Chapter 12 Fire Danger in the Middle of the Night

Tian Gouzi left, and the group wandered for a long time, and only returned to the yamen in the evening, Zhang Zhong did not wait for a rest, and wrote a notice, which said that he wanted a lot of ginseng that was more than 100 years old, and he could come and sell it.

As soon as this notice was posted, many people were anxious, they heard that the new county magistrate had even put aside his son's affairs for the time being in order to handle the case, and now he was going to get ginseng for his son.

They were all inquiring, and even some people were going to the mountains to see if they could find ginseng, some were for money, some were looking for the county magistrate to help with things, and some were very simple to make the county magistrate's son better.

Lord Bo and the county Cheng are happy, now there is another thing that can make Zhang Zhong think about it, and he can't spare his hands to do anything else, the lord Bo Zhan Kaijin originally wanted to continue to find something tomorrow and send Zhang Zhong to a distant place to be busy for a day, but was stopped by the county Cheng Xiao Chi.

"Brother Xiangyun, you can't do this, in case that person finally says that it was instigated by us, Zhang Zhong is angry, and he is sent to the capital with Zhang Haozi and that person, and the people there really interrogate something, can we two still think about it?

His son hadn't woken up yet, and when it was evening, he would see if he was still reading the booklets, and if he did, he wouldn't have much energy for tomorrow. ”

"What Brother Yong said is that he really can't continue to take risks, doesn't he want ginseng now? Why don't we find him some ginseng, those merchants who came over are still detained by him, and then the fertile land can be turned into wasteland, and our benefits will be taken. ”

Lord Bo finally came up with a method that he thought was the best, the county Cheng listened, his face was smiling, but he was a little reluctant in his heart, Zhan Kaijin thought of a good way, if he couldn't think of it, wouldn't it mean that he was not as good as Zhan Kaijin, so he said:

"No, we can't do this thing, we should tell those businessmen, they know a lot of things, you have to learn more in the future, otherwise it is easy to have an accident."

"Brother Buyong is right, you should really let those businessmen take care of this matter, be fast, otherwise the weather will be hot again, and if it rains a few times, there will be others over there to think about it."

Lord Bo Zhan Kaijin is easy to speak, and he will listen when others point it out.

After saying this, he said again: "Brother No, that Zhang Hezi is just locked up now, and he hasn't been tried yet, is it necessary?" As he said this, he gestured with his hand around his neck.

The county man hurriedly waved his hand and said, "But you must not do that, didn't you see that there were four guards left behind tonight?" Even the food eaten by those locked up was sent in by Jin Lailou, and if he wanted to do it, it was easy for him to grasp the handle, so we had to think about it in the long run. ”

"It's okay, then think about it in the long run, thanks to the things sent from Jinlai Lou today, those people who were locked up seem to have been hungry for three days, let's take all the money and food from the account, and if we don't give them something to eat, they will starve to death."

Lord Bo Zhan Kaijin said with palpitations, Xiao Xiancheng also thought of this matter, in the past two days, he only cared about how to deal with Zhang Zhong, the county commander who came first, and forgot about the people in prison, and the officials did not pass, so they were locked up, and today is the third day.

They were thinking about the people in the cell, and Zhang Xiaobao was also worried about it, and the more than 120 people in it should not have committed any major incidents from the files, some did not pay rent and taxes, some robbed the steamed buns to buy steamed buns, and some stole other people's money on the street.

What's even more ridiculous is that a person went to Jinlailou and ordered one or six dishes, and he ate them all by himself, and then he had no money to pay the bill, so he was locked up.

The rolls of more than one hundred and twenty detainees were directly pulled out, and the others didn't have time to care, Zhang Zhong compressed his eyes with two cucumber slices, read them one by one, and said to the guards next to him:

"Tomorrow, you escort Erniu and take those businessmen to the river to have a look, and take a walk at the wharf, I will let the county Cheng and the lord Bo follow, you must turn around for a day, and I will handle the case and release the people here."

"Yes." The guards carefully cultivated by the palace are indeed different, and the answers are crisp and neat.

Zhang Zhong closed the rolls, lay down to rest, naturally someone picked up the lamp, put the dummy away, and when it was the turn of that person to keep vigil here, he pulled down the rope every once in a while.

Zhang Xiaobao and Wang Juan brought back some things to learn, rested in a side room, and could get up after a while, and the two of them lay on the couch thinking about coal, and couldn't sleep for a while, so they could only chat.

"Juanjuan, there must be a lot of coal yellow there, which is amber, and when the time comes, dig it out and make jewelry for you." Zhang Xiaobao said to Wang Juan.

