In the current era when coal and firewood are the only means of heating, even children know the infinite bright future of the coal industry.

The rapid development of coal mining and transportation and marketing was only after the Song Dynasty and the late Tang Dynasty when coal mining and utilization in Shanxi became more and more common, and the current intervention is an excellent opportunity.

Li Zhi took out 10,000 taels of silver not because he was hot-headed for a while, but because he had a very deep plan for the future, almost every step he walked in after he thought it through.

Once the 10,000 taels of silver can get some shares, it will become the key to his skillful involvement in Shanxi's coal industry, and the next withdrawal of shares will also be a necessary measure to justify the name and pull out a team to develop other parts of Shanxi.

For example, Gaoping County, which is 500 miles away from Taiyuan, will be known as "the only coal in the world" in the future, and the coal reserves are very amazing, and it is a place of serious concern to him.

According to the annals of later generations, there are only nearly 30 coal-producing counties in Shanxi after a thousand years, and that is the period of great progress in coal exploration and mining technology.

Li Zhi also knows a little about the specific important coal-producing areas in the foothills of Taihang and Luliang Mountains, as long as he enters them smoothly in advance and obtains a reasonable mining right, he will not recognize the Lu family as the only major coal producer in Shaanxi in the future.

Rapid economic development will also increase the demand for coal, seize this opportunity, turn resource advantages into economic advantages, build their own coal energy base, and set the coal industry as a key support industry, which will undoubtedly be a particularly important step for Li Zhi's huge economic empire in the future.

Seeing Li Zhi providing such a crucial suggestion to the Lu family, not only Cui Cheng was a little red-eyed, but the people from Huaishuo and Wuchuan were also hot, and they looked at Li Zhi with some eagerness.

Of course, he knew that they were in their hearts at this time, especially the people from Huaishuo and Wuchuan, who had not yet gained a firm foothold there, and their roots were still in Shandong, and then listening to Li Zhi's detailed analysis, he naturally knew that taking commercial development as a solid basis for their future status was undoubtedly more effective than expanding their power outward.

At this time, Shandong belongs to Henan Province, which refers to the east of Taihang Mountain, including the area north of the Yellow River, where the four surnames Gaomen are the barracks of the late Sui and early Tang dynasties and the early Northern Wei Dynasty.

The four surnames were actually deliberately done to hide the bloodline of the Zhuan Sun family at first, and over time, as the power gradually grew, it never changed back.

Li Zhi thought for a moment before pointing at them: "The ancestral land of Shandong is also the birthplace of the Zhensun family, and you have an innate advantage compared to the Lu family, and it will be much easier to develop." As we all know, the Tang Dynasty is now prosperous in social economy and highly developed in culture, attracting countless overseas people to come to study, pilgrimage, and do business. From Goguryeo, Silla, Baekje, Japan to the Tang Dynasty, Shandong became a must-stop for them, and the business transactions in our hands not only obtained unlimited benefits, but also served as the core link between them, which made the imperial court pay special attention. ”

"Mr. Li is saying that our Shandong family should focus on the development of commercial and trade cooperation in these countries?" At this moment, Cui Cheng's title has also changed, and the former self-esteem of elders has disappeared.

"Several countries want to communicate with the Tang Dynasty, and their communication routes are mainly by sea, along the Korean Peninsula and the Liaodong Peninsula to the west to the Shandong Peninsula to land, and then west to Chang'an. After the founding of the Tang Dynasty, coinciding with the new era of Japan's Dahua Revolution, because of the Gao Xiang Xuanli, Lingyun, Seng Min, etc., who played a role in promoting Japan's unprecedented reform, were all famous scholars who had studied and studied in China, and they had a very deep understanding of the material civilization and spiritual civilization in the Tang Dynasty. Under the guidance of this ideology, Japan has successively dispatched more than a dozen large-scale missions to Tang Dynasty, and of these missions, 60 percent landed on the Shandong coast and 70 percent returned from the Shandong coast. This is also an important channel for the Tang Dynasty culture to be imported into Goguryeo, Silla, Baekje, Baekje, and Japan. ”

"And because of this, all the provinces and states on the land transportation line will come to Shandong to concentrate?"

"Haha, Third Uncle Cui is really shrewd! Not only that, Goguryeo, Silla, Baekje, Japan and the Western Regions also had sea lanes, which also made Shandong another major channel for overseas countries to reach the Tang Dynasty. Don't think that now Zhengqing Wenqitang only has paper industry, clothing, and pharmaceutical products will soon appear, followed by metallurgy, agricultural machinery, Gu Shu, etc., except for gunpowder can not be exported, any product can join foreign trade, including coal produced in Shanxi! The point is that although Zhengqing Wenqitang products are all high-end products, in addition to retail, they can only purchase large quantities through you! ”

"Recently, we have witnessed the terrible monopoly of Zhengqing Wenqitang products on the road where we gathered people in four places, and more importantly, these things are all advanced products that are above the whole world, and only the paper industry is enough for us to make a lot of money!"

"Wealth earning is only one of them, the Shandong Shi clan is more critical to maintain relations between several countries in the future, our original purpose is to have the expectation that the status will not be threatened, and to be able to play the role of the most direct intermediary between several countries is the key to making the imperial court dare not do it easily to us!"

