In the afternoon of this day, Jiang Yu was in the study, looking through the account books about the mine that Hongrou handed him, and asked Jiang Yu to check it. The mine is not immediately profitable, because it has been abandoned for too long, and it takes a lot of time just to rebuild the facilities inside the mine. There is also a lot of trouble in determining the direction of the vein, identifying the color of the mineral, and so on.

"Didn't you say that there were 500,000, why is there only such a point?" Jiang Yu found that the part of the account that could be profitable was only less than 50,000.

Hongrou listened to Jiang Yu's question and said, "It's not good luck, a lot of ore veins in the mine have been stolen, and it seems that they are about to dry up." These 50,000 ...... It is also necessary to calculate the income after the possible opening of the spirit stone, if there is no spirit stone, I am afraid that it will be ...... ten thousand."

"This ......" Jiang Yuxin said that 500,000 is already very little, and now it is not even 50,000, and it seems a little difficult to expect the mine to go out of the mine to pay the annual tribute.

"Later, I'll go to the mine to have a look. Jiang Yu thought for a while and said. From the mining of the mine, until now, he has not really been to the mine, everything is the people under his hands busy.

Hearing Jiang Yu's words, Hongrou was stunned, Fang wanted to advise Jiang Yu not to go to that kind of place, but she thought about it, and said in her heart that her master was the most different, other wealthy businessmen with mines, basically the mine just let their cronies go to see it, but it is very rare to go to that dirty and messy place in person.

Jiang Yu glanced at Hongrou and said, "I'll just go by myself, you don't want to go with you." ”

"What?" Hongrou was slightly surprised. Jiang Yu smiled and said, "That kind of place is not suitable for my daughter's house." Well...... I see that several of your little sisters are not bad at practicing the exercises, and when I go to the mine later, you can take them to the Yunwu Immortal Realm, but remember, you must ensure the secret. ”

"Got it, master. Hearing this, Hongrou nodded happily.

Just as the master and servant were talking, a small servant came running outside, and Hongrou immediately greeted him. Hongrou and the little guy went to the front yard, and it didn't take long for Hongrou to return.

"Master, someone from the Chamber of Commerce wants to see you. Hongrou walked into the study and said to Jiang Yu.

"What Chamber of Commerce?" Jiang Yu wondered, he said in his heart that there are many large and small businesses in Muyun City, and there are as many rich people as a cow, a Chamber of Commerce, how can he know where it is.

Hong Ju said: "It's Zhu Yuan, the president of the Bailian Chamber of Commerce, who wants to see you." ”

Hearing this name, Jiang Yu seemed to be a little familiar, and suddenly remembered that he seemed to have seen such a person on the immortal dew plate. He asked Hong Judao, "What is this Bailian Chamber of Commerce for?"

Hongrou patiently explained: "The Bailian Chamber of Commerce is composed of about one hundred and seventy businesses on the dock of Muyun City, and they are mainly engaged in the business of land and water docks, mainly loading ships and transporting goods. ”

"What are they looking for me for?" Jiang Yuxin said that Muyun City has rules, and the affairs of these merchants naturally have deacons to take care of, and it is not their turn, so there is naturally no need for these merchants to come to him.

"Does the master want to see you?" asked Hongrou, and as Hongrou spoke, she took out two jade bracelets with a faint purple glow from her sleeve and placed them on the table. Obviously, it was someone else who gave her.

"Yo, it's not small. When Jiang Yu saw the bracelet, his eyes lit up. Jiang Yu didn't know much about jewelry, but he also knew that among the jadeite, there was one of the most valuable, purple jadeite called violet jade. This kind of jadeite can be said to be very precious and rare. And it is even more difficult to make two beautiful bracelets like this. Such a treasure, if it is in someone else's place, I am afraid that it can be used as the treasure of the town. And here in Jiang Yu, it can only be regarded as ordinary, so many gifts from wealthy businessmen and prominent families up and down Muyun City to Jiang Yu, most of Jiang Yu were rewarded to Hong Rou and others, so now the jewelry treasures owned by Hong Rou and her little sisters are described as piled up, and it is estimated that they are about the same.

