What came was a royal history of the imperial song.

This imperial history was originally in Xiu Mu, but Xiu Mu had nothing to do, so he was sent by Xinjia to deliver a message.

"This imperial historian is young. "Huang Ming returned the salute, although the imperial history is just an ordinary official in the imperial history platform, but the power of the wind is very powerful, and when he comes here, most of them also want to see if there is anything that can be played.

Lord Huang laughed. Yu Shi said: "The caravan that came with me this time is all seeking to buy Shi Ni and copper ore. ”

Huang Ming hesitated and said: "Shi Ni is no problem, the mountains are all over the wilderness, copper mines..."

"I don't have a lot of copper in my mine. ”

If there is a copper mine, Huang Ming would have taken someone to dig it a long time ago, and if he didn't send some copper to the palace, let the king continue to melt it, and there would be no bronze left of the first king!

The young Yushi said: "That's fine, anyway, I'm just helping them mention it, Lord Huang, here is Xin Zhongcheng's letter to you." ”

Yushi took out the letter, and Huang Ming took it, a little surprised.

He had seen the paper in the song, but this was the first time someone had sent him a letter.

Huang Ming opened the letter and looked at it for a moment.

Mom, I don't understand, the words on the bamboo slips used to look similar, how much can I recognize the appearance, as soon as the paper comes out, everyone's writing style is different, and it is a lot more unrestrained, I really can't understand it.

Huang Ming returned the letter to Yushi and said honestly: "I don't understand." ”

Yu Shi cast a look that everyone had the same eyes, and he couldn't quite understand that among the hundreds of civil and military officials, the word Xin Jia was the most difficult to recognize.

"The content is basically that those who have dansha have gold under them, those who have stones have copper and gold under them, those who have tombstones have lead, tin, and red copper under them, and those who have ochre have iron under them. ”

Fortunately, even with a guess, I can read the meaning.

"Copper, gold, iron?"

Huang Ming muttered, why does Xin Jia want these things?

Copper is good to say, the necessities for building blades and bronze ritual vessels, but iron....

Iron ore blades are extremely sharp, but the problem is that the heat is difficult to control, and it is difficult to melt and cast.

Although there are some iron tools now, they are all forged by chance, and there are not many of them.

Without a systematic casting process, even if a large amount of iron ore is mined, it is meaningless.

But since Xin Jia wants it, then find a way to get some for him.

Huang Ming said goodbye to him, prepared to look for copper ore and iron ore, and raised the price of some stones.

Even so, the stewards of the caravans who came here from thousands of miles away, or the noble lords who came in person when they saw the huge benefits, did not bother to bargain.

Because the price of Shi Ni here is really too low, if this thing is transported to Chaoge, at least the price can be doubled several times.

Even after winter, or if the palace no longer buys charcoal, Shi Ni will also make huge profits.

If you delay for a day, you will earn one less day.

More and more caravans came to the Nishan mining area, and even directly set up processing workshops on the spot for rough processing, so that in order to recruit more people, wages also increased a lot.

An endless stream of carriages and horses brought the most needed food and various daily utensils in the mining area.

As a result, the northern herdsmen here are all boiling.

That's the life they want!

No one doesn't want to live a stable life, in the past, if you wanted to live a good life, you had to rob, but now, mining is good.

In the workshop, there was black smoke.

It takes some time to make charcoal in the kiln, so I simply use Shi Ni directly, anyway, Shi Ni is cheap, you can pick it up anywhere, and it looks like you use Shi Ni to open the furnace, and the flame is more vigorous.

Countless aristocratic businessmen, back and forth, endlessly......

.............

Somewhere outside the city of Chaoge.

Zhuangzi is not small, and there are many slaves.

Horse-drawn carriages slowly arrived.

The front door was closed, so the carriage went through the back door.

The back door is good, but the back door is not noticeable.

People got out of the carriage and into a dark room.

