The First Young Master of the Tang Dynasty

Chapter 560 Coal Boss
Speaking of Gao Yuan, Xuan Shijing remembered what happened in Shangzhou. There is also Qin Zhan, the tiger of Qinling, in the Qinling Mountains. I don't know how Gao Yuan is investigating in Qin Zhan's house now.

"You should write a letter to Gao Yuan, let him find an excuse to escape and return to Chang'an, and bring back the news of the investigation in the Qinling Mountains." Xuan Shijing said.

"Yes, my lord."

Xuan Shijing rubbed her forehead: "By the way, how far is it at Daozhengfang?"

"Master Hou, the old houses and dilapidated courtyards in Daozhengfang have been demolished, and now the people we hired are starting to clean up the waste outside the city."

Walking a little further south of Chang'an City, you will almost reach the foot of the remaining veins of the Qinling Mountains. At the foot of the mountain over there, many people have been arranged to open kilns and burn cement. Up to now, Xuan Shijing has not seen it. After the finished product, I don’t know how the situation is. Without cement, no matter how clean Daozhengfang is, the built house will still look like that. The money that the chamber of commerce has invested in Daozhengfang over the years is basically a lot of money. The water is gone.

"Send people to the Qinling Mountains in the past two days, and ask the people there to burn the cement quickly. Otherwise, we won't be able to start the construction of Daozhengfang, and it will really be unfinished." Xuan Shijing frowned. Said.

"Master Hou, the cement you mentioned has been experimented by the people there for a year. I heard from the workers there these days that the temperature in our kiln does not seem to be as high as you said. It is difficult. That's the hard part." Qiandui replied cautiously.

"The temperature is not enough? What are they burning?" Xuan Shijing asked.

"Carbon."

Xuan Shijing's question made Qiandui stunned. Besides burning charcoal, what else could he burn?
Hearing Qiandui's answer, Xuan Shijing was speechless for a moment, guarding such a large coal mine in the pass, burning cement to burn carbon?What about coal?

After being stunned for a while, Xuan Shijing finally realized that a lot of coal is now buried in the ground, even if it is burned in the charcoal basin of the Hou Mansion in winter, it is still charcoal.

"Give me the map in the pass." Xuan Shijing said.

"Yes." After hearing Xuan Shijing's order, Qiandui turned around and rummaged through the large row of bookshelves on the fifth floor. According to the bibliography pasted next to the bookshelf, Qiandui quickly removed a scroll from the bookshelf. Pulled out from the vase next to it, walked to Xuan Shijing again, and spread the scroll on Xuan Shijing's table.

Xuan Shijing began to carefully study the map in the pass, compared the terrain in memory, and roughly circled two places: "Find a few experienced ore prospecting masters, and lead people to dig in these two places. Find a black ore with a softer texture, and report it immediately when you find it."

"Yes, Master Hou." Qian Dui replied.

When doing things with Qiandui, he never asks why. Since his own Lord Hou wants to find this kind of ore, it is naturally useful for him. As a subordinate, he only needs to do things according to the orders of Lord Hou.

Xuan Shijing didn't expect that he would one day be a coal boss. By this winter, maybe the Hou Mansion would be able to start a stove, and in a few years, there would be heating.

"Let's do it. By the way, write a message to Wang Chongji of the palace, saying that this afternoon, I will be preparing a banquet in the Xuanwu Building. Please come over and talk about it."

"Yes."

The pile of money is gone, Xuan Shijing’s eyes are still on the map of Guannei on the table, coal mine, for the time being, this is an inexhaustible coal mine, with coal mines, not only cement can be fired, but also the Tang Dynasty The iron smelting can also be raised to another level, which is just right for His Majesty Li Er.

Xuan Shijing leaned on it, and looked at the two places that Bei circled, they were almost inseparable, that is the Great Harmony of later generations.
Putting away the scroll with the map drawn on it, Xuan Shijing leaned on the wide chair, closed his eyes, and thought quietly.

For him, besides burning cement, coal is also useful for heating in winter. As for iron smelting, Xuan Shijing doesn’t intend to contaminate that thing, whether it’s salt or iron, it’s untouchable. Perhaps, if it wasn't for the fact that the raw tea of ​​Tang Dynasty was too hard to drink, Xuan Shijing would not even be contaminated by the tea leaves. Originally, a catty of raw tea was only a few tens of hundreds of words. And then circulated to the market, the minimum is hundreds of guan, and the huge profits in it are self-evident.

And if the coal is reported directly to the imperial court, Xuan Shijing believes that it will not be the imperial court that will benefit the most in the end, this piece of fat will still have to be shared and eaten by those aristocratic families, how reconciled Xuan Shijing is to this.

If it is said to be handed over to the country, it doesn't matter, after all, the Xuan family in Chang'an received the emperor's favor, but if it fell into the hands of those families, then Xuan Shijing would feel uncomfortable.

It seems that we have to think about it.

For a while, Xuan Shijing thought of Duke Lu's mansion and Duke Yi's mansion. After the matter of the coal mine was told to His Majesty Li Er, in the end, this matter still had to fall into the hands of the aristocratic family. People who have a good relationship come here.Furthermore, the military is not worried about people.

Those who have retreated from the battlefield and have no source of livelihood can be properly arranged in coal mines. Naturally, Xuan Shijing will not employ people like those black-hearted coal mines in the future market, and according to the current demand for coal, there is no need to be so wanton. mining.

Thinking of this, Xuan Shijing spread out the white paper on the table, picked up the pen, dipped in the ink and began to write.

The thing is such a thing, but there must be a charter, and the benefits of it must be explained to Cheng Yaojin and others, otherwise, how could the Dukes of the country arrange those retired soldiers to do this? Waiting for coolies.

In the future, Datang will probably have to undergo reeducation through labor. While thinking about it, he smiled, looking like a coal boss.

It seems that Wang Jingzhi is a very suitable candidate.
After having lunch in the Xuanwu Building, Xuan Shijing asked the shopkeeper to prepare a banquet in the private room facing Xuanwu Lake on the third floor, waiting for Wang Chongji's arrival. When meeting Wang Chongji today, Xuan Shijing is [-]% sure that he can After the matter was settled, Wang Jing had been in Chang'an for a few days. By the way, Xuan Shijing also wanted to ask Wang Chongji to see if he knew that his mother had met him outside Chang'an. to the assassin thing.

This incident was definitely not done by Wang Jingzhi alone.

In the palace, after Wang Chongji received Xuan Shijing's invitation, he hesitated for a while, then packed up and went to the Xuanwu Tower to attend the meeting, while Wang Jingzhi was in the study, with mixed faces.

"Second young master, there is no reply from the Zheng family, what should I do?" The servant who reported Xuan Shijing's whereabouts to Wang Chongji that day stood in the calligraphy square, with a little anxiety on his face, facing Wang Jing talked straight about what happened to him in the Zheng family.

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