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Chapter 117: A dog jumps over the wall in a hurry, but a bright future emerges!

Liu Sheng looked at Zhao Deyou's final calculation of the total number of iron donations from a dozen companies.

Only [-] kilograms.

He sat back at the head of the table, put down these pieces of paper, and scanned the heads of the families.

"I heard that there are a lot of iron mines here, so I came excitedly with the rebel army. The warm reception of all the family heads made me have great expectations for the iron donation.

I never thought that the total amount of refined iron donated by you is less than [-] kilograms, which makes me very disappointed. "

More than a dozen family heads lowered their heads, as if they had not heard Liu Sheng's words.

Liu Sheng's face turned cold, "I originally thought that only three or four of you had objections to the rebels, but now it seems that you all don't like our rebels very much."

Hearing this, Du Jinsheng, the head of the Du family, couldn't help but said: "Chief Liu, we have really done our best in donating these fine irons."

Liu Yuanheng, the head of the Liu family, followed: "What Chief Liu doesn't know is that the mines we operate are small mines, not comparable to the government-run mines. We can produce at most a few hundred kilograms of refined iron in a month.

The donations we just made are already several months or even a year’s worth of savings from each of our families. "

Liu Sheng sneered, "Oh? According to the Liu family leader, this fine iron is not easy to sell? How can it be accumulated for several months or even a year?"

Liu Yuanheng suddenly looked embarrassed.

Du Jinsheng and other mine owners secretly cursed idiots who would not tell lies.

Liu Sheng was too lazy to talk to these people anymore and waved his hand: "Bring in the few people we caught last night."

"Yes."

The guards went out in response and soon brought five men who looked like servants.

When Liu Yuanheng saw these five people, his expression changed on the spot.

Lou Shoujing, the head of the Lou family, also changed his face slightly.

Because three of these five people were the servants they sent out last night.

Liu Sheng glanced at the family heads with dagger-like eyes and said, "These five people are from the Liu, Lou, Wan, and Cheng families respectively.

And they have all confessed that they were assigned by the head of the family to go to Wuyang County to inform the government of the situation here and to invite officers and soldiers to encircle and suppress the rebels.

The heads of the Wan family and the Cheng family probably had something in their minds, so they didn't dare to come to the meeting.

On the other hand, the head of the Liu family and the head of the Lou family are really very courageous when they are enthusiastic towards our rebels and stab them in the back! "

At the end of the sentence, Liu Sheng slapped the table, and Liu Yuanheng and Lou Shoujing immediately fell to their knees in shock.

The other family heads also looked nervous.

Liu Sheng directly ordered: "Where are Yang Heqing and Shi Jincai?"

The two of them were in the hall, and they immediately stood up and clasped their fists together and said, "The general is here!"

"The fourth battalion dispatched four sentry soldiers to capture members of the Liu, Lou, Wan, and Cheng families and seize their property!"

"Shengjieying sent four guards to interrogate the people and managers of the four families to find out where their mines are, how much iron they have in stock, and how much iron they can produce each month."

"As ordered!"

When Yang Heqing and Shi Jincai left, not only Liu Yuanheng and Lou Shoujing collapsed, but the other family heads also looked panicked.

Even Zhao Kaifu, who thought he had found Liu Sheng's pulse, looked grim.

He originally thought that Liu Sheng was only going to extort money, food and iron materials from each family, but he didn't expect that Liu Sheng would destroy four families if they disagreed.

At this time, Liu Sheng stood up again and said: "Every other family, no matter what, has supported our rebel army with some iron, so I will issue the certificate of commitment soon.

However, as I said before, if a company does something harmful to nature, this certificate cannot help him.

What is something that is harmful to nature?For example, tricking good people into becoming mine slaves and killing their lives..."

Liu Sheng didn't even need to finish his words. The remaining mine owners present turned pale with horror and lost their minds.

As Liu Sheng estimated, these days, no private mine is opened without slaves.

The difference is at most the number of mining slaves used, how poorly the mining slaves are treated, and how many lives of the mining slaves are destroyed.

