Chapter 258 The Treasury (2)
Lian Xiu turned his head and counted, and said: "Thirty boxes, one box of 1000 taels of gold is equal to 1 taels of silver, and 30 taels of silver in three months doesn't seem like much."

Yu Zixi said: "But even the patriarch needs to know how many people I mine. You should also know the size of the mines that are mined outside. Then how much gold is produced in such a small place."

Then he took the two of them out of the vault, pointed to the veins extending far away and said: "Look, in order to find out how big this mine is, I specifically asked people not to dig in one place, and to mine forward according to the direction of the veins. Let's see how long this golden vein is, but after more than a year of digging, I still haven't found the edge."

Lian Xiu was worried that his words were deceitful, so he jumped into the deep mine pit to check, but saw that the pit was full of layered stones, which was different from the gold mines he had seen before, standing below and asked: "Second Prince , You didn’t lie to us, right, this mine doesn’t look like a gold mine.”

Yu Zixi said on it: "The Patriarch Lian can just pick up a rock from under your feet, we'll find out if we try it."

Hearing this, Lian Xiu kicked with his feet, and held it with a fist-sized stone, and with Qi Xing's help, he went out of the mine and returned to the ground.

When I came to watch in the sun, I saw that the stone in my hand was yellow and didn't seem to be very hard. When I broke it hard, it broke into two pieces from the stubble again, and said: "This is just a stone, not sand."

Yu Zixi said: "The gold here is contained in the stones...Qi Xing, let Patriarch Lian and the third prince see how the gold was produced."

Qi Xing nodded and said: "Yes, Second Lord, Chief Lian, and Third Prince please come with me."

After speaking, take the three of them to the place where there are miners below.

Since Xianglai had already made preparations, the miners didn't know who they were working for. When they saw a few well-dressed people coming, they looked around curiously. The foremen got orders and shouted: "Do your own work, Don't poke around!"

Qi Xing ignored these people, took the piece of ore picked up by Lian Xiu, found a hammer, put the stone on a thick iron plate, smashed it bit by bit, and said while knocking: "This thing should be crushed with iron. Grinding, I took great pains to smash it to let Patriarch Lian and the third prince see exactly how much gold can be produced from this ore."

The ore that Lian Xiu picked up was not very hard. It didn't take long for Qi Xing to smash the stone into powder, and then put the ore powder into the gold dustpan for separating gold powder and sand, and walked to the pool to use water Shake out the sand and gravel little by little, leaving the little gold powder on the bottom of the dustpan, then pour out the gold powder, get a special small pot and burn the gold powder in it.

After a long time, the little gold powder finally melted slowly and turned into a little gold grain.

Qi Xing stopped the fire, took out the bean-like gold particle from the bottom of the pot to cool, and then brought it in front of Lian Xiu and Luo Qian.

The two of them watched from the beginning to the end, and they couldn't do anything fake. Lian Xiu held the golden bean and said, "It's estimated to be worth two yuan. A stone the size of a fist can pay for this. It's really a lot!"

Yu Zixi said: "How about it, Patriarch Lian believes it this time, let's go, I will take you to another place to look."

So the three went through all the mining procedures again.

Lian Xiu and Luo Qian saw that this gold mine was indeed producing gold, and from the usual expressions of the miners, it was normal to find such a large amount of gold every day.

The more Lian Xiu and Luo Qian looked at the gold mine, the brighter their eyes became.

Luo Qian asked, "Second Prince, how long have you been mining this gold mine?"

Yu Zixi said: "I spent a lot of time looking for it, and it has been mined for more than a year now, and I dare not make a fuss about it."

Luo Qian became jealous when he thought about it, and said: "Over a year, I can produce 1 taels of gold a month, and in more than a year, I can also produce more than 100 taels of gold. Then the second prince has also stolen more than [-] million taels of gold from Beiliao. Two silver coins, are you not afraid that I will have someone arrest you?"

Yu Zixi smiled and said: "I used to be afraid, but now I am not afraid, because this gold mine is already owned by Prince Luo Qian and Patriarch Lian. Then I have no choice but to accept my fate, at worst, I will return to Korea and never come to Beiliao again."

Luo Qian blinked his eyes when he heard this, and laughed again: "Hehe, I was just joking with the second prince, but it is more than 100 million taels of silver. The second prince has worked so hard to find this gold mine, even if it is hard work, he deserves it." .”

Yu Zixi's smile was a little cold, and he said, "I thought Prince Luo Qian was really selfless, and he wanted to report this gold mine to the imperial court for mining!"

Luo Qian raised his eyebrows and said: "The report still needs to be reported, but...it won't be too late after I find out the reserves of this mine."

Yu Zixi said: "I don't care about that, anyway, what I want to exchange is Xianglai, as long as you break the engagement with her, other things have nothing to do with me."

Luo Qian said: "No problem, this is what I promised the second prince before I came here, since this gold mine really exists, then Xianglai is yours."

Yu Zixi said: "Okay, I believe what Prince Luo Qian said, and I will immediately ask Qi Xing to inform the steward that we will not interfere with this gold mine in the future, and Prince Luo Qian and the Patriarch Lian will dispose of it at will."

Luo Qian looked towards the vault and said, "Then... what about the gold in the vault now?"

Yu Zixi said: "This is originally Beiliao's stuff, of course it should be left to Prince Beiliao, I will not take it away."

Only then did Luo Qian show a smile.

But Lian Xiu on the side was a little depressed. Looking at Luo Qian like this, it seemed that he wanted to monopolize the gold mine, but it was clearly Yu Zixi who told him about it first, and at least he should have half of it.

But after thinking about it, even if they are nephews in name, it doesn't matter. After all, their mother and son are restricted by the King of Beiliao, and it is impossible to manage the gold mine by themselves.

The three of them lived in the gold mine that night, and went back to Songning the next day. When they left, Luo Qian asked for all the 3 taels of gold to be transported out and secretly sent to the capital.

More than ten days later, the three of them returned to the capital. Before entering the city, Luo Qian said to Yu Zixi, "Second prince, although you are satisfied with getting Xianglai, but if you are still in the capital, it still makes me feel uneasy... "

Yu Zixi said: "I've thought about this a long time ago. Although Xianglai reluctantly agreed to be with me because of this incident, there is no guarantee that she will not change her mind in the future, so I will go back to Korea to marry her as soon as possible. If possible , we will no longer come to Beiliao."

Luo Qian said: "In that case, I would like to congratulate the second prince first, that...you tell me when you go back to Korea, and you will have a meeting, and you should give it a ride anyway."

Yu Zixi smiled and said: "Okay, I will definitely tell Prince Luo Qian, but the matter of breaking up the engagement must be done as soon as possible. If there is no news about it... the secret of the gold mine will be hard to keep."

(End of this chapter)

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