However, it was said that Li Weijian escaped from the east courtyard, bypassed the private alley and entered the Rongguo Mansion from the side door, and ran into Qingwen who was looking for her quickly after taking two steps.

"Fourth Master?" Qingwen frowned and hurriedly walked a few steps, greeted the general, glanced up and down and said with concern: "Where did the fourth master go, let's find it!" ”

Li Weijian was refreshed at this time, with a lazy look on his body, and he only smiled when he heard the words: "I went out for a walk." ”

The two walked forward, Qingwen followed them, and suddenly smelled the fragrance of Li Weijian's daughter's home.

"Fourth master, you-" Qingwen bit her lower lip lightly, frowning and speechless.

"Huh?" Li Weijian stopped, he knew that he had never changed his clothes this time, and he must have been seen by Qingwen for a flaw. After thinking about it, he dragged Qingwen into his own small courtyard, and said in a low voice: "Fang was almost calculated, and it was really a good banquet." ”

"Huh?"

Li Weijian made a long story short, and said that the wine was added, and Qingwen was first surprised, and then annoyed.

"How could the second girl be like this...... No," Qingwen suddenly thought about it, Yingchun's temperament was soft and soft, and she was not a scheming person. And these days to welcome spring and have been living in the East Cross Courtyard, then changed his words: "...... The eldest lady and the eldest master are really doing it! ”

"It's good to know, I can't catch the handle of this matter, so don't make a noise."

"How can there be no handle? If the fourth master went to the old lady to ask for help—"

"And then?" Li Weijian smiled and asked: "Sue a complaint, and then let the mansion see me ugly?" Then my lord, I'm really shameless. ”

Qingwen was stunned and muttered in a low voice: "The fourth master...... I shouldn't have gone to such a filthy place. ”

Li Weijian blinked, knowing that Qingwen was afraid that she had misunderstood. The matter between him and Si Qi should not be revealed for the time being, so he got off the donkey down the slope and said: "It's always that you are still young, and I was drugged again, isn't this afraid of hurting you?" ”

Qingwen Xiafei's cheeks were warm, and the warmth in her heart surged, only to say that Li Weijian was drugged and remembered herself, and said in a snort: "I...... I can't, no, isn't there still Xiangling and Hongyu? Besides, Xiu Ying has practiced martial arts, and her body is sturdy......"

This can be regarded as accepting Qingwen's heart, right? Li Weijian secretly scolded himself for not being a good person, and even such a little girl had to be coaxed. But pride rose in his heart, only a woman like Qingwen always had to be supported by him to have a good result. So Xiao Yinyin raised his hand and stroked Qingwen's cheek, and said, "Not jealous? ”

Qingwen's face was red and cloudy to her neck, and she only hung her head and said, "Look at what the fourth master said, it's like I'm a sour and jealous person." ”

She couldn't hold it on her face, turned her head, and only dropped a sentence of 'they are still looking for them like crazy, I'll let me know' and twisted the water snake's waist out of the small courtyard.

Li Weijian looked at his back hidden behind the red wall, and then turned around and Shi Shiran entered the main room. Without waiting for the maid to wait, he changed his clothes and sat lazily in his chair. From time to time, Fang Cai's mind was charming, but he thought in his heart, when he turned around, he looked for Si Qi and asked carefully, whose idea was it this time.

How can he, Li Weijian, make people calculate in vain?

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East across the courtyard.

Si Qi changed his clothes, combed his hair again, and then quietly entered the wing. This medicine will pass, where can Yingchun still hang his face? Only planted in the quilt and crouched down and cried.

Xiu Tang and other maids comforted, but Yingchun only cared about crying and did not speak. Mrs. Xing is also here at this time, in the end, she is a stepdaughter, and she always has to come and ask about this matter.

Seeing that everyone couldn't persuade her, Mrs. Xing frowned and said, "The second girl didn't cry, that frugal brother only ate a glass of wine and left, and he didn't look at her, why are you crying?" ”

Yingchun got up slightly and wiped her tears and said, "It's easy for the eldest lady to say. Brother Jian had eaten wine, and he must have hurried away because he knew that something was wrong, where did he not know what was going on inside? The eldest lady asked me to have the face to say goodbye to my thrifty brother in the future? ”

Mrs. Xing was impatient, so she only said: "The matter has come to this, what's the use of talking about it?" After all, it was the kitchen that was inappropriate, and he took the medicine and wine to fool the girl. It's not the girl's head to blame. ”

Yingchun only cared about crying when he heard it, and his heart was extremely miserable. She just has a soft temperament, and she is not stupid, so she guessed a few points after a little thought. Si Qi, the eldest girl next to her, always walks to Mrs. Xing when she has something to do, and it is Si Qi who encourages her to feast on her frugal brothers, and it can't be Mrs. Xing's idea!

She also said that her stepmother and father had changed her temperament, thinking that she was old, so she took over and raised her, but she didn't want to just use her as bait for the golden beetle son-in-law.

