Li Shi made his intentions clear, he just wanted to ask Lao Xiucai, from the perspective of officialdom, would their Fengtian Village man-made cannon be in trouble.

"Several presidents and Zhong Shangwei's mining business, the government road, and even the governor know about it, but they all turn a blind eye, do you know why?"

Lao Xiucai asked this, and Li Xian opened his mouth and wanted to say that it must be the protection of officials and officials, but if it was so simple, why did Lao Xiucai ask this.

"Well, it seems that you also think there is a mystery inside, but it is actually simple. After the imperial court banned the mines, the displaced miners came and went, disturbed the place, and the murders continued. This Yingde is a county of difficulties, and the matter of tranquility is more important than others. There are green camps and local governments that have joined forces to control some mines, and they can also keep the local peace, so the above also acquiesced to this. ”

Speaking of this, Lao Xiucai chuckled.

"Anjing is the overall situation, and this year is even different, and the county case can be seen very clearly. Even if there is trouble, General Rong will help solve it, and even the Taiwan and military gates will help cover it, so there is no need to worry about it at all. Before and after the emperor's birthday, even if someone rebelled, as long as they didn't pull the flag and set off guns to kill officials, the adults would close their eyes and pretend not to see, all just for ...... Overall situation. ”

Lao Xiucai said conclusively, obviously he knew officialdom politics thoroughly, and when he said those two words, Li Xi's brows also jumped slightly.

"Of course, there must be a correspond, but it will never be publicized."

Lao Xiucai hurriedly added such a sentence, and he didn't know what psychology it was.

Li Xian had a complete bottom in his heart, and he made up his mind, Lao Xiucai asked him what he was going to do half-playfully and half-expectantly, and Li Xian replied: "Since there is no way to retreat, then go forward!" ”

Lao Xiucai nodded.

Just as he was about to leave, Lao Xiucai said again: "That book, can you read it?" ”

Li Xi nodded hurriedly, but his heart was weak for a while, and he really forgot.

"Compared to the book, this disciple is even more interesting, I have to read it carefully."

Seeing Li Xi leave, Lao Xiucai sipped his tea, with incomprehensible expectations on his face.

By the time Li Shi turned around and returned to the village, Guan Tian and the others had been waiting for a long time.

"Soon after you left, Zhong Shangwei immediately sent the housekeeper over, saying that in addition to forgiving the debt, he was willing to give another 1,000 taels of silver, and the people were still guarding the mine and waiting for us to reply."

Guan Fengsheng was a little shaken, and Zhong Shangwei's fiery attitude made him realize that this should not be a trap.

"That's more than two thousand three hundred taels!"

Tian Daiyu was clearly more inclined to take the order.

"No! It's too dangerous! Jia Gouzi and Wu Shishi ...... their family"

When Guan Tian heard the news, he was full of uneasiness, and he didn't care that this was a man's conversation, and there was no room for her to interject.

"Open the road in the mountains and build bridges in the water. I don't expect this matter to resolve the grudge with Master Zhong, but at least I can have two more months, and I have more room to deal with it after that. ”

Li Shi's decision is next, Guan Tian and the others' thinking is to see the loss of this matter, and Li Shi's thinking is to see the gain of this matter, not only for silver, the entanglement with Zhong Shangwei is not over, and he will be on the line with Bai Daolong behind him as soon as possible, and the response will be much more generous after that.

Briefly explained the harvest of this circle to Guan Tian and others, and everyone was a little relieved, and they heard the meaning of Li Xian's receiving, and their understanding began to unify. They are also grinding on both sides in their hearts, if they don't take it, Zhong Shangwei is annoyed and angry, I don't know what will happen, the least is to raise the rent, the villagers have just been exempted from the imperial grain this year, and they think they can breathe a sigh of relief, and this time it is estimated that they will have to prepare to eat pigweed.

Guan Fengsheng thought for a while, and still shook his head: "Let's not talk about whether the pig iron on our mine can be used, let's just say that this time, two months is too tight, and the cannon made is not guaranteed to make mistakes, and there is no time to spare." ”

Li Shi had already planned about this matter, "How to make this cannon, Uncle Guan and Uncle Tian still have to listen to me." ”

Guan Tian and the two glanced at each other, their faces full of surprise, but then the two of them were relieved, the fourth brother has a book in hand, so he naturally understands everything......

