Chapter 146: Changes in Longtou Mountain
The Zheng family is mainly a restaurant and runs a green house business, and many good families are forced to become prostitutes. How many people have been victimized by them, and as for the waiting family, they are even more vicious, selling smuggled salt and making poisonous salt. They don't eat those poisonous salts, but how many people have been harmed. It's a shame that Hou Dong has the image of a gentle son in front of outsiders every day, and what kind of male thieves and female prostitutes are behind him.
Now, Yun Ze can be said to have helped Danyang City get rid of two evils, so the people praise Yun Ze. How many people love Yun Ze in the open and in the dark. Someone has even offered Yun Ze an immortal tablet at home.
And Yun Ze also received all the Zheng family's property under his name, and as for those who were harmed by the Zheng family, he sent someone to send money and silver, although this could not make up for their harm to the Zheng family. But it's better than nothing.
After solving the affairs of the Zheng family, Yun Ze does not have to worry about his restaurant being persecuted by the Zheng family again, and Lu Qing and Master Hu will definitely be honest.
Yun Ze handed over the skills of making honeycomb coal to Lu Qing and Master Hu, and the two were very happy about this, but what made the two stunned was that they couldn't do anything with technology and no raw materials.
Originally, the two had decided to let their families do this business, after all, it was better to rely on their own family members than to rely on others, and they had long lost their reputation and arrogance as literati.
Fortunately, Yun Ze did not embarrass them, and sent someone to send coal, which was transported from Longtou Mountain. Although the output of coal cannot meet the development of Yunze for the time being, it is not bad.
This is a good thing for the benefit of the country and the people, of course Yun Ze doesn't want to delay any longer, let Lu Qing and Master Hu join, and let them do something for the people. Once you have coal, you don't need firewood.
Moreover, it is convenient and practical. It can save a lot of work. As for whether Lu Qing and Master Hu would make a windfall with this, Yun Ze was not worried at all.
After all, briquettes are not an indispensable thing, and it is impossible for them to make a windfall, if this is the case, Yun Ze can end up by himself. Don't give the two a chance.
The reason why he let Lu Qing and Master Hu go down was just because he didn't have the time and energy to do these things for the time being, so it was better to let others do it for him.
Moreover, as long as the coal raw materials are in their own hands, Lu Qing and Master Hu have always begged him. As long as they are not told how to find coal mines, they will never dare to do anything to themselves, the God of Wealth.
Yun Ze asked Han Long to send people to the vicinity of Danyang to be responsible for finding coal mines, as long as coal mines are found, the development of the fiefdom will also become faster. Of course, for the sake of trouble in the future, I will have to ask Lu Qing for some mining documents at that time.
This is the condition that Yun Ze negotiated with Lu Qing before.
After the dust settled in Danyang City, Yun Ze and Su Qianmo returned to Longtou Mountain, and as for Luo Yunniang and Luo Yunxi sisters, Yun Ze took them to the fiefdom.
It's the safest here, the least, and the fifteen hundred guards in the fiefdom are not decorations. It is impossible for Weihu Mountain to pose a threat to the two sisters. Yun Ze also wanted the two sisters to learn the management of the fiefdom well.
In the future, his plate will get bigger and bigger, and he will need the help of competent people, and the two sisters are the people he trusts the most. If you don't cultivate it now, you have to wait until when.
When he returned to Longtou Mountain, the changes inside made Yun Ze a little surprised, and he didn't come back for almost a few months, and the entire Longtou Village underwent earth-shaking changes.
Rows of brick houses are built in an orderly manner at the foot of the mountain, with breeding farms and workshops. In the newly built square ahead, more than 2,000 people are training there.
These were selected by Yun Ze from the more than 10,000 disaster victims sent over, since he was already preparing to protect himself in this troubled world, he had to prepare early, otherwise, when the troubled times came, it would be too late.
The capital is now discussing to cooperate with the Jin State to deal with the Khitan State, and it is estimated that if they wait for their alliance, once the Khitan State is destroyed, it will be the time for the Jin State to make a move against the Jing Dynasty.
Although Danyang Mansion is located in the south of the Jing Dynasty, it is still relatively close to the north, and once the capital is lost, it is estimated that it will not be long before the Jin soldiers will come over. I am afraid that there will be no more time left for Yun Ze.
At this time, there are almost 12,000 people living in Longtou Mountain, and this mountain stream has a lot of space, and more than 10,000 people live in it, and it does not seem crowded, but it is prosperous.
More than 10,000 victims live and work here in peace and contentment, life is getting better day by day, in the farmland ahead, many people are busy, Han Long, who followed him, pointed to one of the middle-aged people who looked to be in their forties and said to Yun Ze:
"Yun Gongzi, that one is called Sheng Yiping, he is a good farmer, among the people you asked me to choose, he is the smartest, and I gave him the book you wrote about the hybrid theory. Speaking of which, I was afraid that he would not know how to read, and later I heard him say that he used to be a scholar, but after failing to pass the children's examination a few times, he gave up and concentrated on farming. ”
"After he got your book, but if he got the treasure, he has been researching it all this time, and it is estimated that it will not be long before he can research the hybrid rice you mentioned. There are also other books about fruit and vegetable cultivation that you sent, and he has been researching. ”
"This man will definitely be a farmer in the future, whether we can eat enough or not, but we all count on him!"
