casket of old days

Chapter 89 Mining Coal

The boys and girls who are practicing kung fu with Chu Qiguang are the young master Wu Bing of Wu Wei's family, and the eldest lady Wu Qingchen.

Hao Xiangtong felt that it was not unreasonable for Chu Qiguang to be interested in Wu Qingchen, because she watched Chu Qiguang wandering around Wu Bing and Wu Qingchen as soon as she came, as if bees were surrounding flowers, she was extremely attentive.

Even when Chu Qiguang saw Hao Xiangtong, he just said hello casually, and then turned around Wu Bing and Wu Qingchen.

Looking at this scene, Hao Xiangtong remembered that Chu Qiguang talked to her so graciously a few days ago, told her stories, told her jokes, recognized her as a godsister... and gave her a powerful drink called gold wine. For the medicine, she was only charged a cost price of 2000 taels.

The effect of the gold wine is really powerful, Hao Xiangtong felt that after using it, his physical strength, which was already close to the second level, improved rapidly, and he might be able to truly step into the second level in a month or two.

Just thinking about the golden wine, Chu Qiguang slapped her for a while, every time she thought about it, she couldn't help feeling annoyed and ashamed.

Although the other party slapped her body with a wooden stick because of the relationship between men and women, it still made Hao Xiangtong feel strange.

As a result, when he came to Wu's house to look for him today, he saw this scene in front of him.

Hao Xiangtong slammed his fist on the nearby pine tree, didn't bother to go up and say something, and walked away angrily.

The three of Chu Qiguang turned their heads and looked at the collapsed pine tree. The young master of the Wu family asked strangely, "Why did Sister Hao break the pine tree?"

"Maybe her stomach hurts." Chu Qiguang said: "Don't think too much about it, she will be fine when she goes back to drink hot water. Hao Xiangtong has a weird temper, and she will never guess what she's thinking in her stomach. Yes By the way, have you heard of golden wine?"

First, Hao Yongtai earned 2000 taels from selling gold wine, and then Hao Xiangtong earned 2000 taels. After Chu Qiguang got it, he bought Kaier Pills. He practiced for one night every day. Nails, tongue, and now only the last teeth and hair are left, and you can step into the third realm.

'After getting 4000 taels from Wu Bing and Wu Qingchen, it will take another five or six, seven or eight days to reach the third level. '

In just over two months, he has rushed from an ordinary person to the third level of martial arts. If outsiders know the speed of Chu Qiguang's practice, his jaw will drop.

After negotiating the gold wine deal with Wu Bing and Wu Qingchen, Hao Yongtai approached him, took a few pieces of paper and said, "Brother Chu Xian, this is what you want us to find."

Chu Qiguang took it and glanced at it. After pondering for a while, he nodded and said, "I probably understand what's going on. Let's talk to your father and Master Wu together."

……

In the living room of the Wu family, Hao Wen and Wu Wei listened to Chu Qiguang's narration.

I saw Chu Qiguang take a picture one by one: "I have been investigating the Ding family with Yongtai these days, and sent people to Bingbei Road and the inspection department to secretly inquire how many cars the Ding family has taken every month. Someone arrested the guy in the Ding family caravan and asked..."

These data are not only simple inquiries, but also the investigations of cat demons who went to these people's homes, which can be said to be extremely reliable.

But no matter Wu Wei or Hao Wen, those in power in this world are generally not sensitive to numbers.

On the one hand, mathematics is underdeveloped, and on the other hand, they worry that if they learn too much and read too much, they will become addicted.

Facing the data Chu Qiguang presented at this time, Wu Wei thought that Chu Qiguang was going to say that the Ding family evaded taxes and evaded corvee.

He wondered: "At this point, Zhenmasi and the county magistrate are both on the side of the Ding family. What's the use of investigating these things? There is no real evidence. If they scare them casually, these officers and guys will retract their confessions."

