Chapter 69: Copper Mines
The planned hunting activity had to be interrupted because of this wolf plague, and Gao Huaiyuan walked out of the mountain with a group of ragged men, everyone shirtless, with messy bandages wrapped around their bodies, almost all of them were injured, and they looked embarrassed and embarrassed.
However, they were not willing to waste the results of this day, each of them still carried one or two wolf corpses, wolf skins, but they were valuable goods, it was a pity to discard them, otherwise, they would have suffered so many injuries in vain.
After this battle, everyone's feelings have increased a lot again, you must know that the friendship between life and death is the most sincere friendship, not to mention that they are still a group of partners who live together all day?
Although because of the wolf pack incident, everyone ended the hunt in advance, but on the way back, Gao Huaiyuan did not regret it, this time, once again let them get a rare exercise, although it was a little dangerous, but it was worth it.
Because he was worried that the wounds on everyone's bodies would be inflamed, after repelling the wolves, Gao Huaiyuan led everyone to the edge of the mountain stream, carefully cleaned the wounds with spring water, and cleaned them with the soap he carried.
After the wolves lost their head wolf, they scattered and never appeared again, and it is estimated that the remaining wolves began to compete for the position of the head wolf, and they had no time to take care of them, so when they walked all the way back, they never encountered any trouble again.
Everyone dragged the wolf corpse, walking not fast, although the wound on the body was still very painful, but the interest was very high, after walking for more than half a day, seeing that it was not far from Crouching Tiger Village, so they were in a ravine, found a place by the water, and from the stream a few big fish came out, peeled a dead wolf, made a fire and barbecued, the fatigue of a day and a night was completely relaxed at this moment.
Gao Huaiyuan looked up at the surrounding mountains, how familiar he looked, and always felt as if he had been to this place.
Eating roasted wolf meat, the taste is somewhat like dog meat, after all, the two things are close relatives, and the taste of meat is almost not strange, but at this time, Gao Huaiyuan is not thinking about whether the wolf meat is delicious or not, but has been thinking about the surrounding terrain, how to look at it and feel a little familiar, until when he saw a hanging stone on the opposite mountain, a past from a long time ago suddenly flashed in his mind, but this past is a little strange to remember, because it happened hundreds of years later.
He suddenly remembered that he had followed his father when he was still in school in his previous life, and he had come to Daye in his later life, and Daye in the later life was no longer the county seat, but changed to Daye City, when his father came here to find a friend, and his father's friend was in a copper mine in Daye City, if he remembered it well, it should be this place, the reason why he didn't remember it before was because he had only been here once in his previous life, and his memory was a little blurry, and the current landform and the landform of the future generations have changed for hundreds of years. It's changed a lot, and at most it makes him feel a little bit familiar, so he doesn't remember what this place is.
If he hadn't seen the hanging stone on the opposite mountain, he probably wouldn't have remembered this thing, and he was quite impressed by this hanging stone in his memory, so after seeing this hanging stone, he concluded that this was the location of the copper mine where his father's friend was located in the future.
Gao Huaiyuan dropped the wolf leg that he was gnawing on, and jumped up happily, but it affected the wound on his calf, grinning his teeth, and almost didn't lie down on the spot, but at this time, he couldn't care about the pain of the wound, laughed, and muttered in his mouth, it's developed now! Ha ha!
Everyone didn't know why Gao Huaiyuan suddenly let out a burst of laughter, and those who didn't know thought that Gao Huaiyuan had a nervous breakdown until now, so they came around and asked Gao Huaiyuan what was wrong, Liu Er was also worried, and leaned over and stretched out her jade hand to gently probe Gao Huaiyuan's forehead to see if he was injured, and he had a little fever at this time.
"It's okay, it's okay! Hurry up and eat, I'm fine! Ha ha! I'm glad to be there! Ha ha! Gao Huaiyuan retreated from the crowd with some joy and continued to laugh.
"Boss, what's the happy thing, let's listen to it too!" After Huang Yan retreated in the morning, because of the unfavorable vigil, after being taught a hard lesson by Gao Huaiyuan, he was honest for most of the day, and he didn't even dare to let out a fart loudly along the way, carrying three wolf corpses, and kept walking behind the team, hiding far away.
"Go to the side, your business is not over yet, after you go back, confinement for three days, if you do it again in the future, you will go back to Shaoxing for me!" As soon as Gao Huaiyuan saw Huang Yan coming over with a shy face, his face tensed and he reprimanded him again.
Huang Yan was bored, and hid to the side in a gray way, it's not worth it! It's really not cost-effective, I originally wanted to listen to the root of the wall, but it turned out that I met a gentleman Gao Huaiyuan, who came to the left and was not messy! I didn't say anything about the vigil all night, and I ran into a pack of wolves coming over and almost eating a group of people, and now after the matter is understood, even the most gentle Liu Er does not sympathize with his plight, and gives him a white eye, Huang Yan has nothing to say at this time, so he honestly squatted aside, gnawed on the wolf meat fiercely, and panted with anger.
