Cao Dong shoveled the snow away, Jin Tong used a pickaxe to dig through the frozen soil, digging less than 30 centimeters, and Lin Qian pushed Jin Tong away. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. ｂiquge。 ｉｎfo

She took off her gloves, picked up a shiny black stone from the rubble, and said calmly, "That's right, it's a black seedling!" ”

"There is a coal seam outcropping!" Xu Jingjing exclaimed in surprise.

Jin Tong realized what they had discovered.

An open-pit coal mine!

In an industrial country like Daqi, no one doesn't know what it means to have an open-pit coal mine that has never been discovered.

Wealth! Huge wealth!

The two men became excited.

They abandoned their original itinerary and instead explored the strike and size of the coal area. I didn't turn back until it was getting late.

They built the same igloo, but this time they used tent cloth as a curtain to block the door.

After building the igloo and eating, around the bonfire lit with coal samples, the four of them silently tore the dry and hard cakes, and drank a sip of water from time to time.

This open-pit coal mine, with a coal area of at least 10 square kilometers, is buried in the shallow anthracite from the fourth area of the Mangshan wasteland to the east into the swampy lake area.

Judging from the bonfire in front of them, these coals have high calorific value and few impurities, and can be directly used to burn boilers.

The development of this coal mine does not even require any machinery and equipment, and forty or fifty workers can be recruited and given pickaxes, flat shoulders, and baskets to start work.

Lin Qian roughly estimated that if there are enough locomotives and workers, the annual output of the coal mine can reach more than 300,000 tons.

The only problem is traffic in and out, but with good economic prospects, anyone can borrow money to build a road with coal mines as collateral.

However, in the northeast and even further afield, it is extremely difficult to obtain prospecting and mining rights. Not because of government documents or official contracts, but because of Xingliao property.

Once the news of the coal mine spreads, Xingliao will snatch the project like a cat that smells fishy. Except for the royal consortium, no one in the Northeast has been able to win the battle for mining rights.

They keep a close eye on turf. If it weren't for the wasteland that blocked the prospecting team, this high-quality coal mine would have been laughed at by the behemoth.

What's more, Jin Tong is a prisoner, and they are really inserted into a pole, not to mention the profit sharing, they can't see a single hair.

The machine guns of the Xingliao security team are not just for beautiful decorations!

"That'...... Such a great opportunity, we can only pretend not to see it? Xu Jingjing pursed her lips.

Of course not.

"It's a chip!" Jin Tong said loudly.

Xingliao Properties, or Xu Guogong's family, has a deep influence on the royal family, and if a high-quality coal mine is used as a bargaining chip, it may be able to win everyone's pardon!

It is important to know that there is a pardon system in the Great Qi Empire. In the case of exile, amnesty is generally granted a two- to three-year reduction of the sentence of exile for a fixed period of time, while lifetime exile is not included in the pardon.

However, in addition to the amnesty, there is also the amnesty. Every time there was an amnesty, the emperor would adopt the advice and publish a list of pardons, forgiving certain former "great rebels".

Te's pardon is not an explicit custom, but a political practice that began with Taizu.

An immediate pardon is absolutely impossible, after all, the "three major cases" have not yet passed the limelight. But after a while, when the emperor has a new child or an important celebration such as the marriage of the crown prince, their names can be added to the list of pardons!

Jin Tong's statement made the three of them get rid of their low mood, and the four of them discussed it for a while and felt that the feasibility was very high.

Jin Tong said: "The operation is very critical, you can't find the management of Xingliao's company, you must directly negotiate with Xu Guogong or Shizi himself." We can't come forward to negotiate, we have to find someone who is absolutely trustworthy and has a relationship with high society as an intermediary! Which of you knows such a person? ”

"If you want to talk about such a person......" Cao Dong hesitated.

"Oriental Ser!" Lin Qian gritted her teeth.

"Looking for her?" Xu Jingjing also blinked her eyes wide, looking reluctant.

Dongfang Se is a son of a wealthy family, majoring in law, a professional lawyer, and was a member of the Datong Party. Immediately after the forced dissolution of the Datong Party, he participated in the formation of the Social Progressive Party and became a member of the Presidium at the age of less than 30.

His father died last year, and Dongfang Se inherited the family business and was not a small rich man.

If this is the case, at most one thing is different, and it will not cause disgust. But Dongfang Se has a big drawback, that is, he is lustful.