When things got to this point, Liu Sheng was already at a loss.

These family heads also understand that Liu Sheng is probably going to kill all the mine owners!

Of course, several other landowners and wealthy businessmen were also uneasy when they recalled that there were people in their families who had killed people and oppressed good people.

When he came to his senses, a mine owner surnamed Liu was the first to lose his strength and knelt down towards Liu Sheng with a plop, crying and begging for mercy.

"Chief Liu, I am willing to donate all the refined iron stored in the mine. Even the refined iron produced in the future will be sold to the rebels at the cost price. I just ask you to spare our family. After all, our surname is Liu, maybe 500 We were one family years ago.”

Liu Sheng almost made this joker laugh.

He said: "There are so many people with the surname Liu in the world. Not to mention 500 years ago, they may not be the same family even 1000 years ago."

Although Patriarch Liu's begging for mercy was ineffective, several other Patriarchs also knelt down to beg for mercy and made various promises.

There were even those who were willing to dedicate all their property to the rebels, and then give their young and beautiful daughters to Liu Sheng as a concubine.

Liu Sheng just sneered and said nothing.

At this time, Du Jinsheng also knelt down to beg for mercy. He knelt and took several steps forward, reaching five or six steps in front of Liu Sheng's desk.

But suddenly it exploded!
He took out a dagger and rushed towards Liu Sheng!

This change was so sudden that none of the guards in the hall expected that this rich man would take such a risk!
But judging from his movements, it was not that he wanted to assassinate, but that he wanted to take Liu Sheng hostage!
Du Jinsheng was extremely fast. He was in front of the desk almost instantly, grabbed the desk with one hand, and lifted it up!
Only then did the guards in the hall react and rushed to stop him with an angry shout, but it was already too late.

wow~
Everything on the desk fell to the floor.

The next moment everyone heard a crisp sound of "bang", Du Jinsheng's body shook and fell backward.

The desk he had just lifted halfway fell to the ground.

Zhao Kaifu and others looked over and saw a blood hole appeared on Du Jinsheng's chest, and blood kept pouring out.

Although Du Jinsheng was not dead for a while, he was breathing out more and taking in less.

His face was full of reluctance, and he wanted to say something, but he couldn't say it after all. He tilted his head and died.Li Niu led a group of guards to the center of the hall, first stabbed Du Jinsheng twice, and then they all knelt down with fists clasped.

"I have neglected my duty, please punish me, the leader!"

Liu Sheng frowned and said, "We'll talk about this later."

Li Niu knelt down and said, "Subordinates, please search others for hidden weapons!"

As personal guards, the most neglectful thing they did was not search the bodies of these wealthy men.

It's not because these people are the bosses of wealthy families, but because they are personal guards, they have not developed this habit before.

Even Liu Sheng himself ignored this matter.

After all, he was not used to being a protected superior.

In addition, looking at the situation just now, this Du Jinsheng seems to be a practicing practitioner.He must be very skilled, otherwise he wouldn't have taken the risk in the situation just now.

But this person didn't expect that Liu Sheng carried four revolvers with him, and his fighting skills were even more top-notch.

Not to mention that Du Jinsheng wanted to kidnap him, even if he wanted to assassinate him, he might not be able to succeed.

But today's incident finally reminded Liu Sheng that he must pay attention to his own security in the future.

Even though he has superb fighting skills, has a revolver at his side, and wears a high-quality bulletproof suit (also stab-proof), there is still a certain chance of being killed without protection.

That would be a big loss.

After being disturbed by Du Jinsheng's incident, Liu Sheng was no longer in the mood to accompany these wealthy family heads.

So he left the inspection department's office and ordered: "Separate the mine owner from the others and imprison them."

"Yes!"

Afterwards, Liu Sheng took his personal guards and wandered around Tieshan.

Halfway through the stroll, Mao Chengguo, who was responsible for leading people to ambush the official road, brought back good news.

"Report to the leader, Qiu Shouwei and Chen Mining Supervisor have been caught!"

"Really?" Liu Sheng became interested, "Let's go, I want to interrogate these two people myself!"

