"My lord, wouldn't it be too radical for us to do this? You must know that there is a background behind every coal mine, and we are afraid that we will offend most of the officials and nobles in Beijing! Yang Zhengping persuaded Chen Yue.

Among the people, only a few people such as Yang Zhengping and Shan Minglei knew about Chen Yue's plan so far, and Shan Minglei, who loves adventure, naturally raised his hands in favor and was very excited. And Yang Zhengping, who has always been safe, felt that his instinct was inappropriate, and said to Chen Yuejin.

"Brother Zhengping is reasonable, and it is true under normal circumstances." Chen Yue said with a smile, "But at the moment, it is extraordinary, the Manchu invasion will not be able to return in a moment, and the noble officials in Beijing should not have the energy to take care of this." ”

"But, the Mantars will eventually withdraw, what will happen then?" Yang Zhengping said worriedly, the Manchu invasion is not a once, each time it will retreat after looting, just to rob the property and the population is not to occupy the territory, this is almost common sense.

What to do then? By that time, I had integrated the entire Xishan Coal Mine, seized a lot of wealth from the mine owners, and had the support of tens of thousands of miners, who could do anything to me? Moreover, it will be the sixteenth year of Chongzhen soon, and there is only one year left before the demise of the Ming Dynasty. However, I can't say this to Yang Zhengping, because no one will know that the Ming Dynasty will die in the next year.

"Brother Zhengping, what do you think of this great Ming Qi number?" Chen Yue said lightly.

"There are full of Tartars on the outside, and there are thieves on the inside, and the number of great Ming Qi is almost exhausted." Yang Zhengping thought about it and sighed leisurely.

"Da Ming's qi is about to run out, and those nobles who are attached to Da Ming's body to suck blood and eat the marrow will inevitably perish, so we are afraid that they will do something!" Chen Yue sneered.

I'm afraid of what he will do! But you are also an official of the Ming Dynasty, if the Ming Dynasty is destroyed, how can you escape, unless? Yang Zhengping looked at Chen Yue with complicated eyes, and his heart was turbulent.

"Brother Zhengping don't have to worry too much, just bring these newly joined township soldiers, I believe Xiao Bing will surprise us!" Chen Yue said with a smile, "As long as we can quickly expand the team and make new contributions, the small interests of the coal mine will not be taken into account by the nobles in the Jingshi, and this profit is basically dispensable for them." ”

"I hope so." Yang Zhengping sighed.

The New Year of Chongzhen's sixteenth year was spent in a busy manner. The Manchu army of more than 100,000 people is still looting in Shandong, and has already broken through dozens of state capitals such as Yanzhou. The Ming court is arguing every day, even the early dynasty of the New Year is rarely peaceful, the gate of the capital is still closed, the outside material can not be transported in at all, relying on the profit of more than 10,000 taels of honeycomb coal per month is just a drop in the bucket for Chongzhen, and now even the New Year's money that the hundred officials should send can not be paid, and those extremely poor imperial historians jump up and down with green eyes, and they scold everything fiercely.

In order to hurry up, Chen Yue did not even give his subordinates annual leave, but each soldier was rewarded with two extra months of salary. Fortunately, the officers are all former family members, and the soldiers are almost all from Xishan Town, and they have only been away from home for a few days.

Almost all the miners in Gray Yu Village have signed up for the township soldiers, and even the miners from other nearby mines have also come, after all, the coal cannot be sold, and it is not bad for the miners who sit on the mountain to eat empty mountains and get some money.

The news that Chen Yue had raided Zhu Butcher's Manor on charges of being a gangster spread quickly, and almost all the coal mine owners knew that such a Xishan soldier had arrived. A few days after the year, Chen Yue's threshold was almost broken, and there was an endless stream of mine owners who came to meet and give gifts.

However, for Chen Yue, who was holding Shang Fang's sword, the grade of these people was not enough at all, he just ordered the gift to be left, and the person was sent out without even seeing his face. Since they are destined to be stabbed, what's the point of meeting again?

The screams in the cell were incessant, and the copywriting that came out of the trial was piled up in a thick pile.

I wish the butcher and his men everything they have done, including the anecdotes of the other coal mine owners they have heard and witnessed. Only then did Chen Yue know how dark the mine was, and there were countless human lives buried under every mine! In terms of crimes, each of these mine owners should be cut with a thousand knives, and the eighteen layers of hell are not wronged!

Headed by Yang Zhengping, dozens of Chen Yue's personal guards were the backbone, and the new township soldiers were organized into a team, with the personal guards serving as the general flag commanders, and Xiao Bing, Li Daozi, and other prestigious miners serving as Xiaoqi and other grassroots officers.

Chen Yue didn't expect these township soldiers to be able to fight tough battles in the future, and the tough battles were naturally fought by his own team, but he just used them to deal with those coal mine owners.

On the sixteenth day of the first lunar month, Chen Yue personally took 200 Xishan Army and 800 township soldiers, a total of 1,000 people, surrounded the mansion of Shi Chong, the largest coal mine owner in Mentougou.

For the miners, digging coal is just a job to support their families, for the mine owners, the coal mine is a gold mine with a steady stream of wealth, in order to keep their wealth, the mine owners have raised a large number of thugs, built a high wall and deep courtyard, and Shi Chong's yard is the highest and most luxurious in the mining area, it is said that there are more than 100 thugs in it, there are more than 2,000 miners in the subordinate coal mines, and there is a father-in-law in the palace as the backing, in this Xishan force is the largest.

Other people's persimmons love to pick up soft pinching, but Chen Yue took the hardest knife first, as long as Shi Chong was taken, no one in other coal mines would dare to resist!

In the face of strong strength, the thugs in the house did not dare to resist at all, let alone send an arrow and a gun outward, so they could only shrink inside the wall and tremble, allowing the officers and soldiers to smash open the gate of the house with a giant log!

"The eunuch Fang Zhenghua is my uncle, how dare you, a dog official, take me?" Shi Chong struggled in the hands of the two guards and scolded at Chen Yue.

"Your Excellency!" This time, even Shan Minglei showed a trace of nervousness. Although Chongzhen suppressed the eunuchs extremely in the early years of the dynasty and withdrew the mine supervisors and tax envoys sent to various places, but under Chongzhen's disappointment with the civil and military forces of the Manchu Dynasty, there was a trend of reusing eunuchs this year, and there were many eunuchs sent out of the army. And Shi Chong's backstage turned out to be the celebrant eunuch, and his power in the palace was extremely powerful.

"You Shi Chong colluded with mountain bandits, disregarded people's lives, and there were dozens of miners who were killed and buried in the mine by you, not to mention that your uncle is no longer here, even if he is, you don't want to escape for your life today!" Chen Yue scolded sharply.