Wei Zhongxian went to Zhu Youxiao to report the good news, and Zhu Youxiao said: "The factory minister is good, that's good, you first let Chen Xiu take people to Qian'an to find the location of the iron mine, and then set up an iron mine factory for me, I will give you a charter, just follow this charter, the name, it will be called the Royal Iron Ore Factory, and it will be completed by their construction team of the Wei Dynasty." “

Chen Xiu came to Qian'an with a few people, and first met with Bi Zisu, who is still the old principle, asking people to give people, asking money to give money, providing convenience but not caring about specific things. In fact, this is the best situation, Chen Xiu soon found an iron mine in Zhujiagou, Zhujiagou iron ore is shallow buried, and the ore can be seen by digging five feet, and Chen Xiu smelted the ore in a simple way, and found that the quality was very good, and he couldn't help but be overjoyed, and immediately reported the good news to the Jingshi. Zhu Youxiao instructed Wei Zhongxian to expand the scope of exploration, and then quickly built a local mine and began mining.

He remembered that there was a Kailuan coal mine in later generations, which should be in the Luanzhou area, and Luanzhou and Qian'an were next to each other, so he found Wei Zhongxian and ordered Chen Xiu to go to Luanzhou to explore the coal mine immediately after exploring the Qian'an iron mine.

Chen Xiu was exploring in Qian'an and found several iron ores. Then he led people to Luanzhou, and by this time the Wei Dynasty had already begun to build an iron ore factory with a construction team.

Chen Xiu came to Luanzhou, according to what the emperor said, to find a place with a name with open words, and found a place called Kaiping Town, which has a large population and is known as the first of the four famous towns in Jingdong. Chen Xiu and the others beat a drum in their hearts, wouldn't it have been known long ago if there was a coal mine in such a prosperous place, and the emperor couldn't be wrong.

As a result, a few people walked around the town and learned that someone had started mining coal here as early as the Yongle period. Led by the locals, several people first came to the Kaiping Coal Factory, carefully observed and then came to the owner's house.

The proprietor's name is Li Zhengbing, he warmly welcomed a few people in, and after sitting down in the guest room, Chen Xiu went straight to the point and said: "Li Dongjia, the reason why we came here is to buy the Kailai Coal Factory. ”

Li Zhengbing's eyes flashed and said, "I don't know how much money your owner is going to pay to buy coal mines." ”

Chen Xiudao: "I took a look at the coal mine and asked about the amount of coal produced by the mine in a year, and at the current price, the mine can earn 600 yuan a year, so we came up with a ten-year price to buy the mine." ”

Six thousand yuan is three thousand taels of silver, which is already a very fair price, but Li Zhengbing shook his head and said: "Fifteen thousand, less than this price will not be sold." By the way, it's silver, and if it's a new coin, it's 30,000 yuan. ”

Chen Xiu was dumbfounded, this figure is equivalent to the output of the coal mine for fifty years, which is also too high. He opened a mine by himself, and the price was originally a fair price, and it seems that Li Zhengbing didn't want to sell it.

Chen Xiu wanted to make a final effort, so he said: "Can the Li Dongjia make a sincere price again, so that I can reply to the Dongjia." ”

Li Zhengbing smiled and said: "No two prices, it's good to go, don't send it." ”

Chen Xiu reluctantly said goodbye and immediately sent the news back to Beijing. Wei Zhongxian was furious when he received the report, and his little mine owners were bullied, so he immediately sent someone to Yongping Mansion to check the tax payment records of the Kaiping Coal Mine, and then said that he had paid less taxes and sealed his mine to see how he could still get angry.

A supervisor of the East Plant led people to the Luanzhou Taxation Department and directly found the supervisor stationed in the East Plant, but when he checked the tax collection records of the Tax Department, he found that there was no name of Kaiping Coal Mine at all.

The head of the class was overjoyed, and he was about to say that he paid less taxes, but he didn't expect that he didn't pay at all, so he didn't even need to falsify evidence, and directly took the officials of the tax department to Kaiping Coal Mine, sealed the mine, and arrested Li Zhengbing.

Li Zhengbing originally opened a small coal mine here, and if he made five or six hundred yuan a year, it was already very good, but seeing that Chen Xiu and the others were in a hurry to buy a mine, they wanted to make a big profit.

But he was not afraid at all, and yelled at the foreman: "You dare to arrest me, do you know who my brother-in-law is?" ”

The foreman looked at the official of the tax department and said, "Who is this guy's brother-in-law, so powerful." ”

The officials of the tax department had dealt with Wang Zhengbing before, and asked him to pay taxes according to the law, but Wang Zhengbing ignored him at all and directly brought out his backstage, it turned out that his sister was the concubine of Li Sancai's son Li Mingsheng, and this coal mine was originally an industry under Li Mingsheng's name, and it was given to him as the money to buy his sister.

The head of the squad was a smart person, he had an extra heart, and asked: "Then is this coal mine now Li Mingsheng's or Wang Zhengbing's?" ”

Wang Zhengbing heard it and shouted proudly: "Of course it's my brother-in-law's." The official from the tax department also nodded.

The foreman thought for a while and said: "I will catch the tax department first, I must first read the deed, and then I can report to the factory after it is confirmed." ”

When everyone returned to the tax department, they first went to the state to see the deed, and it was true that this coal mine was still under the name of Li Mingsheng. He was overjoyed and hurriedly wrote a letter and sent it back to Beijing.

Wei Zhongxian was also extremely happy after receiving the report, but he still went to Zhu Youxiao first. After reading the letter, Zhu Youxiao thought for a while and said, "What does the factory minister mean......? ”

Wei Zhongxian said: "Saint, this is a good opportunity to trap Li Mingsheng in this matter, Li Sancai can't watch his eldest son go to prison, maybe he can dig out some of Li Sancai's money at that time." ”

Zhu Youxiao smiled, this is indeed an opportunity, Li Sancai is rich and rivals the country, if he doesn't dig out more than half of it, he is really uncomfortable, but he still said to Wei Zhongxian: "You let Dongchang follow this line to investigate, it can't be only this one thing that is problematic, pull out the radish and bring out the mud, to find out the actual evidence, it is useless to lock up Li Mingsheng's method of blackmailing Li Sancai, he took 100,000 taels of silver out to compensate you must let him go, what is this for his family property?" Look a little farther, grasp the ironclad evidence, and then all his family property will be ours. ”

Wei Zhongxian smiled: "It's still a saint, but the slave has shallow eye sockets." What about the coal mine? ”

"Li Mingsheng resisted taxes, of course, confiscated, let Chen Xiu quickly explore the coal, which is very close to Qian'an, and there is the Luanhe River, which is just right to build an iron factory, and directly smelt the steel and send it to Beijing. I want a lot of steel, the more the better. You go to Sun Yuanhua and ask him to send a few steel-making craftsmen to guide the construction of the steel plant, and at the same time build a coking plant in the coal mine. What I'm lacking now is time, and the bulls will go hand in hand, and the speed will be faster. ”

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