The sparkle in Cui Cheng's eyes became more and more obvious, just by saying a few words, he could understand the deep intention of Li Zhi's words, this kind of strategy was dignified, and it did not lose the lucrative benefits, and there was no need to invest as much as the Lu family.

Just being a second-hand dealer can establish enough domestic and foreign core hub utility through commodity transit, which is almost a low-hanging fruit commercial and political benefit.

It is no wonder that as Li said before, compared with the Lu family in Taiyuan, Shanxi, the tripartite forces in Shandong have an innate advantage, so it seems that it is easy to develop, which is indeed obvious.

Of course, Li Zhi will also give them a reassurance: "Because we are our own family, I don't want you to pay any money in advance, and if you can't sell it, you can return it to me, this is a profitable deal, how to choose, you should know it in your heart!" ”

He spoke without any politeness, and went straight to the topic, something so easy that if these people had all kinds of concerns, he would have nothing to say from now on.

Lu Ting reminded with a smile, "Not only externally, since Mr. Li handed over the ground agency of Shandong to you, the entire Henan Province can also be taken down, including our Shanxi, and we can also ask for a piece of the pie!" ”

Li Zhi interjected, "There is no problem in Henan Province, but Luoyang City has to be set aside for me, it's not that I'm reluctant to accompany the business environment, I'm afraid someone is forcing me to develop Wenqitang!" Presumably you have also received the news, according to my other information, the Empress Wu has been thinking about me, and has already sent someone to come here, and in three or five days, someone will come to the door! ”

Cui Cheng hurriedly expressed his attitude, "Luoyang City is naturally Mr. Li's, it is the base camp of the Empress Wu, and what is the difference between the Shandong Shi clan entering there and the sheep entering the tiger's mouth?" Concentrating on foreign trade has been able to meet our needs! ”

He also knew in his heart that such luxury things as Zhengqing Wenqitang were only in Luoyang City in Henan Province, but as he said, there was no development opportunity for the Shandong Shi clan there, and if they forcibly entered, they would only become the target of being bullied.

In fact, such as Cui Cheng and Lu Ting, although they are not the current heads of the foreign forces of the Zhuan Sun family, they are also the elders of the same generation as the Zhuan Sun Chengyi, and nominally the Sun family is the old super force in Shandong, and once became the core management of the Tang Dynasty.

But because of this, he has been in the opposition for decades, if it weren't for the family's righteousness, in order to protect the four major scholars in Shandong from the suppression of the royal family surnamed Li, and then the ancestor developed a first-class brocade weaving formula, I am afraid that the East Zhushan would not have been enshrined as the core of the entire family for the four major scholars.

Twenty or thirty years ago, because some people thought about the brocade formula and continued to make trouble, if it were not for the resolute measures taken by the ancestors, temporarily cut off all the supply of second- and third-level brocade weaving technology, and suddenly lost the original rich source of funds for the four major families, perhaps the Sun family would have lost contact with the ancestral land of Shandong.

It was only by taking advantage of that crisis that the Zhuansun family re-probed its tentacles into several families, and as a result, gradually grasped the economic discourse.

Even so, before the Eastern Mountains did not take action to solve the suppression of the remnants of the Guanlong barbarian clan for the four major scholars, every time the second generation of the families who came to visit the Eastern Zhushan were all born after the ancestors of the Zhusun family stepped down for at least ten years, and their minds had a very weak understanding of the glory of the Yuansun family, so the respect for the patriarch of the Yuansun Chengyi was mostly superficial.

But today, because of the appearance of Li Zhi, Cui Cheng and Lu Ting, the second generation of people completely surrendered after a few rounds, not only because of Li Zhi's foresight, but also because of the unfathomable development trend of this person, just set foot in Chang'an City for less than three months, he became a figure holding a sword in his hand, dominating the business community of Chang'an City, and looking at it, and rising rapidly.

Even the people of the Sun family couldn't figure out why this person had established an unusually close relationship with the major royal palaces in a very short period of time, and the big wedding could also be given by the Holy God himself.

And he can't tell that the inexplicable leader temperament is still natural, which will make people inexplicably follow his thoughts and immerse themselves, not to mention that he seems to have inexhaustible products in his hands that transcend the imprint of the times.

Yuran's mother, Jiang, who was not far from the old ancestor, told a pair of sisters beside her at this time: "Our grandson family has been transformed because of Li Zhi's appearance, not only in terms of commercial gains. In other aspects, in a small way, let the whole family work together, and the concept of family affection once again replaces the involvement of interests. From a larger perspective, I have a hunch that it is the first step to completely tame the four major scholars in Shandong from now on, and then it is a matter of time before the entire Zhensun family can reappear brilliant! ”

Sun Qinxin didn't understand the deep meaning, but it didn't mean that the other elders and daughters on her side didn't know it, so someone responded: "Now that the big and small people in Chang'an City are called Mr. Li, how many people dare to call the text?" This is a genuine respect, it is Mr. Li who has exchanged his personality charm and various benefits, and our family Yuran can pull him back to the East Mountains before his reputation is really revealed, which cannot but be said to be a great blessing for our family. ”

"Where is the nephew so tempting, if you want me to say, it is still our ancestor who has a discerning eye for heaven, and can penetrate the inner part of the person at a glance, and gain insight into the subtleties, so that it can be seen in detail!" Yu Ran was extremely intelligent, and in a few words, he turned the topic to the ancestor.