As soon as the crying people were taken away, the entire open space suddenly quieted down, and the displaced refugees around looked at Wang Huan standing in the middle of the field with fear, it seemed that this local official, who was less than ten years old, had become tall in vain, and the thunderous means of beating and tying up added a kind of domineering and violence to Wang Huan's body.

If those in power do not make up their minds to cut through the mess at the first time, it will inevitably make things more and more out of control, and in the end, they will fall into a situation where the law does not hold the people accountable and dare not suppress it strongly, the government and the law will lose their majesty, and even their bottoms will be ripped off by the violent Diao people.

Wang Huan has seen a lot of such events in history, because he didn't plan to talk to these homeless people from the beginning, just explain his policies clearly, don't listen to it or not, it's best to be obedient, and if you don't obey, you will come hard, anyway, there is a shortage of soldiers outside, he is sure that these people have no way out, and they will inevitably obey, and the conditions for his own opening are not bad, and he will get a penny of silver for digging out five catties of ore, which is much easier than producing five catties of grain in the field.

After the cries of Liu Mingliang and the others disappeared behind, Wang Huan glanced at the crowd that had dispersed a few steps away, his eyes were everywhere, no one dared to look at him, and the homeless people lowered their heads in a panic, completely without the appearance of scolding just now, and they didn't dare to move one by one.

"It seems that there are only a few dozen people who are the ones who take the lead, and the rest are not to be worried." Wang Huan said secretly, took a deep breath, sank into the dantian, and spoke loudly to the crowd again.

"All the folks present, as the saying goes, you can't escape a reason, I Shizhu proclaimed what the envoy did, but whoever has a little conscience, who doesn't give a thumbs up and praise a good good, just now that gang of sour people picked up the bowl to eat, put down the bowl and scolded the shameless scum of the mother, and deceived everyone with lies, I believe that you have a mirror in your heart, what to do, everyone has a scale, willing to work for silver, I promise, two hot meals a day are served on time, and wages are also paid on time according to each person's output!"

There was another whisper in the crowd, and the frightened eyes began to become hot, and a few bold ones pushed each other but did not dare.

Wang Huan saw it and encouraged: "If there is anything you want to ask, you can ask." ”

A tall man dressed as a farmer was moved by these words, and he mustered up the courage to shout: "My lord, what you just said, as long as you go down to the mine to work, you can get a penny of silver if you dig five catties of ore, and you can eat two meals for free, but is it true? ”

Wang Huan turned around, pointed at the notice posted on the outer wall of the headman's house, and said with a smile: "Of course it's true, the big seal of the Xuan Comfort Envoy is covered on the top like a fake, is it child's play?" ”

The farmer's face turned red and murmured, "I can't read......

He lowered his head slightly, remembered something again, and raised his head angrily and shouted: "My lord, just now those scholars deceived me and others into being illiterate, and the proclamation they read to us was not the original intention at all, they deceived me and other villagers, and they didn't mention that the government wanted to give us silver, we were all deceived." My lord, I'm willing to go down to the mine to mine, and I'm willing to sign up now! ”

As soon as the farmer made a statement, countless people behind him also screamed nonsense, shouting one by one: "I am willing, I am willing!" ”

"I do, too!"

"My lord, I want to mine to make money!"

"I'm going too."

……

Suddenly the crowd was full of emotion, swept away the appearance of anger at first, I can't wait to immediately carry the shovel to work, everyone is very clear, digging five catties of ore can get a penny of silver, as long as you are willing to work, it is not difficult to earn a day of one or two or two taels, you know, usually everyone farms at home, how much food can be produced by that acre of land, how much silver can be exchanged for back, a simple calculation, everyone can get the livelihood of the mine work, which is much more cost-effective than farming.

Wang Huan smiled faintly, turned his head sideways and said to the relieved scribes, "Why are you still stunned?" Set up a table and sign up. ”

The scribes woke up like a dream, and hurriedly went up and down to work, there were too many people who signed up, and even some gray-haired old men, who felt that they still had two or two strengths, were also crowded and arched forward, forcing Ma Xintian to send more than ten soldiers to maintain order, so as not to overturn the desks of the scribes.

Wang Huan didn't pay attention to it, and let the scribes go to Zhang Luo, he turned around and walked into the courtyard quickly, and hurriedly walked towards the second hall.