"Let's see each other. Jiang Yu said with a smile. He said in his heart that if he was willing to give such a heavy gift to Hongroudu, it would definitely not be a trivial matter to find himself. After Jiang Yu gave the order, Hongrou turned around and left. Jiang Yu stopped her immediately.

"Take the bracelet away and leave it here without looking good. Jiang Yu instructed the red judo. For Jiang Yu, the so-called treasures are only treasures that have to have aura, such as soul bells, soul breaking gold sand and the like. It seems that this kind of thing that is only valuable but useless, he naturally looks down on it.

After Hongrou accepted the bracelet, she went out to make arrangements, and it didn't take long for Zhu Yuan, the president of the Bailian Chamber of Commerce, and three people who came with him and looked like businessmen, into Jiang Yu's study in turn.

After a brief salute, Zhu Yuan sat down, while the other three stood behind him. After all, in this kind of place, Zhu Yuan has a position that is reluctant, let alone them.

"Is there something wrong?" Jiang Yu asked.

"This ......" Zhu Yuan thought about it, and then said what he meant, he went around and around, and what he said was a little vague, but Jiang Yu still understood what he meant.

It turned out that Jiangyu's mine was opened, and because it was paid a high enough salary, a large number of people were recruited to come and work as miners at once. But this kind of action made these elders of the Bailian Chamber of Commerce who ate the dock rice very distressed, because Jiang Yu's actions made their porters and all kinds of handymen run away for more than half of them. For these merchants, it is fatal. So they gathered together and asked Zhu Yuan, the president of the Bailian Chamber of Commerce, to come over and discuss this matter with Jiang Yu. To put it bluntly, I just hope that Jiang Yu will lower his salary.

Jiang Yu listened to Zhu Yuan's words and said, "What I say is difficult to change, besides, it is well thought out. I don't know much about the business on the docks, but if you don't do it, I'm sure someone else will, right?"

When Zhu Yuan heard this, he frowned and said, "This ...... When the city lord Gu was there, he once issued a clear document that in order to prevent malicious competition in Muyun City, the salary of the porter and the other should not exceed ten silver per month. So ......"

Listening to Zhu Yuan's words, Jiang Yu looked sideways, looked at Hong Rou, and said, "Is there such a thing?"

Hongrou nodded. Jiang Yu smiled and said loudly: "Then I will scrap it today!"

"Ah......" Zhu Yuan opened his mouth when he heard this, he didn't expect that Jiang Yu would be such a simple person, and the Ming Wen under the previous sect master would be abolished.

Jiang Yu looked at Zhu Yuan and said, "If you don't say it, in fact, I know very well that even if the salary rises to forty silver per month, you still have a lot of money, and you still make a lot of money." Hearing Jiang Yu say such things, Zhu Yuan's brows moved, but he didn't speak. Jiang Yu smiled and said, "I'm right. As far as you are concerned, you just want your porters not to starve to death, but you never treat them as human beings. ”

"Don't dare, don't dare to ......" Zhu Yuan listened to Jiang Yu's tone become stern, and several people behind him kowtowed.

Jiang Yu smiled slightly, looked at Zhu Yuan, and said, "I think that Chairman Zhu has never been a miner before, and I don't know how dangerous and hard it is to collect minerals in the dark underground. Why don't you go and work as a miner for a month or two, and then we'll talk about the pay when you're done?"

As soon as he heard that Jiang Yu was going to let them go to work as miners with hard labor, Zhu Yuan kowtowed again and again, and together with the people behind him, he just said that everything was under Jiang Yu's orders.

Seeing them like this, Jiang Yu said in his heart that these guys who are very inward-looking will probably only bully and bully ordinary people. Thinking of this, Jiang Yu looked at the four people and said, "Since the former city lord's explicit text has been abolished today, let's just make it bigger." As he spoke, he looked sideways at Hongrou. Said: "From today, the salary has doubled, to forty silver." At the same time, the number of people on the mine, doubled. ”

As soon as Jiang Yu's words were finished, Hongrou also covered her mouth and whispered, and Zhu Yuan almost fainted when she heard this. He said in his heart that the Bailian Chamber of Commerce does not count, if other related chambers of commerce knew that it was because he came to Jiang Yu, and Jiang Yu was angry and doubled his salary, those chambers of commerce would not eat him alive.