The Spring Festival Envoy didn't want to stay for a moment, but even if he was angry this time, he only swirled around when he wanted to move back, and he didn't say anything in the end.

Mrs. Xing was annoyed in her heart, and when she saw that the persuasion was fruitless, she got up to leave. As a result, when he raised his eyes, he caught a glimpse of Si Qi who came in at an unknown time.

Mrs. Xing squinted her eyes, walked forward with a cold face, and only then whispered when she staggered by: "You come with me." ”

"Yes." Si Qi answered in a low voice, followed behind Mrs. Xing, and followed all the way into the main room.

Mrs. Xing sat down, sent away the irrelevant maid, and slapped the table hard: "How do you do things?" ”

Si Qi said aggrievedly: "Big lady, you can't blame me. The fourth master of Jian only drank a glass of wine and noticed that something was wrong, and I chased it out for a long time and never caught up. ”

Mrs. Xing scolded: "After all, your family is doing things upside down, and you haven't tried that medicine, where do you dare to use it?" ”

Si Qi hung his head and said nothing.

Mrs. Xing thought about it for a while, and then looked at Si Qi and said, "No, you went to chase Brother Jian'er, why did it take so long to come back?" ”

Si Qi had already finished the draft and said: "Fourth Master Jian is in a hurry, I chased after it for a while, accidentally twisted my foot, and slowed down for a long time before moving back." ”

"Useless waste!" After scolding again, Mrs. Xing luckily said, "Then Brother Jian went back to the courtyard by himself?" ”

It's not a lie, so Si Qi said: "I just watched him go out of the gate, and I didn't see where he went." ”

Mrs. Xing had to ask again, and the maid outside reported: "Madam, the eldest master is back." ”

Mrs. Xing hurriedly got up, glanced at Si Qi, and chased the flies as if waving her hand to let her stand down, and straightened her makeup a little, and then Mrs. Xing greeted the general out surrounded by the maid and mother-in-law.

When I arrived at the door of the double instrument, I saw the eldest master Jia Yu coming over with one step and three shakes.

Before arriving closer, Mrs. Xing peeked at it, and saw that Jia Yu's face was full of joy, so she hurriedly smiled and asked, "Master, is there a happy event today?" ”

"Hmm." Jia Yu walked with his hands in his hands, but answered without saying much.

"It's really good, my lord has been running all these days."

Jia Yu smiled. Today, I was invited to a banquet by the Qiao family in Shanxi, and the people who accompanied the wine were all popular fans, and the Qiao family was used to saying flattering words, but it was really a beautiful wine, a beautiful person, and a more beautiful heart.

So as soon as the eldest lord Jia Yu was happy, he should transfer the three thousand shares to the Qiao family, and only wait for the next morning to go to the inner mansion to transfer the account, and the eldest lord Jia Yu will immediately receive 11,000 taels!

How much money was there when I bought that stock? Three thousand taels, and you will earn eight thousand taels when you change hands! This is truly a man sitting at home, and wealth from heaven.

There is no such good livelihood in the world!

As for that stock, it will rise again in the future...... Heh, isn't there still Li Weijian? With the relationship between Yingchun and the surnamed Li, it's not too much for him to buy some cheap stocks, right?

All the way into the main room, Mrs. Xing Xiaoyi served tea, and when she wanted to ask again, Jia Yu said: "What do you do when you ask the woman?" Let me ask you, these days to welcome the spring and the ...... surnamed Li What's going on? ”

"It's-"

Mrs. Xing had always known Jia Yu's temper, and she groaned but didn't dare to deceive, so she told her about the past.

When Jia Yu heard this, he was immediately furious.

Smack-

The tea cup fell heavily on the table, making Mrs. Xing tremble.

"Ridiculous! Wouldn't such a childless thing offend that frugal brother? ”

Jia Yu's heart is dripping blood. He had planned well earlier, bought shares from Li Weijian's hand at the original price, and he could earn more than 20% of the profits when he changed hands, and this silver money was not worse than the wind!

As a result, this thought had just been calculated for an hour, and it was shattered when he arrived home. It's right to drug Li Weijian, but it's wrong to let people run away!

Jia Yu breathed heavily and scolded: "Stupid woman! No matter what you do, you have to make that frugal brother angry. Go, you go and annoy Brother Jian now! If Brother Frugal doesn't get angry, you stupid woman won't come back! ”

"Huh?"

Mrs. Xing didn't dare to argue, but said, "Master, it's getting dark this time, why don't I go back tomorrow morning?" ”

Jia Yu only snorted coldly and was speechless. The good mood in the day dissipated, Jia Yu was no longer impatient to stay here, and went straight to find the concubine next to him.

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The next day, Mrs. Xing sent someone to listen early in the morning, but the maid came back to report, saying that Li Weijian had gone out early, but there was a small official from the inner government who came to look for her, and it was the water company that had an accident.

