After Huang Sanye lost a lot of money last time because of his son's hunting, after coming back, the father and son fell seriously ill, and they were indeed honest for a long time, and outsiders thought that they were frightened by bandits, but in fact it was true.

In particular, Huang Laosan inquired with the account office, and only then did he know that the nine clans were not scaring and scaring him by the bandits, which made him not only worry about himself now, but also worried about the government's suppression of bandits.

Huang Laosan felt that he was very aggrieved, but after nothing happened for more than half a month, his mind gradually calmed down, but he was sometimes woken up by nightmares at night, and every time he either dreamed of being raided or beheaded.

On this day, Huang Laosan went to the mine to supervise and came back, he felt that if you don't look at these lazy miners, they will be lazy when they are free, either they are slow, or they are looking for a place to rest that they can't see, and some are pretending to be sick, so every day Huang Laosan has to inspect a circle from time to time, and if he sees those who are resting, he will deduct his wages.

After coming back from the mine, Huang Laosan went to the furnace to take a look, these three smelting furnaces are also the lifeblood of Huang Laosan, this furnace of molten iron, flowing is money, and Huang Laosan has a furnace that is designed by a master to produce wrought iron, and there are no more than five furnaces that can produce wrought iron in the entire mining town.

Huang Laosan rode a donkey halfway to the road, and suddenly heard a person at the roadside tea stall calling him: "Huang Sanye, don't you come down to sit down and catch up when you see your old friends?" ”

When Huang Laosan saw the man, he was immediately frightened and his face turned white, the whole person seemed to be fished out of the water, the guy who led the donkey looked at his master, and he didn't know whether to stop, Huang Laosan hesitated on the donkey for a minute or two, and finally didn't dare to ignore it, crawled off the donkey's back weakly, and slowly moved to the tea stall.

Li Qingyuan looked at Huang Laosan and pointed to the empty seat opposite him and said, "Come, sit down and talk, let's talk about the old days." ”

After Huang Laosan sat down, Li Qingyuan drank tea slowly and said, "What has Huang Sanye asked about recently?" Do you think our emperor won't care about you? ”

"......" Huang Laosan shook his head, not daring to speak, Li Qingyuan said with a smile: "You don't have to worry, as long as I'm fine, you'll be fine, not only will I not harm you, but I'm also talking to you about business today." ”

Huang Laosan didn't believe the words of this bandit leader, and Li Qingyuan didn't mind and said: "I heard that you have a good furnace that can produce wrought iron, how about getting me some wrought iron, right?" ”

Huang Laosan hesitated for a moment and asked, "How much do you want?" ”

Li Qingyuan calculated, a good gun costs more than ten catties of good iron, and now it produces two hundred rods a month, and it is expected to gradually increase in the future, so Li Qingyuan said: "Don't worry, two or three thousand catties a month is enough now, but in the future, you have to set up a few more furnaces, and I may want more when the time comes, and it is possible to have 10,000 catties, 20,000 catties, 20,000 catties." ”

Huang Laosan immediately felt like a dead father, how much does so much iron cost? Li Qingyuan saw Huang Laosan with a distressed look on his face and scolded: "It's not that I won't give you money, that expression wants to die, right?" ”

Huang Laosan's face was a little better when he heard Qian, and he looked at Li Qingyuan with a little expectation, Li Qingyuan took out a burden from under his feet and put it on the table and asked, "Is this burden familiar?" ”

Huang Laosan nodded, can it not be familiar? Isn't this the burden of paying the ransom last time? If you get the bandits, you will return the money to yourself? Li Qingyuan opened his mouth and said: "This is the one thousand taels last time, I haven't opened it, now I will give you a deposit, you prepare the things, and someone will naturally pull them away." ”

Huang Laosan felt that the other party was obviously not authentic to order his own goods with his own money, but he was a bandit, and it was already very authentic to do this, so what could he do if he didn't give money directly?

Huang Laosan nodded, stretched out his hand to get the package, and looked at Li Qingyuan looking at him so frightened that his hand retracted again, Li Qingyuan said disdainfully: "I'll give it to you, what are you afraid of?" The price of iron is according to the price on the market, and you have to build a few more stoves in the future, and I will ask for as much as you produce? ”

Huang Laosan was scared again when he heard this, he was not stupid, why do you want so much iron to do? Except for rebellion! If the other party rebels, won't he be implicated.

Li Qingyuan patted him on the shoulder and said, "Don't worry, we have opened a trade route to Mongolia in the mountains, and all this iron will be sold over there." ”

Li Qingyuan said that Huang Laosan felt much better, since the Qing Dynasty opened the country after the eight imperial merchants, so far the trade between the northwest and northern Mongolia has been controlled by the eight families, monopoly often brings huge profits but also brings high prices, so it is indeed a good business to find a way to sell things to Mongolia.

Speaking of these eight traitors, Li Qingyuan also gritted his teeth, but he had no choice but to have no strength now, otherwise he would definitely go to raid their homes, these people are all related in the palace, if they raid their homes now, they are afraid that they will be surrounded and suppressed by the Qing court, Li Qingyuan is a little unbearable.

Li Qingyuan saw that Huang Laosan was a little relaxed, so he asked, "Have you heard of the Tianli Society that has been making a lot of trouble recently?" ”

Huang Laosan nodded a little scared in his heart, and Li Qingyuan said lightly: "You haven't done any bad things, right?" ”

Huang Laosan immediately sweated again: "I ......, that's ......." ”

Li Qingyuan waved his hand and said: "Okay, no need to explain, the brothers on the road have heard about it, and you were originally included in the must-kill list, but I still have a little friendship with them, and I pleaded for you, and your head can still remain on your head." ”

"Thank you for your great kindness, I ......." Huang Laosan is really grateful this time, three or four of his peers have been killed by the Tianli Society recently, Huang Laosan's reputation for Huang Peel is outside, no matter how he counts it, he is not a good person, so he has been worried about it in his heart.

Li Qingyuan shook his head and said: "Don't be busy thanking you first, people are righteous bandits, they are principled, you can not kill you, but you have to reform yourself, restore those mining slaves to their freedom, increase their wages appropriately, and the usury of those blacksmiths will be abolished, we will invite these blacksmiths away, you are recruiting from outside, so that they will let you go." ”

Although he knew that his life was more important, but these slaves and loan sharks were a lot of money, the corners of Huang Laosan's mouth twitched in distress, Li Qingyuan looked at him and said: "Of course, you can not listen to what I say, I guess these people don't dare to take you?" Why don't you try it? ”

Although Huang Laosan cried with a sad face, how dare he try, this little life is only one, who will pay for it if he doesn't try, and hurriedly said: "Thank you for the care of the big boss, I can avoid this robbery Huang Laosan is grateful, and I will try my best to handle this batch of goods for the big boss." ”