Zhao Xuefei's face was expressionless, he couldn't see joy or anger, and he looked at the gate of the county government with empty eyes.

He originally wanted to tell the truth, but after listening to Cao Zhiyuan's words, he lost interest.

Lin Zhiyuan didn't know why Cao Zhiyuan was so confident that he dared to collide with him. But he knew why Cao Zhiyuan didn't take him seriously as if he had changed into a different person.

Cao Zhiyuan has been working in the county for many years, and a few years ago, he finally boiled the previous county commander away, thinking that he could finally be promoted to the next level and be in charge of the government, but he didn't expect the court to send him Zhao Xuefei as the county commander. Let's ask, can Cao Zhiyuan not hate him?

Cao Zhiyuan has always wanted to be a county magistrate, and it was enough to be qualified a few years ago, but with him in front of the county magistrate, Cao Zhiyuan is destined to be only a county magistrate. Unless he is promoted or dismissed, and a seat is vacant, Cao Zhiyuan may become a county magistrate.

It's not possible, but it's definitely a county magistrate. After all, Cao Zhiyuan had released the pigeon once a few years ago, and if it was released again this time, the people in the ministry would be embarrassed.

He has not been able to ascend, and Cao Zhiyuan has always been in front of the county. Since he can't be promoted, Cao Zhiyuan can only hope that he will be unlucky, and he will be dismissed for doing something wrong, and the opportunity will come.

Cao Zhiyuan not only looked forward to it, but also dug a pit early and asked him to jump inside. In order to let him fall deeper and deeper into the pit, Cao Zhiyuan has been holding his tail between his legs in the past few years, so as to paralyze him. Now that he is trapped in the pit and can't jump out, Cao Zhiyuan no longer holds his tail between his legs, and shows his fangs unscrupulously.

Cao Zhiyuan's pit was dug many years ago! At that time, he had just come to Jiyuan, his eyes were black, and Cao Zhiyuan was extremely humble, which made him mistakenly think that this person was a good helper, and he wanted to make some achievements, so he fell into the pit.

Cao Zhiyuan said that there is a small coal cellar in Kejing Township, which produces high-quality coal, and it is possible to organize people to excavate it by hand to turn the small coal cellar into a large coal cellar. Grain can only be planted once a year, but coal can be dug every day, and it just so happens that there is an iron smelting station in Hanoi County, Huaiqing Prefecture, and the coal dug up is sold there, how can it earn more than 100,000 taels of silver a year.

He was immediately moved and organized people to excavate, and when the excavated coal was piled up into a hill and sold to the Hanoi Iron Smelting Institute, he realized that the coal was not something you could sell if you wanted to. The coal in the iron smelting station has its own place, no matter how good your coal is, it doesn't matter, and people won't buy your coal?

For the sake of activities, he ran around, and spent a lot of silver, but the iron smelting station still did not buy a pound of coal. At that time, he wanted to give up the coal cellar, and he would lose a little, always within the range he could bear. But Cao Zhiyuan came to lobby again, saying that it doesn't matter if the Hanoi Iron Smelting Institute doesn't buy our coal, we can build an iron smelting station ourselves, and it just so happens that there is also an iron mine in Kejing Township, so the coal dug up will have a place to go! Moreover, the price of iron is much more expensive than coal, so that the annual income of the county will reach hundreds of thousands of taels, or even millions of taels.

He was very hesitant at that time, and in order to open the coal cellar, he had invested tens of thousands of taels of silver. Since the coal could not be sold, the craftsmen's wages and silver were distributed in half, and thousands of taels were owed. And to open an iron-smelting shop, you have to invest tens of thousands of taels, and then you have to spend money to hire people, and you will squander all the money in the entire treasury.

Cao Zhiyuan's words moved him again.

Cao Zhiyuan said: "We can go to the province to report first, and when the province agrees to buy their iron, we will build an iron smelting station!" ”

The province agreed to buy their iron, and an iron smelting station was built. However, I don't know if the quality of the ore is too poor, or the iron-smelting process is not up to standard, the smelted iron is too miscellaneous, and the agricultural tools are not qualified, and it is reasonable that the province is reluctant to buy it.

