Chapter 15: Finding the Copper Mine

Li Ji felt a little guilty, although he was not a decent man, he was by no means a bad person.

It's a good day, but it's hard to ride a tiger and take away a beautiful little Lori.

The little girl first yelled and struggled a few times, but later found that she couldn't break free at all, she knew that the other party was the emperor, and she didn't struggle anymore, but just looked at Li Ji coldly, and her eyes could kill people.

Her eyes are as clear as water, and she looks very cute when she is angry, but Li Ji is not in the mood to appreciate these. He wanted to explain, but when he saw the guards around him, he said again: "Look at it, and then watch me gouge out your eyeballs!" I have taken a fancy to you, that is the blessing of your three lifetimes, go away! ”

"Phew! Shameless! The girl yelled at Li Ji fiercely.

The emperor really failed to do this, and even a little girl was not afraid of himself.

Youwei doesn't care about these things, he only has the emperor in his eyes: "Little Niangpi, let me tell you, if you dare to say anything inferior to me, I will slap you with big ears, such a big ear bracket." He held out his palm and gestured.

"Dog eunuch!" The little girl Ling Ran was not afraid, although she was scolding, her voice was crisp and beautiful.

She just scolded the eunuch, she was originally there. What I can't bear is that this little lady actually scolded the dog eunuch, which can't be bearable, Youwei stretched out a big slap and was about to slap it, but I saw that her snow-white and handsome cheeks couldn't get down.

It's not that Youwei knows what to pity and cherish jade, he just thinks that it would be a pity if such a snow-white and beautiful face was slapped over.

"Smack!" , before I understood what was going on, I was kicked in the ass, and then fell and ate shit.

When he turned around, he found that Li Ji was on the side and said angrily: "Get out of the way!" Such a beautiful little lady can also be beaten by your dog, get out! ”

The horse's ass slapped on the horse's feet, and Youwei covered his ass and hid to the side. None of the guards next to him dared to squeak, this emperor was too unreasonable. robbed the people's girls in broad daylight, this is going to get out...

Li Ji really wanted to throw her to the side of the road, but these guards were Zhu Wen's eyeliner. In order to pretend to be a faint king who does all kinds of evil, it is difficult to ride a tiger by himself, so he has to take this little girl into the palace.

After returning to the palace, Youwei took the little girl to the Ming'an Palace. How to place this girl has become a big problem for Li Ji. The little girl bit her lip with a look of grievance, and no matter how much she asked her, she would no longer speak.

Whatever her name, where she is from, and where she lives, she just resists with silence. Youwei has been honest since he was kicked by Li Ji, and he no longer dares to be rude.

Li Ji scratched his head: "Hey, I said, I saved you." If you fell into the hands of Zhu Youneng, you would have become his bed warmer, wouldn't it be promising? ”

Li Ji has a characteristic, whenever he can't provoke the other party, or doesn't want to provoke the other party, he will talk about him left and right, and find a promising person to take the blame.

For example, he wanted Youwei to go out of the palace to buy sugar cakes, but the guards didn't agree, and Li Ji didn't go to the guards, but scolded Youwei with Youwei.

Youwei has no concept of right and wrong, he only has the emperor in his eyes. When Li Ji farts, he will suck it behind him, and he will snort in his mouth: it is really fragrant, like a special perfume.

"That's right, Your Majesty is right. The slave maid heard that Zhu Youneng was a brute, I don't know how many good family women have been ruined, Your Majesty saved this little lady, it can be seen how merciful Your Majesty is, long live my emperor! ”

Youwei was talking nonsense, but he didn't know that what he said was also the truth. Zhu Youneng has robbed homes and houses, and has done a lot of things to rob people's daughters.

This little girl seemed to have heard of Zhu Youneng's character, she shrunk her neck in fright and glanced at Li Ji.

Li Ji came to the little girl and looked at her innocently: "So I can't send you out, only in this palace is the safest, do you understand?" ”

The little girl finally couldn't help but speak: "It's the most unsafe to be by your side, I want to go home!" ”

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Ancient copper smelting was divided into water copper smelting technology and fire copper smelting technology, and the use of water technology to smelt copper in the late Tang Dynasty was widely cited.

"There is a bitter spring in Xinzhou Leadshan County, which flows as a stream, and boils its water to become alum, and cooks it into copper, and boils it into an iron kettle, and it turns into copper over time." These records indicate that copper was consciously used by chemical displacement reactions. The process flow is as follows: copper sulfate crystallizes out of the solution, and then smelts copper in a human furnace. In the early stage of smelting, copper sulfate, ferrous sulfate, etc. are decomposed into cuprous oxide, ferrous oxide and other oxides, and cuprous oxide is reduced to copper by later reaction, and ferrous oxide is separated from copper.

Yique County is not far from Luoyang City, and it will be there in half a day. The location of the copper mine marked on the map was a little remote, and Zhu Yougong took a person to search for the records on the map non-stop and began to look all the way to the east.

There are no roads, and even if copper mines are found, transportation is a big problem. He led his 500 soldiers all the way through the thorns, seeing that he was getting closer and closer to his destination, and finally came to a place called Huangling Mountain.

"General Gong, look! Fly grass, there are copper grass flowers here! Many, all of them. The copper mine should be located in front of it! Someone shouted. 、

These people are the smelters brought by Zhu Yougong, how did the ancients prospect for minerals. They relied on finding copper-loving plants such as flies and coppergrass flowers, and wherever they were present, there would always be copper.

Sure enough, after walking not far, Zhu Yougong's eyes straightened, and he looked at the yellow copper ore in front of him, and he couldn't hide the excitement in his heart. This is an open-pit mine, and it can be as easy to mine as it gets.

What's worse is that copper ore is very pure, and it is twice as easy to smelt.

"Rich! Hahaha, get rich! Lao Tzu is rich! The valley echoed with Zhu Yougong's crazy and excited shouts.

"Oh! ~" There was a shout of excitement from the crowd.

"General Gong, what should we do next?" After the excitement, a soldier asked.

Zhu Yougong was still immersed in the joy of making a fortune: "Build a stove and smelt copper!" ”

This Huangling Mountain is indeed a good place for copper mines, these ores are extremely pure, low sulfur content, and easy to smelt. Zhu Yougong seemed to find that there were piles of copper coins in front of him.

At the end of the Tang Dynasty, the world was in chaos, and the salt and iron made it impossible to control the mining rights of the whole country. The feudal kings of these feudal towns with metal deposits all set up their own stoves to smelt metal for military supplies.

Huangling Mountain is rich in mineral deposits, and if it is fully mined, it will occupy almost one-third of the country's smelting rights. How much profit can be imagined in this, no wonder some people say that it can be used to enrich the country.

After a few busy days, these people have already started mining and moving. Seeing that the day of Zhu Wen's return to Beijing is approaching. Zhu Yougong handed over the matter of Huangling Mountain to his subordinates, and he quickly prepared to go to Luoyang to tell his father-in-law Zhu Wen the great news.