Chu Qiguang pointed to a string of numbers written down on the white paper and said: "It's not a problem of escaping tax and labor. Look at this... In Meishan alone, according to the memory of the archers of the inspection department, 500 coal is shipped out every day. above the basket.

Each basket is counted as 60 catties, which means that more than 3 catties of coal are produced every day, and more than 90 catties per month. "

Hao Wen was slightly taken aback: "So many?" Then he said: "But so what?"

"The Ding family has been mining 90 jin of coal per month for nearly eight years."

Seeing that Wu Wei and Hao Wen still had no feedback, Chu Qiguang could only continue to say: "Such a large amount of mining, digging rocks and digging soil every day, Meishan is not big at all, and the rocks, water, soil, and vegetation have all been destroyed. Naturally, the Feng Shui spiritual veins were also completely destroyed.

Hearing about the Fengshui spirit veins, the eyes of the two landowners lit up, and they looked at Chu Qiguang in surprise. Unexpectedly, the other party inferred from these numbers that the spirit veins might be destroyed. Angrily said: "You said the Ding family destroyed Meishan's spiritual vein?"

Meishan Lingmai is said to be originated from Zulong Mountain thousands of miles away, so the Fengshui of Qingyang County has always been praised by the wealthy families and ordinary people in the county.It is also considered to be one of the reasons why there are so many Wusheng, Wujuren, and Wujinshi in Qingyang County.

What's more, today's royal family is most concerned with Fengshui luck and mountain spiritual veins. Emperor Taizu once sent people to measure the world's spiritual veins and compiled them into a book. Only then did he choose the location of the current Shenjing City and the imperial palace, and also laid down the first place in the world. After 200 years, it is strictly forbidden for anyone to destroy the spiritual veins.

Chu Qiguang said: "People in the entire county will not let them destroy the Meishan spiritual veins. Besides, it is a taboo of the court. The emperor will never spare the Ding family."

Wu Wei and Hao Wen nodded repeatedly, thinking in their hearts that Chu Qiguang is really powerful, and after going to Zhenmasi to intervene, it took only a few days to catch the death spot of the Ding family.

But Chu Qiguang didn't finish his sentence, and he added: "And the coal sold by Ding's family is very cheap, less than half of the market price. There must be secrets on this Meishan Mountain. It's a pity that the entire mine is heavily guarded, not only Martial arts masters are in charge, and the mine protection team patrols day and night, but none of the people we sent could get in."

Chu Qiguang thought in his heart: "The mine is like a military camp. Even demons like dogs and cats will be found when they enter. Qiao Zhi said that there are super masters sitting there, and he will be found when he enters... There must be a lot of people in Meishan." What a secret. '

At this moment, Chu Qiguang naturally didn't know that the Ding family used the living corpses of the Immortal Dao to mine the mine. Naturally, the cost was low, and to manipulate the living corpses in the mountains, there were naturally masters of the Immortal Dao sitting in the town.

"But even so, their average price per hundred catties of coal is only 8 cents of silver, and their annual income is less than 1 taels. Although it is only an estimate, it is not too much. From the capital?"

"Tens of thousands of taels can be sent to the capital every year, and they may earn 10,000+ taels of silver a year."

Wu Wei frowned and said, "We outsiders don't know how much money the Ding family has earned in a year. We want to check...unless we can find the account books of the Ding family."

"Everyone who walks will leave traces, let alone a big business with more than 10 taels of silver?" Chu Qiguang turned out another piece of paper while talking, pointed to the rows of numbers on it and said: "This It’s the goods sent out by the Ding family’s caravan every month, do you think they can earn tens of thousands of taels a year with these?”

Hao Wen and Wu Wei looked at the contents above, and found that they were all commodities such as iron pots, salt, tea, cotton cloth, and rice grains.

Chu Qiguang said: "Estimated according to the market price, even if all these things are sold, the Ding family can earn at most 3 to [-] taels of silver a year."

At this time, Hao Wen and Wu Wei were also puzzled. The coal mines and caravans were not enough. How did the Ding family earn money?

(End of this chapter)