Zhu Hao is not afraid that he will not be able to find the vein.

Xishan became the main coal-producing area around Beijing in the early and middle Qing Dynasty, and the mining sites in many places in later generations are there, from the Ming Dynasty to modern times it is only a few hundred years, even if the vegetation changes greatly, but the geological structure is basically the same, and then Zhu Hao will follow the coal mine sites left in history, especially those large coal mine pits......

That's it!

It's just that in terms of recruiting coal miners, it doesn't necessarily go well...... It is not yet the chaotic times of the late Ming Dynasty, refugees are rare, and it takes extra money for farmers to leave the land and become specialized miners.

Zhu Hao's plan was to mine coal in Xishan, use coal as a raw material for smelting, and use the rich iron ore resources of Qian'an to smelt in Yongping Mansion, which was later known as Tangshan...... Form a one-stop industry.

This is only a preliminary plan, and it is only using the resources of the suburbs of Beijing.

A slightly more long-term plan is to open the coal mine to Shanxi, and the iron mine will go outside the Guan, and develop the Anshan iron ore mine in advance, and in the later stage, it will make full use of the iron ore resources in Nanzhili Ma'anshan, Huguang Metallurgy, Qiongzhou Shilu and other places, strive to build advanced furnaces in various parts of China, take out the determination of large-scale iron and steel, and quickly advance the modernization process of Daming by piling up steel production.

"Lord Su, I'll draw you some maps, this time ago, you took some people with rich experience in prospecting, followed me to Xishan for a walk, explored the terrain and landforms, and asked them to mine according to the place I designated, I believe it won't be long before coal can be produced!"

Zhu Hao means to do it himself.

Tang Yin frowned: "You went in person?" What should I do if something happens in the capital? ”

He didn't say in front of Su Xigui, you don't plan to care about helping the emperor review the mess?

"Even if there is no me in the capital, there will be no chaos in just a few days...... If Mr. Tang wishes, he can come with me. Zhu Hao smiled and sent out an invitation.

Tang Yin won't go.

He was an old scholar, and he was already beyond his power to take charge of the mining affairs, and if he went to explore the terrain and find the ore veins himself, he was very worried that his body would collapse first.

Su Xigui asked hesitantly: "Just by relying on the past few days, can you find a mine?" ”

Zhu Hao said with a smile: "Don't worry, the matter of finding rich veins will be completed by me, Su Dongzhu, your task is to raise funds, or the old rules, after the coal is put into production, you will definitely have your share, accounting for the proportion of shares...... Wait for the official production and then divide it with you. Preliminary fundraising...... Twenty thousand taels of silver reached the sky. ”

"Twenty thousand taels of silver, it's no problem."

Su Xigui thought that Zhu Hao would ask for a lot of money, but when he heard it, it was only 20,000 taels...... The price is very reasonable.

Tang Yin listened to it, but it was very uncomfortable in his heart.

Sure enough, I am still too short-sighted, listening to the two "big guys" chatting, 20,000 taels of silver is not a serious matter, is it because I have too little knowledge?

Or do I have a bad pattern?

"Okay, then divide the labor and collaborate!"

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Zhu Hao is going to Xishan to explore coal mines.

For the first time, he needed to walk around and draw a map according to the actual topography, and at the same time to see which places had been mined and which places were still virgin...... Then it is necessary to determine the realistic situation and which places are the most suitable for coal mining.

The excavation of the Xishan Coal Mine in the Ming Dynasty, not to mention one-tenth, I am afraid that it is not even one percent, and many large mines are currently deep mountains and old forests that no one has entered.

In the winter, it is estimated that the mountains and forests are all covered with snow, and people shuttle among them, and once they fall into the pit, they are estimated to not be able to get out, so they must be fully prepared.

Zhu Hao had to draw out the map in the shortest possible time, start construction as soon as the place was determined, build a coal kiln when the coal was produced, expand production as soon as the output kept up, and then open up a new coal kiln.

