Baoketu, the Baotou of later generations, in Mongolian, where there are aquatic plants and deer, the strong wind blows the green grass and dances, and occasionally the pheasant flies up, which is indeed full of life.

However, what attracts Changping's beautiful eyes the most is the building complex that stands abruptly on the grassland and rises from the ground.

To tell the truth, the lead-gray factory building is not beautiful at all, and it is covered with a layer of coal ash, which makes it even more dirty, especially the steam coal washers and steam conveyor belts that use coal as fuel, each machine sprays rich black smoke into the sky.

But now, it is a symbol of the power of industrialization in the Ming Dynasty!

There is still a distance away, and he can already smell a bad smell of smoke, and he often interviews the emerging factories in the suburbs of Beijing, Changping is used to it, but Chiyohime frowned and covered her mouth and nose with her little hands.

Even more noteworthy is the yurts around the Bauktu Coal Mine.

This is the base camp of the Zalut Ministry, and most of the workers employed are also Zalut Ministry, women and old people are still tirelessly grazing cattle and horses, but the men have begun to work in the mines, and the life of the steppe nomads who have wandered for thousands of years has begun to change drastically from here.

Changping two girls are extraordinary, the coal mine board here is also respectfully out of the welcome, a total of more than 20 people, eighteen Jin merchants, only five Mongolian tribes, just when Changping looked out of his mind, these people also rode horses hurriedly greeted out, in the vigilant gaze of the officers and soldiers of the guards, these people turned over and dismounted more than ten meters away, and then under the leadership of a fat and chubby old man of Jin merchants, laughed and hugged his fists to greet him.

"Contemptible Cao Sanxi, bring my colleagues from Baoketu Coal Mine to meet the editor-in-chief! The editor-in-chief is Li Wanji, and it is really brilliant for us to be able to come to this small place! ”

This fat old man is very good at talking at a glance, he is called the editor-in-chief, not Niangniang, which really makes Changping, a strong woman, feel a lot more comfortable, and then he also jumped off the horse, stretched out his hand to help Cao Sanxi, Changping also smiled and hugged his fists and replied: "You are concerned about the country, and contributed money and efforts to my Ming Dynasty to build this coal mine, which not only supplies valuable coal for the empire, but also provides a livelihood for the Mongolian people on the grassland, even Your Majesty attaches great importance to this, and Cao's shopkeeper is not a small place." ”

"This editor-in-chief is also here to collect wind on the spot, to learn some details about your joint operation of coal mines, and to publish it on the front page of the "Imperial Capital Daily" when I go back, so I can promote it in other parts of the empire, so I will bother a lot!"

The Jin merchants are rich enough, and the difference is to be famous, I heard that even Mao Jue attaches great importance to his own industry, and he has to write himself in the headlines, Cao Sanxi's chubby old face is also happy like a bun fold, and he said again and again.

"The editor-in-chief is polite, the editor-in-chief can come, it is already a blessing for the sky, and the phoenix has fallen into the sycamore! Where is the bothering talk! Please here, the contemptible people have already set up a banquet in the factory department, please be sure to appreciate your face!"

"Do you really want to go in?"

Smelling the smell of smoke and dust after the coal burned, Chiyohime was already sobbing with a small face, and when she heard that she had to go in to eat, she was reluctant to jump off the horse and lie on Changping's ear and muttered quietly.

"Three hundred thousand taels!"

shook the bulging money bag hanging on his waist, and in Chiyohime's eyes, Nagahei smiled and posed three green jade fingers.

This trick is really good, the little face collapsed depressedly, wrapped the scarf on her chin around her face, and she snorted angrily.

"Dead is dead! Auntie, I'm out of the way! ”

Leveling Chiyohime, Nagahei turned his head again, and once again elegantly raised the corner of his skirt with a smile.

"I'm bothering the shopkeeper Cao."

Several Shanxi businessmen were overjoyed to greet them, and with a team of reporters, the group also walked straight to the Baoketu Coal Mine, but when they walked to the towering gate of the coal mine, Changping subconsciously looked back.

Looking at the small building rising from the ground, Han Xiaomo's big watery eyes obviously carried a sense of remembrance, and when she noticed Changping's eyes, she lowered her head in panic.

Words can be faked, but this inadvertent look can't be faked, unless this chick is already thick and black to the realm of Cao Cao, it seems that this Baoketu coal mine may really have something! Changping's heart sank slightly.

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Later generations of Baotou was the first to rely on this coal mine to rise, and it is no wonder that the wealthy Jin merchants have started in this place, and the mining environment here is indeed excellent.

If you look at it from the sky from a bird's eye view, the whole coal mine factory is like a huge egg, more than 20 small buildings are wrapped in an oval, and the construction is within the range of tens of thousands of square meters, which is the body of the open-pit coal mine, the power of human beings is really great, from the construction to the production, it is only a few months, the grassland has been cut down by a layer, and the depth of two or three meters is concave, tens of thousands of workers are busy digging up the shallow coal mine, and then to the trolley, pushing to the side of the conveyor belt, and the steam engine drives the wooden plank conveyor belt pulled by the iron chain, One grid carried the naïve coal to the south of the factory gate, while the other part of the workers continued to carry the wheelbarrow to the coal washer inside the factory to wash off the debris stones.

