Five years of county magistrate, 100 million catties of grain shocked Li Shimin

Chapter 98 Collapse of Wudongshan Coal Mine

three days later.

Wang Chengzhe will pay [-]% of the deposit to Liu Chengan and sign related agreements.

Liu Chengan held a mobilization meeting at the cement factory and began to build a cement road from Liaozhou City to Liaoshan County.

The news was deliberately magnified by the Wang family of Liaoshan, and the aristocratic families and common people in one city and three counties knew about it.

Naturally, Fang Yuan will not prevent this kind of thing from happening, for him, the achievements of Liaoshan County are also his achievements.

On this day, Huang Shancong came to report.

"My lord, there was a coal theft incident in the coal mine, and two or three hundred catties of coal were lost in the coal pile."

"Moreover, there are people who steal our coal from other places. I am afraid they have dug thousands to tens of thousands of catties."

Huang Shancong reported respectfully.

Now the coal mine has not been built yet, and all the coal in Wudong Mountain is piled at the foot of Wudong Mountain.

And because of the immature mining technology, Huang Shancong did not dare to mine quickly, and he almost mined as much as he wanted, so there was not much coal piled up at the foot of Wudong Mountain.

Therefore, it is easy to detect if there is no part of the coal. Then Huang Shancong started to inspect and found that someone was digging a coal mine from another place in Wudong Mountain.

Wudong Mountain is very big, at first Huang Shancong thought it was just a thief stealing coal and didn't report it, but found out that someone was digging coal from another place, so he reported it to Fang Yuan.

Although both things are stealing coal, they are very different in nature.

"Someone stole coal?!"

"Since when?"

Fang Yuan frowned slightly.

Many people already know about the existence of coal mines.

Because of the promotion of honeycomb coal, more and more people know the use of coal.

But for most people, they need less coal, almost exclusively for heating.

Firewood is used for cooking and cooking. After all, firewood is free, and the mountains are full of trees, which is inexhaustible.

For a small number of people, it must be used for large-scale forging, just dig coal secretly, why bother digging and stealing to increase the risk of being discovered.

Is it because you haven't stolen enough, so you have to dig it yourself?
"About three or four days ago."

Huang Shancong is not sure.

"You keep staring."

Fang Yuan's expression sank, and he thought of a possibility.

He still remembered what Xue Jiaoyan mentioned a few days ago, about stealing coal.

Just not sure if it is, and if so, that would be stupid to tell myself ahead of time to steal coal.

"Ok."

Huang Shancong left.

"Zheng Jiu, go and see what the Xue family siblings are doing?"

Fang Yuan gave instructions to Zheng Jiu who was beside him.

"Yes."

Zheng Jiu took a few people and left.

About half an hour later, only Zheng Jiu came back.

"Zhou Zun, a batch of coal was found at the Xue family's sister and brother's house, and they were also imitating honeycomb coal."

"The person I brought was discovered by Xue Bowu and was knocked out by him. Please give me instructions from Zhou Zun."

Zheng Jiu panted heavily, blushing slightly, and said in embarrassment.

This was a bad start, and they deliberately brought the masters there, but they were still discovered.

It's okay to be discovered, the key is to be knocked out without even a chance to escape.

Even he was discovered and escaped after being punched, and now he feels uncomfortable all over.

"Zheng Jiu, what do you think of Xue Bowu?"

Fang Yuan frowned slightly, pondered for a moment before speaking.

Fang Yuan has already guessed that the coal was stolen by the Xue family siblings, so he is not shocked.

But the few people brought by Zheng Jiu couldn't come back, this was Fang Yuan's surprise.

Zheng Jiu is a master among the [-] state officials, the top batch, the selection of the past is not bad, but they can't come back.

Originally, Fang Yuan already felt that Xue Bowu was very strong, but now he felt that he still underestimated him.

"For a fool, brute force is terrible."

Zheng Jiu was taken aback for a moment, then said angrily.

He and Xue Bowu fought twice, once at the development meeting and once just now.

This is the first time I have underestimated the enemy, so it is difficult to evaluate how powerful Xue Bowu is.

But just now he was serious, but he was still defeated. Xue Bowu was stronger than he imagined.

"You send someone to the Royal Trading Company to ask if Du Miaoyan is there. If she is, tell her that the official will look for her later. If she is not, forget it."

"You gather a few more masters, and go with me again."

Fang Yuan said in a deep voice.

Xue Bowu is a master, he should belong to the super master type.

Even Zheng Jiu is not his opponent, and there is a high probability that no one in the Fangfu guards is his opponent.

If Xue Bowu can be included, it will be a great help.

"Yes."

Zheng Jiu went down quickly.