Zhu Si left the palace that day.

Zhu Hao explained the matter to him.

Zhu Si frowned and asked, "Who will review the fold before that year?" ”

Sure enough, Zhu Si's pattern is similar to Tang Yin, and he thinks that Zhu Hao's personal visit to Kankuang is a bit "overkill", obviously your most important value is to help me deal with official business, why do you even have to complete the exploration work before opening the mine?

Zhu Hao comforted: "This is all close to the New Year, and there are still three days to go before the New Year, I will strive to rush back as soon as possible after the New Year." If I don't go now, and when my colleagues think of letting me do things after the New Year, I'm afraid I won't be able to spare time again...... If Your Majesty has something difficult to decide, you can wait for me to come back and help you refer to it. ”

Seeing Zhu Hao's resolute attitude, Zhu Si sighed helplessly: "Then you go early and return early, you are not in the capital, and I don't even have a helper." ”

"Your Majesty, you can't say that, in fact, Your Majesty still has a lot of humerus around him."

Zhu Hao thought to himself, why don't you care about what Zhang Zuo and the others think? You value me very much, but you also have to take care of their feelings!

Zhu Si nodded: "I heard from my uncle, he said that you are very good at feng shui and can explore rich ore veins...... If the government's coal kilns can produce more coal in the future, we will not be short of silver. ”

"Hmm."

Zhu Hao said, "At present, we are going to hand over the income from mining to our own people to manage, and make money with money, and the beginning is to strengthen the management of coastal defense and northwest military supplies, and no one can ask for it." Like Huangzhuang Guantian, you must be in your own hands in order not to be controlled by others! ”

"Good!"

Zhu Si was in high spirits when he heard this.

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On the twenty-eighth day of the lunar month, Zhu Hao led people to embark on the road to Xishan.

Before leaving, he asked Yang Shen for leave, saying that he wanted to go to the border to have a look, imitate the sages of the Ming Dynasty, inspect border affairs and write a few military strategies.

It was the Chinese New Year, Yang Shen naturally wouldn't have thought that Zhu Hao was going to explore mineral deposits on the spot, even if the new emperor was now in charge, who would have thought that he would find a new champion to explore the mine site? Besides, no matter how great your ability is as good as those experienced craftsmen?

Yang Shen just left the instruction of "go early and return early", and sent Zhu Hao to embark on the road to the west.

As for the side of the house.

Zhu Hao also greeted Zhu Niang, under the pretext that he wanted to go to the border and other places to have a look.

Although the three sides are now being attacked by the Tatars, fortunately, there is no warning signal from the front line of Xuanfu, Datong and Yatou Pass, which means that the surrounding area of Jingshi is still safe, and the destination announced by Zhu Hao is not beyond the scope of Juyong Pass, and Zhu Niang told her son to go after half a day.

Zhu Hao left.

The people around Zhu Si really couldn't support it.

First of all, in terms of reviewing and revising, even if Zhang Zuo had the help of several eunuchs, it was difficult to succeed, so he went out of the palace to ask Tang Yin for help, Tang Yin could not do anything except distinguish which matters were more important.

The result......

In the past few days, most of the performances are subject to the cabinet vote.

Fortunately, before Zhu Hao left, he also made some remedial measures, that is, to judge in advance what the ministers might do, especially before the cabinet may be backlogged, involving personnel appointments and dismissals and money and food scheduling, and approved in advance in Zhu Si's tone, if it corresponds, it will be adopted, and if it doesn't work, it will be shelved, but it has not revealed too many flaws.

At the end of the year, the things that should be done have basically been done before the end of the month, Zhang Zuo and Tang Yin tried their best to cover up, and everything was calm.

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The first year of Jiajing.

On the first day of the Lunar New Year, the ministers entered the palace to congratulate the new emperor on the new jubilee.

