The mining of "Wujin Stone" in Gaodu was on the right track, and the war on both sides of the Yellow River was tense, and Yuan Mai could not afford to delay time in the mining area, so he transferred Shi Tao from Hanoi with a paper order and asked him to come to Gaodu to take charge of the mining of "Wujin Stone".

After Shi Tao received the order, he prepared 300 carriages and took more than 1,000 people to Gaodu. It is ready to transport the excavated "Wujin Stone" to Huaixian and Jincheng, sell it to the large scholars in various places, exchange it for coins, and then buy grain and grass; It would be even better if you could exchange it for food directly with the black gold stone.

After Shi Tao arrived, Yuan Mai handed over the work of the mining area to him, and repeatedly told Shi Tao to beware of landslides, no matter what, it is necessary to put human life first, catch up with the rainy day, and never risk mining, so as to avoid serious casualties.

"Lord Thorn Shi, please be relieved, Tao must be careful and live up to the trust!" Shi Tao gave up his hand and promised repeatedly.

"That's good, in this case, I will go back to Huai County with Yuanzhi, and the responsibility of the mining area will be entrusted to Guangyuan!" Yuan Mai reached out and patted Shi Tao's shoulder as a sign of encouragement. Later, he was ready to take Xu Shu and Zhou Cang and lead the soldiers back to Huaixian.

"Report!"

With an elongated tone, a soldier rushed into the tent and fell to his knees.

"Why are you so flustered?" Yuan Mai raised his eyebrows and asked calmly. Looking at the anxious appearance of this herald, could it be that there was an accident and a dead person?

The herald knelt on one knee and gasped: "Lord Qiqi Assassin Shi, there are two people fighting with each other, and two or three people have already died!" ”

"What, such a thing? Heaven does not bring evil. Did you turn it back in your nest? It's really a sin that can be done by heaven, but you can't live if you do it yourself! ”

Yuan Mai was furious, flicked the sleeves of his robe, and strode out of the handsome tent, Xu Shu and Shi Tao had gloomy faces, and walked out of the handsome tent after him.

Zhou Cang was directing the soldiers to pull out the camp and prepare to return to Hanoi with Yuan Mai. The production in the mining area is already on the right track, and there is no need to leave so many soldiers here to waste, and it is enough for Shi Tao to leave 500 people to maintain order.

Seeing Yuan Mai's face gloomy and angry. Zhou Cang hurriedly greeted him: "Childe." What's wrong? That you off? Tell me, I'll teach him a lesson! ”

"There are two people in the mine who gather to fight, is it tolerable or unbearable? You immediately take people up the mountain, regardless of whether they are indiscriminate. Take down all the people who participated in me. Let me ask why! ”

Yuan Mai carried his hands on his back. Staring at the chaotic crowd halfway up the mountain, he angrily ordered Zhou Cang to go up the mountain to arrest people.

"No!"

Zhou Cang agreed and took the waist knife. With a greeting, he took a hundred and ten heavily armed soldiers and threw himself up to the top of the mountain, and it didn't take much effort to come to the place where the weapon was fighting.

I saw that halfway up the mountainside, there were indeed two people from Tun who were confronting each other. One by one, they held shovels and pickaxes in their hands, gritted their teeth, and looked at each other angrily, as if they had the revenge of killing their father. There were already four corpses lying on the ground, and seven or eight people on each side fell to the ground, bleeding all over their faces, and wailing continuously.

"Fuck me!"

Zhou Cang pulled out his saber in his hand and shouted angrily.

This shout was like thunder, and most of the people retreated and divided into two distinct queues. But there are still two people who stand up and confront each other, and neither of them will step back first.

Zhou Cang couldn't help but be angry, strode forward, shot like the wind, and the two fan-like palms quickly grabbed the instruments of both sides, grabbed them in their hands with a fierce force, and then threw them on the ground; Like an eagle catching a chicken, he grabbed the belts of the two people, threw them out, and fell to the ground, both of them screamed, and rolled back and forth on the ground with their buttocks covered.

Zhou Cang stood majestically in the center, like a god, pointed his finger at the people who were fighting, and shouted to the soldiers behind him: "Escort me down the mountain and hand it over to Lord Thorn Shi!" ”

The soldiers agreed, and they all raised their weapons and drove the nearly two hundred people down the mountain, and the other people who were working in the mountains did not know what was going on, so they stopped their tools one after another, stopped and watched, and talked about it.

After a meal, Zhou Cang and his soldiers arrested all the people who participated in the fight, escorted them to Yuan Mai, and handed them over to him for disposal.

"Lord Envoy, please be the master of the grass people, these scoundrels steal the 'black gold stones' we dig in Tun and pretend to be those they excavate, so as to cheat the bounty. I brought my brothers over to inquire, but instead of asking, I beat and killed two of our brothers in the tun, please make the decision for us? ”

Without waiting for Yuan Mai to ask, a burly, sturdy man, bearded, red-skinned, about forty years old, stood up from among the people, knelt on the ground, kowtowed and complained.

"Y-You!"