When he was in the Datong Party, he often flirted with young women, owed a lot of romantic debts, and boasted that he was liberating his nature and returning to his true nature. In the past two years, it has been rumored that he has had affairs with many famous ladies, and has been assassinated several times, and once he was almost hacked to death on the street.

It is also strange that such a person is considered "absolutely reliable".

Lin Qian was reluctant to explain. Cao Dong said vaguely: "Although this person is annoying, it is worth entrusting." ”

Jin Tong suppressed his curiosity and stopped asking.

A serendipitous discovery adds a few moments to the future. That night, the four of them tossed and turned in the igloo, unable to sleep.

The most suitable place to relocate has been identified. There is a gentle slope at the junction of the 10th and 8th districts, with a relative height of less than 20 meters.

There is a large flat land under the gentle slope, and the soil is fertile. There is a forest nearby. There are several places below the sunny side of the gentle slope that can be dug wells, Xu Jingjing said that the most deep ten meters, there must be water.

As an added bonus, it's only five kilometres from the camp, making it easy to move.

On the third day of the geographical expedition, all four people slept until more than eight o'clock, and Jin Tong was the first to wake up. He put on his coat and hat, took up his gun, kicked open the thick cloth curtain, and crawled out to make a fire and boil water.

Not far from the igloo, a roe deer is pulling hay from under the snow. This stupid fawn-like animal looked up and saw Jin Tong, hesitated a little, tilted its head to look at it for a while, and then took a few steps closer.

Its eyes are watery, clear and transparent like a baby, full of curiosity.

A few seconds later, it saw Jin Tong clearly, screamed, and fled like lightning.

Jin Tong yelled at its fried white buttocks: "Silly roe deer! ”

The roe deer immediately stopped, turned his head and looked back, looking dumbfounded.

Jin Tong held the gun in his hand, pulled the bolt, and aimed. He swore he saw a childlike look on the wild animal's face.

"I'm an animal in the food chain after all."

After only shaking for less than a second, Jin Tong pulled the trigger.

Bang!

He aimed at the heart of his side, but the bullet got into the roe deer's eye and knocked him down with a single shot.

"Marksman!" Cao Dong just crawled out of the igloo.

"Where's the hunting knife? I'll use it. ”

Cao Dong pulled out the hunting knife on his waist and handed it over, Jin Tong took it, walked to the side of the creature that was still breathing, and half-knelt down to inspect it.

It was a young male, with only a small horn, and the other side had somehow broken, and was lying on the snow gasping for pain.

Jin Tong inserted a knife from the roe deer's jaw into his brain, giving it relief.

In the past life plus this life, this is the first mammal he killed.

"Call the girls out for breakfast." Jin Tong's mood was difficult to calm down for a while.

Ashku said that the first thing a deer fighter did when he caught a roe deer was not to skin and bleed, but to immediately disembowel, take out the steaming roe deer liver, slice it with a hunting knife and dip it in salt to eat. The deer hunters have good eyes, and they all eat like this.

Jin Tong didn't have the idea of eating it raw, he and Cao Dong made a fire, handed over the liver to the girl to roast it on the bonfire a little, and ate it again without blood, the taste was very tender.

After breakfast, the roe deer is coarsely skinned, and the remaining offal is fed to the hunting horses, and all the animals are satisfied before setting off.

They accelerated. The four of them returned to their hearts like arrows, and the sleigh drove at full speed through the first, third, fifth, and seventh areas, frightening many pheasants and hares along the way.

Less than two o'clock in the afternoon, they returned.

Wu Rui led the crowd and embraced them into the camp like heroes.

Lu Tianxi carried the roe deer into the kitchen and shouted excitedly, "There is meat to eat again!" ”

"Brother! You're finally back! Jin Jing excitedly crashed into Jin Tong's arms.

The camp changed again in three days.

The vegetable cellar and bathroom have been repaired, and it is a hemispherical snow house, which is much better looking and stronger than the snow cave they dug by Jin Tong.

Chen Zhenxiu taught the gang to build snow bricks, spiral shrinkage to build the roof, and build a real Eskimo building.

A manhole was also built for lodging.

The house was half underground and half above ground, with doors and small windows, and a half-meter-high earthen wall between the roof and the ground.