"It's okay, you can go. Jiang Yu flicked his sleeves, and Zhu Yuan was almost carried out by a few people behind him.

"Master, do you really want this?" Hongrou asked Jiang Yudao in some surprise after seeing Zhuyuan go out. Doubling the labor is nothing, after all, the mine is profitable, even if it is multiplied several times, it is still profitable. However, the increase in the number of people means that the scale of mining will also be doubled, and the facilities used for mining are not a small amount.

"Yes. Jiang Yu responded, and then said to Hong Rou: "I'm not impulsive, I've thought about it." You'll know what I mean when you look back. ”

"Hmm......" Hongrou nodded, he said in his heart, this master of his own, has never let him down. Maybe this time, it can bring him more surprises.

No matter what Jiang Yu Hongrou was, from Jiang Yu's mansion, Zhu Yuan, who almost staggered out, walked towards the helm of the Bailian Chamber of Commerce with the support of three people.

"President, what should we do, the city lord said that the money will be raised, forty silver, isn't this our life!"

"With such a high salary, the profit will be gone. ”

"What's worse is that everyone may run out!"

", how can it be his turn to be the city lord!"

......

Listening to the three people behind him, Zhu Yuan gradually came to his senses, his eyes showed ruthlessness, and said, "It's useless to complain, it's better to kill him!"

Zhu Yuan's cruel words frightened the three people around him to turn pale, and they subconsciously looked around to see if anyone heard it. Zhu Yuan snorted coldly and said to the three people: "What are you afraid of, since he doesn't want us to live, then we won't let him live first!" He turned around and looked at the person who was close to him, and said, "Xiao Zhai, don't you know a few powerful people, tell them that as long as they can kill this new city lord, how much money, let them come to the Bailian Chamber of Commerce to get it." ”

......

Jiang Yu assigned things to Hongrou, and he didn't say hello to the deacon of Muyun City, he directly changed into simple civilian clothes and went to the mine in the south of the city.

The mine is far away in the mountains, in order to allow it to resume work, the roads along the way have been completely rebuilt, Jiang Yu on the road, can see a lot of short-cut laborers, walking in groups towards the mine. As he walked, he listened to the men.

"I heard that when I went to the mine, I always gave an advance payment for three months, and I gave sixty silver at a time, which was like money falling from the sky. ”

"Liar, how can there be such a good thing. ”

"There's no such good thing, what are you doing here. ”

"Everybody says so, I'll take a look. ”

"If we can really get twenty silver a month, then we can eat meat. ”

"I heard that this was all made by our new city lord, but I only heard that the new city lord was a young man, but I didn't expect it to be so courageous. ”

......

Jiang Yu listened to those people's words, those flattering words, he listened to them naturally and comfortably, but he didn't pay attention to it, what he paid attention to was whether these people believed in him.

It didn't take long for Jiang Yu to arrive at the mine. There were several long queues on the mine, and at the end of the queue were the people brought by Deacon Zhao, who checked their bodies one by one, and those who passed went to register to receive money.

At this time, Deacon Zhao was sitting on a high position in the distance, with more than a dozen people around him, holding parasols, and some people fanning them.

"He looks more like a city lord than I am. Jiang Yu watched from afar and said with a smile in his heart. He was not annoyed by this kind of thing, because he understood that this was a common phenomenon in Muyun City, and he was an outlier. Jiang Yu didn't bother Deacon Zhao, he just watched from a distance. After watching it for a long time, he nodded, and said in his heart that although Deacon Zhao had laid out some scores, he did things well, at least he did not deduct the salaries of these people, and when he chose people, he was fair.

Just as Jiang Yu was watching, he heard a horn sound. Jiang Yu heard the sound and looked sideways, and saw a large group of people walking at the mouth of the valley in the distance, and a few people in front of him were responsible for blowing trumpets and gongs. Behind it was a huge sedan chair carried by sixteen people, and behind the sedan chair was followed by dozens of servants.

