Because there was something in his heart, Li Zhi's sleep was not very steady, so when Li Zhi woke up the next day, it was bright.

Even so, when Li Zhi left the post station after finishing grooming, the people of Shuozhou had already begun to be busy.

After only a short break, Wang Guangyu arranged for Shuozhou officials to go to various places to supervise the construction of the cylinder car.

At this time, when he saw Li Zhi get up, he hurriedly said hello to him, and wanted to go to various places to inspect in person.

Li Zhi hurriedly spoke: "This king and Wang Tingshi went together, and only when he saw the results with his own eyes can this king feel at ease." ”

After saying this, he should first go to the nearest water source to the station.

When Li Zhi came to the river, it was already in full swing.

Trees were cut down and transported to a makeshift shed by the river.

The villagers, led by a carpenter, are preparing the timber for the cart.

The carpenter's family is three generations of grandparents, the young father and son are responsible for leading people to build the cylinder car, and the old grandfather is responsible for directing and dispatching.

The water source here is more than five miles away from the nearest farmland, so the drum cart needs to be made high enough to leave enough slope for the canal.

The older craftsman seemed to be very experienced, and he had planned several paths in advance that would lead to the various fields.

This wasted a lot of timber, but once a plot had been watered, only a limited number of timbers were needed to move the canal to divert the canal to other plots.

Li Zhi observed for a while and then nodded with satisfaction.

Then he said to Wang Guangyu beside him: "The old man's method is very good, but he can pass on his experience to other villages." ”

After Wang Guangyu heard this, he hurriedly arranged for someone to go down to inform him.

Then Li Zhi and the others walked to the next village.

Due to the different topography of the water sources, it is inevitable that some earthworks will need to be excavated in some places to reduce the height of the ground during the construction of the canal.

So inadvertently, a splash of wealth came to the heads of the people of Shuozhou.

When Li Zhi and others came to a village in the easternmost part of Shuozhou, they suddenly found a strange place.

The land here was originally just ordinary loess, and the color of the land was not much different from that of other villages.

However, when Li Zhi was inspecting, he found that when the people were excavating the earth, there were intermittent blackening of the soil in many places.

This made Li Zhi's mind suddenly remember an extremely important matter.

Isn't today's Hedong Road the Shanxi of the previous life? This is a big coal-producing province!

So he didn't care about whether he would delay the work, so he hurriedly gathered more than a dozen villagers to dig desperately around a piece of blackened land.

These villagers were very reluctant to do so, but now they are desperately trying to keep their crops.

I didn't expect to do such an inconsequential thing.

Wang Guangyu on the side and Xiao Yi, who followed later, were also puzzled.

Xiao Yi opened his mouth and reminded: "Your Highness, it is the time when the people are desperately trying to save themselves, so let's put down this matter of studying the land for a while." ”

Li Zhi opened his mouth and said: "If this king's prediction is good, there may be a big treasure underground here." ”

Wang Guangyu said anxiously on the side: "If Your Highness feels that there is a treasure here, then the official will send someone to protect it and dig it up later."

Now, please ask Your Highness to let these people go and dig the canal first, okay? ”

Xiao Yi also persuaded on the side: "Yes, Your Highness, even if there is a treasure here, it is not easy to dig it out in public."

Your Highness, let's hold back the curiosity in your heart for the time being! ”

After listening to the words of the two, Li Zhi immediately realized that there might be something wrong with his expression.

So he opened his mouth to explain: "The two adults have misunderstood, the treasure that this king said is not an item. ”

Xiao Yi was taken aback when he heard this, and he hurriedly approached Li Zhi's ear and whispered, "Since there is more than one thing, His Highness should not make such a big fanfare.

You need to know that this wealth is charming, and it is easy to attract the attention of others! ”

Wang Guangyu on the side had even killed more than a dozen people after listening to Li Zhi's words.

I only heard him whisper to Li Zhi: "Your Highness will stop for the time being, this matter is related to the safety of His Highness, and the lower officials will put these people under house arrest first, and then act quietly at night." ”

After hearing this, Li Zhi knew that the misunderstanding between the two might be deeper.

Then he spoke again: "Such a treasure should be known to the people as soon as possible in order to improve morale, how can it be secretly excavated? ”

Wang Guangyu persuaded with an anxious face: "Your Highness is not deeply involved in the world and does not understand the sinister hearts of people.

If we can really find the treasure here, it will definitely arouse the greed of some people, and if it attracts the guards around me to rob us, I am afraid that they will not be able to deal with it! ”

Li Zhi smiled: "What does this need to deal with? The heavy treasure that this king said belongs to the people of Shuozhou? ”

After Li Zhi said this, Wang Guangyu and Xiao Yi were stunned at the same time.

They really didn't understand what Li Zhi meant by what he said.

At this time, Liu An, who knew Li Zhi better, stood up.

I only heard him speak: "Your Highness means that there may be mineral deposits here?" ”

Li Zhi nodded and said, "Of course it's a mineral deposit?" What else do you think it is? ”

After Li Zhi's words were finished, Xiao Yi and Wang Guangyu suddenly had black lines on their faces.

The two were nervous for a long time, thinking that it was the gold, silver and jewelry buried by their predecessors, but they didn't expect that the treasure Li Zhi said was actually a mineral deposit.

Just when the two of them were speechless, there was a sudden sound of iron picks and stones clashing in their ears.

Immediately after that, I heard someone make a "huh".

Everyone turned their heads to look, and just in time to see a man pick up a pitch-black stone from the deep pit that had just been dug.

Li Zhi looked at it and said happily: "Sure enough, as this king expected, there is really coal buried here." ”

Wang Guangyu's eyes lit up when he heard the word coal.

In recent years, coal has become very popular, whether it is used for heating or smelting metals, all of which are used in large quantities.

Although the price of this thing is not high, I heard that the reserves of the mine are often very large.

Wang Guangyu had always been envious of the coal-producing state capitals, which could easily achieve political success with just one coal mine.

Before, he could only follow the people all day long to dig in the soil.

Unexpectedly, God actually opened his eyes now, so that His Royal Highness the King of Jin discovered the coal mine here.

Thinking of this, he immediately bowed down to Li Zhi and said, "His Royal Highness the King of Jin is really the lucky star of the people of Shuozhou.

Not only did it help me solve the drought in Shuozhou, but it also found coal deposits.

In the future, the good days of the people of Shuozhou are just around the corner. ”

Li Zhi said as he walked quickly to the deep pit: "Such a blessing is owned by the people of Shuozhou, and this king does not dare to take credit." ”

With that, he took a closer look at the depth of the pit.

Then he turned his head to Wang Guangyu and said: "Congratulations to Wang Tingshi, the coal here is very shallow, and it is a typical open-pit deposit. ”