A few days ago, the owner of the private mine in Nanyang, who was running the private mine with Wu Shigong, elected a representative -- Qiu Yuan came to look for He Fei and them, and he brought a heavy gift to discuss a matter.

In fact, in the two counties of Nanyang Mansion where Li Lu was stationed, in addition to the private mines of those local tyrants, there was also an iron mining area. However, the iron ore area was within the scope of the Nanyang Iron Mine, the official mine of the imperial court, and it was managed by the mine supervisor sent by the inner court.

However, in that iron ore mining area, the government-run Nanyang iron ore has long been out of mining. The reason for reporting to the imperial court was that the mineral source was depleted and it was difficult to exploit. It makes sense. The iron ore in Nanyang has been mined from the Han Dynasty for more than 1,000 years, so most people take it for granted that the mineral source should indeed be exhausted.

However, in fact, the iron ore resources in that iron mining area are still quite abundant. The reason for the depletion of the ore source is also the same as the reason for the depletion of the ore source of Zhaoyuan Gold Mine.

Therefore, in this iron ore mining area, the government-run Nanyang iron ore mine is no longer mined, and local officials and mine supervisors collude to establish private mines and exploit them on a large scale in order to make huge private profits.

But this private mine is a little different from the one owned by Wu Shigong. In addition to the quality, quantity and transportation convenience of iron ore greatly exceed Wu Shigong's private mines, the biggest difference is: Wu Shigong's private mines, the original private mine owners are mainly local gentry and local tyrants. However, this private mine has the umbrella of local officials and mine supervisors, and they are also the main ones.

Originally, after years of fighting, the two groups also formed a tacit understanding. The two sides do not interfere with each other, and each earns its own money. However, when the local gentry and local tyrants outside the Qiu Yuanwai discovered the strong combat effectiveness of the Runing Battalion and Wu Shigong's considerable commitment to cooperate with them, they were moved by the Qiu Yuanwai and wanted to seize the private mining area.

Outside the hill, they have to be thoughtful. Because of the private mine, the officials in those places also held a cadre share, and the bulk of the production and profits were controlled by the mine supervisors.

Those officials whose homes are in other places are easy to solve. Because the official's cadre shares are also handed over to the incumbent officials, when he leaves office, the income from the cadre shares will be transferred to the officials who take over him. Therefore, as long as they can guarantee the income of those officials after seizing the private mining area, those officials will not embarrass them.

And those who live locally are better solved. It's nothing more than pulling relationships, coercion and temptation. Anyway, the locals tend to be more locals.

And what is to be robbed is the share that the mine supervisor possesses. Don't say it, outside the hill members, these gentry and local tyrants are also bold enough. You must know that the income of official mines such as Nanyang Iron Mine does not go to the treasury of the imperial court, but to the inner treasury of Emperor Chongzhen. In other words, the silver was the emperor's private money. And these gentry and tyrants dared to rob the emperor's private money, this behavior is ......!

But outside of the hill, they were not afraid. Because there is one more person who dares to touch the emperor's private money, and that is the mine supervisor of Nanyang Iron Mine. And robbing this private mining area is nothing more than black eating black.

Not necessarily, after snatching the private mining area, the mine supervisor dared to cry in front of Emperor Chongzhen and ask Emperor Chongzhen to uphold justice. If the mine supervisor was impatient and really dared to cry in front of Emperor Chongzhen, then it is conceivable that Emperor Chongzhen would definitely uphold justice for him, but before he did justice, he would definitely beat the thief in front of him to death.

Therefore, outside the Qiu Yuan, they also understood the psychology of those officials and mine supervisors, but after all, the gentry and local tyrants in these places outside the Qiu Yuan did not have a high vision, and they did not know that the internal officials such as the mine supervisor, even if they did not pass through Emperor Chongzhen, they could also exert great energy through the Xiang Haode eunuchs. But that's another story.