Coal is not only used in the train steam engine, now in this Xiaoice period, as heating fuel, these black industrial gold is also the top priority, but the grassland fuel is too lacking, usually herdsmen can only rely on cow dung and sheep dung to dry to use as fuel, barely to meet the needs of cooking on weekdays, winter heating is not daring to think.

Now with this Baoketu coal mine, with the coal produced here, it is enough to meet the fuel needs of a large number of Ming immigrants who have moved to the grassland!

The scene of labor was extremely spectacular, standing in the specially built glass passage between the board of directors and the senior staff dormitory building, looking down, the crowd of busy ants like ants, the roaring huge machines, the piles of coal, even Chiyohime, who disliked the air, couldn't help but open her mouth in amazement and looked down, shaking her head in amazement.

"It's spectacular!"

At the mention of this, Cao Sanxi couldn't help but be proud, smiling and showing off with his fists.

"Even in Shanxi, there are not a few such large open-pit coal mines, which can produce 660,000 stones of refined coal every year, which is enough to meet the needs of 500,000 people for smelting and heating.

Looking at the pit below, Cao Sanxi's pupils showed a sense of ambition, his eyes were full of longing, and Changping listened to it with his heart.

However, at this moment, there was a sudden commotion that caused her to turn her head away.

Leaning on the No. 1 production building not far from the board building, the coal miners who were busy working suddenly started fighting, and more than 20 people beat several people to the ground, punching and kicking, and some people even dragged over the shovels of coal shovels, and turned on the people, watching the riots start, but there were factory security guards wearing leather armor who quickly went up to mediate, but these people did not necessarily have much deterrent power, pushing and shoving, and even the workers who beat people seemed to have signs of doing something to these security guards.

"Shopkeeper Cao, what's going on?"

Listening to Changping's hurried questioning, the faces of Cao Sanxi and several shareholders also became unpleasant, and they barely made a smile, and Cao Sanxi was smiling and playing in the round.

"The editor-in-chief, don't blame! After all, these Mongolian tribesmen have only been naturalized for a short time, they don't understand the rules, and some conflicts with the Han people are also common, and the old pedants in the Guannai have been hired by the contemptible people to teach them the rules, and in time, these barbarians will definitely be educated to become my Ming people!"

"The two editors-in-chief, although this is a place outside the world, there is also a unique flavor to enjoy! Especially the local roasted deer is a must! The contemptible people have already prepared a banquet in the banquet hall downstairs, and I invite all the reporters and adults from Beijing to follow the contemptible people down, and go to fill their stomachs first! ”

As soon as she heard that there was something delicious, Chiyohime's big bright eyes immediately lit up like a light bulb, and she was busy pointing at the melon seeds of her little brain.

"Go, go, go!"

It's not good to save Cao Sanxi's face, Changping also nodded with a smile: "In this way, there will be a shopkeeper of Lao Cao!" ”

In the greetings, the group went downstairs in turn, but Changping walked behind this time, passing by the corridor window, she raised her eyes again, the group of workers who beat people had nothing to do, ran to the corner to smoke, and several workers who were beaten to the head and bleeding were carried out on a stretcher, although they had not read "Sherlock Holmes", but the devil was hidden in the details This truth Changping obviously understands, looking at this scene, she subconsciously shook her head.

It seems that this grand and harmonious Menghan joint factory plan is not as harmonious as it seems on the surface, and I don't know how many undercurrents are hidden underneath.

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At noon, this meal is still a pleasure for the guests and hosts, this pure wild roasted deer is indeed a unique flavor, in the afternoon, about the size of the foreman, the number of Mongolian tribes recruited and a series of information, Changping is really an interview, and learn more about Cao Sanxi, but in the evening, in the reluctance of Chiyoji, in the name of writing a press release, Changping stayed here at night.

Chiyohime is really big-hearted, just now was complaining about the bad air here, not in a hurry for her to raise a fetus, after a while, this girl was lying on the bed, there was a burst of kitten-like purring, and the saliva from sleep flowed out.

Next to her bedside, Changping looked down at the corridor outside, except for the two guards standing guard, there was no one to snoop, so she still didn't feel at ease and pulled down all the curtains, so she walked back to the bed solemnly.

"Ahhh~"

With a wisp of saliva, the small bag of hemp walnuts that had been stuffed into the small mouth for a whole day could be regarded as being pulled out, and Han Xiaomo finally clicked her mouth comfortably, and only then did she make her little face bitter again.

"Lord Princess, I really didn't lie to you, it was really those fat men who came with Tartars and robbed our coal mines, and that fat man Cao today is the one who led the arrest of us! You send someone to arrest them and you'll find out in the first trial!"

"Please, don't tie me up anymore!"

Ignoring her request to loosen her ties, her face was solemn, and Changping asked with a serious face: "Today I was in the mine, and I saw two groups of people fighting, one group of people injured the other group of people, what do you know about this?" ”

"Brawl?"

Han Xiaomo, who was obviously asked this question, was confused, but after thinking about it for a while, she suddenly pouted again.

"What kind of brawl, it's obviously bullying! Those Mongols didn't treat us as human beings at all, and it was a long thing to beat people if they didn't agree with each other, and even if they killed people, the government didn't care. ”

"Otherwise, I wouldn't have been able to go all the way to Jingshi to find you to complain!"