After Feng Yunshan finished speaking, he looked at the prefect Qin Xinhui with a blank face. Pen | fun | pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

Qin Xinhui looked at Ding Heishan.

Ding Heishan thought for a while, and saw that the Holy King seemed to be a little angry, so he quickly knelt down and said: "Holy King Mingjian, the government and the county supervisor have all said that men and women will be accepted equally, and the old master has been persuaded by the villain to agree to accept the girl, but the villagers are stubborn. If there is a girl in the family, he refuses to let the girl come out and study in public; If there are boys in the family, they even threaten not to send girls to school, preferring to study in their own village schools. ”

Feng Yunshan said: "Get up, Mayor Ding!" As long as the boy and the boy collect it together, it is fine, but it cannot be charged, and all expenses are borne by the royal government. If someone informs the king, and someone rushes to collect fees in disguise, don't blame the king's subordinates for being ruthless! ”

Feng Yunshan paused, and then said to Qin Xinhui and Ding Heishan: "Although the villagers are reluctant to send their girls to study, as the prefect and mayor, you still have to do a good job of propaganda and inform everyone of the policies of the palace. As much as possible, boys and girls should come to the school to read and write. Next time, if this king has the opportunity to come to Shaozhou again, he will come to this plough town to see the situation of the school. ”

After speaking, Feng Yunshan stepped out.

This time, Feng Yunshan did not delay any longer, and let a mine leader from the Dingheishan and Quren coal mines lead the way, and everyone walked along a dirt road full of ravines, and the road was black with cinders and traces of wheels. Apparently the porter and the ox cart carrying the coal, the uneven road was sprinkled with coal all the way, turning the entire dirt road into a cinder road.

Along the way, he kept encountering ox carts transporting coal, pulling a cart of wet coal, and meeting everyone head-on, out of safety, Liu Shengbang asked people to stop the ox cart, and waited for Feng Yunshan and others to let the ox cart set off.

The muddy road was narrow and the mountain road was difficult to walk, Feng Yunshan followed the crowd around the mountain beams, and walked with difficulty for nearly twenty miles, and finally came to the end of the black peat gravel road.

But it is a tall and majestic mountain, and the cinder road is the two mines on the mountainside that leads to it.

Feng Yunshan noticed that the soil on the surface of the mountain was blackened, which was indeed a characteristic of the coal mining area.

Qin Xinhui, who came up, introduced: "Holy King, this is the Quren Coal Mine. Because the small mountain at the foot of the mountain is called Quren Village, this coal mine is named Quren Coal Mine! After speaking, he walked towards the middle-aged head of the coal mine.

Qin Xinhui pulled the mine head aside and whispered a few words, the mine head seemed to have a dissatisfied face, shouting something in his mouth, but Qin Xinhui's face changed, and he yelled at the mine head fiercely.

Seeing this, Feng Yunshan was secretly angry in his heart, what did he do in front of this king? It seems that this prefect called Qin Xinhui has something to hide from him.

So, he asked Wu Chongyao to pull the prefect Qin Xinhui to a mine on the side of the road, saying that the Holy King told them to go into the mine to see the situation inside, and deceived Qin Xinhui away.

Feng Yunshan asked Liu Shengbang to invite the mine head to understand the situation. saw that Luo Feide was also looking around, and when he saw himself looking over, he was a little nervous and pretended to be chatting with others.

Feng Yunshan couldn't help but sink in his heart! glanced at Liu Shengbang, and then at Luo Feide Nunu, who was facing back, Liu Shengbang suddenly understood, walked over and patted Luo Feide on the shoulder, pulled the topic and chatted, and entangled Luo Feide.

Here, Feng Yunshan asked the guards to take the mine head aside, and the mine head first knelt down respectfully and saluted, and then got up and said to Feng Yunshan: "Holy King, the villain's name is Chen Ergou, and the Holy King can call the villain Ergouzi." It turned out to be a small leader under Chen Kai's big leader, and later he also joined the Holy Army with Lu Leader (Lu Shunde), because of a leg injury, he came out of the Holy Army at the beginning of the year and came to this Quren Coal Mine as a mine leader. ”

Feng Yunshan nodded at Chen Ergou, who had a dark face and only showed a mouthful of white teeth, and said, "Brother Chen turned out to be his own person. This king wants to know, how big is this Quren Coal Mine, where are the tens of thousands of miners who were assigned to this Quren Coal Mine at the beginning of the year, why only two coal kilns have been opened, and the coal in the town is only that name? ”

Chen Ergou's face changed, and he sighed: "The Holy King is wise, and the villain does not dare to hide the Holy King." At the end of last year, the group of native squires and townsmen who participated in the rebellion, 7,000 people were escorted to this Quren coal mine, and later our group of soldiers from the Holy Army and the Tiandihui Righteous Army, a total of 10,000 people, also came to this coal mine, saying that they were urging the prisoners to dig coal, but in fact, in order to survive, most of them also dug coal together. ”

"Isn't that more than 15,000 people digging coal in the entire Quren Coal Mine? Is there so much coal to dig in this Quren coal mine? Feng Yunshan was startled and asked.