When Qiu Yuanwai took Jihua out of the tray to He Fei, Shumo and Zug, he told the three of them about Jihua who robbed the smuggled mining area. That's nothing more than starting with friction, then fighting, and then escalating to large-scale fighting. This appearance is just like the previous competition between local private mine owners for private mines, and it will not attract special attention from others.

And this preliminary work will be carried out by Qiu Yuanwai, but the next step is to take action from the Nanyang battalion. Because although the private mining area also belongs to the management of Nanyang Iron Mine and does not belong to the jurisdiction of the local government, its location happens to be within the jurisdiction of Nanyang Ying.

Now that there has been a large-scale fight, it is logical that the Nanyang battalion can also send troops to pacify the place first. As for the future, it's not a place where anyone controls it, and who has the final say?

When they got the private mining area, in addition to the cadres and officials who gave it to the local officials, they also promised that the income from the iron ore would be divided according to the original proportion of iron ore. In addition to this, they would pay an additional 3,000 taels of silver and a hundred horses to the Nanyang battalion as the cost of sending troops.

Hearing such generous conditions, and besides, it didn't sound risky, so He Fei and Zug wanted to agree. The income from those iron mines, the Nanyang camp doesn't have to think about it, there must be the upper echelons of the Runing camp to receive it. But the three thousand taels of silver and a hundred horses can just solve the big problem of the current lack of silver taels and horses in the Nanyang camp.

But the reason why the two of them think this way is because they don't know that the mine supervisor can sometimes exert great energy.

But Shumo didn't agree. In addition to the reason why he has always been timid, Shumo was born as a servant in the Hou Mansion, and he is not like He Fei and Zuge, who vaguely know the energy of some eunuchs.

Besides, Shumo was originally an unenterprising person, he was originally like an abacus bead, and he would only move if Wu Shigong dialed it. So Shumo doesn't want to do nothing.

Another very important reason is that in the Runing battalion, one of the strictest military regulations is that without Wu Shigong's order, no troops can be dispatched at will. And now, if the Nanyang battalion wants to be dispatched, it must also get an order from the temporary military leader, Xue Yongli.

But we can see from the experiences of Hefei and Zug that they are both ambitious people who want to get ahead. Therefore, the two of them put forward a reason: the Nanyang battalion is also a military operation carried out in their own garrison, and the commander of the Nanyang battalion can deal with it with authority, as long as Xue Yongli is reported afterwards. Their exact idea is to play a sideshow.

The three of them are well aware of this. If the Nanyang battalion sent troops, they couldn't tell Xue Yongli in Runing first. Otherwise, the benefits of this army will be shared by the above, and these three people will not all have to cry to death!

For this reason, Shumo raised another difficulty: in the end, the Nanyang battalion was nominally led by Li Lu, the Nanyang garrison. Without his consent, the Nanyang battalion would also be unknown.

This is indeed a problem. However, seeing that Shumo had always been opposed, He Fei and Zug also said a few words and pulled the topic over.

After that, of course, they arranged for the three commanders to eat and drink, sleep and sleep with women. Shumo will not pretend to be high because of his disagreement.

And seeing that these three commanders had differences of opinion, they also decided to break each one. He arranged for Zug to be his own niece. After the overnight stay, they also reached an intention with Zug to act.

After that, Zug asked He Fei out again, and the two of them combined, and the fox's brain moved, so he set up such a set for Shumo.

Of course, the problem of Li Lu raised by Shumo must also be resolved. They did have a lot of energy, and it didn't take long for them to get Li Lu done.

It should be said that Li Lu, who was once the commander of the southern city of the capital, would not agree to have a conflict with the eunuchs. But what is Li Lu's current mentality?

He doesn't care about mixing in officialdom at all, he just wants to sleep with his wife and make money. At most, he was removed from his post afterwards, and he took the wife and silver he looted in Nanyang back to the capital to retire. Therefore, after a generous gift from Qiu Yuanwai and a promise to give Li Lu a new private mine share, Li Lu readily agreed to this military operation.

After that, it happened that Hefei and Zug set up a bureau and pulled Shumo into this military operation.

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