With the arrival of the new governor of the country, Diqiu fell into a rather strange state.

The owners of the smelting pit are very respectful to the new governor, and the gifts that should be given have been given, and the favors that should have been given have also been given, so respectful that people can't grasp the handle, but at the same time, the governors who usually invited the past governors to drink and go to banquets, play poetry meetings, etc., but there is nothing at all.

There was not even a smelter who took the initiative to send him to his own courtyard for resettlement, even if it was Meng Guang, he only "lent" his Zhuangzi outside the town to the governor's son, and then disappeared, no matter how Zhou Quan looked for it, he couldn't find him.

"This is non-violent non-cooperation...... Daddy, it seems that you are very unpopular as the governor! A few days later, in the Meng family's Zhuangzi, Zhou Quan said to Zhou Fu with a smile.

Zhou Fu glared at him angrily: "If you hadn't said that you were going to come here to Li Guojian, you Lao Tzu and I would rather be a common man in Jingshi than come here to suffer some dirty gas!" ”

"It's simple to be angry if you don't want to be angry, just flip the table." Zhou Quan smiled faintly.

"What do you mean?"

"You are the supervisor of Zhili Guo appointed by the imperial court, although the civil affairs part of the Li Guojian is not under your control, but at least the affairs of iron smelting are under your control, you ordered the pits to suspend business, who dares to say half a word?"

Zhou Quan's words made Zhou Fu clench his fists, but he immediately lacked confidence: "Is this possible?" ”

"In the Jingshi, there are powerful people everywhere, so we are controlled by others everywhere, so we have to worry so much when we get here? I'm out of the Jingshi, and they have to give me some benefits...... Moreover, Dad, you are a cunning official, you have no other skills, and it is difficult for you to do the whole thing? ”

"Did you say that about your father, this time my father was cheated by you, so he ran to this ghost place with you!" Zhou Fu said angrily.

Zhou Quan heheed twice, and ran away.

He just came up with a general direction, how to actually do it, in fact, he didn't have an idea. However, Zhou Quan really believes in his Lao Tzu's ability, and he can mix well among the Beijing teachers, if he doesn't have some housekeeping skills, where can he do it.

"I'm taking people around, and I may not come back today!" He reported to Zhou Fu and came to the courtyard.

It was the middle of May, and the weather was already a little hot, but in the small courtyard, sixty-seven teenagers stood with their hands down, and although they were already sweating on their foreheads, they still stood straight one by one.

After Zhou Quan came out, he ordered to "take a break", and these teenagers relaxed their standing posture and quietly moved their tired ankles.

"Get your bags ready, camp today, and disband!" Zhou Quan ordered again.

Everyone dispersed, and Li Bao lit a pillar of incense behind Zhou Quan. The incense burned less than a quarter, and the teenagers who had spread out, one by one, carrying thick cloth bags, gathered again.

Most of these sixty-seven teenagers have lived a hard life, and now their lives are enjoying happiness, and seeing that someone has been removed from the team, how dare they slack off.

Zhou Quan was very satisfied with the performance of the teenagers, after he returned to Beijing from Liao, in addition to intriguing with those civil officials, most of his energy was focused on these teenagers.

The children of the former forbidden army recruited from the Beijing Division, because some of them were contaminated with bad habits, Zhou Quan was worried that they would pass on these bad habits to the rest of the teenagers, so he eliminated them. Although the families of these teenagers also brought the teenagers to cry and beg, Zhou Zhou Quan did not talk about this issue in the slightest, and he would never allow a grain of mouse feces to spoil a pot of soup.

Therefore, there were originally more than 80 people, but only these 67 people came to Li Guojian with him.

Two hours of physical training and discipline training every day, two hours of literacy and rhetoric training, and two hours of arithmetic training -- this is the unstoppable schedule of the teenagers, which occupies half the time of the day, and the strict discipline consumes a lot of their physical strength and energy, and also makes these teenagers have no time to run around and play.

"Check your shoes, leggings, let's go!"

Zhou Quan also carried a bag himself, but his bag was smaller than others, Li Bao still had this kind of eyes, and he had already packed a few heavy things on his back. As well as preparing for the hike, everyone wore leggings according to Zhou Quan's requirements, and then went out of the village gate in turn.

After going out and arriving on the main road, they did not walk in a scattered manner, but lined up in two columns and advanced on the right side of the main road.

Di Jiang was already waiting in front, and Zhou Quan asked him to teach the teenagers how to orient themselves in the wild, find water, judge the terrain, and find usable food.

When they came out, in a forest not far from Zhuangzi, Meng Guang held his chin with his hand, and was amazed.

"This Zhou Yanei is really a weirdo, but his actions are in line with his true character of being a general!"

Meng Guang has been waiting and seeing.

Zhao Sheng and others, who boast of being well-informed, can learn the details of the Zhou family's father and son from their backers, and know that they were actually driven out of Beijing after the failure of the political struggle. They thought that they could provoke Meng Guang, the new inheritor of the family business, to step forward and take the initiative to deal with the Zhou family's father and son, but they never thought that although Meng Guang was not as good as them, when it came to intelligence, he was by no means inferior to them.