Li Xi continued: "Go and tell the housekeeper, one thousand taels is fine, but you have to pay it now!" ”

It seems that the sound of a jaw dropping on the ground can be faintly heard, and the thing will cost a thousand taels of silver before it arrives, which is really a lion's big mouth.

"The bell will agree......"

Li Xian said with a smile, after walking this circle, can you still not know the situation?

"Admit it! Except for Guan Fengsheng and those people in Fengtian Village, there are no gunsmiths to be found, since they are willing to bargain, they should accept sincerely. Anyway, half of the fields in the village are in my hands, and I am not afraid that they will cheat, so you can directly bring the silver over. By the way, tell them that there is no way to make a deed, but God knows, what flowers to play, if I don't wait for me to clean them up, Lord Bai will directly cut them up the whole village! ”

In the Zhong Mansion, Zhong Shangwei hurriedly gave the order, and waved his sleeves to drive away the housekeeper, and when another sturdy man wearing a black silk robe was led in by the servant, he saw that the fat man was shrinking in the Taishi's chair, looking at the sky with his eyes, and the sweat on his forehead was like the fat being pressed out of oil by an invisible mountain.

"Mrs. Yang......"

When he saw the person, Zhong Shangwei arched his hand weakly, and his body did not move. The person who came was Yang Chun, the former historian, it was just polite to call him a grandfather, Yang Chun didn't care about returning the salute, he was even more anxious about the matter.

"Can't move? Two months!? Outside of the bell, you are also ......"

After listening to Zhong Shangwei's words, Yang Chun was about to jump to his feet, and as soon as the words came out, he vaguely heard a terrible scream from behind the courtyard, which frightened him so much that his eyebrows almost scattered, and then he vaguely tasted it, it was like Lai's voice.

"You're too tolerant."

Yang Chun lowered his voice.

"If you can't bear it, you have to endure it, for the sake of this life, these two months, I have to endure! Master Yang, I know that you are also on fire in your heart, but in the past two months, you have to help me and don't go to trouble those people in Fengtian Village. ”

Zhong Shangwei's face was sad, and it was nothing to endure two months of revenge, but it was a great test to endure the two months of Lai's crying.

Yang Chun didn't speak again, he gasped for a while, he should be thinking about something, and after a while, he slapped his thigh suddenly.

"I can bear it for two months, but my brother can't! His qi and blood are disordered at the moment, and the doctor said that he is angry and angry, and if he can't get along again, I'm afraid he won't be able to stand up again in this life! If I go back and tell him that those mud legs can still be alive for two months, he will expect a mouthful of blood to spurt out immediately! ”

Zhong Shangwei gritted his teeth: "Yang Chun, don't blame me for not telling you in advance, if you really want to do it, it's for my net worth!" ”

Yang Chun smiled, and the gloom on his face surged like a dark cloud: "I thought of a way to give us the best of both worlds." ”

The two whispered for a while, Zhong Shangwei sighed, and the fat body subconsciously stepped back, as if trying to avoid something terrible, the Taishi chair was crunched, and his voice trembled, "This...... It's so hurtful......"

Yang Chun snorted coldly: "If you dare to go against us, this should be the end!" ”

Zhong Shangwei's eyebrows twisted for a while, and finally he also relaxed: "It's good, it's good, after two months, I have to find another way to rectify them." ”

Yang Chunen coughed: "It's the price, the little brother ...... alone"

Zhong Shangwei nodded again and again: "You and I are half each!" ”

In the section chief's house in the Fengtian Village mine, twenty-one silver ingots were piled up on the table, and everyone's faces seemed to be covered with a layer of silver light, and they were dumbfounded and speechless.

"Master Zhong is really generous, and he is still full of silver."

Li Xi was playing with a piece of ingots, tossing back and forth with his left and right hands, and a thought was dancing happily in his heart, finally his sister could have some silver!

The silver ticket has not reappeared in this Kangxi period, and the housekeeper of Zhongfu took two porters and four family members to send this pile of nearly forty kilograms of silver, which immediately caused a wave in the village.