After dark, Gao Huaiyuan and his entourage finally returned to Crouching Tiger Village, and the virtue of everyone frightened the people in the village, and quickly took them in, and after seeing them carrying so many wolf corpses, they knew what happened to them, and couldn't help but pinch a cold sweat for them.
Liu Da hurriedly beckoned the servants to take over the wolf corpses, and immediately peeled and salted them, and the province was ruined and wasted.
And there is wound medicine in the villa, after returning to the villa, everyone hurriedly cleaned the dressing for Gao Huaiyuan and others, and worked for a long time, and Huang Yan naturally couldn't run the fate of confinement, after applying the medicine, he immediately consciously touched the confinement room and locked himself up, what Gao Huaiyuan said is not changeable, this is already a well-known thing in Crouching Tiger Village, although Huang Yan followed Gao Huaiyuan at the earliest, but there was no privilege not to accept punishment, so without saying a word, he went into the confinement room.
Everyone saw that Huang Yan was confined when he came back, and they asked what the reason was, so the people who followed Gao Huaiyuan out to hunt told them the reason, needless to say, after everyone listened, although they didn't say anything, but they also felt that Huang Yan deserved it, his negligence almost threw so many people into the mountains, but at the same time, he admired him, at least he didn't do anything special, and honestly went to squat and be confined.
After Gao Huaiyuan rested for a while, he handed over the matter of Crouching Tiger Village to Zhou Hao and others, let them continue to be busy, got up and rushed back to the Gao family's old house, greeted Xue Yan, prepared some generous gifts, brought money, and rushed to Daye County.
He had no other purpose for this trip, in order to take this borderless land out of the hands of the government and become his private property.
Daye since ancient times there are hundreds of miles of gold, Jiangnan cornucopia said, thousands of years ago, here began to have human digging wells to extract ore, for copper smelting, to support a bronze culture, later here continue to find some copper and iron ore, gradually formed a large-scale smelting industry, from the Tang Dynasty, here is called Qingshan courtyard, Song Qiande years, the Southern Tang Dynasty built a county here, the reason why it is called Daye, is taken from the meaning of Daxing furnace and metallurgy, it can be seen that the distribution of copper and iron ore resources here is wide.
After the Southern Song Dynasty lost many important mineral areas in the north, the resources here in Daye became particularly important, so in Daye County, the pillar industry is the copper and iron smelting industry here.
The current situation is very different from when he first came, although it cannot be said that he is already a rich party, but at least he has more than enough spare money on hand, and the soap workshop and the glass workshop are still producing a lot of money for him, so that he can have a relatively sufficient financial guarantee, in addition, through the operation of the local area for more than a year, Gao Huaiyuan's relationship with the local officials has been handled quite harmoniously, and he can be guaranteed not to be bullied by ordinary people on the ground.
It happened that this time he discovered the address of a copper mine in the future, and it happened that this land was still a mountain land that no one owned, which happened to fulfill his dream.
You must know that copper, in the Great Song Dynasty means money, since the Song Dynasty, because of the developed economy, the Great Song Dynasty has been implementing the copper standard monetary system, copper money is the absolute hard currency, and copper is also an important war resource, if there is a copper mine, then Gao Huaiyuan can control a resource that belongs to him.
So when he found out the location of this copper mine, he didn't dare to delay at all, and immediately ran to the county seat, found Liu Zhixian, and proposed to take down the mountains and forests near Crouching Tiger Village and put it under his name.
When Gao Huaiyuan was in Panxia Crouching Tiger Village, there was still some land that could be reclaimed, so it was not surprising that Liu Zhixian was not surprised, but this time Gao Huaiyuan proposed to put down a mountain that no one wanted, which was a little strange.
But with his friendship with Gao Huaiyuan, this matter is not easy to refute Gao Huaiyuan's face, so he readily agreed, and after accepting the generous gift given to him by Gao Huaiyuan, with a stroke of the pen, he sold this official land to Gao Huaiyuan at a very low price.
Although the price of this mountain land is low, but the area is quite large, there are dozens of hectares, even if the price is low, Gao Huaiyuan finally took stock of his purse, only to find that with his current financial resources, it is simply not enough to buy such a large piece of land, so he began to be a little embarrassed.
But this is also difficult Gao Huaiyuan, he had an idea, immediately ran to Jubaozhai to find the shopkeeper, from him, first borrowed some money, and then found the Wang family to find the shopkeeper Wang, proposed to borrow money, the results were very smooth, the two families took into account that Gao Huaiyuan was very important to them, and during this time, they cooperated with Gao Huaiyuan very well, and they made a lot of money, so they were very happy to lend money to Gao Huaiyuan.
