Qin Liu was immersed in remorse for the past.

Many times, Zhu Yue has expressed affection for her.

Send jasper hairpins, buy clothes, and go to the grassland to meet her.

It's just that she's been running away.

If she hadn't run away, but bravely chose to stand with him in the face of various difficulties, would they have lived happily together a long time ago?

There will be no Bars, and there will be no Maang.

She may be able to watch Erlang day and night, and she won't be as empty as she is now.

Ma Ang did not let Qin Liu's mood go down.

He used his connections and silver money to buy a coal mine that was about to be abandoned for five hundred taels of silver and let Qin Liu run it.

Buying a coal mine made Ma Ang's money immediately bottom out, and he still owed a lot of foreign debts, and his life was stretched, and he had to count his daily firewood and rice and flour money.

Ma Da Niang Zhenri sighed, looking at Qin Liu with a knife.

This woman, when she was down, looked good, hardworking and smart.

Now she doesn't look at her well.

If you are not filial to your mother-in-law, you can't give birth to her, and you don't give your husband a concubine. It's really not worthy of her son who became a military attache from the third grade!

Other women are all Wangfu. It's good that she squandered Maang's money, her family is getting poorer and poorer, and she owes a huge amount of foreign debt!

No matter how strong Qin Liu's psychological quality was, he couldn't bear it and had to avoid it.

She had no relatives or friends in Datong, so she had to choose to run the coal mine well.

After decades of disorderly mining, the coal mine has little potential to be tapped.

As a woman, according to tradition, she could not go to the mine, so she could only entrust someone else to depict the underground conditions of the coal mine in detail.

Qin Liu looked at the drawings of the underground mine that had been dug up, but his spirits perked.

The underground tunnel of this coal mine has long since crossed the Great Wall and dug into the area north of the Great Wall.

Moreover, according to her impression, digging the mine road to the north for a while, there is a huge new coal mine, and there is an iron mine not far away!

This amazing discovery is like opening the door to a new world.

You must know that the land north of the Great Wall is the place where the Tartars and the Ming Dynasty are at war, which is extremely dangerous, and the ordinary people of the Ming Dynasty will not go to that area to make a living.

It's not the same with underground mines.

As long as the secrecy is done well and the Tartars don't know it, it is a business without capital.

That's a steady stream of cash flow!

Besides, with coal mines, you can engage in coal chemical industry and produce all kinds of industrial supplies!

Qin Liu's enthusiasm was ignited all of a sudden.

Just digging coal also requires start-up capital. The miners in the coal mine are ready-made, but the former boss hasn't paid them for a long time. To get them instructed, you need a start-up capital.

When Qin Liu was dejected and trying to figure out how to prepare the money, Ma Ang finally breathed a sigh of relief.

He wasn't going to help her anymore.

Let her worry about the worldly money, and appear more pyrotechnic, instead of letting her consume in the spiritual world.

Qin Liu's request for help from Ma Ang was useless, so he wrote to Ma Yue of the Xuan Mansion to borrow money.

Ma Yue Ma Yue had already been entrusted by Ma Ang, and he only shirked and had no money to borrow.

It was Sister Ma Feng, who said that the owner of a silk village in Xuanfu intended to pay money, but he needed to occupy shares, and he wanted to account for 30% of the shares.

Qin Liu was stunned and nodded in agreement without hesitation.

When she left the grassland after Bars's wedding, Zhu Yue said that he would take 30% of her shares.

Qin Liu finally wanted to open it. The director behind this so-called silk village owner, she can probably guess.

Throughout, it's not just that she's not brave enough.

Everyone has worldly identities and rules.

Liu Xuejiang is like this, Zhu Yue is the same, and so is she Qin Liu.

Of course, Zhu Yue can also choose a woman, decide to marry today, and hold a feast tomorrow to tell the world, like Ma Ang.

But this woman must not be Liu Xuejiang.

Of course, he can choose to abandon his identity and forcibly take Qin Liu, who is powerless, to live in the south like Baars, and even bring Erlang with him.

However, is that all it takes?

It's just the beginning of bigger troubles.

Fate has already marked the price of all kinds of things in the dark, and if you want to get something, you have to exchange it for other things.

There are plenty of alternatives to choose from, other than the ones you specifically want.

Qin Liu is a sane person, and he began to choose replacements very early, such as Bars, such as Maang, and actively integrated into life.

Zhu Yue, on the other hand, is a staunch idealist. He doesn't try to break the rules and get out. It's about taking your share of responsibilities firmly.

It's just that in some small areas where he can make his own choices, he firmly sticks to his ideals.

With the initial start-up capital, Qin Liu began to be busy day and night.

Coal mines are being dug up in a steady stream, but sales are not very good.

There are many coal mines in Datong, and the heating of nearby people can be solved with coal.

If coal is transported, the cost of road transportation in this era is extremely high, and it will not be profitable at all.

In desperation, Qin Liu began to consider opening up iron ore and smelting iron from coal.

Iron is much more in demand than coal.

Blast furnace ironmaking is no small project.

First of all, you have to prepare coal to make coke.

The coal collected in the coal mine is crushed, screened and other processes to remove impurities and ash and improve the purity of the coal.

Next, the pre-treated coal is sent to the coke oven.

Coke oven is the core equipment for coke production, usually using blast furnace coking method. In a coke oven, coal undergoes a dry distillation reaction, which is heated at high temperatures to decompose it to produce coke and other by-products.

In this process, volatiles and gases from the coal are released, while the fixed carbon forms coke.

After the iron ore is mined, it must also be milled and screened to be processed into iron ore powder.

In this era when there are no large industrial machinery and electricity, it is extremely difficult to do this by hand.

The industrial facilities in Datong are much stronger than those on the grassland, but the cost of building a blast furnace and smelting steel in Qinliu is also very high, and it is difficult to complete without several years of preparation.

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In the capital, the first assistant Li Dongyang was allowed by the emperor to give him permission as early as the beginning of the year.

The smooth return of Zhishi shows that Li Dongyang landed safely. Since Liu Jin was ambushed, Li Dongyang has been praying for Zhishi almost every once in a while, and he is very familiar with current affairs.

Emperor Zhengde's attitude towards Li Dongyang was very complicated.

The fire on the outskirts of Beijing that year, over the years, he did not find much actual evidence.

But there are some bright and dark clues, pointing to the first assistant Li Dongyang, and even the elder Jiao Fang of Zhishi.

Jiao Fang was a northern official from a poor background, and he suffered greatly from the formation of gangs and factions by southern officials.

So when Liu Jian and Xie Qian forced the palace, he chose to stand with Liu Jin without hesitation.

Jiao Fang has a bad reputation in Shilin, but he has been doing things for Emperor Zhengde and has made great contributions to the fight against the civil official group that has been colluded with the Hongzhi Dynasty.

Li Dongyang, as a mediator between the old civilian-bureaucratic forces and the new imperial powers, played his due role in this.

However, Jiao Fang and Li Dongyang were the masterminds behind the fire that year.