The owner of the house was scalding wine.

The people sat down one after another, but they were silent as they scalded their wine with their hosts.

Occasionally, there is the clatter of cups, or a slight cough or two.

"Ahem......"

A little fire rose in the dimly lit room, and the master took a sip of wine and said, "Ladies and gentlemen, what do you think?"

Sighs came and went.

Someone said: "The king is a stranger to us and other nobles, and sooner or later he will have to face all this." ”

Many nodded secretly.

Some were willing to relinquish the authority of the nobility that had been passed down to the present day and turn to business to earn money.

Naturally, there are people who are unwilling.

These are not afraid of the power of the king, nor are they afraid of the great merchants.

Because most of them have old relations with the princes of various places, those princes may not necessarily sell the face of the king and sincerely submit to the big merchants.

Xiqi, Echeng, plus Dongyi, Baiyue, and Xirong, if the forces of many parties are gathered, it is even enough to overthrow the Great Shang.

The blades and armor of the arsenal are the masters of this Zhuangzi, and the head of the Ji family is behind the scenes.

He is not afraid of things being exposed, and even if things are exposed, he is not afraid.

Today's king is a benevolent monarch, and for hundreds of people, it can indeed make people's hearts calm, but for the nobles, it is undoubtedly connivance.

Of course, the king also has a ruthless side, such as beheading Li Hou with a sword and executing him publicly.

However, the head of the family believes that against these nobles, the king has not made a decisive move, and even deliberately found a way for the nobles to do business, and did not hesitate to raise the price of charcoal, and used the bronze of the former king to smelt money, give the nobles the benefits of business, and get along with them by more gentle means.

But the head of the family felt that it was not enough.

In the 600 years of the Great Shang, the king of Shang and the princes and nobles ruled the world together, and now it cannot be changed casually.

This is a chance for some nobles led by the head of the Ji family to give the king of Xu.

If the king insists on this, then they can only tear their faces and completely take refuge in Xibohou or Nanbohou.

"You ...... What do you think?"

"This ......"

"Lu Xiong is a rough man, I'm afraid he won't sell us face. ”

"He's not the key, the Xuanniao Wei is the key. ”

"Find a way to make Xuanniaowei unable to investigate. ”

"What about Chongying Biao?"

"He couldn't open his mouth. ”

"No, don't worry, this matter has to be investigated for at least a few months, Chongying Biao is the only son of Bei Bohou, Bei Bohou is quite wise, if he is forced to be urgent, it is not beautiful. ”

"Everyone is a grasshopper on a rope, and it shouldn't be soft-hearted. ”

"It's not that I'm soft-hearted, it's that I'm not in a hurry. ”

"What if you find out? The Chinese Wu of the Dynasty also doesn't want King Xi to stand on the opposite side of our nobles because of such a trivial matter, otherwise, there will really be no one to support him. ”

"Although Lu Xiong threw the officials of the arsenal into the river and used radical methods, isn't this a compromise?"

"Lu Xiong doesn't know that there must be a handicraft of the arsenal officials behind him? But does he dare to report the matter later?"

"Even if the Xuanniao Wei finds out about us, at most, it is a small punishment, a fine, no matter how bad it is, it is just a flow of thousands of miles, the wife and children at home, and their own friends take care of it, and we and other nobles have been inherited to this day, and they are related to the past, who can't trust whom?"

"But this is the worst-case scenario, I deliberately let people steal the blade, not for the sake of draining thousands of miles. ”

"The energy of the nobles is great, so let the king see what we can do. ”

But at this time, the steward in Zhuangzi hurriedly came in: "Master, master......"

The head of the family was calm: "What's the matter?"

The steward stepped forward and whispered a few words in the ear of the head of the house.

The head of the Ji family nodded, and after letting the steward go out, he said to everyone in the house: "A soldier can't be without armor for a day, the palace is forging new blades and armor, doesn't the king let us do business?

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