Gao Huaiyuan used the money to successfully take down the mountain land, and got the title deed from Liu Zhixian, which was completely relieved, and he also knew in a short time that it was a little difficult for him to develop the copper and iron ore here, but as long as he occupied it first, as for when to mine it in the future, it was up to him.
Although this hunt was risky and he was almost eaten by wolves, it was a good thing for Gao Huaiyuan, allowing him to control a piece of feng shui treasure land that could continuously produce money for him, which would be very important for his future development.
Although the land was bought, Gao Huaiyuan was temporarily unable to mine the ore there, let alone build a smelting furnace to process the ore.
The government Liu Zhixian sent people to survey the boundary in the mountains, and completely marked this mountain land as his Gao Huaiyuan's private property, and after being busy with these things, it was the autumn harvest season.
This autumn harvest is different from last year's situation, the tenants have taken care of their rented land quite well this year, and the two seasons a year have finally made their lives a little richer, so Gao Huaiyuan basically didn't care much about this matter, and the tenants took the initiative to hand over the tenant rent to the Gao family, and didn't even give Gao Huaiyuan a little trouble, so Gao Huaiyuan saved a lot of worry, just with some servants on the side of the old mansion, he completed this thing, and this year he has an extra Zhou Yi This helper, The kid's abacus is crackling now, and he divides the accounts by two in three times and five times, and uses the Arabic numerals taught to him by Gao Huaiyuan to record them in the account, and when he handed them over to Gao Huaiyuan for review, it was clear at a glance, which made Gao Huaiyuan feel at ease with him.
As for Gao Huaiyuan's private field on the side of Crouching Tiger Village, it is naturally the same harvest, after having so many teenagers, there is no need to find any manpower at all, two or three days, the harvest is completed, Gao Huaiyuan also made a few wooden threshers, so that the Crouching Tiger Village side quickly completed the harvesting work.
Anyway, Gao Huaiyuan doesn't expect to make any benefits from the grain now, so he simply sold some of the grain after paying the necessary taxes to the government, and sent someone to send the money from the sale of grain to Shaoxing Mansion to Gao Jian, which is considered to have completed his task this year, and deliberately increased by one percent, which is considered to show his merits, as for the remaining grain, it is simply all stored, and the province will buy grain in the future, the reason why he did this is because Gao Huaiyuan has the impression that there will be wars between Song and Jin in the past few years. When the war started, the fastest rise was food, so it was right to reserve more, not to mention whether it would make money because of this, at least you can ensure that you have food in your hands, and you don't panic!
In order to make up for the borrowed money as soon as possible, Gao Huaiyuan also drove full horsepower, and stepped up production, Liulifang began to produce batches of various glassware with the full help of Li Tong and others, and the quality is getting better and better.
He had been waiting for this kind of product for so long, and with this quality of glass, he could make something better, and the first thing that came to mind was to use this furnace glass to make some glass mirrors!
In this era, no matter whether you have money or not, you have to use a copper mirror to make up, and no matter how the copper mirror is polished, it is always not as clear as the person who shines in the glass mirror, and for a period of time, you have to ask someone to grind the mirror, which is cumbersome and troublesome, so Gao Huaiyuan firmly believes that as long as he produces a glass mirror, he can definitely become popular immediately and become popular all over the world.
So after learning the news, Gao Huaiyuan plunged into the glass workshop again, and began to drum up, wanting to make mirrors, the most basic thing is to get out of the flat glass first, the float glass production process of the later generations, he didn't want to, the process is really troublesome, it requires a lot of investment, not to mention, the current process can not meet the requirements, so he can only use the lifting method to make flat glass, after he and Li Tong and others all night trial production, braved the high temperature, and finally pulled out the kind of glass plate he wanted.
Just when they were not happy, a craftsman was curious, stretched out his head to see, the temperature in the glass kiln was already high, everyone was sweating profusely, the sweat on his head fell to the glass plate that had not yet subsided, a good glass plate met the sweat, clicked, it cracked into countless pieces, and was scrapped on the spot.
Li Tong went up and gave the craftsman a slap, this is something they didn't know how much they had suffered for two or three days, but they were accidentally killed by the craftsman, he was already a little snobbish, he couldn't help the anger in his heart, raised his hand and hit the craftsman, and scolded him.
The craftsman also knew that he had done something stupid, and this was something that the young master had personally endured so much hardship with them, so he was so frightened that he quickly knelt in front of Gao Huaiyuan, kowtowed again and again, and begged Gao Huaiyuan to spare him.
Originally, Gao Huaiyuan saw that the glass plate he had finally made was finished, and his heart was quite unpleasant, but when he saw Li Tong beating the craftsman, and this craftsman was so frightened that his soul was not possessed, his heart softened, and he quickly reached out and pulled him up, and glared at Li Tong.