Because of the accident of stampede on the first day of the Lunar New Year of the Zhengde Dynasty, which led to a group of deaths and injuries, Yang Tinghe specially asked the ministers to enter the palace in batches to celebrate the New Year.

And Zhu Si is not as nonsense as Zhu Houzhao, waiting for the minister to come to the palace early in the morning to pay New Year's greetings.

Zhu Si said in advance that the minister does not need to give any New Year's gifts, but the emperor will prepare a red envelope for the minister to pay New Year's greetings, that is, a piece of silver.

The second-grade ministers are ten taels, and the remaining ministers are reduced by two taels in turn, which are divided into four levels: ten taels, eight taels, six taels, and two taels.

Those who can get mixed to the point of entering the palace to celebrate the New Year must at least be a person in charge of the middle or six departments, plus some people from the Hanlin Academy will go, even if the official is lower than the fifth grade, he will also get two taels of guaranteed silver.

In this red envelope event, the inner government prepared 5,000 taels of silver, and in the morning, the nobles got the most, and the Wenchen was much less.

Although most people don't care about these taels of silver, it can be regarded as a great gift for those middle- and lower-class officials from the Qing and Yamen, so that they can have a good year.

Zhu Hao, as a member of the Hanlin Academy and a new science and technology jinshi, was supposed to enter the palace to pay New Year's greetings, but because he went out of Beijing to explore coal mines, he did not appear.

The emperor didn't ask, after all, there were more people coming to the Hanlin Academy at one time, and no one really cared whether someone was fishing in troubled waters or someone was not there.

This New Year's celebration ended after noon.

The emperor did not give a feast.

But all the ministers came out of the palace in good spirits, and each laughed about how much silver he had received.

Tang Yin, as a member of the Ministry of Labor from Wupin, entered the palace with the people of the Ministry of Industry, but was left by the emperor after the New Year.

Everyone else knows that Tang Yin is from the Xingwang Mansion, even if he thinks it is so inappropriate, he has no complaints.

"Sir, is there any news of Zhu Hao? He's been gone for days, and he hasn't sent anyone back to deliver a message? ”

Zhu Si was very anxious.

After not seeing Zhu Hao for a few days, Zhu Si felt that he was really difficult to support, as if Zhu Hao was in charge of the court, so he could feel at ease.

Tang Yin said: "The minister has not heard of him, but if there is no news, it is good news, and there will be no danger." ”

"It's so cold......

Zhu Si suddenly thought of something and asked, "Lu Qianhu went with him, right?" ”

"Yes."

Tang Yin replied.

Although this time he was just going to explore the coal mine and do the site selection, but he still had to protect Zhu Hao's safety, Lu Song brought more than a dozen brocade guards, and then joined Zhu Hao after leaving the city, and these brocade guards were all in civilian clothes, and the knives were hidden.

Coupled with the manpower brought by Zhu Hao, there were more than 30 people in the group.

But not everyone went up the mountain with Zhu Hao to explore.

At the end of each day's exploration, they will go down the mountain to rest, and Zhu Hao's reward for these people is ...... It's a down vest per person.

In fact, the treatment of Jinyiwei is very good, especially Lu Song, who has been given a mink coat early, and in the winter of this year, rich people mostly wear clothes made of fur, which are relatively bulky, and there will be some inconvenience in terms of movement, and Zhu Hao's down vest just makes up for the shortcomings.

Zhu Sidao: "Lu Qianhu is too, don't send the message back earlier...... Oh yes, who else went along? ”

Tang Yin said bluntly: "There are also two disciples of Zhu Hao, Jiang Rong and Guan Jing, and in addition to this, they are the people sent by Su Xigui. ”

"Oh, that person has a lot of manpower, but I'm afraid of encountering bandits or something, so let's let Commander Zhu send some more brocade guards, in the name of supervising the imperial tomb, in fact...... Do your duty to protect! ”

Zhu Si cares about authenticity.