"Although there are not 15,000 coal diggers, there are always 10,000 people." Chen Ergou said: "Of the seven thousand captives, except for more than 1,000 who were severely disabled, doing some things like farming and chopping firewood, the rest basically went down to dig coal. And the 10,000 rebels, more than 2,000 like me, did not dig coal, but only worked as the head of the mine, supervising the captives and other miners to dig coal. Another 5,000 men also dug coal, but only 2,000 went down the mine, and the remaining 3,000 were digging open pit coal on a few hills behind the mountain. The rest of the rebel brothers chose to do some logistical things such as building houses and farming, and not so tiring coal transportation, coal preparation, food and housing. ”

"Huh? And open-pit coal? There is coal on several hills behind this mountain? Feng Yunshan's first surprise was the size of this Quren coal mine and the amount of coal reserves. However, these questions will be asked later, but now he has first figured out what is happening, so he then asked: "If so many people dig coal, why does this king only see so much coal at the wharf of Lishi Town?" ”

"Holy King, this is what the villain dares to react to the Holy King. Some people instructed us foremen to desperately let the miners dig coal, but they maliciously beat and scolded the miners, and they were not allowed to be cured when they were sick, whether they lived or died. No one knows exactly how much coal was dug up, but it was all pulled away and hidden by ox carts. And, some people saw it, and the holy soldiers were involved. Chen Ergou's words were shocking.

Feng Yunshan glanced at Luo Feide, who was looking over in the distance, and his eyes became cold.

"Holy King, the villain has only been mining here for half a year, and he knows that hundreds of the prisoners and rebel brothers have died of illness." When Chen Ergou said this, he suddenly knelt down and said, "The villain has the courage to ask the Holy King to set up an infirmary like the one in Lishi Town in Quren Village or in the mine, so that the brothers can see a doctor nearby." In addition, life in the mine was too difficult, and the villain and other rebel brothers could barely eat, but the captives only ate one brown rice a day, and hunger and fatigue kept dying. Therefore, the villain begged the holy king for mercy and let the mine give the captives one more meal. ”

Feng Yunshan helped the tearful Chen Ergou up with his own hands, and said emotionally: "This king really doesn't know that there is such a thing!" Brother Ergou, don't worry, this king has agreed to these requirements you said, and will do it as soon as possible. In addition, the king will thoroughly investigate the problems of the coal mines. You're a good guy! ”

After speaking, Feng Yunshan directly called Luo Feide, who was nervous on the side, to him, and said, "Feide, how does this king treat you?" ”

Luo Feide's face changed, and he saluted: "The Holy King treats Feide and his father as kind as a mountain!" ”

As soon as Feng Yunshan heard him mention Luo Outline, he couldn't help but be angry, this Luo Feide really had a problem, and deliberately mentioned his father Luo Outline, so that he could dispel and force him to ask him, with the intention of letting him go.

"Just now, the second dog brother at the head of the mine has told this king all about the Quren coal mine, and now this king will give you a chance to honestly explain it to this king for the sake of your many merits, and for the sake of this king and your father as brothers!" Feng Yunshan shouted.

Luo Feide's face turned pale, he knelt on the ground, and shouted: "Holy King, Feide really doesn't know what happened." What went wrong with the Quren Coal Mine? Ask the Holy King to give him a clear word. ”

When Feng Yunshan heard this, Luo Feide still insisted that he didn't know what was going on, but what he heard from that Chen Ergou's mouth was that some people saw that there were holy soldiers involved, and the only holy soldiers stationed in the entire Shaozhou Mansion were Luo Feide's Eighteenth Brigade.

This Chen Ergou is just a mine head, and it can be seen from his demeanor that he is a straightforward person and is unlikely to lie. Moreover, it does not benefit him in any way if he lies, but rather it is not good for him to say it. Therefore, Feng Yunshan intuitively felt that he was telling the truth.

The only one who lied was this Rofeld.

And from the time he called Chen Ergou to ask him just now, Luo Feide's expression was a little wrong, and Feng Yunshan judged that there must be something wrong with him. (To be continued.) )