The head man Ma Chongming's mansion is very large, and the wide courtyard with five entrances before and after is extremely generous and wealthy in this mountainous area, second only to the Tusi City of the Xuanzhi Envoy, at this time he followed behind Wang Huan, while being surprised by Wang Huan's ferocious methods and courage, he sighed when Qin Liangyu had such a bold young man by his side, and asked: "Counselor Wang, what should I do with these scholars?" ”

Wang Huan passed by the first entrance to the compound, and saw a group of Zhengsheng Gongsheng who had been beaten with blue noses and swollen faces, and were tied up in a pile, and said impatiently: "Lock them up for a few days first, and now I don't have time to pay attention to them." ”

For the scholars of the Ming Dynasty, Wang Huan looked down on them in his heart, they were useless, their minds were full of subsets of scriptures and righteousness, but they didn't understand the specific way of governing the country, they talked about things all day long, from the temple to the countryside, and they were full of people who boasted about the rotten Confucianism of the pre-Qin and Ming dynasties, did not accept new things, and maintained the old system.

Wang Huan sent the scholars away with a word, walked into the second hall, sat on the chair at the top and took a sip of the prepared tea, and asked Ma Chongming urgently: "Matou people, can the miners be found?" ”

Ma Chongming hurriedly replied: "I have already found it, the stone pillars are mountainous, there are originally several coal mines, and there are hundreds of ready-made miners. ”

Wang Huan put down the teacup: "Time is not waiting, let's go, let's go to the earth fort!" ”

Ma Chongming just saw Wang Huan defused a civil uprising in a few words, and brutally beat and imprisoned a group of scholars who were scholars, his eyes were straight, and his expression of contempt for Wang Huan also changed, and his words became respectful. In his heart, he had changed from disbelief to suspicion, and hurriedly ran out with Wang Huan.

Wang Huan's selected mine site, at the bottom of a not very tall mountain, surrounded by small hills on all sides, here hundreds of years later, mined out of first-class silver and lead ore with excellent purity, Wang Huan has participated in the production of this mine, so he is familiar with the road to find here, the geological conditions of the stone pillar are stable, there has been no major earthquake and other geological disasters in history, so the terrain change is not obvious, the entrance of the mine in later generations, there was almost no change hundreds of years ago, Wang Huan directly led a team of miners, came to the col.

"It's here, from here to the other side three feet away, start to build mines, remember, when digging, you can't use gunpowder to explode, you must use an iron pickaxe drill bit to dig carefully, otherwise the ore veins will collapse, and it will not be easy to mine in the open pit."

Ma Chongming and the miners looked at each other when they heard this, with an incredible look on their faces, and their eyes were full of weirdness when they looked at Wang Huan, thinking that this young counselor was stupid and mining here? Or an open-pit silver mine?

A gray-haired but sturdy miner glanced at the barren ravine-like col, bowed down to Wang Huan and said: "My lord, I have been living here for thirty or forty years, every grass and tree, every mountain and stone, all know it in my chest, in the past few decades, there are many mine supervisors who have shuttled, almost every inch of land between this mountain range has been surveyed, and no ore veins have been found. ”

Wang Huan stood on a boulder and looked left and right, and said in his chest: "You just dig it, don't worry, I have my own measure." ”

The miners looked up at Wang Huan standing on the stone, and felt that the person they saw was like a wizard talking about it, but who called him the official of the Propaganda Envoy, he had to listen to what he said, so a group of miners helplessly picked up their pickaxes and began to dig absentmindedly.

Chen Ergou and Xu Goudan looked at the miners digging stones uneasily, a little nervous, there are nearly a thousand homeless people who have signed up to be miners, and more people are enthusiastically crowded, if the silver ore vein cannot be found here, so many people are deceived, I am afraid it will not be Wang Huan who can end up with a few more words.

Zu Bian was also very nervous, his black face was tense, but Wang Huan was sitting on the stone with a pair of feet, not taking it seriously.

The excavation has been carried out for two hours, the sky is gradually deepening, the day of June, it is darker later, the hour is close to three quarters, but can still see things clearly, Wang Huan still did not give the order to call it a day, the miners took turns to go into battle, the mountain col has become a huge cave that is more than four zhang wide and about three zhang deep.

Ma Chongming has been standing for a long time with his brows furrowed, looking at the deeper and deeper pit, and his heart is gradually disappointed, if there is really an open-pit silver mine here, the veins can already be explored at this depth, but he hasn't even found a piece of ore hair, and sure enough, people are young and unreliable.

He turned around, about to go to Wang Huan to discuss how to explain to the tens of thousands of displaced people if he couldn't find the ore vein, but he heard a burst of cheers behind him, and countless people were shouting: "Found it, find it, find the ore vein!" ”