Jin Jing, like a hostess, couldn't wait to pull Jin Tong to visit. The inside of the manhole is two meters high, quite spacious, with wooden planks throughout, a stove in the middle, and a special smoke exhaust vent.

The house could accommodate ten people, and the girls all moved in.

Outside the kiln, Yuan Wending and Martin were sent by Wu Rui to chop wood. Lin Qian raised the refined ore in her hand, and the people fell silent.

An emergency plenary meeting was held in the tent.

An unprecedented quarrel broke out within the Huajie community over what to do with the discovery of the open-pit coal mine.

Wu Rui did not express his position. The group led by Lin Qian believed that the coal mine should be used to obtain pardons, and the other group represented by Yang Yuheng believed that the nobles could not be trusted, and that trustworthy progressive forces should be brought in to cooperate in development.

Jin Tong was reluctant to participate in the struggle, and said: "I obey all the decisions of Brother Shuang Ming in this matter. The roe deer outside still have to be dealt with, and tomorrow I will make a five-spiced roe deer meat for everyone, and there will be no one with me. ”

"I'm together!" Jin Jing raised his hand.

Jin Tong nodded at Wu Rui and smiled, "Then let's go out first." ”

He Gongda, the son of the butcher, also got up and said, "I don't participate in the discussion, I listen to Wu Rui." Jin Tong wait, don't give me the meat to do the scourge. ”

The three of them came out of the tent and worked together in the kitchen to remove the broken bones, residual hair and bruises from the roe deer meat, and after cleaning it, He Gongda chopped it into large pieces, rubbed it evenly with salt, and marinated it overnight.

"Do you have any seasoning for spiced roe deer meat?" He Gongda asked with a smile.

"Yes, I bought some cinnamon, fennel, and monosodium glutamate in Xunhe Town, and I haven't unpacked it yet."

"Okay, you're hiding such good things!"

"What is hidden, is forgot! I'll bring it to the kitchen later. ”

After all this, the argument in the tent did not end, and seeing that it was about to get dark, He Gongda lit a bonfire.

Jin Jing packed up the plough and went to Yuan Wending and Martin to bring the firewood back.

Jin Tong and He Gongda sat by the fire, chatting with each other.

"Why don't you join the discussion?"

"Why don't you participate?"

"I'm not a Huajie person......"

"It's so foreign, we don't treat you as an outsider...... I don't think there's anything to discuss. Yang Yuheng: What they say can't trust the chaebol is all a big reason. In fact, it was a moment of bad luck. ”

"When a large coal mine is discovered, the prospecting rights cannot be obtained, which is indeed aggrieved."

"So be more rational!" He Gongda said, "We have no choice at all, the coal mine is a mirage, and some people's eyes are dazzled." We must not touch the interests here. ”

Jin Tong nodded in agreement, "Unless we don't use coal and don't dig ourselves, the news will spread as soon as the two released from prison go back next winter." Even if it persists for a year, it will be developed in the future, and personnel and traffic exchanges cannot be kept secret. ”

"yes. If you don't know whether you live or die, you go to fight with Xingliao and find some relatives and friends to help develop it, hey......" He Gongda sneered, "There is a swamp nearby, and it is very convenient to throw corpses." ”

"Wu Rui is not a person who is dazed, he knows how to do it." Jin Tong has a lot of confidence in this gradually awakening leader.

"I also believe in Wu Rui, so I came out with you." He Gongda stood up and patted the soil on his pants, "Your sister is back." The two of them were probably almost there, so I went to remind them to end the meeting early. ”

He Gongda entered the big tent, and Jin Tong greeted his sister who was driving the plow, helped her tie her horse, and unloaded the firewood and piled it up together.

The argument was over, and everyone rushed out of the tent.

Wu Rui strode in front of Jin Tong, "Ye Feng, we have reached an agreement on this matter, so let's follow your plan and set up a line with Xu Guogong." How to talk about the specific pardon and what conditions can be negotiated, we are powerless, and we can't manage it, so leave it all to Dongfang Se. Hopefully there will be a good outcome. ”

"No need to explain. I trust your judgment. Jin Tong waved his hand and asked again, "When will you act?" ”

"The coal mine will not be moved for a year, otherwise there is a risk of leakage. It will be a year later at the earliest, firstly, our case is still hot, and secondly, the amnesty of the world depends on the timing, we can afford to wait. ”

"And now?"

"Just act as if nothing happened, and live in the Covered Wasteland!"