Moreover, how far Xuzhou is from Beijing, in the past few days, Meng Guang has already heard a lot of things that he is interested in from the merchants from Jingzhou.

"Bicycles, checkers, cement, and snow candy are also related to this...... Such a character, how can he be a gentleman who only knows how to play, not to mention, he also went to the Liao State as an envoy, and it is said that he has made great contributions in the Liao State...... I really don't know what Zhao Sheng's stupidity thinks, and such a shrewd character dares to be perfunctory! ”

Thinking of this, Meng Guang no longer hesitated, rode a donkey, and chased after him with a few family members.

Not long after, he chased Zhou Quan's team, as if it was a chance encounter, greeted Zhou Quan, and then led the donkey in parallel.

It's just that Zhou Quan walked fast, and Meng Guang really couldn't keep up with his pace, so he didn't walk for long, so he could only rely on sin and rode on top of the donkey again.

"Where are you going?" He tugged for a long time, and saw that Zhou Quan was not cold and arrogant about rejecting people thousands of miles away, so he asked.

Zhou Quan likes the title "Yanei" very much, because this title always makes him feel that he seems to be able to do something to bully men and women.

"Walk around and see if there's anything good...... Meng Yuanwai, your family has lived in Xuzhou for generations, do you know how Zhuangzi wants to make a move in this vicinity? ”

Meng Guang smiled when he heard this, could this Yanai want to buy a property and settle down here?

"This is a bit troublesome, I don't know anything in the ya, Li Guojian iron smelting is extremely prosperous, even if it is a barren mountain and a wild mountain, now they all have their own masters, because maybe one day, iron ore can be discovered! Therefore, the local village generally does not change hands, and if there is an occasional person, it is immediately bought! ”

Zhou Quan nodded, almost as he imagined.

"Moreover, the price of Zhuangzi is not cheap, in the case of the Zhuangzi I borrowed from the Yanei, such a Zhuangzi, plus more than 300 acres of fields around, is no more than 200 yuan per mu in other places, so even the Zhuangzi with fields, the total is only one hundred and fifty guan, but in our Jianli, such a Zhuangzi, to say the least, has to sell more than 300 guan!"

"What about the mountain to the east, if I want to buy it, how much will it cost to get from that mountain to this mountain?"

"This piece is the Zhao family's mountain forest, and his family bought it more than ten years ago...... If you want to estimate the price, this piece should be worth about 3,000 yuan. Meng Guang squinted his eyes and calculated for a moment before coming up with this result.

Zhou Quan was not intimidated by this price, with more than 6,000 yuan of money given to him by Zhou Tong, plus nearly 10,000 yuan earned in the past six months, he did not have to worry about having no money for the time being.

Even if he came to Xuzhou, Jingshi's Chezhuang was still under his control, and it was still creating profits for him. However, Zhou Quan also understands that as he leaves Jingshi for a long time, this control will become weaker, and there will be other people who want to imitate it, and when other people's bicycles also come up, his income will decrease.

"Three thousand guan is nothing, if his family is willing to sell it, I can buy it!" Zhou Quan said slowly.

This large area of mountains, forests and fields is two miles in circumference, and if he really gets his hands on it, he can make great achievements. It's just that Zhou Quan also knows that Li Guojian wants to buy land nearby, but he is afraid that it will not be easy, so he doesn't have it

Seeing the figure of three thousand guan, it did not intimidate Zhou Quan, Meng Guangxin said that the rumors were true, this one really didn't take money in his eyes. He groaned slightly, still hesitating in his heart, and finally decided to continue to wait and see.

This time the training in the field lasted for three days, and Meng Guang wanted to see what kind of character this Zhou Yanei was, so he gritted his teeth and accompanied Zhou Quan and others in the field for three days. Three days later, when he returned to the town, he found a notice posted at the entrance of the town.

Originally, when the new officials took office, they had to post such a notice, but after Zhou Fu came to Diqiu, because his subordinate officials did not cooperate, he did not hold back this notice until now. Meng Guang took a look, most of them were clichés, but there was a sentence hidden in them, the Great Song Dynasty has always been people-oriented, so pay attention to safety at every pit, cherish human life, and never have a mining disaster.

Meng Guang looked at it and shook his head, what is the use of such nonsense, he was a little disappointed in his heart, feeling that the father and son of the Zhou family were not enough to become his new backer.

After the notice was posted, the reaction of the vast majority of smelters was the same as Meng Guang, and they looked down on the Zhou family father and son even more. However, the next day, someone went to the governor's yamen and complained that the smelter Shen Hetai had forced the miners to mine at the landslide in order to make huge profits, regardless of the lives and safety of the miners, resulting in two deaths and three injuries.

As soon as this incident came out, the owners of the various families immediately became vigilant, led by Zhao Sheng, and they secretly gathered to discuss countermeasures.

Meng Guang also received an invitation to the party, and after some noise at the meeting, everyone reached a consensus that if the new governor wanted to take this opportunity to make trouble, everyone must work together to make trouble to the governor of Xuzhou.

It's just that after the meeting, including Meng Guang, there were four or five smelters, and they prepared a generous gift and sent it to the Zhou family.

Then, all the smelters received Zhou Fu's invitation!