The officer's guard name was Qiu Sheng, and the mine supervisor's name was Chen Ziyang.

Neither of them are hard-nosed, they are very greedy for life and afraid of death.

Liu Sheng only used half-measures, and the two of them started asking and answering questions.

Only then did he learn that the government-run iron farm could smelt more than 50 kilograms of pig iron per month on average.

However, more than 20 kilograms were sold to Du Jinsheng and other mine owners in partnership with Chen Ziyang and the officials who supervised the iron works, and were exchanged for money and given to Tan Mo.

In addition, as the mine supervisor here, Chen Ziyang has a certain understanding of the iron output of dozens of mines such as Tieshanji, Qilianzhuang and Temple Street.

Speaking of which, the government-run mine occupies the best mine currently, but the iron ore mines occupied by the Zhao family and Du family in Tieshanji, the Bai family in Qilianzhuang, and the Han family in Temple Street are also not bad.

Because of the higher iron-making efficiency, the iron output of these mines exceeds that of government-run iron plants.

If there is a shortage of iron materials for the government-run iron mines, Chen Ziyang will also buy wrought iron and refined iron from these companies to meet his errands.

Finally, Liu Sheng asked them about the military deployment of Wuyang County.

Because Wuyang County is close to the government-run iron yard and is the first stop for transferring iron materials, there is also a recruiting soldier stationed there.

This guard did not have as much space as Qiu Sheng, but he had more than 300 soldiers, dozens of servants, and four to five hundred auxiliary soldiers.

In addition, the county magistrate Pan Hong also organized and trained 100 township soldiers and more than [-] government officials.

Perhaps those who are near the water should get the moon first. Whether they are battalion soldiers or rural soldiers, their equipment is not too bad.

Pan Hong even cast four general cannons weighing more than 1000 kilograms and twelve tiger squatting cannons, which were placed on the four walls.

At this point in the interrogation, Liu Sheng couldn't help but his eyes lit up.

"Was Pan Hong casting this cannon in the county? Is there a cannon casting craftsman in the county?"

Hearing this, Chen Ziyang hesitated and said nothing.

Qiu Sheng immediately responded with a smile, "What the leader doesn't know is that there are not only cannon-casting craftsmen in Wuyang County, but also an arms bureau affiliated with the Henan Chief Minister's Department.

It can not only make swords, guns, bows and arrows, armor, but also cast artillery and muskets, and can also produce gunpowder.It's just that the scale is small. "

"Hahaha..." Liu Sheng laughed happily after hearing this, and couldn't help but said: "It's really hard to find a place after wearing iron shoes, it's all a waste of effort!"

Speaking of which, in addition to seizing a batch of iron materials and recruiting a group of iron-making craftsmen and miners, he brought his troops here this time. He also wanted to recruit a group of craftsmen who could make weapons. It would be better to find some craftsmen who could make firecrackers. of.

It turned out that the government-run ironyard only made iron and did not make weapons.

As for Tieshanji, he just looked around and saw that there were several blacksmith shops inside, but they only made farm tools and cold weapons, not guns.

This made him somewhat disappointed.

Unexpectedly, in a twists and turns, I learned that there is an arms bureau in Wuyang!

This may sound surprising at first.

Considering that there are government-run mines and numerous private mines more than ten miles away from Wuyang County, and Wuyang can connect the northern and southern capitals of the Ming Dynasty through Ru River, Huaihe River and canal, the existence of the Arms Bureau is reasonable.

Originally, Liu Sheng was not prepared to attack Wuyang County.

Now that they know this news, Wuyang County must be attacked.

Of course, he would not blindly believe what Qiu and Chen said, and would send another spy to Wuyang County to find out more information.

After laughing heartily, Liu Sheng stood up and patted Qiu Sheng on the shoulder, saying, "Qiu Shoubei did provide some useful information - tell me to go down and add meat and wine to Qiu Shoubei's dinner!"

Qiu Sheng was usually tired of eating wine and meat, but now he knelt down with gratitude.

"Thank you for the reward, chief!"

　Second more.

　　
　
(End of this chapter)