"I don't want that thing, I want diamonds, you better think about how to use the coal dug up, can't it be just there."

Wang Juan wasn't very interested in those things.

"How else can I use it, of course it's burned, first find a blacksmith, let them help us melt the molten iron, and then make a furnace-like thing, and then continue to burn from that furnace, and then all the blast furnaces, open hearths, and converters will come out, and then we will start to use those made just now to make guns, and after making guns, we will finish making cannons, and after making cannon ......."

"Just dream and be serious." Wang Juan interrupted Zhang Xiaobao's words, moved the pillow, and turned sideways comfortably.

"Serious, then it can only be used to strike iron, look at Li Xun's guards all have crossbows, we can make them ourselves, all-iron crossbows, the kind that is wound with your feet, when the time comes, play with birds, or make knives, make less, take a hand when it's okay, hide it, and use it for the seedling team in case something happens."

Others make some commonly used things in life, such as kitchen knives, all the masters in our restaurant will use steel knives, as well as scissors or something, take them out and sell them, or wait a little longer, let the blacksmith work hard to make more steel ingots, and sell them to the country when the time comes.

Well, we have to keep it secret, now maybe other places also use coal to make things, and we can use it for heating, the simplest is honeycomb coal, we don't exchange other things, that is, yellow mud and coal face, and the kiln can also be used, so let's do it. ”

Zhang Xiaobao really can't give full play to the key advantages of coal, such as gas, etc., he can only find a way in daily life, he is ready to save the coal first, and make the coal face into something to use, the only troublesome thing is that there is no high-pressure water gun, and it is time-consuming and laborious to decompose the coal.

"Then let's do it first, how much are you going to pay the people of Elm Village?" Wang Juan couldn't think of a better way.

"According to the amount of mining, let's look at the speed of their mining, in short, they can't be less, they should become the richest village in Huayuan County." Zhang Xiaobao has already planned for this, he must make them rich, there is a coal mine by his side, if he goes to occupy it directly, people will know about it in the future, and it will not be good for his reputation.

Wang Juan didn't have too many thoughts about this, as long as he could make the people in the village make more money, and then see if he could bring the people in the village over.

Xiao Xiancheng and Zhan Zhubo still didn't go to bed so early at night, yesterday was basically equivalent to staying up all night, after all, it was the first day, they wanted to see more, today they were still eating and drinking in that small house, and from time to time someone came over to tell them that Zhang Zhong hadn't slept yet.

When it was time to arrive, the two people finally couldn't stand the toss for two days and one night, and fell asleep directly in this house, blew the lamp, and the two of them lay down for less than a quarter of an hour, and a tight gong sounded, and the two of them looked around as if someone else owed them tens of thousands of dollars.

"My lord, it's not good, it's gone, the granary in the yamen is gone." A person who specially helped the night vigil hurriedly ran in, and shouted loudly to the two people, the two people were not sleeping comfortably, and it was not as good as hugging the woman at home.

"If you go out of the water, go and save it, what are you calling us for?" Zhan Zhubo was still confused, and when he heard that it was a drain, he immediately shouted.

Or Xiao Xiancheng was a little more vigilant and asked, "Say it again, where is the water?" ”

"The granary of the yamen, the one that put the collected rent, my lord, to go or not to go?" The man repeated it again, and asked cautiously, he also knew that the two adults had just fallen asleep, and there was actually no food in the granary.

"Go, how can you not go, that Zhang Zhong is not sleeping now, can we not go if he goes? After all, the granary is burning, why is there no food? It's clearly written on the account, Brother Xiangyun, hurry up. ”

Xiao Xiancheng said helplessly, and began to get dressed there, Zhan Zhubo also got up, slowly put on his clothes in a daze, and it took the two of them a full quarter of an hour to get dressed, and went out to run towards the granary of the yamen.

When the two of them arrived at the place, there were already a lot of officials and people there to help fight the fire, Zhang Zhong was also dressed neatly, commanded on the side, and asked loudly from time to time, "Why haven't the county officials and the lord Bo come yet?" Isn't the two of them home near here? With the court's money, you can't find anyone at a critical time? ”

The officials knew where the two of them went, and they should have thought of bad ideas again, but the people didn't know, they heard Zhang Zhong's words, and they also complained there, and at the same time praised the new county order, the people's heart, a very mysterious thing, and now the county and the lord are gradually losing.

When the two people ran over, they happened to hear Zhang Zhong ask again, looking at the appearance of the people around him, but the two people were angry, rushed up and grabbed the bucket in the hand of one person and rushed to the front, wanting to show off and let the people see.