Emperor Zhenguan

Chapter 624 Jiexiu Liuhu Village

How many coal mines are there in Hedong Road?
No one knows the number, and Li Zhiyun only heard about the existence of nearly a thousand coal mines in his previous life.Under the mining of modern industrial technology, these coal mines have been mined for nearly decades, let alone how many years they can be mined in terms of current productivity.

The difference is that this time a group of coal bosses will not be born.Moreover, as a government-run strategic resource for control, coal has long been agreed by the ministers of the political affairs hall because of its good iron-making performance and combustion performance, plus the new smelting equipment in the Weihe Workshop, that coal is a strategic control resource, except for the emperor. No one else is allowed to intervene.

Whoever dares to intervene will be chopped off.

There are currently two coal mines in Hedong Road, the Shanyang Mine near Shanyang, Shuozhou, and the Jiexiu Mine in Fenzhou.The two coal mines are located in different coalfield distribution belts.

Among them, Shanyang Mine belongs to Ningwu Coalfield, and Jiexiu Mine belongs to Huoxi Coalfield.The coal reserves of these two coal fields are more than [-] million tons. With the current mining capacity of the Tang Dynasty, there is no need to consider the problem of "exhausting the pond and fishing" within a hundred years.

In fact, before that, there were several small coal mines in Taiyuan, but they were closed after Li Zhiyun ascended the throne.Because the clans all think that Taiyuan is the land of Longxing, and the land of Longxing should not be spoiled at will, and more care must be taken.

In addition, digging coal required a lot of slaves, which led to the influx of grassland people into Taiyuan, and many censors strongly opposed it.

Taking all aspects into consideration, Li Zhiyun finally decided to turn around and mine Jiexiu Mine and Shanyang Mine.Anyway, these two places are poor and lack popularity, and mining coal mines in the local area can bring some development to some extent.

The first thing Gao Jifu and Zhang Shigui were going to was the Jiexiu Mine.

"Chang'an uses honeycomb coal for heating. Although it is extremely exquisite, it is still seen to be made of this kind of coal, so the powerful landlords here are also mining it in private.

Usually, as long as they don't go too far, the imperial court will buy some, but I didn't expect that they would use Tang people as slaves if they couldn't catch grassland slaves.If it weren't for my open and unannounced visits, I don't know how many people would have disappeared in this Hedong Road. "

Gao Jifu was riding on the horse, and told Zhang Shigui what happened to him, he seemed very angry.

Zhang Shigui frowned unconsciously, as the emperor's dog, he knew what the emperor was thinking.That is not to treat people of other races as human beings, but to treat Tang people as brothers.But now that this group of greedy guys despised the emperor so much, it naturally aroused his killing intent.

"Gao Yushi, let's go and investigate. If anyone dares to stop you, I will fight a way out for you."

"Okay, with the general's words, I can rest assured."

Jiexiu, Liuhu Village.

Although the village is called Liuhu, there are actually more than six households.It is just rumored that there were only six households when the village was first built, so it was called Liuhu Village.The common surname in the village is Zhao, with a population of less than a hundred, it can only be regarded as a small village.

But the sage said that the little demon in the temple is strong, and there are more than eight kings in the shallow pool.

Although the village is small and there are few people, oppression still exists.As a surname, Zhao Dashan is the biggest landlord in this village, and he is also the head of the village.In the village, he is a unique existence.

With some money, Mr. Zhao Dashan once bought honeycomb coal, and he recognized it at a glance as a common item in Hedong Road. Hearing the usefulness and economic value of this item, Mr. Zhao Dashan moved his mind.

He mobilized villagers in the village to dig coal for him, and he sold it to the court, or he secretly experimented with making briquettes, or sold fake briquettes privately as fake briquettes.

People who are not black-hearted can't make money, but Zhao Dashan's heart is black enough, so he made a lot of money in the past two years, built a big yard, married seven or eight concubines, and at the same time, he was doing shameful things in private slave trade.