Han Long's voice was a little happy and full of expectations.
Yun Ze smiled when he heard this. He has the knowledge of the future generations, and he can't do everything himself, but if he can cultivate some talents who need them, he will be of great use in the future.
Sheng Yiping in front of him, he wants to train the other party to become an agricultural expert, and Hua Yue will become his own medical expert, of course, Yun Ze also wants to train a chemical expert. Physicist.
These people are useful for future development, but he can't find a suitable candidate for the time being.
"Well, don't worry about letting him do it, what he needs, try to meet him. By the way, Brother Han, how is the search for the coal mine! Yun Ze nodded.
Speaking of this, he looked at Han Long.
When Han Long heard this, he said with a sense of joy in his expression: "The person who went out came back and said that in the mountains west of Danyang City, a place that may be a coal mine has been found, and I have asked someone familiar with it to see it, there should be no problem, if this matter is true, mining can start soon." However, there is another coal mine that is located in a troublesome location, between the Houjia salt mine and the iron mine. ”
"When our people went to investigate, they met the people who waited for the family, and those people were beaten by the Hou family, and several of them were almost not killed, if we send someone to collect them, it is estimated that we may have a conflict with the Hou family."
Han Long's face swelled with anger at this time and said, "The people of the Hou family are really not things, that place is a borderless land, but they insist on domineering. And, as long as anyone shows up in the vicinity, they will expel them. ”
Yun Ze frowned when he heard this.
The Hou family is domineering and arrogant, he has always known that because he has relatives in the court, he acts a little unscrupulously, compared to the Huang Zheng family, it is even better.
And the Hou family has always controlled the salt and iron business of several nearby prefectures, and originally, this salt and iron were controlled by the imperial court. But later, salt was slowly liberalized, and the people could also mine and sell it.
As for iron ore, merchants can mine it, but most of the iron production does not flow to the private sector at all. Only a very small part can be outflowed. This is to prevent people from using iron to make weapons.
But the people can't survive without iron products, kitchen knives, wood knives, iron pots, etc., the Hou family controls the iron ore on this side of Danyang City, and most of the iron produced is handed over to the court.
And a small part of them are sold at a high price. This is also a benefit given by the court to the Hou family, and it can be regarded as not allowing the Hou family to mine for them in vain.
The Hou family relied on the reason that there were people in the court, and did not want anyone to be close to the iron and salt mine areas. It is said that it is to prevent people from stealing mines. In fact, it may be that they are afraid that others will find another outlet for the ore veins in the vicinity. Wait for him to get a piece of the pie.
It seems that this Hou Jia should also find a way to get rid of it, the salt iron ore in the Hou family's hands is a good thing, whether it is salt ore or iron ore, it is now scarce in Yunze.
The iron ore is better, there is one in Longtou Mountain, and the output is enough to use. What is lacking now is coal and, of course, salt mines.
The refined salt that Yunze has sold recently is only refined by buying Houjia's private salt. He also wondered if he could find a salt mine nearby, but unfortunately, it backfired.
If he was at the seaside, he would not have to worry about the refining of salt, which is easier and safer to purify than salt mines.
It's a pity that Danyang Mansion is still nearly a thousand miles away from the sea, and it is also separated by a continent. The whip is out of reach. Speaking of which, Houjia's salt mine and salt and iron business may be able to find an opportunity to get it.
But the Hou family is different from the Huang and Zheng families, the Huang and Zheng families can only run rampant by tying up with the prefect Lu Qing, but the Hou family heard that it is an earl behind them. Even Lu Qing was a little jealous of the other party. It's a bit difficult to bring them down.
However, no matter whether the other party is good or not, Yun Ze is still ready to find a chance to bring down this cancer in Danyang City. Even if it wasn't for the salt and iron mine, for the people of Danyang City, he would do it.
Yun Ze thought about these things and continued to walk forward. Walking to the front of the square, Chen Qinglian, the third master, was in front of the queue at this time, and when he saw Yun Ze coming, he happily let his own team stand in place, and he ran over quickly.
Guo Ming, the fourth master, also left his team there and ran over by himself. As for the teams of people standing there, their eyes were full of respect and gratitude when they saw Yun Ze.
They all know Yun Ze, and everyone knows that this son gave them a new life, not only to feed themselves, but also to let their families have a stable place to live.
So, even though they are training hard, no one says half a hard word, and they feel that the days are getting better day by day, and everyone is full of enthusiasm and dedication to training.
Because, they vaguely know that they belong to the bandit village. In the future, it may be subject to requisition from the court. If you want the village to be saved, you want everyone's good life to be kept. They have to shoulder the responsibility of protecting the stockade.
No one thinks that it is a big rebellion to go against the court, in their cognition, they just need to eat enough to live.