"Uncle Guan Tian, and Wu Tantou He Carpenter, how should you divide it, we have iron charcoal, and other materials are also from Master Zhong, this silver is for nothing."

Li Shi was like a bandit leader who had made a vote, urging the leaders of the four mines in the house to quickly come up with a plan to divide the spoils.

Four people, you look at me, I look at you, after looking at the old man for a long time, Guan Fengsheng spoke, "It's divided now?" ”

Li Shi nodded his head, why don't you distinguish it? There are all the materials for making cannons, is this silver piled up in this exhibition? The money he spent on running Mengxue before, as well as the "test funds" for Wu Tantou, had already exhausted his net worth, and the ten acres of land at home were originally entrusted to Lin Dashu, and he was asked to contact the pawn sale, but there is no news yet. Now that he saw this silver, Li Shi even had the heart to swallow in his stomach.

"Although the imperial grain is free, the benefits have not yet been seen. It's spring now, and everyone is starting to tighten up. Last year's drought has led to a rise in grain, and rice has risen to one or two or four dollars and a stone. ”

Li Shi's reasons were high-sounding, but they still didn't convince everyone.

"In case of trouble later, this silver can still come in handy."

Guan Fengsheng rarely objected to Li Shi, while the other three also nodded.

Small-scale farmer consciousness, how can you be motivated to earn without spending......

Li Xian secretly slandered himself, but he also understood that this was a manifestation of their insecurity, but it was contrary to his wishes after all.

Just as he was about to speak, Guan Fengsheng finally broke through Li Shi's "coercion" and squeezed out the temperament of the leader of the mine, he frowned and said in a deep voice: "This silver really can't be divided!" ”

Li Xian wanted to roll his eyes, and cried out in his heart, my silver ......

"It's all kept by the fourth brother, and how to spend it is also up to the fourth brother to decide!"

Then Guan Fengsheng's words made Li Xian almost choke on saliva.

"This ...... It's not good......"

Li Xian sweated slightly, he didn't think about monopolizing these silver, this is a thousand taels. In YY's novels, this bit of silver is nothing at all, but in the current Kangxi Dynasty, one thousand taels of silver can buy seven or eight hundred stone rice and 30,000 catties of meat, which is equivalent to 600,000 yuan in later generations according to the price of meat.

"Yes, so much silver, only the fourth brother has it, and the others will not gossip."

Tian Dayu said.

"Originally, Master Zhong only said that he was exempted from debts, but now this silver is won by the fourth brother, even if the fourth brother spends it himself, no one should chew his tongue."

Wu Tantou's words were more straightforward, and everyone else nodded.

Li Shi's heartbeat sped up. He has a lot of places to spend money, so he proposed to share the spoils, originally thinking of eating a head, and he was already very satisfied with one or two hundred taels, but he didn't expect that everyone directly stuffed one thousand taels to him. But there is no distinction between public and private, isn't this a test of his determination?

"You believe me, I don't believe in myself......"

Li Xian had a bitter face, when he was a reporter in his previous life, he had done a lot of things about invoicing in the name of falsehood, although he was not greedy and hot, but he was by no means a gentleman who was clear and jade.

The motivation to support Li Shi to become "Li Tianwang" only comes from duty. He is enthusiastic and unrestrained in his work, but he is also a person who "distinguishes between public and private". Outside of work, he is just an ordinary person who follows the general trend of society. You can't take advantage of other people's cheapness, but who doesn't take advantage of the cheapness of the unit? Small money is still modest, big money doesn't dare to pat his chest and say that he is not moved, but unfortunately he has not been hit by big money.

At the moment, although this money was obtained by him, but it is reasonable that he is just talking, and he has to ask Guan Tian and the others, as well as the people of the entire mine, to do it, he is not so thick that he can really treat it all as his own. Just, 600,000 ...... 600,000 ......

The housing prices in his previous life were spinning in his mind, and Li Xian vaguely thought about how many pings he could buy.

"That's it, it's more important. Fourth brother, let's quickly tell us how you are going to make a cannon. ”

Guan Fengsheng took one last look at the silver, froze his mind, and began to talk about what he was most concerned about.