But the investment in iron smelting is so large, can it still be shut down? If the smelting plant is closed, the coal cellar must also be closed. As the lord of a county, if he closes these two transactions, the seventy or eighty thousand taels of silver invested will be lost, that is, the county's savings for more than a hundred years will be lost, so can he continue to work as a county magistrate?

Therefore, one of the two deals cannot be closed, and there is still a chance to turn over, and if it is closed, there will be no chance to turn over. There are three ways to solve the problem, one is to sell the coal, one is to improve the quality of the iron smelted, and the other is to drag it to the top.

After a few years, the coal was not sold at all. I found countless experienced blacksmiths, but the quality of the iron could not be improved. And if you want to leave the problem to the next county magistrate after you are promoted, it has become the only possible solution. However, the reality is that it is not easy to achieve.

First of all, the food and silver of the craftsmen in the coal cellars and iron smelting houses have been in arrears for too long, and the craftsmen are very dissatisfied, and there may be an explosion at any time. Ma Kun went to lobby for bombing several times, and it became more and more uncontrollable, and he couldn't wait for him to rise to the top, and the explosion would happen. At that time, his county decree would be torn to pieces by angry craftsmen, and even if he was lucky enough to escape with his life, he would be punished by the imperial court, and in order to quell the riots, he would be beheaded in public.

Secondly, although he has a relationship with Li Feibai, he can be regarded as having a relationship with the political envoy. Now it's just a relationship, if you want to build a good relationship, and then rely on this relationship to rise, it is impossible to do it without two years. It's been too long to wait for that.

In the end, the vacated county seat after his ascension was succeeded by Cao Zhiyuan. After Cao Zhiyuan dug the pit, will he jump into it by himself? Cao Zhiyuan is not a fool, how could he jump inside!

He has received the news that Cao Zhiyuan is the same year as the inspector of the imperial history who came to Huaiqing Mansion to patrol the press, and a few days ago Cao Zhiyuan also went to Hanoi and told the patrol about the coal cellar and the iron smelting station. The two discussed properly, and in the past few days, the patrol press came to Jiyuan to inspect the matter, and then the patrol press impeached him on several charges such as having no way to govern, squandering the state funds, and causing dissatisfaction among the craftsmen and almost breaking out.

When the impeachment was sent to the imperial court, it was when he took off his black gauze hat and was questioned. Therefore, in Cao Zhiyuan's eyes, he is a dead man, how can he care about the collision of words.

Zhao Xuefei knew that Cao Zhiyuan not only hated him, but also hated Li Feibai.

One of the reasons is because Li Feibai is his friend behind the scenes, and it is natural to hate Wu Jiwu and Li Feibai. However, this is not the most important thing, the most important thing is that Li Feibai went to the political envoy to mention the silver, not only one or two pieces of silver, but also a lot more. Isn't this a slap in the face of Cao Zhiyuan? Let everyone know that in the past, Cao Zhiyuan went to withdraw silver, how much private pocket did he fill?

Cao Zhiyuan hates Li Feibai, so he is ruthless when he speaks, if these words reach Li Feibai's ears, Li Feibai will not be angry? Then he begged Li Feibai for help, how could Li Feibai not help.

Cao Zhiyuan's helper is just a supervising imperial history, a mere seven-grade official. Li Feibai's helper is the imperial history of Zuodu, a member of the second grade, and the chief official in charge of supervising the imperial history. As long as Wang Shouren says a word, a mere patrol dares to comply?

Whether Zhao Xuefei can survive this catastrophe depends on whether the contradiction between Li Feibai and Cao Zhiyuan is deep. The deeper the contradiction between Li Feibai and Cao Zhiyuan, the more he can survive this catastrophe. Therefore, how could he tell Cao Zhiyuan the truth, and even stood there with a worried face, which made Cao Zhiyuan even more sure that Li Feibai had offended the two lords to death, and he was unscrupulous.

He didn't need to open his mouth at all, someone would tell Li Feibai about today's events.