Half a quarter of an hour later, the carriage was ready, Fang Yuan set off, first went to the Royal Trading Company, and picked Du Miaoyan into the carriage.

"Fang Yuan, what happened?"

Du Miaoyan asked eagerly.

After she learned what Fang Yuan meant, she stopped what she was doing and waited for Fang Yuan.

However, the matter in her hands is not very important, that is, to reply to Wang Shiyu.

Since Wang Shiyu left, a letter has been sent to her every three days.

"I found out that Xue's siblings were stealing coal."

Fang Yuan said in a deep voice.

He felt that it must be the Xue family siblings who stole the coal.

But secretly digging here, Fang Yuan is not sure if it is the other party.

"what?"

"Does this kind of thing require you to come to the door in person?"

Du Miaoyan was a little speechless.

I thought it was something important, but I didn't want it to be a case of theft.

Fang Yuan also personally did this kind of thing, if he didn't talk about the hard work, the people below would have no chance to show it.

"It's a secondary reason."

"I wonder if we can take advantage of this incident to subdue their siblings."

"Xue Bowu is very powerful, if he can use it for me, it will be a great help."

Fang Yuan explained.

There are many masters around him, but there are no very powerful masters.

But like Du Miaoyan, like Li Junxian, like Xue Bowu, no.

Pei Yinghua once said that all the successors of the Pei family may regard him as a stepping stone.

If this is the case, it will be a very dangerous thing and requires super expert protection.

"I see."

"If you can accept it, that's really good."

Du Miaoyan suddenly realized.

Immediately felt that Fang Yuan was so wise that he even thought of subduing their siblings.

The carriage moved forward quickly, and it didn't take long for Fang Yuan and the others to arrive at the Xue family's residence.

At this moment, the gate of the residence of the Xue family siblings was closed, and it was closed in broad daylight.

"Break away."

Fang Yuan said indifferently.

Zheng Jiu and the others immediately stepped forward and slammed the door with brute force.

With a bang, the door was knocked open, and a sense of staleness rushed over.

The residence of the Xue family siblings looks quite old, but everything is quite clean.

"What?"

"What?"

"Who dares to break into my house?"

Xue Jiaoyan's voice sounded at this moment.

Then Fang Yuan and others saw Xue Jiaoyan running out, Xue Bowu followed closely behind.

As soon as they appeared, the faces of Fang Yuan and the others became weird.

Not to mention the dirty clothes of the siblings, their faces are also dark here and there.

At this time, Xue Jiaoyan's nose was running down, and she wiped it off with her dark hands, and her nose also turned black.

"Xue Jiaoyan, you dare to steal coal from me, are you guilty?"

Fang Yuan became serious, with a straight face, and said in a deep voice.

"You fart!"

"Where did you see that I stole your coal?"

Xue Jiaoyan sucked her nose, said with her hands on her hips.

"Which eye?"

"You siblings look at each other, which eye is it?"

Fang Yuan sneered.

Xue Jiaoyan was puzzled, but still looked at Xue Bowu.

"Brother, your face is so dirty."

"Sister, your face is so dirty too."

As soon as she finished speaking, Xue Jiaoyan felt something was wrong, and quickly covered her face with her hands.

"This, this, this is ash, yes, this is ash!"

Xue Jiaoyan rolled her eyes and refused to admit it.

"Ash?"

"Xue Jiaoyan, do you know how many years you have been sentenced for theft?"

"Those who still hurt this official, you have eaten the gall of a bear and a leopard."

Fang Yuan said coldly.

The momentum is terrifying and the official authority is very strict.

"I you."

Xue Jiaoyan was frightened.

Take a step back in panic.

"You are not allowed to bully my sister!"

Xue Bowu shouted loudly, stood in front of Xue Jiaoyan, and glared at Fang Yuan.

Du Miaoyan immediately took a step forward, side by side with Fang Yuan, ready to strike at any time.

The same was true of Zheng Jiu and the others, who were so nervous that they put their hands on the handle of the knife, ready to draw the knife.

"do not want!"

"Brother, step back!"

Xue Jiaoyan yelled hastily.

"Sister, don't worry."

"They are not my opponents together."

Xue Bowu turned his head and showed a reassuring smile.

As soon as these words came out, Zheng Jiu and the others seemed to be insulted, and their eyes became colder.

Du Miaoyan also frowned slightly, feeling that Xue Bowu was too arrogant.

Only Fang Yuan was overjoyed, he was more sure that Xue Bowu was strong.

Everyone thought that a war was about to break out.

however,
"Fight and fight, you know how to fight, so go!"

Xue Jiaoyan jumped up and gave Xue Bowu a chestnut.