He didn't dare to think about grassland slaves, because the imperial court had registered them, so he set his sights on his own people.

First of all, people with the same surname in a village, and then buy it from human traffickers, or coax beggars into coal mines.

All in all, the coal mines mined in Liuhu village are dripping with the blood of evil.

Mr. Zhao Dashan stayed at the entrance of the coal mine, watching the villagers coming and going to transport the dark coal, his heart was full of joy.

This is all money!
While inspecting the coal mine, he wondered whether he should go to the Zhaosun family in the west of the village to steal something tonight.Thinking of Zhao Sun's little daughter-in-law who just married into the village, Zhao Dashan's heart became hot.

Unexpectedly, at this moment, a large group of soldiers and horses suddenly surrounded the village, and the leading general came to Zhao Dashan on a tall horse.

Sen Bai Hanguang's gun head slowly raised, pointing at Zhao Dashan.

"You are Zhao Dawei?"

At this moment, Zhao Dashan had already been frightened stupid. From the time the cavalry surrounded the village and blocked the entrance of the coal mine, a series of actions took only a dozen breaths of time.

Seeing the spears so close and the cavalry armed to the teeth, Zhao Dashan's legs trembled and his fat face twitched.

As a small landlord who only dared to be arrogant and domineering in the village, he had never seen such momentum.

"Yes, I'm Zhao Dawei." He answered quickly.

"It seems right." Zhang Shigui looked at Gao Jifu who was coming slowly behind him on horseback.

Half an hour later, Liuhu Village was brought under control, the villagers were rescued, and Zhao Dawei became a prisoner.

At this moment, Zhao Dawei was kneeling in his living room, looking at Gao Jifu and Zhang Shigui in despair.He tried his best to argue that he did not break the law, but it was useless. The villagers all had ironclad evidence, and the coal mine he mined was even more ironclad evidence.

"Zhao Dawei, if I were you, what I'm thinking about now is not how to get rid of the crime, but how to keep the blood of your Zhao family. You must know that the imperial court expressly stipulates that private mining of coal mines is not allowed, but what about you?
Whether it is mining coal mines or oppressing villagers, the crimes you commit are all serious crimes against the nine clans. "

"Zhu Jiu Clan?" Zhao Dawei was so frightened that his heart stopped.

Dig your own land and kill the nine clans?
"I..." He turned pale with fright, not knowing how to explain.Facing the Tang Army cavalry who suddenly appeared, it was enough to frighten him.

What is the existence of the cavalry of the Tang Army in the eyes of ordinary people in the Tang Dynasty?In future generations, probably one day, a certain special force suddenly entered the village.Then they were led by a general, and the title was still a Duke.

In front of common people, Zhang Shigui's status is as heavy as a mountain.

Under tremendous pressure, Zhao Dawei could only choose to plead guilty and confessed quite a lot.

One of them is a channel for human traffickers hidden under Hedong Road, and there is a gathering point for landlords who mine coal mines without permission.

These two pieces of news, no matter which one they are, will cause a huge storm once they are found out.That's why Gao Jifu didn't dare to be negligent, he quickly recorded in detail and made a plan.

"General Zhang, you and I are divided into two groups. I will take people to Qi County and catch these people. You go to Daizhou and catch those traffickers." Gao Jifu said solemnly.

Zhang Shigui nodded, "I'll give you five hundred people."

"Thank you."

After saying that, Zhang Shigui looked at Zhao Dawei who was limp on the ground.

"What about this person?"

Gao Jifu said: "I still want to use him to infiltrate Qi County, find those people, and keep them for now, but his family must be controlled."

"Okay, leave it to me."

In Gao Jifu's eyes, Zhao Dawei must die, and so did his family.As for leaving him a bloodline?
Hehe, there are so many people surnamed Zhao in Liuhu Village, isn't that enough?

(End of this chapter)