Three hundred years of the Ming Dynasty Tai Min'an, so that Shandong, Henan, Hebei and other places have already had a surplus, with the land area and land production capacity at that time, simply can not feed so many people, especially hundreds of years of land annexation intensified, so that the landless people become homeless, so that the local security situation deteriorated sharply, thieves pole wind, so that the government headache is incomparable. 2. But now it is good, Liaoxi opened its arms to the Central Plains, began to divert the surplus population, no longer have to cultivate the land of local landlords for a bite to eat, and hand over more than seventy percent of the harvest, now as long as you come to Liaoxi, immediately you are the landlord, you are an outsider, you can get rich.

In such a generous simply finger-inducing conditions, countless Ming people, began to bring their families with their mouths, with the dream of home to run to the outside of the pass, in a short period of time, the population of Liaoxi has more than doubled, as far as the eye can see, it is no longer a hundred miles of uninhabited, although the simple but full of vitality of the village began to rise in this hundreds of millions of years of barren land, a piece of fertile land scattered with the fragrance of the soil in the village and town as the center to the horizon extended, this is hundreds of years in advance of the Guandong.

And with the increase of population, the opening of the land, commerce also began to flourish, businessmen from all over the country followed the pioneer army, brought a large number of materials needed by the people, not only the bank made a lot of money, but also let the businessmen make a lot of money at the same time, the tax revenue of Liaoxi Province also rose at a geometric level, and a brand-new, without hundreds of years of Ming Dynasty obsolete and slack government, under the operation of high passion, it was self-sufficient in half a year, and in less than a year, it began to provide military salaries to Lu Hanqiang's army, and the prospects were not very good. It's pretty good.

As a result, this time, Liaoxi contracted a large area of land, and used the land contract fee as collateral for the large loan in Liaoxi, which was successfully completed, because all the people saw the hope of repayment.

The population has eased, and the loan has been obtained, but living by borrowing money is still not reliable at all, and self-hematopoiesis is the king, so Lu Hanqiang began to drum up hematopoiesis.

Yixian County has been taken, and Huang Taiji's power has been compressed back to Xinmin, so the Fuxin Coal Mine that Lu Hanqiang is worried about will be counted.

Fuxin is uninhabited now, and the desolation is simply worrying.

Lü Hanqiang, with a thousand familiar miners recruited from Shandong, prepared to start mining a large number of Fuxin's coal mines, and then carry out the simplest coke processing to make up for his trade deficit between the north and the south.

"Brother-in-law, is there really a lot of high-quality coal here, as you said? How do I see it, you weren't born here, how did you know there would be coal here? You're not fooling us again, are you? The little fat man looked at this desolate and simply point-inducing area, and expressed full doubts about Lu Hanqiang's judgment.

Lu Hanqiang didn't answer these inexplicable questions of the little fat man, if you talk about what a person should talk about with a person who is not a person who travels through people, it is definitely playing the piano to a cow, a waste of tongue and effort.

So Lu Hanqiang humbly asked an old miner squatting on the ground: "Brother Wang, do you think there is coal underneath here?" ”

The miner called Brother Wang is a veteran of Lu Hanqiang's spending a lot of money in Shandong, this guy is proficient in feng shui, and he definitely has a brush for prospecting.

In China, there are two kinds of people who are proficient in feng shui, one is the professional feng shui master called feng shui, they are basically Taoist priests, and the other is those tomb robbers who make a living by robbing tombs, of course, the former is part-time tomb robbers, and the latter is part-time looking at feng shui. And this big brother Wang, who he dug up with a lot of money, will look at feng shui for a while, and will look for mineral veins, you can't make Lu Hanqiang not believe that his profession is a tomb robber, especially, looking at his professional eyes now, Lu Hanqiang has to remind him: "Brother Wang, be serious, we are looking for mines, not tomb robbing." ”

Brother Wang retracted his disappointed eyes, and couldn't help muttering, "Such a good feng shui, if this was placed in the Central Plains, there would have been countless tombs of princes and generals, I am here, it's a pity, it's a pity." It's a pity that after a while, he officially answered Lu Hanqiang's question: "As the Inspector expected, according to small observations, not only is there coal here, but the quality of the coal must be very good, and the landfill is definitely not very deep." ”

Then Lu Hanqiang glanced at it proudly, and shocked the little fat man who dropped his jaw, "How is it?" You believe what the professionals say! Then he looked at this big brother Wang again, "You see where we are open!" In fact, the place where Lu Hanqiang is standing now is the location of the open-pit mine in Fuxin Haizhou in the later generations, he asked this Brother Wang, but he just wanted to cover up the fact that he knew everything, people can't be too prominent, too early to be easily suspected, in fact, looking at the eyes of the little fat man now, he has begun to suspect that he is a god stick.

As a result, this big brother Wang stomped his feet and said, "Give me a few people, and I'll dig it up for you now." ”

Han Qiang immediately cooperated with a pair of miners, these miners, at the feet of Lu Hanqiang, waved a hoe and shovel, and dug up hard, but in everyone's surprised eyes, these miners just dug more than two meters deep, and the bright black coal was held in front of Lu Hanqiang, this big brother Wang said proudly to Lu Hanqiang: "The coal quality is good, the smoke is less, the ash is less, the foam is less and the blocks are more, this is simply the world's rare good coal." ”

Lu Hanqiang pretended to be surprised and sighed, "This is really God helping me!" ”

Since it is so easy to carry out, everyone immediately took this as the base point to explore the fixed point around, and when they were busy until dark, it has been proved that within a few miles of this radius, there is such high-quality coal, which makes all the people very happy, Xu Jie high-fived and sighed, "In this way, the second Ping 6 appeared in the north of the Ming Dynasty." ”

And with coke, then the premise of establishing a steel plant is there, under the smelting of good coke, it should be possible to directly refine steel, and at that time, Lu Hanqiang, equipped with an army completely armed by steel to the teeth, sweeping Liaodong will no longer be a dream.

However, now that the iron ore is still in the hands of the Mongols, Lu Hanqiang needs to find a way to pull the huge iron ore field into his own hands in the hands of Lin Dan Khan, which is a later story for the time being.

For the establishment of the coke plant, Lu Hanqiang is already familiar with the road, but it is a problem of manpower, and there is a problem of temporary secrecy, but fortunately, Liu Xidai, Shanxi is easier to keep secrets, because the land here is sparsely populated, and there are few idle people, and outsiders want to snoop, it is as obvious as a camel in the flock.

Now Lu Hanqiang has two fist products for the trade in the south, one is the massive, huge logs in the north, and the other is the coke that is about to be freshly baked, it is foreseeable that in the near future, a steady stream of gold and silver in the south will flow to Lu Hanqiang's Liaoxi rule, and Lu Hanqiang should be worried about soaring prices at that time.

There is money, food and steel, and when my army arrives, I will repair a section, Huang Taiji, you just wait to be beaten, Lu Hanqiang thought.