With a booming sound, Fang Yuan and the others seemed to feel the pain.

"Ah, it hurts!"

Xue Bowu immediately covered his head in pain.

Wronged Baba walked away and retreated behind Xue Jiaoyan.

"Inspector Fang, why do you say I stole your coal?"

Xue Jiaoyan stood up and snorted coldly.

"The official's people saw it."

Fang Yuan looked at Xue Jiaoyan in surprise.

A war was about to start, but Xue Jiaoyan spoke to stop it.

Do you think you can fool me with a few words, or what is going on?

But in any case, if you can solve it without using force, you don't need to use force. After all, the other party is not an enemy.

"I just saw that your siblings imitated briquettes and knocked out several state officials."

Zheng Jiu interjected and said in a deep voice.

He relaxed a lot, not as nervous as before.

But the right hand is still on the hilt so that it can be drawn at any time.

"You said it was right?"

"I also said that you just peeked at my housekeeper taking a shower."

Xue Jiaoyan rolled her eyes, speechless.

"Is it right? Let's go and see."

Zheng Jiu's face darkened, and he said in a deep voice.

He is a serious man, why do you see an old man taking a bath?
With that said, Zheng Jiu was about to go to the backyard of the residence of the Xue family siblings.

"stop!"

"This is my home, not where you can come in whenever you want."

Xue Jiaoyan stopped Zheng Jiu and said coldly.

"You get out of the way!"

Zheng Jiu snorted coldly, reaching out to push Xue Jiaoyan away.

But just as he stretched out his hand, he froze before touching Xue Jiaoyan.

At this moment, he felt stared at by something super scary.

Looking over according to his feeling, he found that Xue Bowu was staring at him fiercely.

Zheng Jiu was very sure that if he ran into Xue Jiaoyan, Xue Bowu would definitely rush over.

After pondering for a moment, Zheng Jiu finally withdrew his hand and looked at Fang Yuan.

"Xue Jiaoyan, I'm the governor of Liaozhou, don't say that your house was investigated, even if your house was demolished, no one said anything, what do you think?"

Fang Yuan glanced at Xue Bowu, said in a deep voice.

He also saw Xue Bowu looking at Zheng Jiu just now, his eyes became fierce, like a wolf.

"you dare?!"

Xue Jiaoyan suddenly looked like a little lion with fur.

"Impede the official's handling of the case, do you think I dare to do it?"

Fang Yuan sneered.

"You, you bully our siblings!"

Xue Jiaoyan's eyes suddenly turned red, as if she was about to cry.

At this time, someone outside Xue Mansion has noticed the arrival of Fang Yuan and others.

Some curious people stopped, and some even approached here.

"Xue Jiaoyan, I'm talking to you in a nice voice, don't be ignorant!"

"You can try to stop it one more time. This official will leave directly. What will be waiting for you will be three hundred state officials forcibly breaking into Xue's mansion!"

Fang Yuan's face immediately turned cold.

The tears of a woman make me upset when I look at them.

Xue Jiaoyan was thin and small, crying as if she was bullying her.

Outsiders didn't know, they thought they were really bullying their siblings.

This is something Fang Yuan can't bear, he doesn't want to mess around with Xue Jiaoyan anymore.

"You, you search, if you can't find it, I will never end with you."

Xue Jiaoyan was frightened by Fang Yuan again.

Looking at Fang Yuan's serious face, she opened her mouth and still dare not say anything to stop her.

In the end, the grievance stepped aside, tears fell down, and the black ashes flowed down the tears, becoming even uglier and more pitiful.

Fang Yuan frowned slightly, but ignored her, and walked into the Xue family's residence first.

Zheng Jiu quickened his pace and walked in the front to lead the way to the place where his siblings had just discovered imitation honeycomb briquettes.

"Bastard Fang Yuan, I'm not finished with you."

Xue Jiaoyan wiped her tears, her whole face was stained.

But she didn't mind, and walked towards the door.

"Whatever you look at, get out of here."

Xue Jiaoyan yelled at the people outside the door and closed the door by the way.

"Broom star, who wants to see you."

A familiar person snorted coldly, turned around and left.

"You are the bastard, and your whole family is the bastard."

Xue Jiaoyan was even more aggrieved, finally closed the door and walked to the place where Fang Yuan and others went.

Xue Bowu didn't speak the whole time, he followed Xue Jiaoyan closely, and finally came to a courtyard where Fang Yuan and others had already arrived.

"Look, I said no coal, and I didn't steal your coal!"

Xue Jiaoyan said loudly.

The courtyard was empty, and there was really no coal.

but,

"Xue Jiaoyan, are you blind as an official?"

"This black cinder, did you really not see it or pretend you didn't see it?"

