The Golden County Magistrate

Before this, Tang Yun was skeptical and thought Chen Yan was bragging, but now, she believed it!

Seeing her expression, Chen Yan smiled slightly: "Do you believe it now? The scale of Tianxuan Mountain is of course much larger than Xiaoqing Mountain, but I can do this operation several times more."

"And not all places in this Baili mountain area need to be penetrated. Some canyon areas can be used to guide the water."

"As long as a suitable route is planned, I believe that the water of the Fairy River can moisten Jizhou as early as March or May!"

Chen Yan had studied this method a long time ago, and he was very reasonable when he said it now.

Tang Yun looked back and forth at the top of Xiaoqing Mountain and Chen Yan. After a long while, she finally sighed: "I am convinced, but how did you do it?"

After coming to Qingshan County twice, she was completely sure of one thing.

This is God's will to revive her Great Zhou!

That's why she came here by chance and found Chen Yan, an extraordinary person who is rare in a hundred or even a thousand years!

Indeed, he has many problems.

But compared with his endless amazing abilities, those problems are nothing!

There is finally a solution to the drought in Jizhou!

"How to do it? Of course I have my own way. Let's discuss the price next." Chen Yan said with a smile.

"You say." Tang Yun said, suppressing the shock in her heart.

"Since we are quite happy to cooperate, I won't charge you a high price."

"According to the scale of Tianxuan Mountain, if it is opened, it will be about 300,000 taels of silver!"

Chen Yan happily calculated the bill for her.

Tang Yun looked at him with a dark face.

Just now she thought that this man was so powerful that he could tolerate minor problems.

Now she has begun to want to tie him up and beat him!

300,000 taels!

With the current treasury situation of the Great Zhou Dynasty, how could it be possible to take out so much silver!

"Do you think it's too expensive? Forget it." Chen Yan observed her expression and used a trick of playing hard to get.

"Three hundred thousand taels, I really can't afford it." Tang Yun said with a suppressed temper.

"Then forget it." Chen Yan made a move to leave.

"Wait! How about this, I'll buy it on credit first, and I'll give it to you when I have money later?" Tang Yun said hurriedly in a hurry.

"That won't work. No goods sold in this county are sold on credit!" Chen Yan refused without thinking.

"Then... can I borrow another three hundred thousand taels as payment for the goods?" Tang Yun had an idea.

Anyway, I've already borrowed one hundred thousand taels, so what's the harm in borrowing another three hundred thousand taels?

As for how to pay it back in the future, or even not to pay it back, that's a matter for the future.

Chen Yan looked at her speechlessly.

This girl is addicted to taking loans and paying them back!

The last time he was willing to lend it was because it was a business without any material or capital.

Now he has to give away tens of thousands of kilograms of treasures, how can he lend it to her for free? Do you think he's stupid?

"No! Since there's no money, forget it." Chen Yan ignored her and turned away.

Tang Yun looked at his back and stamped her feet in anger.

Damn it!

There was no other way, it seemed that she had to find a way to get three hundred thousand taels.

"Prepare the carriage and return to Beijing!"

...

After Chen Yan sent Tang Yun away and returned to the Nafu Camp, he summoned Zhang Dabiao.

"Sir, I did a good job just now, didn't I?" Zhang Dabiao looked excited.

"Not bad! Biaozi, how much gunpowder do we have in the warehouse?" Chen Yan patted him on the shoulder approvingly and asked.

"There are probably nine hundred boxes in the warehouse." Zhang Dabiao thought for a while and said.

"Nine hundred boxes, ten kilograms per box, nine thousand kilograms, and one thousand kilograms is still missing." Chen Yan touched his chin and pondered, "You urge Lao Song to start the mine and bring in business!"

Chen Yan had already explored the land around Qingshan very clearly.

In addition to the salt mine, he also discovered a sulfur mine deep in Laoshan!

At first, Chen Yan was really overjoyed.

With sulfur mines, gunpowder can be produced in large quantities.

In this era of cold weapons, gunpowder is simply black technology!

When he was young, he walked in the mountains of his hometown every day and learned how to make gunpowder from the hunters in the village.

The method of making crude gunpowder is actually not difficult. One of the main ingredients required, saltpeter, is not produced in Qingshan County.

At this time, the intelligence system he established was of great use.

He found out that there were saltpeter farmers in Sizhou who specialized in scraping saltpeter for sale, and immediately sent people to buy a large amount of it in secret, and then experimented by himself, and soon tested out a suitable formula.

After that, he began to prepare a large amount of gunpowder.

The original idea was to use it to make hot weapons and enhance the strength of the Nafuying.

However, there are some technical difficulties now, which make this step temporarily impossible to achieve.

But there was a problem with the large amount of gunpowder that had been stored before.

In order to avoid being discovered and stolen by outsiders, all the gunpowder was stored in the basement of the Nafuying.

However, the groundAlthough the warehouse was waterproof and moisture-proof, it was still inevitably damp.

If this dragged on, the nearly 10,000 kilograms of gunpowder he had accumulated with great effort would be wasted!

You know, he had invested a lot of money in sulfur mines, saltpeter and other things.

All in all, at least 50,000 or 60,000 taels of silver were invested.

If this went down the drain, it would be like cutting his flesh and bleeding him!

In desperation, he had to suspend the mining of sulfur mines and the production of gunpowder, and think hard about how to deal with this batch of gunpowder.

If he sold it directly on the market, it would definitely sell.

But doing so would be beneficial and harmless, and it might even bring him trouble.

Therefore, this matter really troubled him for a long time.

And now, the opportunity has finally come!

It seems that the Great Zhou Chamber of Commerce has a lot of business in Jizhou and is very concerned about the business there, otherwise Miss Zhou would not rush to ask him to buy faucets.

Therefore, solving the disaster there can be said to be their urgent need!

This is a great enemy sent by God, how could Chen Yan miss it?

The Great Zhou Chamber of Commerce wants to cooperate with him strategically for a long time, and will not easily reveal this secret.

Now that the bait has been laid, it depends on when the other party will bite the hook!