Wei Zhongxian excitedly went to report the good news to Zhu Youxiao.
Zhu Youxiao said: "The factory minister is good.
Well, first let Chen Xiu take people to Qian'an to find the location of the iron ore, and then set up an iron ore factory for me.
I will I will give you a charter.
Just follow this charter.
The name is called Royal Iron Ore Plant, and it will be completed by the construction team of the Wei Dynasty. " Chen Xiu brought a few people to Qian'an, and first visited Bi Zisu.
Bi Zisu still followed the old principle, giving people money and providing convenience, but not caring about specific matters.
In fact, this was the best situation.
Chen Xiu soon found an iron mine in Zhujiagou.
The Zhujiagou iron mine was shallowly buried and the ore could be seen within five feet of digging.
Chen Xiu used a simple method to mine the ore.
After smelting the method, I found that the quality was very good.
I couldn't help but be overjoyed and immediately reported the good news to the capital.
Zhu Youxiao instructed Wei Zhongxian to expand the scope of exploration, and then quickly built a local mining plant and started mining.
He remembered that there was a Kailuan coal mine in later generations, which should be in the Luanzhou area, and Luanzhou and Qian'an were next to each other, so he found Wei Zhongxian and ordered Chen Xiu to immediately go to Luanzhou to explore the coal mines after completing the Qian'an iron mine exploration. , first find a place with the word "open" in the name and try to find it there.
Chen Xiu was prospecting in Qian'an and found several more iron mines.
Then he led his people to fight in Luanzhou, and at this time the Wei Dynasty had already led the construction team to start building an iron ore plant.
Chen Xiu came to Luanzhou and followed the emperor's instructions to find a place with the word "kai" in its name.
He found a place called Kaiping Town.
This place has a large population and is known as the first of the four famous towns in Jingdong.
Chen Xiu and others were thinking, if there was a coal mine in such a prosperous place, wouldn't they know about it earlier?
The emperor can't be wrong.
As a result, a few people walked around the town and found out that someone had started mining coal here as early as the Yongle period.
Led by local people, several people first came to the Kaiping Coal Factory, observed carefully and then went to the owner's home.
The proprietor's name was Li Zhengbing.
He warmly welcomed several people in.
After sitting down in the guest room, Chen Xiu got straight to the point: "Dong Li, the reason why we are here is to buy the Kailai Coal Factory."
Li Zhengbing's eyes flashed and he said, "I wonder how much money your boss is prepared to spend to buy the coal mine."
Chen Xiudao: "I took a look at the coal mine and asked about the amount of coal produced by your mine in a year.
According to the current price, your mine can earn 600 yuan a year, so we came up with a ten-year price to buy the coal mine.
Down."
Six thousand yuan is three thousand taels of silver.
This is already a very fair price.
However, Li Zhengbing shook his head and said: "Fifteen thousand, we won't sell it for less than this price.
By the way, it's silver.
If it's new currency, that's it."
Thirty thousand yuan.”
Chen Xiu was dumbfounded.
This number was equivalent to fifty years of the coal mine's output, which was too high.
Having run a mine himself, the price originally offered was a fair price, but it seemed that Li Zhengbing didn't want to sell it.
Chen Xiu wanted to make a last-ditch effort, so he said, "Can Li Dongjia offer a more sincere price so that I can respond to my employer?"
Li Zhengbing smiled and said, "It's a good price, so I won't give it away."
Chen Xiu had no choice but to say goodbye and immediately sent the news back to the capital.
Wei Zhongxian was furious when he received the report.
The small mine owners were being bullied to the point of being bullied.
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He immediately sent people to Yongping Prefecture to check the tax payment records of the Kaiping Coal Mine.
Then he said that he had paid less taxes and closed his mine.
See How could he be so good at it?
A supervisor from Dongchang brought someone to the Luanzhou Taxation Department and directly found the supervisor assigned by Dongchang.
When he checked the tax collection records of the Taxation Department, he found that there was no name of Kaiping Coal Mine at all.
The boss was overjoyed and was about to say that he paid less taxes, but unexpectedly he didn't pay at all.
So he didn't even need to forge evidence.
He took officials from the Taxation Department to the Kaiping Coal Mine, sealed the mine, and arrested Li Zhengbing.
Li Zhengbing originally opened a small coal mine here.
If he could earn five or six hundred yuan a year, it would be pretty good.
Seeing that Chen Xiu and others were in a hurry to buy the mine, he wanted to make a big one, so he came here to make a big profit.
When he opened his mouth, he unexpectedly attracted an official from the Taxation Department.
However, he was not afraid at all and yelled at the boss: "You dare to arrest me, do you know who my brother-in-law is?"
The supervisor looked at the official from the Taxation Department and said, "Who is this guy's brother-in-law?
He is so powerful."
Officials from the Taxation Department had dealt with Wang Zhengbing before and asked him to pay taxes according to law.
As a result, Wang Zhengbing ignored him and directly carried him out of his backstage.
It turned out that his sister was the concubine of Li Sancai's son Li Mingsheng, and this coal mine It was originally the property in Li Mingsheng's name, but it was given to him as money to buy his sister.
However, he did not manage it well, and the coal mine has been half-dead.
But the foreman was a quick-thinking person.
He had an extra eye and asked: "Does this coal mine now belong to Li Mingsheng or Wang Zhengbing?"
Wang Zhengbing heard it and shouted proudly: "Of course it belongs to my brother-in-law."
The official from the Taxation Department also nodded.
The boss thought for a moment and said, "Get him to the tax department first.
I need to read the deed first, and then I can report it to the factory owner after confirming it."
Everyone returned to the Taxation Department and first went to the state to read the deed.
It was indeed true that the coal mine was still in Li Mingsheng's name.
Overjoyed, he hurriedly wrote a letter and had it sent back to the capital.
Wei Zhongxian was extremely happy after receiving the report, but he still went to Zhu Youxiao first.
After reading the letter, Zhu Youxiao thought for a while and said: "What the factory minister means is"
Wei Zhongxian said: "Your Majesty, this is a good opportunity to trap Li Mingsheng in this matter.
Li Sancai can't watch his eldest son go to prison.
Maybe he can dig out part of Li Sancai's money then." ” Zhu Youxiao smiled.
This was indeed an opportunity.
Li Sancai was so rich that he couldn't dig out more than half of it.
He would feel really uncomfortable.
However, he still said to Wei Zhongxian: "Let Dongchang follow this thread to investigate.
No."
Maybe this is the only problem, pull out the radish and bring out the mud , if you want to find solid evidence, it is useless to lock up Li Mingsheng for blackmailing Li Sancai.
If he pays one hundred thousand taels of silver to compensate you, you have to let him go.
What does this mean for his family property?
Take a longer view. , seize the irrefutable proof, and all his property will be ours by then. " Wei Zhongxian smiled happily: "Your Majesty is still powerful, but my eyes are shallow.
What about the coal mine?"
"Li Mingsheng resisted the tax, of course it was confiscated, and asked Chen Xiu to quickly explore the coal.
It is very close to Qian'an and has the Luanhe River.
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It is just right to build an iron factory and directly smelt the steel and send it to the capital.
I want it A lot of steel, the more the better.
You go to Sun Yuanhua and ask him to send a few steel-making craftsmen to guide the construction of the steel plant.
What I am short of now is time.
If we work together, the speed will be faster
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