Seeing that the bearded wicked man sued first, the other tun chief also stood up anxiously to defend: "It's obvious that you saw that we have mined a lot of Wujin stones, and you are afraid that the extra bounty will not be able to rob us, so you will come to the door to pick quarrels and provoke trouble." First of all, they slandered us for stealing the black gold stone you mined, and the reason couldn't explain us, so they bullied the weak and bullied the honest people of our tun, and even the wicked people sued first, which is really unreasonable! Lord Envoy, please call the shots for the grass people! ”

Accompanied by the noisy shouting of the two tun chiefs, the two tun men also knelt on the ground respectively, kowtowed like pounding garlic, and pleaded in unison: "Lord Envoy, please be the master!" ”

Yuan Mai suppressed his anger and ordered someone to move a few chairs, and he sat with Xu Shu and Shi Tao separately. If this trend is not killed, it will be difficult to manage the team of six or seven thousand people in the future!

"Shut up, listen to my inquiry, and then stand up and answer, which one dares to talk more, first hit fifty military sticks!"

Yuan Mai glanced at the two hundred people who were kneeling on the ground with his eyes majestically, and reprimanded him sharply. With this angry shout, the noisy crowd suddenly quieted down, became silent, and no one dared to speak anymore.

Yuan Mai glared at the bearded man and asked in a deep voice, "Who are you?" Get your name in! ”

The bearded man knelt on the ground and kowtowed: "The villain Lu Xiong is from Wude County, and the hundred and ten brothers in our tun are all from Wude!" ”

"Who are you?" Yuan Mai glanced at the other tun chief and asked.

I saw that this tun chief was relatively short and fat, less than seven feet, about thirty years old, and his face belonged to a relatively loyal person. Of course, judging a case should not only look at the aspects, let alone have preconceived ideas.

"The villain Ma Ji is from Heyang, and our brothers in Tunli are also from Heyang, and they are all fellow villagers with the villain!"

After asking about the identities of the two, Yuan Mai asked them about the incident one by one, asked them to tell them the ins and outs of the matter in detail, and cut the merits for them by himself.

The general course of the weapon fight, the two have just said a rough idea, and they still have their own opinions at the moment. Lu Xiong said that Ma Ji's tun stole his own "black gold stones", pretended to be mined by them, and lied about the output in order to defraud the bounty. Ma Ji said that Lu Xiong and the others were jealous of their high production and were afraid that the bounty would fail, so they came to slander their tun for stealing their "black gold stones", and were ready to fight forcibly, so the two sides fought.

"Lu Xiong, let me ask you, what proof do you have when you say that Ma Ji and they stole your Ugin Stone?" Yuan Mai picked up the tea bowl in front of him, moistened his lower lips, and asked.

Lu Xiong knelt on the ground and argued: "Their output is proof, and there are records of the scribes to testify to it." Each tun is a hundred people, and the output of other tuns is around forty stone every day, and the more will not exceed fifty stone, on average, each laborer can dig about half a stone a day. And Ma Ji's tun has dug 500 stones in the past five days, an average of 100 stones per day, which is more than twice as much as other tuns! The number of people in each tun is 100 people, and the days are the same, and everyone works the same? How is this possible? I think it's clear that these scoundrels are stealing from others to mine the Ugin Stone, pretending to be their production, and coming to cheat the bounty. These scoundrels can't help but steal from our tun, and inevitably from other brothers. Please make your eyes clear! ”

One stone in this period is equivalent to one hundred and twenty catties in the twenty-first century. A hundred workers in a tun can only dig about 6,000 catties of coal after working for a day, and the average is for each person, that is, they can only mine about 60 catties, which shows the backwardness and low productivity!

However, when the mine first opened, the equipment was backward, and not all the people in a tun went down to the mine to mine, some were responsible for digging, some were responsible for lifting the mine from the underground to the top of the mine with baskets, and some were responsible for transporting them to the bottom of the mountain. All the work depends on manpower, and the amount of labor is heavy, and it is understandable that a tun can only mine three tons of coal per day.

Moreover, as Lu Xiong said, according to the records of the scribes, there are more than 70 tuns in the whole mine, and the output is not much different, on average, the average daily output of each tun is about 50 stones, while the daily output of Majitun is twice that of other tuns, which is really strange!

"Ma Ji, did you hear Lu Xiong's words?" Yuan Mai glanced at Ma Ji and asked sharply, "The daily output of other tuns is around forty or fifty stones, but the output of your tun is twice that of others, are the people of your tun all born with divine power?" How to explain this! ”

Ma Ji knelt on the ground and defended: "If Lord Jun is above, the grass people will not dare to lie." We are all law-abiding people who are loyal to our families, how can we commit theft? There's a reason why we're digging more ugin than other tuns......"

"Why, let me hear it!" Yuan Mai took a sip of the teacup and asked in a deep voice.

Ma Ji turned his head to look at the group of farmers behind him, and greeted one of the eighteen or nineteen-year-old youths: "The third child? The matter has come to this point, I can't explain it to the envoy, you come out and tell the envoy, and the envoy will make the decision for me! (To be continued......)