Before Wu Yong could say anything, Ren Laosan was the first to stop him: "You can't hand it over!" You wait here first, and I'll go find Zhu Lidian and them. ”

After saying that, he unloaded the carriage, rode his horse alone, and galloped towards Fuwangli.

Wu Yongren's departing figure was a little confused, according to his later thinking, didn't he find that the coal mines were all to be handed over to the state? Looking at Ren Laosan, he means that he wants to take the coal mine for himself! Thinking of this, his heart suddenly sank.

In fact, this is his thinking mistake, nowadays private mining is completely unregulated by the government and laws, and basically whoever mines it counts whom.

This is because in the middle and late Eastern Han Dynasty, due to the growing growth of the scholar class, they began to compete with the imperial power for interests. The most typical is that salt and iron have been changed from the monopoly of the government to the private sector. It is not so much the private sector, but the monopoly of the scholars, how can the ordinary people have the strength to buy and sell salt and iron freely, and they are not all exploited by the scholar class, and in the end these high profits are divided by them.

In response to this situation, the Eastern Han Dynasty court played games with the scholar class several times, but all ended in failure.

If you think about it, even the salt and iron that are related to the national economy and people's livelihood are like this, and other mineral resources are even more chaotic. As long as the minerals are discovered by the people, there is basically nothing to do with the imperial court, most of them are taken over by the local noble class, and then symbolically pay some taxes to the imperial court every year.

This is still relatively law-abiding, and most of the scholars choose to hide their own mines, hire people to mine, and finally take all the profits into their own pockets.

As a result, the court became weaker and weaker, and the scholars became stronger and stronger, which led to the appointment of eunuchs by the imperial court to suppress the scholars. As a result, there were two famous disasters in the history of the Eastern Han Dynasty.

About half an hour passed, and a group of people rode horses and rushed to Wu Yong and the others. Wu Yong found that there were not only Zhu Lidian, but also five family heads.

Before Li Huang got off the horse, he asked impatiently, "Where is Hei Dan?" Show me! ”

Wu Yong took the coal and stone from Yang Ji and handed it to Li Huang.

Li Huang took the coal stone, looked at it carefully, and suddenly laughed, "Xiangrui is in the world, the sky really has eyes, and my family with five surnames should be prosperous." ”

The other four heads of the family also took turns to look at the coal and stone, and finally handed it over to Zhu Lidian. There was excitement on their faces.

After Li Huang smiled, he dismounted lightly, and then handed the horse to the servants who came with him, and then walked up to Yang Ji and arched his hand: "Please take me to see the origin of this black pill." ”

As he spoke, he smiled at Wu Yong and sighed, "Every time the virtuous nephew does something, it is unexpected." ”

Yang Ji didn't speak, but glanced at Wu Yong.

Wu Yong hurriedly stepped forward and introduced: "Yang Gong, this is the head of the Li family of my fifth family, and the matter of coal and stone, just listen to Uncle Li's arrangement." ”

Li Huang glanced at Wu Yong appreciatively, and then said with a smile: "Don't worry, if the amount of black pills is considerable, you can promise that you will never be treated badly." ”

"The head of the Li family is serious, we and other displaced people, we are fortunate to meet the immortal monarch to settle down here. The discovery of Heidan was also accidental, and he wanted to give these coals and stones to the government in exchange for food. If the head of the Li family sees these black pills, he can exchange them for food. ”

As he spoke, Yang Ji led everyone to a hillside. The hillside was on the opposite side of the hill where they had built their house, and they had planned to level the rocks on the hillside, but they were surprised and delighted that after only three days of digging, coal and stone appeared.

Surprisingly, they are all homeless, and digging out coal and stone is not necessarily a good thing for them. Happily, this excavation of auspicious rui means that they are recognized by God, and they may be able to rely on these coal stones to gain a foothold here.

At this time, many people are breaking the upper layer of coal and stone, and then removing the gravel from the coal and stone.

