On the first day of the sixth month of the second year of the Great Song Dynasty, the yamen of the governor of Liguo was crowded with people, and even if he did not arrive himself, the fourteen smelters sent people to know how the new governor would send Shen Hetai.

"The yamen is narrow and the place is cramped, so you are wronged!"

At the end of the day, a young man appeared in front of everyone and skillfully greeted everyone. Everyone now knows this Zhou Yanei, and they laughed perfunctorily, but they felt a little strange in their hearts, why didn't Lao Tzu come out, but his son came out.

"Which one is the outer member?"

After Zhou Quan said hello, he asked everyone, and a pot-bellied businessman in the crowd walked out, sang to Zhou Quan, and then said with a sad face: "Yanai Mingjian, more than two months have passed since the last mining disaster, and now Diao Min is taking the opportunity of the master's new appointment to make trouble, and it is not the villain who is embarrassed by them, but the governor, and please ask the lord to investigate!" ”

"There is some truth in what you said, but since it has happened, there must be an explanation. The meaning of the father, from the next to come forward, to Shen Yuanwai and the bitter master to be a middle-aged person, how much money to appease them, what does Shen Yuanwai think? ”

Hearing him say it so simply, Shen Yuan was happy: "I'll pay 10,000 dollars......"

Before he finished speaking, Zhou Quan's face sank, and Zhao Sheng next to him secretly scolded "miser", could it be that the face of the governor and the yamen is only worth ten times?

In fact, Zhou Quan is willing to solve the problem with money, and everyone is very satisfied, but this Shen fat man is not interested, isn't this a chance for the master to be sideways!

Sure enough, he heard Zhou Quan's snap, and threw the teacup in his hand on the ground: "Outside the Shen, since this is the case, you don't have to pay......

Meng Guang's heart moved, in his impression, Shen Yuanwai was fat, but he was not stupid at all, how could he be confused in this matter?

He had an idea, so he stood up and said, "The anger in the ya, there should be something else to say outside the Shen Yuan!" ”

The fat man's face was full of grievances, and he said bitterly: "It's not that the villain is stingy, I really don't dare to break everyone's rules for my own affairs, every miner has signed a life and death document, and he has left this head, and there will be similar things in the future, and everyone will make trouble!" ”

Everyone nodded again and again, led by Zhao Sheng, and echoed. This matter is related to everyone's interests, and no one dares to stay out of it.

"There is some truth in what you said, but my Great Song Dynasty rules the world with benevolence, how can I not be considerate of human life because I have life and death documents! Ladies and gentlemen, my father is here to do something as an official, and if you can give convenience, my father will naturally be convenient for you! ”

These half-confessional and half-threatening words made everyone silent, and it was the fat man Shen who spoke first: "If you have anything to say in the ya, please say it directly, what the villain can do!" ”

"Twenty strokes for each deceased, and eight strokes for the wounded, as appropriate. Outside the applicant, the total is less than 100,000 yuan, what do you think? ”

"If it's just for this little money, why bother bringing everyone here? I'll pay for it! Shen Fat Man seemed to breathe a sigh of relief.

"Of course, it's not just for this money, everyone, as far as I know, there have been a total of 28 mining disasters in the 36th smelting pit of Liguojian in the past five years, 71 people have died, 220 people have been injured, and 44 people have been disabled!"

Zhou Quan reported a series of data, and heard that these smelters all looked solemn, not for this heavy loss, but for Zhou Quan's adequate preparations.

At this time, Zhou Quan also showed an excited expression, such casualties were really too heavy.

"These dead and wounded mere pensions, everyone has come out, but every skilled worker is precious, and can bring you hundreds of thousands or even tens of thousands of incomes, even if it is just for the sake of everyone's income, you can't let the mining disaster happen!"

This time, this Zhou Yanei didn't mention any benevolence, righteousness and morality, and his mouth was full of interests, but the smelting masters were able to listen to it. It's just that everyone didn't know what kind of medicine he was selling in his gourd, or the fat man Shen, so he jumped out and asked: "This mining disaster is a natural disaster, who can stop it, is there any magic method in Yanei?" ”

"Eat, drink and have fun, you are not as good as me, mining and iron smelting, I am not as good as you, what is the magic method, naturally you will find the foreman of your subordinates, and then make up the precautions, in the future, we will do according to this precautions, even if we can't put an end to the sky, but man-made disasters can always be avoided!"

Speaking of this, Zhou Quan stood up and said with a smile: "Don't hide it, my father and I have both been on the battlefield and have people killed under our hands, you won't blink an eye if you kill someone, you want to get rich, your father wants to be promoted, we don't stop you from getting rich, but if anyone wants to block your father's promotion...... Then don't blame me for being rude. ”

When these words were spoken, the murderous atmosphere was soaring, and the surrounding smelters suddenly shut up and squeezed their eyebrows one by one.

They are ostensibly intimidated, but in reality they are unimpressed.

But at this moment, they heard the sound of howling, and saw a big man nearly six feet tall, dragging a man past the yamen. The man was covered in blood, and he was crying for mercy on the ground, and his voice was familiar.

If you look closely, that person turned out to be this Li Guojian Confucius!

The rank of the governor of Liguo Jian is relatively high, which is equivalent to the county order, but because the population under his command is not large, and there is Xuzhou Mansion above, there are not many officials and clerks in the yamen. It's just a Confucian official and a yaqian. These two people are actually the head snakes of Li Guojian, and their various relationships are intertwined, and they have close ties with the masters of the family. But at this moment, this Kong Mu was dragged upside down and left like this, and the big man who dragged him glanced at everyone with cold eyebrows!

