu's opinion, Shi Nie can only be regarded as a thing of the same level as the firewood burned, and there will be a shortage of firewood in Liu Wei's identity? Liu Wei was just using the excuse to exonerate himself and take him in, and in Zixu's opinion, His Royal Highness was really a good king.

Late at night, the eunuchs and palace maids in the West Garden were tremblingly taking care of the "drunken lion" in the palace.

The character of this "lion" is becoming more and more unpredictable, not only likes to pamper the palace maid after getting drunk, but also tyrannical and impermanent, and has already killed the third little eunuch.

"No one is allowed to come in without my orders!" The "drunken lion" gave orders in a daze.

"Promise......" Everyone did not dare to disobey, and after retreating, the temple door was closed.

The hall is always at room temperature all year round, and in the dark night, except for the crackling sound of the candle flames, the silence in the hall can even be heard clearly when the needle falls on the ground.

"Your Majesty......" The shadow walked to Liu Hong's side again, knelt down and bowed.

Liu Hong, who had been drunk, had a gleam in his eyes, and he held his forehead with his fat hand. Rubbing gently: "Say it!"

The shadow didn't dare to slack off, and told Liu Wei today's itinerary in 1510.

"Long live the people of Qinghe? Hehe......" Liu Hong sneered.

Banzai? Can anyone call hooray? Long live only belongs to the title of the supreme emperor, Liu Wei is just a prince, what does he want to do?

The emperor is always suspicious, and when he doubts the last thing, it must be the beginning of a bloody storm. In the 5,000-year-old Chinese civilization, the son kills the father, the father kills the son, and even the brothers, uncles, or imprisoned and exiled are simply too many to count.

Hearing Liu Hong's repetition, the shadow was so frightened that he sweated, lowered his head and trembled, and did not dare to speak.

"How many days will it take for Cai Yong to arrive?" Liu Hong seemed to skip this matter and asked again.

"Back to Your Majesty, it will take about three days." The shadow replied.

"As soon as Cai Yong comes back, he will immediately order the prince to go to the palace, and he can no longer live outside the imperial city!"

"No......"

(End of chapter)