Because there are still more than 50 miles away from Xianyang City, and it is about 100 miles away from the outer city of Jingshi.

Although it is not far, the terrain in the mountains is complicated, what if there are a large number of ambushes?

However, the 500,000 Niu Wei led by Fan Hu and Ding Jiu's personal guards were well-equipped, each wearing heavy armor, hanging five consecutive crossbows, as well as spears and military shields.

Without four or five thousand elite horsemen, it is difficult to deal with them.

Early in the morning, the wind and snow outside had already stopped, and the team set off on the fifth watch.

The prince is so anxious that he will do what he says, and no one can stop him.

He asked Fan Hu to bring dozens of pickaxes to open the mountain, drills and hammers for digging holes and opening mountains, and then bring dry food and drinking water, and the cavalry set off in a mighty way.

More than 50 miles of road, less than two hours of horseback riding, before noon arrived at the location of the wolf's mouth ridge in Qinggangping.

But from the foot of the ridge to the valley, there is no post road, only a rugged mountain road, winding and circling in the mountains.

Now that the winter snow is overwhelming, the road is also hidden, and Fan Hu's advance team to explore the road is quite smart, and has already found a guide for the prince.

Not only was this guide familiar with mountain trails, he had also picked up charcoal.

However, according to him, he was in the fall, but he knew in which direction, approximate location.

Without a guide, I am afraid that the prince and his party will not be able to touch it here at all under the heavy snow, let alone find coal.

This guide was very puzzled, the prince of the dignified prison country actually came to the mountains to look for coal in the cold winter of heavy snow?

After a few months, can't spring begin?

The Qianniu Guard is telling the guide that the prince is a person who does what he says and does it vigorously, you just have to lead the way, don't talk too much, as long as you find the location of the coal, you will be rewarded with twenty taels of silver.

The guide was so happy that he smiled crookedly.

Mom, I am worried about running out of money in the winter, and these twenty taels of snowflake silver are enough for the family, plus all the expenses for the whole year next year.

Fortune is coming, and you can't stop it.

"Your Highness, if the coal in this mountain... Oh coal, as you said, it is all on the surface, no need to dig deep, then the fuel of the Imperial City of Beijing and more than a million people will be lost, and Weichen hopes that this is true. ”

Zhan Shi Wei Changjin, who was in charge of the entire coordination work, also followed him this morning, like a ghost, chattering along the way, and seemed to be not very relieved to "pick up" coal.

"Of course."

Yuan Zhi glanced at him unhappily, "Lord Wei, it's useless for you to have a knife and a mouth, and when the time comes, Prince Ben will prove to you with facts and pull out the knife in your mouth by the roots." ”

Everyone laughed.

Wei Changjin laughed awkwardly.

New things are usually unbelievable at first.

The trail is very narrow and slippery, and everyone dismounts and walks.

For more than an hour, the whole team stretched for several miles, like a long dragon to the mouth of the valley in Xizui.

"His Royal Highness the Prince, this is the mouth of the Xizui Valley, Widow Hu should be the charcoal they picked up in this area, here is the charcoal We all know in the mountains, the black charcoal in summer and autumn is everywhere, but we picked it up here, no one dares to burn it in the house."

The local guide said.

It seems that these people only dare to burn charcoal in the wild, and do not burn it in the house.

Yuan Zhi squatted down and asked Jiang Goro to use his waist knife to remove the top layer of floating snow, but the snow below was already frozen like a stone.

He commanded his guards to bring iron hammers and hammers, and chiseled at the freezing snow, causing snowflakes and ice chips to splash everywhere.

The prince commanded on the spot, who dared to slacken.

Fan Hu's 500 Thousand Niu Guards, in addition to the 300 cavalry guards sent around, the remaining 200 Thousand Niu Guards in the team also started work with their own iron chisels and pickaxes they brought.

After a while, they cleared the snow and finally carved out a large solid ground.

"His Royal Highness the Prince, the little one found a piece of charcoal!"

"Your Highness, we also have them here, quite a few."

“？？？”

There was a chaotic roar of good news at the scene.

That's right, this is a typical shallow open-pit coal mine.

After a chaotic busyness, in an open field, lumps of coal began to be piled up.

Pick it up and look closely, this is coal, black and bright lump coal, and mixed stones in poor condition.

This kind of stone can not be fully burned, and it is most likely to produce gas.

"Listen, everyone, you want to find this kind of black and shiny coal, and you don't want this gray one, do you understand."

Yuan Zhi is not dirty, he holds up a piece of each hand to explain to everyone, quite a bit of the style of a contemporary geologist.

"Understood, Your Highness."

In addition to explaining, the prince also carried samples to various points in person, and walked around to demonstrate.

"Dig up all the ground under our feet!"

"Yes..."

The soldiers began to dig the ground with pickaxes, and the drills and hammers dug the coal, which worked well together.

There is a lot of strength in numbers, and the initial results have been achieved in more than half an hour.

Seeing this, Yuan Zhi was overjoyed, and he said to Wei Changjin with a smile:

"Wei Qing, this coal also has a nice name, it is called Ujin, as the name suggests, it is black gold. In the vast majority of cases, this coal is buried in the ground or deep in the mountains, which is difficult to mine and can easily cause death and injury. ”

"Open-pit coal mines like this kind of shallow layer are very rare, and it depends on luck to find it, and this time luck gave us, there is an open-pit coal mine in Xianyang County, the capital, which is really a big surprise, and it seems that the first five-year plan of the prince should be shortened to four years to be realized."

The first five-year plan?

I haven't seen the prince mention it.

For these new words and new concepts, Wei Changjin is now accustomed to them, and there is no fuss at the beginning.

They know that the library of the prince of the East Palace is full of treasures, and there are many rare and unique books from ancient and modern China and foreign countries, commonly known as "heavenly books".

Seeing the excitement of the crown prince, Wei Changjin, Gao Jin and others were also infected.

Wei Changjin sneered:

"Your Royal Highness, this is the destiny of heaven, let Jingshi find an open-pit coal mine within 100 miles, from now on, Jingshi will no longer need to transfer coal to Jindi, which is more than 1,000 miles away, this is the foresight of His Royal Highness the Prince."

Everyone agreed, and also took this opportunity to slip around.

Yuan Zhi laughed when he heard this, and said humbly:

"What is the destiny of heaven, Wei Qing is a nerd, it's quite funny to say, these are just the fortune of this prince."

"Fortune, destiny." Wei Changjin emphasized.

It's not false to say that he is a nerd, but this person's orthodoxy is still deep-rooted,

From now on, he is planning the crown prince's succession to the throne.

It may not be a destiny right now, but what about a few years from now?

Whether the emperor is good or bad, he exists like a vegetative person.

Getting back to the point, Yuan Zhi still set his sights on the mining area.

The ground was so hard that it was often dug down with a pickaxe, but it was only a few inches deep, and in a short time the soldiers began to sweat.

"With the help of a combination of an iron drill and a hammer."

Yuan Zhi is very flexible, and for this kind of skillful work, as he came out of the mountains in his previous life, he is very talented.

He made the best use of iron drills and hammers.