Lantian County Xinxiang is located at the foot of Lantian Mountain, although it is only a town, but there are nearly 1,000 households, not only because the Lantian River meanders in front of the mountain, giving birth to a large area of flat and fertile farmland, but also because Lantian Mountain is a well-known treasure mountain.

There are not only rare amethyst ores in it, but also many medicinal materials of extraordinary value, the most prestigious of which is the cup of flocculent grass in Zhao's medicinal field, which is said to be one of the main materials of "water purification and purification".

Because Lantian Mountain is the remaining vein of Yanshan Mountain, the peaks and peaks are stacked, the range is very wide, in addition to the amethyst ore, cup flocculent grass these treasures, there are many ordinary animals and plants in the depths of the mountains, there are countless birds and beasts, for the hunters, Lantian Mountain is the treasure house of their families.

Therefore, for the people of Xinxiangxiang, they do not have the ability to go into the mountains to hunt and collect medicines, and they can also cultivate fertile fields, if they don't want to face the loess with their backs to the sky, Liu's mine and Zhao's medicine field need a large number of manpower, especially the amethyst mine, whose scale is more than 1,000 people.

All of these have made Xinxiang quite prosperous, and it is a well-known rich town, and because of this, there is no shortage of various industries in the town, such as restaurants, pharmacies, brothels, gambling houses, everything.

Hu Honglian is now dressed as an ordinary woman, coarse linen clothes, beaded hairpins have also been replaced with the most worthless copper hairpins, there is no rouge gouache on her face, I don't know what to smear, her complexion is dark yellow, and there are freckles. All this obscured her natural beauty, making her look like a malnourished low-class woman.

Her current identity is that of a frail woman who accompanied her husband to Xinxiang to find work.

There are many new towns and villages of this kind of people, and some of them will always come every year, and the people of the new towns have long been used to it. In the case of natural and man-made disasters, there are always people who cannot survive in the original place and need to find another way to make a living in a new place, and the new township is famous far and wide.

Some of these people stayed, or opened shops, or went to the mines, or became helpers in restaurants and pharmacies, and some did not stay—these people were mainly poor, old, weak, sick and disabled, and such people did not have the capital to open shops, and others did not like to hire them.

Hu Honglian stayed in Xinxiang for several days, pretending to be her husband's third master of Yipinlou, but she looked strong and wanted to make money with her strength, looking for work everywhere.

In the end, they set their sights on the mine, asking everywhere how to work in the mine, and asking about whether the mining is safe or not, whether it makes money, and other aspects. I often bring some pastries, rice wine and other things to the neighbor's house where someone works in the mine to chat and understand the situation.

There are a lot of elites in Yipinlou who come to Xinxiang Township, some go alone, some form teams in twos and threes, some are like Hu Erniang and others, in the name of looking for work and opening shops, and some pretend to be footmen and fortune tellers, and some go in and out of brothels and gambling houses, spending a lot of money. Of course, more people still responded on the periphery, and did not enter the new township, and there were too many strangers pouring into the town at once, which was easy to arouse suspicion.

The main purpose of their coming here is to inquire about the situation of the Liu family's amethyst mine, to understand the case of the mine that collapsed not long ago, burying one hundred and ten people, and to grasp more evidence, focusing on finding the bitter masters one by one and taking them to Yanping City in concealment.

Because there were a lot of deaths in this case, and it happened not long ago, as long as the evidence can be brought back, once it is exposed, it will inevitably shake the government and the opposition and can deal a huge blow to the Liu family.

Hu Hong has been up and down for many years, and he knows very well that the most important thing to do is to hide it and not be discovered by Liu's people.

The amethyst mine is very important, there are many people from the Liu family inside and outside the new township, and there are many masters of the Yuan Shen Realm, if the other party is aware that someone is secretly investigating the mining disaster and the evil behavior of the Liu family's rampant and domineering fish and meat township, it will inevitably attract the strong pressure of the Liu clan, and the result will definitely not be good.

Once a few people from Yipinlou are caught, not only will the case of the mining disaster be ruined, but Yipinlou will also be exposed, and even Zhao Ning's entire plan will fail!

Hu Honglian not only came in person with the three masters of Yipinlou, but also has been cautious these days, and does not dare to slack off.

The good news is that because the mining accident has just happened two months ago, everyone still remembers it vividly, and there is no less discussion after dinner, so the information collection work of Yipinlou is going smoothly.

In the compassionate and compassionate footman, relying on pills and cultivation, after curing the sick of poor people, he could not help but be thanked by a thousand people, and sat down to eat a coarse tea and light meal.

At this time, as long as you ask why there are so many cough patients in the town, the people in front of you will sigh, saying that most of these cough patients are tuberculosis and cannot be cured, and the reason why they get this disease is because the coal ash and lime in the mine are very serious, and they are not very ventilated, and the miners have worked hard for many years, even if they wear face towels, many people will eventually get sick.