Thinking of what Fang Cai, the little ya, said, their father and son had both killed people on the battlefield, and these wealthy businessmen who were used to being pampered suddenly felt a chill in their hearts.

"Yanai, this is ...... What's going on? The fat man was so bold that he asked.

"This He Kongmu was disrespectful to his father, and he gave a slight punishment, thinking that there was someone to support him in Xuzhou Mansion, so he dared not to put his father, the chief official, in his eyes...... Hehe. ”

Zhou Quan said "hehe" lightly at the end, but everyone laughed horrifiedly.

These smelters also have a backstage, and many of them are still very tough in the background, but no matter how much they have a backstage, they are afraid of being brutal, because no one wants to suffer immediate losses. Seeing that the Confucius official was being dragged farther and farther away, and there was a long blood mark on the ground, everyone's hearts suddenly jumped, and they began to face up to the charter that Zhou Quan said.

"Yanei, Yanei, we don't go to the mine by ourselves, the matters to be paid attention to in the mine are really not clear, it's not as good as this, after we go back, gather the mine head on the mine, discuss a complete out, and then dedicate it to the governor, what do you think?" The fat man said again.

He rushed to speak so repeatedly, others didn't think so, but Meng Guang felt that it was wrong.

Shen Fatzi is accustomed to seeing the wind and rudder, among all the smelters, he has only one smelting pit, and the backer behind him is also the smallest, logically speaking, he should not pick this head, even if this incident is caused by his family's mining disaster, he should shut up and wait for the public discussion.

And every time he asks a question, he inevitably leads to Zhou Quan's next sentence, which feels ......

Meng Guang's heart suddenly jumped, and he looked at Shen Fat Man carefully, and found that Shen Fat Man was sweating profusely and his eyes were flickering.

At the beginning, he was only afraid of the mining disaster, but now Meng Guang has new suspicions, this guy is weak-hearted!

"Don't be so troublesome, don't all the smelters bring their men down, send a man down, and invite experts who know what is going on in the mine...... Don't worry, everyone, I've already prepared lunch, you can wait slowly, you won't go hungry. ”

Hearing Zhou Quan say this, everyone suddenly sat on pins and needles, is this to put them under house arrest?

Zhao Sheng coughed and said slowly: "I don't know anything in the ya, although we are not as busy as the governor, we also have a lot ......of affairs, and we can't delay here."

Trumpet!

Before he could finish his words, he suddenly felt a flower in front of him, and something smashed directly in his face, smashing the second half of his words back.

"Old man, don't be ignorant of lifting, do you think you can still hold the shelf here when Zhao Xianggong is still in the phase?" Zhou Quan pointed at Zhao Sheng and scolded, and as soon as he opened his mouth, he pointed directly at the backer behind Zhao Sheng!

The Zhao family has two smelting pits in Liguojian, but the rise is very late, only less than twenty years, and they can occupy these two smelting pits, because this is actually the property of Zhao Tingzhi's family!

In addition to salaries, officials of the Great Song Dynasty often operated granges or industry and commerce to make up for the shortcomings of the capital, but they would not come forward in person, but entrusted the people of the Yi clan, Liu Xin, the prime minister of Renzong, to evade hundreds of thousands of dollars in taxes. There are even more winners, some scholars and literati, who simply rely on their connections in the officialdom to directly evade taxes for businessmen. After Zhao Tingzhi became a high-ranking official, he was naturally not exempt from vulgarity, otherwise there would be more than 100 mouthfuls of people from all over the family, where would the food and clothing come from!

After Zhao Sheng was smashed, he was originally furious, but when he heard Zhou Quan directly turn Zhao Tingzhi out, he trembled, and the curse words that reached his mouth were swallowed back.

He didn't expect that his old bottom would also be exposed by this high-flying and domineering Yanei!

"The Zhao family is in turmoil now, Cai Jing is going to regain his appearance soon, the life of the Zhao family will be even more sad, you are still pretending here, this is causing trouble for the Zhao family, do you know!" Zhou Quan shouted again.

Li Qingzhao was kind to him, but the Zhao family had no kindness to him, and Zhou Quan had already repaid Li Qingzhao's kindness, just last month, when Zhou Quan left Beijing, Zhao Ji allowed Zhao Tingzhi's descendants to serve in the form of an exchange of interests.

What's more, he secretly inquired that this Zhao Sheng was insidious, calculating this and calculating that person, and the lives of the miners and smelters who had directly or indirectly in his hands over the years were not ten or eight. This guy continues to stay in this position, he is causing trouble for the Zhao family!

Zhao Sheng wiped the sweat from his forehead, forced himself to calm down, and then said in a deep voice: "The matter of my Zhao family, it is not your turn to be an outsider in the yamen to talk about it, Qing Xiangong is also the prime minister, you treat his clansmen like this...... Zhou Yanei, you are waiting to be demoted to Yazhou! ”

After he finished speaking, he was about to leave, but after only a few steps, he stopped, and a look of surprise appeared on his face.

Just before the official office, a carriage stopped there at some point, and outside the carriage, there was a man standing, who looked at him coldly with a somewhat uncertain expression.

Zhao Sheng knew that this was Zhao Tingzhi's third son, Zhao Mingcheng.

"Well done!" Zhao Mingcheng's split head was a scolding, which made Zhao Sheng's face pale!