Fang Yuan said with a dark face, speechless.

The yard is empty and there is no coal.

But there was a large cinder on the ground.

Looking at it, I knew that coal was piled up here just now, and then it was moved to another place.

Coal is black, and if it is piled on the ground for a long time, it will stain the ground and even leave cinders, which are not easy to remove.

Looking at the traces on the ground, Fang Yuan guessed that the coal mines should have been piled up for three or four days, which can be matched with Huang Shancong's time.

"It's charcoal gray, it's charcoal gray!"

Xue Jiaoyan shook her head emphatically.

"Xue Jiaoyan, you will never die until you reach the Yellow River."

"Is the coal hidden in the well?"

Fang Yuan chuckled.

Looking around the courtyard, he walked towards the well.

The courtyard is empty, but there is a well here.

Extending from this black circle to the well, there is a small amount of cinders on the ground.

"no!"

"Ah! You stop!"

Xue Jiaoyan was shocked.

Quickly catch up with Fang Yuan and stand in front of Fang Yuan.

But besides Fang Yuan, Zheng Jiu also moved, walking towards the well.

"Zhou Zhou, the coal is in the well."

Zheng Jiu shouted.

After the words fell, Xue Jiaoyan was like a discouraged ball.

Because of the drought some time ago, the water in the well has become less.

So much so that when Xue Jiaoyan and her brother threw coal into the well, the coal came out.

Then Fang Yuan and others came too soon, the siblings had no way to solve this problem, they could only shelve it.

The black cinders on the ground were also too short of time. The siblings could not remove them with a broom for a long time, so they had to give up.

"Xue Jiaoyan, what else do you have to argue about?"

Fang Yuan sneered.

Looking down at Xue Jiaoyan, who was already short.

"I, I, that, can I go back and give it to you?"

Xue Jiaoyan said with a sarcastic smile.

The matter has come to this point, she dare not lie anymore.

"No."

"Stealing things will go to jail."

Fang Yuan snorted coldly.

"Wow, my life is so miserable."

"Father died early, mother died early, and there is only one stupid brother."

"Catch me to jail, let me die in jail, woo woo woo"

Xue Jiaoyan knelt on the ground with a thud, crying loudly.

"Xue Jiaoyan, don't pretend to be pitiful!"

"This well can't hold tens of thousands of catties of coal. What about the rest?"

Fang Yuan's face darkened, and he said in a deep voice.

Xue Jiaoyan cried and made noise every time, leaving him speechless.

Although Xue Jiaoyan's life experience is really pitiful, it is wrong to steal coal.

If you are found stealing coal, you will cry and make a fuss. Crying is useful, so why do you need laws and rules?
"What did you say?"

"Don't blame me!"

"I only took two hundred catties!"

When Xue Jiaoyan heard it, she immediately jumped up.

"Wudongshan not only has fewer coal piles."

"Someone dug tens of thousands of catties from another place."

Fang Yuan said in a deep voice.

"You, you, don't wrong me!"

"We are just two siblings, how could we have dug up tens of thousands of catties?"

Xue Jiaoyan was so frightened that her face turned pale and she didn't dare to shed tears.

There is a huge difference between two hundred catties and tens of thousands of catties. The former should be able to apologize and lose money, but the latter will definitely go to jail.

"It's not you?"

Fang Yuan said in a deep voice.

Sure enough, as I thought.

The Xue family siblings are just stealing coal, and coal digging should have nothing to do with them.

It's just that besides the two of them, who else would pay attention to the coal mine?

"It's not me!"

"I swear!"

Xue Jiaoyan pointed three fingers at Fang Yuan.

Fang Yuan didn't speak immediately, he was thinking with a sullen face.

Since they are not their siblings, why not try to subdue them first?
But Fang Yuan hadn't opened his mouth yet, Huang Shan Cong rushed over at this time.

"Master, master, something is wrong."

"The coal mine collapsed, and a group of workers were trapped in it, and their life and death are unknown."

Huang Shancong said out of breath.

He bid farewell to Fang Yuan not long ago and returned to Wudong Mountain.

However, as soon as he returned, he heard a loud bang.

The coal mine in Wudong Mountain collapsed, trapping a group of workers.

Huang Shancong was frightened, so he quickly asked for help, and at the same time came back to report to Fang Yuan.

Everyone was shocked.

Xue Jiaoyan was so frightened that her face turned pale.

"Now, no matter whether your siblings dug it or not, just go with me."

Fang Yuan took a deep breath and said in a deep voice.

The coal mine collapsed, and the life and death of a group of workers were unknown. The matter was serious.

If it was caused by humans and no one can be found, the Xue family siblings may have to bear the blame.

(End of this chapter)