The twenty-third day of the lunar month, the small year of Yanbei.

More than a dozen mine supervisors gathered at the Metropolitan Governor's Palace.

Daqi mines are divided into official mines and private mines, since the establishment of the dynasty, the management of private mine mining is strict, and private iron ore is strictly prohibited. In other words, all the iron mines of the Great Qi Dynasty were official mines.

Later, there were frequent wars in Yanbei and Northwest, and there was a great demand for weapons and various armaments, so Emperor Taizu handed over the iron mines in these two places to his two sons to operate, and Yanbei and Northwest had the right to build weapons.

After the death of King Yan, the king of Yanbei County was young, and the military power of Yanbei fell into the hands of Yang Qin, the governor of the capital, and the empress dowager also took back the right to operate the Yanbei iron mine at this time. In addition to the officials of the household department and the Ministry of Industry in these mines, the Empress Dowager also sent more than a dozen mine supervisors from the inner court.

These mine supervisors were eunuchs, but they were not there to supervise the mine taxes, but the actual managers of the mines.

In addition to two large iron mines, there are also coal and silver mines, as well as a gold mine and a copper mine that originally belonged to King Yan and were later jointly managed by the internal supervisor and Yang Qin.

Three days ago, the official document of the imperial court arrived.

The imperial court in Yanbei Mining Division, subordinate to the Ministry of Households, the Ministry of Household officials Chen Ping for the promotion, Sun Guoping for the same promotion, the eunuch Wang Fu for the chief mine supervisor, now more than a dozen large and small mine supervisors in Yanbei, except for Wang Fu retained, the others returned to Beijing to listen to the appointment.

That is to say, from then on, the imperial court did not set up mine supervisors in major mines, but was managed by the Mine Lifting Division.

This is more beneficial than disadvantageous for Yang Qin.

Dealing with the serious yamen is much easier than a dozen eunuchs who are neither male nor female and a group of cautious low-grade officials.

To be honest, in the past ten years, in addition to the benefits in Yanwang's gold and silver mines, Yang Qin has been able to get too few benefits from other mines in Yanbei.

The Empress Dowager looked at this matter very closely, the huge military supplies of the Yanbei Army were all rationed by the Ministry of War, and it was not until the past two years that Yang Qin could secretly make weapons privately, but it was only a small-scale production, and it was not enough for private soldiers.

Now, these dog eunuchs can finally get out of Yanbei, which means that Yang Qin can finally get an extra piece of the pie in the mine.

The mine supervisors looked at each other, the news was a little sudden, but the black and white words were stamped with the red seal, and it was indeed a document of the imperial court.

They are all eunuchs, and it took a lot of money to come to Yanbei to manage the mine, and they spent a lot of money to get it from their godfather and grandfather, but they have taken a lot of silver from it over the years, but more than half of this silver has been sent to the capital and sent to the palace.

The Empress Dowager is gone, and their lives will not be easy.

The incoming chief mine supervisor Wang Fu heard that he was one of Empress Dowager Yang's cronies.

"Let's go, go back to the capital to serve tea and pour water, and find an opportunity to release it out of the palace in a few years and buy a small house for retirement."

"Well, I'm afraid I won't have that opportunity."

Who doesn't want to go out of the palace to retire without worrying about food and clothing, but the palace is different now than before.

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After sending these eunuchs away, Yang Qin said to the maids who served: "Throw away all the chairs and tea bowls they have sat on, and then smoke them in this room." ”

The maid covered her mouth and snickered, I heard that when the Yanwang Mansion was changed to the Yanbei County Palace, the Metropolitan Governor slaughtered all the eunuchs who were released from the palace on the way, and the Metropolitan Governor has always hated the eunuchs.

Of course, these eunuchs who came today will not die on the way, after all, they came out of the palace, and most of the governors still have to give them to the palace.

Yang Qin touched his beard, and suddenly remembered Mr. Fang, he called a personal entourage, and asked, "Is there a letter from Mr. Fang?" ”

He said: "The waiter sent a letter, saying that he ran away with someone while holding the qin, and Mr. Fang was happy and happy in the inn all day long, and he never came to Yang Jincheng." ”

Yang Qin snorted coldly: "The wind and flow are happy? These women are short-sighted, if Mr. Fang can be immediately accepted by Yang Jincheng for his own use, the governor of Pontus should think about it, what is hidden in this. ”

As for the hugging qin who ran away with someone, Yang Qin didn't ask in detail, these women were bought with money, and the task he gave them was to let them report what Mr. Fang had done in a timely manner, could they still expect these untrained women to do anything big?

Not only the dusty women, all the women are embarrassed, except for the Queen Mother.

At this time, a servant came in and delivered a post.

Yang Qin took the post, only glanced at it, and then frowned.

Season 4!

A few days ago, a letter came from the porter, and when I opened it, I saw that it was a copied deed.

One side of the deed is Yang Jinxuan, and the other is this Ji Si.

After Yang Jinxuan's death, Yang Qin asked people to bring all his relatives back to Yanbei, and from these relatives, Yang Qin knew Ji Siye.

Yang Jinxuan once asked Ji Siye to meet outside the city, and soon after that, the news of Yang Wuye's death came out.

Although Yang Qin is far away in Yanbei, it is not difficult for him to investigate who he wants, not to mention that this Fourth Master Ji has a great reputation.

But Yang Qin didn't expect that Yang Jinxuan had signed a deed with Ji Siye.

Although the deed was copied, Yang Qin believed that there must be such a deed.

Otherwise, Ji Siye would not have sent someone to send a copy.

Except for Yang Jinxuan, I'm afraid no one dares to sign such a deed.

Yang Qin said: "Please invite him to the small hall in front." ”

Ji Siye is white and fat, like a large rice ball. He didn't come alone, he brought ten mule carts.

Ji Siye smiled so hard that he couldn't see his eyebrows, and he said to Yang Qin: "Metropolitan Governor, Xiaomin is here to fulfill the contract to the Metropolitan Governor. ”

After speaking, he clapped his hands and said to the accompanying teenagers: "Xiao Shi, let them unload the car." ”

The contents of the mule cart were unloaded, and large boxes were carried into the Grand Governor's Mansion, filling the small hall to the brim.

Yang Qin looked at the boxes in front of him, his brows were deeply locked, he remembered Ji Siye's feat in Baoding Mansion, back then, a large number of boxes were also carried into Baoding Mansion.

"Fourth Master Ji, what's going on?" Yang Qin asked.

Ji Siye smiled and said nothing, and Xiao Shi shouted: "Unpack!" ”

Twenty large boxes were opened in an instant, and the slightly dimly lit small hall immediately brightened.

These twenty large chests contained neatly stacked pieces of silver.

"Each box is three hundred and twelve pounds and eight taels, and twenty boxes are a total of six thousand two hundred and fifty pounds. Ji Siye said with a smile.

One pound is sixteen taels, and six thousand two hundred and fifty pounds is a full hundred thousand taels!

Yang Qin has seen countless gold, silver and jewelry, but he has never seen 100,000 taels of silver!

Even if it is the rich and noble Metropolitan Governor's Mansion, what is handled daily is also silver tickets, who will carry boxes of silver into the mansion one by one, let alone 100,000 taels.

It turned out that 100,000 taels of silver was so much that it could fill a small hall, and it would take eight mule carts to fit it!