Mrs. Xing was uneasy, and only hoped that Li Weijian would return earlier, so that she would come to the door to complain.

Where did Li Weijian go? First went to the inner house, and then joined the king of Zhongyong, and rode towards the west of the capital.

The inner government sold shares before, and got more than 4 million silver, and the sage drew some, and the remaining more than 2 million, a small part of which was used to dig wells and create things, but the big head smashed all of them on the coal mines in Wannian County, Xishan.

First of all, he bought the abandoned mine pit cheaply, and then bought some empty coal kilns at a premium, and calculated that there are now more than 200 coal kilns in Xishan, accounting for more than eighty percent of the total number of coal kilns in Xishan.

The Jingshi residence, it is not easy, the forests around the Beijing division have long been cut down, and now the silver frost charcoal used in the palace of the Beijing division and the honorable family are all cut down and stewed in other places before being sent to Beijing.

Silver frost charcoal thousand catties fifteen taels and five dollars of silver, black charcoal thousand catties of silver three taels and three cents, this price is only affordable for the rich and noble. Ordinary small households use more coal.

Xishan is only more than 40 miles away from Jingshi, and black coal and white coal are produced on it, and logging began in the Ming Dynasty. It's just that the former Ming was hindered by the theory of feng shui, and the mining efforts were not large.

Dashun attaches great importance to practical learning because of Taizong Li Guo, and does not attach importance to the theory of feng shui, because it is the Xishan coal mine that has gradually developed.

At this time, the price of coal mines was sold in blocks, and Lang Zhong, who was beside King Zhongyong, said that more than ten years ago, a piece of coal cost three yuan, about two catties and twelve taels; Today, the population of Jingshi is more than one million, and although the price of this coal block is still three cents, the weight is only about one catty.

Li Weijian listened to the secret calculation, one catty of three wen, one thousand catties is two taels of silver, which is still cheaper than the black charcoal.

After a short rest, everyone beat their horses and continued to move forward, and arrived at Dexi Mountain before noon, and soon Li Weijian followed King Zhongyong to a mine.

At this moment, the outside of the pit was in full swing, and a Newman steam engine was emitting black smoke, constantly driving the volute centrifugal pump through the crankshaft and connecting rod, and the centrifugal pump was buzzing and rotating, and water was bubbling out of the pipe.

The King of Loyalty and Courage walked with a horsewhip in hand, and when he reached the centrifugal pump, he said with a smile: "It's a shame that those pit owners don't know about it, otherwise this abandoned pit will cost a lot of more money." ”

The reason why these more than 100 pits were abandoned was that there was too much water seepage, so that the water could not be discharged. The pump built by Li Weijian is far more than the past in terms of suction and lift, which could not be solved in the past, and now it is naturally solved.

Li Weijian didn't look at the centrifugal pump, but only looked up at the Newkemen steam engine. I secretly thought in my heart that this steam engine was used in coal mines, otherwise no rich man would be willing to burn coal like this.

Hearing the words of King Zhongyong, Li Weijian said: "Lord Wang, can you estimate the output now?" ”

"This—" King Zhongyong looked at Lang Zhong on the side.

Na Langzhong said: "It's hard to say, it's still recruiting workers now, and it was also last year's great drought, and there have been a lot of displaced people who have poured into Beijing recently, so a lot of people have been recruited." But the reopening of this abandoned pit will not happen overnight. However, the lower officials estimated that if all of them are activated, there will still be an annual output of 200 million catties. ”

200 million catties sounds a lot, the catties at this time should be heavier than the catties of later generations, ignore this point for the time being, 200 million catties are only 200,000 tons...... The small coal kilns of later generations have produced more than this.

King Zhongyong glanced at Li Weijian and said: "Resurrection, 200 million catties is not a small amount, the palace does not need to use 300,000 catties of coal per year, and the annual coal consumption of the Jingshi is only about 160 million catties, this extra coal ......"

Li Weijian didn't answer and asked: "Have you ever calculated the cost?" How much does it cost to sell this pound of coal to Beijing so that it is not a loss? ”

Na Langzhong said: "Now it's Erwen, and after a while, all the pits will be opened, and it will probably be reduced to one Wen. ”

Li Weijian thought about it for a while, and then asked: "How much does it cost to have those mines that have not been collected into the inner mansion?" ”

"This ......," Lang Zhong couldn't answer.

King Zhongyong pouted: "Look what this king does?" Why don't you go and ask? ”

Lang Zhong hurriedly called the two officials and told them to inquire. After a while, the little official reported, and Lang Zhong said: "I inquired, and it is probably two articles." ”

Li Weijian smiled and said: "In this way, we can make a profit even if we sell two articles." ”

Zhongyong Wang said: "Resurrection is not authentic, and it is used to hurting people with this, hahaha." ”

The second more is delivered, begging for subscriptions, asking for monthly passes.

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