Now that the mine has been mentioned, as long as the pedestrian Langzhong leads the topic a little and grabs him to the patient's family, he will know everything.

Compared with the elixir and true qi investment in the footman, the elite of Yipinlou, who pretends to be a fortune teller, pays a much smaller price, basically relying on a mouth.

All the people he met were either destined to be rich or blessed, but before the wealth and blessing came, there were also destined calamities and calamities......

Under his flickering, in order to obtain the method of eliminating disasters and solving problems, and in order to get the direction of a rich and noble life, the eighteen generations of ancestors can go to the bottom, for fear that a little mistake will affect the master's judgment and gong, not to mention the big and small things inside and outside the town.

As for those who go to a well-informed place such as a brothel and gambling house, as long as a large amount of money is spent, the sisters are happy, and their mouths are not idle while serving hard; gamblers who lose money in the gambling house, as long as they are a little more familiar with it, often do not need to ask questions, and the other party will take the initiative to brag.

After a period of time, Hu Honglian and others found out the list of the families of the victims of the mining accident, as well as the specific personnel of Liu's handling of the mining accident, and locked the identity and location of the other party.

"We have been in contact with all the families of the victims and the situation has been clarified. At that time, after the mine collapsed, Liu actually put the blame on the miners, saying that they did not carry out the construction according to the requirements of the mine, which caused the mine to collapse, and demanded that they compensate for the loss of the mine!

Later, the county magistrate of Lantian County came over in person, which made the Liu family change their attitude, but it was only to compensate the families of the mining victims for one month's wages! That is to say, the Liu mine used the miners' wages for one month to buy their lives! These people had a deep grudge against the Liu family, but they had no way to fight them, and the people who went to Beijing to sue the emperor did not come back...... I'm sure that as long as we help them go to Jingzhao Mansion, these people will definitely follow us!"

The angry three masters promised Hu Honglian.

Hu Honglian nodded, and then frowned again: "In this way, the county order of Lantian County is still clear and upright? If there is no him, I am afraid that the family of the mining disaster will not receive any compensation." ”

The third master slammed the table and said: "I thought so at first, thinking that it was a clean official, but in fact, he had already colluded with Liu! That mining disaster was actually caused by Liu's forcing the miners to work day and night in order to increase production, where is the responsibility of the miners!"

"Furthermore, whenever there is a fatal accident in the mine, the mine is mainly responsible, so how can there be any reason to blame the miners...... All in all, the Liu family had a big crime, and the amethyst mine could not be saved, and a large amount of money should be compensated to the victims, but Lantian County accepted the benefits of the Liu family, but concealed it and did not report it, and also helped to suppress the people, and the court had no way of knowing about it!

"And this is not the first time that the accident of a dead person in Liu's mine has happened, there have been a few times before, but the scale is relatively small, and there is not much movement. But people die in a mine almost every year, and it's too dark, and where this mining is amethyst, it's clearly blood crystal! And the victims, without exception, have not received much compensation, and sometimes they haven't even dug up their bodies! The families of those victims have no way to ask for help, and they have long hated the Liu family in their hearts!"

After saying this, the three masters drank three bowls of water in one go, and then they barely calmed down.

Hu Honglian pondered for a moment, "The Liu family colluded with the government and had a tight control over Xinxiang Township, this case involves too many victims and their families, we have to take them away, it is impossible not to attract attention." To this day, other cases in other places, because of the small number of people involved in a single case, whether it is to take people away during the investigation, there is not much movement, and now most of them have entered Beijing one after another. The matter of the amethyst mine can be a huge blow to the Liu family, and it must not be given up, but how to bring more than 100 people into Beijing requires a good livelihood. ”

After some planning, Hu Honglian divided the families of the mining disaster inside and outside Xinxiang into more than a dozen teams, and each team and each family had a person from Yipinlou in charge, and planned to use more than ten days, one team a day, to disperse from morning to night, and use various cover means to take them to Beijing to sue the emperor.

As long as these people leave Xinxiang, there will be people from outside to pick them up, and it is easy to rush to Yanping City in a day or two.

The reason why more than 100 people were taken away and that the family members of each victim of the mine accident came forward was to show momentum, and at that time, more than 100 bitter masters would gather at the yamen of Jingzhao Mansion to shout grievances, which would inevitably shake the government and the opposition and be known to the emperor.

Hu Honglian's plan was very good, but they were still one step slower. At noon on the first day of the first day of escorting the bitter master, Hu Honglian, who was monitoring everything at the tea stall outside the city gate, was surrounded by a group of Liu cultivators who rushed out of the city gate.

"What you have done has been known so clearly, you dare to break ground on Tai Sui's head, I think you are impatient! Say, why do you want to investigate the mining disaster, what is your purpose, and what is your identity? Is it Jingzhao Mansion, Dali Temple, or the people of the Zhao family?!"

A middle-aged man from the Yuan Shen Realm appeared in front of Hu Honglian with his hands in his hands, looking down at Hu Honglian without anger and arrogance, and asked questions with a condescending attitude.