"Damn, who is this, such a big shelf. "Jiang Yuxin said that Deacon Zhao should forget it, this guy is a bit excessive. When Jiang Yu was guessing which deacon in Muyun City was in the sedan chair, he saw a little old man who was not tall coming out of the sedan chair, and saw that the little old man had white hair, but he looked very energetic. This person Jiang Yu had never seen before.

"Who is this?" Jiang Yu was a little puzzled, so he asked himself in a low voice. And there was a strong man with good deeds beside him, looking at the little old man in the distance, and said to Jiang Yu: "I don't know this, Shan Tugong, a local living immortal." ”

"Living Immortals?" Jiang Yu frowned when he heard this. Seeing that he still didn't know him, the strong man explained, and Jiang Yu understood the name of this mountain and soil prince. It turns out that this mountain Tugong is a legendary god, I heard that he has a set of feng shui and mining skills, according to his instructions to put down the mining, almost no loss of money, and it is precisely because of his ability to survey the earth's veins that all the local mining families and wealthy businessmen worship him as a god, dare not offend him, every time a new mine is opened, he will be asked to guide.

After the strong man explained, he said to Jiang Yu: "This old man is rich in oil, let him take a look at the mine, it will cost a lot of money, what is the money called, I haven't seen it, anyway, it's very valuable." ”

"Spirit Stone Coins. Jiang Yu responded. The strong man was stunned when he heard this, then nodded again and again, and said, "That's right, that's it." ”

"There are such gods ......" Jiang Yu was surprised in his heart, he said in his heart that the purpose of his coming here was to see if Deacon Zhao had done what he had ordered, and at the same time, he also hoped that he would use his eyes to find one or two usable ore veins, so that he could make more money. Unexpectedly, I would meet such a god-man here.

"Could it be that he also has eyes that can see aura?" Jiang Yu wondered.

Over there, Shan Tugong got off the sedan chair, and with the support of a bunch of people, he walked towards Deacon Zhao, and Deacon Zhao had already stood up to greet him.

The mountain man stood there, standing still, listening to the people around him pat him one by one, twisting his beard, very proud.

After boasting for a long time, in the end, Deacon Zhao still wanted to ask Shan Tugong to help him see the "pulse" of the mine, and Shan Tugong took Deacon Zhao and others to the top of the mountain and looked down. At this time, Jiang Yu also quietly went to the top of the mountain, but he was hidden and no one noticed him. Jiang Yu wanted to see if the old man had pupil skills, but he saw that the old man looked down for a long time, and then said: "No need to dig, the mineral deposits of this mountain are almost exhausted, you can give up, you don't have to waste your energy." ”

"This ...... Is there really not?" Deacon Zhao looked at the people around him, quite embarrassed, among the many deacons, only Deacon Li was less qualified than him, originally when Gu Xiuwu was there, few other deacons took him seriously. Although he managed the finances, the other deacons, by virtue of their high status in the sect, used him as if he were a human being. Now that Jiang Yu has become the owner of the new city, he trusts him, and gives him such an important errand, he does his best to do it well, as long as he does a good job and gains Jiang Yu's trust, then there is no need to look at the faces of other deacons. But now that there is no mine in this mine, how can he not be disappointed.

Seeing Deacon Zhao ask like this, Shan Tugong didn't speak, and his subordinates said directly to Deacon Zhao: "Our lord is full of words, which of the minerals around Muyun City has not been seen by our lord, and which one is the one that our lord has seen?"

"This ......," Deacon Zhao was embarrassed. Indeed, just as the descendants of Shantugong said, Shantugong has surveyed countless mineral deposits, he said that where there are mines, there are naturally countless mineral deposits, and because of his words, the merchants who have become rich can be said to be countless.

The subordinate of the mountain and soil prince stretched out his hand to Deacon Zhao and said, "Okay, say okay!" What he was referring to was naturally the cost of the mountain and soil prince's survey.

Deacon Zhao was helpless, sighed, and ordered his subordinates to come across a large bag of spirit stone coins, and when he was about to present them to the Shan Tugong, he heard someone at this time:

"Wait! Who said there wasn't a wanderer?"