When they saw the arrival of Wu Yong and others, they stopped what they were doing and greeted Wu Yong one after another.

At this time, an old man came out and said: "The old man used to look for mines for the powerful people, and he also has some opinions about mineral deposits. Just now, Lao Yu roughly estimated that although the reserves of black pill here are not too much, they can be as many as one million catties when they are completely mined, and they can almost smelt 200,000 catties of iron. ”

Wu Yong really admired him for his five-body throw, this coal mine has not yet been mined, and the total amount can be predicted, and I don't know if it is a big talk. But when he looked at the expressions of the people around him, he seemed to be quite appropriatory.

Li Huang was overjoyed when he heard this, you must know that there are many iron stones in Lin Shu County, and the annual iron output is only 50,000 catties, if Lin Xi's iron and stone are pulled here for smelting, it will be a huge wealth.

In the past few days, seeing that with the spread of the Taixu Secret Method, the demand for this iron pot is getting bigger and bigger, and he is really looking at it in his eyes and anxious in his heart. Just like his family recently bought ten iron pots, the small one is 300 yuan, and the big one is 600 yuan. The value of just ten iron pots is equal to the annual income of a family with a hundred acres of land.

Such a huge profit, wouldn't it make him red-eyed.

Now, with this black pill, their five families can also get a piece of the pie. Even because of the existence of this black pill, they can still get the lion's share, after all, Lin Shu has iron and stone, and the most important fuel for iron smelting. The use of wood is not only costly, but also does not necessarily bring practical results, and is not as good as the effect of iron smelting in this black pill.

Li Huang looked longing at this time, and he didn't notice that the other four family heads all looked at each other tacitly.

"I don't know how the old man wants to exchange this black pill for food?" Wu Xuan was the first to ask.

After all, Yang Ji used to be the third elder of the township, and he still had some knowledge, he estimated it in his heart, and asked tentatively: "One pound of black pill for two pounds of grain, I don't know if it's okay?" ”

Li Huang snorted coldly and said: "You don't want to inch in, don't forget that this is our territory, you are still a homeless person, I will give you face now, two catties of black pill for one catty of food, it can be regarded as mercy to you." ”

When Yang Ji heard this, he was immediately a little displeased, but he had to bow his head under the eaves, so he could only lower his requirements, "If we mine, one pound of black pill for one pound of grain, it can't be less." If you send someone to mine, two catties of black pill can be exchanged for one catty of grain. ”

"You can get food without doing anything, but it's a good calculation!" Mining by himself, Li Huang will definitely not do it.

The surrounding homeless people were suddenly reluctant and reprimanded one after another.

"This is a gift from God, if it weren't for the way, I wouldn't want to change it."

"That's it, this is auspicious, and I couldn't change much grain before."

"If it weren't for the face of the Immortal Monarch, I would have driven you out of here a long time ago."

At this time, Wu Xuan walked up to Li Huang and whispered to him: "I think this matter may be negotiable, and we can't push them too much, if they are in a hurry, they will leak the news that there is Hei Dan here, and it will be troublesome for us and others." ”

Li Huang smiled bitterly: "I also know this situation, but this is about to be the time when the green and yellow will not be harvested, and there is not much food left in each family." I'm also here to maximize everyone's exchange for these black pills. ”

Wu Xuan glanced at the other three family masters, and saw that they all pricked up their ears to listen to their conversation, and couldn't help but ask tentatively: "It's better to discuss the exchange ratio first, and each of our five families will find them to exchange separately, and each family will be responsible for each family." ”

Li Huangleng paused, then reacted, and reprimanded angrily: "You are still the head of the family, what are you trying to do, our five surnames are in the same spirit, is it because of this little profit, and ignore the alliance relationship for many years." ”

Wu Xu's face was not good-looking, and he said in a stiff tone: "I was just worried that it would affect the relationship between our five surnames, so I suggested this, and you don't want to think about it, if each family has food, how will the profits be distributed?" Now that your Li family's food is insufficient, you can't let my Wu family have more food, and finally distribute it evenly, right? ”

The two quarreled, and the three heads of the family next to them glanced at each other, and then they stood up to play a round.

