While merchants and ordinary people were paying attention to the cement factories in Beijing, Chongzhen had turned his attention to Shanxi to the west. The pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info Shanxi is located on the Loess Plateau, the land is barren, and there are no special agricultural products. Such characteristics have created a situation of poverty in Shanxi. However, the merchants of Shanxi were not willing to live in poverty for a long time. Therefore, at the time of the rise of the Later Jin, Zhangjiakou was used as the trade center to conduct extensive trade with the Later Jin regime. Everything from daily necessities to munitions was involved, and the Later Jin controlled ginseng, mink, deer antler velvet and Wula grass in the northeast, so that the Jin merchants in Shanxi played a crucial role in the rise of the Later Jin regime in the last years of the Ming Dynasty.

It is understandable for businessmen to pursue profits, but they should put the national righteousness first. The behavior of Shanxi Jin merchants can be said to be simply chasing interests, and they are talented in national disasters. Therefore, after the Manchu Qing Dynasty entered the Central Plains, Shanxi Jin merchants were named the eight imperial merchants by the Manchu regime, namely Fan Yongdou, Wang Dengku, Jin Liangyu, Wang Dayu, Liang Guest, Tian Shenglan, Zhai Tang, and Huang Yunfa. At the end of the Ming Dynasty, the eight major Jin merchants manipulated the trade activities in Zhangjiakou and, in the name of Shang, secretly transported military supplies and intelligence to the Manchu Qing Dynasty. They provided food to the Manchus at their most difficult time, and to be honest, they were ashamed of the Ming people who gave birth to them.

The eldest husband was born in troubled times, and he should do something and not do something. Now that Chongzhen dominates the world of the Ming Dynasty, it is his responsibility to let the people of the Ming Dynasty enjoy a peaceful and peaceful life, and Chongzhen will not allow such a black sheep to run rampant. Wei Zhongxian was arranged by Chongzhen to go to Shanxi as early as late October, and the spies of Dongchang were also under Wei Zhongxian's arrangement to secretly investigate Shanxi merchants and collect evidence of merchants. However, the Shanxi Jin merchants are not just simple businessmen, and many of them are inextricably linked with important officials in the DPRK and China. Therefore, Chongzhen is waiting, waiting for an opportunity, an opportunity to cut the grass and eradicate the roots at one time.

What Chongzhen has to do now, or the top priority, is to keep Shanxi's coal in his hands. Shanxi is a large coal province with abundant reserves, but the amount of mining is very limited. Moreover, the income of ordinary shearers is actually very limited, and the exploitation of the government and the difficulty of mining make the life of shearers very difficult, and they can only maintain a basic life.

Speaking of the North-South Avenue, under the successful operation of the cement division led by Yang Shan, the collection of funds has become very smooth. As long as there is a certain strength of businessmen and giants, they will not hesitate to make a fortune. The content of the writing on Gu Yangshan's recital, Chongzhen can read Yang Shan's excitement between the lines.

The cement matter is over for the time being, and Chongzhen is shifting all his energy to the coal in Shanxi. In a short period of time, it is impossible for Chongzhen to go to Shanxi in person. Moreover, as the emperor of the Ming Dynasty, the conditions allowed to leave the palace for a long time. Therefore, whether Chongzhen's plan can be successfully implemented must have a competent candidate. After much thinking and selection, a person entered Chongzhen's sight.

This person is Zonghu in the household department, and the ancestral home of Zonghu is Hunyuan, Shanxi, which belongs to Datong City, Shanxi Province, and is located in the northeast of Shanxi Province, and is located in the middle and upper reaches of the Hunhe River, a tributary of the Sanggan River. It is bordered by Guangling in the east, Ying County in the west, Hengshan and Lingqiu and Fanzhi County in the southeast, and connected by Liuling Mountain and Datong and Yanggao counties in the north. Zonghu has been mining coal for a living for generations, so Zonghu is the most suitable candidate.

Regarding the emperor's edict, Zonghu did not dare to slack off, and hurriedly came to the Qianqing Palace. After entering the gate of the Qianqing Palace, he found that Chongzhen was not standing on the dragon chair, but waving the sword in his hand in the courtyard in front of the Qianqing Palace. The posture is smooth and heroic. According to legend, Chongzhen's swordsmanship is exquisite, and Zonghu originally only listened to it as a joke, but he didn't expect this to be a fact. Chongzhen's original memories are still there, and Chongzhen was originally superb in martial arts, but people in later generations only remember that he was a king of a dead country.

It is said that Zonghu looked a little demented, Chongzhen also practiced well, no one disturbed the other party, and in the entire courtyard, only the sound of the sword body dancing could be heard. Until Chongzhen's last fight was completed, he put away his sword in a dashing manner. Chongzhen handed over the Longquan Sword in his hand to Wang Chengen, and the palace maid who was waiting on the side immediately brought a warm towel and gently wiped the fine sweat oozing from his forehead for Chongzhen.

Only then did Chongzhen find that there was an official waiting on the side. Chongzhen knew that this was Zonghu, and it was the first time he saw Zonghu, and Chongzhen had a good impression of this burly eight-foot man. Because Zonghu does not have the decadent color of ordinary officials, the village at the foot of the mountain in Shanxi has the simplicity of the mountain people, and there is a lack of the unique philistine of the Ming Dynasty officials. In the Ming Dynasty, although commerce was still a cheap industry, such a situation had been completely changed in the last years of the Ming Dynasty, and the situation of laughing at the poor and not smiling at prostitutes abounded, and the moral bottom line was further degraded.

Chongzhen deeply understands that if you want to rewrite the history of the Ming Dynasty, you must not only change the bureaucratic system and economic conditions of the Ming Dynasty, but also change the hearts of the people in the world. The people's hearts remain unchanged, and this Ming will eventually be buried again in their own hands, but people's hearts, how can it be easy to change here!