Great Tang Dynasty

Chapter 2144 Coal Mine Discovered
The weather in Xiliang is getting colder and colder.

In this cold weather, there are fewer merchants coming and going in Liangzhou City.

Because of cement and Liangzhou food, the trade in Liangzhou City was prosperous for a while.

Originally, after Yumen Pass was captured and the Silk Road opened, the trade should be more lively, but because Yumen Pass was guarded by female generals, many merchants were still a little worried about trading with the countries of the Western Regions.

Coupled with the cold weather, those businessmen who left Liangzhou City before this year are not planning to come again.

In this way, the entire territory of Xiliang seems to have fallen silent all of a sudden. Of course, Liangzhou City is somewhat better, but it is only Liangzhou City. It is not easy to activate the excitement of the entire Xiliang City?

Ma Zhou is still making preparations for the Xiliang Academy. Now the entire Xiliang Academy has begun to see its scale, and it will basically be completed next spring. Now, the most important thing for them is to hire teachers.

This matter is not difficult, as long as they are willing to pay a high salary, many scholars are still willing to come to Xiliang to teach.

As for the orphans who are still living in the military camp, apart from training with the soldiers every day, what they look forward to most is to be able to study in the academy.

This group of children has slowly recovered their innocence, but because they have experienced hardships, they are more mature than others.

"Ergouzi, do you like to study in the academy?"

In their spare time, a group of children like to sit and chat in the front. They have all experienced hardships in Turkic, so the relationship is very good.

This person, who was called Er Gouzi, was a handsome little boy, still childish, but with an indescribable calmness.

"Naturally, I like to go to the academy to study. I heard that after studying, I can understand many truths in the world, and can build our Tang Dynasty better. I want to study."

"I don't want to study, I want to learn martial arts, I want to be a soldier, I want to kill those Turkic people, I want to defend our homeland, and prevent anyone from stepping into our homeland."

"Then you can also go to the academy. I heard that the academy also teaches riding and archery."

"Yeah, I'm going..."

The lives of these children were bleak before, and for them, interests or hobbies were a very luxurious thing, which they did not deserve, but now, they will have these things soon, and they can provide for their own Like to work hard.

Their future is starting to look bright.

Luo Huang led a group of people after ten days of trekking, and finally arrived at the place Qin Tian mentioned.

But after coming to this place, it was not easy for them to find the coal mine.

Because although Qin Tian drew a very small point on the map, the actual area of ​​this point is not known how many times larger.

Even if they want to search this place, it will probably take two or three days.

This place used to be a bit inaccessible, and even businessmen never walked here.

After Luo Huang and the others arrived at this place, they formed groups of two and two, and then began to search for this place.

They surveyed the underground according to the method Qin Tian said, because they didn't know where the coal mine was underground, so all they could do was a carpet search, searching every piece of land one by one. , and once they think there may be coal mines underground, they still need to dig to see if there are any. After all, things like coal mines are buried underground.

They searched here for several days without any results.

At night, it will become very cold here, and these people will gather together again, and then find some dry firewood from the surroundings to keep warm.

That night, when a group of people were resting in the tent, suddenly the flames burst into the sky outside, Luo Huang suddenly woke up and sat up.

"What's going on, what happened?"

They ran out of the house in a hurry, and then they saw that the place where they were burning the fire was much more ferocious, but they didn't have much firewood.

Faintly, they smelled some coal.

When they reacted, Luo Huang was overjoyed.

"The coal mine, the coal mine, it may be down here, quickly move the fire away, dig it, dig it for me."

It was very cold, but now they couldn't care less about it. Several people took tools and started digging. It didn't take long before they dug out the coal.

"There is really a coal mine here in the coal mine. That's right, it's here."

Everyone was very excited, and when they were excited, they also admired Qin Tian a little bit. How did he know that there was a coal mine here? It was amazing.

And they have coal mines in Xiliang, so they can make a lot of money by selling coal, right?

Moreover, the price of coal mines will definitely be much lower this year, and the people of Xiliang don't have to suffer from the cold.

They didn't dare to sleep any longer, and after marking them, they rushed to Liangzhou City overnight. They had to tell Qin Tian the news as soon as possible.

Several people rushed overnight, and after three days, they finally returned to Liangzhou City.

"My lord, my lord..."

When Qin Tian was talking about school affairs with Ma Zhou at the mansion, Luo Huang ran back in a hurry. Seeing Luo Huang's return, Qin Tian's expression changed suddenly, and he quickly asked, "Did you find the coal mine?"

Luo Huang nodded: "I found it, and it's a large coal mine, enough for us to mine for decades, or even decades. The price of this coal mine will drop in the future."

Qin Tian doesn't care much about this, as long as he has coal, as long as his people in Xiliang can rely on these coals to survive the winter safely.

"Okay, okay, if you find a coal mine, you have to dig it quickly, Luo Huang, you immediately go to recruit people, let them help mine the coal mine, and tell those people who are willing to dig coal, as long as they are willing to dig coal In addition to paying them wages, the coal they need this winter is covered by the Xiliang Palace, as long as they dig coal, they won't have to suffer from the cold this year."

In Xiliang, coal is very expensive, and you may not even have it if you want it. The way for many people to keep warm may be to burn some dry firewood, but that thing is too dangerous. How about getting a kang to keep warm?
Therefore, as long as Qin Tian's policy continues, there will be people in every household who are willing to dig coal. As long as they send out a family member to dig coal, their whole family will not have to suffer from the cold this winter. , will definitely do it.

After Qin Tian finished speaking like this, Luo Huang didn't hesitate, and quickly agreed.

(End of this chapter)