"Let's not say a word, old friends for so many years, why make a fuss over this little thing."

"Wu Xu's words are not unreasonable, let's negotiate in advance, so as not to have to fight again when we get the distribution of benefits, which hurts the harmony."

"Hey, the wealth is moving, and it's okay for me to suffer a little loss, so I'm worried that the clansmen will find out and cause trouble."

Li Huang also reacted at this time, and discussed it with the four of them, worried that they would suffer a loss, so he proposed it like this. How much they didn't trust him, they immediately became a little angry, and said angrily: "Okay, since you all want to do this, in the future, the five of us will take care of our own families, and no one will trouble anyone!" ”

After saying this, Li Huang left angrily.

The other four family heads saw that Li Huang was really angry, and hurriedly chased after him, "Brother Li, what are you doing, let's just talk about things, why are you so angry." ”

The five family heads left dramatically like this, and only then did it be Zhu Lidian's turn to speak, only to see him smile and say to Yang Ji: "Has Yang Gong considered smelting iron by himself?" ”

Yang Ji was stunned for a moment, and asked with some confusion: "What does Zhu Lidian mean by this?" ”

Zhu Lidian smiled bitterly: "Don't hide it from you, because the fields in my Fuwang are close to this Funiu Mountain, the grain harvest in these years has not been ideal, and in the harvest year, it can only barely maintain food and clothing. ”

Speaking of this, he glanced at Yang Ji and the others with a worried face, and continued: "It is because of the lack of food in my hope that I called the five family heads to come here together. After all, this God-given auspicious thing cannot be cheapened by the people in the government for nothing. However, looking at the situation of the five family heads just now, it seems that they can't take out too much food. ”

"And it's impossible for your side to wait for them to exchange for food, so I propose that you smelt iron by yourself, but I don't know if your side has all the manpower."

Yang Ji frowned and said, "There are a lot of people, but where does this iron and stone come from?" What should be done with the iron tools that have been made? The government also did not allow the production of weapons. ”

Zhu Lidian laughed, "The matter of iron and stone will be handed over to the people in our Fuwangli, you just need to make iron pots, you don't know how popular iron pots are now, as long as they can be made, no matter how high the price will be bought." ”

Yang Ji suddenly became interested and hurriedly asked the reason.

Zhu Lidian pointed at Wu Yong, "It's not my nephew, a few days ago he went to Wancheng to cook a banquet for the Taishou family, and used the iron pot to make all kinds of delicacies, which made those powerful gentry hungry, and began to buy iron pots frantically." Even with the whole Wancheng now, the iron pot is rushing to buy iron pots, and the iron pots that cost two hundred yuan a day on weekdays are directly sold for three hundred yuan, and they are still in short supply. ”

Yang Ji didn't expect such a thing, but when he thought of the food made by Wu Yong, he unconsciously swallowed his saliva, and then said with a smile: "The food made by Xianjun is indeed unique in the world, and no one can compare." ”

The two talked again, and then began to agree on various details of iron smelting, and finally when it came to the distribution of benefits, Zhu Lidian insisted on four or six points, but Yang Ji insisted on five or five points.

"No matter how depressed the villagers in my hope are, it is better than those of you who have just settled down, you are using the money, don't shirk it anymore, I look back to buy iron and stone, and then sell the iron pot, the profits, I get four in the hope, you get six."

"How can this make you, both money and effort, we still occupy your place, how can we let you suffer, after the profits are evenly divided, we also take advantage."

Wu Yong saw that they were all thinking about each other, it was really a little incomprehensible, if they were left in the future and their side suffered a little loss, it would be intolerable.